Chapter 87 Luna Lovegood

  "Did you really just leave everyone behind?"

  Hermione asked.

  "Why, isn't this what you often do?"

  "Even so - well, you're right, there's nothing to worry about."

  The others didn't bother.

  However, they couldn't continue the conversation at that moment - Professor Lockhart was undeniably attractive, but how could the person beside him not be considered attractive as well?

  The character the students were eager to meet sat with them, reading quietly and even rejecting others' invitations.

  For the first time, several people felt that although they already valued Damon in their hearts, they seemed to be a little "accustomed to it".

  Harry and Ron looked at each other and smacked their lips lightly.

  Seeing that everyone was quiet, Neville took a long moment to gather his courage and finally spoke up:

  "Damon, my grandmother said that she didn't see you during the summer vacation. I hope you have time to write her a letter."

  "Okay, I will."

  After a brief conversation, they were quiet again.

  During this time, they seemed quite absent-minded. What were the students outside the door doing?

  I don't know how long it took, it should be when the train was in the middle and later half of the journey, the door suddenly opened again.

  With the exclamation, a girl with silver eyes and dark golden brown hair walked in.

  She wore carrot-shaped earrings and a necklace made of butter beer bottle corks, staring at everyone with bulging eyes.

  "Who set up the riddle just now?"

  After Ginny entered the carriage, the wall behind them closed and locked on its own, and the riddle on the wall changed its answer. 

  "It's me."

  Damon responded and recognized the person.

  Luna Lovegood, a first-year student, a quirky girl, her father is Xenophilius Lovegood, the editor-in-chief of "The Quibbler" magazine.

  As for the red-haired beautiful girl behind her, it is Ginny from the Weasley family.

  It seems like that they have become friends.

  At this time, Luna looked at Damon, while Ginny secretly looked at Harry - she had always admired this savior.

  "Very interesting puzzle."

  There were no extra seats, so Luna stood in the empty space next to Damon and chatted with him.

  Ginny sat in the empty seat next to Hermione at her beckoning, and Neville was squeezed into the corner.

  The train clanged forward, and the voices of Luna and Damon's conversation kept ringing in the carriage. Although brief, every sentence had a response.

  "What is the strange creature in the puzzle on the wall before?"

  "It's the Sphinx, also known as the Sphinx. It is a winged monster with a lion's torso and a woman's head in Greek mythology.

  It sits on a cliff near the city of Thebes and asks passers-by questions. If they can't answer the riddle, it will eat them.

  One day, a wise man answered the question, and it jumped off the cliff in shame and died."

  "Hmm--" After listening to Damon's words, Luna narrowed her eyes, as if thinking about something.

  "The Sphinx may not really want to eat people. Maybe it's just too hungry, so hungry that even its own riddles are starting to become illogical."

  Daemon was a little stunned. "You mean it's very hungry?"

  Luna nodded and said seriously,

  "You see, it's a monster, sitting alone on the edge of a cliff, asking people riddles all day long. Maybe it doesn't have anything else to do.

  So, when someone solves the riddle, it may just think, 'Finally someone can make an exchange with me. I've asked so many riddles, and today someone finally answered them. I should give something in return!'"   

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  "Then it committed suicide and let others eat it."

  "Haha, very interesting idea."

  Damon was amused by her strange idea.

  "Please sit down."

  Damon then waved his hand, and the place beside him suddenly began to change, and a chair suddenly appeared behind Luna's feet.

  "My name is Luna, Luna Lovegood."

  Luna sat down with satisfaction, and then looked at Harry and Ron who were staring at her.

  She sat upright, like a passenger who went into space for the first time, with a curious and frank look in her eyes.

  "Were you guessing if I was wearing contact lenses?" She said calmly, with a hint of seriousness. "I'm not wearing any. Don't worry. They are now in my father's hat box, together with a feather mantis I picked up last year."

  Harry didn't react for a moment: "Feather mantis?"

  "Yes, it's a very rare creature, a kind of mantis that only dances with an umbrella when the moon is full. It has white feathers on its wings and is said to be able to sense when someone is lying."

  She paused and looked at Ron. "If it heard you say 'her brain may not be right', it might explode on the spot."

  Ron was like being petrified, his eyes widened and his mouth slightly opened.

  "I-I didn't say it?" His voice was weak.

  Luna nodded and said seriously:

  "You didn't say it, but the feather mantis can hear 'thought waves'. Don't worry, I just said 'if', it's not here."

  She patted a string of bell-like decorations hanging around her waist, "This can only sense whether the chair is whispering."

  Ron stared at the bells with wide eyes, and everyone started laughing at his funny look.

  Neville also relaxed, holding Riff tightly with one hand, and reaching into his schoolbag with the other hand to search, and took out something - a small gray cactus planted in a pot, but it was not covered with thorns, but covered with boils.

  "Look, this is Mibo Mibao." He said proudly.

  Damon looked at the slightly beating Mibumibao with disdain - why are the things Neville likes always so rare?

  "This is very, very rare," Neville said with a bright face, "It may not even be available in the greenhouse of Hogwarts!"

  "I really want to show it to Professor Sprout now. This is what my great-uncle Algie got from Assyria for me. I want to see if I can cultivate it."

  "Is it the grandfather who hung you upside down and threw you out of the window?"

  "Yes, but it doesn't matter. I'll show you the amazing self-defense mechanism of Mibumibao!"

  When Neville said this, he became proud. He took out a feather pen from his schoolbag, held the tip of his tongue between his teeth, raised the pot of Mibumibao in front of his eyes, found a place, and poked the plant hard with the tip of the feather pen.

  Damon always felt that he had a bad premonition, and quietly cast a full-body armor spell to protect himself.

  Sure enough.

  Juice erupted from the plant, spraying sticky, smelly dark green liquid onto the carriage's ceiling, windows, and Luna Lovegood's magazine.

  Fortunately, Ginny used her arms to cover her face in time, but her head felt like wearing a sticky and dirty green hat.

  Harry was in trouble, trying to catch Leif to prevent his escape, but he got sprayed in the face with a foul-smelling substance.

  Everyone screamed as Damon quickly pulled out his wand and used it to clean up the chaos. Looking at the frightened crowd, he laughed again.

  In any case, these people really gave him a lot of fun before arriving at Hogwarts.

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