None of the three remembered to ask Lin Yue, they perfectly missed the walking library that was right beside them. Lin Yue sat in the library everyday reading, and she could also see the trio taking some time each day to search for clues about Nicolas Flamel.
However, in books where the main subject is modern, how could they possibly find that six hundred and fifty-eight-year-old gentleman? His age certainly does not qualify him as a modern character. Lin Yue calmly withdrew her gaze and lowered her head to continue reading.
As time gradually passed, December arrived, and with it, Christmas slowly approached. The deans of various house began to tally whether students would stay on Hogwarts for the holiday. Lin Yue, who had just finished breakfast, looked at the list that Professor Flitwick handed to her, and the words she had seen in her mind earlier appeared in her thoughts.
She has no home in this world, feeling neither sadness nor joy as they write down the decision to stay at school on the statistics sheet. Lin Yue politely nodded to Professor Flitwick and then got up to leave the great hall.
As soon as she stepped out of the great hall, Lin Yue happened to run into Hermione, who was coming to have breakfast with Harry and Ron.
Hermione noticed Lin Yue's eyes brighten and signaled for the two of them to go in and have breakfast first. Then, she cheerfully walked over to Lin Yue's side.
"Lin Yue, Christmas is coming soon. Are you going home or staying at school?"
Lin Yue stopped and looked at Hermione expressionlessly. "I'm staying at school."
"Oh," Hermione nodded. "I'm going home for Christmas, so we'll see each other again after Christmas."
After speaking, Hermione looked at Lin Yue with anticipation, hoping to see even a hint of reluctance in her eyes. However, reality was destined to disappoint her; Lin Yue's eyes remained as calm as ever, and she simply nodded indifferently.
"Alright, see you after the Christmas holiday," Hermione sighed helplessly. "I should have known you would be like this. What was I expecting?"
Quickly adjusting her mood, Hermione smiled and patted Lin Yue's arm. "Okay, I won't disturb you any longer. You should hurry to class."
"Okay," Lin Yue nodded and turned back, walking briskly towards the classroom.
After class, Lin Yue returned to the dormitory. Cho Chang and Marietta, being second-year students, had different class schedules and were still in class at that time.
Thinking about the form she filled out today regarding whether to stay at school or go home for the Christmas holiday, as well as what Hermione told her about going home for Christmas, Lin Yue's mind was flooded with thoughts of Christmas. Christmas... it requires giving gifts to friends, teachers, and others around her.
Although she understood the definition of the word "friend," Lin Yue didn't have any feelings towards her friends. Her feelings towards the people around her were all the same—she felt nothing. However, her brain was still subtly conveying messages to her.
Tell her that you need to prepare gifts for Hermione, and the professors shouldn't be left out, along with Harry, Ron, Cho Chang, Marietta, and Penelope... Just a fleeting thought, and Lin Yue's mind automatically generated a list. However, she quickly thought of another problem buying gifts requires money, but it seemed she didn't have any.
Since the start of the school year, everything she used had not involved spending any money. The world consciousness clearly knew in advance what kind of situation this child it had brought over would be in. It had no expectation that she could earn a living for herself while studying.
Therefore, in addition to the free food and accommodation provided by Hogwarts, the HP world consciousness also placed a never-ending ink bottle, an indestructible quill, a large stack of parchment that would automatically replenish itself with each sheet taken, and always full bottles of shampoo, body wash, and conditioner in her suitcase.
Although Lin Yue had never used conditioner, aside from these items and the necessary essentials like clothes and a wand, there was a cloth bag in the box at that time. Recalling that cloth bag and thinking about the other items in the box, Lin Yue almost immediately concluded that this item could probably solve her problem as well. Bending down to pull the box out from under the bed, Lin Yue opened it with a vacant expression and took out the cloth bag.
Opening the cloth bag, she was surprised to find it contained ten gold Galleons. Lin Yue calmly reached in and took out the ten Galleons. As soon as she completely pulled the ten Galleons out of the cloth bag, the bag instantly had ten more Galleons inside it.
Lin Yue looked at the cloth bag in front of her, recalling the price of the honey duke chocolate gift box that she had heard from Cho Chang before, which she had been very envious of. In her mind, a chocolate gift box was very suitable as a gift. After finishing her thoughts, Lin Yue repeated the action of taking out gold galleons from the cloth bag a dozen times. Each time she completely took out a handful of gold galleons, ten more would immediately appear in the bag. However, after taking out enough gold galleons, Lin Yue quickly tied the bag back up and put it back in the box. With the counted money in hand, Lin Yue walked briskly out of the Ravenclaw common room and headed to the owlery.
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After choosing a relatively strong-looking owl, Lin Yue casually set aside the Galleon, took out a quill and a piece of parchment, and wrote a mail-order letter. After finishing the letter, she handed it along with the Galleon to the owl.
The owl instructed Lin Yue to place the letter and the Galleon into a small pouch on its leg, and then it spread its wings and flew out of Hogwarts Castle, heading towards Honeydukes Sweetshop.
Lin Yue watched the owl fly away into the distance, her face expressionless as she lowered her head to look at her right hand. In it were ten unmailed gold galleons, just enough to buy a box of chocolates. For some reason, another thought suddenly popped into her mind. It seemed to be telling her that she shouldn't buy the same chocolate gift box for Hermione as she did for everyone else.
So she subconsciously kept the ten gold galions, but... what should she give instead of a chocolate gift box? Lin Yue didn't have any doubts in her mind; instead, she began to quickly think about what she could give as a gift.
After a moment, she finally dredged up a long-forgotten memory in her mind. In that memory, it seemed like she was self-learning how to knit, and at that time, she seemed to be very... very something, Lin Yue's brain momentarily froze.
Shaking her head, Lin Yue brushed aside the thoughts in her mind, leaving only the memory of knitting. She wrote another letter and handed it along with a gold galion to the owl. This time, Lin Yue was going to buy some needles and thread. After finishing all of this, she quickened her pace back to her dormitory.
Before sitting at her desk and focusing on reading, Lin Yue calculated in her mind how much time it would take to knit a pair of gloves for Hermione. She concluded that she would only need three hours. When the holiday is right in front of you, the remaining time seems to pass very quickly. It feels like in the blink of an eye, the Christmas holiday has already arrived.
Hermione dragged her large suitcase into the hall, where Harry and Ron were sitting at the Gryffindor long table playing wizard's chess.
"Oh... this is a bit barbaric," Hermione frowned as she watched the queen's piece smash another piece into pieces.
"Wizards' chess is like this, Hermione, and you're just saying that because you can't beat me," Ron said, looking at Hermione with a hint of pride. This was one of the few areas where he could win against her.
Hermione couldn't help but roll her eyes. "Come on, Ron, I'm not that petty."
Ron shrugged and watched Harry made a move in the chess game.
After Harry made his move, he looked up at Hermione. "Are you going to take the bus?"
"Yeah," Hermione nodded. "You two remember to do your homework over the Christmas break. If you don't, I definitely won't let you copy it when you get back."
"She'll end up giving it to us anyway..." Ron muttered quietly to Harry, and Hermione raised an eyebrow.
"Also, if you have time during Christmas break, go check the library for information on Nicolas Flamel."
"But we've pretty much searched everywhere..." Ron sighed helplessly. They had already looked through all the books in the Hogwarts library that seemed to be related to famous figures.
They couldn't expect to check every single book, could they?
"Uh-huh," Hermione said slyly, "but you haven't checked the restricted section, have you?"
"During Christmas break, there will be fewer people at school, so you can take the opportunity to go there."
"She's corrupted us both," Ron said, shaking his head at Harry.
Hermione, both angry and amused, gave Ron a slap and said, "You don't have to say that about yourselves; I'm a Gryffindor too!" After saying that, she tossed her hair and walked over to the Ravenclaw table, where Lin Yue was quickly stitching gloves with needles and thread.
When Hermione reached Lin Yue, she was surprised to see her rarely not studying but instead making gloves. Her eyes widened in astonishment, and a thought couldn't help but pop into her mind: who... who could make Lin Yue put down her studies to knit gloves for her?!
Her brain was already running through all the spells she had learned, wondering who could be so unscrupulous as to distract Lin Yue, who was so "naive" and only knew how to study...
Hermione took a deep breath to calm herself down, patting her chest. She murmured softly, "Hermione Granger, stay calm, maybe she's just knitting gloves for her mom."
Having reassured herself, Hermione reached out and tapped on the table in front of Lin Yue. "Lin Yue."
"Mm?" Lin Yue looked up at Hermione with a blank expression.
"I'm going home," Hermione said gently, her tone so soft that if Harry and Ron had heard it, they would probably have been shocked enough to sit down on the ground.
Lin Yue nodded without any change in her expression. "Okay, see you after the Christmas holiday."
Hermione watched Lin Yue's completely unresponsive expression and then glanced at the gloves she was knitting. Even while talking to her, Lin Yue's hands didn't stop moving, which made Hermione feel even worse inside. Taking a deep breath like an angry lioness, Hermione tried to keep her tone calm.
"Lin Yue, is the glove you're knitting a Christmas gift? Who is it for?"
Lin Yue, who completely didn't understand what a surprise was and had no idea about keeping surprises for others, replied straightforwardly, "It's a Christmas gift, for you."
Upon hearing "for you," the breath Hermione had just taken was instantly released, and the angry lioness was clearly soothed.
"For me... then thank you in advance," Hermione said softly to Lin Yue.
"You're welcome," Lin Yue shook her head, her hands still busy knitting the gloves.
Hermione tightened her grip on her suitcase, feeling inexplicably that her throat was a bit dry. Clearing her throat, she gently rubbed Lin Yue's head, "I'm leaving now, I need to catch a ride."
"Okay, be careful on the way."
Lin Yue nodded, and Hermione, satisfied, withdrew her gaze, smiling brightly as she pulled her suitcase towards the entrance of the hall. Halfway there, she suddenly remembered something and quickly walked back to Harry and Ron's side, pulling her suitcase along.
"What's wrong?" Harry turned to look at her in surprise, noticing that Hermione hadn't left yet.
"When I'm away during the Christmas holiday, you two should try to include Lin Yue when you play, and don't let her study all the time."
Harry thought carefully about Lin Yue's daily routine of either studying in the library or in the dormitory. He felt that he should be able to find her in the library, so he nodded seriously. "Okay, no problem." This was the first time Hermione had asked them to do something, and they were determined to do it well.
Ron also nodded seriously beside him, indicating that he would do this with Harry. Hermione completely relaxed, smiled, nodded, and turned to leave the Great Hall to catch the Hogwarts Express.
After finishing knitting her gloves in the Great Hall, Lin Yue took the gloves back to her dormitory to study. The reason she knitted gloves in the Great Hall was simply because the lighting was better there.
When she returned to the dormitory, Cho Chang and Marietta had already boarded the Hogwarts Express heading home. Lin Yue gave herself a bruise on her left arm as a punishment for using her study time to knit gloves, and then she began to read.
During the time she was reading, heavy snow began to fall outside. Almost all the students who stayed at school ran out to play in the snow. In winter, for children, the greatest joy is naturally playing in the snow.
Harry and Ron thought of Hermione's request to them just before she left, and felt that with such heavy snow, they shouldn't leave Lin Yue out, so they went to the Ravenclaw common room to try to call her to join them in playing in the snow.
When the bronze knocker saw someone approaching, it spoke up first and posed its question. Hearing the knocker's question, Harry and Ron exchanged glances. Although they had heard before that one needed to answer a question to enter the Ravenclaw common room, and that anyone who answered correctly could enter while those who answered incorrectly could not, they still felt a bit of a headache when they heard the question.
"Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?"
Harry and Ron both lowered their heads, lost in thought.