After devouring a beef sandwich, the Hogwarts train finally started to move slowly. The corridor was filled with the sound of suitcases colliding with the ground, making the noise disturbing.
Alan leaned on the compartment door and looked in. When he saw Joel and Eddie, he happily opened the door and walked in with his suitcase.
"Didn't you see Sergey?" Eddie poked his head into the corridor and looked around. There were many students but Sergey was not found.
Allen put the luggage on the car with Joel's help and shook his head, "I was the last one to get on the bus. I didn't see him in several cars after passing by."
Eddie let out a sigh, ran out and walked up and down the corridor of the carriage, hoping to find his roommate through the glass door of the compartment.
After two rounds of shopping and no success, Eddie opened the compartment door in disappointment and collapsed on his seat.
"Don't you see that you care about Sergey?" Joel twirled his fingers and turned a page of the book.
Eddie's ears turned red upon hearing this, "Who cares about him? I'm just afraid that something will happen to him and he will implicate us!"
This excuse sounded meaningless to the ears of Joel and Alan. They both knew that Eddie was just having a bad fight with Sergey, but they were always paying attention to him in their hearts.
At twelve o'clock at noon, there was a gentle knock on the compartment door, and a smiling woman pushed a trolley and asked if they needed any snacks.
The three of them bought a large package of chocolate frogs and pot cakes, specifically avoiding Bibi's all-flavor beans. According to Eddie, "I've had enough of tasting all the flavors of all-flavor beans."
Last school year, with Allen's help, each of them tasted five or six boxes of multi-flavor beans, wrote many experience reports, and earned dozens of gold galleons. During that time, various flavors of multi-flavor beans were bombarded in turn.
Their oral cavity was a little fresh at first, but later it turned into a boring and mechanical task.
Several people filled their stomachs with sweet and greasy snacks. The early autumn air was refreshing, and even the sunlight was much dazzling. It reflected on their profiles through the glass windows, making Alan and Eddie feel drowsy.
The two simply leaned against the wall and took a nap, while Joel sat on a chair and flipped through the textbooks for the new semester.
After flipping through two pages of the Potions textbook, I felt a little bored, so I simply went out to get some fresh air.
A boy was pacing around restlessly in the corridor, looking at every inch of the floor.
"Have you seen a toad?" Seeing Joel passing by, the boy asked.
Joel thought carefully and made sure that he didn't see any strange creatures after leaving the cubicle, and then shook his head in denial.
Upon hearing this answer, the boy's honest face was filled with an emotion called disappointment.
Neville Longbottom, who almost became the Boy-Who-Lived by accident, is an important character in the original novel.
He walked straight forward. Many students stayed in the cubicle playing cards. The game of poker seemed to be picking up among Hogwarts students.
The Selwyn siblings occupied a cubicle, and Bernie kept talking about something. Haylis ignored him and kept her head down as she reviewed her textbooks.
When Joel looked inside, Haylis raised her head and looked outside as if she felt something.
The two people's eyes met, and Hailis pursed her lips and smiled.
Joel turned around the carriages, and sure enough he didn't find Sergey. As he walked, he bent over and stretched his calves, wondering where Sergey had gone.
Joel moved and stretched every part of his body. After a set of movements, he felt his whole body was relaxed and his face was rosy.
As he walked back, he saw a girl beside Neville. The two of them were knocking on the door one by one to inquire about the whereabouts of the toad.
The girl had thick, long brown hair and a pair of large front teeth. She had her arms folded across her chest and her chin slightly raised. She looked a little arrogant.
Joel, who is familiar with the plot of the original work, knows the identity of the girl - Hermione Granger, a member of the original Iron Triangle, the mother of Harry and Ron, the key element in defeating Voldemort, and the technical support of the trio.
He knew that Hermione would meet Ron and Harry next, completing the first unpleasant encounter of the Iron Triangle.
Joel didn't want to get involved, so he walked past Hermione and Neville and walked to his cubicle.
Halfway through the road, he suddenly heard Ron calling his name loudly.
He was stunned in place, and Ron jumped out of the cubicle and took his arm, introducing him to his new good friend Harry: "This is Joel Taylor, the two of us met in Diagon Alley last year.
, he is also enrolling this year.”
Harry was stunned. He had clearly seen Joel in Madam Malkin's robe shop. He also asked Madam Malkin, and she said that Joel and the other three came here to replace their new standard robes because they had grown taller.
Obviously Joel is not a new student!
Ron didn't notice at all. Joel was only half a year older than him, and the height difference was not obvious, which was why he never had any suspicion.
"Hello, Joel Taylor." Joel shook hands with Harry and blinked, seeming to hint at something.
Harry introduced himself to Joel dryly.
"Harry Potter?" Hermione rushed over like a shark smelling the smell of blood, "Is it really you?"
She looked surprised, "I have seen your name in many books, "History of Modern Magic", "Important Magical Events of the Twentieth Century"..."
Harry had never heard of these books, and he stood there awkwardly not knowing what to say.
Joel opened his mouth to help him out, "Have you found your toad?"
Hermione was stunned for a moment, then she remembered what she and Neville were going to do, and quickly led him forward.
Seeing the two of them leaving, Ron took Joel to his cubicle and said, "Joel, do you know how to conduct sorting? My brother Fred said that the sorting ceremony will do a lot of harm to us."
Opening the compartment door, Joel sat on the chair, "Yes, I heard that the freshmen in the sorting ceremony have to fight a Welsh green dragon."
"Welsh Green Dragon?" Ron's face turned green, "Real or fake?"
Joel spread his hands and said, "I don't know, I just heard what others said."
That's right, listen to what your two brothers said.
Harry hadn't realized the seriousness of the matter yet, "Welsh Green Dragon? Is it scary?"
"It can swallow us in one bite." Ron's voice trembled slightly, already filled with fear.
"So scary?" Harry's face turned pale, and the broken hair on his forehead fluttered, revealing the lightning scar.
"I still have friends there, so I'll go back first..." Joel rubbed oil on his soles and was about to leave. The sliding door of the compartment opened again, and the thin Malfoy walked in with two young followers.
This time Malfoy looked at Harry with far greater interest than he had in Madam Malkin's Robe Shop.
"I heard that Harry Potter is in this compartment," Malfoy raised his chin, "If nothing unexpected happens, it's you, right?"