Slytherin's salvation is nothingness

After I finished writing this chapter, I re-read it and discovered that there was a time bug in it. According to Hermione's explanation of Luna and Cyrus's acquaintance in the previous chapter, she met Ye Qi after being introduced by Luna. Therefore, the first time the two met should have been at least before the Triwizard Tournament, when Cyrus was still a student. But after careful consideration, when she was a student, especially before the Triwizard Tournament, she would not be as patient with a stranger as she was as an adult, let alone protect Luna who went deep into the Forbidden Forest alone. Cyrus as a student will not have such interesting conversations with Luna. I want to show more of Cyrus's changes and his life after becoming a professor. Therefore, you don’t need to worry too much about this bug, and it will not have any impact on the subsequent plot.

Night fell in the Forbidden Forest. Luna walked in the forest and softly called for something. The smell of blood came from the bag she was carrying.

Just in front of her, in the grass, a rustling sound came. Luna tilted her head, "Xiao Hei?"

A two-headed python emerged from the bushes, its sharp fangs leaking venom. There was no fear on Luna's face. She quickly took out a rough whistle from her bag. Just when she was about to blow it, a cold and pleasant female voice came, "I don't recommend this. Most snakes will be killed if they attack." If disturbed and interrupted, he will hide in the dark and look for opportunities to carry out the next attack, which will be even more hateful and vicious."

"After all, snakes are very vengeful."

Then a figure jumped down from the tree, and the snake quickly fled after seeing the person. Several indistinguishable rustling sounds came from the visitor's mouth, and Luna saw the snake crawling faster.

She raised her eyes to look at the visitor's back, stepped forward and patted the fallen leaves off her shoulders, "Thank you, does Professor Slytherin like to climb trees?"

Cyrus turned back and smiled at Luna, "You broke into the Forbidden Forest alone, you have no fear at all, you are a very interesting girl." The tip of Cyrus's nose twitched, and she looked at Luna's crossbody bag, "Flesh and blood What are you doing here?"

"Actually, I'm scared, but I want to find Xiao Hei. He hasn't eaten for several days since he was injured." Luna opened her crossbody bag, which was filled with a bag of fresh flesh and blood.

"Really, but I am also a professor. I have no objection to breaking into the Forbidden Forest privately, but how can I see students wandering at night without deducting points from the college. I can finally understand the joy of Severus, the point-deducting maniac. "

Luna looked at Cyrus from the side and said, "Professor Slytherin, looks like a big dog."

Cyrus:? ? ?

Luna smiled slightly, "Professor Slytherin also came to see friends?"

Cyrus said nothing and looked at the centaur whistle that Luna still held in her hand. "A centaur thing can make friends with humans. It turns out you know Firenze."

Luna nodded, "We are good friends." Then she looked at the sky, "Fierenze taught me to identify the direction according to the stars in the sky, so that I can find Xiaohei and the others."

Cyrus raised his head like Luna and looked at the starry sky. Luna carried her satchel and continued deeper into the forest. Cyrus blinked and looked at Luna who had left him behind. "Well, Miss Lovegood, I'm already here. According to common sense, you shouldn't ask me for help. Will I take you to find friends?"

Luna turned around and shook her head sincerely, "I don't need it. Didn't Professor Slytherin just follow me because he cared about me? I thought Professor Slytherin liked this."

Cyrus frowned, looking Luna up and down with his blue pupils, "Miss Lovegood, don't talk nonsense... But, how do you know?"

"You have a lot of nuisance mosquitoes on you. I just kept seeing them."

"Too many annoying mosquitoes are bad for people's health. Professor Slytherin, you are very unhappy. Have you always been?"

Cyrus looked at Luna's wandering eyes on his body with interest, as if there was really something on her body, "Really, it turns out there are things that my eyes can't see. Then can you drive them away?" Wanna go? I'd be grateful."

Luna stood on tiptoes, reached out in front of Cyrus and fanned him left and right, then shook her head, "I tried hard, but it didn't work. When your brain clears up, they will fly away on their own. But there are fewer of them than before." "

Cyrus smiled, "Thank you, Miss Lovegood, I am indeed much better. It's very late. Go find your friends quickly." Then she noticed the thin canvas shoes on Luna's feet , the shoelaces were cut off, and they were in a state of collapse when walking.

"They flew away. As soon as I got up from sleep, they flew away." Luna noticed Cyrus's gaze and raised her legs to shake the unstable shoes on her feet. "But it's very convenient. When I get up late, You won’t be late! Because there’s no need to tie your shoes.”

"What is lost will always come back in the end, although not necessarily in the way we expect. This is what my mother said." She continued to walk forward, although her shoes fell off after a few jumps.

"Well, that's an interesting insight. It does seem to be the case."

A pair of hands picked up the shoes that had fallen on the muddy ground. When she handed them to Luna, the worn canvas shoes became like brand new, even the missing shoelaces appeared.

"Deng Deng, they are back. Maybe they missed Miss Lovegood so much that they took a bath and then hurried over to find you."

Cyrus stretched out his arm for Luna to help him put on his shoes, but Luna just blinked her eyes and looked at Cyrus, as if they were filled with twinkling stars, "Call me Luna, can I call you Cyrus?" ?”

Cyrus nodded and put his index finger on his lips, "If you can keep today's matter a secret. Professor Flitwick will challenge me to a duel if he finds out that I secretly took her students to wander around the Forbidden Forest, huh? But it seems like this Just what I wanted."

Luna nodded as if she understood. She gave a thumbs up and said, "I will go back and tell Dean Flitwick, don't worry."

"Hmm... But then, Cyrus, your surname is Slytherin, why don't you be the head of Slytherin instead of the alchemy professor?"

"Because there are people in Slytherin who are better than me."

"Cyrus's alchemy class is very interesting, I like it very much."

Cyrus sighed and nodded helplessly, "It must be fun to be a student, but with your tone of voice, I just think you are trying to comfort me. I don't want to be the Dean of Slytherin at all. , if you want to be, you might as well be the principal."

"So are you going to hit Headmaster Dumbledore too? Won't Madam Pomfrey scold you?"

It seems that the previous incident of losing control and fighting Snape was widely spread... Cyrus recalled the scene where Madam Pomfrey taught him a lesson and Snape was gloating behind their backs, and he couldn't help but trembled, "You know Yes, there are so many.”

The two of them chatted while going deep into the Forbidden Forest, and soon reached a flat land with a flowing stream. A group of horse-like creatures with short black hair and wings resting aside. After seeing the group of creatures, Luna ran towards them happily, "Xiao Hei! I came to play with you."

One of the Yeqi, one of the Yeqi, also walked forward after seeing Luna, but quickly hid back to the group after seeing Cyrus' figure. Its sudden movement attracted the attention of other Ye Qi, and they all looked in that direction, and then with a boom, the entire group backed up, trying to stay away from Cyrus. Some even flew away directly.

Luna turned to look at Cyrus, who looked innocent, "Cyrus, can you see them? They are Ye Qi, but they seem to know you and have a bad impression."

Cyrus carefully recalled the types of magical creatures she had hunted. It seemed that there were no such creatures... She looked around. It was far away from the lake and she had never seen them before. Why were she so afraid of me?

She stepped back step by step, until she was very far away, and those Ye Qi stopped making a fuss. Luna also took out flesh and blood from her bag at this time. She did not go towards them, but quietly waited for them to come to her.

Cyrus looked at those Ye Qi who were thirsty for flesh and blood. When she took a step forward, they took a step back. When she took a step back, they took a step forward. "Cyrus, Xiaohei and the others are very timid. If you sit down quietly, maybe they won't be afraid of you."

Luna looked at the Ye Qi who had retreated into the group, "Xiao Hei, this is very rude. Cyrus is my friend, come here, she is very good."

Cyrus clearly saw that Ye Qi shook his head in a humane manner, but he still drooled over the meat in Luna's hand.

"I like flesh and blood so much. Well, I have plenty of them here." The ring in Cyrus' hand flashed, and a hill-like corpse of a beast appeared next to her. Seeing the various natural enemies that they usually did not dare to provoke fall beside Cyrus one by one, Ye Qi became even more frightened.

"I kind of understand why they're afraid of you, Cyrus."

Cyrus had no choice but to take back the beast's body. She sat down next to a big tree, thinking about which part of Ye Qi could be used as a medicinal material. A piece of flesh and blood was handed to Cyrus, and Luna smiled at her, "Those are the beasts they are afraid of. Let's try it with a small piece of flesh. Let's go together."

"You go alone, I'll wait here."

"But I haven't introduced my friends to you yet."

Luna pulled Cyrus with her, showing no signs of getting discouraged. Cyrus raised the corners of his mouth and cast a cleaning spell on his body to wash away the smell. "If they are not afraid of me, I might catch one or two back next time we meet. Is that okay?"

Luna shook her head, "Of course not. They are my friends, but they are too thin. Cyrus may not be able to feed that friend of yours."

A flash of scarlet suddenly appeared in Luna's sight, and Cyrus put his hand on her shoulder, "How did you know?"

"I always see you entering the Forbidden Forest from the dormitory window. At that time, I was wondering if, Cyrus, you were going to meet your friends in the Forbidden Forest like me. And the smell of blood and those beast corpses all over your body tonight, Aren’t you going to feed your friends?”

Cyrus looked into Luna's eyes for a long time before slowly letting go of his hands on his shoulders, "Sorry. I won't hurt them. Let's go and introduce your friends to me."

Luna walked in front of Cyrus, and the two stopped after approaching Ye Qi for a certain distance. Cyrus behind her was still staring at Luna, seemingly thinking about something. Luna threw flesh and blood to Ye Qi, "Xiao Hei, this is the new friend I made today. Her name is Cyrus, you guys should get along well."

"You always come to see them?"

Luna nodded, then shook her head, "Not always. I'm not as powerful as Cyrus. I can easily enter and leave the Forbidden Forest. Only Firenze will bring me over to see them when he has time. But Xiao Hei was injured some time ago. , I was worried about it, so I secretly came over to take a look."

Luna greeted each Ye Qi, "Little Hei, Big Hei, Big Hei..."

Listening to the names Luna gave them one by one, Cyrus's face was full of black lines. It turned out that there were people who couldn't name them better than her. Cyrus followed Luna's gaze towards the Ye Qi named Xiao Hei, and moved his gaze to its injured left leg. Raising his hand slightly, Xiao Hei's wound lit up with a halo, and then gradually healed.

Luna smiled at Cyrus and handed her a piece of flesh and blood, "Whenever annoying mosquitoes come, I always want to come and see them. They calm me down."

Following Luna's example, he threw away the flesh and blood, and swallowed a Ye Qi directly into his mouth. "The book says that Ye Qi means death. So only those who have truly seen death can see them." Luna reached out and touched a Ye Qi that was close to her. After Cyrus washed away the smell, they no longer Afraid of her.

Luna took Cyrus's hand and put her hand on Ye Qi's back, "Cyrus can also see them, I'm very happy. My classmates always say I'm crazy, but I know that my brain is very Clear. So does yours.”

Cyrus didn't ask Luna why he saw Ye Qi, and Luna didn't ask Cyrus either. "Are you upset? Severus always calls me crazy. It's really sad."

"Is that why, Cyrus, you are surrounded by so many annoying mosquitoes? But you are obviously very happy when you are with Professor Snape."

"Do you think so? Aren't there many students saying that I have been competing with him for the position of dean?"

Luna looked at the top of Cyrus's head again, shook her head and waved her hands, "But the mosquitoes are the least annoying when you are with him, but there seem to be more and more of them recently."

One hand gently patted Luna's head, "You obviously don't have any presence in the alchemy class, and you don't even raise your hand to ask questions. Since when did you start paying attention to me?"

"Because I have always wanted to be friends with Cyrus, but you are surrounded by too many people. When you were a student, you were in the potion removal and alchemy classes, and you couldn't be found at other times."

"Be friends with me? Why?"

"Haha, Cyrus, why do you always ask questions today? You are completely different from Professor Slytherin who always gives answers to others. You are not afraid of the Forbidden Forest, and you don't hate the Blackies. Firenze also mentioned Let me pass you." Luna took out a magazine from her bag, opened a page and showed it to Cyrus.

"This is the Curved-Horned Snorlax. There are many magical creatures in the Forbidden Forest. If I look around here more, I will definitely find it!"

Cyrus rummaged through the books he had read about magical animals in his mind, and none of them mentioned the existence of the Bent-Horned Snorlax. She smiled wickedly, "If I said it didn't exist, would you still be friends with me?"

Luna was stunned for a moment, then shook her head, "If I said it must exist, would you search for it with me in the Forbidden Forest?"

A pocket watch flashed out of the ring, Cyrus looked at the time, and then looked at Luna, who was still holding the book.

"Luna, are you afraid of heights?"

Above the quiet Forbidden Forest, a hippogriff flew high in the sky. Luna hugged Buckbeak's neck, her shining eyes reflecting the stars in the night sky. Cyrus sat behind her, his hands on Luna's sides to prevent her from falling.

It was already early in the morning. Cyrus threw a large skewer of meat to Buckbeak and then left the Forbidden Forest with Luna.

"Cyrus, we didn't find the Scimitar-Horned Snorlax. But it really exists. Will you still take me with you?" Luna waved goodbye to Buckbeak reluctantly.

"I come to the Forbidden Forest every weekend for evening parties. If you finish your alchemy class homework in advance, you can wait for me at Hagrid's place."

"So you believe in the existence of the Snorlax?"

"I didn't say it didn't exist either."

"Okay, I will definitely go!"

After sending Luna to the door of the Ravenclaw common room, a voice suddenly sounded on the door knocker: What is the meaning of life?

Feeling Cyrus next to her suddenly freeze on the spot, Luna looked at her with concern, "Cyrus?"

"It's very late, go to bed early. I won't send you to the dormitory." Cyrus turned around and left quickly when he heard Luna's voice behind him.

"Living itself has no meaning, meaning is given by people. I like the feeling of being alive. I can see the mountains and rivers, touch the water, and make friends. I am very happy alive, very happy. I still have a lot of things I want to do. The thing is, I haven’t finished exploring the Forbidden Forest, I haven’t been to other cities, I haven’t seen those rare magical animals in the books. I haven’t met Cyrus’s friend yet. So there are many, many meanings to my life. "

"Perfect answer." The door knocker opened.

Cyrus' laughter came as the door knocker closed, "Maybe Scamander will like you very much. Good night, Luna."

Early the next morning, there was a knock on Flitwick's office door. When Flitwick saw that the person coming was Luna, he greeted her cordially, "Miss Lovegood, what's the matter?"

"Dean Flitwick, Professor Slytherin said that if you don't duel with her, you will throw me into the Forbidden Forest and feed me to the wild beasts." Luna gave Flitwick a thumbs up seriously, even a little proud.

Flitwick:? ? ? ! ! ! ! ! !