Hogwarts School of the Dark Arts

Christmas comes quickly. After Christmas, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry will be on holiday, but Xavier is not ready to leave Hogwarts.

Although he promised the dean that he would go back to visit from time to time, Xavier was not prepared to waste time in his first year.

On Christmas Eve, Xavier went to the secret room to continue the experiment as usual, but unexpectedly found four more boxes in the secret room.

Each box says "Merry Christmas" and each one is signed differently.

"Harry, Ron, Dumbledore... why is there Hermione?"

Xavier felt very strange. He and Hermione had almost no interaction in the first half of the school year. How could she think of giving him a Christmas gift?And it was still sent to this secret room.

With this doubt, Xavier first opened Hermione's gift and found a letter inside.

Xavier was disappointed after reading it - this was not a love letter.

The letter contains some of Hermione's personal understanding and suggestions about hot pot, mainly in terms of taste.

"A great gift...but the taste of the Chinese people is really weird."

Putting the gift back into the box, Xavier opened Ron's gift box again.

Ron's gift was very simple. It was a small box of Zinsica, which is a magical material with a faint sweetness that can be eaten directly as a snack.

Xavier took one and held it in his mouth, and continued to open the gift from Harry.

"What the hell is this???"

Looking at the golden ball in the box, Xavier was speechless.

Golden Snitch…

"I told you I'm not interested in Quidditch, so what are you doing by giving me this?"

"Even if you want to change my view on Quidditch, that's not the way to change it..."

Speechlessly, Xavier put the Golden Snitch into the box and continued to open the gift given to him by Principal Dumbledore.

The gift given by Principal Dumbledore won Xavier's heart, and it actually contained Galleons!

Although there is only one piece, it is worth a galleon after all. In terms of value, it is the most expensive of the four gifts.

"Or does Principal Dumbledore understand me? Isn't this more useful than some gifts?"

After bouncing the galleons and catching them again, Xavier thought about what kind of gift he should give in return.

It's not even midnight yet, there's still time.

Moreover, these three people sent gifts today and sent them directly to the secret room. It was obvious that they wanted to ease their relationship with Xavier, and they must have specifically searched for Xavier's secret base... It may also be that the Weasley twins had told Ron before .

But being able to send it in shows that they are careful.

"Forget it, give them each a bottle of potion. You can't give them money like Principal Dumbledore, right?"

Choose three bottles of useless but delicious potions from the shelf - the only potion on the shelf that is not a potion - three bottles with three flavors, and each person will get three bottles, a total of nine flavors.

After thinking for a while, Xavier picked out three more bottles and prepared to give Principal Dumbledore a gift in return.

One thing that is very convenient in the magical world is that you don’t have to take the gifts yourself, the owl can do it for you.

After putting the gifts that needed to be sent in boxes and taking them out of the secret room through the owl, Xavier stood at the corridor window and started delivering the "express delivery".

After all the express delivery was completed, Xavier returned to the secret room.

If you don't go back, it's time for Mr. Filch to go out on patrol. If he catches you, you will be deducted points and locked up in a dark room.

Xavier didn't care about the deduction of points, but locking the dark room was a waste of time.

In the secret room, Xavier had already built a simple bed for himself out of wood. The bed and bedding were all available, but it was a pity that there was no window and the lighting was insufficient. Otherwise, he could have lived here all the time.

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After the holidays began, the vast majority of students chose to go home to spend the holidays, and very few students chose to stay.

On this day, Hogwarts ushered in the biggest snowfall of the year, and the falling snowflakes shrouded the entire Hogwarts Castle in white.

Harry and Ron tightened their thick robes, passed through one ventilated window after another, and climbed up the spiral staircase to a long-abandoned tower.

When they reached the top of the tower, they both breathed a sigh of relief.

"Finally we found you, we almost froze to death."

As Ron spoke, he quickly came to the middle, where there was a large pot with a blazing flame underneath, which was constantly distributing heat.

On the other side of the pot, Xavier was holding two test tubes and making something unknown. Behind him was a shelf of various types of test tubes and glass containers, filled with solutions of various colors.

Next to the test tube rack is another shorter rack with various ingredients on it.

"What do you want to do with me? Eat for food?" Xavier asked curiously.

"We came to you to ask..."

"Yes, I'm just here for a meal."

Before Harry could finish speaking, he was pulled down by Ron, and then he nodded and admitted that they were indeed here for a meal.

Harry looked at Ron in confusion, and nodded quickly after receiving Ron's look.

"Yes, we are here for a meal. We heard... heard... uh..."

"The base material will have to wait a while before it can be prepared... What I'm more interested in is how do you know I'm here?" Xavier asked after interrupting Harry's hesitation.

"Ghost, a ghost from Hufflepuff College told us that you were walking this way, so we searched all the way here." Harry said quickly.

"August?"

"Um...I didn't ask his name."

"Oh...the base is ready, you can pick the ingredients you want to eat."

As he spoke, Xavier poured the liquid in the test tube into the pot. The water in the pot suddenly boiled violently, and a rich aroma suddenly emitted from the originally odorless pot.

Gudong~

Ron swallowed, and stood up impatiently and walked to the shelves to pick out the ingredients...or it would be more accurate to take whatever he saw first, and it would be done soon.

It only took a few seconds for Ron to hold a bunch of ingredients and put them into the pot.

"I didn't know you were coming, so I didn't prepare any knives and forks... Maybe you could make yourself one using Transfiguration... I can help you too."

"No, I just want to practice eating with two sticks... It's really troublesome to eat this with a knife and fork," Ron said.

"It won't be spicy this time, will it?" Harry asked.

“Stock hot pot, not spicy, and rich in nutrients.”

"That's good."

Harry breathed a sigh of relief and got up to go to the shelves to pick out the ingredients he wanted to eat.However, while he was still choosing, Ron had already started eating!

And he ate so quickly that Xavier felt hungry just looking at it.

So Xavier also picked out the ingredients he liked and put them into the pot.

In the snowy Hogwarts, three people enjoyed steaming hot pot in the abandoned tower.