Christmas is coming

Knockturn Alley, Borgin and Burkes Store, Back Room.

Borgin's curse had already penetrated deep into his soul like maggots in the tarsus. It was as if a few transparent and difficult-to-detect hair strands were mixed into thousands of fishing lines, all blending into one lump.

The difficulty of cleaning it could be imagined.

Of course, this difficulty was from Borgin's perspective.

For Felix... he had plenty of time anyway.

He didn't bother to trace the source of the curse and clear it out from the logic of the curse's operation.

Anyway, he had nothing to do. He came to Borgin's every once in a while to do "handiwork" and pick up some attractive black magic items.

Life could be said to be interesting.

As the last curse node in Borgin's soul was extracted by Felix, the curse that had been attached to him for decades was finally unable to sustain and began to collapse.

"Okay," Felix waved his hand, and the dark blue silk thread connected to his fingertips floated in the air.

Borgin propped himself up, his old and cloudy eyes shining brightly, his voice trembling, "Captain, is this over?!"

Felix put on his hat, "It's over. The chain of operation of the curse has been destroyed by me. Remember, from today on, you are no longer a living dead who is not afraid of pain or injury."

Borgin stood up and bowed quickly, "Thank you."

Felix nodded, put on his woolen coat, and walked straight towards the store lobby.

"That's right!" Borgin suddenly called out to Felix.

Looking back, Felix saw two packages wrapped in colored paper and ribbons appearing in Borgin's hand.

"Captain, I wish you a Merry Christmas in advance," Borgin said, "I originally wanted to wish you a happy Christmas on Christmas Day, but after thinking about it, it may not be convenient to interrupt."

Felix was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at the snowflakes outside the window, and couldn't help but laugh, "I always feel like I have become insensitive to time."

With that said, he took the two packages.

"The small one is a Christmas gift for you, and the big box is for your children," Borgin said thoughtfully.

Felix didn't expect him to be so considerate, and even Borgin had only met Harry once during the explosion a few months ago.

"I will convey your blessings to him," Felix nodded and said with a smile, "Merry Christmas."

After that, he walked out the door.

Suddenly, a gust of cold air hit his face, snowflakes were floating in the sky, and there were no more stars like those on a summer night.

"I didn't expect it's almost Christmas," Felix sighed, and then apparated away.

Moonlight Castle, study room on the second floor.

Compared to a few months ago, this place had obviously changed into a desk and an alchemy table. There was also a bookshelf, a coat rack, and a small shelf for potions materials.

In front of the desk, Harry slowly took off his glasses and wiped his face.

*Exhales deeply.*

After taking a long breath, he stood up again and came to the alchemy table to check the brewing of the potion.

After a whole autumn semester, he had now grown a lot taller and looked much stronger.

Now he and the Dursleys had also formed a delicate balance. Especially after he was required to run long distances to school every morning, he and the Dursleys were no longer involved in life.

Only...

When he thought about Christmas the day after tomorrow, he felt a little dizzy.

Aunt Maggie would be visiting the Dursleys.

Aunt Maggie was Uncle Vernon's sister. Although Harry and Maggie had no blood relationship at all, people had always forced Harry to call her aunt.

Just thinking about this person made Harry a little irritable. If it were him before, he might still feel panic.

Just because this person was really Harry's nightmare.

At Dudley's fifth birthday party, Aunt Maggie once beat Harry on the calf with a cane just because she didn't want Harry to beat Dudley in the musical game.

She also came here as a guest at Christmas two years ago. The gift to Dudley was a robot equipped with a computer, and then she gave Harry the first Christmas gift in his life——

A box of dog biscuits.

After checking that there was no problem with brewing the potion, Harry came to the desk and picked up a citrine pendant.

He calmed down the distracting thoughts in his mind and then lifted up the pendant.

"Aunt Maggie's arrival is good news."

After silently reciting it seven times in succession, it was unclear whether it was because Harry's hands were trembling or because of other reasons such as the wind.

The pendant swayed.

Harry looked carefully and found that the pendant gradually moved in a clockwise direction from simply swinging from left to right.

Both were "correct".

He put down the crystal pendant and said helplessly, "I really don't have the talent for divination."

Walking downstairs, he took the lead in saying hello to Mr. Lucifer.

Meteor jumped closer and rubbed the head of his broom against Harry.

Lucifer didn't know what he was thinking. He didn't sleep but stayed in the fireplace in a daze.

"Meteor, the weather has been too cold recently. Let's go out and fly when it gets warmer," Harry comforted.

"Harry," Lucifer said suddenly.

"Mr. Lucifer, I'm here," Harry turned around.

"Want to come for Christmas?" Lucifer suddenly asked.

"Really?" Harry couldn't believe his ears. Well, he had to admit that he had had this idea, but... he shouldn't have said this kind of thing.

He knows the importance.

Lucifer nodded, "Of course it is true. In fact, most of the time, there are only two people in the castle, Felix and I. It would be nice to have one more person to liven things up.

When celebrating a festival, you have to have a festive look, right?"

Harry nodded, with an irrepressible smile on his face, bid farewell to Lucifer, and returned to No. 4 Privet Drive.

Harry felt that he needed to tell the Dursleys the good news quickly.

I think they should be quite happy too...

Not long after Harry left, Felix suddenly appeared in Moonlight Castle.

After patting the snowflakes off his shoulders, he took off his coat and hat, lay down on the sofa, and breathed a comfortable sigh of relief.

"It's snowing outside..." Felix said, "I have always felt that the layout of our house is most suitable for winter.

There are snowflakes falling outside, and inside the house, there is only a warm fireplace and..."

"With a lazy dog ​​who stays on the sofa all day, no, fat cat!" Lucifer immediately answered.

"What are you talking about!" Felix stood up and put his hand on his stomach: "Look, my stomach has recovered a lot!"

Lucifer took a look and found that the fat that appeared some time ago had indeed disappeared a lot.

"It seems that what I said is correct," Lucifer said proudly.

Felix waved his hand, noncommittal to Lucifer's words.

"I invited Harry to spend Christmas," Lucifer said suddenly.

Felix was stunned for a moment, and then realized, "But we don't celebrate Christmas. Festivals and so on...For me, it means eating, drinking, and taking a holiday.

But I have a holiday every day, and I can eat whatever I want every day."

"I don't care, you have to celebrate the holidays anyway. You always look like a stoic, and you deserve to be cursed," Lucifer pointed at Felix and said angrily.

Felix took out his ears and said helplessly, "Okay, okay, I'll listen to you."