Chapter 116: Crook Mountain

It was Neville Longbottom and Hermione Granger, Matthew's two good friends at Hogwarts.
The two stood together under the stairs, each holding a large bookcase in their hands.
Neville looked very excited and waved at Matthew enthusiastically.
As for Hermione, she didn't seem high in nature, and she seemed to be a little tanned.
"Finally saw you, Matthew!" Neville said with a smile at Matthew: "I met Hermione at the entrance of Lihen Bookstore, only to find out that it was sealed for some reason; Under the guidance of, we went to Foyle Bookstore together, and finally bought textbooks there!"
While talking, he waved the big cardboard box in his hand: "Should we take you to Foyle Bookstore?"
"In the first week of summer vacation, I got everything I need for the next semester. At that time, the Lihen Bookstore had not been closed." Matthew explained.
"That's it, after all, you spent the whole summer vacation here." Neville said, "How was your summer vacation, Matthew?"
"It's okay." Matthew answered casually: "What about you?"
"Awesome!" Neville said excitedly: "I bet you will regret not coming to my house... Both my parents took time off, and then we went to Iceland with Uncle Algie's family... there. The scenery is amazing, and the climate is so comfortable..."
"Sounds great." Matthew nodded, turned his head, and looked at Hermione: "What about you, Hermione?"
Miss Hermione Granger pouted, her face seemed to be unhappy.
"If Padma Pettil 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 be with them..." Hermione was very helpless. 'S shook his head:
"It's terrible, this summer vacation, in any way, you can't imagine...Look, you see what I was exposed to..."
"Hahaha!"
Matthew and Neville looked at each other, then couldn't help laughing.
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Both Hermione and Neville had booked rooms at the Broken Cauldron Bar, and they were going to stay with Matthew for two days. Then wait for September 1st, go to King's Cross Station together, take the express train back to Hogwarts.
When Matthew waited for them to put their luggage away, and was about to ask them where to eat at noon--
Hermione suddenly held a big cat in her arms and walked out of the room.
"Sorry, you guys go to eat first, I have to take Crookshanks to check it." Hermione said, "It seems to have been a little uncomfortable since he came back from India."
"What's the matter?" Matthew glanced curiously at the semi-magical creature on Hermione's chest (Crookshanks is a hybrid of a raccoon and a Persian cat).
As its owner said, this cat is in very poor condition.
Its fluffy and soft hair looks dull and dull; the inner characters of the legs and feet are more obvious; and the weird persimmon face looks very weak...like being sick.
There is something wrong with this, Matthew secretly thought... This cat of Hermione in the previous life, but it has always been "live and live"...
Probably the problem of India?
This poor little guy accidentally drank two sips of Ganges water, and then it was like this?
Matthew slowly came to a conclusion in his heart.
"Then let's go with you!" Neville took the initiative to say: "I am also going to buy some rations for "inch" (the name of Neville's owl)!"
That's how the three of them decided, and together they went to the backyard of the Broken Cauldron Bar.
Matthew was already familiar with the road, he took the initiative to lead the way and took two friends into Diagon Alley.
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After crossing the noisy road, they came to a shop called "Magical Zoo".
The shop is very small, and there are many cages densely hung on the wall. There are many animal feces in the cages, which makes the air exude a smell.
The sound is extremely noisy, because the little guys in the cage are all screaming and screaming, and their voices are loud.
The witch behind the counter is teaching a wizard how to take good care of the owl... Matthew still has a slight impression of the witch, the mistress of the "Wonderful Zoo"; because a year ago, he came from her, successively I bought two toads.
Matthew, Hermione, and Neville can only stay aside, taking a look at the animals in the cage next to them.
Soon, Matthew found the big tortoise with gems inlaid on the hard shell. One year later, it hadn't been sold yet; maybe it was too expensive.
There are also two huge purple toads, where they gobbled up flies while eating drooling.
And in the cage at Hermione's feet, a hovering cobra suddenly got up and vomited a letter at Hermione, shocking Hermione.
The wizard who bought the owl soon left.
Hermione hurriedly left 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, its condition has been a bit wrong."
The witch pulled out a pair of thick black glasses from her pocket, and then took a close look at the big cat
"It's Crookshanks!" She quickly recognized the cat.
After all, Crookshanks used to stay in this store for more than ten years, until it was bought by Miss Hermione Granger a year ago; and Crookshanks’ distinctive looks are easy to give. It leaves a deep impression and is unforgettable.
"Poor fellow, it must have suffered a lot recently..." the witch murmured, UU reading www. uukanshu.com touched the cat's paw.
Hermione immediately lowered her head in shame. It was obvious that she had neglected to take care of her pet during that time in India.
The witch took out a bunch of strange instruments, and then jabbed at Crookshanks; the ugly big cat just lay lazily in front of her, never moving much.
"Everything is healthy, and there is nothing wrong with its body." The witch quickly concluded: "The reason why it has become like this now may be the stress response after a long journey!"
"Then what should I do, madam?" Hermione asked quickly.
"Feed it more dried fish, Crookshanks likes this..." the witch replied: "And don't disturb it during this time, it needs to rest!"
"Hmm!" Hermione nodded quickly.
She bought some dried fish in the shop, and Neville then bought some owl rations.
Then, the three returned to the Broken Cauldron Bar together.