Invisibility Cloak, Deathly Hallows

Because Headmaster Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall had asked her to rest properly today, Lin Yue didn't want to study.

So, when Harry and Ron arrived at the dining table with a large pile of gifts after playing with magic poppers, ready to eat.

The scene they saw was Lin Yue eating leisurely, taking a sip of pumpkin juice every now and then.

"Merlin's napkin..." Ron stared blankly at Lin Yue eating leisurely, not even noticing the gifts he was holding fall to the ground.

To him, Lin Yue eating slowly was as impossible as Professor Snape awarding Gryffindor points.

Yet, here it was, this impossible event happening!

Harry, standing beside him, also looked at the scene with disbelief.

He had thought that after he and Ron finished playing with magic poppers, Lin Yue would have already finished lunch and gone to the library to read.

They had even planned to go to the library to find her immediately after lunch, but who would have thought that after they finished playing with magic poppers.

What awaited them wasn't an empty seat left by Lin Yue, but Lin Yue herself, sitting properly in her chair, eating lunch at a leisurely pace.

Harry and Ron tacitly sat down next to Lin Yue, Harry next to Lin Yue, and Ron next to Harry.

"Lin Yue... are you still going to the library after lunch?" Harry asked Lin Yue in a low voice, tilting his head slightly.

Lin Yue swallowed the bacon in her mouth. It was strange, she should have eaten this before, but she had no idea what it tasted like.

Was it because she was eating slowly today? She turned to look at Harry and answered his question in a flat tone.

"I'm not going to the library after lunch. Headmaster Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall told me to rest for a day and not to think about studying."

"Okay." Harry nodded, glancing at Professor McGonagall with a hint of surprise. He never thought Professor McGonagall would tell students to rest and not to think about studying.

"How about it? Are you still going to the library later?" Ron, seeing that Harry had finished asking and received no response, reached out and tapped his shoulder.

"I'm not going." Harry shook his head and said softly.

"That's great..." Ron breathed a sigh of relief. Regardless, he didn't want to study on Christmas Day.

With her study plan rejected, Lin Yue had nothing to do after finishing lunch.

She couldn't think of anything else to do besides studying.

Even though the surgery she had undergone hadn't affected her memories, her life before the surgery had been almost entirely consumed by studying.

To ensure her grades remained outside the scope of being destroyed, Lin Yue had used almost all her time except for sleeping and eating.

Of course, her eating and sleeping times were normal, but even so, her parents were not satisfied.

This led to the later surgery. As for going out to play, or watching TV, or using a computer, Lin Yue had only ever seen her parents do these things; she herself had never been allowed to try them.

Going out to play was even more impossible. Almost all children studied at home, so who would invite others out to play?

However, now that Harry and Ron were with her, it didn't matter that she didn't know what to do to relax.

They would help her relax, the two boys thought confidently.

Until... "Merlin's Queen!" Ron, on the verge of collapse, grabbed his red hair.

Just now, his chess piece had been shattered by Lin Yue's piece again. This was the tenth game he had lost.

He and Harry had taken her back to the Gryffindor common room to help Lin Yue have a relaxing day.

Ron had even volunteered to play Wizard's Chess with her. However, he didn't know that.

Lin Yue's extensive reading in the Hogwarts Library included books on Wizard's Chess.

Furthermore, she had no emotions and wouldn't be disturbed by her feelings while playing, making her thoughts much faster than ordinary people.

Naturally, Ron was destined to lose. No matter how he played, Lin Yue could always make the next move within a few seconds.

In contrast, he could play with ease at the beginning, but halfway through a game, he would start to hesitate.

He would take several minutes to make each move, which astonished Harry.

Harry knew Ron's Wizard's Chess skills. Not only could he and Hermione not beat him, but even in the entire Gryffindor house, there were basically no one who could defeat him.

Now, facing Lin Yue and losing ten games in a row, Harry felt a bit sorry for Ron, but mostly, he was gloating.

After losing the eleventh game, Ron flopped onto the table without any regard for his appearance.

He weakly raised his right hand, "I'm not playing anymore... I can't win, I really can't win."

Lin Yue nodded, stood up expressionlessly, and stretched her legs.

Harry couldn't help himself, covering his mouth to stifle a laugh while patting his best friend's shoulder.

"Ron, are you okay?"

"Not really..." Ron looked up, his face ashen. Seeing the uncontrollable smile on Harry's face, he couldn't help but become ferocious.

Taking a deep breath, Ron began his counterattack, "Harry... it's your turn. I've been helping Lin Yue relax for a while, now it's your turn to accompany her."

Harry's smile froze on his face. Accompany Lin Yue to relax... he didn't know how to do that either.

At least Ron could play Wizard's Chess with Lin Yue. What about him?

He couldn't take Lin Yue out to play Quidditch, could he? It was freezing outside, and flying around in the sky for a few laps would be deadly cold.

If Lin Yue caught a cold from being frozen, and Hermione found out... wouldn't she kill me?

Harry shivered violently, completely abandoning the idea of taking Lin Yue out to play Quidditch.

After much thought, he remembered something he had just received that morning, something said to be very precious.

"Lin Yue, wait a moment, I'll get you something to see."

With that, Harry ran up the stairs, returned to his dormitory, and took out the Invisibility Cloak he had just received that morning.

If he gave the Invisibility Cloak to Lin Yue, she could play with it and also study it.

She was so eager to learn; she would surely be interested in such a novel Invisibility Cloak.

Carrying the Invisibility Cloak, Harry ran down the stairs and handed it to Lin Yue.

"Here, you can play with it or study it."

Lin Yue's eyes were calm as she reached out and took the Invisibility Cloak Harry handed her. The moment it touched her hands, she felt something unusual.

She could tell it was an Invisibility Cloak, but the texture of this Invisibility Cloak was not like the materials commonly used for Invisibility Cloaks described in books.

It was an Invisibility Cloak, but not an ordinary one. Lin Yue's emotions remained unfazed as she held the Invisibility Cloak in front of her.

Lin Yue calmly examined it from top to bottom, then noticed its ancient and intricate patterns.

She refolded the Invisibility Cloak in her hands and looked at Harry.

"Your Invisibility Cloak is very special."

"Huh?" Harry looked at Lin Yue, puzzled. "How is it special?"

"This Invisibility Cloak is different from the ones you can buy now," Lin Yue said, her voice devoid of any inflection.

"It's not made from the materials commonly used to make Invisibility Cloaks today, so its effectiveness has no time limit; it should be permanently effective."

Harry swallowed and nodded. "Is that so..."

"This was left to you by your father," Lin Yue said, quickly analyzing the situation in her mind.

"How did you know?!" Harry looked at Lin Yue in surprise. He had only learned that this Invisibility Cloak had belonged to his father that morning when he received it, along with a small note.

If he hadn't seen Lin Yue's handwriting and noticed it was completely different from the script on the note, Harry would have thought Lin Yue had sent him the Invisibility Cloak based on her previous statement.

"Because your father did indeed have an Invisibility Cloak passed down from his ancestors."

Lin Yue calmly stated the facts she knew. "In wizarding fairy tales, the Peverell Brothers made a bet with Death and received gifts from him."

"The third Peverell brother received the Invisibility Cloak."

Ron, who had been standing nearby listening to Lin Yue and Harry's conversation, suddenly clapped his hands.

"I've heard that story too, the story of the Deathly Hallows!"

"But isn't that just a legend?" Ron looked at Lin Yue doubtfully. Could the legend be true?

"Not entirely," Lin Yue shook her head indifferently and spoke mechanically, "The Peverell Family did exist in history and intermarried with the Potter Family."

"The Potter Family can be considered descendants of that third Peverell from the Peverell Family."

"Therefore, it's not surprising that Harry's father would receive an Invisibility Cloak passed down from his ancestors."

"Merlin... then your Invisibility Cloak, Harry, is a Deathly Hallow!"

Ron exclaimed, looking at the neatly folded Invisibility Cloak in Lin Yue's hands.

"Deathly Hallows?" Harry frowned. "What are they for?"

"The Resurrection Stone is rumored to be able to revive the dead, the Invisibility Cloak can escape Death, making you undetectable even to Death himself, and the Elder Wand can make you invincible. Whoever possesses these three items can conquer death and become the master of Death."

Ron explained to Harry what he had read in fairy tales.

"Is that possible? It's just a fairy tale, right?" Harry said with a wry smile. Becoming the master of Death sounded like a fairy tale plot.

"It's probably just a fairy tale," Lin Yue said slowly from the side, her emotionless eyes looking at Harry and Ron.

"The most likely identity of the Peverell Brothers is that they were all powerful Alchemists, and these three Deathly Hallows were all alchemical products they created."

"As for why there's a rumor that possessing these three Deathly Hallows allows one to conquer death, I believe it's because the abilities of these three Deathly Hallows are too powerful, exceeding people's common understanding."

"That makes sense," Harry nodded thoughtfully.

After playing eleven rounds of Wizard's Chess, Lin Yue and Harry and Ron discussed the legends of the Invisibility Cloak.

By the time the three of them stopped talking, it was already time for dinner.

Following Harry and Ron out of the Gryffindor common room, the three of them went to the Great Hall together.

In the Great Hall, the professors were already seated around the round table, and the few remaining students had also taken their seats. Lin Yue and the other two were the latest arrivals.

After hurrying to sit at the round table, Headmaster Dumbledore, seeing that everyone was present, picked up his goblet.

"Everyone, Merry Christmas."

"Merry Christmas!" Everyone else raised their goblets in unison. Lin Yue also raised her cup expressionlessly, saying "Merry Christmas" without any emotion.

As for the sudden flutter in her heart, she attributed it to a slight case of arrhythmia.

The students' goblets contained pumpkin juice, while the professors' goblets held wine.

Because it was Christmas, the professors had mostly let down their guard, indulging themselves for once, and were all a little tipsy.

Looking at the slightly tipsy professors, a strange thought suddenly flashed through Lin Yue's mind.

Perhaps the teachers she had encountered in this world were indeed different from the teachers she had met before.

Shaking her head, Lin Yue tossed the thought, which she didn't know why it had popped up, out of her mind, and then slowly began to cut up the large piece of turkey in front of her with a knife and fork.

If it were a normal meal, she would never have used a knife and fork to cut up a turkey.

Instead, she would have used her hands, striving to finish as quickly as possible so she could go study, and if she could chew it small enough, she would have even swallowed the turkey bones along with the meat just to be faster.

But today, and only today, she would follow Headmaster Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall's advice and slow down her eating speed.

She slowly put the cut turkey into her mouth, and a flavor she had never experienced before bloomed on her tongue.

Lin Yue's taste buds told her that this turkey was delicious, she should feel... feel what?

She calmly put a second piece of turkey into her mouth. The food was delicious, but what should she feel?

Lin Yue's brain didn't give her an answer, so she didn't think much of it, just eating the turkey bite after bite.

Her mood unchanged, a single thought repeated in her mind: this turkey tasted good.

As the Christmas pudding and ice cream were served later, this thought changed to: this Christmas pudding, this ice cream tasted good.

But no matter how the food in these thoughts changed, there was not the slightest change on Lin Yue's face, and her heart remained like a pool of still water.

Her vacant eyes, as they passed over others, could see the corners of their mouths turning up and their eyes crinkling as they ate delicious food.

Lin Yue's brain responded to this: they were smiling. Why were they smiling? Because they were happy. Why were they happy? Because the food was delicious.

So... she also found the food delicious, so she should also be happy?

But she didn't feel happy; she had no emotions. Lin Yue blinked and calmly reached for a piece of Christmas pudding.

She didn't notice at all that, even though her heart and mind were devoid of any feeling or fluctuation, tears were already beginning to form in her eyes due to physiological response.