[HP] Wolf and Alice

[03]

Alice felt that she was a veritable "broom star" since she was a child, and this was confirmed after St. Mungo encountered a ridiculous "medical trouble" that afternoon.

In fact, that day was not the day when Alice was on duty, but after Alice took the initiative to come to help, something happened to St. Mungo.

"Graham, Atwood, why are you still standing here?"

While Alice and Abigail were brewing potions in the dispensing room (actually, Alice was just watching Abigail brewing potions), their common superior, Mrs. Carlin hurriedly ran in from the outside.

"Especially you, Graham!" Madam Callin glared at Abigail and scolded Abigail, "It's fine with Atwood... But why are you still here and not helping at this time?"

"What's going on, Mrs. Karen?"

Abigail soon realized that something was wrong.But the whole afternoon, she stayed in the dispensing room with Alice, and it was impossible to know what was going on outside.

"Up to now, you are still asking this kind of question—" Mrs. Carlin said with a headache, "It's already a mess outside! Those guys who don't know what to do...can't take all the responsibility every time something happens. Put it all on Saint Mungo?!"

Abigail was slightly taken aback after hearing this. With her ingenuity, she must have figured out the general cause and effect of the incident.

"fine……"

Alice heard Abigail whisper happily behind her.

But Alice didn't think there was anything to be thankful about.

"I mean, it's a good thing the people who came here to make trouble today weren't those 'Death Eaters'."

Abigail briefly explained to Alice on their way to the hall on the first floor of St. Mungo's together.

"Death Eaters?"

Alice didn't quite understand.She did hear her mother mention that the wizarding world has not been peaceful in recent years because a guy known as the "mysterious man" is trying to change the order of the wizarding world in a violent way.

And his method of change is to suppress the Muggle and Squibs in the wizarding world.

Mrs. Atwood has always warned Alice not to take part in any action related to "Death Eaters" or "against Death Eaters", and if she hears anyone mention them, she must pretend she doesn't know anything look.

Looking at the noisy crowd ahead, Abigail calmly took out her wand from her pocket, then turned her head and said to Alice, "Stay here and don't go forward, okay? Once those people go crazy Come on, you can do anything."

Alice stared blankly at Abigail, and nodded obediently.

After confirming that Alice understood what she meant, Abigail turned around and walked in the direction of the chaotic crowd.

A feeling of melancholy rose in Alice's heart inexplicably, because at times like this, she was always the one who couldn't do anything.She will always be the one who drags her feet.

in case……

If only she hadn't been a "squib" when she was born.

or--

It would have been nice if she had never been born in this world.

Just when Alice was standing alone at a loss, another young woman who looked a little short and fat suddenly appeared in front of her.

"Hello, can you hear me?"

Only then did Alice react suddenly, and raised her head to look at the woman's face.She knows this woman.No, it's not so much acquaintance, it's better to say it's too familiar.

She was Annika Dolokhov, one of Alice's colleagues, and the one who said the famous saying "Mudbloods and Squibs are a perfect match".

"Annika?"

Although Alice doesn't want to see Annika at all, just as Annika doesn't want to see her, as an adult, Alice still greets her face-to-face as a courtesy.

Annika nodded as if she was relieved after hearing Alice's words, and then said to Alice: "Well... can you take me to the pharmacy?"

"Pharmacy room? What are you doing there?"

The key to St. Mungo's Pharmacy has always been held by the apothecaries.Because most of the medicinal materials in the pharmacy are very precious, in order to prevent those who don't know about potions from wasting the medicinal materials, the pharmacy theoretically does not allow unrelated people to enter.

But after all, Abigail and Alice are close friends who talk about everything, so Alice also got a bunch of keys to the pharmacy from Abigail.

However, Alice did not expect that Annika would know about it.

She had always thought Annika looked down on her and Abigail.

"I, I have a patient who needs some potions," Annika stammered.

"Now?" Alice felt very strange, "but now there is chaos outside!"

"That's right!" said Annika seriously. "That's why I'm in a hurry! Because I can't find anyone else to help me. . . . I'm afraid, afraid that if it's a little bit late, he'll—"

Alice looked at Annika quietly. She really didn't like Annika very much, but at this moment, the anxious look on Annika's face didn't look like it was faked either.

If so, Alice would also be in admiration of her acting skills.

"...Okay." After thinking for a while, Alice reluctantly agreed, "I'll take you to the pharmacy now, but you must not tell Mrs. Karen about this."

"Okay." Annika nodded gratefully.

Alice led Annika all the way to the door of the pharmacy, then took out the door key that Abigail gave her to keep from the pocket of her robe, and used it to open the door of the pharmacy.

The pharmacy room is so quiet that you can hear a needle drop.

"What potion do you want, Annika?"

After entering the pharmacy, Alice asked straight to the point.

After hearing this, Annika took a deep breath, and said her answer as if she had made up her mind: "Werewolf potion [1]."

"Werewolf potion?!" Alice stared into Annika's eyes in shock and anxiety, "What kind of patient... would use such a potion?"

Annika lowered her head with some guilt, and replied in a very weak voice: "That's the patient's privacy, isn't it?"

Alice didn't say anything more, but turned around and walked to the counter where the werewolf potion was placed, and took out two packages of unnecessary ingredients needed to make the werewolf potion, and then turned around and walked towards the Annika' go.

"Thank you very much, miss!"

'Annika''s blue eyes shone brightly, and she was about to reach out to take the potion in Alice's hand, but Alice took out the wand hidden in her sleeve first, and pressed it against 'Annika'. ' at the jaw.

'Anika' froze.

The look of joy in his eyes immediately turned into fear.

In fact, Alice sensed that something was wrong from the very beginning.That Annika, who has always been mean to others, would take the initiative to ask Alice, whom she had always looked down upon, for help for a patient she never knew.

No matter how you look at it, this is really incredible.

But what really convinced Alice was that the person in front of her was not 'Annika', but the honorific she used when calling Alice.

--Miss.

Annika Dolokhov would not call her a Squib so solemnly.

Although Alice does not have magical powers, she naturally does not know how to use a wand.But Abigail had told her that Squibs and wizards couldn't be distinguished from one another simply by appearance, so it wouldn't do her any harm at least to keep a wand handy if and when she had an emergency.

"who are you?"

As Alice spoke, she increased the force of her wand on 'Anika'.

Could it be the accomplice of the group of people who came to the hospital just now?

still……?

"Hold, I'm sorry Miss, I really don't have any malice."

'Anika' said with a trembling voice, looking into Alice's eyes nervously.

"Then what did you come to St. Mungo's for? To steal some packs of werewolf potions?"

Alice snorted softly, obviously still not willing to believe what this 'Annika' said.

'Annika' sighed heavily after hearing this, and did not refute Alice's words.

—It seems that he is really a thief.

Alice breathed a sigh of relief silently in her heart, it's a good thing, it's a good thing he's not some Death Eater who came to take revenge on society.

[1] In the original book, it should be "Wolfman Potion", but to avoid being blocked by Ah Jin, I will directly write "Werewolf Potion".