Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 609 Code Words

   Definitely the most depressing Christmas break Katrina has ever had.

After Isobel and Albert went abroad for vacation, although her mother spared time to accompany her as much as possible, she was still very busy, and she couldn't see anyone all day long. Most of the time, she was alone looking after the house and preparing food silently. The cooking skills of the restaurant are very average, so the whole Christmas holiday was not very good.

  Perhaps, I shouldn't be home during the Christmas holidays.

  I thought that even if Isobel and Albert went on vacation, I could go to Uncle Mogg’s manor for Christmas vacation, but Uncle Mogg seemed to...forgot?

  Katrina sat at the desk, looked away from the parchment, raised her head to look at the snowflakes falling outside the window, feeling an inexplicable loneliness and sadness in her heart for some reason.

  Based on the relationship between Isobel and Albert, they will probably get together in the end!

  Mom has basically agreed, and she has a good sense of Albert. Moreover, during this period of time, she would chat with her whenever she was free, and she also knew what her mother meant: he is your brother-in-law.

  As for Albert, since everyone invited Isobel to go on vacation, it means that they have agreed.

  Katrina looked at the photo with Isobel on the desk, and sighed softly, "It's true that you took over all the good things."

  Time passed day by day, but Isobel still didn't come back.

   It took Katrina a few days to finish all her vacation homework.

  In order not to let myself think about strange things all day long, she spends most of her time reading books by the fireplace, trying to surpass Isobel in next year's ordinary wizard level exam, and prove that she is no worse than Isobel.

  Why not Albert?

  Katrina has completely given up on the idea of ​​surpassing Albert, which is a more distant goal than surpassing Isobel.

   Repeating similar things every day, the time always passes very fast, and the Christmas holiday will be over in the blink of an eye, and Isobel still hasn't come back.

   Just a few days before the end of the holiday, footsteps finally came outside the door. In the light snowy weather, Isobel came back. She didn't feel tired after the trip, on the contrary, she looked energetic. Even Katrina was dumbfounded. Isobel seemed to be more beautiful than before.

  Even if the other party is her sister, Katrina can't help being a little envious.

   There is no woman who does not love beauty.

   "What's the matter?" Isobel put down the suitcase, closed the door and looked at Katrina who was stunned, asking inexplicably.

   "I always feel that you have become more beautiful." Katrina looked Isobel up and down, and asked curiously, "How did you do it?"

   "Beautiful?" Isobel froze for a moment, then smiled and replied, "I probably know the reason."

"what reason?"

  At this moment, Katrina noticed that Isobel's cheeks were a little red, and she didn't know whether it was from the cold or the reflection of the fire in the fireplace.

"Albert said that happy women are the most beautiful." Isobel hung the cloak on the hanger by the fireplace, turned to his sister and said, "I thought he was bluffing, but I didn't expect it to be true .”

  Katrina was speechless for a moment, feeling that she had really asked a stupid question.

   "How is it abroad?" She found another topic.

   "The Muggle world is very interesting. Although they can't use magic, they have created countless magical electrical appliances." Isobel turned his head to look at his sister and asked, "How was your vacation?"

   "It's not very good. Mom still doesn't come back very often." Katrina murmured softly, "You know my cooking skills are average, and the food I cook is barely edible."

   "It's okay, I brought a cookbook." When Isobel took out the cookbook from the suitcase and stuffed it into Katrina's arms, the expression on Katrina's face froze.

   "Don't look down on these cooking books. Although there is no way to teach you how to use magic to cook food, you can also make delicious food if you cook it yourself." Isobel pulled his suitcase upstairs.

  However, this is not the worst thing for Katrina. The worst thing is that the entire book is recorded in words that she cannot understand.

   "What kind of text is this?" Katrina asked stiffly.

   "Italian, this book was actually bought by Albert, he can understand Italian." Isobel explained casually.

   "You understand?" Katrina asked in disbelief. She couldn't believe that her sister had mastered another script in less than a month.

"I can understand it better. Albert translated it for me last time." Isobel naturally doesn't understand Italian, but as a genius, she has a very good memory. When Albert translated her sentence by sentence, she Just jotted down the general content.

   This book is not for her to cook, but for reading Italian and deepening her impression. The girl doesn't want to be left too far behind by Albert.

   "You are amazing." Katrina said discouragedly. She thought that the gap between herself and Isobel was not enough to see the back of the other party. Now it seems that she overestimated herself.

  Those two guys are completely monsters!

   "What's the matter?" Isobel noticed that his sister looked a little listless, so he took out the gift bought on Sicilia and gave it to her.

  A bottle of perfume.

  The price cannot be compared with Daisy's bottle.

   "Didn't you go to the Muggle world for vacation?" Katrina liked the smell of this bottle of eau de toilette very much, but she was still a little puzzled. Isobel definitely didn't have coins for Muggles.

   "Albert bought it." Isobel said.

   "He also gave you perfume?" Katrina raised her eyebrows.

   "No, his family gave me a bottle." Isobel never mentioned the price of the perfume, since they didn't know anyway.

  In the evening, Mrs. McDougal rarely came back early.

Listening to her daughter telling some stories about the Muggle world and admiring the photos she took, they talked for a long time. I heard that Isobel plans to write his own experiences into a book, and Mrs. McGonagall is also very supportive of her daughter. practice.

   "Sicilia is very warm, there is no snow, it doesn't look like winter at all." Isobel didn't notice the complicated look in his sister's eyes, and said to himself: "By the way, I brought you a present."

   is also a bottle of perfume.

  Mrs. McGregor didn't care about the perfume, but pretended to ask Albert's age involuntarily.

  The conversation between the two sounded very strange to Katrina, and her conversation kept reminding Isobel's age, Albert's adulthood and graduation time.

  Katrina always felt that the two of them had something to say, but she really didn't understand what it meant.

  However, Isobel understood it, and her cheeks blushed slightly, feeling a little embarrassed. She didn't expect her mother to see through the little secret in her heart at a glance, and reminded her to pay attention to the issue of time.

   Sure enough, there is something weird!

  Katrina looked at Isobel's reaction and knew that the things they talked about just now were very problematic.

  What charades are you playing?

  She asked Isobel, but Isobel used marriage to perfuse her. The meaning is probably: Mrs. McDougal reminded her that she needs to wait for Albert to graduate from school before the two can get married.

  Katrina didn't think that was what she meant. Before she could figure out the reason, two days had passed. Mrs. McGregor took half a day off and sent the two of them to King's Cross Station to take the train back to school.

  (end of this chapter)