days at Hogwarts

Chapter 151

The sky is a deep blue, and the blue of the sea is lighter. Where the dark blue meets the light blue, there is a brilliant golden glow, getting brighter and brighter.

Until a round of golden sun washed away the blue sky, and the clouds were dyed into a colorful halo of orange.

The rays of the rising sun shone on the hull of the Willump Sylvia Explorer, gilding the ship too.The waves on the sea can scatter the light from all angles, so the sea surface also becomes shiny.

"It's so beautiful!" Hermione stretched out her hand, letting the sun fall on her palm, and her white palm also began to shine, "This is the most beautiful sunrise I've ever seen."

"Ah—" Loren opened his mouth wide and pointed at the rising sun
"What are you doing?" Hermione regretted as soon as she asked, and she shouldn't talk to him at this time.

Loren said solemnly: "I'm trying to see if sunlight can satisfy my hunger."

Hermione curled her lips, didn't she wake him up too early, the breakfast on the boat hasn't started serving yet... He obviously ate so much last night.

"Look at that cloud, does it look like a piece of bread? The red glow is ketchup." Loren was excited, and kept talking about his associations, "Although bread with ketchup is not a common combination, it can try..."

"Ah!" Hermione wanted to hit someone, "After hearing what you said, the sunrise is not so beautiful."

"There are still 7 days left on the journey, and you can see it every day." Loren stood up straight, retracted his hands propped on the railing, and rubbed his forearms, "Remind me to wear an extra coat next time, the morning at sea is a bit cold."

"No next time! I won't call you next time!" Hermione said angrily.

"I'll call you next time." Loren took Hermione's arm, "Let's go, the restaurant is ready to eat."

Hermione was reluctantly drawn into the dining room.

Finding a seat by the window with a view of the sea, Loren flipped through the travel brochure issued when he boarded the boat, which listed the dishes provided for breakfast.

Hermione on the opposite side didn't care about the dishes, she just followed Loren to pick up the food anyway, he was good at these.Hermione poked her head with her hands, looked at Loren, and then at the environment in the restaurant, very leisurely.

Although the meal has just started, there are many people in the restaurant. Like them, many people return to the cabin restaurant from the deck to have breakfast after watching the sunrise.

Last night, Wendell made a fuss about eating the fish he caught.Fortunately, there is a lot of nightlife on board, the restaurant closes very late, and the kitchen staff are happy to help customers with the fish.

But the waiting time was too long, Loren and Hermione went back to the room to sleep first, and did not taste Wendell's spoils.

The three adults didn't know how late they ate fish. Anyway, when Hermione was in a drowsy sleep, she heard her mother complain, "You should really throw away your fishing rod."

"Grilled squid, there is grilled squid for breakfast!"

Hermione looked up, looked at Loren and shook her head in admiration.

"Baked potatoes! Huh~" Loren showed a disgusted expression.

"This panna cotta looks good." Loren nodded at the picture in the brochure.

Hermione thought this Loren was very interesting, and the people who picked the food were more interesting than the food.

Snapped!
Loren closed the manual, patted it on the table, and stood up: "Let's go, let's pick up the meal."

"Okay." Hermione nodded obediently and followed behind him.

Grilled squid, panna cotta, yogurt...all the food Loren just talked about was taken.

According to his category, Hermione reduced the portion by about half and put it on her dinner plate.

Looking at the cream cake on the counter, Hermione hesitated: "Cake for breakfast?"

"no problem."

"..."

This summer vacation, although Hermione's appetite had increased significantly, the dessert for breakfast was a cream cake, which she still couldn't bear.

Hermione was full soon, and then sat on the seat and watched Loren eat, which made her feel better and helped her digestion.

The lightened but brighter sunlight came in from the window and fell on the table and the food, making them look more inviting. Hermione couldn't hold back, and scooped up a spoonful of the panna cotta on Loren's dinner plate , put it in your mouth and sip slowly:
"I saw that there is a room service. Do you want to order two breakfasts to be delivered to the guest room? They haven't had breakfast yet."

"No, the restaurant is open all day, so they can come over for breakfast when they get up."

……

"Do you think we can see Azkaban today?" Hermione stuck her chin, leaning on the railing of the deck, her eyes patrolling the invisible sea.

"If you really want to take a look at Azkaban," Loren paused, "I have a way."

Hermione turned her head to look at him curiously.

"You voluntarily violated the secrecy law, and you will be imprisoned in Azkaban soon." Loren moved his feet while speaking, leaning to the side, and sure enough, he avoided a wave of his hand.

Hermione was amused, and didn't care if she slapped her empty hand: "You are in prison, I will visit the prison, and I can also see Azkaban."

While the two were laughing, not far from them, the sea water suddenly surged, and a pure white figure appeared.

The little guy's head and forehead protruded round, like a birthday bag, with a short snout and no dorsal fin. The whole body was pure and smooth snow white, and half of its body floated on the water.Obsidian-like smart eyes, although swarthy, but combined with the "·ω·" smile on his face, it looks innocent and happy, and a little naive.

The little guy was looking at them curiously.

"Dolphin!" Loren pointed at the little guy and turned to Hermione and called.He was very excited to find such a strange creature in the sea.

Hermione saw the little guy slapping the water with his tail from time to time at a glance, "I've said it many times, it's the white whale!"

The little white whale seemed to hear Hermione's voice. It opened its mouth and called out with the same tune: "Bee!"

"It's learning how to speak from me!" Hermione tugged at Loren's clothes, unable to restrain her excitement.

"Yi Yi Yi Yi Yi!"

Just when Hermione wanted to talk to the white whale, the little guy arched his back, turned over and flicked his tail, splashed a burst of water, dived into the water, and disappeared.

At the same time, on the side of the cruise ship, a huge figure leaped high, flipped into the water, and splashed huge waves.

It has a streamlined body, black back and fins, white belly, and a slender white stripe at the eyes. It has a sail-like dorsal fin and a halberd-like tail fin.

"whale!"

"What a handsome killer whale!"

It was so conspicuous that many tourists on board noticed it, and the crowd exclaimed one after another.

Hermione also stayed where she was.

A flash of inspiration flashed into his mind, Loren looked at the figure of the killer whale, his eyes became brighter and brighter: "I seem to have grasped that critical point."

After the killer whale appeared once, it disappeared, and the little white whale also disappeared. The water surface returned to calm, only the uninterrupted waves surged from time to time.

There were many more people on deck, and they wanted to see the killer whales again.Though hope is slim, their fast-beating hearts keep them here.

Loren's heart was also beating very fast. He put one hand in his arms and held the wand. The speed of his heart beating made him feel that he couldn't keep up with his breathing. He took a big gulp of oxygen and then spit it out.

He took Hermione by the other hand, trying to resist the urge to summon the Patronus by staying here.

"I, I feel it, my patron saint is the killer whale." Loren's words were full of excitement and excitement.

Hermione held Loren's hand with one hand, and stroked the back of his hand with the other hand, in the same way as when stroking Hanhan's feathers.

"Don't be impulsive, if your feeling is right, then everyone on the ship will see a silver-white killer whale." Hermione paused, "At that time, I will really go to Azkaban to visit you .”

"Don't worry, when we arrive at our destination, or when we go home, you can use the Patronus Charm however you want."

The sea breeze blew Hermione's curly long hair slightly, and her voice was soft and soft, like the wind.

Loren was also able to distinguish the priorities, but he was too excited for a while and lost his composure, but he soon recovered, and his tense body slowly relaxed.

"This is a wonderful coincidence. One of our patron saints is a dolphin and the other is a whale. After I came back from the aquarium, I checked the information on dolphins," Hermione said reassuring words in a calm tone, " Dolphins chase the whales and guide them through the reefs, they are friends in the ocean..."

Having said that, Hermione frowned and became puzzled: "It shouldn't be."

"What shouldn't?" Loren asked.

Hermione turned around and looked towards the sea: "The sea here is not the range of activities of killer whales and beluga whales, they shouldn't be here."

"Could it be that the migration route has changed? Environmental pollution, climate change, magnetic field, etc. will all affect the migration route of animals." Loren has read some news and thinks this is also a kind of natural change.

"Maybe so..." Hermione said hesitantly.

Together they looked at the calm sea, hoping, like everyone else, to see a whale leap out of the water again.

The sparkling water, the smooth sea breeze, the air with water vapor and the warm sunshine create a peaceful scene.The cruise ship continued on its course without further incident.

It was calm until nightfall.

Loren and Hermione spent a whole day on the deck, their tears were dried by the sea breeze, but they didn't find any trace of Azkaban.

Hermione hasn't given up yet.Azkaban is in the North Sea, and there is no specific location marked. As long as the cruise ship is in the North Sea, it is possible to find it.

Loren chose to give up, he was tired of seeing the same sea surface.

On the side of the boat, on the horizontal board where the boat was parked, Wendell set up the fishing rod on time, skillfully, and has become a fishing master.

Perhaps because he was too old, Bates didn't fall in love with this middle-aged man's sport after trying something new. Compared with fishing, he preferred to watch performances in the cabin.

Because of his dry eyes, Loren couldn't lift the swing vigorously, and he didn't want to squint his eyes in the night, struggling to observe the inconspicuous floats on the sea.

"You have already learned how to fish, and the next thing you need to learn is the air force, but you don't have to worry about it being difficult, it will come naturally." Standing next to Wendell, Loren said in the tone of someone who has experienced it.

Wendell didn't understand the meaning of the air force, and how vicious this sentence was.

The sound of a capelin breaking through the water broke Loren's expectations. He shook his head in disappointment and staggered away.

"Loren!" Hermione exclaimed, "What do you think that is?"

Under the moonlight, a floating shadow could be vaguely seen, too far away, smaller than Wendell's float.

Thanks to Loren's strange eyes, he has enough eyesight to look far away and can see some things clearly.

It was a figure wearing a black tattered cloak, the whole body was hidden under the cloak, only two hands were exposed, gray and white, seemed to be covered with mucus and spots, like something that rotted in the water after death, In the moonlight, the gloomy glints.

"Dementors," Loren murmured.

"Dementors!" repeated Hermione, her face suddenly sour.

The two may know why the whales deviated from their migration routes, because something happened in Azkaban.

It's not clear what happened, but the magic must have affected the animals, throwing them off course.

"Fortunately, we all have mastered the Patronus Charm, so we don't have to worry about the dementors." Loren said with a sigh of relief.

Hermione's complexion didn't improve because of this, she grabbed Loren's hand, pinched her knuckles white, she looked into his eyes and said word by word: "It's night now, everyone on the ship will see us Use the Patronus Charm."

Hermione didn't finish the rest of the sentence, but Loren had already grasped what she meant.

In an emergency, violating the secrecy law is a trivial matter, but if it is found that they have erased traces, the Ministry of Magic may investigate to the end, and things will be troublesome.

"Boom! Boom!" Loren's heart beat faster and faster.

He can safely hold the Sorcerer's Stone now. It was Dumbledore and Nico's news that the Sorcerer's Stone had been destroyed, and perhaps the recent news of Nicol's death. These two things covered up the Sorcerer's Stone.

He didn't have the connections and reputation that Nico had built up over the centuries, nor did he have the prestige of Dumbledore.If it is found that the Philosopher's Stone is in his hand, dark wizards all over the world will follow him.

As a result, he and the people around him will be put in a dangerous situation. For the rest of his life, he must guard against possible infringement at any time, and the consequences will be disastrous.

But he knew that Principal Dumbledore would definitely not let such a thing happen. In order to cover up the Philosopher's Stone, Dumbledore would take the initiative to take the responsibility of removing traces.

For a chief wizard of the Wizengamot who is proficient in alchemy, this is not a problem, and this matter will not cause actual loss to Dumbledore.

But Principal McGonagall's plan is about to fail, and the school board can seize this matter as an excuse to dismiss Hogwarts' independent jurisdiction.

The Dementia Curse is only a small problem, and the bigger crisis lies in the Philosopher's Stone.Loren couldn't make Hogwarts pay for his actions.

"The passengers on the ship are delicious food for the dementors, we must find a way to solve it." Hermione analyzed the situation in front of her, speaking fast, with an anxious expression on her face.

"We can fake a wizard who left after expelling the dementors!" Hermione caught the aura, "Yes! He used the Patronus Charm in front of ordinary people, which violated the secrecy law. In order to avoid guilt, he Leave now!"

Loren shook his head: "No, the Aurors will check our wands, and the flashback spell will see us casting spells frequently throughout the holiday."

(End of this chapter)