Hogwarts Homecoming

The sound of hurried footsteps pierced the silence of the castle, and awakened the portraits on both sides of the corridor who had already fallen asleep one after another. They looked at the little wizard running past like the wind, and smacked their lips dissatisfiedly at their backs.

"God, you can't wait for me!"

When they got down to the fifth floor, Hermione finally caught up with Harry and Ron. She ran after him, and kept brushing away the strands of hair floating in front of her eyes with her small white hands.

Harry just wanted to ask Hermione what she was doing during the delay, but when he looked down, he immediately saw the invisibility cloak on Hermione's hand, and couldn't help admiring it.

"I didn't think of that at all just now, Hermione, your reaction is so fast."

"You'll find out,"

Hermione cocked her nose proudly, and she glanced at Banban, who was so nimble and unbelievable, her expression was as relaxed as if a heavy burden had been lifted,

"My judgment is always accurate!"

Neither Harry nor Ron spoke, but both of them knew what Hermione wanted to express. Scabbers was not dead, which meant that Crookshanks was innocent. It was true that the two of them had misunderstood Hermione before.

Thinking of this, Harry couldn't help feeling a little guilty, but at the same time, he was also very confused. Scabbers in front of him looked so alive and kicked around that he couldn't tell he had been hurt at all. So, after Halloween last year What had happened to the blood on Ron's bed sheet and Crookshanks' hair that night.

When Harry was thinking about this, Hermione suddenly grabbed Harry and Ron by the collars from behind, and dragged them to the back of a tapestry in the corner without any explanation. Ron immediately wanted to ask something, but Hermione Min gestured to them to be quiet.

It's Professor Lupine.

He was walking from the other end of the corridor with a toothbrush and some toiletries. Logically speaking, he should have spotted them. However, compared with the morning, Professor Lupine's face was more sickly, and his steps were less steady. , looking dizzy, that's why they didn't notice them rushing down from upstairs.

The waiting time was very torturous, it was only 20 seconds, and it felt like a century. When Professor Lupine finally opened the door slowly, Ron immediately jumped out and ran down.

"I never understood—"

Harry followed immediately, but at the same time he was puzzled,

"Why does Professor Lupine always look sick?"

"This—"

Hermione's panting was fast, she quickly glanced at the moon outside the window, then moved her lips, but did not continue.

"Oh, thank goodness!"

When they ran to the ground floor, Ron was relieved to see Scabbers reappear in sight.

Scabbers' purpose was very clear, it was going to the outside of the castle, and when the three of Harry went down the marble steps of the castle gate and came to the empty outside, Ron immediately cried out impatiently,

"Ban Ban, what are you doing, you idiot, I'm Ron!"

Ron's anxious calls could be heard constantly on the breeze-filled playground, but Scabbers turned a deaf ear to the yells of his former master, and ran wildly along the road leading to the school gate. They are likely to lose directly.

The three of them and one mouse ran about half of the campus along the aisle. Suddenly, Banban changed direction and sprinted into the grass.

"Hey, come on, Scabbers!"

Ron also followed Banban onto the lawn, running all the way towards the edge of the Forbidden Forest, but within two steps, the three of them completely lost Banban's track.

The bright moonlight reflected on Ron's bewildered face, making him look helpless.

Seeing his appearance, Hermione, who was out of breath, couldn't say anything more. Originally, she was planning to take the opportunity to ask Crookshanks to return to the dormitory.

"What the hell is going on, Ron?"

Harry wiped the sweat from his brow, his eyes wandered around the lawn swaying in the wind, but he found nothing.

"I don't know, Harry."

Ron shook his head stupidly,

"I've never seen Scabbers like that, what is he afraid of?"

Suddenly, there was a sharp and frenzied barking sound from the direction of Hagrid's hut, which seemed so ear-piercing amidst Lin Hai's ups and downs.

"It's Yaya!" Hermione reacted immediately, and she said anxiously, "Hagrid also encountered some emergency!"

"We have to go and see!"

Harry looked nervous, and immediately echoed Hermione's statement.

For this proposal, Ron was very unwilling. He wanted to continue looking for Banban. In the past two months, he had privately felt overwhelmed because of Banban's unexplained death. Now that he found Banban not dead, Apologizing to Hermione wasn't a problem, but for him the first priority was finding Scabbers.

However, Yaya's cry sounded really wrong, and Hagrid was also their mutual friend, so he couldn't refute Harry's proposal.

They were not far from Hagrid's hut, and after only a few tens of seconds, they saw Hagrid's unique and huge body.

Hagrid was standing on the small slope outside his house, staring blankly at the dark Forbidden Forest, while Fang was staying beside Hagrid, facing the same direction and screaming desperately.

"What's the matter, Hagrid?"

Harry asked aloud from a distance of fifty or sixty feet,

"We heard Fangya's barking, what's the matter?"

Hearing Harry's inquiry and the sound of rapidly approaching footsteps, Hagrid turned his head, but the expression on his face was the same as the three of them found Scabbers in the common room just now, bewildered and dazed.

"Oh, it's you three—"

What had just happened was so obviously beyond Hagrid's comprehension that he didn't even think about the problem of Harry, Ron and Hermione wandering around the campus at this late hour.

"I just saw Malfoy running into the Forbidden Forest."

"Malfoy?!"

The three of Harry cried out in unison, with both surprise and puzzlement in their voices.

"Oh, so—"

Hagrid swallowed, staring into his big copper bell-like eyes, and said in a skeptical tone,

"Just now I was reciting the materials to help Buckbeak's defense in the room, and then I heard Fang Ya's cry. I thought it found some animal trying to break into the campus, so I rushed out, and it turned out that it was Mal Foo was standing on the edge of the Forbidden Forest, he was holding a broomstick and there was a rat squatting on his head—”

The three of Harry looked at each other, and they all saw the astonishment in each other's eyes.

This is impossible!

Maybe Malfoy was stimulated by Harry's outstanding performance in the field today, so he decided to hone his flying skills alone, but that mouse, if he guessed right, should be Scabbers.

Not to mention how Banban became friends with Malfoy, they chased Banban all the way down, and only stopped on the side of the road for a short while, this effort was not enough for Banban and Malfoy to reunite. Could it be that, Malfoy had a mouse himself?

"--and that little black homeless dog,"

Hagrid ignored the thoughts of the three of them and continued talking,

"It used to stay in the den I made for Crookshanks. After it found Malfoy, it suddenly changed its appearance and grew dozens of times in size. It became much bigger than Fangya. It carried Crookshanks charged at Malfoy, apparently trying to bite him to death."

The little black dog has grown in size, and wants to kill Malfoy? !

This fact was so magical that even Hermione couldn't make any reasonable guesses for a while.

"I've never seen a dog that could change size--"

Hagrid's focus was obviously a little bit off, and when he gradually came back to his senses, his eyes lit up, and he said with great interest,

"Maybe it is a special breed bred by some wizard, oh, if so, I will definitely come to ask for advice!"

At this time, Hermione suddenly noticed something wrong with Harry's expression, as if struck by lightning, she asked worriedly,

"What's the matter, Harry, what did you think of?"

"I've seen that dog--"

Harry slowly closed his long mouth, and his face became very scary.

Just when Hagrid just described it, he suddenly wanted to understand all this,

"I saw it around Magnolia Crescent just before I left the Dursleys for blowing up Aunt Marge last summer and took the Knight Bus to the Leaky Cauldron."

"What are you talking about, Harry?"

Ron, who still had Scabbers and a dog-bitten Malfoy on his mind, looked at Harry absurdly,

"A dog from the Muggle world couldn't have followed you over the mountains to Hogwarts, could it?"

"You still don't understand!"

Harry turned pale and suddenly agitated,

"How can there be a dog that can change its size, Ron, have you heard of such a magical animal? Unless, it's not a dog at all, it's a disguise!"

"You mean, Harry."

Ron still didn't quite understand, but Hermione covered her mouth all of a sudden, her bright yellow pupils were full of horror,

"Professor McGonagall said in class, Animagus?!"

Silence fell suddenly, but was quickly broken,

"At this moment, who would deliberately pretend to be a dog and enter Hogwarts?"

Harry's green eyes flashed with anger, and he said with a final word,

"Sirius Black!"