Harry Potter and the Secret Treasures

73. Chapter 73 Crookshanks and Scabbers

    The days passed, and the last day of the summer vacation came.

    Early in the morning, Ivan and Harry had just gone downstairs and saw the entire Weasley family coming out of the fireplace. It was as if they had just returned from Egypt. They were dressed as a mixture of normal wizard robe and traditional Egyptian costumes. Incredibly strange.

    Mrs. Weasley hugged two people, Mr. Weasley went to the bar to book a few rooms, and they had to spend the night at Leaky Cauldron.

    After a few minutes, Old Tom brought the breakfast over.

    Everyone had a good breakfast. Percy glared at Ivan and Harry to show off his Head Boy badge and shook hands with the two people. It seemed like they were introduced to the mayor.

    Fred and George didn't let him talk for too long. They imitated Percy's gesture and shook hands with two people, making them laugh.

    Mrs. Weasley slammed this behavior and saw that she was proud of Percy.

    The topic was re-transferred to Egypt, and the entire Weasley family told them about the journey.

    Next, Ron showed Ivan and Harry his new wand: fourteen inches long, the wickerwood, and the essence of the unicorn tail. As for Ginny, the little girl, like before, blushes unconsciously when she sees Harry, but it is obviously much stronger than last semester, and at least she won't touch anything.

    After everyone had finished eating, Hermione and her parents also rushed to Leaky Cauldron.

    Hermione wore a sky-blue dress with a pale yellow toque hat on her head, and her skin was tanned into a healthy wheat color. The elegance was a bit playful and seemed to be full of sunshine. She was happy with everyone. greet.

    Several people talked for a while, Mr. and Mrs. Granger needs to leave early because there is still something to do, they call Hermione to Mr. and Mrs. Weasley took care of it and left everything she wanted to use at Hogwarts. She also lives in Leaky Cauldron tonight.

    By the time they separated, Harry and Ron began to talk about his inflating his aunt; Hermione took a thick piece of parchment and stuffed it to Ivan, an article she had written in conjunction with what France had seen.

    “I heard the whole story from my dad, and your Aunt Marge floated on the ceiling for two hours.”Ron laughed a lot, and he thought it would be cool to blow up his aunt.

    "There is nothing funny about this, Ron."Hermione said sharply, "I am really surprised to say that I have not fired Harry."

    "I am the same, you don't know me and..."Harry glanced at Ivan and remembered that he was going to keep secrets of what he could become a cat. "In short, I forgot about the expulsion. I thought I was going to be caught." Ron, Mr. Weasley doesn't know why Fudge let me go, does he know? ”

    "Maybe because it is for your sake, isn't it?"Ron shrugged his shoulders and still giggled. "The famous Harry Potter, if I inflated my aunt, the Ministry of Magic will definitely not let me go." Listen, they must first dig me out, my mom will kill me. ”

    "I think Mrs. Weasley is completely correct. You two are a bit too smug. You should learn from Ivan, he won't..."

    "I already know it wrong, Hermione! I just lost control of the moment. ”Seeing that Hermione was a little angry, Harry hurriedly shifted the subject. "Where are we going next?"

    "I think we should go to the pet store first."Hermione looked at her wallet and said, "My birthday is in September, my mom and my dad gave me some money, let me buy myself a birthday present, I want an owl."

    "That's just right, I want to send Scabbers to check it out. I don't think Egypt is suitable for it."Ron pulled the Scabbers out of his pocket.

    Ivan's eyes moved from the parchment in his hand to the little mouse. The Scabbers looked thinner than before, and its beard was pulled down significantly, and the fur was not bright before.

    "Ron, let me see, your mouse is just lack of exercise."

    Ivan's mouth is slightly upturned, and Peter Pettigrew must have been frightened by the jailbreak of Sirius Black.

    MotionRon looked at Ivan with suspicion.

    “Yes, I recommend Hermione to buy a cat so she can help you.”

    "You don't listen to him, Hermione!"Ron subconsciously put the little mouse in his pocket. "The class is already pitiful. Let's hurry to find a pet shop."

    “There is a magical creature store over there!”After more than two weeks of strolling, Harry is now familiar with Diagon Alley. "You can see if you can buy something for Scabbers there, and Hermione can buy owls or a cat there."

    "You don't want to buy cats to scare Scabbers!"Ron didn't worry about it again.

    Four people crossed the street and came to the shop called the magical creature garden.

    There isn't much space in the store, and every inch of the wall is hung with cages. The little creatures in the cage are making a variety of calls, stinking and noisy.

    "Hello, this is my mouse!"Ron stepped forward and said to the witch standing behind the counter, "Can you see what is going on?" It has been a little bit bad since I brought it back from Egypt. ”

    "Put it on the counter."The witch said, looking at the Scabbers while taking a pair of heavy black glasses from her pocket.

    "Heng!"That witch took Scabbers up. "How old is this mouse?"

    “I don’t know,” Ron said. “It’s very old. It turned out to be my brother’s.”

    "What is it capable of?"Witch carefully check the Scabbers.

    "Oh ?"Ron didn't know what to answer. The reality is that Scabbers has never shown a bit of interest.

    The witch's eyes turned from the shredded ear of the Scabbers to its front paws, where there was one toe and a groaning sound in her mouth.

    "It has suffered a lot, this is a rat."

    "When Percy gave it to me, it was this look."Ron defended himself.

    Harry nodded. Since he knew Ron, this mouse is like this. In addition to sleeping, eating and sleeping, he did not show any abnormality.

    "A normal house mouse or a rat like this, you don't expect it to live for more than three years."Witch pointed to the black mouse in the cage next to him. "Hey, if you want to find more durable animals, you might like one of them."

    Ivan completely dismissed her statement, saying that Scabbers seemed to be really a rat. If he tells the other person that she has determined that the mouse that has survived for three years has been living in the Ron family for more than a decade, she will be scared to cry.

    "Well, if you don't want to change it, try this potion."The witch continued, she took a small red bottle from under the counter.

    How much?Ron's words haven't finished yet, they saw a huge ginger thing jumping from the top cage.

    Several people were surprised to see this huge ginger creature in front of him, a ginger cat with thick, sparse hair. The cat looks a bit odd, its legs are a little curved, the face looks sullen, and a squashed look like it once rushed to the wall.

    It jumped over Ron's head and rushed forward, screaming at Scabbers.

    don’t Crookshanks, don't! ”Witch exclaimed.

    Scabbers slipped from her hand like a piece of soap, landed on the floor with her limbs, and then fled to the door.

    "Scabbers!"Ron yelled and followed it to the store, and Harry followed.

    When Scabbers disappeared, Crookshanks suddenly turned his head and looked at Ivan docilely. There was no fierce temper at the moment. Perhaps because his Animagus was also a cat, Crookshanks was very close to Ivan and even took the initiative. He licked his hand.

    This surprised the witch behind the counter, and she had never seen Crookshanks approaching a stranger.

    "It's a cute little guy, its fur is pretty, right, Ivan?"Hermione also squatted and touched Crookshanks.

    The cat was still a little vigilant, but immediately accepted Hermione.

    "The color is very bright, a bit like a big wool thread."Ivan looked at it and the cat was so ugly.

    "I made a decision!"Hermione held Crookshanks in his arms and stood up.

    Objectives — Decide what?Ivan looked at each other strangely, and there was a bad feeling in my heart.

    "You are not letting me buy a cat, I decided to buy it!"Hermione pointed to Crookshanks.

    "Buy this cat?! If you do this, Ron will kill me. ”Ivan’s mouth was a bitter smile.