Harry Potter: From Muggle Cousin to Conceptual Wizard

Chapter 306 Giving and Receiving Gifts, Christmas Chapter: Happy Present Unwrapping!

On Christmas Eve, Hogwarts Castle was bustling with activity.

The commotion wasn't caused by people, but by the owl messengers.

The Hogwarts students and staff prepared the gifts to be sent, and the owl messengers got to work.

They carried all sorts of gift packages, flying up and down inside and outside Hogwarts Castle, shuttling between the common rooms and dormitories of the four houses, as well as the offices and common rooms of the faculty and staff.

Of course, there were also many owl messengers from afar who brought gifts and blessings from friends and family to the Hogwarts teachers and students.

Inside the first-year boys' dormitory in Gryffindor.

Dudley, Harry, and their three other roommates each designated an area for receiving gifts, then opened the windows to ensure the owls delivering the gifts could come and go freely.

Next, the five of them exchanged gifts, but they didn't open them. They placed the gifts in their respective gift-receiving areas, waiting to reveal the surprise the next morning.

After that, it was time to deliver gifts to friends outside the dormitory. Those who had pet owls sent their own pets to deliver the gifts, while those who didn't have pet owls had temporary messengers arranged by the school's owl post office that evening.

To save on delivery capacity, Dudley didn't hire a temporary owl messenger; he and Harry had Hedwig deliver all their gifts.

This gave Hedwig, who had gained some weight, a rare opportunity to exercise. She flew around and worked for most of the night.

Dudley and Harry took out all the prepared gifts, arranged for Hedwig to send them, and then went to sleep and rest.

The other friends were the same; everyone drifted off to sleep, filled with anticipation for opening their presents tomorrow.

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The next day, Christmas Day, early morning.

Dali was automatically awakened by his own biological clock.

But the first thing he did when he opened his eyes was to wonder if he had woken up too early and if his biological clock was messed up.

Because the surrounding light was very low, it was like nighttime.

He paused for a moment, carefully examining the view outside the curtains of his wooden bed, and then he realized the problem.

It wasn't that it was still dark; it was simply that he had received so many gifts that they had completely filled and blocked the space around his wooden bed.

It was thanks to Dali's carefulness and attention to detail that things turned out so well.

Before going to sleep, I created a transparent protective barrier around my bed and all my roommates' beds, using railings and curtains as boundaries, which also blocked out any sounds from outside the barrier.

His original intention was to prevent accidents and to keep everyone from being disturbed by the sound of the owl messenger flying around. Unexpectedly, it also prevented him from being buried alive by the gift.

That's incredibly lucky.

Dudley immediately waved his hand and cast a seamless expansion spell on the dormitory space, making the space inside the dormitory expand five times.

Then, he used a powerful levitation spell from a distance to make all the gifts around him float up and move them to an expanded open space, where they were neatly stacked up.

Now, nothing can block the sunlight from shining in through the window.

When Dali looked around, he saw that his roommates were still asleep, and the open space where they had arranged to receive gifts the night before was piled up with gift packages.

Excluding himself and only counting the number of gifts from others, Seamus gave the fewest gifts, Harry gave the most, Ron and Neville ranked second and third, with Ron giving more gifts than Neville.

This situation is actually easy to understand. Harry has the title of savior and is also the teaching assistant for spells in Dudley's class, so naturally he receives the most gifts.

Ron and Neville also served as his class's academic representative and discipline representative, respectively. They interacted with students from all over Hogwarts and naturally gained many friendships.

As for Ximo, he received few gifts, not only because he didn't have the support of a student leader, but also because he was a genius at explosions. Being with him meant you might end up covered in soot from an explosion at any time.

Although this situation became less frequent as Simo's mastery and training of the Explosion Spell deepened, it still had some impact on Simo's ability to make friends.

Fortunately, the impact was not serious. Although Ximo received the fewest gifts in the dormitory, he still received quite a few.

Dudley thoroughly observed the situation in the dormitory and used a levitation spell to help his roommates neatly arrange their gifts.

Then, without disturbing their rest, he waved his hand to remove the protective barrier around his bed, changed out of his pajamas, put on his wizard robes, cleaned his appearance with magic, and began to unpack his mountain of gifts.

Dudley glanced at the signatures on the gift packages. Apart from the professors and friends he was close to, most of the gifts were from classmates and students with whom he had a distant but not close relationship.

There's no way around it; as the first assistant teacher at Hogwarts, he always receives the respect and support he deserves.

There were also some gifts that could not be simply called gifts, but rather bribes he had received.

These gifts were given by the pure-blooded serpents, descendants of the two-faced Death Eaters.

Dudley has no moral fastidiousness and accepts all comers.

He drew circles in the air, opening a passage to his personal space. He first used magic to dismantle the gifts given by the pure-blooded snakes in batches, gifts that he knew were of high quality without even looking at them.

As expected, it was exactly as it appeared after being opened.

This contains original or copies of precious magic books, magical materials from rare magical animals, prepared magical herbal materials, and alchemical items and finished potions with a system rating that is neither high nor low.

Dali accepted them all with a smile, and after examining and identifying them one by one, he stored them in his personal space in different categories.

But accepting gifts doesn't mean he'll do anything about it.

As long as these pureblood snakes and their two-faced Death Eater parents don't genuinely repent, Dudley will still strike without hesitation in the future.

Then, Dudley used magic to open the gifts for the lovely students in batches.

The worldly value of these gifts is far less than the stolen goods given by the pure-blooded snakes, but the sentiment behind them is much stronger than the price, so they should still be accepted.

Dali inspected the storage items one by one, beaming with joy.

There were candies, snacks, tea, scarves, trinkets, common magical materials, small cakes laced with aphrodisiacs, and thick winter magical robes...

Huh? Something weird seems to have snuck in!

Dali stored the other gifts into his personal space, then reached out and beckoned the exquisitely shaped, fragrant but adulterated small cake to his eyes, and used the system's appraisal function to appraise it again.

The result was the same; they had indeed added an aphrodisiac.

Dali waved his hand and conjured a water mirror. He looked at his strong and tall figure and his face, which was not ridiculously handsome, and fell into deep thought.

This is outrageous! This is absolutely outrageous! I'm only eleven years old! Who picked me as their puppy love partner?