Chapter 277 School Starts in September
【Harry Potter: The Strongest Senior】 【】
Although Astoria had been unconscious and knew nothing during her kidnapping, the Ministry of Magic still detained her until the next afternoon when the Greengrasses took her away.
"Dumbledore, what do you think Voldemort has done?" Old Barty asked in Crouch Manor.
Dumbledore shook his head gently, "Nothing unusual can be seen in Astoria."
"Voldemort will not do unnecessary things. Fudge has sent people to Greengrass' house to observe Astoria. When school starts in 20 days, I will also have people keep an eye on her at school."
"I called you here today because I have something I want to tell you. I've been thinking about it for a long time." Old Batty said with a solemn expression.
With Dumbledore's wisdom, he had already guessed what old Barty was worried about.
"I think you must have been under a lot of pressure in recent days because of your Death Eater son."
Old Batty frowned. More than ten years ago, he missed the opportunity to run for minister because of his son. Many years later, he admitted it.
After all, he was his own son, so he had to keep him alive. He trapped little Barty at home for more than ten years, but he didn't expect him to escape.
Barty Jr., who was completely exposed when he tried to abduct Draco on the Hogwarts Express in June, once again implicated Barty Sr.
Although he is still the director of the Department of International Magical Exchange and Cooperation, Fudge has slowly begun to ignore him. Important matters in the department are even handed down directly from the minister to the deputy director across levels.
The day before yesterday, Barty Jr. showed up again and kidnapped Astoria. People in the Ministry of Magic looked at Old Barty in the wrong way. The most talked about in private was how the director of the Ministry of Magic, Old Barty, had the nerve to continue.
"When Chris finishes this summer vacation, Fudge and I will resign," Old Barty said.
"This may be the right choice," Dumbledore said.
In Greengrass Manor, Astoria's mother held her daughter with tears on her face and cried with distress.
On the contrary, Astoria was not as scared as she thought, because her memory only stayed at the moment when Barty Jr. broke into the house, and she was not tortured afterwards.
"Mom, I'm fine, I'm not hurt." Astoria comforted her.
No one knows that the seeds of disaster are sprouting in the darkness at this moment, and the Hogwarts that Dumbledore cherishes will suffer heavy losses.
"Hmm? It's already the 10th, so Harry should be here soon." Sean guessed that Harry, who was at the Dursley's house, would be running away from home soon.
Such a big thing happened in the wizarding world, but for Harry, who lived in the Muggle community, it was just another boring day in the summer vacation.
In fact, Harry didn't like the summer vacation. During the summer, he could only stay at the home of his guardians, the Dursleys. The Dursleys were mean to him and he longed for September every day at home.
Especially this summer vacation, Uncle Vernon's sister, Maggie, came to visit and stayed for a few days. Maggie, like Vernon, was bloated and as fat as a ball.
When Harry was young, Maggie would often taunt the young Harry when he came to Vernon's house as a guest, and also asked Aunt Petunia, why did she still take in this orphan? She had sent Harry to an orphanage long ago. .
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Aunt Petunia just smiled apologetically. Although she didn't like Harry either, he was her sister's child after all.
Harry hated this fat woman very much before, but even as he grew older, he still didn't change his opinion of her.
Especially during this summer vacation, during the few days Maggie lived here, she seemed to have completed a task every day, and she must be sarcastic to Harry.
"Just bear with me, and if you want me to sign your crappy application, just work obediently." Uncle Vernon whispered in Harry's ear, who was about to explode.
For third-year students, the school will allow students to leave school on weekends to visit Hogsmeade, but they must have the signature of their guardian.
Harry had been suppressing the anger in his heart for this signing, but tonight he couldn't help it.
"What does this kid's father do?" Maggie was drinking brandy at the dining table, and in a good mood she started chatting about topics related to Harry.
"No job, homeless." Aunt Petunia said casually, not wanting to mention Harry's wizard parents.
"I guess so. He must be a bad drunkard."
Harry couldn't stand people talking bad about his parents, so he immediately put down the dishes he was washing and retorted.
"Nonsense, my dad is not an alcoholic." Because he was too emotional and his magic power was out of control, Harry made the goblet in Maggie's hand suddenly burst.
The Dursleys at the dinner table were startled, but Maggie said disapprovingly, "It's okay, it must be that I held it too hard. I also crushed a goblet at Captain Forpost's house last time."
Vernon's eyes signaled Harry to come over and collect the broken pieces of the wine glass, and told him to hold back and stop making trouble.
Harry was stunned for a moment, and realized that he was too excited, and quickly took the rag by the sink to clear the table.
But the unabashed Maggie changed her wine glass and continued, "Actually, it's not necessarily the father. What the child looks like mainly depends on the mother. Just like you can tell from the dog, if there is something wrong with the female dog, the dog The kid is definitely not much better."
As soon as these words came out, Aunt Petunia's expression turned a little bad. Harry's mother, that was her biological sister.
Harry had just finished cleaning up the broken pieces of the wine glass. When he heard this, he threw the broken pieces on the kitchen floor angrily.
"Shut up, shut up."
Maggie looked towards the kitchen with a smug smile on her face, she thought it would be fun to piss off Harry.
Vernon tried his best to wink at Harry to calm him down, but Maggie's insult to Harry's mother made him lose his psychological defense.
The lights in the kitchen flickered and the dishes began to shake. Maggie wanted to taunt Harry, but she found that her throat seemed to be choked and she could not speak.
Her body began to swell, and the finger pointing at Harry became like a salami. Her inflated body burst the buttons of her nylon suit, and her body, which weighed at least 100 kilograms, actually floated.
Harry broke the school rules and used magic outside the school, still on a Muggle. The Dursleys grabbed Maggie's legs and wanted her to return to the ground.
Given Harry's repressive living environment, if it weren't for Dumbledore's care, he would most likely have become an Obscurus during his teenage years.
"Come back, let her change back." Uncle Vernon called anxiously.
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Harry said breathlessly, "She deserves it, she deserves to be punished."
Harry ignored the farce and hurried upstairs, picked up his heavy suitcase and the cage containing Hedwig, and walked into the silent and dark street without looking back.
"Sean said that if you need a ride, raise your wand." Harry thought of what Sean had said to him in the Leaky Cauldron before Dumbledore sent him back yesterday.
Harry tried raising his wand, and sure enough after a while, a double-decker bus drove in front of him at lightning speed.
"Knight Bus." Looking at the words written on the bus, Harry became even more curious, "Did Sean know that I would run away from home?"
The Knight Bus was incredibly fast. It drove from Privet Drive to Charing Cross in just a few minutes. A Muggle taxi would have taken forty-five minutes without traffic jams.
The door of the Leaky Cauldron was pushed open, and Sean saw that the person coming was Harry, and stepped forward to greet him.
"Come on, it's almost time."
Harry looked confused, "How did you know I would come?"
"Ah, I was playing in Cairo two days ago. Didn't you complain that all the annoying guests came to the house? Your uncle's sister, right? I guess you won't be able to bear it."
"I see, you guessed it right, I really can't stand her running away from home." Harry still had an angry expression on his face at this time.
"Then I'll arrange a room for you and stay there until school starts."
Maggie, who turned into a balloon and floated away, has been restored to her original state by Ministry of Magic staff and her memory has been deleted. Mrs. Figg, who lives next door to the Dursleys, also told Dumbledore about Harry's escape.
If Dumbledore hadn't been so proud and said hello to the Ministry of Magic, Harry would have been invited by the Office for the Misuse of Magic to educate him tonight.
In the bar, Harry's mood suddenly improved a lot. The wizards who knew him took the initiative to say hello to him. Harry found a copy of the "Daily Prophet" and was shocked. He didn't know what so many big things had happened recently.
In the evening, Harry took Sean and chatted for several hours, like a dry sponge absorbing the juice of the news.
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"It's growing pretty well." Sean said, touching the small round leaves of the two-sheng flower.
The last twenty days of summer vacation can't bear the pressure of starting school. Sean is packing his luggage. Tomorrow is September 1st, and he will also be promoted to fifth grade.
During this summer vacation, Sean's magic power grew much slower than before. Without the supplement of the wizard's heart, he could only recover naturally like other wizards.
"Sean, why are you slacking off again? Go pay the customers." Old Tom shouted at the bar.
The Leaky Cauldron was extremely busy tonight. Usually, there would be many students staying at the Leaky Cauldron the night before school started.
For example, Hermione, a little wizard from a Muggle family, was pretty good. She lived in the suburbs of London. She had dinner at home and her father drove her to Charing Cross Street.
Sean walked downstairs quickly, muttering, "I'm going to start school tomorrow, and you're still trying to boss me around. You're exploiting me, Old Tom."
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Hermione carried her suitcase and looked up to see Sean coming down, and greeted him warmly.
"Hi, Sean."
"Look who this is, the perfect Gryffindor girl, Miss Granger." Sean praised.
Girls in the third grade seemed to have grown up overnight compared to those in the second grade. Hermione looked a little childish last semester, but after the summer vacation, she became less childish and more feminine.
Hearing the sound, Harry also ran out of the room, "Hermione."
Hermione was extremely surprised when she saw Harry suddenly appearing, "Harry, why are you here too?"
Harry walked downstairs, and the two naturally hugged each other in friendship. The lonely Harry missed his friends so much.
"Are you ready with your textbooks and tools for the new semester?" Hermione asked the careless Harry.
Harry smiled and said, "It has been prepared for a long time. I have lived here for twenty days."
"What's going on? Tell me." Hermione asked curiously.
Harry looked at the cage at Hermione's feet, which contained an orange, strange-looking cat.
"Your pet?"
"I just bought it a few days ago. I named it Crookshanks."
The two of them talked to each other about what happened during the summer vacation, laughing and joking until ten o'clock before going back to the room to rest.
The next day, the first day of school, Sean had previously carried his luggage and taken the bus to King's Cross station. Charing Cross was not far away.
This time he had two more people traveling with him, two Gryffindors, Harry and Hermione, who followed a Slytherin to King's Cross Station.
"As expected, there are more people than in previous years." Sean looked at the students.
It's not that there are more new students this year, but more parents are sending students here. Because of the case of Death Eaters kidnapping Astoria, parents are worried about their children.
In previous years, the senior children came to the station by themselves, but now they are accompanied by their parents. Before, only one parent came, but now their parents come together.
"Sean." The Weasley family on the platform waved and greeted Sean.
"Mr. Weasley, Mrs. Weasley." Sean stepped forward, and Harry and Hermione were particularly happy to see their friend Ron.
Not far away, Sean's eyes unconsciously fell on the Greengrass family. Many Slytherin parents were chatting with the Greengrass family with their children, and they were all concerned about Astoria.
Sean used his magic eyes to observe Astoria the day he first came back and found nothing wrong. More than twenty days later, Sean used his magic eyes to look again.
"It's still normal. Voldemort really has nothing to do and is just trying to intimidate the Ministry of Magic? That shouldn't be the case." Based on Sean's understanding of Voldemort, he would not do such a boring thing.