The Wizarding Journey of Hogwarts

Chapter 289 The Christmas dinner is about to open

December 12, morning
Bell took Hermione, Shanna, and Shanna's two good friends on board the Hogwarts Express.

Because they are going to Bell's house for a dinner party in the evening, Phyllis and Reina will go directly to Bell's house with Shanna.

Chatting all the way, the train soon arrived in London.

"Bell, didn't your parents come to pick you up?"

Hermione asked nervously, scanning the platform.

She had been mentally preparing for today for a long time.

Although still can't do it well.

"No. I didn't ask them to pick me up because I had to prepare for the dinner tonight. Anyway, if you use Floo powder, you can get home in no time."

The Christmas banquet this time is not just as simple as eating and drinking, but also an important press conference for Bell's family.

Since many days ago, William and Elena have been busy preparing.As caring as Bell, of course she will not add unnecessary burdens to her parents.

"Hermione, I will pick you up at your house at 4 o'clock this afternoon. Don't be nervous, it's just an ordinary banquet."

"Ah."

Hermione nodded.

But even so, it could be seen from her slightly stiff body that Hermione was somewhat nervous.

In fact, this is also very normal.After all, it was Hermione's first time attending such a wizard's banquet.The unknown is always stressful.

After watching Hermione disappear at the exit, Bell took the three little ones to the fireplace and returned home using Floo powder.

Bell's fireplace is located in the large dining room on the first floor.

Walking out of the fireplace, the restaurant that should have been familiar and no longer familiar, now presents a completely different scene from the past.

In order to be able to accommodate more guests, the restaurant was temporarily expanded by using the traceless stretching spell.

On the side facing the gate of the castle, there is a huge stage.

On both sides of the stage, there are two rows of tables neatly placed.The table is full of exquisite tableware.

There are many sofas placed near the wall of the restaurant for people to rest or chat.

A large number of house elves are busy decorating the restaurant.After hearing the sound from the fireplace, they all looked over curiously.

After seeing Bell and the others walking out of the fireplace, all the house elves immediately stopped their work and bowed to them.

After waving his hand casually, Bell signaled the house elves to continue working, and then took the lead to walk upstairs.

As soon as he reached the stairs, a familiar figure walked towards him.

"My dear, you are finally back. Do you miss your mother?"

Elena rushed over and gave Bell a hug.

She estimated that her children should be home soon, so she ran over specially.

"Of course, Mom. We all miss you."

Bell also smiled and hugged his mother, and then indicated that there were outsiders present.

Elena let go of Bell, and smiled apologetically at the two little girls behind Bell.

"You two are Phyllis and Reina, right? Welcome!"

"Hello, Lady Menethil, I'm Phyllis McMillan."

Phyllis greeted her generously.

"You, hello, I, I am, Reina Katlana."

Reina blushed and stammered.

Elena smiled and rubbed Leina's little head, she liked this shy little girl.

"What's your name, Ma'am? See you more often. You can just call me sister."

"Cough cough!"

Bell nearly choked on the spit.

Why didn't he realize before that his mother had such an unreliable side?

After being reminded by her own son, Elena also realized that it seemed inappropriate for her daughter's friends to call her sister.

"No, I mean, just call Auntie. Let Shanna take you around and treat this place as your own home, don't be restrained."

Elena quickly changed her words.

"Mom, where's dad?"

Bell asked curiously.

Logically speaking, when Shanna came back, it was impossible for her father not to come out to greet her.

"He. He is familiar with the banquet process. If you want me to say, I have been familiar with it more than a dozen times. What else is there to be familiar with? It's almost enough."

Elena curled her lips, apparently disapproving of her husband's old habit of being overly cautious.

After exchanging a few words with her mother, Shanna took her two little friends and ran out to the garden to find those magical animals to play with.

And Bell returned to his room, planning to give himself half a day off.

There are too many things to study during this time, and he needs to relax a bit.

……

"Dad, Mom, are you ready? It's almost 4 o'clock!"

Hermione's voice echoed throughout the house.

She fidgeted and turned around in the living room, looking at her watch for a while, and arranging her clothes and hairstyle for a while.

"Honey, you should sit down and rest for a while. You've been rushing since 1pm."

Mrs. Granger helplessly pressed her daughter on the sofa.

At this time, Mrs. Granger had already put on a gorgeous wine red evening dress.

Although she was talking about her daughter, it was not difficult to see from the expression that Mrs. Granger was also looking forward to the upcoming dinner.

"Hmph! I want to see what kind of ability that little brat named Bell has to win my Hermione's heart."

Mr. Granger walked down the stairs slowly in a well-fitting tuxedo.

Although he is also looking forward to the next wizard banquet.But what he is more concerned about now is that his own cabbage was pushed!

As early as the previous summer vacation, Mr. Granger had already noticed that something was wrong.Not to mention how surprised he was.

No one knows better than Mr. Granger how outstanding his own daughter is.

And now, there is actually someone who can fascinate his proud daughter so fascinated?

If he didn't know where Hogwarts was, Mr. Granger would have planned to kill him to see how different Bell was.

'Ding dong~'

Five minutes before 4 o'clock, the doorbell rang, which lifted the spirits of all three people in the house.

"Come on!"

Hermione, who had long been eager to see through, immediately jumped up, ran to the door and opened it.

Hermione was not disappointed, the one standing outside the door was Bell who had disapparated in advance.

"Hermione, you look so pretty today."

Looking at the glamorously dressed girlfriend in front of him, Bell said with emotion from the bottom of his heart.

Hermione covered her face in embarrassment.She lightly punched Bell with some embarrassment.

'Really, what a nonsense! '

Bell smiled.He hadn't forgotten that this was Hermione's doorstep.Therefore, instead of continuing to flirt with his girlfriend, he looked behind Hermione.

(End of this chapter)