Mysterious Walker at Hogwarts

Dean took the subway and arrived at King's Cross Station at 10:30, which was still half an hour before the train departed at [-]:[-].

There is a big plastic sign with the number 9 hanging on one platform, and a big plastic sign with the number 10 hanging on the other platform, but there is nothing in between.

Time was tight, so Dean decided to enter platform nine and three-quarters according to the method described in the original book.

Dean pushed his luggage towards the ticket gate and was pushed around by passengers rushing to platforms 9 and 10 along the way.

Dean quickened his pace and rushed directly to the ticket booth. Seeing that he was getting closer and closer to the railing, Dean's eyes widened and he was ready for impact. However, nothing happened. He just magically passed through. After passing the railing, we came to a platform crowded with passengers.

A dark red steam locomotive was parked next to the platform.The sign on the train read: Hogwarts Express, eleven o'clock.

Dean looked back and saw that the place where the ticket gate used to be was now a wrought iron archway with the words: Platform Nine and Three-Quarters.

Dean looked around and saw no sign of Ron or the Weasleys, nor any trace of Harry, the savior.

The thick smoke from the steam locomotive was lingering on the platform, seriously affecting Dean's sight; the buzzing voices of the crowd and the noise of hauling heavy luggage also made Dean, who was used to silence, feel his head explode.

Eager to get away from this noisy environment, Dean pushed his luggage to find the nearest boarding gate and boarded the train.

There were still many empty compartments on the train, and Dean found no trace of Ron, so he randomly found an empty compartment in the middle of the train and at the back.

As soon as Dean put his luggage away, the door of the box opened.

"I'm sorry, are you the only one here? Can you leave a seat for me? Grandma brought me too much luggage." A boy with a round face asked, struggling to hold the heavy luggage.

Dean shrugged: "Of course, no problem. Do you need my help?"

"Thank you so much. My name is Neville, Neville Longbottom." The round-faced boy said happily.

Neville?Dean paused slightly as he reached out to take Neville's luggage. It was a famous person again. What a coincidence.

"Dean Thomas, nice to meet you." Dean introduced himself after skillfully putting away Neville's luggage.

"You have helped me a lot." Neville sat down by the window, opened the window and greeted a scary-looking old witch outside.

"This is my grandma." Neville did not forget to introduce to Dean.

Dean smiled stiffly and nodded to Mrs. Longbottom. She was wearing a green robe, moth-eaten fox fur, a pointed hat decorated with a stuffed vulture, and a huge scarlet handbag dangling in her hand. .

"Oh, little Neville, I'm so happy for you to see you making a friend so quickly." Mrs. Longbottom wiped the tears from her eyes.

"Don't be like this, grandma..." Neville said cowardly.

"Neville, there's still a little time before we leave the car. You get down first and I have something to tell you." After Mrs. Longbottom finished speaking, she walked towards the boarding gate without any objection from Neville.

"Hey, Dean, don't be offended, my grandma is like this." Neville smiled apologetically at Dean and opened the door of the box.

However, before he could go out, he bumped into several teenagers at the door.

"Be careful, you should look at the road before you come out!" A pale blond boy raised his chin and warned fiercely.

"Yes, I'm sorry." Neville apologized quickly.

"Guys, this box looks good." The blond boy ignored Neville and said to the two short and fat boys behind him.

"Of course, your choice is always the right one, Malfoy." One of the boys said flatteringly.

Dean's eyes narrowed slightly. It turned out that this blond boy was the "famous" Malfoy, and he looked very ordinary.

Another boy said arrogantly to Dean and Neville, "Did you two hear, this box has been commandeered by Mr. Malfoy? Take your luggage and get out!"

"Well said, Crabbe - are you two deaf?" After Malfoy praised him, he couldn't help but feel a little annoyed when he saw that Dean and Neville didn't move.

Neville shrank back in fear.

"It seems that we settled down in this box first." Dean frowned. Even if the mission was not triggered, he had no intention of backing down.

"Boy, please understand, there are three of us and you only have two!" Malfoy walked into the box with his two followers and threatened, "So we need this box more than you do."

"What? Do you want to win with more?" Dean raised his eyebrows, moved his body, and looked at the other person's thin body with disdain. How dare you challenge him like this?

"Crabbe, Goyle, come on! Show him how powerful he is!" Malfoy took a cunning step back, leaving space for the two followers.

Just as a one-sided crushing battle was about to begin, another voice came from outside the door, rescuing Crabbe and Goyle.

"I'm sorry, is there any room available..." A boy with light brown hair poked his head half out of the door, but was startled by the tense atmosphere in the box.

Judging from the large and small bags of luggage in his hand, there is no doubt that he is also a student looking for a box.

"Of course!" Dean had quick hands and quick eyes. Before he could flinch, he dragged him into the box, put his arms around his and Neville's shoulders and said to the three Malfoys: "Now we are three of us too!"

Dean felt that if he could reason with each other, there would be no need to make the relationship so tense from the beginning. Who knows if the system would issue tasks related to Malfoy and others?

Malfoy caught a glimpse of a senior student just passing by the door of the box, and wisely chose to give in: "In that case, I will give this box to you for the time being, and we will see!"

"What about Dean? That's Draco Malfoy. His family is very powerful in the wizarding world." Neville said worriedly.

"The Malfoy family may not be able to cover the sky with one hand." Before Dean could say anything, the boy who was forced into the box sneered, "Hello, I am Seamus Finnigan!"

Dean had to sigh, sometimes fate is so wonderful, Seamus, who would become his best friend in the original novel, appeared in front of him unexpectedly.

"Oops, my Leif is missing!" Neville exclaimed at this time.

"Leifu?" Seamus was a little confused.

"My pet toad. I have to ask grandma if she forgot her at home." Neville said this and left in a hurry.

"Is he okay alone?" Seamus asked a little worriedly. Malfoy and the others didn't seem to have gone far, but found a box nearby.

"It doesn't matter, Mrs. Longbottom is never easy to mess with. If Malfoy dares to bully Neville in front of her, hehe~" Dean was not too worried.

He noticed that Mrs. Longbottom had not seen Neville after waiting for a long time, and had already taken the initiative to get on the train and come this way.

Dean suspected that Neville had forgotten that Mrs. Longbottom had just asked him to get out of the car first.