Just as the Niffler is able to take away shiny things silently, the owl seems to have the same ability.

On Christmas Day, when Kyle opened his eyes, he saw a mountain of gifts beside his bed. But the weird thing was that he didn't even notice so many gifts being delivered.

Kyle rubbed his eyes and asked curiously, "Ladon, do you owls have any hidden abilities?..."

Rodan, who was resting with his eyes closed on the wooden frame, raised his wings and called out weakly.

Although Kyle gave most of his Christmas gifts to the Owl Post, he still gave those gifts to family, friends, and professors to Laton.

It’s just that Kyle has a little too many friends.

In order to save time, Rodan flew at full speed almost all night last night. He had just returned and was so tired that he could hardly lift his wings. He was in no mood to respond to Kyle's boring questions.

"Sorry for the hard work."

Kyle walked over to it sheepishly, poured a bottle of owl tonic into the bowl, and added a small piece of braised dragon liver.

Dragon liver is a better pet snack than motra jerky, except that it's expensive, sixteen Sickles for a little bit the size of a bottle of Felix Felicis.

It's faster than robbing money.

The dragon liver that Kyle prepared was a Christmas gift for Rodan, and it cost him ten Galleons in total.

To be honest, he himself had never eaten anything so luxurious.

Laton ate a few bites of dragon liver and drank some tonic, and finally felt much more energetic.

Then Kyle returned to his bed and began to open his presents, which were mostly candies and chocolates, more in number than last year.

"Kyle, this is bad!"

Ten minutes later, a scream was suddenly heard in the common room.

It was Kanna's voice.

Kyle quickly put down the half-opened chocolate in his hand and rushed out of the dormitory.

In the common room, Kanna was standing there with an anxious look on her face, holding a newly opened box in her arms.

"What...what happened?" Kyle asked hurriedly.

Kanna bit her lip and said in a bewildered manner: "I...I lost Galleon again, could it be Pochi..."

Because of what happened last year, after discovering that she had lost Galleon, Kanna immediately thought of the witch who turned into a mouse.

"What are you thinking? This is impossible."

Kyle waved his hand and consoled her, “She’s probably making breakfast for the Dementors right now, so she doesn’t have time to come to Hogwarts.

Maybe you just forgot where you put your Galleons."

"Is that so..."

After hearing what Kyle said, Kanna breathed a sigh of relief and patted her chest and said, "Then I'll look for it again. Galleons are not important, but I really like that crystal hairpin."

"Wait... a crystal hairpin?"

Kyle was stunned for a moment, frowned and asked: "Is there anything else you are missing?"

"Nothing more, huh..."

Kanna tilted her head and thought for a moment before saying, "Some Galleons, a crystal hairpin... Oh, and a silver brooch. That was a gift I just opened, but it disappeared in the blink of an eye."

Galleons... crystals... silver brooches...

Kyle's eyes twitched twice, and he seemed to know what was going on.

"Wait a moment."

Kyle took a deep breath and took out the "Philosopher's Stone".

The next second, a black fur ball rushed over from the corner of the common room.

Accompanied by a series of tinkling sounds.

Galleons, hairpins, brooches, stones, flower pots... a lot of things fell out of Xiuxiu's pocket like rain, making him cry in anxiety.

"Is this the Niffler?" Kanna said in surprise.

She had seen this amazing creature several times before. It was covered in black fur, had a flat duck-like beak, and that pocket...

It must be the Sniff.

“That’s not right.”

Connor asked in confusion: "Shouldn't the Niffler be living in the Forbidden Forest? Why is he in our common room?"

"Um...his name is Jerry, and I raise him."

Kyle gathered the pile of things on the ground and said sheepishly, "Maybe I didn't keep a close eye on it last night, so it sneaked out of the dormitory by itself."

It's really Merlin. Kyle remembered that he had put the little guy back into the box before going to bed last night. How did it run out?

Could it be that the box was not closed tightly? But no matter what, it was fortunate that it was discovered early. If it was later, I'm afraid that more things would be lost.

It was the first time for Connor to have such a close contact with the Sniff. She walked over and asked expectantly, "Can I touch it?"

“Of course.” Kyle handed the Niffler to Connor and reminded her, “But you have to watch out for reflective items on your body, so it doesn’t steal them.”

"Okay, okay." Kanna responded perfunctorily, and then rubbed Sniff's head carefully.

The furry and soft touch made her squint her eyes involuntarily.

Seeing this, Kyle returned to the dormitory and continued to open the gifts.

It is worth mentioning that this year, apart from candies, the most common gifts he received were various books.

Whether it is very professional magical academic theories, detailed technical explanations related to Quidditch, or biographies of people, they are all available, with a wide variety of content.

There was even a book called "Sniff's Postpartum Care" among them. Kyle took a closer look and found that it was given by Newt.

Dumbledore gave him a pair of hand-knitted wool socks, which not only had beautiful golden and red patterns on them, but also had the initials of Kell's name on them.

Kyle squinted his eyes and looked carefully for a long time before he was sure that the material of those patterns was Fox's feathers... and they were tail feathers.

Knitting socks with precious phoenix tail feathers... I really don't know what Dumbledore was thinking.

It would be great if they could be knitted into gloves, at least others can see them.

As for the gift he gave to Dumbledore, it was much more practical: "Three Hundred Ways to Knit a Wool Sock"

It is an advanced version from last year, with 200 more types, enough for him to learn for a while.

But what surprised Kyle the most was that he actually received a Christmas gift from Snape this year.

A piece of moldy parchment.

Kyle understood that he must be using this method to remind himself to study hard and take more notes in class.

If there is no knowledge in the head, it will become useless like parchment over time.

Kyle couldn't help but sigh in his heart at Professor Snape's good intentions...

Only such a good professor is worthy of two gifts from him.

In addition to the usual shampoo, there was also a book he carefully selected, which was once the most popular among wizards and ranked first in sales several times...

Walking with Giants

(End of this chapter)