citrus hogwarts

"Of course I believe you, but it's weird to hear him mention it suddenly."

The more Hermione thought about it, the more strange it became. At first it sounded like Malfoy was deliberately trying to provoke the relationship between them, but when she thought about it carefully, it sounded a bit like...

Jealous?

How can this be?

She raised her head and stared at Kate inquisitively.

"Huh? Is there something on my face?" Kate didn't know what happened, and touched her face blankly.

Not knowing how to express her guess, Hermione was still hesitating when she heard Lockhart's particularly loud voice from the first floor.

The attention of both of them was attracted, and after listening for a while, Hermione's frown finally relaxed.

"Did I hear you right? Lockhart is going to be the teacher of Defense Against the Dark Arts?"

Looking at the cheering and applauding people on the first floor, Kate put one hand on the armrest and nodded perfunctorily: "Then I hope he can survive this year."

Lao Fu's curse is that people can block people from killing people, and Buddhas can block people from killing Buddhas. Anyone who has ever been a Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher will end up miserable.

The fate of Lockhart in the original book is already considered the best.

With a jerk, she straightened up suddenly, and her demeanor of watching a show suddenly became tense.

Catherine has also been a teacher of Defense Against the Dark Arts for two months, so she should also be affected by the curse.

Damn it, she actually forgot about it!

"Hermione!" She quickly grabbed Hermione's shoulders, "What magic did you learn at your aunt's house in the past two months?"

"Eh?" Hermione was taken aback for a moment, not keeping up with her brain circuit, and stammered to cover up, "This...we'll talk about it after school starts..."

She finally learned new powers, how could she easily show them in front of Kate in this kind of place?

Kate gritted her teeth. Although she was anxious, she could only temporarily withdraw her hand.

Don't worry, it's already the second year of school. Generally speaking, the teacher of the Defense Against the Dark Arts class either had an accident that year, or it would have been delayed until a few years later.

Moreover, Catherine has only been a professor for two months, and the influence of the curse should not be great. Only by paying more attention to her in the future, she should be able to help her avoid disasters...

Just as she was thinking about it, she heard another commotion below, and after a closer look, she realized that it was the Weasleys and the Malfoys who were arguing.

The two parties headed by them are the parents of Lucius and Arthur.

"Ron's dad seems to be arguing with Malfoy's dad," Hermione whispered in her ear, "shall we go down and help?"

Kate narrowed her eyes slightly, and saw Lucius taking Ginny's worn-out textbook and stuffing it into her cauldron together with a diary that appeared suddenly, taking advantage of the confusion.

"No," she whispered, "they won't fight again."

Sure enough, in the next second, Lucius sneered and said harsh words, and rushed out of the store with his daughter, leaving a mess behind.

The clerks were still packing up the bookshelves and damaged books that had been knocked over during their quarrel and fight, and Mr. and Mrs. Weasley were mad with anger.

"Sir, madam," a clerk boldly approached, "these spoiled things..."

Kate pulled Hermione down together and interrupted him: "Uncle and aunt, we can leave after paying the money."

The Weasleys, who were about to leave at first, remembered that they hadn't had time to pay.

Hastily taking out the books from the children's cauldrons and putting them on the counter, the clerk glanced at Kate hesitantly, saw her nodding, and then began to collect the money one by one.

"Go to my account, remember to get [-]% off."

Kate walked slowly to the counter, picked up Ginny's transfiguration textbook, leaned over to the clerk's ear and said, "I will also pay for the damage caused."

As she spoke, she took the opportunity to take out the diary that was carried in the Transfiguration textbook, and stuffed it into her arms.

After paying, and walking out of the bookstore, Kate said regretfully, "Because of the confusion just now, Lockhart seems to have left early."

"It's okay, you've helped us a lot." Ron said carelessly, completely ignoring his mother's regretful eyes.

Unsurprisingly, he suffered another brain jump.

After saying goodbye to the Weasleys and Harry by the fireplace in the Leaky Cauldron, and taking Hermione home by car, Kate was able to return to the manor and lock herself in her bedroom.

It was expected to get this diary, because since she entered the bookstore, she never bothered to interfere with the plot.

In the original plot, in order to cope with the inspection by the Ministry of Magic, Lucius had to transfer most of the dark magic items in his home.

And this diary was left to him by Voldemort.

Although he himself was not aware of the dangers of the diary, it belonged to Voldemort after all, and he did not dare to neglect it, so he did not resell it.

And the conflict with the Weasleys at the Lihen Bookstore just now made him feel terrified, so he simply stuffed the diary into Ginny's cauldron.

This was to retaliate against Arthur Weasley's search of their home, and it could also cause trouble and transfer the risk.

After all, apart from someone like Kate who knows the plot and will observe his actions at any time, who would have noticed that he, a handsome adult wizard, would frame an 11-year-old child?

No taste, and vicious.

Because Lucius didn't care at all whether Ginny would be hurt after getting the diary, or if it would hurt other people.

I don't know how this kind of person passed the trial when he was put in a juvenile book like Harry Potter.

Looking at the diary in front of her, Kate wasn't that stupid to open it and talk to it without any precautions.

But it would be a bit of a loss to destroy it directly, after all, it was hard to get a Horcrux of Voldemort.

After rummaging through her purse for a while, Kate found a small box that Nicole Flamel usually used to hold important alchemy items.

A small black and square box, with only a few gold patterns on it to outline beautiful lines, the size is just big enough to put a diary in.

It was harmless, so the old housekeeper didn't take it away from her.

When the time comes, take her to Hogwarts, make up a little story with Lao Deng, and get rid of the blame, and she will be able to calm down this year!

After packing the diary together with the box for three or four layers, and finally throwing it into the innermost part of the purse, Kate felt relieved and went out for dinner.

Chapter 4 What is jealous scene

On the last night of the summer vacation, Kate specially invited Catherine to have a big meal, and vaguely reminded her to pay attention to her personal safety before being sent back to rest.

When she got up early the next morning, Catherine had already left.

It's all here... Can't you wait a little while to see her off?

With a slander in her heart, Kate followed the old butler to King's Cross Station after breakfast, and boarded the train.

After saying goodbye to the old housekeeper, she easily found an empty carriage, and a short while after she sat in, there was a knock on the door.

"Excuse me, is there anyone sitting here?" Luna, who was dressed chaotically as always, knocked on the car door. When she saw her, her erratic eyes seemed to flicker.

Kate smiled generously: "Please sit down, junior."

So, Luna sat across from her with her big bags and small bags. The carrot earrings on her ears turned into airship plum earrings, and the original chaotic outfit on her body finally looked better because she put on the Hogwarts uniform in advance. order.

But as soon as you notice her disheveled golden hair and silver pupils that can't see clearly, that bit of order disappears.

As if she was born to speak for disorder and chaos.

Kate was very interested in her outfit, and was about to ask her where she bought the earrings, when she saw Hermione walking in directly with her luggage.

"I searched for a long time today and didn't see Harry and Ron. They shouldn't be late, right?" she said, sitting next to Kate.

"Maybe they haven't arrived yet." Kate lowered her voice and brought her luggage in familiarly.

It wasn't until she sat down that Hermione noticed that there was a strange girl sitting opposite her, and her already relaxed mood tensed up again.

Kate looked at the man's instantly stiff back, and introduced with a light smile, "This is Luna Lovegood, a freshman in the first grade. Last time I ran into her near Knockturn Alley."

This is the girl Malfoy meant to mention?

Hermione looked at Luna thoughtfully, "My name is Hermione Granger, a second-year Gryffindor."

"Senior Granger." Luna replied softly, staring at Hermione with hazy silver eyes for a while, then tilted her head slightly, "Senior, you seem very nervous."

Her tone was very firm, as if she was stating a fact.

"No, I didn't." Hermione subconsciously grasped the fabric on her knees.

Luna shrugged slightly, then picked up a copy of "The Quibbler" and read it.

Normally, Hermione would not disturb people when they saw them reading.

It's just that this school girl gave her such a weird feeling that she had to ask, "What newspaper are you reading?"

"The Quibbler, created by my father." Luna kindly shared half of it with her.

Hermione read a few lines, and then frowned visibly, "What is the horned snoring beast mentioned above? Why have I never heard of it? Kate, do you know?"

As a student of Newt, the master of magical beasts, Kate was named without any surprise.

However, she had already anticipated what kind of conversation these two people would have when they got together, so she calmly took the newspaper and glanced at it.

"Although my teacher is a master of magical beasts second to none, it doesn't mean that there are no creatures in the world that he hasn't discovered... well, such as this horned snorkel."

To Hermione, this sentence was an admission that the Horned Snork did not have such an animal at all.

In Luna's view, this is Kate saying that the horned snorkel does not exist, but no one has discovered it yet.

Both girls got a satisfactory answer.

Kate silently handed the newspaper back to Luna, and took out a Lockhart book from her bag and gave it to Hermione.

The carriage fell silent for a moment.

In order to prevent the two people from continuing to ask her, Kate, who was planning to communicate, lay back and fell asleep.

Time always passed quickly. When Kate woke up, the train had already stopped. She looked around the carriage, but only found Hermione alone.

"Lovegood has gone out with the freshmen." Hermione said while changing clothes out of sight.

Kate was startled, and then got up and stretched her muscles: "How did you know that I wanted to ask Luna?"

Hermione was bored and said nothing, changed her clothes in threes and fives, and went out directly: "I'll wait for you outside."

Watching her quickly walk out of the carriage in a daze, Kate tilted her head blankly. Why did she feel that Hermione's air pressure was inexplicably low?

It's an illusion...

After quickly changing into her wizard robe, she hurriedly followed, and followed a group of students towards the street outside Hogsmeade station.

Students in the second grade and above all enter the school by land, of course not by walking. There are more than 100 horse-drawn carriages here.

Kate was surrounded by crowds all the way, and when she finally got here, the people around her dispersed.

She clearly saw Hermione waving to her in a carriage with the twin Weasleys in it.

Taking a few steps forward step by step, she unconsciously looked at the black animal standing between the shafts in front of a carriage beside her.

Thestrals, a magical animal that can only be seen by those who have seen death with their own eyes.

When she passed by, a thestral next to her raised its head and rubbed against her arm.

Kate, who wanted to pretend she didn't see it, had no choice but to raise her arm and gently stroked its black head, which was very similar to a fire dragon.

The Thestral in front of him made a soft noise, and it could be seen that it was very beneficial to Kate's contact.

"The carriage is leaving, Kate, come quickly!" Hermione couldn't help shouting at her when she saw that she was standing still and unable to come over.

Kate withdrew her hand and trotted all the way to get into the carriage, "Sorry, I'm late."

She thought Hermione was going to ask herself why she stood there for so long, but Hermione grabbed her hand worriedly:

"What? Harry and Ron missed the train! Will they not be able to come to school?"

Kate looked slightly startled, and looked up at the Weasley twins, only to find that the same schadenfreude smiles appeared on the two identical faces.

Heh, it should be a lot of fun for the two of them that the younger brother made a mistake and suffered.

She had no choice but to comfort her softly: "They'll be fine. Hogwarts has no reason not to let students go to school just because they didn't catch the train."

"Not necessarily."

"If they both come to school in another way."

George and Fred spoke one by one.

"Any other way?" Hermione murmured, suddenly thinking of something, "Oops, they won't come in that car, will they?"

She had heard Ron proudly tell about how the brothers drove that magical car to rescue Harry who was trapped in his uncle's house during the summer vacation.