Under the weak September sun, the weather was no longer as hot as it used to be. On the platform, the Hogwarts Express Train was still there, spewing out black steam. The platform was crowded with students and their families who were saying their goodbyes.
A man wearing a porter's hat caught Allen's attention. It was Moody. His hat was low on his asymmetrical eyes, and he was limping towards the train while pushing a trolley full of boxes.
Behind him were Harry, Ron, Sirius, and some members of the Order of the Phoenix.
"Thank you, Allen." When passing by Allen, Sirius approached Allen, and an almost imperceptible thank you entered Allen's ears. Harry wanted to come over and say hello to Allen, but Moody pressed his shoulder.
Allen nodded slightly and watched the hurried group quickly pass by him.
Allen was not burdened by the heavy luggage, so he easily held Emily's hand and got on the train. Unlike before, he went to the head coach at the front of the train, and not the carriage at the back of the train, which was considered exclusive to Allen. Therefore, Allen took Emily directly to his own carriage at the back of the train, and left in a hurry after asking Luna to take care of Emily.
In the head coach's compartment, the heads of Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, and Hufflepuff were all in place, but Slytherin was still nowhere to be seen.
After staying in the compartment for a while, Hermione stood up.
"We should patrol the aisles occasionally," Hermione said to Allen. "We need to maintain order."
"If someone does something bad, we can punish them. I really want to have something on Crabbe and Gore right away, "Ron and another head coach of Hufflepuff, Ernie McMillan, muttered.
When Hermione heard that, she glanced at Ron sternly and pursed her lips. She looked just like Professor Mag.
Padma Patil, another head coach of Ravenclaw, wanted to patrol with Allen, but when he saw Hermione and Allen leaving together, he did not go forward.
"All the heads are a man and a woman." Hufflepuff's other female head coach, Hannah Abo, came forward and held Padma's arm. "But we can obviously team up when patrolling."
Padma gave her a friendly smile, and the two of them also left the compartment.
Seeing this, Ron and McMillan followed behind them. The two of them patrolled very carefully. It was the first time he was given such a responsibility, and Ron was very conscientious. Just as they slowly patrolled to the middle of the train, there was a loud noise in the aisles. The salesgirl with a smile and dimples looked at them. "Dear, do you want to buy any food on the train?"
McMillan touched his stomach and began to choose carefully.
"Honey bee candy, spicy crispy rice chocolate, pepper urchin, jelly slug …" For the first time, Ron felt the joy of buying freely. This time, when school started, he received the largest amount of pocket money from Mr. Weasley in his life.
"You bought so much. Didn't you have breakfast?" McMillan looked at the pile of snacks in Ron's arms in surprise.
"I'm a little hungry, but we can share, can't we?" After that, Ron sang excitedly. "Candy can always help you make friends —"
Ron had just sung a sentence when he heard the door of the compartment next to him open. Pency appeared in front of them with a sneer. She stepped aside, and Malfoy walked out with Gower and Crabbe triumphantly.
Ron suddenly realized that singing just now was a mistake. That behavior might have been a little stupid.
"Aha, only you can do such a stupid thing, Weasley." Malfoy said slowly, his gaze sweeping to the snacks in Ron's arms. "Tell me, how does it feel to buy something on the train for the first time?"
"Shut up, Malfoy." Ron straightened his chest, revealing his prefect badge. "Otherwise, I'll let you have a taste of confinement."
"You're a prefect now, Weasley?" Malfoy said with a drawl. "Unfortunately, you don't have the authority to govern me."
Malfoy sneered, took out a green prefect badge from his pocket, and put it on his chest. Pan Xi, who was beside him, also took out a captain's badge and put it on.
"So what if you have a badge? You're still a rice bucket, Malfoy. So please go away and don't provoke me. Crabbe and Gower are not prefects. "Ron threatened, not to be outdone.
"I heard that you snatched the position of prefect that should have belonged to Potter. Behave yourselves, because I'll follow you like a hunting dog. Let's see if you dare to cross the line." Malfoy said with a smug smile. He lifted his sharp chin, glanced at Ron contemptuously, and turned to leave.
Although Malfoy spoke arrogantly, he wouldn't really provoke Harry. He knew that Allen didn't like him finding trouble with Harry, but he didn't say that he couldn't bully Ron. Moreover, Malfoy sensed that Allen didn't like Ron, just like himself.
Pency took the clumsy Crabbe and Gower to the food cart to buy some snacks, then returned to the box and slammed the door shut.
"I've always thought that Pepper Urchin is the best in the candy bag. They're peppermints that make your ears smoke." McMillan pretended not to see Ron's flushed face and changed the topic.
On the other side, after watching Hermione deal with a few little wizards who were playing with cannonballs in the aisles of the train, Allen went straight to the box at the end of the train.
In the box at the end of the carriage, Allen not only saw Emily, who was holding "Song and Dance" and watching it with great interest with Luna, Harry, who was sleeping on his stomach, and an old acquaintance, Remus Lupin.
He was standing at the door of the box, looking at Allen with a smile.
"Professor Lupin, I'm so glad to see you." Allen stepped forward and took the initiative to extend his hand.
Lupin shook Allen's hand and patted Allen's shoulder with his other hand. "I'm also very happy to officially be your Defense Against the Dark Arts professor again. The substitute teaching time at the end of last semester was too short."
"Professor Lupin, although I personally like your class very much, you shouldn't have come back this year. But in fact, you shouldn't have come back this year, especially under such circumstances. " Allen pulled Lupin in as he shook hands with him and whispered, "Foggy is now trying to find trouble with Dumbledore. If they find out about your identity, I'm afraid they'll use it against Dumbledore and then interfere with the Hogwarts."
"I have the same concern, but this is Dumbledore's arrangement. Dumbledore told me that Foggy wanted to send his people to be this year's Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. Dumbledore argued with them and finally used their mistake in the Dementors' unprovoked attack on Harry to successfully reject their proposal. Now, Foggy can only let the official who was originally in charge of the Dementors, the witch Dolores Umrich, enter the school as an observer. As long as we don't get caught, Foggy has no reason to directly interfere with the Hogwarts. Unfortunately, Dumbledore can't find anyone else he trusts to be the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor in a short period of time. He also doesn't want to let Snape transfer. My identity has indeed become a hidden danger. "Professor Lupin's frown revealed his worry.
At this time, the food cart came over. Allen and Lupin also ended their conversation. He bought pumpkin pie, chocolate frogs, odd-flavored beans, and other snacks for Emily. Then, he sat down and accompanied Emily to eat snacks.
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