Chapter 292 Buying Textbooks

"Hiss." (Hello.)

Ouroboros greeted Harry Potter, who was already stunned, in a friendly manner.

Harry subconsciously wanted to say something back, but found that even his tongue had stiffened.

Fortunately, Professor McGonagall next to him slapped Fitz on the face at this time.

"Take the basilisk away quickly, Harry is frozen!"

"Oh, right, meow."

Fitz then remembered that Ouroboros' ability had not been completely eliminated, and quickly moved the basilisk in his hand away.

After the basilisk was moved out of his sight, Harry's body gradually regained its freedom.

"What's going on?"

Harry glanced at the basilisk in Fitz's hand with lingering fear, and then quickly retracted his gaze.

Professor McGonagall pulled Fitz's ear helplessly, and then briefly explained the situation of Ouroboros to Harry, and taught him a trick to use his own magic to resist the eyes of the basilisk.

Although Harry would probably still feel stiff at his current level, it was enough for him to look away.

"Because you can speak Parseltongue, Harry, I introduced Ouroboros to you, meow."

Fish held the head of the basilisk in his palm and raised it in front of Harry again.

"Uh... thank you..."

Harry twitched his mouth and looked at the basilisk in Fish's hand, which was very well-behaved but ferocious, and the fear in his heart was immediately reduced.

"Hiss, hiss." (Hello, Ouroboros, I am Harry Potter.)

"Hiss...hiss..." (I know you, I heard that my second master was defeated by you.)

The dull response of Ouroboros came from Fish's hand, making Harry Potter not know how to respond.

However, Ouroboros was not loyal to Voldemort at all. Just when Harry was still struggling with how to reply, it had already changed the subject.

"Hiss, hiss..." (You can speak Parseltongue, are you also the descendant of the old master?)

Harry also didn't know how to respond to this, and Fish helped him.

"Albus said that Voldemort's power was left in the scar on Harry's head, so he can speak Parseltongue."

"Hiss..." (Oh...)

So Ouroboros completely lost interest in Harry Potter.

Ouroboros: "..."

Harry: "..."

Professor McGonagall: ? ? ?

Fish: ⊙ω⊙

The scene suddenly became quiet, and Fish blinked his eyes, not understanding what was going on.

In the end, it was Professor McGonagall who broke the awkward atmosphere.

"By the way, Potter, have you bought your textbooks and study supplies for next semester? Do you want to go with Fish?"

"Ah, sure."

Harry certainly wouldn't refuse.

So the three of them walked together to Diagon Alley.

"Minerva, can we go to Gringotts and ride the mine cart again?"

(●ω●)

Fish put the basilisk back in his pocket and asked Professor McGonagall excitedly.

"No, the textbooks this year are not expensive. I have enough gold Galleons with me, so I don't need to go to Gringotts."

Professor McGonagall's tone was pleasant. She didn't want to go to Gringotts for no reason.

At this time, Harry spoke up.

"Well... I may need to go to Gringotts..." He didn't dare to look up at Professor McGonagall's expression, and said in a mosquito-like voice: "I don't have much money on me."

Professor McGonagall: "..."

Harry naturally saw Professor McGonagall's resistance to Gringotts. Harry, who had also sat in that thing, also understood it very well, but he really had no money on him...

Although the Dursleys didn't dare to do anything excessive to him after being taught a lesson by Fish, Harry still didn't want them to know that his parents left him a large sum of gold.

In addition, they rejected everything related to wizards, so Harry didn't dare to put too much money on him, and in addition to textbooks, he had to buy two new robes. His school uniform was already a little short.

Professor McGonagall certainly couldn't stop Harry from taking the money, so she sighed helplessly and said, "Let's go."

"That's great, meow! I can ride the mine cart again!"

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Fish cheered happily, holding Professor McGonagall in one hand and Harry in the other, and ran quickly towards Gringotts.

However, the kitten has also developed some eyesight in the past few years. While rushing to Gringotts, he turned back and said to Professor McGonagall, "Minerva, wait for Fish and Harry to go get the money together, meow. If you don't like riding the mine cart, just wait outside, meow."

"Yeah."

Professor McGonagall, who was a little resistant at first, suddenly became happy, hurried two steps, and came to Fish's side, no longer being dragged by him.

Simply taking some gold galleons from Gringotts, except for Harry's pale face, McGonagall and her son all looked satisfied.

"Let's go buy books first."

After Harry recovered a little, Professor McGonagall suggested, and Harry and Fish naturally had no objections.

The three of them walked outside Flourish and Blotts and saw a huge cage behind the glass window. Inside it were hundreds of green-covered books, which were biting each other madly.

“Meow ha ha ha! This book is so interesting!”

(●ω●)

Fei Xu lay on the glass of the display window with gleaming eyes, looking at the books clumped together.

"Minerva, can Fish buy a copy of this?"

Professor McGonagall glanced at the gilded titles on the covers of the books, and the corners of her mouth twitched slightly.

"Even if you don't tell us, we still have to buy it. This is one of your textbooks for next year."

"Great!"

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The little cat immediately rushed into the bookstore impatiently.

"Fix? Welcome to Flourish and Blotts Bookstore. You are here to buy this year's classes..."

The manager of Flourishes and Blotts Bookstore greeted Fei in surprise at first, but soon his expression turned very bad and his words got stuck.

Especially when he saw Professor McGonagall and Harry Potter coming in, he looked even more desperate.

"Professor McGonagall...you are here to buy new textbooks, right?"

The manager's apocalyptic tone and expression confused both Professor McGonagall and Harry.

"Yes, I need one copy each of "The Monster Book of Monsters", "Looking Through the Fog to See the Future", "Intermediate Transfiguration" and "Standard Spells: Level 3".

When Professor McGonagall mentioned the divination class textbook, she couldn't help but curl her lips.

She actually didn't have any objections to the divination class. What she didn't like was the alarmist Sybill Trelawney.

In the eyes of Professor McGonagall, Professor Trelawney is no different from Lockhart who has been imprisoned in Azkaban.

"Oh...it's true..."

The bookstore manager's expression became even more desperate, and then he looked at Harry Potter again.

"What about you? What books do you need?"

Harry scratched his head, because his course selection was exactly the same as Fish's, so he replied: "I also want the same textbook, but I already have "The Monster Book of Monsters", just give me the other three. "

As soon as Harry's words came out of his mouth, the manager's expression changed drastically. It wasn't until he heard the next words that his expression became a little better.

He first took out a pair of thick gloves from under the counter and put them on, then he picked up a large, knotted cane leaning against the wall, and then put on a heroic and righteous expression. Walk towards the cage containing the "Yokai Book of Monsters".

"Quiet! Quiet for me!"

The manager of the bookstore roared and put his cane into the cage. He banged it a few times and drove the monster books inside away from the cage door as much as possible. Then he quickly opened the cage door, reached in and grabbed a book nearby, and immediately put his arm on it. He pulled it out and quickly closed the cage.

The monster book caught in the manager's hand was restless. It kept chewing on the manager's palms and forearms, leaving rows of tooth marks on the gloves and making constant "click-click" sounds.

"Stop! Stop it! Oh, yeah, yeah!"

The bookstore manager clasped the monster book in his hand tightly with both hands, grabbed it and slammed it on the bookcase beside it a few times, then took out a palm-wide leather belt from nowhere and tied it tightly.

After finishing all this, the manager threw the tied monster book aside and slid to the ground as if he was exhausted.

"I swear! I'll never buy this stuff again! Never again! It's such a mess!"

The bookstore manager sat on the ground and panted for a while, then got up from the ground cursing, still complaining.

"That time we bought two hundred copies of "The Invisible Book of Invisibility" and spent a lot of money, but later we couldn't even find a shadow... I thought it couldn't be worse than that..."

Only then did Harry and Professor McGonagall understand the reason for the manager's desperate expression just now.

"There are two more copies of "Looking Through the Fog to See the Future," right? You've started taking divination classes, right?"

The manager took off his gloves, and as he spoke, he turned around and walked inside, putting all the divination books at the back.

Then he saw that Fei Xu had picked up the "Monster Book of Monsters" that he had just thrown on the ground and was untying the belt on it.

"Merlin's beard! Don't ahhhhhh-!!!"

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The monster book in the movie is gray-brown, with a layer of hair and four eyes, but the one described in the novel has a beautiful green leather cover and no eyes or hair.

I usually focus on the settings in the original novel and the official website. If it’s not mentioned in the novel, I will write it according to the movie version, or create my own creation.

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