[HP] The Elegance of the Night

On the last day before school, Igil and Draco made an appointment to go to Diagon Alley together. They first went to Mrs. Malkin's robe shop to buy some new robes. Last year's school uniform was several inches shorter than the limbs. Unable to wear it, Igil asked a witch in the store to measure his body length, Draco stood next to him, and another witch measured him.

"How was your summer vacation, Draco." Igil chatted with the platinum boy, killing the boring time.

"Don't mention it, the nightmare-like summer vacation, I have been training non-stop and almost never took a day off." Draco still has lingering fears when he thinks about his life in the past two months, "But it's very effective." He said proudly.

"Your father's requirements are really strict, and you are already very good among people of the same age." Igil's words made Draco raise his chin proudly.His level has long been much higher than those of the same age, and the training during this period has benefited him a lot. Not only has he mastered many spells proficiently, but he has also faintly made breakthroughs in magic power.

"It's not that Dad is strict, it's my request." Draco said softly.

After buying the robes, they went to the pharmacy to replenish the various ingredients of the medicine. Of course, the textbooks for the new semester were also essential.When they came to Lihen Bookstore, they were taken aback by what was in the window. The spell books the size of floor tiles and with golden embossments that were usually displayed in the bookstore window were gone, replaced by a large iron cage containing At least one hundred "Monster Books of Monsters".Locked together, the books snapped and fought furiously, sending broken pages flying here and there.Amid a loud tearing sound, Yigil saw the ferocity of these books: two "Monster Books of Monsters" grabbed the third book and tore it apart together.

"Stop! Stop!" the wizard in the shop wailed sadly, and Igil took out the book list and looked it over, and became sad too.

"Merlin's pants, I never knew that protecting magical creatures requires such a dangerous book." Draco also took out the book list and repeatedly confirmed, "Compared with them, I think we need protection more."

They walked into the bookstore, and the wizard rushed forward to meet them.

"We need two sets of these books." Igil handed him the book list, and the wizard almost cried when he saw the words on it.

"I've been bitten four times this morning." With a bitter face, he put on a pair of thick gloves, picked up a thick, scarred cane, and walked towards the "Monsters" The Iron Cage of The Monster Book.Hitting them with a cane like taming animals, the wizard drove these vicious books aside, and he grabbed out a book that was deliberately isolated near the cage.

"Huh..." The wizard stomped the book firmly under his feet and tied it firmly. Seeing the platinum-haired boy frowning at the soles of his shoes, he carefully explained: "Clean shoes are for dealing with them." Yes, the mat under your feet is also new."

Draco nodded in understanding, and the wizard wiped the entire cover of the book with a soft cloth and handed it to him.

"No matter how powerful the books are, there are ways to deal with them." The wizard was very pleased with the smooth capture, and he said while poking the books in the cage with his cane: "We have imported two hundred copies of "Invisibility" before. The Invisible Book" was labeled by the store manager, so it was sold out smoothly, ah..." The wizard suddenly let out a scream—he was bitten by the book.

After buying all the things needed for the school, the two boys from the Snake Yard sat down at the open-air tea table of the Florin Cold Drink Shop, and each ordered an ice cream. It was almost noon, and the sun was high in the sky emitting heat. Jill was eating ice cream under the shade of the parasol, feeling the heat all over her body was replaced by coolness.

"Igil, I know a good restaurant, we can go there for lunch." As soon as Draco finished speaking, he heard a crisp voice that made him extremely disgusted.

"Black, Malfoy, nice to meet you." Ellie Windsor trotted up to them, followed by Hermione and Ron.

I don't want to see you!Draco glanced at the girl, he didn't want to see the Gryffindor group at all, it reminded him of the end of last term, when Igil went with them without him, and Slytherin lost Academy Cup.

"Why didn't you see Harry Potter? It's really rare. The savior abandoned you? He is a great hero now."

"Malfoy, it's not like a nobleman to talk about others behind their backs. Look - I was caught by my client." The blue-eyed boy came over and said casually.

"Harry! Harry!" the lion cubs cried out happily. "Finally saw you! We went to the Leaky Cauldron, but they said you were gone, so we went to the bookshop, to Madam Malkin's, and—"

"I bought everything I need for school last week, how do you know I'm here?" Harry sat down and took Ellie's ice cream.

"My dad said it," said Ron curtly.Mr. Weasley worked at the Ministry of Magic, so he had heard the news, too.

"Your aunt really saw Sirius Black?" Hermione asked. "It's terrible. He's a murderer."

"Cough..." Igil was choked and coughed, and Draco hurriedly patted him on the back.

"Oh, we shouldn't have said that." Hermione covered her mouth as Ellie kicked her under the table.

"Sorry, Black, we didn't mean to," Harry said apologetically.He knew from Tom that Sirius was Igil's uncle, although their family hadn't seen each other more than ten years ago.

"There's nothing to apologize for. Sirius has been expelled from the Black family long ago, and has nothing to do with me." Igil said calmly, as if he didn't care about this person. "Your aunt saw him, can you tell me?"

"Oh, it's like this. Aunt Maggie saw him not far from my house, and she screamed and fainted, which alarmed many neighbors. Minister Fudge let me live here temporarily because he was afraid that I would be in danger. "

Harry still had the urge to laugh when he thought of Aunt Marge being scared out of her wits. That woman had been talking bad about his parents since he was a child, and was just as annoying as Aunt Petunia.

Probably his tense face made everyone misunderstand, and the little wizards changed the topic to other places and talked about the weather.Even Malfoy ate his ice cream and didn't open his mouth to mock him.

"Look at my new wand, fourteen inches long, willow, with a unicorn's tail hair," said Ron, pulling out a slender case from his bag, and opening it carefully, revealing the brand new wand inside. Thank you Ellie, let her spend the money, she rushes to pay the bill."

"I was the one who broke it, Ron." Ellie said shyly, "I told you I would pay you back." Igil glanced at Ron's butt, and let out a weird chuckle.

"I'm a little hungry, let's go eat." Ellie obviously saw Igil's little move, and her face turned red. "Black, Malfoy, can you come too?"

"Thank you for your kindness, Miss Windsor," Draco rebuffed her, "I don't want to squeeze a table with so many people before school starts." Still with a group of Gryffindors.

"What about you, Blake?" Ellie asked unwillingly. If Igil went, Draco would go too. She still remembered that they entered the secret room together at the end of last semester, so they should be regarded as companions.

"My thoughts are the same as Draco's." The black-haired boy in the Snake Court also rejected her.

"Oh, okay." Ellie didn't force her anymore.

After lunch with Draco, Igil took him around Diagon Alley, and Draco wanted to buy a nice set of gold gobstones (a game in the wizarding world, kind of like pinball) because he was tired of playing Igil firmly disagreed with the magic chess. These small stones would spray the smelly liquid onto people's faces when they lost points.

Next, Igil wanted to fancy a kind of glass ball, which contained a wonderful model of moving constellations. With it, he would no longer have to go to the tower to take astronomy classes.But Draco said that looking at this thing is better than looking at the ceiling of the auditorium, which is also enchanted by the starry sky, so Igil didn't buy it either.

After shopping around for a long time, they came to the Quidditch boutique store. There were many people around, and they squeezed in curiously. There was a surprisingly beautiful broom sitting on a newly erected pier in the window.

"The Irish international team ordered seven such beautiful brooms!" The shopkeeper said to everyone with a smile, "This product is the darling of the World Cup!"

"The acceleration can reach 150 miles per hour within ten seconds, and the price is negotiable." Draco looked at the description next to the broom and said emotionally, "Firebolt, the name is also cool."

"But Dad won't buy it for me. I already have Nimbus 2001." Draco straightened up and squeezed out from the crowd, "I haven't won a game since I became a Seeker."

"Don't be discouraged, Draco." Igil encouraged, he had already thought about what to give him for Christmas.

squeak……

A mouse scurried to their feet and stuck to Draco's shoes. It stood up and squeaked, but refused to go. The platinum-haired boy kicked it out in disgust, and it was a big blow to his own. The new shoes cast a "Clean Up."

"Why is this gray mouse not afraid of people? It actually came here." Draco stared at the clean shoes under his feet in disgust, and cast the cleaning spell again.

"This mouse looks familiar." Igil looked at the mouse that had been accurately kicked into the wastebasket outside the Quidditch boutique, with its ears and front paws missing. "You should be a Chaser, Draco, very accurate."

The platinum-haired boy laughed, and the gray mouse struggled out of the wastebasket.

"Its vitality is really strong, the average mouse would faint like this." Draco admired, the strength of his feet was not light.

"Ron, Ron—I found your mouse." Ellie hopped straight to the wastebasket, picked up the tail of the gray mouse that had fallen beside the wastebasket, and said loudly cried out.

"..." The two little wizards of Slytherin watched Ron silently put the trembling little mouse into his pocket.That's when Harry and Hermione came together, and Hermione was holding tightly in her arms a huge ginger cat with bushy, shaggy fur, distinctly crooked legs, and a grumpy, stressed-out look. Flat weird.It was as if he had hit his head against a wall at some point.Igil had never seen such an ugly cat.

"You bought this monster, it almost killed my Scabbers!" Ron couldn't close his mouth in surprise.

"It's got brilliant fur, isn't it?" said Hermione, grinning.

"That mouse is Ron's pet?" Draco swallowed, looking very hard to accept.

"It even bit Goyle on the Hogwarts Express in first year." Harry raised the corner of his mouth towards Draco. "If he's here, I'll definitely remember it." That horrific cry made Gore famous even before he entered school.

"That was two years ago." Draco didn't seem to hear the sarcasm in Harry's words. "It's so alive. Sure enough, the Weasleys' mice are different from other people's mice."

"This kind of house mouse can only live for three years if you raise it, and I think you can't live for a month if you raise it." Harry retorted.

"I'm not going to raise mice at all." Draco glared at Harry with fire in his eyes.

"Harry! Harry, come and see, the newly released sample broom, Firebolt!" Ron shouted excitedly from under the window of the Quidditch boutique store.The two boys who looked at each other staggered their eyes and snorted coldly at each other.

"This broom, I saw it last week," Harry responded, glancing at Draco as he walked past them.The boy with platinum hair gave him even more provocative eyes.

"Igil, what are you looking at?" Draco turned his head and found that Igil didn't pay attention to the secret fight between him and Harry before, and suddenly felt a sense of frustration that came from nowhere.

"I seem to have seen a huge black dog just now." Igil stared at an open space and rubbed his eyes suspiciously.