Lantern Festival

While everyone else, even Harry, was mesmerized by the magnificent architecture in the sky, Ryan was enjoying his personal vacation.

It was a large room with a high ceiling, the same size as the Great Hall above, with many Winky copper pots and pans piled up along the stone walls, and a large brick fireplace at the other end of the room.

In a corner cabinet carved from a single piece of stone, a small Golden Cup gleamed in the sparkle of Spark.

House-elf dressed in Hogwarts uniforms were busy in the room carrying silver platters, cups, and other tableware.

But strangely enough, there was clearly a wizard sitting at an octagonal table that appeared out of nowhere, eating something.

You see, if a wizard were to arrive, they would all vie to serve that wizard.

In addition, the tableware he used was out of place here—two mahogany branches with gold-wrapped ends after polishing;

The bowl has a wide mouth and a narrow bottom, and a rooster is casually depicted on the outside in simple colors such as red, dark green, and black.

A porcelain dish with pine and bamboo sketched hastily in a few strokes of monotonous black paint.

The food this wizard ate was also very strange.

The white flour dumplings, once separated by the 'twigs', looked chewy and sticky.

It looks like a pastry.

But it was placed in a soup with a few scallions on it.

Without a doubt, this is Ryan.

February 24th was just the start of the individual tournament in the eyes of everyone else at Hogwarts.

But today,

It also has another name among the people of Ryan and those who still maintain the customs of that ancient country in the Far East— the Lantern Festival.

This is why Ryan would eat glutinous rice balls near the Hufflepuff's Cup —the source of the culinary aura.

However, the glutinous rice balls Ryan ate were savory.

The filling is minced pork with green and red peppers and a little bit of spices.

This is how Ryan and Zhou Yi ate at home.

However, it's still a bit of a shame for Ryan.

Like Cho Chang, and Sue Lee, who was in the same grade as Ryan and had minor roles, as well as other Chinese Americans,

They all seemed oblivious to the date.

They all seemed to have no concept of the Chinese New Year.

From February 10th, which is the first day of the Lunar New Year, until now.

Ryan has already enjoyed a 14-day vacation.

He deliberately avoided attending classes during the holidays.

He has none of them.

Hermione and Luna have been taking individual lessons these days.

He would only reappear in the classroom, beside them, when the bell rang to signal the end of get out of class.

Of course, except for Potions Class.

Ryan didn't attend Potions Class.

Instead, he was eating hotpot under the resentful gaze of his own employee Snape.

But Ryan wasn't always happy during these holidays.

February 14th is Valentine's Day.

As is well known, for most boys with girlfriends, holidays often mean going through a difficult time.

On this day, the girls would use magnifying glasses to scrutinize the boys' every move.

The preparation of the gift and the sentiment it represents are merely the basic requirements.

If necessary, they will even look through your diary and compare your current performance with your usual performance.

If there is no progress, it means you haven't taken the holiday to heart.

Then it escalated further to the topic of their relationship.

Fortunately, Luna is a very rare straight woman among girls.

They don't care about any sense of ceremony at all.

The other girls didn't seem like the fairy maidens of the Far East in later generations.

They like to deliberately nitpick and exaggerate things.

The Britain Wizarding World in the 20th century was not rife with messages that promoted gender antagonism, like those found on Douyin, Weibo, and Little Red Book.

A media platform that takes sides.

If that were true, Ryan suspected Hermione would evolve into the first public intellectual monkey in the Britain Wizarding World.

After all, even after being mentored by Ryan, Hermione still recently spoke out for Bellatrix.

They were saying things like, "Children should stay with their mothers; it's too cruel to treat a mother like this."

Although Ryan showed it to her later.

The child was with Bella; the mother died and the child lived on, but after heading towards a dark future, they fell silent.

But Ryan still felt that Hermione's logical thinking shouldn't be overestimated.

Over the years, Hermione has only learned the lesson that it's better to have no books than to believe everything in them.

No longer blindly believe in books.

In other aspects, she still has the weaknesses in her original timeline's thinking and logic.

She is indeed kind, but her limited perspective leads her to flawed logic.

This was something even her awakened ability to reason with fiction, coupled with her almost Prophecy insight, couldn't save her from.

Of course, this doesn't mean that Ryan doesn't Hermione anymore.

Hermione's flaws, her stubbornness, are also part of the person Ryan fell in love with.

It's good that Hermione can change.

He wouldn't force it if it couldn't be changed.

But don't blame him for complaining in private.

Not complaining to others is the greatest tolerance he can show.

While Ryan, who was in the kitchen, was privately criticizing Hermione for being prone to short-circuiting her brain,...

After marveling at the miracle in the sky, Harry finally remembered Ginny.

The first person he found was Luna.

After greeting another Ryan, he learned from Luna that Ginny also didn't have class this morning.

He then went to the Great Hall.

They bumped into Ron, who was flirting with Lavender they hadn't seen in a long time.

When Harry approached, Ron quickly let go of Lavender's shoulder.

It was as if she had encountered her husband's wife while having an affair.

Lavender mistakenly thought they had something to whisper about.

She went straight back to her best friend Parvati at the Gryffindor table.

Unlike in the original world, she didn't immediately notice the eerie atmosphere and pinpoint her target— Hermione.

After all, with three years of denials, people around Harry no longer doubted that Ron and he really had something going on.

The same applies to Lavender.

But Harry knew that Ron still harbored feelings for Rone.

He immediately noticed Ron's unusual behavior.

I almost forgot about Ginny.

He simply criticized, "This is very abnormal of you."

I know about your relationship with Lavender. She's a good girl. She shouldn't be treated like this by you.

Ron instinctively shifted the blame, saying, "I... I'm angry!"

Yes, I am angry. I'm angry that you didn't come back to the dorm last night.

You must have crossed the line with Ginny again! Don't try to change the subject!

Harry smiled wryly, about to retort.

But Ginny's name also reminded him of what he really needed to do. "Ron, have you seen Ginny?"

I discovered she was missing first thing this morning!

"Hmph, you're definitely changing the subject. Didn't Ginny spend the night with you last night?" (Harry quickly cast Quieting Charm around them.)

(She glared at Ron, who was speaking loudly.) "Why are you glaring at me? Does glaring at me absolve you of the mistake of corrupting Ginny?"

"Yes, but Ginny disappeared as soon as she got up. I've looked everywhere for her," Harry said, frustrated.

Then, a familiar voice came.

"What are you talking about? Why is there no sound?"

It's Krum.