In the thick of the night, a familiar voice sounded: "First-year freshmen, please line up here! All first-year freshmen come with me!"

A tall shadow staggered towards the train platform with a yellow lamp.

The freshmen looked up in fear as if they could eat a small child, and kept squeezing back.

Hagrid raised the lamp to his face, his bearded face full of mustache and a savage look reflected in the eyes of the freshmen, and Hagrid smiled kindly, "Let's go, little ones." ”

Outside Hogsmeade Station was a dark, rain-washed street, with about a hundred horse-drawn carriages parked on the road.

The animal pulling the carriage was not a horse, but a very strange animal, somewhat like a reptile. They had no flesh at all, and their black fur clung to their skeletons, as if some kind of animal had died and its corpse was only skeleton, and then it was resurrected by someone using black magic. Every bone of them is clearly visible, their head resembles the head of a dragon, and their eyes are white and staring intently without pupils.

Wings sprouted between the shoulder bones, a pair of large, black, tough wings that looked like they belonged to a giant bat.

The animals were motionless and did not make any sound, and the breath from their nostrils condensed into vapour in the cold night air, and they stood silently in the darkening night, with a sense of foreboding.

Suddenly, a third-grade girl said, "Aren't these carriages able to move on their own without horses, and why are there so many scary animals in front of them?" ”

"Anna, what are you talking about?" her classmate said, puzzled.

"I mean," said Anna, "I mean the animals tied to the front of these wagons, like horses, but not like them. ”

"What kind of horse-like thing?" her classmates looked at Anna amusedly, thinking that Anna was deliberately teasing them.

"It's the horse-like thing that pulls those wagons!" Anna said a little louder, a little angry.

Obviously, those strange horses were two or three meters away from them, and they were staring at them with empty white eyes, but her friend deliberately pretended to be stupid and said that they couldn't see it.

"What are you talking about?" said her friend.

"I'm saying...... Come and see!" Anna grabbed her friend's arm and pulled her straight to the strange horse, facing the winged strange horse.

Her friend stared straight at the air, then turned to look at Anna.

"What do you want me to see?"

"Look at that, right in front of you, right in front of you, right in front of you......

But several of her friends were still confused, and Anna suddenly had a strange idea.

"Could it be...... Can't you see them?"

"See what?"

"Anna, you...... No kidding, right?" her classmate asked, looking at the emptiness in front of the carriage and then at Anna.

"There's nothing wrong with you, Anna?"

"I ...... It's okay......" Anna suddenly realized something from the dazed expression of the person next to her, and her body trembled and fell silent.

For wizards, seeing things that others can't see is not a good omen.

She smiled palely: "Actually, I'm joking with you, there is no strange horse at all." ”

The people around her looked at her strangely, and then silently walked away from her, and her friends didn't do it, but it was obvious that they looked at her with a hint of suspicion in their eyes.

......

Harry, Luna, and the five of them got into a carriage.

Luna didn't know what to think, and smiled reluctantly: "It's really strange, how can there be any horses, it's really a joke." ”

She said this because she didn't want to look like a weird girl in front of Harry.

However...... Harry gave her a strange look and said, "Can't you see them, Thestrals." ”

Luna was stunned and looked at Harry with bright eyes, "Can you see them? aren't you afraid?"

Harry said indifferently, "I'm afraid of something." ”

"Because only you know that this thing exists, and if you tell others, others don't believe it, and they think that you can see things that they can't see, which is a bad omen. Luna said eagerly.

Harry rolled his eyes, "They don't read much, I don't blame them, isn't it only those who have faced death to see Thestrals." ”

Hermione said, "That girl named Anna, I'm afraid it's this summer vacation, I've seen someone die. "Hogwarts, A School History" makes it clear that the school cultivates Thestrals, and their role is to pull the carriage of students, why are so few people aware of these common senses. I decided to suggest that Headmaster McGonagall make Hogwarts: A History of the School a guide for new students. ”

"Can you see that?" said Luna.

Hermione said, "I can't, but I know. Unfortunately, there are no pictures of them in the book, and I can only imagine what they look like based on the text. ”

Harry said, "It's better not to see it, it's ugly, the kind of ugliness that can give you nightmares." ”

"Oh. ”

Seeing that the few people in the carriage didn't seem to care about the so-called bad luck Thestrals, Luna suddenly showed a faint smile, very happy.

Hermione noticed this, she pressed against Zhang Qiu's ear, and said indignantly: "Look at Harry, it has increased the favorability in Luna's heart again, absolutely deliberately. ”

Zhang Qiu nodded in agreement.

......

The carriages lined up, creaking and staggering along the road. They passed the tall stone pillars on either side of the gate that led to the school grounds, and the pillars were topped by winged boars.

You can also see the lights on in Hagrid's new house next to the Forbidden Forest, and the cries of Tooth and Tooth are heard, calling Hagrid to hurry home.

Hogwarts Castle loomed closer: towers darkened against the dark night sky, and the occasional window glowed fiery red overhead.

The carriage stopped beside the stone steps leading to the oak gate, and Harry was the first to jump out.

Then he picked up the petite Astoria out of the car first, and in order not to cause Zhang Qiu Hermione's dissatisfaction, he was very smart to give them the same treatment. After that, he subconsciously continued to turn around and make a gesture of hugging.

Inertia, inertia......

The carriage stepped out of Luna, and her face froze as she looked at Harry, who was about to catch her.

"Ahem...... Harry wasn't natural at all, and he lowered his arm as if nothing had happened.

But Luna suddenly lunged at Harry, who hugged her and spun around in a hundred and eighty degrees, dropping her to the ground.

"I, let's go. Luna's face turned a little red and she stepped to the front.

"Oh...... Good. Harry said.

"Harry, is it comfortable? Is Luna's waist soft and her ass cocked?" asked Hermione "gently".

Harry's expression was as usual: "I don't know, my hands are honest, I feel ...... Not as big as you. ”

Hermione: "Bah......" and then pulling Zhang Qiu, Astoria hurried up the stone steps and entered the castle.

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