A Professor of Magic at Hogwarts Chapter 70: Christmas gifts

"The idea is feasible." Felix saw more possibilities from this simple attempt. He felt that with hard work, he could achieve the level of sleeping guard statues in the castle.

However, he didn't think he could complete a magical creation similar to the sorting hat or the diary.

The latter is okay to say, after all, it is a Horcrux, which contains a piece of Voldemort's soul, but what about the Sorting Hat? Its predecessor was just a Gryffindor hat, not something specially built for the sorting house.

According to Felix's imagination, the four founders may have questioned each other's "talent selection plan" when they shared afternoon tea. In order to resolve their differences, they decided to use "intelligent magic creations" to Sorting.

Thus the sorting hat was born. The Sorting Hat has been around for thousands of years. It can communicate with people and has its own memory and personality. In a sense, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a real life.

This reminded him of magical portraits that could also communicate with people.

Some simple portraits, such as Sir Cadogan in the Castle, are too simple in their wit to allow for complex and coherent dialogue.

The result of Felix's experiments in school was that this braggart could only give seven effective feedbacks, such as bragging about his brilliant achievements or sending out invitations to duels.

But some of the portraits are magical enough - they can have complex interactions with the outside world, and they still retain quite a lot of memory.

As far as he knows, the portraits of the previous headmasters in the headmaster's office of Hogwarts, as well as the portraits of the ancestors of some pure-blood families, are all in this category.

This is because the owners of the portraits have injected a lot of memory and magic into this, so that the portraits they left behind still maintain a personality similar to the original owner, but they are only similar, and they are not real life.

The biggest difference is that the character of the portraits will not change with the passage of time, it is always fixed at the moment they are made, just like a set of complex interactive programs.

This is fundamentally different from the sorting hat...

"The sorting hat definitely hides a bigger secret!"

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Christmas dawn came, and Felix came out of the bedroom fully dressed. Under the small Christmas tree in a corner of the office, there are a large number of Christmas gifts in different shapes.

After a rough calculation, there are almost hundreds of pieces.

Moreover, there were still many packages on the way, and while he was making tea, three owls flew into the house from the window he deliberately left last night. One of them obviously flew quite a distance, with a delicate gift box the size of a palm in its mouth, slumped on the table in front of him.

Felix had to feed it a few drops of potion, and its condition improved a lot.

After eating a few biscuits, the brown owl hopped up to him and pecked at his finger with its pointed beak, "You want me to open the package?"

The owl looked at him, tilted its head, and stretched out a claw towards him, where a small metal cylinder was tied.

Felix opened the cylinder and pulled out a rolled note from inside—

"Dear Mr. Felix Hemp, my Wolfsbane Potion has been finalized. Just when 'Bai Xian' flew to you, I have submitted the official formula to the Ministry of Magic. If there is no accident , I will be awarded a Medal of the Order of Merlin in the near future—at least second class! I hope you can come to watch the ceremony. A bottle of the latest wolfbane potion is enclosed with the letter, please appreciate it.”

Signed by Mocles Belby.

Felix quickly wrote on it, "It's an honor, please let me know as soon as the date is proposed, I will attend on time. Also: your Merlin medal is well deserved."

He put the note back into the metal cylinder, "Thank you, Bai Xian." The owl drank some water, spread its wings and left.

Felix opened the exquisite gift box, which contained a bottle of potion. He opened the lid and sniffed lightly, "Well, it still smells so bad, can't he consider adding some sugar? Or is it made of potion?" Is it a quirk of all magic masters to drink badly?"

He put the potion into the emerald-studded ring on his left hand, and then began to open the present with great interest.

A considerable part comes from his book fans and pen pals, mainly greeting cards. Felix sorted them out and put them aside for the time being, the rest were gifts from Hogwarts professors and students.

Dumbledore sent a private alchemy manuscript, which is his personal experience on alchemy. And what Felix gave the principal was a Muggle book called "99 Inventions That Changed the World", paired with a pair of long wool socks embroidered with red lions.

Professor McGonagall sent a book called "The Quidditch Teams of England and Ireland", which introduced the British Quidditch teams and the honors they had won, and included a lot of Quidditch stories. Odd technique action illustration.

It looked as if she wanted to draw Felix into the Quidditch community.

Hagrid gave him a homemade short dagger, rather rough in workmanship, but made of a special material - unicorn horn.

"Tsk." Felix smacked his lips, not knowing what to say.

Professor Flitwick sent a copy of ancient magic materials and invited him to have time to discuss the relevant content with him, and Felix responded happily.

Professor Snape's gift was a thumb-sized transparent bottle, which contained about one milliliter of transparent liquid.

"It's a potent veritaserum, really yours, Professor." He said happily, "I hope you will like my gift too." What he gave Snape was a set of experimental equipment for Muggle schoolchildren , including measuring cups, balances, and droppers.

He also thoughtfully prepared a copy of "Code of Conduct for Chemical Experiments (Children's Edition)", which contains a lot of pictures, so the professor may not be able to understand it.

Many young wizards at Hogwarts also gave him gifts~IndoMTL.com~ His assistant Miss Granger gave him a dark green knitted scarf, Potter gave him a big bag of chocolates, Ron Wayne Sly sent a box of Sizzling Bees.

The most interesting thing was the gift from the twins' joint partnership. It was two wooden love dolls hugging each other. It looked rougher than Hagrid's short dagger-the features on the face were all painted on, Felix According to the instruction manual, Si knocked the head of the male doll, he let out a cry of pain, and then the two dolls trembled and performed a zombie dance.

Although the twins introduced that it was a kind of "waltz" from a small African country, Felix ignored it.

In addition, some little wizards who haven't met a few times also sent gifts, such as Justin Fenriely, who sent a gorgeous quill with multiple functions on it.

It took Felix an hour to finish writing the letter and returning the gift.

He walked into the auditorium, and there were scattered little wizards sitting on four long tables.

A dozen frost-covered Christmas trees were hung with baubles of all sorts, friezes of mistletoe and holly hung from the ceiling, and enchanted snow fell.

Professor McGonagall and several professors are busy decorating the auditorium.

"Need help?" he asked.

Professor McGonagall straightened up, "Oh, no, it's almost done." She waved her wand, hung a long colorful ribbon on the Christmas tree, turned to him and said, "I like your gift very much." , Felix."

Felix smiled. What he gave to Professor McGonagall was a half-human tall magic puppet, with more than a dozen complicated circuits built in, which allowed it to have two forms—except for the human figure itself, it could also Transform into a mighty lion.