Hogwarts: Don't call me Wandmaker

Chapter 14: Mrs. Norris is attacked

After coming out of the office, Xi Lun couldn't help but look back.

He didn't expect that things could be settled so easily. He had previously thought that there were not enough Gryffindor dormitories, so only five people could fit in one room.

Very good, Xi Lun turned and walked towards the tower.

The corridor was empty and eerily quiet; only his footsteps could be heard echoing between the floors.

At some point, a skinny cat appeared on the road ahead of Xilun.

The cat was really thin, with dull gray fur and bulging eyes like two light bulbs.

Wait, cat?

Xi Lun paused.

He always felt that he had forgotten something before, but now he finally remembered it.

Where is Tom?
He threw Tom to the ground before Sorting and was never seen again.

However, after a moment, Xi Lun stopped thinking about it and continued to walk forward calmly.

If it were Tom, he should be worried about other students' pets. He felt that the cat could thrive even in the Forbidden Forest.

It's just that Xi Lun wants to leave, but some people don't want to.

The skinny cat kept following, howling from time to time. A few minutes later, an equally skinny man jumped out from the end of the corridor in front.

"Ahaha, students don't sleep..."

"I just came out of Professor McGonagall's office," Siren said, interrupting him. "If you don't believe me, you can go ask now. And one more thing, your cat can't read the time, can't you? There are still ten minutes until curfew!"

Filch swallowed the words he hadn't spoken yet, and his face turned green.

But Xi Lun didn't care about that and walked around him and continued forward.

"Don't let me catch you..." A threatening voice came from behind.

Xi Lun continued walking: "Thanks for the reminder."

……

The new dormitory is also in the freshman area. It is very clean and spotless.

Although he was very tired after sitting on the train for a whole day, Xi Lun decided to write a letter to his grandfather to report his current situation.

The letter was not long, mainly talking about the situation of the branch and how he had applied for a single dormitory that would be convenient for him to continue making wands.

At the end of the letter, he asked his grandfather to say hello to his parents and convey the news.

They are all abroad at the moment, and Xi Lun is not sure whether the school's owl can fly so far across the ocean, so let's leave it to the Owl Post Office.

After finishing all this, Xi Lun wanted to finish a half-finished wand at hand, but he was so sleepy and dizzy that he just found the nearest bed and fell asleep.

the next day.

Xi Lun got up early, went to the Owl House to deliver last night's letter, and had breakfast in the auditorium.

Hermione and Neville were both there. Hermione looked normal, just like yesterday, but Neville was a little strange. He greeted him in a very low voice and then turned his head away the whole time, deliberately avoiding looking at him.

Even Hermione noticed something was wrong.

"What's wrong with you?" she couldn't help but ask.

"No, nothing." Neville shook his head first, then hesitated for a few minutes, and couldn't help looking at Xi Lun. He mustered up the courage to ask: "You, do you... look down on us?"

This sentence seemed to weigh a thousand pounds. After Neville asked this question, even his breathing became a lot faster, but his expression was very firm. With red eyes and stiff neck, he just looked at Xi Lun.

"How do you say this?"

"We all heard that you applied for a single dormitory yesterday. Doesn't that mean you don't want to live with us?"

"You guys...wait, so my roommate is you? Who else?"

"Harry, Ron, Seamus..." Neville called out three names.

"Oh, it's you." Xi Lun raised his eyebrows.

"You don't know?" Neville was stunned.

"I don't know." Xi Lun spread a layer of butter on his bread. "I didn't even enter the dormitory. I took a look at the door and went to find Professor McGonagall. How could I know who my roommate was?"

"Why do you want to change dorms?"

"Well, it's hard to explain in just a few words." Xi Lun thought for a moment, "If you really want to know, come to my place at seven tonight, and then you'll understand."

"Okay, we'll go."

It wasn't Neville who said this, but Harry and Ron who were behind him. They had come to breakfast and happened to hear Ciron's words. Judging from their expressions, they were also very unhappy about Ciron's unexplained change of dormitories. Ron, in particular, muttered a lot to Harry, saying things like "Purebloods are just like that..."

Xi Lun didn't care about this.

Hermione, wanting to help lighten the mood, took the initiative to change the subject: "Oh, well, how did you guys deal with those stairs."

"The easiest way is to follow the senior students," Siren said. "Or you can ask ghosts for help, like Nearly Headless Nick and the Fat Monk."

What’s interesting is that in all the classes that day, Neville, Harry, Ron, and Seamus ignored Seamus as if they had agreed to do so.

Harry had thought about it, but before he could open his mouth, Ron pulled him away.

Fine.

Xi Lun just found it a little funny.

This continued until night, when they finished observing the starry sky through the telescope and returned to the common room from the astronomy tower together.

When they passed through the entrance, Fred and George were talking loudly about something. Judging from their excited expressions, it must be good news.

"Hey, did you hear that?"

Seeing the freshmen, one of the Weasleys immediately came over and said with a big laugh, "Just last night, Mrs. Norris was attacked, haha!"

"Who?" Harry blinked, not reacting.

"Mrs. Norris."

"who is she?"

"It's Filch's cat," Ron reminded.

"Oh." Harry suddenly realized.

He remembered that he and Ron had met the caretaker Filch this morning when they were lost on the fourth floor.

But I didn't see the cat.

"What happened to the cat?" someone asked excitedly, "Tell me quickly."

The cat named Mrs. Norris often patrolled the corridors with Filch, looking for students who violated school rules, and she was quite successful.

Among the curses echoing in the detention room, Mrs. Norris's name was second only to Filch, and many people wanted to get rid of her as soon as possible.

But they dare not.

Because in a sense, Filch also represents the school.

I didn’t expect that a real hero would emerge in our school this year.

very impressive!

"I don't know," said one of the Weasleys, and Ciarán saw his wand...it was Fred.

"But it couldn't have been done by a human," George added. "We secretly went to the school hospital. Mrs. Norris had a broken leg, claw marks all over her body, and her fur was bald in patches."

"Judging from these injuries, the hero who got rid of this evil must also be a... cat? Maybe, but definitely not a student."

As if they hadn't expected such an answer, the usually bustling common room fell silent for a moment.

But this silence was soon broken.

"Come on, no matter what, today is a day worth celebrating!" Fred raised one hand.

George followed closely behind, "For the hero of Hogwarts!"

"I wish it would do the same to Filch!"

Fred and George stepped aside, revealing the biscuits, cakes, and butterbeer they had been hiding behind.

"Oh, where did it come from?" Ron's eyes lit up.

"School kitchen."

"I'm asking about the Butterbeer."

"Well...it's a secret." George winked.

Everyone started partying, and Xiren was also given a bottle of butterbeer, but he was not in the mood to drink it.