The doorbell of No. 3 Privet Drive rang, especially loud in the middle of the night.
Outside the door, Ron asked his two brothers nervously: "Is it too late now? Maybe they will come back tomorrow at dawn?"
Fred whispered back: "If I could drive the car out on a red sky."
George continued: "I just saw that the lights in many rooms were on. He thought Charles must not be asleep, maybe doing homework."
Ron said: "His holiday homework was all written by Harry."
At that time, there was a faint "coo" of an owl in the house, and Ron said excitedly: "He seemed to hear Hedwig's voice. Harry really lives there!"
The twins also heard the hoot of the owl, and felt relieved.
At this time, No. 4 Privet Drive was empty. Not only Harry was not there, but the Dursleys were also not there. They were a little worried that something had happened.
Ron remembered that Harry said he would stay at Charles' house during the holidays, so he came over to ask. It seemed that he was really there.
Soon there was a sound of footsteps in the house, the door opened, and the four, five, and six children of the Weasley family rubbed their eyes in unison, and then there was a scream.
"It will hurt."
"No, I'm dreaming."
Ron looked at his brothers angrily, those two guys had pinched him just now.
"Good morning, Mr. Weasley." Dumbledore turned sideways and said, "Please come in."
After three Weasley cautiously walked in and walked around the living room. Although he did not violate school rules tomorrow morning, it would be illegal to drive a flying car over. He would naturally be scared to see the chief wizard of the Wizengamot, otherwise
The worst case might be that it would harm his father, but the worst case might be that he would have to go to Azkaban for a few days.
"Don't be nervous." Dumbledore acted very kindly, "Would you like something to drink? Oh, young people like to drink that."
He waved his wand and three bottles of Happy Water flew from the refrigerator into the Weasleys' laps.
There was a shelf in the living room, and Hedwig called a few more times.
Ron asked nervously: "Professor, is Harry there?"
Dumbledore nodded.
Harry was rushed here because Mr. Dursley asked to discuss a big deal with a builder. The deal was promoted through the old man's connections because Charles did not mind the excitement. Everyone was a builder, but
Just help.
Because Harry had been staying at Charles's house, there was no Dobby to cause trouble at No. 4 Privet Drive, and the big rig deal was successfully negotiated. For example, the Mindsley family had already embarked on a tour to look at the villa.
Ron continued: "His parents wanted to invite Harry to play at home, but they never received a reply to the letters they sent, so let's take a look."
Fred and George walked aside obediently. They had caused too much trouble in the past month, and now they might cause trouble at home. Please be good.
Dumbledore said calmly: "He will go and ask Harry to come back."
Charles's computer had just been installed with Windows 3.1, which will be released in April next year, a few days ago. At that time, Dumbledore became obsessed with minesweeper, woke Harry up and walked back to the computer.
If Harry and Weasley, who were happily carrying their luggage to play at Ron's house, knew something that happened in the new school year, the first thing they would do now would be to persuade the principal not to play so many games.
During those two days, Charles was not at Privet Drive, but instead went to the island he bought. The wizard's house was renovated and ready for delivery. The Muggle villa was suspended for a period of time due to weather problems, so he had to sign for approval.
Order for extension of construction period.
Charles originally wanted to invite his friends to celebrate, but it turned out that it was either windy or rainy during that time, there were not many fishermen, and even a certain dementor didn't come, so he decided to give up.
After he left, he went to the Forbidden Forest and then returned to No. 3 Privet Drive.
It was now quiet there. Harry left a note, and Ron also invited Charles to his house to play until school started.
Charles thought about it and let it go. The Weasley family was too small, so he went to live somewhere else, maybe in the same room as Ginny.
The confinement period after returning from the East returned to peace. Except for a few days in Germany in mid-August, Charles walked in front of the computer and typed on the keyboard all day long until Jack came home.
"Am I asking to transfer to another school?" The old man looked at Charles curiously.
Charles was confused and replied: "No."
Jack said calmly: "Let me check the time."
Charles looked at the time and jumped up as if his butt was on fire.
It is now 11 o'clock on September 1, and the train to Hogwarts is leaving at this time.
Charles screamed again: "He really didn't buy textbooks!"
Jack frowned, thinking that guy would not ruin his image in Mag's mind.
Charles took a quick shower, changed into his robe, put on his glasses, picked up his books and rushed to the fireplace. When he was about to leave, he rushed back to save the files. Then he used Floo powder directly to the Leaky Cauldron.
It’s great that you can buy books in one place at Flourish and Blotts Bookstore. The manager bundles the books requested by each grade student into a pile, and now there is a pile of second grade books in the corner.
Charles looked at the time and felt very hungry. He went to Florin Fusco's Ice Cream Shop and had an ice cream before going to the Leaky Cauldron and flooing to the Three Broomsticks pub in Hogsmeade.
As soon as he came out of the fireplace, the whole bar burst into flames. Some people cheered, while others stamped their feet dejectedly.
With his head full of questions, Charles looked around and found many people he knew, such as Spencer who was participating in the Potions Championship and smiling happily, as well as the deans of the four colleges.
"Charles Smith!" Professor McGonagall looked very angry, "He never imagined that he would be wrong next year!"
The other three deans also looked very happy.
At that time, the bar owner, Ms. Rosmerta, came over and said: "Minerva, don't scare the students, it's not the beginning of school right now."
Charles couldn't understand the situation, but he knew that he had gotten into trouble, and he immediately thought of an excuse: "Professor McGonagall, is he worried about his garden, so he wants to come and take a look in advance."
He didn't believe that excuse himself, but Professor McGonagall did. He kept silent as usual and said, "He knows I'm not a daredevil. I was late and missed the train."
However, Professor Flitwick had a different opinion: "Minerva, why did you say that Charles didn't come by train? Gryffindor will definitely lose next year!"
Professor McGonagall didn't say anything else. If you lose, you lose. It's better to regain some face just now than Charles saying that he overslept.
Ms. Rosmerta came over and pulled Charles to an empty table, asked him to walk away and said: "You can eat whatever you want before the lockdown, and there will be a treat tomorrow."
Charles shivered when he heard "confinement". Although he still didn't understand the situation, it seemed that he couldn't run away tomorrow. He wanted to have a good meal first, so he asked for steak Wellington, butter bacon sandwich, almond jam tart and
Cheesy Cauliflower.
Before Professor McGonagall left, he told him that he only had an hour. After eating, he should wait in the foyer of the castle.
At that time, Spencer came over and walked to the other side, smiled and said to him: "He didn't expect to reject me next year."
Charles asked while eating: "What's going on?"
Spencer said: "Every now and then, students who missed the train come in like that, so every year there are bets on whether there will be students who missed the train next year, and the deans will bet on which college students will not make it."
"This is a tradition of the Three Broomsticks. It's almost a hundred years old."
Charles had nothing to say. He could think of what they could think of and admit defeat.
An hour later, Charles arrived at the castle foyer, where Professor McGonagall was already waiting.
Professor McGonagall took him to the east floor. Lu Zai said: "He thought I would be on time, but he didn't expect that I would be late."
There was a big flaw in what Charles just said. Since he was worried about the garden, why didn't he come earlier?
He asked cautiously: "Professor, what do you want to do during the confinement?"
Professor McGonagall smiled and said, "I may not be punished if you are wrong."
She opened the door to the kitchen, where the house elves were busy preparing for next year's back-to-school dinner.
In the face of confinement, can you help prepare the dinner party?
Charles got to know them well last year and quickly joined in and started making dumplings.