Harry Potter and the Burnt Badger

After receiving the answer, Sirius' eyes immediately returned to Harry.At this moment, Harry also vaguely realized that something might really be unusual, so he nodded quickly, with a firm look in his eyes after being entrusted with an important task. "I know, if I notice anything, I will definitely hurry up." Find a way to inform Munn."

The three of them exchanged glances with each other, and when they saw another little wizard walking over accompanied by his family, they stopped talking and walked towards the entrance of the platform together.

Dobby, who had been watching not far away, just watched Harry Potter miss him again and easily walked into Platform 9 3/4, his expression immediately becoming aggrieved.

But what can it do?There was an adult wizard present, and it was the famous Sirius Black. Even if it did temporarily seal the platform with magic, it would soon be easily unlocked.

In desperation, it had no choice but to temporarily give up the idea of ​​preventing Harry Potter from going to Hogwarts, and instead returned to Malfoy Manor to think of the next solution.

No matter what, it must not sit back and let danger befall Harry Potter - never!

Harry, who had already entered Platform 9 3/4, obviously didn't know that Dobby, the house elf who had forced him to use the toilet without a door, was still desperately trying to save him. .If he knew about this, it would probably be difficult for him to have the motivation to continue eating and laughing with his friends.

After getting on the train, Moon greeted everyone as usual. At the same time, he couldn't help but sigh that there were no more familiar faces on the train.

Maybe one day, there will be another person standing in his position at the moment, lamenting the same thing as him - and he himself will become the one who is lamented.

Suddenly, a big toad [Note 1] jumped in front of his eyes, which woke Munn up from his distraction. He was startled, and then he recognized that the toad was Neville's Leif.It seems that this restless little guy is planning to leave home again.

He hurriedly pulled out his wand, pulled Leifu, who had not yet landed, back into his hand and held it in the air, and then gave himself an animal chat, and then he immediately heard Leife's restless whisper, "Run... run... …run……"

Moon glanced around, but did not find Neville's figure. He simply hid in the gap next to him and asked in a low voice: "Are you going to run? Where are you going to run?"

There was clear confusion in Leif's eyes. It seemed to realize that Munn was not of its kind, but it did not figure out why this person could talk to itself, "Run... bugs... bugs... water..."

"..." Moon looked at Leif speechlessly, and was about to ask a few more questions when he saw Neville, who looked a little pale and had obvious urgency in his eyes, hurriedly ran this way, and from time to time he would Ask the people passing by if they have seen him.

"Neville! Here!" Moon didn't care to ask any more questions, and quickly waved to Neville sideways, and gestured to the toad in his hand.

Neville's chubby face immediately showed joy. He quickly moved around in the crowd, knocking almost everyone he could bump into, before finally reaching Munn's side.

"Leifu!!" After seeing his toad again, Neville quickly took Leifu from Moon's hand, and then thanked Munn repeatedly, "Thank you so much! Moon! Leifu!" I got in the car and ran away. I've been looking for it for a long time. If Leif gets lost, grandma will definitely send me a howling letter."

At the mention of his grandmother, Neville suddenly became a little shuddered again, and even actually shuddered.

"Don't worry, Neville." Moon said with a smile: "Isn't this recovered? But did you forget to feed Leif? Also, it seems to be very dry, maybe give it some water. Make it more comfortable.”

Neville nodded hurriedly, but then blinked in confusion, "Moon, do you know toads well?"

"I don't know much about it, but I know a little bit about it." Moon said as he took out a copper nut from his pocket and waved his wand to turn the coin into a small round container. Filled with a thin layer of water, "Here, let Leif stay in it, remember to go back and feed it."

Neville curiously brought Leif to the container. Sure enough, Leif immediately slid in and lay down quietly inside, no longer running around restlessly.Moon even heard Leif muttering "Good...good...good..."

Look at what Leif looks like. If this toad can live for a few more decades, maybe it will like to be paralyzed in the water in the future.

"Wow~" Neville opened his mouth slightly in surprise. After staring at Leif for a while, he realized that this was his toad. He quickly took Leif back with a blushing face. "Thank you, Moon.”

"You're welcome, go back quickly, the train is about to leave." Moon patted Neville on the shoulder, and then knocked his suitcase with his heel - Debbie's cage was on it, and the little guy was not They kept shouting, "Why do you have meat? Do you want to eat dried meat? Moon? Moon? Moon?"

After watching Neville leave, Moon picked up his luggage again and picked up the owl cage in his right hand.

"I'll give it to you when I get into the cubicle later."

"Moon! Moon! Great! Rat meat~rat meat~rat meat~After eating, I want to go out and fly for a while~"

In fact, since he learned to talk to animals, Moon truly felt that he had not named Debbie wrong at all.

Because it's really stupid.

In Debbie's entire eagle life, there seemed to be only five things in total - eat, sleep, fly, work, and moon.Except for these five things, it seems to be indifferent to all other things and has no ideas.

So much so that Moon would sometimes feel a sudden sense of guilt, especially when asking Debbie to deliver the letter. He always felt as if he was an unscrupulous capitalist, playing the part of an evil force here every day, focusing on exploitation. An owl with a ridiculously small brain.

You know, let alone compared with Hedwig, even the other owls at home have a lot to think about every day. Uncle Golov's fat eagle even occasionally muttered about losing weight.

Of course, the fat eagle just muttered.

In fact, Moon was surprised by these things at first. After all, these owls seemed to be a little too smart.

It wasn't until he found a wild owl on the mountain next to his manor that he finally discovered that, in fact, normal owls were basically like Leif, unable to understand complex words, and their expressions were also a bit strange.For example, they can distinguish different people, but they cannot call them by name, and they can understand very few concepts.

But if you think about it carefully, these owls used to deliver letters can even work across counties and find places and people they have never been to...

If he didn't have enough brains, he would probably have run away long ago.

When Munn finally found the compartment where Cedric and the others were, Gal and Yarlin were blowing bubbles in the Bubble Super Bubblegum Competition - it seemed that Yarlin was about to lose because of his bubble Not half as big as Gal's bubble.

Cedric looked at the two of them with envy, his mouth still chewing. There was no doubt that he had also participated, and he had probably lost before Munn came in.

"Hey, Munn, we've been waiting for you for a while." As soon as he saw Munn coming in, Cedric immediately became interested. While making room for Munn, he raised his hand and handed over a piece of bubble gum. "Quick, It’s just you.”

"Tsk, what's the comparison with this thing? It's too childish..." Moon sighed, took the candy in an upright manner, unscrewed the wrapping paper and threw it into his mouth, and then said vaguely. : "Don't worry, you all have to be defeated."

30 seconds later, Moon fed Debbie as if nothing had happened, and Cedric was laughing so hard that he almost collapsed on the stall seat.

Yaerlin, who was still sighing about his "failure", was no longer disappointed, and happily laughed at Munn. He didn't finally give up until Munn was so embarrassed that he became angry.

Gal chose to challenge the limit and wanted to see how big he could blow this thing. Unfortunately, the next moment, a scream came from the train aisle, which startled Gal. He tilted his head and bubbled. Pao hit the door handle of the box door and broke it completely.

"My bubble!" Gal's eyes widened, and he was so angry that he jumped up and opened the door of the carriage - and the next moment, he was stunned.

A huge aquiline nose, greasy hair that looked like it had not been washed for several months, and that signature indifferent gaze.

The culprit who caused the screams and caused Gal's bubble to pop was none other than Severus Snape.

Chapter 12 Two memories

How to make a quiet and well-behaved girl suddenly scream on the Hogwarts Express?

The answer is simple, there is no need for dementors, no need for Voldemort, and no need for any terrifying snakes, insects, rats, and ants. As long as Severus Snape suddenly appears in the corridor and stands in front of this girl, she will You're guaranteed to scream immediately.

Even if poor Professor Snape did nothing at all.

Of course, Snape was already familiar with this kind of thing. It was as if he was standing silently at the door of the compartment where the four young wizards, including Moon, Gar Fuller and Arlin Sutton, were standing. Still looking horrified?

And to be honest, Snape was more than happy with it.

He has always disliked scenes of "master-disciple harmony". Even after Moon reminded him that his past actions in class were absolutely wrong and constituted campus bullying, the most he could do was to ensure that he would try not to curse anyone - even This is actually because he realized that those things back then did indeed cause a lot of unnecessary harm.

As for being kind to these little wizards...

It would be more reliable to have him assassinate Albus Dumbledore suddenly and secretly.

"S...Snape" Gal came back to his senses. He looked at Professor Snape, who was obviously expressionless, but made people feel sinister. He didn't react until he spoke. He seemed to have left the honorific "Hu,..." Sorry, Professor Snape."

Snape was too lazy to pay attention to this idiot who would get sick and cause some problems in Potions class every three days, so he took a step straight into the cubicle and uttered a short word from his mouth: " sit down."

Garrumeng was pardoned and quickly sat back on his seat, with their heads hanging down together with Arlin, like two big quails beaten by frost.

"I was asked by the principal to come here and give you a message." After walking into the compartment, Snape's eyes fell on Moon without any surprise. "He asked me to tell you that after the train arrives at school tonight, You don’t have to go to the sorting ceremony and the opening dinner, go directly to his principal’s office, where he left you a very important message.”

"Uh..." Moon was startled for a moment, then looked at Professor Snape doubtfully, "Sorry, Professor - why don't you wait for us to arrive at school?"

Snape laughed sarcastically, "It seems that the summer vacation that just passed has rusted your brain, right, Fawkes. Since I will appear here, instead of just standing 'obediently' like you said, I am waiting for your arrival at the school gate, naturally because I have other important things to do before leaving Hogwarts. Otherwise, do you think I have so much free time that I would be willing to come here and be the messenger owl between you and the principal? "

Good guy, this familiar smell.

Moon looked at Professor Snape dumbfounded, stood up and bowed, "Thank you very much, Professor. I will go to the principal's office immediately when I get to school later."

Snape didn't bother to look at Munn's thank you. He turned around and stepped out of the compartment, his flying robes drawing a sharp arc. "The password is the favorite candy of the guy next door to the hotel, and Fuller and Sutton." , you two are laughing too early, I will be back at Hogwarts tomorrow night."

The smiles that had just appeared on the faces of Gal and Arlin immediately disappeared, and it was not until a full ten seconds passed after Professor Snape left that they finally breathed a cautious sigh of relief.

"Honestly, even though he doesn't like humiliating others as much as before -" Gal finally found the opportunity to spit out the bubble gum in his mouth and muttered: "-but I still don't like him."

Yaerlin curled his lips, "If you don't call it 'can't like it', Gal, you call it 'fear'."

Listening to what he said, it was as if he hadn't turned into a big quail just now, as if he was an outsider.

There is no doubt that Garlin obviously could not tolerate Yaerlin's behavior of betraying his fellow sufferers, so he turned around and started a fight with Yaerlin again.

This can be regarded as the Nikkei program in their dormitory.

While Moon continued to feed the noisy Debbie, he and Cedric happily watched Gal and Arlin fighting passionately until the lady pushing a trolley selling snacks walked past the door. , the two of them stopped talking, and Moon also took advantage of the three of them to buy snacks, opened the window and let Debbie out who was full and drunk.

"A box of chocolate balls, a few chocolate frogs, Bibi's multi-flavor beans - a box too." Gal grabbed a few food items from the dining cart and put them on the table. "Do you want anything else?"

Cedric ordered a few more bottles of pumpkin soda. In fact, he wanted to drink some milk, but the food truck only sold pumpkin soda and pumpkin juice.Arlin kept saying: "Have some crucible cake, don't forget, we also have a crucible cake prince here!"

The schedule entered the second half, but the two sides participating in the fighting match changed from "Gaal VS Yaerlin" to "Moon VS Yaerlin".

That's it.

In fact, Moon is far from the only person who lets an owl out of a train window while the train is in motion.As the Hogwarts Express gets closer to the school, more and more little wizards release their owls.Under the layers of fire clouds at sunset, on the vast expanses of plains and towering mountain peaks, these little elves spread their wings and soared wildly, dancing in the wind as the train flew by, until they were finally seen from a distance. A large open lake and the familiar vast forest that stretches as far as the eye can see.

Then, the burning red sunset gradually dropped below the horizon, and a cold crescent moon slowly appeared in the sky.

The person who came to pick him up was still Hagrid. While he was greeting the familiar senior wizards, he shouted for the first-year wizards to gather at his place and take the new kid on the boat. Cross the Black Lake and see the Hogwarts where they will live for seven years from another angle.

"Hey, Munn, Cedric, Garr, and Arlin, long time no see. How was your summer vacation?" Laria from Slytherin appeared out of nowhere. She smiled sweetly and talked to Munn and the other four. He waved his hand.

Since they happened to meet each other, everyone simply walked in the direction of the Yeqi carriage, and then waited here for a while for other people in the school newspaper office. After everyone gathered here, they boarded the carriage in batches. Embark on the final journey back to school.

"Ah, then you won't be able to participate in this year's sorting ceremony?" Violet blinked her bright eyes and stared at Moon's increasingly handsome and mature profile. "There are also Professor Dumbledore and Si Professor Nap probably won’t show up at the sorting ceremony?”

"It looks like it is."

Moon shrugged, and just as he responded, Nash couldn't help but smile and said: "Think on the bright side, this way, we don't have to sing the school song anymore, right?"

In fact, what Nash said is absolutely right - after all, most of the little wizards at Hogwarts don't like the school song very much. There is no way, there are always some people who are very thin-skinned and find it difficult to show off their singing voice in public.Not to mention that there are many people who are simply tone-deaf. Even if they want to show off from the bottom of their hearts, all they can show in the end is the thickness of their skin.

Therefore, as soon as Nash made this straightforward comment, everyone immediately laughed heartily.

As in previous years, the senior wizards will arrive at the castle before the first-year wizards because they travel by land.Under the leadership of Professor McGonagall, the other little wizards lined up and walked into the auditorium in an orderly manner. Moon deliberately stayed at the end of the line and waited until everyone was almost in before asking Professor McGonagall to explain the situation. Climb all the way up the stairs.

When he was about to enter the corridor on the third floor, he vaguely heard a knock on the door from downstairs. It seemed that the first-year students had also arrived at the castle gate.

It seemed that he would not be able to participate in this year's sorting ceremony anyway - he originally wanted to see what the crazy girl Luna and Harry's cute little brainless fanboy looked like.

If he remembered correctly, the little boy should be named Colin Creevey, and he was eventually assigned to the Lion House.It's a pity that if Moon hadn't been too keen on chasing Harry and taking pictures every day, Moon would have wanted to recruit this kind of photography-loving little guy into the school newspaper.

Smiling and shaking his head to drive away the distracting thoughts, Moon stopped thinking and walked quickly towards the principal's office.

…………

A moment later.

"Bloody lollipop."

Moon spoke the password that Professor Snape told him, and sure enough, the gargoyle at the door of the principal's office jumped up and fell to the side lightly.

It still looks the same as in previous years, and the legs and feet are so healthy that they seem to be able to completely ignore gravity - not bad.

He nodded towards the gargoyle stone beast, and the gargoyle stone beast opened its eyes with a slight red light, and also nodded slightly.

It was still the familiar spiral staircase. After climbing the stairs, I came to the wooden door. Moon raised his hand and pushed it gently, and the door slowly opened.

The layout of the office has hardly changed. The only strange thing is that there is a huge wooden box in the corner of the room, and the opening is still open. There is nothing inside, and I don't know what it originally contained.In addition, if you want to find any difference, it should be that there is no Professor Dumbledore behind the desk with a kind smile all the time, and there is also a beautiful big bird missing on the shelf.

Just when he was about to step forward to see if there was any prepared letter or anything on the table, a portrait on the wall suddenly spoke: "Moon Fox? I should remember it correctly, kid."

Moon didn't have much impression of the portrait, but he still recognized the person in the portrait at a glance - Delise Derwent, a famous principal in the 18th century and a former therapist at St. Mungo's.

"Hello, Ms. de Winter, it's me." Moon bowed to show respect. "I received a notification that Professor Dumbledore said he left a message for me here."

"On the shelf where several bottles and jars are placed, there are two small tubes, which contain the principal's memories. You should still remember how to use the pensieve, right?" Ms. Derwent said softly: "The principal gave me What you are left with are two memories, and you will know what he wants to tell you after reading them, first look at the one on the left, and then the one on the right."

Moon responded, followed by his words and walked to the shelf, where he found two crystal tubes filled with wisps of silver mist.

The pensieve was still placed in the cabinet he remembered, and he found it with little effort.

As the memory in the first crystal tube was poured into the pensieve, Moon took a deep breath and buried his face in the basin.

What appeared in front of Moon was a rather luxurious and beautiful room. From the layout, it looked like it should be a bedroom.The tightly closed curtains made it impossible for Moon to tell whether it was day or night, but the candlelight on the bedside table and the quietly burning brazier on the ground seemed to indicate the time invisibly.

On that large bed with an obvious Baroque style, there sat a thin and dry old man. The four words "skinny" are simply suitable to describe him.Professor Dumbledore was sitting in an armchair next to the bed, with a rare hesitation and a touch of sadness on his face.

"Have you really decided? Nico?" The first person to speak was Professor Dumbledore. It was these words that made Moon immediately realize the true identity of the skinny old man in front of him - Nico Flamel. , one of the most famous alchemists in history and the creator of the Philosopher's Stone.

"Yes, Albus, Perenal and I have already made up our minds." The old man drooped his eyelids and looked troubled. "Ha, after more than 600 years, we have both had enough. Now everywhere It’s a TV show for Muggles, and there are fewer and fewer good operas.”

"Actually, when you suggested that I store the Philosopher's Stone in Gringotts in 90, I wanted to ask you to help destroy the Philosopher's Stone, but in the end I didn't make the decision."

"I talked to Perenal twice more in the past two years, and sure enough, we finally felt that it would be better to just destroy the thing."

Professor Dumbledore was silent for a moment, and finally nodded as calmly as possible, "Okay."

Nico Flamel seemed to see the reluctance of his old friend and laughed loudly, "Haha, you are already over 100 years old, don't be so emotional. The Philosopher's Stone, the Philosopher's Stone, the brilliant one." The fifth element - being able to create it with my own hands has given me enough glory, wealth, and even a long life. And all of this will come to an end sooner or later."

"You are right, Nico." Professor Dumbledore took a slow breath, and then showed a relieved smile. "Then, on the day of departure, remember to let me see you off."

"Of course." Nico Flamel raised his hand, "Remember to hand over the inheritance to Olim for me. I don't plan to see her again before she dies. I don't want to see that arrogant look." She was crying."

"Okay." Professor Dumbledore responded again, and then he seemed to suddenly remember something and said softly: "Before destroying the Sorcerer's Stone, you shouldn't refuse me to use it to make some... small decorations?"

The surrounding scene began to show faint signs of collapse. It seemed that this memory had come to an end.