Hogwarts: Bourne Returns from Warhammer

Chapter 57 The crisis that exploded in advance

Bourne spent the afternoon reading.

As an assistant librarian, he got some preferential treatment. Mrs. Pince allowed him to borrow ten books at a time.

As long as it's not a magic book in the forbidden area.

It was raining heavily outside, so a fire was lit in the fireplace in the Gryffindor common room to remove the humidity.

All the other roommates in his dormitory were not there.

Because it rained today, the Slytherin Quidditch team, which had already received approval from Dean Snape, actually gave up the opportunity to occupy the field for training.

Therefore, Gryffindor's virtuous Captain Wood simply waved his hand and took all the team members to the Quidditch field for training in the rain.

Unlike the pampered little snake, the main focus of the Gryffindor team is one: train when there are difficulties, train when there are no difficulties and create difficulties.

Since Harry also had to train secretly today, Ron and the others followed him there early in the morning to cheer him up.

For this reason, they did not even return to the castle for lunch, but relied on the bread and baked potatoes they got from the Great Hall in the morning.

Even if the other Gryffindor little lions did not go to the Quidditch pitch, they would go to the school auditorium in groups to watch the excitement, or go to play with friends they knew well from other houses.

Those still in the common room today are almost all senior students who have to deal with the OWLs and NEWT exams this year.

Throughout the first grade, only Bourne, who loved learning, and Hermione, who also regarded reading as a pleasure, stayed in the common room.

By the way, they were the only two first-year wizards who had finished their homework due next week before Saturday.

Bourne has a habit of reading books: he likes to read the whole book quickly and roughly, write down the general content of the whole book, and then go back and read the parts that he has doubts about and that he feels are very important.

Therefore, during rough reading, he turned the pages of the book very quickly.

shhhhhh...

Even if he had tried his best to pay attention, because the books collected in the Hogwarts library were printed on high-quality paper, Bourne would still make some noise when turning the pages.

For most people, this sound is nothing, but Hermione is an exception: this little witch is the kind of person who, even if she has the ability to get perfect scores during exams, will still feel her heartbeat once she realizes that there is someone around her who answers questions faster than herself. The type of person who speeds up and sweats on his head.

When Hermione noticed that it only took Bourne almost half an hour to flip through a large book, she finally couldn't stand it any longer.

Sitting on the velvet sofa in the lounge, Hermione would peek at Bourne from time to time to compare his reading speed with her own.

As a result, the more they compared her, the more anxious she became. Not only were her legs hanging from the sofa (but unable to reach the ground) shaking faster and faster, but even her palms gradually became moist.

So, Hermione moved her sweaty palms away from the book page and touched the side to find something to rub against.

She touched a furry thing, but the furry thing may have to be put in quotation marks, because Hermione obviously felt that the thing was a bit numb and not particularly round.

"what--!"

Turning her head to see what the thing was, the little witch immediately let out a scream, and then subconsciously threw it far away.

Hermione jumped off the sofa angrily, took out her wand and used the "Clear Water Like a Spring" and "Clean Up" spells to repeatedly clean the palms of her hands that had just touched the mouse, as well as the water stains that fell on the ground.

She felt unclean.

She didn't think there was anything wrong with keeping a mouse as a pet, but Ron's Scabbers always gave her a dirty feeling. She felt awkward every time she saw it, not to mention touching it with her own hands just now. Its dirty rat skin.

This shout, like thunder on the ground, reignited the already quiet Gryffindor lounge.

It is almost the nature of all little lions to like to join in the fun. After hearing Hermione's scream, the senior students who wanted to relax after studying for a long time couldn't help but stand up from their seats and walked over to ask the first-year little witch if she needed anything. help.

In a crowded environment, everyone is still talking and chatting. This kind of atmosphere is really not suitable for reading and studying.

So Bourne simply closed the book, stood up from the soft chair near the fireplace, stretched out his arms and stretched.

By the way, he also picked up some rock biscuits and jelly beans from the plate beside him and put them into his mouth to replenish the nutrients consumed by his brain.

"What's wrong Hermione?" He also walked towards the crowd surrounding the little witch and joined in the fun.

"Sorry, sorry for disturbing everyone's study." At this time, Hermione, who noticed something wrong with her, was apologizing to the classmates she had disturbed.

"It doesn't matter, I was just doing my homework for the fifth-grade Defense Against the Dark Arts class. Professor Quirrell was teaching how to resist vampires that day, but he only taught half of the class on how to braid hair and put garlic in it to ward off evil spirits. Then I left a 7-inch-long paper, and I almost fell asleep while writing it. Thanks to you for shouting and waking me up, otherwise I would have almost eaten garlic in my dream."

"Haha, me too, me too..."

The senior Gryffindor students were generally more tolerant towards the younger students, and they all offered words of comfort to Hermione, the little witch. As for Ron's rat Scabbers, Hermione didn't elaborate, and no one else asked at all.

"By the way, I heard that a movie will be played in the auditorium tonight." After comforting Hermione for a while, a senior witch suddenly directed everyone's attention to another topic.

Magic movies were first invented in North America. For wizards living in the British Isles (even though it is already 1991), it is actually a relatively new thing.

As the base camp of "conservatism" and "empiricism", wizards in Britain were also influenced by these two ideas and showed little interest in magic movies at the beginning.

Many wizards believe that since there are already two kinds of magic portraits and moving pictures, the wizarding world does not need movies.

Of course, some people have objections, and some people think that "Magic Movie" is like the "Wizard Radio" before it - although it was not favored by people at the beginning, it did lead some people to success in life. .

For example, the famous wizard singer Celestina Warbeck, who sang "You Stood My Heart with Magic" and "A Pot of Fiery Love". Another example is Glenda Stock, the wizard anchor who has hosted the "Magic Hour" program for decades.

It is worth mentioning that the two celebrities in the British wizarding world mentioned above all graduated from Gryffindor.

Therefore, in Gryffindor, there are actually quite a lot of young wizards who are interested in this new thing called magic movies.

While chatting, the little lions all became interested in the movie that was to be shown in the banquet hall tonight. Seeing that it was time for dinner, the little wizards left the common room together. Most of them decided to watch the magic movie tonight.

Only Bourne was not very interested in the matter. He planned to stay and write a letter to Grandpa Horace this evening. However, before that, he was still going to the banquet hall for dinner. Although the visit of the Ministry of Magic team ruined the Transfiguration Club's activities in the morning, it was also because of them that Bourne estimated that the house elves in the Hogwarts kitchen would prepare a more sumptuous meal today than usual.

At this moment, a series of "tuk-tuk-tuk" sounds suddenly sounded outside the window of the Gryffindor lounge.

You know, the Gryffindor common room is on a tower in the castle, at least eight or nine stories above the ground.

"Ok?"

Bourne couldn't help but walked over in confusion, and when he carefully pushed open the solid wood window with his wand, what appeared in front of him was a flapping little pony - the one he had seen today, One of the two Thestral cubs was the one knocking on the window just now.

Bourne grabbed the Thestral cub's front hooves and pulled it into the common room through the circular window. But the cub didn't seem to be very willing to stay in the warm and dry lounge. Instead, it held Bourne's sleeve in its mouth and kept trying to pull him toward the window.

Looking at the direction in which the Thestral cub was pulling him away, Bourne immediately understood: "You want me and you to go back to the Forbidden Forest?"

When the little Yeqi heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and then nodded quickly.

……

"The freshmen are all monsters!"

When he saw Bourne, the little wizard, get out of the window, use both hands to climb the stone wall outside the castle, reach the ground quickly like a spider, and then spread his legs and run towards the Forbidden Forest.

Hidden above a fireplace was a lion's head sculpture with Scabbers - oh, no, Peter Pettigrew - emerging from the mouth.

His round mouse eyes widened, and his mouse face showed an extremely anthropomorphic expression of surprise.

Peter has been having a bad few days.

After hanging out with Ron, I would starve for nine meals in three days.

Today, he was left in the Gryffindor common room by his little master Ron again, and he was still hungry.

Therefore, this guy was just surprised for a moment, and then immediately shook his head. His sensitive nose kept twitching, and at the same time he began to wander around the deserted lounge, looking for the snacks left by the little wizards.

Not to mention, his hard work paid off, and he actually found some "Bibi's Multi-flavored Beans" that had been individually checked out and put aside.

Because this kind of beans has a variety of flavors, when the little wizard encounters weird-colored beans when eating them, he usually puts them aside.

Of course, for a hungry and dizzy rat, those "Bibi's Multi-Flavour Beans", which mostly have strange tastes, can be a life-saving "elixir".

After tearfully eating more than a dozen "Bibi Multi-Flavour Beans" including but not limited to coriander, booger, bitter melon, and celery flavors, Peter finally "discovered his conscience." He felt that he had to do something before he was poisoned to death. Eat something serious.

After a lot of searching (he actually turned over the carpet in the common room), luckily Peter finally found a plate of food, but what made him frown was that the food left on the plate belonged to a man named Uncle Well, the little wizard ate the leftovers.

Although there is a saying that "the memory of a mouse--it forgets when it drops its claws", but the pain of a broken tooth happened last night...

"NO! NO! Peter, wake up!" He slapped his face with his two little paws, trying to prevent himself from being blinded by the leftovers on the plate.

However, even if his eyes were not fascinated, his nose betrayed him: the contents of the plate he smelled did not have the faint metallic smell from the "noodle bricks" he ate yesterday, and the shape was also different. Big difference.

"Yes! Yes!" Peter cheered himself up in his mind, and at the same time kept an eye out, "There are two kinds of food on the plate, one is made of flour, and the other is probably nougat. I won't eat it. The former one, just eat nougat - this won’t hurt your teeth anymore, right?”

Moreover, before putting his mouth down, he stretched out his tongue and carefully licked the "nougat". Well, yes, it has a rich milk flavor!
Then Peter opened his mouth again and tried to bite. Well, that’s right. This candy doesn’t scratch your teeth!
Finally, he opened his mouth wide, took a mouthful of "nougat" and started chewing it.

Well, well, well?
But as Peter chewed it, he noticed something was wrong. Why did this nougat feel sticky to his mouth the more he chewed it?
He tried to swallow the piece of candy, but just halfway through, Peter felt as if someone had stuffed a lot of glue down his throat.

This guy may have noticed that the plate of food was leftover by Bourne, but he certainly didn't think about a problem: there was only a small piece of rock biscuit left on the plate, and the one Hagrid gave to Bourne later Why is there more than half of the fudge left?

And just when Peter, who had previously "Yes" but was now about to "choke to death", wanted to take the risk of releasing his Animagus transformation so that he could swallow the fatal piece of fudge, he suddenly felt... There was a burning pain in his claws.

Gulu…

As a blessing in disguise, Peter swallowed the piece of fudge that nearly choked him as he convulsed with pain.

"Finally...alive..."

Peter, who was having a hard time, was lying on the table, sucking in the air. But before his mind could fully wake up, the burning sensation burst out from his front paws again, like ten thousand ants crawling everywhere under his skin. It made him want to kill himself.

"Fu...fu...the master is back!"

Like a thunderbolt, Peter Pettigrew woke up suddenly, so frightened that he turned over from the table and fell to the ground. There was a "pop", because his head hit the table leg during the fall, so this person unexpectedly fell unconscious.

Of course, the word "unlucky" may not be that accurate when used here.

At this time, in Hogwarts Castle, several guys who had the same experience as him were actually even worse than him. And the reason why they are miserable is that they have no way to faint now.

(End of this chapter)