Your Strange Delivery Has Arrived

Molly finally returned Ron's phone to him, and Ron was delighted.

That very evening, Ron, Fred, and George sneaked over to the Muggle car their father had modified.

Harry had contacted them on his phone to say that, because of Dobby, he was still locked in his room. Vernon had even nailed security bars over Harry's window.

The helpful Weasley brothers immediately decided to rescue Harry from his predicament.

"By the way, Fred, do you really know how to drive? When did you learn?" Ron couldn't help asking as he watched Fred open the door and settle into the driver's seat without a care.

"You'll know how once you start driving. It'll be fine as long as we get back safely without being caught!" George climbed into the back seat, while Ron swallowed nervously and took the passenger seat.

Unfortunately...

They were caught.

Which led to Fred's question in the group chat.

Molly's eyes were full of concern as she looked at Harry. "Eat some more." Harry looked at the unusually large helping of bacon on his plate and felt a little frightened and a little warm inside.

Draco followed Lucius to a shop belonging to an acquaintance in Knockturn Alley. Draco was curious about the things he had never seen before, but Lucius ordered him not to touch anything.

After his father's cane nearly struck his hand, Draco agreed, but the boy couldn't suppress his curiosity.

Looking at those things, Draco suddenly remembered what the group had discussed the night before.

Potter seemed to appear in this shop.

Draco frowned as he tried to remember, looking at the coffin-like place where Harry himself was hiding. At that moment, Harry didn't even dare breathe too loudly.

Meanwhile, Ron had already met up with Hermione in Diagon Alley. When they met, Hermione looked around in confusion. "Where's Harry?" Ron had set off before Harry, so he didn't yet know that Harry had been nervous and said the spell wrong.

"Uh... he should be here? Why don't we send Harry a message? Mum finally gave me my phone back!" Ron was delighted. Hermione shook her head helplessly. "Your mum must have wanted you to focus on your studies."

As she spoke, Hermione also took out her phone and sent Harry a message, while keeping an eye out so Dobby wouldn't discover that they had another way to communicate.

"Draco, what are you doing?" Lucius's voice rang out at the same time as Harry's phone notification.

After Hagrid helped Harry out of Knockturn Alley, he still couldn't understand why Malfoy hadn't exposed him when he had clearly heard his phone ring. Wasn't he supposed to be trying every possible way to make trouble for him?

"Harry! Where did you go?"

Unable to figure it out, Harry put the question aside for the time being. He had reunited with his friends.

On the way to the bookshop, Ron looked over the list of books they had to buy and couldn't help sighing.

"I didn't expect it to be him again this year..."

The person Ron meant was, of course, the familiar Lockhart. The identical author's names printed in a neat row on the booklist confirmed it. "Seriously, what use are these books? Is he going to act for us in class?"

"And Mum just had to be a huge fan of his..." Ron stuffed the list into his pocket and muttered in resignation.

"Even worse, he might be holding a book signing at the shop." Harry looked at his phone and couldn't help despairing. "Ron, don't you think maybe we don't need those books?"

Snape Uses Rejoice to Wash His Hair: Feels like the movies changed quite a bit. In the original book, Lucius and Arthur already started fighting during the bookshop scene in the second book. In the movie, I think they just argued _(:з"∠)_

Cheerful Harry Potter Fan: This is cracking me up. Lockhart's still holding a signing in the background.

Harry Is Mine: And he dragged Harry over for a forced photo while his face was still covered in soot...

[Admin] Yan: Good thing that position only lasts a year.

Little Cutie Harry's Benroutou: Hehe, but Harry saying Diagon Alley wrong was really cute and funny. He was genuinely nervous www.

Red-Lipped, White-Toothed The Chosen One: The first time I watched him nearly get caught in Knockturn Alley, I got nervous too.

Stepmother Literature: Hahahaha, that reminded me of how hard Lucius brought that cane down. It always feels like he nearly hit the young master. It didn't look like acting.

Those Regrettable Endings: Hahaha, wasn't Lucius's actor cast as Draco's dad because Draco was so bad?

Bug Ming: (*￣︶￣) I think that was part of the reason. Mainly, he was interested in the script 23333.

Mrs. Diggory: I've noticed that the Malfoy family seems to have inadvertently driven most of the plot...

Magpie: Hahahahahaha!

James-Brand Shampoo: Starting with Malfoy "inadvertently" helping Harry get onto the Quidditch team (funny.jpg)

Stepmother Literature: To Lucius giving Ginny Riddle's Diary and "inadvertently" helping Harry successfully deal with one of the Horcruxes (pounding the table and laughing wildly.jpg)

Those Regrettable Endings: Later, the Basilisk's fang became really useful too~

Proprietress Number Two: Hahahahahahaha!

[Admin] Holy Crap: Hahahahahahahaha!

always: Confirmed, the ultimate tool person.

After buying everything they needed and returning home, Ron could finally browse the group chat for the first time in a while. He didn't really want to face that rat right now... The thought that the pet he had always treasured was actually a criminal made Ron's heart seize up.

At first, he hadn't believed it, but since the group had said it, it became much more credible. Hermione had also argued with him about it afterward:

"Can an ordinary rat live for over ten years?"

Ron had no choice but to believe it, so he put Scabbers, rat, cage, and all, somewhere else. He didn't dare keep him in his own room anymore, so he put him in Fred and George's room.

But his mood wasn't going to improve anytime soon, so he browsed the group chat to cheer himself up. Then he saw them saying that Ginny had received Riddle's Diary.

Ron: ???

Why did the name Riddle sound so familiar?

Ron was thinking when Fred and George suddenly knocked twice and burst in, making him jump. The first thing Fred said was, "Did Ginny receive a diary?"

"Wasn't Ginny with you and Mum and Dad the whole time? When did she get it?"

George raised an eyebrow. "Ron, don't tell me you can't remember."

Ron glanced at his poor door. Fred followed his gaze and joked, "You never remember to lock it, do you?"

Ron: ...TvT

Having you two as brothers, I really give up.

Elsewhere, Harry also saw the messages about Riddle's Diary. He was shocked, because wasn't Riddle Voldemort's surname? Tom Riddle... His diary was with Ginny?!!

Wasn't Ginny in terrible danger, then?!!

Ginny herself had also discovered the unfamiliar book she had never seen before.

"Huh? I don't remember buying this."

Blaise leaned back in his bedroom chair, lost in thought as he read the messages. What was the Malfoy family trying to do? Could that so-called diary Uncle Lucius had given away belong to the so-called "Dark Lord" the adults talked about every day?

But why was he thinking about that? Blaise smiled and casually scrolled past the messages. He was more curious about the fact that even so-called side characters like him and Theodore had fans.

Over the past nearly full year, he had come to understand that, in the eyes of the people in this group, their world was merely a serialized novel or a movie in the Muggle world. And it seemed that those who had received phones were relatively popular people?

Blaise felt a little displeased.

It made it seem as though their lives had all been destined long ago...

But he really wanted to know how these people had become fans of him and Theodore.

He later discovered that it was a game called... Chengguang?

What was that?

Judging from the screenshots they had shared, the characters didn't look like them at all. What kind of image did these people have of them, anyway...? Blaise didn't understand, but he was even more eager to know exactly how the game called Chengguang portrayed him.

Hmm, I'll ask Theodore to join me when I get the chance.

Theodore, who had just arrived in Diagon Alley, sneezed for no apparent reason.

"Is there too much dust?" Theodore raised a hand and waved it in front of his nose, then frowned and walked on.

Dumbledore frequently kept an eye on the group chat, but unlike Harry and the others, who focused on Riddle's Diary, the first thing he noticed was the word "Horcrux."

It immediately brought to mind everything Tom had shown at school back then...

"He really did make a Horcrux..." Dumbledore paced back and forth as he thought. According to the group, the diary was the first Horcrux, but given his personality, there was definitely more than one.

Then how many others were there, what were they, and where were they?

Dumbledore sat down and let out a long sigh. "..."

He needed to keep watching. This group might yet give him some unexpected surprises.

The start of term gradually drew closer.

Fred and George asked around indirectly in the group and found out what the diary actually did. In the end, they discovered that the thing could brainwash people and was extremely dangerous!!

Then they joined forces with Ron and Harry and got the diary from Ginny before term started.

When it came to something that dared hurt their family, what did it matter if it was You-Know-Who's diary? The Weasley family wasn't afraid of a diary!

"This is the thing that got Ginny possessed?" The group was hiding in Ron's room. Fred stared at the diary in Harry's hand, seized by the urge to burn it.

"Let's just burn the thing," George said bluntly. "Who gave him the nerve to touch a girl from our Weasley family?" As Fred spoke, he moved to set it alight with his wand.

"Calm down!" Harry quickly moved the diary away. Ron was also deeply upset. If they really hadn't known anything, Ginny would have been in danger, and that was something they absolutely didn't want to see.

None of them knew what to do with the diary, but one thing was certain: it absolutely couldn't fall into anyone else's hands.

Just then, Ron's phone suddenly rang. It was a message from Hermione.

"She says she can't find anything about Horcruxes either. We might have to wait until we're back at Hogwarts and look in the library," Ron relayed what Hermione had said.

Fred thought for a moment. "Let's just ask them. Our family and Hogwarts are more important than a joke." As he spoke, he started to take out his phone to ask directly.

Family ranked first in Fred's heart, and right now all he wanted was to deal with the diary quickly.

But Harry's phone suddenly rang. It seemed a little different from the usual message notification. He picked it up and saw that it was a friend request.

On the first day of term, Cho arrived at the station a little early. While looking for her friends, she saw a rather small, slender younger student with long blond hair who seemed to be struggling to drag a large suitcase. Now in her third year, Cho kindly decided to go over and help.

But when she saw the girl's face, she thought it looked familiar, as if she had seen it somewhere before.

"Thank you," the girl wearing carrot earrings thanked Cho in a sing-song voice. "What's your name?"

Her tone also sounded a little as though she were asking and answering her own question. Cho paid it no mind and smiled. "I'm Cho Chang. What about you?"

"I'm Luna Lovegood."

"Huh?"

A new class of students was starting school, and new packages were already on the way. One of them, however, seemed to have flown in the wrong direction.

In the skies above Nurmengard, an owl had flown over oceans and mountains and finally caught sight of a corner of its destination.

A very familiar package was clutched tightly in his talons.

Grindelwald couldn't understand why an owl would come to a place like this, or how it had gotten in.

"..."

Some things may arrive late, but they're never absent~

Dear Mr. Gellert Grindelwald, your late package has been delivered~ A power bank and instruction manual are included. Please enjoy using them, and please show mercy and don't throw this off the tower.

A strange package and a strange note.

There seemed to be something written on the back, too.

Grindelwald, still elegant even in his twilight years, held the note and turned it over.

By the way, Mr. Albus Dumbledore also has the same model and is currently using it~ OvO

"..."

After making the delivery, the owl shook its head and flew away.

Grindelwald looked at the thing, completely at a loss for words. His first thought was: who had the spare time to send something like this over?

His second thought was that it had actually been delivered.

QQ Butler: Welcome newcomer [summer] to the group chat!

Didn't expect that, did you?! I brought Grindelwald online!!

After all, it takes time for an owl to fly to Nurmengard... So his late appearance definitely wasn't because the author forgot!

Summer, summertime.

I thought for a long time about what name Grindelwald himself would choose. Someone like him probably wouldn't use his real name, but he'd probably also find a name that was too long cumbersome. So, after thinking it over, I settled on "summer," but then I thought either "summer" or "midsummer" in Chinese seemed a little inappropriate.

So I decided to use the English word "summer."

GGAD must have a happy ending!!!! (Screaming!)

And the little angel Luna has finally appeared!!! Yay!!! Finally, guess who sent Harry that friend request? www

Also, some of you wanted to know exactly how the name Bug Ming came about, so I'll explain briefly. Ever since I was little, no matter what it was, appliances or tools would develop bugs in my hands... Like suddenly not working, wires suddenly burning out, tools falling apart, and so on...

Later it extended to games. On the first day I played online with a friend, I got stuck in a wall. On the second day, I got stuck in the ground and was killed by a monster... After that, I encountered bugs in basically every kind of software, and in games too. Then I never played online games again.

So I called myself Bug Ming...

All right, that's it!