Harry Potter and the Old Ones

Until the Hogwarts Express stopped, Hermione kept holding the copy of "The Tales of Beedle the Bard", even as the dining car passed by. Even when there was a fight in the corridor, Hermione didn't look up and seemed to be completely immersed in the world of the book.

Harry wondered if Hermione was going to read the whole long book before the train stopped.

Of course, Hermione failed in the end. Before getting off the train, Hermione had to raise her head with red eyes and asked Luna Lovegood:

"This book is very interesting. Can I borrow it for a while?"

"What's the point of this?" Ron pursed his lips and said, "My mother often told me the story in this story when I was a child. We should still have this book in our family. If you like the story in this book, I will write it. Ask mom to send you a letter—woo!”

Just as Ron was speaking, he suddenly felt a pain in his waist.

Hermione smiled cruelly while quietly squeezing the soft flesh of Ron's waist with her hands.

"Okay?" Hermione asked.

"Oh, okay, okay." Luna glanced at Ron, then at Hermione, and then agreed lightly.

As they were getting out of the car, they met Draco Malfoy.

Harry and Ron learned that Draco Malfoy and Pansy Parkinson had been elected prefects of Slytherin's fifth year when they went out to buy something in the train.

But to Harry, Ron, and Hermione's surprise, when they met Draco Malfoy on the platform of Hogsmeade, Draco Malfoy did not provoke any provocation and did not even talk to him. They all ignored Harry, but hurried past Harry and the others with expressions on their faces.

"This Malfoy must be harboring some bad ideas." Harry said to Hermione and Ron as they walked.

Ron nodded in agreement.

But Hermione ignored Harry and was flipping through "The Tales of Beedle the Bard" in her hand.

After walking out of the platform, they dragged their heavy steps and merged into the crowd, feeling the stinging sensation of the night air on their faces.

They moved slowly toward the door, and Harry could smell the sweet scent of the pine trees that lined the path to the lake.

Different from previous years, the person responsible for welcoming new students is not the tall Hagrid, but Professor McGonagall——

A crisp female voice was shouting: "First-year students, please come here and line up! All first-year students, follow me!"

Before Harry could ask Professor McGonagall for further questioning, he was carried forward by the crowd towards the foot of the mountain.

When Harry, Ron and Hermione walked out of the Hogsmeade platform, they came to the dark street washed by the rain.

There are about a hundred horseless carriages parked here, which transport students from first grade to the castle every year.

Harry glanced at them quickly, then looked back at them carefully.

The front of the carriage was no longer empty.

There were some animals standing between the poles, and if he had to give them a name, he thought he would call them horses, even though they looked a little like reptiles.

They have no flesh at all on their bodies, and their black fur sticks tightly to their skeletons. Every bone is clearly visible. Their heads are very much like the heads of dragons. Their eyes without pupils are white and stare intently. On the shoulder bones Wings sprouted from the bulge in the middle——

The big, black leathery wings looked like they should belong to a giant bat.

These animals stood motionless and silent in the growing darkness, looking strange and ominous.

Harry really didn't understand why these terrible horses were used to pull these carriages when they could obviously walk on their own.

"Um...Hermione...Hermione..." Harry shook Hermione, who had been holding up the "The Tales of Beedle the Bard", with his hand. "What's the name of the animal that pulls the cart?"

Hermione raised her head and glanced forward, then looked at Harry strangely——

"What cart-pulling animal?" Hermione asked.

"There, those animals." Harry pointed at the black animals in front of the carriage, "It's those animals that look like horses."

"What kind of horse-like thing?" Hermione looked around strangely.

"It's the horse-like thing that pulls those carriages!" Harry said impatiently. They were only about two or three steps away from the nearest strange horse, which was staring at them with its blank white eyes. But Hermione gave Harry a confused look.

"What are you talking about?" Hermione also looked a little angry, as if Harry was playing tricks on her.

"I'm saying - look!" Harry gently grabbed Hermione's arm and turned her around, facing the strange horse with wings.

Hermione stared straight for a second, then turned to look at Harry:

"What did you ask me to see?"

"Look at that - there, between the shaft poles! Hitched to the carriage! Right in front of you -" But Hermione still looked confused.

Suddenly, Harry had a horrifying thought. Could it be that he was the only one who could see it?

"Don't worry, Harry Potter." At this time, Luna Lovegood also walked out of the platform. With her ethereal and somewhat wandering eyes, she stared at the location that Harry just pointed at and said, "Me too. Can see it.”

"Really?" Harry asked eagerly, turning to Luna. He could see the horses with bat wings reflected in her big blue eyes.

"Oh, yes," Luna said. "I've been seeing them since the first day I came here. They've been pulling the carriage. Don't worry, you're not crazy. You're as sane as I am."

She smiled faintly and got into the carriage. The doubts in Harry's mind were not completely dispelled, but he still went in.

Harry didn't want to tell others that he and Luna had the same hallucination——

If it was really an illusion, so after he sat down in the carriage, he never talked about the horses again. However, he couldn't help but stare at the silhouettes of the horses moving outside the window.

While they were waiting for the carriage to start, Luna, who was sitting next to Harry, seemed to be suddenly touched. She stuck her head out of the carriage window and looked back -

"What's wrong?" Harry couldn't help but asked curiously.

"No...it's nothing..." Luna said, shaking her head and sitting back down.

Soon, the carriage started to move swayingly.

After all the creaking carriages drove away, a figure gradually appeared in the dark night on the dark and muddy road.

"Luna's inspiration is really high..." Tiera, who appeared in the dark night, sighed, and then smiled softly, "Hey, Harry can see the Thestral..."

"That is to say, Harry did witness and understand Tiera's death..." Tiera continued, "It meets the experimental conditions of the Resurrection Stone experiment."

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