Chapter 7: Professor McGonagall
"Kid? Do you have a name now? ”
McGonagall knew that the child in front of her had not been recorded by the wizarding world, otherwise Hogwarts would not have known his name, so now McGonagall had to ask herself.
"Sig Ream, you can call me Sig Ream, this lady, what are you here for? I don't remember seeing you. Do you live in this house? ”
At this moment, Li Yi felt that his acting skills had exploded, and he completely substituted himself into the image of a poor child who was cold and hungry and had to enter a room without a locked door.
"Oh, I'm Professor Minerva McGonagall."
"Are you the one on that letter?" Li Yi raised the envelope he had received in his hand.
"Yes, I am. So I would like to ask you, Mr. Sig Reem, would you like to study at Hogwarts? McGonagall asked kindly, not at all with the serious image she usually had in class.
"This ......" Li Yi pretended to be difficult.
Under McGonagall's quizzing gaze, the "kind and simple" young man asked a question: "But magic really ...... Does it exist? ”
The corners of McGonagall's tightly pursed mouth seemed to rise slightly, and she pointed the tip of her wand at the nearby fireplace.
I heard only a "boom", and the fireplace that had been extinguished lit up instantly.
"That's what it is...... Magic? Li Yi was really shocked at this moment, this was the "first time" for him to see such a power, which was different from the power he had learned before.
"Yes, that's magic." Looking at Li Yi's reaction, McGonagall was also proud of magic in her heart, and look, another teenager was immersed in the greatness of magic.
Li Yi's eyes were brighter than ever, and he replied to McGonagall very formally, "In that case, it is my honor to study at such a great house as Hogwarts. ”
The smile on McGonagall's face gradually spread, a sense of accomplishment in helping others.
However, a roar interrupted the conversation between the kind old man and the enthusiastic young man.
"You guys! Who is it?! Why is it in my house! Right now! Get me out! ”
An angry voice reached their ears.
Dursley was a little frustrated, but in the end the terrible giant took Harry away, and now he was driving back with his wife and a child with a tail behind him. He felt he needed a reason to explain the tail to the hospital.
Otherwise, it would be ridiculous for a person to grow a little tail because of magic. In fact, Dursley still doesn't want to believe that it's magic.
When he returned to Privet Road, the accumulation of emotions seemed to be at its peak, and when he saw that the door of his house was open, Dursley panicked, and Dursley, who had calmed down from the previous incident, finally took his own property seriously.
"Oh my God, don't be a thief!" Dursley parked his car and rushed into his house at a speed that was extremely unfit for his size.
But there was still a scene in front of him that he didn't want to see, and it made him feel even more ridiculous than being a thief.
The scene in front of me was a skinny boy who came out of nowhere, and an elderly woman who was bigger than him, but who was wearing a childish, strange cloak.
It made him uncomfortable, for he knew that these people seemed to be in league with the giant who had harmed their family. Under such an accumulation of emotions, he finally broke out.
McGonagall naturally knew that this was the Dursleys, and it didn't take long for her to know that Li Yi was just "staying" here, and when she saw Dursleys returning, she wanted to get up to greet her, after all, he was Harry's brother-in-law and had raised Harry for more than ten years.
Although Harry's life doesn't seem to be very good......
But now Dursley's actions made McGonagall feel worse about him than he had been eleven years earlier, and he had gone from being an unreasonable Muggle to a completely unreasonable Muggle.
At this time, Penny also came in. Dudley ducked behind her, looking at McGonagall in a wizard's robe with some fear. The tail behind him taught him enough of his lesson.
"Where's Harry?" McGonagall asked suddenly.
Dursley exclaimed angrily, "Harry, Harry! That monster has been picked up by another monster, and now you've got your wish, and he's your man! I don't have anything left here, now! Get out of my house! ”
Even though McGonagall has a good temperament, being scolded almost by the nose also makes her a little unhappy.
It was then that he saw Dudley with a small tail behind him. McGonagall, who is very skilled in Transfiguration, can tell at a glance that this is incomplete Transfiguration. She knew it could only be Hagrid's handiwork.
Because she knew that Dumbledore had sent Hagrid to Harry. Moreover, she sensed Hagrid's magic from the tail.
Raising his wand, a blue beam of light emanated from the wand before the Dursleys could react at all.
Then the little tail behind Dudley vanished.
"Oh my God, Mom. That tail is gone! Dudley wanted to block the blue light with his hand, but he couldn't. Just as he groped up and down to see if he had an extra part, he was surprised to find that his little tail was missing.
Dursley and Penny hugged each other nervously, Dudley behind them. By now, they knew that the harsh-looking witch in front of them was not easy to mess with.
McGonagall didn't care much about the Muggles, and she was relieved to hear that Harry had been picked up by Hagrid. Although he was not very confident about Hagrid's ability, since Dumbledore trusted him, he should not lose Harry again.
Thinking of this, McGonagall turned to look at Li Yi and said to him, "Okay Sige, I'll take you to buy a wand." ”
"But...... Professor, I don't have any money. Li Yi didn't know how the orphans in the original book were supposed to go to school, after all, he just watched the movie and watched the first few films. In addition, no specific information has been checked in this regard.
Now a confused orphan was not easy to spend on the friendship sponsorship he had received from the Dursleys, so he had to ask Professor McGonagall.
"Don't worry, we at Hogwarts have welfare subsidies for students like you, textbooks can be borrowed from the library, some clothes, and some other miscellaneous items. All you need now is a wand. ”