HP Hermione's Phoenix

Tom opened his eyes wide, standing under the high ceiling of the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom.

Beside him stood Harry, who was not much taller than him.Two little heads with black hair stood shoulder-to-shoulder, staring wide-eyed, looking very cramped.

Lupine seemed to be in good spirits, and said kindly, "Okay—I'll start when it's all here. Harry, Tom, you know, he's learning the Patronus Charm with us today."

Harry nodded quickly.He glanced slightly at the young but very determined Hermione brother - he was only in the first grade and was about to learn this spell,

Harry himself couldn't help being very surprised, but also a little ashamed.

"We'll still use the boggart for practice. I'll fix it in the shape of a dementor," Lupine said with a smile.

Looking at the banging cabinet, Tom couldn't help but think of Hermione's appearance in this class according to the rumors... What was she afraid of? The truth has always been like a poisonous snake in her heart, constantly Gnawing at his chest, haunting him, torturing him.

He couldn't help thinking, what if he really faced a Boggart?What would you be afraid of?

Almost without thinking, the black-haired boy saw Voldemort struggling and falling to the ground in his mind: red eyes, snake face, rotten air exuding from the whole body, falling to the ground, failing in despair, being spurned by everyone - or like the French Like the last emperor, pushed to the gallows by the people of the whole country who rose up, click——

He couldn't help closing his eyes.

No one knows better than himself that what he fears is his own failure and death.

"Attention, watch me." Lupine's voice sounded again, and he opened his eyes to stare at him intently.

"It's coming out." Lupine waved his wand, doing good deeds: "Pay attention to my pronunciation—aim at it, don't be afraid, and think of happy things!—Call God for protection..."

Watching intently, he saw a stocky silver pup running from the tip of his wand.

The silver color was very bright, and the silver wolf with its mental strength was extremely solid. Based on this, his evaluation of Lupin's strength had been raised by a whole notch.

"It's your turn." Lupine smiled at them. "Harry, you go first."

Tom backed away calmly, watching Harry roll his eyes desperately, remembering something—

Then the dementor came running out—"Curse, Harry!" Lupine yelled—and within a minute, Harry's wand tip released a wisp of silvery bubbles, and the dementor passed through his body -

when.Harry fell forward hard, clutching his forehead tightly.

"Wake up, wake up Harry." Lupine lifted him up quickly and deftly. "Eat this chocolate frog. Tom, you come—you try the spell alone first."

Harry sat weakly in the chair on the other side, cold sweat streaming down his brow.Seeing the pain in his forehead, Tom couldn't help hesitating for a moment...

He raised his hand and waved the natal magic wand transformed from lotus flower and phoenix feather: "Call for God's protection!——"

——According to what is said in the book and taught by the professor, keep thinking, happy things...

--hapiness……

In the end, the tip of the wand was still the same as it was in the chamber of secrets, spitting out a considerable amount of solid silver flakes, but it was not shaped at all.

His hands couldn't help shaking.The lotus wand seemed very unhappy, and poked him in the back.

But Lupine looked at him unexpectedly and said, "That's not bad... as expected of a student that Severus also praised. It's not bad for a first year to do this - you can just try to fight against dementors."

Harry settled himself in his chair, and immediately looked at Tom seriously.He knew that Hermione was strong, and Hermione's younger brother must be not bad either.

Boggart ran out of the closet.The black-haired boy stared at it closely, with a long cloak covering his face, his rotten fingers, he really looked like a Death Eater...

- "He failed, CeCe, was defeated by a child..."

—"Father! Did you see this day too? Yes, he escaped, leaving behind all the Death Eaters... and now he's half dead..."

Countless voices appeared in his mind, as if the heavy fate was roaring in his ears.

——"Hahahahahaha! Voldemort, the heinous! You finally have this day!!!"

——"Bravo!!! We won!!! The Dark Lord is finally dead, the world is peaceful—"

"Wake up! Wake up, Tom!" Lupine patted his cheek lightly.

Tom quickly braced himself to get up quickly.There was a flash of gold stars before his eyes.

"Maybe you should all take a break." Lupine smashed a large bar of chocolate between the two dark-haired teens.

"No..." said Harry stubbornly, "I'd like to try again. Please let me try, Professor."

Lupine looked at him helplessly.He knew that ever since Sirius had met him, the big stubborn dog had been making Harry call him uncle...however, Harry insisted on calling him Professor at this time.

"Okay then, don't hold on." Lupine nodded, watching Harry step forward again with his wand in hand.

Tom tried to keep his face calm and squeezed his sweaty palm tightly.In less than a moment, he saw Harry uncontrollably kneeling on the ground, covering his forehead with one hand and waving his wand desperately with the other, shouting——

"Run!... Mum, run! Don't mind me! Run!"

"Harry wake up! Stop!—" Lupine yelled when he saw something was wrong.

"Leave me alone!!! I'm the one he's going to kill! Run away—!" At some point, the little savior burst into tears.

When everything stopped, the scene was eerily quiet.

Harry's mood was very stable, but his eyes were uncontrollably tearful.He raised his head with a dull expression and said, "I heard my parents' voices...I heard it...this is the first time I heard my father's voice..."

"Did you hear James?" Lupine's tone was a little heavy.

"Yes...he... has been protecting me and my mother..."

"I don't think you should practice anymore." Lupine suddenly said forcefully, "You are still young, you shouldn't go through this kind of thing, remember it over and over again—"

——"No!" Harry suddenly and violently refused.

He held his wand, as if he was struggling in the dark, but his tone was firm: "I have encountered them once on the train...I have encountered them again after Quidditch training...I will not be afraid of them I can't be afraid of them! I can't even defeat them, and what should I do when Voldemort comes back?! How can I avenge my parents?"

He spoke so eloquently and impassionedly that if Ron and others were here, they would wish to drink butter beer with him--however, Lupine had already experienced vicissitudes of life, and he felt ashamed and sad when he heard it; and Tom--

Tom stood opposite him, looking up at the Saviour.He suddenly understood what Hermione meant by being born with great luck.That is the savior, that's right, confident, brave, strong, and indomitable, as if his whole body is radiating light...

But he grew out of the darkness.This is true in previous lives and future lives.

"Okay then." Lupine pursed his lips. "You both rest for 10 minutes first, and think about the spell carefully. I'll go get some chocolates."

After speaking, he seemed afraid that they would practice secretly, locked the Boggart's cabinet, and left the door.

Harry just sat down, panting heavily, and wiped the cold sweat from his brow——he suddenly turned his head to look at Tom, feeling a little ashamed, and said in a low voice, "That... I lost my composure just now."

Tom shook his head silently, and after a while, he said slowly, "You are great."

Harry was actually not very familiar with Hermione's taciturn younger brother.Hearing him say that at first, he couldn't help being startled, scratching his head: "... I don't have it either... Well, I think you are stronger than me. I'm in tears, it's so embarrassing."

No, Tom said to himself, you're not ashamed at all.The one who should be ashamed, the one who should go to hell, is me...

"Let's practice playing the Patronus again?" Harry sighed, raised his wand, and said with a frown: "It is said that my memories have not been happy enough...I think about it, what could be happier? What I think is When I was 11 years old, when I received the Hogwarts notice..."

A gleam flashed in Tom's eyes, and Shen Shen said, "Me too."

"Are you too!?" Harry jumped up immediately, looking at him eagerly: "I knew you were too...uh..."

He wanted to say, we are all orphans, right?Although I didn't grow up in an orphanage, I'm pretty much the same, right?Although you always don't speak, but in this school, you are probably the only one who can understand my feelings...

However, Tom lowered his head sadly: "But this kind of happiness doesn't seem to be enough..."

Tom felt a little depressed.He bit his lip repeatedly, feeling deeply guilty in his chest.If being born again and going back to Hogwarts isn't happiness, what is?Isn't his affection for Hogwarts deep enough?There is a lesson to be learned from the world, do you want to cut out your own heart? ...

Harry also frowned, and murmured, "It doesn't work...but I don't think I'd be happier than this...otherwise I won the House Cup in my first year? Hmm—"

He waved his wand, still shaking out a similar silver flake.

Harry was dejected: "When will it take to conjure up a vivid Patronus like Lupine? That is the real Patronus, right?"

Tom was anxious too.He has a memory that is a few grades older than Harry's, and he has a calmer mind and analytical ability... However, no matter how he recites the spell, no matter how many times he reads and analyzes the principle of the Patronus Charm, what he conjures is solid. However, the ethereal gas cannot be gathered into a solid body no matter what.

Why? !Could it be because this body is still not big enough, and the magic power is not strong enough, so I can't cast the spell of the senior grade...

—Harry didn't know the meaning of the Patronus, but he did.

——In the whole world, there is only Voldemort, who is dark, corrupt and eternally hopeless, unable to conjure the Patronus Charm.If I can't conjure a real Patronus before the other self makes a comeback, how can I prove my heart to Dumbledore?And how to prove to Hermione...

"Hey!" Harry's eyes suddenly lit up, "My godfather said...he has his own house! He said he would take me out, he said he would live with me, he said he would pick me up for Christmas...I can Out of the Dursleys forever! It's not a memory, but it must be a joy!"

Tom looked at him: "You try..."

Without even thinking about it, Harry yelled loudly: "Call God to protect you!"

This time, finally, something was different.A tiny, almost transparent deer flew out from the tip of the wand.

The fawn flew around Harry and disappeared.But Harry was almost ecstatic, and murmured, "I've conjured—"

"Well done, Harry." Lupine stepped in at this moment and said appreciatively, "You've got your way—I just met Severus at Madam Pomfrey's, and he also Heard about you guys practicing the Patronus Charm - as far as I know he's one of the purest Patronus Charms I've ever known of a man of his age. Now, Tom, have your Headmaster do it for you too. Let's set an example."

The air pressure in the room suddenly dropped, the black robe billowed, and Snape strode into the classroom.

He glanced lightly at the two black-haired teenagers with wide-open eyes, waved his wand carelessly, and barely changed his mouth shape——

——The Patronus Charm of the Silent Curse!

Tom was shocked, Snape was so strong!

The indoor temperature also almost changed.Almost for an instant, it seemed as if flowers were blooming, as if elves were walking by, as if unicorns were running in front of your eyes... What kind of a stag is that, she is as pure as a snow lotus on a high mountain, so pure that it is not like anything in the world .

She whispered softly, skipped in front of them, smiled up at Snape - it's hard to imagine how a deer smiles, but everyone saw it - and then turned and disappeared into the void among.

perfect.

Unparalleled perfection.

In the classroom, there was only silence at this time.

Lupine couldn't help applauding: "It's really wonderful...Compared to Severus' spell, my Patronus seems not enough--well, it's getting late, I see you have practiced a lot just now, Let's go back and think about it, and next week we'll have a Bogut duel."

When he said this, he glanced at the dazed Harry intentionally or unintentionally, and at the same time, a sigh flashed in his heart.

Snape looked at them expressionlessly, then nodded to Lupin, turned around and went out noble and cool.

He walked quietly in the long castle, the armor on both sides was silent, and the portrait murmured, as always——

However, a voice caught up to him panting: "—Professor!"

Snape looked back to see Tom running after him.He raised his small delicate face and looked at him, with greedy longing in his deep eyes: "Professor...can you tell me the secret of the Patronus Charm?"

Snape was surprised, but proud at the same time.A trace of tenderness and arrogance could not help flashing in his heart: Huh, my students are more studious, diligent, sensible and well-behaved than Gryffindor students.

"How did Lupine teach you? Maybe to let you find happy memories?" He said disdainfully.

"Hmm..." Tom bowed his head.

"Hmph, books are the rules!" Snape flipped his robe smartly, "The Patronus Charm is worthy of its name, the important thing is the idea of ​​protection! It doesn't matter whether there is real happiness, the guardian heart born from despair, It has overshadowed happiness, overwhelmed the existence of life itself, overshadowed everything..."

As he spoke, his eyes flashed many emotions of memories.

Tom looked at his expression, and the past and the past were faintly clear, but it made him even more at a loss.

He thought sullenly in his chest, sure enough, adults are different from me.Although I have actually survived for five or sixty years, in their eyes, I still do not count as growing up.

The author has something to say: Spoiler alert, Tom will usher in a qualitative change soon!Grow overnight! ~(≧▽≦)/~