Chapter 52： best christmas present

The Grangers and Tom returned to their home on December 23, and Christmas Eve the next day.

They spent the whole day tidying up the house, hanging all kinds of Christmas decorations in every corner of the house - just like the Chinese New Year. The highlight of the decoration is, of course, the Christmas tree.

Mr. Granger and Tom hung all kinds of little lanterns and bells on the tree together. At this time, Hermione pulled out a movie disc from the TV cabinet under the TV in the living room.

"Hey! I haven't seen this disc before!" Hermione held the disc and looked at it curiously.

"What?!" Mr. Granger suddenly stood up and walked quickly behind Hermione, "Oh, it's this one, I bought this at the video store some time ago, it's an old film, I I watched it as a kid."

"What a Wonderful Life? What the **** is this name?" Tom leaned over, glanced at the name of the movie, and couldn't help complaining. Although Hermione didn't speak, she seemed to agree.

Mr. Granger sighed, children these days have never even watched "What a Wonderful Life".

"So what is this movie about?"

"It's a good movie, and it's about Christmas time—" "That's quite fitting." Hermione's voice interjected, "—George wanted to kill himself because he was frustrated with his life, and then God appeared, and he showed George what the world was like when he was never born, and let him know that he actually saved many unfortunate people in his life."

Tom and Hermione fell silent for a while.

"Can you imagine a world you were never born into?" Hermione asked Tom, picking up a Santa hat.

"Absolutely." Tom nodded with certainty.

"Tell me?" Hermione was aroused curiosity.

"A world without mine..." Tom sighed with emotion, "You might go to Gryffindor House? After all, I remember you said at the beginning that you think it is the best college, because Dumbledore is the Graduated there."

Hermione nodded, she thought Tom was right.

"However, the learning atmosphere there is not as strong as that of Ravenclaw. It may be difficult for you to meet like-minded friends, and you will be disliked because you are always too straightforward when answering questions in class and guiding others."

Hermione frowned, thinking to herself: You're not too quick to answer questions, and make all kinds of small gestures.

Tom changed the conversation, "But you will definitely make friends, it's just a matter of time and chance, but then you may go on adventures with them and break hundreds of school rules in a school year..."

"Stop, stop! You're getting more and more unreliable!" Hermione puffed up: How could she violate hundreds of school rules in one school year? Can the story be made more reasonable?

Then they fantasized about what life would be like without Hermione, and in the end the only thing they could agree on was that no one would be able to answer questions with Tom in class anymore.

While chatting and laughing, the Christmas tree has been placed by Mr. Granger. Mrs. Granger also prepared the Christmas dinner, and the four sat at the table together.

Mr. Granger started to pray with his daughter in his left hand and Tom in his right. After the prayers were over, they began to enjoy the dinner. Not quite as amazing as the Christmas dinner at Hogwarts, but also extremely rich.

The first must be the traditional Christmas main meal roast turkey, with roast potatoes, brandy cream sauce and cranberry sauce on the side, a large pot of stew and smoked salmon next to the turkey, and the pie with various fillings is naturally Last but not least, the dessert is raisin pudding. Mr. Granger also opened a bottle of glogi to add to the fun.

Glogi is a fortified red wine from Finland that has gradually become popular in Europe and has become the best wine for Christmas. It is added with blackcurrant, apple juice and cinnamon sticks. It tastes weird - this wine should be served warm . Of course, just like every Beijing family's recipe for jajang noodles is different, every Finnish family's glogi ingredients are also different, and the Granger family will add extra almonds and raisins.

Of course, never expect too much from a turkey. The turkey meat is not ordinary wood, even the chicken breast is more tender than it, and it has a strange taste. Tom is not very used to eating it, he just ate a little bit of it as a courtesy, but the smoked salmon next to it is delicious. of. This kind of fish is fat, tender and creamy when eaten raw, but it dries up a lot after roasting, so there is no such "moist" feeling.

After dinner, everyone watched a few movies together, and then went back to the bedroom to rest. The night passed quickly, and on Christmas day, Tom woke up and saw three gift boxes at the foot of the bed. One was a box of horseshoe-shaped chocolates from Hermione, the second was a tooth care spree from the Grangers, and the third was a little unexpected: it was from Dumbledore.

Tom opened it up, and inside were six snacks and a piggy bank. However, it is a little different from the piggy bank of Muggles. As long as this jar scratches its belly, it will chuckle, and then squirt coins from the hole on its back - which has been Dumbledore. Stuffed with steel pegs from all over the world.

Tom took a bite of the dim sum he sent him The taste was good, but he almost lost his teeth: there was really a coin wrapped in it.

It seems that Dumbledore really remembered what he saw in the Mirror of Erised. This time someone really gave Tom money and let him eat coins. And Tom did give Dumbledore a pair of wool socks with phoenix embroidered on them!

Hermione next door was also opening presents. She had a few more gifts, but they were mostly from relatives. Like Tom, she had no friends at school close enough to give each other Christmas gifts.

The package soon bottomed out. At the bottom was a small thin package. Hermione picked it up and found that it was from Tom. She was curious and looking forward to it: what will Tom give her?

Hermione opened the package nervously, revealing a delicate little notebook. On the notebook was written a line of characters in beautiful squiggles: "The Story of the Poet Bedou". Hermione opened it and glanced at it. There were actually several fairy tales from the magical world. All the stories were copied by hand. Neatly arranged on paper, even people with obsessive-compulsive disorder can't fault it.

Hermione was a little moved. Tom knew she liked reading, so he copied a book and gave it to her.

"This is the best Christmas present..." She hugged the book tightly, her eyes moist.

"Dear compatriots and friends, as a result of the recent establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States, I announce my resignation..."

"This country is losing its judgement, we can't continue like this, everything should be changed with something else."

"...Our country will become a prosperous society. I would like to extend my best wishes to you all!"

Yuri jumped on the TV and kissed the screen frantically: "This is the best Christmas present!"

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