After making an appointment with Harry to go buy textbooks for the new semester together, Jian Yu returned to her room.

She dragged out her suitcase and tried to take out the purse Dumbledore had given her.

But the hole in the box set off her alarm bells.

She quickly opened the first compartment and took out the purse -

Sure enough, it also had a hole in it, and it was empty inside!

It turned out that he was robbed!

Jian Yuqing counted the items in the suitcase, opened the compartments one by one, and found that a lot of the precious magic props inside were missing!

Don't you know that Aurors are responsible for catching thieves? she thought angrily.

But when she opened the last compartment, her left hand suddenly felt a pile of prickly and crooked hair, and a black animal was wriggling inside.

When she looked closely, she saw that the thief was actually a Niffler!

This made her both angry and amused, so she grabbed the skin on the back of its neck and began to tickle its belly with her fingers.

Accompanied by the crisp sound of crackling, the gold coins began to explode.

There were gold Galleons and silver Sickles, far more than the original amount in the purse, all over the floor, as well as her silver spyglass, the magic necklace inlaid with gems, the shiny dragon scale given to her by the Ukrainian Iron Belly, and so on... Sniff's belly was like a bottomless pit!

At some point it crept into her suitcase and followed her on her journey to Diagon Alley.

But Jian Yu was still puzzled. She remembered that she had checked her suitcase before leaving, so how come a Niffler came in?

Alfira on the shelf flapped her wings, puffed out her chest proudly, and hid her achievements and fame——

This is a big black rat that it caught itself!

What a rich reserve of food!

Look how much its human cubs like it!

They've started biting the mouse's belly!

......

Now Jian Yu completely understood why the book said that the Nifflers were not suitable for domestic breeding.

Although it has a mild temper and is affectionate towards people, it can escape from the suitcase in various ways.

This includes using his little claws to hook open the buckle of the box, becoming as thin as a piece of paper and twisting himself out from the gap between the boxes, or biting through the leather shell, and even being able to ignore some special magic on it.

Once it escapes from the suitcase, it starts digging holes and stealing treasures.

In just a few days, the Leaky Cauldron was filled with complaints.

Some people claimed that there were rats running around in the bar, while others said that there were thieves who had their belongings stolen.

Jian Yu had to take Alfila around to sniff every day and secretly put the treasures back to the lost and found office of the bar late at night.

These rumors made Old Tom very angry, and he threatened to send someone to Azkaban for a hundred years.

Jian Yu felt even more guilty.

The letter she sent to Newt, telling him that the Niffler had run away, went unsigned, and she remembered with dismay that the Scamanders had long since gone abroad and were now somewhere in the mountains, trying to free the Ukrainian ironbelly.

For this reason, she had to start learning the traceless extension spell by herself, and create a small space in the suitcase for the Sniff to build a nest. At the same time, she cast more than 20 different spells on the suitcase to prevent it from escaping.

Among the guests who had been robbed, Harry Potter, who lived next door to her, was particularly resentful.

He who is close to the water gets the moon first, and Sniff is particularly concerned about his purse.

"There really is a thief here!" Harry complained to Jian Yu, very distressed, "My purse is torn, and I've lost money twice in three days! If I hadn't been holding it down, the Invisibility Cloak would have been almost stolen!"

Jian Yu took a deep breath and sincerely suggested that he go to the lost and found office.

Harry was very happy to have the gold Galleons back, but he still reminded her:

"We have to sleep with our money bags! We have to be extra careful in the middle of the night!"

Jian Yu nodded calmly and said to him sadly:

"Yes, that's right, I mean, we have to be careful with rats, Harry."

......

Jian Yu spent the last part of the summer vacation receiving and sending letters.

Dumbledore sent her a letter almost every day, urging her to do her homework, asking her if she had been running around, or sending her a few thick books... He also wrote a separate letter introducing Dementors.

Even in the previous life, no one would push their children like this!

Jian Yu rolled his eyes.

That day, she and Harry went to buy textbooks for the new semester, but found Flourish and Blotts bookstore in a mess.

Inside was a large iron cage containing about a hundred copies of the Monster Book of Monsters, all tangled together, biting each other fiercely with a circle of sharp teeth, tearing each other into pieces, and shredded paper flying everywhere.

The bookstore manager was poking his crutch into the cage and hitting the books to separate them.

He received the two of them impatiently, sweating and panting:

"From Hogwarts? To buy new textbooks?"

After they explained their needs, the manager took them to a small corner inside the store where many divination books were piled.

Jane noticed that Harry's eyes were fixed on a book called Death Omen: What to Do When You Know Doom Is Coming. On the cover of the book was a black dog as big as a bear, staring with a pair of shining eyes.

The manager handed them two copies of "Seeing the Future Through the Mist" and found the textbooks for the third grade required courses:

"Thank goodness you don't need that damn 'Monster Book of Monsters'!"

"I've been bitten five times this morning! I bought three hundred books in, and now they've been bitten down to only a hundred!"

Jian Yu couldn't help but be amazed.

The loss rate is as high as two-thirds. I'm afraid all the capital has been lost!

But why not remove the teeth? Is it because they are alive?

"Are they alive?" she asked curiously.

The manager looked at her strangely and hit the book with his cane again:

"Are you crazy, little girl? They are just books. No matter how much they bite, they are just books without soul and life!"

Jian Yu asked back:

"Why don't you get them processed again? I don't think the lack of teeth will affect the reading at all."

The manager of Flourish and Blotts was stunned.

He suddenly felt that what he said made a lot of sense!

How correct, how pertinent, and how to-the-point this suggestion is!

"Yeah, yeah..." he murmured, "No one likes a book that bites, unless he is mentally ill."

"I can process them and charge a processing fee - or let the customer choose the type to buy -"

He waved his wand and started working as a dentist, extracting teeth for the monster books.

All of a sudden, all the monster books fell silent, piled up into a pile, and didn't dare to move.

"What's your name?" he asked while casting the spell.

After Jian Yu answered, he forced a toothless monster book into her hand:

"I'm sorry for my rudeness today...Thanks for your advice, here's the book for you."

The manager waved his hand and said that all the purchases made by the two of them at the bookstore today would be free of charge, and promised Jian Yu:

"When you graduate, you can come here to work."

Harry was stunned by this pie in the sky, and looked at Jian Yu as if he was admiring Merlin.

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