A day at Hogwarts

For children, the greatest joy of Christmas is listening to their elders gossip about unwrapping presents.

It was close to noon that day, Charles got up and had a quick breakfast, sat on the carpet in the living room and began to unwrap the Christmas presents that had been delivered in the past few days.

He suddenly saw a rather old-looking cloth bag in the pile of gifts than yesterday, and he was the first to open it out of curiosity, and he lost his composure for a moment.

Jack sat on the sofa and read the newspaper, and said calmly: "Santa Claus delivered it last night, but you didn't wake up, he was very disappointed."

Charles heard the old man say that Dumbledore, who was specially dressed as Santa Claus, called him for five minutes last night, but he couldn't get up and regretted it to death.

He stayed up all night at St. Mungo's Hospital the night before, and went to bed early last night after having a meal of dumplings ordered from a Chinese restaurant with the old man. He didn't expect to sleep so hard that he missed Dumbledore's Santa Claus.

It stands to reason that the local Christmas Eve is to eat turkey, but Charles thinks this thing is too unpalatable, the meat is very bad, and the stew is not good, so he eats dumplings instead.

Charles looked carefully at the gift from Dumbledore, which was his transfiguration notes when he was a student, which was of high academic value and collection value.

After turning a few pages, he suddenly sighed.

Jack asked him curiously: "Why, are you dissatisfied? Don't rely on me for everything. I'm not good at teaching and educating people."

Charles shook his head and said, "No, I'm dissatisfied with the entire wizarding community. It's been almost a hundred years, and magic knowledge has developed too slowly in a hundred years."

Jack put down the newspaper and said to him seriously: "Demand, demand is the driving force for progress. If there is no demand, if you want to reform the existing magic system, even if it is right and correct, it will not succeed in the end."

After hearing this, Charles just nodded silently. What the old man said is right. As long as the old method can solve the current problem and it has not come to an end, most people will not try new methods.

The root cause of this situation today is that the population base of wizards is too small. Although it is many times larger than what Charles "remembers", the per capita resources in this closed group are still very high. Without the pressure of survival, there is naturally a lack of motivation for innovation .

Charles no longer cared about the issues that these big shots should consider, and continued to unwrap presents.

In previous years, the gifts from the Dursleys were all cakes and pastries made by Penny, but this year was different.

This year, the Dursley family sent a SLR camera produced in the late 1970s, made in Germany, although it was overstocked in the warehouse, but the packaging was very good. The most important thing is that it is purely mechanical and can be used in Hogwarts.

This camera is only a few years older than Charles, and it is not worth collecting now. Compared to the old man's salary for Penny's housekeeping, it is not expensive.

However, this camera still lacks a flash, so I need to go to Diagon Alley to buy one that can be used at Hogwarts, and at the same time buy film and a developing potion that can turn jpg into gif.

Charles's photography level is also known as a "virtuous university", so it's okay to take pictures for fun.

He suddenly thought that Hermione might become a catwoman by the end of this year, and a weird smile appeared on his face.

Seeing him like that, Jack asked, "What are you thinking about, is it about going to Azkaban?"

Charles shook his head quickly, started to open the next one to continue, and then exclaimed: "[British swearing]! Now I might really be going to Azkaban!"

As he spoke, he took the Christmas present Voldemort gave him and showed it to the old man.

Jack took the notebook from Voldemort, with "Little Everyday Charms" written on the cover, opened it, read it, shook his head and said, "They're all children's playful spells, they don't work."

"However, it can be seen that he has put his heart into it. These spells are not very harmful, but they are extremely insulting...huh?"

"Hurry up and show up!"

The old man turned to the last page of the notebook and handed it to Charles: "You can read it yourself."

After taking it, Charles found that there was a curse on the last blank page. After reading it, he exclaimed: "It turned out to be 'separation of flesh and blood'. You don't have to worry about fish bones when you eat fish in the future."

Jack glanced at him with a smile, then picked up the newspaper and continued to read, I believe this kid must know that this is a spell that can easily kill people.

"ah!!!"

Charles' sudden cry startled Jack.

Jack put down the newspaper and asked him suspiciously, "What's wrong?"

Charles was holding up a football and shouting excitedly: "It's signed by Van Basten, Gullit and Rijkaard!"

When Jack saw it was a football, he ignored him and just asked, "Who sent it?"

Charles replied with a smirk: "It's Eleanor, I didn't expect her to get it!"

Jack looked at the newspaper and asked him, "This girl treats you well."

Charles continued to smirk: "Hey...it's okay."

Jack just said "Be careful" and went on reading the newspaper.

Charles unwrapped a box of candy Hermione gave him, thinking that he wanted to eat his own teeth so that her father could make money. At the same time, he pretended to ask casually, "Grandpa, can you tell me about Veela?"

Then he resisted the old man's murderous intent and said: "I don't want to inquire about you and Veela, I just want to know about them."

Jack sneered, and then turned into a funny face: "Why, don't you want to replace the capitalist big sister with a Veela little sister?"

Charles had black hair, pretending he didn't hear the old man's question, and continued: "The first time I saw Gabriel and Mrs. Angelina, I had a very strange feeling, as if I had seen them before."

Jack looked at the newspaper and said, "Different races have different strengths. Goblins are good at making magic items, centaurs are good at divination, Veela's charm is an attack on the soul, and this talent brings them proficiency in souls." .”

"Different races have their own unique skills. Even if they are as strong as me, Dumbledore, Grindelwald and that socket, they are not excellent in their field of expertise."

"If the achievement that a person can achieve is expressed in numerical value, then it is the product of talent and hard work. The heights that those who are talented and hardworking can achieve are beyond the reach of others."

Then he paused, put down the newspaper and said to Charles very seriously: "If you want to get together with Veela in the future, you must pay attention to it. If you can't do what you promised, they will hold a grudge."

Charles nodded after hearing this: "It can be seen that it has been eighty years, and I don't even know whether you are still alive, and I haven't given up looking."

He waited for the old man's reaction, and continued to talk as long as he was not killed.

Turns out Jack put down the newspaper and went to turn on the TV when he was on air.

Charles had no choice but to continue unwrapping the presents.

Harry sent a large pack of broomstick biscuits. The packaging is a new product launched by Hogsmeade's Honeydukes candy shop this Christmas. These palm-length broomsticks can fly around the table by themselves, and eat the shell Crunchy and filled with different flavored fruit syrups.

At the same time, in the Gryffindor dormitory at Hogwarts, Harry put down the invisibility cloak his father had used, and opened the gift from Charles.

This gift is just an envelope with the words "Only you can see".

Ron, who was sitting by the side, said curiously after seeing it: "It would be great if Charles told us who Nico Flamel is."

After opening the envelope, Harry sighed and said, "I don't think he will be free. He is often not at home during holidays."

It turned out there was another envelope inside the envelope with the words "Do not let others know what's inside."

Ron wisely went back to his bed and started eating candies, and Charles also sent almost two kilograms of candies to their dormitory.

He took two bonbons out of the bag and threw one of them at Harry, where it hit the celestial cap.

"What's that?" Ron couldn't help being curious when he saw that he was holding a blank Muggle paper and looked at it very seriously.

Harry seemed obsessed with it and didn't respond.

It took him almost half an hour to read the content on the paper, and said in surprise: "There is such magic!"

I have a lot of work today, I don't know if I will have time to write the second chapter.