Chapter 198: Temporary Mission

John pushed open the door and found that although the room was a bit old, the furnishings were quite exquisite.

It seemed that its previous owner was also a decent person.

After simply cleaning off some floating dust, John considered himself temporarily settled here.

Then John, like performing a magic trick, pulled a big orange cat out of his bag.

Yes, Hermione's big orange cat.

"Big Orange, oh Big Orange, if Hermione can't find you, she will definitely come to find me."

John held Big Orange and said with a grin.

After being trapped for a long time and seeing the light of day again, Big Orange flicked its tail in dissatisfaction and slapped John on the face with a paw, as if complaining to him.

"Don't resist, Big Orange; as a little cat, you are born to be kneaded."

John didn't care about Big Orange's resistance at all and kept stroking its fur.

There were quite a lot of people here; if he wanted to get close to Hermione, he could only let her come to his room.

Hermione lived with Ginny, so it definitely wouldn't be appropriate to go to her room.

And it wouldn't work to just call Hermione to his room directly; not to mention what others would think, Hermione herself would definitely be shy and bristle.

So he had to kidnap her little cat.

The clever Hermione would definitely be able to guess John's little thoughts, and then after a psychological struggle, she would half-push and half-submit and deliver herself to his door.

Thinking this, a knock sounded outside the door.

Hey, didn't she just come?

John immediately got off the bed to open the door, with a smile on his face.

However, after opening the door, John found that the person standing outside the door was not Hermione... but Professor Moody.

?

Looking at the old man standing outside the door, John was stunned.

"... Professor Moody?"

Moody outside the door saw the smile that was originally on John's face freeze and snorted coldly.

"Hmph, it seems you are in high spirits. Come out with me for a trip in a moment."

"Ah?"

"Crookshanks, Crookshanks?"

"Strange, where did Crookshanks go?"

On the other side, Hermione had just finished tidying up and was preparing to rest, but suddenly found that her Crookshanks was missing, so she began to look everywhere.

"Hmm? Hermione, are you looking for your cat?"

At this time, Ginny poked her head out from the stair corner and asked Hermione.

"Yes, Crookshanks usually comes back at this time, but now it's missing."

"Could it be that it was scared by something on its first day here?"

Hermione said while looking around at the dark environment.

"... Actually, I saw John take your cat away earlier..."

Ginny was silent for a while, then, as if thinking of something, said slowly to Hermione.

When she said this, there was a mischievous smile on her face.

"John?"

Hearing Ginny's words, Hermione was stunned for a moment, then immediately reacted.

A blush immediately appeared on her face.

"Uh-huh~ I sleep very soundly after I fall asleep. If someone waits until the middle of the night to come back, I probably wouldn't know—"

Ginny blinked and dragged the last sentence out long and light, as if deliberately expressing something.

Hermione's ear tips instantly burned red, but she said stubbornly.

"I'll be right back!"

After saying that, she walked quickly toward John's room upstairs.

Watching Hermione's "fleeing in panic" appearance, Ginny couldn't help but laugh out loud, and then looked at Hermione's back with some envy.

Should I also raise something, and then throw it into Harry's room?

If Harry could also rack his brains to trick me into his room, that would be great.

But Ron is too much of an eyesore; I have to find a way to get rid of him...

Ron, who was planning to sleep, suddenly shivered all over.

Why does it feel like there's an inexplicable chill...

"John."

Hermione came to the top floor alone, to John's door, knocked, and called inside.

"Did you take my Crookshanks away?"

Hermione complained to the room with a hint of coquettishness.

However, there was no response from the room.

"John?"

After waiting for a long time without a response, the blush on Hermione's face finally faded, replaced by a look of confusion.

She tried to grab the doorknob and turn it gently, and the door opened directly.

Hermione walked into the room and saw Crookshanks sleeping on the bed at a glance.

It seemed that Crookshanks had indeed been kidnapped by John.

But there was no sign of John.

Hermione wrinkled her cute nose and kicked the bed foot with dissatisfaction.

"Stinky John, you tricked me into coming over but you're not here; to think I was looking forward to it..."

After hearing that John had taken Crookshanks away, the clever Hermione knew what John was up to.

Although she was very shy, she still came.

Anyway, there was a legitimate reason, and they were both boyfriend and girlfriend now, so there was nothing to be coy about.

But at this moment, the person was gone, without even leaving a note.

There was a feeling of being stood up.

Hermione looked around angrily and decided to teach John a lesson when he came back.

Then she climbed onto the bed, took Crookshanks into her arms, and leaned against the head of the bed to wait.

She thought John should just be wandering around the old mansion, arguing with Professor Moody, or learning some defensive spells from Professor Lupin.

He would be back soon.

As a result, she waited and waited, her eyelids getting heavier and heavier.

She simply hugged Crookshanks into her arms, tilted her head, and fell asleep.

"Old man, how about this, you go solve the five on the left, I'll go solve the three on the right."

"Why not four each?"

"Come on, I'm a student, of course you have to share some for me."

"Stop talking nonsense, give me the three on the right, you go solve the five on the left."

"Ah?"

"Ah my foot, charge! Reducto!"

"Screw you! Earth Dragon Flip!"

"WTF! The floor is moving?"

"Idiot, that's Mad-Eye here! We've been discovered!"

Rumble!!

After a chaotic battle, two figures, one big and one small, walked out of the smoke and dust.

"No, old man, you asked a student to accompany you to do such a dangerous job?"

"Hmph, it doesn't count as dangerous for you."

The two were exactly John and Professor Moody, who had disappeared from the Order of the Phoenix.

John, who was waiting for Hermione to throw herself into his arms, was dragged away by Moody, who was on a temporary mission.

He said he had discovered a secret gathering of several Death Eaters whose identities had been exposed, and came to destroy their gathering and capture a few for interrogation.

Originally, Moody intended to come alone, but when he thought of John, who had nothing to do, he dragged him along.

He said that as a member of the Order of the Phoenix, he had to contribute to the Order.

John wiped the dust off his face with dissatisfaction.

Damn, relying on his magical eye, he blew up the room with smoke and dust, and he couldn't even see anyone.

If it weren't for the fact that he had learned how to perceive magical fluctuations from Professor Flitwick, he wouldn't have known where to cast spells.

"So what did you find in their brains?"

John looked at the Death Eaters lying in a mess behind him and asked Professor Moody again.

"Hmm... only know they wanted to go into the Department of Mysteries to find something."

"Perhaps it has something to do with their constant infiltration into the Ministry of Magic recently."

Moody was silent for a moment and then said slowly.

"Department of Mysteries?"

"Is there anything in there that the Death Eaters or Voldemort want?"

John asked strangely.

"Hard to say, there are too many things in there, have to check them one by one."

Chatting here wouldn't lead to any conclusions, so the two had to return to the Order of the Phoenix first. ===== CHAPTER 199 =====