[HP] Wolf and Alice

[05]

After taking the bone spirit that Abigail personally concocted, James Potter was ready to be discharged from the hospital after staying in St. Mungo's for a few days.

On the day Porter and Blake left St. Mungo's, many female employees of St. Mungo's exaggeratedly held a "farewell party" for them.What's even more exaggerated is that someone even held a bouquet of flowers and forced it into Blake's arms at the farewell party.

Alice felt that Blake looked a little embarrassed when he received the bouquet, but he didn't refuse the girl's kindness.

Abigail did not go to that ridiculous "farewell party". When Alice left the farewell party and returned to the pharmacy, Abigail must have been busy all morning.

"Why didn't you go to the 'sent-off party', Abby?" Alice couldn't help asking.

Abigail rolled her eyes. "That's definitely the most ridiculous thing I've heard this year. Why would someone hold a 'farewell party' for two people who have only lived in St. Mungo's for a few days?"

After hearing this, Alice felt that she agreed with Abigail's point of view.

She also felt that those girls made a big deal out of a molehill.But even so, she could not deny the unique charm of Potter and Blake for women.

They are all very funny and handsome, no wonder they are so popular with girls.

"Are the two of them very popular in school?" Thinking of this, Alice asked again.

"Dunno," said Abigail, "didn't pay attention."

However, Alice felt that Abigail was lying.

"Yes, Abby."

After Abigail finished brewing most of the potions she needed to brew, Alice asked cautiously, "Can you do me a favor?"

"What's the matter?" Abigail looked at her suspiciously.

"It's just..." Alice bit her lower lip, looking a little embarrassed, "I always feel that it's not an option for me to continue like this. I can't stay in St. Mungo's as a nurse for the rest of my life. I want to learn something else."

"Really?" Abigail asked, "but there's nothing wrong with being a nurse, and your salary isn't too low, Alice."

"I know!" Alice said hurriedly, "I'm not worried about salary, I just feel that I seem to be doing some dispensable things all the time. People don't really need me to greet them every day. It’s warm. What’s more, I’m actually not very interested in the job itself.”

Abigail gave a soft "hmm" after hearing this, and then asked, "Then how do you want me to help you?"

"I—" Alice paused with difficulty, "Actually, I want you to teach me...how to make potions."

Abigail froze.

"Do you think I'm overwhelmed?" Seeing that Abigail didn't speak, Alice could only lower her head and whispered tentatively.

"No, of course not." Abigail shook her head after reacting, "I'm just a little surprised."

"Then will you agree?"

"If I'm free, it's not impossible for me to teach you." Abigail said, "It's just that before that, I hope you can recognize the reality, Alice. I understand that your desire to learn is good, But brewing potion does not mean simply throwing the ingredients into a dry pot and cooking it. It requires talent. Even wizards, many people regard potion as a difficult subject to learn , if you really want to learn it, you have to work very hard, you understand?"

Alice nodded vigorously: "I swear, I will work hard!"

Abigail couldn't help laughing, "Why are you suddenly interested in potions?"

"It's very simple, because I don't want to continue to be a waste." Alice muttered.

"You're not trash, Alice," said Abigail. "You're better than most of the nympho in St. Mungo's, trust me."

"But—" Alice sighed in the middle of the sentence.

But they can all use magic, even if it is nothing surprising to them.

She is really envious.

"Abby, if..." Alice suddenly asked again when the two were silent, "I said if—if I start learning from now on, how long will it take me to learn how to brew the 'Werewolf Potion'? Woolen cloth?"

As soon as Alice finished speaking, Abigail suddenly stopped what she was doing.

She turned her head to look at her friend in shock, lowered her voice and asked, "Merlin, did I hear your question correctly?"

"What, what's wrong?"

"You know the difficulty of brewing werewolf potions..." Abigail reminded faintly, "it's not so high. There are many wizards who have studied potions all their lives, but they can't successfully brew werewolf potions. You are now a Newbie, Alice. So don't always try to reach the sky, before you learn how to run fast, you must at least learn to walk, don't you?"

After listening to Abigail's answer, Alice couldn't help but feel a little disappointed in her heart.

She didn't know what was wrong with her, but she instinctively thought of the werewolf potion, and the uninvited guest who broke into St. Mungo's that day——Remus Lupine.

Although she knew that her thoughts were inexplicable, she really wanted to help Mr. Lupine, especially after learning about Lupine's difficult life situation.

Nor did she consider her feeling a form of sympathy.Rather than sympathy, it would be better to say that she could understand Lupine.Lupine was a werewolf, a werewolf that normal people would avoid under normal circumstances.

And she, is a squib.

An ordinary person can't help but despise the Squib under normal circumstances.

"Tell me the truth, Alice." At this moment, Abigail's voice suddenly interrupted Alice's thoughts, "Did you encounter some financial difficulties...that is why you want to secretly sell the 'Werewolf Potion' '?"

"Selling?" Alice looked at Abigail puzzled, "No, I don't want to sell to others."

She didn't even know that potions could still be sold surreptitiously.

"Why is that?" Abigail asked indifferently, "My intuition tells me that this matter is not simple, and I think you'd better tell me the truth."

Alice rolled her eyes.

If she had told Abigail about Lupine, then Abigail would have known about Lupine's trespassing on St. Mungo's that day.

So she must not tell Abigail the truth.

But Abigail is a smart person, and it is impossible to deceive her by telling a casual lie, and Alice really needs Abigail's help now.

"Is such that--"

After thinking twice, Alice decided to tell the story in a different way.

"I recently made a new friend who...is a werewolf."

"Friend?" Abigail blinked suspiciously, "How did you make a werewolf friend?"

"Well," Alice said with some guilt, "I just...we met at the book club."

"book club?"

"Yes, reading club." Alice nodded, "It's the kind of gathering where you can meet a few book friends as long as you go there. I met that friend at that kind of gathering."

Abigail let out a long "oh" after hearing this, "It's really rare for a werewolf who likes to read." She couldn't help teasing.

Intuition told Alice that Abigail did not believe her lie.But now she can only treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor, biting the bullet and trying her best to round up this lie.

"Yes, and he's a nice guy." Alice continued, "Uh...although he's a werewolf, he's a nice guy."

Abigail narrowed her eyes strangely and looked at Alice's face.

"you are not……"

"Not what?"

Abigail hesitated, "No, it's nothing. Tell me more about your friend. In fact, if he is really a werewolf, he can come to St. Mungo to buy werewolf potions by himself." .”

"He...has been a little stressed recently." Alice said in a voice softer than that of a mosquito.

After Abigail heard this, the expression on her face became even weirder.

"Tell me the truth, Alice," she asked sharply. "That friend of yours, wouldn't his name be—"

"What's your name?" Alice swallowed nervously.

"Isn't his name Remus Lupine?"

And in the end, Abigail asked the question anyway.Thanks Merlin.

Alice received a letter from Lupine within a few days, but this letter was not to ask her for potions, but to thank her.

Abigail easily guessed the ins and outs of the matter from Alice's abnormal behavior, but the strange thing is that she was not annoyed, but asked Lupine for help.

"Mr. Lupine helped me many times when he was in school," Abigail said. "Now that he... has encountered difficulties, of course I can't pretend that nothing happened."

"But you rejected Potter and Black's request." Alice blinked.

"That's different."

"What's the difference?" Alice asked, "why do I feel as if I'm the only one kept in the dark. Who are they, Abigail? What the hell are you doing behind the scenes?" "

Abigail sighed, hesitated for a while, and finally told her the truth.

Potter and Black weren't really Aurors, but they were doing something similar to Aurors - fighting Death Eaters.

Abigail said that there has always been a rumor circulating in Hogwarts that the headmaster of Hogwarts, Professor Dumbledore, is actually the leader of an underground organization that fights against the Death Eaters. For the "Order of the Phoenix".

And after Abigail graduated from school, she finally knew that the "Order of the Phoenix" was not just a rumor, it was real.

So Potter and Black are actually members of the Order of the Phoenix.

But not only that.

In fact, so was Remus Lupine.

Abigail also said that Potter and Black had a good relationship with Remus Lupine when they were at school.In addition to Lupin, the three of them, together with another boy named Peter Pedilou, formed a small group called "The Predators".

Hearing this, Alice couldn't help complaining: "...good middle school two."

Abigail nodded emphatically, seeming to agree with her.

The four of them were like Siamese twins at school, staying together every day.

But I don't know when, things have changed a little bit.

And gradually, that small change intensified, and finally turned into a rift between the four of them.

"But... didn't you say that Mr. Lupine is also a member of the Order of the Phoenix?" Alice couldn't help asking after hearing this, "But he told me that he didn't have a stable job, so he couldn't afford the werewolf potion."

"In a sense, it is true." Abigail said, "The work of the Order of the Phoenix is ​​actually not profitable. In other words, the people who join it are not for the purpose of making money. They It's more about simply wanting to make some contributions to the entire wizarding world."

Alice gave a soft "Oh", and then continued to ask: "But then...don't they get paid?"

"But most of them don't have to worry about money to spend." Abigail shrugged, "Many of them actually have two jobs at the same time, and many of them are apparently employees of the Ministry of Magic, but in fact It is also the eyeliner placed by the Order of the Phoenix in the Ministry of Magic. There are also some people, like Potter and Black. Although they do not have formal jobs, their family backgrounds have always been good. Worry about expenses."

Hearing this, Alice couldn't help thinking of herself.

Although she would feel aggrieved whenever her mother satirized her with all kinds of vitriolic words.

But in fact, she did not contribute anything to her family.Most of the family's income comes from the inheritance left by his father and Henry's salary.Her own meager salary is only enough for her to buy a few clothes every month.

"And what about Mr. Lupine?"

"That's the problem, Alice." Abigail explained, "As a werewolf, it's hard for him to find a stable and satisfying job. Internal reuse... Although I don't know exactly what happened between him and Black, I guess that the reason for their estrangement may also be related to this."

Alice lowered her head in frustration, she felt that everything Abigail said was too true.

The werewolf itself does not sound like the kind of person who would belong to the light camp.

They have their own "kind", and because of this, they become more difficult to be accepted by normal wizards.

"Did Potter and the others try to persuade you to join the Order of the Phoenix?"

"Well...but I can't say that I completely rejected him."

"why?"

Abigail turned her head to look at Alice with a serious expression, "I have disclosed some confidential information about St. Mungory to the Order of the Phoenix before. Originally, information such as the admission list belongs to the patient's privacy. I am You have no right to give them to someone else, and yet I did."

Alice was slightly taken aback, and then suddenly remembered the list that Black had mentioned in the ward.

"What is the use of this list?" Alice was puzzled, "What can the Order of the Phoenix use it for?"

"Do you know who are in the Death Eaters camp, Alice?" Abigail asked suddenly.

Alice shook her head blankly, "Probably...some people from the pure-blood family?"

"Yes, they are indeed very likely to join the Death Eaters. After all, the mysterious man's claim is in their favor." Abigail said, "But they are far more than the people who will choose to join the Death Eaters camp. Death Eaters When they are active, they will wear hoods and masks, which means that it is difficult for people to discern their true identities from their appearance. So, in fact, there may be Death Eaters lurking around us now, They may be a colleague of St. Mungory who usually looks inconspicuous, or they may be a person who seems lively and righteous."

"so--"

"So these admission lists are beneficial for the Order of the Phoenix to investigate the Death Eaters." Abigail continued, "Do you remember that there was an attack in Diagon Alley just a few days ago, so some of them were in this period?" People who have received treatment over time will become more suspicious."

Alice nodded half-understanding, "But... didn't you also say that joining the Order of the Phoenix is ​​dangerous?"

"Yes." Abigail admitted, "That's why I didn't formally join the club. I just stayed in St. Mungo's to help them provide information. But even if it was just like this, I have to admit that I was really scared. Especially after experiencing the 'medical trouble incident' a few days ago. Although the person who came to St. Mungo's to make trouble last time was not a real Death Eater, if the Death Eaters knew some information, it would be from St. Mungo's leaked it, and took revenge on St. Mungo's for it, I don't think I'll ever forgive myself in my life."

Unlike those heroes who resolutely put themselves in the camp of justice, Alice felt that Abigail might appear a little selfish.

But precisely because she is selfish, she is the Abigail that Alice knows, a real ordinary person.

In the past, Alice always thought that those dangerous things were far away from her. Although she would see some terrorist attacks in the newspapers from time to time, she would hold a fluke mentality every time and believe them from the bottom of her heart. Bad things don't really happen to you.

until today--

It wasn't until Abigail told her the truth today that she realized that many things had actually happened to her all the time, but she never noticed it.

Alice wondered what she would do if she wasn't a Squib, but a wizard with the power to stand up to Death Eaters.

Like Abigail, he would choose to remain silent and protect himself.

Or, like Mr. Lupine and the others, bravely stand up and fight against evil?Even doing so...maybe cost her her own life?