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"Dobby..." He stopped at the Defense Against the Dark Arts product area, interrupting the chattering house elf. "Why are you here? Did Fred and George hire you?"
"No, Dobby is here to help." The elf shook his big ears. "In September, Dobby will go back to his previous place of work. Dobby likes it there better."
"Where did you work before? What was it?" Harry asked casually as he looked at a small dummy holding a bomb on the shelf.
"Dobby can't tell."
Almost out of reflex, Harry quickly turned to look at Dobby.
Because he has learned that revealing the master's secrets is absolutely forbidden for house elves. When they have this idea, even if it is just a little thought, they will immediately punish themselves.
When he first met Dobby in second year, the house elf had done this often.
But what Harry didn't expect was that Dobby did nothing this time, just stood there calmly.
This means that he really doesn't want to say it, not that he can't say it.
Harry breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that Dobby had really found a job that he liked.
"Pretty good," Harry said with a smile.
"I want to buy this." He pointed to the little man on the shelf, "How much does it cost?"
"The decoy bomb can make a lot of noise, two Galleons." Dobby blurted out: "But if it is Mr. Harry Potter, it only needs one Galleung, and Dobby can only offer so much discount. "
"What about this one?" Harry looked at another glass marble, which was filled with white mist and looked like a miniature prophecy ball.
"The smoke ball can quickly generate a cloud of fog, Shixico." Dobby said.
"I want it." Harry immediately took out his wallet.
In the last event of the Triwizard Tournament, when he was caught next to Voldemort, Kyle had used something similar to cover the entire mountain with fog. It was not too convenient.
But he didn't expect it to be so cheap.
"Wait." At this time, Kyle came from behind and explained:
"Actually, this is not the large-scale mist orb you have seen before, but one imitated by me. To be honest, the effect is not bad at all."
"It doesn't matter." Harry thought for a while and said nonchalantly: "In the worst case, I'll just use a few more."
He grabbed a handful of gold coins and gave them to Dobby, "I want all of these!"
(End of this chapter)
Chapter 714 Kangna without taking the train
I have to admit that Fred and George are very talented at emptying other people's wallets. At least when Harry walked out of the Weasley Joke Shop, he only had a few things left in his wallet. Galleons.
If it weren't for the expense of staying in school, he might not even want to let go of the remaining galleons.
Mainly because the joke items are so interesting, and the Defense Against the Dark Arts-related items each look very practical.
In addition, Harry hadn't gone out for more than a month, so he subconsciously just bought and bought. Before he knew it, his wallet was empty, and the jingling Galleons turned into various magical items. .
Harry was quite happy about this.
During the last week of the holiday, he and Ron had been playing with the gadgets they had bought, and Hermione once accidentally mistook the cup they bought for a tea cup, causing her teeth to be dyed blue.
Hermione's front teeth were already a little prominent, but they became more prominent after they turned blue. She was so angry that she didn't talk to Harry for several days.
It wasn't until Fred and George got back the fading potion and Harry swore repeatedly that he really forgot to take it and didn't put 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 quickly."
At the end of August, Kyle looked at Harry and Ron who were busy writing and said with a smile: "School starts tomorrow. If you can't finish writing tonight, don't even think about sleeping tomorrow night."
Harry and Ron didn't speak. In fact, they had no time to care about anything else except homework.
Who would have thought that after they stayed here for two months, their homework didn't move at all.
"Stop making sarcastic remarks, who hasn't made up homework a few times at Hogwarts?" Charlie on the side teased, thinking that back then, he was also a member of the team to make up homework.
"But Kyle..." he said, "I don't think I've ever seen you do your homework. Did you finish it before you came here?"
"No." Kyle said calmly, "I didn't write it either."
Hearing this, Harry and Ron raised their heads almost at the same time, and then moved aside in tacit agreement to make room.
"You write your own, don't worry about me." Kyle waved his hand, "Because I have to be busy with the Ministry of Magic, I don't need to do my homework. The professor has specially approved it."
"You don't have to do homework?" Ron's eyes turned red with envy.
No one had ever told him that joining the Ministry of Magic would provide such benefits. If he had known this was the case, he should have submitted an application in the first place.
……
The next morning, Harry and Ron got into the car with dark circles under their eyes, and even slept in the car.
It wasn't until the car stopped at the door of King's Cross Station that Sirius shook them awake.
"Hurry up, there are too many people here, we have to get through the wall as soon as possible." Sirius and Mr. Weasley stood on both sides of them with serious expressions.
Judging from his expression, it was as if Death Eaters had been ambushing the station, ready to kill Harry's Death Eaters at any moment.
But in fact, they encountered no problems along the way and passed through the retaining wall smoothly and arrived at platform 9.
There are still as many people here as ever, and the steam from the red Hogwarts Express floats over the crowd.
Seconds later, Kyle, Cedric, Fred and George came in as well.
"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 a fool like you would want to go to school." Fred also glanced at the train, "Now is the best, no classes or homework."
"It would be better if you don't have to go to the Ministry of Magic." George said quietly beside him.
It was clearly agreed before that by the end of August, they could resign and go back to running the joke shop.
But now Hogwarts has started school, but they still want 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 plans. 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 abandoned 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's face looked a little ugly, and he said in a sinister tone: "Looking at his stupid look, others may think it's because his tongue is cramped."
"Sometimes I really want to stuff his mouth full of sour exploding candies." George said with a look of disgust.
"Oh, and you too." He looked at Kyle again, "I guess you must be waiting for Kanna, right."
"Since you guessed it, why do you still ask me?" Kyle raised his eyebrows.
This move made the two of them furious again.
"Listen." Fred put his arm around Kyle's shoulders maliciously, "This Christmas, you will definitely receive a box full of sour exploding candies."
"Do you think I will eat the food you send?" Kyle glanced at him and said disdainfully.
"Then let's go to Hogwarts..."
"Put candy in your mouth."
"I'll wait." Kyle didn't like them at all, "Just don't dare to come when the time comes."
Another ten minutes passed, but Connor did not appear. Fred and George looked a little gloating.
There was a whistle behind me. Almost everyone was on the train and some people were 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.