After McGonagall came back from Dumbledore's office, she just warned all the students that if they met strangers on the carriage, they should first ensure their own safety, and then think of ways to notify the professor, and finally gather together. Students in the cafeteria were evacuated.
Not only the senior wizards, but also the freshmen were a little baffled by such an anticlimactic way of handling the matter.
"I thought the professor would conduct a large search of the entire carriage." Neville frowned and said, "Wouldn't this be a little too relaxing?"
When Jon first came to the restaurant and learned that someone had privately opened a room that shouldn't have been opened, he fell into thinking. Hearing Neville's words, he was relieved.
"Don't worry, Professor McGonagall and the others will definitely not make fun of our safety. There may be something we don't know about."
Ron and the other three were not so worried about this. They had absolute trust in every professor and had no objections to Professor McGonagall's decision in private.
Two more days passed like this, and the carriage was always calm and no accidents happened.
At this time, Christmas came.
Normally, Christmas in British schools is the watershed between the first and second semesters of the school year. After the Christmas vacation, the second half of the school year will officially begin.
But for Hogwarts, which is in exile, students do not have holidays even during the summer vacation, and students will naturally not be sent home on Christmas.
Even those pure-blood students with families, such as Ron and Neville, must spend Christmas at school. However, after Christmas, the school will not have classes for two weeks, and they can go home and Relatives reunited for a few days.
Early on Christmas morning, when Jon woke up, he saw a gift box half as big as him lying in front of his bed.
He looked a little puzzled when he saw that there was also such a gift box next to Neville's bed, and there were a few more small boxes beside the gift box.
"Who gave this gift?"
Jon asked as he grabbed the colorful ribbon on the gift box, and then saw a line of beautiful English cursive characters on it.
[Wish Jon Green a Merry Christmas and Happy Every Day]
The signature below the blessing is not a person's name, but only one "Hogwarts".
"I heard that every Christmas the school prepares a gift for each little wizard on the carriage, and it's actually true!"
When Neville returned to Jon, he had already opened the big gift box with great interest.
Inside there was a dark blue ceremonial robe, large and small packages of magic candies and fruity sodas they had seen and never seen before, as well as enough parchment, ink and seventeen or eighteen quills for them to use in the next two or three years.
There was also a small gift box inside the big gift box. Neville opened the small gift box and suddenly let out an exclamation.
"It's hellebore!"
He looked at a flower planted in a pot in the gift box with fascination.
Of course Jon knew that plant. It was called hellebore in the wizarding world and was one of the ingredients in the demulcent. Among Muggles, its scientific name was Christmas rose, which was an ornamental plant used for Christmas.
Neville was already very fond of the Herbology class, and even more so to some magical plants to the point of obsession. Ever since he saw this pot of hellebore in McGonagall's office, he had been talking to Jon about it in private. Don't know how long.
Now he finally received the potted flower as he wished.
Jon also opened his gift box. Except for the candies, snacks and learning supplies in the big gift box, which were the same as Neville's, he also received a dark green robe.
The body size should have been measured by Professor McGonagall in a Transfiguration class a week ago. At that time, he was still curious about why this measurement was needed to learn Transfiguration.
There was also a small gift box on top of these things. After Jon opened the gift box, he took out three thick books from it.
They are "Intermediate and Low-Level Spell Encyclopedia", "Transfiguration and Shapeshifters", and "Hogwarts: A School History".
The three books belong to Charms, Transfiguration, and History of Magic. The books in these three categories are the books that Jon has checked out the most from the library since the beginning of the year.
Professors who prepare Christmas gifts for students really put a lot of thought into this.
Looking at these things in his hands, a smile appeared on Jon's face unconsciously.
Just as they were opening the gifts, the carriage that had been driving suddenly vibrated and then stopped.
Hagrid's rich voice sounded on the carriage.
"Children, you can get off the car and prepare for today's festival!"
Jon and Neville packed the gifts together and then walked out of the dormitory together.
The other students had already run along the corridor towards the foyer with joy. From the beginning of the school year to now, they had been in the carriage almost every day and were already suffocated. Today was undoubtedly a time for them to relax. one day.
"Hurry up! You're too slow!" Ron and Justin did not get off the carriage first, but waited for them to come out in front of Jon's dormitory door.
The four of them got together and met Lavender next to the hall, where the girls' dormitory was, and the five of them walked out of the car together.
Outside is a forest completely covered with snow. There are spruce trees everywhere, some are tens of meters high, and some are as short as an adult.
Hagrid's choice of venue was very clever. The carriage was parked in a clearing in the woods. The ground was covered with snow. When the students got off the car, he and Flitwick were waving their wands to clear the snow from the clearing. clean.
The first ones to rush out were the Weasley twins. They jumped off the carriage with cheers and half their calves were buried in the snow.
Then they winked at each other and waved their wands at the snow on the ground in unison. The two snowballs gathered at the tips of their wands. They led the snowballs and waved their wands towards the snow that had just left. Stepping off the carriage, a boy with red hair and glasses suddenly shook his head!
"Bang!"
Snowballs exploded in Percy's face, one after another.
The little wizards around Percy burst into laughter. Percy blushed and roared the twins' names.
"George! Fred! I'm going to write and tell mother!"
"When can you change your line?" Fred made a disdainful face at him, and then ran away in the woods with George.
Flitwick shouted towards the backs of the two men.
"Remember! Don't go outside the range I drew for you!"
"Of course we are the most obedient, professor!" the two of them responded in harmony without even knowing how to do it.
