Whining...

A loud whistle echoed in Ivan's ears, and with a shudder, the train slowly moved forward.

Ivan flipped through the book by himself, the carriage was very quiet, if it weren't for the inconvenience of brewing potions here, he was ready to take out the crucible in the suitcase.

After a while, there was a conversation outside the door, and the next moment the door of the cubicle was pushed open.

"Ivan?" The little brown-haired witch who opened the door and came in had a willow basket in her hand, and there was a faint fluttering, snoring sound from inside.

Ivan turned his head, and it was Hermione, Ron, and Harry entering.

The three of them quickly squeezed in and closed the sliding door.

There was a lot of space in the carriage, and Lupin was curled up in the corner, so there was no problem with three more people.

Hermione sat down in the empty seat next to Ivan, while Ron and Harry sat down on the other side, looking curiously at Lupin, who was sleeping on the corner.

"Who is he?" Ron asked, looking at Lupin, who was dressed in patched robes.

"The new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor, he's asleep, you'd better be quiet." Ivan reminded.

Ron, however, had a blank look. His expression became serious, leaned closer to signal everyone to come closer, glanced at Lupin cautiously, and finally said softly.

"Then Ivan, did you just confirm it? He's not a dark wizard or a liar, right? ”

Ron's words stunned Ivan, and his face became a little strange.

"Ron, how can you say that?" Hermione angrily rebuked.

"I'm just asking, it's not like you don't know about the past few semesters," Ron said curtly, then defended.

"Professor Chino was a dark wizard related to a mysterious person the year before, and Lockhart last year was a pretending liar, and he attacked so many people in the school, thanks to Ivan, he was able to find them out."

"Before getting in the car, George and Fred were speculating that the new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor would last a few months this time..."

Ron whispered, not noticing that Lupin, huddled in the corner, was shaking.

The sound of Harry and the others pushing the door and talking just now woke up Lupin, who had just fallen asleep.

It's just that Lupin didn't get up to greet Harry and the others because he was too sleepy, but prepared to continue sleeping for a while.

However, he never expected that he would overhear such news.

Lupin didn't dare to open his eyes and move, and smiled bitterly in his heart.

Originally, Ivan gave him a good impression, did not discriminate against werewolf wizards, and was the son of a comrade-in-arms, Lupin thought that he could get in touch with it more in the future, but now Ivan has become the object of his avoidance.

When Dumbledore invited him to be a Defence Against the Dark Arts professor, he didn't mention anything like that to him...

Lupin couldn't help but wonder if he shouldn't have come to be this professor, and if it was too late to get off the train?

Ivan, who was flipping through the Potions books, didn't know that Lupin, who had managed to gain some affection, now avoided him.

After complaining, Ron didn't mention the tragic experiences of the previous professors, instead telling the three about their family's experience in Egypt.

Ron's pet mouse, Spotted, got into Ron's pocket the moment he entered the carriage and refused to come out again.

Ivan had also been distracted by the strange behavior.

At first, Ivan thought that he had been exposed somewhere, and was hesitant to lock up Spotted so that he wouldn't escape, but then he realized that Spotted was afraid of Lupin.

Since Sirius could recognize Peter in the Animagus form in the photograph at a glance, Lupin, who was also a good friend, should be able to recognize him as well.

And, of course, maybe Hermione's new pet, a Persian long-haired cat - Crookshan!

Ivan looked at the willow basket next to the table and chair, and the spiritual cat was inside.

"Ivan..."

Ivan, who was thinking about things, was interrupted by Hermione's words, and when he came back to his thoughts, he saw Hermione looking at him with a resentful expression.

"Hermione, what did you just say? I didn't hear it. Ivan had a confused look on his face.

"Obviously you promised to send me a letter before, but I didn't see a letter during the whole summer vacation! You never replied to the letter I sent you—" Hermione repeated her words with some taste, her brown eyes staring at Ivan.

"Sorry, Hermione, I was busy with other things during the summer vacation, so I forgot about it for a while." Ivan said apologetically.

Thinking of what happened during the summer vacation, Ivan's face was a little more gloomy, he was busy tracking down the attackers, and naturally he didn't have the energy to write and reply letters.

He didn't even hear from Hermione, because letters were usually sent to his home.

Only the Hogwarts owl is more special, and he directly found his stronghold, and I don't know if Dobby often teleports back and forth between Hogwarts and the temporary stronghold, so the location is exposed.

Forgot?

The little witch's eyes widened, and her fair cheeks became puffed out,

This is already the second time!

During the summer vacation of the first grade, Ivan was busy developing wolf poison potions and forgot to send her a letter, so she specially reminded her before this summer vacation, but Ivan still forgot it.

"I heard George and Fred say that they also sent a letter to Ivan during the summer vacation, but I haven't seen you reply for a long time, and I'm in a hurry. If it weren't for Mom's stop, they would have been going to go down the alley to find you. Ron also opened his mouth to complain.

Of course, Ron didn't think anything would happen to Ivan, he hadn't seen Ivan suffer yet.

Hermione didn't think so, she was keenly aware that Ivan's face was not very good-looking, and the anger that had been surging up had subsided.

Remembering that Ivan had just said that he had other things to do during the summer vacation, the clever little witch was suddenly a little worried about whether Ivan would be in trouble during the summer vacation.

"Ivan, did anything happen to you during the summer vacation?" Hermione asked worriedly.

Harry and Ron were reminded by Hermione's warning, and realized that something was indeed wrong in this situation, so they looked at Ivan one after another.

"No, no, I'm just having some trouble trying to improve a potion." Ivan rejected Hermione's speculation, shook his head, and spoke again.

"You know, as soon as I learn, I don't care about anything else."

As he spoke, Ivan shook the "How to Improve Potions" in his hand.

Harry and Ron remembered the wolf poison potion that Ivan had developed, and quickly dispelled their suspicions, and Ron joked that Ivan might be able to get another Merlin medal this year.

"It's impossible for the same person to get two Merlin Medals, Ron!" Hermione corrected the error in Ron's words, but was still a little skeptical of Ivan's words.

After all, no matter how busy you are with improving potions, you won't even have time to reply to a letter...