[HP] A Brief History of Time

The ball wasn't over yet, Snape had already returned to the basement, his already unpleasant mood became worse when he saw his dance partner who had disappeared without a trace at the beginning standing at the door of his office.He said mockingly, "Why, Mrs. Conway, do you have any new orders?"

"I don't dare to say the order, it's helping each other, Mr. Snape." Alona leaned on the wall with her right shoulder, and was pulling out the long-arm glove on the other hand with one hand. The dress was only three inches above the knee, and the snow-white legs stood with a slight carelessness crossed, straight and beautiful.

Snape's gaze immediately jumped back to the lock, his face stiffened, and he said the spell to open the door dryly.Alona quite self-consciously followed him into the office.

"Girls are scary," she said, "and when I told the little girl that I was Virginia's mother and I wanted to ask her about the report, she couldn't last longer than that. In a second, she returned to her pretentious, calm and proud look! If you use Veritaserum to find out that she is the one who said that sentence, I will not be surprised. She actually cares about Virginia presumptuously, and thinks Malfoy is an out-and-out playboy - what is she trying to get me into? You must have Veritaserum, right?"

"Veritaserum is not to be used on students," Snape said coldly.

"That's a pity." Alona stared at him, "You're sweating, why?" Her gaze moved to his slightly trembling left hand.

Snape withdrew his hand abruptly and put it under the table, "You should go, Mrs Conway, now that you have found your target, you can leave, I think my reward as a herb can stop here Now, I will return the rest of the money to you as soon as possible. I will also stop this kind of slanderous behavior."

Alona couldn't wink, she left immediately.

At the marble staircase, she meets Draco and Virginia who have returned.She took a square object out of her purse and handed it to Draco, who fiddled with it twice before recognizing it as a Muggle tape recorder.

"There's no harm in listening to it. I hope you get to know more people." Alona said softly, "Some people look the same on the surface, but they look different behind the scenes."

Virginia immediately understood what her mother meant, she smiled, "I've written to tell you it's nothing, as long as everyone is not crazy, they will not believe Rita Skeeter."

"I don't think so." Alona said, "It's just your idea." She glanced at Virginia thoughtfully, "Are you still learning potions from Professor Snape?"

Virginia nodded.

Alona thought for a while and still didn't say anything. She touched the top of Virginia's head. It was getting late, and her carriage was already waiting outside the gate of Hogwarts.

"Be careful," she said.

In the end, Alonna did not let Virginia send her to the school gate. She put on her coat and walked alone on the path leading to the carriage park at the school gate. The Christmas night held by the school did not make her feel any The fun, premonition that she had been so proud of in her youth as a spy clouded her mind.Alona turned around and looked at the dark shadow of the castle not far away under the dark night, and frowned.

***

Virginia didn't expect her follow-up troubles, and Rita Skeeter was everywhere.She always seems to be willing to be different, and she has a hard time with Dumbledore and everyone. In the new article, she exposes Dumbledore's strange employment, from Moody to Hagrid with giant blood.

On the morning after Christmas, Virginia sat cross-legged on the sofa in the common room and stared at the newspaper, "...Unexpectedly, Hagrid is said to have developed an intimate relationship with a boy... What led them to establish a puzzling friendship? Maybe he saw his sinews as a symbol of his father's strength? After all, this thin and poor boy seemed to be in desperate need of protection-his four female suitors, In less than a week, they all turned into the arms of others. The most promising Hermione Granger was captured by the strong Quidditch star Krum, and Qiu Zhang fell in love with the handsome curly-haired boy Diggory. , and the most beautiful Virginia Crackenthorpe finally succumbed to power and money. She and Slytherin's noble son Draco Malfoy have been engaged, and the little-known Anne Mode has a new marriage. A boyfriend who is just right for her."

"Is this the engagement ring?" Lettice bit his toast, looked away from the newspaper, and stared at the ring on Virginia's hand.

Virginia was speechless.

Fortunately, it seemed more acceptable that she and Malfoy were engaged than that she liked Harry Potter.The people of Hufflepuff do not doubt the truth of the matter, and what they like most is to congratulate Virginia when they see her—including the dean, Professor Sprout, and by the way, admire her The ring—it had clearly been worn for weeks.

And it was even more impossible for Hermione to ask. She and Ron hadn't reconciled yet, and she was absent-minded when talking about love with Krum.

However, what is strange is that Alonna and Mrs. Zabini lost the news again, and Blaise didn't know where they went.

***

Christmas is slowly passing by, and the new term has started.What made Virginia feel even more strenuous was that Moody, the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts, seemed to be paying too much attention to her—suddenly asking her to stand up and answer what hadn't been taught, and let her Fingering those wriggling, disgusting worms was always the first to ask her to try out those learned spells, and even her homework was two inches longer than everyone else's.

Virginia was lying on the table in the library with dark circles, writing a paper on Defense Against the Dark Arts class. Draco looked at her with his head propped on one hand, guessing the meaning behind Moody's actions, "... Is it because of our engagement? He used to turn me into a ferret before, you know he's a bit of a perverted and crazy Oro—I'm a little scared of him now, to be honest."

"Really? Thank you so much. Your fear really provided me with great courage." Virginia said grumpily, her hair was about to catch up with Hermione's disheveled level, and she casually It was piled up on top of her head, and the quill brush in her hand was writing an argument. The books borrowed from the library in front of her were piled higher than her head, and she said without raising her head, "Can you Will you speak to Professor Snape for me by the way? I may be a little late because I have to go to Professor Moody's office first tonight. Enough is enough, what do Mediterranean plants have to do with the Dark Arts? —the library's materials are simply pitiful!"

Draco silently pushed the warmed black tea to her hand.

At seven o'clock in the evening, Virginia knocked on Professor Moody's door with trepidation holding the paper she had finally finished.

"Ah, here you are."

Virginia resisted the urge to run away, instead of looking at the horrifying fake eye embedded in his face, she held up her thesis, "Professor, I have already written the thesis." alright."

"Come in and we'll talk." Moody stepped out of the way, and his tone was unexpectedly kind, "Sit down, do you want some tea?"

"Do not……"

Moody had poured a glass of scalding water in front of Virginia.

Virginia stared at the strangely shaped cup, and then touched it with her fingers weakly after a while.

"I heard from Professor Sprout that you are Hufflepuff's most talented student, and even Professor Snape thinks highly of you."

Virginia was puzzled, and said vaguely, "There is only one herbal medicine class that is not satisfactory, and Professor Sprout is always kind... I am just a supplementary class with Professor Snape."

Professor Moody began to flip through her papers. "The thinking is very clear and the point of view is very original-much better than Longbottom. Oh, do you know him?"

"Neville Longbottom? I heard Hermione mention him." Virginia said cautiously.

"Since you know each other, that's great," Moody opened his mouth and laughed—Virginia took a look and quickly lowered her head. The expression on his face was really weird. In the dark potion office, Looking eerie, "He's a poor kid, alas, I've worked with his parents - both are nice people, he loves herbs, I said, if, if you don't bother, you can guide How does he write his papers - his paper structure is terrible! To be honest, as much as I want to help him, you know, after all these years of being an Auror, I'm afraid I've forgotten how to properly grasp a long essay! So I asked Professor Sprout, and she recommended you to me." He handed over a piece of parchment with flamboyant writing on it, and the signature at the end of the article was indeed 'Neville Longbottom', "Of course, although His dissertation isn't very good, but I'm sure you'll learn a lot from him - Neville's pathetic past is a secret, don't tell anyone, okay?"

Virginia readily agreed.

Professor Moody said he would inform Neville and let her go.

Virginia walked to the basement in a daze, she couldn't believe it, all these days of suffering in Defense Against the Dark Arts class were all because of Professor Quan Moody's kindness to Neville Longbottom!

Virginia hurried to Professor Snape's office, and Draco opened the door for her with a serious face.

"What is that old hound looking for you?" Professor Snape was standing in front of the cauldron, pinching a pocket watch. He looked up from the gap of observing the status of the potion and asked Virginia, "He wanted you Are you in trouble?"

"No," Virginia quickly put on the dragon leather gloves that Draco handed over, walked to Snape's side, and began to skillfully handle a pile of materials, "Professor Sprout recommended me to Greg Longbottom of Lanffindor was reading a treatise on herbal medicine—plants in the Mediterranean Sea. In fact, I just glanced at it and felt that I didn’t know as much as Longbottom, and there were too few materials in the library.”

"Longbottom?" A contemptuous smile appeared on Snape's face. "That's very interesting, Miss Crackenthorpe, congratulations on making your own life a little more difficult. As for the Mediterranean plants," he raised Lifting his chin, "I have a few in my medicine cabinet - I haven't studied how to use it as medicine, you can try it."