After the opening feast, everyone gathered in the abandoned classroom that served as their Secret Base.
The friends who had gone home for the holidays shared their experiences and impressions from the break.
Harriett was especially grateful to Hermione for her Christmas gift—Muggle contact lenses.
Only then did Ron, Neville, and Jerry realize that Harriett did not seem to be wearing glasses! Harriett smugly spread her hand open, revealing a little red box. "These are the contact lenses Hermione gave me. Once I put them on, you can't see my glasses anymore. Amazing, right?"
"These are glasses?" Jerry reached out and touched the plastic lens case.
Harriett looked exasperated. "This is a contact lens case!"
Ron was baffled. "Impossible! A contact lens case? But I can clearly see it!"
Hermione + Ted + Harriett: ??? After that, Ron and Jerry also lamented their Christmas Holiday experiences.
Ron said, "Next time Ted stays at school, even if I have to wander the streets, I'll never choose to stay behind with him again. Was that even a holiday? Even Azkaban prisoners aren't as exhausted as I was!"
Jerry chimed in from the side, "Snape plus Professor McGonagall, then multiplied by two, still wouldn't be as ruthless as Ted!"
Ted rolled his eyes. "See? You've even learned addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division now. That's all thanks to my tutoring class~"
"Yeah. And every day, I was so exhausted that the moment my head touched the pillow, I'd pass out," Ron said.
Jerry nodded. "A few times, I nearly fell asleep on the way back to the Common Room. Skating really was fun, but afterward, it was exhausting!"
"Skating? You learned how to skate?" Hermione asked in surprise.
"Skating? What's skating?" Harriett asked, looking confused.
Everyone looked at one another. Had just one holiday