The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

Harry's letter was not much longer than Ron's. It first thanked Tom for sending him the second batch of supplies - Tom sent Harry a small cake and a simple magic prop on his birthday. The function of this magic prop is very simple, it is to keep food fresh. It was originally used by potions masters to hold potions, so it would be nice to leave it to Harry to hold cakes.

This prop really helped Harry. He received several cakes on his birthday, and obviously he couldn't eat them all, and the floor was obviously not a suitable place to store cakes, so Tom's "fridge" was just in time.

After thanking Tom, Harry also talked about his recent life. Finally, he changed the subject and started to tell Tom about his scar. Tom was full of flaws: he is indeed a British man, always in front. Add a lot of useless pleasantries and hide the most important things at the end.

Harry, this is not too much. Some British white-collar workers will even put a lot of nonsense at the beginning and end of the letter. Things that can be explained clearly in one sentence, he has to write a short essay. A headache. Their letters are like string beans that need to be trimmed and trimmed.

As for Harry's scar hurting, Tom wasn't too surprised - Voldemort had regained his power, so there was nothing to make a fuss about. He could just write a letter to comfort Harry later.

At this time, Mr. Granger had read Ron's letter and felt that it might be a good decision to go to the World Cup with the Weasley family.

"Now that you've made your decision, let me pack your luggage!" Finally, Mrs. Granger made the final decision and drove everyone out of the kitchen and rushed to their respective rooms to pack their luggage.

For Tom, packing is not a complicated matter: just fold the clothes neatly and stuff them into the suitcase. However, in the eyes of Hermione and Mrs. Granger, packing was obviously not that simple.

"A change of clothes, toiletries, facial cleanser, disinfectant, and... and..." Mrs. Granger held a large basket full of things in her arms, walking around the room, mumbling something. , she said with some dissatisfaction: "I really should have made a list earlier!"

Tom now knew who Hermione inherited her personality from.

Not only He's mother was very excited, but Mr. Granger also looked very excited. He took out a huge travel bag from somewhere in the house, which was filled with items needed for camping.

But it’s normal. Wild camping is one of the British favorite vacation options, and it’s normal for Mr. Granger to use it as a pastime.

"Wait, there's no need for a tent." Tom stopped Mr. Granger, who was trying to get a packed tent off the top of a wardrobe.

"When we traveled to Egypt last year, we bought a magic tent. The space inside was quite large. There was no need to carry an ordinary tent." Hermione thought of the super luxurious tent she used when traveling to Egypt.

"Cool!" Mr. Granger snapped his fingers, "This is the first time I've heard of a magic tent. Is there enough space inside?"

Hermione: ...

She suddenly realized a problem: How to explain to her father that there was only one bedroom in the tent?

The atmosphere suddenly became subtle.

Tom smelled the change in the air and saw Mr. Granger's increasingly unfriendly gaze. He seemed to be able to see the "Friendly-1" mark above Mr. Granger's head, and he cleared his throat before Mr. Granger's relationship with him changed from "friendly" to "cold".

“The sofa in the living room in the tent is spacious enough to accommodate two people, and it’s quite comfortable to sleep on.”

"Ah, that's right," Mr. Granger's expression softened, "but let's take this tent with us! Come, Tom, help me hold the hand."

Tom didn't dare to refuse at all, so he pulled up a stool and moved down the bags containing the tent with Mr. Granger.

"A lot of dust has accumulated." Mr. Granger gently brushed the dust off the tent bag. "The last time we went camping was when Minmin was in elementary school. It has been five or six years ago."

Tom stood aside obediently and nodded, while Hermione took advantage of her father's opportunity to clean the tent and ran away. As for poor Tom, she believed he could get along happily with his father.

However, Hermione didn't feel comfortable for a few minutes. As soon as she ran to the second floor, she was caught by Mrs. Granger and packed her luggage. At this moment, Hermione was extremely lucky that she had packed her clothes a long time ago, otherwise it would be difficult to explain some clothes to her mother...

The next few hours were an extremely long time of sorting out, and Tom felt like he was in prison. But everything eventually comes to an end. After Her mother announced that packing was over countless times but suddenly remembered that she could add some things, the Granger family finally packed their luggage.

Looking at the three suitcases in front of him, Tom said subconsciously: "Actually, we might just stay there for one night..."

"Tom is right." Thinking of having to carry these luggage on foot for several kilometers, Mr. Granger immediately expressed his support for Tom.

"But there is also a competition that lasted for half a month!" Hermione gave a different opinion.

Tom and Mr. Granger looked at each other, gaining courage from each other.

"Those are only rare cases. We have been studying at Hogwarts for three years. When has the game lasted more than one day? The pace of professional games will only be faster and more intense. Not to mention the Seeker of the relegated Leah team this year Klum’s level is extremely high.”

Hermione blushed and wanted to say something, but was stopped by Mr. Granger. He said seriously: Tom is right.

So the four of them unpacked their luggage and packed it again, and stuffed as many scattered items as possible into the box that had been casted by the Traceless Stretching Charm. Eventually, three suitcases turned into a tent-pack and a large suitcase.

Everyone is satisfied.

The time agreed upon with the Weasleys came quickly.

This invitation was initiated by Mr. Weasley. Hospitality is the tradition of the Weasley family, so they take the initiative to invite friends such as Harry and Tom to their home, and then go to the World Cup together - Harry is a good friend of Ron, although Tom has no contact with Ron. Many, but they have been working together with Fred and George... ah no, they met very late, so they became familiar with the Weasley family from time to time.

Of course, because Tom often has business dealings with Fred and George, his image with Mrs. Weasley is not as good as Harry's. However, although Mrs. Weasley is a little dissatisfied with Tom's constant purchase of inappropriate toys from her two careless sons, Tom is still regarded as a friend of the Weasley family - even friends with friends are friends! Since they are friends, Tom is also included in the invitation.

When Mr. Weasley accidentally learned that the Grangers were also going to watch the Quidditch World Cup, he almost fell into madness: these were living Muggles! I have almost endless time to chat with them, and I don’t have to worry about violating confidentiality laws! Opportunities like this don't come around often.

So Arthur immediately asked his youngest son Ron to invite Tom and the Granger family. This was the whole story behind Ron sending the invitation letter.

As Muggles who knew almost nothing about the wizarding world, the Grangers still hoped for wizards to guide them. The two parties hit it off immediately and reached a consensus.

According to the original plan, Mr. Weasley would first go to the Dursley's house to pick Harry up at the Burrow at five o'clock in the afternoon on August 21st, and then meet them at the Granger house. The Weasley family, the Granger family, Tom and Harry will spend the night at the Burrow and head to the competition site early the next morning.

The competition will start on the evening of August 22. How long it will last depends on God’s will.

Mr. and Mrs. Granger were a little nervous on the afternoon of the 21st. They put on their camping clothes and sat upright in the living room. Mr. Granger specially trimmed his hair and shaved his beard, and Mrs. Granger also bathed and changed clothes in advance, and also changed her hairstyle.

Everyone's luggage was piled neatly in the corner of the room. Crookshanks squatted on it with his hands clasped in his hands, like a ginger stuffed toy. Tom's pigeon squatted quietly above Crookshanks' head. Tom tied the silver jug ​​containing Traverso to the straps of his tent pack.

If nothing else went wrong, Mr. Weasley and the others should have arrived around a quarter past five, but as expected, something unexpected happened.

The hands of the clock on the wall pointed to a quarter past five, but nothing happened. Five-twenty...five-thirty...a quarter to five...

At this time, the phone in the living room rang.

Mr. Granger picked up the phone and a very young voice came from the receiver.

"Hey, is this Hermione's house?"

Tom immediately recognized that the owner of this voice was Harry.

Hermione walked to the phone, took the phone from her father's hand, and pressed the speakerphone button.

"Yes, it's me, Hermione. Harry, you - why, um..." Hermione was a little speechless for a moment, not knowing what to say.

Wouldn't it be rude to ask them directly why they haven't come yet? She thought so in her heart.

Mr. Weasley's voice came from the other end of the phone: "Is this a phone? It's really amazing. I want to make one too - oh, sorry, Harry, I didn't mean to interrupt you -"

It could be heard that on the other end of the phone, there was a chaotic situation.

Harry held his forehead in pain and tried to speak in short sentences: "We will talk about other things later. I need to make sure one thing for you first. Hermione, your fireplace should not be sealed, right?"

The Grangers all turned their attention to the fireplace in the living room. The fireplace was extinguished at this time, but there was no doubt that it was not blocked.

After receiving the affirmative answer, Harry and Mr. Weasley on the other end of the phone were relieved.

"Just a few minutes, we'll be right back - remember to keep your distance from the fireplace!" After saying that, Harry hung up the phone, took out a few coins and gave them to the weird-looking convenience store clerk, and took Weasley with him. The husband fled this convenience store with a public telephone as fast as he could.

After a few minutes, the fireplace in the living room suddenly burst into green flames as tall as a person. Then, a somewhat bald middle-aged man suddenly appeared in the flames of the fireplace. Tongues of fire spurted around his green robes, but they could not harm him in the slightest.

This way of appearance is simply awesome in the eyes of the Grangers.

Mr. Arthur looked a little tired. He stepped out of the flames and shook hands with Mr. and Mrs. Granger.

"Great, luckily you didn't seal up the fireplace, you must be Mr. and Mrs. Granger!"

Mr. Granger smiled and nodded, shaking hands with Mr. Weasley.

"This afternoon, I connected your fireplace to the Floo network - as well as the Dursley's. Strictly speaking, this operation is prohibited, but I have someone on the Floo Network management team. An acquaintance, so..."

At this time, the fireplace flames behind him swelled again, and Harry staggered out from inside. Tom's quick eyesight and quick hands caught him.

"This is Harry." Mr. Weasley introduced Harry to the Grangers.

Within a few seconds, Tom's acquaintances Fred and George also appeared in the living room of Granger's house. When Mr. Weasley saw his two sons appearing here, his expression was out of control for a moment, but he quickly covered it up.

After confirming that there were no latecomers, Harry told everyone the reason why they were late and what had just happened at the Dursleys' house.

It turned out that Mr. Weasley was planned to use the Floo network to go to the Dursleys' house, pick up Harry, and then use the Floo network to go to Hermione's house and take away Hermione's family of four. However, this plan had just been confirmed. There was a glitch at the beginning: the Dursleys blocked their fireplace.

Mr. Weasley, who was stuck between his own fireplace and the Dursleys' fireplace, had to use a blasting spell to blow up the Dursleys' fireplace, making the meeting extremely awkward - Fred and George deliberately left The fat tongue toffee made the relationship between the two parties worse.

Mr. Weasley went to great lengths to deal with the aftermath: repairing the Dursleys' fireplace, curing Dally's big tongue, and cleaning up the Dursleys' living room.

This meeting really left a great psychological shadow on Mr. Weasley, so the first thing he did when he returned to the Burrow was not to settle the score with his twin sons, but to ask Harry to contact Hermione and ask. Ask if their fireplace is sealed.

Fortunately, there are public telephones in the town near the Burrow. Fortunately, Harry has exchanged phone numbers with Tom and Hermione before. Fortunately, he has remembered this number in his heart, otherwise today's meeting will continue to be delayed - Mr. Weasley I really don’t want to blow up another fireplace.

After Mr. Weasley received a positive answer, he and Harry went to Hermione's house.

After hearing this bizarre experience, everyone present looked dumbfounded, and Tom quickly looked around to make sure that Fred and George had not left any weird products here.

Mr. Weasley immediately understood Tom's eyes. He glared at the twins who were in a daze, rubbed his hands, and said to Mr. Granger: "Well... I think we seem to be Ready to go?"

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Because it is difficult to break the chapter, I simply published a two-in-one chapter of 4,000 words~ It is said to be 4,000 words, but it is actually 4,100 words.

I was watching Dunkirk today and found a little easter egg in it~