Days to grind friendship at Hogwarts

Compared with mid-to-early August, Flourishes and Blotts Bookstore today is obviously less crowded, but it is still more lively than other times.

Seeing four people coming in, one of the clerks pushed the shoulder of the colleague next to him.

"It's your turn this time. I was the one who went to get it last time." He whispered and showed the scars on the back of his hands. "Look, they added a new wound to me!"

"Four "Monster Books of Monsters," right?" His colleague sighed, resignedly taking out a pair of tattered thick gloves from under the counter, and walked towards the big cage in the corner.

There were still seven or eight books left in the cage, which was much looser than when Harry came. This seemed to give them more room to move, making the fight more intense.

Under the huge impact force, the cage, which was supposed to be very strong, kept shaking and shaking, and seemed to be in danger of completely falling apart at any time.

"We only need two copies. Glenn and I already have them," Harry said before he opened the cage.

"This is good news, isn't it?" The clerk turned around and smiled bitterly, then opened the cage door with a look of despair.

The "Yokai Book of Monsters" immediately sensed the intrusion of a foreign enemy, stopped fighting among themselves, and bit the clerk's hand together.

The clerk suddenly retracted his hand, touched the cold sweat on his forehead, and picked up a thick cane with bite marks from the ground.

The next second I put my cane into the cage, I heard a squealing sound, and all the books swarmed towards it, biting it hard like a crocodile's "big mouth".

Death roll!

The clerk quickly reached out and after a "death struggle", he finally pulled off two tightly chewed "Monster Books of Monsters" from the cane.

The clerk with an injury on the back of his hand tacitly took out two leather straps and tied them tightly around the cover.

The cage door was closed, and the remaining books began to kill each other again. Two of them saw the right moment, grabbed the third book with all their strength, and tore it in half with a "stab" sound.

The huge movement attracted the attention of everyone in the store, and the two clerks shook their heads helplessly, showing no intention of trying to stop it.

"This is already the seventh book this month. The manager tried to stop it and almost had two fingers bitten off."

"I really can't figure out who would use this kind of thing as a school textbook. Does he want to train little wizards to fight with the textbook?"

"Fortunately, it's the last day before school starts. We finally don't have to fight with this thing anymore..."

Listening to the complaints of the clerks, Glenn felt amused. Of course he knew who was selecting the teaching materials, but in order to let Hagrid give Harry a surprise, it was better not to tell him yet.

"Speaking of which, you may not know that this book actually has a weakness."

He smiled and took Hermione's book. Although the book was tied firmly, it was still struggling, as if it would break free in the next second.

"Just - a gentle touch."

With a group of people watching, he raised his hand to untie his belt.

Immediately afterwards, the freed book immediately opened its mouth and seemed to bite Glenn's wrist in the next second. Hermione even closed her eyes for fear of seeing a bloody scene.

Along with a gasp, Glenn gently stroked the spine of the book with his fingers.

The textbook, which had been so fierce just now, trembled slightly, then immediately calmed down and lay obediently on his hand.

"Here!" Glenn closed the book and handed it back to Hermione, "This is the correct way to open this thing."

The manager of Flourish and Blotts Bookstore witnessed this scene and slapped his forehead: "Merlin's beard! If we had known this method earlier, how much losses could have been reduced!"

After the little episode, Hermione and Ron each started to buy their own textbooks for the new semester. Harry was surprised to find that Hermione bought a copy of all the textbooks that Ron bought, but in addition, she also bought a large

Piles of textbooks from other subjects.

"Primary Dictionary of Ancient Runes"

"Digital Divination and Graphics"

"Planet and the Future"

...

There is even a book - "The Development of Muggles in the 20th Century"

He looked at the three heavy bags packed by the clerk and asked, "Hermione, are these your new textbooks?"

"Yes, these are all the elective courses I chose. Let me see, I have bought them all." She looked through the bag and counted them one by one, "There are astronomical divination, protection of magical animals, divination, ancient times such as

Niven, Muggle Studies..."

"Wait, why are you studying Muggle studies?" Ron interrupted her with a confused look, "You are a wizard from a Muggle family, don't you know enough about Muggle things?"

"Of course not enough!" Hermione said without hesitation, "If we study them from the perspective of wizards, we will definitely discover a lot of new things!"

When several people chatted here, Glenn's eyes suddenly lit up.

In this year in the original book, in addition to Padfoot and Wormtail, there was also a bug-level artifact.

It was the time-turner that he had missed out on last year.

Although the limit of time reversal is only five hours, it is already very practical to improve the fault tolerance rate.

He secretly made up his mind that when he came back from China, he would find a way to get his hands on this thing.

If nothing else, there is almost no difficulty.

"You guys think, how about I buy an owl?"

When Glenn came to his senses, the three of them had changed the topic and started discussing what kind of pet Hermione wanted to buy for herself.

According to the original plot, she should have met Crookshanks by chance at the Magical Creatures Shop, which would have led to the subsequent plot.

But at this time, Scabbers had already entered Azkaban, and Crookshanks also had another master.

"I think I might as well buy an owl," Ron said. "My parents were going to buy me a new wand, but I already have the one Glenn gave me, plus what happened with Scabbers.

..”

He glanced at Harry with some fear: "Who would have thought that a mouse that has been in my house for more than ten years is actually a remaining minion of a mysterious man? Fortunately, he didn't have time to do anything bad to you...

"

"It's okay! You don't know her true identity." Harry patted his shoulder and said nonchalantly, "By the way, Hermione, do you like cats?"

"Cat?" Hermione looked confused, "I don't know, I've never had any pets, and I don't know what I like."

"It's like this," Harry said, "Sirius has a cat, which helped a lot when he caught Peter. However, Sirius is not very good at taking care of pets, and because of Kreacher, he was very troubled.

Not happy."

"Who is Kreacher?" Ron asked.

"A house elf with a weird temper," Harry explained. "I'll tell you more about it later. Let's go to the Magical Beasts Shop first."