Chapter 425 The Perseverance of an Adventurer

"Merry Christmas, Hagrid."

Andrew carried the box and greeted Hagrid who came over with a smile on his face.

"Merry Christmas, Andrew," Hagrid's face was full of joy and smelled of wine, "Are you going back to school now?"

Although Andrew didn't know that Professor McGonagall had been on duty during the holidays until now, he had no intention of betraying Professor McGonagall's whereabouts. "Yes, I have already spent a luxurious vacation."

As he spoke, he took out two bottles of gin from the box, "I bought the wine from the Muggle side secretly. To be honest, I asked someone to buy it. The shopkeeper was really merciless. speak."

This is the truth. He asked a nanny to buy it—it was said to be a gift to the professor. The nanny agreed after hesitating for a moment.

"You didn't use a confusion spell or something?"

Hagrid looked a little eager to try,

? ? ?

You're a professor, Hagrid! Andrew didn't know what to say for a moment.

The spellcasting qualification was precious, and he had no intention of using it carelessly. At least he would only occasionally need some magic help in his life until he officially reached adulthood and would not cause any chaos of criticism - it would be too bad to abuse it.

"Okay, it's really not suitable, but it's a good thing you got it," Hagrid took the wine. "Also, thank you for the ham. It tastes really good. Come and sit in my cabin for a while?"

"As long as you like it, Hagrid," Andrew nodded, "But I have to go back and report first. I've been on vacation for too long this time."

The Spanish product was expensive, but Andrew still felt it was too cheap.

He really didn't know how to say good things to Hagrid - Andrew just said that he was worried that there would be problems with the potion materials when he returned, and Hagrid directly bought him a lot of expensive gadgets that were hard to buy.

If he hadn't seen the real thing from Professor Snape, Andrew would really think that those fire crab shells scattered around to maintain temperature were worthless things.

"Fortunately, it was left when the shell was shed. If this is the kind left after death, then it is really...it seems to be affordable..."

Shaking his head, Andrew stopped thinking about the use of funds and walked towards the castle - he planned to go back and put the boxes away first, and then go to the office to process the documents safely.

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"This...this..."

Andrew froze at the door of the dormitory.

no! What's going on with this pile of gifts!

Didn't he already receive something from his friend Qiangwei in his room?

"Gu?"

Qiangwei, who was lying in the cage, also stood up and stared at the pile of gifts. The whole bird leaned on it weakly. It was obviously frightened by the pile of boxes.

'I remember that I blocked my magic address... Only a few people knew the two aliases... Is this sent directly to the school? ‘

'But usually they will be stopped directly. Without an address, Hogwarts cannot send packages in...'

Andrew moved over and started pulling.

Ministry of Magic…

Another Ministry of Magic…

Well, magic school…

There were scattered piles, only a small part of them were sent by friends, and the rest were gifts from either the Ministry of Magic or this or that association, beautifully packaged.

…

'Fortunately, I'm back, and there's this...'

Andrew looked at the unusually familiar box—no doubt a bunch of high-end quills, from the editorial department.

'Fortunately I came back early, otherwise this matter...'

He carefully hid the most important package, then packed the packages from the Ministry of Magic, various organizations and schools under the bed, piled those from his friends on the bed, and then breathed a sigh of relief.

'Documents are important, especially the spinning laboratory. It is a breakthrough success after all. I have to go and have a look...'

'Come back and defuse it again. Anyway, the bomb has been eliminated...'

'Fortunately, I was smart and blocked my name with magic. Otherwise, if I received other packages, they would be inspected with a detector, and I would have to be captured and hung up in the astronomical tower. ’

Andrew muttered as he rushed towards the office - he was mentally prepared to handle even a desk full of documents.

But Professor McGonagall obviously didn't have the bad habits of a certain unnamed Hogwarts principal. What was left for Andrew was just a normal day's new files, with nothing more than a laboratory results report piled on top.

Andrew looked through it briefly - it was pretty much what he thought. It didn't involve any new synthetic materials, it just simply improved the loom. It didn't even change to the most advanced shuttleless loom, but the results were pretty good. , at least a lot of progress has been made.

And the other party obviously had the idea of ​​getting it done in one step. In the final stage of the experimental report, the concept of shuttleless loom was mentioned, but the school was asked to keep it confidential and provide additional financial support.

'It's still being naughty, but the change in the previous step is indeed not a simple imitation... Well, I definitely agree, let's see what happens to Professor McGonagall...'

Andrew signed his name carefully, put the first document away, and waited for Professor McGonagall's approval.

Then came the rest of the documents - the most important ones were the correspondence blessings from various schools and some cooperative research. Andrew responded to the blessings one by one, and then kept the cooperation and the like for Professor McGonagall's review.

Anyway, there is no need to worry about matters brought up on Christmas, and no good person would rush into this time to create an urgent matter.

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"Done!"

Andrew stretched his muscles and thought for a moment, then looked at the drawer where the time converter was locked, and sighed - a vacation was useless, and he had to readjust to a life of two more hours a day.

‘No need for it today, we’ll start after Professor McGonagall comes back from vacation. After all, I promised the professor... go back and open the gifts first. ’

He closed the door, locked the office, and turned towards the lounge.

But in the corridor, he was suddenly stopped by someone he didn't expect.

"Merry Christmas, Professor Black."

"Merry Christmas, Andrew," Sirius greeted as he glanced around, "I heard from the portrait that you were back, so I rushed here."

"ah?"

Andrew was stunned for a moment, "What's the matter?"

He and Sirius had a good relationship, but they didn't have a relationship where they had to meet immediately if they didn't see each other during the holidays.

"It's inconvenient, we'll talk about it later," Sirius smiled mysteriously, "It's not a bad thing."

But Sirius didn't say a word until he pulled Andrew into an empty classroom.

It wasn't until they saw Professor Nina in an empty classroom that Sirius breathed a sigh of relief, "Here we are, everyone is here this time, we can continue."

"What and what?"

Andrew was confused.

"A secret, we found some signs two months ago, but there has been no progress. It was not until the holidays started and the students dispersed that we made a formal breakthrough - you still remember the Peeves incident, Andrew? "

Sirius smiled proudly.

'I made that stuff up... but I actually managed to get something out of it, but because Peeves' counterattack was too harsh, the harvest was too little, and there were all kinds of messy things, the students stopped pursuing it. ’

Andrew controlled his expression and showed some curiosity.

"Don't underestimate the persistence of adventurers. Since there is something wrong, we will definitely explore it. Even if Professor Nina has signed an agreement not to disclose school information to the outside world, this will not affect her pursuit of adventure."

Sirius' face was full of excitement, "As for me, I have long been a senior adventurer at Hogwarts."

‘So, you really found something wrong? ’