[Late at night, in Snape's office.]
Snape, with a hint of a smile at the corner of his eyes, softly said to Emily, "Emily, let's stop here for today."
"Thank you so much Professor Snape."
Emily respectfully bowed to Snape, then hugged her books and empty lunchbox and left the office.
Seeing this, Link also silently packed up his own things, preparing to sneak out quietly.
But just as he reached the door, Snape's sinister voice sounded behind him.
"Where are you going? Link. Come back here."
'Ah. So you're still angry, Professor Snape.' A trace of helplessness flashed across Link's face, but in the end he still obediently returned to the worktable.
Although Snape called Link back, he didn't say anything more. Instead, he walked alone to the corner and started rummaging through something.
Taking advantage of this moment, Link's thoughts began to whirl.
As for Emily, Link actually still trusted her.
In fact, back when Cedric first reminded him to be careful of Emily, Link had already begun using his past life's abilities to investigate this person. And the result of the investigation was somewhat surprising.
Because over the past year, Emily had indeed been bullying Hufflepuff students.
But those guys attacked by Emily all had one thing in common, before being attacked, they had all bullied Link. Which means, Emily was actually avenging Link.
From this point of view, she and the original Link must have known each other for a long time, and their relationship should have been pretty good.
This is also why someone as cautious as Link, who even hesitates when Snape gives him medicine, dared to eat Emily's pastries.
How could someone like Emily, who hides in the shadows and quietly helps Link, possibly want to harm him? That would be the joke of the century.
Thinking this, Link smacked his lips again, recalling the taste of that pumpkin cake just now.
And at that moment, a loud sound rang by Link's ear.
Bang!
This loud noise startled Link so much that his whole body trembled. He instinctively looked up and saw that Snape had slapped a letter onto the table in front of him.
"Your mother's letter to you. I didn't open it." Snape said coldly. After speaking, he busied himself again with the cauldron.
Snape didn't lie. The protective spell on the envelope confirmed this to Link. But what puzzled Link was, why did his mother ask Snape to pass on the letter?
'Could it be… they really have something going on?'
Link was thinking all sorts of nonsense while opening the envelope to read.
The letter was very long, packed densely with words, but its meaning was simple.
It was to praise Link's recent excellent performance. Besides that, Link's mother, Mrs. Flamel, also said that she would be returning to Germany this Christmas to visit Link's grandfather, so Link wouldn't need to go home for Christmas this year. As for Christmas gifts, she would still prepare them for Link.
But at the very end of the letter, Link didn't see the expected signature, instead, there was a pink lipstick mark.
This made Link speechless. However, after reading the letter, Link let out a big sigh of relief.
He had originally been worrying about going home for Christmas, but didn't expect his cheap mom to be so understanding. Before he could even come up with an excuse, she proactively offered a solution.
Immediately after, he reacted again.
Christmas was coming, it was also time to prepare Christmas gifts.
Thinking this, the first image to surface in Link's mind was Cedric's tall figure shouting "I'm Hogwarts' best Seeker!"
Should he gift Cedric a Nimbus 2000?
Once this idea appeared, it surged wildly in Link's mind. However, this matter still needed to be discussed with Mrs. Flamel, since Link himself didn't even have a single coin.
But Link estimated that this wouldn't be a big problem. After all, everyone could see what kind of person Cedric was. The effort he had put into helping Link was also something Mrs. Flamel had witnessed. A mere flying broom, Link believed Mrs. Flamel would be willing to spend on it.
If he gifted Cedric, shouldn't he also gift others?
Thinking this, Link instinctively looked up at Snape beside him. Just earlier, because of the pumpkin cake incident, he had offended Snape. Link felt it was very necessary to give a gift to avoid being targeted later.
It's just… what should he give?
Link hesitated for quite a while, then simply gave up thinking and directly asked, "Professor Snape, is there any gift you especially want?"
As soon as he said this, Link saw Snape's hand holding the stir stick suddenly twitch, almost knocking over the cauldron.
Then Snape frantically lowered the flame under the cauldron, before turning his head and growling, "I don't need anything."
"Really? Then how about I get you a bottle of Rosley brand hair conditioner? I saw quite a few senior girls in our house using it, and they all say it's good."
"I said, I don't need it!"
Snape's loud voice was so powerful that the empty glass bottles in the cabinets began to shake, while Link just calmly scratched his ear.
He knew very well, Snape was an old tsundere, so the gift still had to be given.
"Then I'll choose the gift myself. If you don't like it when you get it, don't blame me. Also, don't mix my gift up with the prank gifts from others and throw it away." Link reminded him seriously.
He wasn't joking. In the original Link's diary, there was a record that Snape had once thrown away a gift he gave. In the end, the original Link only found it in the trash can.
He had been heartbroken for a long time because of it. But actually, you couldn't really blame Snape. As Hogwarts' least liked professor, Snape received countless prank gifts every Christmas. (A big chunk of them came from the Weasley twins.)
Snape certainly wouldn't open these obviously ill-intentioned gifts, so he could only throw them away.
Hearing this, Snape seemed to remember last year's event. His eyes flickered a bit, but his body remained still, head still lowered, staring at the cauldron.
But for Link, this silent response was already enough.
"Then I'll go now."
With that, Link cheerfully left Snape's office.
And it wasn't until the door closed again that Snape suddenly looked up in the direction Link left, then pulled out a golden potion shimmering with mist from his chest and carefully placed it into a gray square paper box.
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