Days wandering around Hogwarts

Chapter 486 Christmas Gift
The annual Christmas Eve is a day for family reunion.

That afternoon, the Death Eaters came to the Malfoy family manor and had a reunion dinner before going to Hogwarts Castle.

"This is……"

"Dumplings, stuffed with mutton."

Miao Erfu and others looked at Jack in disbelief, why was he eating this today?
Jack said seriously, "We eat dumplings at Christmas in my family."

Miao Erfu muttered unhappily: "This is my home."

No one paid any attention to him, and the Death Eaters' eyes shifted back and forth between the plate of dumplings in front of them and Jack.

In the eyes of Rodolphus and others, Muggles like Jack are no different from house-elves, and eating food cooked by Muggles is the same as eating food cooked by house-elves.

But it was a bit of a stretch to let the house-elves decide what to eat on Christmas Eve.

At this time Voldemort said: "Eat it, I made it together."

Miao Erfu lowered his head. It's not like he had never eaten dumplings before, but when he thought of the Dark Lord rolling out the dumpling wrappers...

He immediately cleared his mind. If the Dark Lord knew what he was thinking, he would become dumpling stuffing.

After hearing the Dark Lord's order, Rodolphus and the others reluctantly picked up the dumplings with their forks and ate them.

I have important things to do later and I can’t go hungry.

"Ok?"

Everyone who had eaten the dumplings suddenly widened their eyes, including Voldemort.

They found that this plate of dumplings was the most delicious thing they had ever eaten in their lives, and all they had eaten before was sewage.

Jack felt a little distressed. Eleanor rarely prepared delicious potions after she started working. She only went to win over the Dementors for Charles regularly. He had finally managed to get a little from the Dementors' mouths, and today he used it all in the dumpling filling.

The most hateful one is that Tom. He didn’t roll the dumpling skins properly and actually stole the food!

Jack didn't know what would happen tonight, nor did he know if Tom would be furious to death after knowing the truth about that power, so he could only let him have a good meal.

He couldn't help but think that his own people were pretty good.

When night fell, the Death Eaters were so full that there was not even any soup left for cooking dumplings, so the operation had to be postponed for half an hour.

"Merry Christmas."

Jack handed Voldemort a gift package made of a pillowcase, with a ribbon on it that came from nowhere.

It took Voldemort a while to react, and he said incredulously, "A gift from you for me?"

He couldn't remember how many years it had been since he received a Christmas present. The last time he received a present seemed to be from his boss when he was working at Borgin and Burke's magic shop.

Jack nodded and said, "Yeah, it's Christmas."

Voldemort looked straight into his eyes and saw only sincerity, without the flattery and fear that other Death Eaters had when they gave gifts.

He opened the bag and inside was a black bowler hat.

Jack said, "I just bought it. I originally planned to wear it myself, but I haven't worn it yet."

"The weather is cold, and I'm worried that your head might catch a cold, so I gave it to you."

The Death Eaters around were trembling with fear. Over the years, no one had ever dared to talk about the Dark Lord's hairstyle.

Voldemort suddenly felt his nose aching as he had been away from home for many years. This was the first time in all these years that someone cared whether his head was cold.

He picked up the hat, looked at it, put it on his head, and felt warm.

The Death Eaters pretended not to see it and mentally re-evaluated Jack's position in the Dark Lord's heart.

The time for action has come. Voldemort stood up from his chair and said to Jack, "Come on, I'll take you to visit Hogwarts Castle." Jack is an important hostage, and an important guarantee for whether Charles will take them to that place tonight.

Jack was a little curious, how were they going to get into Hogwarts Castle?
Hogsmeade is decorated by the residents tonight. There is a tall Christmas tree in front of every shop, and colorful light ribbons stretch from one end of the tree to the other. The colorful lights make the village in the snow beautiful.

The residents of the entire village and some officials from the Ministry of Magic gathered at the Dancing Grass Restaurant. Black paid for a grand Christmas dinner, mainly inviting werewolves from all over the world who were receiving treatment in St. Mungo's Hospital and their families.

Fudge loved this kind of activity and attended with his family. He had a cordial conversation with the wolves in front of the camera and even hugged a little kid from Monaco and chatted with him.

Percy followed the minister all the time, moving quietly to make sure his face appeared in every photo of the minister.

Honeydukes' owner Ambrosio Frum and his wife distributed candy boxes to the little guests from foreign countries, which were filled with delicious food and fun things, as well as a business card of the candy store.

Lupin did not join the minister, but sat at a table with Black.

It was not yet time for dinner, so the two of them just ordered drinks.

Black chatted with Lupin for a while, looked at his watch, and said, "Oh, time's up, have a nice evening."

After he finished speaking, he glanced at the Aurors with a playful smile on his face. There was a female Auror who was making her hair colorful.

Lupin asked him, "Which lady are you going to date now?"

"Playing with the young people of Farbottom Castle tonight," Blake said.

"You know, being with them makes me feel a lot younger."

Lupin looked at him seriously and asked, "You disappeared for a while some time ago. Did you go on a date with a lady?"

Before Blake could answer, Rita Skeeter came over.

Tonight Rita was wearing a beautiful dress, with a handbag hanging from her hand and a notebook she usually used for interviews.

She greeted Blake and asked, "Blake, is your cold gone after coming back from Northern Europe?"

Black replied politely, "The medicine at St. Mungo's Hospital is more suitable for me."

Lupin's eyes widened so wide that if possible, they would be bigger than the plate of fruit on the table.

Rita chatted with Black for a few words and then left. Lupin asked incredulously: "It was her?!"

Blake didn't react at first, and said, "I went to Demu with her..."

"Hey!" He realized that Lupin had misunderstood. "Don't think too much. She and I are just going to cause trouble for a Death Eater. Charles arranged it. If you don't believe me, go ask him."

Lupin smiled a smile that drove Black crazy, nodded and said, "Yes, yes, I'll ask Charles when I get his memory back."

Blake thought of the evidence to prove that there was no relationship between him and Rita, shrugged and said, "At worst, I can let you see the communication records between him and me, but I don't have time now. I have to go to Farbaton Castle."

He wanted to run away quickly now, lest Lupin make up more nonsense and then summon Dumbledore.

At this time, Arthur Weasley and Molly Weasley came out of the fireplace and strengthened Black's determination to run away. If Molly listened to Lupin's nonsense, it would be all over.

But customers kept coming out of the fireplace, and in order to prevent people from running away without paying or getting into trouble, the restaurant prohibited Apparition, so they had to leave the restaurant first.

Walking from the warm restaurant to the cold outdoors suddenly sobered Blake up.

It was completely dark and everything was quiet. Then, in the distance, there were sounds of footsteps.

Blake didn't care and Apparated to Farbottom Castle, ready to rescue Jack.

More than ten minutes later, Miao Erfu opened the back door of Honeydukes Candy Store, and a group of people walked in one after another and went straight to the cellar warehouse.

Someone knocked on the floor a few times, and then the agreed knocking sounds were heard from under the floor.

The secret passage is fine, and the operation to sneak into Hogwarts Castle officially begins.

(End of this chapter)