The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

Faced with such an eager big yellow cat, a glint flashed in Scabbers's eyes. He twisted in the hands of the teller witch, broke free, and ran towards the door. Ron shouted his name and chased after him. , Harry saw this and followed him.

The two searched for a quarter of an hour but found no trace of Scabbers. When Harry had given up, Ron found Scabbers under the trash can outside the Quidditch boutique.

After scaring Scabbers away, Crookshanks had no consciousness of "getting into trouble". He patted the counter with satisfaction, received a slap in the hand, and dozed off.

"Is his name Crookshanks?" Hermione walked to the counter and looked at the cat carefully.

Everything happened so fast, and she didn't see the cat clearly until now. Crookshanks looks like a shrunken lion. It has thick and fluffy ginger-yellow hair and four short, bowed legs. Its face seems to be squashed, and its expression looks unhappy. It looked like someone owed it dried fish.

Tom recognized it. The cat looked like a Persian cat. But his personality is too lively, maybe it's the cat's bloodline that's at play.

For Tom, the appearance of this cat does not quite meet his aesthetic taste - he likes cats with moderate hair length like tabby cats, which look smart and capable, and look a bit like tiger cubs (Note 1)

However, Hermione liked furry things very much. She looked at the Persian cat with a doting look on her face. She was a little eager to reach out and touch it, but she was not very willing.

"It, um..." Hermione hesitated.

The teller saw through Hermione's mind, "This cat was a stray cat at first. It seems that the little girl from before fed him some cakes, and it stayed here and refused to leave. I can't even remember how many years it was. Anyway, It has been here for a long time without finding anyone willing to adopt it.”

The teller felt a little emotional that this cat was older than her seniority.

"That's right..." Hermione nodded. When she heard Crookshanks' experience, she couldn't help but glance at Tom, and suddenly Tom was furious.

"Don't bring me in!" Tom was a little dissatisfied. Am I someone I can catch with a little cake and get my favorability level up! If this continues, if our experience is adapted into a game in the future, I won't become the kind of character who automatically gets it after signing in for seven days, right? Or the first-time top-up brother who gets you a free first-time charge of six yuan?

The worst thing is that the five-star Hermione UP pool is matched with four-star Tom Yoder... Even if the strength can be praised as the [six-star God of War], it is still very embarrassing!

Tom thought for a while, and if he was adapted into a game character, he would indeed be a good assistant: able to breastfeed, resurrect, remove negative status, have hard control, and have a certain output...

Except that it cannot add attack power, it is basically a hexagon! It basically implements the spirit that the best support is for the leader C to kill all the enemies.

"Okay, okay, be good -" Hermione rubbed Tom's head and messed up his hair, "You are not, you are different from Cat~"

Then she looked to the clerk, "Can I try to hug him?"

The clerk nodded: "Of course, but be careful, it has a bad temper."

But when Hermione reached out and gently hugged Crookshanks, Crookshanks didn't show any intention of rejecting her and even snored comfortably. Cats only purr when they are most comfortable and safe. It's obvious that Hermione and Crookshanks really hit it off.

In the end, the clerk didn't take any money from Hermione and gave Crookshanks to her for free.

Tom and Hermione left the Magic Zoo and returned to the crowded street. Crookshanks fell asleep deeply in Hermione's arms.

When they saw Harry and Ron, Ron's eyes bulged: "You bought this monster?!"

"I didn't buy it, and its fur is very nice, isn't it?" Hermione said with a smile, and buried her face in Crookshanks' belly and took a sip.

Ron felt that his temples were about to explode. He dragged Harry away from Hermione quickly to prevent the crazy cat from attacking his Scabbers again - it had been staring at him since it had just woken up in Hermione's arms. He felt furious when he saw it.

The four of them parted ways, and Tom and Hermione wandered around Diagon Alley for a while.

When passing by a shop selling magical trinkets, Tom stopped. Something on the counter caught his attention.

Hermione:?

Tom ran into the shop quickly, and after a while he ran out like a gust of wind. Hermione noticed that he seemed to have stuffed a small box into his robe.

Hermione:? ?

"Hey!" Tom had no intention of explaining and walked directly towards the Leaky Cauldron.

When he returned to the bar, Tom saw a lot of red hair: the Weasleys were chatting with Harry, and their youngest daughter Ginny was standing by with a blush on her face, listening quietly to her brothers' chat.

Seeing Tom and Hermione coming, they also said hello in a friendly way.

"Hello, Yodel Granger." Percy held out his hand solemnly, as if it were a diplomatic meeting. Fred and George stood behind him, winking at Tom and making faces.

"Congratulations, you have become the student council president (Note 2)"

"Yeah." But Percy's seriousness was quickly broken by Fred and George, who started laughing and joking together.

In the evening, everyone put two long tables together and had a sumptuous dinner. After the meal, everyone went about their business.

At night, when Tom was baking by the fireplace, he saw Harry coming out with a pile of scrap newspapers. What caught Tom's attention was that the photos on the scrap newspapers in Harry's hands were all still.

It's not easy to see a Muggle newspaper in Diagon Alley.

So Tom stopped Harry and told him to burn the newspapers later. Harry told him that this was a disguise for his magic book. Aunt Petunia occasionally walked into his room. To be on the safe side, he not only hid the magic book but also wrapped it with some old newspapers.

"That's right," Tom glanced at Harry sympathetically. With the same background, he was much happier than Harry. But his eyes stopped as he scanned the newspaper.

He saw the title of the old newspaper that read: [The original version of Cuiyulu is now alive? A beautiful adventurer’s big discovery! 】

He pulled out the newspaper, folded it neatly and put it in his pocket.

"Tom, you happen to be here. I have something to ask you. Have you received the Hogsmeade application form? Who did you ask to sign it?" Harry didn't pay much attention to Tom's actions. He had more questions. important things.

"Mr. Granger."

Harry:…

hateful! Is there actually such a way? Is it too late to find a girlfriend? Harry thought sadly.

"If there is nothing else, I will go back first." Tom stood up, "The journey starting from platform 9 is about to begin again."

Note 1: Americans have bred a cat that looks like a tiger - the toy tiger cat, whose earliest birth date can be traced back to the 1980s in California, USA.

Breeders not only focus on the ring-shaped markings on the fur, but also strive to reproduce every detail of the tiger on the cat. At present, the facial features of toy tiger cats have begun to take the shape of tigers, around their eyes and near the head. White hair has grown. Due to their rarity, the price of some purebred toy tiger cats can reach six figures, US dollars.

Of course, in my opinion, the temperament of toy tiger cats is a bit silly... If we want to talk about temperament, the civet cat is the most consistent with the feeling of a tiger.

Note 2: In fact, it should not be translated as student council president, but the male student council chair man, that is, Head Boy. Due to well-known reasons, the translation of HB involves a very special noun, so here it is replaced by HB or student council president.