Chapter 8 [Hogwarts Express]

After getting on the train.

To the right is the corridor, and to the left are rows of small carriages.

Neville looked around. The suitcase had just been handed over to the prefect standing at the entrance of the carriage. The prefect said he would remind them to put on their wizard robes before getting off the train.

After arriving at Hogwarts, the luggage will be transported directly to their dormitory.

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Harry sat in the carriage and looked out the window quietly.

Outside the window, some parents are encouraging their children, some children are making trouble, and some children are playing with their younger sisters.

He also saw the twins acting strangely.

In some cases, the child has already boarded the carriage, but the mother is still telling the child something through the window.

There were other children like him who had nothing outside the window and could only sit in the carriage and look at others. Harry looked at Rock silently.

"Um?"

Rock was aware of it, and he felt that Harry across from him was thinking about something rude.

"Wow!"

The carriage door was opened.

"Can I...sit here?"

As soon as the words came out of his mouth, Neville regretted half of them.

He saw the two familiar boys.

"Of course. There is still room here." Rock nodded, "My name is Rock, Rock Anderson. This is Harry, Harry Potter."

"My...my name is Neville Longbottom, just call me Neville." Neville breathed a sigh of relief. The other person's tone was as gentle as his temperament, and he felt like he was an easy person to get along with.

Then Neville carefully looked at Harry's forehead, but did not ask any rude words about the other person's scar.

This was beyond Harry's expectation. Most of the people he met so far expressed their desire to see his scars after meeting them.

Then he kept asking questions, which almost annoyed him to death.

So he simply kept his forehead exposed, since everyone knew that he, Harry Potter, was the Boy-Who-Lived.

This is also the face he developed while following Roark in the Leaky Cauldron and Diagon Alley.

Neville didn't ask any questions, but gained Harry's favor.

"I am Harry Potter, you can just call me Harry." Harry was also curious about Neville, "Are all the wizards in your family?"

"Well, yes." Neville nodded.

"Then you must have learned a lot of magic?"

Neville was a little embarrassed, but he still told the truth: "I'm not that smart, and my memory is very poor, so I didn't learn the spells that grandma taught me."

Although Neville was from the Longbottom family, he had never known a single spell before. It wasn't until the age of 10 that a magical riot occurred during his uncle's "falling experiment".

But Rock knew that this was not the case. He had seen Neville's settings in his previous life.

Shortly after his birth, Neville Longbottom was able to use magic to wrap his blanket more tightly around himself, but unfortunately no one witnessed the young Neville's unusual magical displays and talents.

The midwife simply believed it was Neville's father.

Later, what happened to his parents, the forgetting spell cast by his grandmother on him, and the expectations brought to him by the Longbottom family all turned into huge pressure.

Makes Neville look like a clumsy, introverted boy.

But when he grew up, Neville became the Herbology Professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

You must know that all the professors at Hogwarts are great, except for the Defense Against the Dark Arts class - which is the annual class.

At the same time, Neville is also the savior in the dark line. He and Harry are both qualified, but Voldemort chose Harry.

His talent is not weak either. After hearing that the murderer who tortured his parents escaped from prison in the fifth grade, Neville made frightening progress in the D.A. party, and then directly became the leader of the D.A.

D.A. refers to Dumbledore's Army. Most of the people in it are the same age as Harry. These people are almost the representatives of the new generation.

Rock glanced at Neville, who was chatting more and more with Harry.

Both of them are living under unspeakable pressure, and it is normal for peers to chat with each other.

"Wow!"

The chatter in the carriage stopped temporarily because the carriage door opened again.

"Did I disturb you guys?"

Hermione Granger stood outside the carriage door. She looked at the three people in the carriage.

"I haven't found a carriage where I can sit. Can you sit here?"

After hearing this, Neville and Harry both looked at Roark silently. Roark nodded indifferently, indicating that there was no one here.

"Thank you." Hermione felt a little embarrassed at this moment.

She was a little nervous. Although she had read a lot of books, she was still afraid of becoming the worst student in Hogwarts. This was something she could not imagine at all.

After all, she had only recently come into contact with magic, and she was afraid that she would not be as good as those who had studied magic since childhood.

Rock glanced at Hermione, then turned his gaze out the window and began to recall the details of the original work.

In the original book, when Hermione helped Neville find a pet, she probably also got to see the level of her peers.

Coupled with the pure-blood family she met, Neville and Ron, both of whom were mainly scumbags, it can be said that it gave Hermione a lot of confidence at once.

But now Hermione is still somewhat uneasy about the unknown world.

Hermione was a little nervous, thinking about meeting some of her peers in the carriage.

It is best to be someone who was born in the magical world, so that you can compare how you have learned in the past two months.

"Hello, my name is Hermione Granger. My father is a dentist and my family currently lives in London." Hermione took the initiative to greet everyone.

Rock felt very interesting after listening to it.

Hermione took the initiative to tell her father's job and address, which was a kind of guiding greeting.

If ordinary people respond to greetings, they will generally subconsciously answer in the format the other party said.

Especially between children, when talking about their parents' jobs, they will definitely respond to each other.

As expected of a girl who can recite before school starts, this is not a conspiracy. This is probably just a subconscious question and answer by smart people to meet their needs.

Some people just have such talents, and this is just pure instinct, probably without thinking.

However, Rock had some bad thoughts and wanted to tease this smart Miss Beaver.

"Hello, Rock Anderson." Rock immediately responded to the other party: "Born in the Wu Orphanage, I was abandoned by my parents when I was just born, so I grew up in an orphanage since I was a child."

Ah?

Hermione's mouth opened wide instantly. She had been paying attention to this boy just now, but she didn't expect that his life was so rough.

Harry also introduced himself: "My name is Harry Potter. You should know that my parents have died because of the resistance against Voldemort."

"As for the address... I have been fostered in my uncle's house since I was a child, but in fact I hate it very much. I am not happy there. I should say that I have been suffering..."

During this period, Harry lived with Rock in the Leaky Cauldron. He felt unprecedented comfort. He didn't need to be forced to do housework, and there was no annoying cousin Dudley bullying him.

He could finally face his previous life and talk about it.

Ah?

Harry's experience made Hermione a little speechless.

Next it was Neville's turn.

Because of his parents' tragic experience, he was actually reluctant to mention his parents in front of others.

But Rock and Harry also talked about their experiences, and Neville felt that his situation was not unspeakable.

"My name is Neville Longbottom. My parents are both excellent Aurors..."

Neville put his hands on his thighs and squeezed them unconsciously: "Not long after I was born, they were tortured by Death Eaters with the Unforgivable Curse and went crazy... After that, I grew up with my grandmother."

Ah?

Hermione was completely stunned.

She didn't expect that in a small four-person carriage, there would be three people with such a rough life experience.

The little girl immediately felt an unspeakable regret in her heart.