Hogwarts: I am Harry's eldest cousin

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"Why don't you let me try?"

Dudley said, standing next to the clerk, not wanting to waste too much time.

"Mr. Xiaopeng, this is very dangerous."

The clerk looked up at Dudley, who was half a head taller than him, and swallowed the rest of his words.

"It's okay. I've caught it before."

After hearing what Dudley said, the clerk was still a little hesitant, worried that Dudley would get hurt, but to be honest, he really didn't want to touch this thing again.

No one wants to be bitten, especially by a group of books.

Finally the clerk agreed to Dudley's request and handed him his thick gloves.

"Then be careful. Even if you're bitten through your gloves, it's going to hurt."

"No need for that kind of thing."

Dudley didn't even bother looking at the gloves as he thrust his hand into the cage.

If you can break my defense, I lose.

Dudley, who had experienced the power of the monster book, did not take it seriously.

"Wait, this is dangerous!" It was too late for the clerk to stop it.

"I knew I shouldn't have agreed to it."

The clerk covered his eyes, unable to bear the sight of Dudley's hand being bitten by a group of monster books.

"If you ask me for compensation, I will say that he put his hand in my vagina when I wasn't paying attention and I tried to stop him but failed."

The clerk immediately figured out how to explain it.

Sure enough, when Dudley's arm was put into the big iron cage, it was like a fly staring at manure. Ahem, just like a traveler who had been hungry for three days seeing food, countless monster books swarmed in and bit Dudley's arm tightly.

However, Dudley, whose arm was bitten by the monster book, acted as if nothing had happened. He just shook it lightly, and the book that was biting his arm was bounced away. Then he grabbed a book and pulled it out.

The monster books that had caused no harm immediately crowded to the entrance of the cage, staring at Dudley with the little eyes on the covers and making indignant noises.

Dudley ignored them and just stared at the monster book in his hand, which he had picked up for Hermione first.

'I thought Mrs Figg said something like grabbing the back and giving it a gentle squeeze?'

As Dudley was thinking this, he placed two fingers on the monster book.

'Don't be too gentle, or you might hurt Hermione.'

So I added a little more strength and then pinched it.

There was a slight clicking sound, and the "Monster Book of Monsters" that was still struggling in Dudley's hand trembled as if it had been electrocuted, and it spit out two ribbon-like tongues, rolled its eyes, and lay motionless in Dudley's hand.

'hiss'

The noisy monster books suddenly became quiet, and all looked at Dudley pinching the monster book's arm, and gasped, as if they were extremely frightened.

"It seems to be OK. It is really simple."

Dudley handed the monster book to Hermione next to him, and was relieved when he found that she was indeed "obedient".

You need 5 copies of this in total.

So Dudley turned his gaze to the big iron cage again, and the monster books in the cage all retreated. When Dudley reached his hand in again, these monster books seemed to be targeted by their natural enemies and dared not move.

No one came forward to take a bite.

So Dudley easily grabbed four more books.

However, these four books were very obedient throughout the whole process and did not move until they were sealed with ropes by Dudley.

This puzzled the staff at Blooming and Blotts Bookstore. Why did they react so strongly when they caught them?

In addition to the monster book, Dudley and his friends also bought books titled "Seeing the Future through the Mist" and "A Simple Introduction to Ancient Magic Runes", which are books about divination and ancient magic runs.

Divination and Ancient Magic Runes are new courses (electives) added starting from the third grade.

It was not until Dudley and the others disappeared from sight that the group of monster books breathed a sigh of relief, but then started to make a fuss again.

The clerk looked at the chaos of monster books in the big iron cage, speechless.

This thing is also bullying the weak and fearing the strong?

Except for the little episode about the monster book, the purchase of other items went very smoothly.

Only when he passed a pet shop did Dudley stop for a moment.

Both Harry's and my birthday were celebrated during the holidays, but Hermione's birthday was just a few days after school started.

On her birthday, Hermione gave herself a piece of clothing with a traceless stretch charm added to every pocket. This spell was almost the one Hermione was most proficient in, and it was very practical for a wizard like Dudley who liked to prepare a lot of backup plans.

By the way, except for the robes, underwear and shoes required by Hogwarts, Dudley's entire outfit was knitted by Hermione herself.

"Mr. Jellos, have you found the pet I want?"

Dudley pushed open the door of the pet store called "Beast Tamer" and said to the young man with straight bangs and squinty eyes inside the store.

Chapter 192 Crookshanks? No, Puss in Boots

"Of course, Mr. Dursley." The man called Jelloth narrowed his eyes and replied, "Please wait here for a moment."

What Dudley wanted was a cat, or more precisely, a cat with magical bloodline.

Currently, there are two most famous cat-like magical creatures known in the wizarding world. One is a magical creature called Nekomata in Japan. It usually looks no different from an ordinary cat, but when excited it will rapidly grow larger and has great destructive power. Its characteristic is that the end of its tail is forked into two.

The other is a magical creature called Leopard in America. However, Leopard is much more dangerous than cat. Its danger level is 5X, the same as that of fire dragon and basilisk. Its size and appearance are somewhat similar to those of ordinary cougar or jaguar. It can walk upright and run faster than an arrow. It is said that its eyes have the ability to hypnotize and telepathically read minds.

The most important point is that if a leopard is hit by a fatal attack, it will split into two, two into four, and it will continue to reproduce endlessly, making it almost impossible to kill.

However, what Jelloth found for Dudley was obviously not one of the above two.

Again, for openly selling dangerous cats and panthers in England, he was probably going to spend the rest of his life in Azkaban.

Soon, Jellosh came in from the side door of the pet shop carrying a cradle and placed it in front of Dudley. Inside the cradle was a kitten sleeping soundly.

Jellosh began to introduce the kitten to Dudley.

"It has some catkin bloodline, as well as some blood from unknown magical creatures. Most importantly, it is quite smart. I think it should be your ideal pet."

It was a furry orange kitten, but the so-called orange cat refers to its body shape. It was obviously just a kitten but it had a round belly. In fact, it should be a red Persian long-haired cat.

The fur is fine and shiny and looks very healthy.

But... its face was flat, as if it had once rushed into a wall, and it had a fat tail that was puffed up like a bottle brush.

These two characteristics greatly reduce the image of kittens.

Dudley didn't mind, but he still had to ask some questions.

"Manager Jellos, you won't sell me the cats that can't be sold in your store, right?"

When Jellosh heard this, the smile on his face became a little forced.

"How. How could that be?"

In fact, Dudley was right. Almost no one cared about this kitten because of its appearance. Even though it was very smart and had the bloodline of a knave and some unknown magical creature, it did not look good.

As a pet, wizards pay more attention to appearance than bloodline.

If Dudley hadn't insisted on having a pet with magical blood, Jelloth wouldn't have thought of it.

"You are kidding, store manager. I want him."

Hearing this, Jelloth breathed a sigh of relief.

Dudley readily took out gold Galleons and paid the store manager Jellos for the purchase of the kitten.

"What's its name?"

"Crookshanks, you can also give it a new name. It is smart and will understand."

At this time, the kitten seemed to be awakened. It shook its ears and slowly opened its eyes.

The little guy seemed to know his fate and didn't make any noise. He just looked at Dudley with curiosity.

She looks very well behaved.

If you ignore that big flat face.

'Hey, are you my new keeper?'

A few meows were heard, but these sounds meant something else to Dudley.

Fantastic Beasts.

There is really some magical animal bloodline.

'Seems to be smarter than that idiot Jelloth.'

Crookshanks circled around Dudley and meowed a few times.

Jelloth immediately shouted excitedly: "Look, Mr. Dursley, it is greeting you, it recognizes you."

'No, I don't think it's greeting me, it's scolding you.'

Dudley paid no attention to Jelloth's nonsense.

'Hey, keeper, don't you think I look ugly without all my clothes on? I think I need a new outfit.'

'A pair of boots, a belt and a hat.'

Crookshanks kept meowing like a chatterbox.

Dudley listened to Crookshanks mumbling with a strange look on his face.

boots?

Puss in Boots?

Dudley seemed to have thought of something, pointed at Crookshanks below and said to Jelloth, "By the way, Mr. Jelloth, please help me dress it up."

Crookshanks' eyes lit up as he listened.

"Ahaha, new breeder, it seems you have good taste and know that I need to be dressed up."

After a while.

Dudley walked out of the pet shop carrying a newly decorated flower basket. Crookshanks was sitting in the basket with a stinky expression on his face. His overall appearance had not changed much. He had neither boots nor a hat, but he had a big red bow tied on his body.

Since it is a gift, how can we not tie a bow on it?

Soon Dudley found Hermione who was trying on robes in Madam Malkin's robe shop.

"This is a birthday present for you."

Dudley handed Crookshanks to Hermione with a smile.

Crookshanks barked twice.

'Well, you are my keeper, I hope you are smarter than that big guy.'

Hermione looked very happy. She gave Dudley a sweet smile and didn't mind Crookshanks' scattered hair. She hugged him in her arms.

Hermione also likes kittens very much.

"What's its name!"

Hermione asked excitedly.

"Meow monster."

Dudley blurted out without thinking.