[HP] A Brief History of Time

Witchwood is some distance from London, but it is very convenient to get to and from by train.

Mrs. Conway was wearing a gray-green dress, a printed shawl, and a wide-brimmed hat of the same color, decorated with a few white tail feathers. The black mesh gauze was lowered to cover half of her face, revealing only her delicate Chin and beautiful red lips.Even Virginia had a delicate beret on her little head.

When she was in Wedgewood, Virginia didn't think anything of it, but walking on the fashionable London street, Virginia suddenly felt that the mother and daughter's outfits were a little... strange.

What's even more strange is that the people around walked past the two of them without looking sideways, without feeling any discord at all.

"Muggle Ignore Charms, my dear." Mrs. Conway stopped in front of a small, dirty pub.

Another unfamiliar word.

"Broken... Cauldron Bar." Virginia raised her head and read out the words on the signboard.

"Come on, let's go in here," Mrs. Conway gracefully pushed open the mottled low wooden door of the Leaky Cauldron.

Virginia followed Mrs. Conway into this dimly lit small bar, and looked around curiously. The people in the bar were sitting together in twos and threes and whispering. It seemed that she had never seen such a well-dressed person enter the Leaky Cauldron. , could not help but look around curiously.

Mrs. Conway took Virginia's hand and walked through the group of people very calmly, then pushed open a door in the backyard of the bar, faced a wall, pulled out a grapevine wand, and gently followed a certain pattern. He buckled a few times.

Even though she was well prepared, Virginia was still stunned by the miraculous scene in front of her.

"My dear," Mrs. Conway led her into the magical arch turned from a wall, without further introduction, "this road is one of the roads from the Muggle world to the wizard world. Unless there are special circumstances , I think, we will only go this way once."

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Mrs. Conway declined the pre-school visit from the professor at Hogwarts, and personally took Virginia to prepare the necessities for the first-year students in Diagon Alley, including Virginia’s wand——Larch, Phoenix Tail feathers, flexible, eight inches long.As soon as it was in Virginia's hands, the room was enveloped in a halo of light, and a gentle wind rose from the ground.

"That's it." Ollivander held up his wand tremblingly for a second, then wrapped the wand carefully, and began to mutter cheerfully, "Oh, Crackenthorpe, that name is really a mouthful , is rare, but my memory has always been amazingly good, and I can remember even the most mediocre names clearly. Ma'am, I still remember that yours is a century-old vine tree, just like your sister, the same old vine The last new branch. It’s unbelievable. Wands are rarely made of vine wood. I still remember that I got it from a traveler in Damascus more than half a century ago. Only made two... oh, here you are, seven Galleons."

Virginia took the box containing the wand from the nagging Ollivander, and looked at Mrs. Conway curiously. She had never heard that her mother had a sister, and she also had an aunt.

Coming out of Ollivander's wand shop, Mrs. Conway was obviously depressed.As a result, Virginia had no choice but to swallow the question that came to her lips.

"Hi, honey, would you like some dessert?" An old witch with a kind smile on the side of the road greeted her.

"Oh, no, thank you." Virginia glanced at her pointed wizard hat, then at the basket on her arm, and suddenly remembered Snow White's stepmother and queen, and quickly shook her head and refused.

The old witch's cloudy blue eyes bent kindly, "Okay, baby, I wish you a happy day." After speaking, she turned to greet other passers-by.

Virginia turned her head to look and saw another little girl taking a lollipop that kept changing colors from her hand, and she might as well have been bumped.

"Be careful." Mrs. Conway came back to her senses, and reached out to support the staggered Virginia. She looked up at the suddenly crowded street and frowned, "What's going on?"

Just as he was talking, two bright people, one big and one small, came out from the crowd that suddenly dispersed.The big one seemed to be angry, and the corners of his luxurious black wizard robe flew back with his steps, while the small one, with one hand in his pocket, showed a slender and straight trouser leg under the black robe, with a relaxed posture.

The middle-aged wizard headed past Lady Conway and Virginia.And Mr. Malfoy stopped politely, bent his neck slightly, "Mrs. Conway."

Mrs. Conway nodded reservedly.

"I didn't expect it to be you, Lucy, long time no see." A cold female voice sounded behind the three of them.

Virginia turned her head, but saw a tall and dignified witch walking towards them holding the arm of the middle-aged wizard who had just walked past.

She was dressed similarly to Mrs. Conway, with a silver dress, a small hat decorated with pearls and black feathers, and fair blonde hair that fell charmingly over her shoulders.

Draco Malfoy took two steps closer to the beautiful witch and called, "Mom."

Mrs. Conway stretched out her hand to lift up the mesh gauze hanging from the brim of the hat, and smiled at the people who came, "Hi, Narcissa, long time no see."

Narcissa held Lucius in one arm, and lightly put the other hand on Draco's shoulder, and introduced to Mrs. Conway, "This is my husband Lucius, and this is my son, Draco Section." Both father and son are outstanding in appearance and extraordinary in bearing, of course, if the somewhat unnatural left eye of Mr. Big Malfoy can be ignored.

"It's a pleasure to meet you." Mrs. Conway nodded, but there was no warmth in her expression.

Lucy was two classes lower than Narcissa when she was in school. At that time, Lucius had just graduated from Hogwarts. Therefore, when Lucius Malfoy saw Mrs. Conway, he really didn't have this name in his mind, so he just Return with a haughty smile.

Narcissa obviously didn't take her indifferent attitude to heart, her ice blue eyes turned to Virginia on the side with interest, she provoked a smile and said, "Lucy, let me tell the truth , your daughter, she will be more beautiful than you in the future, and the most beautiful jewel of the Crackenthorpe family must be her."

Mrs. Conway stroked Virginia's hair and smiled at her compliment.

"We haven't seen each other for more than ten years, Lucy, maybe we can chat? I know there is a good cafe in Diagon Alley." Narcissa tentatively suggested.

The reason for Draco's sudden appearance at Wedgwood remained stuck in Mrs Conway's throat like a fishbone.She looked at Narcissa carefully, not sure what she was going to say to herself.But thinking that she had no contact with the wizarding world in the past ten years, she only hesitated and did not refuse Narcissa's proposal.

This place is not far from Lihen Bookstore, there are people coming and going, the people gathered together, no matter their age or age, are all glamorous beauties with first-class appearance, and it only took a while to attract a lot of attention.

Lucius stood there impatiently and listened to his wife greeting others. After she decided where to go, he immediately said that he still had something to do. The dark circles under the eyes quickly disappeared in place.

This is the second time Virginia has seen people disappear in place.

She looked blankly at the air in front of her with a blank face, finally lowered her head, and sighed like a little adult, but quietly stretched out her right hand to grab Mrs. Conway's fingers.

Little Mr. Malfoy didn't move a muscle, though his hands were in his trouser pockets.But his eyes kept on watching Virginia's movements.At this moment, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a group of conspicuous red-haired people walking in their direction.

Just half an hour ago, Lucius Malfoy had an unhappiness with the Weasley family, and his left eye, which was slightly black and blue, was given by the "Encyclopedia of Toadstools" thrown by Mr. Weasley.Of course, Draco did not prevent this conflict.As far as he was concerned, there were some things that had to go with the flow, and some things that he had to do his best to bring back—for example, the black diary lying quietly in his wizard robe at the moment.

A group of red-haired and well-known Harry Potter and "know-it-all" Granger quickly noticed the extremely eye-catching people talking here.While a group of people were looking over, Draco stretched out his hand to hold Virginia's hand, "Mrs. Conway, please rest assured that Miss Conway will be handed over to me. During your conversation with your mother, I will take Watch her take a turn around Diagon Alley."

"Oh, that's a good idea." Narcissa answered first, she leaned down and kissed Virginia's tender little face very affectionately, "Honey, follow Draco, we'll see you in an hour." Said After that, while repeatedly assuring Mrs. Conway that Virginia would be safe with Draco, she dragged Mrs. Conway, who wanted to say something, to a cafe next to a high-end clothing store.

Virginia, who was left behind, froze for a few seconds. She looked at Draco, who was with the old god, with a sad face, pulled her hand out of his hand, and said in a low voice, "All my things are gone. I've got it all." She paused, and seeing that Draco hadn't spoken, she added, "Thank you. ... And, in fact, my surname is Crackenthorpe."

Draco couldn't help frowning, of course he knew the surname, he just didn't expect Virginia's surname to be different from what he remembered. "The Origin of the Wizard's Bloodline" once mentioned that the bloodline of the Krakenthorpe family originated in Northern Europe. It is said that the unique talent of this family is beauty.Of course, if Virginia's surname was Crackenthorpe, then Draco had no doubts about it.

"Hey, horse manure! So you found a girlfriend behind your arrogant father's back! Ah, ah, you have to hide quickly! Or you will be spanked by your father!" A strange singing voice suddenly There was a sound behind Virginia.

She turned her head involuntarily, and saw a boy with freckles and fiery red hair staring at her with his eyes wide open, as if he was surprised to see a monster.

The red-haired boy's eyes gradually became a little straight, and he didn't come back to his senses until he was slammed by a girl with brown fluffy curly hair. His face flushed all of a sudden, and he panicked from Virginia Ya looked away.

Draco, who saw this scene clearly, couldn't help snorting, but didn't pay any attention to it. He turned his head and said softly to Virginia, "Vill, do you want to buy an owl?"

As soon as the words fell, Virginia heard a mocking snort, "It turns out that I'm with Malfoy, so I'm sure they're not good people!"

It was the red-haired boy just now.

His face was as red as his hair, but there was still a kind of bluff anger. Seeing Virginia looking over, his eyes were a little dodged, and the brunette girl beside him and a black-haired girl The boy, on the other hand, looked very embarrassed, and quietly tugged on his clothes. Although he looked very sorry, he looked at Virginia with a certain degree of approval.

Virginia's eyes quickly swept across the group of them, and she immediately understood that although she didn't know what Draco had done that made everyone angry, all the cynicism just now was thanks to the little bastard beside her.

Virginia forced a smile, and followed Draco into Ira's owl pet shop.She has never been seen with the eyes of a villain, and she is still in public, which makes her a little uncomfortable, and she can't wait to hide immediately.She went straight to the innermost part of the pet shop, and unconsciously walked around the various types of owls standing on the shelves.

"This gray color doesn't suit you, Will. If you want, I can give you a golden eagle." Malfoy said suddenly behind her with his trouser pocket in his pocket.

"No, no, thank you," Virginia recovered, she glanced at Draco's face quickly, and immediately turned her gaze to the side, where there were a bunch of cages with cats in the corner.

Every school will have a villain.She suddenly thought of the domineering little fat man in elementary school, and Draco's pale and proud face flashed past, and she really couldn't connect the two—how did he take on the role of a school bully with such a thin body? ?

Virginia crumpled all the messy thoughts into a ball, and hastily picked out a smoky gray Siamese kitten to hold in her arms, while Draco paid Gallon first.

"Enrollment gift," he said.

Virginia felt extraordinarily uncomfortable.She never wanted to get too close to someone who was too showy, good or bad.

"Ron!" Watching Draco and the pretty girl leave, Hermione said in a very disapproving tone, "Don't be so rude!"

Ron muttered something under his breath, impatient with her reprimand.

Harry interrupted suddenly, "She looks like a freshman, I swear I've never seen her before."

"Oh, yes, that's what I was going to say," said Hermione quickly, "we have no way of knowing if she's definitely going to be in Slytherin."

The group had already walked to the front of the Leaky Cauldron, and she glanced back at the Grangers who were not far away. They were already confused by Mr. Weasley's various strange questions, and Mrs. Weasley was obviously confused. Her husband was furious.

Hermione pushed Ron in a hurry, and quickly hugged Harry, "I'm leaving, guys, see you at the beginning of school!" She hurried over to meet the Weasleys and Mrs. The transferred twins bid farewell and took the Grangers away.

"Summer vacation is over so quickly!" Ron wailed before parting, and Harry felt the same way.