Chapter 11 School starts
The pillow fight had some elements of playfulness, so Dudley didn't call for help and just let Harry beat him with a pillow.
I don't know why, but after that night, Dudley became Harry's follower.
In the month before school started, Dudley treated Harry like a different person.
But only Harry knew that on the one hand, Dudley was a little afraid of his magic, and the biggest reason was because he promised to bring him snacks from the wizarding world when he returned home.
Looking at his chubby appearance, Harry felt that it was necessary to prepare some weight loss potions for him.
Harry bought all the seven hundred and fifty pounds he got from the Dursleys into Muggle snacks, especially Coca-Cola.
God knows how much he wanted a sip of happy water in the Victorian era.
Considering the purchasing power of the pound, Harry took the Knight Bus alone and went to Diagon Alley again, buying a suitcase with a traceless stretching spell attached.
He stuffed all the Muggle snacks into the suitcase, and seeing that there was still room, he stuffed all the books and clothes into it.
This suitcase cost him thirty gold galleons.
As the saying goes, you get what you pay for, and Harry was very satisfied with this suitcase.
A month has passed by in a blink of an eye, and the first day of school has arrived.
Since Dudley was also going to Smelting School, the Dursleys had to drive to London to attend Dudley's school.
"I've always been curious, where did you get the wizard money?"
Sitting in the car, Uncle Vernon suddenly asked.
Harry replied: "It's the inheritance my parents left for me, locked in Gringotts——"
The car came to a sudden stop and Harry almost hit the seat in front of him.
From the interior rearview mirror hanging in front of the car, Harry saw Uncle Vernon's face suddenly darken.
Could it be... that he was complaining that his child support was not paid? Harry speculated in his mind and murmured.
"I know now that I have money, I can pay the child support over the years..."
"Why do you look so much like your father, Potter!" Uncle Vernon's fat body turned over from his seat, facing Harry, and said angrily: "He is also so arrogant and arrogant-"
Harry instinctively defended his father: "My father is not arrogant, and neither am I. If you don't mind, can you park the car on the side of the road first?"
Vernon snorted and stopped the car on the side of the road.
He turned around again and cursed angrily: "Listen, boy, I don't care how much gold is stored in that piece of shit Gringotts of yours, I love Petunia, I love her more than anything else! If not For her sake, do you think I would let a freak like you into my home?”
"Do you know Gringotts?" Harry asked with a raised eyebrow. He knew that Uncle Vernon's braking was because he mentioned Gringotts just now.
Uncle Vernon's face turned purple again, and his beard twitched with his roar: "Gringotts, of course I know Gringotts! When that weirdo and I met your father in the restaurant, Pei Ni said he didn’t have a job, so I wanted to introduce him to the company. Even if he didn’t have a recognized academic qualification, I even wanted to sponsor him, but your father——”
"Dursley! Oh my god, Dursley!" Aunt Petunia sat in the passenger seat, holding her collar with one hand, as if she couldn't breathe.
"Like father, like son, the station is here, you can get off the bus!" Uncle Vernon said angrily. Harry raised his head and saw that it was indeed King's Cross Station outside.
"Sorry." Harry smiled at the Dursleys and said to Dudley, "Then I'll get off."
"Remember what you promised me." Dudley mouthed to Harry.
Harry nodded, took out the suitcase from the trunk, pulled out the lever, put the suitcase on top, turned around and left.
That was a grudge from the previous generation, and it had nothing to do with him, so there was no need to be mentally drained.
"Platform nine and three-quarters..." Harry muttered, pulling his suitcase and walking towards the interior of the station.
It wasn't his first time entering the platform, so Harry didn't panic. He slowly pulled his suitcase with a happy expression. He waited until the red-haired family in front of him entered the station, and then he pulled his suitcase and entered Nine and Three Quarters. platform.
Thick smoke from steam locomotives lingered over the crowd, and cats of various colors walked under people's feet. Along with people's noisy conversations, owls also hooted one after another, intertwining into a movement called the beginning of school.
It's very wizard-like and has wizard-like characteristics.
Since it was almost time to drive, the first few carriages were already crowded with students. Some of them leaned out of the car windows to talk to their families, some were laughing and playing in their seats, and some were sitting quietly in their seats. Eat snacks.
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Harry even saw a chocolate frog jump out of the open car window, looking annoyed at the student who had let him go.
He found a separate compartment in the back compartment, and as soon as he put his suitcase on it, he met a pair of identical twins with red hair.
"Are you - Harry Potter?" the one on the left asked, a look of surprise on his face.
Before Harry could answer, a woman's voice sounded outside.
"Fred, George, are you in the car?"
"Here we come, Mom!" The two of them said goodbye to Harry in a hurry, turned around and ran out.
Harry leaned back in his seat and stared blankly at the crowd outside.
I can still hear the mother of the twins scolding her children: "This poor child is not an animal in the zoo, just for you to look at - Fred, George!"
The mother's voice became quieter and quieter, and Harry showed no interest in eavesdropping. He sat on his seat and found a comfortable position to lean against.
On the platform, the mother was still scolding her children.
"I don't allow you to ask him any questions about scars! Don't let him think of that on the first day of school!" She scolded in a low voice: "All wizards celebrate the day when they get scars. He killed a mysterious man in one day, but for him, he lost his parents who loved him most - God, poor child..."
"Okay, don't get angry." I don't know if it was Fred or George, "We got it."
The whistle sounded.
"Okay, kids, it's time to say goodbye." The mother smiled and kissed the children one by one on their foreheads: "Get in the car, baby Ronnie - you two, don't let me receive any more messages. A letter of complaint from the professor saying that you and your classmates were playing pranks!”
The latter sentence was said to the twins.
(The following is Rowling's addition to Pottermore about the first meeting between the Dursleys and the Potters. Vernon's words are not my personal opinion. James even felt a little ashamed afterward, and promised Lily that he would meet the Vernons as soon as possible. Repair relationship)
(End of chapter)