Chapter 51: The Tragedy at No. 4 Privet Road
Aitch shuffled down the stairs with lazy steps, and Erwin slipped into his short sleeves, which made Aitch look like a pregnant woman.
"It's time to eat." Aitch patted his bulging belly and carried Erwin to the table, cutting a chicken sandwich and placing it on a plate in front of him.
"Let's see......" Aitch fed Locke and pulled out the letter from Hogwarts that he hadn't read yet, it was thicker than ever. He tore open the seal, pulled out the first piece of parchment inside, and read:
Dear Mr. Edge, Please note that the new school year will begin on September 1. The Hogwarts Express will depart at eleven o'clock from Platform 9 and Three-quarters at King's Cross Station.
On weekends, third-year students were allowed to visit Hogsmeade. Please give the enclosed consent form to your parent or guardian to sign.
Enclosed is a list of books for the new school year.
Your loyal Vice-Chancellor, Professor McGonagall
"Guardian?" Aitch pouted and signed his name directly on the consent form on the envelope, which he didn't need in his life since he was six years old.
Then look at the newscaster on TV, who is halfway through the news of a fugitive criminal.
ββ¦β¦ The public must be aware that the criminal, Blake, is armed and extremely dangerous. The relevant departments have set up a special hotline, and whoever knows Blake's whereabouts must report it immediately. β
The man in the photograph on the screen had a thin face, surrounded by tangled and foot-long messy hair, and the scruffiest beggar was noble compared to him.
The newscaster is on screen again. "The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries will announce today ......"
Erwin looked at his master suspiciously, swallowed the chicken in his mouth, and waved its fat furry paws to dangle in front of Edge's eyes. When he heard the news of Blake's escape just now, Aitch was stunned, and he didn't pay attention to the sandwich in his hand and landed on the plate with a "bang" sound.
"I'm fine, Erwin." It took Aitch a long time to come back to his senses. "Let's continue eating." He grabbed the sandwich and absentmindedly nibbled on a few more bites. "By the way, don't go out lately, and don't play with cats and dogs when you meet them." As if remembering something, Aitch told Erwin.
"Jingle Bell ......" Ringing someone's doorbell at night really made Aitch unhappy, because he had to stop to watch an interesting TV series and have to run down from the stairs to open the door.
"Harry, what's wrong with you?" Edge's house is equipped with advanced security systems, so you can know who is outside the door without opening the door.
"Wait, I'll come down." Aitch found Harry still with his luggage, big and small. Hedwig the owl was kept in a cage, noisy, and obviously very unhappy about moving in the big night.
"Come in first." Aitch helped Harry unload his things on the ground floor, and without the train station carts, it was difficult for Harry to move here alone.
Harry sat down on the couch, "Edge, I really didn't use magic!" You've got to believe that I really ......" he was incoherent, visibly frightened.
"Drink some water and speak slowly." Aitch handed him a glass of water and told Harry to calm down.
Here's the thing, Dudley's Aunt Maggie will be staying at 4 Privet Road for a week. Speaking of this Aunt Maggie, she can play a less friendly role in Harry's childhood memories: at Dudley's fifth birthday party, Aunt Maggie once beat Harry in the shin with a cane to prevent him from beating Dudley in a musical modeling game; A few years later, she came at Christmas, and gave Dudley a robot with a computer and a box of dog biscuits for Harry; The last time she visited, a year before Harry went to Hogwarts, Harry had inadvertently stepped on the paw of her dog, who had forced Harry all the way to the garden and climbed a tree, and Aunt Maggie had not called the dog back to the house until after midnight. When the Dudley family talks about it, they still laugh out loud.
The vicious Aunt Maggie had done a bad thing on the first night of the day, insulting Harry and his father in as indiscriminate terms as possible, and Harry was furious.
At this moment, Aunt Maggie suddenly stopped talking. For a moment, she stammered, as if she could not speak. She seemed to swell with indescribable anger, but it didn't stop. Her big flushed face began to expand, her small eyes protruding outward, and her mouth opened too wide to speak. After a second, several buttons came down her fancy dress and slammed against the wall, she swelled like a frighteningly large balloon, her belly swollen to break the belt, and each of her fingers swollen as thick as sausages and floated to the ceiling......
It was a masterful transfiguration, but Harry was sure he hadn't done any magic. But that's not the point, think about the fact that last year, Dobby used his magic to smash a piece of cake on the head of someone in that house, and the Ministry of Magic counted it on Harry's head and gave him a stern warning at the time. This year's situation is undoubtedly worse, what will the Ministry of Magic do? Harry felt that he was going to be expelled from Hogwarts, and now that he couldn't go back to Harry's uncle's house, and he didn't have any Muggle money on him, he had to come to Aitch to find a way.
"Well, you settle down with me tonight," Aitch put Harry's luggage in an empty room upstairs, "I'll go to your uncle's at once, at least get your relatives in order, and we'll talk about the rest tomorrow." β
Harry was still uneasy at Edge, and the house at 4 Privet Road was already a mess, and no one even paid attention to the door after Harry left.
Aitch pushed open the door, in a much happier mood, "Yo, it's quite lively." There was a huge "balloon" floating inside, and the three men below were trying to pull Aunt Maggie down, and a dog was going crazy and biting Harry's fat uncle, screaming, crying, barking...... Loud and loud. Tables, chairs, cupboards, and food and wine glasses were poured wantonly on the ground, as if the whole house had been completely ransacked by a Jiangyang thief.
"Faint!" Aitch quieted the collapsed four people and one dog, and finally calmed down his ears. Getting the house back to normal is as simple as "clean up" or "back to normal". The problem was tonight, if someone was talking nonsense, Harry would be out of luck. Fortunately, Aitch had learned a few hands from Lockhart, a master of memory magic, and it took a lot of effort to modify the memories of a few people and a dog before it was solved.
By the time he got everything done and went out, it was already late, and the cool wind at night didn't look like summer. A strange pinprick sensation suddenly appeared in Edge's neck, making him feel like someone was watching him, and it was also a feeling of hostility, recalling the battle with the Quirrell Forbidden Forest and the duel with Riddle in the Chamber of Secrets. But there seemed to be no one on the street, and there was no room for any light in the big boxy houses.
Edge's hand gripped the wandβhe sensed something: someone or something standing in the small space between the fence and the garage beside him. Aitch squinted at the dark alley, and as long as the thing moved, he knew it was just a lost cat or something.
"Iron Armor!" Professor Flitwick said that at any given time, an effective defense is better than an unprovoked attack.
A light came from the end of Edge's wand, and it flung into the dark alley, and the gravel-covered wall No. 2 suddenly flashed brightly; The garage door shimmered, and between the two, Aitch could see clearly. A huge silhouette of something that had big, shimmering eyes.
It was a huge black dog. Seeing that Edge's wand was pointed at it, it did not immediately rush up, it looked at Edge suspiciously, and hid into the darkness with a howl.