Chapter 41 The Real Monopoly
John looked at Hermione in surprise.
In his impression, Hermione was not that easy to get along with.
But today, the other party showed extraordinary kindness.
Could it be that last night's incident really had such a great impact on Hermione that her terrible personality has fundamentally changed?
John didn't understand.
But he still accepted Hermione's invitation.
John was not an unkind person, and since others were the first to express kindness, he didn't mind making friends with Hermione.
Moreover, visiting Hagrid was originally part of his itinerary.
The three of them immediately set off and walked outside Hogwarts Castle.
Along the way, Hermione still didn't give up her plan to break the ice with a common language, and kept chattering about the 'interesting' content in various books.
She seemed very excited, spoke very fast, and her thoughts were very fast.
Obviously the previous sentence was still talking about the historical content in "Hogwarts: A History of the School", but the next sentence shifted to conjectures about the principles of changes in the properties of objects during transfiguration.
This left John speechless.
The main reason is that Hermione has an authentic Cockney accent.
John, on the other hand, comes from Jersey, which is so remote that he almost went to France. Although he speaks English instead of French, his accent is very different from the Cockney accent.
This difference in accent does not affect daily communication, but nowadays, Hermione speaks too fast!
John couldn't understand a lot of what she said.
John could only respond with a perfunctory "Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah."
This caused his and Hermione's chat about 'common topics' to become very awkward, to the point where others could dig their toes out of the entire room.
But even in this awkward conversation, Hermione's face lit up and she was extremely happy.
After all, in the past ten years of her life, there were only a handful of times where she had such "equal" and "harmonious" conversations about learning and knowledge with her peers as she did today.
This has never happened to her since she arrived at Hogwarts, and she has almost gone crazy.
So rather than saying that she wanted to please John with a 'common topic', it would be better to say that she was simply expressing her desire to talk and socialize.
Even if John didn't speak, Hermione would still be very happy just listening.
"Phew! Okay! We're here!"
Hermione finally ended the topic about the role of Gastrodia elata as the main ingredient of sedatives in the refining process. She pointed to the hut in front of her and said, "This is Hagrid's hut. I don't know where he is."
not at home."
As she spoke, Hermione stepped forward to knock on the door, and at the same time rubbed her little face - the conversation just now made her cheeks hot with excitement.
Then a series of dog barks sounded from inside the door.
"That's a hound owned by Hagrid. His name is Yaya. It looks a little scary, but don't worry, it's very kind and never bites. Yaya just likes to knock guests down and lick them.
It may feel that this can express its welcome and love for guests."
Hermione turned to John and Michelle and explained.
The smile on her face was a little stiff when she spoke, because in fact, her relationship with Hagrid was not that good, and they had only met a few times under Harry's introduction.
Fortunately, Hagrid had not forgotten Hermione. As the door of the hut opened, Hagrid immediately called out Hermione's name.
"Hermione!? Hmm! Are you here to visit me? What a surprise!"
While Hagrid was speaking, a huge black hound trapped in the crook of his legs broke free and rushed straight towards John and the others.
"Wow! Xiu Gou!"
Michelle's eyes lit up, she yelled and rushed forward, directly pressing the hound under her, rubbing, rubbing, and rubbing.
This confused the hound named Yaya.
It always knocks people down, then licks their faces and flicks its tail as a sign of goodwill. Why is it the other way around today?
Its strong self-esteem as a Xiu Gou drove it to get up.
However, Michelle's strength was surprisingly strong. She suppressed Yaya tightly and continued to rub her, as if she was holding an oversized doll.
Finally, Yaya surrendered.
It cooperated by exposing its belly, sticking out its tongue, and sweeping its tail on the ground, continuing to express its goodwill.
Hagrid, who originally wanted to step forward to stop Fang Ya, breathed a sigh of relief.
It was also at this time that he noticed that the people following Hermione this time were not Harry and Ron.
"You are……"
Hagrid frowned and thought about it. Hermione was about to start the introduction, but before she could say anything, Hagrid said excitedly, "Ha! You are the two brothers and sisters from the Leaky Cauldron, right? Harry told me a lot about you.
Time, you always take good care of him! Come in! Come in!"
"Then I'll excuse you."
John was not polite and took the lead directly into Hagrid's hut.
There is only one room here, with a copper kettle boiling water in the brazier, and a large bed in the corner. The bedding on it is made of broken pieces. The overall look is very shabby and filthy.
Fortunately, it is winter now. If it were summer, there would still be an indescribable strange smell permeating the cabin.
"You're welcome! Find a place to sit wherever you like!"
As Hagrid spoke, he happily took out a pile of rock biscuits and poured boiling water for John and others.
That's what it says.
But Hermione was the only one who actually sat down.
Michelle was excitedly running around the hut with her teeth. From the bed to the bench, everything here was basically several sizes larger than what she used daily, which made her feel very novel.
John's attention was focused on the walls and ceiling.
There were a lot of hams, pheasants, wild vegetables and other things hanging there, as well as some whole animal hides and some decorative animal specimens.
On the surface, this looks like an ordinary item for an ordinary hunter's cabin.
But John saw something unusual.
For example, those dry 'wild vegetables' include lovage, blackroot, fragrant mallow, jumping toadstool, aconite root and other magical herbs.
Then, John found things like unicorn tail hair and fairy wings in the corner of the cabin.
This shocked John greatly.
You must know that there are many things in this, even if they are placed in Diagon Alley and Hogsmeade Village, they are high-quality materials that need to be carefully stored by shop owners in preparation for selling them at a high price.
Especially the unicorn tail hair.
This thing is a material for making wands. It is usually sold by the root, and one can be sold for 10 Galleons (the Ministry of Magic subsidizes young wizards to buy their first wand, so the price of newborn wands has been reduced to 7 Galleons.
).
Now, Hagrid has a full bundle here!
Moreover, these things are placed randomly like garbage here at Hagrid.
John took a deep breath and finally brought his attention back.
At this moment, the way he looked at Hagrid had completely changed.
Chapter completed!