Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 165 The Burrow
The McGuffin turned faster and faster, and images of countless fireplaces flashed before his eyes, making his head ache.

Dizzy, he felt like clothes being stuffed into the washing machine... just turning around like that, and he didn't know when he would stop.

In the end, he felt as if he was about to vomit, but he still closed his eyes, and the disgusting feeling stopped for a while.

But what followed was random thoughts in his head... He desperately tried to recall whether he had misspoken the Burrow's password just now, which would cause him to be thrown to other places like Harry, or worse... trapped in this spinning 'little top' forever.

Suddenly McGuffin felt the speed of rotation slow down, opened his eyes, and a bright light appeared in front of his eyes. It was not the kind of blur, a series of fireplaces quickly skipped the image, but a clear kitchen fireplace, and several faceless figures in wizard robes were waiting in front of the fireplace.

--Reached?

Haven't thought about it yet... A strong force suddenly lifted him up and threw him out of the fireplace.

The McGuffin slammed on the ground at the Weasleys' house.

face down.

- Click.

He clearly heard the crisp crackling sound of the bridge of his nose hitting the ground.

"McGuffin!"

Finally, at the moment of losing consciousness, he heard Mrs. Weasley, Ron and their panicked cries.

……

"The poor boy, he's never used Floo powder..."

"Arthur, why didn't you teach him in advance!"

"I... I kind of forgot..."

"Forgot what, aren't you busy studying those Muggle electrical appliances again? I tell you Arthur Weasley...you must set a good example for your two good sons...otherwise they won't be able to devote their energy to studying!"

"...Is McGuffin all right!" He recognized Ron's voice.

An indistinct sound sounded from the ear, and McGuffin's body seemed to be suppressed by something, unable to move.

The electrical signals in the body flow back and forth among the nerves, he can feel everything, his consciousness is very clear, but his body cannot move.

The more I struggle to wake up, the more I feel as if I've been sunk into a quagmire... I can't break free.

I don't know how long it has passed, an hour, half a day, or the next morning...

Suddenly something hit his face, it felt like a blanket of chicken feathers, but it was trembling, warm, alive, and had a... what kind of smell.

Suddenly McGuffin opened his eyes.

I understand what it tastes like!
—the smell of bird droppings.

Errol, that owl from the Weasleys just hit him in the face.

Mouth full of bird feathers, with...

--vomit!

At this moment, Ron was moving the owl away from his face when he saw the McGuffin waking up and yelling for his mother, Mrs. Weasley, to come up.

"Mom - the MacGuffin is awake!" Ron said.

"McGuffin, are you all right! That one...frightened us all!"

McGuffin turned his head and looked around, and found that it was an orange-yellow room, and even the bright color made him a little dizzy.

Low, sloping ceilings, orange and yellow Quidditch posters adorning almost all the worn wallpaper.

All the posters have exactly the same seven wizards and wizards... They are either shouldering their shoulders and holding a broom, smiling and waving at the McGuffin, or they are flying through the storm to avoid the Quaffle, or they are riding a flying broom in the snowstorm to pursue the Golden Snitch...

Except for the picture, the bottom of the border of the poster is orange and yellow, which is the reason for the color of this room.

In addition, all seven of them in this team wear orange robes, which are their Quidditch uniforms.

McGuffin knew it was the team Ron kept talking about.
—The Chudley Cannons, ninth in the club.

He had posters like this all over his bed (in the Gryffindor dormitories at Hogwarts).

Therefore, orange-yellow has become Ron's favorite color.

For example, the bed cover under him is also the same color, with the words CC on it. (Two initials of the Chudley Cannons)

When Harry saw McGuffin wake up, he also put down his homework and rushed over from the balcony.

McGuffin looked out the window and realized that it was dusk.

The sky gradually darkened little by little, the sun was covered by thin clouds, and the edge of the sky was dyed orange red, and this strange color was also sprinkled not far away.

In the green field outside the house, the cattle and sheep in twos and threes were driven slowly and leisurely.

A gust of cool wind blows into the house, slightly floating the orange curtains on both sides of the window.

An empty owl cage hung from the window.

There is a huge fish tank on the balcony, with many frog eggs floating in it, entwined on the floating aquatic plants, and a few white pebbles the size of a fist are placed on the bottom.

Scabbers the mouse, Peter Pettigrew was lying on the balcony snoring.

He... really regarded himself as a mouse.

Seeing this guy, the corners of McGuffin's eyes twitched, and he couldn't help thinking of...

Forget it.

McGuffin immediately turned his attention to Harry and Ron who were approaching.

Without waiting for them to say something.

Ding Ding Ding-

Someone approached on the stairs, opened the door and walked in.

McGuffin looked back.

It was the Weasleys... Mr and Mrs Weasley, the twins George and Fred, and Ron's youngest sister, Ginny, who was hiding behind his parents, watching Harry warily, and even Percy stood at the end to see if the McGuffin was all right.

The narrow room was very crowded for a while.

Everyone looked at him.

McGuffin staggered up from the bed, proving that he was fine.

"This is me?" He knew what happened, and he said this just to defuse the atmosphere of awkward silence.

McGuffin felt itchy on his nose, and was about to stretch out his hand to it.

"Don't touch it!" Mrs. Weasley hastily stopped McGuffin from moving, and said to him, "I used magic to straighten the bone inside the nose, and then applied the ointment to treat trauma, and it should heal soon... Don't move when it's itchy, or there will be sequelae."

Harry complained and said to McGuffin, "McGuffin, you are so reckless, why didn't you ask Mr. Weasley how to use Floo powder..."

McGuffin can't say that he has seen how to use Floo powder from movies and novels, so he can rest assured to imitate others to do it.

"It's okay, it's okay..." McGuffin scratched his head, and said to several people indifferently, "Every great wizard has a broken nose, for example, Dumbledore is like that?"

"And I myself belong to the type that is particularly prone to motion sickness... Floo fans didn't get used to it the first time, and didn't know when to stop. I was unprepared, so I was injured... I guess there won't be such a thing next time!"

"nothing……"

McGuffin tried to stand up, got off the bed, and walked a few times.

He tried hard to prove that there was nothing wrong with him.

"Then... well! My dear, you can rest for a while, come down to dinner later..." Mrs. Weasley said to McGuffin with a smile, "Harry, Ron, please stay with McGuffin, and call me if you have a nosebleed..."

"George, Fred, and Arthur, come and help me prepare..." Then she snapped again.

"It's not fair...why doesn't Percy have anything to do?" either George or Fred murmured.

"If you can also get twelve OWLs wizarding level certificates, I will let you go...Unfortunately, according to your current results..." Mrs. Weasley looked at Percy with a softer face, slapped the two brothers on the head, turned around and drove a large group of people away, and finally closed the door tightly.

Before leaving, Ron's sister Ginny took her mother's hand and kept turning her head secretly, staring at Harry.

Afterwards, Ron sat on the edge of the bed and said to McGuffin with a low laugh, "That's Ginny, my sister, who's been talking about Harry all summer..."

He suddenly said loudly, "Harry, you must sign her in a moment, she really wants it..."

Before he could finish speaking, there was the sound of panicked running outside the door.

Drum-dump!
It seemed that this was not the first time. Ron had known for a long time that the little red-haired man was hiding behind, eavesdropping and peeping.

……

During the chat, after a while, Mrs. Weasley called a few people to have dinner.

MacGuffin walked through the winding staircase, five floors in total.

On the first floor, there is a narrow corridor.

In the aisles and stairs, as in the McGuffin's house, there are also various photos of the Weasley family.

McGuffin saw pictures of Ron's other two older brothers, Bill and Charlie.

Bill is pictured without the cool shell earrings, and his hair is only slightly longer than in a ponytail.

He was wearing a wizard robe with the badge of the boy representative of the Student Union pinned, standing with the Weasleys, laughing and waving, like a graduation photo.

And Charlie's figure is about the same as that of the twins, much better than Percy who is as big as a stick, and thanks to this, he would not be able to face those vicious dragons.

He was tall and mighty, with muscular arms.

It wasn't hard for McGuffin to imagine why the Slytherin Quidditch team couldn't please him.

——Just looking at this posture, one can tell that Slytherin's usual foul tactics can't make any powerful threat to this body.

Charlie had the typical Weasley features, with freckles and flame-red hair.

It's just different from the cynicism of the twins, and Bill's handsome face...he has a broad face like a good man, and he looks very serious in the photo, staring at McGuffin with his mouth pursed.

"The two of them probably won't be seen by you...Charlie is studying fire dragons in Romania, and Bill...Gringotts just sent him to Egypt to find the whereabouts of the treasures left by a group of ancient Egyptian wizards...McGuffin, you know it too! Pyramids, mummies...the things left by ancient Egyptian wizards are the most troublesome things, curses, curses, all kinds of messy things..."

Ron looked at McGuffin staring at the photo of Bill and Charlie and said casually, but it could be heard from his tone that he was very proud of these two brothers.

Afterwards, McGuffin, Harry, and Ron came to the Weasleys' kitchen together.

The kitchen is very small, and it can be said to be quite crowded. There are many people in the Weasley family itself, not to mention the two "unexpected visitors" Harry and Ron, the place is even more crowded.

In the middle of the room, there is a wooden table and a few chairs that fill up the space here.

A barbecue that was so huge that McGuffin couldn't hold it now was being roasted in the fireplace surrounded by orange-red magic flames. Mrs. Weasley was waving her magic wand. The flame and the barbecue slowly blended with each other, making a sizzling sound. The oil seeping from the barbecue was continuously evaporated by the flame, floating in the air in the kitchen, emitting a strong smell of burnt aroma.

(In addition to a small flower pot containing Floo powder, there are three layers of books stacked on the mantelpiece. McGuffin saw a thick book on the top, with gilt sides, and beautiful flower letters: Gilderoy Lockhart teaches you how to get rid of household pests)
Some seasoning supplies, pots and pans, vegetables, bread, the whole kitchen is like a musical score, constantly playing the aroma of various foods under the command of Mrs. Weasley.

At last……

Chicken, ham pie, boiled potatoes, and various salads, roast meat, bread... All kinds of food, as directed by Mrs. Weasley's wand, floated slowly and danced to the table with a certain rhythm like dancing.

When Mrs. Weasley saw that everyone was there, she tapped on the table, and all the chairs were pulled back under everyone's buttocks.

At this time, the wall clock on the opposite wall, the pointer (only one), jumped to the dinner.

The whole house of the Burrow (McGuffin was sure every room from the first to the fifth floor) began to resound with Mrs. Weasley's screams
—It's dinner, it's dinner.

He yelled three times before he stopped.

An old magic radio was placed on a shelf above the pool, but there was no antenna and buttons, as if it had been disassembled, followed by a small horn-like radar that was constantly rotating on it, zooming in and out for a while.

Mrs. Weasley waved her wand, and the Daily Prophet News, which had been playing inside, stopped.

The aroma of the food eventually makes the McGuffin salivate and a little hungry.Seeing that everyone else pulled out their chairs and finished, he also sat down and began to eat.

No matter which world or country you are in... Food is the best catalyst to bring people closer and change the atmosphere. It works better than magic.

At first, McGuffin didn't have time to talk at all, and just ate all kinds of food.

Especially one of the sizzling barbecues, I don't know if it was roasted with magic flames, it was charred on the outside and tender on the inside, juicy and juicy, it was delicious.

Mrs. Weasley cut it open with her wand, and each gave Harry and McGuffin the largest and freshest part.

As the others ate and chatted at the table, Fred and George began to describe what they had seen in the McGuffin's house.

They were particularly curious about that TV.

Not knowing what was going on, the topic turned to the Ministry of Magic.

Mr. Weasley brought up the fact that McGuffin and Harry had been warned by the Ministry of Magic.

"I heard from people in the Ministry that you performed magic in front of Muggles... what the hell is going on?" asked Mr. Weasley, taking a gulp of fresh orange juice.

McGuffin looked up and met Harry's eyes.

Harry told them exactly what McGuffin's sister found Dobby at Dursley's home, and stunned Dobby with an electric shock device (stun gun) and took him to the garage of McGuffin's home.

But this made Mr. Weasley suddenly excited, "The electric shocker is a legendary Muggle weapon... that can emit electric light and stun people..."

He kept asking, and successfully diverted the topic.

"Arthur!" Mrs. Weasley yelled angrily, which brought Mr. Weasley back to his senses. He put a big mouthful of chicken in the bread with some embarrassment, then stuffed it into his mouth and ate it.

And Mrs. Weasley asked, and handed each of them a piece of bread covered with blueberry jam, which was full of fruity aroma.

Then McGuffin and Harry told the whole thing one by one.

What the house-elf told a few people... the warning it gave Harry, the attempt to prevent Harry from receiving letters from other people, the thing that prevented Harry from going to Hogwarts, and finally the thing that he was abused by that unknown magic.

There is also the analysis given by McGuffin's sister Emily to the two.

There was silence, everyone stopped and stared at the two with serious expressions.

(End of this chapter)