Hogwarts Homecoming

"What's the matter?"

Harry immediately asked with concern. Remus, like Sirius, was a good friend of his father. He also took great care of him during the half year he taught at Hogwarts.

The most profound white magic Harry has mastered, the Patronus Charm, was taught to him by Remus. So far, the young wizards all think that Remus is an excellent Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. Although his class It is not as original as Professor Brain, but in terms of vividness and ease of understanding, it is even better than Professor Brain.

Hermione and Ron also retracted their glances around and aimed at Remus.

Remus was about to continue saying something, but Sirius, who had folded his body after leading Harry and the three into the basement, came back at this time, and he was holding three wrapped gifts in his arms.

"It's all boring stuff, we can talk about it later, Harry -"

Remus stopped talking and smiled gently, "I thought you might be more interested in the Christmas gifts Sirius has prepared for you -"

"I was going to send something to Hogwarts--"

Sirius distributed the three gift boxes to the three Harrys and said with a smile,

"But considering that since I plan to invite you here to spend the holidays, I might as well hand over the gifts to you myself."

Last Christmas, Sirius had not yet been cleared of being a murderer, but he still did not forget to prepare a Christmas gift for Harry. The Firebolt he gave Harry was the best among the flying broomsticks. , except for Harry, there is no young wizard in Hogwarts who can use such a good broomstick.

Although he had already expected Sirius's generous spending style, after Ron opened his gift from his gift box, he still took a breath and widened his eyes in surprise.

"Oh my god, this is-"

"A set of pure gold gobstones -" Sirius smiled and looked at Ron, "I heard from Harry that you are very good at this kind of game, Ron."

"Oh, I um, it's just—" Ron stammered, his cheeks glowing with joy, "Practice makes perfect—"

Ron said modestly, but anyone could tell he was very pleased with the gift.

"A dagger."

Harry also opened his gift at this time. What Sirius gave him was a delicate and dexterous knife. The handle was engraved with dense magic corridors. Harry raised the knife and placed it under the light. Observing back and forth,

"Why did you give me this, Sirius?"

"This dagger is not simple, Harry-" Sirius had already expected Harry's doubts,

"This is a very powerful alchemy tool. It can break many magic restrictions. If you want to enter somewhere and 'Alajo Cave Opening' doesn't work, you can try using this -"

Then Harry became content.

"As for you, Hermione—"

Sirius scratched his head, looking a little distressed

"I'm not very experienced in giving girls gifts, but I thought you wouldn't say no to a magic book. You can't buy this at Flourish and Blotts. I dug it out of the Black family's library. "

"Thank you, Sirius-"

Hermione looked at the book "Saving You from Dying" with great interest and nodded to Sirius in thanks.

The dinner was always held in a very pleasant atmosphere, not to mention the delicious food. Sirius made an exception and allowed the three of Harry to taste a few glasses of whiskey collected by his father. Although Remus was not very supportive, at this time On happy days, he didn't say much.

"Speaking of which, Remus, what kind of trouble have you gotten into?"

The whiskey that Sirius brought was not the same as the butterbeer that Harry had drank many times. After just a small glass, Harry felt that the world in front of him began to spin, but he did not hate this dizziness. Huhu felt that with his godfather and Remus by his side, there was nothing to fear even if he lost his mind.

Harry's face always had a lazy smile because of his drunkenness. He said to Remus, who was communicating with Hermione about the performance of the warriors in the first event of the Triwizard Tournament.

"It's about product promotion--"

Remus obviously didn't want to bring work pressure to them.

"Fairies are powerful in the European magic world. Our promotion work here is going very smoothly. Many wizard families and organizations are very interested in the alchemical props developed by Amosta, and we have begun to supply them one after another. , but the situation at the Magic Congress in the United States is very complicated. The sales license submitted has been suppressed and cannot be passed. They asked us to provide safety performance analysis of the product, and I have"

Remus seemed to realize that going on would be a long story. He shook his head and changed the topic at the right time.

"Don't worry, it will always be solved, Harry. Now, Hermione, do you have any idea about the second project of the Tournament?"

When Hermione finished explaining what hints she had deduced from the mermaid about the golden egg she got in the first game, Sirius and Remus both admired her astuteness.

The second game will most likely be held under the Black Lake. The warriors have to find their most precious treasure that was taken away within an hour. Otherwise, the warriors will lose their treasure forever.

Not to mention the obstacles that will definitely exist in the search process, Hermione has not yet figured out how to give birth underwater for an hour.

"Actually, it's not that difficult--"

Sirius and Remus looked at each other, and Sirius raised his eyebrows and said slowly.

"Oh, stop it, Sirius!"

Hermione suddenly became nervous. She covered her ears and didn't want to hear another word.

"I have to figure it out on my own!"

"All right--"

Sirius shrugged helplessly and gave up.

The three of Harry and Sirius hadn't seen each other for a while, and the last time they saw Remus was during the summer vacation, and they all had endless topics to talk about.

They described the wonderful Christmas ball last night to the two people in detail. In particular, the magnificent ice and snow castle created by Professor Brain and Professor Dumbledore made both Sirius and Remus yearn for it. . Sirius also told them some of his experiences as an Auror in the past six months. His thrilling experience of chasing down some dark wizards and lawbreakers also made the three inexperienced Harrys excited!

Harry and the others were also very curious about Remus and the goblin's alchemy workshop. They agreed to spend a day during the Christmas vacation to go to Diagon Alley and visit the workshop together.

This pleasant dinner lasted until midnight. Finally, the excited Sirius led the three dizzy little guys to visit the house. They went from the basement to Sirius's bedroom on the fifth floor.

Hermione discovered that even though Sirius had advertised a thorough cleaning of the house, something unpleasant remained.

For example, there is a row of dried heads of house elves hanging on the side wall leading upstairs. If the three of them had not seen a more terrifying sight in the corridor of the Hogwarts kitchen, then they would have I was shocked by this row of heads. These heads were obviously not placed here by Sirius willingly, but with Kreacher's feelings in mind, even though he always said he was impatient with them.

Overall, this old house is satisfactory, especially Ron, who seems to be particularly envious of the house that Sirius inherited.

"Our house looks like a broom shed compared to here—"

Ron said glumly as he walked up the steps.

"I don't think so, Ron--"

Sirius burped,

"I think Arthur and Molly's house is great. It feels like home. When I live there, I always think of the time I lived at James' house--"

Sirius patted Harry on the head.

"That is--"

Just when Harry was about to ask what his father's home was like, Hermione suddenly covered her mouth and pointed to the sign on the door next to her.

"Ah, yes--"

Sirius' eyes followed, he was silent for a moment, then smiled,

"Yes, Hermione, that's Regulus's room—"