Harry Potter: Charlie's Candy Factory

Chapter 70
"Sorry...it's been a bit of a delay, Charlie..."

Not long after, when Hagrid finally arrived in a hurry, the scene in front of him suddenly stopped half of what he had said.

I saw that in the dark and silent Pig's Head Bar, all the guests who had been sitting in the seats had disappeared, leaving only Aberforth and Charlie.

At this moment, the two were sitting together on the counter of the Pig's Head Bar, holding identical beer glasses in their hands, hunched over their shoulders, and wantonly drinking the butter beer in the glasses.

"Charlie, you..."

Hagrid's eyes widened, and he was momentarily speechless in astonishment.

He rubbed his eyes, and after confirming that he had read correctly, he finally stammered and asked

"You... know the owner of the Pig's Head Bar...?"

"know!!!?"

However, before Charlie could answer, his Adam's apple kept wriggling, and Aberforth, who had just finished off the whole glass of butterbeer in one go, frowned and yelled directly at Hagrid.

At this moment, his face was still a little red, but he didn't know whether he was really drunk or was too happy because he saw Charlie.

He gave Hagrid a hard look, with a light in his eyes that he hadn't seen in so many years.

Immediately afterwards, Aberforth opened his mouth again, but what he said was like a thunderbolt, which almost made Hagrid freeze on the spot again.

"Charlie and I don't just know each other! He has been my student since the second grade!!!"

After speaking, he greedily drank the remaining liquid in the beer glass.

After thinking about it, it seems that these words are not enough to express the feelings between them, so I hurriedly added another sentence

"The only apprentice!!!"

Hagrid hurriedly moved his eyes away from Aberforth, and looked towards Charlie beside him, wanting to verify the truth of this statement from Charlie.

Charlie smiled recklessly, put his arm on Albusford's shoulder, and held the beer glass high with the other hand just like Albusford did. Drink it all.

"Peng!"

The wine glass slammed heavily on the countertop of the bar counter. After Charlie took a deep breath, he finally opened his mouth and explained to Hagrid slowly

"It happened a long time ago... like Aberforth said, around the second year."

Charlie licked his lips and continued

"At that time, because I wanted to find the principle of the spell mentioned in the book, I took advantage of the night and went to the restricted area to check the information..."

Hagrid's eyelids trembled, and he felt inexplicably weird for a moment when he heard the other party review the violations of the year with him in such an understatement.

But then he thought that the other party had not graduated for many years, so he repressed the strangeness and continued to listen patiently to Charlie.

"It turned out that I was unlucky that time. I ran into old Filch, and it happened to be a coincidence. I left in a hurry and forgot to take my wand..."

"What if I bring you along!?"

In his heart, Hagrid couldn't help expressing such doubts... At the same time, he couldn't help but think of Filch's behavior when he heard the news that Charlie was coming.

I couldn't help feeling pity in my heart, and I mourned for him for a while.

However, Charlie and Aberforth are unaware of Hagrid's rich inner changes, because at this moment, both of them are completely immersed in the story that Charlie told more than ten years ago.

"I have no choice but to run away... I was no match for old Filch who had just stayed at Hogwarts for two years. He was like a loach, knowing all the secret passages If you want to get rid of him, it is as difficult as climbing the sky."

"However,"

Charlie's eyes lit up, and he continued
"Just when I was hiding in a room, thinking that this game was over and I would definitely be caught, I suddenly touched a secret passage in that room... Guess what?"

Hagrid was silent, he didn't need Charlie to tell him what he had guessed.It was a secret road leading to Hogsmeade village.

In the well-known history, Hogsmeade and Hogwarts have experienced a long period of time together... During this time, people built secret roads between Hogwarts and Hogsmeade There are at least eight of them! !Remember, it's just at least...

Sure enough, Charlie continued without waiting for Hagrid to answer.

"Then I went to Hogsmeade..."

"Then he met me!" Aberforth seemed impatient.

He interrupted Charlie casually, and continued on.

"I remember, he seemed to be... so tall"

Aberforth put his hands under the counter to measure the height.then said
"I remember that day very clearly... It was the same as usual. I planned to go to the Devis and Bans store to buy something. As a result, I ran into this kid on the way."

"Seeing him trembling on the alley in his pajamas, I found out after asking that he didn't know how to get back from this secret road at all! As a result, I showed kindness and took him back to the Pig's Head Bar. I plan to use it tomorrow morning." The secret path of Honeydukes, send him back."

When Albusford said this, there was a bit of memory emotion in his eyes.

"From that time on, this kid often ran over through that secret road and came to see me at the Pig's Head Bar. After going back and forth, I got to know him well. I simply saw that his temper was also very suitable for me, so I started to give me some advice. Awakened his spell."

"I have to say...Charlie is really talented." Albusford scratched his chin in the bushy beard, and said sincerely

"Even if I've seen the most talented wizard, in front of him, I'm not even worthy of lifting shoes!"

Speaking of which, when the word "most talented" was mentioned, Albusford even emphasized it a bit, but I don't know if he was implying it.

Anyway, upon hearing this sentence, both Charlie and Hagrid couldn't help but look away, pretending they didn't hear it.

Fortunately, Aberforth didn't care about this. After complimenting Charlie, he immediately thought of something, and his tone became disgusted.
"Obviously he has such a good talent, I just want to watch his duel again..."

"Cough...cough" Charlie couldn't help turning his head away, and at the same time patted the hand on Aberforth's shoulder, signaling him that there was no need to talk about it.

"It can't be said that it's a mess..."

Aberforth's tone softened.Just when Charlie breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that he was going to show mercy, unexpectedly, Aberforth's tone suddenly changed and he roared out.

"It's not as good as shit!!!"

"…………"

(End of this chapter)