Harry Potter: Charlie and the Candy Factory

"Did you invite any other friends, Vernon?"

The sudden change finally succeeded in hindering Maggie's pace, causing her to stop when she was about to step onto the stairs, and focus on the present again without any danger.

"Yes! Yes, yes!

"

Vernon, who had survived the disaster, stood up from the sofa, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and nodded hurriedly to explain.

"It's a co-worker I met in the factory... he must have come to visit me after dinner."

"Co-worker..." After hearing Vernon's words, Maggie's eyes became even more unhappy.

After muttering an undisguised disgust, he finally said nothing more, paced back to the sofa, and turned to Vernon, who was about to open the door, and said contemptuously.

"Just say a few words at the door and let him go back! If you really let that kind of person come in, you won't want the carpet in your house."

After that, he screamed at Petunia who was motionless in front of the kitchen holding a teacup.

"Come on, Petunia, where's my tea?"

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Vernon turned a deaf ear to Maggie's words. Although he nodded in agreement, he forgot about it in the blink of an eye. With uncontrollable joy on his face, he hurried to the door and hurriedly opened it.

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After the door opened, I saw a strong white man with a beard and a full face, standing carelessly at the door. When he saw Vernon opening the door, before he could react, his face was filled with joy.

He wore a bright and pure smile, which was in stark contrast to this fierce and terrifying appearance.

"Merry Christmas, Vernon!"

The familiar voice reached his ears again, and Vernon, who originally thought he heard it wrong, breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly accepted Peng Peng's new appearance.

After all, he has been working in the wizarding world for a while. Although it still cannot change the fact that he is a Muggle, Vernon Dursley's acceptance of this unknown situation has undoubtedly improved much more than before.

He quickly took hold of Peng Peng's thick palms and shook them vigorously. Looking at the bright smile of the person in front of him, even his eyes couldn't help but turn red.

After Zhuo Zhuo stared at the other person for a few seconds, Vernon spoke tremblingly.

"Merry Christmas, Peng Peng!...Is your coming here this time what I imagined?"

Looking at the look in the eyes of this friend whom he had known for only a few months, Peng Peng could naturally understand what "that" he meant.

"Well, it's probably a little different from what you imagined..."

After pondering for a moment, he turned his head and glanced at the black car behind him. He was about to explain something to him, but was suddenly interrupted by a voice from inside the house.

"Vernon!

!Why do you have your friend standing outside the door?! Shouldn’t you invite him in and sit for a while?”

Vernon was stunned for a moment, but when he subconsciously turned around, the scene in front of him was so shocking that he almost dropped his eyes to the ground.

I saw Maggie, who was sitting on the sofa with a snarky look on her face before opening the door, telling her brother to deal with him quickly. She didn't know when she had changed into a gentle and kind expression, and she

The emotion in Peng Peng's eyes when he looked at the door was actually much more eager than Vernon's.

Almost instantly, Vernon understood Maggie's thoughts.

He only felt the dense goose bumps crawling all over his body again. He looked at Peng Peng's face full of flesh at the moment, and then looked at his sister's admiring look. After the expression on his face fluctuated several times, it finally turned into something

It’s so subtle that it’s hard to put into words.

You know, Peng Peng's current face is not good-looking no matter to what extent.

If I had to make a metaphor, if he were walking on the road with a black man holding a knife, the police's gun would definitely be pointed at him at the first moment...

A guy like this, even I have to slow down for a while before I can accept it. I really don’t know what Maggie is doing...

Just as he was thinking about this, Vernon's eyes suddenly turned to Pete, the English bulldog beside the fireplace who was particularly loved by his sister.

At this moment, it was regaining its previous energy due to the sudden arrival of the guests, but it seemed to be intimidated by Peng Peng's exaggerated body shape and appearance, so it did not dare to run forward and could only hesitate on the same spot.

, while making a faint whimpering sound, trying to scare the other party.

Vernon seemed to understand something, and a sense of clarity suddenly rose in his heart.

Just when he opened his mouth to say something, his sister on the sofa was already holding a tea cup and couldn't wait to stand up from the sofa. She imitated the appearance of the lady on TV and walked up to behind Vernon step by step.

, said kindly and sincerely

"I am Vernon's sister, Maggie Dursley, what should I call you?...This strong man."

"Just call me Peng Peng."

Naturally, the simple Peng Peng knew nothing about the inner activities of the two Dursleys in front of him.

"Peng Peng...what a cute name!"

Unexpectedly, Maggie's eyes lit up a little more, she praised her unabashedly, and then continued without waiting for the other party's reaction.

"Rebirth of the Great Era of Fighting Waves"

"Since you are Vernon's friend, why don't you come in and have a cup of hot tea that I made myself? I think we can have a chat while drinking tea... What do you think, Mr. Pumbaa?"

Peng Peng was overwhelmed by this sudden enthusiasm. It seemed that whether he was an elf or a human, he had never encountered such a situation before. While he was surprised, he was also a little moved in his heart:

Sure enough, the Dursley family are all good people!

"Maybe another day! We have something to do later, so I'm afraid we won't be able to drink tea here."

Just when Peng Peng was scratching his shiny head and grinning, a voice suddenly came from behind him, and he answered for him as if there was no doubt.

Maggie's brows immediately turned into a knot, and she was unhappy with the sudden sound.

He raised his eyes and looked in the direction of the sound, only to see a man wearing a windbreaker and long golden hair appearing two or three steps behind Peng Peng at some point.

The man had a delicate smile on his face, which neither seemed friendly nor made people aware of the hypocrisy. As he spoke, he put his hands in his pockets. In his casualness, he also brought out a bit of harmlessness.

breath.

"Ah! Mr. Black, you're down. I'm so sorry. I should have opened the car door for you like Russell..."

Noticing the movement of Charlie behind him, Peng Peng hurriedly withdrew and tried to move aside. After making way for him to lead directly to the door, he said with a bit of shame.

Charlie walked forward gently, and stood still in front of Maggie and Vernon under their blank gazes.

"Vernon Dursley..."

He looked at Vernon and called out his name softly.

Immediately, Charlie slowly took his hand out of the pocket of his windbreaker, and took the lead in reaching out to the middle-aged man whose body had stiffened with fear, and whose face was red from holding back.

"Actually, this is our first official meeting, right?"