Chapter 62: Flying to Hogwarts
"It's over," Ron said dumbfounded, "the train is off." What if Mom and Dad can't come and pick us up? Do you have ordinary people's money with you?"
Harry chuckled dryly, "The Dursleys haven't given me pocket money in six years. ”
Ron turned his head to look at Zhang Feng. "Don't look at me, I have a lot of gold gallons, but this thing is simply a bane in the world of ordinary people! Who doesn't love gold?" Zhang Feng directly scolded Ron back.
Ron could only put his ear against the cold partition wall. "There is no sound," he said nervously, "what are we going to do? I don't know how long it will take for my parents to come back to us." "They looked around, and some people were watching them, mainly due to Hedwig's incessant screaming.
"I think we'd better go back to the car and wait," Harry said, "It's too much of a crowd here..."
"Harry!" Ron's eyes lit up and he exclaimed, "Cars!"
"What's wrong?" We could fly to Hogwarts by car!"
"What a bad idea..."Before Zhang Feng could finish speaking, he was already put into the car by two guys who acted faster than they thought.
"We're trapped, right? We have to rush back to school, don't we? In a real emergency, a young wizard can use magic. Paragraph 19 or paragraph 1 of the Restriction Ordinance provides for it.." As Harry sat in old Ford's car, he went from panic to excitement.
"Will you drive?" Harry sat in the co-pilot's seat.
"No problem. Let's go, if we hurry, we can still catch up with the Hogwarts Express. Ron was in the driver's seat, ready to start the car.
Two "chirps", which were made by Hedwig, who was placed in the back seat. Its cry completely woke Zhang Feng, who was squeezed between Harry and Ron, from the confusion of being dominated by two reckless guys.
He sighed, then said to Ron, "Ron, at least I'll take Harry in this car, I think it's better for me to drive it." ”
He swapped Ron out of the driver's seat and grabbed the steering wheel: "Let's see if anyone is paying attention to us." ”
Then the car was started. Harry stuck his head out the window: their street was empty compared to the rumbling cars in the other lanes.
"No one. ”
Zhang Feng pressed a small silver button on the dashboard. Their cars are gone? The three of them are gone. They can feel the seats vibrating, they can hear the engines, they can feel their hands on their knees, their glasses on the bridge of their noses, they can see everything. But all that was left was his eyes, a few feet above the ground, floating on a dirty street full of parked cars.
Suddenly, the ground and the filthy buildings on both sides sank, and for a moment they were out of sight. The car rose higher and higher, and in a few seconds, the whole city of London was beneath them, smoky and faintly shining. Suddenly, there was a pop, and the car, and they reappeared.
"Well, there's something wrong with this switch?" Ron asked, pointing to the stealth switch.
"I think it's because the magic is running low, we went to pick up Harry and then rushed to the train station, and we didn't have any energy. Zhang Feng analyzed.
"There's a remedy for this, and that's for the two of you to hold this handle and inject mana into it, so that we should be able to hold out until we get to Hogwarts. After speaking, Zhang Feng pressed a red button on the dashboard. Then Harry and Ron each had a handrail made of crystals sticking out of front of them.
Harry and Ron gripped the armrest and pumped their mana into it, and the car vanished.
Because of the abundance of magic, the car seemed to be bounced into the low-altitude cotton wool-like clouds by a giant slingshot, and everything was dim and blurred.
"What now?" Harry asked, the clouds coming in from all sides made him feel a little dazzled.
"We need to see the train to know which way to go. Ron said.
"Down!!" Ron urged.
Zhang Feng struggled to control the steering wheel, and the car descended back below the clouds. Ron and Harry twisted around and squinted to the ground.
"See!" Harry shouted, "Right ahead?? There!"
The Hogwarts Express sped like a red snake beneath them.
"Due north, let's hurry up, just come down every half hour and take a look, there's only one track on this road. Sit down.." Zhang Feng controlled the car to burrow into the clouds at a rapid pace. A minute later, they were rushing into the dazzling sunlight.
It's another world. The wheels flew through the soft sea of clouds, and under the dazzling white sun, the sky was bright and blue, boundless.
It was as if they had entered a mythical dream. It's undoubtedly the best way to travel: sit in a sun-drenched car, navigate through swirling, Tallinn-like white clouds, with a big bag of toffee under the dashboard, and imagine the jealous expressions on the faces of all the students as they magically descend from the sky and come to a smooth stop on the large lawn in front of Hogwarts Castle.
They kept flying north, checking the direction of the train every once in a while, and each time they descended they could see a different picture. London was soon left far behind, replaced by flat green fields, then vast purple swamps, villages with churches like children's toys, then a busy metropolis with countless vehicles like densely packed coloured ants.
However, after a few hours, even Ron, who was still in the excitement of riding in the car, had to admit that some of the fun was fading. The toffee made them thirsty, and they had no water to drink. The British Autumn Tiger had taken off their smocks, but Harry's glasses kept slipping up the tip of his nose, and he had no intention of admiring the fantastical shapes of the clouds. Everyone on the train missed the train dozens of miles away, where the fat witch pushed the cart and sold chilled pumpkin juice.
"It won't be far, will it?" Another hour passed, and Ron said in a hoarse voice. The sun began to sink beneath the clouds, staining the sea of clouds pink. "Would you like to go down and take a look at the train?"
The train was still below them, winding its way around a snow-covered mountain. Below the clouds, it was much darker. It's finally here, but Harry and Ron's magic is also going to bottom.