Chapter 361 Honeydukes' Cellar

Everyone talked all the way and finally arrived at Hogsmeade. This time the boys did not go to the Three Broomsticks pub, but swarmed towards Honeydukes.

"Grandpa Ambrosio! Grandma Froome! Hello, meow!"

(ΦωΦ)

As soon as Fish entered the door, he greeted the Vrooms loudly.

"Hey, it's Xiao Feixu, come and let grandma take a look at you."

Mrs. Vroom, who had a chubby and kind face, left her busy work and hurried over to meet him. She hugged Fish and kissed him hard on the cheek twice.

"Last time you came here, grandma was not there. What a pity! When you were at school, did you have enough candy to eat? If not, grandma would send you some every once in a while..."

Mrs. Froome touched Fish's head, then took his hand, talked nonstop, and led him toward the back of the store.

Hermione and others looked at each other, then shrugged their shoulders and went about picking candies.

"What do you want to eat, Fei Xu? Grandma will get it for you."

Arriving at the back of the store, Mrs. Frum let go of Fish's hand, and then asked with a smile.

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The little cat shook his head, took out a handful of coins from his pocket, handed it to Mrs. Froome, and said seriously: "Fish came here today to buy candies. Fish wants to give them to his friends." Prepare Christmas gifts, more than 400 of them!”

(ΦωΦ)

"Grandma, please help Fei Xu take a look. How can we buy enough candies for 437 pieces with this money?"

"Four hundred and thirty-seven copies..."

Mrs. Frum twitched her lips. With such an exaggerated amount, no matter how much she doted on Fish, she couldn't really give it all to him.

So she took the pile of coins from Fish's hand and counted them carefully.

"How many candies are you going to give everyone?"

Honeydukes has specially prepared gift boxes for Christmas, which are divided into three types: large, medium and small.

Of course, no matter which one it is, the money in Fish's hands is definitely not enough. If it is just a small gift box, Mrs. Frum gritted her teeth and can still sell it to Fish, but if Fish wants to give a medium-sized gift box, Or a large gift box, then there is nothing she can do about it.

However, Mrs. Froome did not intend to refuse Fish's order, but was thinking of settling the final payment with Professor McGonagall later...

In the past, when Fisch got into trouble in the village, everyone did the same thing.

Anyway, they were reluctant to blame Fish, so it was better to leave the headache to Professor McGonagall to educate the cats.

Although Fish had no idea about money, he was still very good at arithmetic. He knew that he couldn't afford any kind of gift box with the money, so he said, "Just buy as much as you can. Hermione said that gifts are the most thoughtful." Importantly, Fei Xu earned all this money himself, grandma, don’t give Fei Xu candies, it’s really not easy to make money.”

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The little cat said with emotion.

"Fish, you are so sensible!" Mrs. Froom hugged Fish in surprise and kissed her hard. "Grandma will definitely give you the best price. Don't worry, we won't lose money."

Of course, she didn't plan to make any money, so she directly gave Fei Xu a cost price.

Mrs. Froom let go of Fish, and then shouted to Mr. Froom in front of her at the top of her lungs: "Honey, come here quickly! Fish has a lot to buy! Put other things aside first!"

"Here we come! Children, please help yourself and just put the money on the counter. I have to go to the back first."

The broad Mr. Froome also immediately dropped his business and ran to the back.

This kind of thing was already familiar to everyone when they returned to Hogsmeade, so the other students who were shopping did not complain. Instead, they calculated the prices of the goods they wanted to buy as Mr. Frum said. Put the money directly on the counter.

The Frooms took Fish to the cellar, took out all kinds of candies from the crates here, then unpacked the boxes and reassembled them with small colorful paper boxes. and packaged.

After Fish watched how to put it together for a while, he also packed it up with them.

While the three of them were busy, Fish's cat ears suddenly turned to his side and back, followed by Fish's head.

"Meow?!"

(ΦωΦ)

Fish stared intently at the shadow at the side and behind, his ears raised high and pointed in that direction.

"What's the matter, Fish?" asked Mrs. Froome.

"There was the sound of someone moving down there in that direction...and it's getting closer and closer..."

Fish pointed to the dark corner deep in the cellar and replied.

Naturally, the two of them would not have any doubts about Fei Xu's statement, and...

Mr. Frum, who often moved goods in the cellar, had actually discovered this secret passage hidden in the cellar many years ago, but all this time, he thought that it was only him and Mrs. Froom who she told him about. Only people know this secret passage.

It's just that they usually don't use this secret passage at all, so they forgot it in their minds for a long time. Now after Fei Xu reminded them, the couple quickly recalled it.

"That place..." Mr. Froom was stunned for a moment, touched his bald head, and said, "There is indeed a secret passage that leads directly to the hunchback of the one-eyed witch statue on the third floor of Hogwarts..."

And Firth didn't know about this secret passage, because to enter the secret passage from Hogwarts, you need to knock on the statue of the hunchbacked one-eyed witch with a wand and say the spell of "separate left and right".

After explaining the situation of this secret passage to Firth, Mr. Froome's expression suddenly became serious, because he just suddenly thought of a possibility...

"Dear, take Firth away first, the person coming is likely to be Sirius Black!"

He quickly pulled out his wand from his arms and shouted loudly to Mrs. Froome.

Mr. Froome had heard about Black sneaking into Hogwarts and destroying the portrait of the Gryffindor dormitory. Mr. Froome had also heard about it from the students who came to the store. In addition, Dementors have been wandering around the village recently, trying to hunt down Black, so he naturally thought of the other party...

Normal students and professors who want to come to Hogsmeade don't need to take the secret passage at all. Although it is possible that they are first and second grade students, the probability that they know this secret passage is too low.

So after thinking about it, only Sirius Black is the most likely one.

Mr. Froome has also been to the passage under the cellar. The passage is very long. Not to mention one person, even hundreds of people can hide in it. Moreover, one end of the passage leads directly to his cellar, and even the problem of food can be easily solved.

In other words, he was worried that if it was really a lucky student who came, he did not immediately notify those annoying Dementors.

"Fisch wants to stay and help meow! Fisch still wants to get the reward!"

(ΦДΦ)

How could the kitten miss this opportunity? He rejected Mr. Froome's proposal without hesitation.

And Mrs. Froome also drew out her wand and said with a smile: "Don't underestimate Fisch, this little guy is a little troublemaker who can give Minerva and Professor Dumbledore a headache, and... when you were in school, your duel level was not as good as mine."

Mr. Froome smiled awkwardly, and no longer forced it, but silently clenched his wand.

Anyway, there was a large group of students above the cellar. As soon as something went wrong, he would immediately cast a megaphone spell and shout to let them notify other professors and dementors.

"It's coming out soon," Firth said softly to the Flumes, "Let's find a place to ambush first."

He gestured to the couple, then quickly changed into a clouded leopard, lightly jumped onto a shelf, crouched low, and looked down at the trap door pointed out by Mr. Flumes, which was almost the same as ordinary floor tiles.

The Flumes also hid behind different shelves, holding their wands nervously, ready to attack at any time.

Harry wore the invisibility cloak left by his father and walked for a long time in the tortuous and easy-to-fall passage. He was so long that he began to pant, and then he came to the bottom of a dilapidated stone staircase, which extended to an invisible place above.

After calming his breath a little, Harry mustered up his strength and began to climb up again, carefully not making any noise.

After climbing hundreds of steps, Harry, who was already a little dizzy, bumped into a trap door.

He rubbed his head and put his ear to the trap door to listen carefully.

After confirming that he could not hear any sound from above, he slowly pushed the trap door open and peeked in from the side of the door.

This is a cellar, full of crates and other wooden boxes. There are a lot of snacks and colorful paper boxes scattered on the floor not far away. The sweet smell poured into the passage from the gap opened by Harry, making him swallow his saliva involuntarily.

Harry no longer hesitated, climbed up the passage quickly, turned around and closed the trap door...

However, at this moment, a black shadow suddenly jumped down from the shelf next to him and pounced on Harry Potter.

"Ah——!"

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In the original book, Harry did not wear the invisible cloak, which seemed a bit stupid, but it also fits the setting of Gryffindor's reckless man.

But then, a famous person like Harry Potter, Hermione and Ron wandered around Hogsmeade, which was full of other students, and no one noticed it. This is outrageous.

Not to mention here, Harry had been to Hogsmeade a long time ago, and everyone in the village knew him, so Harry was asked to wear an invisibility cloak here.

In addition, the boss is unlikely to not know about the secret passage in Honeydukes' cellar. After all, he has been here for decades and often moves goods in the cellar. It is a bit unreasonable that he didn't find it.