The next morning, Ryan woke up very early. When he opened his eyes, he happened to see Hermione also opening her eyes and looking at him.
"Good morning and Merry Christmas." After greeting each other, the two people got up and washed up. Of course, both parties took advantage of the other person's washing to put their gifts in the pile of gifts on the other side's bedside.
Here I have to praise the owls in the wizarding world. Even if they closed their doors and windows when they went to bed yesterday, these gifts still appeared on their bedside this morning. This magical situation can only be explained by magic.
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Hermione's Christmas gift to Ryan this time was an ancient-looking men's necklace, just like the kind that ancient nobles hung outside their dresses. Ryan looked carefully and found that there was a symbol on this necklace that could make people brain.
The rune of sobriety. Unfortunately, this enchantment has lost its effectiveness with the passage of time. However, it can be judged from the degree of loss of magic power that this necklace has a history of nearly a thousand years.
After turning over the largest piece of red spinel in the necklace, Ryan finally found the source of the necklace: the gold base of the gemstone was engraved with Richard I. This inscription means Richard I. If the year of the necklace is taken into account,
Then the identity of its owner will be revealed: one of the most famous kings of Britain nearly a thousand years ago, Richard the Lionheart.
"Thank you." Ryan held the necklace and thanked Hermione. "This is really a very precious gift. Especially even if the alchemy runes on it have expired, they still have a high reference value."
"As long as you like it, I found this from the pile of clutter in the Room of Requirement. It was a little deformed when I first took it out, and it took me a lot of time to clean and repair it," Hermione said.
She said while opening the gift Ryan gave him. Soon she opened the gift box Ryan gave her and took out a baseball-sized crystal bottle filled with golden liquid.
"This is" Hermione looked at the bottle in her hand seriously, "the elixir of joy? But this bottle of medicine is not so bright. But it is not like the elixir of elixir. After all, the elixir of elixir is not so transparent and has no viscosity."
This is high.”
Looking at Hermione who was a little troubled, Ryan revealed the answer: "You don't have to guess, this kind of potion is not available outside. It is a potion I invented myself. It is made with the blood of the Reem cow seized from the vampire last time.
Yes, after drinking it, the drinker's power can be permanently enhanced to the maximum extent. The only drawback is that it can only be drunk once, and the effects cannot be accumulated."
"The blood of Ream cattle? I have seen an introduction to this animal in the book "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them". Their blood is extremely popular. As far as I know, it is expensive and has always been at a high price.
The price is in a state of no market.”
"For the old vampire family, this kind of thing is not impossible to get." Ryan continued to open the packages containing gifts. "I suggest you drink this bottle of medicine quickly. This kind of thing can only be obtained by drinking it.
significance."
"Yeah." Hermione directly pulled out the cork of the bottle, then raised her head and drank all the potion in the bottle.
"I just feel a little warm on my fingertips." After drinking the potion, Hermione sat on the sofa for a while, but she didn't have the strange feeling she imagined. "I thought it would be like in the movies and comics, and it would cause pain all over the body after drinking it.
, struggled desperately, and then the body immediately changed."
"Do you think this thing is Captain America's super soldier human body modification potion?" Ryan was a little dumbfounded. "Even if we are wizards, we still have to understand the basic principles. If we don't want too strong side effects, then this kind of change must not be possible.
It can be completed immediately in a short period of time. And you said so, why did you just open the bottle and drink it?"
"Don't you believe that you won't harm me?" Hermione raised her eyebrows mischievously. "By the way, why does it seem like Harry and his friends' gifts this year were wholesaled from somewhere together? Why are they all like this Honeydukes?
Christmas candy gift bags!" After saying that, he raised several Christmas gift bags in his hand and waved to Ryan.
"I think there may be something wrong with them?" At this time, Ryan remembered that in the original text, when the holiday was about to take place before Christmas, Harry was connected with the Voldemort soul piece on Nagini in his sleep. He also saw
The scene where the big snake bit Mr. Weasley. It's no wonder that he didn't see Harry and the others when he took the train from school. They should have gone to No. 12 Grimmauld Place by then.
He originally remembered this matter, but recently he has been busy dealing with the giant matter and has completely ignored it. And because of Ryan, Hermione's relationship with Harry is not as close as the original text, and she is not as close to Dumbledore.
It seems that Hermione and Ryan are now more like members who joined the Order of the Phoenix after being inspired by him. Therefore, Dumbledore did not inform Hermione of this matter as in the original text.
Although I don't know why the members of the Weasley family who have a good relationship with them didn't tell the two of them about this matter, but now that they know what is going on, it would be inappropriate to ignore it.
"Let's just write a letter and ask them what happened. After all, they are our friends." This suggestion was approved by Hermione, because she was also a little worried about Ginny and Percy, whom she usually chatted with.
What bad things happened to them?
After writing the letters to the twins and Ginny and putting them in envelopes, the two of them went to the outdoor garden on the roof of the hotel. Looking at the drained outdoor swimming pool and the empty flower pots, Ryan knew that this place should be very popular in summer.
But it's winter now and there's no one here.
"Okay, now I'm going to summon the owl." After finishing speaking, Ryan took out his wand and tapped three times quickly on the wall next to him. He paused for a few seconds and then tapped three times quickly. "This is the method Percy told me.
He said that in Europe you can use this method to summon owls in the wild, but the owls summoned this way will cost extra."
Sure enough, not long after Ryan put away his wand, the sound of flapping wings was heard in the distance. Then seven or eight chubby-looking chickens, ah no, it was owls, huddled in a pile on the railing of the outdoor garden.
"I need to send two long-distance mails to the UK. This is an international mail and needs to fly a long distance." Ryan said, taking out the two letters and waving them, "Which one of you can help me with this?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a large owl about the same size as Hermione's Hermes squeezed out from the group of large and small owls. It was also an eagle, and the most conspicuous thing was that it had a small hanging on its left leg.
The leather bag has gilded Russian letters written on it: Cuckoo Owl Post Office, safe, fast and accurate.
"Let me think about it, by the way, Percy said the next step is to take a handful of coins and put it in front of the owl." Ryan muttered and took out a handful of Knuts from his pocket. As expected, the owl in front of him moved and used it.
His mouth gently tapped these copper coins.
"Twelve Knuts, not expensive." After counting the coins that the owl had knocked, Ryan put the 12 Knuts into the pocket on the owl's foot. After collecting the money, the owl raised its other foot to let Ryan
After hanging the letter up, it flew away.
"It's really troublesome, why don't wizards use stamps?" Hermione complained from the side, "Then what are we doing now?"
"This kind of international mail is expected to take a day to be delivered. Let's go to the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts and the Nikulin Circus today. We can't just wait in the hotel. I guess the letter will arrive by the time we come back in the evening.
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The two of them had a great time shopping that day. When they came back in the evening and had dinner, the replies from the twins and Ginny arrived. Sure enough, their father was seriously injured by a snake attack, but unlike the original article, Mr. Weasley was only injured on the arm.
After the bite, I was seriously injured due to snake venom, but the injury was lighter than before.
At the same time, the twins also explained the reason why they did not write to them: Mrs. Weasley felt that since Mr. Weasley's life was not in danger, she should not involve her friends and not even have a good Christmas, so she did not allow the children to write letters.
I told my friends about this, so it wasn't until Ryan and the others took the initiative to ask them that they told them the truth.
"Really." Ryan shook his head gently, feeling once again that the Weasley family are good people. Since it is necessary to visit like this. Anyway, the mission to Russia has been completed, and there is nothing left.
Important things. The only regret is that the time for traveling with Hermione this time was shorter.