423 Christmas Train and Uninvited Guests

423 Christmas Train and Uninvited Guests

"Okay, I'm leaving."

"Are you sure it's okay to be alone? What if you meet those weird guys wearing glasses again? Do you need me to help you teach them a lesson?"

"Forget it, Petunia...what if they suddenly start taking an interest in Muggles..."

"What did you say? Did I hear you correctly? How dare they attack Muggles?"

"Hey, it's no problem, just don't worry."

"Karan?! You are referring to Karan, right?! He came to the train station too? But he obviously doesn't live in some village?!"

"It's nothing! Stop thinking about it, I'm leaving!"

At Station Nine and Three Quarters, Lily hugged her parents in a hurry for the last time, and then hurriedly ran to the train under Petunia's suspicious eyes.

Carrying a lot of luggage and Balian, she walked through one carriage after another. She breathed a sigh of relief until she saw that familiar figure - she finally didn't have to go back to school alone for Christmas this year with Guspard. Such weird guys were sitting together.

She opened the carriage door forcefully and shouted happily: "Long time no see, Karan!"

Karan, who was carefully caring for the ash wand, was stunned. Lily's enthusiasm made him unable to question the Christmas gift as planned.

"It seems...it hasn't been long."

He said in confusion, but Lily sat beside him regardless, almost whistling in a good mood.

"Look over there." Lily pursed her lips in the direction of the window.

As soon as Karan turned his head, he immediately saw three pairs of shiny glasses - they were the Gespard family. The three of them were scanning in different directions, as if they were looking for prey.

The next second, Karan straightened his legs and lay down smoothly, hiding under the window.

"No wonder you're so happy." He glanced at Lily and said.

Lily also made the same move as Karan, and Barian seemed to want to imitate it, but its legs were not long enough, so it could only hook its tail crookedly on Lily's calf.

"Hehe." Lily laughed happily: "By the way, why did you suddenly decide to take the train back to school?"

"Of course it's because of Meadows." Karan explained helplessly.

Originally, after leaving France, Meadows should have sent him back to school, even Hogsmeade.

But Meadows suddenly didn't know what was urgent and was in a hurry to return to France, so he only sent Karan to Diagon Alley and asked him to use Floo powder to rush back to school from the Leaky Cauldron.

Karan did plan this at first, but he suddenly changed his mind - this seemed to be a good opportunity to monitor [Bojin-Bok Store], and maybe it would also give him a chance to know more about [Bojin-Boker Store] Bock] Information about this suspicious guy.

When Karan said this, the carriage door was suddenly opened from the outside.

"and then?"

Gaspard was standing outside the carriage, staring at Karan and Lily's even weirder postures with strange eyes, and finally understood the reason why they couldn't be found.

Steve peeked behind him, his face full of curiosity.

Karan coughed awkwardly, stood up, let the two of them in first, and then closed the compartment door again.

Until then, he continued to spread his hands and said: "Then there was nothing. I found no trace of Bock. It seems that the suspect also needs to celebrate Christmas."

The joke wasn't funny at all.

The train started slowly. Rows of houses on both sides of the railway line flashed past the window. A few snowflakes clung to the window, but they were quickly blown away by the cold wind.

The four of them discussed animatedly what had happened during the holiday.

Lily learns how to bake cakes and almost works magic again at home until Petunia stops her in time.

"The wanted order for Abraxas also appeared in Muggle newspapers." Lily explained: "Now Petunia is worried all day long about what mistake I made that led to me being imprisoned in a terrible place like Azkaban. ."

Steve was talking about Mr. Newt’s new pet, the civet.

Originally, last year, Mr. Newt lied and deceived Steve that he planned to go to France to study civets, but in the end he came to Hogwarts to serve as a professor of Care of Magical Creatures for half a year.

"I'm telling you -" Steve was full of praise for the civet, as if nothing could be more exciting than this.

"Wait a minute!" Karan blinked: "I remember civet cats can only appear in the French Ministry of Magic, right? At least it has to be France."

Steve nodded: "What's wrong?" he asked blankly.

Callan had been staying in France during the Christmas holidays, but he had never met Mr. Newt.

Coupled with Dumbledore's message that Meadows could deliver, plus her hurried return to France...

Could it be that Mr. Newt is also working specifically for Principal Dumbledore?Is that why he went to France on purpose?

At this moment, Gespard said calmly——

"I've made some progress in my research on Muggle items, and it's still a lot of progress. It won't be long before I can let you have a good look at it."

what? !

This is more shocking than all the news - Gaspard actually succeeded?Even without Karan's help!

Steve asked timidly: "What exactly are you studying?"

This is what the three of them are worried about - after all, Gaspard's suitcase is not big, and Karan can't help but wonder if it is really a pistol, right?

But if you take into account the capacity of Gaspard's magic tent, then there will be more things that can be packed in this suitcase - in other words, it means that Gaspard's research is likely to become More dangerous.

"You will know."

Gaspard said mysteriously, refusing to reveal anything in advance.

"Okay... okay." Steve quietly sent a worried look to Karan and Lily respectively - hoping that Gaspard's research would at least not be detected by the black magic detector.

"It's my turn."

After a brief silence Callan said: "I went to Beauxbatons with Meadows."

He told about his experience at Beauxbatons School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, including the secret messages passed between Vivian and Meadows.

But Karan still covered up the [Père Lachaise Cemetery]. He didn’t want to scare a few people with his vivid brain. Although Gaspard might find it interesting, that would only make this precious brain The situation becomes more dangerous.

"Vivian?"

Lily asked suspiciously: "Is she really that beautiful? Do you even think so?"

"Of course." Karan nodded without hesitation, but then he realized: "Why do you even think so about me? What's wrong with me?"

Steve waved his hands carelessly and said: "What else could it be? We have discussed it secretly a long time ago, and the result is that in your eyes, no matter how good a partner is, it cannot be as charming as an ash wand - plus we have heard more than once After you talk to the ash wand, say something about being a good boy - um... um - "

Steve's mouth was covered hard by a snack bag that suddenly floated up, and he couldn't say anything.

Karan looked at Lily and Gaspard expressionlessly: "Have you really discussed this matter?"

The two looked at each other silently, and then shook their heads vigorously.

Steve's eyes were suddenly filled with unwillingness and grievance, as if shouting - [Traitor! 】

"I knew Steve was talking nonsense."

Karan gently wiped the ash wand clean: "You are right, good boy."

A faint light bloomed from the tip of the ash wand, as if in response to Callan's question.

The atmosphere in the car suddenly became extremely strange, and even Steve became quiet - he quietly glanced at Gus's shrewd roommate, but even Guspard was staring at him with strange eyes. watching this scene.

"Cough cough..."

Lily finally decided to pretend that she didn't see anything. After coughing twice, she forced the topic to change and asked: "What is the message that Meadows sent to Madam Maxime? Did you ask, Karan?"

Of course, Karan repeatedly tested Meadows' message, but this time Meadows was determined not to tell Karan what the message was.

"What a pity..." Lily sighed regretfully.

Steve looked at Lily for a moment, and now the snack bag on his face had been successfully pulled off.

"What's so pity about this?"

Steve asked in horror: "Isn't it better that the less we know, the better? Lily, don't forget that we are still students. When did you suddenly become like Karan? Or is it because of Si Nep?”

At the end of the sentence, Steve glanced at Guspard secretly, not daring to blame him for this.

Lily was stunned, and then her expression also turned frightened.

"oops!"

Lily came back to her senses and slapped Karan several times. Karan quickly shrank back and said, "Why did you hit me?"

"Isn't it because Sif is not here?" Lily snorted confidently: "It's all your fault for leading me into trouble. If he were here, I would beat both of you together."

Karan suddenly became angry: "Don't think that I can't defeat you with my current level of magic - by the way, I haven't settled the score with you about the Christmas gifts yet!"

"What a Christmas gift!" Lily became equally angry inexplicably. She tossed her hair and said, "I don't understand what you are talking about!"

"Huh?" Karan was stunned. How could Lily not know that she clearly gave him a pair of woolen gloves.

At this time, Gaspard came to the rescue in time: "The Christmas gift thing was indeed Lily's idea, and Snape must be included, it was the two of them who found us - but this is not a prank, they originally also I just want to comfort you, and I am worried that you will become frustrated due to the decrease in magic level."

Steve also said excitedly: "Yes, I gave you that scarf. How about it? I'm good at it, right?"

Karan remembered the scarf, which was woven into a triangle. He thought it was a large handkerchief or a tablecloth.

It seemed that Callan's previous guess was indeed correct - this was really the idea that Lily and Snape came up with.

"But why does it have to be wool?" Karan asked with a strange expression.

Lily was deadlocked for a while, and finally she responded stiffly: "It's because of Professor Prewett, they said that Molly would give them a new sweater knitted with wool every Christmas. I thought this idea was quite warm at first, but I didn’t expect that a certain little devil with a bad temper and who always likes to hide his thoughts would be so heartless. Even if he had one, he would be cold and cold.”

Of course, this heartless little devil refers to Karan, who was well reprimanded by Lily.

"It turned out to be like this..."

The expression on Karan's face made him want to laugh, but he was also slightly touched in his heart.

"By the way, where's the scarf I knitted?"

Steve looked up and down and asked, but didn't see his Christmas gift on Karan: "Why don't you wear it?"

"Because I plan to make a dummy alone." Karan raised his head and said, "Then I will put your gifts on the dummy and put it at home."

Lily finally couldn't help but turn her head - it sounded like a really weird way to do it.

However, Gespard spoke up at the right time: "Then you'd better make another glass display cabinet. I don't want the cloak I knitted by myself to get dirty."

"Don't worry." Karan waved his hand and said, looking quite imposing: "And the dummy's body shape must be carefully planned - at least seven feet tall, the neck must be twice as long as a normal person, and the body shape must be It's bigger, it has to be three times as heavy as me, and as for the palm..."

He stretched out his palm and flipped it over in the eyes of three people who were staring at him closely: "Just make it a little smaller. The house-elf proportions are good."

The three of them listened silently as Karan demonstrated his skills, and each of them had a cold light in their eyes.

Lily finally waved her hand angrily, pointed at Karan, and commanded majestically: "Come on!"

Balian was the first to rush out, and her whole body was breathed in Karan's face - followed by Steve, who held Karan's hands hard, and then Gaspard took out a lot of magic threads , sneered and scratched Karan's palm, while Lily was still helping angrily.

"Hey, don't go too far - hehehe - don't take off my shoes - hehehehe!"

Amid Karan's "laughing" and the other three's sinister laughter, the sky gradually darkened, and the Hogwarts Express finally arrived at the station.

Karan walked out of the car while rubbing his frozen face.

Gaspard and Lily were discussing something in a low voice, but Steve didn't see it at all. He leaned close to Karan, smiled softly and said: "I didn't expect you still have ticklish flesh, now you are finished, Just wait and see what will happen to Gaspard and Lily - eh!"

Karan gave Steve a hard look, as if to warn him that he would look good if he dared to tell the secret.

But Steve was right - maybe Callan shouldn't care too much about the content of Dumbledore's message. It will be a long time before the curse of the crown is completely dissipated, and Callan is not as powerful as before.

This time, Karan should really enjoy campus life, even if it is only for a short half semester.

"Hey, Snape."

After thinking about this clearly, Karan greeted Snape who was standing next to Hagrid warmly: "Why are you staying here? Are you waiting for us on purpose?"

Snape was also confused by Kahlan's sudden enthusiasm, but the expression on his face was still gloomy, as if he had something on his mind.

It wasn't until they were farther away that Snape whispered to Karan——

"Remember that house elf Dobby? The thief who showed up in your house."

"Besides him, I discovered another uninvited guest in your home during the Christmas holidays - one I saw with my own eyes."

"It's Abraxas Malfoy."

"AKA the Prisoner of Azkaban."