HP let go of that little bat

"If I remember correctly, today is Christmas. So what made Miss Lily behave like she came to wake me up so early in the morning?"

"Opening presents, of course!" Lily's words reminded Severus that presents were to be opened on Christmas morning.

But how could there be a gift?As long as his father didn't come back to get the money, or go home to treat them... that was fine, and Severus never expected any gifts.He didn't want to admit that he had looked forward to it, but was awakened by reality.Naturally, he also forgot about getting up to unwrap presents.

Seeing Severus stunned, Lily frowned: "You will not forget to prepare the present!"

"No." Severus was completely awake.

"Then we'll wait for you downstairs." Lily nodded and left the room with her sister.

Walking in the corridor, he could smell the aroma of the food. As soon as Severus walked down the stairs, he was seen by the sharp-eyed Mrs. Evans: "Severus, come here, knead the dough."

Severus, who didn't understand what it meant at all, stepped forward and washed his hands in the sink before reaching out to knead the dough.He touched the dough lightly with his fingers first, but when he took it away, his hands stuck to it.

Mr. Evans took pictures of this scene with quick eyes and hands, and Severus withdrew his hands in embarrassment, and was grabbed by a pair of warm hands just as he was about to leave. "Dip some dry flour on your hands so they won't stick to your hands." Seeing Mrs. Evans' gentle eyes, Severus tried to knead the dough with some flour again, and sure enough it didn't stick to his hands like before.

"Okay, since everyone is here, I'll put this coin in." Mr. Evans took out a cleaned coin and put it into the dough, and then kneaded it a few times until the coin was completely hidden in the dough: " Tonight we'll find out who the lucky one is! Now, kids, go unwrap your presents."

Smiling so hard that her teeth could not see her eyes, Lily followed her sister and hummed pop songs.The three stood in front of the fireplace, Lily pointed to a dark green sock, "Severus, that's your Christmas sock. Below is your present. Quickly unwrap it and have a look."

Nervously walking to his Christmas stocking, Severus imitated Lily and sat on the ground.The first was the gift on top decorated with light green wrapping paper. Severus unwrapped it, and inside was a set of small crystal bottles.He knew it was given to him by his mother without even looking at it. This was the set he was tempted to see when he saw it in the store, but he didn't buy it because the price was a little expensive.

Putting it away carefully, Severus picked up the next gift, and the card on it was signed with Petunia.Inside the box was a very heavy dictionary, and Severus glanced at Petunia and nodded gratefully.

His mother had no money for him to go to school, and many English spellings were looked up with an extremely old dictionary at home.It's too far away from the free library in the city center, and the bookstore doesn't welcome people like me who don't have money to buy books and just read them...

Putting the dictionary aside, Severus took out the next box, which was very large, and when opened, it turned out to be a brand new set of stationery, a gift from the Evans couple.

"And mine." Lily had already unwrapped most of the presents, except for the one Severus gave her, which she held in her arms.

Severus picked up the last box, which was not light or heavy.Carefully unpacking, Severus slowly opened the carton, inside was a neatly folded scarf and a hat.Picking up the scarf, Severus felt its weight.It's very smooth and doesn't have the tangled feeling of ordinary wool.Severus shook out the scarf, which was long enough for him to wrap more than two times around his neck.

The color is a very conspicuous light green, reminiscent of the grass that has just sprouted in spring.The only drawback is the unbalanced arrangement of needles and threads, especially when viewed against the light, it is occasionally dense and sometimes loose, and there are small holes in a few places... You can tell it is pure handwork at a glance.Still not very skilled...

"It will be better in the future." Regarding Severus' behavior, Lily said awkwardly: "Look at this hat, it will be much better."

"I like it," Severus said.Lily looked at him, a little embarrassed.

"Let me see your gift." Lily lowered her head and began to unwrap her present, unwrapping the simple wrapping paper and opening the box, and a book appeared in front of her.Lily picked it up and flipped through it, and found that it was all spells transcribed in handwriting, some of which she had learned and some of which she hadn't.From the catalog of the book, it can be seen that the transcriber worked very hard and classified all the spells.The first category lists spells according to their difficulty level, and the second list sorts spells according to their scope of application.

Lily flipped through the first few spells she knew, and after flipping through two more, she could no longer see the content behind. "This is a little magic I asked my mother to set up. Only you can see the back if you have mastered the knowledge of the front." Severus explained.

"Can this be detected?" Penny asked curiously.

"Mother said yes. In some families, some rare magic books are collected. In order to prevent children from accidentally reading them, this kind of magic will be cast on these books."

"Then you don't want to teach me, so you gave me this book so I can learn by myself." Thinking of this possibility, Lily became depressed.

"I thought we were good friends," Severus said.

"Then you know all these spells?"

"No, many are still in my plans..." Severus avoided Lily's restored eyes, "I'm curious what's in your head, maybe it's full of weed seeds and a large piece of land."

"?" Lily didn't respond.

"What he means is that the two will grow wildly when they come into contact with each other without direction or boundaries," Penny explained.

"Severus, I'm glad you gave me this." Lily raised her eyebrows and looked at Petunia: "What's your sister's gift?"

"A bottle of... potion that can make the skin better? Is it called this?"

"That's really good. Sister, you must succeed!"

"Lily! I warned you!" Petunia made a gesture to pounce on her, but Lily dodged nimbly to avoid her sister's clutches.The two sisters played catch and dodge around Severus.

In the afternoon, the three children went out to clean up the snow behind Mr. Evans, and when they finally cleaned up and looked at the scenery and were ready to call it a day, the sky began to snowflakes again.

Lily quietly squeezed a snowball and hit her sister.Petunia noticed and immediately fought back, and soon the two men present were also pulled off the battlefield.The voices of the four attracted other neighbors, and the adults who had been on the sidelines followed the children to join the battlefield.In the end, everyone had a tacit understanding to use the road as the boundary, and the neighbors on both sides threw snowballs at each other.

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