[HP] A Brief History of Time

An hour later, Hogsmeade arrived.Draco dragged Virginia until the end before getting off the train, the rain was still falling, pattering on the ground.They all wore cloaks with eternal water resistance over their school uniforms.The air outside seemed to be out of the same season as London, it was bitingly cold.At this time, it was already dark, and on the platform, the lights in the castle could be seen, but the village of Hogsmeade not far away seemed to have fallen asleep.

Draco squinted his eyes, and saw that just before the train started, a black half-person tall figure quickly got out of the window and jumped into the dark bushes beside the platform. The leaves of the plants trembled a few times, and then Through the night, it disappeared without a trace.

Lettice found Virginia in the crowd, and she tried to stretch her arms in an attempt to stand out from the group of people around and arouse Virginia's attention, but on the platform, people of all grades stood in a mess unless It was Hagrid's huge size, so her move failed.Her boyfriend, Bernie, pressed her shoulder amusedly, "Let's go, you'll meet at dinner time anyway."

Blaise and Draco walked one after the other on the path leading to the carriage, Virginia lowered her head, and devoted herself to using magic to keep the mud out of the three people's leather shoes.

They didn't walk fast, and when they arrived at the place where the carriages were parked, there were only a few of them left.Virginia glanced at the big, bony bird flapping its wings in front of the carriage, turned her head and asked Draco softly, "What is this? Are we going to fly over in the sky?"

Draco glanced at her quickly, "Thestrals." He pulled her back, "Just take this one."

Blaise stepped into the carriage first, and then handed over his hand to pull Virginia up. Draco looked at the Thestrals who started to kick alternately on the spot, and silently climbed into the carriage.He hadn't seen anyone die in his life, but he still saw thestrals—he seemed to be back in time, but he wasn't really back in time.The effects of death are ever present.He took a long breath, then wrinkled his nose in disgust, the smell in the carriage was damp and unpleasant.

"Sit tight!" Blaise said. He picked up his wand and was about to tap to signal the carriage to move, but the door opened again, bringing a gust of cold wind into the carriage.

What appeared was a small face flushed with cold.Blaise immediately recognized this as a student of Slytherin, she was very popular among boys, a standard blonde Barbie doll.

"...I'm sorry," Astoria Greengrass looked nervous and stammered, his face turned red under the light of the carriage, "My sister and I got separated,... only this There are Slytherins in the car."

"It's okay, come up." Blaise said.He moved a place inside.

Virginia looked at her, and when she came up, she stretched out her hand to lend her strength, in exchange for a sweet smile with dimples.

Draco pinched the buttons on his sleeves with his fingers, hiding his face in the shadow of the carriage, he clearly felt that Astoria's eyes only stayed on him once after she sat down—too much like her The style is up, everything is hidden.The biggest difference between her and Pansy is that she never forced herself to do shameless things, but she clearly wanted the surname Malfoy so much.

"Do you eat chocolate?" Astoria broke the silence in the carriage. She was talking to Virginia.At this time, the carriage was passing through the forged iron gate outside the castle, and the chill brought by the two dementors floating in the air had already penetrated into them through the carriage wall.Astoria took out a box decorated with soft satin from her small bag, and handed it to Virginia, "Violet cream chocolate, it's delicious, you can try it."

A smile appeared on Draco's unclear face, and sure enough, he heard Virginia refuse frankly and apologetically, "Thank you, I'm not used to this taste. Of course, it may be that my taste is rather strange. But My aunt loves this, doesn't she, Blaise? And there's a rose one, my mother's favorite."

"Stranger than a chocolate-flavored bean." Blaise wrinkled his nose. "I tried one once in a while, and it almost brought me to tears. I don't understand how all those ladies love this chocolate. Hey, Diagon Alley There is almost no supply in that store.”

After Astoria's face froze for a while, she quickly returned to normal. She took back the chocolate box, lowered her head and ate one slowly by herself.All actions were carried out very steadily, and she was still young, such a test of Virginia's family background already made Draco applaud.

And Virginia herself—her head has been turned to one side, and her eyes are looking out of the window not far away.

After going back to the castle, Astoria didn't say a word, her eyes might stay on Virginia, or she might slip past Blaise, but she never looked at Draco.

At the long Slytherin banquet table, she quickly settled into her second-year seat, which was at least five meters away from Draco's.

Professor Snape was in a much worse mood than during the holidays.

It was the first night after school started. Slytherin's male student Warrington accidentally fell into the Black Lake in the protection of magical creatures class, and several ribs were broken by the giant squid in the Black Lake.Virginia and Draco were standing in the innermost part of the potions office, cooking several pots of potions for the potions professor who was surrounded by low air pressure on the first day of school.

"Were you there at that time?" Virginia glanced at Snape who was sitting at the desk, and asked in a low voice, "I heard from Lettice that he was taken directly from that... what beast Yes, they were flying in the sky at that time. Harry also flew over, nothing happened. Is Hagrid going to be fired?" She muttered sympathetically as she handled the Millipede vine in her hand, "Hey Min looked worried."

"Perhaps. But such a dangerous thing will happen at Hogwarts, and the big man can't bear the responsibility at all." Draco stared at the cauldron, looking a little unhappy.

Virginia felt it very sensitively. Slytherin and Gryffindor had many quarrels about this matter, and she wisely did not bring up this topic again.She neatly piled the cut Caulis vine to the place Draco is used to, and then her eyes slipped to Professor Snape - for no other reason, he put it at hand while observing, while writing and drawing on the paper The painted plants made Virginia very curious.

"Virginia, come here." Snape ordered without looking up.

Virginia put down the silver knife in her hand and walked quickly to his side - this happened many times in the 'Potions class' during the summer vacation.

"How do you feel?" Snape directly put the plant that looked like a flower and a gem into Virginia's hand, "This is a curly weed from South Africa. How do you think it would be better to use it as medicine?"

Virginia was a little hesitant. She stretched out her index finger and pinched the crystal-clear fleshy part—it looked like a leaf or a fruit. "Do you only know this little?"

"In such a small situation, your intuition, miss, and what you learned during your vacation, the knowledge in books is not dead, don't turn them into a useless decoration on your body."

"Its leaves... or there are four to five thin stalks in the pulp, and the red one can't be used, the rest can be used as medicine." Virginia pinched the meat curly weed back and forth and looked at it several times .

Draco glanced up at them as he stirred the cauldron.He saw Professor Snape's black eyebrows raised twice quickly, he felt relieved, and a smile appeared on his face, knowing that Professor Snape agreed with Virginia's views.

Sure enough, he drew a few more strokes on the parchment and ordered, "Take care of this potted plant. I will keep it in Professor Splett's private greenhouse. This semester—this year's main task is to take care of it. I'll ask Dumbledore for funding as your reward. Of course, if he's only willing to give Hufflepuff points..."

"That's not bad." Virginia said playfully.

Draco coughed.

Snape's face was still dark, and he said bluntly, "It's useless, for Hufflepuff, that little score will not help at all." The corners of his mouth curled up without any emotion, " It is a great pity that the chances of a Hufflepuff getting number one are very slim, miss. Unless you have a big name too."

Virginia has long been used to his cynicism, she put away the meatloaf without saying a word, glanced at Snape's scribbled parchment, it was a new recipe, Virginia looked at it It was clear with just two eyes—there were still many kinds of medicines that had not been identified, and he had listed several of them just for the alternatives.

At a quarter past eight, Virginia and Draco finished the potion task, and she was carrying a small basket in her hand, which was a bone-building potion to take to the medical wing.

This year's Hogwarts can no longer feel the existence of summer.

Walking on the path, Virginia looked at the dementors in the sky outside the school, and couldn't help but shudder a few times. She already knew what a dementor was.After Lettice told Virginia about Harry Potter's coma on the train that night, she popularized the common sense of the wizarding world to Virginia.

"What's your Patronus?" she asked Draco suddenly, "I didn't recognize it last time."

"You don't even know, how could I know?" Draco's voice was not loud, but it was especially clear at night, "You should also learn this spell. It's a very practical spell no matter what time of day it is." .”

Virginia's thinking was taken away by him. She felt that she had missed something, but was quickly attracted by his next meaning, "Will you teach me?"

"Of course." Draco said.

Madam Pomfrey gratefully accepted the bone-growing potion they sent.The hospital wing was quiet. On the night of the first day of school, only one student from Warrington lived in, but he alone gave Madam Pomfrey a headache. He kept crying and making noise.

"I had to give him a Stunning Charm," Madam Pomfrey said without guilt, "I'm afraid that if he keeps tossing around, the broken rib will puncture his own lung!" She put down the potion, took out her wand, Taking a good look at Virginia, "Honey, you look better—the magic in you," she raised her eyebrows high, then lowered them again, "very good."

The bell tower in the school atrium has already begun to strike one hundred and one times.

"The castle is going to be closed," Madam Pomfrey said hastily, taking off her white medical gown, "it's too late, let me take you back." She suppressed her anger and complained, "Even Hogwarts It's not safe anymore."