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Chapter 425: Adventurer's Perseverance
"Merry Christmas, Hagrid."

Andrew was carrying the box, smiling, and greeted Hagrid who was rushing over.

"Merry Christmas, Andrew," Hagrid's face was full of joy and a little bit of alcohol, "Are you going back to school now?"

Although Andrew didn't know that Professor McGonagall had been on duty since her holiday, he had no intention of betraying Professor McGonagall's whereabouts. "Yes, it has been a luxurious holiday."

As he spoke, he took out two bottles of gin from the box. "I bought these gins from the Muggle side secretly. To be honest, I asked someone to buy them for me. The shopkeeper was really ruthless."

This is the truth. He asked a nun to buy it for him - claiming that he would give it to the professor when he returned. The nun hesitated for a moment and then agreed.

"You didn't use a Confounding Charm or anything?"

Hagrid had an eager look on his face.

???

You're a professor, Hagrid! Andrew didn't know what to say for a moment.

The qualification to cast spells was precious, and he had no intention of using it recklessly. At least he would have to wait until he officially became an adult and it would not cause any controversy before he would occasionally need some help from magic in his life - abuse would be terrible.

"Well, it's not quite right, but it's a good thing we got it," Hagrid took the wine, "and thank you for the ham, it tastes really good, would you like to sit in my cabin for a while?"

"I'm glad you like it, Hagrid," Andrew nodded, "but I have to go back and report first. I've been on vacation for too long this time."

The Spanish product was expensive, but Andrew still thought it was too cheap.

He really didn't know how to say good things to Hagrid - Andrew just said that he was worried that there might be problems with the potion materials when he returned, and Hagrid directly gave him a bunch of expensive things that were difficult to buy even with money.

If Andrew hadn't seen the real thing from Professor Snape, he would have thought that those fire crab shells placed randomly to maintain temperature were worthless things.

"Fortunately, it was left when the shell was shed. If it was the kind left when the shell died, it would be really... I think I can afford it..."

Shaking his head, Andrew stopped thinking about the issue of how to use the funds and walked towards the castle - he planned to go back and put the box away first, and then go to the office safely to process the documents.

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"This...this..."

Andrew stood at the door of the dormitory in a daze.

No! What's with all these gifts?
Didn’t he already receive the things his friend asked Qiangwei to send to his room?

"Goo?"

Rose, who was lying in the cage, also stood up suddenly, staring at the pile of gifts, leaning against them weakly, obviously frightened by the pile of boxes.

"I remember I blocked my magic address... Only a few people know my two aliases... Was it sent directly to the school?"

"But normally they would just intercept it and send it back. If there is no address, Hogwarts can't send any packages in..."

Andrew moved over and started to pick at it.

Ministry of Magic…

Another Ministry of Magic...

Um, magic school...

There were a lot of them scattered around, only a small part of them were sent by friends, and the rest were either gifts from the Ministry of Magic or this or that association, all beautifully packaged.

...

"Luckily I'm back, and I have this..."

Andrew looked at the box that looked unusually familiar—no doubt, a pile of high-end quills from the editorial department.

"Luckily I came back early, otherwise this would have happened..."

He carefully hid the most important package, then packed the packages from the Ministry of Magic, various organizations and the school under the bed and piled his friends' packages on the bed, then he breathed a sigh of relief.

"The documents are important, especially the spinning lab. It's a breakthrough after all. I have to go and take a look..." "I'll dismantle it when I come back. Anyway, the bomb has been eliminated..."

"Fortunately, I was smart and blocked the name magic. Otherwise, if I received other packages, they would be checked with detectors. Then I would be caught and hung up in the astronomy tower."

Andrew muttered to himself as he rushed to the office - he was mentally prepared and could handle even a table full of documents.

But Professor McGonagall obviously did not have the bad habits of a certain unnamed Hogwarts headmaster. All she left for Andrew were just a normal day's worth of new documents, with just a laboratory results report piled on top.

Andrew took a rough look at it - it was pretty much what he thought, it didn't involve any new synthetic materials, it was just a simple improvement on the loom, it wasn't even the most advanced shuttleless loom, but the results were acceptable, at least it was a lot of progress.

Moreover, the other party obviously had the idea of ​​achieving the goal in one step. In the final stage of the experimental report, the concept of shuttleless loom was mentioned, but the school was required to keep it confidential and provide additional financial support.

"You are still playing tricks, but the previous modification is definitely not a simple imitation... Well, I definitely agree with this, let's see what Professor McGonagall thinks..."

Andrew signed carefully and put the first document away, waiting for Professor McGonagall to review it.

Then came the rest of the documents - the most important ones were the blessings from various schools and some cooperative research. Andrew responded to the blessings one by one, and then kept the cooperation and other documents for Professor McGonagall to review.

Anyway, there is no rush for things brought up on Christmas, and no good person would rush to create an emergency at this time.

...

"Done!"

Andrew stretched his muscles, thought for a while, looked at the drawer where the time converter was locked, and sighed - a vacation was useless, and he had to adapt to living with two more hours a day.

"Not today, let's wait until Professor McGonagall comes back from vacation. After all, I promised the professor... Let's go back and open the presents first."

He closed the door, locked the office, and turned to walk towards the lounge.

But in the hallway, he was suddenly stopped - by someone he wasn't expecting.

"Merry Christmas, Professor Black."

"Merry Christmas, Andrew," Sirius greeted while glancing around, "I heard from the portrait that you were back, so I rushed over."

"what?"

Andrew was stunned for a moment, "What's the matter?"

He and Sirius had an okay relationship, but it wasn't to the point where they had to meet up immediately after not seeing each other during the holidays.

"This is inconvenient, we'll talk about it later," Sirius smiled mysteriously, "It's not a bad thing."

But Sirius didn't say a word until he dragged Andrew to an empty classroom.

It wasn't until they saw Professor Nina in an empty classroom that Sirius breathed a sigh of relief, "Here we are, everyone is here this time, we can continue."

"What and what?"

Andrew was confused.

"It's a secret. We discovered some clues two months ago, but there was no progress until the holidays began and the students dispersed. Then we made a formal breakthrough - do you still remember the Peeves incident, Andrew?"

Sirius smiled smugly.

"I made that up... but it actually worked. However, because Peeves fought back so hard and the results were so small, and there were so many messes, the students stopped pursuing it."

Andrew controlled his expression and showed some curiosity.

"Don't underestimate the persistence of adventurers. If there is something wrong, we will definitely explore it. Even if Professor Nina has signed an agreement not to disclose school information to the outside world, it will not affect her pursuit of adventure."

Sirius's face was full of excitement, "As for me, I have long been a senior adventurer at Hogwarts."

'So, you guys actually figured out what's wrong?'

(End of this chapter)