[HP] A Brief History of Time

Draco stood on the pillared balcony outside the classroom and looked down. The warmer temperature made the plants in Hogwarts more prosperous and green.He squinted his eyes, carefully staring at the hurrying figure walking alone among the crowd in twos and threes, and his eyes stopped for a moment on the top of her golden hair.

Virginia passed the great clock tower, and walked quickly along the path winding through the green, water-soaked meadows to the vegetable patch behind the castle.The door of Greenhouse No. [-], which had been locked all the time, was open, and the stubby Professor Sprout was inside.

"Professor," Virginia said as she stepped into the greenhouse, the stuffy heater hit her face, and the temperature inside was much higher than the suitable temperature outside.

Professor Sprout was putting her dragon leather gloves on with her back to the door. She had a big earmuff on her ear, and she didn't hear anything.

Virginia carefully walked around the big umbrella-like flowers, avoiding the stretched body of the poisonous tentacles, walked behind Professor Sprout, and gently tugged at the corner of her clothes.

"Oh," Professor Sprout was startled, turned around with great movements, and exhaled when she saw Virginia. She took off her earmuffs, "Why are you here? Greenhouse No. [-] is very Dangerous, you shouldn't be here. Jesus, I should have locked the door."

"Professor, are you here to take care of the mandrake?" she asked. "I'm worried about my friend. How long will it take for it to be used as medicine?"

"Don't worry, child," said Professor Sprout, with a chubby face, and gray fluffy curly hair protruding from under a khaki pointed hat, looking very kind. "The weather is already hot, and they have grown a little , fully ripened in summer. I'll have to give them dragon dung now."

Virginia looked at several rows of mandrakes wriggling in flowerpots, hesitated for a moment, "Can I take a look, professor? I'm very interested."

"This... is too dangerous, you will learn it in the second grade." Professor Sprout hesitated.

"But that's going to be months away."

Virginia knew she was lying and her cheeks were hot.There were two bright reds on her face, and the thick lashes stared down at Professor Sprout's gray eyes, which were deceptively clean.Professor Sprout couldn't bring herself to reject a studious student, she was silent for a while, then quickly compromised, took out a pair of earmuffs from the cabinet, and ordered, "Mandrakes are too dangerous! Don't take off the earmuffs, you just watch from the side, you know?"

Virginia nodded.

Professor Sprout personally put on earmuffs for Virginia, checked repeatedly, and then armed himself with confidence, and began to add dragon dung to the bottom of the first pot of Mandrake.

Virginia stood beside him cautiously, her eyes fixed on the ugly baby with its mouth wide open, who was kicking wildly on the blade of grass caught by Professor Sprout.Her hands were tucked into the wide sleeves of her school robes, her back tensed as she gripped her wand.

Professor Sprout moved very quickly. In less than 10 minutes, she had already walked to the second row.

Virginia rolled up her sleeves and tentatively called out to the professor a few times. Sprout didn't respond. She boldly cleared her throat, walked lightly to a pot of mandrakes in the first row, and took out wand.

Virginia was very focused, chanting the growth mantra one sentence after another.She knew that her situation was different from what Madam Pomfrey said. The pot of crab claw orchids that she had spawned had been standing on the window sill of her dormitory with the red flower on it, becoming a spectacle in the dormitory. , nor did it return to its original state anytime soon.

The mandrake was raised inch by inch at a speed visible to the naked eye. The originally young and reddish branches and leaves began to stretch and flourish, and the new shoots slowly grew larger and turned into a dull green. His head popped out of the ground, he shook off the soil particles on his head, looked around, opened his mouth and roared.

During the whole process, Virginia could clearly feel the flow of magic power in her body. Waves of warm currents emanated from her heart, surrounded her whole body, merged into one stream, and flowed from her right hand holding the wand go out.At this time, the warm current was a bit weak, and the coldness began to sweep across Virginia's whole body. She began to feel blurred vision and suffocated mouth and nose. Finally, she took a look at the wrinkled facial features, which became more ferocious, and her limbs had already stretched the flower pot. The mandrake, after the last incantation, fell to the ground.

Meanwhile, Draco was running indiscriminately on his way to Greenhouse Three.

He watched Virginia disappear under the big clock tower from the balcony, and instantly understood her intention—she wanted to use her own ability to save Hermione, and she wanted to save Hermione even at the risk of her secret being exposed. Hermione didn't trust his words!

I can't tell what I felt in that instant: regret, discomfort, frustration... But a bad premonition washed them all away.Draco rushed out of the classroom, but was blocked by two oncoming people.

"Get out of the way." Draco glanced angrily at Potter and Wesley who were standing in front of him.

Harry took a deep breath, "Draco, we are especially grateful for the information you sent about the Chamber of Secrets... I want to say that the matter is about to come to light, and we are going to talk to Professor McGonagall about our Do you want to go with us?"

Draco was not interested at all, but he knew that this was also a veiled surrender, so he deliberately slowed down his tone, "I didn't help much, it's great that you can find out the truth. I still have something to do." After finishing speaking , he nodded hastily, passed between the two of them, and hurried down the stairs.

"Is this sincere sarcasm?" Ron was still a little hazy. "I still can't get used to his way of speaking. Seriously, it's weird that Malfoy has suddenly become so friendly."

"But he really helped us. The monster speculation in the Chamber of Secrets is the same as Hermione's speculation, and what happened 50 years ago also gave us a direction...We have to hurry up, class is about to start, Mike Professor Greg will probably not be in the staff room." Harry picked up his pace, "We need to tell her quickly."

However, before they could take a few steps, Professor McGonagall's voice echoed throughout the castle: "All students immediately return to their dormitories in their colleges. All teachers return to the staff lounge. Please act immediately." (Quoted by this quote Original Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.)

Harry and Ron stopped abruptly and glanced at each other. Seeing the shock on the other side's face, both of them thumped in their hearts: Something happened again!

Professor Sprout finished handling the mandrakes in the second row, and turned around in satisfaction, but was surprised to find that Virginia was gone. She hurried back a few steps, and the scene in front of her was simply shocking. She was taken aback: her student was lying on the ground, and not far away, a fully grown mandrake screamed.

Professor Sprout almost pounced forward and stuffed the writhing mandrake into a new flowerpot, then took off his gloves and earmuffs and carefully probed Virginia's neck.The slight beating under the fingertips made Professor Sprout heave a sigh of relief.Before she could completely relax, Professor McGonagall's serious voice came from the double-leaf clover in the greenhouse, "Pomona, are you in the greenhouse? Something happened, please come to the faculty lounge."

"But here..." Mag on the other end had already cut off contact.Professor Sprout was embarrassed and didn't know what to do. She was short and it was extremely difficult to bend over to pick up Virginia.In desperation, she had to take out her wand and cast a levitating spell on Virginia.

At this moment, Draco arrived at the door of the greenhouse out of breath. He saw the unconscious Virginia floating in the air, and his mind was broken. He knelt on the ground against the door frame.

Professor Sprout carefully directed Virginia to avoid those protruding tentacles and flower stamens with long tubes in the high air. The short body turned out from behind the big umbrella flower that blocked people's sight, and saw Draco She was so happy, "That's great, Malfoy, please do me a favor, I don't know what to do!" She wiped the sweat off her face with her free hand, paused, suspiciously Looking at Draco's posture at this time, "What's wrong with you?"

Only then did Draco's heartbeat gradually slow down. He stood up, stared at Virginia wholeheartedly, and stretched out his hands, "Leave it to me."

Professor Sprout hurriedly pushed the door into the faculty lounge with the pot of mature Mandrake in his arms.

Madam Pomfrey, who was sitting impatiently listening to Trelawney's theory of destiny, was sitting on the black-backed chair, and immediately stood up in shock. She strode up to Professor Sprout, Surprised, she stretched out her hand to check, "Is the mandrake mature?" She gently pinched the edge of the thick leaf with her nails, and a little thick milky white juice flowed out from the half-moon-shaped pinch, "It's It looks very good, and the medicinal power is very pure." Her tone contained disbelief, "Pomona, what method did you use?"

All the people in the staff lounge gathered around.Professor Snape looked at the intensity of the color of the leaves of the Mandrake, his eyes lit up, and he gave a rare compliment.

Professor Sprout was also very confused, so he had to recount what happened in the greenhouse just now.

Madam Pomfrey was taken aback, "Crackenthorpe? Are you sure the unconscious student is the blond first grader?"

Professor Sprout nodded, "That's right, a girl from my own college, she is good at herbal medicine."

Madam Pomfrey had a deep impression on her, she said thoughtfully, "She asked me some questions about herbal remedies." She suddenly thought of something, "Where is this girl? Are you awake?"

"No." Professor Sprout said, she glanced at Snape, "I just met Malfoy and asked him to send her to the medical wing." After a while, she added strangely, " But, it's so strange, the greenhouse is so popular today, I bet Malfoy probably came here for something, or it's all too coincidental." She shook her head distressedly, "The mandrake suddenly matured Yeah, it really confuses me..."

Snape's eyes flickered on one side, staring at the appearance of the mandrake, and lightly touched Wei Yang's chin.

"Let me take a look at the medical wing." Madam Pomfrey couldn't sit still, "Please tell me if there is anything. Severus, I would like to trouble you to check this pot of Mandrake carefully. If there is no problem, we can make the potion!"

"No problem." Snape agreed without hesitation, his eyes never leaving the mandrake, as if looking for any clues.

Less than a minute after Madam Pomfrey left, the door of the lounge opened, and Professor McGonagall walked in haggardly and seriously, "Something happened again," she said, "A student was brought into the secret room." Her eyes fell on the trembling Professor Flitwick, "It's a student named Penelope Crivatt."

Ravenclaw's prefect.

Professor Flitwick screamed and passed out.