Hogwarts from another world

Chapter 116 Crookshanks

They were Neville Longbottom and Hermione Granger, two of Matthew's best friends at Hogwarts.

The two of them stood together at the foot of the stairs, each holding a large book box in their hands.

Neville's expression looked very excited, and he waved at Matthew enthusiastically.

As for Hermione, she looked unattractive and seemed a bit tanned.

"Finally I see you, Matthew!" Neville smiled at Matthew and said: "Hermione and I met at the entrance of Flourish and Blotts Bookstore, and we found out that it had been closed down for some unknown reason; and then at the Good Samaritan Under the guidance of the teacher, we went to Foyle’s Bookstore together, where we finally bought the textbook!”

As he spoke, he waved the large cardboard box in his hand: "Do you want us to take you to Foyle's Bookstore?"

“In the first week of summer vacation, I got everything I needed for the next semester, before Flourish and Blotts Bookstore was closed down,” Matthew explained.

"I see, after all you spent the whole summer here." Neville said, "How was your summer, Matthew?"

"It's okay." Matthew replied casually: "What about you?"

"Awesome!" Neville said excitedly: "I bet you will regret not coming to my house... My parents took a leave of absence, and then we went to Iceland with Uncle Algier's family... there The scenery is really great, and the climate is so comfortable...”

"Sounds good." Matthew nodded, turned his head and looked at Hermione: "What about you, Hermione?"

Miss Hermione Granger pouted, and her face showed that she was not happy.

"If Padma Patil had told me in advance that she and her sister would return to their hometown in India during the summer vacation and stay there for a month and a half, I would never have gone with them..." Hermione was very helpless. Shaked his head:

"It's simply too bad. This summer vacation, in any aspect, you can't imagine... Look, look at how tanned I am..."

"Hahaha!"

Matthew and Neville looked at each other, then couldn't help laughing.

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Hermione and Neville both booked rooms at the Leaky Cauldron, and they planned to stay here with Matthew for two days. Then wait until September 1st to go to King's Cross Station together and take the express train back to Hogwarts.

Matthew waited for them to put away their luggage and was about to ask them where they were going to eat for lunch.

Hermione suddenly walked out of the room with a large ginger cat in her arms.

"Sorry, you can go eat first. I have to take Crookshanks to check it out." Hermione said, "It seems to have been a little acclimatized since it came back from India."

"What's going on?" Matthew looked at the semi-magical creature Crookshanks on Hermione's chest with some curiosity. It was a hybrid of a catnives and a Persian cat.

As its owner said, the cat was in bad shape.

Its fluffy and soft ginger-yellow hair looked dull; its bowed legs and feet were even more obvious; and its weird persimmon face looked very weak...as if it was sick.

There was something wrong with this, Matthew thought to himself... Hermione's cat in her previous life had always been "lively"...

Maybe it's an Indian problem?

This poor little guy accidentally took a couple of sips of Ganges water and that's it?

Matthew slowly came to a conclusion in his mind.

"Then let's go with you!" Neville said proactively: "I'm also going to buy some rations for Inch Neville's owl name!"

The three of them decided, and they went to the backyard of the Leaky Cauldron together.

Matthew was already familiar with the road. He took the initiative to lead the way and led the two friends into Diagon Alley.

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Crossing the noisy road, they came to a store called "Magic Zoo".

The store is very small, with many cages hanging densely on the walls. There are many animal feces in the cages, which makes the air emit a stink.

The sound was extremely noisy, because the little guys in the cage were screaming loudly.

The witch behind the counter was teaching a wizard how to take good care of the owl... Matthew still had a slight impression of this witch, the hostess of the "Magic Zoo"; because a year ago, he had learned from her one after another. Bought two toads.

Matthew, Hermione and Neville could only stay aside and look at the animals in the cages nearby.

Soon, Matthew found the big turtle with gems inlaid on the hard shell. A year later, it had not been sold yet; maybe it was because the price was too expensive.

There were also two huge purple toads, gorging on flies while drooling from the food.

In the cage at Hermione's feet, a circling cobra suddenly got up and spat a message at Hermione, which startled Hermione.

The wizard who bought the owl left quickly.

Hermione scurried away from her previous position and avoided the cages on either side.

"Madam, my cat..." She hugged Crookshanks to the witch: "I went to India before, but after I brought it back from India, there has been something wrong with it."

The witch took out a pair of thick black glasses from her pocket, and then took a closer look at the big ginger cat

"It must be Crookshanks!" She quickly recognized the cat.

After all, Crookshanks had stayed in this store for more than ten years until it was bought by Miss Hermione Granger a year ago; and Crookshanks' distinctive appearance was easy to impress. It leaves a deep impression and is unforgettable.

"Poor guy, he must have suffered a lot recently..." the witch murmured, touching the cat's paws.

Hermione immediately lowered her head in shame. It was obvious that she had neglected her pets during her time in India.

The witch took out a bunch of strange instruments and poked at Crookshanks; but the ugly big cat just lay lazily in front of her, never moving much.

"Everything is healthy, there is nothing wrong with its body." The witch quickly concluded: "The reason why it is like this now may be the stress reaction after a long journey!"

"Then what should I do, madam?" Hermione asked quickly.

"Feed it more dried fish, Crookshanks likes this very much..." The witch replied: "And don't disturb it during this period, it needs to rest!"

"Yeah!" Hermione nodded quickly.

She bought some small dried fish in the shop, and Neville then bought some owl rations.

Then, the three of them returned to the Leaky Cauldron.

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