[HP] A Brief History of Time

When the scorched black condensed on the middle finger, Dumbledore finally moved his finger vigorously, "Enough, child, you have saved my life."

Snape poured the brewed potion into a goblet and put it in his hand unceremoniously, "If you think your life is guaranteed, I don't mind that you don't need to try this potion—because many times In one fell swoop."

McGonagall paused while helping Virginia to heal her wounds, pursed her lips, and asked, "What does this mean, Severus?" She looked at Dumbledore seriously, "Are you sure you don't have any Question?"

Snape didn't make a sound, he took out a bottle of blood tonic and threw it to the pale Virginia.

Dumbledore shook his hand, "I know, I know. But I always have to pay for my mistakes. Compared with life, a finger is really a wonderful ending." He raised his eyes and looked at Virginia, "Thank you for saving an old man's life. The old man probably has something to do. I hope one day you will be happy that you saved me today."

Virginia smiled at him trustingly. "I don't know what it is—but I believe it, as you say."

Snape snorted, he put the silver knife that Virginia used to cut her wrist just now into Dumbledore's hand, and put a bottle of white wine on the table, "I'm sure," he said with Violet Genia said in a tone, "If you don't step up, the suppressed black magic will soon continue to spread throughout your body."

Professor McGonagall let out a small cry.

"Oh, don't look," said Dumbledore.

Professor McGonagall took Virginia's head in his arms.

After 5 minutes, Dumbledore's voice sounded the same, "Okay." He said.

Virginia glanced at his scorched right hand just now, which had been wrapped in white gauze into a steamed bun, and Dumbledore himself protested, "Severus, you know, I use this hand to grab wand."

"Then you'd better stay in your own office and don't go anywhere during this time."

"It's a pity," said Dumbledore, "I'm running out of stock of honey candies." He opened the drawer tremblingly with his good right hand, "but I can give you some chocolates, Virginia," He took out a large handful of chocolates in the shape of various animals and stuffed them into Virginia's coat pocket, "Continue to have a good dream tonight-ah, what is your first class tomorrow morning?"

"Transformation class, principal."

"Ah, Minerva, if this child is late for the first class tomorrow morning, please do it for my sake and take less Hufflepuff points."

Virginia couldn't laugh or cry.

But it is clear that Professor McGonagall thinks that Virginia's contribution is not small. She issued a sick note for Virginia on the spot, asked her to stay in the dormitory to rest tomorrow, and quietly sent her back all the way. dormitory.

The next day, Professor McGonagall took the initiative to tell Alona about this matter.Apart from emphasizing the confidentiality agreement again, Alona did not express dissatisfaction with Virginia's behavior in front of Professor McGonagall or Snape—the contribution has been made, and dissatisfaction cannot make McGonagall feel grateful. The emotions increased, not to mention, only when Virginia showed her value, Alona could be more sure that Dumbledore would protect her.But behind her back, she gave Virginia a hard lesson, and tried her best to fatten her up before giving up.

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In June, Virginia obviously felt that Draco became a little nervous, and the time he spent contacting her was greatly reduced, and sometimes he didn't see her once a day, only good night from the double-sided mirror at night— —Actually, only Virginia's good night, because Draco clearly looked like he had to read a book for a while.Compared with Draco, Blaise seemed to be in a trance. Once Virginia came across him to meet him, he turned a blind eye and muttered words. Virginia glanced at his arm and wrote It is full of dense magic spell principles.

Meanwhile, all of Virginia's fifth-grade friends were in this tense state.

Virginia walked around the library silently, returned to the basement and pushed open the door of the bedroom.

"You're back? Why so fast? Aren't you looking for a document?" Lettice was checking the papers for her younger brother who was only in the first grade this year, holding her curly hair full of irritability.Bernie graduated from Hogwarts last year and worked in the Ministry of Magic's International Federation of Wizards, but unlike what was expected, due to the situation, Bernie's father tried every means to send him to the Federation's work site in France.Lettice lost her fiancé who was in love, and finally became a resident of the dormitory, and also became the nanny sister of her mischievous younger brother at school.

"The OWL exam, I don't stay in the atmosphere of the library for a long time-because I take a book casually, people will stare at me." Virginia put down the bag helplessly, "I still don't want to do it during this time." Grab resources with them."

"That's great, help, honey," Lettice patted some homework on the table, and said in a tone of self-compassion, "I'm going crazy with his sentences-the Sorting Hat really Did you pick the right house for Casper, isn't he a Gryffindor? Gosh, I have to watch him, my mom writes almost three times a day telling me to keep an eye on her baby."

Virginia smiled unkindly.

The examiner of the OWL exam also caused a sensation in the newspapers.Fudge did not give up and wanted to arrange his cronies into the Wizarding Examinations Authority, among them was the notorious Umbridge.Of course, he suffered serious resistance from the stubborn old gang of the Wizarding Examinations Administration, and Umbridge was already synonymous with mud in their eyes.

Rita Skeeter maliciously speculated about the illicit relationship between Fudge and Umbridge in the newspaper, and the result was a photo of Fudge that was veiled but still did not cover his swollen pig's head. One exposure.

Fudge's scarlet news brings some relief to the tense atmosphere before the exam.

On Monday morning, when Virginia saw Professor McGonagall leading a small group of old wizards through the auditorium, Virginia knew that the OWL exam had officially begun.

The tense atmosphere in the fifth grade obviously touched the fourth grade students the most. Even Annie, who was often invisible in the dormitory, read a book in the common room steadily.

However, on the last day of the OWL exam, at lunch time, an owl flew in from the door of the auditorium and landed in front of Black.Just 1 minute later, "Shameless!", Blake's roar startled the students in the entire auditorium. He blushed, crumpled up the parchment and threw it into the soup plate in front of him, and then rushed from his seat. out.

No one can stop him.Dumbledore and the deans of the four colleges did not appear on the seats. Trelawney's own spoon fell to the ground in fright, but Alona just raised her eyelids, and then signaled Virginia with her eyes. Don't mind your own business, stay seated and eat your meal.

The students in the auditorium swarmed after him, but Hagrid stopped him at the edge of the Forbidden Forest.

When Professor McGonagall hurried over from the professor's lounge, he saw Black riding a Thestral and disappearing into the clouds.Her lips quivered angrily, glaring at Hagrid who was looking down at her.

"Let's hope there are no accidents," she said, leaving Hagrid feeling guilty, and hurried to Dumbledore.The premonition in her heart was extremely bad-every year, the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts would have an accident, and it was already the end of the semester.

Virginia sat on her seat, watching Hermione rush up to Black's dining table in three steps in two steps, took out the parchment from the soup bowl and "restored" it with a magic wand.Harry Ron followed closely, and the three of them seemed so shocked after reading the letter that they disappeared into the auditorium immediately.

At this time, the students who had gone out to watch the scene gradually returned to the auditorium.

Alona left her seat, glanced at Virginia, and counted the time.

Virginia naturally understood what she meant, she was afraid that she would follow Harry and Hermione again, and would have to stay in her office all afternoon.

As soon as Draco saw Alona leaving the auditorium, he immediately walked towards Virginia. He sat down beside Virginia and whispered, "Stay in school and don't go anywhere. There is a commotion in the Ministry of Magic. Fudge seems The one who moved Black."

There was concern in Draco's tone, and Virginia quickly realized that his concern was not with Black, or with the situation at the Ministry, but with herself.

"Fudge always liked to bluff..."

Virginia suddenly understood that Fudge was greedy for money but cowardly, and it was impossible for him to take the initiative to attack Black's people, there must be something hidden in it.And the biggest hidden secret is that the mysterious person is playing tricks in it.

"Don't go anywhere, Virginia," Draco squeezed her hand.

The OWL exam at [-] o'clock in the afternoon was really delayed, and it was announced that an examiner accidentally got food poisoning and was lying in the medical wing.

But Virginia, who was staying in Alona's office, knew that Harry was no longer at Hogwarts.Standing by the window on the third floor, she watched the Thestrals fly out of the Forbidden Forest one after another——she had seen too many dead amnesia in her previous life.

"Good luck," she said silently.Suddenly, she remembered something and ran out of Alona's office quickly.

The slogan of the Potions Office remained the same, but Snape was not among them. She ran to the inner room familiarly, hugged a large pile of notes from the bookcase, and sat on the floor to read them.

Finally she found what she wanted to find.

At the end of an old "Outstanding Contribution to Potions", the recipe for Felicia Felix was impressively listed.