Chapter 6: The First Visitor
When they came, Neville and Lyle had spent five days on the road, but when they returned, it had only taken six or seven hours.
Usually wizards' mansions will add a Muggle banishment charm, but even without Neville's leadership, Lyle has a way to blend in, and after all, he is not exactly an ordinary person.
According to the results of a man's search of his ancestors' eighteen generations, one of his ancestors served as a prosecutor at the Supreme Court of Provence in France in the sixteenth century.
This man is a squib.
In other words, he has wizard blood, and no matter how thin the descendants are, Lyle can't be 0.
Incidentally, this prosecutor has a big brother - Michel de Nottdam.
This name may not be known to many people, but his other name is very well-known - Nostradamus.
On Thursday, July 29, 1993, Uncle Algie was supposed to go to work, but it was Algie who opened the door to Neville, and the others, Mrs. Longbottom and Aunt Anne, were not at home.
"Oh, it's Neville. β
Algie was calm when he saw Neville, but when Lyle also appeared in front of him, after greeting him, it could be seen that he was very surprised, so surprised that he almost cried.
"Lyle, Merlin is on top, I didn't expect you to come back again!" Algie hugged Lyle, patted him on the back vigorously, and said loudly: "Two years! We haven't seen each other for two years, right?
"Uh......"
Lyle was a little embarrassed and didn't know how to answer, because when he was staying here, Mrs. Longbottom couldn't get used to his style of doing things, and thought that he would bring Neville badly, and Algie thought that what he taught Neville was useless, what kind of running ten kilometers, how could it be effective to create danger for Neville to unleash his potential.
(Lyle complained: Why do you think this is a gene lock!)
His eldest brother, Frank Longbottom, the backbone of the Order of the Phoenix and an excellent Auror, had escaped from Voldemort three times, and was also "awakened" because of an accident.
That's right!
In short, Lyle had nowhere to go back then, and Neville, a little fat man who had somehow become his student, had the cheekiness to lie here for a while, and when the time was right, he left on his own initiative.
For the people of the Longbottom family, Lyle has no ill feelings, the three views of wizards are too different from ordinary humans, and the education they receive causes them to see the world from a different perspective.
Not to mention what kind of training method it is, it's really just Lyle's mouth, I thought it was at most to strengthen my body, but who knew that Neville really exercised it.
Lyle is not a cautious person, since Alji is like this, he will not hold a shelf, he has to come to a show that you ignored me back then, and today I will let you not climb high, or two years in Hedong, two years in Hexi, don't think that middle-aged people are poor for a while and can be bullied.
In terms of emotional intelligence alone, the Longbottom family is not Lyle's opponent when they are tied together, that is, the kung fu of a cup of tea, he and Alji have become good friends who talk about everything.
Seeing people and talking about people, talking about ghosts is the basic configuration of a person like Lyle, who is an ordinary person, and can actually rely on knowledge reserve means such as subscribing to the Daily Prophet to talk about Quidditch, pop music, recent prices, and politics in the wizarding world with orthodox wizards like Algie.
If magic is deducted, even if Lyle disguises himself as a wizard, it is estimated that few people will be able to see his details.
Algie quit his previous job because the Ministry of Magic had a very idle but well-paid department that hired people, and as a result, he was selected and officially started on the 2nd of the next month, which is Monday.
It was a great thing, so Aunt Anne and Mrs. Longbottom went out to buy more things and celebrate Neville's birthday.
Lyle smiled at this, it seems that although someone is gradually moving away from the center of power, his control has not decreased much.
"Oh, one more thing. β
Algie's mind was actually a bit confused, and it took more than an hour to see Neville before he remembered that he needed to tell something.
"Uncle, what's the matter?"
Neville walked into the living room with a soccer ball in his arms, even if it was a holiday, training or something could not be left behind.
"You have a classmate who came to see you some time ago, but you are not at home. "I wasn't at home at the time, I don't know who it was, but she seemed to be coming on your birthday." β
"Huh?"
Neville looked at Algi blankly and asked, "She?"
"It seems to be called...... Luna?"
β......β
A series of key words crossed Neville's mind, and at this point, he finally remembered what he had forgotten, who wrote the sentence on the back of the letter, and ...... Who is she.
"Poof...... Hahahaha
Lyle laughed very unkindly, and his exaggerated laughter was clearly deliberate.
And there is one thing that may take a long time for Neville to react-
Lyle corresponded with Mrs. Longbottom on a daily basis.
Two days later.
Since the morning, the owl has been delivering mail to Neville's house, and almost every thirty minutes, new mail is delivered.
The arrangement has been prepared a long time ago, everything is in an orderly and step-by-step manner.
Lyle looked at the mail piled up on the table, and described to Alji about the free shipping in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, in his opinion, such a delivery is not efficient at all, and it is also very troublesome. If the carrying capacity of owls is limited, then change to something else, anyway, wizards have a way to achieve it.
Many people may not believe it, but the employment situation of wizards is actually very painful, and many of them are homeless people who can't find suitable jobs.
Wandering, wandering, contaminated with some bad diseases, and not being a strong-willed person with a noble character, is equivalent to gradual degeneration.
Voldemort fell, but the Aurors were still busy, and the crime rate remained at a modest level.
This year's Ministry of Magic can't do it!
Lyle asked fixedly, and I pondered, Neville opened the emails one by one, and this year's greeting cards were much more than last year's, and according to Neville's understanding, he had more friends.
Some people's requirements are so low, you give him a birthday card, and he treats you as a friend and keeps your good in mind.
And there are people - so many people who have eaten with me, everyone is my brother?
Far from it.
One of the usual means of travel for wizards is the Floo network, which is simple to configure, but it is redundant to turn on a fireplace in the summer.
But Neville's fireplace was still burning because someone was coming.
Neville, who was opening the mail, could clearly see that he was absent-minded, and from time to time he turned his head to look at the fireplace, as if waiting for someone to arrive.
At some point, Neville suddenly turned his head, only to see the flames in the fireplace suddenly rise up, a few meters away, although there was magic to protect the fireplace from really coming out, it was still difficult to give people a sense of security.
Fortunately, the flames soon fell, and there was one more person in the living roomβ
Whitebeard, phew, Dumbledore.