What is she doing here?

The girl crouched motionlessly with her back to Brandy's direction, like a statue.

Brandi couldn't help but start feeling a little confused.

Playing alone in such a remote and deserted alley, is this girl a little too bold? You must know that the law and order in the city is not as rosy as advertised in the London Times...... Especially in this kind of alley where no one walks through.

Or is it ...... She's lost? Or is there something you need help with?

Just as he was about to ask, a faint voice came into his ears, and it was soft, more like an unintentional nasal hum.

So he stopped and listened carefully.

From the tune alone, it didn't sound particularly beautiful, and Brandi had never heard a song like it before. It seems like just a pointless improvisation, but interestingly, for some reason, Brandi can feel an unexpected serenity in the more dreamlike humming. It's like lying on the roof and being washed by the quiet night sky.

"Hello." A light female voice rang out from a distant place, and the humming stopped abruptly.

Brandi came back to her senses and saw that the voice seemed to be talking to herself. But the girl still maintained the posture she had just had, and she didn't look back at all, and she didn't know how she noticed herself behind her. He hesitated for a moment, and walked over—

"Hello, may I ask you what ......"

The girl held out a hand, and Brandi noticed that her white hands were also covered in stains. She beckoned to him, as if to signal herself to join her. Brandi came to her curiously, only to realize that this girl was not just sitting here stupidly in a daze.

In front of her lay a scrawny black dog, obviously a stray dog that was so weak that it was dying, dirty, and with that rancid smell of twilight, and some of its fur had fallen off, leaving patches of leprosy scars. This is not uncommon in London neighbourhoods...... The shelter guys would often haul these pathetic wanderers onto trucks, and while they were ostensibly taken to the veterinarian for treatment, everyone knew what was going on.

Brandi had seen something similar when he hadn't gone to Hogwarts yet, and although he personally sympathized with the poor little ones, he only stayed at the level of saving the sandwiches he hadn't finished his lunch with.

But the girl in front of him was doing something he had never tried before, and he never thought of trying in the past.

She was holding the black dog's head in her arms, and her left hand was caressing its fur without mind, which was why her hands were covered in smudges. She was holding a crumb of bread in her right hand and was trying to feed it to its mouth.

Seeing this scene, Brandi was speechless for a while.

"It's sad." The girl said in a trance, and she looked up, which made Brandi see her face—he suddenly felt that he had seen more strange people and things today than in the previous months combined.

Although the color of the eyebrows is very light, and the two eyes are also a little protruding outward, it seems that she always has a surprised expression, but overall, the girl's appearance can be regarded as a good facial feature.

What really struck him as odd was her outfit - she was wearing a pair of jeans under her body while wearing a dress? She wore a necklace of wooden blocks around her neck, and the shape looked like the cork of some kind of bottle.

I haven't been back to London for a year, have the boys and girls now changed their painting style?

Definitely not, Muggles' aesthetics shouldn't change so much from year to year......

Brandi quickly shook his head, he swallowed his saliva, and asked in disbelief.

“… Not... You're not going to be a wizard. ”

The girl looked directly at Brandi in front of her, she even looked at her differently from ordinary people, it was not as simple as a normal person to look at him casually, her posture was like the kind of person who wanted to take him to heart completely. Brandi had never seen such a formation, his face flushed, and his eyes glanced unnaturally elsewhere......

After a while, the girl seemed to have seen enough, and withdrew her gaze contentedly.

"Probably not." She pointed to the wall around the corner and said softly in a singing voice. "I don't think I have gone to buy a brass balance yet."

Forehead.

Brandi really didn't understand the inevitable connection between buying the balance and the wizard...... But following the girl's fingers, he saw large bags of books and miscellaneous items piled up on the wall. The packaging and shape of those things were very familiar to him.

Looks like a freshman who has already been notified of admission......

"It's too old to move." The girl gently touched the stray dog's head, as if she was talking to Brandy, but more like talking to herself. "Alone, lying here alone...... It must have been a bad feeling, so I wanted to try to make it a little happier. She said briskly, as if it were a trivial thing that everybody would do.

Looking at the girl's serious face, Brandi's heart seemed to have something touched. Unlike them, this girl who seems to be off the line does not seem to be giving alms with pity and sympathy, but really cares for a dying animal with an equal and friendly attitude......

Who can do this with such kindness......

Brandi stared at her stunned, the girl who was originally a little funny because of her strange dress and behavior actually looked so cute at this time.

"Can I help?" He opened his mouth involuntarily to speak.

The girl looked up in surprise and met Brandy's serious eyes. In an instant, her smile was really sweet.

………………

"Hmm...... That's a lot to do. Brandi leaned against the wall in frustration and said weakly.

The two of them did their best to surround the black dog, and at this time he didn't dislike the dirt on the black dog, and the two of them were stroking and teasing, but the dog still looked like he was going to die. In the end, Brandi gets ruthless and hands over the candy and snacks that Parvati left for him before leaving, and even the running rubber mouse he got from the Christmas firecracker! However, this only made its eyes roll a few more times.

"It seems to have something to do...... "The girl tilted her head and looked directly into the black dog's eyes." I can feel it...... It's sad right now. ”

"But what the hell is it thinking?" Brandi scratched his head a little irritably, "Think of its child?" A previous home? Meat bones? Or the poodle that walks gracefully down the street? Not...... When I looked for it, I remembered that Fred and George had given me a piece of jerky...... Where did I go? ”

He opened his bulky box and rummaged through it.

"If only there were Weasel here......"

"What's that?" Brandi asked without looking up, rummaging through the box.

"Small animals that live in Central Asia, they lurk in burrows during the day and come out at night to eat berries and stuff like that. Their long ears have the power of magic to sense the thoughts of other beings......"

Brandi had never heard of such a magical thing, and he pulled his crumpled robe off the top and said in admiration. "Did any wizard catch them?"

"Of course not, they can detect bad intentions from a distance of several kilometers, and then they will hide far away, and only pure-minded and friendly people can occasionally see them - so the old pedants have never denied the existence of the Listening Weasel."

The girl's words were serious, and Brandi believed her very easily. He exclaimed a few more words, and rummaged through the box for a few pairs of socks, when he suddenly stopped—the girl was curious to see that his face was wrinkled.

He couldn't find the piece of jerky that might have been moldy...... Instead, they found something more troublesome than that.

“…… Finished! Now it's a lot of fun! Brandi pulled out the object that was crushed to the bottom of the box and put it on his head, his face now full of bitterness. O Merlin! Professor McGonagall is going to kill me! ”

"Kill you? Because you stole her hat? ”

The girl leaned over and looked intently at the old wizard's hat on Brandi's head......

That's right, Brandi packed up too much...... He even forgot to leave the Sorting Hat in his dorm!

"Wow!" The Sorting Hat came into contact with the air it hadn't seen for a long time, and it suddenly screamed, startling both of them present. "This hat didn't get smoked to death by the smell of your socks! Brandi, you're so bleak, don't want me to help you in the future—eh, where is this? Who are you! What do you want to do! ”

It gasped for breath, then froze suddenly. Because it was horrified to find that there was a girl it didn't know in front of it!

"That's the professor's hat?" The girl said with great interest. "What will you do? Did you pull a rabbit out of it? ”

"Are you kidding?" The Sorting Hat squealed like a cat with its tail stepped on. "This hat is the embodiment of Gryffindor, the patron saint of Hogwarts, the most honest soul who can see beyond the surface! You're comparing me to a trickster hat! ”

Brandi smiled wryly as she explained to the confused girl. "Don't bother with it, it's just been in the box for too long, in fact, it's usually in a good temper... Especially more patient with new students...... Huh! ”

He was in a trance for a moment, then suddenly took off the Sorting Hat and placed it in front of his eyes. That strange gaze gave the Sorting Hat a mixed feeling of being on a thief ship. Then he put his hat back on......

"Uncle Hat~ You are the wisest hat in these hundreds of years, aren't you~" Brandi's voice was sweet at this time, making its heart weak. But it refused to give in.

"Of course! I'm a Gryffindor hat! ”

"So since you can see through people's minds...... Wouldn't it be easier for other creatures? Brandi's eyes were getting hotter.

Now it sensed that something was wrong. “…… You, what do you want? ”

Brandi grinned in a penetrating smile.

"It's nothing, I just want you to be a ferret, and help us see what this dog is thinking......"

………………

"Clams?!"