This was Zhang Xiao's first Christmas feast.
One glance at the food left him stunned.
Over a hundred plump roast turkeys, mountains of roast meat and boiled potatoes, platter after platter of delicious little sausages, bowls of buttered peas, dishes of thick, rich gravy and cranberry sauce...
On top of all that, the house-elves had brought out their specialty: stewed pork with Chinese cabbage!
An enormous silver basin sat right in the middle of the table. Hagrid kept waving at him, presumably because his breeding efforts had paid off.
Thank goodness... at least there's stewed pork with Chinese cabbage...
Every few steps along the table, there were also great heaps of wizard crackers.
They were called crackers, but they were more like mystery boxes, with all sorts of bizarre things inside.
Harry and Fred pulled a cracker together, and a tremendous bang rang out, like a popcorn cannon firing.
A thick cloud of blue smoke billowed out, along with a rear admiral's hat and several lively little white mice.
At the High Table, Dumbledore had replaced his pointed wizard's hat with a flower-trimmed bonnet. He chuckled merrily as he watched Professor Flitwick sitting on a cloud.
After the turkey came flaming Christmas puddings.
Whether it was a coincidence or something else, it was just like putting a coin inside dumplings or tangyuan at New Year.
Wizards apparently also liked hiding things in their food for this holiday.
Percy's piece of pudding contained a crescent-shaped silver piece that nearly broke his teeth.
Hagrid ate bowl after bowl of stewed pork with Chinese cabbage, eventually polishing off the entire basin all by himself!
By the time Zhang Xiao left the table, his arms were full of things that had burst out of the crackers, including a bag of flashing balloons that would