The Dark Lord at Hogwarts is not too cold

41. Christmas Special: Family (Group Portrait)

(Cyrus' pet will appear in the summer vacation, not a magical animal, you can guess what it is cute)

(Chapter 2 has some small details changed, and I added a small snippet at the end)

Cyrus and Hermione appeared on the platform of Hogsmeade's train station, and then took the Hogwarts Express back to London together. When the train came into the station in the early morning, the Grangers were already waiting on the platform.

Because after enrolling, every little wizard's wand trace is included by the Ministry of Magic, so Hermione will not be able to use magic, but this does not prevent her from using the Force and practicing secret methods.

What age is it, and the Ministry of Magic can still control her?wand?Times have changed!Minister

As soon as the train entered the station, she had a familiar feeling. Looking out of the window, her parents were standing there.

Hermione got out of the car and crashed directly into Mrs. Granger's arms, "I miss you so much, my dear", Mrs. Granger rubbed the brown hair that got into her arms

Cyrus rubbed his sleepy eyes, walked down from the carriage slowly, and greeted Mr. Granger, but he was a little nervous and didn't know what to say

"Let's go, maybe you can go home first, and come to our house for dinner tomorrow night." Mr. Granger could see what he was thinking, so he opened his mouth

So Cyrus was sent downstairs by the Grangers to her neighborhood. Hermione opened the car window, and after thinking for a long time, she said, "Remember to come tonight."

It was still an opaque and narrow staircase, and Cyrus could even smell the rotten stench in the dampness. He came to the fifth floor and stood in front of the door without inserting the key for a long time.

Suddenly the door was opened, and a tall man who looked a bit tired almost collided with him,

"You... are back?" Cyrus could clearly smell the alcohol on the other party's body, and couldn't help frowning

"Um..."

The man rubbed his eyes and found that he was not mistaken. He opened his mouth for a long time but did not say a word. His callused hands scratched his back for a while, and scratched his hair for a while.

"Come in." The man finally moved away, staggered back to the chair, and habitually took out a Marlboro from his trouser pocket, but it was taken off again just as he put it in his mouth.

The two don't know what to say

"You..." Both of them said at the same time

"You go first" said in unison

After another half-day of silence, the man spoke.

"I thought you weren't coming back." He looked a little dazed, looked at the TV, and then at the wine bottle on the ground. There was nowhere to put it, and his tone was a little relieved, "I thought I was going to forget you again."

"You are my father" Cyrus said without beginning and end

"Hmm..." the man nodded, "I thought the other party was a liar"

"I know" is the common reaction of normal people, even Mr. Granger was silent for a week before he figured it out

This is the father——Annie Klein. At this time, he was rubbing his plush pants, leaning forward and swaying with the movement, and then stood up and went to his bedroom to rummage through the boxes.

There was a sound of rummaging through the box, and he came out empty-handed again, looking at his son in embarrassment, with long blond hair and blue eyes like him

"Ha, there doesn't seem to be anything to eat at home." Annie Klein twitched the corners of his mouth, took out a small wallet from his trouser pocket, and pulled out some fragmented banknotes

"I made money, in school" Cyrus looked at the man in front of him, he was more decadent and vicissitudes than before, and the beard he had carelessly groomed looked messy

Klein's hand was stiff in the air for a while, but he still stuffed it into Cyrus' windbreaker pocket

Perhaps this is the only thing he can give.

He looked at Cyrus, the boy in front of him had grown up without much care, he nodded slightly, but felt a little guilty,

"How...how are you doing?"

"Very well, have a good time," Cyrus replied patiently, "The school is a very old castle, and there are many friends in it."

"Okay...okay, pretty good" Annie Klein smiled

"I... go out..." Before he finished speaking, he heard his father say: "Yes, you can go find your friends."

Cyrus looked at him, stepping on his feet, and was going to visit Mrs. Hadley in the bookstore, and looked back at him before going out.

Klein waved to him, "It's okay, I'll go out and buy something to eat."

When Cyrus went out, he sat down on the chair again, tears flowed from his eyes, and finally couldn't hold back, the man kept wiping his tears with his sleeve, and it took a while stop.

.........

"Dingling~" The door of the bookstore was pushed open,

Mrs. Hadley, sitting at the cash register, pushed her glasses and listened to the prestige

"Welcome to... Cyrus?! Oh~ welcome back"

It wasn't any guest who came in, it was Cyrus who came to visit her

He was wearing a dark trench coat and a wine-red scarf, and his blond hair was covered with a layer of snow from the road. Mrs. Hadley was a little surprised

"It's been more than three months, I thought you found a better bookstore than me"

"No, I just went to school, the new school is far away, I can only board." Cyrus stomped his feet, shaking the snow on his body at the door, "Besides, is there a better place than this?"

Mrs. Hadley took out a glass from the glass display case behind her. This was his favorite coffee cup in the past. It was light yellow transparent glass with white patterns on it and a streamlined body.

She poured a cup of hot hand brew, and Cyrus took off the scarf and put it on his arm

The coffee smells floral, with a hint of whiskey, presumably Ethiopian coffee beans fermented in whiskey barrels

After drinking for a while, he quickly took out a small stack of banknotes that his father stuffed into his pocket,

"No no no, Cyrus, I don't need these"

"Mrs Hadley, this is what I owe you"

The store manager looked at the stubborn boy in front of him, and sighed amusedly, then took out a fivepence coin from the banknotes, and pinched his blushing face from the cold

"These are enough." She was a little happy, and took out a small stack of biscuits

Because there is heating in the store, the wife of the store manager just put on a dark blue sweater, which will look very capable

The short brown hair is a little whitish at the temples, but it looks the same as when Cyrus first came in

"Where's the little girl?" Mrs. Hadley poked her head in search of

Cyrus held the cup to warm his hands, and gently scratched the patterns on it with his fingertips, "Her? She is in the same school as me, but she has gone home now."

Then the store manager made a sound of "Oh~", and the smile on his face became even brighter.

There are hardly any pedestrians on the side of the road, and they may all be staying at home with their relatives and friends. Cyrus stared blankly at the snowy scenery outside the window, thinking that he should be the happiest in the Mirror of Erised

"Merry Christmas, Mrs Hadley"

"You too, Merry Christmas, little Cyrus~"

.........

It's Christmas Eve the day after they get back to London

Cyrus came to Hermione Granger's house, and they hung Christmas decorations inside and outside the house, a slightly larger Christmas tree was erected in the middle of the yard, and there was a small Christmas tree inside the house

There are some small bells and lanterns hanging on it.

"Come here? You can watch a movie with Hermione first, and dinner is still a while away." Mr. Granger just finished his work and was sitting on a chair to rest

Hermione was watching an old movie in the semi-reclining posture of Adam in the famous painting "Genesis", when something suddenly climbed onto her drooping wrist

She looked down, and at some point, Cyrus, who had sneaked over, put an ornament on her wrist——

A bracelet made of wooden branches interwoven. The two branches are one centimeter wide and intertwined with each other. Several symbols "?", "?", and "?" are engraved on it, which are "natural justice" Calming" "Protection and Success"

Here are a few runes Cyrus learned from a book given to him by Headmaster Dumbledore, using the technique Gandalf gave him,

It looked very simple, of course, Cyrus thoughtfully made a star pendant for her to decorate.

After Hermione raised her hand to activate, the three runes on the bracelet glowed, and at the same time her hands began to warm,

"Merry Christmas~" Cyrus climbed beside her, watching the TV

The girl stroked the bracelet, which looked to have the same grain as the vine wood of her wand.

Because Granger's house has heating, her little feet are not wearing socks, and they look white and tender, but at the same time they are a little delicate.

The two little feet kept scratching the sofa because of excitement, and then kicked him twice, which brought Cyrus who was immersed in the movie back to his senses

"Here you are!" Hermione took out a small gift box from the pocket of the pink and white doll pajamas, "Merry Christmas~" When Cyrus took it, she resumed watching TV with her legs crossed

It's just that her restless little feet exposed her excited heart.

Hermione's gift is a necklace, the pendant is a pair of angel wings, and she also gave a rune "?",

sigel represents the power of the sun and is also a symbol of victory

Cyrus shone like the sun in her heart.

What was shown on TV was a black and white movie - "It's a Wonderful Life", which tells the story of the frustrated protagonist who was stopped by an angel when he was about to jump into the river, and showed him what the world without the protagonist is like, and let him know how to save himself. how many people

"What would have happened to the world if I hadn't been born?" Hermione chatted with Cyrus

"In a world without you, I might have stayed in Mrs. Hadley's bookstore alone, barely made it through Hogwarts, and then traveled with the money I earned from novels, and spent my life ordinary?"

Cyrus thought for a while and said seriously, but he was also curious about the world without his own

"What if there is no me?"

Hermione put her legs down, raised her little feet, dangled her fluffy slippers, frowned, and tilted her head in thought for a long time

"Maybe... maybe I won't practice boxing, I won't be so confident, I will look around Hogwarts like a lost child, maybe I won't enter Ravenclaw."

Maybe thanks to the wish she made on a shooting star many years ago, she met Cyrus....

Mrs. Granger had already prepared the dinner when the doorbell rang and it was Cyrus' father, Annie Klein, who entered

Tonight is Christmas Eve, since Mr. Granger invited Cyrus, of course he would not let his father be at home alone, so he went to find him after sending Hermione home yesterday afternoon

A group of people sat at the dining table, with roast turkey, roast potatoes, and some blueberry sauce and cheese cream sauce, as well as a large pot of stew and smoked fish. The dessert was Hermione's favorite strawberry frost pudding. Mr Granger also opened a bottle of Scotch for the holiday.

Annie Klein had a haircut in the morning, and his beard was shaved to a short section. He also wore a snow cap on his head. He looked a little embarrassed, which was different from his tall figure became a huge contrast

Hermione was sitting next to Cyrus, with her head down, wondering what to do.

After the meal, Cyrus was dragged to the second floor by Hermione to chat, Mrs. Granger was leaning on the sofa to watch TV, and Klein and Mr. Granger were drinking wine with unfinished food at the dinner table

The whiskey was strong, and Klein's face was a little red. He hooked Mr. Granger's shoulders and told about his childhood on the farm. When asked about Cyrus' mother, he shook his hand my own rusty head

"Remember...can't remember clearly, don't remember at all...but it should be Annie..." Annie Klein drank another glass of wine, "Should...probably"

Hermione's bedroom is not too big or small, the color is cool, it doesn't look like a girl's room at all, the hanging window can see her own yard, and the window sill is full of books

After a while, Cyrus' father was sent back by the Grangers. When they came back, everyone was a little sleepy, and Cyrus returned to the room that Mr. Granger helped him clean up before.

A pleasant night passed.

(The translation of the runes made me die. I first searched for the translation on Baidu, and then went to the character encyclopedia to find it. I vomit! And it’s not complete!!)

.........

(Christmas special~ In fact, it is mainly to bury some foreshadowing and sugar (the latter is mainly hhhh), other than that, it is to shape the characters inside

I have never liked the kind of protagonist who suffers from bitterness and hatred, or the kind that is second to none. It seems that all the characters are for the protagonist to be NPCs.

The task was triggered, completed, defeated, he/she was killed by the protagonist, and he/she fell in love with the protagonist, as if he/she had already left the category of a human being, neither crying nor laughing

The protagonist is an ordinary person who was initially drawn into the adventure by Gandalf, and then started a new round of adventure after he died.

This kind of setting is actually because of the "finite multiverse" and "infinite multiverse" settings that appeared in "Rick and Morty", plus I like the Hobbit Gandalf invites Bilbo to take risks the words said

So far~~ I am very grateful to all the fairy readers, and secondly~ I will continue to write)

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