[Comprehensive] Those years when I memorized the Analects of Confucius

1.

The excitement comes and goes quickly.

When they rested at a nearby homestay at night, the crowd outside the window had gradually receded with the disappearance of the magpie bridge. As the night deepened, the lights of the stars dimmed one by one, so the whole world fell into In the deep darkness.

When the two were lying flat on the bed, Draco stared at the ceiling dotted with stars in the darkness, and suddenly called Ah Yun.

Kong Yun: "Huh?"

Draco: "If..."

His tone was slightly hesitant, with a little bit of uncertainty, as if he wanted to say something but couldn't say it. The black-haired Hufflepuff turned his head to look at him, and heard him say: "I mean if..."

Draco: "What would you have done if you had met me like any other Slytherin?"

Kong Yun didn't quite understand why the other party would suddenly ask such a question.

He looked at Slytherin's hesitation and hesitation, thought for a while, and asked seriously: "Are you talking like those arrogant, selfish and cowardly Slytherins in Hogwarts? "

Draco: "..."

Kong Yun raised his eyes and gave Slytherin a strange look. The hazy night made it difficult for him to see the expression of the other party. He didn't think much about it, he just paused for a while, and quickly gave an answer: "If you If it wasn't directed at me specifically, we probably wouldn't be friends."

Draco: "???"

Before he could express his doubts about this, Kong Yun completed the sentence in one breath. He seriously imagined the scene described by Draco, and said: "However, if you do something bad, such as Like those Slytherins who call my friends 'mudbloods'..."

Draco: "So what?"

Kong Yun thought for a while.

"For example, if you call Hermione 'Mudblood'," Kong Yun said somewhat uncertainly, "I might help Harry and Ron beat you together."

Draco: "…………Oh."

Kong Yun: "Why did you suddenly ask this?"

Draco didn't answer him right away.

The deep night became the best cover at this moment, and after a while, a voice belonging to Slytherin came from under the blanket: "...it's nothing, I'll just ask."

2.

Kong Yun didn't really bring Draco back to Kong's house until the end.

First of all, given their current "ages", if they show their cards to their parents now, it will inevitably be mistaken for a child's temper, which will add unnecessary troubles, but if they visit as friends, it would be too dishonest. Also too rude.

In contrast, it's better to wait for the two of them to grow up a little bit, and then visit them seriously.

On the last day they ran away from home, they went to "Taoyuan" together.

Taoyuan is not a real Taoyuan, but a towering tree as huge as a forest. The huge trees are connected by branches, hovering from the low ground to the top of the tall tree, and they have been visited over the years. The crowd stepped on a dusty trail of branches mixed with mud.

They went straight up along the winding path, and the small branches on both sides were covered with red cloth strips full of wishes and blessings. When they went further up, these cloth strips disappeared without a trace. In the middle, countless tombstones.

Kong Yun didn't say why they came to this place, and Draco didn't ask either.

Until they stopped at one of the individual tombstones.

It was early morning at that time, and the faint sunlight fell from the sparse branches above the two of them. Draco felt that something moved in his pocket, and then the little paper crane seemed to appear suddenly. Like life, flapping its wings, it flew out staggeringly, and finally stopped on the stone tablet with the word Confucius written on it.

It was strange to say that it was obviously just a small paper crane, but when it spoke now, it gave people a serious and solemn feeling.

"If you bully Ah Yun, I will not let you go."

It said so sternly.

3.

This instant runaway from home only lasted for three days.

When Kong Yun returned to Hogwarts, he was mentally prepared to be taught a lesson by his second brother, but Kong Yan acted as if nothing had happened, and only said lightly, "I'm back."

Kong Yun nodded honestly, and was mentally prepared to admit his mistakes obediently. He didn't want Kong Yan to mention the fact that he and Draco left a mess and left without permission, and told him lightly: "You left In the past few days, I discussed with Headmaster Dumbledore and reached a friendly cooperation."

Kong Yun: "Huh?"

Kong Yan: "The Kong family will help Hogwarts as much as possible in solving the Horcrux issue. In return, the British Ministry of Magic will help the Kong family complete the establishment of the 'Confucius Institute' in the UK...but there is a premise."

4.

The door of the principal's office was not closed.

When Kong Yun came over, he could feel the dark atmosphere inside from a long distance away, and just approached now, he heard the gloomy voice of the Potions professor: "I always thought, 'Don't touch it casually if you don't understand it. Touching or using unknown magical items' should be common sense for any wizard, tell me, Dumbledore, has something seeped into your head?"

Kong Yun felt that he might not have come at the right time.

Just when he was hesitating whether to leave as quietly as possible before being discovered by the people inside, the headmaster of Hogwarts' eyes lit up, and he took the initiative to greet: "Mr. Kong, it's just in time..."

Before he finished speaking, Snape interrupted him unceremoniously: "Yeah, it's just in time, it's best to let your students see what stupid things their wise and great headmaster has done— "

Obviously, even if Kong Yun wanted to leave now, he couldn't.

Fortunately, at this moment, Snape was probably really angry, and he didn't devote any energy to respond to him. After training the headmaster of Hogwarts, he slightly lowered his head to look at his students, and said coldly : "And you, Mr. Malfoy, what makes you feel that you are strong enough to bear any curse?"

"Lucius will be happy for you," Snape said deadpan, "just because his son has finally learned what self-sacrifice is—"

Kong Yun: ...

I don't know if it was his illusion, but for a moment, he saw almost chilling expressions on Snape's and Draco's faces at the same time, and Draco coughed: "I..."

Snape was obviously not interested in his explanation, he sneered, "Or, before I knew it, Mr. Malfoy developed unusual feelings for his headmaster?"

Kong Yun:? ? ?

Of course, the head of Slytherin who was burning with anger would not explain to anyone, and the two people who had to look directly at his anger couldn't explain it either. In the end, it was the magician with bottles and cans who solved Kong Yun's confusion. Madam Pomfrey, who rushed over with the medicine—

That night, Kong Yun and Draco played truant from school overnight, but the search and destruction of Horcruxes did not stop there. This core task naturally fell on Dumbledore.

The problem arose with the black ring that was hiding in Gaunt's cabin.

No one knows what Dumbledore experienced in that abandoned house. When he returned to Hogwarts, he had a curse that was not in the record. Death, however, will continue to devour his vitality within a year until he dies completely.

Ignoring the help-seeking gaze from her headmaster, she hesitated for a while before saying to Kong Yun, "I don't know how he did it. Anyway, Mr. Malfoy used a very special spell to trap Dumbledore A part of the curse on Mr.'s body was transferred to himself, and temporarily hindered the intensification of the curse in the human body."

"This approach is very dangerous, but I also have to admit that this is the only and best choice we can do right now - it directly weakens the power of the curse, so that we will not be completely helpless when breaking it."

5.

Snape didn't waste too much time lecturing the Hogwarts headmaster or his own students.

He needed some time to discuss with Madam Pomfrey how to remove the weakened version of the curse, so he only stabbed Dumbledore a few words at the end, and then left without looking back, saying yes, "Let Dumbledore that The idiots are left to fend for themselves."

Dumbledore wasn't angry about it either.

When Kong Yun sat down on the chair opposite him, the headmaster of Hogwarts was even seriously considering whether to eat a lemon-flavored candy or a piece of strawberry-flavored ice cream.

"What's the matter?" he asked with a smile.

Kong Yun recalled his second brother's advice, and said honestly: "My second brother hopes that I can tell you on his behalf that in the UK, there is only one person who is qualified to sit down and discuss cooperation with the Kong family on behalf of the British magic community. .If this person is gone, there is no need to continue the cooperation.”

Dumbledore paused slightly.

"Although it is said that only those who can sacrifice themselves and others are the ones who can truly accomplish great things." Kong Yun said, "But I don't think you should be so selfish, Mr. Dumbledore.

Dumbledore: "Oh?"

Kong Yun: "You have done a lot of very excessive things."

The old man was stunned for a while, then he bent the corner of his lower lip and asked with interest, "What is it?"

Kong Yun: "The Ministry of Magic said that you are insane and cunning. You seek power and intend to overthrow the Ministry of Magic. I think you owe the world the truth."

"Mr. Aberforth has refused to forgive you so far. I think you owe him a forgiveness."

"Also," said Kong Yun, "you owe Harry a love that is undivided."

The old man stroked his forehead gently, and couldn't help laughing, but there was something so complicated that it was hard to see clearly in his eyes: "Listen to you, why does it feel like I have really done a lot of things too much?" thing?"

"That's more than that," Kong Yun said. He thought for a while, but couldn't think of anything for a while, so he continued to talk nonsense and said unreasonably: "Look, you have guided and helped many people and made them think that As long as you are there, everything will be fine, let them lose a chance to exercise independence and self-improvement."

"Too much," Kong Yun thought for a moment, "Maybe you need to live well and spend the rest of your life to repay it."

6.

"I always thought that you should hate Mr. Dumbledore very much." Kong Yun said so after checking half of the curse from "sacrificing oneself for others" in the opponent's body.

Draco didn't speak.

For a moment, he felt as if he had returned to that dream, so that familiar conversation resurfaced in his ears again:

— "Why not let Draco succeed?"

——"The boy's soul has not been completely ruined, and I don't want to tear it apart because of me."

Draco opened his eyes.

Large swathes of sunlight poured out unscrupulously from the outside, leaving bright spots on the floor of the corridor.

"No," Draco corrected, "I just hate Dumbledore."

And in the future, I will always hate it.