days at Hogwarts

Chapter 130 Dean Forest
A group of four had a good lunch at the hotel, then lay comfortably in the hotel and took a nap, then took a shower and changed their clothes, then went to the hotel to rent a large-displacement camping car, and went to the forest advance.

On the temporary parking crosswalk in front of the hotel, a small pickup truck with a rough and sturdy blue shell was parked by the side of the road. The spare tire was placed on the front engine cover, and several packages were piled up on the open rear shelf at the back.

There are boxes of drinking water, coal, and some canned food outside the baggage...

Wendell stood on the steps and looked at this Land Rover Defender 130, his eyes sparkled, he patted the shell again and again, with a satisfied smile on his face.

The hotel manager at the side could see that the regular customer was very satisfied, and he actively introduced: "The new Land Rover cars are mainly provided to the military and the government, and we took over a batch of them and remodeled them."

He rolled up the sleeves of his neat suit and uniform, and measured the vehicle with his hands: "The wheelbase is 130, the diesel engine is turbocharged, and the horsepower reaches 85 horsepower. The high chassis is very suitable for driving in the forest."

Wendell touched here and looked there, feeling extremely satisfied.

Monica took Hermione by the hand, and Hermione took Loren to a position further back, watching Wendell and the hotel manager smiling and greeting each other.

The short sleeves with white and blue stripes were wrapped in thick camping protective clothing, and the lower body was also changed into trousers that tightened the bottom of the trousers. The thick boots with hard soles on the feet were a bit heavy.Dressed in anti-mosquito, wear-resistant, thick, it looks like it is going to be active in the wild.

Fortunately, it was provided by the hotel, and the location is at the edge of the forest, and the temperature is suitable. Otherwise, wearing this clothes in midsummer will not prevent mosquitoes, and they may suffer from heat stroke first.

Loren leaned close to Hermione's ear and whispered, "I think your father came here for this car, not for camping."

Hermione nodded her head in agreement.

The hotel manager took out something like a satellite phone and stuffed it into Wendell's hand: "Use this to contact us when you encounter problems. Satellite positioning, we can find you in the North Pole."

Wendell took the things, talked to the hotel manager a few more words, opened the car door and sat in the driver's seat, waved to the three of Monica behind and shouted: "Come on! We're leaving!"

The three stepped forward quickly, Loren and Hermione consciously got into the back row, and Monica sat next to Wendell in the front row.

"I wish you a good time!" The hotel manager waved goodbye.

Wendell stepped on the clutch smoothly, the diesel engine made a "boom" sound of starting, and the car gradually accelerated and drove out of the hotel manager's sight.

Different from the family car in Granger's family, this pickup has much more compact seats, with 6 seats in a double row, and the space is a bit narrow.But for Loren and Hermione, it was enough for them to move freely.

The car gradually drove out of the bushes made of steel and concrete, and headed towards the forest.

The dense canopy joins together to form a dense green sky. As the vehicle drives deeper, the tall trees stand tall. They can only see the trunk from the car window, and they can no longer see the canopy. Filtered into mottled patterns, it falls on the carpet of fallen leaves and moss.

Far away from human habitation and deep into the natural environment, people unconsciously leave all their thoughts behind, and only focus on putting the magnificent scene into their eyes and mind.

The car kept driving deep into the forest, and the coolness became stronger and stronger until there was no feeling of summer at all.The forest is full of trees, which was shocking at first, but after driving the vehicle for a period of time, I gradually got used to it, and the trees with a height of more than ten meters or even tens of meters were not new.

On the contrary, animals such as squirrels and birds that appear occasionally are very attractive.

After a while, Wendell pulled over and turned off the engine, and greeted, "Boy scouts, get out of the car!"

Open the door, and you are greeted by the fresh and fragrant fresh air of the forest trees, with a hint of coolness.

Wendell went to the back and handed the bag to several people. The bags in the hands of Loren and Hermione contained sleeping bags, blankets and other relatively light things, and Wendell and Monica were the main weight.

Monica's large backpack was stuffed to the brim, and it was put on her shoulders, and her body was pulled back by the weight.

Wendell was taken aback, and hurried to support her. He held on to the backpack without daring to let go: "Be careful, you don't have to put all of them in the backpack, you can just lock it in the car and put it here."

"Just not ready." Monica tried again, still too heavy.

In previous years, they were a family of three camping, and the things they brought were almost just right.This time I added food and water for one more person, and the tent was changed to a larger one, so there will be such a problem.

"I have a way!" Hermione pulled out the purple linen pocket, "Put it in here."

Monica and Wendell looked at the small cloth bag, thinking about the magic, and dubiously unloaded the backpack.

Loren took two steps forward and asked with a smile, "Did you expect this in advance?"

Although this is a forest, it is not a no-man's land. There is a risk of being discovered by using the floating spell. It is indeed very convenient to use space equipment in this environment.

"This pocket doesn't take up much space. I thought I might use it, so I carried it with me."

Hermione opened the pocket and stuck the pocket to the luggage. These things, which were much larger than the pocket, shrunk quickly when they touched the pocket, and then were sucked in.

Wendell and Monica watched drinking water, coal, canned food, and large bundles being packed into linen bags one by one, dumbfounded and speechless.

Wendell was not frightened, his eyes were brighter looking at the linen pocket, brighter than when he saw the Land Rover Defender.

After loading the last thing, Hermione clapped her hands and brushed her messy hair behind her ears: "Okay!"

"Hermione," Wendell looked at Hermione eagerly, rubbing his hands together, "Can this car fit in?"

Hermione didn't react for a while, and was stunned.She turned her head to look at Loren, then at her father, and said with a little hesitation: "It should be possible, I'm not sure, this is made by Loren."

"If you have enough space, you should be able to put it in." Loren was not sure, Hermione's pocket had plenty of space,
Wendell exclaimed happily: "Then—"

Before she finished speaking, she was interrupted by Monica. She slapped Wendell hard and complained, "Hermione is ignorant, so are you ignorant?"

Monica stepped forward and patted Hermione's head, "Take out the bag, we can't go camping empty-handed, in case we meet other people who can't explain clearly."

This is the business area of ​​the hotel, and they are definitely not the only ones coming in during the summer vacation. It may be difficult to meet them, but it is difficult to explain clearly when they meet them.

Hermione smiled sheepishly, "I didn't think of that."

She turned the backpack out again, but it was filled with tent cloth, blankets, sleeping bags and other things that took up space but were light in weight.The rest is still packed in a small space.

The four of them, each with a backpack, went into the forest with ease.The ground is covered with thick fallen leaves, which rustle when stepped on, very soft.

The two adults each held a child to prevent them from falling, Wendell held Loren, and Monica held Hermione.

Wendell shook his shoulders, never enjoying such a relaxing camping experience, and sighed: "Magic is convenience."

No one ignored him.

"This is a beech." Monica pointed to a tree with broad leaves.

So Hermione stared at the tree closely, noted the characteristics of its leaves and bark, nodded and repeated: "This is a beech."

A few minutes later, Wendell shook his shoulders again and sighed: "Magic is convenience."

Loren looked up, unsure whether to answer or not.

A few minutes later, Wendell sighed for the third time: "It's convenient, it's convenient."

Hermione couldn't help rolling her eyes, "Don't even think about it, using the Untraceable Stretching Curse without authorization violates the law, and using it for ordinary people is even more against the law."

If they are punished for several crimes, they can transfer directly to Azkaban at that time.

Wendell was not disappointed when he was exposed, "I just sighed."

A group of people talked and laughed, followed the road signs and maps that appeared occasionally, and they came to a flat place after a short walk, which was their camp.

Wendell and Monica started to set up the tent, while Loren and Hermione poured out the contents of the space packet and placed them on the ground, passing them from time to time.

Hermione didn't like the job of pitching a tent, and she wanted to take Loren around the forest.

While laying out the inner tent, Wendell patiently imparted his experience: "Tents should be set up on a hard and flat place, not river banks or dry riverbeds."

Hermione handed over a pole: "How can there be a river here?"

Wendell did not answer this question, he stretched out the skeleton poles of the tent: "Stay away from hillsides with rolling stones."

Hermione helped stabilize the pole: "How can there be rolling stones and hillsides here?"

"Leave the wind at the entrance of the tent."

"Where is the wind in the forest?"

Wendell endured it for a while, but couldn't hold back, raised his head and said, "If you don't want to set up a tent, you can go collect some dry firewood."

Although there are fallen leaves everywhere on the ground, the leaves are not resistant to burning, and the bonfires at night mainly rely on dry firewood.

"no problem!"

Hermione agreed immediately. She turned to look at Loren who was helping Monica, and greeted, "Loren, let's go collect dry wood!"

It wasn't the first time Hermione came to camp, she took Loren up and down and ran away.

"Don't run too far, pay attention to safety!" Wendell exhorted loudly.

Hermione waved her hand without looking back: "Got it, we are wizards!"

Monica looked up at their backs, and said with a smile: "Compared to a year ago, Hermione has really changed a lot."

Wendell nodded: "Yeah, and a lot of naughty."

Regarding sneaking into the study to read, and the lack of carbonated drinks in the refrigerator, the two of them had passed their breath last night.

The couple looked at each other and smiled, bowed their heads in tacit cooperation and continued to set up the tent.

Not only are there many fallen leaves in the forest, there are also dry branches and trunks everywhere. When Hermione and Loren found them, they threw them into the space bag, planning to go back and chop slowly.

Loren looked around and looked at the forest. There were forests on the high mountains, but there were no such tall and thick trees, and he had never been to such a deep place.

He thought of Hermione's Christmas letter, "Have you ever camped here over Christmas? It's so cold."

Hermione has been in high spirits since entering the forest, "It's not cold. We were in a camp not far from the hotel. Many people lit bonfires. If you feel cold at night, you can go back to the hotel directly."

"Huh?" Loren teased, "I think camping in winter is much easier."

Hermione didn't think so, "Going deep into the forest and enjoying the nature in summer camping would be nice too."

Loren kicked a branch off with his thick-soled boots, picked it up and threw it into the small space bag, "How much firewood do we need?"

Hermione looked into the small space bag, "Pack some more, we'll get all the dry firewood for the next few days."

As wizards, neither of them worried about safety issues, and walked in one direction all the way, occasionally leaving a mark on the tree trunk.There were the same trees everywhere in the forest, the same layer of leaf litter on the ground, and neither of them noticed how far they had traveled.

Hermione ran ahead and deftly crossed a small ridge covered with fallen leaves, and continued to look for dry wood.

Loren followed closely behind, and when he crossed the small hurdle, his eyes suddenly lit up with a slight crystal blue light.Loren looked around, but found no magic light. He used the method Dumbledore taught him to look at it with a deep heart, and there was nothing unusual. There were ordinary trees around.

He was puzzled for a moment, and he didn't care too much when he thought it was Sanwu Goldfinger who started it by himself, without the magic light.

"Slow down, wait for me." Loren caught up with Hermione in three steps and two steps, and continued to walk forward.

No one saw that the small dirt ridge that the two of them had just crossed was like a shadow, and disappeared after a few fluctuations. If someone stood at the small ridge and looked at both sides, they would be shocked to find that the scenes on both sides were exactly the same.

It's almost like a mirror!
A few minutes later, Loren and Hermione stood on the side of the road, lost in a daze.

Not long after they walked, they walked through a pine forest and came to the side of the road. Across the road was a hotel that was smaller than the hotel outside the forest. The hotel was lit up, and it looked like a chain enterprise.

"So as long as it is a camp area, there are such convenient hotels?" Loren murmured looking at the bright hotel lights, "The service is so thoughtful."

Hermione opened her mouth, but didn't have time to speak.

"Do the two little guests need help?" A voice came from the side.

The two looked at the side at the same time. It was the hotel manager in a suit and uniform who introduced the car to Wendell in the afternoon. He was looking at them with a gentle smile.

Loren's eyes were still slightly shining with crystal blue light, but it was not conspicuous during the day. In his eyes, everything except Hermione's eyes had no magical light.

"You remember us?" Loren asked.

The suit manager was very patient, "Of course, Mr. Granger is our regular customer."

Hermione found a suspicious point, "Aren't you in the hotel outside the forest? Why are you here now?"

The suit manager smiled and said, "I'm here to hand over the customer information. As for the customers in this camp, you can come here directly to get consumables."

He stretched out his left hand and turned sideways to invite, "Do you want to go in to replenish supplies, maybe there is still steaming food just out of the pan, camping can start tomorrow."

It's fine if he doesn't say anything. Loren and Hermione both felt a little hungry after saying this.

The two looked at each other, smiled at the same time, and reached a consensus: bring some food back.

(End of this chapter)