Chapter 114: Passenger 4

"Hi, Jon!" Natalie said with a grin.
Her English is not very standard and sounds strange; her voice seems to be coming from her throat with something in her mouth.
"Excuse me, can you help me?"
Jon just noticed that behind the little girl, there was a suitcase almost the same size as her.
"Come!" He had to stand up and help Natalie push the suitcase to the corner of the compartment.
Natalie had changed into Hogwarts' new robe, and sat beside Jon with a carefree attitude. At the same time, she straightened her waist and stretched out her hand to tie her long crimson hair into a braid...
"Who is she..." Astoria unconsciously squeezed her left and right hands together to form a cross, and asked with a slight accusation in Jon's eyes.
"Um...a first-year freshman, born from a non-wizard family like me..." Jon curled his lips and quickly explained, "It's going to start more than a month ago, when I met Snee in Diagon Alley. Professor Pu, he is taking this little girl in Diagon Alley, his first encounter with the wizarding world... Finally Professor Snape may have something to do. Let me take her to buy things in Diagon Alley."
Jon explained in detail what happened that day.
"Aren't you in America more than a month ago..."
"I just came back from America at that time!"
"When did Professor Snape treat you so well?"
"Uh...this... why do you understand that you are good to me..."
"Professor Snape is very gentle!" Natalie interrupted. "When I was in Dragon Alley, he even took me to eat ice cream..."
"It is Diagon Alley, not Dragon Alley! (Diagonalley in Diagon Alley is only one letter difference from dragon Astoria retorted. "Also, are you sure we are talking about Professor Snape? people?"
"So..." Natalie blinked, she rushed to Astoria and stretched out her little hand kindly "Big sister, I'm so glad to meet you... My name is Natalie!"
"Green Grass!" Astoria said coldly, but she still held the little girl's hand.
"Are you not British?" she asked softly.
"Um..." Natalie nodded, her voice became a little low. "I lived in Moscow before I was eight years old... It was very cold and I often didn't have enough food; my father was drinking heavily and mother Then they went to the dance party every day; later, they brought me to London, and it was terrible at the beginning, and then a good man gave my father a sum of money, and my life slowly improved..."
"Sorry..." Astoria said with some sympathy looking at the little girl's sad expression.
"Yes, what my mother said is right, she told me..." Natalie rubbed her slightly red eyes and then grinned again. "No matter how hard it is, just smile, everything will be better..." "
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"Bang bang bang!" Just as the two girls were talking, there was a loud knock on the door.
"Does anyone still think this is not messy enough..." Jon couldn't help sighing, and then said, "Please come in!"
The compartment door was opened, and a man stood outside, leaning on a long cane, wrapped in a black travel cloak.
He glanced vigilantly in the compartment, then took off his hood, shaking out a long gray hair, and walked in.
"I think there should be a space here?" The man's voice was hollow and low, and it sounded frightening.
But what is more frightening is his face. The entire face is like being carved on a piece of decaying wood, and the sculptor may have only a vague concept of what the face should look like, and the carving knives are not very good.
Every inch of skin on that face seemed to be scarred, his mouth looked like a big slanted opening, but the area where his nose should be raised was missing. There are also eyes, one eye is normal; the other eye is a terrifying, big white eyeball, round like a coin, turning around...
There was silence in the whole compartment.
The two girls who were still laughing and laughing just now stopped talking.
Natalie looked at the hideous face and leaned on Astoria in fear.
Astoria hugged her lightly, then plucked up courage
"I think you should be Mr. Moody... the former head of the Auror office, right... I remember that I seemed to have seen your picture..."
"Yes, Miss Greengrass, it should be you, right!" The weird man's voice couldn't hear any emotion. His normal eye looked at Astoria, and the other eye scanned the compartment. Every corner "I was fortunate to have worked with your mother, Mrs. Greengrass, she is a very good witch... and you, almost look exactly like her!"
"Yes, Mr. Moody..." Astoria nodded tremblingly.
"Natalie, just sit over there!" Jon said calmly.
Natalie nodded quickly, then curled up in the corner, clutching Astoria's hand tightly.
"Then Mr. Moody!" Jon tried to pretend to be scared, but at the same time concealing his fear. "You would rather sit by the window or on the aisle..."
"Let’s stay by the window, if you encounter an enemy attack from the outside, you can fight back as soon as possible!" Mad-eye Moody said coldly. Teacher of Defense Against Dark Arts!"
Jon tremblingly shook hands with him, and at the same time stepped aside, allowing Moody to sit by the window.
"You seem to like potions class!" Mad-Eye Moody said calmly, "I saw you have a lot of potion bottles in your suitcase!"
His magic eye was staring at Jon's suitcase.
"Yes, Professor Moody!" Jon nodded calmly~EbookFREE.me~ That's right... Potions class..." Moody's mouth showed a grim smile "Your potions class teacher ...He is an old friend of mine! "
"By the way, I haven't asked your names yet!" His normal eye looked at Jon, and the magic eye glared at Natalie.
"Hart, Jon Hart, Professor Moody!" Jon replied.
"Very well, Hart, I remember your name..." Mad-Eye Moody replied.
"My name is Natalie Pavlova..." Natalie said shudderingly in a very low voice.
Moody nodded slightly to her, took out a curved wine bottle from his pocket, glanced around, then took a sip of the contents.
At the same time, his two eyes began to scan out the window at the same time.
The piston of the train engine made a loud hissing noise, and the train started moving.
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