Days wandering around Hogwarts

Chapter 426 In the box

"Charles?!"

Hermione immediately recognized the person who had taken her dessert.

"Shh...you didn't see me!"

Charles put his finger on his lips and whispered a reminder to everyone.

He was wearing a leather jacket, a baseball cap, and a pair of big sunglasses today. If it weren't for his skillful knife skills, even Hermione wouldn't have recognized him.

Harry asked him, "Why are you here?"

Charles never went to watch Quidditch matches before, so it was a bit strange for him to be here today.

Charles just smiled and naturally didn't say that he came to watch the old man's fun.

He said, “I’m here to see how the restaurant is doing.”

Everyone thinks this reason is fine.

Harry was about to talk about the Greengrass family, but Charles waved his hand and said, "I'm leaving."

Hermione kept pouting and reaching out to Charles, asking him to give the dessert back, but Charles just disappeared.

Everyone has always thought that Charles' mirror space is a particularly powerful invisibility technique, so no one paid much attention to it.

When Harry and his two companions returned to the tent after touring the camp, they found Ginny waving excitedly to Hermione.

"Hehehehe!" Ginny smiled and handed a large bag to Hermione, "Here's a gift from a gentleman for you."

After taking the bag, Hermione gritted her teeth and said, "I bought these myself, and he took them away!"

The desserts she bought were packed separately into Dancing Grass Restaurant dessert boxes. There was a countdown on each box and only one could be opened a day.

Harry smiled and said, "Charles really cares about you."

"He's worried about you. If you keep eating, you'll become fatter than Dudley."

Ginny also covered her mouth and laughed. Everyone knew that Charles usually controlled the amount of dessert Hermione ate.

Ron had heard Harry mention Dudley and asked curiously, "How fat is he?"

Others were also a little curious.

Harry thought for a moment and replied, "In terms of size, you are the same size as Fawkes, and Dudley is the same size as Ruby."

Ron and others understood immediately.

At this time Ginny said to Harry: "Harry, tell me about Fred and George!"

Harry asked curiously, "What happened to them?"

Fred and George often played pranks on others, and only their mother would tell them off.

Harry was very confused. He had wanted to participate in the past, so why would Ginny let him talk about them?

Ginny said, "Ludo Bagman came over just now. He's the Head of the Department of Magical Sports and Games at the Ministry."

"He wanted Fred and George to place a bet on tonight's game, and the two idiots almost did it."

"I told them Charles hated gambling."

Harry understood what was going on.

Fred and George were obviously tempted to place the bet, but now they were waiting for Charles to make additional investments, so Ginny became a little hesitant when she said that Charles hated gambling.

And before Bagman left, he said that if they changed their minds, they could come to him before the game started.

Harry said to the twin brothers seriously: "Charles really hates gambling. If you still want to work with him, don't touch these things."

"Charles said that gambling is addictive, even if you start with just a few coins. The feeling of getting money without any effort makes it hard to stop. Even if you lose everything, you will still deceive yourself that you can win next time."

He didn't know how big a deal Charles was in betting on football, and that he was involved in both public and private betting, so much so that Jack didn't even consider the pounds as money and thought that all the pounds in the Smith family were earned by Jack.

But in Charles' eyes, this is considered an investment using past life memories, just like making air fryers and getting involved in the Internet industry, so he is very confident when educating Harry.

Fred and George were intimidated by Harry's aura. They looked at each other and promised not to place a bet.

Time passed little by little, and the sound of deep and rich gongs was heard in the distance. The colorful lanterns hanging on the trees in the woods lit up, illuminating the road leading to the stadium.

Arthur led everyone through the woods, and a huge building that could accommodate 100,000 people appeared before everyone. The witch checking the tickets at the entrance checked the tickets and the number of people and said, "First class, top floor box number one! Go straight up, Arthur, to the very top."

Several audience members let in by the ticket inspectors gathered at the stairs, and Charles and his friends were surprised to find someone they knew.

"Professor McGonagall?!" Bill exclaimed in surprise.

Charlie greeted the dean enthusiastically: "Professor McGonagall, I didn't expect to see you here."

Professor McGonagall looked particularly energetic today, wearing a sparkling emerald green robe and a pearl necklace around her neck.

She greeted Bill, Charlie and others, asked about their work along the way, and before they knew it, they had arrived at the top floor corridor together.

There are many doors in the corridor with numbers hung on them, even numbers on the left and odd numbers on the right. Some of them also have national flags or other symbols of various countries.

Harry saw the sign of St. Mungo's Hospital hanging on the door of Box No. 2 on the left, and a healer who had appeared in the newspaper pushed the door open and walked in.

Percy chatted with a young Italian wizard in English and pulled Harry over to introduce them.

Harry politely shook hands with the Italian wizard in charge of medical affairs at the Ministry of Magic and exchanged a few pleasantries, looking very graceful.

Professor McGonagall looked at the ticket in her hand, box number three.

Hermione discovered the problem. Judging from the location of the door, box three was much smaller than the other boxes.

Then she discovered a new problem. On the door of box number five, next to box number three, there was a ball-shaped phoenix logo hanging.

At this time, a young couple walked into box number five, and Hermione found that she had seen them before. In Dijon, France, Charles recruited the gentleman to work in his company, and the gentleman's girlfriend was there at the time.

Hermione was sure that box number five was the box belonging to Charles' company.

She took a step forward subconsciously, thinking that Charles must be there and wanted to punch this guy in the head for her own snack.

Harry saw her walking forward and immediately ended his conversation with the Italian wizard and followed her to see what she was going to do.

Just then Professor McGonagall greeted them and asked them how their summer vacation was going, then turned and pushed open the door of Box 3.

Harry and Hermione looked inside curiously, and found a familiar figure in the small box, so they ran away immediately.

Harry and Hermione came to Box One and sat down on the chairs, muttering to each other.

"I didn't expect him to be here," Harry said.

Hermione thought for a moment and said, "It should be that Charles separated a box into a single room."

Ron asked curiously, "What single room are you talking about?"

Harry turned to him and said, "Charles' grandfather is next door."

Percy, who was next to Ron, heard it and immediately said to Harry, "Really? I'm going to go over and say hello to him."

Percy had known Jack for two months and thought he had learned a lot from him during that time, so he went to say hello.

Harry said immediately, "No, Professor McGonagall is in that box too."

Ron and Percy knew the situation of those two people and their eyes widened in surprise.

Ron smiled and said, "It looks like we'll have a chance to see Charles being scolded by his grandmother."

Harry also smiled and said, "If you talk to Mr. Smith later, he will give you a lot of pocket money."

However, Hermione said, "There may also be more Transfiguration homework."

Everyone was chatting, looking at the huge billboard in front of the box from time to time.

At this time, an advertisement for the Dancing Grass Restaurant was being broadcast, and two lines of words appeared under the twisting Dancing Grass:

What letter is an animal?
From today until September 9, you can enjoy a 30% discount by showing your answer!
Harry curled his lips and said, "Charles used to ask me to guess secret words like this."

Hermione nodded.

At this time, a voice came from behind: "Oh, Charles, long time no see!"

Harry and his group immediately turned around and found two old men shaking hands enthusiastically. They obviously had the same name.

"Dobby?" Harry was surprised to find an elf sitting in the back, who looked very much like Dobby.

"Sorry, I made a mistake." Harry immediately realized that he had made a mistake, because the elf was wearing a tea towel for wiping tea sets, while Dobby was now wearing a suit, sunglasses, and a gold chain.

(End of this chapter)