The Lonely Dragon of Hogwarts

John looked at Hermione in surprise.

In his impression, Hermione was not that easy to get along with.

But today, the other party showed extraordinary kindness.

Could it be that last night's incident really had such a great impact on Hermione that her terrible personality had fundamentally changed?

John didn't understand.

But he still accepted Hermione's invitation.

John was not an unkind person, and since others were the first to express kindness, he didn't mind making friends with Hermione.

Moreover, visiting Hagrid was originally part of his itinerary.

The three of them immediately set off towards the outside of Hogwarts Castle.

Along the way, Hermione still didn't give up her plan to break the ice with a common language, and kept chattering about the 'interesting' content in various books.

She seemed very excited, spoke very fast, and her thoughts were very fast.

Obviously the previous sentence was still talking about the historical content in "Hogwarts: A History of the School", but the next sentence shifted to conjectures about the principles of changes in the properties of objects during transfiguration.

This left John speechless.

The main reason is that Hermione has an authentic Cockney accent.

John, on the other hand, comes from Jersey, which is so remote that he almost went to France. Although he speaks English instead of French, his accent is very different from the Cockney accent.

This difference in accent does not affect daily communication, but nowadays, Hermione speaks too fast!

John couldn't understand much of what she said.

John could only respond with a perfunctory "Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah."

This made the chat between him and Hermione about 'common topics' very awkward, to the point where others could dig their toes out of the entire room.

But even in this awkward conversation, Hermione's face lit up and she was extremely happy.

After all, in her life of more than ten years, there were only a handful of times when she had such "equal" and "harmonious" conversations with peers about learning and knowledge as she did today.

This had never happened to her since she arrived at Hogwarts, and she was almost going crazy.

So rather than saying that she wanted to please John with a 'common topic', it would be better to say that she was simply expressing her desire to talk and socialize.

Even if John didn't speak, Hermione would still be happy just listening.

"Phew! Okay! We're here!"

Hermione finally ended the topic about the role of gastrodia elata as the main ingredient of sedatives in the refining process. She pointed to the hut in front of her and said, "This is Hagrid's hut. I don't know where he is." not at home."

As she spoke, Hermione stepped forward to knock on the door, and at the same time rubbed her little face - the conversation just now made her cheeks hot with excitement.

Then a series of dog barks sounded from inside the door.

"That's a hound owned by Hagrid. His name is Yaya. It looks a little scary, but don't worry, it's very kind and never bites. Yaya just likes to knock guests down and lick them. It may feel that this way it can express its welcome and affection to its guests.”

Hermione turned to John and Michelle and explained.

The smile on her face was a little stiff when she spoke, because in fact, her relationship with Hagrid was not that good, and they had only met a few times under Harry's introduction.

Fortunately, Hagrid had not forgotten Hermione. As the door of the hut opened, Hagrid immediately called out Hermione's name.

"Hermione!? Hmm! Are you here to visit me? What a surprise!"

While Hagrid was speaking, a huge black hound trapped in the crook of his legs broke free and rushed straight towards John and the others.

"Wow! Fix the hook!"

Michelle's eyes lit up, she yelled and rushed forward, directly pressing the hound under her, rubbing, rubbing, and rubbing.

This made the hound named Yaya confused.

It always knocks people down, then licks their faces and flicks its tail as a sign of goodwill. Why is it the other way around today?

Its strong self-esteem as a Xiu Gou drove it to get up.

However, Michelle's strength was surprisingly strong. She suppressed Yaya tightly and continued to rub against her, as if she was holding an oversized doll.

Finally, Yaya surrendered.

It exposed its belly in cooperation, stuck out its tongue, and swept its tail around on the ground, continuing to express its goodwill.

Hagrid, who originally wanted to step forward to stop Fang, breathed a sigh of relief.

It was also at this time that he noticed that the people following Hermione this time were not Harry and Ron.

"You are……"

Hagrid frowned and thought. Hermione was about to start introducing him immediately, but before she could say anything, Hagrid said excitedly, "Ha! You are the two brothers and sisters from the Leaky Cauldron, right? Harry told me a lot about you. This time, you always take good care of him! Come in! Come in!"

"Then, excuse me."

John was not polite and took the lead directly into Hagrid's hut.

There is only one room here, with a copper kettle boiling water in a brazier, and a large bed in the corner. The bedding on it is made of broken pieces. The overall look is very shabby and filthy.

Fortunately, it is winter now. If it were summer, there would still be an indescribable strange smell permeating the cabin.

"You're welcome! Find a place to sit wherever you like!"

As Hagrid spoke, he happily took out a pile of rock biscuits and poured boiling water for John and others.

That's what it says.

But Hermione was the only one who actually sat down.

Michelle was excitedly running around the hut with Yaya. From the bed to the bench, everything here was basically several sizes larger than what she used daily, which made her feel very novel.

John's attention was focused on the walls and ceiling.

There were a lot of hams, pheasants, wild vegetables and other things hanging there, as well as some whole animal hides and some decorative animal specimens.

On the surface, it looks like an ordinary hunting lodge.

But John saw something unusual.

For example, among those dry 'wild vegetables', there are various magical herbs such as lovage grass, black root grass, fragrant mallow, jumping toadstool, aconite root and so on.

Then, John found things like unicorn tail hair and fairy wings in the corner of the cabin.

This shocked John.

You must know that there are many things in this, even if they are placed in Diagon Alley and Hogsmeade Village, they are high-quality materials that need to be carefully stored by shop owners in preparation for selling them at a high price.

Especially the unicorn tail hair.

This thing is a material for making wands. It is usually sold by the root, and one can be sold for 10 Galleons (the Ministry of Magic subsidizes young wizards to buy their first wand, so the price of newborn wands has been reduced to 7 Galleons. ).

Now, Hagrid has a full bundle here!

And these things are placed randomly like garbage here in Hagrid.

John took a deep breath and finally regained his attention.

At this moment, the way he looked at Hagrid had completely changed.

This is not a slovenly gamekeeper, this is clearly a rich man!