Harry Potter: The Atypical Alchemist

When he got home, Stone's father had already prepared dinner.

After releasing Nyx, Stone took her to the dining table. She also had a seat, which was a crystal ornament that Ms. Karina dug out from somewhere.

Looking at the ornaments at Nyx's feet, Stone suddenly said:

"Dad, can you think of a way to get me some diamond carving knives?"

There are two requirements for carving knives used in alchemy, hardness and purity. Needless to say, hardness is for better transmission of magic power. Diamond just meets these two conditions.

"Diamond...artificial diamond?" Carl asked.

"Correct."

"Why do we need artificial ones?" Karl frowned, "If people who don't know see it, they think we can't afford natural ones!"

"...There's no need to use natural ones," Stone said. "It's the same stuff, artificial ones are better, and I'm in a hurry."

"Okay." Karl sighed, "If it's artificial, it's artificial. What does a carving knife look like?"

"Wait a minute, I'll get it."

After saying that, Stone ran back to the bedroom and took out his carving knife.

"Just like this, there are five in total, and one is as long as this."

As he spoke, Stone traced the length of the carving knife given to Hermione with his fingers.

"Okay." Karl put away the carving knife, "When is the latest time I can give it to you?"

"Three days, four days at most."

"Three days!?" Karina, who had been listening to them, was furious. "Don't tell me your vacation is so short."

"Uh...that's not the case." Stone scratched his head, "It's mainly because there is a competition in a few days."

"It's a competition." Karina breathed a sigh of relief, "I thought wizards don't have a holiday. Where will the competition be held?"

"Cairo."

"Cairo...Cairo..." Karina thought for a while, then her eyes suddenly widened, "Egypt?!"

"Haha." Stone lowered his head and laughed twice, "Yes."

Hearing this, Karina leaned on the chair as if she had accepted her fate, "When will you be back?"

"If it doesn't go well, it will take about ten days."

"What if everything goes well?"

"If everything goes well... we should be able to catch up with the opening ceremony."

"You just won't come back?"

"I'll be back during the summer vacation." Stone lowered his head, "Soon, the summer vacation is long."

"Huh -" Karina took a deep breath, "Let's eat."

After the meal, Karina took Nicks back to the bedroom, and the Capers sat on the sofa in the living room.

It was obvious that the person at the top of the food chain in the family was furious, and no Cappie dared to touch her.

"How is school life?" Karl asked casually.

"pretty good."

"I heard that you came back with a girl today?"

"All the students came back together, we just sat in the same carriage."

"Oh - then you didn't sit in the same car as the others, right?"

"..."

"Ha ha ha ha."

Old Cappe was smiling happily when Karina's roar came from upstairs:

"Why are you laughing? Keep your voice down!"

Both Capes shrank their necks at the same time.

"Our house is very soundproofed." Old Cappe muttered, "How did she hear it?"

"I don't know." Little Cappe replied in a muffled voice.

The two chatted for a while, and then the doorbell rang.

Karl Capet took out his carving knife and went out. When he came back a short time later, he said:

"In three days, they can make the carving knife you need."

"Okay, thank you dad."

"You're welcome." Karl sat back down, "Not counting this, what kind of Christmas gift do you want this year?"

"It will be all right."

"It's like this again..." Karl stretched, "Okay, I can only think about it myself. When I go back, you should rest early."

After saying that, he crept up the stairs quietly.

Stone, who was sitting on the sofa, also scratched his hair.

"Christmas gift--"

In previous years, he didn't have many friends, so he didn't need to think about gifts, but this year was different.

... ...

In the morning, after getting up, Stone put on his casual clothes.

Today is their day to go to the mall. In half a year, his body has grown a lot, and the size of his clothes is no longer suitable, so today's content includes: buying new clothes, purchasing Christmas supplies, and buying Christmas gifts.

After going out, Stone saw his mother and Nyx on her mother's shoulders.

"Ni Ni, let's go and ignore him."

With that said, Karina took Nyx into the passenger seat, as if she were bringing her new daughter.

"..." Stone could only climb into the back seat helplessly.

There were no decent shopping malls in Surrey, so they drove to London.

Buying supplies goes very fast. For Christmas, we only have a few things to go back and forth.

When buying clothes, Stone had differences with his parents. He preferred black clothes, and the Hogwarts school uniform suited him very well. It was all black with a blue and white tie or scarf as an embellishment.

But the Capers believe that children should be more active and wear light-colored clothes.

Neither of the two forces could defeat the other, and Stone got two sets of clothes.

And because he was going to Cairo in a while and heard that there was no winter there, they went to buy some off-season clothes.

After putting everything back in the car, they split up and headed into the mall to pick out Christmas gifts.

Stone doesn't have many friends. Except for Hermione, they are all from Ravenclaw. It should be good to give them things to study with, just a pen for each person.

As for Hermione, Hermione also loves to study, so...a pen?

In this way, Stone bought a lot of pens and quickly solved the gift problem.

After returning home, where Karina couldn't see, Stone 'snapped' Nyx's neck and hung gifts one by one on its ankles.

"Let's go, make sure to deliver the gifts. If someone comes to ask me why I didn't give them a gift when school starts...hehehe..."

Nyx flapped his wings and flew out of the manor.

Then it’s time to prepare for Christmas, put up a Christmas tree, hang decorations, and prepare for Christmas dinner...

During the dinner, Karina glanced around: "Where is Nyx?"

"Give me a gift." Stone said calmly.

"Oh - OK." Karina didn't think much about it, that's what Nyx did.

The Christmas dinner consists of various special foods based on turkey, and no prayers are required. The Cape family has long since stopped believing in this, so they can just start eating.

After the dinner, Stone also received his own Christmas gift - a pen.