Chapter 7: Days of Cohabitation
Luna thought that she should have thought that the family that could raise someone as good as Neville must have something special, but today I don't know what's going on, her IQ doesn't seem to be on the line, and she didn't even think of it.
The temperature of the tea slowly decreased, and the atmosphere in the living room gradually fell silent, because for now, Neville and Luna had not found a topic to talk about seriously.
Neville held the teacup until it was cold, then he drank it down, then placed the teacup on the table and picked up the kettle to refill it.
"I'm going back tomorrow. Neville said suddenly, "Thank you so much for taking care of me during this time. ”
Luna was leaning back on the couch, but when she heard Neville's words, she sat up straight again, she frowned, and asked, "Why are you in such a hurry to go back?"
"It's been a month, I haven't been home for a month. ”
For some reason, Neville's words made Luna want to laugh, so she did laugh, and although she didn't make a sound, Neville sat across from her, and he could see it clearly.
Neville didn't understand why Luna was laughing, and the latter quickly gave an explanation.
"How long has it been since you first came home when you were at Hogwarts?" Luna asked, laughing for a moment, "a month, two months, or three months?"
"Well, I went back for Christmas, which should have been three months and twenty days. ”
"I thought you were at Hogwarts for a month and then took a leave of absence and went home. ”
Neville didn't understand the meaning of Luna's words, he shook his head and said seriously, "I miss home, but I did only come home at Christmas." ”
"Then why are you in such a hurry to get home this time?"
"This ......"
Neville didn't know how to answer, he tried to think for a while, but his expression became more and more dazed, and he said to himself, "yes, why am I in a hurry to go back?"
Luna laughed again, for Neville looked very funny. In fact, the confusion in her heart at this time was no less than that of Neville, and with her hand supporting her chin, Luna tilted her head to look at the person opposite, with a trace of confusion and confusion in her eyes.
She could already draw that face on paper with her eyes closed, but was the person in front of her really the one who saw more clearly and had a clearer mind than she could have that day?
"Stay here in peace, we won't drive you away. ”
"This ......"
"Then it's such a happy decision, I'll ask Dad to send you back in half a month. ”
"Huh?"
Until he stayed here for a few more days, Neville didn't understand why he agreed to Luna that day, although he wrote a letter home afterwards to explain the situation, and his grandmother agreed, Neville always had a feeling that he had been cheated.
As it turned out, it was better to concentrate when exercising, and as soon as Neville thought of the word "pit", he literally stepped into a pit and lost his balance.
The fall wasn't enough, but Neville, who had regained his balance, decided not to think about it anymore, and he didn't think about it anyway, and he couldn't figure it out no matter how he thought about it, which only added to his troubles.
There are only a few families in the village where Luna's family lives, and there is open space nearby where they can move, so he gets up every morning and runs down the hill where the house is located, and then runs back after the morning exercise.
In a sense, Neville just changed places to continue squatting at home, and in addition to morning exercises in the past few days, he has followed Luna around the neighborhood, and the scope is limited to this mountain.
At the end of the morning workout, Neville felt slimy, although the effect of the exercise was not as obvious as it was at the beginning, but every once in a while, Neville could still feel that he had a new breakthrough, very slow, very small, but indeed really moving towards the unknown limit.
Pushing the door open, Luna was already preparing breakfast, much more diligent than Neville's roommates. However, Hogwarts does not require students to cook their own meals, just eat ready-made, so this part of the time is saved.
"Morning. ”
Naturally, he said hello to Luna, and Neville ran to the bathroom to take a shower. Maybe he didn't even notice that he was much more casual now than he was at the beginning, but he wasn't so casual a few days ago, which should be an improvement.
This change in Neville, Luna sees it, which is a good thing, at least Neville looks much more comfortable and pleasing to the eye. Life itself is very tiring, so why bother to add all kinds of constraints and burdens to yourself to make yourself even more tired.
After showering and changing into dry clothes, Neville sat down in his place with his slippers on, his breakfast already in place. Mr. Lovegood didn't show up, so he was the only one here and Luna.
There's not much to say about the breakfast, but the conversation between Neville and Luna during this breakfast may be several times more than the previous whole day combined.
It's hard to tell if Luna discovered what she and Neville had in common, or if she became interested in Neville's various adventures in his first year at Hogwarts, and she's been trying to get Neville to tell him something about Hogwarts lately.
It was also at this time that Luna realized that Hogwarts was actually more interesting than she thought, and she had been very resistant to it before, because she thought that it was not free enough, and she had to go to class every day, and she had to do homework, and even ****** things like exams.
Neville wasn't a good storyteller, but he took notes very hard and worked hard, and the record of his year at Hogwarts could have been used to write a novel, and now he just had to pull out the little notebook and expand the record on it.
It's actually quite a troublesome thing, for Neville and for Luna, but they still enjoy it.
Luna stirred the oatmeal with a spoon, her oatmeal was also very distinctive, colorful, strange-shaped, I don't know if this thing was also magical, after brewing, there was actually a rainbow above these oatmeal, although it only lasted for less than ten seconds.
"You go to your morning exercise every day?"
"Hmm. ”
With a sullen answer, Neville had already settled his breakfast, his bowl two sizes larger than Luna's, but it was finished faster.
"That's what Mr. Lyle taught me, and I've been doing it for almost four years. ”
Lyle, Luna had heard Neville mention it no less than ten times. In the latter's description, it's a magical fellow, and Luna would love to meet him if she had the chance.
Neville had been in contact with Lyle for over half a year, and it seemed like he had been mixing well lately, with a man named Sherlock Holmes.
Unbeknownst to Neville, though, was that just as he received Lyle's letter, rejoicing for his teacher and blessing him, a man who was not in Lyle's business came to his door.
That man was Albus Dumbledore.