The days passed day by day, and it was the last day of summer vacation in a blink of an eye.
Early in the morning, just as Ivan and Harry went downstairs, they saw the Weasley family emerge from the fireplace, dusty, as if they had just returned from Egypt. They were dressed in a mixture of normal wizard robes and traditional Egyptian costumes. It looked unbelievably peculiar.
Mrs. Weasley stepped forward and hugged the two of them. Mr. Weasley went to the bar to book a few rooms. They were going to spend the night at the Leaky Cauldron tonight.
A few minutes later, old Tom brought his breakfast.
Everyone happily ate breakfast, and Percy showed off his Boys Student Union President badge to Ivan and Harry in a pretentious manner, and shook hands with the two of them one by one, as if they were being introduced to the mayor.
Fred and George didn't let him talk for long, and they shook hands in imitation of Percy's gesture, making them both laugh.
Mrs. Weasley snapped the behavior back, obviously proud of Percy.
The topic shifted back to the trip to Egypt, and the Weasleys told them all about the trip.
Next, Ron showed Ivan and Harry his new wand: fourteen inches long, wicker wood, and the essence is unicorn tail hair. As for Ginny, the little girl was the same as before, blushing unconsciously when she saw Harry, but it was obviously much stronger than last semester, at least she wouldn't knock anything down.
After everyone finished eating, Hermione and her parents rushed to the Leaky Cauldron.
Hermione was wearing a sky blue long dress and a light yellow bowler hat on her head. Her skin was tanned to a healthy wheat color, her elegance was somewhat playful, and she looked full of sunshine and vitality. She was happy to share with everyone Personal hello.
Several people chatted for a while. The Grangers had to leave early because they still had things to do. They entrusted Hermione to the care of the Weasleys and left all the things she needed at Hogwarts. Stayed at the Leaky Cauldron tonight too.
When they acted separately, Harry and Ron began to discuss how he inflated his aunt; Hermione took out a thick stack of parchment and stuffed it for Ivan, which she wrote based on what she saw and heard in France article.
"I heard the whole story from my dad that your Aunt Marge floated on the ceiling for two hours." Ron laughed hard, thinking it sounded cool to blow up his aunt.
"There's nothing funny about it, Ron," said Hermione sharply. "Honestly, I'm surprised Harry wasn't fired."
"Me too, you don't know me and..." Harry glanced at Ivan, remembering that he wanted to keep the fact that he could turn into a cat a secret, "Anyway, I forgot about the expulsion, I I thought I was going to be arrested. Ron, Mr. Weasley doesn't know why Fudge let me go, does he?"
"Probably because of you, isn't it?" Ron shrugged, still giggling, "Famous Harry Potter or something, if I blow up my aunt, the Ministry of Magic won't Will let me go. Listen, they're going to dig me out first, and my mom will kill me."
"I think Mrs. Weasley's approach is completely right. You two are a little too smug. You should learn from Ai Wenwen. He won't..."
"I already knew I was wrong, Hermione! I just lost control for a while." Seeing that Hermione was a little angry, Harry hurriedly changed the subject, "Where are we going next?"
"I think we should go to the pet store first." Hermione said, checking her wallet, "my birthday is in September, and my mother and father gave me some money to buy myself an early birthday present. Ask for an owl."
"That's fine. I want to send Scabbers over for a check-up too. I don't think Egypt is suitable for him." Ron took Scabbers out of his pocket.
Aiwen's gaze shifted from the parchment in his hand to the little mouse. Banban looked thinner than before, its beard was obviously pulled down, and its fur was not as bright as before.
"Ron, it seems to me that your rats are just out of exercise."
The corner of Ivan's mouth was slightly upturned. Peter Pettigrew must have been frightened by Sirius Black's escape from prison.
"Sports?!" Ron looked at Ivan suspiciously.
"Yeah, I suggested Hermione get a cat so she could help you."
"Don't listen to him, Hermione!" Ron subconsciously put the little mouse in his pocket, "Banban is pathetic enough, we'd better find a pet shop quickly."
"There's a magical creature shop over there!" After more than two weeks of wandering around, Harry is now very familiar with Diagon Alley, "You can see if you can buy something for Scabbers there, and Hermione can also buy it there to an owl or a cat."
"Don't buy a cat to frighten Scabbers!" Ron reminded again worriedly.
The four of them walked across the street to the shop called Wonder Zoo.
There isn't much space inside the shop, and cages hang from every inch of the wall. The little creatures in the cage were making all kinds of noises, which were smelly and noisy.
"Hello, this is my mouse!" Ron stepped forward and said to the witch standing behind the counter, "Can you see what's going on with it? Since I brought it back from Egypt, it has been It’s been a little bit bad.”
"Put it on the counter," said the witch, taking a pair of heavy black spectacles from her pocket, and examining Spots.
"Hmph!" The witch picked up Scabbers, "How old is this mouse?"
"Don't know," said Ron, "very old, it used to be my brother's."
"What's it capable of?" The witch examined Scabbers carefully.
"Oh..." Ron didn't know how to answer, the fact is that Scabbers has never shown the slightest ability to be interesting.
The witch's eyes turned from Scabbers' torn ear to its front paw, where a toe was missing, and she clicked.
"It has suffered, the mouse."
"That's what it looked like when Percy gave it to me," Ron defended himself.
Harry nodded. Since he knew Ron, this mouse has been like this. Except for sleeping, eating, eating and sleeping, it doesn't show any abnormality.
"An ordinary house mouse or garden mouse like this, don't expect it to live for more than three years." The witch pointed to the black mouse in the cage beside her and said, "Here, if you want to find a more durable animal, You might like one of these."
Ai Wen completely sneered at her statement, as if Banban was really a mouse. If he told the other party that this mouse, which she determined would not live for three years, had lived in Ron's house for more than ten years, he would scare her to tears.
"Well, if you don't want to replace it, you can try this potion." The witch continued, taking out a small red bottle from under the counter.
"How much..." Before Ron finished speaking, they saw a huge ginger-colored thing jumping down from the top cage.
Several people looked at the huge ginger-yellow creature in surprise. It was a ginger-yellow cat with thick and sparse hair. The cat looked odd, with bent legs, a gruff face, and a weird squashed look, as if it had slammed headlong into a wall at some point.
It jumped on Ron's head, poised to move forward, and purred furiously at Scabbers.
"Don't! Crookshanks, don't!" cried the witch.
Scabbers slipped from her hand like a bar of soap, dropped to the floor on all fours, and fled for the door.
"Scatterers!" yelled Ron, and sprinted out of the shop after it, Harry following.
After Scabbers disappeared, Crookshanks suddenly turned his head and looked at Ivan with a docile face, not at all fierce and violent before, maybe because his Animagus is also a cat, Crewe Keshan was very intimate with Ivan, and even took the initiative to come over and lick his hand.
This surprised the witch behind the counter, who had never seen Crookshanks approach a stranger before.
"What a cute little guy, its fur is quite splendid, isn't it, Ivan?" Hermione also knelt down and touched Crookshanks.
The cat was wary at first, but accepted Hermione right away.
"The color is quite bright, a bit like a big ball of wool." Ivan looked at it, and the cat was really ugly.
"I've decided!" Hermione held Crookshanks in her arms and stood up abruptly.
"What to decide?" Ai Wen looked at the other party in surprise, with a bad premonition in his heart.
"Didn't you ask me to buy a cat, I decided to buy it!" Hermione said, pointing to Crookshanks.
"Buy this cat?! If you do this, Ron will definitely kill me." Ivan showed a wry smile at the corner of his mouth.