I was Hermione's puppy at Hogwarts

Compared with castles built at the same time, Hogwarts Castle is much more majestic. In fact, considering that castles in the early Middle Ages were mostly made of earthen wood, Hogwarts, an all-stone castle surrounded by mountains and rivers, is

More like a spectacle.

Regardless of the series of protective facilities outside the castle, Hogwarts Castle has eight floors and five towers. The wolf cub and Mrs. Norris have to go from the principal's office on the eighth floor to the west tower, where Hogwarts is.

The "Post Office" and the Owlhouse.

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 communication channels with the outside world - the kind that locks up students and also

Schools that restrict their communication with their families should not exist in this world at all. A large number of cheap owls are the choice 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.

. Using such a creature at the top of the food chain to send letters can be said to be fast and stable. It is indeed the best choice for sending letters.

The key is that the owls of Hogwarts are almost free for teachers and students to use. You only need to give them a copper knut to let them deliver a letter to you once! This copper knut is also used to purchase owl postmen.

It’s for food, so if you take a chicken drumstick from the table during lunch, you can have an owl deliver a message 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 bottom of the west tower to the battlement at the top of the tower. In the distant Middle Ages, this was the watchtower of the castle.

It is also the "turret" for the castle defenders. From here, the defenders can shoot at the enemy from multiple angles, being condescending, having a greater range, and eliminating blind spots on the city wall.

However, over 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 to Filch at all. At this time, he was exhausted just climbing the stairs. How could he have the heart to listen to the historical story of a tower? To make matters worse, the avian odor in the air gathered together.

The stench 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, there were these wind belts.

Avoid the stench of straw and owl excrement, otherwise Lovell might be fainted by the mere sight of him.

Inside the room are criss-crossing perches, 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 went to them.

The door is closed.

There was a layer of straw on the floor of the owl shed, and a lot of feces and various bones spit out by the owl were accumulated on the grass.

The wolf cub looked at the empty skulls and stopped silently outside the door. He raised his head and looked at the owl loft, 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 was too lazy to talk to him. He thought to himself: Am I crazy to provoke them? Mr. Filch, please wake up and look at the size gap between us. Who is hunting whom?

?!You are the faculty and staff of the school, so the owls will only hurt your fingers to save face. But I am different. In the eyes of owls, I am no different from the wild animals in the Forbidden Forest. If I really violate the territory of owls,

, I am afraid that I will be caught and turned into a pile of minced meat in a matter of minutes.

Filch didn't see those gleaming claws, but the wolf cub could see them clearly. He knew very well the lethality of these birds, and it was easy to disembowel them with one claw. When he wandered in the Forbidden Forest before, he could

I have often been robbed of prey by these owls.

Finally, Filch chose a barn owl, and he almost slipped on the bird droppings on the ground while walking in a hurry.

The owl landed next to 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 its hair 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 about?" The wolf cub blinked. It is a wolf. How can a wolf write? With its talent of proficiency in many languages, it is not difficult to understand words, but it is extremely difficult to write.

Filch fell silent.

Well, he was so careless that he was so crazy that he wanted a wolf to write a letter.

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

So one person and one wolf sat next to each other, lying on the edge of the window together, writing letters in the cold wind. The wolf said something, and the person wrote something on the letter. From time to time, Filch would put his quill into a dirty ink

Dip it into the bottle to replenish the ink.

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

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

It has a hard time understanding Filch's train of thought, and it doesn't understand why he uses a pen that requires 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.

After the letter was written, 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 considered the signature of the wolf cub.

The wolf cub who had 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. Comparing them to humans, it is equivalent to attaching them to a letter.

It's the same as a photo of himself without clothes. That is, only if the recipient of the letter is Hermione, Lovell would leave a paw print of himself, otherwise it would be absolutely impossible.

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

Looking at the owl that gradually turned into a small black dot, Filch had a look of hope on his face. 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 looked dull and didn't know their round heads.

Can you understand what you mean?

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

That is, Lovell himself 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 ability, is this magic? Anyway, Lovell can't understand how these big birds can find people with just one name. Aren't they afraid of the same name?

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Hermione lay on the bed with eyes blank: The first day the wolf cub was taken away, I 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 had to learn a lot of knowledge so that she could become an outstanding student like her parents.

students, go to real schools, and get a decent enough job when they grow up.

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

Bored, uninteresting, and want to play with Lovell.

This is a portrayal 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 the 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 could not take it lightly, so Hermione had no idea of ​​opening the window and letting it in.

Ever since, Hermione chose to turn a blind eye.

The 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 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, and 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 its paw with a 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, this bird

The owl is just a little smarter.

Hermione, who was calm and unfazed, untied the letter from the owl's talon. The owls that completed the task were not in a hurry to leave - they had been trained by the school and knew that many families did not have the conditions to communicate with Hogwarts, so they usually

I will wait until the recipient writes a reply before leaving.

Otherwise, how do you ask those Muggle families to contact Hogwarts? The letter is thrown on the desk and the owl disappears. Do 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 somewhat crumpled letter and started reading.

[Hello Hermione!

It's me, Lovell.

I have settled down at Hogwarts. Professor Dumbledore (Filch did not dare to use the original words of the wolf cub) also prepared a wooden house for me. The house looked ordinary from the outside, but inside

The space is unimaginably large - there is a place to sleep, a place to eat and a place to take a bath! I will definitely 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 that you didn't see them.

How's it going there? Have you eaten? I had great roast beef for lunch.

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. Lorris strongly protested, Filch still truthfully wrote down these symptoms)...

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

Yours Lovell

Lovell's paw prints]

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Sorry, there was a bug in the backend just now and I sent out my draft (vomiting blood). Now this chapter is a complete version of two-in-one 4,000-word chapter!

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