Because of the newspaper, although Ivan, Harry, and Hermione are still in the hospital, they are extremely busy every day.
Especially Aiwen, he stayed up almost every day until late at night.
In such an atmosphere, the dawn of Christmas came quietly, the weather was cold and the surroundings were snowy, and there were only three people left in the ward, Ivan, Harry and Hermione.
On Christmas morning, Ivan was woken up by the pillow thrown by Harry.
"Merry Christmas!"
"Merry Christmas, Harry! Merry Christmas, Hermione!"
Ai Wen got up sleepily, and squinted in the half-darkness to look at the foot of his bed, where a mountain of packages had already piled up.
Harry and Hermione were already tearing the wrapping paper of their own gifts, and Ivan noticed that the three of them had received a lot more gifts this year than in previous years.
"Strange, why are there so many gifts?" Ai Wen murmured.
"Most of these gifts were from readers of the Hogwarts Newspaper, and many of them were simply Christmas cards," Hermione explained.
Since the series of reports about Peter Pettigrew was published, Ivan, Harry, and Hermione have also become famous. While the focus is on Sirius Black, people are amazed that three twelve- and thirteen-year-old wizards were able to capture an evil dark wizard.
There are plenty of peers who have come to adore them and write to them regularly.
In addition to the little British wizards, Ivan noticed that many of these Christmas cards were mailed from foreign countries. For example, the pink greeting card in his hand came from a ten-year-old girl named Gabriel de la Cour, from France.
Gabriel first wished Ivan a Merry Christmas on the greeting card, and then expressed her admiration for Ivan's capture of Peter Pettigrew in short words, and hoped that Ivan could write back to her.
Looking at the cute little angel pattern at the end of the greeting card, Ivan smiled knowingly. Just as he was about to look at other Christmas cards, he heard Harry's annoyed voice.
"Look, the Dursleys sent me an old sock that was worn. It's worse than last year's toothpick and the year before that fiftyp. They must have thought I was a house-boy. Elf!" Harry threw the sock under the bed, and casually opened a text message attached to the package.
It said to ask him to inquire about whether he could stay at Hogwarts during the summer vacation.
"Thank God, I'm finally going to get rid of them this summer vacation. Sirius said, I can live with him, I don't know if he has a house?!" Harry was happy again, and he put a scarlet sweater on , continued, "This is a hooded fur coat from Mrs. Weasley, and you two seem to have it too."
"I see, mine is maroon, but there are no letters on it." Hermione picked up a box, looked at it hesitantly for a while, and gently put it aside, "This is Hagrid's special mince pie, It smells very special, a mixture of cabbage and pork liver, I think it's better not to try it lightly."
Alvin also began to unwrap his own presents. In addition to the readers' Christmas cards, gifts from Mrs. Weasley and Hagrid, his parents ordered him a set of gold cauldrons.
He had seen this thing in the Diagon Alley store before, and the price was astonishingly high.
In Aiwen's view, this golden crucible is completely an art collection, and no wizard will be so prodigal that he can use it to make potions.
Ivan sighed, and carefully put away the gold crucible.
His parents had little understanding of the wizarding world, were used to seeing wizards from the perspective of Muggles, and believed that the most expensive was the best.
Since Ivan went to Hogwarts to study, they bought him too many things that he didn't use. The most typical one is the broomstick Nimbus 2001 given last Christmas. Before Harry borrowed it for use, it had been placed under Ivan's bed and had never been taken out.
It wasn't until Ivan mentioned this incident when they went home during the summer vacation that they realized that wizards were not always flying around in the air with a broom as in the story.
And it seems that he just remembered that his son has severe fear of heights, which cannot be cured even by magic.
In addition to the gifts from his parents, Harry gave him a set of Quidditch model toys, a huge glass ball with the Quidditch field inside, as long as he touches it with a wand, the model inside will automatically fly up for the game.
Ron gave him a book, Ginny was a gorgeous quill, Colin was a set of wizard board games, Luna's was a very valuable photo that was said to prove the existence of the Bubble Snot Monster, and Fr. Red and George's presents were prank props they developed themselves, and the other little wizards were all kinds of candy and food, most of which were ordered in Hogsmeade.
To Aiwen's surprise, Qiu Zhang also gave him a gift. It is a dark blue scarf with very fine workmanship. It should be a product of Mrs. Mojin's shop.
"Ivan, thank you for giving me the watch." Hermione looked up and saw the scarf in Ivan's hand, and the cute smile on her face gradually froze. She hesitated and said, "This scarf is"
Hermione squinted, and Ivan knew it meant she was thinking.
"It's a gift from Qiu." Ai Wen explained.
"Well, I don't know what I thought my gift was"
Ivan looked at Hermione, whose face turned red all of a sudden, strangely. He didn't know what she was talking about. Following her gaze, he saw the last package under his bed.
This should be Hermione's gift, it's bulging inside.
Under Hermione's gaze, Ivan tore open the package, which turned out to be a scarf.
There was a Gryffindor lion sewn on this red and yellow scarf, but it looked a bit out of shape, and the workmanship was much worse than the scarf Qiu gave. It was very likely that Hermione sewed it on by herself.
Ivan suddenly realized, no wonder Hermione has such an expression now.
Her Christmas present was exactly the same as Autumn's, a scarf.
Ivan still remembered that Hermione told herself in Hogsmeade a few days ago that she had been preparing for a Christmas present for her for a long time, and she believed that she would be absolutely satisfied.
No one thought that her gift would be a scarf.
This scarf should have been made by Hermione herself, and I don't know how long she sewed it, but it must have been very difficult.
Before today, there was no news about this matter at all. No one found out that Hermione was secretly making a scarf. She probably sewed it secretly by herself in the dormitory every night after everyone went to bed.
Touching the slightly rough scarf, Ai Wen was full of emotion.
In terms of value, this scarf is not very expensive; in terms of fineness, it is much worse than that sent by Qiu, but the stitches on it are full of the girl's heart.
Ivan raised his head and looked at Hermione, who was blushing.
He knew that she must be very nervous now, the gift that had been carefully prepared for so long was actually the same as others, if it was him, she would be very disappointed and thinking wildly.
"I don't know, Ivan!" Hermione said with a blushing face, "I didn't expect Qiu Zhang to give you a scarf, I should have known."
"Thank you, Hermione!" Ivan interrupted Hermione and said softly, "I like this scarf very much, this is the best Christmas gift I have ever received."(.)