The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

"That dress is really beautiful, but it's a pity that it doesn't have a tail." After leaving the Room of Requirement, Tom thought about the "Wild Cat" dress Hermione wore, and he still found it amazing.

"What are you thinking about..." Hermione punched Tom gently. There was no cat tail on her dress, so if she wanted a cat tail, she would need to add cat tail accessories. She accidentally learned that this kind of tail jewelry should be classified as a "plug-in" - Hermione was sure that she would never wear it.

Tom knew nothing about plug-ins. But the mention of tail reminded him of Harry's cousin.

"Hermione, did you know that Hagrid conjured a pig's tail on Harry's cousin Dudley's butt when he took Harry to school?" He shared this little gossip with Hermione.

"I will never let you create a tail on me!" Hermione's hair exploded like a cat whose tail was stepped on.

Tom: Huh?

"So where is Crookshanks?" Tom, confused, quickly changed the subject. He remembered that Hermione carried him to the auditorium before the game yesterday and gave him a "lucky cat's paw", but later during the game, he did not see Hermione holding Crookshanks while watching the game.

Hermione was relieved when she saw that Tom no longer mentioned the tail: Even Tom couldn't do such an outrageous thing, it was too shameful!

After switching the topic back, she could answer Tom's questions seriously.

"Crookshanks? Of course I can't take him to a competition - it's raining so hard outside! And even if it's not raining, you shouldn't take a cat to such a crowded or noisy place. Cats are easily stressed. Yes. But maybe the cats in the magical world are a bit more skinny."

Tom's question made Hermione realize that he didn't seem to have any common sense about raising cats, so she gave Tom some knowledge about cat stress. However, recalling Crookshanks' usual behavior, Hermione was a little unsure whether cats in the magical world would be the same as Muggle pet cats.

Looking at Crookshanks running around like crazy and accidentally running out of the lounge to hunt, he shouldn't be the kind of guy who gets stressed out in a strange environment, right?

"The breeding of cats in the non-magical world is a bit deformed. Cats themselves are very good predators - or killers, but they are raised to be as fragile as a porcelain bottle." Tom couldn't help complaining.

"That's true, but..." Hermione wanted to go deeper on this topic, but she didn't know why she suddenly stopped talking.

"Oh God!" Hermione covered her mouth and exclaimed.

Unlike wizards, the culture of the non-magical world has a profound influence on Hermione. Until now, Hermione is still used to calling God when encountering shocking things, instead of shouting "Merlin" like wizards.

Tom followed Hermione's gaze and found Crookshanks squatting at the end of the corridor, with a white dove pressed under his paws.

Hermione ran over in panic: she remembered that the carrier pigeon raised by Tom was white!

She didn't dare think about how she would face Tom if her cat ate Tom's pigeons. If Tom wants to punish Crookshanks, what should he do?

After getting closer, Hermione could see more clearly: what was pressed under Crookshanks' paws was indeed a dead pigeon, with bloody flesh on the chest and feathers scattered all over the floor.

Hermione reached out with trembling hands and lifted Crookshanks up.

"Tom, I'm sorry, I..." She wanted to explain for Crookshanks, but she was completely speechless.

"Wait a minute," Tom squatted down and looked at the pigeon's body carefully, and found that it was not his pigeon at all.

"It's just a misunderstanding," Tom ruffled Hermione's hair to tell her not to be so nervous.

"Really? Didn't you comfort me on purpose?" Hermione asked cautiously, holding Crookshanks, like a child who made a mistake.

"Of course not," Tom comforted the furious Hermione and the confused Crookshanks, "Our Crookshanks is so smart, he will definitely not attack those owned birds, right?"

Crookshanks meowed twice, as if echoing Tom.

"Okay, let's go back to the lounge first, put Crookshanks down and then go have breakfast?" Tom controlled the body of the pigeon that unfortunately became a victim and threw it out the window using a levitating spell, and then cleaned up the "murder scene" Clean and tidy.

"Come to the lounge, lock up this little monster first." Hermione said with lingering fear.

At this time, they happened to pass by the Gryffindor House common room, and the door of the common room was pushed open as soon as they touched it.

Following Sir Cadogan's roar, a figure rushed out of the doorway.

It was Ron, bursting into Tom and Hermione's line of sight with a sheet.

"Just right!" After seeing the two of them, Ron paused and was a little surprised: he didn't expect to meet Tom and Hermione at the door of the common room so early in the morning.

How did they get here? Then Ron's eyes fell on Crookshanks in Hermione's arms, his paws and corners of his mouth were still stained with blood.

Ron understood immediately. His whole face started to turn red.

"Look!" he roared, rushing to Hermione with the sheets in hand, "Look!"

He pushed a corner of the sheet under Hermione's nose.

"Ron, what-?" Hermione didn't even realize what happened. She subconsciously took two steps back, looking at a loss.

"Scabbers! My Scabbers!" Ron wanted to move forward again, but was stopped by Tom. He took advantage of Hermione's retreat and rushed between the two of them, separating them.

He saw something red on Ron's sheets that looked like blood.

"This is blood! Scabbers is dead!" Ron shouted, "It's dead! Do you know who did it?"

"No, I don't know." Hermione's voice was trembling, and she was so smart that she had already vaguely guessed the answer.

"Your beast did it!" Ron wanted to push forward, but was pushed away by Tom. Then, Neville and Neville, who followed from the lounge, hugged Ron to prevent him from being impulsively Further conflict.

"There is blood in its paws and mouth! Why did Yordle and Granger from Ravenclaw House appear at the gate of Gryffindor House early in the morning? Because you are looking for that beast you raised - that The beast that just ran into the dormitory and ate my Scabbers! When you found it, Scabbers probably hadn't been eaten yet, right?" Ron roared at Tom and Hermione behind him while struggling.

Facing Ron's accusation, Hermione's eyes turned red, and a few tears rolled down from the corners of her eyes. She was extremely frightened.

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