I was Hermione's puppy at Hogwarts

vCompared with castles built at the same time, Hogwarts Castle is much more majestic.In fact, considering that most castles in the early Middle Ages were made of earthen wood, Hogwarts, an all-stone castle nestled against mountains and rivers, is even more of a wonder.

Not considering the series of protective facilities outside the castle, Hogwarts Castle has eight floors and five towers.The wolf cub and Mrs. Norris are going from the principal's office on the eighth floor to the west tower, where there is the "post office" of Hogwarts and the owl shed.

Hogwarts is a boarding school for magic. The students are isolated from the outside world. In order for them to grow up healthily, the school must of course provide cheap, stable and reliable channels of communication with the outside world - the kind that locks up students and also Schools that restrict communication between them and their families should not exist in this world.A large number of cheap owls are the choice that Hogwarts provides to young wizards, because not every student will choose to bring an owl to school.

Although animals like owls look stupid, they still have the word "eagle" in their names. Just like giant pandas, they look cute on weekdays, but when it comes to fighting, few wild animals can beat them. of.Using such a creature at the top of the food chain to deliver letters can be said to be fast and stable. It is indeed the best choice for delivering letters.

The key is that the Hogwarts owls are almost free for teachers and students to use.You only need to give them a copper nut to ask them to send you a letter once!This copper nut is also used to buy food for the owl postmen, so if you take a chicken leg from the table during lunch, you can also ask the owl to deliver the letter for you. This is one of the hidden benefits of Hogwarts.

Filch led Lovell through the corridors and finally via a narrow spiral staircase from the base of the west tower to the battlements at the top of the tower.In the distant Middle Ages, this was the watchtower of the castle and the "fort" of the castle defender. From here, the defender could shoot at the enemy from multiple angles, commanding a higher position, having a greater range, and eliminating the view of the city wall. Blind spots.

However, with the passage of time, the facilities used to defend against foreign enemies in ancient times have been converted into owls' sheds, and the smell of owl droppings can be smelled from dozens of meters away.

"...Standing up here, you can clearly see the entire Hogwarts Castle, the surrounding Forbidden Forest, and the Black Lake." Filch climbed the stairs while panting, while not forgetting to say something to Luo. Foer introduces the history and function of Hogwarts' West Tower.

Lovell didn't listen at all to what Filch was saying. He was already exhausted just climbing the stairs, so how could he still bother to listen to a historical story about the tower?To make matters worse, the stench emitted by the birds coming together in the air became more and more obvious.Mrs. Norris next to her looked like she was used to it, and she seemed to accompany Filch everywhere.

After one person and two animals worked hard to reach the top, they were greeted by a circular stone room.Since there was no glass on the windows of the room, it was very cold inside and there was a draft.Fortunately, the wind took away the stench from the straw and owl droppings, otherwise Lovell would have fainted if they met him.

The room is filled with criss-crossing perch branches, with hundreds of owls of all species perched on them.

Seeing humans coming in, the owls seemed not surprised. They just glanced at them and looked away, continuing their work.Only a few owls who were eager to take over the work became interested in Filch and moved closer to the door.

There was a layer of straw on the floor of the owl loft, and there was a lot of excrement and various bones spitted out by the owl on the grass.

The wolf cub looked at the hollow skulls and stopped silently outside the door.It raised its head and took a look at the owl shed, and sighed sincerely: There are so many birds here!

"You can't eat these birds, they are school assets." Seeing that Lovell seemed to be interested in these owls, Filch quickly warned him.

Lovell glanced at Filch and didn't bother to talk to him.It thought to itself: Am I crazy to provoke them?Mr. Filch, please wake up and look at the size difference between us. Who is hunting whom? !You are the faculty and staff of the school, so the owls will give you face by hurting your fingers at most. But I am different. In the eyes of the owls, there is no difference between me and the wild animals in the Forbidden Forest.If he really violated owl territory, he would probably be caught and turned into a pile of minced meat in minutes.

Filch didn't see those gleaming claws, but the wolf cub could see them clearly.It is very aware of the lethality of these birds, and can easily disembowel them with one paw.When it wandered in the Forbidden Forest, it had often been robbed of prey by these owls.

Finally, Filch chose a barn owl, and in his haste he almost slipped on the guano on the ground.

The owl landed beside him, waiting for Filch to tie the letter to its leg.

Filch also took out a crumpled piece of paper and a quill with almost all of its hairs out of his pocket. He put it in front of Lovell and looked at it eagerly, waiting for it to be given to Granger. Sir, write a letter.

Lovell:? ? ?

(?_??)

Filch: ?

Both sides stared at each other, looking at a loss.

"Write?"

"What are you writing?" The wolf cub blinked. It is a wolf. How can a wolf know how to write? !With its talent for proficiency in various languages, it is not difficult to read words, but it is extremely difficult to write them.

Filch fell silent.

Well, he was so ill-considered that he was crazy enough to want a wolf to write a letter.

But it’s not a big problem, he can just do the writing.

So one person and one wolf sat next to each other, lying together by the window, writing letters in the cold wind.The wolf said something, the man wrote something on the letter, and from time to time Filch would dip his quill into a dirty ink bottle to replenish the ink.

Although Filch is ugly and his pen, paper and ink are old, his handwriting is surprisingly neat.

"Isn't this thing too difficult to use?" The wolf cub looked at the "time-tested" quill pen and frowned, "Why do you insist on using this kind of pen?"

It had a hard time understanding Filch's train of thought, and it didn't understand why he used a pen that required dipping in ink to write just a few words.

Filch scratched his head. He couldn't explain why, but everyone around him used this kind of pen, so he followed suit.

"Okay." Seeing that Filch couldn't answer, Lovell didn't continue to struggle with this issue. In the future, he would get some pens from Granger's house to open his eyes.

When the letter was finished, the wolf cub squeezed next to Filch, put his front paw into the ink bottle, dipped a little ink, and then left a small paw print at the end of the letter.

This is the signature of the wolf cub.

The wolf cub who finished covering his paw prints looked at the little black "plum blossom", his face a little red: paw prints are very private things for wolves.To compare it to humans, it's like attaching a photo of yourself without clothes to a letter.In other words, the recipient of the letter was Hermione, so Lovell would leave a paw print of his own, otherwise it would be absolutely impossible.

Filch stuffed the "stamped" letter into the envelope, tied it to the owl's leg, and sent it off.

Looking at the owl that gradually turned into a small black dot, Filch had a Qiji expression on his face, and he sincerely hoped to receive good news.

"Can that big bird really deliver the letter to Hermione?" Lovell didn't trust these stupid-looking owls.These guys look dumb. I wonder if their round heads can understand what they mean?

Of course, there is another reason for being so unconfident...

That is, Lovell itself does not know the specific address of Hermione's home. It only knows that her home is in the suburbs of London, and other information is unclear.

"Of course, as long as you give the name of the recipient, the owl will deliver the letter to them accurately." Filch said with certainty: "In all these years, there has never been an owl delivering the wrong letter. Condition."

Strange abilities, is this magic?Anyway, Lovell couldn't understand how these big birds could find people with just one name. Aren't they afraid of the same name?

……

Hermione lay on the bed with eyes blank: the first day the wolf cub was taken away, she missed it.

She had just come back from school and lay down on the bed without changing her clothes.Unlike other students, in addition to normal classes, Hermione also has to learn a lot of knowledge so that she can become an excellent student like her parents, go to a real school, and get a decent enough job when she grows up. work.

At first she didn't think there was anything wrong with this, but after seeing the wolf cub, she had a little doubt about her lifestyle: she was going to become a witch in the future, so what was the point of learning all this non-magical knowledge every day? significance?

After staring at the ceiling for a while, Hermione turned over, took a popular science magazine from the bed and started reading.

The magazine talked about the human geography of various countries. Hermione must have read it with interest in the past, but today her attention was obviously not on the magazine.

She lay on the bed, flipping through the magazine, turning the color pages loudly. She hooked one leg back, and her calf was dangling back and forth in the air boredly.

Bored, uninteresting, looking for Lovell to play with.

This was a picture of Hermione's mood.

Just when she was about to curl up the magazine, there was a sudden knock on Hermione's bedroom window.

Hermione:?

Is this the second floor? !Hermione, who had dealt with a talking wolf, suddenly became more vigilant: It's not some kind of monster, right?

She looked toward the window and saw a pair of big eyes.

(⊙?⊙)

owl?Hermione was a little surprised. This was the first time she encountered such a situation.

Although the owl outside the window looked cute, Hermione knew very well that it was an absolute raptor and she couldn't take it lightly, so Hermione had no idea of ​​opening the window and letting it in.

So, Hermione chose to turn a blind eye.

Owl outside the window: (○vo)???

Do you have any cat cakes?You didn't open the door when you saw the postman coming, right?

Knock knock knock!

Open the window!Open the window!You can lie down on the bed and read a book, why don't you open the window?

Hermione:  …

What's going on with this owl?

Hermione, who was so disturbed by the noise from the owl, jumped out of bed and walked to the window.Now she could see it more clearly: there seemed to be something tied to the owl's feet. It looked like a letter?

Hermione's instinct told her that this was a letter addressed to her.

She quickly opened the window and let in the already angry owl.

As soon as the window opened, the owl flew in.It landed unceremoniously on Hermione's desk, and proudly stretched out the paw with the letter tied to it.

If she had seen such a spiritual bird a few days ago, Hermione would have been shocked. However, after seeing a wolf that could talk and transform, Hermione's threshold had increased a lot.In her opinion, the owl was just a little smarter.

Unfazed, Hermione untied the letter from the owl's talon.The owls that have completed their mission are not in a hurry to leave - they have been trained by the school and know that many families do not have the conditions to send letters to Hogwarts, so they usually wait until the recipient writes a reply before leaving.

Otherwise, how would you let those Muggle families contact Hogwarts?The letter was flicked on the desk and the owl disappeared. Did the Muggles send the reply back in the form of a dream?

Hermione lowered her head and looked at the envelope. It read [To Miss Hermione Jane Granger, Suburban London].

She was sure that it was really a letter written to herself, and the only person who would send a letter to herself in such a strange way was Lovell.

She unfolded the crumpled letter and started reading.

[Hello Hermione!

It's me, Lovell.

I've settled in at Hogwarts.Professor Dumbledore (Filch did not dare to use the original words of the wolf cub as the bad old man) also prepared a wooden cabin for me.That house looks unremarkable from the outside, but the space inside is unimaginably large - there is a place to sleep, a place to eat and a place to take a bath!I will show you my house when you come to Hogwarts.

Professor Dumbledore also raised a phoenix named Fawkes. Don’t worry, I got along well with it. It treated me to fish, and I gave it a piece of my unused territory.

There are so many interesting things in Hogwarts that we couldn’t finish them in three days and three nights!It's a pity you didn't see it.

How's it going there?have you eaten?I had roast beef for lunch which was excellent.

One thing I want to ask is that I have a cat friend who often vomits, urinates blood, and has bad breath (even though Mrs. Norris strongly protested, Filch still truthfully wrote down these symptoms)...

Does she have chronic renal failure?Do you have any medicine there?

Yours Lovell

Lovell's paw prints]

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Sorry, there was a bug in the backend just now and my draft was sent out (vomiting blood). Now this chapter is a complete version of two-in-one [-]-word chapter!

One more thing, the bug in the new book investment has been fixed. Now there are fewer people and the returns are higher. Everyone, hurry up and invest!