Hogwarts: Voldemort, don't stop me from studying

Chapter 48 Everyone Else Has It
After a while, the Friends Book gradually became quiet again. Wade guessed that they might be busy creating another chat group.

The Christmas gifts he gave out, of course, included not only the friend book related to his own, but also blank parchments related to two, three, four, and five people. The professors also added an extra stack of 10 people, which together made it a thick booklet, so it could be called a "BOOK".

In Wade's vision, in the future, every student at Hogwarts will have a friend's book. They will exchange parchment with friends or family and set up chat groups of all sizes. Perhaps it won't be long before Hogwarts will add a school rule - no opening of the friend's book during class time, otherwise it will be confiscated! Or perhaps students will compete with each other on the thickness and value of the friend's book, and some students will buy blank parchment to put in their friends' books to save face, pretending that they have joined many chat groups.

But Professor Murray asked him not to sell the Book of Friends for the time being.

Seeing his "promising path" cut off, Wade sighed in frustration, put away his friend book, and began to unwrap his presents for this year.

Most of the gift boxes under the Christmas tree came from Ferdinand's employees. Wade has been hanging around in the toy factory with his father since he was a child. He is smart, sensible and cute. Many old employees like him very much. Even if they haven't seen him for more than half a year, they still send gifts. They sent all kinds of toys popular among ordinary people, exquisite pens and notebooks, children's books, etc.

There were a few gifts given to Wade by his Muggle classmates in elementary school, but these were relatively simple, mostly candies, greeting cards and small toys.

These were what he received every year, and Wade had of course sent him gifts of similar value in advance.

Then there are the gifts from the wizarding world.

Unlike Wade who gave everyone the same gift, the gifts given to him by everyone were all kinds of books.

Professor Murray gave him a handwritten alchemy notebook, which Vader carefully put away, planning to read it after dinner;

Professor Flitwick gave Wade a copy of "The Complete Book of Spells" - this book can only be borrowed from the Hogwarts library with the professor's approval, and Wade also plans to take time out of the holidays to finish reading it.

Michael got a copy of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them; Hermione got The Alchemist; Padma's gift was Wandering with Werewolves by Gilderoy Lockhart; Theo got The World's Oldest Magical Plant; Ryan got The Beauty of the Stars; and Neville got The Secret of Transfiguration.

Perhaps his image as a book lover was so deeply rooted in everyone's mind that everyone chose to give him books.

It seems that he will be busy this holiday.

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Hogwarts.

When Dumbledore got up in the morning, even the shoes he placed beside his bed were overwhelmed by the gifts.

He has been a professor at Hogwarts for nearly a century and has taught countless students. Almost 80% of the wizards in the British Isles are his students.

He is also the President of the International Confederation of Wizards, Chief Wizard of the Wizengamot, and is recognized as the greatest wizard of our time and the greatest headmaster of Hogwarts in history - although Dumbledore himself does not care so much about these titles and praises, it is obvious that most people care about it, and there are wizards all over the world who want to have a good relationship with him.

So every Christmas, Dumbledore would receive so many, so many gifts that they almost flooded the headmaster's tower.

Fortunately, he used the traceless stretching spell very well.

So Dumbledore usually spent the entire week after Christmas opening presents.

This is an activity he enjoys very much.

Of course, Dumbledore did not give gifts for the value they represented, but because he could see some people's growth, some people's desires, and occasionally some small surprises - perhaps a curse, or perhaps a harmless prank. Most people who did not know him would give him books out of respect for this wizard, Muggle, wizard, many of which Dumbledore had already read, but he still happily accepted them.

Those who knew him well knew that the old man was an incurable sweets lover. His gifts were often cakes, chocolates, cockroach piles, fizzing bee candies and other sweets. Some of them would contain deadly potions, and the process of identifying them was a fairly interesting game for Dumbledore.

There are also some people... Even though they never contact each other on weekdays, they will still give gifts on this special day. Even if it is just a piece of paper, a leaf, or a pair of ugly wool socks that smell of sheep, Dumbledore will treasure it and collect it.

Just as Dumbledore was opening a gift box that was half a person's height, an owl suddenly flew in through the window and dropped a small package on Dumbledore's knees.

Could it be that someone remembered him when he woke up in the morning and sent him a gift?
Dumbledore thought so, put down the gift box, and opened the small package first.

There was only a piece of parchment inside, and a long thin note -

[Dear Albus: This is the work of my student, Vider Grey! I am extremely proud to share my joy with you!
I wish you well.

Murray

Even the "all-knowing" Dumbledore was confused by this letter without a beginning or an end. He unfolded the parchment and read both sides to make sure that there was nothing written on it except Murray's own name.

Dumbledore was about to cast a spell to check it when he received another visit.

Dumbledore walked into the entrance hall. Filius Flitwick was standing in the doorway, holding a similar parchment in his hand. He said cheerfully, "Oh, Professor Dumbledore, this is my piece. I must say, I knew he would achieve something great, but not so soon! He's only been studying magic for three and a half months?"

"—Wead Grey?" Dumbledore asked tentatively.

"Yeah, who else could it be?" Professor Flitwick walked away with a brisk step, humming a song.

Dumbledore looked down and saw that there was still nothing on the parchment Flitwick had given him except Flitwick's name.

Then came Pomona Sprout.

"I thought about it, who else can I give this to except you?" The witch smiled gently and said, "I'm looking forward to your contact at any time."

Minerva McGonagall was next. She saw that Dumbledore already had a small stack in his hand and handed him one with some displeasure: "Oh, I thought I was the first one. I didn't expect Pomona to be so fast!"

In fact, she opened the other gifts first, and by the time she found this one, it was already a little late.

Finally, it was Snape's turn. He handed over a notebook.

"Hmph." The Potions professor said coldly, "I kept my own one. I don't need the others. Useless contacts will only waste my time."

Dumbledore: ...

So everyone has it and he's the only one who doesn't know what it is?

(End of this chapter)