She pulled Tom who was dazed outside the door, but he stood still and didn't move.
"Hermione, Mr. Granger and the others are not here..."
Hermione glanced at him, "Do you still want to do strange things?"
Tom:!
"Come in," Hermione said, dragging Tom in who was still hesitating outside the door. "It's so pitiful to be homeless on Christmas Eve."
The Granger family also built a porch between the front door and the living room. The porch refers to the space between the front door and the main hall. It is a buffer between the outside and the inside of the house. The Granger family placed a shoe cabinet and a clothes rack here.
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"You can wear these." Hermione took out a pair of slippers for Tom from the shoe cabinet and placed them in front of Tom. "They are specially prepared for guests, brand new."
"Thanks."
Hermione casually hung the windbreaker on the hanger, revealing the black gauze top underneath.
She held the wall with one hand, raised one foot, put her right hand into the boot, and took off the boot a little. After the boot was loose, she grabbed the heel and brushed it. Amidst the friction of leather and velvet,
She took off the entire boot. Without the calf support, the boot suddenly collapsed and turned outwards, revealing the leopard print lining inside, which still had a trace of residual warmth. Hermione returned the boot that had just been changed.
I put my boots on the ground and stretched my sore feet.
She raised her head and saw Tom's black eyes.
"You -" Hermione raised her right hand and turned Tom's face to one side, "Turn your head away!"
"Tom, bad!"
Tom:(?_?)
After confirming that Tom had lost his vision, Hermione leaned against the wall and took off the other boot. She took out a pair of dog-head slippers from the shoe cabinet, which were slightly different from the pair she wore at Hogwarts.
The head dog is a Shiba Inu, and the one at home is a Husky.
Hermione put her feet into her dog-toe slippers and said, "You can turn around now."
When Tom saw it, he couldn't help but said: "Dogs have very sharp noses, you will smell them..."
Hermione's eyes flashed with a dangerous light, and she made a severing gesture and threatened: "If you talk more, I will turn you into a shoehorn and stuff you into the shoe cabinet."
Hermione:o(｀ω′*)o?╰ひ╯
Tom:(￣ω￣;)
The two walked through the living room together and walked into the dining room.
Mr. and Mrs. Granger left a very sumptuous dinner. Although it was a little cold, it was still delicious when warmed up. Mrs. Granger cooked well, which made the Granger family's dining table not so "English."
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After Tom and Hermione heated the food on the table together, they enjoyed the sumptuous Christmas dinner around the table.
"I really didn't expect that my parents would have to work on Christmas Eve, but considering it's Uncle Hal, it makes sense." Hermione served herself a bowl of French bouillabaisse and started chatting.
The whereabouts of my parents tonight.
"Uncle Hal?" This was the first time Tom heard this name.
"My father's good friends, they have been very good friends since childhood. Uncle Hal has a tooth problem, and my father will definitely go to treat him." Hermione remembered that she had never told Tom about this Harry.
Uncle Er, so he began to introduce him to this uncle with legendary experience.
"He is a very famous adventurer. When he was young, he went on adventures around the world with his brother Roger. He later received a doctorate in archeology from Oxford University and now teaches in the Department of Archeology at the University of Sheffield."
"He has been to so many places: Africa, Antarctica, the North Pole, the Amazon, the South China Sea..." Hermione counted the places Hal Hunter had been to on her fingers.
"From the Amazon to the Pacific, from New Guinea to the Himalayas, from volcanoes to the bottom of the sea, from heaven to earth. They tracked jungle pythons, subdued tropical monitor lizards, captured African white elephants, tracked down killer lions, faced man-eating tribes, and countless poachers.
..." Hermione's eyes sparkled with adventure, "He often told me stories about their youthful adventures when I was a kid."
"Cool!" Tom also listened with fascination and understood why a girl as smart as Hermione was sorted into Gryffindor. The seeds of adventure have been planted since she was a child.
Hermione nudged Tom with her toes under the table, "What are your plans for Christmas?"
Tom:……
"Actually...I have to grade the students' papers on Christmas..."
Tears flowed out.
Tom decided to resign this school year because of excessive work pressure.
Hermione held her stomach and couldn't stop laughing.
"Actually, there are a few problems with your paper..." Tom said slowly, holding a knife and fork in his hand and cutting the steak elegantly.
Hermione:!
She couldn't laugh anymore. Although she knew that Tom was probably teasing him, she still panicked instinctively.
"What's the problem?"
"You'll know then."
"What's the time!" Hermione kicked Tom. Not to be outdone, Tom fought back and the two started playing around again...
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Life at the Granger family was pleasant. Of course, when the Grangers came back on the first day, Tom was a little embarrassed and even wanted to turn into a phoenix and fly away, but in the end he had to bite the bullet and stay.
Fortunately, Mr. Granger was very close to him, and during the time he stayed at his home, it even felt like George Joestar took in Dio Brando - Tom became "someone else's child".
This is also an extremely rare experience for Hermione:
"Hermione, you're staying in bed again—"
"Hermione, look at Tom, he has been studying since he woke up early..."
Hermione:(((;???;)))
Seeing Hermione's expression, Tom felt that there was a high probability that he would not be invited next year.
The days passed like this, and the Christmas holiday disappeared all of a sudden, as if the holiday had never existed. After the Christmas holiday, the calendar jumped to 1993.
Four months have passed since the battle in the common room, and life in Hogwarts has returned to normal. In March, Professor Sprout cultivated the Mandrake for nearly half a year in the first place.
A lively, noisy, and extremely dangerous dance party was held in the San greenhouse.
These mandrakes are nearly mature and their cry is deadly.
When they want to be moved to other Mandrake pots, they will be fully mature. At that time, the petrified "Tom" in the ward will be revived.
Along with April comes Easter.
There are two major holidays in Hogwarts during the academic year: Christmas holiday and Easter holiday. Easter is an important holiday in the Western world. It falls on the first Sunday after the full moon of the spring equinox every year. Since the spring equinox is different every year,
It is fixed, so the specific date of Easter each year is also uncertain.
Easter in 1993 fell on April 11, which happened to be a Sunday.