Chapter 1027 Christmas Gift

Before Christmas, the atmosphere at 12 Grimmauld Place became more lively every day.

After Voldemort's escape, there was no bad news, and everything was going in a good direction.

Elaine is also familiar with everyone. Leaving aside her identity as a vampire and her tendency to bite Ivan at every turn, she herself is very easy-going and easy to get along with.

And her mood is getting better and better, Keressis's injury is gradually stabilizing, and Dumbledore said that he is out of danger.

This took Elaine's biggest worry away, and besides, she was going to Hogwarts soon!

Imagine the feelings of those first-year students who received their acceptance letters and were about to go to Hogwarts school.

How are they, how is Elaine now, even more excited.

She only stayed in a Muggle school when she was in elementary school before, and then returned to her family's castle, where her uncle taught her how to use magic. She rarely had contact with outsiders, and being able to enter a magic school to study with everyone has always been a her dream.

More importantly, in her family, there are many stories about the ancestor Salazar Slytherin.

Among them, the most colorful part is that Slytherin and the other three founders jointly created Hogwarts.

Elaine has long wanted to take a look. As a descendant of Slytherin, she has no reason not to go to Hogwarts.

The only regret is that she did not enroll through normal procedures, but as an exchange student.

For the convenience of taking care of her, she can't go to Slytherin College, but to Gryffindor where Ivan is.

Although everyone told her how bad Slytherin house was, Elaine had a special feeling for that house.

From the perspective of blood purity, Elaine is the most qualified student to enter Slytherin.

In terms of inheritance relationship, Slytherin House belongs to their family.

She is probably the most orthodox one among the descendants of the four founders of Hogwarts, and she still keeps her own surname.

Ivan is also not worried that she will be bullied by other Slytherins, because the longer I get in touch with her, the more I find that she is actually quite dark-bellied. Cuteness and confusion are just appearances. Except for not having too much ambition, she is in line with Slater in every other way. The requirements for the selection of students by the Forestry Academy are worthy of the descendants of Salazar himself.

Now, Elaine surrounds Ivan, Hermione or Ginny every day, asking them about Hogwarts.

Maybe because of the last incident, she didn't dare to approach Harry.

Ron didn't know what to say to her, he was nervous and speechless when he saw Elaine, which was his habitual reaction when he saw a beautiful girl.

As for Fred and George, they were still indulging in their prank research, which was a joke that Elaine didn't quite understand.

Like Elaine, there is another person who is happy in this old house, and that is Sirius.

And, Sirius' joy is contagious.

He hadn't spent Christmas with everyone since his return from Azkaban.

Therefore, this year's Christmas has a particularly unusual meaning.

This seemed to bring great satisfaction and joy to Sirius, who was determined to make everyone as happy as they were at Hogwarts.

He worked tirelessly to prepare for the holidays, cleaning and decorating the house with everyone's help.

Last summer vacation, everyone cleaned under the guidance of Mrs. Weasley, but it was nothing compared to the cleaning that Sirius was doing. This time he cleaned up and threw away all unsightly things. Replace it with a new one.

And the things he couldn't see included almost all the items in this house.

Now, Kreacher is crying every day, stealing things from garbage bags and hiding them in his residence, scolding Sirius for being a shameful prodigal son, and begging to Ivan, Harry and Hermione, asking them to persuade Sirius not to dismantle it. drop here.

Hermione was willing to help him, she would not pass up any chance to help the house-elves, and Kreacher's request was not without reason.

Finally, under the joint efforts of Hermione and Kreacher, Sirius restrained himself.

Even so, when they went to bed on Christmas Eve, they were barely recognizable at home.

Instead of cobwebs hanging from rusty chandeliers, holly and gold and silver streamers hung, conjured snowflakes glistened on the ragged carpet, and a big Christmas tree Mundungus had brought blocked Sirius's view. Family tree, decorated with living elves.

Even the elf heads on the foyer wall have Santa hats and beards on them.

On Christmas morning, Ivan woke up and found a pile of presents at the foot of the bed, as did Harry and Ron.

Ron, who has always been used to sleeping in, woke up early to open the presents, and he had already opened half of them.

"Big harvest this year!" Noticing that Alvin woke up, Ron said in a pile of wrapping papers, "Harry sent me a broom compass, which is amazing! Better than Hermione's, she gave a family Homework planner, and yours, Alvin, I'm taking it apart, thank you for your, um, a quill?!"

"It can automatically correct errors!" Ivan said, stretched his waist, and found out Hermione's Christmas gift, "Hermione thinks you and Harry need one, there are too many wrong words in your homework, She helped you decide for me, you know, this kind of quill is not cheap."

"Well, thank her for me!" sighed Ron. "She's right, I do need one."

Next to it, Harry got up, and he found a gift bag with Hermione's handwriting on it.

She also gave him a small notebook like a diary, but every time he opened a page, it would say something like "I'm done today!"

Since they were going to take their O.w.Ls exams this year, Hermione thought they all needed such a planner to help them revise.

You know, after the Christmas holidays, the time for the exam is very close.

The same is true for Ivan's gift from Hermione, which is a little different, maybe a little special, and Hermione chose it with the most care.

At the same time, she also suggested that Ivan give Harry and Ron an error correction quill each.

Ivan knew all of this, and he didn't have much expectations. What he was looking forward to was the time to be alone with Hermione at night.

Maybe this Christmas, one gift he could get from Hermione was Hermione herself.

After reading the homework planner given by Hermione, Ivan began to unwrap the Christmas present that Elaine gave him.

Elaine has no money on her body. Except for the dragon blood she eats every day, the textbooks, clothes and other things she needs to study at Hogwarts are all paid by Ivan. This guy is really not polite to her, she has no sense of money.

But it is a bit unreasonable to buy a Christmas present with Ivan's money and give it to Ivan in turn.

Even Elaine has no idea about money and knows that she can't do this, so she said she has to prepare by herself.

Ai Wen doubted whether she would also give herself to him.