Chapter 135 Farewell (Happy Mid-Autumn Festival to Everyone)
After returning to the castle, Ron immediately wrote a letter and asked Hedwig to deliver it to Charlie.
Because Charlie was far away in Romania, it was not until the Wednesday night of the second week that the dusty Hedwig brought back a reply from Charlie.
Harry, who had already fallen asleep, was awakened by the sound of Hedwig knocking on the window. He put on his glasses in a daze and let Hedwig in.
"There are letters so late?"
Seamus, who was also awakened, stretched his head to take a look, complained unhappily, and then retreated behind the curtains and continued to sleep soundly.
Harry tiptoed to Ron's bed and woke him up, and then the two of them tiptoed to the common room together and read Charlie's reply together.
Fish was still playing outside at this time, and they couldn't get into the girls' dormitory, so they had to read it first.
Charlie wrote in his reply that his friend would visit him in Romania next week, so he hoped that Ron and the others could send Norbert to the highest tower of Hogwarts at midnight on Saturday, and his friend would come to receive it.
"We have the invisibility cloak," Harry said after looking at each other for a while, "It shouldn't be too difficult - I think the invisibility cloak is enough to cover the two of us and Norbert, and Firth doesn't need the invisibility cloak."
"So, why do we have to go to the tower?"ω
The next morning, when Harry and Ron told Firth and Hermione about Charlie's reply, Firth tilted his head in confusion, "Wouldn't it be more convenient to go directly to the Forbidden Forest to find Hagrid?"
Harry and Ron looked at each other again, they didn't know why, and they hadn't thought about this question before...
"Maybe... because it's easier to determine the location of the highest tower?"
Ron forced himself, Charlie and his friends to save face.
Harry, who had not expected this either, laughed awkwardly twice, then sighed helplessly, "Whatever the reason, it's too late to change the plan. We don't have time to send another owl to find Charlie."
"So we can only use the invisibility cloak to pick Norbert up?"
Hermione also sighed helplessly. She was now somewhat accustomed to violating school rules.
"Don't worry, Hermione. With Firsh following him, Norbert will be more obedient. We won't be caught by Filch or other professors so easily." Ron comforted.
After listening for a while, Firsh probably understood their concerns, so he interrupted again in confusion: "Why don't you ask Comey and the others for help? They can send Norbert here with just a "pop". "ω
Firsh had tried to ask Comey and the others to send him out of the castle before, but unfortunately he was rejected. However, asking them to help send Norbert into the castle should be no problem.
"Comey? Who is that?"
Hermione, who had never seen Comey, asked curiously.
"Oh, he's a house elf working at Hogwarts. He was lent to Professor McGonagall by Dumbledore to take care of Fish, so Fish is very familiar with him." Harry explained on the side.
"House elves! I know them!" Hermione suddenly became excited, "I've seen records about them in books. It is said that they basically only exist in those ancient wizard families. They are very good life helpers for wizards. I have never seen one!"
"You can see them in the kitchen of Hogwarts. There are at least hundreds of elves there."
Ron shrugged, with a smile in his eyes. It was rare for him to see Miss Know-It-All so surprised.
"Okay," Harry interrupted their topic about elves, "After class, let's go and inform Hagrid. When you go out at night, Fish, please confirm with Comey and others whether they can help, okay?"
"No problem! Leave it to Fish, meow!" (●ΦωΦ●)
Fish pounded his chest and agreed very readily.
Things went very smoothly. Although Hagrid was reluctant, he knew that this was the best result, and Comey and the others agreed to help without hesitation.
So time soon came to Saturday night.
"I will go to Minerva at around eleven o'clock and ask her to tell me a story. You should hurry up and wait for meow on the roof of the Astronomy Tower. Don't worry about Big Eyes. Loris promised to help me lead him away meow."
This is what Fish told Harry and the others before leaving the dormitory.
"Thanks to Fish, otherwise it would not be so easy for us to transport Norbert to the Astronomy Tower." Ron sighed.
After leaving the dormitory, Fish wandered around the castle for a while as usual. He went to the kitchen first and notified Comey and the others to help Hagrid transport Norbert, and then ran to the door of Professor McGonagall's office.
"Minerva~" ●ω●
Fish threw himself into the arms of Professor McGonagall who was about to go out for patrol.
"Why are you here now?" Professor McGonagall rubbed Fish's head and said helplessly, "I'm on duty tonight, I should go out on patrol now."
"Then I want to go too!" Fish raised his hands and volunteered, "I'll patrol with Minerva, meow!"
After saying that, he turned into a cat and ran out the door.
"Meow~"
The kitten turned around and urged Professor McGonagall.
Forcing Minerva to stay and read a story book to him would only make her suspicious. It would be better to do the opposite, join in the patrol with Minerva, and then lead her away.
Although there are no specific examples of this kind of operation in the storybook, Feike is not just a stupid cat who only knows how to copy it. He has long been able to learn and apply it.
So under the deliberate guidance of the two cats Fish and Mrs. Norris, Filch and Professor McGonagall basically wandered around the floors below the fifth floor. Occasionally they came up to take a look, but it was just a quick glance and they were completely unaware. Harry and the others sneaked out under the cloak of invisibility.
The three of them arrived at the top of the Astronomy Tower, and immediately saw a large crate that was constantly making noise, and the house elf Komi standing next to the crate.
He lifted off his invisibility cloak, stepped forward and said hello: "Good evening, Comey, thank you for your help."
"It is an honor for Comey to serve Master Fish and Mr. Harry Potter!"
Comey replied sharply, bowing deeply to Harry.
Hermione on the side cast an inquiring look at him, but Comey ignored it. He straightened up and said energetically: "Then it's time for Comey to leave. There is still a lot of work waiting for me to do!"
After saying that, he bowed again to the three Harrys, and then disappeared in front of them with a harsh "pop" sound.
"Is this a house elf?" Hermione frowned, "The rag on his body seems to be just a curtain, right?"
"Yes," Ron shrugged nonchalantly and explained to Hermione: "Elves don't wear normal clothes. I remember giving elves clothes seems to mean expelling them. Maybe this is the reason. The reason why they don’t wear normal clothes.”
"Why do they have such weird habits?" Hermione continued to ask very puzzledly.
It's a pity that Ron only knew about this little scaly claw. He shook his head and replied angrily: "How do I know? I don't have any elves in my family."
Hermione wanted to ask again, but was interrupted by Fish who arrived belatedly.
"Meow?" Feishu changed back to the cat-human form and looked around, "Is it true that Meow didn't come to the brain gate?"
"Brain gate?" Harry was surprised, "You also informed Malfoy?"
"Yes, Meow," Feishu nodded matter-of-factly, "But he said at the time that he wouldn't come, wasn't it because Norbert said he didn't really like him Meow...that guy is so stingy." ω
"Slytherins, they all have this kind of virtue."
Ron didn't hesitate to take the opportunity to apply eye drops to all the members of the Snake House.
Everyone stayed on the top floor of the astronomy tower and chatted for a while, then four broomsticks fell from the sky.
Charlie's friends originally wanted to have a good chat with Harry, a famous celebrity, but after seeing Fish with cat ears, they instantly lost control and everyone gathered around him.
When they saw Fish for the first time, they had no resistance to the cat-eared Fish. After they slowly got used to Fish's weird affinity, they turned around and talked with Harry and others for a while, and then Seven Hands Eight feet tied the rope to Norbert's box.
After reluctantly saying goodbye to everyone (mainly Fish), Charlie's friends boarded their broomsticks, pulled the crate containing Noble, and left the Astronomy Tower of Hogwarts.
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I was very confused when I was reading the book. When picking up Norbert, wouldn't it be more convenient to go directly to the Forbidden Forest? Why bother Harry to go out of the castle to bring the dragon back and then send it to the Astronomy Tower.
Hermione's "Vomiting" Society came up with the idea after seeing what happened to Winky. She had no such idea when she met Dobby before.