Chapter 30: Christmas

Christmas is coming. One morning in mid-December, Hogwarts School woke up from a dream and found that it was covered with several feet of snow and the lake was covered with hard ice. Weasley ’s twin brothers were punished because they enchanted several snowballs, let them chase Chilo everywhere, and fell behind his headscarf.
Ryan saw this scene and admired from the bottom of his heart the heroic act of striking the face of Lord Devil for the Weasley twins.
In this kind of approaching holiday, some classes are a bit unbearable. For example, Professor Snape ’s potion class. Since the classroom is underground and does not have any heating measures, one mouth can breathe out. Not to mention that when his hands and feet were numb, he had to endure the poisonous tongue of Professor Snape, which was colder than the classroom temperature.
"I really feel sorry for those people," Draco Malfoy provoked during a potion class. "They had to stay at Hogwarts for Christmas because the family didn't want them."
But Harry seemed unimpressed and could even be said to be a bit happy. He felt it was so exciting not to return to the Dursleys for Christmas. Malfoy's words did not destroy his good mood at all.
When Professor McGonagall enrolled the students in the school last week, several brothers of Harry and Weasley chose to stay. Harry stayed to get rid of the Dursley family, and the Weasley brothers were because their parents were going to visit Charlie in Romania.
Hermione and Lane chose to go home for Christmas, after all, this was the first time they left home for so long. Of course, they also told Harry and Ron who were staying in school that they would prepare gifts for them and look forward to their gifts.
Although two weeks before, they searched a pile of books and did not find out who Nicole May was. But this did not affect their expectations of Christmas at all.
Ten days before Christmas, it's time for the holidays. After breakfast, Ryan picked up his schoolbag and went to Hogsmeade station with his classmates.
Walked out of the wrought iron gates decorated with winged boars on both sides of the school. After walking for more than ten minutes, they came to the platform of Hogsmeade Station, where the Hogwarts Express was already waiting.
There were not many people in the car, so Ryan and Hermione found an empty box. After a while, Longbottom also sat in.
Ryan wanted to relax, but Hermione took out her homework and began to write. This made Ryan and Neville who played the wizarding chess not to finish the game, consciously put away the chess pieces and took out the homework to start writing.
After a day of driving, the train reached Kings Cross Station. In the square in front of the station, they met Neville's grandmother.
Old Lady Longbottom was very grateful to Ryan and Hermione for helping Neville in school, which made them feel a little embarrassed.
After saying goodbye to Longbottom grandson, Ryan and Hermione also took taxis home. Before saying goodbye, Hermione repeatedly told Ryan to consult his father about Nicole May's provenance. If found, you can call to inform her.
Went home, Ryan pushed open the door and found that his parents had already prepared dinner for him, which made Ryan feel the warmth of his long-lost family.
After dinner and before going to bed, it was Ryan and his parents talking about life in school and what happened recently at home. The good news is that my father Mr. Lambert ’s new novels have sold well recently, so it may be busy a few days before Christmas, and there are some autograph book sales.
After reading for a while after dinner, Lane chose to go to bed early in the morning. After all, taking a train for a day is also very tiring.
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After, it was a happy Christmas holiday, except writing homework every day and then spending seven or eight minutes calling Hermione to exchange the homework of the day. Ryan was very happy to spend the rest of his life, when his parents had something to do and were not at home. Ryan began to practice his hands with various mechanical structures at home one by one to improve his proficiency in the Winter House Industry Manual.
Of course, for Ryan, the luckiest thing is to practice magic in the world of groceries, and he will not be discovered by the Ministry of Magic through healds, so he has a lot of practice time.
As Christmas approaches, Lane goes to the community library to meet Hermione. Because during the call the previous day, Ryan told Hermione that he had found news about Nicole May.
After all, it is not difficult to find a reasonable proof process if you already know the answer.
Under the premise of knowing that Nicole May is a French alchemist in the Middle Ages, it is not so difficult to find him in a lot of materials.
Ryan didn't wait a few minutes in the library, and saw Hermione walk in in a blue down jacket. Then she sat across from Ryan and asked: "You said you have found the answer, how did you do it?"
Ryan said: "I asked my father when I went home. UU read www.uukanshu.com. He told me that he found the name when he wrote a fantasy novel about the Middle Ages, but I couldn't remember the specific situation at the moment. So I turned I read the information collected by my father when he wrote the novel and found these. "
After that, Ryan took the schoolbag from his back and took out a pile of materials from it. Turn over a page, point to the words above, and read word by word:
"Nicolas Flamel, French, a famous alchemist in the 14th century. His most famous contribution is the creation of the alchemist's magical stone, the Philosopher's Stone, which he used to successfully turn mercury into gold. At the same time, according to legend, he obtained longevity. Until 1929, he was continuously witnessed by him. In addition, although public information proved that he died in his home in 1427, there were greedy people who robbed him and his wife ’s graveyard At that time, it was found to be empty. This also proved from another aspect that he obtained longevity. "
There is also this. Ryan finished and pulled out a map. Hermione stepped forward and found that it was a map of Paris.
"What is this map?" Hermione asked.
"Look at this." Lane pointed out a circled place on the map. "No. 51 Montmorency Street, Nicole May House, this place used to be the house of Nicole May. So this shows that Nicole May was an alchemist living in Paris in the Middle Ages."
"I thought, the magic stone should be hidden inside." Hermione exclaimed in a low voice. "Because when we searched the library that day, Harry told me that he suspected that the day he went to Diagon Alley, a small bag that Hagrid had taken from the deepest vault of Guling Pavilion was hidden under the trap door. Thing. So according to the size and other existing data, it is very likely that the hidden thing is a magic stone. "