Chapter 186 Luna Lovegood
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Yun Yin Shen
Chapter 186 Luna Lovegood
Soon, they pushed the trolley to the partition wall between the ninth platform and the tenth platform.
This is a wall of magical phantoms that can be passed through.
There is actually a Muggle Repelling Charm cast there, people without magical powers will automatically ignore the anomaly about these walls, of course if this anomaly is too much, it will not work.
(like you let a muggle see you disappear in your face)
So there is an Auror (or an amnestic... there are two versions) on the other side of the wall. It is said that there used to be one in the train station here... Later, due to the shortage of funds of the Ministry of Magic, the Auror on this side was evacuated.
"Percy first." Mrs. Weasley looked nervously at the clock at King's Cross Station.
All of them had to catch the Hogwarts Express within 5 minutes.
And you can't rush in, or the Muggles coming and going here will find out.
Afterwards, Mrs. Weasley walked in with Ginny, followed by Mr. Weasley.
Now only Harry, Ron, and McGuffin who deliberately stayed behind in order to confirm whether the plot collapsed... were left.
"The two of you go first, I'll be behind... Otherwise, the three of you going there together would be too eye-catching!" McGuffin 'suggested' said.
"Then hurry up, McGuffin, the train is about to start! It's only a little over a minute...if it wasn't for Dad...really..." Ron complained.
The two pointed the small luggage cart at the partition wall, glanced around casually, and when no Muggles noticed them, they immediately walked towards the partition wall, gradually picking up their pace, and when they were still a few feet away from the partition wall, they rushed hard——
- It's over!
collapse!
McGuffin felt as if the dam had collapsed.
All kinds of thoughts and questions instantly eroded the entire brain like a rushing river.
One thing is for sure... the plot he knows seems to be completely useless from now on.》
"TMD, how did it start to collapse!"
This……
Shaking his head, McGuffin knew that now was not the time to think about it.
—I'm going to be late.
He hurriedly pushed the small luggage cart and strode across.
(After McGuffin rushed over, he tried to take a step back in disbelief, to see if the wall was really not sealed, or if Dobby was late...Although he didn't know what he was thinking at the time...Fortunately, the wizard who was stationed in front of him repeatedly shouted to stop his stupid move)
"McGuffin hurry up!"
Ron, and Harry were turning their heads to look at him. After seeing McGuffin, they greeted anxiously, turned around and pushed the small luggage cart towards the nearest train carriage.
At this time, the white mist from the train had already begun to fill the magic platform, and most of the little wizards were lying at the window to say goodbye to their parents...or put their owls out of the carriage...and let them fly along with the train.
The round-faced young witch who sold lunch snacks on the train was struggling to push a small trolley full of magical snacks onto the train from outside.
McGuffin also saw Mr. Weasley and Lucius Malfoy standing in front of a pillar, looking at each other with disgust and glaring at each other, and it seemed that the idea of 'full martial arts' appeared in their hearts again.
And Neville's scary granny was berating him, looking very intimidating.
When the MacGuffin was going full speed, heading for the train.
There was a loud spoon blow.
The staff of the railway was walking along the train, chasing the little wizards who were still outside to bid farewell to their parents into the carriage,... He waved his wand to close all the doors one by one, and confirmed that they were closed.
The train spewed steam and started to move.
McGuffin simply raised his hand [No Staff and Silence] to cast a spell on the small cart, and then whirred—as if flying, rushed towards the carriage with half a push and half a lift.
Ron, Harry had just entered the carriage, they piled the luggage aside and shouted...communicated with the staff, pointed at the flying McGuffin, and then opened the door, allowing the McGuffin to rush onto the train with the small luggage cart.
--boom!
The door was closed, and the train rumbled and started to move slowly. The steam white mist directly enveloped the car body. With the continuous collision of iron wheels and rails, the train passed through the white mist and left the railway station.
Although they were out of breath, they leaned out of the car and waved to Mr. and Mrs. Weasley until the train turned the corner and they were out of sight.
Several people stayed in the compartment connecting the two carriages and rested for a while before calming down their disordered breathing, as if they were alive again.
They just started rearranging their luggage, especially looking at the small luggage trolley pushed up by the McGuffin.
"What about this thing?" Harry muttered.
"Just put it here! Malfoy will laugh at us if he sees it...and the staff on the train will find a way to return it..."
"You mean it, McGuffin?" Ron looked worriedly at the somewhat sluggish McGuffin.
"Hmm! Hmm? Hmm... What are you talking about, do you push the cart?... Just put it here... Well, it should be!" Now that McGuffin was able to take a breath, the matter of the wall appeared in his mind.
He didn't know what caused the plot to collapse-could it be the butterfly effect caused by them kidnapping Dobby...?
Or Mr. Weasley directly stepped up the search and directly said that the Horcrux had not been received by the Ministry of Magic...
McGuffin slapped his head like no one.
——My brain hurts thinking about it.
"Cough cough cough... Let's look for Hermione first, and Fred and the others...Of course we also need to see if there are any other empty carriages!" Harry said with a cough.
A few people packed up the luggage that had been piled up indiscriminately just now.
Harry picked up the owl's cage again.
——Hideway was very dissatisfied because of the rough treatment just now
McGuffin, on the other hand, found out the miniature house that was suppressed by the luggage in a daze, and held it in his arms.
——Fortunately, it seems to have been casted by magic, it is very strong, and there is no damage, and the two Mr. Nixie inside are not hurt, but they seem a little dizzy, shaking their heads in circles.
After that, they walked along the corridor and in the aisle to the rear compartment with difficulty (don't think about it, it must be full).
Harry peered through the glass doors into the compartments, looking for empty compartments...but all the compartments were nearly full except the last compartment.
(And they didn't see the twins and Hermione, presumably they were in the front compartment.)
There were two girls in this carriage, one was Ginny Weasley, Ron's younger sister, and the other was sitting by the window, who seemed to be of the same age as Ginny, whom she didn't know,... also a Hogwarts Sheenborn, a blond girl.
She was reading a magazine upside down.
After hearing someone come in, the girl sitting by the window put down the magazine and raised her head.
She had tousled, dirty, waist-length blond hair, very light eyebrows, and a single bulging eye that gave her an air of perpetual surprise.
The freshman actually stuck his wand behind his left ear, and there was a half-cut red carrot hanging from that ear... as an earring?
Harry pulled his eyes away and rubbed his own vigorously,
——Yes, I read it right, it is indeed a red carrot, and it is still in half!
Harry looked at the McGuffin, then at the girl, he always felt that the two had a subtle similarity
The girl turned her head and stared at Ron and McGuffin outside the carriage.
But her big eyes looked at Harry and the scar on his forehead... But Harry always felt that her eyes were not looking at him, but as if looking at his surroundings.
When meeting this little witch for the first time, Harry left a weird and erratic temperament.
But Harry is also a little immune, after all, his friend McGuffin is a guy who goes crazy from time to time, such as now...
He was dumbfounded and didn't know what to think... Ron in front stopped, but he still walked straight forward, knowing that the two of them collided into a ball, and almost threw the small house in his hand.
McGuffin rubbed his head to wake up, while Ron in front complained in pain.
"McGuffin, can you see the way!" Then he saw Ginny and asked.
"Hi! Ginny...is there anyone else in this compartment?"
Ginny gave Harry a careful look, and replied in a low voice with her face flushed, ——no one.
Holding the suitcase in one hand and Hedwig's birdcage in the other, Harry walked into the carriage, followed by McGuffin and Ron.
Ginny hurried to the strange girl like a frightened little rabbit.
After packing his luggage, Harry opened Hedwig's birdcage, went to the window, and let Hedwig, who had been restless and chirping all the time, out of the carriage... Hedwig was gliding outside the train... and other owls surrounded the train in groups and sang cheerfully.
"This is a wonderful, faithful owl...you should treat it well!" The little witch suddenly said in a trance, and then she fixed her eyes on the scar on Harry's forehead, and said without hesitation, "You are Harry Potter."
"I know that," said Harry.
Ron sneered when he saw this scene.
Then several people sat down, Harry, Ron, and McGuffin sat on one side, while Ginny and the little witch sat on the other side.
"You are?" then Harry asked.
"I know...Harry! He's the little witch in Loverod's house...Her family lives on the top of the hill to the north of [The Burrow], and there's a huge black cylindrical house on it..." Ron said, "Ginny should know! I remember you knew her..."
Harry turned to look at Ginny.
"She's Luna Loverod."
She responded weakly like a mosquito, and then stopped talking, and then her face began to blush again.
"I'm Luna Loverod!" Luna said generously, then she stood up suddenly, picked up the magazine she was reading from the small table in front of her, found it somewhere and brought a very strange pink magic mirror with her, and finally walked in front of McGuffin, fanning the magazine, as if to drive away something like a beat.
Harry and Ron glanced at each other, feeling that this little witch might not be another McGuffin, and seemed to be insane and in a more serious state than him.
Luna's eyes were erratic, she muttered to herself, and kept fanning McGuffin's ears with the magazine...until she accidentally slapped the other person's face with a 'snap'.
"what!"
McGuffin suddenly woke up, and saw a weird little witch in front of him.
She was wearing a blue shirt, a dark brown jacket, and an awkward suit tie. She wore glasses with sawtooth edges and pink frames on her face. The mirror surface was dark and translucent, with two focused black spots in the middle...
He recognized it at a glance—it was Luna, the mad witch in the original book.
"What are you doing?" McGuffin pushed the magazine away and asked with an angry face.
"It's strange, it's strange! How can there be no harassment Gadfly?"
Luna said in a singing voice, and raised her hand to touch the weird glasses, as if she had pressed some switch——it suddenly lit up.
The two mirrors are blue on one side and pink on the other.
"Weird, how weird, or not... Ah, what a crazy, weird boy student!" She retreated to her old window seat, holding the magazine high up, turning it upside down to hide her face.
Harry, and Ron, holding back a smirk, watched as McGuffin stared at Luna Loverod twitching out of the corner of his eye.
The Hogwarts train continued northward with a clang.
The scenery outside the window is getting more and more wild... The train has long left behind those high-rise buildings, regular houses, roads, and telephone poles in London.
What followed was the kind of bridge holes, tunnels that looked old... and those fields, rivers... the continuous green of the hills gradually passed before their eyes.
The carriage fell silent, and everyone had their own things to think about: McGuffin was rethinking the meaning of life (the collapse and salvation of the plot?); Ginny peeked at Harry; Harry seemed to be chatting with Ron in order to resolve the embarrassment... Luna was always wearing the weird glasses and staring at the upside-down magazine.
(McGuffin knew that this was a magazine compiled by Luna's father, and it was an unpopular tabloid in the wizarding world——【Quicker】).
Until Harry and Ron were whispering about the European Quidditch teams - which one was the best?When was the best Quidditch Seeker?
Luna Loverod, who had been holding the magazine upside down to cover her face, suddenly put it down, looked at the carriage door and said.
"Here comes!"
"Huh?" Harry and Ron looked confused o((⊙﹏⊙))o? ?
The next second the compartment door was opened.
"I'm sorry, I want to ask...have you seen my toad?" A slightly crying voice sounded.
Hearing the familiar voice, the familiar question, Harry and Ron laughed.
(End of this chapter)
Soon, they pushed the trolley to the partition wall between the ninth platform and the tenth platform.
This is a wall of magical phantoms that can be passed through.
There is actually a Muggle Repelling Charm cast there, people without magical powers will automatically ignore the anomaly about these walls, of course if this anomaly is too much, it will not work.
(like you let a muggle see you disappear in your face)
So there is an Auror (or an amnestic... there are two versions) on the other side of the wall. It is said that there used to be one in the train station here... Later, due to the shortage of funds of the Ministry of Magic, the Auror on this side was evacuated.
"Percy first." Mrs. Weasley looked nervously at the clock at King's Cross Station.
All of them had to catch the Hogwarts Express within 5 minutes.
And you can't rush in, or the Muggles coming and going here will find out.
Afterwards, Mrs. Weasley walked in with Ginny, followed by Mr. Weasley.
Now only Harry, Ron, and McGuffin who deliberately stayed behind in order to confirm whether the plot collapsed... were left.
"The two of you go first, I'll be behind... Otherwise, the three of you going there together would be too eye-catching!" McGuffin 'suggested' said.
"Then hurry up, McGuffin, the train is about to start! It's only a little over a minute...if it wasn't for Dad...really..." Ron complained.
The two pointed the small luggage cart at the partition wall, glanced around casually, and when no Muggles noticed them, they immediately walked towards the partition wall, gradually picking up their pace, and when they were still a few feet away from the partition wall, they rushed hard——
- It's over!
collapse!
McGuffin felt as if the dam had collapsed.
All kinds of thoughts and questions instantly eroded the entire brain like a rushing river.
One thing is for sure... the plot he knows seems to be completely useless from now on.》
"TMD, how did it start to collapse!"
This……
Shaking his head, McGuffin knew that now was not the time to think about it.
—I'm going to be late.
He hurriedly pushed the small luggage cart and strode across.
(After McGuffin rushed over, he tried to take a step back in disbelief, to see if the wall was really not sealed, or if Dobby was late...Although he didn't know what he was thinking at the time...Fortunately, the wizard who was stationed in front of him repeatedly shouted to stop his stupid move)
"McGuffin hurry up!"
Ron, and Harry were turning their heads to look at him. After seeing McGuffin, they greeted anxiously, turned around and pushed the small luggage cart towards the nearest train carriage.
At this time, the white mist from the train had already begun to fill the magic platform, and most of the little wizards were lying at the window to say goodbye to their parents...or put their owls out of the carriage...and let them fly along with the train.
The round-faced young witch who sold lunch snacks on the train was struggling to push a small trolley full of magical snacks onto the train from outside.
McGuffin also saw Mr. Weasley and Lucius Malfoy standing in front of a pillar, looking at each other with disgust and glaring at each other, and it seemed that the idea of 'full martial arts' appeared in their hearts again.
And Neville's scary granny was berating him, looking very intimidating.
When the MacGuffin was going full speed, heading for the train.
There was a loud spoon blow.
The staff of the railway was walking along the train, chasing the little wizards who were still outside to bid farewell to their parents into the carriage,... He waved his wand to close all the doors one by one, and confirmed that they were closed.
The train spewed steam and started to move.
McGuffin simply raised his hand [No Staff and Silence] to cast a spell on the small cart, and then whirred—as if flying, rushed towards the carriage with half a push and half a lift.
Ron, Harry had just entered the carriage, they piled the luggage aside and shouted...communicated with the staff, pointed at the flying McGuffin, and then opened the door, allowing the McGuffin to rush onto the train with the small luggage cart.
--boom!
The door was closed, and the train rumbled and started to move slowly. The steam white mist directly enveloped the car body. With the continuous collision of iron wheels and rails, the train passed through the white mist and left the railway station.
Although they were out of breath, they leaned out of the car and waved to Mr. and Mrs. Weasley until the train turned the corner and they were out of sight.
Several people stayed in the compartment connecting the two carriages and rested for a while before calming down their disordered breathing, as if they were alive again.
They just started rearranging their luggage, especially looking at the small luggage trolley pushed up by the McGuffin.
"What about this thing?" Harry muttered.
"Just put it here! Malfoy will laugh at us if he sees it...and the staff on the train will find a way to return it..."
"You mean it, McGuffin?" Ron looked worriedly at the somewhat sluggish McGuffin.
"Hmm! Hmm? Hmm... What are you talking about, do you push the cart?... Just put it here... Well, it should be!" Now that McGuffin was able to take a breath, the matter of the wall appeared in his mind.
He didn't know what caused the plot to collapse-could it be the butterfly effect caused by them kidnapping Dobby...?
Or Mr. Weasley directly stepped up the search and directly said that the Horcrux had not been received by the Ministry of Magic...
McGuffin slapped his head like no one.
——My brain hurts thinking about it.
"Cough cough cough... Let's look for Hermione first, and Fred and the others...Of course we also need to see if there are any other empty carriages!" Harry said with a cough.
A few people packed up the luggage that had been piled up indiscriminately just now.
Harry picked up the owl's cage again.
——Hideway was very dissatisfied because of the rough treatment just now
McGuffin, on the other hand, found out the miniature house that was suppressed by the luggage in a daze, and held it in his arms.
——Fortunately, it seems to have been casted by magic, it is very strong, and there is no damage, and the two Mr. Nixie inside are not hurt, but they seem a little dizzy, shaking their heads in circles.
After that, they walked along the corridor and in the aisle to the rear compartment with difficulty (don't think about it, it must be full).
Harry peered through the glass doors into the compartments, looking for empty compartments...but all the compartments were nearly full except the last compartment.
(And they didn't see the twins and Hermione, presumably they were in the front compartment.)
There were two girls in this carriage, one was Ginny Weasley, Ron's younger sister, and the other was sitting by the window, who seemed to be of the same age as Ginny, whom she didn't know,... also a Hogwarts Sheenborn, a blond girl.
She was reading a magazine upside down.
After hearing someone come in, the girl sitting by the window put down the magazine and raised her head.
She had tousled, dirty, waist-length blond hair, very light eyebrows, and a single bulging eye that gave her an air of perpetual surprise.
The freshman actually stuck his wand behind his left ear, and there was a half-cut red carrot hanging from that ear... as an earring?
Harry pulled his eyes away and rubbed his own vigorously,
——Yes, I read it right, it is indeed a red carrot, and it is still in half!
Harry looked at the McGuffin, then at the girl, he always felt that the two had a subtle similarity
The girl turned her head and stared at Ron and McGuffin outside the carriage.
But her big eyes looked at Harry and the scar on his forehead... But Harry always felt that her eyes were not looking at him, but as if looking at his surroundings.
When meeting this little witch for the first time, Harry left a weird and erratic temperament.
But Harry is also a little immune, after all, his friend McGuffin is a guy who goes crazy from time to time, such as now...
He was dumbfounded and didn't know what to think... Ron in front stopped, but he still walked straight forward, knowing that the two of them collided into a ball, and almost threw the small house in his hand.
McGuffin rubbed his head to wake up, while Ron in front complained in pain.
"McGuffin, can you see the way!" Then he saw Ginny and asked.
"Hi! Ginny...is there anyone else in this compartment?"
Ginny gave Harry a careful look, and replied in a low voice with her face flushed, ——no one.
Holding the suitcase in one hand and Hedwig's birdcage in the other, Harry walked into the carriage, followed by McGuffin and Ron.
Ginny hurried to the strange girl like a frightened little rabbit.
After packing his luggage, Harry opened Hedwig's birdcage, went to the window, and let Hedwig, who had been restless and chirping all the time, out of the carriage... Hedwig was gliding outside the train... and other owls surrounded the train in groups and sang cheerfully.
"This is a wonderful, faithful owl...you should treat it well!" The little witch suddenly said in a trance, and then she fixed her eyes on the scar on Harry's forehead, and said without hesitation, "You are Harry Potter."
"I know that," said Harry.
Ron sneered when he saw this scene.
Then several people sat down, Harry, Ron, and McGuffin sat on one side, while Ginny and the little witch sat on the other side.
"You are?" then Harry asked.
"I know...Harry! He's the little witch in Loverod's house...Her family lives on the top of the hill to the north of [The Burrow], and there's a huge black cylindrical house on it..." Ron said, "Ginny should know! I remember you knew her..."
Harry turned to look at Ginny.
"She's Luna Loverod."
She responded weakly like a mosquito, and then stopped talking, and then her face began to blush again.
"I'm Luna Loverod!" Luna said generously, then she stood up suddenly, picked up the magazine she was reading from the small table in front of her, found it somewhere and brought a very strange pink magic mirror with her, and finally walked in front of McGuffin, fanning the magazine, as if to drive away something like a beat.
Harry and Ron glanced at each other, feeling that this little witch might not be another McGuffin, and seemed to be insane and in a more serious state than him.
Luna's eyes were erratic, she muttered to herself, and kept fanning McGuffin's ears with the magazine...until she accidentally slapped the other person's face with a 'snap'.
"what!"
McGuffin suddenly woke up, and saw a weird little witch in front of him.
She was wearing a blue shirt, a dark brown jacket, and an awkward suit tie. She wore glasses with sawtooth edges and pink frames on her face. The mirror surface was dark and translucent, with two focused black spots in the middle...
He recognized it at a glance—it was Luna, the mad witch in the original book.
"What are you doing?" McGuffin pushed the magazine away and asked with an angry face.
"It's strange, it's strange! How can there be no harassment Gadfly?"
Luna said in a singing voice, and raised her hand to touch the weird glasses, as if she had pressed some switch——it suddenly lit up.
The two mirrors are blue on one side and pink on the other.
"Weird, how weird, or not... Ah, what a crazy, weird boy student!" She retreated to her old window seat, holding the magazine high up, turning it upside down to hide her face.
Harry, and Ron, holding back a smirk, watched as McGuffin stared at Luna Loverod twitching out of the corner of his eye.
The Hogwarts train continued northward with a clang.
The scenery outside the window is getting more and more wild... The train has long left behind those high-rise buildings, regular houses, roads, and telephone poles in London.
What followed was the kind of bridge holes, tunnels that looked old... and those fields, rivers... the continuous green of the hills gradually passed before their eyes.
The carriage fell silent, and everyone had their own things to think about: McGuffin was rethinking the meaning of life (the collapse and salvation of the plot?); Ginny peeked at Harry; Harry seemed to be chatting with Ron in order to resolve the embarrassment... Luna was always wearing the weird glasses and staring at the upside-down magazine.
(McGuffin knew that this was a magazine compiled by Luna's father, and it was an unpopular tabloid in the wizarding world——【Quicker】).
Until Harry and Ron were whispering about the European Quidditch teams - which one was the best?When was the best Quidditch Seeker?
Luna Loverod, who had been holding the magazine upside down to cover her face, suddenly put it down, looked at the carriage door and said.
"Here comes!"
"Huh?" Harry and Ron looked confused o((⊙﹏⊙))o? ?
The next second the compartment door was opened.
"I'm sorry, I want to ask...have you seen my toad?" A slightly crying voice sounded.
Hearing the familiar voice, the familiar question, Harry and Ron laughed.
(End of this chapter)
