[HP] A Brief History of Time

Things ended pretty stealthily.Virginia was ordered to live in a ward in the medical wing for three weeks, and Madam Pomfrey did not allow her to return to her dormitory until her face was rounded.

With Alona around, when everyone came to see Virginia, they had no chance to tell her what happened outside, until the day before she was discharged from the hospital, Alona went to Dumbledore's office.Draco peeked his head out of the window.

At this time, he was like the boys Virginia often saw in the country before she was 11 years old, holding the window sill with both hands, turning in from the window with no skill at all.On the way, he knocked over a vase on the windowsill.

"I will be discharged from the hospital tomorrow. You can finally not climb the window. You have broken this vase three times." Virginia pointed her wand at the broken vase on the ground, "It's back to normal! What news did you bring to me?" ?”

Draco's expression was not relaxed, he didn't even respond to Virginia's teasing, his tone was low, "Yesterday, I was in the professor's office, he was summoned by the Dark Lord—although the professor threw me out immediately Office, but I saw it, and his left hand hurts badly—You-Know-Who is back."

Virginia's heart suddenly tightened, "But you said last week that the real Moody came back, old Barty Crouch recruited everything, and Dumbledore went to that man's hiding place... "

"He ran away and came back again." Draco took out a folded newspaper from his pocket and handed it to her. On it was Dumbledore's serious face and a large headline "Hogwarts." Principal Ci reproduces the amazing words: Return of the Dark Lord

"At least the situation is not as tragic as it was in the previous life—a few Aurors, and Black and Dumbledore went to the Riddle Mansion together. They can all testify for Dumbledore, and Fudge is powerless."

"What about... Malfoy Manor?" Virginia asked cautiously.

Draco smiled wryly, "Closed."

The closure of a large estate would lead to the decline of many industries, especially the Malfoy family's territory occupying half of the county.But Malfoy's losses were negligible compared to letting those damned Death Eaters invade the home.

But Draco had something to say, and it was hard for him to say it.Yesterday's Dark Lord's call not only affected Snape, but also Lucius who was far away in Italy.Narcissa hurriedly contacted Draco with the double-sided mirror yesterday - the stock of the potion to reduce the effect of the Dark Mark was running low.

Virginia didn't hesitate, she got out of bed and found a large crystal bottle from the medicine cabinet, poured half of the bottle of blood, and handed it to Draco with a complicated expression, "Before the Ministry of Magic is eaten to death Give it to your mother before the gangsters invade, and then it is best to destroy the door keys you communicate with."

Draco knew that she was right. At this time, only if he didn't know the secret address of the other party was he truly reliable.

Draco hugged her tightly, "Thank you, Will." He heard footsteps and voices outside the door, sent her away, smiled at her, held the bottle tightly, and jumped out of the window.

Behind him, the vase that had just been repaired fell to the ground again and broke into pieces.

Virginia sighed, restored the vase again, and placed it in its original position.

***

The Triwizard Tournament suddenly became a little awkward with the sudden tense situation.Especially the sudden abdication of Barty Crouch and the disappearance of Durmstrang principal Karkaroff made everyone more vigilant and suspicious.The gradually harmonious relationship between the three schools suddenly dropped to freezing point, and the weather was getting warmer. The students of Durmstrang and Beauxbatons were no longer having dinner with the students of Hogwarts in the lobby.

The third game started in such an atmosphere.

Blake held the trophy nervously and never let go. During the competition, he even rode a broomstick that he was never good at, and wandered around the scene in the maze.

All went well, Cedric took home the trophy and Harry was safe and sound.

Standing on the noisy Hufflepuff seats, Virginia glanced at the boy standing in the middle of the field with messy hair and dirty clothes but a bright smile, and the regret in her heart finally disappeared.

***

This year's summer vacation was extremely bad, like the calm before the storm, except for a few Aurors who had little power and Black, who never knew what a low-key was, had been standing firmly by Dumbledore's side, and the wind direction in the newspapers had already changed. This gradually changed with Fudge's tantrum.

Rita Skeeter didn't know why she changed the subject of her writing (later Virginia learned that Hermione caught her Animagus on her last date with Krum), she As if he carried a microfilm with him, Fudge's angry and ugly behavior in the office and his shady little thoughts were all made public.

Alona was packing up in Little Venice with Virginia, and after packing a few winter clothes into boxes, Little Venice's closet was already empty.Alonna covered the white linen on the tableware, she put her arms around Virginia's shoulders and said, "Let's go."

She boarded the Hogwarts Express with Virginia.She was the school's new professor of Muggle Studies.This was the result of the discussion between Alona and Dumbledore after Virginia got the Imperius Curse last semester. It just so happened that Hogwarts Muggle Studies teacher Kerry Dibbaji seemed to be because of Black's Christmas The behavior at the ball completely gave up on him, and he agreed to a marriage proposal from a Muggle neighbor.Professor Bubaji, who was newly married, resigned from the school readily in order to spend more time with his family.

Blaise looked at the two mothers and daughters sitting opposite, and made a slightly sympathetic gesture to Draco beside him.Normally, Blaise would sit alone across from Draco and Virginia, and Draco would always lean on Virginia like a cartilage.

Blaise smiled, patted himself on the shoulder, and said to Draco who looked at him suspiciously, "I will lend you my shoulder."

"Thank you so much." Draco smiled softly at him.

Blaise shook his shoulders.

Draco glanced at him, took the prefect's badge out of his pocket, and walked out of the box - he had to sit in the prefect's box.

After he left for a while, there was a quarrel in the aisle of the train. Blaise put his head out of the box and looked twice, then retracted with disinterest, "It's Warrington, he probably didn't expect Della Ke has become a prefect, and he is going to trouble him."

Alona was flipping through the newspapers that the owl had delivered to the table that morning but hadn't had time to read.Virginia's face was pressed against Alona's shoulder, and her eyes scanned the news in the newspaper.Overwhelmingly, there were quarrels between the two factions of the Ministry of Magic.Fudge and Warrington's attacks on Dumbledore and the main war faction, as well as various attacks on Warrington by Sirius Black, the new force of the Ministry of Magic-Virginia knew that Draco had a lot of them force.Although Black inherited the property of the ancestral home and the treasury, he invested all of this not-so-huge property in Harry and the Order of the Phoenix. Therefore, Draco temporarily handed over many of Malfoy's secret businesses to Black, To pit him against Warrington - Draco had even bought a small evening paper for his use.

Virginia finally sees Hogwarts-related news in the upper right corner of the paper - about the brutal exposing of the Fudge faction High Inquisitor Dolores Umbridge: how she casts the Cruciatus Curse on a rival , spared no effort to curry favor with superiors, framed companions, one case after another, the name of the victim and the time of the victim were clearly stated.Even the recent forced resignation of Mrs. Marchban, the patriarch of the Wizengamot who raised objections to her tenure, has revealed the inside story clearly.And Umbridge himself was even almost appointed by Fudge as the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts, but fortunately, by three votes, Sirius Black, the new law enforcement officer of the Ministry of Magic, took this position away.Even Fudge himself came under investigation by the Wizengamot for reporting that, in addition to taking bribes, he had concealed a major blunder.

"The author is following up on this matter."

Virginia glanced at the reporter's signature, and it was indeed Rita Skeeter.She breathed a sigh of relief.Umbridge's failure to take office and Sirius' teaching at Hogwarts really reassured her a lot. At least the battle in the Department of Mysteries might not happen again.That was the end of Black's life and the turning point of her destiny.

Alona reads the newspaper slowly - some of the names are still quite unfamiliar to her.When she finally finished reading the whole newspaper, it was already lunch time.Draco went back to the box again, he couldn't stand Pansy Parkinson looking at him with resentful eyes, it made him want to vomit.

Alona closed the box door, fitted a looking glass on the door lock, and cast an anti-tap charm.She took out a few inconspicuous little buttons from her bag and gave them one each.

"Hermio and I bought a country house in Italy. This portkey can lead directly there, and it casts a magic spell. Remember to pin it on your sleeve," Alona ordered, "I am Said that if, if something dangerous happened to the school, flee there immediately, I don't want any of you to have an accident, even if you are a coward and a deserter."

The three looked at each other, and nodded solemnly.

Everything is going well at the beginning of school.Seeing familiar people, everyone seems to have gradually forgotten the panic at the end of last semester.With Dumbledore and Sirius, the Ministry of Magic could hardly interfere with Hogwarts.

In the second week of September, Fudge's big blunder was exposed.Looking at the wretched, thin-haired, sneaky little man in the photo, Sirius was so enraged that he crushed a glass on the chair.