Chapter 111

London Zoo is a magical place, at least for wizards, it surprises.

Standing in front of the map of the park, Sirius and James were shocked at how many animals could fit in this Muggle zoo.

"How can Muggles put so many animals in cages?" It was the first time Sirius admired Muggles so much, considering that although he was a wizard, he had never been to a wizarding zoo, probably because the Fantastic Beasts Protection Act did not allow them to put mermaids, horses, and unicorns in cages and pay to watch them.

It's impossible for them to visit all the campuses in a day, and Red isn't a Gryffindor who likes to swallow dates and doesn't want to understand Gryffindor. He firmly rejected Sirius and James' request to spend the day at the zoo today, saying, "We've got a summer vacation to visit all of its places, including another park." ”

"Wow!" Two Gryffindors, a Slytherin, and a five-year-old girl were amazed, which meant they definitely didn't have to worry about having nothing to do this summer, which was much better than reading homework in a room.

The little wizards knew everything about the magical creatures of the wizarding world, but they didn't know anything about the animals of the Muggle world, and Ariana brought a "Dictionary of Animals" before going out to help them a lot, because many times they needed to look up books to find out what this animal was, and the sign in front of the cage was too simple to satisfy Ariana and Sever's curiosity.

They were inevitably slowed down, and in front of Red, no matter how anxious Sirius and James were to see more animals than to flip through the cage to see what a proboscis kangaroo was eating.

As they passed through the African lion's cage, Sirius and James agreed with 'Seifer' for the first time to stay and watch a little longer. The two of them carefully studied every detail of the African lion in their cages, and if they were not allowed to see it up close, they would even want to go up and touch it.

"A lion!" Sirius sighed, "Is there anything better than this for Gryffindor Transfiguration?" I've decided! I'm going to be a lion! ”

James watched the African lion lazily lick a chunk of beef, his eyes lit up and said, "I think Gryffindor can have two lions!" ”

Thinking that they had finally found their Animagus form, the two Gryffindors began to care for their old friend, Sirius put his arm on the shoulder of 'Seifer' like a real buddy, and always watched out for him to fight back: "Dear 'Seifer'." He sweetly said that after coming out of Riddle's house, little Professor Riddle's sister was very fond of the Slytherin, and that the little girl did not understand that he was a gloomy villain, and she sweetly called him 'Seifer'.

That's why he began to call his old friend that, too.

The Slytherin on the other side said he was willing to send him to hell here.

"What's the matter? Dear 'Black'. No matter how hard he tried, Severus couldn't call these two guys by their names, but he could show his kindness, at least in front of Ariana, and he didn't want her to see a fight or a fight. It's bad for her, and she can be scared and even have nightmares.

"Ahem, I mean," Sirius snapped and lowered his hand, realizing that his actions might not be so welcome, at least Professor Riddle Jr. had already smiled at him two or three times, and that was terrible and made him shiver.

"Now that James and I have found our shapeshifters, maybe we can go find you next?" He turned his head and found that his friend James had actually gone into hiding, and he had to shout at him: "James? You tell me? He turned back and continued to smile at 'Seifer', "We should help our old friend." ”

Normally, at this time, his friend James would be happy to come out and say something, but when he and Severus glared at each other with cramps, James didn't come.

"James! Hi man, what are you doing? Sirius had to laugh at Severus, who was looking at him at him, and turned to look for his friend.

"Dude!" He bent down and stabbed James in a low voice, "What are you doing here?" I was talking to the snot spirit just now, what are you looking at here? He stared carefully at James, who had just looked intently at a sign with the "Park Notice" on it.

"'All children under the age of three are not allowed to defecate in the open ...... park', what is this?" Sirius read it and looked at James strangely, "Did you notice that Ariana wants to pee?" He turned his head to look at the little girl who had been in the arms of Professor Riddle Jr., who was not in Professor Riddle's arms but 'Sever'.

- Maybe this little lady won't tell such a group of men what she wants?

Sirius thought thoughtfully.

"Huh? What the? James looked up blankly, he didn't want to accompany Sirius to the daily conversation with the snot spirit again, but he didn't know how to explain his sudden change of attitude to his friend. Imagine if he said to Sirius 'man, I don't think we should bully Snotty anymore, I'm afraid he's going to have nightmares at night'.

- Nope. Then he should have nightmares.

James dismissed the idea, they would be busy for the next two years anyway, and they wouldn't have much chance to deal with snot.

Before going to the lawn for a picnic, Sirius insisted on taking everyone to the public restroom and asked everyone to go inside for a while.

Then he smiled and bent down to Ariana and said, "Dear Miss, would you like to go in for a while?" ”

'Seifer' looked disgusted and pushed him away as he was showing gentlemanly demeanor, escorting the little girl to the ladies' entrance.

For the next five minutes, the ladies in and out of the bathroom were fortunate enough to see four handsome young men waiting at the door, and they attracted a lot of attention, which made three of them look very bad as they sat on the lawn and spread out their picnic cloths.

Ariana refused to eat any more after eating a ham sandwich, a chicken sandwich, and a fruit sandwich, and dear 'Seifer' swallowed only a ham sandwich and led her to play with the other children on the lawn, who could see that they were Muggles, which made Sirius and James look over there.

Red didn't understand what they were looking at, and handed them more food and said, "Don't worry, there's Seifer, it's going to be fine." He trusted the Slytherin boy so much that he didn't know it before, but he had shown amazing patience ever since he met Ariana, and no matter how embarrassing Ariana's request was, he never got angry at her, never rejected her rudely, and even if he had to disappoint her sometimes, he always avoided upsetting her for too long.

This is completely similar to the school.

Sirius was a little unconvinced by the trust in Professor Riddle Jr.'s tone, but he cautiously remained silent. It had only been a morning, but he had already known Ariana Riddle's status in the house, and he believed that Professor Riddle Jr. had worked hard to make his sister's first trip to the Muggle Zoo fun, and if anyone dared to spoil it, he would regret not leaving his mother in his arms to be a good baby today.

James was direct: "Little wizards usually get out of control, so let's get out of here." "Potter is a pure-blood, and his parents taught him at a very young age not to expose him to Muggles as a wizard. Muggles are very weak and easily frightened, and they are generally incapable of accepting wizardry or magic.

It's a fun day, and if something happens, it's too bad.

Severus Snape had the same idea for the first time with the two Gryffindors, and he had seen firsthand what Muggles could become when they learned about wizarding and wizarding, even if he was still a good man. He only let Ariana play with the Muggle children for a quarter of an hour before bringing her back.

They had to go home at five o'clock, and given the time on the road, they had to go to one more museum. Sirius and James recommend the 'deserved' Reptile Pavilion. Built in 1849, a century later, the London Zoo Reptile House is home to all the reptiles in the world, dead or alive.

To the surprise of the two Gryffindors, the dear 'Seifer' had no interest in this place, and of course he experienced the 'kindness' of the two Gryffindors, which could be called 'pediatric' compared to their previous behavior.

It's actually Ariana who can't even forget to return to the animal flow here!

The two Gryffindors were amazed when they heard the fluent snake language coming out of her mouth.

"The Riddle family is truly a Parseltongue family." Sirius exclaimed, the entire Hogwarts knew that the two Professors of Riddle were Parseltongues, and now the third one has also appeared, and it seems that there will be many Parseltongues in the Riddle family in the future.

- That's so cool.

Sirius remembered that his family, although he had always flaunted the pure-blood nobility of wizards, but the entire family did not have a single hand to prove their family's extraordinary ability. This is also one of the reasons why he has always looked down on the Black family, and will only brag about himself and buy honor with gold gallons, like an upstart.

After chatting with the snake in the display case for a while, Ariana asked her dear brother that she wanted to take the reticulated python away.

"Beauva is a mother, and she doesn't want to lay eggs here." Arianna said.

Red squatted down and talked to the reticulated python called Beauva for a while, and then agreed, and he said, "But Ariana, you know very well that your mother will not allow you to raise Beauva, you can only give it to me." ”

"It's okay." "I'll be able to go to Hogwarts in six years," said Ariana, "and Beauva said it rarely saw anyone who could understand it, and that it wouldn't forget me." ”

The two Gryffindors discover that they might have to smuggle a snake back! It made them excited right away!

"Little princess, Knight Potter is here at your command." James crouched down to eye level with Ariana, holding one of her hands and preparing to kiss the back of her hand, but before he could be kicked over by the nasty snot.

"You're ......!" James jumped in anger, and then Professor Riddle Jr. swallowed all the impolite words back into his stomach under his gaze.

You can't say this in front of a little lady.

James told himself to calm down, didn't he decide to be a regular classmate with Snot? Yes, let's give up all hatred.

Then he saw that dear 'Sever' was pulling out his handkerchief and carefully wiping the hand that Ariana had held clean.

- him and give up hatred! I'm going to kill him!

Later, Professor Riddle Jr. made a small circular opening in the display case, and the snake swam out of it, and at the same time became as small as a finger, and when it was hidden in the picnic basket, the group of five quickly fled the scene.

In the evening, according to reports, the reporter claimed that the London Zoo had lost a reticulated python, and the keeper said that it may have slipped out while he was feeding.

Two of the three young wizards watched Muggle TV in a strange way.

"Ahh It's a funny picture, it can make a sound! Sirius said.

"It's funny that it can keep moving. Is this a photo frame? James leaned in to watch the TV.

Pauss looked at Red solemnly, and he immediately explained, "Mom, don't worry, that breeder is going to be fine, you know, Muggles have a thing called a guild." It was just a mistake at work, and he would probably only get scolded once...... I'll give him a gift. ”

Paucus told her that it would be fine, that she could not teach Tom to be a true gentleman, but at least he had learned to think of others, even if it was just a gift of apology.

For the rest of the holidays, Sirius and James have been working hard for the Animagus, claiming that they will turn into lions.

"Brave Lion!" Sirius said proudly.

"We're going to be Gryffindor heroes! Two lions! It doesn't get any better than this! James imagined that beautiful day.

On the day of their return to school, Sirius and James were accompanied by their parents to the train station. They put their luggage in the carriage and immediately went to their friends.

Then, they saw Severus Snape coming from the opposite side.

Purely out of summer habits, Sirius stepped forward and put his arm on Slytherin's shoulder and said sweetly, "Hey, dear Seifer, how was the summer vacation?" ”

"It sucks. Especially when I see your face. "Dear 'Seifer' said coldly after knocking his hand off.

The surrounding students were stunned. Before getting out of the car, everyone said that Gryffindor Sirius called his old friend 'Dear Seifer', which was more shocking than Dumbledore's improper headmaster.

Considering that Sirius Black and James Porter have had very different performances last year, it's clear.

"They're under the Imperius Curse! It must be a dark wizard! For a conspiracy! ”

- This is Gryffindor.

"What's wrong with them? Were they all liars before? Actually, they are good friends? It's a weird camaraderie. Maybe they think it's funny? ”

—Hufflepuff had a heated discussion. From Sirius's betrayal of the family to why he hated Slytherin for four years, to now calling a Slytherin 'Dear Sever'. It's so exciting. The Huffpuffs said this from the bottom of their hearts.

“…… Strange Blake, is he trying to show that he has a good relationship with his family or Slytherin? ”

—Ravenclaw.

"It's a conspiracy, there's no doubt about it."

— The Slytherins begin to strike at Regulus.

"Are your parents going to let you continue the family?"

"Didn't they give you nothing for your brother?"

"You say he's doing well at home? Regulus, my friend, I think you should be careful. ”

Regulus told him to be careful of his own safety, and out of curiosity, he owled his brother and quickly got a ranting letter.

'What dear?! That Slytherin snot is not my dear!! That's just a joke! A joke!! ’

Regulus watched the roaring letter at the breakfast table with the whole school as it roared and turned into a pile of ashes, and then all eyes were on the Gryffindor who shouted, 'That's a joke.'

Sirius burst out of the dining room like a spotted antelope lion, quickly disappearing from everyone's sight.

After a few minutes, conversation resumed in the cafeteria, and everyone began to prepare for class. One Hufflepuff whispered to a friend, "Gryffindor isn't kidding. ”

His friend replied, "Do you really believe it?" As soon as I heard it, I knew that he was just covering it up. ”

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