Chapter 9 Have You Ever Seen a Toad?

"Sorry to bother you, can we sit here?"

Fan Lin knocked on the wooden door of a small box in the carriage, opened it slightly, and poked his head in.

Fan Lin and Hermione had been walking towards the back since they got on the bus, because the small compartments in front were already full of people. Fan Lin and the others had been looking for 5 compartments in a row, and finally they came across one with enough space. box.

"Of course, of course." The boy sitting by the window turned his head. His black hair lay softly on the boy's head. He had a long, square face with big eyes. There was a trace of anger in the blue-black pupils. Timid and empty-eyed, he looked a bit dull. He was wearing a Hogwarts uniform.

"Oh, thank you very much." Al thanked the boy in front of him, then pulled Hermione in and sat down quickly. The boy in front of him obviously didn't know how to communicate with strangers, and his eyes were slightly averted.

"No, it's nothing. You don't have to thank me." The boy felt a little uncomfortable receiving a thank you from a stranger!

"Hey, hello. My name is Fan Lin, Fan Lin Al, you can call me Al or Fan Lin. The person next to me is..."

"Hermione, Hermione Granger!" Hermione was a little uncomfortable writing a scene that could easily end in silence. After saying her own name, she turned to look at Fan Lin and motioned for him to continue.

"Um, may I ask, what's your name? Did you just enroll in Hogwarts this year?" Fan Lin glanced at the boy opposite who looked a little unnatural and spoke first!

"Hello, Fan Lin, Hermione. I am Neville, Neville Longbottom, you can just call me Neville. I also just received the admission notice to Hogwarts this year." Looking at the front They were all new little wizards, and Neville didn't seem so reserved.

"Oh. Hello Neville..." Fan Lin replied, and suddenly the atmosphere became solidified, which made Xiao Fan Lin feel very unnatural, and Hermione beside him also twisted uneasily.

"No, it can't be like this!" Fan Lin thought to himself, forcing a smile on his lips. The three of them sat together, staring at each other, almost suffering from embarrassment!

"Um, Neville, Hermione and I are both new to magic, what about you?"

"I, I have lived in the magical world since I was a child." Neville remained as dull as ever.

"Oh, that's great, can you introduce it to us?"

"Me, me, can I?"

"Please Neville, I also want to know how the magical world is different from what I read in books." Hermione was obviously very interested in this topic and looked at Neville sincerely.

"Uh-huh, okay... I'll give it a try. Don't..." Neville looked at the sincere eyes of the two people in front of him and swallowed what he was about to say, "Don't laugh at me." Went back.

Suddenly, Neville felt that no matter what, the two people in front of him would not laugh at him for being incompetent, mediocre, etc. like the people around him.

After a pause, Neville opened his mouth and began to tell some interesting things he knew about the magical world.

When the conversation started, all the awkward atmosphere seemed to be gone. Neville said some interesting things, making the three of them laugh. When the snack cart passed by, Neville even took the initiative to buy some. Al There were snacks that Hermione had never seen before, including strange-flavored beans, chocolate frogs, etc. Al also ate a strange-flavored bean that tasted like cow dung. Al, who felt instantly nauseous, ran out and vomited everything he had eaten.

When Al returned to the box again, Neville and Hermione were greeted with gloating laughter. Relationships and friendships between young wizards are so easy to establish, aren't they?

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"You are looking for it. Chui Bao shouldn't run far away. After all, he is just a toad. Moreover, we saw him just now."

Hermione frowned. Just over an hour before entering the station, the three people who were still talking happily suddenly discovered that the Toad who was sitting on Neville's lap had mysteriously disappeared. . Neville was so anxious that he felt like crying.

"Don't worry, Neville, we will find it." Al patted Neville on the shoulder, lowered his head, and thought for a moment.

"Let's do this, Hermione, let's go to the direction of the snack cart and look for it. I suspect that Chui Bao followed the snack cart. After all, it's a toad and it's hard to run away quickly on the train. Na. Wei, look for it in the box, but if you can't find it, you can look in the opposite direction of us."

I looked at my watch and saw that it was already 5:35 pm and the train was arriving at the station at seven o'clock. "I think there is enough time. There are still 85 minutes. We can be back here at 6:45. No matter what, we will get off the car by then!"

Fan Lin raised his head and looked at Neville. Although he still looked depressed, he finally cheered up. This is much better than doing nothing!

"Good Luck." After pulling Hermione, Al and the two ran out, knocking on each box, everyone repeating this sentence: "Have you seen a toad, Neville?" The toad is lost!" And Neville also sighed heavily, he messed up everything again!

"Sorry to excuse you, has any of you seen a toad? Neville's toad is lost."

"Sorry, we don't!"

"Oh, I see, thank you, sir (ma'am)."

I don't know which box they were in. Fan Lin and Hermione exited with disappointment. Fan Lin didn't understand, how could Toad disappear mysteriously on a train?

"Fan Lin, let's look for it. It's the last carriage." Hermione also looked a little bored. She couldn't understand why Neville liked to keep toads and asked her to help him find them.

"It's not a good idea to have a cat or a dog..." He muttered and knocked on the small box at the end of this carriage.

"I'm sorry." Fan Lin saw that Hermione was a little annoyed, so he quickly pulled Hermione and walked forward. Hermione also realized that it was very impolite for her to open the door of the box without knocking, and she just let it go. Fanlin helped her stand up.

"Sorry to excuse you, have you seen a toad? Neville's toad is lost."

"Sorry, we can't seem to help you. We have been in this box the whole time and haven't seen any toads."

Fan Lin was answered by a rather thin boy, wearing a pair of shabby round glasses, with messy broken hair covering his forehead. His clothes were a little loose and didn't look like his own clothes.

The other person in the box was a red-haired boy. Judging from his clothes, um, a set of old wizard robes that were somewhat whitish. It was obviously left behind after being cleaned many times. The red-haired boy held up his wand in one hand, while the fat gray rat lay on his lap!

"Oh, are you going to use magic?" Hermione obviously discovered something interesting and stepped into the box, while also pulling El Fanlin in.

"Can we also visit it?"