Settle at Hogwarts

"Although Milan is the school's public owl, its children are not. Moreover, it is difficult to feed the little ones born in this season. One of the purposes of my visit today is to see if this eagle needs to be raised. Send the owl to the Owl Shop in Diagon Alley, where the environment is better for the chicks. But it doesn’t look like it’s needed now, right Tub?”

Tabor helplessly lifted the little horned owl from the ground: "Okay, I will take it back and give it to the house elves to take care of. As for whether it can survive this winter, it only depends on God's will."

Although Tabor felt that he had caused another "trouble" for himself, who knows how cute the cubs of small animals are!It seems that raising a fat Scottish round-faced chicken would be good as a food reserve when it grows up.

Tabor took another look at the eagle owl named Milan. Well, it was strong enough. It was almost the largest of all the owls in the shed.When the baby grows up, the small crucible will probably not be able to hold it. If you want to stew the whole baby, you need at least a medium-sized pure copper pot. After cooking, use the soup base to make the hot pot, and add some chopped green onions, millet peppers. , tahini….

As if aware of Tabor's thoughts, Milan grabbed the gift box on the ground as if running away and flew out of the window.

"Tub, do you have any plans for the holidays?"

Tubo suddenly heard Dumbledore ask this, and alarm bells rang in his heart, feeling that he might be looking for trouble for him.

"I still have some potions to finish, so I'm going to the library to read some books in the rest of the time."

Dumbledore nodded slightly: "Okay, have you contacted your uncle recently?"

Tabor shook his head, feeling a little strange that Dumbledore suddenly paid attention to his mediocre uncle.

"Professor, what's wrong with him?"

Dumbledore turned around and walked out of the Owlery, and just replied calmly: "Nothing."

Tabor was a little confused about Dumbledore's change of attitude, but he didn't think much about it and returned to his dormitory with the little eagle owl in his hands, leaving it in the care of Duoduo.

As for the name, it's not too late to wait until it survives this winter.

For the remaining half of the day, just as he told Dumbledore, Tubo stayed in the lounge brewing the potion.

As for celebrating the holidays, Tabor really couldn't feel the rich festive atmosphere of Christmas from the empty castle.

The next day, after Tubo finished breakfast alone in the auditorium, he walked out of the castle and walked towards Professor Kettleburn's hut on the edge of the Forbidden Forest.

However, upon getting closer, Tabor discovered that Professor Kettleburn was not in the house, and the door to the hut was locked tightly.

After stepping on the crunching snow on the ground, Tabor only hesitated for a moment before taking out his spare wand from his small bag and cast a phantom to appear on the streets of London.

Looking at the signboard of Wu's Orphanage diagonally across the street, Tabor gave a helpless smile.

Just now, he originally wanted to go shopping in Diagon Alley, or go to Chinatown to have a steaming hot pot.But why did it appear near the orphanage?

Tabor didn't know if it was right for him to appear in front of Tom rashly, or whether it would disrupt Dumbledore's plan, or attract the attention of a "madman" to himself.But he always felt that human nature is kind. There is a causal relationship between who he will be in the future and what kind of childhood he experienced. There is only a thin line between genius and madness. If Tom's childhood is changed, will he become a real person? Where is the genius?

Tabor shook his head and decided not to think too much anymore. Now that he was here, he had to go and see Tom.

Using his spare wand to perform a transformation on his clothes, Tabor took out the Christmas gifts he had prepared before from his bag and walked towards the door of Wu's Orphanage.

The children in the orphanage were no different from those that Tabor had seen before, except that they were all hung with red decorations and gathered in the yard to sing Christmas carols in unison.

Tabor spotted Tom in the crowd at a glance. His gloomy face was indeed very conspicuous among a group of innocent children.He did not hide his figure. When he reached the entrance of the orphanage, he opened the door and walked in openly.

"Sir, do you need any help?"

"I'm here to see Mr. Tom Riddle. Can I go to his room with him to talk?"

"This," Mrs. Cole hesitated. She really couldn't connect the 'freak' in her orphanage with the well-dressed young gentleman in front of her.

"Can I ask what happened between you? Oh, please don't think too much about it, it's just that he is a little weird. If it hurts you..."

Tabor frowned and said, "Madam, Tom didn't do anything to me. I believe he won't hurt me. Can I talk to him alone?"

"Okay, okay." Mrs. Cole still had obvious worry in her eyes.

Tom obviously heard the conversation between Tabor and Mrs. Cole, and turned around and walked towards his room.

"You are not from around here, so why are you here this time?"

Tom was also very curious about this boy who was a few years older than him. He felt that the boy knew a lot of things that he didn't know, but he was not like those timid guys in the orphanage who could reveal it under threat. reveal all the secrets.

"Come here to see you and wish you a Merry Christmas." Tabor said and handed the box in his hand to Tom.

However, Tom didn't pick it up. He just looked at the silver-green gift box defensively.

"You wouldn't put dead flies or spiders or anything in there."

"Don't worry, this is a real Christmas gift. And I don't think you will be scared by those little animals." Tabor looked at Tom sincerely.

As if feeling Tubber's sincerity, Tom slowly opened the ribbon on the gift box, revealing the baked brown sugar cookies, chocolate huts, and red and white striped Santa Claus candies inside.

Tom couldn't help but swallow his saliva. He had only seen these things in shopping mall windows. For orphans who didn't even have enough to eat, snacks and the like were just a luxury.

"Okay, since the gift has been delivered, I'm going home first." Tabor didn't know what to say to Tom, so he simply walked out of his room and wanted to leave.

"That, thank you."

Although Tabor was a little surprised by Tom's sudden thank you, he didn't take it to heart.Because as soon as he walked out of Tom's room, he saw Dumbledore standing in the corner.