Hogwarts Homecoming

"vampire?"

Flume, the owner of Honeydukes Candy Shop, misses Elune.

Elune, who was standing in front of the shelf and choosing, looked very excited, but even so, she still looked like a well-educated aristocrat, and she had nothing to do with dangerous dark creatures like vampires.

"Is this a joke, Mr. Weasley?"

Frum curled his lips.

Ron snorted twice, but didn't argue.

Judging from the image, it is indeed difficult to believe that this first-grade child with a beautiful appearance, a quiet temperament and a bit of indifference and arrogance is a vampire.

"I want this, this, and this!"

After Elune had finished selecting, she moved her slender fingers, and each of the hot-selling products on the shelf floated a little. These candies gathered together and floated in front of Elune, slowly spinning in the air. With.

"Can you eat these?"

Harry immediately discovered the problem. He looked at Hermione, who was turning blue, and then looked at Elune suspiciously.

"I thought you could only..."

Harry shrewdly shut his mouth, not counting Ron's joking manner. It was not appropriate to reveal Elune's true identity to Frum without permission. In any case, she was a guest invited to Hogwarts by Professor Brain.

"How much!"

How could Hermione not know that this vampire was not completely unable to enjoy human food, she was probably just causing trouble on purpose.

She didn't dare to misbehave in front of Professor Blaine, so she came to torment her!

Tolerate!

Hermione told herself harshly in her heart.

Professor Brain believes that frank communication with intelligent magical creatures can push wizard civilization to a new level of glory. To this end, this vampire's little bad intentions are not worth mentioning, not to mention that treating her well means treating horses that really need protection. Humans and house elves!

"Oh, there's no need to pay—"

Froome scratched a small pimple mark on his cheek, with a bright expression on his face.

"Anyway, it's me. I treat you as my invitation this time. I hope you can visit our candy store again in the future."

Froome said, then muttered,

"Since I went to the Ministry of Magic to testify, many people in the village have opinions about me."

"You deserve it-"

Ron said unceremoniously,

"We should take more, Hermione, and bring some to each member of the exchange group. The goblins have also brought us gifts. We should also show our grace, right?"

"That's a good idea, Ron."

Harry nodded approvingly.

They got a lot of candy from Honeydukes Candy Shop and filled several large wooden boxes.

Although both Harry and Ron believed that Froome should be punished severely, Hermione was more kind in the end.

She still paid with the funds allocated by Professor Blaine. This made the owner of Honeydukes Candy Shop sigh a sigh of relief. He gave Hermione a discount and promised that the three of them would give them the lowest price when they came to buy things in the store. Discount.

This made Harry and Ron's resentment towards Frum disappear a lot.

But when they left, they encountered another problem.

When he was about to leave, Harry subconsciously wanted to go to the cellar of Honeydukes candy store, which made Froom confused.

"Why do you want to go back to my cellar?"

Frum even looked at Harry pitifully.

Harry paused and immediately turned back to look at Ron and Hermione, who were also looking at him. The three of them were thinking of one question.

It is true that they secretly came to Hogsmeade through the secret passage, but they cannot use the secret passage to return to Hogwarts under Frum's watchful eye, otherwise, the secret passage will be exposed to Frum's eyes. Underneath!

This secret passage is the most useful of all, and it would be a shame if Frum decided to seal it after learning about it.

"Oh, I just forgot."

Harry pretended to be nonchalant and walked towards the door again.

"Then, good night--"

Ron also said with a calm and unobtrusive expression.

"how?"

The little vampire was completely fascinated by the delicious candies. While enjoying the pleasure of the sour popping candies exploding in her mouth, she squinted her burgundy eyes and asked,

"We are not going back the way we came."

"Oh, shut up, we have other ways!"

Hermione lowered her voice and glared at Elune with a threatening look, then pulled Elune involuntarily, followed Harry and Ron, and walked out of the Honeydukes candy store.

The autumn wind is bleak. In order to allow the trunk to survive the winter, the withered yellow and green leaves leave the branches without hesitation, fluttering in the cold air, and finally throw themselves into the embrace of the earth.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione, who controlled the candy box with their wands, remained silent, braving the wind that made them shiver, and walked towards the top of the hill where a gloomy wooden house stood.

"Do you have a shorter way back to school?"

The little vampire licked the corners of his mouth stained with frosting a few times, and followed them to unwrap a chocolate frog.

Harry and the three of them said nothing and hurried on with sullen expressions.

It took them about two hours and finally arrived at the Hogwarts campus before midnight. This was mainly because the secret passage in the Shrieking Shack was much narrower and huge than the secret passage in the cellar of Honeydukes Candy Shop. Limits their movement speed.

Moreover, they had to take turns lugging several boxes of candy.

Compared to the three gray students in front of the Whomping Willow, bent over and panting, Elune was much more comfortable.

Her breathing was steady, without a drop of sweat, and she only cared about eating her own candies along the way.

"What the hell--"

Holding a lollipop in her mouth, Elune was admiring the Whomping Willow with great interest, and said vaguely,

"I thought you would find a faster way--"

Harry was so angry that his teeth itched,

"There is no faster way, unless you can get us a few flying brooms!"

"Flying brooms?"

Elune chewed the candy with a crunching sound,

"I don't like such rude things, but I can use Apparition, right?"

The panting of Harry and the other two was suddenly cut off, and the three of them straightened up and stared at Elune. Hermione asked hesitantly,

"You can Apparition. In Hogwarts, like a house elf?"

"Oh, no--"

It seemed that because Harry and the other two treated her to delicious candies, Elune's tone was no longer so proud. She turned her head and looked at the giant glowing in the dark night.

"The rejection magic in this old school is very special. I can't Apparate here. But I can use Apparate to secretly take you back to the cellar of that very good candy store."

I'm so stupid. Really

"Why didn't you say it earlier?"

Hermione asked angrily.

"Oh, I thought you had a more convenient way."

Elune said as a matter of course.

"Let's go, Hermione--"

Harry shook his head and didn't have the energy to argue with this little vampire.

He opened his invisibility cloak and let Ron get in. As for the candy boxes and Hermione herself, they were protected by the Disillusionment Charm.

As for this Elune.

Harry and the other two didn't believe that a dark creature couldn't even hide itself.

"Hide yourself quickly--"

Hermione anxiously urged Elune, whose mouth and nose were spitting fire because of eating a little pepper.

"If you are discovered by the night watch professor, you will also be detained and put in detention!"

The little vampire fiddled with her hair and expressed her disdain to Hermione with a cold and arrogant expression.

Entering the castle, the warmth from more than a dozen bright torches on both sides of the hallway made the frozen Harry and the other two shudder a few times.

The empty first floor of the castle-the hallway, the great hall and the corridors on both sides were shrouded by the occasional "click" sound-the hurricane formed by the alternating cold and heat inside and outside the castle hit the wooden door of the basement.

"Filch must be lazy--"

Ron, who endured the noise and ran to the second floor through the stairs in the hallway, said dissatisfiedly,

"With such a loud noise, he should have come to close the door, right?"

"I would rather Filch and his Mrs. Norris be lazy tonight--"

Harry said. "Both of you shut up!"

Hermione, in her phantom form, rebuked,

"If the professor on night watch--"

Boom!

The sudden explosion tore through the silence of the night! (End of this chapter)