Bunce went downstairs to eat the next afternoon when he found Harry sitting at the bar.
So he went over and said,"Harry, why didn't you come to me?”
"Tom said you were still sleeping, so he asked me to wait for you here. I just arrived last night.”said Harry, turning around.
"Are there any activities later?" Bangs asked while eating the fruit salad.
"How about Diagon Alley? I promised Mr. Fudge-the Minister of Magic-that I wouldn't go back to the Muggle world, at least not for the rest of the summer, and honestly, I'd rather not go back to the Dursleys.”said Harry.
"I sense that you're a little confused." Bangs said as he drank his juice.
"Well, I blew my aunt up and she didn't get expelled, and I was warned last year about an elf's magic, and I don't feel right.”said Harry.
"Do you want to know why?" Bangs wiped his mouth and said.
"Why?" said Harry eagerly.
"I trust you've heard about Sirius Black on the Knight Bus.”Bance said.
"Yes, what does this have to do with me?”asked Harry, puzzled.
"Because it's an unusual time, and everyone's trying to keep up with Black's progress, and nobody's going to care about a minor using magic, not even the famous Potter.”Bance said.
"It's actually like this. I was wondering why it was so unnatural.”said Harry brightly.
"Come on, let's go to Diagon Alley and buy some school stuff.”Bangs stood up and said.
After dinner, Bunce led Harry out into the backyard, took out his wand, tapped the third brick from the left above the dustbin, then stepped back to look at the archway that opened into Diagon Alley.
Bunce accompanied Harry to his little vault at Gringotts to withdraw some good money, and when they were about to go to the apothecary to replenish their potions, Bunce said with a smile,"It's so frustrating to compare people. Ron and I don't even have as much as you.”
Harry was embarrassed by this.
Bangs 'uniform was inches shorter than his limbs because of his growing height, and they went to Madam Malkin's Robes Shop to buy new robes.
Above all, they had to buy new textbooks, which included two new subjects: Care of Magical Creatures and Divination. (Bunce had received a sum of Galleons from Dumbledore, so he didn't have to buy any second-hand goods this year.）
Both Bunce and Harry gave an involuntary start as they approached the bookshop. The usual display of spellbooks the size of floor tiles with golden embossed in the shop windows had been replaced by a large iron cage containing about a hundred green-skinned books. The books were locked together in a furious wrestling contest, biting and fighting in a belligerent manner, their broken pages flying everywhere.
As Bunce and Harry entered the shop, the manager hurried forward.
"Hogwarts?" " Are you here to buy a new book?" he asked unexpectedly.”
"Yes," said Bunce,"I need-"("I've got the book.”said Harry.)
"Please move aside." said the manager impatiently, pushing Bangs aside. He put on a pair of thick gloves, picked up a thick, knotted cane, and walked toward the iron cage containing the green book.
After a while, the manager finally took out a relatively intact book from the iron cage. A loud tearing sound came from behind him. The two books called " The Monster Books of Monsters " grabbed the third book and tore it apart.
"Stop! Stop!" roared the manager, pushing his cane between the bars and opening the books. "I'll never keep these books again, never! I haven't had a good night's sleep since I read the book! We've had two hundred copies of Invisibility Books before, and I didn't think there was anything worse-they're so expensive, and we'll never have any-well, do you want anything else?
"Yes," said Harry, looking at his list."I need a copy of Unravel the Mist and See the Future by Cassandro Wabraski."”
"I'm the same as him." Bangs said briefly.
"Ah, it's time for prophecy, isn't it?”The manager took off his gloves and led them to the back of the bookstore. There was a corner filled with divination books. A small table was filled with books such as Prophecy of the Unforeseen: Protect Yourself From the Blow and The Broken Ball: When Fate Was Down.
"Here it is," said the manager, climbing up the ladder and pulling down two thick black-covered books."Unfogging the Future will be very useful for all your basic divination techniques-palmistry, crystal balls, bird innards.”
But Harry did not answer him, because his eyes were caught by another book, one that was sitting on the small table: Death Omen: What to Do When You Know the Worst is Coming?》。
"Oh, I wouldn't read that if I were you.”The manager, seeing that Harry was studying the book, said easily,"If you read this book, you'll find that death omens are everywhere. This book will scare people to death."”
"That's because people are afraid of the unknown.”Bance said.
The manager thrust Unfogging the Future into Harry's hands and asked,"Anything else?"
"Yes," said Harry, coming back to himself."Er-I want Intermediate Transfiguration and Standard Spells, Level Three."”
"I'm the same as him." Bance said again.
Ten minutes later, Bunce and Harry emerged from the bookshop, new books under their arms, and headed for the Leaky Cauldron, Harry bumping into several people along the way.
"Don't think too much about it, Harry," Bunce held Harry back again to prevent him from crashing into the wall.
"Oh." said Harry absentmindedly.
The last day of the summer vacation soon arrived. Bunce was fully dressed to accompany Harry to take a look at what was claimed to be the fastest new broom, the Firebolt. Someone had called them as they walked down Diagon Alley with Harry.
"Harry! Bunce!"
It was Ron and Hermione, both sitting outside Floreen's, Ron looking unbelievably peculiar, Hermione tanned, both waving desperately at them.
"I finally saw the two of you!" said Ron, smiling."We went to the Leaky Cauldron, but Tom said you'd left, so we went to the bookshop, to Madam Malkin's, and-"
"I got everything the school needed last week with Bunce.”Harry explained,"How did you know I lived in the Leaky Cauldron?”
"My dad told me." said Ron.
"Did you really blow up your aunt, Harry?”said Hermione seriously.
"I didn't mean to do it," said Harry, as Ron burst into laughter."I just lost control."”
"There's nothing funny about this, Ron.”said Hermione sharply.
"Don't take it so seriously, Hermione, there's a reason for what happened to Harry.”Bance said.
"Whatever the reason, I'm honestly surprised Harry hasn't been expelled.”
"Do you really want Harry expelled that badly?”asked Bangs.
"No, no, no, I didn't mean that. I'm just very puzzled.”said Hermione.
"Me too." Harry admitted."Bunce explained it was because of Black, but I don't quite understand.”He looked at Ron."Your dad doesn't know why Fudge let me go, does he?”
"It's probably because of you, isn't it?”Ron shrugged and giggled."The famous Harry; Potter and whatnot. If I blow up my aunt, the Ministry won't let me go. Listen, they're going to dig me out first. My mom's going to kill me. No matter what, you can ask my dad yourself tonight. We're going to spend the night at the Leaky Cauldron! So we can go to King's Cross together tomorrow! Hermione's there too!"
Hermione nodded, beaming."My mum and dad left me and all my Hogwarts stuff there this morning.”
"That's great!" said Harry happily."So, have you bought all your new books and stuff?”
"Look," said Ron, pulling a slender box out of his bag and opening it."A brand-new wand, fourteen inches long, wicker, with a unicorn tail hair. And we've got all the books-"He pointed to a large bag under his chair." What about those goblin books? When we asked for two copies, the shop assistant almost cried.”
"What are those things, Hermione?”said Harry, pointing at not one but three bulging bags on the chair beside her.
"I took all the courses, so I have more books than you.”said Hermione."Those are Arithmetic and Divination, the Protection of Magical Creatures, Divination, Ancient Runes, Muggle Studies-"
"Why did you choose Muggle Studies?" said Ron."You know Muggles well enough already.”
"But it's fascinating to study them from a Wizarding point of view.”said Hermione, intoxicated.
"Are you going to eat and sleep again this year, Hermione?”asked Bunce, laughing, and Ron and Harry laughed too. Hermione ignored them.
"I've got ten Galleons," said Hermione, checking her purse."My birthday's in September, and my mum and dad gave me some money to buy myself an early birthday present.”
"Speaking of birthday presents, Ron, you're being too presumptuous. You gave me a birthday." Bance said.
"It's because we don't know. Besides, it's just a side effect.”said Ron.
"Then let me tell you. I don't know my birthday either, so you can celebrate my birthday any day you want.”Bangs said with a smile.
"Hermione, how about a good book?”said Ron foolishly.
"No, I don't want books," said Hermione quietly."I really want an owl. I mean, Harry's got Hedwig, you've got Errol, Bunce-"
"I'm not," said Ron."Errol's family, all I have is Scabbers.”He took out his pet rat from his pocket. "I'd like to have him examined," he added, setting Scabbers down on the table in front of them."I don't think Egypt would do for him.”
"There's a Magical Creatures Shop right over there," said Harry, who was now well acquainted with Bunce."You can see if you can get something for Scabbers there, and Hermione can get an owl there.”
"Bunce, why didn't you get an owl or something?”asked Hermione.
"I didn't find a suitable one." Bangs said casually.
So they paid for four ice creams, crossed the street, and came to the shop called Magical Menagerie.
There wasn't much space inside. Cages hung from every inch of the wall. The shop was smelly and noisy because the little creatures in the cages were making all kinds of sounds. The witch behind the counter was already telling a wizard how to take care of the twin-tailed salamander, because Bangs and the others were waiting nearby, looking at the cages.
A pair of purple toads with huge eyes sat there, wolfing down the food unpleasantly, enjoying a dead blowfly. A large turtle with a gem-encrusted shell was showing off near the window. Poisonous orange snails were slowly emerging from the edge of their glass boxes, and a fat white rabbit kept changing into a silk top hat and back again with loud popping sounds. Then there were cats of all colors, a cage of noisy ravens, a basket of ludicrous mustard-colored furballs humming loudly, and a large cage on the counter in which silky black rats were playing some sort of bouncing game with their long bald tails.
The two-tailed newt wizard had left, and Ron approached the counter.
"This is my rat," he said to the witch."He hasn't been well since I brought him back from Egypt.”
"Put it on the counter." said the witch, pulling a pair of heavy black eyes out of her pocket.
Ron took Scabbers out of his inside pocket and placed him not far from his fellow rats. The rats in the cage stopped playing the jumping game and squeezed to the edge of the cage, wanting to see more clearly.
Scabbers, like everything Ron owned, was secondhand (it had once belonged to Ron's brother Percy) and looked a little bruised. Compared to the glossy rat in the cage, it looked especially miserable.
"Well," said the witch, picking up Scabbers."How old is this rat?”
"I don't know," said Ron. It used to be my brother's."
"What can it do?" said the witch, examining Scabbers closely.
"Er-" said Ron. The truth was that Scabbers had never shown the least bit of interesting ability. The witch's eyes moved from the torn ear to its front paw, where a toe was missing, and she clicked her tongue.
"He's been through a lot, this rat.”she said.
"It was like this when Percy gave it to me.”said Ron defensively.
"You can't expect an ordinary house mouse or garden mouse like this to live for more than three years.”The witch said," Well, if you're looking for something more durable, you might like one of these."
She pointed at the black rats, who immediately began to jump again. Ron muttered,"Expressionists.”
"Alright, if you don't want to change it, you can try this potion.”said the witch, reaching under the counter and pulling out a small red bottle.
"Okay," said Ron."How much-ouch!”
A large ginger thing had jumped down from the top cage, onto Ron's head, and was now poised to charge forward, grunting angrily at Scabbers.
"Don't! Crookshanks, don't!" screamed the witch, but Scabbers slipped out of her hand like a bar of soap, fell on all fours to the floor, and fled toward the door.
"Scabbers!" yelled Ron, and he sprinted out of the shop after it, Bunce and Harry at his heels.
"Stop chasing, Ron, I know where it is.”Bance said.
"Where?" said Ron, halting himself.
"Under the wastepaper basket outside the Quidditch Wheatshop.”Bance said.
When they had found Scabbers, Ron put the trembling rat back in his pocket, straightened up, and rubbed his head.
"What's that?"
"It's either a very big cat or a very small tiger.”Harry guessed.
"It's just a fat cat." Bance said.
"Where's Hermione?" asked Ron.
"Buy that cat." Bance said.
"What?" said Ron in surprise.
They turned back down the crowded street and returned to the Magical Menagerie. Hermione came out just as they arrived, clutching the enormous ginger cat.
"You really bought this monster?”said Ron in surprise.
"Its fur is quite brilliant, isn't it?”said Hermione, grinning.
That's one way of looking at it, Bunce thought. The cat's ginger fur was thick and shaggy, but its legs were clearly bent, and its face looked grumpy and squashed, as though it had at some point run its head into a wall. Scabbers was gone, and the cat was purring contentedly in Hermione's arms.
"Hermione, that thing almost scratched my head off!”said Ron.
"He didn't mean to, you didn't mean to, Crookshanks?”said Hermione to the cat.
"What about Scabbers?" said Ron, pointing at the bulge in his breast pocket. "It needs rest and relaxation! How could it rest and relax with this thing beside it?”
"That reminds me, you forgot your rat tonic.”said Hermione, thrusting the little red bottle into Ron's hand. "Don't worry, Crookshanks will be sleeping in my dormitory and Scabbers will be at your place. Then what was the problem? Poor Crookshanks, the witch said he'd been there for ages and nobody wanted him.”
"I don't know why.”said Ron sarcastically as they set off for the Leaky Cauldron.
They found Mr. Weasley sitting in the bar, reading the Daily Prophet.
"Harry, Bunce!" He looked up and smiled." How are you?”
"It's alright." Bance said.
"Alright, thank you." said Harry as he sat down. "You haven't caught him yet?" said Harry, looking at Black's picture.
"No, I haven't." said Mr. Weasley sternly. "At the Ministry they told us to drop what we were doing and try to find him, but we haven't had the luck yet.”
Mrs. Weasley came into the bar now, laden with shopping, followed by the twins, Fred and George, who were beginning their fifth year at Hogwarts, Percy, the newly elected Head Boy, and the Weasleys 'youngest child, Ginny, their only daughter.
Ginny, who had always liked Harry, blushed at the sight of him and muttered "Hello," without even looking at Bunce. Percy, however, held out his hand solemnly and said,"Pleased to see you, Bunce, Harry!”
"Hello, Percy," Bangs said with a smile.
"Hello, Percy," said Harry, trying not to laugh.
"Are you both doing well?" said Percy pretentiously, shaking hands with each of them as though he had been introduced to the chief.
"Very good, thank you."
"It's alright, don't worry-"
"Harry!" Fred elbowed Percy out of the way and said with a deep bow,"Pleasure to meet you, old chap-"
"Wonderful, Bunce, it's good to see you.”George bowed to Bance.
roared Percy.
"Enough, there." said Mr. Weasley.
"Mommy!" said Fred, seizing her hand as though he had just noticed her."It's so good to see you-"
"I said, this is enough." said Mrs. Weasley, placing all her shopping on an empty chair. "Hello, Harry, dear, and you too, Bunce. I think you've heard the exciting news?”She pointed at the new silver badge pinned to Percy's chest. "The second leader of this family!”she said proudly.
"It wasn't easy." whispered Fred.
"I don't doubt that." said Weasley, suddenly frowning."I noticed you two weren't made prefects.”
"Why do we have to be prefects?”George said in a rebellious tone," That way, life will be boring.”
Ginny giggled.
"You should set a good example for your sister!”snapped Mrs. Weasley.
"Ginny's got other brothers to set an example for her, Mum.”said Percy haughtily."I'm going to change for dinner."
He disappeared, and George sighed.
"We were going to put him in the Pyramid," he told Bunce."Too bad Mum found him.”
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