A certain Hogwarts magical cat

Chapter 188 Take meow to take a bath? (three more)

"Oh, Charlie, you came just in time, give me a hand, this mandrake is too strong to fit in!"

Ron, who was trying to resist a set of mandrake combo punches, saw Charlie appearing at Alice's feet, and suddenly seemed to see a savior, and hurriedly asked for help in a low voice.

Charlie looked beside Ron, who was also covered in mud by the Mandrake Alice, nodded the cat's head, stepped forward and pressed it down with one paw.
The little fat man, who was originally baring his teeth and claws, suddenly felt an irresistible force coming, and instantly lost all resistance, and was pushed into the bottom of the flower pot.

Seeing the last and most difficult mandrake finally entered the flower pot, Alice and Hermione, who had been preparing for a long time, immediately poured the compost into the flower pot and buried the fat doll in it.

With the addition of compost, the mandrake immediately quieted down.

Seeing this, the four of them breathed a sigh of relief. No wonder they had to be in a group of four. Repotting a Mandrake is really not an easy job.

"It has to be Charlie!"

Harry patted the dirt on his body and sighed.

"Two dignified men, they are not as strong as cats!"

Hermione rolled her eyes involuntarily.
The corner of Ron's mouth twitched:
"Is Charlie an ordinary cat? It's a submissive cat that can take care of that stupid dragon like Norbert!"

Ron still remembers that at the end of last semester, Charlie easily pulled the four of them up from under the trapdoor with just one tail. Could that strength be comparable to Harry's?
"Okay, get out of class is over, let's go to the castle and take a shower, there will be a transformation class in a while!"

Seeing that Hermione and Ron were about to fight again, Alice hurriedly interrupted.

Hogwarts Castle girls dormitory,

Alice and Hermione were packing up a change of clothes together, and were going to take a shower in the girls' bathroom on the second floor during the break between classes to wash off the mud and sweat from the class just now.

"Charlie, would you like to take a bath with us for a while, cats also love to be clean!"

Ever since Hermione knew that Charlie had become an adult, she had awakened the ability to communicate with humans, and she liked to talk to Charlie when she had nothing to do. Maybe it was because the cats she was familiar with suddenly became able to communicate, which is very interesting!

It's like if you raise a bird and find out that it is a talking parrot, then you may tease it when you are free.

"Uh, this, it's still not necessary!"

Although Charlie is a cat now, his soul is the soul of a human being, and there is still a basic moral bottom line.

The girls' bathroom on the second floor is the place where the little witches and female professors from the first to seventh grades of Hogwarts take a bath together, and it is also the only place Charlie has not been to so far.

"You run around outside every day, and you never see you take a bath. You must be unclean. Today, my sister is going to take a bath. I will also wash you for you, so that you will become a clean kitten!"

From Hermione's point of view, although Charlie can communicate with people, he is still just a kitten after all. He helped them solve the problem of the mandrake just now, and it is not difficult to give him a bath.
Besides, Hermione has never seen Alice bathe Charlie. Out of consideration for Charlie's health, she thinks it is necessary to take a bath. "Wizard's Guide to Raising Cats" also said that a cat needs to be bathed for a month.

Since Hermione decided to buy herself a cat as a pet, she also took time to read the "Witcher's Guide to Raising Cats" that she had given to Alice before.
Therefore, she is quite familiar with some things to pay attention to when raising a cat.

"Hermione, no need!"

Charlie dodged to avoid Hermione's claws and replied.

"I know cats are more afraid of water, it's okay!"

Hermione didn't catch it, and pounced on Charlie again.

But this time, one hand firmly grasped Hermione's collar and pulled her back. It was Alice, whose face was a little red, who made the move.

"Okay, it's fine if Charlie doesn't want to, he didn't like to take a bath before, let's hurry up, or we'll be late in a while!"

It's not that Alice has never done bathing for Charlie, but that was when Charlie was very young. At that time, Charlie had just walked and couldn't run fast. She could easily catch him.
In Alice's memory, Charlie liked to go out and wander around at that time, and he was always sweaty and dusty when he came back, so she would often take him to the shower after catching Charlie,
It's a pity that Charlie's speed became faster and faster, and she couldn't catch Charlie anymore.
And since then, she hasn't been able to take Charlie in the shower again.

Up to now, it is no longer a question of whether Charlie wants to take a bath with her, but a question of whether she can take Charlie to take a bath,
After seeing Charlie's Animagus transformation, Alice looked at Charlie and couldn't treat him as a cat anymore psychologically, so she was shocked when she heard that Hermione was going to take Charlie to the girls' bathroom to take a bath.

When Hermione heard the word "late", her spirits were shaken immediately, and she stopped worrying about Charlie's bath, and hurriedly dragged Alice to the girls' bathroom on the second floor.
As a top student, "being late" is a very intolerable thing in Hermione's mind, and it's still Professor McGonagall's class, so you can't be late,

So whether Charlie takes a shower or not, suddenly it doesn't matter that much.

"Fortunately, Alice reacted quickly, otherwise I would run away!"

Seeing Hermione and Alice leave the girls' dormitory, Charlie couldn't help secretly heaving a sigh of relief.

15 minutes later,
Alice and Hermione returned with wet hair, then picked up the second-year Transfiguration textbook, and rushed to the Transfiguration classroom on the first floor with Charlie.

In the Transfiguration class, Professor McGonagall began to explain the knowledge related to Transfiguration based on the second-grade textbook.

The content of transfiguration taught in the first grade is mainly to change an inanimate object into another inanimate object, such as turning a match into a needle at the beginning, and turning water into rum later on, which is more difficult.
However, in the next semester, it will involve turning a living object into an inanimate object. For example, in the final exam of the first grade, the assessment of transfiguration is to turn a mouse into a snuff box.

The content of the transformation class in the second grade is to continue to explain how to turn a living object into an inanimate object, and at the same time start to dabble in some knowledge about turning an inanimate object into an animate object.

Most of the knowledge taught by Professor McGonagall is actually known to Charlie, but sometimes after Professor McGonagall's interpretation and extension, it can also give Charlie some extra insights.

The same knowledge point, different people may have different understandings after reading it. It is also a second-grade textbook. Charlie learned by himself before and now listens to Professor McGonagall. The feeling is also different.

All in all, it is rewarding to attend classes well.

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(End of this chapter)