[hp] Rescue Mr Diggory

"Hey, don't expect me to comfort you."

Camelia crossed her arms, leaned lazily against the door of the dark green cubicle, and said to Myrtle who was floating on the toilet seat and weeping, but the other party just raised her head and glanced at her quickly, then She turned her transparent face to one side and continued to cry, more so than before.

Camelia, who was accustomed to the attitude of the Weeping Myrtle, didn't say anything, just pushed the compartment door wide open, so that the Weeping Myrtle could see what she had done good thing.

The ceramic floor tiles in the bathroom were now covered with water, and the water even spilled out into the hallway outside, and Filch couldn't be blamed for cursing while cleaning with his crumbling mop.

The ground was full of water, and there was almost no place to stay. Camelia had no choice but to grab a corner of her robe and simply wipe the sink that hadn’t been used by anyone for nearly half a century. After that, she was familiar with the road sat down on the edge of the table.Sitting like this isn't exactly pleasant, but it's better than sitting on a dirty toilet seat or on a wet floor in another cubicle.

"You've made this place full of water again, can you leave me a clean place to sit next time?" Camelia said helplessly, the cold granite clinging to her naked body without being wrapped in a skirt The skin of the legs that lived there was chilly.

"You're such an unqualified friend." The crying Myrtle was willing to get up from her toilet seat, leaping to Camelia and screaming accusations.

"Elizabeth, I've been in class all day and I'm so tired, can't you be nice and tell me something happy?"

Camelia swayed her hanging legs leisurely as she spoke. Although she said so, she seemed to be in a good mood without being affected by Myrtle's howling.

Moaning Myrtle was originally named Myrtle Elizabeth Warren, but because she always stayed in the women's bathroom on the second floor and cried non-stop, and often got the water in the drain everywhere, gradually Everyone forgets her original name and calls her "Moaning Myrtle", even though she doesn't like the title very much.

Myrtle has revealed to Camelia that she prefers to be called "Elizabeth" because her family often calls her that.

The name was originally used to commemorate her aunt who died young. Originally, her parents wanted to name her "Elizabeth Warren" directly, but her grandmother strongly opposed it because the old man was too serious about her daughter's death. Grieving, so stubborn that she would only admit that there can only be one "Elizabeth Warren" in the world, but her family has a different idea.

After a compromise between the two parties, it was decided to use "Elizabeth" as a middle name, but in the end only her grandmother in the family would insist on calling her "Myrtle".

When she was studying at Hogwarts, Myrtle had almost no close friends. Everyone just called her by her surname as a courtesy. Except for her family, few people called her by her first name, just like in school. No one cared about her in Hogwarts, but the name "Weeping Myrtle" became more and more resounding in Hogwarts after her death.

Camelia got acquainted with Myrtle from an accident. At that time, she had just entered school and was not familiar with everything about the castle.This confused little friend didn't see clearly that the spiral staircase changed direction when she went upstairs after class, so Camelia was taken to the second floor by it instead of the third floor she wanted to go to.

At that time, she was concentrating on thinking about the problem, so that she didn't notice anything wrong for a long time after going down the stairs. Camelia didn't react until she saw Peeves chasing Myrtle and teasing in the corridor.

Out of kindness, Camelia rescued the poor sensitive ghost, and this was the beginning of a strange but sincere friendship.While the relationship allowed Camelia to substantiate the freak rumors, it never occurred to her to hide it.

Now Myrtle is screaming again that if Camelia has a better attitude, she will still consider whether to share a toilet seat with her in the future, otherwise she would rather occupy all of them than share one Camelia flung herself back laughing as she went out.

This sensitive ghost friend is actually always threatening to say things like this, as if nothing in the world is more precious than her dirty toilet seat.But these long-lost words reminded Camelia of the past, but that was what she experienced in another time and space. In this time and space, these things have not yet happened, but she believes that there will be no chance for those things to happen again in the future up.

"I bet if it ever comes. I mean if I die, you'll regret saying that."

"You will regret it! You must know that this is my greatest generosity! You will die sooner or later. Birth, old age, sickness and death are things that everyone must experience. What stupid things are you talking about!" He began to mutter, "Wait, if you don't change your bad temper, don't blame me and curse that you will be like me, no one likes, ridiculed, bullied..."

"Okay, Elizabeth, my life is no different from what you said now. You are the only friend in Hogwarts. Isn't this miserable enough?" Camelia winked at her ghost friend playfully. wink.

"Oh, that's still much better than my situation back then. At least you still have a friend like me. You know, I couldn't even find anyone to talk to." Myrtle seemed to feel a lot more balanced after hearing this. , It was quiet for a while, but she would never miss an opportunity to express her miserable past life to others, "You see, your family is better than mine, and you are a little smarter than me, especially you Looks—although I admit that I am very jealous of this, very jealous, but it is a fact, you are a beautiful girl, damn beautiful, this alone is much better than me back then."

"Beautiful? That's the most impractical thing in the world, and as soon as they see it..."

Camelia took off the black-rimmed glasses on the bridge of her nose that covered most of her face, and generously showed Myrtle the pale pink crescent-shaped birthmark under the corner of her right eye.

"No one wants to take a risk to get close to a girl who is rumored to have made a deal with a demon, no matter how beautiful she is."

"If it were me, I would scare people. Aren't they afraid of demons? Then you will be the demon they say. You know it must be fun, hehe."

Myrtle floated to Camelia's side. If she had a physical body, she should be leaning against Camelia in an intimate posture at this time, but in fact she seemed to be trying to do this Do, but it is impossible for the ghost's body to touch a living person. They will pass directly through the human body, so she can't get too close, but the cold air that comes with the ghost makes Camelia tremble all over. She nodded, but she resisted the urge to sit aside a little.

"That's too naive." Camelia vetoed the suggestion with a smile.

After chatting with Myrtle for a while, Camelia jumped off the sink neatly, "I'm hungry, it's time to eat, and I'll see you in a few days."

"You don't want your glasses?" Myrtle reminded her loudly.

Camelia didn't turn her head, she turned her back to Myrtle and shook her hand, "I don't think I'll need it anymore, you're right, it's time to frighten them."

Camelia, who easily obtained a doctorate from a certain Muggle university at a young age and made a small contribution in a certain academic field, was often asked a question for a while.

"Presumably your family has always been proud of you? After all, you are so young."

Faced with such questions, Camelia always replied vaguely: "Maybe, I don't know too well."

What you get in return is often the surprised look of the questioner, "Miss Shafik, you are so humble. Every parent must hope that their children can achieve something when they grow up."

At this time, Camelia always smiled bitterly and shook her head unconsciously where people didn't notice.

She really didn't know the answer to this question, because her parents were both wizards and knew almost nothing about Muggles, but they gave birth to a little witch who might be very useful in the Muggle world, but in the Muggle world The extraordinary achievements achieved in the game are not of much use, because many wizards don't buy it.

In the wizarding world, there is another kind of person who is more likely to be discriminated against than wizards whose parents are Muggle-born, and that is the Squib.

Squibs, as the name suggests, are people whose parents are wizards but do not know magic. They are regarded as waste in the wizarding world. Some wizards even think that such people should not claim to be wizards, nor should they live in the wizarding world.

If there was a Squib in an old and pure family of pure-blood wizards, it would undoubtedly be an explosive news.

Camelia was born in an ancient and stereotyped family of pure-blood wizards in England.

As one of the 28 pure-blood holy families, the Shafik family has kept a low profile for nearly half a century. Although there were several prestigious wizards in the ancestors, people know more about them now It's just that this is an extremely wealthy family with countless manors and lands under its name, and the treasure house of Gringotts is full of unimaginable treasures.

It is this coveted wealth that has allowed several generations of Shafiq, most of whom had no ambitions, to live a decent life without working.

Unlike the Malfoy family, which is also rich and of pure blood, the Shafiks are not keen on chasing fame and fortune, but just want to enjoy the property inherited from their ancestors safely. Besides, there is nothing to talk about at all.

So when the news that the only daughter of Shafiq Patriarch was suspected to be a Squib came out, it immediately attracted a lot of people's attention, because there is nothing like hearing about such an incident in a family that is so rich that it makes people mad with envy. Scandal is more exciting.

Rita Skeeter of the "Daily Prophet" seems to have a natural keenness on what kind of news can attract people's attention, and soon she applied to the newspaper to cover the entire report by her.

Camelia hadn't shown her so-called wizard talent until she was seven years old, which made her family feel flustered, and her mother was the most flustered among them.

Camelia's mother is a pure-blood witch from France. The cross-border marriage of her parents was not favored and blessed by many people from the very beginning.

The old Shafik couple still can't understand why their son rejected a nearly perfect marriage contract and made a fuss to marry an arrogant and mean foreign witch from the other side of the English Channel. Miria's mother may have used some extraordinary means to confuse their son.

In fact, the truth is not as complicated as they imagined, but the young Shafik couple fell in love at first sight at a certain Quidditch World Cup, and then both fell in love.

The young couple naively believed in the power of love to conquer all, but they later discovered that the reality was far more cruel than they thought.Neither of them expected that their daughter's dull wizarding talent would be the final straw in their marriage.

Although Mr. Shafik has repeatedly stated to his wife that this is no big deal, if his daughter is really a squib, he can put down his wand at any time, away from the disturbances of the wizarding world, and the family of three will move to the Muggle world to live, as long as the daughter To be healthy and happy, he is willing to do anything and sacrifice everything, even giving up being a wizard is also willing.But Mrs. Shafik, who has always had a tacit understanding with him, can't understand her husband's thoughts at all.

"We can't let her run off to be a Muggle, because she was born a wizard!" Mrs. Shafiq yelled at her husband hysterically, and scared the young Camelia to tears.

Seeing that the child was crying so much, Mr. Shafiq no longer cared about continuing to argue with his wife, and hurried over to comfort the child.

Soon, the public opinion outside the sky and the old people in the Shafiq family chattered and cursed, breaking through the sweet lines of defense woven by her husband with love. In the end, this arrogant French woman couldn't bear it anymore, and her emotional breakdown became more frequent. In the beginning, she just digested herself secretly, and then she stopped avoiding children.

I don't know how many times she hugged her daughter and cried together, Mrs. Shafik decided to make a break with all of this. She packed her luggage at an alarming speed the next day, and ruthlessly abandoned her daughter. Zhenbao's daughter and her beloved husband returned to their long-lost homeland without saying a word.

The action was so clean that it was almost unreasonable, so that Rita Skeeter arbitrarily defined it in a later report, saying that French women are naturally fickle and ungrateful. In their eyes, nothing can compare to love. After falling in love, they will run away from you like fleeing for their lives, and disappear without a trace from your life.

At the age of 11, Camelia, like other British wizards of the same age, received a letter from Hogwarts sent by an owl. At that time, she had not yet come out of the shadow of her bad experience in Muggle school. , in order for her not to resist the school, Mr. Shafiq had to spend a long time to persuade her before the start of school.

He told his precious flower that Hogwarts is the best magic school in the world, and it is another safe haven for almost all British wizards besides home. The current headmaster, Dumbledore, is the greatest wizard of this century.He also briefly introduced the four major colleges of Hogwarts, but he bluntly said that the best of the four major colleges is Ravenclaw, because that was the college he studied in that year, and of course the other three colleges are also great.

"However, honey, I believe you must belong to Ravenclaw. I am really happy to see another Ravenclaw in our Shafik. By the way, your grandparents are also Ravenclaws Crowe's."

During breakfast on the day of the report, Mr. Shafiq said this to Camelia. Contrary to Camelia's nervousness, he seemed very happy.

"The kid's better off going to Hufflepuff, you know a lot of the little ones who get sorted there are stupid and greedy, it's the best arrangement for our poor little Cammy, at least there will always be some good intentions Stupid kids would like to make friends with her instead of just jokingly asking her if she knows magic."

Camelia’s stepmother disagreed with her husband’s words. At this time, she was feeding sweet porridge to her two-year-old son, Camelia’s half-brother Anders Shafik. She spends most of her time being sarcastic, but that's just Camelia's opinion.

"Hey! My little girl is not some poor thing that needs the sympathy of stupid children. In my eyes, she is the smartest and most unique girl in the world. You know, when she was so young, she was advised by those Muggle teachers to directly Going to some university because they have nothing left to teach her, and more than one Muggle told me she was a genius!"

If someone said something bad about Camelia to her face, Mr. Shafiq, who was usually so good-tempered, would turn his face and deny anyone, even if that person was his current wife.

"But my dear, we all know that it's among Muggles, not wizards. And it's a miracle that this child can receive the letter. Maybe we should really thank Merlin for his blessing."

"No, it's not thanks to Merlin's blessing, but she is a witch! It was just those anxious old guys who made a mistake back then, if it wasn't like this... forget it, there is nothing to say, it's all over, we all know it. "

Mr. Shafiq's voice was suddenly raised a lot, sounding particularly aggrieved, but then the volume suddenly decreased for some reason, just like a can of soda that has run out of steam, after a while of impulsive tossing up Soon he settled down and spitting cute bubbles against the wall of the bottle.The face of the stepmother sitting next to him became extremely ugly, perhaps because the soda spewed out by Mr. Shafik accidentally splashed her clothes.Just before she deliberately smashed the half-empty ceramic bowl on the table to vent her anger, Mr. Shafik stopped her in time.

"I don't want to bring this up in front of the kids, especially today, okay?" he said. "Today is Cammy's big day, and I hope we don't waste our time with pointless arguments."

After finishing speaking, he turned his head to his daughter with a smile and said, "Okay, it's almost time, baby, are you ready?"

Camelia put down the fork in her hand, and the food on the plate hardly moved. She raised her head blankly, "Dad, can I say that I don't know?"

"You're going to love it there, I promise!"

But his gentle words didn't work. Camelia still felt tight in her chest, as if a storm was coming, and the air around her became extremely dull for a moment, making it hard to breathe.

The experience of riding the Hogwarts Express for the first time was terrible, so bad that Camelia didn't want to recall it at all. It was clear that everything was normal at the beginning, but when she and a few children in the same car told her When naming her name, those friendly smiling faces gradually began to distort and become hideous. At that moment, she chose the usual self-protection method - keeping silent.

"So is everything in the newspapers true? You went to a Muggle school, so what do Muggle kids learn? Did they teach you how to light a torch and burn witches to death?"

"Are your parents really divorced because of you? Your mother must not want you, otherwise why didn't she bring you to France? In fact, I think it's better for you to go to France. Maybe there are no wizards who have heard of Sha The Fick family, and no one knows that there is a squib in this family."

"I said, have you learned a spell so far? Don't be too anxious about learning a spell, because you can't learn it at all, so there is no need to be anxious. So I advise you to go back to Muggle school as soon as possible, Everyone knows that Hogwarts only accepts magical students. Or are you just trying to make a joke?"

"Hey! Shafiq, we are talking to you, why don't you say a word? It's fine if it's a squib, why are you so impolite? Didn't your family teach you etiquette? You know it's just you No one will like you."

"Guys, let's put our wands away, and the poor little girl looks terrified. Because, well, she knows she can't learn magic at all and she won't show it to us, but she thinks we all I do not know."

In this case, Camelia has heard too much in the past, and there are even many that are much uglier than this, but she originally thought that the little wizard at school would be much better than the one she saw at the banquet, but To her disappointment, things didn't get much better.

Due to family reasons, Camelia has long been used to seeing those little wizards from various pure-blood families at various banquets who look more dignified than their parents.

Most of these children are arrogant and pampered by their families.When everyone's family background is equal, and they can't get the so-called sense of superiority from comparing each other or taunting a hapless person as usual, Camelia will always be the best bully for all of them. Candidates.

This phenomenon is not difficult to explain, because in the wizarding world, there seems to be nothing more tragic than a squib. Even a wizard who highly respects pure-blood theory may admit that compared to a squib, a mudblood is more dangerous than a squib. Luckily, but no doubt neither deserved to be in this world, they were trash tainted with magic.

For a while, the family affairs of the Shafik family were often regarded as a topic of gossip, and they were also well-known, so even if Camelia was later proved to be a genuine witch, she was still inevitably caught by the rumors about her inappropriateness in the early years. The true rumors have caused a lot of harm, and it can even be said that it has almost changed her life.

Camelia thought it was just her bad luck at first, but never thought that the unpleasant incident on the Hogwarts Express was just the beginning of a nightmare.Except that she was assigned to Ravenclaw without any suspense, as her father expected, everything that followed was messed up.

Originally, Camelia thought that as long as she tried her best to prove that she was not the Squib in the rumors, those prejudices would be broken, so she had been working hard all the time, and the clever mind inherited from her parents was of great help at this time, and at the same time Like she was in the Muggle school before, even the homework of wizards is not difficult for her at all, but even so she dare not relax.

Soon she made her mark in the classroom and slapped those classmates who mistook her for being a Squib. She was humble and hardworking, and she didn't have the bad habits of smart kids. She was loved by many professors, including Professor Flitwick, the head of Ravenclaw, is the most eccentric, because the talent shown by Camelia in Charms is the most satisfactory student he has taught in these years.

Although Kamilia is a duck to water academically, her life on campus is still a mess. None of the students at the same level in the same hospital are willing to talk to her. The senior students pay more attention to their own affairs, but they just look at her. The look in her eyes gradually changed into another look that she was familiar with but scared, which used to be shown in the eyes of those Muggle children when she was in Muggle school.

In the final exam of the first school year, Camelia got the first place in the grade without any suspense, and dropped No.2 by a full thirty points, just like she used to do in Muggle schools.As the first grader, she received a golden Medal of Honor. When she received the award and walked back to Ravenclaw's long table, what she waited for was not congratulations.

Those girls who call her "baby" and "dear" on weekdays, looking at her in order to get a ghostwritten essay or a homework sample, have something else in their eyes, maybe that is the jealousy that people say .

At that moment, Camelia suddenly realized that she had no friends at all, and those so-called friends before were just coveting her homework and candy.

Later, the rumors related to Camelia became more and more outrageous. Some people said that she was born a squib. The reason why she suddenly had a talent for magic and was able to get the first grade in the grade was just a deal with the devil. Sell ​​your soul to the devil in exchange for unparalleled magical power.

Some people also claimed that it is said that whenever the devil makes a deal with a person, it will leave a special mark on that person, which means that the person's soul has already been owned by it.

This statement turned the unusual crescent-shaped birthmark in the corner of Camelia's eye into a demon's paw print.

Besides, they somehow learned that Camelia had an unusual relationship with Moaning Myrtle.Since no normal person would want to be friends with a ghost, this added another extremely strong piece of evidence to the rumor.

When the rumors spread, Camelia was so disturbed that she had to put on a pair of large black-rimmed glasses to try to cover it up. Although she was not nearsighted, the glasses not only made her look ridiculous, but also made her feel uncomfortable. But she had to suffer in silence as she realized how much more her life would be affected if the intriguing birthmark wasn't covered up.

Even so, Camelia still couldn't muster up the courage to ask for help when her father smiled and asked how she was doing at school. She knew that it would be meaningless to complain to teachers and parents, especially in this long-term closed environment. In her boarding school, she knew that no one would stay by her side all the time, escorting her all the time, those children would hardly repent of such things, and they would seize the opportunity to redouble their efforts to exclude her in the future, she used to be in Ma Gua school has experienced such a thing, not to mention that she doesn't want her father to be upset about her all the time.

Therefore, studying occupies most of Camelia's life at Hogwarts. She never leaves her book, and she is not annoyed by being called a nerd. Even she herself agrees, because she really doesn't know that apart from studying, What else can she do in the castle by herself, not to mention that burying her head in the intoxicating sea of ​​knowledge can make her temporarily forget those unpleasant things. The thick books are like her tranquilizer, but it is a pity that all the people in the world All tranquilizers have a fatal shortcoming, that is, the tranquilizing effect can only be temporary.

Occasionally nestling in the corner of the common room and seeing those gathered girls discussing happily, Camelia can't help but listen to their topics, but afraid of being discovered, she will deliberately She cupped the thick book in her hand to cover her face, so that others would think she was just concentrating on reading.

Every year when Halloween comes, a strong festive atmosphere will soon sweep across Hogwarts. The auditorium is full of laughter and laughter, but the carnival students will only keep passing by Camelia. No one stayed on her body for more than a minute, and it was even more impossible to initiate a conversation. It seemed that the excitement was always someone else's, and she was only worthy of silence, but she was used to it long ago.

She once sat alone on the astronomy tower to feel the evening breeze when night fell, watched the sunrise by the Black Lake alone at dawn, and tasted butter beer alone in Hodmog's bar. Hogwarts couldn't find another student who was more familiar with loneliness than she was.

look!She has learned how to have fun with herself when she is alone, and even accepts without complaint that she may never make friends, maybe she will be alone until she dies, but she still can't deceive herself , lying to herself that loneliness is not terrible at all, but in fact she has been afraid of it and dare not face it.

Just when Camelia thought she would finally be overwhelmed by a strong sense of loneliness, she met Cedric, and everything turned upside down from then on.

The author has something to say:

Introduce the name and family of the heroine, Camellia Shafiq (Camellia Shafiq), camellia is the English word for camellia, there is almost no introduction about the Shafiq family in the book and hp wiki, only know that the family is sacred 28 One of the family, so I boldly set it up privately, in fact, just remember that this family is very rich, and the people in the family are relatively kind.