Hogwarts Homecoming

Harry rolled off the Knights Bus. In order to meet their request to reach St. Catchpole Village before dinner, the Knights Bus driver, Mr. Ern Pullan, drove all the way, and Stan Sampak even drove several passengers halfway. It was 'let' down from the window just to satisfy Harry's needs.

"Goodbye, Mr. Potter!"

The acne-covered conductor stretched his head out from the window, waved to Harry eagerly, and disappeared into the air with a rustle.

"No way!" Harry, bent over and panting, said with difficulty to the departed Stan Sampak, "This is definitely the last time I will ride the Knight Bus in my life!"

"Don't speak too soon, young man—"

The feeling of Apparition is not much better than that of the bus dedicated to wizards. Sirius and Remus are not as embarrassed as Harry. Hearing Harry's complaint, Sirius stepped forward and put his hand on Harry's shoulder, said with a smile.

When Harry found that he could breathe smoothly again, he found that the three of them were standing on a country road. The left side of the road led to a village, surrounded by large areas of farmland and swamps. The mountain stands in the direction where the sun sets.

The right side of the path leads to a crooked several-story building that is the home of his best friend from Hogwarts, Ron, and his second favorite place in the world, despite taking the Knight Bus It also left Harry with lingering fears, and when he saw the crooked silhouette of the building under the pink-gold sunlight, Harry's emotions immediately rose again. Ron also had Mrs. Weasley here, and she cooked better food than anyone he knew.

"Come on, Harry"

Remus put his hand on Harry's other shoulder, his pale skin normalized by the sunset, and smiled at Harry,

"Your friends are dying to see you—"

"Speak up,"

Harry released Hedwig from the cage and let it blow in the wilderness. Immediately, they walked towards the Burrow together. Harry asked curiously

"Sirius, Remus, how did you know the Weasleys?"

"Oh, this—"

With the intoxicating evening wind on his cheeks, Sirius lazily narrowed his eyes and smiled,

"We've been dealing with Arthur and Molly much longer than you, Harry, haven't you, Remus?"

"That's probably before you were born." Remus tightened the neckline of his wizard robe, and this action made Harry realize that Professor Remus was actually wearing a brand new wizard robe. When he was at Hogwarts, he always wore a white and patched robe, and the Slytherin gang laughed at him because of this,

"At that time, Voldemort hadn't fallen. You know, Harry. At that time, there were not many people who had the courage to stand up to the most evil dark wizard in the world. Albus tried his best to gather the strength of these people. I And Sirius, and, of course, your parents, who knew Arthur and Molly back then."

"But Molly hasn't been very fond of me--"

It should have been raining not long ago near Ferret Mountain. Although the ground was dry, it was full of small puddles. Sirius jumped over a puddle nimbly and said with a smile.

"That's because some of the ideas you put forward are always too radical, and Molly doesn't like proposals that are too risky," Remus said cheerfully, "Also, you always like to take Arthur's hair that is getting thinner every day. joke."

Harry laughed, he hadn't expected his godfather to be so funny when he was young.

"Harry!"

When the three of them climbed over a dirt slope, the Burrow suddenly became very close, and two people were standing in front of the small stone hut where the Weasleys kept their brooms, staring at it.

Both of them were running towards him, but the girl's speed was obviously much faster and her movements were much sharper. Ron hadn't run a distance before Hermione rushed up to him.

"How are you, Harry!"

Hermione hugged Harry hard, and when she let go, her face was full of joy and excitement.

Just like himself, Hermione's height was a lot taller than last semester, which made her look much taller, and Harry was surprised to find that pink pimples began to appear on Hermione's fair cheeks stabbed.

"Hermione?"

After putting aside the boring discoveries in his mind, Harry grinned and said unexpectedly,

"Why are you here, the World Cup is still a few days away?"

Before the end of last semester, the three of them made an appointment to watch the World Cup together. They agreed to meet at the Burrow, but there are still a few days before the World Cup finals. How did Hermione appear here.

"It's Black. Oh, it's Sirius!"

After running for a while, Hermione's breathing was not disturbed at all, which let Harry know that Hermione probably didn't forget Professor Brian's instructions during the summer vacation, and still insisted on running. After the summer vacation, I completely forgot about it.

"He wrote me and he said you must want me to come and celebrate your birthday with you!"

Harry immediately turned his head to the surprised Sirius, and what he saw was a face full of benign smiles,

"Have a decent birthday, don't you?"

Sirius rubbed Harry's head and said softly.

"call"

Ron finally arrived at this meeting, his flushed cheeks were dripping with sweat, he was out of breath,

"Phew - now I finally see the value of Professor Blaine's physical education class, Hermione, you run really fast, oh brother, how are you these days, Muggles still treat you -"

Before Ron finished speaking, he was interrupted by Harry's nervous cough, and he helped the Dursleys smooth things over in front of Sirius, but he didn't want to reveal the truth in Ron's unintentional words.

"It's always been good, hasn't it?"

Harry said eagerly.

From the thick white smoke coming from the chimney on the roof, it could be seen that Mrs. Weasley was probably very busy at the moment. After Hermione and Ron had both said hello to Sirius and Remus, the group headed towards the Burrow.

"Hello, Crookshanks—"

When passing the Weasley family's vegetable garden, Harry waved his hand at the big ginger cat jumping up and down in the garden to compete with goblins, and Crookshanks meowed lazily twice after seeing Harry, and also He waved his paw at Harry.

"Honestly, Hermione—"

Harry said seriously, "You should check to see if Crookshanks is also an Animagus, he's less cat-like than any cat I've ever seen."

"At least it's really good at catching mice," Sirius said with a smile. "During the period before Christmas last year, I lived on the mice it caught."

Ron pushed open the back door of his house and ushered Harry and the others in. Breathing the smoke and smoke in the small crowded room, a sense of reassuring comfort lingers in my heart.

"Oh dear, is the journey going well?"

When walking through the living room, Harry glanced at the magic clock hanging on the wall. Except for Mr. Weasley's one which also pointed to the 'work' position, the other eight all pointed to the 'home' position. Harry blinked Blinking her eyes, feeling strange about something, Mrs. Weasley, who heard the movement in the kitchen, rushed out grabbing a smoking spatula, quickly came to Harry, and gave Harry the same as Hermione. He hugged him hard.

"Ahem, everything is fine, Mrs. Weasley!"

Harry gasped.

"What a good boy!"

Mrs. Weasley cupped Harry's cheek (Ron rolled his eyes, while Hermione pursed her lips and snickered), with a benevolent look on her face,

"I originally planned to ask Arthur to pick you up, but the Ministry is too busy at this time, Arthur can't get away, and Sirius insists on going in person, so I have to agree."

"I'm Harry's godfather, Molly!"

Sirius said with a dark face,

"It's only natural for me to pick up Harry, and I don't need anyone's permission."

One of Mrs Weasley's eyebrows was raised, and Remus smiled just in time, and said,

"Your scrambled eggs are getting mushy, Molly—"

"Oh, thanks for the reminder, Remus—"

Weasley's attitude towards Remus was much friendlier, as she turned and rushed towards the kitchen, shouting,

"You can eat later, Harry, Arthur also promised not to miss your birthday dinner before going out in the morning!"

"Ah, you're back already?"

Just when Harry was about to tell Mrs. Weasley that he didn't have to go through a lot of trouble for his birthday, footsteps were heard on the stairs behind them. Harry turned around and saw that it wasn't Fred and George, but him Two young people who have never seen before, of course, they are also red-haired.

"Charlie and Bill—"

Ron laughed inexplicably,

"Surely you remember the story of the two of them at Hogwarts, don't you?"