[HP] A Brief History of Time

Virginia hadn't recovered from the strange phenomenon that the spell was out of control, when she heard Hermione's even more strange question - her tone Virginia felt a little familiar, she thought about it carefully, and finally suddenly realized.In the church in Wedgwood, before a guilty person asks the pastor for repentance, Pastor Horton always asks sincerely for God, "Will you believe me?"

Recalling that this Miss Granger also grew up in the Muggle world, Virginia immediately understood what she meant—probably she felt that she would be sad and wanted to confide in her because she really didn't know how to learn spells.So Virginia replied seriously, "It's okay, I'm used to it."

Upon hearing this, Hermione immediately took out a pen and a notebook from the schoolbag behind her, "Thank you for trusting me. Then the first question starts from the phenomenon just now, do you recite any spells other than the Transfiguration spell?" Will it make plants grow?" She suddenly remembered something, and quickly took out a photo from her schoolbag, "I saw in this photo, your mouth didn't move, but a small sprout on the Devil's Net grew It's grown a lot, is it the effect of the silent spell?"

Virginia looked at her blankly,

Hermione waited for a while, and seeing that she didn't say anything, she said sincerely again, "I will definitely keep this a secret." She thought for a while, then handed the photo in her hand to Virginia, "I'll return this to you too. "

Seeing a moving self in a photo is a bit magical, and what is even more impressive is that Virginia in the photo seemed to be disturbed by her, and she dodged and hid in a place where the photo could not see.

"Where did this picture come from?" Virginia asked.

Seeing that she didn't look angry, Hermione said frankly, "There is a boy in Gryffindor who likes to take pictures, and he takes herbal medicine class with you."

Virginia immediately remembered, she pinched the photo and clipped it into the notebook, thanked Hermione, and she was not ashamed to ask her to tell the little boy not to take her in the next photo.

Hermione spoke again, holding a small notebook with a cautious taste, "Then can you answer my question now?"

Virginia was at a loss again. She suddenly remembered what Hermione said just now, and quickly flipped through the notebook to pick up the photo again. Seeing this, her expression immediately became tangled.

In the photo, Virginia still hides without a trace, only a small bud grows from small to large on the black vine of the devil's net.

As soon as Hermione saw her expression, she knew immediately that Virginia herself didn't know.She thought for a while with a sad face, and put the notebook and pen back into her schoolbag, "Follow me." After she finished speaking, after walking a few steps, she seemed to realize something, looked back at Virginia and added, "OK?"

Virginia didn't understand what she wanted to do, but after hesitating for a few seconds, she got up and followed.

The two sneaked up to the door of the first greenhouse. Hermione pulled out her wand and whispered, "Professor Sprout has been in the third greenhouse recently, and those mandrakes have been damaged a lot by the students in class. She My heart hurts."

"Araho Cave is open."

With a click, the door of the greenhouse opened.

Virginia looked at the lock on the door, and then at Hermione's quick movements, envious of her.

"come on in!"

The devil's net is in the far corner of the greenhouse. Professor Sprout carefully built a shelf for it, and wrapped several layers of black gauze on it.

Hermione pushed her, "Go up and touch it."

Virginia stepped forward obediently, reached out her hand into the temporary cave of the devil's net, and gently touched its vines.

"Nothing special happened," Virginia squatted down and observed carefully. "It's still the same size as before. It should be a coincidence in the photo."

No one answered behind him.

Virginia turned her head and saw Hermione's surprised face.

"Hi, Virginia, you're so special!" Hermione looked at her excitedly, not paying attention to Virginia's blank look.Holding the wand in her hand, she gushed, "I'm so stupid, I shouldn't forget! I've been ignoring such obvious facts until I just grasped my wand... I'm ready to Take a shot, but the devil's net didn't hurt you at all!"

She stopped talking, looked at the blushing on Virginia's face because of being at a loss, and suddenly smiled again, "Yes, you are as shy in the photo as you are in reality, she always hides, I How did you notice that the devil's web won't hurt you?"

Hermione acted quickly, and immediately pulled up the schoolbag that had just been thrown on the ground, and took out the notebook again, "Then we should start arranging again now. The first point is that the devil's net did not actively attack V." She thought for a while, biting Writing, "The devil's net hasn't changed just now. Virginia, what were you thinking when you recalled the herbal medicine class?"

Virginia shook her head in shame. She really didn't notice what was in the photo. She couldn't remember what she was thinking at that time.

Hermione was not discouraged either. She used a pen to add a bracket after the first point, followed by a remark: "Devil's net grows, coincidence? Silent spell?"

"Then try throwing a spell at it. First, amplify the spell."

Virginia saw her scribbling a few lines in a notebook with a quill, apparently making a table.Virginia suddenly felt very friendly, as if she was doing experiments in groups of several people when she was back in elementary school. Although the subject of the experiment is herself now, she doesn't care.

She obediently followed Hermione's instructions just now, raised her voice slightly, and threw out a standard amplification spell.

Both of them watched quietly, their eyes fixed on the swaying devil's net.Ten seconds later, Virginia said calmly, "Its tentacles have grown by half an inch."

Hermione looked at her anxiously, her voice was much more nervous than Virginia's, "Are you sure? Are the data correct?"

Virginia nodded. "I've been watching it."

Although Hermione kept staring at the devil's net, she didn't see anything, but she still chose to believe in Virginia, and wrote down in her notebook, "Magnifying the spell, the tentacles are half an inch longer."

When Hermione stopped writing, Virginia immediately recited the spell of reducing size.

"A sprout emerges."

This time Hermione saw it, and she excitedly added a few more notes to her notebook.

Virginia tilted her head and thought for a while, then read, "Wingadim Leviosa."

Hermione watched dumbfoundedly as she threw out the first spell she learned in the first grade. However, this spell didn't play its role. The bud of the devil's net grew quickly and stretched out into a verdant patch. leaf.

Seeing Hermione open her mouth in surprise, Virginia herself felt helpless, she explained, "I really don't learn spells very well."

Hermione closed the notebook with a snap, "At least we verified that not only the grow-up and shrink-down spells can change the growth of plants, but also other spells." She stretched out her right hand, "I've always forgotten to introduce myself, That's rude. Hermione Granger. It's been a pleasure working with you. Do you mind if I dig into your mysteries? But if it's your privacy..."

Virginia shook her hand lightly, "If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't know my strangeness. But I have a small request." Her face flushed again, and she said softly, "Don't you Tell someone."

Hermione quickly agreed.

The experiment on the devil's net came to an end, and the two sneaked out of the greenhouse again. Hermione cast a spell, and the lock of the greenhouse was restored to its original state.

This time Hermione turned around and happened to catch Virginia's envious eyes.She coughed softly, feeling embarrassed to be looked at by a little girl like this.She touched her nose and said, "Virginia, you can't just know three spells when we do experiments in the future."

Virginia's blush, which had just faded, crept back.

Hermione said with a smile, "We can use the experiment to learn more spells. Are you free after class on Monday?"

Monday nights were Cedric's time for tutoring.Virginia was about to shake her head when she suddenly remembered something, "Yes." Because it was a lie, her voice was as soft as a mosquito moaning.

Hermione heard it clearly, she nodded, "Then it's settled." After thinking about it, "I'll write to you when the time comes."

***

Starting from the afternoon of the next day, Virginia felt a little restless, causing Lettice to ask several times if she was not feeling well.

Holding the small note with the address sent by the owl at noon in her hand, she finally plucked up the courage to say to Lettice, "I don't want to go to tutoring on Monday night."

Unexpectedly, Lettice also let out a long sigh, "You are not going, and I don't even want to go. The atmosphere is really uncomfortable. I think Annie is serious. Every time I see her, she keeps looking for topics. I'm embarrassed to talk to Cedric."

Virginia listened in silence.

"We can read together in the dormitory on Monday night."

"...I have something to do." Virginia said hesitantly.

Lettice didn't get to the bottom of it, but just said aggrievedly, "You have left me behind. I don't want to stay with Kelsey, so I'll take another tutoring class. I'll ask for leave for you then. ’ She patted Virginia on the shoulder.

The meeting place with Hermione was an unlocked empty classroom.

When Virginia arrived, Hermione was lying on the parchment and writing quickly. When she heard her coming, she didn't raise her head, "I still have two inches left for my thesis, just wait a little longer."

Virginia nodded, found a seat at random and sat down, and suddenly found a potted plant on the ground.It was very ugly, and a few tentacles were dangling slowly in the air.

Hermione put down her pen and let out a sigh of relief when she heard Virginia's hesitant voice, "Where did you get the devil's net?"

Hermione smiled, walked out of the seat, reached out and touched the tentacles of the plant, "This is the crab claw orchid. I don't dare to think of the devil's net." He found a notebook in the book and threw it to Virginia, "Are you ready? Let's practice from the most basic spells."

Soon, Hermione discovered the problem.Virginia is not stupid, on the contrary, she is very smart, both in pronunciation and in the posture of waving her wand.But her spell had little or no effect on dead objects, and the pot of crab claw orchid used for the experiment was already covered with a bright red flower.

Hermione didn't add much content to the experimental records, she frowned, and cast a levitation spell on the crab claw, and the flower pot and the plant flew into the air very quickly.

"It's probably a problem with magic power." Hermione guessed, "A friend of mine also has problems with magic power. I'll go back and ask, and then go to the library to find information. Have you visited the school hospital?"

Virginia shook her head.

Seeing her drooping head, Hermione quickly comforted her, "Maybe it's a mysterious question inherited from the family? Have you asked your mother?"

Virginia shook her head and whispered, "But my mother must not know, because she once thought I was a squib."

Hermione looked at her with great sympathy, "This situation seems to be somewhat similar to that of my friend. Let's put our experiment aside and solve the magic problem first. You wait for my news."

Virginia nodded gratefully.