I'm playing a big knife at HP

August 1979

Marciana finished her summer homework on History of Magic and finished reading a book she brought with her.

She looked around, and the adults were still in a meeting.She took out the tape player from her pocket, carefully put on the earphones, and pressed the play button.

The sound of electric guitar and drum beats sounded, she retreated into the corner, closed her eyes, and showed a little smile on her face.

"Hey!"

Startled by the sudden voice of a young man, she jumped up and pointed her wand at the sudden appearance.

It was an extremely handsome young man, with black hair hanging gracefully on his forehead, wearing a colorful striped shirt and black flared trousers, he looked like a rock band star.

Marciana's eyes were still wide open, but she put down her wand and pursed her lips in embarrassment.She knew who it was, Sirius Black, one of the youngest members of the Order.

"I'm sorry for scaring you." Sirius Black put his elbows on the table and raised one corner of his mouth, "We don't seem to know each other yet. My name is Sirius, how about you?"

"Marciana." She lowered her head, stretched out her hand and gently straightened the creased robe just now.

"Hello, Marciana. You seem like a very interesting girl, and if I say, let's explore Muggle London—just the two of us, you and me—what do you think?" Sirius Blake looked at her with beautiful gray eyes and blinked playfully.

The black-haired girl's cat-like eyes were round, and she seemed too surprised to speak, as if she wanted to refuse, but also seemed a little moved.

Well, it looks more energetic than before.Blake straightened up in satisfaction.

"I think this is a bad idea." Suddenly a melodious female voice interjected, "It's so dangerous outside now. Sirius, go away."

Following the words, a red-haired and blue-eyed girl approached them.Marciana knew that this was Lily Potter, a member of Sirius' group, and James Potter's new wife.She has fair skin and a pretty face. She has dark red hair that is straight and smooth. The ends of her hair are carefully permed and curled inwards, with curly bangs. Brown eyeshadow and eyeliner outline her almond-shaped green eyes. Beautiful and stunning.

She walked up to Marciana and sat down, smiled and said, "Don't worry about Sirius, if he bothers you, just come to me." She held out a hand, "Hi, I'm Lily .”

Marciana looked at this big sister who was a red-haired beauty like her mother, reached out to hold her white and soft right hand, and whispered, "Hi, I'm Marciana. You can call me Martha. "

The girl suddenly realized that her thick hair was cut as short as the boy's, and there was a bunch of puffs on her forehead. She pursed her lips, trying to make her too thick lips look less obvious.

"Is that a tape player?" Lily pointed to the black square she was holding in her hand. "It's so handsome. It came out last year. My sister keeps saying she wants one."

"Ah! Well, yes." Marciana fiddled with the bulky player. "My dad bought it for me..."

A trace of pity flashed across Lily's face, and she asked gently, "What are you listening to?"

"It's...the Queen. A Muggle band."

"Really! My God, you know Queen!" Lily grabbed her hand in surprise, "Oh my God! I love them so much! Queen is my favorite band!"

"That's right! They're legendary!" Marciana's face lit up, "They're super cool!"

"I really didn't expect..." Lily's green eyes were crooked with a smile, "I like their Wewillrockyou best."

"I like it too!"

The two girls started to bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang clapped their feet and clapped their hands, and then laughed together.

At this time, Marciana has completely fallen in love with this big sister, "I thought you would like ABBA more," she pointed to Lily's hair, "I think you will be the type who likes Dancing Queen."

"Who says I don't like it!" Lily threw her hair back her shoulders confidently.

"Hmm...you look like the girl they sang about." Marciana brushed her short hair shyly, pursed her lips and secretly licked her braces.

"You too in a few years!" Lily whispered slyly, "I bet that within three years, all the boys at Hogwarts will be smitten with you."

Marciana blushed.

"Then who else do you like? Cher? Have you heard of someone named David Bowie in recent years?"

Marciana nodded desperately, "David Bowie couldn't be cooler."

"There are gossip that David Bowie and Queen are going to release a song together! I'm really looking forward to it! I said Martha," Lily said excitedly, "when all this is over... when it's safe outside , we should go to a Queen's concert!"

"Okay!" Marciana jumped up, raising one hand to raise an imaginary glass of champagne, "Long live the Queen!"

"Long live the Queen!" Lily and she pretended to have a drink, and the two girls giggled again.

The two chatted for a while, and Marciana asked Lily, "They say you're very good at potions...can I ask you some questions?"

Lily readily agreed.

"It's like this. I'm wondering if it's possible to replace the dragon's blood vine in the blood-replenishing potion. If it has similar medicinal properties..." Marciana talked about her ideas incessantly, and took out a notebook to show Lily herself. notes.

Lily looked at it seriously, and frowned, "It doesn't seem impossible...but even if it is possible, the medicinal properties will probably be compromised. Why do you want to study this direction?"

Marciana said seriously, "That's because Dracaena is an uncommon medicinal material, and most of them rely on imports. The other medicinal materials in the blood tonic potion are common materials that may be found locally in the UK. Alastor told me , several times when he was performing missions, he encountered situations where he ran out of potions in the wild or the potions were broken in fights. I think if he can use the medicinal materials grown in the same place to develop a first-aid potion with certain healing effects, even The effect is not as good as before, and it may save a life at a critical moment."

"I see...it's very interesting," Lily said encouragingly, "This method of processing medicinal materials is very creative, although it requires a little bit of fine mastery of magic power, did you come up with it yourself?"

"Well, that's right. If there are only basic tools that have been deformed, it may be at this step, and at this step, we need to slightly change the processing method."

"Wow, that's amazing, you're not in second grade yet." Lily looked up, with an appreciative look on her face, "You remind me of a friend of mine. I think he'd appreciate your idea."

"He? Is it a boy?" Marciana asked with bright eyes.

Lily looked at the kid amusedly, "That's right. We used to be very good friends."

"once?"

"Later... we didn't agree on some things, so we weren't as close as before." Lily shrugged.

"Hmm...boy friend...does he like you? Just...you know...the 'like' kind." Marciana asked with a smile, with a mischievous and curious look on her face.

Embarrassed and surprised, Lily almost laughed out loud.She didn't remember if she had ever asked such childish and abrupt questions to her mother and sister.

She remembered that when she was in the first and second grades, she seemed to have discussed boys with her roommates in this way, shyly and curiously.The child in front of her is in an awkward stage between a child and a young girl—youth has not yet come to her, and she still looks like a child, but her ignorant curiosity has been awakened.Children of this age are clumsily exploring a new stage of life, and even if they muster up the courage to ask, they will ask such silly questions.

She seemed to have asked Petunia in the same way back then if there were any boys in school that liked her.At that time, Petunia would still be blushing and giggling, whispering to her somewhat reservedly.

Lily suddenly realized that there was no older woman in the child's life with whom she could discuss this issue.

The red-haired young witch looked down at the short-haired little witch, and the boyish little girl raised her face, her bulging little face was full of trust and intimacy.Lily smiled and straightened the little lock of hair that rose from her forehead.

"I don't think so," Lily shook her head, "I've known him since I was nine years old, we almost grew up together... maybe more like brother and sister?"

The beautiful red-haired witch put on the earnestness of an 'expert' on her face, "Not every boy is the 'kind' who likes girls, you know? You will make a lot of friends in the future, both boys and girls. She rested her chin on one hand and looked at the red-faced little witch with a smile, "Then you will know."

"I know!" The little witch said unconvinced, "Of course I know that not every boy likes girls 'that way'!" She crossed her hands in a serious manner, "Some boys like boys!"

Lily's expression cracked, and finally she couldn't help but smile and covered her forehead, "Oh my god... the child now... you're right... although my friend shouldn't be in this situation... er, probably not? Such a Saying that I'm not so sure..."

The two laughed for a while, and began to listen to music each with a headset.

"Hey Martha, I have to say, some of Queen's songs are not for kids."

"Why? For example?"

"For example... For example... Forget it, let's listen to the music."

Marciana experienced the worst nightmare of her life that summer, but even so, it was not entirely without good memories.

The best memory of that summer is the sunlight reflected on Lily's red hair, and two witches, one big and one small, sitting at the foot of the wall, each with a headphone in their ear, swaying gently to the Queen's music.

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August 1995

Marciana pushed the tape into the compact Walkman and put on the headphones.

Accompanied by a fast-paced electric guitar and piano intro, the voices of Freddie Mercury and David Bowie sounded.

...pressure...pushing down on me...pressing down on you...

Marciana swayed her body to the rhythm, hummed, and engraved magic patterns on the bullets with magic power.After carefully checking it against the light, she loaded the bullets into the small pistol one by one, and then stuffed the pistol into the holster tied on her thigh.

…what this world is about…watching some good friends screaming…

She took out the potion first aid kit, and tapped the small bottles one by one with the rhythm of the song... Hemostasis, detoxification, healing, blood replenishment, Veritaserum antidote... She rolled up the first aid kit with satisfaction and put it in the storage bag.

 …our way of caring about ourselves, this is our last dance…

She turned around in a small half circle, put the wand in front of her mouth like a microphone, kissed it again, inserted the wand into the sleeve, and snapped her fingers rhythmically with the end of the music.

The music in the earphones faded away, she looked up, and the face of a young witch was reflected in the mirror, mature and charming, completely different from that tomboy-like child.Her bright red lips curled into a smile.

"I hope you've heard this song. It's really good."

She took off the earphones, put the Walkman on the table, turned around and threw herself into the embrace of the night.

The author has something to say: BGM=Underpressure, byQueenandDavidBowie

1. Long live the Queen, long live the Queen, but it happens that Queen is also the name of the Queen band.I really don't know how to write the pun here in Chinese, so let's just read it.When the stupid author conceives, occasionally there will be an English dialogue. If I can, I will write it in Chinese, but sometimes there is really no way...

2. Underpressure, a song by Queen and David Bowie, released on October 1981, 10.According to the time point in the book, Lily and James were killed a few days after the song was released.

3. Why the chapter title is the Lily Evans I remember instead of Lily Potter: What attracts Martha in Lily is her own quality.All these qualities, as a sassy and gentle big sister, as a woman, belong to Lily, and have nothing to do with her social attributes as a wife.So I think calling her Lily Potter is kind of weird.Lily appears mostly as James Potter's wife and Harry Potter's mother in the original books, so she must be Lily Potter.But for Martha, it was Lily, not Potter, that made sense.

4. Freddie Mercury (FreddieMercury) is the lead singer of Queen.I think the late 70s and early 80s in Britain were very interesting and stylish. The songs, fashion, etc. all had a strong taste of rebellion and liberation.