Became good friends with the Boy Who Lived

Chapter 152: Compartment...Car

The witch selling snacks came over, and as usual, Aries and Harry bought a lot of snacks and desserts because they were not sure whether Hermione, Ron, Draco and others would have time to eat lunch.

Luna preferred snacks like pudding, so Aries pushed his own pudding and other snacks in front of Luna, and Luna also handed her own pies and other foods to Aries.

Just as Aris, Harry and Neville were exchanging the pictures in their chocolate frogs, Hermione and the others came back. Ron slumped down next to Harry, snatched the chocolate frog from Harry's hand, tore open the wrapper and stuffed it into his mouth.

"I'm so tired," Ron said vaguely, "So being a prefect is so tiring..."

Aeris handed Hermione a piece of pumpkin pie.

"Give me one, too, Grindelwald!" said Draco.

"I was just worried that you wouldn't have time to eat," said Aris as he handed some snacks to the group. "Harry and I bought your portions as well. Why didn't the witch selling snacks go to your carriage?"

"We've been there before," Ron said, "but no one bought anything. We can't be the only ones to do that!"

After tasting the pudding, Luna was concentrating on reading the Quibbler magazine in her hand. The special thing was that she was reading it upside down.

Harry saw a headline, "Sirius, murderer or lead singer?" Harry became interested and asked Luna for the Quibbler magazine.

"This magazine is just a pile of waste paper..." Hermione said while chewing a pie.

"Don't say that, Hermione!" Aeris interrupted Hermione quickly, "Luna's father, Mr. Lovegood, is the editor-in-chief of this magazine. Don't mind, Luna, Hermione didn't mean that..."

"Please give me back my magazine, thank you!" Luna said a little angrily.

Hermione lowered her head awkwardly while chewing on the pie and stopped talking. Except for Luna who was concentrating on reading the magazine, everyone else was chatting about the prefects of other colleges, Neville's interesting experiences during the summer vacation, and this year's OWLs...

The scenery outside the window was rapidly receding, and when it was getting dark, the Hogwarts Express finally began to slow down until it slowly stopped.

Everyone haphazardly put their robes on over their clothes and began to push and shove to get out of the car.

The sky had become completely dark. When I came outside, I didn't hear Hagrid's loud voice, but a deep female voice.

"Professor Grubbly-Plank?" said Harry, puzzled. "Where's Hagrid?"

"I have an idea," said Aeris, "I'll think about it after we get on the carriage!"

Ron was dragged to a carriage by Lavender, Neville got on a carriage with Hannah Abbott, Draco also got on a carriage where Slytherin students gathered, and Aeris, as usual, touched the dragon-like head of a Thestral and got on a carriage.

There was already someone in the carriage, it was Luna. Aeris grabbed Hermione's hand and pulled her into the carriage. Hermione sat next to Luna somewhat awkwardly. Aeris sat next to Hermione, and Harry and Ginny sat opposite them.

The carriage started to move slowly. "Can you see them too, Aeris?" Luna asked curiously.

"You mean the Thestrals?" Aeris said, "Not only me, but also Hermione and Harry can see it. In our first year, we killed a giant monster together."

"So I witnessed death!" Luna said, "I witnessed my mother's death when I was a child. My mother always told me to be happy and wise. Happiness and wisdom are the greatest wealth in life..."

Everyone laughed awkwardly, and Harry said, "Eris, where do you think Hagrid is?"

"It's just a guess," said Aeris. "Hagrid must have joined the Order of the Phoenix, right? Then there is only one reason why he is not here. He must be carrying out Professor Dumbledore's important mission, such as contacting some neutral, intelligent magical creatures to ensure that they will not be won over by Voldemort, or even trying to... establish friendship with the giants..."

The rest of the people in the carriage gasped, "I really hope everything turns out alright for him..." Hermione said worriedly.

"It's just a guess," Aris said, "don't worry too much..."

"Your guesses are often frighteningly accurate!" Harry said worriedly.

"Actually," Luna suddenly said, "Professor Grubbly-Plank is better at teaching this course. Our Ravenclaw classmates are not very receptive to Professor Hagrid's teaching. Look at that... Exploding-Ended Skrewt last year. Many of our Ravenclaw classmates were so scared that they didn't want to take the Care of Magical Creatures class..."

"That just shows how terrible your sense of humor is..." Harry said angrily.

"Come on, Harry!" said Aris. "Everyone has subjects they like and dislike, don't they? Think about Professor Snape..."

"Except for Slytherin students, no one likes Professor Snape," Luna said, "This is the unanimous opinion of Ravenclaw..."

The atmosphere in the car suddenly became relaxed and cheerful.