34. Nine and three-quarters
After a night of feasting, McGoss, dressed in a suit, sat on the bed tiredly and saw Harry during the day. Potter's surprise didn't make him feel any more emotional, because his mouth was always smiling, and he didn't know how to change back to his previous appearance for a while.
"Why don't you go back?" McGoth looked weakly at Hermione in front of her, who was wearing a princess dress, which his parents had bought for her, and since she came to their house, his parents had been very fond of this strong and intelligent girl, and had completely adopted it as their own daughter. Her parents didn't come today (probably embarrassed to come), so they had to take her back by car.
"You look so ugly in a suit." Hermione didn't want to go back yet.
"You lied a bit like I did."
"Why aren't you excited?"
"Excited about what? Birthday? I'm used to it. McGoth spread his hands.
"You know what I'm talking about, Harry. Potteryer, the first time I saw the person in the book, why did you forget it in the blink of an eye? Hermione was surprised by Magos's calmness.
"Cut, I've been in the newspaper too, why haven't I seen you so surprised."
"Can this be compared?" The unintentional sarcasm was so devastating that McGoth felt like he had been hit by a massive amount of critical hits.
"Well, it really can't be compared."
"But he looks so ordinary." Hermione had already started to go into self-talk mode. "And he doesn't know anything about magic, you see the look on our face when we told him we were wizards, I don't believe it at all."
"You're, if you hadn't received a notice from Hogwarts and hadn't been to Diagon Alley, I said I'm a wizard, would you believe it?"
"But he's different, he's Harry. Porter. The boy who never died. Hermione argued.
"I think he'd rather not have those titles and fame."
"Oh, too, his uncle's family seems to be very unfriendly to him. I don't know how his life is. β
"I said, why do you care so much about him, you just want to know and go directly, didn't he give us the address, No. 4 Privet Road." McGoth felt like he was about to fall asleep.
"Ahh What are you doing. Magos called out as he touched his pulled arm, and now his sleepiness was gone.
"You have to take care of it." As she spoke, Hermione walked out of the bedroom and slammed the door shut.
"Hey, this little girl, has a high IQ and a low EQ." McGoth didn't have to go out to chase her, this routine between them was normal, and she would come back after a while.
Sure enough, the closed door slowly revealed a gap, and Hermione returned. However, she didn't seem to remember anything about it at all, and she started bombarding the McGos problem again. Finally satisfied the little girl's curiosity and coaxed her home, McGoth sighed, and now he was not sleepy, and returned to the magic study. Anyway, after Hermione, he rarely reads, and sure enough, people are inert, and even the letters he exchanged with Sleep are less, and the last letter was a few months ago, he said that he tried to do it twice according to his recipe for the elixir, one successful and one failed, but there was no effect on him, and then told him to wait for him to go to school and return the bottle of negative elixir and notes to him, if he couldn't make it again, this might be the only bottle of negative elixir in the world. This made him very proud, the only thing is that it is really awesome. He had bragged to Hermione before, but she despised and reprimanded her, and the girl was puzzled by his audacity and despised for not being able to make anything he had invented, which made him powerless to refute.
In two months, Hagrid should be picking up Harry. Potter, I'm finally going to school at Hogwarts, I'm really looking forward to it, I don't know if it's much different from the movie. While thinking about it, he let out Xiao Bai, who had been ignored for a long time, and Xiao Bai looked at the rare owner and screamed unhappily a few times and flew out of the waves.
A man sat in a chair in a daze, and suddenly he took out a notebook from a secret compartment in the study, on which different sentences were written messily, and these sentences were written in Chinese...... This is a rough plot direction he wrote from memory, and the first few words are 'Hagrid takes Harry to Diagon Alley...... he quickly skimmed through it, thought about it carefully, added a few words and put it away, and used a spell to erase all traces.
"Although I can't say it's foolproof, but at least I have a general understanding of the first semester, and Hermione is on such a good relationship with me now, will she still hide in the toilet and cry because of the stimulation? Fate, I wonder how you will move things? I'm really looking forward to ......," he muttered to himself, feeling a little sleepy for a while, and went back to the bedroom.
Then more than a month passed, and the day of Hogwarts school was a little closer, and Hermione seemed a little anxious recently, she was constantly worried about what to do if Hogwarts suddenly didn't want her, and McGoth comforted her many times to no avail, so she simply ignored her. The last time he asked Harry about his birthday, on the last day of July, he was going to meet them in Diagon Alley, and he wanted to meet Hagrid, who had giant blood.
"Good morning, long time no see, McGoss, and Miss Granger." Inside the Leaky Cauldron, Tom greets the two who have just entered the bar.
"Long time no see, Tom, Muggle schools have been watching too closely lately, and I can't take time off too often."
"Just call me Hermione." Magos and Hermione said at the same time.
"The same old way?"
"Yes, the same old way. By the way, Tom has no Hogwarts professor over today. Magos asked without a trace, almost every time he came over, Tom didn't think about anything, pointed to a young man like Ah San and said, "You happened to be here today, there is one, and the professor who teaches Defence Against the Dark Arts, Professor Quirrell." β
"Would you like to go say hello?" Hermione looked at Ah San with some eagerness, she had been wanting to try it ever since she knew that Mygoth had 'hooked up' with Professor Slipp at Hogwarts here.
"There's no hurry now, if I'm not mistaken, he'll be here soon." Magos stops Hermione.
"He? By the way, today is ......"
"Shhhh McGoth interrupted.
Hermione shuddered inexplicably, obviously remembered, and consciously shut her mouth.
"Your drinks are here, drink them slowly, and I'll go entertain the others."
"Go get busy!"
"You're sure he'll come, you know she's just received it today, so she should find out first." Hermione whispered.
"I'm not sure." McGoth had an innocent look on his face. Hermione knotted.
"Alright, alright, don't be angry, we'll go to Diagon Alley after drinking, I think there will be more people during this time. And I think my store should be open too. β
"Open? What are you going to sell? β
"Fantastic Beasts Adventure ......"
Hermione stared at him blankly, she could understand every word, but she didn't realize it at all.
"It's just that I'm preparing first, opening and selling some other things, I'm still in the process of thinking about this, and I need a lot of spells in it, and I need your help." Magos stared at her.
"I won't necessarily help you." Not to be outdone, she greeted her. In the end, it was McGoth who lost, and the advantage of big eyes ah.
At this moment, the door of the bar was opened, and a tall figure stood in the doorway, completely blocking the sunlight outside the door. Tom, the owner of the bar, shouted. "Hagrid, the old rules?"
"No, Tom, I'm doing an errand for Hogwarts." Hagrid slapped the barkeeper on the shoulder with his giant palm, nearly knocking him down. "Oh my God," said the barkeeper, looking at Harry carefully, "this isβthis must beβ"
There was silence in the Leaky Cauldron Bar. Unlike the silence of McGoth and Hermione, there was a hint of respect in everyone's eyes.
"Oops!" Tom whispered, "Harry Potter - honored." β
He quickly came out of behind the bar and ran towards Harry, grabbing his hand with tears in his eyes. "Welcome back, Mr. Potter, welcome back."
As Tom's voice fell, the entire bar gathered to drain the water.
McGoth didn't want to look different and walked over with Hermione, and when he walked in, he realized that Hagrid was even bigger than he thought, at least three meters tall and two meters wide. That's when Harry. Potter saw them, too, and huddled up to them, happily telling Hagrid that these were the two children he had met last time who called themselves wizards.
"Nice to meet you, Harry. Porter. Magos made a noble salute, and Hermione greeted her with a ladylike greeting.
"I'm also glad to meet you, I'm really sorry last time, I didn't think you were really wizards." Harry looked both happy and overwhelmed.
"Haha, I think we'll have to talk next time, I'm going to accompany Harry to buy the items on the list today." Hagrid laughed.
"Let's go over together, and we're going to go shopping."
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After returning from Diagon Alley, McGoth and Hermione had been in contact with Harry, but they had rarely seen each other, as he had little time to spare. In this way, time slipped to the end of August without leaving a trace.
September 1st
McGoth got up early to get everything he needed, and then drove with his parents to Hermione's house to pick them up, which they had agreed early in the morning.
The two families in a van slowly drove to King's Cross Station, where McGoth and Hermione each pushed a small cart between platforms 9 and 10.
"Remember, don't be afraid, rush over in one breath, I'll go first, you follow me." Magos said goodbye to his parents and said to Hermione.
"I see." She looked very nervous.
"Ready, I'm going." As he spoke, he pushed the cart and rushed straight towards the wall in front of him. Suddenly, the space around him opened up, and a crimson steam locomotive was parked next to the platform packed with passengers. The sign on the train reads: Hogwarts Express, eleven o'clock.
McGoth heard the voice behind him, and looked back to see that Hermione had also come, and the wall they had entered had now turned into a wrought iron archway with the words "Platform 9 and 3/4s."
'Hogwarts, I'm finally here......'