The Admiral of Hogwarts

When Hugo and his friends had just started school, Hood and the others had inquired through the Admiral Network whether they could use the memories in his mind. Hugo readily agreed to the ship girls' request at the time. However, he certainly hadn't anticipated that Belfast would be able to use those memories to transform herself into a famous British bestselling novelist.

It was evident that after relaxing the restrictions on the ship girls, these ship girls, who were much more powerful than humans in various aspects, had the ability to achieve considerable success without revealing their identities.

Of course, for the time being, this matter would not affect Hugo and his friends' plans, except for adding a bit of conversation material. After finishing breakfast, everyone got into the family's minivan and headed towards the city center. According to the original plan, they would spend the next two days in the city center's commercial district completing their pre-Christmas shopping.

After getting into the car, Hugo immediately contacted the ship girls through the Admiral Network and relayed his itinerary to them. According to the plan, they would pretend to run into Hugo and his friends on the road and then extend an invitation to Hugo, hoping to provide sufficient convenience for their subsequent actions.

The result of doing so was that they "happened" to meet the ship girl team, who were out shopping, at John Lewis department store on Oxford Street. Then, at the invitation of classmates Veneto and Firefly, as well as the newly minted beautiful girl writer, the Granger parents agreed to let their children visit Hood's family tomorrow.

In reality, if it were just classmates from magic school, Uncle Granger might not have agreed to let his two children visit, but if the other party were all a group of seemingly harmless beautiful women, plus a nationally renowned female writer, the invitation would naturally become much simpler.

"Belfast Queen's University, Cambridge University. This is simply too—" After the two parties said goodbye, Hermione said somewhat excitedly. "I never thought Veneto's two older sisters were so amazing. If time permits tomorrow, I will definitely go and learn from them."

In the following time, they spent a long time in the commercial district and purchased many things. After all, unlike Chinese holidays, most stores in the UK are closed when Christmas comes. So at this time, everyone is more accustomed to buying a lot of things to hoard at home.

Not to mention that most stores will launch various promotional activities during the period before Christmas. An important reason why Hugo and his friends are shopping in the store now is that some of their favorite products have very large discounts at this time, which can save a lot of money.

For example, Hugo and Hermione bought a lot of beautifully packaged candies at this time, preparing to give them to their friends as gifts during Christmas. For them, these candies from the ordinary human world can be regarded as very suitable Christmas gifts.

After finishing a day of shopping, Hugo and his friends were sent to bed early by their parents after dinner. Because they would be visiting Hood's house tomorrow, they needed to rest early today.

Early the next morning, Hood drove a rather inconspicuous Volkswagen minivan to the front of the Granger's house. After chatting with Mrs. Granger for a few words, she took Hugo and Hermione and drove away.

"Where are we going?" Watching the car pass through central London and head north, Hugo asked Hood curiously. Because in her memory, Hood and the others used to live in the Whitechapel district, so the car should continue to drive east.

"We are going to Highgate in the north now." Hood said, "We moved more than a month ago. After all, the overall reputation of the past community was really not very good. It was okay to live there before, but after Belfast became famous, it seemed a bit inappropriate to live in the original place. It just so happened that we had more money on hand at that time, so we simply moved."

"Highgate? I remember that's one of London's top neighborhoods." After hearing Hood's words, Hermione leaned close to Hugo and whispered to him. "I usually see Veneto's life as quite simple, I really didn't expect her family to be so well-off."

Unlike Hugo's homeland in his previous life, the class distinctions of the British people are very obvious. That is to say, in England, those people who are rich and have status, from the place they live, the things they use, the food they eat, to the stores they usually shop in, the places where their children study, and so on, a series of things are completely different from the same kind of things that ordinary people come into contact with. It can be said that they almost live in two worlds.

For example, Hood also knows that her foundation is temporarily in the Whitechapel district, and the focus of her work is also there. However, just because of this habit of the British people, in order to avoid being too special, she can only move out of there with Belfast. Therefore, it seems a bit strange that a "child" like Veneto, whose family is not ordinary, lives an ordinary life.

"It's very simple, after all, we are studying in the magic world." Hugo perfunctorily explained, "In that world, how much money we have in the ordinary world, what our identity is, is almost worthless. Rather than holding on to that useless pretense, it's better to be like other Muggle-born wizards, so that you can have a much easier time in school."

"To give a simplest example, you should have a good relationship with Veneto now, right?" After watching Hermione nod, Hugo continued. "But if Veneto had dressed like a young lady from a big family from the beginning, I think you would probably subconsciously keep a distance from her, and in that case, it would naturally be impossible to make friends with her."

"What you said seems to make a lot of sense." After Hugo's series of perfunctory remarks, Hermione actually agreed with his point of view. Then, the two of them started talking about what to do when they went to visit later. As the vehicle went further and further north, the buildings on both sides of the road also began to become sparse. However, this sparseness did not become desolate, but because as the community gradually became upscale, the per capita green area in the surrounding rooms also became larger.

Soon, their vehicle stopped in front of a residence on the side of the road. This was one of several two-story Victorian-style buildings with red roofs and white walls on this street, with a miniature garden of no more than ten square meters at the entrance. And outside the garden was surrounded by a circle of red brick low walls and a small cast iron gate.

After parking the car in the parking space on the side of the road, Hugo and the others followed Hood into the front door of the house. After entering the door, what appeared in front of Hugo was a foyer inlaid with beautiful geometric mosaic floors. The shoe cabinet and umbrella stand were placed on the side, and directly opposite was a small cabinet placed against a brown staircase.

"Veneto! Firefly! Come down quickly, your classmates are here." Just as Hugo and Hermione were changing their shoes, Hood walked to the side of the stairs and shouted upstairs. A few minutes later, with a burst of footsteps, two ship girls ran down from upstairs, and after greeting Hugo and the others, they led them from a door on the left at the end of the corridor into the living room, while Hood left from a door on the right side of the room, leaving the space to them.

"I'm very glad you can come to my house as guests." After everyone sat down, Veneto poured a few cups of hot cocoa from a thermos for everyone, one cup each, and then welcomed Hugo and his sister.