[HP] Magic didn't give up on you

Petunia could hardly believe her eyes.

She froze in place for a while, then took two steps forward in a daze, then walked faster and faster until she started running.

There was no time to think about it, and she didn't want to double-check—Penny ran forward quickly, like a bird sprinting, and ran straight to Eli, unable to hold back her strength, and slammed into his arms.

The schoolbag she was holding in her arms was held in her hand during the run, and then with the force of her forward pounce, it hit Eli hard.She heard him gasp in pain, but still held her firmly.

The chattering and laughing noises on campus after the exams seemed to have been silenced. Petunia grabbed Eli's clothes, thinking inexplicably at this moment, great, he is real.

She then thought that the Irantu Girls' School only allows people from outside schools to enter a few times a year, and Eli just happened to catch up with the time to carry luggage at the end of the semester.It is very likely that a classmate she knows will pass by from time to time around her. Maybe everyone will cast curious and gossipy glances at her when they pass by, and she hasn't figured out how to respond...

But who cares about it, these are not important anymore, the important thing is that he appears here.

Petunia hugged Eli tightly for a while, and then as her thoughts gradually increased, her rationality slowly returned.She finally felt embarrassment and embarrassment for her own initiative, her slightly pale face was covered with blush quietly, she let him go silently, and stood back, her eyes were somewhat unnatural It flickered, but it still landed on his face in the end.

She tilted her head in confusion, and began to look at him carefully again full of confusion, as if to determine whether this was a new type of magical illusion, still with obvious disbelief and uncertainty.

"Eli?" She tentatively confirmed, "It's you, right?"

Eli couldn't help laughing a little at her reaction, shrugged with a smile: "If you don't know the second Eli, it's me."

"Actually, I know each other." Petunia whispered, "I have a classmate in elementary school named Eli, Eli Taylor. But he is him, you are you, you two are completely different, how can he be used to be with you?" you……"

She belatedly stopped talking, and suddenly felt that her topic was inexplicable and too boring, which made her so frustrated that she wanted to swallow back what she just said and repeat it.It's a pity that she didn't have such an opportunity, so she could only change the subject in a hurry.

"Why did you appear here?" She asked in surprise, "Lily said that the Hogwarts Express is going back to London tomorrow!"

"Actually today, I asked Lily to change the time in the letter." Eli coughed lightly, and when she heard her ask about this matter, his eyes moved to another place calmly, "I'm afraid the information others know It's always been right, I only let Lily delay writing to you a little bit. After all, this kind of information can only be used once, and I think it's good to use it up."

He held Petunia's schoolbag in his hand - Petunia dropped her hand when she was excited just now, but he caught it properly.The two of them stood so close that Petunia could see a faint smile in his dark eyes.

This guy... said sorry, but he was actually quite proud of what he did.

Such a clear and undefended emotional expression made Petunia feel relaxed.She slapped Eli angrily as punishment: "Still lying to me! How can you be sure that I am so easy to deceive? ... How did you get here? Isn't the Hogwarts Express only going to London?"

"Come on the Knight Bus," Eli told her. "A magic bus that stops at the wave of a wizard's wand and takes you anywhere in England you want for a fair price—except The driving is really unstable, there is no big disadvantage. The point is that it is quite fast, I think Lily and your parents should still be on the way back by car."

It really should be like this, Penny counted the time, and she also felt that it was about the same.The last time they drove Lily to Hogwarts, it took them nearly four hours to get home at night.

Thinking about it this way, the knight bus that Eli talked about is indeed very fast, Lily and the others should have only completed a quarter of the distance now... It's amazing, it's obviously called a bus, but it's so much faster than a car , magical magic.Petunia sighed sincerely, and then asked curiously: "What about your parents? Did they come with you?"

Eli shook his head.

"They're back home." He briefly explained the situation, "My mother thinks it's more convenient to use apparition, that is, teleportation. Many wizards can't master this magic well, but my mother is very proficient in using it, even Could take my dad with me. Apparating isn't particularly enjoyable, but it's really fast, anywhere you've been before in a second."

It's amazing, Petunia listened intently to his introduction of various details about magic, listening to his description was more intuitive and more yearning than reading it in the letter.She listened for a while, then suddenly belatedly asked, "You weren't with Lily, and you weren't with your parents—so did you come here specifically for me, Eli?"

Eli froze for a moment.

Petunia immediately felt that her question was too self-defeating, how could she ask it so bluntly!In case he just had something to go somewhere, when passing by Cokeworth by bus, he happened to think that there was still a Muggle friend of his here, so he got off the bus to take a look!After all, it is so convenient for their wizards to take a taxi!How could she deserve someone to come and see her——

She quickly opened her mouth to make excuses: "No, I mean... Anyway, you don't need to answer, I just..."

"Of course I came here to see you." Eli interrupted her, and Petunia looked up at him—realizing that she seemed to be waiting to be interrupted by him since just now.

"The summer vacation is here, and I'll pick you up. If Lily is picked up, then you should be picked up too, right? As long as you don't object to having another servant to help with your luggage...Happy holidays, Petunia."

Eli looked around and looked at the layout of the school: "It's the first time I entered a girls' school, and it doesn't seem to be much different from a comprehensive middle school... If you guessed right, there is a dormitory building over there? Your luggage Are you ready? I probably won't be able to go in."

Petunia recovered from her daze, glanced in the direction of his finger, and said yes, the two walked towards the dormitory building together.As they walked, Petunia gradually fell half a step behind. She turned her head and looked at his profile.

"Eli." She said softly, "You came here because you found out that my parents had gone to pick up Lily? It's nothing, my home is in a town not far away, and it only takes ten minutes to drive there from the school." .Lily is farther away, and she has more luggage than me, so Mom and Dad have to drive to pick her up, and I originally planned to go together tomorrow—I am my sister.”

"Well, I know." Eli responded, turned to look at her with clear eyes, and said naturally, "Parents must have reasons for their parents. If you expand it, you can understand it. It is inevitable that a family has more than one child. There are places where we can't take care of both. But..."

But what?Petunia looked at him, and saw that he bent his lips and smiled.

"However, as far as I know, the eldest daughter of the Evans family is quite temperamental and gets angry easily-although it seems not difficult to coax, but of course it would be better to act more thoughtfully, isn't it? That's how you get along with the young lady , pay more attention to yourself at all times.”

Who gets angry easily?Petunia patted his arm again in protest: "No rumors are allowed, I'm not angry!"

Alright alright.Eli took a hard hit before avoiding it, and said with a smile, "Just kidding—although coming to your school is a temporary idea after getting off the bus today, but the fact that I came to see you is not itself—these days I I've been wanting to see you for months, Petunia."

Who is not.Petunia calmed down, looked at his profile, pursed her lips, and asked a little nervously, "Why are you seeing me?"

"Actually, I didn't know at first, and I didn't think about it." Eli said honestly, thinking about it carefully, and said slowly, "Later, I found out that I might just want to find someone to sigh with. When you are doing When there is no precedent to refer to and the future prospect is foggy, in fact, I will feel confused and troubled uncontrollably in my heart. This kind of emotion cannot be discovered by anyone, because they all regard you as the most steadfast person , you can't be half shaken."

Petunia lowered her eyes and whispered in frustration, "Sorry, I can't be of any help, I'm a...a Muggle..."

"Yeah, you're a Muggle," Eli said calmly, "so some time ago every time I was the last one to leave the Gryffindor lounge, I looked around the empty lounge, at the pillows that couldn't speak, the fireplace and the armchair, I can’t help but think, if only you could be here.”

Petunia's footsteps stopped suddenly, she stared at the ground, unable to raise her head, afraid of letting Eli see the emotion in her eyes, this may be the saddest thing since she received Dumbledore's rejection letter that she was not chosen by magic moment.

"Petunia?" She heard Eli calling her, which made her cheer up quickly, concealed her emotions, and looked up at him.

Eli stared at her for a few seconds, then scratched the tip of his nose in bewilderment.

"Did I say the wrong thing? I'm sorry, sometimes I can't immediately realize what I said wrong. I didn't realize that my EQ was a little low before... Are you unhappy? I'm sorry. "

Not because you said the wrong thing.Petunia immediately shook her head, but for a moment she didn't know how to explain it to him.I was in a hurry when I heard him say: "I don't know if I can use this to make an apology. I thought it would be fine, but I didn't expect that I would make you angry again..."

What?Petunia watched in astonishment as he opened his coat and pulled out a long feather from the inside pocket.

It was an extremely beautiful feather, interspersed with gold and red, and it seemed that there was a red streamer flowing on it. It was long and graceful, light and warm. No matter how poor the eyesight was, people could see the extraordinaryness of this feather at a glance. .

"What is this?" Petunia asked in a daze, unable to take her eyes off this unusually beautiful feather.

"Phoenix tail feathers," Eli replied, "Phoenix Fox from our principal - it's amazingly beautiful, I really want you to see it, it's full of such brilliant feathers, it's on the tail feathers, I think it's the biggest and most beautiful A beautiful one."

Petunia opened her mouth slightly, and looked at it intoxicated for a while from the corner of pure appreciation, before she suddenly realized.

"Give it to me?" She asked in amazement, and then her face and eyes gradually dimmed.

"I don't think I'm fit to have such an expensive gift." She whispered, shaking her head to herself, as if trying to convince herself.

Eli looked at her drooping head for a few seconds, and didn't continue to persuade her. He just bent down slightly with the feather in his hand, raised his hand to touch the ponytail tied behind her head, tested the position, and pinned the phoenix feather in.

Petunia didn't realize what he was doing until he was done, she was shocked and eager to remove the feather that was used as a head flower: "Such an expensive gift! How could you—"

"It's beautiful." Eli said, raising his hand to touch the phoenix feather on her ponytail. "It suits you very well."

Petunia suddenly became quiet, and raised her hand to touch the decoration on her ponytail. She was in a daze for a long time, and finally smiled slowly.

She found that the phoenix's tail feathers were unexpectedly warm, as long as it was touched so lightly, it would immediately warm from the heart to the fingertips-it was amazing magic.

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Thanks to Yifan Ercan Sanlu and VII for mine~