From Karma Taj to Hogwarts

"Why do they all like to give me books so much!"

Early the next morning, Xiwen stood beside the Christmas tree. Looking at the piles of gifts under the tree, he complained silently.

Most of these gift packages are flat and rectangular, and you can basically tell what's inside without opening them.

Now, Xiwen was holding two identical hardcover editions of "Magic Theory" in his hands, with a look of helplessness on his face.

These two identical books were given by Abraxas and Mobley respectively. I don’t know whether they had discussed it or had a tacit understanding. Gomez gave him a copy of "Basic and Advanced Alchemy", which was quite in line with Xiwen's wishes.

He ignored the many gifts from classmates he was not very familiar with and picked up Elsiona's gift box, which was one of the few gifts that did not give him a book.

The gift box is in a delicate red and white Christmas style, tied with a pink ribbon. After opening it, you can see that there are chocolates of various shapes inside.

Xiwen stuffed one into his mouth on the spot and felt it tasted good.

Then he looked at Miranda's gift. The gift she gave was also a flat rectangular bag, which made Xiwen secretly dissatisfied.

Xiwen thought to himself, he carefully selected such exquisite glasses to give her, but was she regarded as a random book given to a classmate who was not very close to her?

He opened the package angrily, saw the book inside, and then opened his eyes wide.

It's not so much a book as it is a very thick leather notebook. There is a name written in beautiful handwriting on the cover of the notebook - "Book of Spells"!

Xiwen's mood instantly changed from unhappiness to surprise, and he took out the included instruction manual and read it.

It turned out that Miranda deliberately completed the writing of this "Spell Note" before Christmas, adding a lot of new content and revising some previous inaccuracies. And she named it after Sivan's proposed name - "The Book of Spells".

Not only that, Miranda also deliberately cast a self-created spell on the title page of this notebook. As long as she recited the spell and then said the spell she wanted to find, the spell would automatically appear on the title page. The page number it is on.

"It's amazing, it even has a search function." Xiwen was amazed and kept sighing.

Then, he closed the "Book of Spells", stretched out his right hand and lightly snapped his fingers.

With a "bang", the house elf Milly appeared in front of Sivan.

"Milly is at your service, Master Xiwen!" Milly bowed.

"Milly, I have one thing for you." Sivan smiled, handed the "Book of Spells" to Milly and said. "Take this notebook to the family's bookstore in Diagon Alley and give it to Stout."

After thinking for a moment, he took out another piece of parchment, wrote a few lines of notes on it, and stuck it in the book.

"Let Steward Stott look at this note, he will know what to do." Sivan said.

After Milly disapparated and left, Xiwen was briefly excited for a few minutes, and then became helpless again. I opened my Christmas gifts in frustration...

After unpacking countless books, suddenly, a parchment envelope slipped out from the pile of gifts.

The envelope caught Sivan's attention. After all, a flimsy envelope wouldn't hold much of a gift, unless it was something like the voucher he gave to Professor Slughorn.

Xiwen first picked up the envelope and saw the words written on it:

"A Christmas present to Mr. Sivan Rozier—A.D."

‘A·D? Professor Albus Dumbledore? ’

Gu Zi

Xiwen opened the envelope curiously and saw a golden card with a string of addresses written on it - 21 rue Montmorency, rd arrondissement, Paris.

‘Faguo? What's the meaning? ’ Sivan was a little confused and didn’t know what Dumbledore was doing.

Fortunately, in addition to this card, there was also a piece of letter paper inside the envelope, with two paragraphs of bold and handsome handwriting on it——

"Mr. Rozier: After this period of study, based on your knowledge of ancient runes, I think I am no longer qualified to teach you more advanced alchemical knowledge. So I will recommend someone to you, A letter of recommendation and this address as your Christmas gift. The owner of this address is none other than my friend, the master alchemist Nicolas Flamel.”

"I will buy you half of the Christmas vacation to learn alchemy knowledge from Nick. It's up to you whether you can win his favor. If you agree, you can use your wand to click on the lower right corner of this letter. By then, I will instruct another friend of mine to pick you up at King's Cross Station on the third day after Christmas. - Yours sincerely, Albus Dumbledore."

After reading this letter, Xiwen was so surprised that he couldn't open his mouth from ear to ear, and a strong joy appeared on his face.

Nicolas Flamel is definitely the most famous alchemist in the world now, and may even be the best alchemist in history!

If he could get the opportunity to learn alchemy from him, Xiwen felt that he would really be able to make the long-awaited hanging ring.

Although he was still a little confused as to why Dumbledore thought he was no longer good enough to teach him alchemy, Sivan couldn't control that much at this time.

He even wanted to rush to Paris immediately to meet Nick Flamel!

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The three days of waiting time flew by, and Xiwen could not wait to pack his luggage.

"Are you really going to Faguo? You've only been at home for a few days!" Sandrine straightened Xiwen's wrinkled clothes and kept complaining.

"Mom, this is a very important opportunity for me." Xiwen's tone was very firm. It was really because he had been coveting the Xuan Ring for too long.

"If you ask me, that Albus Dumbledore has bad intentions." Because Dumbledore caused Sivan to leave home during the Christmas vacation, Sandrine was very dissatisfied with Dumbledore and said through gritted teeth. "I think he still has an old relationship with Grindelwald! He just spends the whole day huddled in Hogwarts Castle."

Xiwen shook his head helplessly. He really didn't know why Dumbledore, as the only wizard who could confront Grindelwald, didn't personally stand up to stop the Dark Lord.

But after getting along with him for a semester, he believed in Dumbledore's character and was willing to understand whether Dumbledore really had any unspeakable difficulties.

"Then I have to go, mother." Sivan said to Sandrine.

Sandrine saw that Xiwen had decided to leave, so she waved to him reluctantly and said, "Take care of yourself in Faguo!"

Sivan nodded and grabbed Milly's hand.

With a "bang", they appeared in the alley outside King's Cross Station.

Then, following Dumbledore's instructions, he walked outside the station gate and put the green scarf embroidered with the Slytherin house emblem around his neck.

After Xiwen sent Milly back, he started to think wildly.

'Who could Dumbledore's friends be? Will it be difficult to get along with him? ’

Just when he was distracted, a man with messy brown curly hair and a face covered with freckles came over.

"Are you Sivan Rozier?" he asked.

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