Magical Studies at Hogwarts

Chapter 319 Things Before ([-])

When Harry and Dumbledore reappeared, they were in front of a large carved iron door.The iron gate looks a little old, and the yellow carvings are also a little faded, but it is very clean, and together with the green plants climbing on the walls on both sides, it can give people a very comfortable and warm feeling.

The iron gate was open, and when they walked in, there was a large lawn that had been carefully manicured, and a clean and tidy garden road led directly to a building inside.Looking at the two sides of the building, there are two playgrounds full of various amusement facilities, but no one is playing in them now.

When he got to the front of the building, Harry knew exactly what this place was from a sign next to the gate:
St Mary's Welfare Home, Gloucestershire.

"This is the orphanage where Ike was born." Dumbledore said softly.

"We are here..." Before Harry finished speaking, he saw the door of the building was opened from the inside, and a woman who looked a little kind came out. Behind her, there were three or four people who looked But the seven or eight-year-old children followed closely.

"Mama Julianne, can I have a lollipop?"

"Mum Julianne, can I have a new comic book?"

"Mother Julianne, can I..."

The faces of the children were full of expectations, and they waved their hands, wanting to hand over the crumpled coin to Julian.

Julian squinted and smiled as she took the money from the children.Harry identified them, not much, probably only a few pounds in total.If you want to use these to buy what those children want, it must be enough.

"Okay, okay, you'll bring them back." Dumbledore solemnly put the money out of his pocket, rubbed the children's heads with a smile, and said, "Go back now, Auntie Lorna will be angry of."

"Okay! Mother Dumbledore...don't forget!" The soybeans responded in unison, and those who were not a little naughty still forgot to remind.Regarding this, Dumbledore deliberately put on an angry look, and said with a puffy face, "When did you forget? Those big guys, slowly disappear from behind your eyes!"

"Ahh! Hou Heshun's mother is angry, so she ran away slowly..."

The children ran away yelling, while Dumbledore stood at the door and watched us until we all went back, then he adjusted his jacket a little, closed the door and walked out.

"You follow." Julian took Harry's arm for a while, followed closely in front of Dumbledore, and got out of a car that was about [-]% new with you.

"Clutch, brake, accelerator...accelerator, clutch, brake..." Dumbledore finished his thoughts after getting out of the car, and then turned the key.Before the engine was turned off twice, the car finally drove out of the orphanage smoothly, along the road to the outside of the city, and finally stopped in a supermarket.

Harry, who was sitting in the front row, saw Dumbledore take out a large book from his bag and open it, with names written all over it.He took out another pen and wrote in front of the name.

Chocolates, lollipops, comic books, hair ties, hairpins, every name is written on the front.Before you finished writing the first name, you looked at both sides again and again before putting the pen back out of the bag.

Then, Dumbledore took out his wallet, put the crumpled banknotes away from his pockets, and finished counting.

"It's not that rare anymore..." Dumbledore said to himself, "The group of children..." You shook your head heavily, but you kept smiling.Put the wallet back out of the bag, opened the car door with the bag in hand, and then walked out of the supermarket.

"Sir, then..." Harry wasn't confused about why that memory ended with that, I looked to Hou Heshun who had a fierce face next to me, wanting to get an answer.

"Go ahead, Harry." Young Master Julian shook her head heavily and closed her eyes.Hou He had no choice but to continue to wait.

It was still daytime when we left the orphanage, but when Dumbledore came back with a cart full of things, the sun was not about to set.

Dumbledore opened the front trunk of the car, and put all the things out of the cart back.Harry glanced at it, and found that it was all the things written under this book, and candy accounted for a small minority.

Next, we followed Hou Heshun to the bookstore and clothing store. That time it was much slower, but we also packed the front trunk to the brim.When Dumbledore drove back, the stars in the world were all bright.

"It's not that late yet..." Hou Heshun glanced at the sky and sighed.Then I got out of the car and repeated "accelerator, brake, clutch" again, but I didn't turn off the engine that time, and started moving smoothly.

The speed of the car is not slow, and Hou Heshun drives very steadily. Although every time no car passes by, it will make you jump, but there is no such thing as frantic steering wheel.

Hou He chatted and looked at the scenery in the window, but there were only white trees.At that time, Young Master Julian suddenly patted me on the shoulder, pointed to the back, and said in a heavy voice, "Be careful, don't blink!"

I quickly turned my attention to the rear, but I only saw the road illuminated by the headlights, and there was nothing else.

"boom!"

Just as he was about to ask, he heard an ear-shattering thunder, the rear suddenly lit up, and lightning flashed across the distant sky.In the last second, pouring light rain fell.

Hou Heshun frantically turned on the windshield wipers and accelerated the speed of the car. Obviously, you are not comfortable driving in rainy weather.

"Was it sunny just now, sir? Why did it suddenly rain?" Harry couldn't help but asked aloud.Julian did not give me an answer, but just said: "Be patient, Harry, keep reading..."

Gradually, Harry also realized that things were right. Even though Hou Heshun speeded up the car, the road was really too long.When I came out later, it only took me half an hour to get to the supermarket, and now it's almost an hour less, so why did I go back to the orphanage?
Dumbledore had obviously noticed that too, with a visible relief on his face, and muttering prayers loudly, his eyes were staring at the road behind him all the time.

Sudden!A blinding flash of lightning flashed across the sky, illuminating the white woods on both sides of the road.Dumbledore let out a scream, then slammed on the brakes, looking behind him in horror.

The slow brake did not make Hou He's body lean backwards consciously, but there was a panic and relief on my face that was far worse than Dumbledore's.Before you could react, Dumbledore in the back row opened the car door abruptly and ran to the back.Bending down and getting up again, there was already a sleeping baby wrapped in swaddling clothes in her arms.

The swaddle was clean, and underneath it was embroidered with Ike's very own name in gold thread:

Ike Stride!

(End of this chapter)