witch mary bennet

Until the end of the winter vacation, Phipps Knight never showed up, but another thing that Mary was looking forward to soon arrived as scheduled.

The recruitment of St. Mungo's Hospital of Magic and Wizardry is scheduled for the second weekend of February, and the demand is four people. Unlike Gringotts, the recruitment notices received by Hogwarts senior students have already specified the future The staff put forward clear requirements, for example, Advanced Potions and Advanced Charms are courses that must be completed.

St. Mungo's recruitment method is completely different from Gringotts. The staff in charge of recruitment in the hospital will interview all the students who want to become therapists one by one. During the interview, they may ask the students to answer questions or demonstrate some kind of spells. Or prepare the medicine on the spot. After all the interviews are over, the hospital will announce the four people selected.

Mary has fully met the requirements, and she can finally review and prepare with peace of mind.Moreover, at the same time, she heard another exciting news. Among the 21 students in the seventh grade of Hogwarts who need to find jobs, eight have found jobs, and among the remaining 13 students, three have already found jobs. Knowing that they did not meet the requirements, in the end, there were only nine competitors left for Mary.

So Mary began to review in a relaxed and happy mood. Of course, this kind of relaxation was only for the course itself. In fact, everyone she cared about seemed to be getting into some troubles.

First of all, Sophie, since returning to school after the winter vacation, she has been a little depressed. After Mary asked several times, she said that she wrote two letters to Professor Essolen during the vacation, but she did not receive a reply.

"Anyway, you've already met Professor Essolen," Mary could only comfort her, "Just find a chance and ask him if it's all right?"

Sophie hesitated again and again, but still shook her head, "Forget it, I don't dare."

This answer was not at all like Sophie's usual style, and Mary was a little worried, "Sophie, don't you want to marry Professor Esolen any more?"

"Of course I would," Sophie replied feebly.

"Professor Esolen must have received the letter," Mary said seriously, "so you have to let him know that you will be very angry if you don't receive a reply."

"I'm not angry..." Sophie was almost irrational.

Mary was helpless, she suddenly remembered the reaction of Bader Knight when he met Professor Esolen that day, and told Sophie the whole thing.

"That doesn't mean anything at all," Sophie's tone became sharp.

Mary was a little upset, her good friend Sophie, it seemed that she shouldn't become such an unreasonable person for some kind of so-called love.

So, Mary still expressed her doubts very seriously, "Dear Sophie, I'm worried, maybe Professor Esolen is not as perfect as we thought?"

Sophie stood up abruptly, "Mary, stop talking!"

Both of them froze for a moment before Mary turned around silently, packed up a few books of healing spells, and began to put on her coat.

Sophie sat back on her bed again, and she asked stiffly, "Where are you going?"

"The library," replied Mary, who had almost made up her mind that she would never mind Sophie's affairs, at least until St. Mungo's exams.

Two weeks into school, Mary's irritation at Phipps Knight had turned into concern that he would not intentionally interrupt the connection between the two, so she began to keep thinking about the wild mountains and deep mountains he might go to. Ze Yuanhai, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that something happened to him.

This ominous premonition reached its peak when Phoenicia went back and forth. The owl, which Mary had sent out the day before to deliver a letter to Phippus Knight, now stood with the untouched letter on its feet. Cooing on Mary's windowsill.

"Have you seen Phippus Knight?" asked Mary anxiously.

Phoenician was still cooing, it flapped its wings and jumped twice, Mary didn't understand what it meant at all.

"Forget it, give me the letter," Mary sighed and took some owl food for Phenicia to eat.

After much hesitation, she decided to write a letter to Baldur Knight; after all he had entrusted her with his brother's regards, Mary thought she had reason to let him know that the task seemed impossible.

Mary finished writing her own affairs, but began to hesitate again. She remembered the last time when Bader Knight met Professor Esolen. Anyway, Sophie was still her good friend, and she had helped her A lot of busy work, so Mary sighed and wrote her questions about the potions professor into the letter.

Badr Knight replied very quickly. As for his brother, the reply only emphasized that he has enough self-protection ability, and, according to the habit of Phibs & Knight, he will not go to any more dangerous places alone , unless he was on an expedition with others, so there was a great possibility that he was just delayed by something, and Mary didn't need to worry too much.

As for Professor Ethelen, Buddur Knight put it more simply, explaining that Professor Ethelen did make some small mistakes, but for the sake of his reputation and the reputation of those around him, the whole news was strictly kept to a minimum. Therefore, he could not tell Mary the specific things.And because Mary said that she asked him about the professor because Sophie was selected by the professor to do the assistant job of the experiment, he suggested that Sophie and Mary should keep a certain distance from the professor, and if there is no serious matter, they should not have too much contact .

Mary regretted it almost immediately, she should have inquired about the professor's background earlier, perhaps out of some kind of prejudice, she always felt that Professor Essolen's "mistakes" were not as light as the letter said, but now, she The worry was that Sophie wouldn't believe it at all.

Sophie really didn't believe it, and she even refused to discuss this issue with Mary, "I know you mean well, Mary," she said, "but don't tell me what happened to Professor Esolen, This is my own business, you should hurry up and prepare for your exam."

This was what Mary expected, so she wasn't angry at all. "Dear Sophie," Mary replied calmly, "I don't have any sources of information at all. If you want to inquire, you will know more than me. I'm just telling you what I know. At the same time, I really want to remind you to pay attention to protecting yourself."

Sophie didn't continue to resist. On the contrary, she was silent for a while before whispering, "I know everything, just leave it alone."

Mary didn't know what Sophie "knew", and she didn't want to press any further.

January passed quickly, and the only good news was that Mary had already read all the materials she was going to review, and the ensuing consequence was that she felt that she didn't remember anything at all, but fortunately, there were enough Time to browse quickly again.

If St. Mungo's and Gringotts adopted the same recruitment method, Mary felt that she might be more confident. During the rest time of review, she would guess the content of the exam, and felt that such interviews were too random. , a person can only be asked a few questions, and if they happen to meet those that she is not good at, they will obviously suffer a lot.

Entering February, Sophie suddenly stayed in the dormitory all the time, and Mary would definitely care about it. Sophie replied that Professor Esolen's research work had come to an end, so she didn't need to assist in the research anymore.

"Has Professor Esolen researched a new medicine formula?" Mary instinctively felt that this was the key to the matter.

"We just improved several formulas to make the effect more obvious," Sophie sighed, "Actually, I still have some ideas, and in two or three months, maybe I can really find a new potion .”

"Have you told Professor Esolen about your thinking?" Mary tentatively asked.

Sophie remained silent. Mary thought about it, maybe Sophie really said it, and what she wanted to make clear to the professor might not just be the idea of ​​potions.

But Sophie's expression was still normal, and Mary didn't want to over-guess, so she could only comfort her in an innocuous way, "That's fine, don't spend all your time on those potion research, you should also take a good rest Well, when spring comes, we can travel together..."

Before Mary finished speaking, Sophie interrupted, "Hasn't there been a letter from Phippus Knight all this time?"

If Sophie didn't mention him, Mary felt as if she would forget about him, so she shook her head calmly, "No."

"Poor Mary," murmured Sophie, "won't you write again and ask Bader Knight?"

"It's not necessary," Mary continued to shake her head, and suddenly, she realized, "Sophie, do you have anything to ask Bader Knight?"

"Me?" Sophie seemed a little surprised, and then she replied resolutely, "No."

Sophie fell ill the next day, which actually confirmed Mary's speculation that she was suffering from a heart attack. You know, in the wizarding world, common illnesses like fever and cold already have curative effects. The potion for treatment - Sophie's symptoms were just a cold with some low-grade fever. Mary went to the school hospital every day to get back the potion for Sophie, but she couldn't see any signs of improvement in her body.

"Sophie, if tomorrow is bad," Mary repeated this sentence for several days, "I will write to Vincent and ask him to take you home to recuperate."

"In that case, I won't recognize you as my friend," Sophie gave such a strong answer every time.

It dragged on for a week like this, and on Friday, when Mary brought the dinner to Sophie, she emphasized again, "Next week I will hurry up and study hard before the exam, and I really don't have time to take care of you, so next week You must go home."

As a result, when Sophie woke up on Saturday morning, she announced that she had recovered.

By Monday, Sophie was in class, as was Tuesday, but by Wednesday, she skipped class again.

It was true that she was skipping class, not sick, she just missed Professor Athelon's Potions class.

Therefore, Mary would feel that Professor Ethelon was not normal in the whole class. He hardly smiled at everyone. Moreover, he even gave the wrong formula of the medicine once. Fortunately, he quickly found out and corrected it.

When get out of class was over, Mary lingered there to pack up her materials. Finally, it turned out that only the professor and her were left in the classroom.

It wasn't until Mary picked up her textbooks and walked to the door of the classroom that she heard Professor Esolen ask in a low voice, "Miss Bennet, has your friend Miss Windermere been ill?"

Mary didn't even look back, "Oh, she's recovered."

"Where is she now?" the professor asked again.

Mary turned around. "I think she's in the dorm right now."

Although this is true, Professor Esolen looked shocked, "Oh..." He hesitated for a long time before he smiled reluctantly, "Miss Bennet, please ask Does Miss Windermere need to make up for these two weeks of lessons, if necessary, please ask her to come to me at any time."

Mary didn't understand what the professor wanted to do, but when she got back to the dormitory, she immediately recounted the conversation she had with the professor to Sophie.

"Okay, Mary, prepare for your exam..." Sophie just said lightly.