[HP] Magic didn't give up on you

Eli has always felt that, compared with the blood boiling in a fierce battle, the ending after a battle is always like a long sigh, and he needs to slowly let out the long breath in his heart during the tidying up.This process is like a loss. It is always a torment to gather the emotion swelled up in my heart. After the battle is over, those who stay have to face all the results it brings.

Fortunately, no one was killed in this battle. Everyone was more or less injured, but they were all still alive.This made Eli feel a little more at ease. After all, Laurent Philippe's secret meeting had lasted for so long. With the mentality of collecting more information without alarming the enemy, they waited patiently until now before doing anything. If there are any irreparable consequences in the end, it is really hard to accept.

Hogsmeade Village is a village made up of 100% wizards, which makes it much easier to deal with the aftermath, at least there is no need for the Incident Reversal Team and the Memory Cancellation Office to rush to deal with it.Eli, together with other wizards and Aurors of the Order of the Phoenix, repaired the damaged houses and streets, checked the injuries of the wounded and treated them accordingly. After putting everything together, he found that his classmates were still standing where they were. Staring at him, and a few wizards who suddenly appeared in front of them, still a little confused about the situation.

"...Eli." Seeing him looking over, James opened his mouth and called out his name. As God testifies, James Potter, who is famous in school, has never looked so cautious before, " You... um... what's going on?"

"Obviously." Sirius shrugged beside him, "The Defense Against the Dark Arts professor of our school year has a more prestigious name besides the status of a former Auror, and he was still recruiting us to join him just now, Do you like the name Death Eater, buddy?"

of course not.James subconsciously shook his head to retort, then reacted, and gave his buddy an elbow angrily: "I'm asking seriously, Sirius! Of course I know who came just now! I want to say...so..."

"So you just rejected the mysterious man's offer with your own words." Eli said, bending the corners of his lips towards the three of them. There were also many people who witnessed it, but they obviously didn't help me spread the word afterwards, and they didn't have any spirit of helping others. You are different, and the scene is very big. But we all know that the mysterious man is not very listenable. A person who knows how to refuse is also used to making some small moves, you all have to pay attention to safety after this."

Um.Sirius nodded briefly, and James took a deep breath and puffed out his chest.

"Yes, of course we will." He said, gradually recovering from the shock brought by Laurent just now, his tone and eyes became more determined, "No matter whose identity he uses to approach, confuse, or instigate rebellion , Of course we all know what we are going to do. Sweet words may be deceiving for a while, but as long as we have malicious intentions, we will always show our feet."

Well said.Eli nodded approvingly, and turned his gaze to Lily who had been silent since just now.

"All right?" he asked.

"It's okay." Lily nodded her head and took a deep breath with anxiety, "Of course I hope that everyone can live in peace and not get involved in these dangerous things... But since we can't escape, then it's okay to stand up and resist." necessary."

Her eyes fell on Eli, and they exchanged glances briefly.

"But you must pay attention to safety." She said softly, "You know, Eli, Penny may not be able to stand with you and go through every battle side by side, but she will always worry about you and pray for you... …I hope you are well."

Eli paused and remained silent for a while, didn't say much, just nodded.

"I will," he said, "and you too. It's hard to lose, and I hope she never experiences it."

Although there are some problems with the Defense Against the Dark Arts professors every year, for this class of students, this time the situation is a bit too serious-their professor is actually a Death Eater who has absconded and been arrested. Wanted, and their exams are nearly a month away.This made all the students seem a little anxious, and the seventh graders and fifth graders were even more hysterical.

Fortunately, this situation was quickly alleviated, and all the students turned their worries into joy in an instant, and their emotions changed very quickly - Dumbledore personally gave them a one-month Defense Against the Dark Arts class. It was the first time in the history of the defense of magic class in Cihei. As students who enjoyed the special lectures given by the principal, everyone felt like they had made a fortune.

In everyone's excited learning mood, the final exam came as scheduled.For the students in the seventh grade, this exam is an important time in their lives. After the NEWTs exam, they will graduate. This is their last time in Hogwarts.

After a series of rigorous exams that were so anxiety-provoking, they can finally calm down, wait for their exam results at school, watch other students in other grades worrying about the final exam, and have time to sort out their own. Emotions, cherish your last half month at Hogwarts.

The members of the school newspaper were not idle. Taking advantage of the leisure time while waiting for their grades, they decided to publish a special issue of the school newspaper for the graduation season to commemorate their seven years of school life, just like the previous two years.Everyone was arguing endlessly for the page of this issue of the school newspaper, and they were almost on the verge of a big fight. This has almost become a routine of the school newspaper, and everyone thinks it is very interesting.

The members of the school newspaper who have already graduated will also write letters at this time to join in the fun, declaring that they will contribute strongly.Including the former deputy editors Joan and Catherine who have graduated, Joan entered the Ministry of Magic, and Catherine worked at Wizard Weekly.The students of their age grew up under the shadow of mysterious people and war. The peace in the school was precarious, and there were many crises outside. Under such circumstances, the time in the school newspaper was even more memorable, whether they had graduated Most of the members are still the group who are about to graduate, and they are convinced in their hearts that even if they graduate, they will continue to pay attention to the school newspaper in the future and contribute their best to it.

However, as the first editor-in-chief of the school newspaper, after Eli passed the applications of the members for the special graduation issue and selected Maria Boyle, a fifth-grade Hufflepuff student, to take over the position of editor-in-chief, he began working under Professor Dumbledore. Under the special approval of the school, he quietly left the school during the day and only returned to the dormitory to sleep at night.

The NEWTs exam is over, and there is really nothing to do in school for the past half month, but for Eli, there are obviously more things that need him to do outside.For the past half month, he and some other members of the Order of the Phoenix stayed on the second floor of the Hog's Head Bar in Hogsmeade, studying together the topic he had established more than a year ago: how to see through and remove the manipulation of the Imperius Curse.

This is much more complicated than he imagined, the goblins are not friendly to humans, and they were not even willing to provide some samples of the waterfall for research in the first place-it doesn't matter to Gringotts whoever has the upper hand anyway, Death Eater They also have their own treasury with them, and no one will touch Gringotts. Standing in such a safe and invincible place, they are very indifferent to the war between wizards, and even look on the sidelines with some gloat, Eli is sure It's not that I think too much.

Fortunately, they have Dumbledore. With his efforts, they finally had a sample of a small bottle of water. Recently, they have been studying the magical magic contained in it.

Eli even took some samples and sent them to a research institute in the Muggle world for testing - he used some confusion spells to ensure that the test results would not be circulated and cause other troubles. He has always been smart and cautious of.

From a chemical point of view, the results obtained are astonishing as expected.The sample is very different from ordinary water, but it is difficult to connect with magic. No one can help him in this regard. Eli can only conduct research independently, and is still struggling to explore.

But despite his busy life lately, in early July, he took a day off to visit the Evans family in the small town of Cokeworth.

Of course he had to go. Petunia received the admission letter from the university. There was a small celebration ceremony at Evans' house. Lily was still in school and couldn't go back.

Although Penny had set Durham University as her goal for a long time when she was in middle school, after a series of events, she really wanted to go to that university...but in the end, she chose London School of Economics and Political Science, this is the best choice after comprehensive consideration and several discussions.

With the help of Dumbledore and the members of the Ministry of Magic of the Order of the Phoenix, she has established a line with the Muggle government as a special liaison officer of the British Ministry of Magic, and is currently able to communicate with the Prime Minister—standing on the Muggle From my perspective, this is really unbelievable, but there are too many unbelievable things brought about by magic, and this one is not bad.

Correspondingly, this also limited Penny's choice of university to London. After all, she was not a wizard, so she couldn't use Apparation, and it would be inconvenient if she was too far away from the British government.LSE's resume will also make it easier for her to have a reasonable Muggle-level identity to work in government departments after graduation. If she can't integrate into it, she won't be fully trusted, no matter which world she is in.

All in all, it's great news to have received a letter of admission to the university.Eli came to Evans' house with a gift and knocked on the door for a while, but no one answered.

...Mr. and Mrs. Evans are at work, but where is Petunia?And the friends she invited to the party?Did no one hear the knock on the door?They should theoretically all be in the living room?

No one came to open the door for him, in fact, there was no movement in the living room.

Eli's fingers froze on the door suddenly, his heart tightened suddenly, and he looked up at the sky of the house reflexively.

...no Dark Mark, of course, there shouldn't be...

But he couldn't wait any longer, and his heart was twisted into a ball by some ominous conjectures that came up.Eli drew out his wand, said aloud to the door lock, pushed open the door silently, and walked in cautiously, his nerves tensed.

The living room was well decorated, with balloons and ribbons hanging all over it, and it looked very lively.But there was no one here, only the owl he had given to Petunia stood on the table, saw him push the door in, and flapped its wings to fly towards him—it had a letter tied to its leg.

a letter?Holding his breath, Eli cautiously tapped the owl with his wand before taking the letter down.He unfolded the letter, scanned it quickly, was startled when he saw the second line, went back to the beginning, and read the letter carefully again.

This is a letter addressed to Headmaster Dumbledore. The letter paper is brand new and signed Petunia's name, but the handwriting is a bit naive, and the words are not her current writing habits... He read the letter to the end, It expressed her desire to study at Hogwarts in a tone that tried to appear reserved and cautious. She wrote in the letter that if she could go to that school, she would study all kinds of knowledge seriously and try her best to keep up with wizards. students' progress.She is a well-behaved student. Her teachers often praise her for being serious in class, never talking casually to others, and writing her homework completely. At the age of 12, she can help her parents with housework and be independent. Use the oven and bake some delicious bread...  

At that time, she only had a yearning for magic, and didn't know much about it. She wanted to get this opportunity, but she was not confident enough. She almost wrote down all the advantages she wanted. Looking at it seven years later, it seems very childish.Eli didn't know what Dumbledore thought when he saw the letter. He curled his lips, read it carefully, and put the letter away properly.

A Penny he didn't know, which was a bit of a novelty, after all, he already knew his girlfriend very well now.

The situation seemed to be different from what he imagined in his mind, at least it didn't look dangerous, which made Eli relax, and finally had the mood to turn his eyes and look at the layout of the living room carefully.

In the past few years, he has been to Evans' house many times, and he is very familiar with the furnishings of the living room. Now that he started to observe carefully, he immediately found something different.He stood at the door holding a letter written by 12-year-old Petunia, looked up, and immediately saw the handkerchief on the table. Annie's.

At that time, his mastery of life spells was far worse than it is now, and the letters embroidered with magic on it looked a bit weird, but he could do it perfectly in the second grade.

There was also a letter and a photo next to it. He picked it up and found that the letter was the one he had sent to Petunia in the first place. He sincerely apologized to her and sent a new handkerchief with the letter as an apology.The content on the photo is the diary that Petunia wrote when she received the handkerchief. At that time, she seemed to be quite wary of him. In the diary, she wrote that he was a hypocritical liar for a while, and hesitated for a while to think that he might be with other wizard monsters. It's not the same, it looks very tangled, but she has kept this handkerchief very well, and it still looks new after seven years.

Next to the letter and the photo was the owl feather, probably the original one he used to turn into a handkerchief, the one that failed and he gave back to Petunia afterwards.Eli picked up the feathers and couldn't help but smile. There were more than one place where there were feathers in the living room. They were scattered in various places along with the letters, extending all the way to the stairs. Eli followed their guidance and walked upstairs.

He picked up some books on the way, including history-related professional books, as well as interesting extracurricular readings he recommended; there were also many manuscript papers filled with papers written by Penny, topics she had researched, and her homework.Eli looked through each manuscript paper carefully, and found that her initial homework was actually a bit perfunctory, no different from the students all over the world who tried to be lazy.Then from one day, she started to take it seriously, even her homework began to be taken seriously, she worked very hard, and suddenly began to pursue her studies.

Behind it are the Hogwarts crystal ball he gave her, annual Christmas gifts, some practical magic armor, and some souvenirs they bought together after they confirmed their relationship.After the sixth grade, her communication contacts were not limited to him or Lily. In order for her to communicate with the wizarding world and the Muggle world, she needed to have continuous discussions with some people. The content of the letter can be seen by Eli He couldn't help frowning—he only read the replies sent to Petunia by others, and he found that many magicians' contempt for Muggles came from the heart and from the bottom of their bones.They wrote back to Petunia for the sake of Dumbledore's connection, but they didn't believe that Petunia could really be of any use, and thought her ideas were just fantasies so simple that it made people laugh.

Eli didn't know about these things, and Petunia never complained to him.

She had been telling him of all the endeavors she had made, of being positive and uplifting.He actually thought of all the difficulties Petunia might face, but he thought maybe... he didn't really try to explore it.He was busy with his own affairs, and the hasty death of his family took away part of his emotions. In the past two years, he has been very busy... Maybe he was also a little muddled. His ability to perceive the world has deteriorated. Before today, he Didn't really take that seriously.

Eli's complexion changed a little. He stood there, stunned for a while, raised his hand, pinched his nasal bone, and suppressed the sourness that surged from the bottom of his heart.

He really, really wanted to see Penny right now.I want to talk to her...

What do you say?He didn't really think about it, but he wanted to see her, maybe he wanted to say sorry, maybe he wanted to say I love you.

He walked upstairs along the memory of this road, and pushed open the door of Petunia's room—he almost couldn't wait.

But after he actually opened the door, he was stunned at the door, unable to take a step forward, and could only stand there stupidly, looking at Petunia inside, speechless.

Petunia stood in the middle of the room, wearing a lady's suit and high heels, her blond hair pulled into a neat bun.She put on makeup and looked mature and capable—she looked like a shrewd and powerful female politician, which was different from everything he had seen before.

Except for the bouquet she was holding in her hand, which was a bouquet of petunias—very fresh, with drops of water on it, all kinds of red, such common and common flowers, when carefully clustered together , also looks so fresh and bright.

Her light-colored eyes looked at him, slightly bent.

"I never thought I would be like this, Eli," she said. "You know what? I grew up thinking I was going to be a housewife, my grades were mediocre, and I was a very ordinary person. I didn't feel like I was There will be some big achievements, find a husband, have a few children, and live a life like this, it sounds very good."

"No, you are very good." Eli said, looking at her deeply, his tone firm.

"At that time, I never thought that I could become a very good person." Penny said softly, looking at him with a slight smile, her eyes were gentle.

"Probably before meeting you on platform nine and three-quarters," she said, "you know what, Eli, you've opened up another possibility in my life—not because you're a wizard, I think That's not the decisive reason. But you did bring me magic, and I'm lucky, and that's a luck I'm entitled to."

Eli couldn't speak, the warmth and soreness in his chest almost overflowed, and he stared at her blankly.

"We've known each other for seven years, a very long time, Eli, and we haven't had seven years in our lives." Petunia said softly, "We went from two strangers who passed each other, to two who just wanted to The closest person I want to spend the rest of my life with. I will have you together in my future life. Thinking of this possibility makes me feel very warm and happy. There is a kind of strength in my chest that makes me not afraid to face the future. Everything—this power comes from you, Eli, and I want to be yours too."

She walked towards him holding a bouquet, stood in front of him, smiled shyly at him, but smiled very firmly.Eli stands where he is, a little vulnerable for the moment, while the girl across from him is unwaveringly brave.

"Mr. Eli Smith, will you marry me?" she said, "and let me be your wife, your family, your home when you're tired, your arm in need of comfort. We'll have a common Some children call us mom and dad. For the rest of my long life, I want to walk with you—hold my hand and never let go, okay? No matter what the invisible and intangible future will be Whatever happens, I'm not afraid, I have no regrets, and I won't abandon you until death do us part."

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Tomorrow is the last chapter of Volume [-], Eli and Penny's wedding