The sudden voice caused Lynn's brain to pause for a moment, and she looked down at the watch on her left wrist.
Lynn had clearly felt it just now; that warm current had radiated from the watch and expanded throughout her entire body.
By the same token, the voice that had just appeared in her mind must have also been transmitted by the watch.
She had previously speculated when she saw the Little Badger and the Little Eagle on the edge of the watch.
The only ones capable of doing such a thing, hiding themselves inside the watch, should be those two among the four legendary founders.
Helga Hufflepuff and Rowena Ravenclaw—so, were those words spoken by Lady Ravenclaw or Lady Hufflepuff just now?
Lynn thought for a while, and after determining it must have been one of them, she looked up again.
It was just a voice, and she had never heard Lady Hufflepuff or Lady Ravenclaw speak before.
Therefore, she was unable to distinguish which of the two the voice belonged to.
But regardless of which one it was, when they said someone worries and someone loves, were they referring to her?
Lynn thought about it without any feeling in her heart, and after reaching the conclusion that it probably was, she stopped thinking about the matter.
As for Lady Ravenclaw, who had just spoken, she had only suddenly sensed Lynn's situation while she was in a deep sleep to recover.
So, she had dizzily given an instinctive response and fallen back into a deep sleep immediately after.
At this moment, she was sleeping soundly with her wings spread out over the Little Badger beneath her.
And the Little Badger she was using as a pillow was also fast asleep with its eyes closed.
After a unanimous discussion, the date to go to Diagon Alley to buy books was set for next Saturday.
This way, both Mr. and Mrs. Weasley and Mr. and Mrs. Granger would have time to go together.
On the day of the trip to Diagon Alley, Lynn woke up early and took a sufficient amount of Galleons out of her bag that could continuously produce them.
After eating the breakfast Harry made, the seven children prepared to set off.
Because the villa Lynn rented was a Muggle residence, according to regulations, it could not be connected to the Floo Network.
Similarly, they couldn't go by riding flying broomsticks, partly because they didn't have enough flying broomsticks, and even if they did...
Seven people flying through the sky on flying broomsticks at the same time, especially through a Muggle residential area, would pose too great a risk of exposure.
After comprehensive consideration, Penelope, as the oldest of the seven children, made a difficult decision.
She led everyone to the side of the small road in front of the villa, took a deep breath, and raised her wand in front of her.
Ron, Maranhao, and Marietta immediately understood what she wanted to do when they saw her movements, and their faces turned pale instantly.
The knight bus—the term automatically popped into Lynn's brain; it was something she had seen in books.
Raising a wand by the side of the road was the way to summon the knight bus.
It was said that it could deliver a Wizard anywhere, as long as it was on land.
Bang!
With a loud bang, a triple-decker bus that looked extremely strange stopped in front of the seven of them.
Lynn's gaze subconsciously sized up the knight bus in front of her, her mind constantly analyzing various data.
In the end, it was easy to conclude that this vehicle definitely did not conform to any common sense of the Muggle World.
Similarly, Lynn's gaze turned to the direction the knight bus had come from; the road there was more than a little narrower than the knight bus.
But the knight bus had still arrived smoothly; indeed, how could a vehicle of the Wizarding World be blocked by the width of a road?
Despite having studied at Hogwarts for a year, she hadn't even thought of this point.
She had taken it for granted that by choosing such a place, no large armored vehicles would be able to enter.
She had forgotten about the methods of the Wizarding World; it was fortunate that Hermione and the others' grades had reached the top two-thirds, successfully passing their execution time.
If any of them had failed their exams, wouldn't they have potentially faced large armored vehicles?
Taking things for granted, carelessness... Lynn followed behind Hermione onto the bus, blankly gave the conductor a Galleon, and then took the change he handed back.
I should be punished, Lynn thought with absolute certainty in her mind.
Moreover, the bad results that this assumption and carelessness could have caused were particularly serious, concerning the safety of Hermione and the others.
I should not only be punished but should be punished very severely.
Screech... a piercing sound of friction rang out, and the knight bus shot forward like an arrow from a bow, interrupting Lynn's self-criticism.
Hermione, beside her, quickly reached out her left hand to grab Lynn's arm, while her right hand tightly hugged the post of the bed they were sitting on.
The beds everyone was sitting on were being pulled along, constantly moving within the cabin.
Beside Harry, Ron's face was pale, and he looked like he was about to vomit.
Penelope, who had more experience, was able to maintain some composure and told the conductor in as steady a voice as possible that they were going to Diagon Alley.
After speaking with the conductor, Penelope turned to look at Lynn and the others, scratching her cheek a bit sheepishly.
"The knight bus... it's indeed a bit lacking in comfort to ride, but it really is fast and convenient; it's the best choice we could have made."
Maranhao and Marietta each hugged a bedpost on one side and nodded to show their understanding, while Ron didn't even have the strength to react; he was motion sick on the knight bus.
Harry was beside him trying hard to encourage him, telling him not to vomit.
Hermione held Lynn's arm even tighter, and finally simply pulled her into her arms.
Her face also looked a bit green, but she still gave Penelope a small smile.
"It's fine, a novel experience."
Penelope gave an awkward laugh; to be honest, as for the knight bus... if the Wizards of the Wizarding World had any other travel options, they wouldn't choose this one.
Lynn was held in Hermione's arms, feeling the strong G-force and the constantly swaying position.
She also felt a desire in her stomach for food to surge upwards.
Swallowing some saliva, Lynn took a deep breath and easily suppressed this "desire."
Having been punished with "gluttony" before, she was quite skilled at suppressing the feeling of nausea.
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