June
October has arrived, and a damp and cold air permeates the grounds and penetrates into the castle.
In the Hufflepuff dormitory, Steve was shivering and holding a bottle of Bluebell Flame to keep warm, with smoke still coming from his ears - this was a side effect of the refreshing potion made by Madam Pomfrey.
There was no doubt that Steve had a cold.
"Ah!"
Steve sniffed his nose hard twice. He looked dazed now, and asked Karan who was sitting on the sofa in a weak tone: "Aren't you going on a night out tonight?"
Karan waved his hands impatiently, not even bothering to say anything.
Steve, who was suffering from a cold, was like a wounded little animal. He had no intention of playing with Wolf in the suitcase, and he no longer cared about the still-unawakened phoenix chick, but he suddenly became verbose. I woke up, and every once in a while I wanted to deliberately find something to say.
"It's really strange."
Steve ignored the expression on Karan's face and said to himself: "Since when did you plan to be a good and disciplined student? I haven't seen you at night for many days in a row? Don’t you even need to sleep?”
Karan took a deep breath. He stared at the "Advanced Transfiguration" in his hand, but in his heart he was wondering whether he should leave the dormitory and go to the common room to continue reading, or a quiet place like the library. .
"I'm hungry."
This is, Steve suddenly said in a daze, his eyes still staring directly at Karan.
Karan took a deep breath again, and a few snacks on the coffee table automatically floated up and flew towards Steve.
These are snack packages that Karan and Gaspard bought for Steve, plus a few extra high-end soft cushions that have been placed in the suitcase, and one is currently being sat on by Steve.
But when the snack flew toward him, Steve didn't reach out to catch it.
"I want a steak."
He was still staring straight at Karan.
"It's better to be seven mature."
I don't know where he got the appetite to eat such greasy food.
Karan raised his head and looked at the motionless magic tent.
Gaspard has been there for many hours, and now he doesn't seem to have any plans to do anything for him.
After taking a deep breath for the third time, Karan closed the book. He picked up his invisibility cloak, ignored the giggling Steve, and walked out of the dormitory silently.
The school kitchen was very close to the Hufflepuff common room, so the journey was smooth and no one noticed Callan under the cloak.
But there was something inexplicably lively in the kitchen tonight.
After skillfully opening the kitchen door, Karan saw at a glance that four people were already sitting at the long table corresponding to Gryffindor.
James, Sirius, Peter, and Remus, who looked a little uneasy. He didn't seem to be used to this kind of violation of school rules. When Karan just walked in, he heard him saying: "We should go back. If Mr. Filch gets caught..."
Callan only saw the disdain on the faces of James and Sirius, but did not hear what Remus said next.
As soon as he walked into the kitchen, the four people immediately stopped talking loudly. However, they did not express too much surprise at Karan's appearance. Instead, they immediately stared at him with some vigilance. Even Remus did not exception.
In fact, Remus's gaze was much stronger than that of the other three, and curiosity accounted for a larger proportion in it.
It seems that after experiencing the experience in the Shrieking Shack, Remus has learned a lot of things from the other three people, including Callan's superb talent for wandless magic.
At that time, Remus was still filled with guilt for having almost really hurt the three of them, but he was also extremely moved by their sincere acceptance of him.
This made him completely unresponsive when he first heard about it, thinking it was just a joke between James and Sirius to lighten the atmosphere.
Because at that time, he almost looked like he was about to cry, both because of guilt and because he was moved.
But after seeing the rare seriousness of the two of them, Remus's emotions immediately turned into shock.
Today's second-year students can master wandless magic in one year?
It was as unbelievable as if werewolves would be accepted, especially when these two things happened on the same day, Remus even began to wonder if last night's full moon night had only been a day.
Fortunately, Remus digested the information very well, and after seeing Karan suddenly appear in the kitchen, he immediately began to whisper to the other three people.
"You don't want to do anything in a place like this, do you? I advise you to put your wand away quickly. Simply violating the curfew is serious enough."
"Oops." James replied impatiently, "Why are you so long-winded?"
Remus subconsciously wanted to retort, but after opening his mouth, he finally said nothing.
After hearing what happened in the Forbidden Forest, he thought that it was completely unnecessary to continue the conflict.But in his eyes, each of the three people who accepted him was much more precious than Karan.
He was cautious in front of this friendship, and there was no way he would speak for Karan.
The previous words were the best he could possibly say.
After seeing Remus's appearance, Sirius patted him on the shoulder for no reason, and then he said calmly: "The choice of whether to take action or not is not in our hands."
Remus nodded silently, and he could only continue to stare at Karan warily like the other three.
He couldn't help but be vigilant. In the face of wandless magic, anything could happen.
But Karan didn't care about them at all.
"It's still the same."
He was facing Ramo, the house elf who came over diligently, and said, "Plus a steak for one person, which needs to be medium-rare."
Ramo bowed deeply and quickly made preparations.At the same time, another house elf brought a large strawberry pudding, which was part of the "old routine".
So, with three warning looks and a slightly flinching look, Karan started eating leisurely.
James and the four of them may have thought that this was the few times they had encountered Karan, but in fact, Karan had discovered them many times before this.
It's just that this kind of encounter is one-way, because even under the invisibility cloak, Karan has always been well hidden, especially when he is in Hogwarts Castle.
After the experience in the Shrieking Shack, Karan often wandered alone in the castle at night, and every few days he would encounter James and the others.
Remus's dissuasive voice from time to time was like an alarm bell, allowing Karan to find them more easily.
It's just that Karan didn't do this for simple fun, but for the item he obtained last semester.
The Marauder's Map is still blank.