Hermione shook her head. She didn't see her pet cat either. A terrible thought flashed through her mind, which frightened her: Isn't this guy going to hunt Scabbers? That's too persistent.
Bar!
Just as Hermione was thinking about how to apologize to Ron, the door to the common room opened, and a little girl with disheveled, waist-length dirty blond hair walked in with Crookshanks in her arms. The girl walked in.
It looked a little strange: she had her wand stuck behind her left ear, and she was wearing a necklace made of butterbeer corks. In addition, she also had a pair of trance-looking, protruding pairs.
She has bright gray eyes and a pair of very light eyebrows.
Hermione remembered that she seemed to be a second-year student, and her name seemed to be Luna Lovegood. Hermione couldn't remember her name clearly, but she had heard of her nickname: Crazy Girl Luna.
It is said that she acts crazy and is considered a minor celebrity in the college.
Hermione looked at her clothes and found that the nickname "Crazy Girl" was quite appropriate. Hermione didn't understand why Luna was wearing these strange accessories, she was obviously a pretty little girl.
When Crookshanks saw his shit-scooper right in front of him, he stopped leaning in Luna's arms and jumped to the ground with Winter Solstice in his mouth, running towards Hermione. Hermione didn't see clearly what was in its mouth at first.
What was it holding? It wasn't until it jumped into Hermione's arms that she saw clearly that it had a big mouse in its mouth!
Crookshanks threw the fainted Dongzhi on the ground and meowed twice, with a look of anticipation on his face.
Hermione was startled. She thought it was Scabbers at first, but then she realized it was another mouse. She couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time she felt nauseous, feeling like she had been infected by a wild mouse.
The whole cat in Rookshan is unclean.
Just when she was about to use a levitating spell to take the rats on the ground out of the window and throw them away, Luna spoke.
"This mouse seems to be a gift it gave you." Luna's voice was very ethereal, with a somewhat ethereal feeling.
"Uh, this..." Hermione hesitated for a moment, not knowing what to do with this dirty rat.
"I met it in the corridor outside the lounge. I thought it was a very humane cat." Luna squatted on the ground and patted Crookshanks' butt, making it arch comfortably.
Waist. "When I first saw it, I could tell that it wanted to enter the lounge, but I couldn't tell the answer."
Crookshanks turned over and exposed his belly to Luna for caressing.
"If you can't handle the gifts it gave you well, it will be sad." Luna looked at Hermione seriously and said. Her somewhat bulging gray eyes made Hermione feel terrified, and she had no choice but to look at it.
The half-dead mouse twitched from time to time on the ground, and its desperate expression almost turned into reality.
Fortunately, Tom stood up in time to help her out. He got a white napkin from somewhere, wrapped the mouse up, then scratched Crookshanks' chin, and waited until it closed its eyes comfortably.
I patted its butt again, signaling it to go back to its nest and rest.
However, Crookshanks had no intention of leaving. He circled around Tom several times, meowing as he did so.
"It might want to take a bath. Look, its paws are covered with dirt!" Luna did not leave, but watched with interest as Tom teased Crookshanks.
After hearing this, Tom also took out his wand and used the cleaning spell to clean off Crookshanks' cat's claws one by one.
After the last paw was washed, Crookshanks wagged his tail with satisfaction, shook his fur, turned and left.
"Thank you," Tom thanked Luna. Without Luna, Crookshanks didn't know how long he would have been waiting outside the door, but Luna seemed to be in a state of mind again, so that the two of them were confused.
The conversation ended abruptly and the scene was a bit awkward.
In fact, in this situation, there was nothing to talk about between the three of them. If Luna had known what she was interested in, she should have left by herself, but she just sat there without saying a word, leaving both Tom and Hermione at a loss.
"So," Hermione thought for a while and found a question to break the embarrassing silence, "How did you spend your day today? Yodel and I went to Hogsmeade, where there is..."
"I went to the campus hospital to visit Peggy. She is my roommate. She was injured and hospitalized last year and has been in a coma since then." This time Luna reacted and gave an answer that surprised Tom and Hermione.
"Peggy..." Tom recited this somewhat distant name with some emotion. Hermione, as one of the few people who knew the truth of the matter, also fell into memories.
She is a multi-faceted character. She is pitiable, but she is also hateful. She is guilty, but she is innocent. The evil was done by her, but not by her. She is a complex person.
"So she has been in a coma all this time?" Hermione was more concerned about Peggy's current condition.
"That's right, Madam Pomfrey said that her soul was injured and she might never wake up," Luna's voice was still so ethereal, "Her parents must be very sad, right?"
Tom was silent. He felt that the most likely way for the Ministry of Magic to deal with it was to give Mr. Grossman a confusion spell to make him think that his daughter had gone to school out of town.
"But Peggy is different from before. I can feel that she seems to be very different from when she first entered school."
"After all, I was in a coma for such a long time." Hermione continued.
"No," Luna shook her head, her long golden hair swaying, "It has nothing to do with the body."
Hermione was confused when she heard it, but Tom vaguely understood Luna's words and sighed with emotion: This girl's perception is really sharp!
"Okay," Luna stood up abruptly, "I need to go back to the dormitory. There are too many harassing flies here."
"What... what?" Hermione didn't hear clearly for a moment, but Luna had already disappeared from the entrance to the dormitory.
"It's so weird." Hermione had a hard time understanding Luna.
Tom shrugged and placed the mice Crookshanks had sent on the table.
"Disgusting!" Hermione kicked Tom under the table and at the same time involuntarily moved the stool a little further away from the table. Tom held the exquisite ball in his hand and chatted with the mouse casually after it woke up.
As a result, before even a few words had passed, Tom was stunned by an explosive piece of news provided by the mouse named "Winter Solstice."
Peter Pettigrew actually slept with your wife? It was hard for Tom to digest this news.
Hermione was also stunned. She didn't expect Scabbers to do such a big thing outside.