Harry Potter’s Book of Sin Chapter 308: Provocation of Hogsmeade Platform
"First-year freshmen? First-year freshmen come here, they are all lined up..."
The air at night seemed a bit cool, which made people finally feel that summer is leaving.
It was Hagrid who stood on the platform to welcome the new students every year at the beginning of school, but this year, that rough voice was replaced by a clean female voice.
Hermione and Ron were still busy in the car aisle because they were responsible for keeping the students in order. Ginny and others got out of the car first.
"Ginny! Neville...oh, and Miss Lovegood..."
Finally a familiar voice rang from the crowd on the platform, and Ginny immediately looked up.
"Oh, Harry—" She felt a little blushing again.
"You are finally here, I can't wait!" Harry happily came to them with a bright smile, "Where are Hermione and Ron? Why are you and Neville?"
"This..." Ginny hesitated, "I'll tell you this after letting them come out for a while!"
Just as Harry was puzzled, a long-lost nasty voice came from the train window next to him.
"Look, see, Potter...how much your little girl thinks of you! She is worried that you will not be able to stand it!" The voice teased, as if trying to The sullen that had accumulated for a long time turned into a provocation and burst out.
Harry and Ginny both turned their heads immediately and looked at the place where the sound was made.
Stuck in his pockets, exuding contempt and malice, is a young man with golden hair and a pointed chin. The corners of his mouth curled up slightly, revealing a sneer.
"Malfoy! What do you mean?" Harry felt inexplicably, a fire arose in his chest.
"Oh! Pay attention to your attitude, Potter," Draco Malfoy elbows the lower edge of the window frame, looking at Harry with interest. "If you don't know how to be polite, then I will I can teach you...Look!"
As he said, he lifted his upper body to reveal a badge, and stared at Harry with his downward gaze intentionally or unintentionally.
"Look, I'm different from you..." he said arrogantly, "I became a prefect, but you didn't! Do you know where the problem is?"
"What the **** are you trying to say!" Harry glanced at the prefect badge on his chest, then said boredly.
"The problem is that you, without that McLean, will do nothing—" Malfoy despised, "Don't you say you don't know? You are really confused..."
"How does it feel to lose to Weasley's pure-blood scum? I will write back and give it to me. It cannot be shorter than a foot. This is the command of the prefect! Hahaha—"
"The prefect does not have such an order!"
Ginny stood bravely in front of Harry, yelling at Malfoy, she looked like a little hen guarding her chicks-from this point of view, she might have inherited her mother Wei. What about Mrs. Slay's temperament!
"Ginny, what's going on—what happened to Ron?" Harry frowned, suspiciously.
"This..." Ginny really didn't know how to answer this question.
Since she was a child, Ginny grew up listening to Harry’s "legends", and to her, Harry must be better than anyone else.
After all, even that super-powerful Mr. McLean is still struggling to deal with mysterious people! But Harry Potter wiped out the mysterious man when he was a baby.
For Ginny, Harry is simply the hero of his dreams, the hero who killed the devil!
Seriously, in my heart, she is not so happy for her brother to be a prefect, because she thought it must belong to Harry!
The so-called female outgoing, when meeting the object that she has longed for since childhood, what is a bad brother?
"Shut up, Malfoy!"
A heroic girl came from the train door, and it was Hermione and Ron who came out.
"Oh-the master is here!" Malfoy was unmoved by Hermione's anger, he even clapped, "Weasley, how does it feel to be the prefect of Gryffindor? Did you feel comfortable after winning Mr. Millionaire?"
The next second, Harry's gaze shifted from Malfoy's nasty face to Ron's chest, and then moved away pretendingly.
"Ron has always been good, he deserves it! Is it possible that you still want to use this to provoke the relationship between us? It's up to you?"
Harry snorted coldly, then walked to Ron and hooked his shoulders.
On the contrary, Ron just lowered his eyelids. He didn't know what to say at this time. At least in front of Harry, he wasn't actually ready to face it.
"Huh! Disgusting buddy feelings? It's really funny..."
Malfoy gave Harry a sullen look at last, then walked away from the window with his chin held high, as if he would dirty his eyes if he looked at it more closely.
"Harry, I—"
"You were selected as the prefect? Congratulations, Ron!"
Harry interrupted Ron. He put his arms around his good brother's shoulders and greeted everyone to go forward with great enthusiasm.
Ron's words were blocked in his throat. This was the first time he felt that he felt an unpleasant discomfort in his chest.
"...Words are always true in the belly."
Behind everyone, Luna looked at the two boys with shoulders and backs in a daze.
Outside Hogsmeade Station, on that dark, damp street, more than a hundred empty carriages without horses were parked. On this day of each year, they send students who are not in the first grade to the castle.
Of course the same is true this year.
Harry and the others huddled with each other and walked over there. They chose an empty carriage, and then boarded the carriage one by one.
Luna followed them step by step, and as she passed by the empty carriages, she looked up at the air for a few moments—at least in the eyes of others.
"What is she looking at?" Ginny asked curiously.
It turns out that some things are not visible to everyone, although it is better to not see them.
Harry looked at Luna who looked bewildered, and shook his head questioningly: "Compared to this, I am more concerned about where Hagrid has gone..."
"It is true, but..." Hermione also wondered, "Harry, haven't you been at Hogwarts these days?"
Harry heard this and shook his head again.
"When I was sent to school by Ms. Bones, Hagrid was gone," he said.
"Don't have anything wrong with him..." Ron said with a worried look.
When everyone entered the carriage, the carriages lined up and moved forward creakingly.
They passed by the towering stone pillars on both sides of the gate, passed the gate that rarely opened, and walked along the horse path between the lawns of the school to the castle.
At this moment, Harry craned his neck and looked out the window, but it was pitch black in the distance.
Gradually, the Hogwarts Castle, which had been with them for several years, showed its outline indistinctly in the dark.
The carriage line stopped by the stone steps, and Harry was the first to get out. But when he looked back at Hagrid's hut, he found that it was indeed pitch black over there, and it seemed that Hagrid had not returned.
Even at Hogwarts today, the new students have already arrived, and the welcome dinner must have been prepared as always, but Hagrid is still missing.
Professor Moody disappeared unknownly last semester. Hagrid never did the same?
"Harry, it's time to go!" Hermione reminded from the side.
"Oh-okay." Harry returned to his senses, and he hurriedly responded.
Immediately, everyone gathered with the crowd, hurriedly walked up the stone steps, into the castle.
The entrance hall was illuminated by a large number of torches, and even the temperature of the air seemed to rise a little, and the footsteps of the little wizards echoed in everyone's ears.
They passed through the gate leading to the castle auditorium and walked in familiarly.
In the auditorium, there are still four long college dining tables that have remained unchanged over the years; the enchanted ceiling is as dark as the night sky outside the castle.
There are countless candles floating above the dining table, and several milky ghosts roam around the dining tables of their respective colleges, greeting the little wizards kindly or plainly~IndoMTL.com~The students all have a look of excitement. While talking, Harry and the others noticed that much of what they were talking about was about the Guidro Lockhart personal audiovisual conference during the summer vacation.
Luna left them and sat quietly at the Ravenclaw table.
As soon as Harry and others arrived at the Gryffindor table, Ginny was dragged away by a few fourth-grade classmates laughing. It seems that this little sister from the Weasley family is very popular everywhere. !
Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Neville sat together, and then their gazes passed over the heads of the classmates, looking at the faculty chair at the same time.
"Hagrid is not there—"
If you want to talk about who is the most conspicuous in Hogwarts, it is undoubtedly the unusually large Hagrid, and it's easy to see whether he is there or not.
"Look there!" Hermione suddenly said, "There is an empty seat at the very end. Is it because Hagrid will be late--"
She stopped talking as she said, because she saw another strange figure.
"Who is that?" Hermione felt a disgust inexplicably.
The others followed her fingers and looked over.
Beside the golden high-back chair where Dumbledore was sitting, there was an old woman wearing a pink coat and matching rose red stocking hat on her head.
This "pink and tender" dress contrasted with her old face like a toad, and made people involuntarily nauseous.
"It's the...I remember, the woman named Umbridge!"
Harry recognized her almost at a glance.
"Who?" Hermione was puzzled.
"She was there during my review that day, and she kept targeting me, forcing me to say something wrong..." Harry said angrily, frowning involuntarily.