Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 1395 Christmas Gift

In a daze, Albert opened his eyes, closed his eyes and yawned lazily. When he turned his head sideways, he seemed to notice something. When he opened his eyes again, the bed beside him was already empty. up.

  He turned over and got up from the bed, his eyes fell on the bathroom door with the lights on and the sound of running water, his eyes were a little confused looking at the still dark window, and he muttered, "It's so early..."

   After a while, the bathroom door was opened from the inside, and Isobel, who was wearing a nightgown, came out from inside, and was carefully wiping the long fiery red hair with a towel.

"woke up?"

  Isobel noticed Albert who got up.

   "...Why don't you sleep for a while?" Albert covered another yawn.

   "No, it's already half past seven, and it should be snowing outside."

  Isobel put down the towel, walked towards Albert with a familiar scent, bent down and kissed the sleepy-eyed Albert on the cheek, and said with a smile, "Merry Christmas."

   Oh, I almost forgot, today is Christmas.

"Merry Christmas!"

  Albert covered his yawns, and was about to lie back on the bed and continue to sleep again, but Isobel stretched out his hand and grabbed him.

   "What's wrong?" Albert asked suspiciously.

   "Go take a shower first, I have prepared a special Christmas present for you."

"Christmas gift?"

  Albert was slightly taken aback, he really didn't expect Isobel to give him a Christmas present.

   After all, they are both married and have children.

  It always feels a bit strange to give gifts to both parties at Christmas.

  Of course, sending some small gifts can really add some life sentiment to the boring life of both parties.

  Isobel raised his brows slightly, put his head close to Albert's ear on purpose, and said softly, "It seems that you forgot to prepare a gift for me?"

   "Oh dear, what gift would you like?"

   "What do you think?"

  Isobel didn't give Albert any time to react, so he pulled him up from the bed and pushed him directly into the bathroom.

  The door closes again.

  Overlapping figures are reflected in the transparent frosted glass.

   When Albert finished his shower, changed his clothes and walked into the living room, Katrina and the house elves were decorating the big round table with sumptuous food.

"Merry Christmas!"

   Albert glanced at the Christmas tree by the fireplace. Under the tree were piled a large number of French snacks that he was going to give to members of the association.

   "You look tired, didn't you sleep well last night?"

Katrina put the breakfast plate on the small round table next to Albert, looked sideways at Isobel who was pushing the stroller into the living room, and asked with a smile, "Or was the exercise this morning too intense? "

   "Ahem."

   Albert glanced at Katrina with a strange expression, then turned his gaze back to the Steak Wellington on the dinner plate, and changed the subject, "Do you eat steak early in the morning?"

   It's not that Albert hates steak, but that he's used to having a lighter breakfast.

   "Today is Christmas." Katrina said without thinking.

   "Hey, if I let other association members know that I enjoy delicious food at home, I guess my mind will explode."

   Albert cut a bit and tasted it. The steak tasted really good.

"It's good not to let them know, and haven't you already prepared Christmas presents for them?" Katrina glanced at the pile of packages under the Christmas tree and said, "And when did you care about this kind of thing?" Oh, what a duplicity, hypocrisy."

   "It's really sad, I'm obviously honest." Albert took a sip of milk and said, "Your Christmas present is gone."

  Katrina didn't care, and obviously didn't think Albert would prepare any Christmas presents for her.

   "Isobel is very satisfied with the gift I prepared for her." Albert said suddenly.

   "You bastard." Katrina gave Albert a hard look, and reached out to take away the half-eaten food.

   "Ahem, you are thinking wrong, you are really a girl with impure thoughts, and you don't even have a boyfriend yet."

   "So, you just forgot to prepare a Christmas present for me? Honey." Isobel's voice rang in Albert's ear.

"Ahem, if you need it, I can prepare another one for you, but I don't think you need it." Albert took out a pink wine bottle from his seamless stretch pocket and handed it to Katrina, "Open it and see Check it out, you're sure to like it."

"A bottle of wine?"

   "It turned out to be youth and love."

  Isobel was a little surprised, because they drank the batch of magic wine that Albert used Mandrake wine to brew last time.

"what is that?"

   "The name of this bottle of wine." Isobel introduced, "It is said that it can delay aging."

   "Magic wine that delays aging?"

   Katrina looked suspiciously at the bottle of wine in her hand, and asked, "Are you sure this thing is not fooling people."

   "You have to ask Albert about this." Isobel asked curiously, "Is this the latest batch?"

   "Well, I guess, this year's batch is an improved version, and the effect is better than the last batch." Albert shrugged, "At least the taste is very good, and it is a treasure that you can't buy from the outside world anyway."

   "Can this thing really delay aging?"

  Katrina is dubious about this, if something like this could slow down aging, that would be... awesome, but is it really possible?

"I don't know too well. Albert makes a batch every year. The raw material is mandrake. It is said that it needs to be drunk frequently to be effective." In fact, Isobel can't confirm the effect of youth and love, but Albert said Effective, she is still willing to believe.

   "Just treat it as a bottle of wine."

After Albert took out a handkerchief to wipe the corners of his mouth, he cleaned up the cutlery on the table. After looking at the condition of little Alice in the stroller, he picked up Tom who was warming up next to the fire, put him on his lap, and used a comb to help him check his hair , and listen to the McDougal sisters chatting by the way.

   "Where's Mom?"

   "In the kitchen, said yes to surprise us."

  The two sisters looked at each other and fell into a brief silence.

  Isobel temporarily left Alice in the care of Albert, and took Katrina to the kitchen.

   "Tom, this is Alice, you have to take care of her in the future."

  Albert held Tom close to the stroller, letting him smell Alice carefully.

"Meow!"

  Tom let out a lazily cry, rubbed Albert's feet, then lay down on the soft cushion by the fireplace and continued to enjoy the fire, completely ignoring the young Twolegs.

Mrs. McDougal's food is not as bad as expected, it can only be said to be mediocre. The only problem is that for some reason, both Isobel and Katrina have become less fond of sweets, so... Albert just Can be ordered to take a small piece of cake for dessert after dinner.

"Thanks for your hard work."

  Isobel cast an apologetic look at Albert. Mrs. McDougal's recent obsession with cooking really made them feel very helpless.

   "Actually, it's not as bad as you think." Albert comforted softly.

   This is actually not a lie, because Hagrid's cooking level is also unsatisfactory.

  (end of this chapter)