A Hogwarts Love Game

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1986, Southampton, UK, northwest corner of Wagner Children's Welfare Home.

The sunlight outside the window was strong, and the dust slowly floating in the attic of the clock tower was illuminated to every detail.

Two boys from the orphanage were staying in the attic at the moment. One of them, who was eight or nine years old, was tilting his head in the corner to observe a few insects in a glass bottle. The other, slightly younger, was standing in front of the window, using a telescope. Looking outside——

In the field of view magnified by the binoculars, there is a gray-black owl playing with a solid-colored black chestnut eagle in the forest park on the north side next to the border of the clock tower.

If he hadn't discovered something special, the boy named Melen would definitely have sighed at these two little guys who broke through racial barriers.

But now, he was not in that mood.

After staring carefully for a moment, the boy with short black hair slowly put down the telescope he held high in his hand, muttering secretly.

“Who in England delivers mail by owl?”

This is a question worth thinking about.

As if he was afraid that he had seen something wrong, the boy immediately raised the telescope and started a new round of observation of the target.

What comes into view is still the scene from before——

Among the fragrant trees exuding the breath of spring, a fat owl with gray-black feathers was tightly entangled with a black chestnut eagle, and on one of its legs, a yellow mailbox was silently tied tightly. The letter was curled up in it, filling the mailbox, and some distorted and unclear letter signatures were faintly revealed at the edge.

"It seems to be French? Well... Southampton is indeed very close to France..."

After looking at this again and again to confirm that he had seen it correctly, Mellen looked away and looked sideways at the child of the same age who was squatting in the corner of the attic doing biological observations.

"Kevin." He greeted.

"What are you doing?" The boy with an excited look turned around and asked.

"Lend me some money."

After hearing this, the boy named Kevin's expression quickly fell, and he said with great displeasure: "The last time you lent me money to buy a skateboard, it has been more than a month and you still haven't paid it back to me."

"That's why I'll tell you now when I see something good happen."

Mellen replied loyally, then pointed in the direction he was looking at before, "Come and see what's there!"

"Did you see those two gypsy girls kissing in the park again?"

Seeing this, Kevin became interested. He came over and took a few glances in that direction, but found nothing unusual. However, Melen then put the telescope into the opponent's hand.

So within a few seconds, the other party let out a burst of surprised laughter.

"Haha, this is a big discovery! Mellen, I have never seen such a thing before, even the teacher has never taught it!"

"Yeah, it's really rare."

Mellen said in a persuasive manner: "But if we also get involved in it, don't you think this will become more interesting?"

"This is..."

The boy Kevin pondered, imagining the scene for a moment, and then his expression became quite excited, "Don't tell me, you also thought of Sam!"

"To be precise, it was Sam's slingshot that came to mind."

"Is he going to do this?" Kevin asked slightly uncertainly.

"I can't think of anyone in our orphanage who would be more willing to do this kind of thing than him." Mellen replied affirmatively.

The Sam they described was a young boy with a bad personality in the orphanage. He was the kind of person who had almost no good deeds but some bad deeds.

So Mellen's words are very convincing.

The boy named Kevin nodded, turned around, and was about to leave to find Sam, but was suddenly stopped by Mellen, "Wait, we agreed, you can lend me some money first."

"Can't you wait until this matter is over?" Kevin asked unhappily.

"What if you hide after this incident?" Mellen replied matter-of-factly.

The other party's expression turned bitter when he heard this, as if his plan had been revealed, but in the end he took out a handful of coins from his pocket and handed it to his little friend, while muttering in his mouth: "What do you want the money for?"

"It's nothing, I just suddenly wanted to buy some books." For the sake of money, Mellen smiled when he said this.

"How many books?"

"Um...something about veterinary medicine."

Mellen answered vaguely, then ignored his friend's blank expression, turned around, picked up the telescope and continued to observe, not forgetting to urge, "Go quickly, maybe that owl is a fast shooter, we have very little time." nervous."

"Hell, don't be such a crow's mouth!"

Kevin's expression tightened, and then he ignored his friend's words about the veterinarian, turned around and hurriedly ran towards the bottom of the abandoned clock tower.

Meren waited quietly where he was, his eyes magnified by the telescope never leaving the owl.

What was different from the carefree tone in his mouth was that at this time, the boy's hands holding the telescope were already clenching hard.

……

Mellen was in a nervous mood.

As a time traveler, and a time traveler with a weird golden finger, he is no longer atheist.

So since time traveling, he has been paying attention to things related to the supernatural and occult.

But before that, nothing was discovered.

Until today, until now, he saw this very familiar owl.

Traditionally, the owl is a symbol of Athena. In the Roman era, it was also a symbol of Athena's corresponding god Minerva. It is a "wisdom" common to a series of mysterious fields such as alchemists, astrology, and potion witches. "represent.

It's inherently suspicious.

On the other hand, there may be even more shocking secrets hidden behind it.

Owl, messenger, Britain...

The mixture of various information elements makes it difficult not to think of a very popular modern fantasy novel in the past.

"Will there really be magic and wizards in this world..."

This question kept circling in his mind, making it difficult for Mellen to stay calm.

In other words, he could not wait to catch the owl in front of his eyes in the next moment and see what was written in the letter.

But on the surface, Mellen remained unmoved and looked quite calm.

Until a group of half-grown children appeared in sight.

This group of children are generally fourteen or fifteen years old, and their little friend Kevin is among them, but compared to other teenagers around him, he is the most inconspicuous one.

The most conspicuous among the teenagers was a big brown-haired man who was leading the group. He seemed to be sixteen or seventeen years old and was holding a slingshot in his hand.

Mellen, who was observing with a telescope, could clearly see that the big brown-haired man became obviously excited after discovering the owl, but his actions were actually quite cautious——

He first signaled the people around him to start to back away, and then he held his breath and stood there quietly without moving.

It seemed a bit strange, but this scene did not exceed Mellen's expectations.

Children's Welfare Home sounds nice, but it is actually an orphanage. The children who grow up here have no father or mother. Although they are not hungry, they don't have any extra pocket money. You can imagine that their living conditions are difficult. .

But no matter what the environment, people will always have a good life and a bad life. Ordinary children in the orphanage may follow the rules and be honest, but some wild-tempered ones will not be willing to live in poverty.

The big brown-haired man named Sam in his sight was one of them.

The way he makes money is to hunt some legal or illegal birds, and then use the birds to go to nearby black market merchants in exchange for pocket money.

Therefore, he is a professional "hunter", and his every move will not be as reckless as a novice's, and he is enough to bear some kind of "heavy duty".

Therefore, when Meren encouraged his friends to tell him the news about the owl, young Sam was bound to come, and the situation in front of him was already doomed.

"If the little guy is an ordinary owl, it probably won't escape the fate of being sold by Sam, but if it is a magical creature..."

Thoughts kept flowing in his mind. After a while, the big brown-haired man in his sight suddenly started to move - he stood under the roots of the tree and his posture of drawing the bow and shooting was very smooth, which invisibly showed the proficiency of a veteran. temperament.

However, the result was contrary to his high-minded attitude. Although the owl's good deeds were suddenly interrupted by the steel ball, although it subconsciously staggered and screamed, it was not slow at all immediately. Instead, it rushed towards the "inexplicable" with anger. Its human murderer.

The little guy was so angry that he couldn't even take care of the Black Chestnut Eagle, which was screaming and wailing as it flapped its wings randomly.

The scene suddenly became extremely chaotic. The big man, who had not expected the bird to be so ferocious, hurriedly ran away with his head in his arms, but was unable to stop the owl from volleying in the air and swooping down.

But the owl didn't remain aggressive for long. Seeing the sudden change in the situation, the other teenagers around them hurriedly took out their own slingshot weapons.

So under the attack of a hail of bullets, the owl fled in a panic, looking very embarrassed.

And the teenagers are not without gains. The black chestnut eagle, which has always seemed innocent in this matter, is not as resistant as the owl. It has been unfortunately captured, flapping its wings in the hands of the big brown-haired man, looking weak. It seemed extremely miserable.

However, Meren, who was on the clock tower, had no time to pay attention to this poor little owl. In other words, after the owl started to flee, his sight magnified by the telescope kept chasing after it.

It wasn't until Mellen saw the seriously injured owl diving into a corner of the forest park that he slowly put down the telescope in his hand.

"very good."

After casually placing the telescope on the dusty abandoned bookshelf nearby, Mellen solemnly straightened his collar and said with certainty: "Now, it's time for a kind-hearted Muggle boy to go to the park. "