I was born in a Chinese life. In addition to the glittering Christmas tree, my impression of Christmas was that white-bearded old man who could give gifts. He never enjoyed roasted turkey, cream potatoes and other foods during this season. Now Verne tried the taste of turkey for the first time, and almost swallowed his tongue. His longing and desire for Chinese meals also quietly covered his head at this time.

After the meal, Verne found Mr. Felch and gave him homemade cat toys as a gift. In his previous life, his drug lord adopted parents had an almost crazy obsession with cats. They raised ten of them at home, which also gave him enough knowledge of how to take care of and please the cats. This is also one of his sure-fire killer moves against Felch.

Felch looked at the cat toy with his big light bulb-like eyes, and then he put himself in his arms after he touched it carefully. Perhaps he had learned from Dumbledore that Verne would come to work in the future, so he did not refuse the kindness of the party. He just muttered and thanked him, and then left in a hurry, looking at his posture as if he was going to get the "black magic detector" to check the cat toy.

"Well... Verne, what did you give Felch just now?" asked a gentle female voice behind her.

Verne went back and found that Lavenclaw's female chief, Ona Camitchell, was standing not far away. He waved his hand with a smile and said, "That is my homemade cat toy to please Mrs. Loris." Mrs. Loris is a newly adopted female cat by Felch. It has bright fur and big round eyes. The tail is a bit like a lion's tail, and it seems to have the blood of a cat and calf. Perhaps this is why she is so smart and long-lived.

"You will definitely be a villain who often flatters your boss in the future." Ona sighed with a smile.

"Thank you for your praise." Verne said humbly. In the past month, he and Ona have already had a lot of friendship, and they can also joke, laugh and scold each other casually. His homework can continue with the other party's acquiesce.

The two joked a few more times, and then they realized that today was Christmas and they wanted to give blessings to their friends. After saying "merrychristmas" to each other, Verne recalled a doubt that often lingered in his heart, "Ona, I have always been confused. You also know that our Muggle family also celebrates Christmas, but it is a festival of the church, to celebrate the birth of God, or the great man, "Jesus". But isn't it mentioned in the history of magic that wizards and the church hate each other? Why, no, we also want to celebrate Christmas?"

Ona looked at Verne in a dumbfounded moment. After the other party mentioned it, this was the first time she thought of this problem. Since childhood, as a pure-blooded wizard, she just silly celebrated with her parents and looked forward to this day when she could get gifts. She never thought about exploring the origin of this festival.

"I don't know, otherwise we'll go to the library to check..." After speaking, the two rushed to the library excitedly, completely forgetting that today was an important holiday.

The library administrator, Mrs. Irma Pins, looked at the two of them in surprise, as if she had never thought that anyone would visit the library on this day. Her thin face was wrinkled and her nose bridge looked taller, becoming more and more like a malnourished vulture.

Just as Verne's hand was about to reach the book, Mrs. Pins stopped him sternly, "Wait a minute, have you washed your hands after you finish your Christmas meal? Don't you allow me to touch my babies with greasy hands!"

"Don't worry, Mrs. Pings, we have washed our hands." The two raised their hands to Mrs. Pings, allowing her to check it carefully, and asked at the same time: "Sorry, can you ask if there are any books about Christmas in the library?"

"Well... I don't seem to notice this." Mrs. Pings turned her head and leaned her long and narrow eagle nose to the back of her hands. I don't know if she wanted to smell the smell of turkey, or because she was just too deep in myopia. "But if it's really not troublesome, I suggest you go and read the history books, which are placed in the H area of ​​the third row."

Seeing Madame Pins raised his head again, Verne and his wife hurriedly thanked him, ran to the other party's guidance, and searched for him.

Finally, they found the following description on page 37 of a book "On the Origin of the Wizard's Festival":

Christmas is a day when even the Muggles celebrate, but we wizards definitely started earlier than them. Around the 50th BC, in the Gregorian calendar, the wizards' families had already begun to place Christmas trees to celebrate the birth of Mithra*.

In some ancient languages, such as Sanskrit and Avista, "mitra-" can be interpreted as "contract" or "companion" (the root "mi-" means "constraint", and the suffix "-tra" means "tool"). However, Sanskrit emphasizes the concept of "companion" more than Avista, so in the Rigveda, the word "mitra" can be used as a common noun "friend". The situation in Iranian language is the opposite, and the concept of "contract" is emphasized more. Modern researchers generally believe that the use of Iranian language is closer to the original appearance of the word.

The famous magic historian Mei Ye* first proposed that the original meaning of the name of the Mithra God was a contract, so Mithra's original function should be the God of Contract. His view was recognized by most scholars. In fact, although Mithra later developed into the God of the Sun, the God of Light and even the God of War, his nature as the God of Contract did not disappear. There is evidence that many worshippers still regarded Mithra as the guardian of the contract after AD.

December 25th is the birth of Mithra, the sun god (the god of light and the god of contract). This day is also the Winter Solstice Festival in the Roman calendar. People who worship the sun god regard this day as the hope of spring and the beginning of the resurrection of all things.

Most wizards believe that the discovery of the "contract" is an important reason for the great progress of magic. We have entered into contracts with elemental elves to call the wind and rain, burn fire and thunder; we have entered into contracts with other magic creatures to fight against the sinister environment and enemies together; we have entered into contracts with peers to communicate with each other and keep them confidential; we even have contracts with Muggles, protecting them with our extraordinary magic power, and exchange for daily necessities needed.

Contracts are everywhere in our lives, so the wizards spontaneously celebrate the birth of Mithra on December 25 each year, and hang glittering ornaments on the fir trees to please him.

It is worth mentioning that the top of the Christmas tree arranged by Muggles is golden stars, which is different from the wizard's hexagonal sun. In addition, the habit of giving gifts on Christmas wizards originates from Muggles. The wizards think this is very interesting, so they gradually adopted this custom.

"Is it because of the birthday of Mithra?" Thinking of this, Ona suddenly realized that because she was too fascinated by her face, her face and Verne had almost been pressed together. This discovery made Ona blush. She quietly moved her face away and saw Verne immersed in the book, which made her breathless and a little disappointed.

"So that's it. Maybe this can be the subject of my future magic history paper." Ona pulled the book over and held it in her arms, "Verne, I'm going to register and borrow it first. If you want to read it later, come to me." Before she finished her voice, she quickly left.

*Mitra, this god was originally a common object of worship in the Aryan pantheon. After the differentiation of Iran-Aryans and Indo-Aryans, it began to develop towards different characteristics. In the early centuries of AD, worship of Mitra was popular in the Roman world and became a powerful opponent of Christianity. In addition, in India, Midori may be related to Maitreya Bodhisattva in Buddhism.

*Pei Ye is really a good person, but he is a famous French scholar.
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