Harry was silent for a moment, "I heard that you successfully summoned a physical Patronus? Can you tell me the trick?"
His mentality was like that of a poor student in the class, who obviously failed yesterday along with another poor student brother, but in the blink of an eye that kid got full marks in the exam. Harry was naturally curious about how Tom did it.
Tom scratched the back of his head: How? The truth is that I have always been able to summon the physical patron saint...
In other words, the brother who failed the exam with you just forgot to fill in the answer sheet every time...
This truth was too cruel for Harry, so Tom chose to use a white lie.
"Find the beauty in your heart and practice more."
After saying such nonsense, Tom walked away as fast as he could.
Harry and Ron were left there to figure it out.
"Let's go for a walk by the Black Lake?" Hermione suggested after leaving the campus hospital. She felt that always studying in the lounge or library would lead to a decrease in efficiency. It would be better to go for a walk, which would help.
Improve efficiency.
Many times distress and boredom are caused by lack of exercise. Just go downstairs and let the cold air flow into your chest and lungs, and all kinds of negative emotions will disappear.
"But you have to wait until I go back to the dormitory." Hermione stretched out the clothes on her body, "This clothes is really inconvenient to wear."
Tom naturally had no objection.
They arrived at Ravenclaw Tower and knocked on the door.
The eagle-shaped door knocker begs the question as usual: "What is a nose without a body?"
"No one knows." Tom opened the door of the tower, "I'll wait for you outside." [Note]
Hermione walked into the common room. She was a little confused by Tom's choice to stay outside the door. She thought at first that Tom wanted to enjoy the cool breeze, but she soon understood the reason.
After she walked into the lounge, all the little wizards who were busy with things stopped what they were doing and looked directly at Hermione.
Hermione:Σ(っ°Д°;)っ
She suddenly understood the reason: she had been in the limelight yesterday, and it was normal for her to be in the spotlight now. So she ran into her dormitory before her classmates surrounded her.
However, after entering the dormitory, she realized that she seemed to have just escaped from the tiger's mouth and entered the wolf's den again, and her "sisters" were already waiting for her.
"Hermione Jane Granger," Sue Lee rushed up and blocked Hermione's retreat, "Can you tell me where you were last night?"
The other girls gathered around Hermione.
Hermione rolled her eyes, "I was caught in the rain and had some hypothermia, so I went to Madam Pomfrey's to ask for a potion, and then Madam Pomfrey left me in the school hospital for observation all night - you guys
You know, Madam Pomfrey, she is passionate, sometimes too passionate-"
Hermione felt like she was an actress in a TV series at this moment. She believed that the expression on her face must be very stiff and her acting skills must be rated as inferior.
"Reasonable." Su Li said sternly like a judge.
"But according to the testimony of Witness No. 1, Padma Patil, you did not leave the Quidditch pitch immediately after the game. Then please explain to Miss Granger. Since you were soaked by the rain, you
Why don't you return to the castle as soon as possible instead of staying where you are?"
Hermione:?
"Witness? No. 1?" She felt that today's group of hooves came well prepared, and she might not be able to pass easily.
But Hermione was by no means a pushover, and the aggressiveness of her roommates gradually aroused her competitive spirit, so she expressed with a normal expression that she was frozen.
"So someone sent you back?" All the girls present had little stars in their eyes.
"Yes, Tom sent me to the school hospital."
"Wow!" Hermione's roommates burst into cheers.
"So he spent the night with you in the campus hospital?"
"Did you really spend the night in the campus hospital?"
"Where does he sleep?"
The little girls asked all kinds of questions.
"You...what happened to you?" Mandy Bloch asked nervously with a gossipy look on her face.
Hermione thought of the "Pussy Cat Wildcat" outfit and felt dazed for a while, but she quickly regained her composure.
"Nothing happened, this is the school hospital!"
Sue Li frowned, feeling that the matter was not simple. She felt that the matter still needed to be investigated. And she would be the one to uncover the mystery and find out the truth about the relationship between Tom and Hermione: the famous Hogwarts
Love Detective, Sue Lee!
She got closer to Hermione and gently smelled her scent, "This is the smell of lying..."
Hermione:?
"I don't understand what you are talking about..." She felt guilty.
Su Li narrowed her eyes.
"Anyway, make room for me, I need to change my clothes." Hermione pushed her roommates away, ran to her cabinet, opened the cabinet and suitcase and started picking through it.
This successfully attracted the attention of the roommates. They no longer worried about where Hermione went last night, but began to make suggestions for Hermione and help her match her clothes.
"How about the red one? Pair it with the yellow silk scarf, and you will definitely look the most beautiful."
"If it's the red one, I think it would be perfect if you wear the purple skirt, but the weather is a bit cold now -"
"What's wrong with the cold!"
While the girls were arguing, Hermione found a gray wool skirt. The skirt was long enough to cover her knees and looked very warm. Under the skirt, there was a scarf of the same color and a light-colored skirt.
A gray woolen coat. In addition, she also took out a pair of brown boots from under the bed.
The characteristic of this outfit is to keep warm.
"Our Hermione doesn't need clothes to set her off at all. She looks good even in a sack - and if Yodel dares to say one more bad word, I will tear his mouth apart!"
"Our Miss Granger will definitely be reluctant to let go..."
Hermione was used to her roommates. She changed her clothes, but before she could leave the dormitory, she was grabbed by her friends.
"Merlin! Don't you wear makeup?!" They pressed Hermione on a chair and drew her eyebrows, foundation and eyeliner.
"Use this color to show off the whiteness but not to be obtrusive."
"The eyebrows are drawn like this to make them look longer——"
"Where's the eyeliner!"
…
When Hermione walked out of the lounge again, she was a completely different person.
"It's been a long wait..." She lowered her head and ran all the way to Tom's side, feeling a little embarrassed: she knew she had made Tom wait outside for a long time.
"Nothing, I just went downstairs to get two breakfasts." Tom showed Hermione the brown paper bag in his hand.
"You even put on makeup?" He saw the delicate makeup on Hermione's face. He felt that this makeup must have taken a lot of effort.
"Well," Hermione lowered her head and was secretly surprised: Didn't it mean that boys can't tell whether a girl is wearing makeup as long as she doesn't wear lipstick or blush? Why is there something different about Tom?
“Very nice.”
"……Thanks."
The two went downstairs, passed through the atrium of the castle, and walked out of Hogwarts Castle through the back door. Not far away were the school's greenhouses and vegetable fields. Professor Sprout planted many teaching crops and common crops there.
of fruits and vegetables.
"Want to eat cherries?" Tom opened the brown paper bag and took out a smaller bag filled with purple cherries the size of a thumbnail.
The vegetable fields and orchards of Hogwarts are magically planted to produce all kinds of fruits and vegetables regardless of the climate. Cherries like these usually mature in May or June. If you want to eat fresh cherries in this late autumn season,
It's not that easy.
But Hogwarts has fresh, just-picked cherries.
"Eat!" Hermione came over, put both hands on her chest, stuck her head out and looked at the cherries in the bag expectantly, then stretched out her hand and picked out a few cherries that looked delicious at first glance.
.
"It's very sweet!" she praised. "Let me test you. What kind of cherry do you think this is? There will be a reward for the correct answer."
Tom:Huh?
"There are four kinds of cherries, namely cherries, European sweet cherries, European sour cherries and fuzzy cherries." Hermione put the cherries in her mouth while lowering the difficulty for Tom. "Think about it, it's not difficult."
"Uh, European sweet cherry?"
"Correct!" Hermione snapped her fingers, "How did you judge that?"
"This is Europe, and that cherry is very sweet..."
Hermione:......
"Forget it, even if a blind cat encounters a dead mouse, your answer is considered correct. Remember, the fruit of European sweet cherry is nearly spherical or ovoid, with a color ranging from red to purple-black and a diameter of 1.5-2.5 cm."
Tom nodded, well behaved.jpg
"Here, reward." Hermione took a cherry in her mouth and greeted Tom. Then when he turned his head, she put her mouth up and gave the cherry in her mouth to Tom.
It felt soft and tender, with a hint of oil in the warmth, and then there was a round thing, which opened Tom's lips and teeth, and was sent in by a naughty little guy. Before Tom could react, the little guy
Finished the mission and ran away.
"Well..." Tom swallowed the sweet, moist cherry, and was about to say something, but was interrupted by the rustling sound coming from the vegetable patch next to him.
He looked toward the sound and saw that it was a beige hare.
"Little rabbit!" Hermione exclaimed softly in surprise, then took out a cherry from the bag and threw it in front of the rabbit.
The rabbit was startled by her and almost ran away, but when it saw that the two people were not approaching, another cherry was thrown in front of it, so it squatted back again.
After waiting for a few seconds and realizing that there was no danger, it cautiously moved to the cherry, opened its three-petal mouth, and with one smack, pulled off the stem of the cherry and swallowed it happily.
Started chewing.
Looking at it eating the cherry stems, Hermione blinked: Rabbits seem to understand cherries a little differently from us?
"Maybe it's grinding its teeth?" Tom speculated.
They couldn't guess what the rabbit was thinking, because the rabbit jumped away after chewing the cherry stem.
After Tom and Hermione finished playing with the rabbit, they continued walking along the vegetable patch.
"Look, there's something in Hagrid's pumpkin patch!" Hermione shouted, pointing to the pumpkin patch in the distance. Tom looked there and saw the huge thing lying on the edge of the field at a glance. The guy had the body of a horse,
The hind legs and tail are like those of an eagle, but the front legs, head and wings are like those of an eagle.
It was Buckbeak, the hippogriff who had committed the crime.
Seeing Tom and Hermione approaching, Buckbeak stood up vigilantly and stared at the two of them with his big orange eyes. There was a cold sheen on his steel-like beak.
The long claws scratched the ground, leaving deep scratches.
Fortunately, there was a thick iron chain tied around its neck, tightly wrapped around a wooden stake, so that it was restricted within a certain range.
"Tom, be careful!" Hermione pulled on the corner of his clothes with some worry. Although Malfoy was solely responsible for his own fault, he is a raptor that has hurt people after all. If his ferocity is still there...
Looking at its dagger-like claws, Hermione shivered.
Tom looked at Buckbeak's orange eyes, looked directly at it, and bowed to it. Buckbeak glanced at Tom for a few times, then bent its scaly front knees and made a very standard gesture.
bowing posture.
"Successful." Tom gestured to Hermione to bow as he did. Buckbeak replied again, but this time he seemed a little impatient and his knees were bent a little perfunctory.
The two of them, one on the left and the other on the right, gently patted Buckbeak's beak, making him close his eyes comfortably. It seemed that he liked this tune very much - it was difficult for his claws to touch him at this position.
"Hey!" Suddenly a panicked shout came, startling the two of them. Tom raised his head and saw Hagrid rushing over like a tank. He rushed a few meters away to see the situation clearly before he said something.
stop.
Buckbeak roared dissatisfiedly at Hagrid. Hagrid quickly stopped.
"Why are you here - I mean...well, I didn't expect you to have a good relationship with it..." Seeing that Tom and Hermione were safe and sound, Hagrid's heart that was about to jump out calmed down. He
I was really scared, afraid that Buckbeak would hurt someone again.
"Okay, now that you're here, why don't you come in and have a cup of tea?" Hagrid untied an unknown furry creature from the fence on one side and threw it to Buckbeak.
Amidst the sound of bones breaking, Tom and Hermione walked into Hagrid's hut. As soon as they entered, Tom smelled a strong aroma of coffee.
"Sit wherever you want." As soon as they entered, Hagrid asked the two of them to sit down. He took out two teacups as big as bowls from the cupboard and picked up a steaming cup from the stove on one side.
kettle.
"Tea?"
“Coffee bar.”
A cup of coffee is more suitable in the morning.
Tom casually placed the paper bag containing breakfast on the table and watched Hagrid prepare the coffee.
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Today's brainteaser: Sirius rides Buckbeak and names a store (the answer is in Chapter 92 "Writer's Note")