Snakes at Hogwarts

The compartments on the Hogwarts Express are not completely enclosed. In fact, the area above the waist of a normal person on one side of the compartment door is covered with transparent glass panels.

This not only makes it easier for the little wizards to find their friends, but also facilitates the patrols of the prefects.

They can detect disturbances in cubicles immediately and stop them.

"Is this your new friend?"

After saying hello to Hermione and sitting next to the girl, Andros looked at the two people opposite with interest.

By this time, he was becoming more and more certain that one of the two girls opposite him was the savior's first love girlfriend in the original novel, Qiu Zhang.

In addition to her iconic Asian face, she also has long, waterfall-like black hair.

These are very consistent with the description of her character in the original work.

As for appearance, I can only say that each has his or her own preferences. The savior Potter may prefer a girl like this, while Andros prefers a face like Penelo or an adult Hermione.

"Ah~I~I'm about to introduce you. This is Qiu Zhang. She is one year older than us and is now a member of the Ravenclaw team. Ender, you may not know. Her flying skills are amazing.”

"This is Marietta Ike, Qiu's good friend and a sophomore in our college." As a go-between who knows both parties, the girl took the initiative to explain.

"Don't listen to Hermione's nonsense, I'm just a substitute golfer now." Hearing such praise, a shy smile flashed across Qiu's face.

"You must be Andros Lobach, the little wizard who dared to tease Professor Snape."

In contrast, the girl named Marietta was much more familiar, and she took the initiative to chat with Andros.

If I remember correctly, this should be Qiu's best friend. Later, she was dragged to join Dumbledore's Army organized by Harry. As a result, she was cursed by Hermione because of the whistleblower, and her face was covered with dense purple pustules. The one who became the "whistleblower".

Andros couldn't help but glance at her, and then imagined in his mind what it would look like when it was covered with purple pustules.

It is almost impossible to restore such a vicious curse.

Even the healers at St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Maladies were helpless.

I hope that in this world, she will never become that miserable again.

If only she and her good sisters could stay away from the Savior.

....

"Almost everyone who just met me will talk about this, but what I have to explain is that it was actually just a misunderstanding." Andros recovered his thoughts and showed a friendly smile.

"I didn't mean to target our dean."

"I also heard that you once subdued a giant monster?" Qiu Ye asked curiously.

In the past few months since school started, the story they heard most was not the story of Harry the Savior, but the little wizard named Andros.

He makes big news almost every once in a while.

"It just broke its eyes. I was lying in the school hospital for more than a week because of this. You have no idea how cruel Madam Pomfrey is."

"Cruel?"

"Yes, unless there is nothing wrong with you, otherwise don't think about going out after entering the school hospital. She will check you carefully and responsibly before releasing you from the hospital. come out."

The faintly frightened expression on Andros's face and his rather humorous words quickly brought the two of them closer together. They were also very similar in age, so it was not surprising that they had many topics in common.

After opening the conversation, he soon learned that Qiu Chang was a mixed-race wizard. Her mother and Marietta's mother were good sisters when they entered Hogwarts.

After graduation, they also worked together at the Ministry of Magic and were considered very good friends and colleagues.

The two Ravenclaw eaglets were also amazed by Andros's erudition which was not inferior to that of Ravenclaw.

Just kidding, those books of his are not for nothing.

If we really want to talk about spells, maybe Andros knows more now than the two of them combined.

But if he really wanted to fight, those familiar sets of spells would be the easiest to use.

Especially the Living Rope Curse, which is the spell that Andros is most proficient in, but it's just not convenient to show it to the people here.

...

Andros did not linger in the box.

It was not for any other reason, but mainly because he was so anxious to find Hermione that he forgot to go to the toilet to feed Ivar.

This made the hungry little snake quite unhappy after waking up again. It had protested many times in Andros's mind.

Aren’t snakes able to survive for a long time with just one meal?

I really don’t know why it is so edible. Could it be that its stomach is connected to another world?

...

When Andros returned to his original cubicle, it was getting dark outside. There was no way around it. The daylight hours in the Scottish Highlands were so short in winter.

It is said that if you are lucky, you can still see the aurora here, but you have to go further north.

"Say, does it take so long to go to the bathroom?" Pansy asked suspiciously, looking at Andros who said nothing after coming in.

"That's right, you must have fallen, right?" Zabini's face was also full of teasing.

"I was just talking to Draco about whether I should go to the bathroom and fish you out!"

"What on earth did you do?"

"I'm constipated! Can't you? Really, what a fuss."

...

There seemed to be nothing worth describing in the following time. When the scarlet train finally drove into platform nine and three-quarters, the sky was completely dark.

The students also stood up, packed their luggage, and then walked out of their respective compartments, rushing towards the connection between the carriages in a mess.

Andros was naturally one of them. He had already changed into thick winter clothes, which even aroused the admiration of the few children around him who had never seen the world and grew up in the magical world.

In their opinion, the style of these clothes is too strange, just like the reaction of Muggles after seeing robes.

Finally, when his feet stepped on the solid platform again, Andros took a deep dive lazily. The surrounding platforms seemed both strange and familiar.

After saying goodbye to these familiar little snakes one by one, he squeezed through the exit to the Muggle world.

Unlike these wizarding families, Andros needed to take another exit back to the Muggle world.

It took him quite a while, because there was a wizened old guard at the exit.

This skinny old man with no flesh at all allowed only two or three people to pass at a time, so as to prevent a large number of people from bursting out of the solid wall at the same time and attracting the attention of Muggles.

But, won't they open a few more exits?

Forget it, those bureaucrats in the Ministry of Magic probably don't take much care of Muggle students.

When Andros finally returned to King's Cross station outside, Hermione had been waiting for a long time. Next to the girl was the Grangers who had not seen them for a long time.

They had originally agreed to go back together, and Mr. Granger would drive Andros to the Leaky Cauldron.

"What took you so long" Hermione asked.

"Say goodbye to those guys, and then wait in line for a long time at the old guard." Andros explained succinctly.

"Okay kids, it's getting late, let's hurry up and go back."