Chapter 555 Boarding the Hogwarts Express (2 in 1)
Chapter 555 Boarding the Hogwarts Express (2-in-1)
Draco Malfoy felt as uncomfortable as eating a fly. If it hadn't been for his father's order, how could he have come here, shamelessly begging Tom to give him a free seat like a shameless beggar? He usually
He didn't even bother to talk to Tom, let alone ride to school together - there was even a Mudblood in the car who polluted the air, and Malfoy just stood here and felt very uncomfortable.
But he had no choice. His father gave a death order that he must get in touch with Tom Yoder before the end of this semester. Not to mention becoming friends, he must at least return to a neutral position before inviting him to join the food team.
Team of Dead Apostles. If you can't do it? Then cut off your pocket money. If you don't get this done before the end of the school year, don't go back to Malfoy Manor during the summer vacation.
It was the first time for Draco Malfoy to be given such an order by his father. After understanding a certain situation, he also realized the seriousness of the problem. He had no choice, and neither did his father.
select.
What is the relationship between himself and Jedel? There are quite a lot of Malfoy. The two do not say that they are emotional, and it can be said that it is a batch. It is a pity that it is a pity. Malfoy has been beaten by Tom Two.
times...
Before opening the box door, Malfoy naively believed that as long as he extended an olive branch of friendship, the relationship between the two could return to normal, but Tom ruthlessly rejected him.
Malfoy immediately sat down. What he just said was the best soft talk he could make according to his character. This was rejected. What should he do?
Go back to school and try to find a way to repair the relationship? But the Hogwarts Express is almost the best opportunity to be alone! Letting Malfoy surrender to Tom in public is even more uncomfortable than killing him.
However, Draco Malfoy is indeed the heir to the Malfoy family, and his social potential is still extremely strong. He took a deep breath, pretended not to hear Tom's expulsion order, and started talking to himself.
"Yordle, the power of the two magic spells you released in the World Cup is really amazing. My dad told me, were they Li Huo?"
Tom frowned, not understanding what kind of medicine Malfoy was selling in his gourd. He would never run up to Dumbledore and shout, "Tom Yoder is studying dark magic. Professor Dumbledore, please fire him as soon as possible."
"He"? This is too darkly humorous.
However, to be on the safe side, he might as well refuse to admit it. In today's wizarding world, it is always not a good thing to be associated with black magic, as it can easily ruin one's reputation.
"You said it was Li Huo, do you have any evidence?"
Malfoy was confused by Tom's rhetorical question.
"Uh...because it's blue?"
"Blue flames are very common. The natural gas commonly used by Muggles is blue flame. The natural gas combines with oxygen in the core of the flame. Due to insufficient oxygen, it cannot be completely burned and generates part of carbon monoxide. The carbon monoxide is fully combined with oxygen at the tail of the flame.
The reaction burns, eventually producing a blue flame." Tom quickly gave Malfoy a brief introduction to the combustion principle of flames.
There is a saying that flame burning in the non-magic world involves a series of knowledge such as flame color reaction and energy level transition, so different substances will have different colors of flames when burning. But the magic world cannot use this explanation to answer, Li Huo
The reason why it's blue has nothing to do with natural gas, it's a magic factor. Maybe Dumbledore can answer it.
Of course, this did not prevent Tom from making Malfoy look confused.
"Uh... let's forget about these messy things. Yodel, you have such a high magical talent, you can't be an ordinary Muggle - I said, you have been wandering before being admitted to Hogwarts.
So you don’t know who your biological parents are, so you are most likely a descendant of a pure-blood family." Malfoy tried to dig out a lot of unfamiliar terms and said to Tom sincerely.
Conscience of heaven and earth! Malfoy dares to swear to Merlin and the ancestors of the Malfoy family. He has shown the greatest sincerity. He is even willing to admit that Tom Yoder is a pure-blood!
When Draco's father Lucius told him this last night, he was also very surprised, but when he thought about it carefully, it made sense. And in the eyes of these pure-blood supporters, if Tom Yoder was
Being born from pure blood can prove the nobility of pure blood.
"Hey, you pure-blood families are really funny," Hermione rolled her eyes, "Are you ready to find an ancestor for Tom now? Why did you go there earlier!"
Tom silently praised Hermione in his heart. Malfoy's behavior was very cool. He didn't know how a wizard who had settled in the British Isles for generations learned the skills of Korean Muggles.
"I never think there is any difference between pure blood and non-pure blood," Tom looked at Malfoy coldly, "because you can't explain whether the parents of the first pure-blood wizard were wizards - if so, he would
He is not the first pure-blood wizard. If not, he is not pure-blood. And your so-called theory of pure-blood excellence is even more ridiculous. If the purer the wizard's blood, the stronger the magic power, then we Muggle-born wizards actually
You are the first generation of wizards, and our blood is the purest."
These words caused a critical blow to Malfoy's heart.
Malfoy could not refute Tom because his logic was extremely smooth.
In Tom's opinion, wizards most likely originated from a mixture of some kind of magical animal and human beings. This magical bloodline has been passed down in this way, forming various wizard families. According to the legend of King Arthur, Merlin is the union of a dream monster and a mortal woman.
This also supports Tom's point of view from the side.
"By the way, the mysterious man you admire is actually a half-blood wizard." After hearing these last words, Malfoy couldn't help it. He pushed open the door of the box and quickly left this unpleasant place.
As for the father’s mission? Definitely next time!
He was so excited that he even forgot to say a few harsh words to save the situation.
After Malfoy left, Hermione looked at Tom thoughtfully.
"What were you doing before you received your acceptance letter to Hogwarts?"
Hermione's question made Tom shudder. He instinctively wanted to avoid it, but Hermione stared directly at him. He couldn't avoid it, because he really couldn't deceive the person in front of him who had almost all the good things.
Leave it to your girl.
"Uh... you should know, I just wander around, rummaging through trash cans and the like... Well, actually I just wander around the streets of London, stealing things from time to time when people aren't paying attention..." Tom's gaze
Flashing, he said vaguely.
This experience he had before he was eleven years old can be regarded as a scar in his life, and it is what he wants to hide most. This experience made him always have a sense of inferiority from the bottom of his heart when facing Hermione.
Hermione said that their meeting was like Paul and Tonya. In fact, the gap between him and Hermione was much greater than that between Paultonia. Hermione's family background was not inferior to that of Tonya, and she was
Far inferior to Paul - Paul still has a family and a job after all!
To be fair, in a different place, Tom felt that he would definitely not talk to a little homeless man who was digging through his trash can. But Hermione not only talked to him, but also gave him a bag of cakes.
She is really a kind girl, and Hermione's existence is completely the white moonlight in Tom's heart. However, the kinder she is, the more Tom feels ashamed of himself, and he always feels that he has taken advantage of others.
Hermione interrupted Tom's hesitation, "I didn't ask you this. When you were in the orphanage, did the nuns in the orphanage tell you about your parents?"
Tom shook his head. The nuns were all taciturn, like a group of mutes, rarely speaking.
"Then why are you called Tom Yoder?"
"The nannies have always called me this. I really haven't thought about this problem before." When Hermione asked, Tom also
"That's it..." Hermione had a look of regret on her face, as if she couldn't get any useful information from Tom's mouth.
"Wait a minute, did you just say petty theft?" Hermione noticed that Tom seemed to be confessing something outrageous. She suddenly became energetic, and the fire of gossip in her heart was burning brightly.
"Excuse me! Tom Yoder, I didn't expect you to have such a story - tell it quickly!"
Hearing this, Tom's expression showed a hint of embarrassment, "Okay, well, there are a lot of swans in the river in London, you know that, right?"
"You know—huh?!" Hermione's eyes widened, "Is it possible?"
"Ah, yes, sometimes I'm hungry and have no choice but to steal some of the Queen's property." Tom also felt a little embarrassed. The day he met Professor McGonagall, there was a goose stewed in his "home".
I hope Professor McGonagall doesn't misunderstand. The owls he stewed are really not the Hogwarts owls. The owls are too powerful to attack and don't have much meat. They are not cost-effective to hunt. They are still those big geese that have been fed fat.
Easier to catch.
"Ah... uh, can that thing be eaten?"
"Well, remove the internal organs, then wrap it with some leaves, newspaper or something, apply a layer of mud on the outside, simmer it in the fire and then eat it." Tom briefly explained to Hermione how to cook the beggar goose.
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Hermione fell into silence. She didn't mean to blame Tom - Tom didn't do this kind of thing for the sake of appetite. She knew from just listening that the meat produced this way would definitely be very unpalatable. This shows what kind of situation Tom was in at that time.
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To put it harshly, it means struggling on the edge of starving to death. People are about to starve to death, so why do they care so much?
"At least you won't be hungry now." After a while, Hermione choked out this sentence.
"Yeah..." Tom fell into emotion. The admission notice to Hogwarts really changed his destiny.
The compartment of the train returned to silence, and the train swayed all the way north in the rain. The rain did not change with the change of geographical location, but became more violent, even blocking the sun's rays. So in broad daylight, in the carriage
The lights also turned on.
"This reminds me of the experience last semester." Hermione looked at the heavy rain outside and suddenly remembered what happened in the third grade. That year, the Dementors raided the Hogwarts Express and made a mess here.
, left very bad memories for everyone.
Tom:……
"You won't faint now." Hermione blinked.
There was no need to open any pot. Tom rolled his eyes and put a finished curse-proof glove into a box.
"What is this?" Hermione had long been curious about what Tom was busy with, but he was concentrating on his work and could not be disturbed. She did not raise the subject until he finished his work.
Tom told Hermione about the Ministry of Magic's custom-made curse-proof gloves.
Hermione showed a look of realization.
At this time, there was the sound of the cart rattling outside the door, and Tom knew that lunch time had arrived. When the cart came to the door of their private room, Tom stopped the cart and came back with a bunch of food.
"Let's have something to fill our stomach first, it's still early before the dinner party." Tom handed Hermione a piece of pumpkin pie and opened a pack of chocolate frogs himself.
"Ha! The invincible Andros, the owner of the patron saint of giants." Tom opened a picture that he did not have. Looking at the introduction on the picture, Tom suddenly remembered something.
"The two of us may also be included in the chocolate frog picture," Tom raised the picture [The Invincible Andros] in his hand, which made his words very credible.
"Hey, really?" Hermione put down the pie in her hand, feeling a little excited.
This is a chocolate frog picture, and Professor Dumbledore is on it!
"But we..." Hermione was a little unconfident. She always felt that she and Tom could not be included in the special Patronus.
Tom read her inner thoughts.
"We can combine and print on one card."
This idea is very attractive to Hermione, it sounds very romantic! This is a picture that belongs to two people alone, and the whole world can see it...
As for the future, if the two of them achieve far more than they have achieved now...then the worst case scenario is to make another separate card for the two of them!
The original cartoon could be "Tom and Hermione", but the new cartoon might as well add an adjective in front of the name, such as "Breaking Boundaries, Conquering the World", etc. Maybe it can also boost the sales of chocolate frogs!
Tom and Hermione chatted and enjoyed lunch like this. The rest of the journey was spent in this comfortable atmosphere. During the period, several of their friends came to visit them and review the events of the World Cup with them.
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The weather was not good, and the rain outside showed no sign of stopping until the Hogwarts Express slowed down and stopped at the Hogsmeade platform.
After the car door opened, there was a rumble of thunder.
Hermione wrapped Crookshanks in her cloak, and then remembered something, "Don't you know weather spells? Can you...?"
Tom glanced at the pouring rain outside, and he felt that Hermione seemed to have a misunderstanding of him.
I'm still a child!
Even Dumbledore can't change this level of celestial phenomena, right?
However... Tom is still a little itchy and has the urge to give it a try.