Chapter 021 "Toad Hunting Competition"

As soon as he left, Catherine walked back to the compartment and locked the door, then walked to the window and opened the window, went out to look at the situation outside, and then estimated the wind speed, then sat down on the window, reached out and grabbed the upper window, bent her legs on the edge of the window and stood straight, and grabbed the guardrail on the roof of the car, and then by the inertia of the wind speed and the turning of the train, her hands alternated on the guardrail a few times, and the whole person swung into the terrace at the back of the car, and when she landed on the floor, what appeared in front of her was a palm-sized, all yellow, Toad with green stripes on its limbs.

"You're here." Catherine smiled and held out her hand to it, "Your master is looking for you!" ”

"Quack!" The toad apparently had no affection for the girl who had almost hit it, and jumped to the side with a scream.

"Looks like I can only do something to get you away!" The girl smiled brightly and reached out to take out her wand.

"Quack!" The animal's instincts made the toad feel dangerous, and it quickly jumped towards the edge of the terrace, but a flash of red light suddenly made it unconscious.

When Neville returned to the final cubicle with the witch who bought lunch, he found his pet sleeping obediently on the table.

"Levy!" Neville was pleasantly surprised to take it into his arms, "Thank you so much, Catherine, how did you find it?" ”

"Since you can't find it in the car, and it can't jump on the roof, it can only be on the terrace at the back of the car!" Catherine closed her notebook and explained with a smile.

"That's right! How could I not have thought of it! Neville tapped his head and complained, "I'm so stupid! ”

"The door at the back of the car is locked, and it's easy for people to ignore what's behind the door, after all, you can't see the terrace at the back of the car from the window." Catherine stood up to buy snacks from the witch, "It's human inertia! It has nothing to do with IQ. ”

Neville thought about it for a while, and even went to the window to investigate, before he shouted happily, "I really can't see it!" And how do you know that, Catherine? ”

"I noticed it before I got in the car." Catherine explained to Neville, who ran to her side.

"Why are you buying so many things?" After discovering that the girl had almost all of the lunch cart off, Neville asked again in confusion.

"Wait a minute, there will be a lot of people, so naturally we have to prepare some snacks." Catherine paid and asked the witch to help apply a Traceless Stretching Charm to the cell.

"Are there so many people coming?" Looking at the cubicle that had grown several times larger, Neville's face was full of confusion.

"There are probably about 40 people!" Catherine asked the witch to help add some tables and chairs before calling Neville to start distributing snacks.

As for the other six, because of the new students who joined one after another, by the time they arrived at the front of the car, they had already gathered into a team of 36 people, but because of their position, they had no idea that the toad they were looking for had returned to its owner's arms.

A group of first-year tangle figures were distressing, and after learning that they were looking for a toad, many of them offered to help, but Draco and Harry, the leaders, refused.

"Everyone asked, but no one saw it." Seeing that the front of the car had been found, Draco decided to exchange information with his opponent.

"I've searched all the places, but I can't see it hiding in that corner." Harry was also puzzled by this, they had searched carefully all the way, how could they not find a toad?

"Maybe it's not in the car at all." The brunette girl who had been following Draco said coldly.

"It's a pet with a contract." Hermione immediately retorted.

"Then it can't go far, will it be on the roof of the car?" The red-haired boy who had been following Harry said hesitantly.

"Have you ever seen that toad jump that high?" The dark-skinned boy who followed Draco lazily sarcastically.

"And what about the rear of the car?" A voice interjected, and everyone looked over in confusion to see that it was a boy who looked thin with glasses, but his expression gave people an indescribable confidence.

"Why do you think it's in the back of the car? Theodore. Draco asked the emaciated boy, puzzled.

"There's a terrace at the back of the car." A blonde girl standing next to the thin boy spoke up to help the crowd, "Although it is surrounded by a fence, the toad should be able to jump on it." ”

"It must be there!" Draco and Harry glanced at each other and immediately ran towards the back of the car, and the other freshmen were not far behind and ran after them.

The corridor of the train is not wide, and the two people walking side by side are a little reluctant, fortunately they are both in the first grade, not tall, and smaller, and there is still some room for two people to run together, but nearly 40 people run together, and the corridor is directly plugged in.

Looking at this surging "wave", the people in the corridor hurriedly hid in the cubicles, and some people deliberately jumped on the windows and other things that could be used to avoid it, but there were always people who were more unlucky.

A little fat man was walking while reading a magazine, and when he heard something wrong and looked up to find something abnormal, he was in the aisle between the two carriages, and it was too late to exit, so he could only choose to stick to the wall of the car.

Fortunately, he is not short, so the freshmen who ran wildly gave way to the side, but his protruding belly was really avoidable, and after the team ran over, he held his stomach and curled up for a long time without standing up, so that those who saw it no longer dared to underestimate the strength of the little arm of the first grade.

It's true that the distance from the front to the rear is not short, but when you run hard, it's still very fast.

As soon as he saw the door at the back of the car leading to the terrace, Draco immediately pulled out his wand, and when he saw this, Harry immediately took out his wand, but then he was blinded, and he didn't know what spell to use, seeing this, Draco couldn't help but raise his eyebrows proudly, but his smugness could not even be maintained for a second, and a voice of chanting spells sounded behind them.

"Alaho Cave Open!"

It was Hermione who cast the spell, and a wave of magic shot from the tip of her staff towards the door, but unfortunately missed because she was unfamiliar with spell casting in motion.

Draco was startled and hurriedly pointed at the door and chanted the same incantation, the magic hitting the target, but to no avail.

Seeing this, the other children raised their wands and pointed them at the door, reciting the incantation they had just heard.

The inaccurate magic not only hit the door, but everything in its vicinity was affected, but luckily the freshmen's magic was small and didn't cause much damage, let alone the locked door.

"Oops!" Looking at their approaching targets, Draco and Harry realized a problem at the same time, and they looked at each other, jerking their heads back and shouting, "Stop! ”

Unfortunately, they shouted too late, and their voices were muffled by the noisy footsteps, and they didn't travel far, and even if the children behind them heard it, they didn't dare to stop.

Draco and Harry were not slow to react, and seeing that the group couldn't stop in time, they immediately jumped to the sides and pulled the two girls who were following them over to help them avoid the momentum.

As for the two boys who followed them, they couldn't take care of it, and by the time the two boys found that the person in front of them had suddenly disappeared, the door had already appeared in front of them.

"Bang!" "Bang!" Two loud bangs, two boys sticking to the door, followed by a series of "popping" sounds, a group of freshmen crowded the small hallway at the door of the last cubicle like sardines, even Draco and Harry, who had avoided the front at first, could not dodge, only the two girls they protected, and the girls who were left behind because of their physical relationship, survived.

"Why are you hitting the wall en masse?" Catherine stood in the cubicle and asked curiously, opening the glass window.

"Catherine! Neville's toad is behind this door. Hermione said as she poked her head out from behind Harry.

"Oh, it's been found." Catherine turned sideways, letting go of Neville next to her and Riffou in his arms.

"Didn't you say it's only for first grade?" The brunette girl holding Draco shouted in surprise.

"Aren't we in first grade?" Catherine asked with a wink, and Draco and Harry had understood that they had been calculated by her from the beginning.

"Can you -- wait -- and we'll talk later!" Theodore, the thin boy named Theodore, who had been so squeezed that he was pressed against the door of the cubicle, spoke forcefully, completely unable to see his previous composure.

"I'm sorry! But......" Catherine was interrupted by Neville's apologetic words before she could finish, "I'll open the door for you." ”

"Don't!" Catherine and the boy shouted in unison, but could no longer stop Neville from opening the door.

Seeing this, Catherine could only quickly pull the round-faced boy back, while Theodore was "pounded" and was directly pressed down on the floor of the cubicle by the person behind him.

"Ahh Those who knew him exclaimed in unison, and those who pressed on him hurriedly left, and Neville threw himself at his side, shouting anxiously, "I didn't mean to! ”

"It's no big deal!" Catherine, after expertly checking his condition, comforted Neville, "A rest will naturally wake up." ”

"Can't you use the Resuscitation Charm?" The blonde girl who had just solved everyone's puzzles stood outside the crowd and reminded her.

"I'm sorry, I didn't expect that," Catherine pulled out her wand and pointed at the boy named Theodore, "Wake up!" The boy flicked and slowly opened his eyes.

"Wake up!" The freshmen cheered en masse, and Neville burst into tears.

"Get out of the way!" "There are wounded people outside!" The shouts of the two girls reminded the crowd gathered near the door that there were many "victims" in the corridor.

"The advanced box that can move, and the one who can't move stays where it is first." Catherine shouted out the door for command, and motioned for Neville and the others to help the newly awake Theodore to his seat first, "Does anyone use the Levitation Charm?" ”

A few small hands were raised in the crowd that slowly moved into the chamber.

"Students who know how to float spells, please come to the door, and we will carry the students who can't move later."

Fortunately, there were not many people who couldn't move, only the two boys who were the first to hit the door and were hit by a bunch of people just now, and even more fortunately, it was only a group of 11-year-old children who hit them, so the two of them were just stuck and didn't suffer much damage, so they were able to moan and complain not long after they were moved into the cubicle.

"Oh! Our poor little brother! ”

"You look miserable!"