Hogwarts Crawler

"It's okay, Harry, no one will notice you."

As they spoke, Hermione, Ron, and Harry each came over with a glass of butter beer and sat down not far from them.

"Even if they noticed, who would know that your parents didn't sign for you and that you sneaked out with an invisibility cloak?"

Adam: "..."

He looked around, and the expressions of the other four people at the same table were also very subtle.

"Can't they... see us?"

Cologne lowered his voice and asked this question with doubt.

Adam glanced at the holly potted plant between them and Harry's table. It didn't look like it could block them. If he couldn't recognize people, could he not recognize their school uniforms?

Or...

Adam glanced at the Badger House logo on his chest.

Is their sense of presence so low?

"Ah~ Thank you for having a drink with me."

Harry sighed suddenly,

"Professor Trelawney's prediction really put me under a lot of pressure before..."

"Are you still thinking about that prediction?"

Hermione's voice suddenly rose an octave,

"I told you, she's just a liar--"

"Oh! Come on, Harry, don't listen to her, she doesn't care what others think."

Ron interrupted Hermione rudely.

"..."

The people at the next table were chatting so enthusiastically and so arrogantly that Adam didn't know whether he should continue chatting for a while, and at the same time he couldn't help but become a little curious about what they were talking about.

After all, gossip is human nature...

Comforting himself in this way, Adam drank a sip of butter beer and pricked up his ears with peace of mind.

"Actually, before school started..."

Harry hesitated for a moment and told her about how he had blown up his aunt and left the Dursleys.

"What?!"

Hermione exclaimed, and then asked Harry in a low voice - but Adam and the others could still hear it clearly:

"The Ministry of Magic didn't arrest you and put you in Azkaban?"

"You didn't tell us this!"

Ron slammed the table excitedly, without lowering his voice - Adam suspected that the wall could hear his voice:

"Then where did you live before school started? Why didn't you come to see us?"

"Um... I lived in the Leaky Cauldron, but that's not the point."

Harry skipped the topic a little stiffly:

"The point is that when I just left the Dursleys, I really saw a big black dog at that intersection!"

"...So?"

Hermione was a little confused.

"There are so many black dogs in London! If Professor Trelawney said that your bad omen is a trash can, a street lamp or something else..."

"No, I looked at the black dog at that time. The look in the dog's eyes...I can't explain it clearly, but I felt like I was looking at a person!"

The table next to me fell silent, as if they were shocked by Harry's story.

"Have you finished drinking? Let's go somewhere else?"

Eugene finished his butter beer and put the cup on the table with a "bang". The three people at the next table were visibly startled, especially Harry, who subconsciously reached behind him and almost jumped up from his seat.

Adam glanced at the back of his chair, and it seemed that a piece of wood was missing...He remembered that Harry seemed to put something down before he sat down. Was it the invisible cloak?

"How did you eavesdrop on us?"

Ron's face flushed with anger.

"I remember you, you are Fred and George's brother... your name is Ron, right?"

Uther choked back without any courtesy:

"We have been sitting here for a long time, and you ignored our existence all the way. Who is interested in your little secret?"

"You-"

"Okay, Ron, Adam and the others were indeed there before, but we didn't see them."

Harry pulled Ron's sleeve.

If someone came in, they couldn't have missed it, so Adam and the others must have been sitting there before. In the situation where he was already in the wrong, coupled with the guilt that continued from last year to now, Harry didn't want to conflict with Adam.

"...Okay."

Ron looked at Harry and Hermione, then at the five people opposite him, and thought about it and sat back in his seat.

Lowering his head, his eyes glanced in the direction of Adam, Harry was entangled.

Last semester, Adam was in trouble because of him, and he had been wanting to apologize to him, but...

Things like apologizing seem simple when you think about it, but when you really want to do it, it's extremely difficult to say sorry..

Even if you tossed and turned until midnight the night before and firmly believed that you must apologize the next day, it would become "Apologize after dinner", "Apologize after class", "Apologize after class", "Apologize at night"... and finally lie on the bed and become "I must apologize tomorrow".

Unaware of Harry's inner worries, Adam had long forgotten what happened last year.

It was Adam's own intention not to attract attention because of the secret chamber incident. Harry probably just wanted Adam to get extra points and praise like he did in his first year. Even if he wanted to blame someone, he should blame Dobby.

"You can't take this cup away. You should sit for a while and wait until we finish drinking."

Adam glanced at Eugene. He didn't know if he had listened to him just now, but he was really drinking butter beer...

He turned a plate of fried peanuts, a plate of buttered melon seeds and a basket of popcorn on the table for Eugene and everyone to drink and relieve boredom. Adam picked up the butter beer and took another sip.

I didn't taste it too carefully before, but now I taste it carefully. The butter beer is indeed delicious. The mellow and dense taste neutralizes the light bitterness of the beer well, making the aroma of malt more intense.

It's a pity that he still prefers happy water and milk tea.

Despite this, Adam still didn't turn the butter beer in the cup into something else. Instead, he enjoyed this cup of drink that was a bit novel to him, and then took a popcorn from the basket and threw it into his mouth.

When the five people finished the butter beer, Adam took out his wand and waved it symbolically to clear the debris on the table, and then picked up the empty glass to leave.

Hermione's eyes flickered slightly. I didn't expect Adam's learning progress to the point where he could silently cast the vanishing spell...

"Wait a minute, Adam!"

Harry gritted his teeth and chased after him.

"Hmm?"

Seeing the five people in front of him turn their heads together, Harry almost bit his tongue, and at the same time couldn't help but regret chasing after them... This thought was extinguished by Harry as soon as it arose. He had already delayed it to the second school year. If he delayed it any further, would he have to wait until graduation to apologize?

"Well, that... can I talk to Adam alone?"

Although he had made up his mind to force himself to apologize, Harry was obviously not ready to apologize in front of so many people.

Adam didn't know why Harry was looking for him, but he didn't have to worry that Harry's strength was going to harm him, so he handed the empty cup in his hand to Cologne, who was closest to him:

"Please return it to Ms. Rosmerta for me, I'll have a word with Harry..."

Cologne took the glass, glanced at Harry, and nodded to Adam:

"Then we'll wait for you at Honeydukes Candy Store."

I heard that Honeydukes Candy Store has launched several new products to attract customers, and they had discussed before that they planned to "spy on the enemy."

After Cologne and the others left, Adam looked at Harry:

"So, what do you want to talk to me alone about?"