[HP] Wolf and Alice

[06]

Before leaving, Alice looked around in front of the full-length mirror in the room several times before she was willing to go out.

In all fairness, Alice is a beautiful girl. After all, Alice's mother, Mrs. Atwood, was also a well-known beauty when she was young.

Mrs. Atwood also often sighs because of this: If Alice is not an unlucky squib, she must not worry about finding a good husband.

In fact, after Alice entered St. Mungo's, there were also one or two suitors, but most of them thought from the bottom of their hearts that Alice would easily agree to them because of her status as a squib. Proposal.It's a pity that they didn't expect that this "Squib girl" was a proud guy.

Abigail always said she would never compromise on marriage.Because for her, if she wants to spend the rest of her life marrying someone she doesn't love, it will undoubtedly be more tormented than suffering the Cruciatus Curse.

Alice herself thought so too.

The girl in the mirror has long silky light brown hair, a pair of shining golden brown eyes, and particularly fair skin, looking like an exquisite doll.

Alice blinked at the mirror. Today, she deliberately changed into a champagne dress. You must know that she would not choose to wear a dress for several years.

The reason is simple - too much trouble.

Henry went home for the first time today. Just as Alice was slowly walking down from the second floor, she happened to bump into Henry Atwood who was sitting at the dining table enjoying breakfast.

Henry glanced at his sister in surprise: "Merlin, what are you going to do dressed like this?"

Alice stared at him and said, "It's none of your business."

"Let me guess... You must be trying to seduce some puberty boy again."

"What puberty?" Alice rolled her eyes, "Do you think all men in the world are like you, Henry?"

"So you admit it?"

"Don't talk nonsense, I just went to meet a friend." Alice blushed and retorted.

Alice thinks that she is not lying, and Mr. Lupine and her are really just friends at present.

Since the last time she helped Lupine "with little effort", in addition to sending her a thank you note, Lupine also invited her to visit his house on weekends, and he wanted to thank Alice in person.

In fact, Alice felt that there was no need to thank Lupine so solemnly for this matter, but thinking of meeting Lupine alone on the weekend, Alice naturally happily agreed to Lupine's invitation.

"Ah, let me just say, it must be a man."

At this moment, Henry lit up a cigarette in his hand with some pride, looked at Alice with disdain and said.

"So what?" Alice was not afraid of Henry's provocation, "Could it be that you even want to interfere in my private life?"

"Do you know, Alice, these few years have been the rising period of my career."

"Of course I know, my mother is with me every day and the nagging has changed so much that I'm almost callused."

"so--"

"So what?"

"It's embarrassing enough that I have a 'squib' sister, Alice!" Henry roared suddenly annoyed, "so don't mess with me with any more weird people, if your future husband can not Hold me back, and I'm already thankful."

After hearing this, Alice looked at her brother with contempt, and thought that catching anyone on the side of the road would be thousands of times better than her own brother who was stalking.

Although she said this, she only dared to complain silently in her heart.

Even though Henry disappointed Alice severely before she went out, Alice was still in high spirits after she went out, and immediately put those annoying things Henry said behind her.

Lupine rented a small single apartment near the center of London. Alice checked the address that Lupine had sent, and finally went around to the downstairs of Lupine's apartment.

This is... a building that looks crumbling. Alice stared at its dilapidated walls, and even wondered if it could really support the weight of dozens of people without collapsing?

After confirming that she really came to the wrong place, Alice slowly walked up the stairs.

Remus Lupine's room was on the fourth floor.

"Miss Atwood?" The moment Remus Lupine saw Alice, his face seemed a little surprised, "I... I didn't expect you to come so early."

That's right, she did come early. They originally agreed on a time of four o'clock in the afternoon, but now it's only eleven o'clock in the morning.

"I feel that my brother is too nagging, so I thought about going out early." Faced with Lupine's doubts, Alice could only explain in this way.

In fact, Henry is only part of the reason.

The reason why Alice came early was more because——

"Come in, Miss Atwood." Lupine politely helped Alice open the door of the apartment.

Alice walked into the apartment and looked around with curiosity.

This is a small, but very tidy room.All furniture and items in the room are neatly arranged.

In addition, Alice also saw all the books that Lupine put in the bookcase by the wall, they almost filled the entire bookcase!

"Mr. Lupine, have you read all these books?" Alice asked in surprise and excitement.

"Probably." Lupine replied with a modest smile.

"That's amazing!" Alice looked at Lupine adoringly. "I have never liked reading since I was a child. Sometimes it takes me three months to finish reading a novel!"

"Miss Atwood is very busy at work, and it is a great thing to finish reading a novel in three months. And I... After all, I am just an idler." Lupine said with a smile.

But Alice heard that Lupine was giving himself a step down.

Because she also knew that Lupine, as a member of the Order of the Phoenix, couldn't really be idle every day.

unless……

Unless Lupine's situation is really like what Abigail said, most people in the Order of the Phoenix fear him because of his status as a werewolf, which led to his current "doing nothing" situation.

Thinking of this, Alice couldn't help but feel a little indignant from the bottom of her heart.

She didn't understand, since Potter and Black were Lupine's friends when they were students, how could they not understand what kind of person Lupine was?

He chose to alienate him because of his identity as a werewolf. Can such a person really be called a true friend?

While Alice was in deep thought, Lupine had already made hot tea for her.

The faint fragrance of tea overflowed from the silver-white teapot, and then began to linger at the tip of Alice's nose, causing her to obediently sit opposite Lupin, and began to taste the cup of hot tea.

"It's delicious." Alice praised sincerely.

"It made Miss Atwood laugh." Lupine lowered his head, his ears were reddened, "These things are not supposed to be on the table, and Miss Atwood doesn't mind, I'm already very grateful."

Alice frowned suddenly, "Mr. Lupine...can I make a small suggestion?"

Lupine was slightly taken aback, "Please tell me, Miss Atwood."

Alice smiled at him: "You can just call me 'Alice', that's what my colleagues call me. 'Miss Atwood' sounds so raw!"

After hearing this, Lupine blinked his eyes in surprise, as if he didn't expect Alice to say such a thing.

"So—" Alice went on at this point, "may I just call you 'Remus'?"

"This..." Lupine frowned in embarrassment.

When he was a student, there were actually not many people who could call him by his Christian name. Apart from the three members of the "Predator", there were probably only a few Grannies who were close to him. Fendo is a classmate.

but……

For some reason, he didn't feel disgusted by Alice's enthusiasm.

So he smiled and looked at Alice and said, "No problem, Alice."

All afternoon Lupine told Alice many amusing stories, most of which he had learned from the books in his library.

Before she knew it, the sky outside the window had gradually become dark. Alice looked down at her watch and knew it was time to leave.

"Remus," just as Alice stood up and was about to turn around, she suddenly had an idea and looked at Lupine's bookcase, "Can I borrow a book from you?"

Lupine was startled, then nodded and said, "Of course."

After obtaining Lupin's permission, Alice immediately jumped to the front of the bookcase with joy, and began to pick out one by one on tiptoe. "

"Andersen's Fairy Tales", "Grimm's Fairy Tales", "War and Peace", "Anna Karenina", "Pride and Prejudice", "Jane Eyre"... There are so many here that she has never heard of before past book.

Suddenly, a familiar word flashed in front of Alice.

- "Alice in Wonderland".

Alice stretched out her hand and took out the book. After confirming that the "Alice" in the title was her own name, she handed the book to Lupine, and at the same time pointed at the memorized text with some embarrassment. Said, "It has my name on it."

Lupine nodded slightly: "That's right... this is a story about the adventures experienced by a girl named Alice."

"Is this a Muggle book?" Alice asked. "I've never heard of it before."

Just as Alice finished speaking, Lupine's eyes suddenly revealed a very gentle emotion.

Alice had never seen anyone's eyes that could show such a gentle look.

"Oh... yes." After a long time, Lupine nodded and said, "This is indeed a Muggle story. This story was also recommended to me by a good friend of mine."

"Then I decided to choose it!" Alice said with a smile, "I think we are very destined."

Alice's intuition told Alice that this "friend" must mean something to Lupine. Thinking of this, Alice couldn't help feeling a little bitter in her heart.

She had lost too much for not being able to study at Hogwarts.