The sky was grey, and the rain crackled against the waiting shed of the nine-and-three-quarters station, where a red steam train was parked, with a retro cylindrical black nose that had not been seen in England since the eighteenth century.

The rain was pouring in the station, and if a Muggle stood here, he would have been frightened by the sight before him, and figures kept running out of the stone pillars, as if they were not pillars, but an open door.

Pani carried a black suitcase and put his leather shoes on the pedals between the platform and the train, and took two quick steps into the warm carriage, and although he was fast enough, he was still slightly wet from the rain, which was indeed heavy enough.

Pani shook his hair vigorously, letting the drops of water run down the ends of his hair before heading to the side of the carriage, he couldn't stand in the aisle for too long, and there were students hurrying on the bus from the outside.

The heavy rain summoned the cold wind, accompanied by the wind and rain, making the air cold and wet, and on the small compartments on both sides of the aisle in the carriage, the transparent glass became blurred by the evaporation of the fog, forming patches of haze.

"Hey, Seid—"

Just as Pani was walking forward with the suitcase, someone suddenly slapped him on the shoulder, and he almost let out a curse with his backhand, and the wand hidden in his sleeve had already slipped down his arm to his hand.

He turned his head and recognized the man, and replied with a smile:

"Hey, Stabins—how was the holiday?"

In the days after the Quidditch World Cup, Pani put a lot of effort into getting acquainted with the people around Cedric and his friends at school, but fortunately, the photos of the wizards were vivid enough, and it was not easy for Pani to identify each of his friends in Cedric's group photo.

And the person in front of him, he remembered best, because according to Cedric, who was cast the Imperius curse, Stebins, the Hufflepuff student in his class, but Cedric's best friend, how could Parney not remember the appearance of others.

"Oh my god, don't mention it—it's terrible—let's talk as we go."

Stabins stepped forward and expertly hammered Pani's shoulder, causing another tremor in Pani's wrist, which was hidden in his sleeve, and he quickly lifted his suitcase and walked deeper into the carriage with the "good friend", where there were already students blocked in the aisle.

"Wow, when did you buy a crow? - It's so pretty—"

Stabins stretched out his hand to help his good buddy get the big box, his own luggage had already been placed, and he came to the front compartment on purpose, just to wait for Cedric, but when he looked out, he saw a small pocket expanding in front of the black box, and a crow with the color of its feathers integrated with the box was closing its eyelids, curled up and closing its eyes to recuperate.

"It's a raven—"

Pani tried to speak in Cedric's tone, but Stabins's interest seemed to have been attracted to the raven, and with an excited smile on his face, he reached out and touched the raven's head

"Hey-beware of being bitten-"

Parney quickly opened Stabins's hand, and he was startled, the raven's eyes were already open, and he was looking intently at the boy who had just touched him.

"What's wrong with you, Seid, such a big reaction......"

Stabins was a little surprised that his friend opened his hand all of a sudden, and Pani quickly explained to him with an apologetic smile:

"This bird has a big temper, I'm afraid you'll be bitten by him......"

"Really? It looks pretty good, when did you buy it? ”

The two of them walked and talked, slowly passing by the carriages and compartments, most of which were already full, and it seemed that Pani was still a little late to get on the train.

"At the time of the World Cup—"

Before Pani could finish his sentence, he was interrupted by Stabins, the sixth-grader, who had a sad look on his face and raised his hand and swung it vigorously

"Not to mention the World Cup, it's terrible, because our family didn't get the portkeys back because of the riot, and it wasn't until the next night that the Ministry of Magic remade a batch, and I spent one more day in that swamp than everyone else, which was really embarrassing."

As soon as Pani tried to imitate Cedric's tone to comfort him, he saw an empty carriage, which was just a good time to divert the subject, he was really not very good at comforting people, and then Pani felt tired, and he had never felt so worried about the Diggory family when he was with the Diggory family.

However, Pani had barely opened the sliding door of the cubicle when he was held down by Stabins' shoulder

"Hehe—don't be in such a hurry, our carriage is still ahead."

An ambiguous smile of unknown meaning appeared on the boy's face, as if to imply something, which made Parney look strange and a bad feeling rose in his heart.

Not that he felt that there would be any danger, but that he intuitively realized that something was waiting for him in the carriage that Stabins had said.

"That's it, I'm the prefect, I'll have to change my clothes and inspect the carriage later."

Pani forced a smile to shirk, but was forcibly pushed away from the empty compartment by his "good friend", and he suddenly understood why Ning An asked him to come to the compound decoction in the first place, instead of choosing to become Cedric himself, which was not without the situation he was experiencing now, this reason.

However, complaining was useless, he looked down at Ning An, who was shrunk in the front pocket of the suitcase, he had already opened his eyes and was looking around the situation in the carriage, others might not notice such a bird mixed with the suitcase, Pani was very envious at the moment, he wished that he would be incognito.

He was half-pushed by Stabins all the way to the door of a small cubicle, and through the transparent glass on the sliding door, several vague figures could be seen inside, but they were hazy and unrecognizable.

Rather aggressively, Stabins knocked on his door, winked at Paney and made a cheering gesture, snickered and turned away, daring that his carriage was not here.

Pani had a ghostly look on his face, what kind of friends Cedric had made-

"Please come in ——?"

At this time, a puzzled female voice came from the compartment, and Pani had to open the sliding door hard, he is not Pani now? Stehl, he's Cedric, he can't do whatever he wants.

Ning An straightened his neck slightly, shook the feathers on his body, and opened his eyes with the same curiosity, looking at the big red wooden door in front of him, the position of the box was too low, he couldn't see what was behind the glass, and the mysterious appearance of Stabins also aroused his interest.

He wasn't worried about Pani's troubles, although Ning An could probably guess what he was thinking, but on the surface, Pani was definitely enough to deal with it, and he could perfectly fit Cedric's sunny leadership temperament, which was why Ning An didn't choose to come by himself in the first place.

The door was opened, and there were three girls in front of Ning An, who were looking out of the door suspiciously, and when they saw Cedric's tall and handsome figure standing outside, two of them showed inexplicable smiles, glanced at each other, and then slowly got up-

"Hello, Cedric, would you like to come and sit in our carriage?"

The two girls said generously, and one of them, Ning An, found out that he still knew Meghan from Ravenclaw? Jones, the girl was in the first year of Ning'an, and he sat in a car when he first boarded the Hogwarts Express train in her life.

In addition to the two of them, there were Daphne and Calidora......

Thinking of this, Ning An suddenly sighed, but he didn't expect to run into her.

The girl who stood up with Meghan Jones, Ning An didn't know, but it was estimated that she might also be a Ravenclaw student, because the girl sitting in the window seat at the moment was also a Ravenclaw student, and it happened that Ning An also knew-

It's a wizard with the same black hair and black eyes as him, Qiu Zhang.

She was leaning against the window, leaning against the red plaid sofa behind her, her hands on the small table, with some chocolate frogs and pot-shaped cakes on Megan's side, and a newspaper on Qiu Zhang's side, pressed under her hand.

She seemed a little surprised to see Cedric, and she didn't know what to say for a while, and blushed a little, but as if she suddenly remembered something, her face became gloomy, and she said hello to Pani and stopped talking.

In addition to the rhythmic melody of the wheels and rails, you can only hear the irregular sound of rain drops hitting the car outside the window, and the two are mixed together to form a simple symphony, which is inexplicably in tune.

Megan Jones and the other girl had left the carriage, leaving only Parney and Akihari facing each other and, if anything, a bird in the front pocket of the suitcase.

Ning An and Pani instantly understood what was going on, and when interrogating Cedric, who would let go of the question of who his lover was, in these places where it was easiest to show their feet, both of them were extremely careful.

Although Ning An knew that Cedric and Qiu Zhang had been dating, he wasn't sure if it had already started, and after careful questioning, they got to know each other thoroughly.

Cedric said he had someone he liked, they had met in Quidditch, Hufflepuff had lost to Ravenclaw, he had lost to her in that match, the Ravenclaw Seeker, and from that moment on he began to feel that this girl was different.

What follows is the usual pursuit drama, although Qiu Zhang has not promised himself yet, but Cedric feels that he is not far from success, he has that feeling, and he is also attracting the other party.

Pani was still taunting Ning An at the time, after all, the two were the only two Chinese people in Hogwarts, and a man and a woman inevitably made people think about it, until Ning An made it clear that the two of them had nothing and persuaded Pani to put more effort into Cedric, and Pani stopped this kind of joke.

But fate was so tricky, no one expected that the meeting with Qiu Zhang would come so suddenly and so hastily.

Fortunately, Pani was sophisticated enough, and he quickly regained his composure, smiled and walked into the carriage, turned around and gently closed the door, and said politely:

"Looks like they're not going to come back? - So I can stay here. ”

Qiu Zhang was amused by him and chuckled, rubbed his eyes slightly with his hand, folded the newspaper a few times, put it in the bag next to him, and responded with a smile:

"I think it should be fine."

Pani was placing the box on the partition above when he glanced sharply at the corner of the newspaper and saw that it read: ...... Cup riots, genius boy joins Death Eaters?

As if thinking of something, Parney secretly smiled mischievously and looked at Ning An, who was placed on the table by him, the raven obviously attracted Qiu Zhang's curiosity, and her black eyes looked at the birds on the table without blinking.

"It's so pretty."

The girl spoke softly, slowly reaching out as if to caress the raven's feathers

"Hey, did you go to the World Cup?"

Pani placed the box on it, holding the black school uniform robe in his hand, and placed them on the sofa beside him, and asked Qiu Zhang with a playful smile, but the girl's attention was focused on the raven on the table and did not notice.

“……”

Qiu Zhang's half-stretched hand fell silently, she seemed to lose interest in the bird in front of her all of a sudden, tilted her head to stare at the pouring rain outside the window, her face showed a look of annoyance, and she just replied hastily

"Hmm...... Been there."

She's a Ravenclaw Seeker, so how could she not love Quidditch and miss the World Cup?

Ning An took this opportunity to jump off the table, fluttering his wings and landing on the sofa, Pani turned his head to look at him, a strange smile appeared on his face again, and then asked:

"It's scary, something like that happened, it's hard to imagine that you once went to school with Ning An in the same school, do you know him? He seems to be from Slytherin? ”

Qiu Zhang's body trembled suddenly, his face seemed to turn a little white all of a sudden, and after a pause of about half a minute, he finally spoke slowly:

"Hmm...... Meet ......"

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"It's just improvisation, you know?"

Malfoy walked down the aisle of the carriage angrily, his face gloomy, as if something was upsetting him, but Crabbe and Goyle behind him didn't think it was so strange, as the two of them saw Malfoy with such a gloomy face most of the time, there was nothing to make a fuss about.

"Yes...... But...... Ten thousand...... In case they ...... What should I do if I don't take the bait? ”

Goyle looked at the back of Malfoy's head and stammered, but because he didn't see the door frame leading to the next carriage in front of him, he hit it directly, and a mark appeared on his forehead, causing him to cry out in pain.

Malfoy stopped, and watched the idiot yelling at him angrily and amusefully:

"Then you hit him with your head like this, hit them hard, and they'll take the bait-"

Crabbe listened attentively as Goyle covered his forehead as if he didn't understand, Malfoy stomped his foot and turned his head away from them as he continued to walk forward, two unreliable men made him very anxious.

He was a little stunned in his heart, this time it was not the same as before, if he didn't complete the instructions of the adult, if he didn't do it, what would be waiting for him?

Malfoy shuddered and felt the air around him get a little colder.

Before the end of the World Cup, he met Laurel, who was protected by the employees of the Ministry of Magic, and she seemed to be frightened, and she was shaking all the time, and then heard from her father that the girl was crazy, always fantasizing that Ning An would come to kill her, and it was hard to imagine how frightened she was.

Mr. Lanz had planned to send her daughter to St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Injuries and Injuries, but Laurel was desperate to go to Hogwarts, and this was her last year, and it was said that she kept saying that only Hogwarts was safe.

Malfoy didn't want to be like Laurel, he was a little nervous when he thought of this, he hurriedly took a few deep breaths, walked forward for a while, and finally stopped in front of a cubicle, there were several vague figures inside, Malfoy knew that it was his old enemy, Harry? Potter and his friends.