The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

The Grangers and Tom returned to their home on December 23rd, and the next day was Christmas Eve.

They spent the whole day tidying up the house and hanging all kinds of Christmas decorations in every corner of the house - just like the Chinese New Year. The highlight of the decoration is naturally the Christmas tree.

Mr. Granger and Tom hung various lanterns, bells and other small things on the tree together. At this time, Hermione dug out a movie disc from the TV cabinet under the TV in the living room.

"Hey! I haven't seen this disc before!" Hermione held the disc and looked at it curiously.

"What?!" Mr. Granger suddenly stood up and walked quickly behind Hermione, "Oh, it's this one. I bought this one at a video store some time ago. It's an old movie. I I watched it when I was a kid.”

"It's a Wonderful Life? What the hell is that name?" Tom came over, took a look at the name of the movie, and couldn't help but complain. Although Hermione didn't say anything, she seemed to agree.

Mr. Granger sighed. Today's children have not even watched "It's a Wonderful Life."

“So what is this movie about?”

"This is a very good movie. It tells the story of a time during the Christmas period -" "That's quite appropriate." Hermione's voice cut in, "- George wanted to commit suicide because he was frustrated in life. At this time God appeared and showed George what the world was like in which he had never been born, allowing him to understand that he had actually saved many unfortunate people in his life."

There was a moment of silence between Tom and Hermione.

"Can you imagine what the world would be like if you were never born?" Hermione picked up a Santa hat and asked Tom.

"Absolutely." Tom nodded firmly.

"Tell me about it?" Hermione's curiosity was aroused.

"What a world without me..." Tom sighed with emotion, "Maybe you will go to Gryffindor House? After all, I remember you said at the beginning that you think that is the best house, because Dumbledore is Graduated there.”

Hermione nodded, she thought what Tom said made sense.

"However, the learning atmosphere there is not as strong as Ravenclaw. It may be harder for you to meet like-minded friends, and you may also be disliked for always answering questions in class and being too straightforward when instructing others."

Hermione frowned and thought to herself: You also rush to answer questions and make all kinds of tricks.

Tom changed the topic, "But you will definitely make friends. It's just a matter of time and opportunity. But then you may go on adventures with them and violate hundreds of school rules in one school year..."

"Stop, stop, stop! You are becoming more and more unreliable!" Hermione puffed up her face: How could she violate hundreds of school rules in one school year? Can the story be made more reasonable?

Next, they fantasized about what life would be like without Hermione. In the end, the only consensus they reached was that no one would be able to answer questions with Tom in class.

While talking and laughing, the Christmas tree was already set up by Mr. Granger. Mrs. Granger also prepared Christmas dinner, and the four of them sat at the table together.

Mr. Granger held his daughter in his left hand and held Tom in his right hand and began to pray. After the prayers were over, they began to enjoy the dinner. Although not as amazing as the Christmas dinner at Hogwarts, it was still extremely sumptuous.

The first must be the traditional Christmas main meal of roast turkey, served with roast potatoes, brandy cream sauce and cranberry sauce. Next to the turkey is a large pot of stew and smoked salmon. Naturally, the pies with various fillings are Indispensable, dessert is plum pudding. Mr. Granger opened a bottle of glogi to add to the fun.

glogi is a red wine with fortifications produced in Finland. It later became popular in Europe and became the best Christmas wine. It contains black currants, apple juice and cinnamon sticks. It tastes weird - this wine should be drunk warm. . Of course, just as every BJ family has a different recipe for making noodles, every Finnish family also has different ingredients for glogi wine. The Glenmorangie family will add extra almonds and raisins.

Of course, never have high expectations for turkey. Turkey meat is not ordinary firewood, even chicken breast is more tender than it, and it has a strange taste. Tom is not very used to eating it, so he only ate a little bit as a courtesy, but the smoked salmon next to it is quite delicious. of. This kind of fish is plump and tender when eaten raw, but after being grilled, it dries out a lot and loses that "moist" feeling.

After dinner, everyone watched a few movies together and then went back to the bedroom to rest. The night passed quickly. On Christmas Day, when Tom got up, he saw three gift boxes at the foot of the bed. One was a box of horseshoe-shaped chocolates from Hermione, the second box was a dental care gift package from the Grangers, and the third box was a little more unexpected: it was from Dumbledore.

Tom opened it and found six snacks and a piggy bank inside. However, it is a little different from the piggy banks of Muggles. As long as this jar is scratched on its belly, it will laugh and then spurt out coins from the hole on its back - which has been filled with Dumbledore. Filled with steel from all over the world.

Tom took a bite of the snack he sent. It tasted good, but he almost lost his teeth: there was really a coin wrapped in it.

It seems that Dumbledore really remembered what he saw in the Mirror of Erised. This time someone actually gave Tom money and let him eat the coins. And Tom actually gave Dumbledore a pair of wool socks with phoenix embroidered on them!

Next door, Hermione was also opening presents. She has a few more gifts, but they are basically gifts from relatives. Like Tom, she has no friends at school who are close enough to give each other Christmas gifts.

The package quickly bottomed out, and there was a thin small package at the bottom. Hermione picked it up and found that it was from Tom. She was a little curious and a little expecting: What would Tom give her?

Hermione nervously opened the package, revealing a delicate little book. There was a line written in beautiful cursive calligraphy on the book: "The Tales of Beedle the Bard". Hermione opened it and took a look. It turned out to be several fairy tales from the magical world. All the stories were copied by hand. The font Neatly arranged on paper, even a patient with obsessive-compulsive disorder can't find fault.

Hermione was a little touched. Tom knew that she liked reading, so he copied a book and gave it to her.

"This is the best Christmas gift..." She hugged the book tightly, her eyes a little moist.

"Dear compatriots and friends, as a result of the recent situation involving the establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States, I announce my resignation..."

"This country is losing its sense of judgment and we can't continue like this and everything needs to be changed."

"...Our country will become a prosperous society. I would like to express my best wishes to you all!"

Yuri threw himself on the TV and kissed the screen crazily: "This is the best Christmas gift!"