Chapter 714 Kanna Did Not Take the Train

I have to admit that Fred and George are very talented in emptying other people's wallets. At least when Harry walked out of Weasley's Joke Shop, there were only a few Galleons left in his wallet.

If it weren't for the expenses left in school, he might not even want to let go of the remaining Galleons.

Mainly because those joke items were too interesting, and there were also things related to Defense Against the Dark Arts, each of which looked very practical.

In addition, Harry hadn't been out for more than a month, and he subconsciously went shopping. Unknowingly, his wallet was empty, and the jingling Galleons turned into various magical items.

Harry was quite happy about this.

In the last week of the holiday, he and Ron had been playing with the little gadgets they bought. Once, Hermione didn't pay attention and mistakenly took the cup they bought for a teacup, resulting in her teeth being dyed blue.

Hermione's front teeth were a little protruding, and they became more conspicuous after turning blue, which made her so angry that she didn't talk to Harry for several days.

It was not until Fred and George brought back the fading potion and Harry swore again and again that he really forgot to take it and did not leave it on the table on purpose that Hermione reluctantly forgave them.

But as a price, Hermione refused their request to refer to the homework.

"You'd better write it quickly."

At the end of August, Kyle looked at Harry and Ron who were writing furiously and said with a smile: "School starts tomorrow. If you can't finish it tonight, don't even think about sleeping tomorrow night."

Harry and Ron didn't say anything. In fact, they didn't have time to take care of anything else except homework.

Who would have thought that they had been here for two months and their homework had not been touched at all.

"Don't make sarcastic remarks. Who hasn't made up homework several times in Hogwarts?" Charlie on the side teased. Thinking back to the past, he was also a member of the homework team.

"But Kyle..." he said, "I don't think I've seen you do your homework. Did you finish it before you came here?"

"No." Kyle said calmly, "I didn't do it either."

Hearing this, Harry and Ron raised their heads almost at the same time, and then moved aside tacitly to make room.

"You do your own homework, don't worry about me." Kyle waved his hand, "I don't need to do homework because I have to take care of the Ministry of Magic. The professor specially approved it."

"You don't have to do homework?" Ron's eyes turned red with envy.

No one had told him that there was such a benefit in joining the Ministry of Magic. If he had known this, he should have submitted an application.

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The next morning, Harry and Ron got into the car with dark circles under their eyes, and they even slept in the car.

Until the car stopped at the entrance of King's Cross Station, Sirius woke them up.

"Hurry up, there are too many people here, we have to get through the retaining wall as soon as possible." Sirius and Mr. Weasley stood on both sides of them with stern expressions.

From their expressions, it looked as if the Death Eaters had already ambushed in the station, ready to kill Harry's Death Eaters at any time.

But in fact, they did not encounter any problems along the way, and they passed through the retaining wall smoothly and arrived at Platform 9.

There were still as many people here as before, and the steam from the red Hogwarts Express floated above the crowd.

A few seconds later, Kyle, Cedric, Fred and George also came in.

"I really miss it." Cedric looked at the train in front of him, "It's a pity that I didn't bring my luggage this time."

"Only fools like you would want to go to school." Fred also glanced at the train, "Now is the best, no classes, no homework."

"It would be better if you can avoid going to the Ministry of Magic." George said quietly beside him.

It was clearly agreed before that they could resign and go back to run the joke shop at the end of August.

But now Hogwarts has started school, but they have to stay in the Ministry of Magic because they can't find anyone to take over their jobs.

Of course, the two of them also had their own little calculations. After Kyle said this, they no longer insisted on resigning.

At this time, Qiu also came. When she passed through the retaining wall, Cedric immediately left Kyle and the others and walked over with a silly smile on his face.

"Qiu, long time no see, how was your vacation?"

"Tsk!" Fred looked a little unhappy, and said sarcastically: "Look at his silly look, others will definitely think that his tongue is cramped."

"Sometimes I really want to fill his mouth with sour popping candy." George said with disgust.

"Oh, and you too." He looked at Kyle again, "I guess you must be waiting for Connor, right."

"Since you guessed it, why are you asking me?" Kyle raised his eyebrows.

This move made the two of them angry again.

"Listen." Fred put his arm around Kyle's shoulders with ill intentions, "This Christmas, you will definitely receive a full box of sour popping candy."

"Do you think I will eat the things you send?" Kyle glanced at him and said disdainfully.

"Then we'll go to Hogwarts..."

"Put the candy in your mouth."

"I'll wait." Kyle didn't buy their tricks at all, "Just don't be afraid to come when the time comes."

Ten minutes later, Connor didn't show up, and Fred and George looked a little gloating.

There was a whistle from behind, almost everyone got on the train, and some people were already starting to close the doors.

"There are still three minutes, you have to hurry up." Cedric glanced at the time, "Maybe you can go look for her in the car. Don't forget, Kangna usually comes earlier than us."

"That's right." Kyle nodded and quickly got on the train.

"Okay, remember to come back for Christmas." Fred said through the car window.

"If anything interesting happens in school, remember to write and tell us."

"Oh, by the way, don't break school rules!"

Amid the banter between the two, the train puffed out bursts of smoke and began to accelerate.

Kyle waved, then turned and went to the prefects' compartment.

Here, he met Malfoy again. Just like when he was in Diagon Alley, he still didn't dare to look at him and ran to another carriage as if running away.

Kyle had other things to do and didn't care.

He walked back and forth in the prefect car, but did not find Kang Na.

Kyle then asked Qiu again, but she also didn't see Kangna.

"Don't worry," Qiu said, "Maybe Connor just didn't take the train, but went to school with Professor Snape."

"Maybe." Kyle said casually.

Although Qiu's words were true, Kyle always felt that Snape would not take Connor to school this year.

With this idea in mind, Kyle looked at other carriages, but found nothing.

Kyle opened the last carriage door, and sitting inside were Luna, Ginny and Neville.

"Long time no see, Kyle." Neville held up his toad.

"Long time no see." Kyle did not go back to the prefect's car, but walked in and sat in an empty seat next to him.

"Don't you mind?" he asked.

"Of course not." Neville said quickly: "In fact, five minutes ago, my grandma told me to spend more time with you."

"What?"

"Oh, she probably wants me to learn more from you." Neville said, "She read the newspaper and said that people from the Ministry of Magic would not be able to come up with that kind of reliable decision, nor would they be able to solve the soul-possession so quickly. Weird question, it must be your idea.

"She has praised you for two months. If you could be her grandson, she would be willing to give you anything in exchange."

"You're not bad either, Neville." Kyle said absently: "Oh, by the way, remember to thank Mrs. Longbottom for me."

"Thank you," Neville said sheepishly, "I will."

Because Kyle's mind was not on chatting, the atmosphere in the car seemed a bit dull.

"Kyle, you're caught by a bug." At this moment, Luna raised her head from the Quibbler and looked at Kyle through her big colorful glasses.

"Harassment...what?" Neville blinked, not understanding.

"Harassment flies... they're invisible, and they mess with your brain," Luna said. "I just thought I felt one buzzing around here."

She slapped the air with both hands, as if chasing away an invisible flying insect.

Neville didn't understand even more. He subconsciously moved to the window. Ginny next to him also felt that Luna's behavior was a bit strange. However, she had long been used to this kind of thing and just regarded it as something strange. Didn't see it.

"Ah, I am indeed a little worried." Kyle said looking out the window.

"Do you need my help?" Luna asked, and she waved her hand next to Kyle again.

"Thanks, I'm feeling better now," Kyle said.

After sitting here for a while, Kyle was ready to go elsewhere, but before he could get out of the box, Harry opened the door.

"Neville, you see...oh Kyle, you are here." He said in surprise.

"Yeah." Kyle turned sideways, preparing to let Harry come in first.

"No need," Harry said, and he took out two rolls of parchment with purple ribbons and his name on them.

"What's this?"

"The invitation," Harry said, "It was sent by a third-year girl, but she couldn't find you, so I was wondering if I could help.

"Neville, this is yours." Harry handed over the other two rolls of parchment.

There is only a very brief sentence in the parchment roll:

Kyle:

I would very much like you to have lunch with me in Box C.

Yours faithfully

Professor H.E.F Slughorn.

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"Remember?" Harry said, "This is the man Dumbledore took us to visit, and he was on the train.

"It's rare... I mean, very few professors take the train to school, except for Lupin before... But this Professor Slughorn doesn't seem to be short of money, does he? "

"Lupine will be sad to hear that," Kyle said.

Harry was a little embarrassed, but this was a fact. For such a long time, only Lupine, who was short of money, would take the train to school.

"Are you going?" Harry asked.

To be honest, Kyle didn't want to go, but Slughorn was a professor after all, and he sent the invitation letter, so it would be inappropriate not to go.

Kyle rubbed his forehead. If he had known that Kangna was not on the train, he should have just apparated to Hogsmeade.

"Forget it, just think of it as passing the time." Kyle walked out of the car.

Neville followed suit.

"Who is Slughorn?" he asked.

"The new teacher," Harry said, "He used to work at Hogwarts, but then he retired. This time he is back to his old job."

The aisle was crowded with students waiting for food. When they arrived at Carriage C, Harry realized that Slughorn had invited more than just them.

Carriage C was second only to Carriage B where the prefects were. It was reserved for teachers and was very spacious, about the size of three ordinary carriages.

But it was full of people at this time.

"Harry, Kyle." Slughorn jumped up when they pushed open the door.

He seemed to have dressed up specially today, with a large silver beard that was neatly trimmed, shining in the sun like the gold buttons on his vest.

"You all came together, what a great surprise!"

"This must be Mr. Neville Longbottom, hello. "

Neville nodded stiffly. He still didn't understand what was going on. He just followed Kyle's example and sat in the nearest empty seat.

For some reason, the atmosphere here became a little strange since Kyle came in, or some Slytherin students behaved a little strangely.

They either lowered their heads or gathered together to whisper, but when Kyle looked over, they would immediately pretend that nothing had happened.

In fact, this is a very normal thing. Since Kyle taught Monta a lesson last school year, most Slytherins would choose to keep their distance from him.

Especially during this holiday, Kyle also caused a lot of trouble for most of their parents.

"Everyone is here." Slughorn said happily, "Let me introduce you, this is Blaise Sabini."

He pointed to a boy next to him casually, "Harry, you must know him, you are in the same grade. "

Both Harry and Zabini acted as if they didn't hear anything and had no reaction: Generally speaking, Gryffindor and Slytherin hate each other, and wherever they are, there is always tension.

It was polite that they didn't fight on the spot.

Slughorn continued to introduce the others.

"This is Cormac McLaggen, Kyle, he is in the same grade as you..."

"Kyle, nice to see you here." McLaggen raised his hand and greeted him formally.

Kyle nodded.

"Marcos Belby, also in the seventh grade..."

Unlike the tension between Gryffindor and Slytherin, Hufflepuff is still quite popular... At least when Slughorn introduced the others to Kyle, everyone was very enthusiastic.

"Well, it's really pleasant..."

After the tedious introduction, Slughorn said with satisfaction, "An opportunity to get to know you better, everyone take a napkin and try this. "

He waved his wand, and a plate of pheasant meat appeared in front of everyone.

The hairy pheasant is a magical animal unique to the Appalachian Mountains. It has no special abilities except running fast, but its meat is delicious.

Kel was not surprised that Slughorn could get this thing... But this should not be cooked by the house elves, but by himself.

How to describe the taste... It's like throwing a flat and round stone directly into the water, and not a single splash is made.

Slughorn should apologize to the hairy pheasant.

And while everyone was eating, Slughorn asked all kinds of questions.

"Marcos, have you seen your uncle Damocles recently? I had the honor of teaching him back then."

"Cormac, I happen to know that you often see your uncle Tiberus, and he mentioned you to me before..."

"Zabini, how is your mother? It's been two years since we last met, but I still miss the orange pie she made. "

Although it was a chat, Slughorn's tone was more like an interrogation, and everyone was terrified.

And Kyle also noticed that when Belby accidentally said that his relationship with his uncle was not good, Slughorn lost interest in him.

Even when the pie was divided, he was intentionally or unintentionally omitted.

But Belby was not angry, but relaxed a lot. After noticing Kyle's gaze, he blinked and showed a relieved expression.

"Did you notice?" Harry leaned close to Kyle and whispered, "This Slughorn always mentions one of their relatives."

"You are wrong." Kyle shook his head gently, "It should be said that it is because of these relatives that they were invited."

"Isn't this..." Harry opened his mouth, but still didn't say the word "snobbish".

"Just as you think. "Kyle said.

Harry glanced at Slughorn who was distributing the biscuits, and his impression of him dropped again.

Of course, even though he disliked him, the other party was still a professor after all. Harry did not show it, but deep down he wanted to end this lunch as soon as possible.

Instead of wasting time here, he would rather chat with Ron or make up another homework.

The same goes for Neville. Slughorn always mentioned his parents, which made Neville feel uncomfortable.

"Now..."

Twenty minutes later, Slughorn stood up and said solemnly: "Let me introduce you to two other people.

"Harry Potter, people now call him the 'Savior Star'. Yes, after that terrible night more than ten years ago, this title has accompanied him... Some people say that you must have extraordinary power..."

There was a faint snort coming from the box.

Harry felt like someone slapped him hard twice, and his face must have turned red.

Fortunately, Slughorn quickly changed his target.

"And Kyle..." Slughorn placed the largest piece of pudding in front of Kyle.

"Your father and I are good friends. When I was teaching him, I had already predicted that he would do something great in the future. This is exactly what happened. He became the youngest director of the Ministry of Magic.

"But what I didn't expect was that his son was even better than him."

"Thank you for the compliment, Professor." Kyle said calmly, he now wanted to apparate to Hogsmeade even more.

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