There is no problem of traffic jams when traveling on the Knight Bus, and it takes only a quarter of an hour to reach King's Cross Station.
They arrived very early, and Qiu and Cedric found a compartment to hang out with each other. Joel naturally did not disturb the interest of the passionate couple, and ran to the special corridor to look at the scenery outside the window.
After a while of clearing her mind, Hailis came to platform 9? accompanied by her father. Her face looked a little tired and she seemed to be in poor mental condition.
She said goodbye to Mr. Selwyn, turned around, and saw Joel on the sparsely populated Hogwarts Train.
Hailis curled her lips and walked over carrying a small suitcase.
"Have you had breakfast?" Joel took the luggage and took her to the next compartment. "I just saw that the salesperson had hot milk on the cart."
Joel knew that Haylis would have this look on her face whenever she got up early and didn't have breakfast. She looked sick and had no energy.
Hailis shook her head, the corners of her mouth raised slightly, and her pale cheeks turned slightly red.
Ten minutes later, Hailis sat on the sofa in the cubicle and took a sip from the straw. The milk in the glass bottle was missing. As the hot milk entered her stomach, Hailis's face turned rosy visibly.
No one spoke in the cubicle, and the atmosphere was slightly awkward. After a slight hesitation, Joel was about to talk about his business plan for this year, but he didn't expect Haylis to speak at the same time.
"that……"
"I still want to say..."
The two people looked at each other, and Joel instantly felt that the atmosphere in the cubicle became even more awkward. This summer vacation, his relationship with Hailis was almost a cold war, but no one took the initiative to put forward this "suggestion". They knew it well.
But on the surface, they are still a couple with no major conflicts.
"You speak first, and I'll listen." Joel handed a bacon sandwich to Haylis.
Haylis nodded and took a big bite of the sandwich, leaving neat crescent-shaped gaps on the bread.
After taking another sip of milk to swallow the sandwich, Haylis finally made up her mind to organize her words.
"I can accept your secrets even if you don't tell me..."
Before he finished speaking, there was a gentle knock on the compartment door.
The two turned their heads, and the person standing outside was actually Beatrice Shafiq. She was in the third grade. The girl's body was growing rapidly like a sprouting willow branch. In addition, she knew how to dress up, and she looked young and beautiful. In the eyes of others,
It's a bit more beautiful than Hailis noodles.
Of course, Joel only eats the Hailis one.
"Joel, I have to participate in the Hufflepuff Quidditch tryouts at the beginning of the new semester." After opening the cubicle door, Beatrice's voice as clear as a lark filled the cubicle, "Will you come then?"
"
She looked at Joel with hopeful blue eyes.
"Well..." Joel stood up and could sense a threatening gaze behind him. He responded with a desire to survive: "I think you should ask Cedric Diggory about this. He
He's the captain of the Hufflepuff team, in the next cubicle."
Beatrice sighed, a layer of mist quickly accumulated in her beautiful blue eyes, "Joel, you don't understand what I mean..."
What's your idea? I'm like a mirror in my heart, don't pester me... Joel was complaining in his heart. He still wanted to ease the relationship with Haylis today and stop being messed up by Beatrice.
"I understand," Joel took a deep breath. He felt Haylis's thin and slender fingers twisting his back muscles through the robe. Only a slight twist made him extremely painful, "but we are really not familiar with each other."
, don’t come to me again in the future.”
After saying this, he closed the cubicle door, almost pinching the bridge of Beatrice's straight nose.
"Hoo ho ho, it hurts so much..." As soon as he closed the door, Joel turned around and whined, "Where did you learn this trick?"
The pained look on his face frightened Haylis so much that she quickly gently stroked Joel's back with her hand, "Are you okay?"
Did it really hurt? Haylis felt that she didn’t use much strength at that time. She secretly learned this trick from her mother, Mrs. Selwyn. Mrs. Selwyn could always easily make her father submissive with this trick.
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"Let me rub it for you..." Hailis couldn't bear it when she saw Joel's handsome facial features were slightly distorted.
"What did you just want to say?" Joel felt that his calculation was successful.
"Oh," Hailis adjusted her words and continued, "If you have any secrets in your heart, I can accept it."
"Just don't do bad things." Hailes' soft breath hit Joel's back, and he felt a tingling sensation through his robe.
"……I see."
It seems that the bad blood between the two has been resolved at this point.
"What about you?" Haylis slowly swallowed the sandwich in her mouth, "What did you want to tell me before?"
"I want to start a magazine," Joel said startlingly, "and sell it on Hogwarts campus."
"What does this mean?" Haylis frowned, unable to think of the reason, "If you want to make money, our Selwyn family has a lot of business, and you can join us as a partner."
Joel thought for a while but refused. If he wanted to make money, he still had a lot of ideas. There was no need to be attached to the Selwyn family. If Haylis's parents knew about this, maybe their psychological evaluation would be different.
reduce.
"I'm not just doing it to make money," Joel chuckled. "The main purpose is to control the public opinion situation and pave the way for future business layout."
Haylis seemed to understand. She still didn't quite understand what kind of public opinion situation in Hogwarts school was worth controlling, but since Joel said so, she naturally wanted to help come up with ideas.
"This is the project plan I listed," Joel took out a back brochure from the bag, "I also tried to list a template at the back of the plan."
Haylis took it and looked through it carefully. She had also gained a lot of management knowledge in the past year. From her point of view, Joel's plan was well detailed and creative, and it was quite selling point.
"I plan to collect gossip anecdotes on the Hogwarts campus to meet the needs of Hufflepuff students," Joel explained at the side. "At the same time, I will also ask some senior students and professors for manuscripts, which will be published in each issue.
Subject papers and techniques…”
"The plan is indeed good," Haylis read the last page of the plan, "but are you sure you can maintain capital by doing this?"
"Of course," Joel chuckled, "I still have a lot of ideas to ensure that the cost is recovered."
The train was speeding forward, and Joel was leaning on the sofa and reading today's Daily Prophet. As expected, Sirius Black escaped from Azkaban during the summer vacation, and now the newspaper is covered with his wanted notice.
Order, Sirius held a number plate identifying his identity and roared hysterically towards the camera. His unkempt appearance covered his original handsome face.
"You have to be careful about Blake," Haylis saw the man in the newspaper frowning unnoticeably. "My parents say he is very vicious and a murderer."
At this time, the compartment door was knocked again, it was Ginny and Luna.
"Can I come in and sit down?" She said politely, carrying a heavy suitcase, her eyes wandering between Joel and Haylis.
"Of course." Haylis agreed readily, and Joel helped the two of them put the heavy boxes on the shelves.
"Why are you looking for a compartment at this time?" Joel glanced at the clock in the compartment. The train had already started running for nearly an hour.
"Forget it," Ginny waved her hand, her dazzling red hair like a cluster of flames, "The two of us were sitting in the cubicle, and we didn't expect that Hermione's cat suddenly jumped in, followed by Malfoy.
And his two followers, what are they called..."
"Goyle and Crabbe," Joel reminded.
"Harry, Hermione and Ron also rushed over shortly afterwards, making the cubicle a mess and making it impossible to sit down." Ginny huffed, obviously very unhappy.
Luna looked out the window with blank eyes. At this time, the dark clouds above her head were getting thicker and thicker, and the sky was getting darker.
"Too bad, I hate the rain." Joel heard Ginny mutter.
"Do you want to eat chocolate?" Haylis took the initiative to distribute candies to the two school girls. Joel bought a lot of snacks when he went to buy breakfast earlier, and the two of them couldn't finish them.
Ginny was always open to desserts, so she grabbed a piece of hazelnut chocolate and stuffed it into her mouth.
"Miss Lovegood?" Haylis called her softly, seeing that Luna was still looking out the window in a daze.
Luna blinked and then looked away from the window. Joel also looked over. In the direction of the train, there was a world ruled by dark clouds. It was so dark that there was no light, and the street trees on both sides seemed to have been crushed.
spine.
There is quite a feeling of dark clouds threatening to overwhelm the city.
Luna took the candy from Haylis' hand and thanked her softly. Her mouth was full like a little hamster.
Not long after, heavy rain poured down, and the four people in the cubicle were busy with their own business.
Haylis is previewing the knowledge of transformation. They have already begun to come into contact with the difficult contents of the summoning spell and the disappearance spell. Haylis's comprehension ability in this aspect is not outstanding, so it will take more time to study.
Joel is busy working on the first issue of Hogwarts Monthly, and he has to record the ideas in his mind.
Luna and Ginny were lying together using quills to draw on parchment. The two looked at each other from time to time, with a knowing smile on their lips.
Just after noon, the rain became heavier, and the raindrops hit the car window mercilessly, making a crackling sound. The crystal lamps on the ceiling of the compartment lit up one after another, and it was pitch black outside the window.
The train went slower and slower, the sound of the wheels gradually disappeared, and there was a strong wind outside the window, as if some kind of monster was roaring with all its strength.
"What's going on?" Hailis was reading a book when she suddenly noticed that the crystal lamp above her head flickered on and off, which made her eyes extremely uncomfortable.
Joel was already prepared, so he put his head out and found that people were looking out of the carriages along the corridor. The wand in his hand slid down smoothly.
The train suddenly trembled and stopped. The suitcases on the overhead shelf shook violently. Ginny's huge suitcase fell down. Fortunately, Joel was quick and quick and used a levitating spell to lift the suitcase up. Otherwise,
Luna was about to be shot under the luggage rack.
Then, the crystal lamps above the compartment suddenly went out, and they entered complete darkness.
The four of them could hear bursts of uncontrollable screams coming from the corridor. It seemed that this sudden change had frightened many people, especially there were many junior students in the train.
Joel's compartment was an exception. None of the four people showed any panic on their faces. Luna looked at Joel who was standing in front of her and held up the fallen suitcase with a floating spell, and thanked him in a low voice.
Haylis stood up quickly and helped fix the items on the luggage rack. After one summer vacation, 15-year-old Haylis had reached 1.7 meters tall, only half a head shorter than Joel.
"Why did the train stop suddenly?" Ginny pulled out the wand from her waist, "I'll go ahead and ask the driver."
"Don't go," Joel stopped her. "Leave this matter to the prefect. You can just stay here."
"Fluorescence flashes." Joel chanted the incantation softly, and the wand emitted a dim light, which could illuminate the eyes of the four people in the compartment. "Everyone, please don't act rashly."