Chapter 33 Christmas

Chapter 33 33. Christmas

After McGonagall came back from Dumbledore's office, she just warned all the students that if they met a stranger in the carriage, they should first ensure their own safety, then find a way to inform the professor, and finally evacuate the students gathered in the restaurant.

Not only the senior wizards, but also the freshmen were puzzled by such an anticlimactic approach.

"I thought the professor would conduct a big search of the entire carriage." Neville frowned and said, "Wouldn't it be a bit too relaxed to do this?"

When Jon first came to the restaurant and learned that someone had secretly opened a room that shouldn't be opened, he fell into a period of thinking. Hearing Neville's words, he comforted him.

"Don't worry, Professor McGonagall and the others will definitely not joke about our safety. Maybe there is something we don't know."

Ron and the other three were not so worried about this. They had absolute trust in every professor and had no objection to Professor McGonagall's decision in private.

Two more days passed like this, and the carriage was always calm and no accidents happened.

It was at this time that Christmas came.

Normally, Christmas in British schools is the watershed between the first and second semesters of a school year. After the Christmas holiday, the second half of the school year will officially begin.

But for the exiled Hogwarts, even if the students have no holidays during the summer vacation, they will naturally not be allowed to go home for Christmas.

Even those pure-blood students who still have families, such as Ron and Neville, must spend Christmas in school, but after Christmas, the school will not have classes for two weeks, and they can go home and reunite with their families for a few days.

Early in the morning on Christmas Day, when Jon woke up, he saw a gift box half as big as him in front of his bed.

He looked at Neville with some doubts. There was also such a gift box next to his bed, and there were several more small boxes beside the gift box.

"Who gave this gift?"

While asking, Jon grabbed the colorful ribbon on the gift box, and then saw a line of beautiful English cursive words on it.

[Wish Jon Green a Merry Christmas and Happy Every Day]

The signature below the blessing is not a name, but only "Hogwarts".

"I heard that the school prepares a gift for every little wizard on the carriage every Christmas. It's true!"

When Neville returned to Jon, he had already opened the big gift box with great interest.

Inside was a dark blue robe, large and small packages of magic candies and fruit sodas that they had seen and had not seen before, as well as parchment, ink and 17 or 18 quills for their use in the next two or three years.

Inside this big gift box was a small gift box. Neville opened the small box and exclaimed.

"It's hellebore!"

He looked at a flower planted in a pot in the gift box with an infatuated look.

Of course, Jon also knew that plant. It is called hellebore in the magic world and is one of the ingredients of the demulcent. Its scientific name among Muggles is Christmas rose, an ornamental plant for Christmas.

Neville was originally very fond of the Herbology course, and he was even more obsessed with some magical plants. Ever since he saw the pot of hellebore in McGonagall's office, he had been talking about it with Jon in private for a long time.

Now he finally got the pot of flowers as he wished.

Jon also opened his gift box. In addition to the candies, snacks and study tools in the big gift box that were the same as Neville's, he also received a dark green robe.

The body size should have been measured by Professor McGonagall in a Transfiguration class a week ago. At that time, he was still curious about why he had to measure this when learning Transfiguration.

There was also a small gift box on top of these things. After Jon opened the gift box, he took out three thick books from it.

They were "Encyclopedia of Intermediate and Low-level Spells", "Transfiguration and Transfiguration", and "Hogwarts: A History of the School".

The three books belonged to spells, transfiguration and history of magic. These three categories of books were the books that Jon borrowed the most from the library since the beginning of school.

The professors who prepared Christmas gifts for the students really spent a lot of time on this.

Looking at the things in his hands, Jon's face unconsciously showed a smile.

Just when they were opening the gifts, the carriage that had been moving all the time suddenly shook and then stopped.

Hagrid's deep voice sounded in the carriage.

"Children, you can get off the car to prepare for today's festival!"

Jon and Neville packed up the gifts together, and then walked out of the dormitory together.

The other students had already run towards the hallway along the corridor with joy. Since the beginning of school, they have stayed in the carriage almost every day, and they have been suffocated for a long time. Today is undoubtedly a day for them to relax.

"Hurry up! You are too slow!" Ron and Justin did not get off the carriage first, but waited for them to come out in front of Jon's dormitory.

The four of them went together and then met Lavender, who was in the girls' dormitory, at the hallway. The five of them walked out of the carriage together.

Outside was a forest completely covered in snow, with spruce trees everywhere. Some were dozens of meters tall, while others were only as tall as an adult.

The venue Hagrid chose was very clever. The carriage stopped at a clearing in the woods. The ground was covered with white snow. When the students got off the carriage, he and Flitwick were waving their wands to clear the snow from the clearing.

The first to rush out were the twins from the Weasley family. They cheered and jumped off the carriage, half of their calves were buried in the snow.

Then they winked at each other, and waved their wands at the snow on the ground in unison. Two snowballs gathered at the tips of their wands. They led the snowballs and waved their wands at the boy who had just stepped off the carriage. He also had red hair and glasses on his face and threw them suddenly!

"Bang!"

The snowballs exploded on Percy's face one after another.

The little wizards around Percy all laughed. Percy blushed and shouted the twins' names.

"George! Fred! I want to write a letter to my mother!"

"When can you change your lines?" Fred made a disdainful face at him, and then ran away in the woods with George.

Flitwick shouted at the backs of the two.

"Remember! Do not go beyond the range I drew for you!"

"Of course we are the most obedient, professor!" The two responded in unison without looking back.