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As soon as he opened the door, the old raccoon came over and looked at him for a while with its head tilted.
"Dad, why do I feel like Tom has gained weight again?" Kyle frowned.
Tom now looked like a walking carpet, crawling all over the place.
But Kyle forgot that catkins are a kind of very smart magical animal. The most intuitive manifestation is that they can understand what wizards say.
Then Kyle felt his foot being run over by something.
"There's nothing we can do about it," Chris said helplessly. "You haven't been home for the past few years, and we've been busy with work, so we don't have time to take care of it."
"Shouldn't it be getting thinner?" Kyle didn't understand.
"It finds its own food," Chris said. "No matter where I hide the jerky, it always finds it and eats it all... It's also catching almost all the birds in the nearby woods."
"It can catch birds like this...oh!"
Kyle felt his foot being pressed again.
"It's easy," Chris said. "No matter what, it's still a Kneazle. Besides, its fur has grown longer, so it doesn't look that fat."
While speaking, Chris had already taken off his coat and placed it on the hanger beside him.
The Bowtruckle that Kyle had been carrying with him also crawled out of his chest pocket and jumped onto a potted plant next to the stairs.
Kyle also raised this Bowtruckle since it was a child. Because of its small size, it would not be discovered even if it was brought to school.
"When are you going to France?" Chris asked.
"Tomorrow."
"Are you so anxious?"
"If I have something else to do, I can go a few days later."
"No, it's okay." Chris said, "But you have to promise me that when you get there, you must always bring Phoenix with you. If you find something wrong, run away immediately. Don't hesitate."
"Don't worry, I know what to do."
The two chatted for a few more words, and then Chris sent Kyle back to the bedroom on the second floor.
Although I hadn't been back for a long time, the room was still clean and there was no dust at all.
Kyle lay down on the bed and soon fell asleep.
This went on until the next day.
When Kyle got up and came downstairs, Chris had already gone to the Ministry of Magic.
He found some toast and ham slices to make a simple sandwich, and got a handful of straw cloak for Fawkes.
This herb is one of Fox's favorite foods and is the main ingredient for making Bafe's Brain Refresher and Vitality Potion. It is more expensive than Mandrake.
But this is a cross-border trip after all, and Fox has helped him a lot before, so he should be generous this time.
After Fox had eaten his fill, Kyle stroked the feathers on his tail.
"please."
Fox, who had just had a big meal, naturally had no objection. He spread his wings and grabbed Kyle's shoulders.
……
Maybe it was because the journey was too long, but Kyle felt like the dizziness lasted longer this time than before.
Even Kyle, who had gradually become accustomed to Phoenix's way of traveling, found it a bit too much.
Suddenly, Kyle felt his feet were standing on solid ground again, and he could hear the buzzing sound in his ears again.
It was really a buzzing sound because he couldn't understand the words.
Kyle took a long time to calm down before slowly opening his eyes.
At this time he had already appeared in a small alley on the street of Paris, France, with a busy street not far ahead.
The street was full of pedestrians coming and going, and no one noticed him as a sudden and uninvited guest.
As Kyle walked from the alley to the main street, he suddenly realized that he seemed a little careless.
He doesn't know the way.
This was normal, after all, it was his first time in France... Well, it was his second time, but last time Nico gave him a direct ticket, so he didn't need to find the way and could reach his destination directly.
But this time it was different. Although Fox could Apparate, it didn't know the exact address. Even if Kyle told it, it didn't know how to get there, so the place where they appeared was almost purely random.
This is awkward.
What's even more embarrassing is that Kyle's French is not very good. He learned it for a while during the Triwizard Tournament, but when he got here he found that it was not enough because he couldn't even say the name of the address in French.
This meant that he couldn't even ask for directions.
"Should we use magic?" Kyle hesitated.
He didn't know the French Ministry of Magic and was not sure whether the Aurors here would notice if he used magic rashly.
But he couldn't go back without magic.
Just when Kyle was in a dilemma, there was suddenly some movement in the alley he had just come out of.
A man staggered out from the other end. He seemed to have been drinking all night in the bar and could only barely stay sober.
"There is a way." Kyle immediately turned back and blocked the man with his body.
"Excuse me, where is the triangular building?" he asked in very slow French.
"Well, get out of here..." The man raised his head in a daze and seemed to curse.
But the next second, his eyes widened and he sobered up a lot.
He saw a... leopard, almost as tall as a human?
It should be a leopard, but how can a leopard have six legs?
"Hello, where is the triangular building?"
Kyle asked the question again.
At the same time, the other party also came back to his senses.
He did not answer Kyle's question. It took his numb brain two full seconds to remind him that he should scream.
But as soon as he opened his mouth, he saw the leopard's eyes turned from orange to purple.
What a charming color, just like his favorite aged wine.
Confusedly, the man felt as if he was soaking in a huge wine glass, but how could there be such a big wine glass? He must be dreaming, just like the six-legged leopard he had just seen.
Wait, how many legs does a leopard have?
"thump……"
Accompanied by the pain brought by the collision, the man suddenly woke up.
He found himself lying on the ground, with a group of people around him pointing at him.
"Oh, how did I fall asleep here?" He patted his head. "What a shame, damn Biddy, I will never drink with him for so long again."
He quickly stood up, covered his face, and walked out of the alley quickly as if nothing had happened. He seemed to have completely forgotten what had just happened... or he treated it as a dream and subconsciously ignored it.
……
(End of this chapter)
Chapter 813 Reunion after a long absence
As the country of one of the three major magic schools in Europe, the home of Beauxbatons, and the hometown of the famous alchemist Nicolas Flamel, France is also very famous in the wizarding world.
Although their popularity and reputation are not as loud as Britain's, there is one thing... The French Minister of Magic can proudly say at a diplomatic conference that their country has not produced any notorious dark wizards in recent centuries, and their reputation is many times better than Britain's.
Seventy years ago, Grindelwald suddenly came here and held a mobilization meeting, which broke the peace in France that had lasted for centuries.
But that was only that time. After Grindelwald, there has been peace here, which also makes the French wizards seem more leisurely than the British.
In the middle of Place Furstenberg in Paris, there is a peculiarly shaped building. From the outside, it looks like an arrow pointing to the left, or a vertical triangle.
Its unique shape has attracted a lot of people's attention, and it is considered a nearby tourist attraction. However, most people don't know that this building is even more famous in the wizarding world.
Because this is the famous French Ministry of Magic, and it is also Kyle's destination.
Although the drunk Muggle did not answer Kyle's question, the answer had already appeared in his mind when he heard the question.
So Kyle didn't need to answer. Cat Leopard saw it very clearly, including the specific location here and the city's route map.
Fortunately, Kyle was not far from Furstenberg Square at the time, just a few streets away, and could be reached in half an hour.
At eight o'clock, Kyle looked at the huge glass door in front of him, straightened his clothes, and walked over calmly.
He ignored the security guard and the open door and came to a fountain in front of the building.
There are two statues here. Kyle thought for a while and chose the Pegasus statue on the left. When he walked over, the Pegasus' wings lifted up, revealing a passage.
As soon as I took a step inside, the scene before my eyes instantly changed to a different one.
The bustling streets and tall buildings disappeared, replaced by peculiarly shaped buildings. The clothes of passers-by also changed from suits, long skirts, and fashionable shirts to the unique robes of wizards.
Diagon Alley, France.
Of course, this place is definitely not called Diagon Alley, but the meaning is the same. It is a shopping street that only wizards can enter.
"Fortunately, I didn't make the wrong choice." Kyle breathed a sigh of relief. He remembered that Fleur said there were two entrances here, one of which was here, and the other led to the Ministry of Magic. If he accidentally went to the wrong one, he might have to explain to the Aurors why he was here.
Fortunately, his memory is still good.
Kyle continued walking forward, looking curiously at the shops on the French side.
To the left of the entrance was a large candy shop, at least five times larger than Honeydukes. It was filled with all kinds of candies, all styles Kyle had never seen before, and more than half of them were chocolates.
Probably because school has started in Beauxbatons, there aren't many people in the store.
Opposite the candy store...it should be a stationery store. Although Kyle couldn't understand the French signs written in special cursive script, he knew quill pens and parchment, so he didn't need to recognize the signs.
Further ahead are the broomstick shops, pet shops, bookstores, souvenir shops, second-hand shops, and the most conspicuous building in the middle of the street, the Gringotts Wizarding Bank, built of white marble.
The types of shops here are similar to those in Diagon Alley, but the styles are completely different.
Diagon Alley continues the traditional style that has remained unchanged for hundreds of years. Those buildings are from the last century... or even earlier, and they would not look out of place no matter which era they are placed in.