Chapter 693 Chewing Gum

Not far from the platform, Hermione ran to the Grangers who were smiling and waving at them. Mr. Granger hugged his daughter, lifted her up and turned her around a few times, and stroked Hermione's disheveled hair.

After Hermione broke away from her father's arms with some embarrassment, she introduced Helena to her father.

For the Grangers, it was already a surprise for them to have a little witch in their family and see the magical world, but today they saw a ghost for the first time in their lives.

At this time, he was being introduced to a ghost, which terrified Mr. Granger. He looked around, and found that it seemed that the people around him couldn't see them, a ghost just appeared at the station openly, and the pedestrians who came and went turned a blind eye.

Compared to Mr. Granger's composure, Mrs. Granger didn't dare to look at Helena at all. She was pale and held her daughter's hand tightly.

"Hello, Helena." Mr. Granger offered his hand, and Helena also extended his hand to him. The moment they touch. Mr. Granger felt the cold penetrate into his skin, and the cold feeling spread down his arms and down his body. He tried his best to calm down, hoping to stop the trembling of his thighs and slow down his heartbeat.

"Helena is the ghost of Ravenclaw's college, she is very friendly, don't worry." Hermione quickly comforted her, and kept massaging her mother's sweaty hand to comfort her.

Mr. Granger tried his best not to let his eyes stay on Helena for too long. Although his fear was also mixed with curiosity, he soon discovered that although the ghost girl was proud, she was very polite. Although it was as cold as ice, he didn't show any hostility toward them like some pure-blood wizards who were said to be.

When they came to the parking lot, Mr. and Mrs. Granger sat in the front row, while Allen and his ghost squeezed in the back row. Helena floated obliquely in the air above Emily and Allen, watching Mr. Granger start the car without blinking and taking control of the steering wheel.

"Dad, because of Helena's physique, Alan can't use magic to bring her back..." Before Hermione finished explaining, Mr. Granger interrupted her, promising, "Don't worry baby, I will send all your classmates home safely."

"Oh, thank you so much, Mr. Granger. But don't worry, I can drive. After I take Luna and Helena home, I will return the car immediately." Allen said quickly, borrowing Che was already embarrassed, how dare he bother Mr. Granger to run around.

"Are you 17 too? How time flies... Hermione's '79 seems to be a bit older than yours in the same year. She has applied for it before, and she got full marks in the multiple-choice test and the mock short film test, but in the road test. The car drove to...cough..." Hermione, who had been told something embarrassing in public, lay on top of her classmates a little madly, and went over to punch her father. Mr. Granger was coughed by the sudden blow, " Uh... But Alan passed it so quickly? That's amazing... I also passed the exam many times before."

Allen, who had originally planned to use the Confusion Charm to get away with the Muggle police inspection, showed Hermione a flattering smile to keep her a secret, and then followed Mr. Granger's words: "It's just luck."

Mr. Granger's car was playing the music he liked, and he was driving among the buildings. However, the traffic situation in London was not optimistic, and there were some traffic jams, so the car was not moving fast. After walking for a long time, in Under the shaking of the car, except for the female ghost who was curious about London in this era, all the passengers dozed off because of boredom.

I don't know how long it took, but when Hermione woke up, she found that Alan was leaning against the car window and fell asleep, while Emily was half leaning on his arms, her long curly eyelashes were like butterflies. Its wings hang down quietly on its face, looking very sweet. On the other side, Luna's long golden curly hair blocked half of her face, sleeping soundly.

Even Helena, who was floating in the air, put her head through the roof and looked at the street scene,

Hermione's face couldn't help showing a smile. Amidst the sound of the car's motor, in this small space, her heart felt very peaceful, and a warm feeling arose spontaneously.

Hermione turned her upper body and looked towards the front left. Her mother was also asleep. In order to welcome her, she must have gotten up very early. She pursed her lips guiltily.

Then, Hermione looked into the right front cab through the rearview mirror, and was horrified to find that her father, who was driving, also had his eyes closed. Hermione broke out in cold sweat all of a sudden. Flying, she uttered a high-pitched voice that she seldom uttered: "Dad, wake up!"

Then under the influence of Hermione's screaming, the passengers in the car also screamed and chorused one after another - Mr. Granger was the last to wake up.

Because everyone lost sleepiness, the car finally drove to Hermione's house without any risk along the way. Although it was still less than four o'clock in the afternoon, the sky was gradually darkening and dark clouds were gathering. Mrs. Granger looked at the sky, a little embarrassed to think of the stupid thing her husband did just now, so she politely invited Allen and the others: "It looks like it might rain heavily in a while, so drive safely in rainy days, why don't you come in Drink something hot and eat something to wake you up?"

"Thank you for your kindness, Mrs. Granger." Allen helped Mr. Granger take out all Hermione's salutes in the trunk, "It's just that the journey is far away, and there is no further delay. I want to catch up before dinner." When I go back, I can’t let my mother’s hard work preparing meals go to waste.”

Hearing that, Mrs. Granger didn't insist, but was very satisfied with Alan's attitude towards his mother. Mr. Granger took out some sugar-free chewing gum from the trunk that had not been closed and gave them, "On the way Chew it, you can avoid the boredom and sleepiness of the journey."

"Mr. Granger, thank you. After I send Helena home, I can send the car back immediately." Allen took the gum, sat in the driver's seat, and said goodbye to the Granger family, but No trace of Hermione was found.

Luna sat in the co-pilot next to Allen, and Emily took out her backpack from the trunk and sat side by side with her niece Helena in the back row.

"Alan, bring this map with you." Hermione, who had just rushed back to the room, ran over holding a map, and handed the map to Alan through the car window. After all, Alan didn't drive home on weekdays. However, Hermione was worried that he would lose his way, "I'll see you in a few days."

"Thank you Hermione, this is definitely useful, you are always so thoughtful, let's see you in a few days." Allen praised, Hermione is always so methodical.

"Have a safe journey, and be safe." Hermione, whose face was reddish with Alan's praise, urged, the Granger family of three watched Alan start the car, drove away, and waved goodbye to the car they were driving away—— Although he was a little unaccustomed to the opposite position of this kind of cab, Alan, who deliberately reassured the Grangers who didn't ask to check his driver's license, still performed very skillfully.

"Luna, Emily, the journey is long, do you want to apparate home first?" Allen asked.

"No, I want to take a car." Luna looked at the steering wheel held by Allen with interest, "I'll apparate home when I get to your house."

"I want to accompany you in the car too." Emily replied obediently, holding her backpack.

The sky was getting darker and darker. In this gloomy city, the red traffic lights and congested roads made the drivers anxiously waiting. The rain was pouring down from the sky. Allen looked at the tape in Mr. Granger's car , Picked up a disc, inserted it into the car player, and a song "The Sound Of Silence" poured out in the car.

While watching the situation on the road, Allen took the opportunity to introduce the situation at home to Helena: "We live in Dorset, the famous magizoologist Newt Scamander and his wife Tina Ponlock, the magical creature that once lived here and loved to guard horses, has a habitat in our area..."

Luna opened the map and pointed out the location of this county on the map: this is a county in southwest England, on the north shore of the English Channel. Dorset is bordered by Devon to the west, Somerset to the northwest, Wiltshire to the northeast and Hampshire to the east. Wimbourne and Milburn are both located in this county.

"Your grandfather's house and I are here." Luna pointed to Devon County, "Go back to your father's house first, and come back to me in a few days."

"The Lunas, the Weasleys, the Fawcetts and the Diggorys were all in the village of Ottery-St. Catchpole in Devon, and so did Nicole Flamel and his wife Perenal Lived in Devon but they died in 1992," Allen added.

"I know that the Malfoy Manor of Draco Malfoy's family is located in Wiltshire in the northeast." Emily said softly, "Pansy often said in Slytherin how big the manor is..."

"Now, it takes about two and a half minutes from the Salisbury line we have to take to the south of Wiltshire, and it will take about 20 or 30 minutes to go to the south and go home." I am not used to the UK yet. Allen in the driver's seat held the steering wheel with both hands, stepped on the accelerator, and accelerated.

Luna unwrapped a pack of sugar-free gum, took a piece and popped it into her mouth.

"Give Emily a piece too." Through the rearview mirror, Allen saw the little girl staring at the sugar-free gum in Luna's hand, and reminded Luna with a smile.

Emily chewed the sugar-free gum twice before spitting it out onto the wrapper. For Emily, the sugar-free gum was obviously not as attractive as the snacks in her bag. She took out a chocolate frog, removed the wrapping paper, and bit off the frog's head in one bite.

Emily tasted the bibimbap, cauldron-shaped cake, and pumpkin pie that she bought on the Hogwarts Express, and she ate them with gusto. Because she wanted to take the opportunity to eat more snacks. Allen noticed through the rearview mirror that Helena would look at Emily every time she changed snacks, and he tightened his hands on the steering wheel.

"Helena, if the food smells particularly strong, can you smell it?" Allen asked.

"A lot of ghosts like to smell those rotten, strong-smelling things, which can smell something more or less, but I'm not interested in those." Helena replied, "Almost Headless Nick especially likes those long Maggot-ridden haggis and green-haired cheese, fat monks like stinky salmon, and that just makes me sick."

"Alan, give me the resurrection stone." Luna chewed gum and suddenly reached out to Alan, "During the summer vacation, I will study this bad thing and see if it can change Helena's situation, Peeves It is not a ghost, it is beyond life and death, it has never been considered alive, but if necessary, we will take time to go back to school to catch it and study it-let your aunt help us find another female ghost, and see if we can make it Helena also touched something, regaining some sense of being alive."

Allen's Resurrection Stone was handed to Luna, and in exchange for a few pieces of chewing gum, he threw it into his mouth. The child's mother seemed to have come up with his previous idea.

Finally drove out of downtown London, but after a short distance, the thunder burst and the raindrops slammed onto the windshield of the car. The wipers swayed rhythmically from side to side. Luna, who was in the passenger seat, was chewing gum, staring at the wiper in front of her slightly protruding eyes, her body swaying with the wiper in front of her, the girl first kept her head in the same position as the wiper The frequency swayed, and suddenly, Luna accelerated the frequency of her body and head shaking, it seemed that the wiper blades were swaying following her swaying, and her long light blonde hair was also flying.

Alan turned his head, a little surprised, but his eyes seemed unable to leave Luna like this, the corners of his mouth were raised, and his whole expression was incredibly soft.

Luna pressed the window lift button with her slender fingers and lowered the car window. She unbuckled the seat belt, leaned out of the car window with her whole upper body, and held the car window with her slender white arms, stabilizing the car window. stature. The rain slapped on her delicate cheeks, but she didn't care. Instead, she closed her eyes like a child, raised her face, opened her mouth, and let the rain flow into her mouth to swallow a few mouthfuls.

Seeing the bewildered expression on Allen's face, Emily, who was sitting in the back row, stopped sucking the spark stick in her hand. She pursed her mouth and said sarcastically, "Pretend to be tender."