Looking at Crookshanks leaving, Hermione complained, "I didn't expect that even Crookshanks could receive Christmas presents."

"Please, Crookshanks helped Sirius a lot." Tom shrugged. "But when it comes to gifts, what have you received besides what I gave you?"

Hermione's eyes flickered for a moment, and she faltered that she didn't receive anything.

This is a lie. Of course Hyuk received Christmas gifts from other people. Naturally, the Grangers didn't need to say much. They gave their daughter a set of Tom's same tooth protection kit. There was no difference except the color of the toothbrush inside.

But this set of gifts is not the point. The point was the things Hermione's roommates had given away, and they were more than serious. Su Li gave a bottle of perfume, but just looking at the name is very serious: Zhan Nan. It is said that after spraying it, it can fascinate men.

Hermione shoved the thing into the bottom of the case without thinking - she was good at potions and knew exactly what a perfume of that effect meant.

Padma gave away a book, a best-seller in her hometown: Kama Sutra, an ancient Indian book on philosophy and psychology that talks about postures, hidden tricks, and tips scholar. However, it is a bit one-sided to think that there is only such a colored thing in it. Because the purpose of this book is to prevent divorce.

The logic of the book is 'Let happy lovers get happier marriages'. In its description, **** is sacred and requires the lover's complete union of body and mind. Aside from some dazzling gestures and acrobatic movements, the Kama Sutra is primarily a manual that presents the entire relationship between a man and a woman. It touches on social relations, emotional harmony, and, finally, physical pleasure for both men and women.

Padma included instructions for this in the gift wrap, so instead of stuffing the book with the bottle of perfume, Hermione put it in her bag.

Tom knew Hermione well, and he saw at a glance that the girl was not telling the truth. But since she didn't want to say it, there was always a reason, and she didn't have to force her. In the future, I will see it through observation. Anyway, the list of gift-givers is only a few, so it is not difficult to guess.

After the two finished dealing with the Firebolt and the cat food, they continued to do their homework - the episode just now made them waste a lot of time, and they had to race against time to get it back.

Soon, it's time for lunch. Mrs. Granger, brushing her hair, came downstairs and went to the kitchen to make lunch for the family.

Tom saw Mrs Granger take out the leftover turkey and bread from yesterday's refrigerator, so he decided to see Huck today without further ado.

"I still have something to do. I'm sorry." He said what he said, and before Hermione could react, Tom had already walked to the door.

"After lunch..." Hermione stretched out her hand, trying to hold back—this is a new force, how could it just run away? It was too late, Tom didn't hear her, maybe he heard Hermione.

Snapped!

After a bang, Tom disappeared.

Hermione:  …

She covered her forehead helplessly: you take me anyway!

Huck was standing on the windowsill, smoking a pipe after another. He frowned, as if something was bothering him.

"Are you supporting Duncan or Eric?" Harker was in a tangle. Duncan was the chancellor of the exchequer and Eric was the foreign secretary. Both were strong contenders for the new prime minister.

The departure of the old Prime Minister is a certainty - since his Christmas speech, everything has been irreversible, and unless a large-scale war suddenly breaks out, no one can stop him from leaving office.

For Huck, the most important thing is to stand firm in the new round of shuffling, not to mention seeking profit, at least not to lose the existing position.

If you want to reap the benefits, it is to take refuge in one of Duncan or Eric, and then support him to become the new Prime Minister. This is the easiest way, and it's also the hardest way. Because in this two-choice game, if you make a mistake, you will lose all your capital.

Coincidentally, both of them offered Huck an olive branch. But here's the problem, Huck actually expressed his support for both...

When he came back to his senses, he realized that he seemed to have done something stupid, and he was distressed.

"Lunch is ready, honey," came the voice of Huck's wife, Annie, from the room.

"I see, when I finish smoking this pipe," Huck replied, then took a sharp puff at the pipe. Then there was a loud bang, and Huck almost dropped his pipe on the ground.

Huck's first reaction was that someone shot! Someone is stalking him! The moment he heard the explosion, Huck felt that his time flow seemed to have slowed down. Although he couldn't move his body, his mind was full of thoughts.

I'm stupid, really, I just know I shouldn't go for a ride in a convertible, but I don't know that smoking on a balcony is just as risky.

What will Anne do when I die?

I don't know if Humphrey and Bernard will be sad for me... My funeral will definitely lead to the implementation of countless policies, bureaucrats are most efficient only at funerals.

A few days ago, I was still thinking, **** a high-ranking official should hold a funeral, but I didn't expect the protagonist of the funeral to be me...

If I hide behind the flower pot, I should be able to avoid this bullet, right?

Wait, why am I not dead yet?

Huck came back to his senses and found that he was safe and sound, but there was a handsome young man in front of him. He stood quietly on the other side of the balcony and looked at him like a marble statue. His eyes were incomparably calm, deep and not like what he should have at his age. Looking into his eyes, it was like seeing a deep lake.

The wind blew a strand of hair hanging down from his forehead, and the boy said in a nice voice, "Good noon, Mr. Huck."

Huck searched the image of this young man in his mind~lightnovelpub.net~ but found that he didn't know such a person at all.

"My name is Lockhart, or my name is Tom Yodell, and we met in the embassy area before."

Tom's words flooded Huck's head with memories. He suddenly recalled the experience of that night.

"Aren't you asking me to come in and sit down?"

"Oh, please come in." Huck woke up from a dream and hurriedly invited Tom into the house.

At this time, Annie came to the two with a plate of turkey sandwiches.

Tom:  …

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Behind the Scenes: Tom didn't Apparate to Huck's balcony all at once. In fact, he couldn't teleport that far at once. He left Granger's house first, then took a taxi to near Huck's house, and finally teleported there.