Unseal at Hogwarts

Tom stopped: "What does this mean?"

"There is a 'phantom' card among the Clow cards." Kerubelos explained in a low voice, "It has the ability to make people see what they want to see."

"I just noticed the aura of the Clow card, and you were still worried about not being able to find the platform, but in the blink of an eye we are here. Don't you think it's a coincidence?"

When Tom thought about it, it seemed like a coincidence.

He looked around carefully, and everyone looked so real.

The red-haired family who almost bumped into him crowded onto the train. The youngest girl held her mother's hand and waved reluctantly to her brothers on the car.

A platinum-haired boy with an arrogant attitude also boarded the train, surrounded by two sturdy children.

"I don't know any of these people," Tom said. "If it's a 'phantom' card, there will always be one or two faces I'm familiar with, right?"

But Rubelos felt it cautiously: "But the Clow brand smell here is indeed very strong - did you see the black-haired girl we saw before we came in?"

Tom looked again and couldn't find the girl who looked very difficult to get along with.

He finally panicked: "Perhaps she is already on the train? How can we be sure whether we are in an illusion created by the 'Fantasy' card?"

But Rubelos thought for a moment and replied: "Get on the train first, find a compartment with no one around, and attack with water cards to look around."

Tom took action immediately.

He climbed onto the train, passed through the noisy aisles, and finally found an empty compartment at the back of the train.

Tom put the luggage away and Rubelos closed the compartment door.

Just in case, Tom locked the door of the compartment with the "Ingot" sign before taking out the "Water" sign.

But Rubelos nodded encouragingly to him, and Tom threw the "water" card forward: "Unlock the seal!"

The fish-tailed boy jumped out from between the sticks, turning into fierce streams of water that surged in all directions.

"Huh? Where did the water come from?"

"Who is practicing 'clear water like a spring'?"

"Which student is so impatient?"

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People on the platform carefully moved out of the way, and there was a commotion in the aisle.

Tom didn't care much, and he and Kerubelos lay at the car window observing the situation outside.

The water was rushing in all directions, but other than causing disturbances in the crowd, there was nothing wrong with it.

"This should be the real platform nine and three-quarters," Kerubelos said.

Tom recalled the "water" card, and the fish-tailed boy turned into the Clow card again and returned to Tom's hand.

Tom took advantage of the situation and took back the "Ingot" card.

"Where is the Clow card hidden?" Tom was very confused.

"Click"

Tom turned his wand back into a key and hung it up, and the door to the compartment was opened.

"Hi." A young man with messy hair opened the door of the compartment, "Is there anyone else here?"

Tom shook his head.

But Ruberos made way for the door.

The wild-haired boy smiled shyly at Tom and came in with his suitcase.

In his hand he also carried a cage containing a snow-white owl.

The owl jumped up and down restlessly in the cage.

The young man comforted her in a low voice, raised his head and explained, "I'm sorry, Hedwig has been locked up for too long."

Tom waved his hand to show that he didn't care.

After all, the owl was probably frightened by him.

The boy put Hedwig on the shelf and struggled to lift the suitcase onto the luggage rack.

Tom saw that his thin arms and legs could not lift the suitcase after several attempts, so he stood up and gave it a hand.

"Thank you." the boy said.

He sat down solemnly.

"My name is Tom, Tom Cooper, what's yours?" Tom saw the boy peeking at him several times, but decided to speak first.

"Um...my name is Harry, Harry Potter." The boy looked very happy.

Tom was startled, and his eyes glanced at Kerubelos unconsciously.

During the summer vacation, he and Kerubelos had read through all the textbooks and extracurricular readings over and over again. Although he could not say that he could memorize them fluently, he could be considered to know a thing or two about the magical world.

Harry Potter, the famous "Boy Who Lived" and "Savior" in the wizarding world.

He escaped from the hands of the Dark Lord Voldemort when he was still a baby. Even though he was sorted into Slytherin by the Sorting Hat during his time at Hogwarts, which aroused people's dissatisfaction and suspicion, he shattered Voldemort's thoughts in the first grade.

The action of stealing the Sorcerer's Stone and escaping from Voldemort again made the voices of dissatisfaction quiet down.

In the second grade, he solved the monster hidden in the school, shattered the "purge plan" of the Slytherin heir, and made people no longer doubt him.

Although he didn't have any great feats in the third grade, his ability to create a physical patron saint has made people talk about it for a long time.

Is such a boy who has created one miracle after another really the shy and timid boy in front of him who is wearing oversized clothes and tape-covered glasses and looks smaller than himself?

Tom felt that something must be wrong.

Probably because Tom hadn't spoken for a long time, Harry Potter pretended not to care and looked out the window, but a pair of green eyes quietly glanced at Tom through the broken lenses of his spectacles.

The commotion caused by the "water" sign had subsided. The train sounded its whistle, and the water vapor sprayed from the front of the car filled most of the platform.

"If you don't mind, you can call me Tom." Tom calmed down and said kindly.

"You can also call me Harry." Harry answered hurriedly.

As if he realized his rudeness, a red cloud appeared on Harry's face.

"Is this your first time going to Hogwarts too?" Tom wanted to bite his tongue as soon as he spoke.

What does it mean to attend Hogwarts for the first time?

"Yeah, yeah, you too?" Harry's face lit up, as if he had found a like-minded friend.

"Click" the door of the compartment was opened again.

One of the red-haired children Tom had seen before appeared in the doorway of the stall.

"Here is..." Halfway through what the red-haired boy said, he saw two people in the cubicle looking directly at him.

He slammed the door shut, and his voice echoed in the hallway: "Sorry."

"Let's continue!" Tom felt that at this time, it was more important to get some useful information from Harry.

"When did you receive the acceptance letter?" Tom reminded himself that he was talking to a celebrity in the wizarding world and kept excited. "I received it on the morning of my birthday. I thought it was someone's prank!

"

Harry looked more relaxed, and when he mentioned that his uncle was troubled by the admission notice, Tom couldn't help but frown.

Harry stopped immediately and carefully observed Tom's expression.

But Rubelos silently serves as the background.

"Your uncle doesn't want you to go to Hogwarts?" Tom asked.