Soaring at Hogwarts

Knowledge is money.

It's not that knowledge can be exchanged for money, but that you have to pay money to obtain knowledge.

Books about alchemy and wands were all calculated in Galleons. The gold coins in Ian's small vault were decreasing at a rapid rate, and they were finally exhausted before Christmas.

Christmas is coming, and Samantha is going home for the holidays.

Saturday, December 12, two days before Christmas.

On the day they went to London to pick her up, the family all put on their cloaks, which Haydn and Cloris thought was hilarious.

Cloris wore a beige hooded cloak with a tie on her collarbone and black tassels hanging down.

Under the cloak is the same beige, but brighter long skirt. The pleated skirt that drags to the ground is surrounded by a black calfskin belt at the waist.

This is a style launched by Yves Saint Laurent in the 70s, and Cloris likes it very much.

Haydn's cloak was picked out by Cloris in Diagon Alley, a plain gray cloak.

Underneath was the same beige woolen sweater, piled loosely on the body, with the collar revealing an unbuttoned white shirt, and a pair of Prince of Wales plaid trousers of the same color as the cape.

Ian's cape was a rich Windsor green, which the Heseltines thought matched the color of his eyes.

Among the three, his cloak is the only one that is as unique as a wizard.

He was wearing a blue and black striped woolen sweater and jeans, and he also wore a pair of tight thermal pants under the jeans.

The three of them were outside platform 9?0?6 - the wizened guard did not allow too many people in, so he could only wait outside for the students to come out, chatting and waiting for the train to arrive.

Today is a rare sunny day in London in the winter. The westward sunshine is very warm, making people feel a bit of warmth in the humid winter.

While waiting, they also met an "acquaintance": Molly Weasley.

Ian spotted this lady with sharp eyes, he waved hello to Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, motioning for his parents to look over.

The Heseltines immediately remembered who this was, and the three of them walked over.

"Good afternoon, Mr. Weasley, Mrs. Weasley." Haydn stepped forward to shake hands. "I am Haydn Heseltine. In Diagon Alley in August, Madam, you kindly guided my child to the wand. Store, do you remember?”

"Oh!" Mr. and Mrs. Weasley remembered.

"Nice to meet you," Mr. Weasley warmly shook Haydn's hand, "I heard from Molly that our two children are also starting school this year, George and Fred, and maybe you heard from your daughter. "

"Yes, it is really a blessing to have a friend from a wizarding family to take Samantha with her."

"No, it's our honor." Speaking of this, Mr. Weasley became even more excited. "It's easy to become a wizard, but it's too difficult for wizards to understand the life of Muggles. Can I ask, are you Did you come by car?"

"Uh, yes."

"Car!" repeated Mr. Weasley cheerfully, his voice attracting some of the Muggle travelers.

"He always wanted to have a car and see how it worked." Molly Weasley explained beside her, a little helpless and a little funny.

"Oh, that's it." Haydn and Mr. Weasley matched their brain waves, "A car has something called an 'engine'..."

Haydn works in an aerospace company. Although he is usually a bit unsociable, when it comes to his profession or work, he will show a very reliable appearance.

And cars, or things like car internal combustion engines and fluid power design, happened to be closely related to his major and also within the scope of his interests.

Two men were talking about cars, and two women were talking about children.

Cloris was amazed at how well Molly took care of her seven children.

Molly was very modest: "The children are not bad in nature. This cannot be regarded as my credit."

"No, no, no, your kindness is teaching the children by example." Cloris had a good impression of this lady who helped her children.

"It's nothing." Although she said this, the smile on Molly's face could not be concealed. "Children are sometimes very naughty, such as Fred and George... two troublemakers..."

Cloris felt the same way: "So did Samantha... She often used magic to scare other children when she was a child..."

The distance between the two ladies quickly shortened, and the two gentlemen chatted animatedly.

Ian stood aside and secretly listened to the embarrassing stories of Samantha and the Weasley children when they were young, while looking at the wall leading to platform 9?0?6.

Soon, children wearing robes came out of the platform.

The adults also began to pay attention to the conversations to see if their children were among them.

"Samantha!"

Ian waved and shouted.

"Ian! Mom! Dad!" Samantha said goodbye to the girl next to her, pushed the box, and ran towards her family.

Samantha was also wearing robes, a black winter cloak from Hogwarts, a red and yellow striped Gryffindor scarf around her neck, and a bright red thin sweater underneath.

The Heseltines stood together, and anyone could tell at a glance that they were a family.

"The guard also said I wasn't dressed... like a normal person," Samantha gasped, "but to be honest, I don't think anyone would have a problem with it - I mean, in the winter. The cape isn’t really that out of the ordinary, right?”

She smiled and looked at her family, obviously in a happy mood.

The Heseltines waited a while longer and chatted with Mr. and Mrs. Weasley.After all the Weasley boys came out, they said goodbye to each other and left.

As soon as they got in the car, Samantha said quickly: "You will never imagine that Dumbledore asked me to be Hagrid's assistant!"

She looked at the confused look of her family with pride. It was obvious that she had been holding back this news for a long time.

"Oh? Why?" Haydn asked while driving.

"Maybe I have a good relationship with Hagrid." Samantha shrugged, and at the same time took out a pile of neatly tied unicorn tail hairs from her arms and threw it to Ian, "The unicorns in the Forbidden Forest are very ferocious! I had a hard time getting it.”

"Oh? I remember that unicorns like little witches?" Ian took out a piece of unicorn hair and looked at it carefully.

"Forehead……"

"And since Hagrid is here, I think he should teach you how to get in touch with these little things..."

"How do you know everything?" Samantha looked disappointed.

Cloris interjected: "So, you're not in danger, Sammy?"

"No, but in order to build a good relationship with them, I gave them all the candies you sent."

"That's good." Cloris comforted, "Ian made some magic candies, you can enjoy them when you come back."

"really?"

"Really," Ian said, putting the tail hair back on. "Thanks, Sammy."

Looking at this stack of pure white tail feathers, Ian could imagine that Samantha had been saving them for a long time.

The candies made by Ian are made with the results of his own alchemy.

Through alchemy, Ian extracted a green active substance, which can be regarded as a semi-finished product of the Philosopher's Stone.

Melting the chocolate frog, adding the green active powder, and finally reinjecting it into the grinder, Ian got an emerald green chocolate frog.

This green frog is more energetic than the original chocolate frog and will read poetry in your belly if you don't chew it up.

After returning home, Ian wrote another letter to Dumbledore, thanking him for the help he had provided to Samantha and himself.At the same time, I sent some alchemy powder and vitality green frog as gifts.

"Dear Professor Dumbledore:

First of all, I would like to thank you for your help with Samantha, who enjoys her job as Gamekeeper Assistant.

Then thank you for helping me.I'm sure you know that part of the reason why Samantha wanted to run into the Forbidden Forest was to find unicorn tail feathers for me - I was studying how to make a wand.

I would tell her not to bald the unicorns, and not to break wand wood.It may not work though, I hope you can get Hagrid to pay attention.

I'm sending you some chocolate frogs that I processed myself, I hope you like them.

I wish you a happy Christmas holiday.

Sincerely yours

Ian Heseltine

ps. I stuffed the chocolate frog into a frozen mud cake, and you can find it when you cut it open - the cake can also be eaten, although it looks a lot like mud.Those frogs will be croaking as soon as they thaw, so I hope you eat them before spring, otherwise it will be noisy. "