Kapitel 302: Chapter 302: On the Hogwarts Express (Edited)

"Hello nya!"

?(●ΦωΦ●)?

Fish steered Hermione, who was in a grumpy mood, towards the door, then stopped before the cart, eyeing the snacks on it with a greedy look.

"So that's Fish," the witch running the cart, who Fish actually knew and who lived in Hogsmeade, reached out and patted Fish's little head, then grabbed a handful of licorice wands from the cart and passed them to Fish. "Here, Auntie's giving it to you."

"Fish wants three more cakes like that," the kitten pointed to the cauldron-shaped cakes on the cart, then picked up the pocket money that Professor McGonagall had given him before climbing into the cart: "Fish pays nya."

(●ΦωΦ●)つ

Fish handed him the money as he continued to pick out the snacks from the cart.

On the other side, Daphne, Pansy and Millicent were jealously watching Hermione, who was standing next to Fish, as they saw Fish take Hermione's hand.

Although they knew Fish had no such intention, that didn't stop them from feeling jealous.

Besides... Hermione was a Muggle-born Gryffindor, and she was born to disagree with them.

It wasn't until Fish finished buying the food and dragged Hermione into the compartment with him that Daphne and the girls reluctantly looked away.

"Tina, it's been a long time."

As soon as they entered the cubicle, Tina, Millicent's Persian cat, came up to them and rubbed against Fish's leg.

Fish picked Tina up and touched noses with her.

Daphne had thought about asking her sister to buy her a cat as a way to get closer to Fish, but after two years it seemed pointless, so she stopped.

"Fish, let me introduce you. This is my sister, Astoria Greengrass, she's a new student this year."

Daphne pulled a girl who looked a little like her over to her side and introduced her to Fish.

"Hi nya," Fish greeted, placing Tina on the compartment table and handing her two of the snacks he had just bought: "Fish treats you to lunch nya."

(●ΦωΦ●)つ

"Thank you."

Daphne's sister took the snack from Fish with an excited look and then kept looking at the cat ears on his head.

"Are those your real ears? can I touch them?" asked Astoria cautiously.

"Okay, but you have to be gentle nya."

Fish wiggled his ears and lowered his head, he didn't mind being touched...as long as there was a limit.

Astoria gave Fish's ears a gentle squeeze before pulling her hand away and exclaiming to Daphne: "Sis! I touched him! He's so soft and cute."

Fish straightened up, saw the look on Daphne's and the others' faces and hurriedly shielded his ears with both hands.

"No, I won't be touched, nya!"

?(●`ω′●)?

Daphne and the girls sighed in unison, a regretful expression on their faces.

Fish and Hermione didn't stay long with Daphne and the girls.

The cat suddenly found it a bit "dangerous" to stay here and Hermione, who was fed up with the Slytherins, wasn't interested in staying either, so after a quick chat, they left the compartment with a bunch of snacks and ran to join Harry and the others, despite the pleas of Daphne and the others.

Soon, they found Harry in a compartment at the back of the carriage, where, besides them, there was a strange man sleeping against the window.

The man's wizarding robes were badly worn and covered in patches, he looked even poorer than Ron and looked sickly, he seemed to be very young in appearance, but his hair was already a bit grey.

"Who is it?" asked Hermione quietly, not wanting to wake the other man.

Ginny pointed to the luggage rack above his head, and Hermione looked up to see a small, tattered suitcase on the luggage rack, tied with a lot of string, with the words "R.J. Lupin" written on the corner of the suitcase.

"We're guessing he's this year's Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher." Ron said quietly, followed by a grimace: "It just doesn't look very powerful..."

Hermione shrugged indifferently and said: "I don't think there should be a worse teacher than Lockhart."

The others nodded thoughtfully.

At that moment, the kitten, who had no interest in their conversation, approached Professor Lupin and twitched his nose slightly.

?ω?

Fish frowned and looked closely at the sleeping Lupin.

Although the smell was normal, there was something not right about him, something that didn't seem right to the cat.

Tilting his head and thinking for a moment, the kitten reached out his finger and gently poked Lupin's sickly face twice.

"Fish! Stop it!" said Hermione under her breath, and hurried to drag him backwards.

After pulling Fish back, Hermione and Ginny looked at the sleeping Lupin warily, fortunately, the other party seemed to be sound asleep, maintaining the previous position, leaning against the window without moving a bit.

Harry and Ron paid no attention to Lupin's reaction, but instead looked at each other in surprise, as Fish's housemates they knew that the cat would not have disturbed anyone's sleep since first term, and Fish's behavior just now seemed very unusual.

They didn't think Fish would bother Professor Lupin for no reason, Fish was usually naughty, but unlike the twins, he rarely played pranks.....

Well, except when it came to Professor McGonagall, after all, Fish's greatest wish is to one day beat Professor McGonagall.

But that can only be said to be a McGonagall family parent-child activity, not a prank.

So, the first time Fish saw this person who was probably the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher acted in such a disrespectful manner, maybe the little cat noticed something unusual!

Both Harry and Ron had a lot of faith in the cat's powers of perception, after all, every now and then Fish would dredge up some extraneous secret he had inadvertently discovered....

The Voldemort stuck in the back of Quirrell's head the first year, and Voldemort's diary the second year, were solved by Fish.

Harry then asked curiously: "What's wrong with this man, Fish?".

The kitten continued to frown, not quite sure himself: "Fish isn't sure, but it gives Fish a funny feeling, a bit like those giant spiders in the Forbidden Forest."

?ω?

"Spiders!"

Ron let out a yelp and quickly wiggled his buttocks at Harry, unconsciously wanting to stay away from Lupin.

"Fish didn't say it's a spider nya" the kitten explained after waving his hand and tidying up his language: "I mean I get the impression it's a bit like one of those bad tempered animals nya, but it's not really the same thing, Fish couldn't say for sure nya.... Anyway, he doesn't seem like a very nice guy."

(??ˇ?ˇ??)

Harry and the others couldn't help but look at each other.

Not even Quirrell with Voldemort on his head or Liar Lockhart had ever received such a comment from Fish....

Who is this new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher?

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Kapitel 303: Chapter 303: Remus John Lupin (Edited)

Lupin, who had pretended to be asleep or to have his eyes closed... had to open them.

If Fish kept talking, Harry would have seen him as an enemy.

At the same time, his heart trembled slightly. Harry and the others might not be able to understand what Fish was talking about, but Lupin himself understood that when he turned into a wolf without drinking the aconite potion, he was as aggressive as an Acromantula.

"Well, cough!"

Lupin cleared his throat, remembering the little ones still whispering that he was awake.

They all turned to look at Lupin, and Fish lowered his ears, bent his legs slightly, and crouched down.

"Hello, I'm Remus Lupin, nice to meet you."

Lupin, unconcerned by Fish's cautious gestures, greeted them amicably and introduced himself, his voice hoarse and weak.

After introducing himself, Lupin shifted slightly to adjust his sitting position.

Because of what Fish just said, Harry and the others didn't respond, but like Fish, they all eyed Lupin warily.

"I take it you're the Fish that Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall told me about?"

Lupin took no offense at the cold treatment, and his tired face broke into a weary looking smile as he continued to try to dissuade Fish and the others.

"You know Minerva and Albus nya?"

(??ˇ?ˇ??)

The kitten didn't let his guard down at the kindness shown by the other.... Tom Riddle in the diary was much friendlier than he was.

"Of course... I was one of their students, but now I'm going to be buddies with them."

Lupin shrugged and continued in his hoarse, weak voice, his eyelids drooping as if he was going to fall asleep again at any moment.

Because his appearance was so unthreatening, the wary Fish relaxed a bit, but the kitten's eyes were still fixed on Lupin's every move.

Although he wasn't sure what the strange aura was due to, his encounter with Voldemort two years in a row had brought back some of the wariness he had felt during his wildcat days.

"Excuse me, are you our Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher this semester?" asked Hermione, who was standing behind Fish.

"Yes," nodded Lupin: "Don't worry, I'm not a liar or possessed by Voldemort."

Seeing Ginny's complexion change drastically, he quickly apologized: "Ah... sorry, I didn't mean to mention that name."

He then glanced at Hermione and Ron, who were showing only slight signs of fear, and then looked at Fish and Harry, who were completely unresponsive, with an interested expression on his face.

"You...don't seem to be too afraid of You-Know-Who," Lupin said with a smile: "I take it you're both Gryffindors like me, right?"

Fish needed no introduction, he had sabotaged Voldemort's plans two years in a row, and the kitten hadn't suffered at the hands of the Dark Lord since then, so of course he couldn't be afraid of a defeated opponent.

Before Harry and Hermione came to Hogwarts, they had no contact with the magical world and their fear of Voldemort was not as deep.

And last semester, Harry was lucky enough to see the... sad side of Voldemort, and Ron heard Harry share, so his fear of Voldemort has weakened a lot.

Only Ginny, who grew up listening to the legend of the Dark Lord, was controlled by Voldemort last year, so her behavior was most normal.

"Fish, he's not a bad guy."

Harry patted Fish's shoulder and spoke for Lupin.

It was the first time he'd seen anyone other than Fish and Dumbledore say Voldemort's name so normally, and Harry had a natural affinity for Lupin.

"Is that so nya?"

?ω?

Fish wagged his tail,

He looked at Lupin for a moment and finally withdrew his wary gaze.

Not only because of Harry's help, but because after all this time, Fish didn't sense any malice from the other man, and a hint of danger was no big deal.

Both Fluffy and Uroboros had a similar aura, it was just a bit more subdued than Lupin's, and it had diminished even more as they had known each other longer.

Besides, Lupin was the first human with this kind of aura that Fish had seen, and even Quirrell didn't give him this feeling back then, so Fish would pay special attention to it.

Although they had recognized that he was not a bad person, Harry and the others had no desire to talk to Lupin.

For one thing, what Fish had said earlier had affected their perception of Lupin; for another, he was an adult and their future teacher, so there was a natural generation gap, and no student would normally like to talk to a teacher; and the last reason....

In less than two minutes, Lupin was back to sleep leaning against the window.

"Do you think he can really teach us well?" Ron brought up the subject again: "I'm worried he'll pass out while talking in class in the future."

"It should be fine..." said Hermione uncertainly: "After the mess Lockhart made last year, Dumbledore will find a reliable teacher this year no matter what."

"The problem is... the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher position at Hogwarts is cursed. It's not easy for Dumbledore to find a suitable person, is it?"

Harry shrugged, somewhat pessimistically.

After two years at Hogwarts, the subject had had two different teachers, and Harry was becoming more and more convinced of the rumors of Voldemort's curse.

Then they talked about Sirius Black and how this year they might be going to Hogsmeade for the weekend.

Fish was interested to hear about Black, but Hogsmeade didn't interest him, as he had wandered the town so much that he knew it well.

So the kitten idly listened to the chatter of Harry and the others, while he ate the sandwiches he had just bought.

After finishing his snacks, Fish looked at Lupin, who was sleeping soundly, and remembered the sound of his faint voice, and felt a little sleepy.

Then Fish transformed back into his tiger-spotted cat form and jumped into Hermione's arms, lying in her lap and falling asleep as well.

The train continued on its course, during which Fish woke up and ate lunch again, then dragged Harry and the others around the carriage, but the kitten soon got bored....

"Train rides are boring nya!"

?(●`△′●)?

Back in his compartment, Fish slumped into the seat and complained loudly.

"It's no fun here nya!"

He had tried to climb out the window and onto the roof of the car to sunbathe, but Hermione and the others had stopped him.

"How long is it going to take to get here?!"

(〃｀3′〃)

Fish, who had been bored enough to play with his tail for less than ten minutes, began to mutter again.

"Well...he probably won't get to the station until tonight."

Hermione said soothingly to the kitten: "Why don't you go back to sleeping on my lap?"

"Fish has slept enough! I just want to sunbathe on the roof of the train now nya."

?(●`Д′●)?

Although he could understand why Hermione and the others had stopped him, in Fish's eyes, getting on the roof of the train to sunbathe was not a dangerous thing to do, so he still wanted to fight for it.

However, before Fish could convince Hermione and the others, the sky outside suddenly clouded over and soon raindrops were falling from the sky, getting heavier and heavier as the rain crunched against the window glass.

Fish: "The sun is gone nya!"

∑(●ΦΦДΦ●)

The kitten instantly lowered his ears and tail, and collapsed into the chair with a lost face, his mouth pouting.

"By the way, Fish, do you want me to read you a story?"

At that moment, Hermione quickly pulled a storybook she had prepared out of her suitcase and beckoned to Fish.

"Nya~!"

?(=｀? ′=)?

Fish immediately transformed into a cat and jumped onto Hermione's body, stepping on her thighs with his four little paws, and then plopped down happily, triangular ears erect, listening quietly to the story.

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