Crescent Moon

"I want to take back what I said before." George looked at Sherlock who was holding his wand and confronted Malfoy and muttered with his mouth open.

Fred had already reacted at this time, and he said excitedly.

"I also want to take back what I said before. I admit that I misread Professor Forrest. Percy doesn't even deserve to carry his shoes!"

Percy, who was injured again innocently, could only turn his head angrily and stare at the twins again.

After witnessing Malfoy being beaten, Harry and Ron's eyes were also very excited.

"I think our Defense Against the Dark Arts class this semester should be very good!"

"It's will definitely more interesting than Quirrell's class anyway!"

Mrs. Weasley hurriedly surrounded Sherlock to check if he was injured.

There were tears of relief in her eyes, and she couldn't explain her excitement.

"Sherlock, you shouldn't have rushed to fight--your Uncle Weasley set you a bad example--but, boy, you're not the same as before--I don't know what to say, maybe you've grown up, but that's a good thing."

Malfoy didn't have a chance to fight back against Sherlock at all, but Mr. Weasley's face was glazed.

But even Mr. Weasley didn't focus his attention on himself. Instead, he patted Sherlock's shoulder with a complex smile full of relief, emotion, rejoicing, and joy.

"I knew that sooner or later there would be such a day of Sherlock, I knew it."

Although Sherlock had just made a move that was completely inconsistent with his previous character, his current response was still very cold.

"People always grow up, and it's not too late for me now, and that person just made a rude remark."

He is creating an image of being cold on the outside and hot on the inside so that the gap between the Weasleys shouldn't be too big, and it would also prevent his personality change from being too abrupt in the future, making them feel uncomfortable and also stopping suspicion.

He then walked to the bookshelf, took out a few textbooks that he would use in the first grade this year, and put them in front of the cashier to pay.

"Freshmen should use new textbooks as much as possible. It's my welcome gift."

Sherlock took out the old textbook from Ginny's cauldron, put it back into the stack of old books, and then put the new textbook into her cauldron under Ginny's twinkling eyes.

"I hope you can work hard after entering school. I have other things to do next. I'll talk about being a guest later. I'll go first."

After he finished speaking, he did not wait for Mrs. Weasley to hold him back and walked away from Flourish and Blotts.

The Weasleys and Harry looked at Sherlock's back and felt that the straight back was inexplicably handsome.

Mr. Weasley looked at the new book in Ginny's Crucible and said with a sigh.

"Sherlock has really become a little different from before. Sally would be very happy to see him like this now."

Mrs. Weasley wiped her tears.

"Poor child, he must have suffered a lot when he has been living alone and yet can be so sensible."

Harry and Ron were excitedly discussing how to laugh at him about his father's beating after school started.

George and Fred were imitating Sherlock's punch, saying that it looks more handsome than defeating an enemy with a spell, and they planned to come up with a magic boxing glove.

Ginny was happily flipping through her new textbook, Hermione was attracted by a book about the history of Hogwarts, and Percy was looking for a book about how prefects should manage students.

They didn't leave the bookstore together until Hagrid, the Groundskeeper at Hogwarts, passed by and greeted them.

But no one noticed that in the pile of old books that Sherlock put back from Ginny's cauldron, there was a diary lying quietly in the pile of books as if it had been there all along.

Two days later, a stern old witch brought his timid grandson to Flourish and Blotts.

"These old notebooks usually record the wisdom of predecessors. Some of them will be of great help to you. You can choose a few and buy them home, Neville."

"I, I know grandma."

The weak boy hurriedly dug out a few notebooks from the stack of old books and paid the clerk with his new textbooks.

He also failed to notice that one of the most worn books in the pile didn't contain a single word.

...

Sherlock planned to leave Diagon Alley as soon as he came out of the bookstore.

The burning sensation on his left arm was most noticeable when he touched Malfoy, but then gradually subsided, and now there was no response at all.

There is something weird in this matter, so he wants to hurry home now, and while studying his left arm, he will flip through the original owner's diary to see if he has any key information that he missed.

I got the custom-made robe from Madam Malkin's robe shop and also brought back the owl that he had paid for before from the Magical Menagerie pet shop.

Sherlock ended his trip to Diagon Alley.

After he returned home, he went directly to the bathroom and took off his shirt. Then he looked into the full-length mirror and saw that there was indeed something unusual on his left arm.

It was a birthmark like a crescent moon. It was not small as a whole, occupying more than one-third of the skin above his left arm.

Sherlock didn't notice this thing until he encountered the Malfoy's and the mark became hot, he was sure that this mark didn't seem to be as simple as a birthmark.

But he doesn't know what this thing does to him, and he doesn't even understand why it gets hot after seeing Malfoy.

It took a day for Sherlock to read through the original owner's diary carefully, and also found a lot of experimental records of the original owner's magic experiments in the study.

But they didn't find any information about this mark but found some clues from a photo of the original owner when he was a student.

From a photo of a bare arm, he determined that the mark was already on the original owner's arm before he crossed here.

But why did the imprint seem to have no problems during the 20 years that the original owner lived, but after he saw Malfoy, he started to get hot?

Sherlock couldn't figure it out, and he didn't have time to study it carefully.

Because the time has quietly come to the end of August.

Tomorrow is September 1st, the day when Hogwarts begins.

Sherlock had to pack up and get ready to go to that magic school.

Because the last time Professor McGonagall visited, he left him a ticket.

So the only way he knew how to get to Hogwarts is by going to King's Cross Station and taking the train called the Hogwarts Express.