Everyday Players at Hogwarts.

Chapter 156 The true function of the invisibility cloak
Time soon came to dinner time, and tomorrow, the 17th, the first-year students’ vacation officially begins.

Since they left three days late (the others left last Friday, two days over the weekend plus today), they were also lucky enough to see the Christmas version of Hogwarts.

In the auditorium, Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick had been putting up Christmas decorations, while Hagrid kept getting closer and brought one fir tree after another.

The auditorium looked beautiful and spectacular. The walls were covered with hanging ribbons of holly and mistletoe, and a dozen towering Christmas trees were erected throughout the room. Some of the trees were hung with shiny icicles, and some were lit by hundreds of candles.

Professor Flitwick looked at it and thought it was not pretty enough, so he took out his wand and sprayed out a bunch of golden bubbles, which stuck to the Christmas tree. Professor McGonagall nodded approvingly.

This year's Christmas is completely different from usual. As expected, Peneno will go home again, and Kate, whose parents have never been home for thousands of years, will also go back this Christmas.

Coupled with the fact that Hermione also went back for Christmas, Ryan suddenly found that there were only two male creatures, Ron and Harry, around him.

There were only three people left in the entire dormitory, including Ryan himself. This was so speechless.

After the holidays, because there were fewer people, Harry finally started to like going out.

Traces of Harry and Ron having fun could be seen throughout Hogwarts. In this atmosphere, Harry also forgot about things like Quidditch, Quirrell's Suspect, and the Philosopher's Stone.

If they didn't leave the lounge, the two of them would occupy the most comfortable armchair by the fire, sit there, eat all the food that could be poked with a baking fork - bread, pancakes, mushrooms, while reading some random books.

In this atmosphere, time flew by quickly, and a week passed quickly, and Wednesday came.

Christmas finally arrived. When he woke up, there were four gifts piled at the foot of Ryan's bed. Except for Kate and Penelo, the other two were from Harry and Hermione respectively.

What Kate and Penelope sent were casual books from the Muggle world that Ryan must have never read, which suited his taste.

Harry gave him a copy of "The Crazy Magic of Strange Wizards". In his opinion, he is the kind of guy who loves to read books? But, a magic book? Harry Potter still doesn't know Ryan well enough. For Ryan now, it would be better to give him a collection of niche fantasy stories.

Hermione gave him a pair of gloves. She noticed that Ryan never wore gloves, even in such a cold weather.

Just as Ryan was complaining about Harry and Hermione's gifts, the two guys next to him yelled again.

Ryan turned around and saw that it was Harry Potter who had finally received the Invisibility Cloak, but this time, Harry opened the paper package of the Invisibility Cloak first, and Ron gasped.

Harry was so popular now that gifts almost piled up at his feet.

On the other side, something liquid-like and silver-gray was seen sliding down to the floor, gathering into a shiny pile.

"It's an invisibility cloak." Before Harry could question, Ron said quickly, with a look of awe on his face, "I'm sure - put it on and try it."

"Invisibility cloak?" Harry looked at Ryan with a surprised look.

"Harry, try it." Ron continued to urge.

Harry didn't react. He could tell from Ryan's deliberate expression that this was the Invisibility Cloak, the Deathly Hallows!

He picked it up and saw that the whole piece of clothing was sparkling silver, completely different from what he had imagined. It felt strange in his hands, as if it was woven with water.

Then, there was a piece of paper. Harry grabbed a piece of paper from the pocket of the fabric, but he didn't notice that Ron, who had been reluctant to try on Harry, had already leaned over.

"Your father left this to me before he died. It should be returned to you now. Use it well. I wish you a Merry Christmas."

"The words are written in such long thin circles, so strange." Ron read. Harry's face turned pale and he put the note into his pocket. Harry knew that ordinary invisibility cloaks were made by casting a disillusionment spell, or wearing a sleight of hand, or weaving the hair of invisible beasts. These can be invisible at first, but over time they will gradually reveal their entity.

And this one was left behind by his father, would Ron do that?
Harry turned his head and looked at Ron, but luckily, from his expression, he didn't notice anything was wrong. He just said in confusion: "Harry, what's so important about this note? I've read it all."

"Nothing," Harry said, holding the Invisibility Cloak tightly.

"By the way, it's normal for Ron to not understand such high-end things." Harry thought.

He was very excited. He already had the Invisibility Cloak, so was the Resurrection Stone still far away?

"Have I been too slack recently?" Harry, who had been praised by various professors, still thought unconsciously.

In the following time, Ron became more interested in his gift than Harry. He was extremely looking forward to getting something similar to the invisibility cloak in Harry's gift pile.

But what came next made Ron very disappointed. Hagrid's flute, Hermione's chocolate frog, Anthony's music box, and all kinds of weird gifts from many enthusiastic unknown wizards.
Ron and Harry's enthusiasm was dampened by so many gifts, and finally there were only 3 gifts left.

Ron blushed and took out a thick bright green hand-knitted sweater and a large box of homemade fudge. He muttered something like it was a family sweater from his mother that every Weasley had.

When Harry saw this, he put on this sweater directly, and Ron calmed down.

But the next two gifts made him a little ashamed. They were gifts from two Malfoys, Draco and his father.

Draco gave a model of the Golden Snitch, and Lucius Malfoy gave a small bag, but when he opened it, he found that there was a lot of space inside.

"Harry, I, the reason why I don't give you a gift is because my mother said she would give it to you for me."

"This bag is very expensive, and it has a traceless stretching charm. In this way, you can hold your gifts, haha." Ron laughed dryly.

Harry comforted him by saying that his thoughts were the most important thing, but it had no effect.

It wasn't until Harry complained that his aunt and uncle's family didn't even give him a symbolic gift this year. In the past, they at least had his uncle's old socks as gifts, Ron came back to his senses.

Harry put the gifts one by one into the backpack given to him by Lucius Malfoy, and stuffed the invisibility cloak under the quilt.

After Harry and Ron left, Ryan picked up the Deathly Hallows. From Ryan's magical perspective, he seemed to not exist.

This Deathly Hallows is actually not perfect as an invisibility cloak. Although the invisibility cloaks on the market will lose their magic power over time, the high-end products among them often block not only vision, but also other senses of smell and sound.

And this one, let's say it's powerful, but it can't isolate the sense of smell and sound.

It is said that he is not powerful, but Ryan can't see it from the magic perspective.

The reason why Moody's magic eye in the original world line can see through it is entirely because his magic eye only enhances and penetrates vision, and is not high-end enough to see magic.

This is not an invisibility cloak at all, and its purpose is not to make you invisible.

Harry Potter guessed correctly, the purpose of this invisibility cloak is to escape death.

The best way to isolate the god of death is to remain immortal. As long as you don't take it off, the person wearing it will not die due to aging.

(End of this chapter)