Chapter 304 Christmas Ball (Part 1)

Christmas finally arrived as scheduled.

For ordinary children, Christmas should be a very happy day, because on this day they can not only eat delicious food, but also receive the gifts they like.

But for Mike, Christmas is not so pleasant.

The reason is simple, he has too many friends.

With more friends, the gifts he receives and has to give out also increase.

This is not to say that Mike is stingy and feels sorry for the money.

The main reason is that it is too cumbersome.

Fortunately, Mike now has two house elves, Winky and Dobby, around him. When Mike called them back, the work of Christmas gifts became much easier. As

for the gifts, Dumbledore's gift is a blank pick-up list from the Bee Duke Candy Store. Mike has deposited a large amount of gold galleons in the Bee Duke, and Dumbledore can write whatever candy he wants on it.

Mike prepared a lot of such pick-up lists, which are specially used as Christmas gifts. Almost all the friends who Mike didn't know what to give received them.

It's just that the amount on their list is different from Dumbledore's. Dumbledore's is the only list without an upper limit, while the others have a maximum limit of 10 gold galleons.

Once again, it's not that Mike is stingy, but Mike is afraid that his friends will get cavities if they eat too much candy.

In terms of gifts, Mike is most attentive to the gifts for Cedric and Professor Flitwick.

The gift for Cedric is naturally the ring. As planned, Mike has a lot of light and shadow image magic added to it, and the sound and light effects are absolutely maxed out.

The dress for Professor Flitwick is a tricorn hat that he made by hand in imitation of the lucky hat, and the initials of his last name are engraved on the brim. For this, Mike specially learned how to make hats.

As for the gifts that Mike received, there is really nothing to say. Except for

the gifts from a few people who are familiar with Mike, Mike didn't even touch the Christmas gifts of the others and let Dobby and others deal with them.

There was no other way. Now many pure-blood families wanted Mike's life. Who knows if a killing curse would suddenly come out of those gifts after they were opened.

Among the gifts that Mike opened himself, the one that satisfied Mike the most was Penelope's gift.

It was a scarf she knitted by herself.

This scarf was not exquisite, and it was even a little hairy after wearing it, but Mike still cherished it.

Because Penelope spent a lot of effort on it, which can be seen from her messy hands pierced by needles.

Please don't ask me why Penelope can pierce her hands when knitting a scarf. Mike doesn't know either. I can only say that Penelope really has no talent in this area.

In the Ravenclaw lounge, Mike and Penelope, who had been busy all day, were chatting with the other members of the Freemasons who had confirmed that they would attend the ball.

Among them, Soraka naturally became Benjamin's dance partner. Mike was not surprised at all about this. The two had been flirting with each other for a long time. Mike even suspected that they had done everything they should and shouldn't do when they worked together to make potions.

Franklin's dance partner is Hillary, which surprised many people. After all, Franklin's own strength is not weak, and he has the status of a member of the Quidditch school team, so there are still many girls who like him.

On the other hand, Hillary gives people the impression similar to Hermione. She is also a nerd. She often wears a pair of silly glasses and hides in the corner of the library with a pile of books.

Everyone is very surprised that these two people can be together, and Franklin is still controlled by Hillary. Even many girls who have been rejected by Franklin are wondering if Hillary has given Franklin a love potion.

However, Mike still supports the development of their relationship. Let's not talk about anything else. Just the names of these two people are very interesting. One is Clinton and the other is Hillary.

This is really...

As for Victor, he is still hiding in the secret territory of the Freemasonry to study his glorious evolution. According to the information provided by Benjamin, this guy seems to have started to try human experiments recently.

Thinking of this, Mike suddenly felt that something was wrong.

"Benjamin, are you saying that Victor has started trying human experiments?"

Benjamin, who was kissing Soraka, immediately turned around and said,

"Yes, that's what he told me last time when I brought him food."

"Then who is he doing the experiment on? I don't remember that I allowed him to start human experiments." Mike said thoughtfully, "As the person who takes care of Victor, do you have anything to tell me?" "This

..."

Benjamin stammered and couldn't speak. He has been busy with his love affair with Soraka recently, so he has no time to pay attention to the situation on Victor's side.

"You can't blame Benjamin for this." Soraka said to Mike, "You gave him too much work, he's too busy. Look, he's lost weight recently!" Mike

sighed after looking at Benjamin for a long time and couldn't see where he lost weight. He decided to go and see Victor after the ball. It's probably not a big deal. Victor is not a fool. He still can't do things like experimenting on himself, right...

"Okay, ladies and gentlemen, let's not talk about this for now." Mike stood up and said to everyone, "It's almost time, let's change into formal wear and get ready to go to the hall."

Everyone immediately dispersed and returned to their dormitories.

Hogwarts was decorated very beautifully today, especially the lawn outside the hall. There was a huge cave on it, with fairy lights twinkling inside, which meant that there were hundreds of living fairies inside.

They were either sitting in the rose bushes transformed by magic, or flapping their wings on the statues. Those statues seemed to be Santa Claus's reindeer.

Mike and his group came to the door of the auditorium in a mighty procession.

The Franklin boys were all dressed in neatly tailored black suits, and Mike looked the best among them, with his short blond hair and black suit matching perfectly.

But Franklin looked terrible, standing in the dark in his black suit like Harry's invisible cloak, if it weren't for Hillary, who was wearing a lavender dress, holding his hand, no one would have noticed that there was someone standing there.

Professor McGonagall smiled and nodded at Mac and the others, obviously very satisfied.

But when her eyes shifted to Harry, Professor McGonagall's expression immediately darkened.

"Okay, come with me, the warriors need to sit with the distinguished guests."

After saying that, Professor McGonagall left.

Harry's expression was a little embarrassed.

The dress he was wearing was prepared by Mrs. Weasley. To be honest, it was more like a skirt than a dress. The long skirt and the old fabric made him very embarrassed.

Ron beside him was even worse.

The dresses of the two of them were very similar, and it seemed that they were both prepared by Mrs. Weasley.

But Ron seemed to have made some small changes to the dress - he used the cutting spell to shorten the skirt and sleeves of the dress.

But Ron was obviously not proficient in the cutting spell, which made the cut of his dress full of frayed edges. It now looked more like a non-mainstream holey outfit than a dress.

Compared with their dresses, their dance partners' dresses were much more beautiful.

Their dancing partners were Indian sisters Parvati Patil and Padma Patil. The elder sister Payati, who was leaning on Harry's side, was wearing a pink traditional Indian dress, while Padma, who was beside Ron, was wearing a light green dress.

Mike didn't find it strange that Indians would appear in a magic school in the UK. After all, Britain had a very open immigration policy for Indians. Mike guessed that this was because India had been a colony of Britain for a long time.

"Let's go, Harry." Mike smiled and invited, "By the way, your dancing partner is very beautiful."

"Oh? Oh!"

Harry was obviously in a daze. After hearing Mike's voice, he took a long time to react.

On the contrary, Parvati, the gorgeously dressed Indian girl, bowed to Mike and said lightly:

"Thank you. Your dancing partner is also radiant today."

Mike and Penelope smiled at each other and entered the castle first.

Payati followed Harry, who was still a little absent-minded.

Payati's etiquette is almost perfect, which does not conform to the traditional impression of the British people that Indians are dirty and messy.

The family conditions of the two sisters of Patil must be quite good. Their family was originally either noble or high caste in India, which can be seen from their fair skin and the large amount of gold ornaments on their bodies.

Professor McGonagall did not directly take Mike, Harry and others to a small room next to the auditorium, and then told everyone to wait here for a while.

In this small room, the other two warriors and their dance partners have also arrived.

Seeing Mike and Penelope come to the room, Fleur immediately took the hand of her dance partner, the captain of the Ravenclaw Quidditch team, Roger, and glared at Mike fiercely.

The meaning is already very clear, but Roger next to him is unaware of it. He still stared at Fleur with a stupid look and didn't notice the arrival of Mike and the others at all.

Roger felt that he should be the luckiest person in the world at this moment. Otherwise, how to explain that a beautiful woman like Fleur would suddenly invite him to be her dance partner?

At this moment, he just wanted to keep looking at Fleur until the end of time.

Mike completely ignored Fleur, while Penelope smiled at Fleur as if showing off from an angle that Mike couldn't see.

Fleur was furious, and she instinctively turned her head to ask Roger to help her.

However, Roger was still in that stupid look at the moment, and it seemed that his saliva was about to flow out.

"You...you useless person! Get out of here!"

Fleur pushed Roger away in anger and sat on the chair alone to sulk.

Seeing this, Penelope's smile became even brighter.

As for Harry, his attention had never left Krum and his dance partner since the moment he came in.

"Hermione? Is that you? Hermione?"

Harry asked in disbelief.

His voice also attracted the attention of the girl next to Krum. The girl instinctively turned around and saw that it was Harry and Mike, so she smiled and said:

"Harry! Mike! You are finally here."

"Uh, yes, so your dance partner is Krum?"

Harry's voice was trembling when he spoke, and his eyes were a little erratic.

His dance partner Payati obviously noticed Harry's abnormality, and coupled with the previous report in the Daily Prophet, she seemed to understand something, and looked at Harry with increasingly unfriendly eyes.

But Harry couldn't be blamed for this, because Hermione looked so beautiful at the moment, so beautiful that she was almost a different person from usual.

Her originally messy and fluffy hair was now neatly made into a beautiful princess bun, and her normal-sized front teeth also made Hermione's face particularly cute. Coupled with the light pink princess skirt, Hermione looked like a princess from a Disney fairy tale.

"You look unexpectedly beautiful today!" Mike came forward to greet him, "You are also very handsome, Krum."

"Krum, you too, this outfit suits you very well."

Krum's broken English made Mike stunned.

He knew that Krum didn't understand English, so he didn't expect Krum to respond to him.

Hermione on the side saw this and explained with a smile:

"Krum has been learning English recently. Although his accent is not standard yet, he can communicate in daily life now!"

"This is all for you." Krum said, "Hermien."

Hermione blushed and was too shy to speak.

Mike's brows tightened at first, then relaxed and said:

"That's great, Krum. I've always wanted to talk to you. Are you interested in developing in Ying Country? Maybe you can become the product spokesperson for our Los Santos Group."

"Oh, maybe Haohao needs to think about it."

"It doesn't matter. You have a full school year to think about it. When you make a decision, you can come to me at any time."

"Okay!"

Krum smiled and shook hands with Mike. At this moment, he really felt that Mike was a good person! Knowing that he was far away from Hermione and didn't get along well with Hermione, he gave him a chance to stay in Ying Country and work!

"Okay! Everyone come with me. Everyone else has taken their seats. Now it's your turn!"

Professor McGonagall's voice sounded again. Everyone in the room quickly agreed. Even Harry, who had been in a daze, was awakened.

Everyone began to follow Professor McGonagall to the auditorium. Mike and Penelope walked at the back. He looked at Krum in front of him with a gradually unfriendly look.