Chapter 2 Hogwarts
【Harry I’m hungry, I need foooooood!】 Rin curled herself around Harry begging for food while Harry was reading Daily Prophet.
【Stop! Get off of me! You’ve just had food and please just DON’T ask for more before dinner!】 Harry frowned. He found it was really a bad idea letting Rin live with him. What should he say? Rin was so annoying and so noisy all the time, and apparently this snake girl didn’t know anything about respect.
Obviously Rin was not satisfied by Harry’s reply. She hissed angrily and tightened herself around him. 【Harry, I want foooood!】
Harry sighed. He put away the paper to get some snack from his trunk. He threw them to Rin, 【Help yourself and I beg you not to disturb me.】
He heard no reply; the snake girl was busy putting all the snacks into its mouth.
It was really very stupid of him, from any aspect. Harry disgusted himself a little bit and then focus back on what he was considering.
Everything seems to be a little bit off. Parseltongue,the gift of the Slytherin line, should have been disappeared since that pieceof soul has been destroyed. And he can tell this gift had become stronger thanit had been before because now he can tell the difference between parseltongue and English. Actually, come to think about it, he had had that kind of nightmarefor quite a while, and the gift of parseltongue once had disappeared after Voldemort’s death. So why is it appearing again?
Harry crossed his hand through his hair.This is so frustrating and he really have no idea what is going on. Maybe he should go back to Hogwarts, meet Hermione and go to the library to seek all these stuffs out.
Harry sighed again. He can’t go back to Hogwarts. He is no longer a student of Hogwarts. The only way to get into the castle legally is as a guest, which means he had to find Hermione so that hecan go back to Hogwarts as a friend of Hermione. That works, actually, however he didn’t know how much should he tell Hermione. Harry didn’t want her to be so worried about him.
Harry grabbed a parchment from his pile of books and tried to write a letter to Hermione. Probably meet her at the Three Brooms in Hogsmeade is not a bad idea. He finished the letter and then raised his head, expecting Hedwig will be there right on his desk waiting for hisletter.
But there were none. Harry realized that Hedwig had been dead, long time ago, and if he wanted to send a letter, he had to borrow Ron’s owl.
He knocked on Ron’s door, hoping he was inhis room. Nobody answered. Harry went downstairs to check the clock in the living room, which showed that Ron was out. Just then, Harry remembered that Ron was in Hogsmeade, enjoying his long vacation with George. Actually you can’t even call that enjoying because George was in such a low mood that Ron was trying to cheer him up. Obviously he was still grieving for his twin brother, Fred, who had died in the final war.
This left Harry with no choice but to knock on Ginny’s door. He remembered Ginny owns an owl called Pig, which was a present from Sirius, his long dead godfather. To his surprise, Ginny opened the door so quickly that the door almost slammed to his face.
“Oh, hi, Ginny.” He said, nervously.
“Oh, Harry!” Ginny cried and hugged him, “Are you alright? Did you get a good sleep? Are you still bothered by the war? Are you going back to Hogwarts with me? I haven’t seen you for quite a long time!”
“Umm, Ginny?” Harry interrupted her or hethought she would never stop, “I’m just wondering, can I use your owl? I want to send a letter to Hermione.”
Ginny looked a little bit upset, but she managed to keep the smile on her face, “Yes, sure. You can use Pig.” She led Harry into her room and help Harry attached the letter to Pig’s leg. As Pig flew out of the window, Harry asked Ginny, curiously, “What do you mean by going back to Hogwarts? I thought you are planning to go back next year.”
“Yes, that’s what I’ve decided, but I just found maybe it’s better for me to go back and study with my friends. We still have a chance to go back after Christmas break, are you going to come with me?”Ginny said, with a strong expectation in her voice.
“Can I? I mean I haven’t applied for it yet.” Harry said excitedly. He really wanted to go back and meet Hermione and his fellow friends but he had missed the dead line of back to school application.
Ginny nodded, “I think you can just owl to Professor McGonagall, I’m sure she will be very happy to see you back to Hogwarts. And you can use Pig for that.”
Harry hugged her tightly, “Thank you Ginny, I’m going back to Hogwarts with you.”
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That night, Pig and Ron arrived at the same time. Pig was so excited with the letter from Hermione that it crashed into Ron’s hair, made it a terrible mess. Ron had to drag Pig out of his hair and caught its wings so that it can stay until Harry got the letter from its leg.
“Sorry Ron, Pig is so energetic.” Harry apologized to Ron.
“No worries, mate, I’ve got used to it.”Ron let Pig go, and it started to crash into everything again. “It’s quite annoying though.” He added, looking at the mess behind Pig.
Harry shrugged his shoulders, and opened Hermione’s letter.
Hi Harry!
You have no idea how excited I was when I got your letter! I’m very happy that you are doing well and actually I found the castle a little bit empty without you guys. Anyways, it’s always good to come back to Hogwarts to finish my finalyear. You should stay here, you know? We should at least finish the last year together! I found there are so many new knowledge and that’s really a big loss not coming back!
Oh, I’m a little bit too excited. Ok, so back to your letter, we really should meet at the Three Brooms’! But as you know that the final war had almost destroyed the whole Hogsmeade, and there are still some Death Eaters around England, we don’t have a Hogsmeade weekend this term. I think maybe we can have it next term, but I’m really not so sure about it. Plus now is nearly the end of the term! You have no idea how crazy the seventh year work load is, so even if we do have Hogsmeade weekend I don’t think I can possibly make it.
We can meet during Christmas break though. I’ve planned to go back to my parents during the break but I think I can make a day or two visit you and Ron in the Burrow. Not a bad idea right?
Ok, I really want to write more to you but I really have so much work to do. Write back about your plan can you? We have to figure out the time for meeting!
Please reply!
Hermione
Harry smiled a little when reading throughthis letter from Hermione. It is always good to know that Hermione is still that bookworm and was enjoying staying in Hogwarts as usual even without he and Ron. Ron had been reading the letter with him as well, he groaned when he foundout Hermione do not have time to meet them in Hogsmeade but was soon cheered up by the fact that Hermione may come visit the Burrow in the Christmas break. He dashed back to his room and got parchment and quill immediately, “Harry, lets write a letter back to Hermione! We have to meet her!”
“I know, Ron, I know.” Harry said, “Can you write it? Just tell her we are very happy to see her in the Christmas break. I have to write to professor McGonagall. ”
“For what?” Ron asked, curiosly.
“I’m planning going back to Hogwarts afterChristmas break.” Harry said with a cheerful voice.
“What?”
“Yep, so can you do me that favor? Write back to Hermione, can you?” Harry got another piece of parchment and started to write.
“You are crazy! I can’t believe you just said that! Is your last name Granger now?” Ron blinked; try to understand what Harry just said.
“Yeah, probably.” Harry smirked and put his whole attention to the letter. About half an hour later, they had finished their letters. This time Pig crashed into Harry’s hair and it was trapped in it. “I really have to consider to use your hair to catch Pig, you know?” Ron tried to keep a straight face, but failed miserably.
Harry glared at him as Pig stumbled out of the window.
Maybe he really can figure out the cause of his headache in Hogwarts, Harry told himself.
鉴于是英文的……我还是不艾特了吧……中文翻译施工中……