Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 188 Thestral Carriage
"idiot!"

"It's really... I didn't learn a lesson..."

Seeing the two fat guys gearing up, they pressed over triumphantly.

McGuffin directly raised his hand as a simplified gesture for casting spells without a stick, and directly levitated several people.

(Of course, the most important reason is this action - handsome!)

Malfoy lifted his feet off the ground, floating in the air, planing wildly with his limbs.

——He finally remembered the fear of being dominated by the 'roller coaster' last time again.

However, at this time, Hermione and Harry and the others are most afraid of being next to them. They are afraid that McGuffin will be "playing" for a while (like last time), and they will be directly expelled by Professor McGonagall...

"McGuffin should put Malfoy down first! It's not worth being expelled from Hogwarts for such a guy..."

Hermione said hastily.

She took out her wand, stepped forward, lifted the spell and put them on the ground.

--boom!

The entire compartment shook twice, and the glass windows trembled.

It can be seen that the fall was not light.

Harry Ron breathed a sigh of relief almost at the same time.

——It hurts to see it!
This is especially true for Malfoy, one of his legs was somehow caught between two fleshy balls, one can imagine...

Angrily, he pulled one of his legs out of the pile of two tons of meat, staggered up from the ground and shouted loudly, "McGuffin, you are about to be fired!"

"I didn't cast magic with a wand, everyone here can testify to me..."

"I remember the rules that Professor McGonagall made at the beginning: - on the magic train, any Hogwarts students except the prefects and student representatives are not allowed to use wands to cast spells to attack Hogwarts students... I obviously didn't use a wand!"

McGuffin replied with a grin.

Malfoy still didn't believe it. He stepped over Goyle and Crabbe and walked around the MacGuffin, but unfortunately he didn't find the wand that was secretly hidden.

This--

Then Malfoy thought of what happened in Lihen Bookstore——

Scenes from the conflict between his father Lucius and Weasley that floated up for no reason.

At that time, they thought that some wizard in the crowd secretly took out his wand and cast a spell to prevent the two from fighting.

It seems...

"Is it you? At that time... in Lihen Bookstore... was it you?"

boom!
The two live treasures in the back fell down again and mingled with each other.

Malfoy didn't pay attention, he gave McGuffin a last look, with a livid face, passed by the two people blocking the door, and shouted angrily, "How long will you let others see the joke if you don't get up?"

After the three staggered away, Hermione pulled the compartment door, and then began to look at McGuffin with puzzled and strange eyes.

"McGuffin, did you just..." Hermione wanted to ask something, but was interrupted by the excited Ron.

"Cool! MacGuffin! How did you just do that..."

"Is it you who did that in Lihen Bookstore? ... No, it must be you!" Ron said excitedly, "How did you do it, can you teach me, this is too handsome!"

Harry, or everyone else in the cubicle was also staring at the MacGuffin with interest.

Looking forward to his explanation.

"Handsome?..." Hermione frowned and said, "This is silent casting without a wand, so it can be described in this kind of words...According to the book, casting spells without a sound and a wand is generally only mastered by outstanding wizards who have graduated from Hogwarts... How did you learn it, McGuffin?"

"What's the trick?"

Hermione couldn't believe it, and stared at McGuffin with wide eyes.

"Er... um... ah..."

"The trick should be...study hard and make progress every day?"

"There are roads and hard work in the mountains of books, and there is no limit to the sea of ​​learning and hard work?"

"Study hard for three years, and then eat and drink spicy food...Three years of having fun, I can only eat farts and drink!"

The other six people in the cubicle are confused (⊙o⊙)...? ? ?Look at the McGuffin.

There was a frantic exchange of glances between the three of them. (Continuously glances between the MacGuffin and Luna)
——Is it true that MacGuffin met the girl named Luna for the first time?

——Why does it feel like the two of them are so convinced that they really have no distant relatives in some way?
——McGuffin, does he need to take medicine?
Seeing that the eyes of several people were getting more and more wrong, McGuffin had no choice but to speak quickly before they sent him to St. Mungo's Hospital.

"Okay, okay...you really don't have a sense of humor about 'Human Kaibao-Soviet Joke'..."

"The trick is... as long as your understanding of a spell reaches a certain level, you can start to adjust its power, and then you can try to cast spells silently, and then try to cast spells without a wand..."

"You just need to practice one spell repeatedly, and after mastering it, you can continue to improve... And you must choose a simple, most basic spell learning practice... For example, I only learned a spell [Levitation Spell], and I practiced it about 1111110 times. Of course, the specific situation may be much more than this..."

McGuffin converted what the system showed—the proficiency required for a spell from [Introduction] to [Extraordinary] stage into the number of exercises and told them.

"Are you kidding me!"

"Where did you come from at that time... You can't practice spells during the summer vacation, and you were with us last year..."

Harry and Ron couldn't believe it, and Hermione couldn't believe what McGuffin was saying.

During the following journey, Hermione kept trying to get the tips of practicing wandless spellcasting from McGuffin.

until……

As night fell, the lights in the car came on.

Hermione just returned to her original compartment to put on her robes.

Luna rolled up "Singing and Reversing", carefully put it in her schoolbag, then turned her face and stared intently at everyone in the box.

Ginny turned around shyly, and put on her somewhat black second-hand black robe.

Ron took a picture of himself against the dark window, straightened his robe, and tried to suppress the tuft of hair that was always standing on the back of his head.

McGuffin turned his head to look at the night sky outside the car window, where the stars were already lit up.

He was not in a hurry, and looked into the distance, in the dark borderline, until he saw the silhouette of the towering corners and towers of Hogwarts Castle.

McGuffin finally put on his wizard robes.

The Hogwarts Express began to slow down, and when it stopped at Hogwarts Station,
The carriage door opened again, and Hermione entered.

All of a sudden, various sounds flooded into the car.

It was chaotic and noisy outside, everyone was gathering their luggage and pets together,...McGuffin heard Percy angrily reprimanding Fred and George, and Malfoy's voice of trying to get revenge on himself and laughing at everyone in this car because of his failure just now...

They flowed down the train with the crowd, Neville carefully stuffed Raife into the inner pocket of his robe, Harry carried Hedwig's birdcage, and McGuffin himself held the tiny house firmly in his arms to create a space to avoid being squeezed by other students.

Several people walked out of the compartment with heavy steps, merged into the flow of people in the aisle, slowly moved towards the door, and got off the train.

The cold air blowing on the face at night is refreshing and refreshing.

They can smell the humidity blown by the wind to the distant lakeside, the fragrance of the pine trees on both sides of the path, and the metallic smell from the train tracks...

The students got off the bus and came to the platform, looking around.

A familiar loud voice yelled from behind, "Here are the first-year freshmen? First-year freshmen??"

A huge figure approached in the darkness.

"Hagrid, hello!"

Harry called out to the dark figure.

"Hello, Harry!" Hagrid replied gruffly, waving his hands, "Then see you at the banquet, Harry!"

According to the scene when the first batch of students arrived at Hogwarts hundreds of years ago, this is the practice of Hogwarts to welcome new students-the first-year students are ferried across the lake by Hagrid and enter Hogwarts Castle.

Ginny and Luna left with Hagrid, parting from McGuffin and the others.

"We will go to school in the magic carriage from now on, students after the first grade will be like this..." Hermione explained to Neville very excitedly.

They moved little by little with the flow of people and walked past the cold platform.

McGuffin heard the twin brothers discussing with Lee Jordan about using Filibar fireworks to 'surprise' Filch in the near future, as well as the random chatter of other little wizards...

In the night where we can't see each other's faces, everyone has a special desire to talk and talk.

——Chirping, the students excitedly told about what happened during their summer vacation, and told each other interesting things.

As Hermione said...

There were about a hundred horseless carriages parked in the street outside Hogwarts Station.

The whole body is pitch black, and there are two magic lanterns swaying in the wind hanging on the roof outside the carriage.

The shape of the carriage is a bit like the style of the Victorian period... Regular, strict, with old-fashioned black ring patterns painted on it, and a black lacquered bell hung on the door for some unknown purpose.

There are already students riding in it. It seems that a carriage can hold six to eight people at most.

They are lined up in the street one by one, neatly, but the front is empty.

Of course, this is not the case in McGuffin's eyes, he has already expected this matter.

Now in his eyes...

There were some animals standing between the shafts of the carriage, which looked like horses but not horses, just like the black flame monster that I appeared through the Sorcerer's Stone to drive Voldemort away that night, except that it was not full of fire, but now it also looked like some kind of horrible hell creature.

There is no flesh on their bodies, the black fur is tightly attached to the skeleton, and every bone is clearly visible.The head is like a dragon's head, and the eyes without pupils are white, as if realizing that the MacGuffin can see it, staring at the MacGuffin intently

Wings grew from the bulge between the shoulder bones and back wings—big, black, tough wings, like a giant bat, but now crumpled and contracted, tightly attached to its body.

These animals were motionless, and if it wasn't for the snorting that could be seen in the cold air, McGuffin would have thought that some kind of vivid magical sculpture had been activated.

— Thestrals.

The names of these weird creatures.

The carriages in front had already set off towards Hogwarts Castle, and in McGuffin's eyes, they were pulled by thestrals.

At this time, Harry and the others urged McGuffin, and Neville to get up to the carriage in front of them.

Neville was panicking to catch Laifu the toad that jumped out of his arms - he almost let it escape just now.

McGuffin guessed that Toad was frightened, because it was in another carriage not far away.

— Draco Malfoy, and a small group of buddies, including Crabbe, Goyle, and Pansy Parkinson, those small groups of pure-blood wizards in Slytherin House.

They were behaving badly and yelling at each other, throwing other Hufflepuffs their age out of a carriage so their own could sit next to each other.

After Percy saw it, he rushed over angrily, drove them out of the carriage, taught them a lesson, and then arranged for other little wizards to rebuild the carriage.

The nostrils of thestrals were dilated, blowing out a bulging breath, and under the reflection of the dim light from the window, it was really shining. The breath from the nostrils condensed into water vapor in the cold night air.

I don't know if it's McGuffin's own delusion, it seems to see McGuffin being extremely excited, snorting, and hooves constantly pawing on the ground.The carriage, which had been at a standstill, began to vibrate weakly.

Harry and the others thought the carriage was about to start, so they quickly pulled McGuffin into the carriage.

The carriage door slammed shut, and after a while, it began to tremble and speed up.

but--

It stopped suddenly again, and the door was opened.

It turned out that Percy led Malfoy and his two 'little' followers standing in the middle of the road, blocking the way.

Malfoy was cursing, very annoyed, "You Weasley...don't think you can do whatever you want just because you are a prefect...I will complain to Professor Snape about you..."

"Look at what good things you have done? Leave us here to blow the cold wind?"

Harry Ron gloated and listened to Malfoy's complaints, and they realized that after Percy taught Malfoy and the others, they found that the only carriage left in the carriage was the one that McGuffin and the others were riding in hadn't left.

McGuffin looked up and out the car door.

indeed--

These two carriages were the only ones left on the road, and the others had already started, wobbly being pulled by thestrals towards Hogwarts Castle.

What Percy meant was to squeeze several people into the same carriage.

"no!"

Ron and Malfoy both jumped out to object.

"I don't want to be in the same car with this idiot (idiot)?" The two said almost at the same time.

Ron simply tore his face and pointed directly at Crabbe and Goyle behind Malfoy and said, "Percy, look at the pile of meat on the two of them... How can this carriage hold it... Why don't we go to Hogwarts to find the professors first, and let the professors solve this problem..."

He made a suggestion in this way with malicious intent.

When Malfoy opened his mouth to say something.

Percy lowered his head and touched his prefect badge, and said in a low voice, "If you two don't do what I say, you will become the two students who will be deducted points for the first time this semester!"

"I'll be outside, and you guys will be inside...don't make trouble...otherwise you'll look good...Ron, come with me!"

Ron was shocked, he didn't expect his own brother to treat him like this.

He stared at Percy very angrily.

"Come on! I'll go and sit outside!" McGuffin interjected, he saw that Ron's mood was really wrong, and he himself wanted to observe and study the Thestrals closely...

McGuffin did not forget what happened to his yew Thestral wand when he fought against Voldemort and when he bought the wand... and what he saw and happened in the centaur's prophecy ceremony...

He had to find out what secrets were hidden in his yew wood thestral tail feather wand.

(Originally, McGuffin planned to go to Diagon Alley by himself and ask Ollivander, but he didn't expect to find time to be alone. In addition, there were Horcruxes, dirt, Mr. Weasley and Lucius' fights to worry about, so he put this matter behind him.)
Harry and the others climbed into the carriage again, followed by Malfoy. After Percy gave a warning, he pulled McGuffin to sit in the front of the carriage.

As the thestrals slowly accelerated, the carriage began to gallop on the unmodified path, and with violent bumps, it sped towards the long convoy in front of it.

but……

Who the hell can tell me...

why? ?

carriages really... give
——'Fly' up! ! ?

(End of this chapter)