Chapter 14: On the Way Back to School
1 September, London. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 infoHeavy rain. The cars coming and going on the road are not rolling up a little stagnant water and splashing everywhere. From time to time, it caused a burst of exclamations from passers-by on the road, and passers-by in a hurry, almost everyone had an umbrella in their hands, and while hurrying away, they also cursed two sentences from time to time in this changeable weather. In such weather, even a lady with elegant manners, or a gentleman with a standard of behavior, will inevitably let his clothes get a little rain when walking outdoors.
In such weather, a Rolls-Royce sedan, unobtrusively but without warning, emerged from the rain curtain and quietly heard the entrance of King's Cross Station. After a while, Holly was walking on the platform of the train station with his luggage. Compared with the people around him who have more or less some rain on their bodies, there is no trace of rain on Heley's body.
Stepping on sandals, walking on the platform, looking at the muggles bustling around him, resisting the urge to take out his wand to create a big event, Holly pushed his luggage and walked towards the entrance of the platform of nine and four.
Quickly passing through the wall, seeing the red steam train again, looking at the empty platform, Holly couldn't help but sigh again.
"Click...... Click...... "With every step of the platform, Holly could clearly hear the echo from afar.......
With a wand in his pocket, he lightly carried his luggage onto the train and into his compartment. In the private room, freshly baked sweets are placed on the table, and the golden brown cake that glows hot when the heat preservation magic is applied looks delicious.
In the bedroom of the carriage, he took off his iconic black dress in the Muggle world, changed into a wizard's robe, which was also black, and stepped on a pair of handmade calfskin shoes. Holly looked at the two badges scattered on the bed in a daze—the Ravenclaw prefect and the Hogwarts student council president. This was specially sent to her by the owls of Hogwarts two days ago. According to Penelope, who has already graduated, the badges of the prefect and student council president usually arrive at the end of July with the book list and necessary items for the next school year.
"Damn old bee, is it fun to do that?" said Holly, thinking of something. According to Holly's guess, as early as the end of the third year, the positions of student president and prefect such as Penelope should have been decided, and the replacement candidates are usually recommended by the previous person who held the position. At the very least, at the end of her third year, Penelope made it clear to Holly that she was the person she was recommending, even if Holly's grade did not meet the Hogwarts requirements for these positions. In Holly's opinion, the reason why these two badges came so late was probably because Dumbledore deliberately obstructed him on the side, in retaliation for the difficult problem that Holly gave him at the end of last semester.
Time passed, and the platform gradually began to become popular from the previous emptiness. Compared to previous years, it seems that the queue of families to send their children this year seems to be a little larger, which is understandable, after all, the recent Quidditch World Cup just happened, the little wizards going to school, such an operation through the Muggle train station, is undoubtedly another good opportunity for those extremists to launch an attack - countless Muggles, young wizards who cannot protect themselves, are like sheep waiting to be slaughtered in front of any dark wizard.
The train's steam engine was already working, and the white steam filled the entire platform. The cries of owls one after another, the classmates seen through the steam, and the mutual greetings between the parents of the students made the entire platform of nine and three-quarters extremely noisy. A large number of students hurriedly stuffed their luggage into a box and then quickly ran off the train to say goodbye to their parents, relatives and friends before the start of the school year.
Many wizards who are related to the Ministry of Magic are secretly talking about something that seems to be a secret but is related to Hogwarts, which has aroused the interest of a large number of young wizards.
The train started, and the little wizards had to stop saying goodbye to their families and embark on the journey of the new semester again.
"Oh, so you have these two badges in your hands, yes, I should have guessed, but why didn't you tell me during the World Cup?" said Erinka, who had come from her box, looking at the two badges on Holly's chest.
"Can I say I've just gotten these two things?" Holly replied with a wry smile. "Damn old bee, sent this to me through an owl only two days ago. ”
"Okay...... Anyway, I don't have a problem, but what...... Miss Student Council Plus Prefect, I think you should go out and do your duty. Perhaps, you can see something interesting on the road. Erinka remembered what she had seen Draco Malfoy walking deeper into the carriage and couldn't help but say.
"Where's Luna?" asked Erinka after looking around.
Luna went to sit with her classmates. She said that every year those people would talk about strange things, and she was quite interested. Holly said before closing the door.
"Okay. It's hard to imagine what is still strange in Luna's eyes. Erinka shrugged, picked up another piece of cake, and ate it slowly.
In the prefect's box, Cedric Diggry had been waiting for five minutes, and since the train started, the prefects had been working in groups of twos and began to patrol the train, leaving only Cedric missing a companion - the female prefect of Ravenclaw.
"Huh, haven't the prefects come here yet? I'll come back a few minutes later. The door to the prefect's box opened, and a girl poked her head in.
"No, the other prefects have already gone out to make their rounds. Cedric explained.
"Oh, yes, what about you?" asked Holly, a little confused.
"I—I need to wait for the Ravenclaw prefects to go out on patrol. ”
"Oh. Holly answered, without closing the box door,
"Hello, if you don't have anything to do, can you help close the box door first?" After waiting for a while, Cedric came out and reminded when he saw that the box door was not closed.
"Ahh In this case, shouldn't this boy be patrolling the carriage with him?
"What do you mean?"
"I mean, are you going to patrol with the Ravenclaw prefects?"
"yes. ”
"Let's go. ”
"Where's the Ravenclaw prefect?" Cedric asked, confused, gesturing to the prefect badge on his chest.
"Ahh Holly pulled out two badges from his pockets and pinned them to his chest in turn. "Okay? I think it's time to speed up the patrol. Holly pointed to his head poking out of the corridor not far away.