Hufflepuff never works overtime

This was obviously more unacceptable to Hermione than being scratched herself. She subconsciously looked at Faise for help, and found that the other party also looked surprised.

"I, I just want to touch it, why did it become like this..."

The clerk sighed helplessly, bent down and picked up the iron cage, and walked into the store unhurriedly, "I can't blame you, as the store manager said, Crookshanks is not suitable to be displayed outside , it seems that it will not be able to find a new owner for it this year."

The two looked at each other and walked into the store.

The walls of the store are covered with all kinds of cages. Just a simple glance, you can see all kinds of magical animals such as jeweled tortoises, deformed rabbits, ravens, and velvet. The store should be enchanted and there is no noise The sound also has no unpleasant smell.

If it was normal, Faise would definitely focus on those magical animals immediately—of course, she would never get close to the insect area—but now there are more important things bothering her.

"Is that some magical device?"

Obviously Crookshanks' anomaly couldn't be caused by Hermione, and she didn't miss the arc. The most reasonable guess is that the store used some means to control the cat's movements.

"Your powers of observation are really good, little girl," the clerk stretched a wooden stick into the cage. At this moment, Crookshanks was lying limply on the ground, but his cat eyes were still wide open, as if to All may attack violently.

The hair around its ankles was carefully pulled away by a wooden stick, revealing a brown circle. Part of the surrounding cat fur had been burnt, but fortunately the skin did not ooze blood.

The expressions of the two girls became a little bit bad, Faise looked away from her face with a look of impatience, while Hermione's brows were furrowed high, and the hands hanging on both sides of her body were tightly clenched into fists.

"It's because of the new regulations of the Department of Supervision and Control of Magical Beasts. All aggressive magical animals have to wear this device to prevent them from harming wizards. Why can't poor Crookshanks just learn..."

The clerk moved the ladder out of the storage room, trying to hang it back to its original position while the cat settled down.

"But Maolizi is just an XXX-level magical animal," Faith knew that even if she argued with the businessman, nothing would change, but seeing the poor cat lying in such a narrow space, she seemed to understand from the slightly funny persimmon cake. On the face, I saw its fear and sadness.

"Those pet cats and raccoons in the school don't need to bring this kind of thing. It was just scared by us just now. It's too pitiful to treat it like this."

Hermione couldn't restrain her gradually excited tone, "You are abusing it by doing this. I haven't seen any regulations that say that magical animals should wear such things."

"Calm down, little girl, that thing is not under my control, it will automatically determine the aggressiveness of the animal and put it under control." The clerk hurriedly comforted the two little guests, she recognized the school uniform that Faith was wearing, Huo There were plenty of powerful kids in Gwartz, and judging a wizard's ability by age would be a big loss.

"You are talking about cats and raccoons who have already been bought. We are a magical animal store here. If we don't manage the products well and let them hurt people, then tomorrow these magical animals and this store will be forced to leave this store." off the street."

Faith also guessed that the reason was nothing more than this, she sighed helplessly, reached out and patted Hermione's back which was flushed with anger.

Seeing that the two children were not aggressive, the clerk who was hiding behind the counter let go of his wand. She said with a wry smile, "Crookshanks is quite special. Although it is a hybrid of a Persian cat and a cat, But its personality is not docile at all, and its appearance is not flattering, so it has always been in a state of being ignored."

Faise also smiled apologetically at the other party, put her hand into her pocket, and weighed her disposable balance, "I'm sorry, we were too impulsive to cause trouble for you... Now that we are all here, let's increase our turnover a little bit." Bar."

"It's okay, it's okay," the clerk raised her eyebrows and smiled. She actually sympathized with what happened to Crookshanks, otherwise she would not have asked the store manager to put it at the door. I hope that kind people with special tastes can take it home. .

"Do you want to buy a pet, or do you want to buy pet-related supplies?"

"I have a Xixiu at home, may I ask if you have any fur maintenance medicine for Xixiu here?"

"Xixiu?" The clerk didn't expect that the other party's pet was so special. You must know that Xixiu is not a creature that can be bought in ordinary pet stores. "We don't have special hair care potions for Xixiu here, but there are general-purpose ones." , I'll get it for you."

"Ok."

Faith saw the other party rushing into the storage room, she took a step sideways and approached Hermione who had been silent all this time, lightly shook the other party's wrist, and whispered, "Don't be sullen, the clerk here looks really Not bad, that cat will find a suitable owner."

"Hmm..." Hermione replied absently, but her eyes were still glued to the cage hanging in the corner of the ceiling.

The clerk soon came back with a large pile of strength potions and hair care potions of all kinds. Faith picked and chose at the counter, and finally gritted her teeth and bought the popular one recommended by the clerk.

Just when she finished paying and was about to take Hermione away, the little lion who had been standing behind her in thought suddenly said, "Please sell Crookshanks to me."

Chapter 170 Five Crookshanks

This sentence was obviously beyond the expectation of the shop assistant. She first looked happy, but soon showed a embarrassed expression, "Little girl, although I am very grateful for your kindness, Crookshanks is a cat and raccoon after all. , its price is not low, you..."

Hermione patted her small satchel nonchalantly, and her expression became much more relaxed after she made up her mind.

"It's okay, I have a lot of money."

It's not that she's lying or insisting, after all, Hermione just received 10 Galleons as a birthday gift from her parents this morning, and in order to choose this year's birthday gift for Faith, she even gave away her scholarship They were all taken out.

Faise frowned slightly at the side. She was not surprised that Hermione would make such a decision, and even had a premonition in her heart when the other party had been staring at the cage.

She wasn't worried about whether Hermione would not be able to pay the money. You must know that the first-year Hogwarts scholarship was worth 200 Galleons!Enough to buy 10 broomstick care kits!

Still no problem buying a kitty...should?

But there was one thing she still had to confirm with Hermione. Faise tilted her head halfway toward her ear, "Are you sure... Mrs. Granger will allow you to keep a cat?"

Hermione froze when she took out the purse from her satchel, and said forcefully, "These are my money, so it shouldn't matter what I want to buy."

"If you want to say that..." Faith raised her eyebrows silently, "You are living in their house now, and they have the right to invite out tenants they don't like."

"But Mercury and the others agreed to my raising it." Hermione put her hands behind her back, tiptoed her feet uneasily, with obvious hesitation in her tone, "I don't think they would mind having one more baby at home." A cat, and I'll be taking it to school in no time."

"Actually, in order to persuade them to let you raise Mercury, I prepared a lot of arguments in advance, but I didn't use them much..."

Faith was also a little uncertain about this. Although the Grangers had always been synonymous with openness and tolerance in her mind, an incident in elementary school still left a deep impression on her.

One day, Hermione came over excitedly and told herself that the neighbor's mother cat gave birth to a litter of kittens, and she really wanted to take one home to raise. The two rushed to the neighbor's house as soon as school was over, for fear of being late. If you miss it.

After some careful selection, Hermione took a fancy to a kitten with white paws and a black body. Until now, Faith clearly remembers that the kitten had a white fur above its nose, and its two eyes were Dark green.

It was really, really cute, and the two children were very excited. If it wasn't for Irene's rule that she should go home no later than dinner time, Faith would have gone home with Kitten and Hermione that day.

But the next day, the little lion who arrived at school told himself listlessly with swollen eyes that the kitten had been returned by Mrs. Granger, and she had no way to convince him that she was capable of raising a cat.

Even so, before the kitten was adopted by other people, Hermione would run to play with it and bring it snacks every day after school.

I don't know if it's because of Hermione's special taste, or because the neighbors feel sorry for the little girl. That kitten was the last one to be taken away. Even though I knew this ending was unavoidable, for Hermione, who has been with her for nearly a month, I don't know. That being said, the blow is not insignificant.

So much so that in the final exam of the fourth grade, she only got grade No.2...

"Now I have enough time to be with it, and I can afford its food and living. I have read some books about taking care of animals. I think they will agree."

Hermione bit her lower lip, her slightly protruding cheeks looked like a little rabbit, she looked at Faith with a little pleading expression, "Let's take it home, if Mom and Dad really don't agree, it Can I stay with you first?"

"I'm fine..." Faise couldn't bear the other party's behavior at all, she immediately agreed softly, "Do you like this cat so much?"

"I don't deny that there's a bit of a sympathetic element to it, but don't you think it's really cute?"

After the two finally finished their discussion, Hermione smiled happily at the clerk, "How much should I pay you?"

The clerk hesitated for a moment. She wanted to try her best to give the two girls an offer they could accept. A purebred cat lizard can reach hundreds of Galleons. Although Crookshanks is not so expensive, it is undeniable that the cat The value of raccoons is much higher than other pets.

"Let me think... 20, no, just give me 18 Galleons."

The clerk tapped nervously on the cash register with her fingers. This was the lowest price she could offer. The cost price of Crookshanks being bought, and the food expenses in the store in the past few years are all a lot of money. expenditure.

"Eighteen Galleons?" Hermione roughly fumbled for a handful of Galleons from her satchel, and then filled in the missing parts bit by bit, "Nineteen, twenty...there are twenty Galleons in total here, I hope With the rest of the money, can you help me choose a new, bigger cage for Crookshanks, are there any pet-related items sold here?"

"Yes, yes," the clerk nodded repeatedly. She hurriedly climbed up the ladder and moved down the cage that had just been hung up. "Wait a minute, I can still give you some cat food."

Hermione almost couldn't wait to hug the weak cat from the clerk's hand. It might have been frightened by the torment. Although it still showed some resistance, it kept twisting its body to the ground, trying to push away from the strange man who caused it to suffer. Never showed aggression.

Faith watched Hermione and the cat wrestle with each other with amused expression. The other seemed to be holding a large piece of jelly in his arms, and would slip away if he was not careful.

She turned to the clerk and asked, "Can you help us fix that device?"

The clerk nodded immediately. Logically speaking, she should teach the two girls the magic spell of activation and deactivation, but as a winking person, she knew without thinking that the two children would definitely not be able to use it, and said It's just annoying to come out.

"Wait a moment, after I turn it off, break it with an ordinary tool or a cutting spell."

When the shop assistant waved her wand and murmured words, Hermione could feel the sensitive cat in her arms stop struggling instantly. She stretched out the palm on Crookshanks, and could feel it slightly through the soft hair. trembling body.

Slowly and gently stroking its back, Hermione changed into an upright hug position, allowing the cat's front paws to rest on her shoulders, but only a few centimeters was her defenseless neck.

Fortunately, Crookshanks was very well-behaved. It seemed that it sensed that this person was not malicious to him, so it lay motionless on Hermione's body like a warm scarf.

When Faith used a spell to free the cat's legs from the control ring, it was obvious that the hair on Crookshanks' ankles was much thinner than other places, and everyone present breathed a sigh of relief.

Hermione angrily smashed the control ring on the ground with a spell. The cat, which was lying on her body safely, suddenly ran up her shoulder, and was rubbed against her sensitive neck by the soft fluff. The feeling of licking, Hermione seemed to be petrified, waiting for the favor of the other party without daring to move.

Only her winking expression at Faith showed the joy in Hermione's heart.

Chapter 170 Six

Having a cat of her own has extremely important implications for Hermione. It not only makes up for one of her childhood regrets, but also allows her to have another companion in the bedroom.

Of course, she definitely didn't mean to dislike Mercury. It's just that for the owls who have been tamed by wizards to work hard, messengers are their job. Nearly half of the time in the last semester, it was running around to communicate with the outside world. ——Thinking of this, Miss Granger reprimanded herself for being too talkative—and when she could occasionally rest by her side, the difference in work and rest between one person and one bird also restricted their getting along.

After all, I am different from someone who works like an owl, she has to sleep at night!

Having said that, because of the irrepressible guilt deep in her heart, when Hermione bought daily necessities for Crookshanks, she still couldn't help but bought many other gifts to make up for the "original match" at home.

All-powerful Merlin, I'm such a playful, bad woman...

She condemned herself fiercely in her heart, until Hermione realized that there were so many things on the counter that it was almost impossible to pile them up, and the lady clerk laughed like a flower, and her conscience felt a little better.

Faith looked at the pile of messy things and the bottle of hair care medicine in her hand with a complex expression, and couldn't help but sighed for poor Sonny in her heart, I'm sorry... I'm so useless .

Thinking that other people's Xixiu might live in a gold nest, use gems and gallons as toys, and eat high-end Xixiu special food; while my own Xixiu can only live in a suitcase with her to collect bottle caps and Marbles are used as a hobby, and the hair conditioner used is even 15% off for pets.

When Faith was in a daze, she happened to meet Crookshanks on Hermione's shoulder. Although the cat's appearance was a bit funny, those sparkling eyes were obviously a plus, even in a dimly lit environment. The store—in order to take care of some nocturnal animals—the yellow cat pupils still show a crystal clear texture, which seems to be able to penetrate into the depths of people's hearts at a glance.

Faith watched the cat who was being gently stroked by Hermione on her chest suddenly stood up, walked through the loose brown hair of the lion cub as if walking on the ground, walked around her slender neck with leisurely steps, and jumped towards the cat. Jump over by yourself.

She was startled, and hurriedly opened her hands to try to protect the cat, preventing the cat from falling to the ground, but just as a brown trail flashed in front of her eyes, and her fingertips rubbed against the flowing hair, Faise suddenly felt her left shoulder sink, and Crook Shan has found himself a new cat climbing frame.

While Hermione relieved the petrification symptom, the symptom was seamlessly conveyed to Faise. It is a completely different experience to have a sniff and a cat on her shoulder. The fluffy and soft cat fur is sensitive to close contact. His ears and neck, and his clavicle were stepped on by rough but extremely elastic pads.

The weight of the cat was conveyed by the four paws to the four narrow contact surfaces of the shoulders. Faith didn't dare to take a breath, and carefully reached out and grabbed Hermione's cuff. The other party was listening to the clerk explaining various Use of items.

"Hermione..."

"It's soft and light, isn't it?"

When Hermione saw Faith's posture, she immediately showed a knowing smile. She put her arms around Crookshanks' abdomen, and grabbed the naughty little guy off her body.

"Well... it's very dear, and it's also very good when it stays on the shoulder."

Pulling the neckline that was accidentally stepped on by the cat's paw back to the proper position, Fey pinched her hot earlobe with her hands, and there seemed to be a slight itching on it.

Hermione also noticed that the other party's neck and collarbone were covered with large red marks, which were particularly eye-catching on the delicate and fair skin. She covered it with her hands worriedly, and it was extremely hot to the touch.

"Are you okay, Faith, why is your neck so red? Is it an allergy?"

"Huh..." The temperature at the place touched by the other party's hand rose instead of falling, and Faise's body tensed up in vain, and she couldn't help but take two steps back to avoid Hermione's touch, "I It's okay, maybe my neck is more sensitive to cat fur, you know, I can't even wear a woolen scarf."

Seeing Faith's reaction, Hermione subconsciously withdrew her hand. The action was so violent that Crookshanks on her shoulder gave a "meow" incomprehensible, but she just stared blankly at her palm. , it seems that there is still the body temperature of the other party on it.

"That... May I ask if these items need to be delivered to your home?"

The clerk's words interrupted Hermione's messy thoughts. She glanced at the huge cage and the mountains of objects beside it, and nodded absently.

"Uh-huh."

Except for Crookshanks, all other trophies will be sent home first. If Mom and Dad refuse her request to raise Crookshanks, she will have to spend another sum of money and ask Mr. Deliveryman to transfer the things to Faith's house will do.

After leaving the Fantastic Beasts Store, the two of them tacitly did not mention anything about the store. The embarrassing atmosphere and red marks on their skin soon faded away, but the previous scene was still buried in their hearts like a seed .

"Are you sure you can catch up with Potter and the others?" Faith glanced at her watch. They were delayed in the Fantastic Beasts store for a while, and they had to go to the Lihen Bookstore before returning to the Leaky Cauldron, " We didn't even have time to eat lunch."

"Are you hungry?" Holding the cat in her arms, out of the corner of Hermione's eyes, she could see that Faith was touching her belly with her mouth pursed, and there was a little smile in her eyes.

"After living in your house for so many days, you have synchronized the time for eating and sleeping. Don't you feel hungry?"

"That's not because you insisted on giving me your vegetable pancakes in the morning. You just need to tell your mother, and she will give you something to eat, except for sweets, of course."

Just passing by a puff shop, Faise couldn't help taking a deep breath, letting the sweet scent recharge her gradually weakened limbs, "Mrs. Granger made it for me specially, how dare I waste her what's in your mind?"

"So you choose to feed me the things you don't want to eat! If I go back and get fat, I will drag you out for a run every day."

"Then I also gave you a chance to give me the little meatball. Didn't you refuse... How can you become fat if you eat so healthy and exercise every day? At most, you will become a muscular rabbit? "

"What did you say!"

Seeing the sharp eyes of the other party sweeping over, Crookshanks in Hermione's arms was still watching the fun, so she let out a "meow" unhurriedly, and Faise quickly urged her slender legs to run, It would be a shame to save her from being taught a lesson by the nagging Miss Granger on the street.

The two walked into Lihen Bookstore with a fight, and noticed at a glance that there was a huge iron cage placed by the front window, and there were constant screaming and fighting sounds of animals inside, which was incompatible with the environment of the store.

"Wow……"

Faise made a pause gesture to the little lion who was grinding her teeth and was about to pounce on her, and looked up at the signboard of the store in surprise, "Without the fame effect of that guy Lockhart, is the business of the bookstore so sluggish now? I'm going to compete with the pet store owner for business..."

Chapter 170 VII The Monster Book of the Monsters

"Let me take a look... Divination lessons, Muggle studies, ancient runes, arithmetic and divination," Faith held a thick stack of textbooks in her hand, and Hermione stood beside her, holding Grace in one hand. Lukeshan held up his timetable in the other hand and checked it patiently.