Chapter 117: Back to school

For breakfast on September 1, Tom, the owner of the Broken Cauldron Bar, holding a cup of hot tea as usual, knocked on the door of Room 13 of Broken Cauldron Bar.
Sleepy Matthew opened the door, took the cup of tea from the grinning old Tom, and thanked him.
I remember that he had never been treated like this during the few days he stayed at the Broke Cauldron last year... Maybe it was the reason why he paid for it this year!
After Tom left, Matthew touched his wallet. There were the last ten gallons left in it... it was enough. After returning to school, there was nothing to spend.
Dressed in the room, threw Toad back into the cage, and then stuffed all the textbooks I took out for the past two days into the suitcase.
Then he walked out of room thirteen.
Then go down the stairs.
...
Soon, the three friends gathered in the restaurant of the broken cauldron bar, ready to eat breakfast.
Neville went to the counter to order.
Hermione frowned and was reading the Daily Prophet.
"Bad news, Matthew!" Hermione suddenly made a fuss.
"What's the matter?" Matthew yawned and asked casually.
"It's the Azkaban fugitives!" Hermione put down the newspaper in her hand and replied seriously.
"Fleeing convict?" Matthew drank a sip of hot tea and asked, "The identity of the fugitives has been disclosed by the Ministry of Magic?"
"No, no... Minister Millison Barnold still insists that the three fugitives are highly classified and will not disclose their information for the time being... The Ministry of Magic will arrest them as much as possible! "Hermione shook her head.
"What a joke." Matthew shrugged: "The three people have fled for almost two months. How can they be arrested as soon as possible."
To be honest, Matthew is indeed dissatisfied with the Ministry of Magic.
Of course, this is mainly because of the previous
smuggling
incident.
Although the "smuggling" incident was finally solved perfectly, a thread related to the book that Matthew had so hard to find was broken.
Lucius Malfoy was arrested in the Ministry of Magic, but only three days later, he was acquitted.
As for Tom Gunter, Matthew did not see any report related to this name in the Daily Prophet this summer...It is conceivable that the people at the Ministry of Magic failed to arrest him, and even had a clue about him. No.
Even the contents of the mysterious box, the Department of Mysteries did not reveal any information about it... Matthew had no idea what it was.
It seems that even if a minister is changed, the official law enforcement agency, the Ministry of Magic, is not that reliable.
"The Ministry of Magic claims that in order to better arrest the suspects and protect the personal safety of Hogwarts..." Hermione continued to read the content of the newspaper: "They will let some dementors stationed in Hogwarts. Some of the levels of Ci..."
"...But what exactly is a dementor?" She looked slightly puzzled.
"The dementor is an extremely evil creature." Neville returned to the table with a plate of sandwiches. He heard Hermione’s question: "What my dad told me...very evil, terrifying, and It's ugly...no one likes this kind of creature!"
And Matthew blinked slightly, and asked a little surprised: "Principal Grindelwald allows Dementors to be stationed in Hogwarts?"
"Yes." Hermione nodded, and continued to scan the newspaper: "Yes, with the permission of Principal Grindelwald... But Principal Grindelwald also warned that dementors are prohibited from contacting or affecting Hogg Watts’s teacher-student life...otherwise, at your own risk..."
"That sounds like our lives will not be affected in any way." Matthew said lightly.
...
After breakfast, the three were also ready to set off.
They gathered by the fireplace in Matthew's room, and Matthew went to Old Tom for some Floo powder.
It was not the first time for the three of them to travel in this way, and they didn't need any guidance; it was just that a fire started in the fireplace. This process took them a little time.
"King's Cross Station!" Matthew took a handful of Floo powder, shouted, and stepped into the flames.
The surrounding scenery suddenly changed, and the whole body was spinning fast--
When Matthew stabilized his figure, he arrived at his destination.
The fireplace room at King’s Cross Station is connected by almost all fireplaces in Britain; every few seconds, other wizards pop up around.
Sometimes Matthew is a little puzzled, why not go directly to Hogwarts through the "Flood Network", but take a train to go there... Maybe it is because of a sense of ritual? There may also be other factors.
Neville and Hermione also arrived in the fireplace room soon; among them Neville seemed to be choked by the ashes, coughing non-stop there.
The three people walked out of this fireplace room and came to the 9? station.
As soon as they looked up, they saw the Hogwarts Express—a bright red steam locomotive that was breathing smoke. The platform was crowded with little wizards and wizards and wizards who sent their children onto the train.
"Let's go to the back of the train. It's relatively empty over there. Let's go to an empty cubicle!" Hermione pushed the cart and walked in front of the three of them.
Neville and Matthew can only follow.
They went all the way to the end of the train, in front of a carriage that looked relatively empty.
Then, they first put their luggage on the train; among them, Neville's owl cage and Matthew's toad cage were all placed on the luggage rack.
Finally, they found an empty compartment and settled down.
Only Hermione held her Crookshanks in her arms until she entered the compartment and released it.
"Crookshanks, you need to exercise more." She said kindly.
It's a pity that her pet doesn't appreciate it. After running to the corner of the cubicle, it lay down lazily again, completely unwilling to move.
A loud whistle ~EbookFREE.me~The guard walked along the train and closed the doors one by one.
Then, the locomotive spewed out steam and started slowly... The train accelerated a little bit, getting faster and faster, until the station was completely invisible.
"This long summer vacation is finally over." Sitting on the seat in the cubicle, Matthew stretched out and said, "I can finally return to Hogwarts!"
"I hope the summer vacation will be longer!" Neville whispered.
Hermione opened her mouth and was about to say something--
Suddenly, the compartment door was opened, and a tall wizard broke in.
Is a strange adult.
This surprised the three Hogwarts sophomores in the cubicle.
Because before that, except for the witch who was pushing the trolley to "sell" snacks, they had never seen other adult wizards on the train.