Chapter 362 A Generous Christmas Gift

Helga's Christmas gift box was filled with all kinds of precious raw materials for potions, from animal and plant materials to precious gemstones and minerals. There were several things among them that Les knew were Helga's own collection, because these materials had long disappeared, and only people like Helga who lived thousands of years ago could take them out.

The most precious of them were several plant samples that had become extinct in modern times.

Les's storage had long turned into a pile of rotten wood in the past thousand years, and the materials provided by Helga, who had traveled directly from thousands of years ago, still had use value.

This was simply a priceless treasure for Les.

Les looked at the materials in the box and had to admit that Helga's move was quite sincere, and she successfully obtained his forgiveness.

After putting the box away, Les suddenly realized a problem: Can he try to plant these things and see if he can achieve species revival?

He didn't know much about the field of plant cultivation, but there were indeed people in Hogwarts who knew about this knowledge. He thought he could talk to Professor Sprout after the Christmas holiday.

Hufflepuff is also good at this kind of magic, but he doesn't really want to see this old friend now, because Rice really doesn't want to work overtime during Christmas.

Rice knows how many orders Helga owes. If he really agrees to Hufflepuff's request, he will be exhausted in the next ten days.

The magic world is much more cruel than Muggles when it comes to exploiting people.

Muggle factory owners only let workers work fifteen hours a day at most. If wizards are determined, working twenty-three hours a day with the help of potions is not a problem.

As for the decline in success rate due to energy decline, it is not a problem in front of the field-if Rice wants, he can make puppet parts twenty-four hours a day for 365 days a year.

The problem is that he doesn't want to.

So he decided to enjoy the Christmas holiday first, and then go to "work" for Helga after the holiday.

Rice continued to unpack the gifts he received.

Rupert, who was far away in Diagon Alley, London, sent him a large box of candies, snacks, cakes and ice cream, and he was very satisfied with it.

Hermione gave him a set of Muggle Encyclopedias. After a brief look, Rice regarded it as a treasure. This thing can help him better understand the Muggle world.

He never thought that Muggles could come up with such a magical thing.

Daphne made him a snake king pillow, but in Rice's opinion, it looked more like a crocodile without limbs. He could fully understand why Daphne made it so abstract, because normal people would not look closely at the snake king.

Astoria gave him a set of exquisite gold potion making kit. Judging from the feel, it should be an alloy of gold and other metals, otherwise, with the hardness of pure gold, it really cannot be used to prepare potions.

In short, the things these little guys gave him were quite to Rice's taste.

In the girls' dormitory not far away, Daphne was pulled out of the bed by her sister.

"Sister, open the gifts!" Astoria used the floating spell to rush into her sister's dormitory with nearly a hundred packages-unlike the lonely Rice, the two sisters of the Greengrass family always received a lot of Christmas gifts from relatives, friends and other pure-blood families.

"Hmm..." Daphne was still half asleep. She crawled to the edge of her gift pile in her pajamas, rubbed her sleepy eyes and began to unwrap the gifts.

"Malfoys, Notts, Flints... I'm so annoyed. Are we familiar with them? Why do they send a lot of weird gifts every Christmas?" Daphne pulled out six or seven gifts with gorgeous packaging from the pile and threw them aside.

"It's the etiquette of pure-blood families. If you don't send gifts, it's impolite. Dad also sends gifts to their family every year." Astoria explained. She also understood the little calculations of those families. These families all wanted to marry into their family. After all, their pursuit of pure blood has reached the level of madness, and the descendants of this generation of pure-blood families are mostly boys. The Greengrass family with a pair of daughters is very dazzling.

However, considering the behavior of those Slytherin boys, Astoria also threw the gifts from those pure-blood families into the corner of the dormitory with disdain.

These things will be sent back home in one go, and they will sell what they can, and the money from selling the gifts will be used as the funds for the return gifts next year.

In addition to the ceremonial gifts of the pure-blood family, there are many gifts from relatives and friends of their father. They will also open them, but they are at the bottom of the priority list.

The gifts they want to open the most are pressed at the bottom.

The two of them quickly locked the silver and green small package in their respective gift mountains, took it out, and tore open the outer packaging.

Two small bags appeared in front of Daphne, and there was only one in front of Astoria.

Astoria:?

Daphne: (*￣︶￣)

"Maybe Les accidentally packed one more~" Daphne was happy when she saw that she had one more gift than her sister.

Astoria took a deep breath and comforted herself in her heart: One of the gifts must be for her sister to replenish her brain. If she delays like this, she will miss the best time to replenish her brain.

Daphne tore open the first bag, and a necklace rolled out.

With sharp eyes, she immediately recognized that it was exactly the same as the necklace that Les had given her before. It was equipped with offensive magic and defensive magic, and could trigger life-saving spells in critical moments.

My previous pair was damaged in Egypt, and I thought it was gone, but to my surprise, Les gave me another pair.

Looking at the necklace her sister received, Astoria suddenly felt a little regretful: she should have started a duel with her sister when she didn't have the necklace. My sister can't use the magic spell on the necklace, but I can. Isn't this a sure win?

After putting the necklace on her neck happily, Daphne opened the second package, and a brooch inlaid with drop-shaped amethyst appeared in front of her.

Daphne frowned slightly: she sensed a dangerous aura from the amethyst of this brooch.

Astoria also noticed a problem.

"Sister, this thing seems extraordinary. If you look closely, the magic fluctuations inside are very scary. I have a feeling that if you activate the things inside, the entire Slytherin College lounge will be destroyed."

Daphne nodded and found that there was a note attached to the small package. It also warned Daphne not to mess around in the lounge and other places in the school, and to only try to use it in the secret room. Once the water droplets in the amethyst are catalyzed by magic, they will form a vast ocean.

Daphne:!

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The second update is here~

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