【HP】I don’t want to fall in love, I just want to mess around

She and Astoria were left alone, and Esther remained silent for the time being.

She was waiting for Astoria to reveal her true intentions.

Ever since she took the initiative to talk to her today, Esther always felt that Astoria's purpose was not pure. The initial communication was more like a test than a small talk.

Esther didn't know her purpose, so she was always wary of speaking superficial words to her.

It's true that she likes cute girls, but her summer vacation has been busy enough so far, and she really doesn't want to get involved in any weird things anymore.

So she made up her mind that no matter what Astoria said later, she would just listen and she would never take it seriously.

"If the ending of your life is already determined, would you choose to work hard to change it or simply wait for the ending to come?"

After a moment of silence, Astoria suddenly spoke softly.

Esther silently looked up at her and said in a casual tone: "It depends on what the ending is like. If it's a good ending, you don't need to change it. If it's a bad ending, it's up to you. If you want to change it, change it. If you don't want to change, don't change it. "

"Then if you face an unsatisfactory ending, will you change it?"

Astoria asked again.

She is really good at finding topics. Esther has been hesitant to try to change the plot of the original book these days, so she came to talk to her about it. Her original decision to ignore it was aroused by her interest.

Esther began to wonder what her intention was when she said these words?

Esther said cautiously: "I don't know, because I don't know my ending, let alone whether I want to change it."

Astoria sighed: "Yeah, sometimes not knowing the outcome is a kind of kindness, unlike my fate which is already determined."

When she said this, her tone was very calm, but her eyes still showed a bit of sadness.

"you?"

Astoria smiled at her, the shallow dimples on her cheeks were bright and warm, but her eyes were unusually calm: "Yes, I was born with a curse on my back, so I was destined to die early. This is my fate. "

Esther knew that Astoria in the original work died very early, and the cause of death seemed to be due to some kind of curse passed down through the bloodline.

It seemed like she knew what she was getting into.

A trace of pity appeared in Esther's eyes involuntarily. She opened her mouth and finally said only one sentence: "Everyone will die, sooner or later. Death is not the end of life, perhaps forgetfulness is."

Astoria let out a soft "Ah" and seemed to like what she said: "Isn't death the end? As expected of you, being able to say such philosophical words."

Esther smiled: "That's not what I said. It's what I heard elsewhere. I think it makes sense."

Thinking of the time in the original book when Harry was about to die, he met the dead soul fragments of Dumbledore and Voldemort at King's Cross Station. She could no longer remember the specific description of that paragraph, but in the hazy description, it seemed that in the magical world, death was not the end of everything, but the beginning of another adventure.

Astoria repeated what Esther had just said and then blinked. Her eyelashes are thick and long, as light as butterfly wings.

"Oh, I originally wanted to test you, but in the end, I was almost convinced by you with just one sentence."

She sighed lightly, but her expression was still smiling.

Esther pretended not to know anything and raised her eyebrows in surprise: "Test me?"

Astoria said: "To be precise, we want to test you."

"Us? Who else but you?"

This actually surprised Esther sincerely.

There was a sound of footsteps at the door of the living room, and a tall and thin figure came in from the door.

Esther looked up and saw someone she didn't expect.

"Theodore Knott?"

The boy stood in the shadows wearing a dress, his facial features seemed to be blurred by a filter. When his expression was unclear, the cold and lonely feeling on his body was amplified to the point that it could not be ignored.

So Esther discovered that compared to the restrained, gentle and silently devoted tragic male protagonist in the fan fiction, Theodore Nott in reality actually has a strong presence and a sense of aggression.

He nodded slightly to Esther, then stepped out of the shadows. Under the light, his delicate face was exposed, but his expressionless expression did not lessen his first impression.

"What...are you doing?"

This time, Esther was genuinely confused.

Astoria cupped her chin and answered her: "We originally wanted to ask you to study something with us, but after chatting with you, I found that we are not the same people. You should not be interested in what we are studying. eager."

"what?"

Esther asked warily.

He even used the adjective "desire", which always felt like something illegal.

Then, Astoria's answer proved Esther's feelings right: "It's the Time-Turner."

"If I remember correctly, doesn't magic prohibit private research and use of time turners?"

Esther's eyes swept across Astoria and finally landed on Theodore Nott: "And the general time turner can only go back a few hours. If necessary, it is a bit troublesome, but it is still possible to apply to the Ministry of Magic. It’s possible to approve it, so why do you still study it privately? Is it because you want to go back to a longer time? You want to change what happened in the past?”

Theodore Nott gave her a cold look and said, "What I want to do is none of your business."

Esther shrugged: "Since it has nothing to do with me, why bring me in."

She is a law-abiding Hufflepuff.

"That's because although it is possible to apply to the Ministry of Magic for approval to use the time turner, it is too troublesome. It is not easy for us two children to operate it. And your father, Mr. Mayne, became the Director of the Department, so we thought that maybe You study it together, and then it will be better approved through your father’s influence.”

Astoria explained the reason to her very honestly.

Esther believed this reason.

It's just a pity that she really has no interest in changing the past.

Because her life in the past ten years was quite happy and perfect, the only thing that made her anxious was the future.

"Actually, have you ever thought that even if you really have a time turner and go back to the past, can you really change the outcome of the future? Now that the future has become a fact, what if the future is slippery because of arbitrary changes in the past? Towards a more uncontrollable ending?"

Esther asked them with a sigh.

In "The Cursed Child", Harry and Draco's son used a time-space converter to return to the future. Not only did it fail to change the ending, it actually caused a worse situation.

This is why Esther is so afraid that if she changes the plot casually, it will lead to the ending going to a worse place.

Theodore Nott finally spoke his first words to Esther: "As you said before, the future is unpredictable, so if we study the time turner and then go back to the past, it will also be a part of our destiny. ?”