if i am not me

Watching the backs of the twins leaving, Hermione began to tap on the table thoughtfully.Thinking of Harry and Draco who left just now, the smart girl frowned slightly—it seemed that something had changed invisibly.

The light rain that was still pattering in the morning finally stopped in the afternoon, and there were still a few strands of clouds floating in the blue sky. The moist earthy smell in the air made Harry, who was still a little sluggish, feel refreshed.

The morning class made him a little sleepy, because after herbal medicine was the divination class that he hated the most.The crazy woman Tenelawney was still babbling about predicting bad things the whole class, and Harry still felt that it was an illusion that she could really predict the savior and Voldemort. After all, this nerve is always in the It is hard for a woman in a state of madness to imagine that she can really predict anything accurate.

But the fact is that because of this woman's words, he lost his parents and became the savior, and he was burdened with too many things that he was unwilling to bear and should not be burdened by him.Yes, he admitted that he hated this woman, extremely disgusted, but he also sympathized with this woman... because she just made a prophecy that she didn't even know...

However, no matter how bored he was, there was always class.And just like that, their first divination class ended with a prophecy that Drake would get hurt and Harry would choke on cheese.

The corners of his mouth were raised mockingly, and Draco directly expressed his dissatisfaction with Tenelauni with his facial expressions.In his opinion, those prophecies can only be called funny.But Harry felt that maybe Tenelauni also had a blind cat and a dead mouse-until now he still remembered how Draco broke his hand in Hagrid's first class, because The aftermath of this event cannot but be impressive.

Yes, they were walking on the soft, damp grass right now, on their way to their first Care of Magical Creatures class a few hours after Tenelauney had just made her prophecy.Following the shouts and shouts from time to time, Harry and Draco took their respective "Monsters' Book of Monsters" down the slope covered with green grass and came to Hagrid at the edge of the Forbidden Forest with complicated moods. next to the hut.

Beside Hagrid's big pumpkin field, the tall Hagrid was talking happily with the three of Ron who had arrived early.Hagrid was wearing his moleskin coat today, and it could be seen that he had clearly combed his hair, and at his feet, Fang was drooling, huddled around the few books at their feet spin around.

When they saw Harry and Drake, they raised their hands to signal them to go over.At this time, almost all the people came, only a few figures were still slowly moving forward on the hillside dragging the books in their hands.Seeing this, Hagrid shouted at them loudly: "Hurry up! You guys!"

After those students finally joined the others, Hagrid said gruffly, "We still have a way to go! Follow me!" Then he took the lead and walked forward, while the people beside him , of course it was Harry and the five of them.At this moment, Hagrid couldn't hide the excitement on his face, and he whispered nervously, "We have something good to treat you today! You will definitely like it."

Hearing this, Hermione and Neville tightened their grip on the book and laughed dryly, but Ron looked very curious instead.Draco looked at Hagrid suspiciously. You must know that in view of Hagrid's unusual preferences, what he said just now is really not guaranteed.In this regard, Harry, who also deeply understood this point, could only pat Draco on the shoulder as a sign of comfort.

It is taken for granted that no one knows if there is joy, but there is no doubt about surprise - a group of hippogriffs, no one can not be surprised.For a while, only the sound of birdsong in the forest, the rustling of wings, occasional snorting, the flipping of books, and...heavy breathing can be heard in the open space of the ban!

"Oh my God..." Hermione couldn't help but tugged on Ron's sleeve beside her. Looking at the group of weird-looking big guys, she couldn't help but exclaim!And her voice finally made others find their own voices.

However, Hagrid didn't seem to see their terrified expressions, and explained the group of creatures to them. It wasn't until he decided to let a student ride one of them that he seemed to realize that not everyone loved the group of beautiful creatures as much as he did. biology.

Fortunately, the scene today did not reappear like in history. On the contrary, this class was passed in a surprisingly calm manner.However, Harry's strong nerves were still shocked, because of the dramatic change that can be called dramatic—today's Drake allowed him to see a scene that he thought he would never see in this life, and this kid actually won it easily. He became the favorite of Buckbeak and became the only one in the class who sat on the Hippogriff to enjoy the thrill of swimming in the sky.

In the eyes of others, maybe this is just a new chapter in the history of Prince Slytherin. Only Harry knows how much this development shocked him.At the same time, it also made him realize more deeply that the changes in history have made him more and more unpredictable.

This recognition made Harry more forbearing, and also made him more urgent to improve his strength.

Until Thursday, they lived a busy and fulfilling life every day.But for Harry, these few short days were so difficult, for Remus Lupine.Finally, Thursday's Defense Against the Dark Arts class came. Even though he knew that Lupine would not leave so early, Harry still dragged Draco to the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom early.

Lupine entered the classroom after the ringing of the bell, but Harry didn't mind, he just stared greedily at Lupine's every move, looking at the man who had protected him with his life before, so familiar to him, But also so strange.

"Good afternoon, students." Lupine looked very smart in a dark brown robe today.He looked at the books spread out on the table, the quill pens he had prepared, and the ink bottle he had opened, and suddenly showed a knowing smile, and said unexpectedly, "Please put all the books back in the school bag, today is For the practical class, all you need is the wand in your hand."

Students would find the surprise understandable, they'd never had a practical Defense Against the Dark Arts class, well, if Lockhart's utterly stupid classes counted as practical.But even though they were surprised by the new professor's different styles, everyone still put the books back into their schoolbags neatly, and everyone looked longingly at the man who smiled so softly.Perhaps, he is not as incompetent as those teachers before.

"Then," said Lupine, seeing that everyone was ready, "come with me now."

The curious students followed without hesitation. They walked out of the classroom and walked along the empty corridor to the door of an empty classroom that was usually not used by anyone.There's an episode here, because the door to that classroom is blocked by Peeves, who's stuffing gum into the portkey.Hearing the movement behind him, Peeves turned around to see who was interrupting his prank, and then everyone saw him scream: "Ah——Lupine the fool—"

In an instant, everyone present turned their eyes to Lupin, and to their surprise, the man was still smiling.But he silently drew out his wand and pointed at Peeves, and quickly said, "Waddiwasi (Waddiwasi, launch spell)!"

Ignoring Peeves who left angrily holding his nose, Lupine turned to them as if nothing happened just now and said, "

Let's continue. "

There was a dead silence, no one spoke except for the rustle of walking.Maybe... this new professor is not only not incompetent, but very capable.Looking at the direction Peeves left, everyone thought so in their hearts.

Following Lupin, the crowd turned another corridor, and finally they stopped outside the teachers' lounge. "Come in." Lupine opened the door, then took a step back, allowing the students to see the furnishings clearly.

The Staff Room was a long place filled with old mismatched chairs, and there was only one teacher in there now - Snape, their Potions Professor.Harry looked at the two nervously. If there were no accidents, there would be a verbal battle immediately.

But what surprised him once again was that when Snape saw Lupine bringing a class of students in, instead of sarcasm, he nodded to Lupin lightly and said, "I'll go out first."

"Thank you." Lupine smiled noncommittally at Snape, and Lupine sincerely thanked Snape for his thoughtfulness.

What seemed normal to the other students made Harry feel that Snape tap dancing in front of him wouldn't surprise him any more now.The enemy who used to be almost endless, now speaks so calmly, calmly, and with a little friendliness...

How is it possible, are they really Severus Snape and Remus Lupine?Could it be that a Death Eater like Barty Crouch Jr. used the transformation potion?Of course, Harry didn't see if any of them used the transformation potion in the end, so when he recovered, Snape had disappeared from his sight, and Lupine was still smiling without showing any emotion.

Forcing himself to regain his sanity, Harry could only tell himself that there will be a long time to come, and one day, I will answer all the questions I have now.

As Snape closed the door to the staff common room, Lupine once again focused his attention on his students. "Now, this way," he beckoned the class to the end of the common room, where there was nothing but an old wardrobe where the faculty members occasionally kept their robes.The students saw Lupine walking to the closet, and the closet suddenly shook and made a loud bang.

"Don't worry." Noticing the uneasy expressions on the faces of the students, Lupine smiled reassuringly and said, "It's just a Boggart inside."

However, this did not make the students feel any easier. On the contrary, the fear in their eyes deepened, which made Harry wonder if Lupine did it on purpose.But this time Lupine seemed not to see their fear, and talked about the characteristics of Boggarts on his own.In the following time, his steady and gentle tone and the mode of asking and answering finally made the students calm down, and he also easily mastered the knowledge that was originally described in a few pages in the book.

Satisfied looking at the students below who seemed to be much more relaxed, Lupine curled the corner of his mouth and said loudly, "Very good. Now, we are going to start the first step of practice. What are you most afraid of in the world?"

Everyone was excited to know that the practice was about to begin, and three or two of them were discussing what they hated the most, trying to figure out how to make themselves shout the spell aloud and successfully defeat the boggart.As Blaise, the first to play, tied a RUNESPOOR into a bow, Lupine asked the students for their names while staring at each strange thing that the Boggart turned into, to prevent When students are not successful, they bring harm to themselves.

Harry looked at all kinds of weird things they were afraid of amusedly, and tried his best to close his brain, because Boggarts can analyze people's hearts.Harry didn't know whether he was still most afraid of dementors, but although he was curious, he didn't intend to expose himself in front of people, and closed his brain to reflect his cowardice that he wanted to be seen. He thanked that it was just an exercise, let He has enough time to carry out the complicated closed brain procedure.

The line was getting shorter and shorter, Harry's palms were a little sweaty, his biggest goal of the day - Lupine's reaction.As he had done to many people he had known, so had he to Lupine.

"Next, what's your name?" Lupine looked at the black-haired boy standing behind Draco Malfoy. He seemed inconspicuous in the crowd just now, but now that he looked closely, Lupine was surprised to find that This boy is very much like his good buddy James, except for more refined facial features and those dark green eyes like a deep pool.

"Harry Johnson." It would be a lie to say that he was not nervous. Harry felt a little funny. Even when facing Riddle, he had never been so nervous now. Perhaps the two emotions were different. Facing Riddle When Del, all he had to bear was death and fear, but now...

Staring at Lupine as unobtrusively as possible, Harry, who didn't intend to miss any subtle expressions, made his facial expressions softer.The gray eyes flashed complex lights at the moment of hearing Harry's name, and Harry seemed to see confusion, shock, curiosity and doubt from inside.

Suddenly stunned, Harry lowered his eyebrows and turned to the Boggart on the other side seemingly naturally. He seemed to understand something, but he was even more confused——Lupine's reaction was too similar to Snape's, but not exactly the same .

The Boggart didn't give him time to think, and Harry was now faced with a large dog baring its teeth and slobbering disgustingly.Raising his wand with a panicked expression, Harry yelled at the dog, "Riddikulus (funny funny)!"

Perfectly turning the big dog into a mummy dog, ignoring Lupine's slightly probing gaze, Harry just smiled and walked towards Draco who was standing behind.

Dogs... I didn't expect that the fear of the past still remained in the subconscious all these years. Although it was only very small, it could be defined as the thing that Boggart was most afraid of "now", which meant that there was still a shadow left.Harry seemed to think of that night of killing again. Is it really the dog that is most afraid of?Its nose, the one that could smell even the slightest smell of blood, the one that would reveal the location of the killer...

Draco leaned against the wall and looked at Harry walking towards him with a knowing expression, "Good job."

I knew it was impossible for Drake to obediently do nothing.Very good, it seems that this kid's Occlumency has been successfully learned. Now the famous Slytherin duo is afraid of dogs and mice. I hope Hermione and the others won't be too surprised when they find out tomorrow.

"Pray that he doesn't throw Scabbers at you when you and Ron argue." With a smirk, Harry saw Draco's eyes twitch with satisfaction.

From the bottom of his heart, he once again warned himself - the future will last forever.