This was definitely the most depressing Christmas holiday Katrina had ever had.
After Isobel and Albert went abroad for vacation, although her mother tried her best to make time to accompany her, she was still very busy and was not seen all day. Most of the time, she was alone at home, preparing food silently. However, her cooking skills were very average, so she did not have a good time throughout the Christmas holiday.
Maybe I shouldn't go home during the Christmas holidays.
I thought that even if Isobel and Albert went on vacation, I could still spend the Christmas holidays at Uncle Mogg's estate, but Uncle Mogg seemed to... forget
Katrina sat at the desk, took her eyes off the parchment, looked up at the snowflakes falling outside the window, and for some reason she felt inexplicably lonely and sad.
Given the relationship between Isobel and Albert, they will probably end up together!
Mom had basically agreed, and she had a good impression of Albert. Moreover, he would chat with her whenever he had time during this period, and she also knew what Mom meant: he was your brother-in-law.
As for Albert, since he invited Isobel to go on vacation, it means he has agreed.
Katrina looked at the photo of herself and Isobel on the desk and sighed softly, "You really get all the good things."
Time passed, and Isobel still didn't come back.
Katrina finished all her holiday homework in just a few days.
In order to prevent himself from thinking about strange things all day, he spent most of his time reading by the fireplace, trying to surpass Isobel in next year's Ordinary Wizarding Level Examination and prove that he was no worse than Isobel.
Why not Albert
Katrina has completely given up the idea of surpassing Albert, which is a more distant goal than surpassing Isobel.
Repeating similar things every day, time always passes very quickly. In the blink of an eye, the Christmas holiday is over, and Isobel still hasn't come back.
Just a few days before the end of the holiday, footsteps finally came to the door. In the snowy weather, Isobel came back. She did not look tired after the trip, but looked very energetic. Even Katrina was stunned. Isobel seemed to be more beautiful than before.
Even though the other person was her sister, Katrina couldn't help feeling envious and jealous.
There is no woman who doesn't love beauty.
"What's wrong?" Isobel put down the suitcase, closed the door and looked at Katrina who was standing there in a daze, and asked in confusion.
"I always feel that you have become more beautiful." Katrina looked Isobel up and down and asked curiously, "How did you do it?"
"Become more beautiful?" Isobel was stunned for a moment, then replied with a smile, "I think I know why."
"What's the reason?"
At this moment, Katrina noticed that Isobel's cheeks were a little red, and she didn't know whether it was because of 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 and turned to her sister and said, "I thought he was bluffing at first, but I didn't expect it to be true."
Katrina was speechless and felt that she had asked a stupid question.
"How is it abroad?" She found a new topic.
"The Muggle world is very interesting. Although they cannot use magic, they have created countless magical electrical appliances." Isobel turned her head and looked at her sister and asked, "How was your vacation?"
"Not so good. Mom still doesn't come back very often." Katrina muttered softly, "You know my cooking skills are average. The food I make 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 latter's expression froze.
"Don't look down on these cooking books. Even though they can't teach you how to use magic to cook, you can still make delicious food if you cook it yourself." Isobel pulled her suitcase upstairs.
However, this was not the worst thing for Katrina. The worst thing was that the entire book was recorded in a language she could not understand.
"What is this text?" Katrina asked stiffly.
"It's in Italian. This book was actually bought by Albert. He can read Italian." Isobel explained casually.
"You can read it?" Katrina asked incredulously. She couldn't believe that her sister had mastered another language in less than a month.
"I can understand it a little bit. Albert translated it for me last time." Isobel naturally didn't understand Italian, but as a genius, she had a very good memory. When Albert translated it sentence by sentence for her, she wrote down the general content.
She didn't plan to use this book to cook, but to read Italian to deepen her impression. The girl also didn't want to be left too far behind by Albert.
"You're amazing." Katrina said discouragedly. She had thought that the gap between her and Isobel was not so big that she couldn't see each other's backs. Now it seemed that she had overestimated herself.
Those two guys are absolute monsters!
"What's wrong?" Isobel noticed that her sister looked a little depressed, so she took out the gift she bought in Cecilia and gave it to her.
A bottle of perfume.
The price is not comparable to Daisy's bottle.
"Aren't you going on vacation to the Muggle world?" Katrina liked the smell of the perfume very much, but she was still a little confused. Isobel definitely didn't have Muggle coins.
"Albert bought it," said Isobel.
"He also gave you perfume?" Katrina raised an eyebrow.
"No, his family gave me a bottle." Isobel never mentioned the price of the perfume, because they didn't know anyway.
In the evening, Mrs. McDougal came home early, which was rare.
Listening to her daughter talk about her experiences in the Muggle world and admiring the photos she took, they chatted until late. When she heard that Isobel was planning to write a book about her experiences, Mrs. McGonagall was very supportive of her daughter's approach.
"It's very warm in Cecilia, and there's no snow. It doesn't feel like winter at all." Isobel didn't notice the complicated look in her sister's eyes, and said to herself, "By the way, I brought you a gift."
It's also a bottle of perfume.
Mrs. McGonagall paid no attention to the perfume, but pretended to ask Albert's age in passing.
The conversation between the two sounded extremely strange to Katrina, as she kept reminding Isobel of her age, Albert's adulthood and graduation time.
Katrina always felt that there was something behind their words, but she really didn't understand what it meant.
However, Isobel did understand, and her cheeks turned slightly red. She felt a little embarrassed. She didn't expect that her mother could see through her little secret at a glance and reminded her that she should pay attention to the time issue.
There is something strange indeed!
Katrina knew from Isobel's reaction that what they had just talked about was very problematic.
What kind of riddle is this
She asked Isobel, but Isobel brushed her off by saying she wanted to get married. The general meaning was: Mrs. McDougal reminded her that they could only get married after Albert graduated from school.
Katrina felt that was not what she meant. Before she could figure out the reason, two days had passed. Mrs. McGonagall took half a day off and sent the two to King's Cross Station to take the train back to school.