HP Starlight

Although the four-poster bed was very comfortable, and the sound of water outside the window was helpful to sleep, Esther got up early and began to wash and tidy herself up.She wanted to get familiar with the environment first, and she didn't want to lose points because she couldn't find the classroom on the first day.

Esther was not the only one who had this kind of thought. When she walked around for nearly 20 minutes and finally returned to the common room from the corner and dead end, Wilkes was coming out of it.

"Morning, Wilkes." Esther greeted him proactively.The other party obviously didn't expect to meet someone at this time, so frightened, he pulled out his wand from his pocket.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you." Esther explained quickly.

Wilkes saw that it was Esther, put away his wand, pursed his lips, and said, "You can call me Orion. What are you doing here?"

"I'm familiar with the route. I've already gone the wrong way. I should be able to find the way up. Do you want to go together?" Esther said lightly, not caring about his reaction just now.

Orion hesitated for a moment, then nodded in agreement.

Esther felt that Orion was really restrained today, especially when Esther led him to a dead end for the second time, he didn't get angry or ridicule her with words.It took them more than ten minutes to finally figure out the location of the basement, and then began to explore the upper floors of the castle.

By the time they moved to the second floor, the number of students had grown, and Wilkes seemed a little uneasy.They turned around and walked into a dead end again, followed by two students, blocking the way back.

"Oh, finally got you, little Death Eater. Let's see where you go this time." A ginger-haired boy said, pointing at them with his wand.

Esther and Wilkes also quickly drew out their wands to take precautions.In fact, Esther felt that this was useless, and she couldn't think of any effective attack spells.Unless they are blinded with light or they can be wiped off like stains with a cleaning spell, which is obviously not realistic.She hoped to get closer quietly, maybe she could solve the problem with her fists.

Another curly-haired boy said hesitantly, "Sirio, do you really want to do it here?"

"What are you afraid of? Everyone is going to have breakfast at this time, and no one comes here. Let's teach them a lesson." Theodore gritted his teeth and said.

"But it's not about that girl, it's just between us and Wilkes..." The curly-haired boy was interrupted before finishing his sentence.

"The person who entered Slytherin, how good do you think she is? With the little Death Eater, I'm afraid she is worse than him." Theodore seemed to attack at any time.

Suddenly, with a "bang", a ghost-like guy with brighter colors than them suddenly appeared from mid-air, breaking the confrontation. "There's a kid brawl in the hallway, and points will be deducted on the first day of school. Peeves is going to tell Filch."

"Oops, it's Peeves, let's go." The curly-haired boy immediately pulled Theodore up and ran out.Esther and Orion also quickly put away their wands and walked out.

"Two first-year brats, you can't run away. With Peeves' testimony, Filch will punish you severely." Peeves stopped in front of them.

Esther remembered that the prefect told them at the dinner table yesterday that Peeves was a mischievous elf, and they would be in big trouble if they met him.But he was most afraid of Baron, the resident ghost blood man in their college, so he seldom made things difficult for the Slytherin students.So Esther dared to say tentatively, "Peeves, I think you know the logo on our robes very well, we are Slytherins. And it happened that I was sitting with the bloody Baron at the dinner table yesterday, and he was right. I'm very satisfied with my manners. I mean, you don't want to be troubled by the bloody Barrow because of us, right?" Este tried his best to look confident, but his heart was pounding.

Peeves looked at the person in front of him suspiciously, as if weighing her words.Finally he moaned and said, "Huh, you guys are lucky, first-year brats." After speaking, he wobbled away.

Esther didn't dare to slack off, and dragged Orion for a long distance before stopping.She wiped the sweat from her palms with her wizard robe, and asked out of breath, "What's the matter? Why did they call you a little Death Eater?"

Orion pursed his lips tightly and said nothing.

Esther sighed, "I don't want to talk about it. It's not too early now, let's go down to eat, if there is a class in the first period, we have to hurry up."

They went downstairs to the auditorium, where many people were already seated.Roger handed them both the timetable.Esther looked at the timetable, "There is transfiguration in the morning, but the second quarter starts, so there is plenty of time. Can you pass me the bacon? Thank you." Esther did not feel any psychological burden in waking up Orion.Orion gave her a complicated look before bringing the bacon over.But Esther felt it relax him too.

Esther was glad that she ate quickly, because a flock of dark owls flew in after a while.They flew to each long table to deliver letters, and the feathers fluttered everywhere, which made Esther lose his appetite suddenly.Aunt Connie's owl Lucinda also brought a letter to Esther asking about her sorting.She wrote the letter last night and kept it with her, planning to mail it if there was no class in the morning.Lucinda happened to be here now, and she could be asked to take the letter home.She stroked its feathers and brought her some food and water.Lucinda rubbed her hand affectionately and began to eat.Esther waited for it to rest enough, tied the letter to its leg, and watched it fly away with the letter.

As soon as Lucinda was seen off, Leona ran towards her.The heartless Leona still wanted to sit with her, but she didn't notice the strange eyes of the Slytherins.Esther decisively sent her back to the Gryffindor long table and told her to wait for her in the hall.

Outside the gate of the auditorium, Leona pouted at the two school schedules, very unhappy. "We didn't have any classes together except Potions."

"We can go to the library together, and we can do homework together, just like before." Esther reassured her.

"Okay, I have class in the first period, so I have to go first." Leona was about to leave.

"Let me accompany you, I just happen to be familiar with the route above." Esther said.

Leona immediately took Esther's arm happily and led her up the stairs excitedly.

"Yesterday, the prefect told us that the castle has a total of 142 steps. Every Friday, some stairs will change directions, and some will suddenly become empty, so you have to go down at any time—ouch!" Leona only focused on the introduction, not at all. Note that the stairs under your feet have become empty, so step in.Esther quickly grabbed her and took a lot of effort to help her pull her leg out.Leona led Esther panting to a portrait of the fat lady on the seventh floor and stopped.

"Brave and fearless," Leona said to the fat lady in the portrait.

"Hope you do too," responded the Fat Lady in the portrait, swinging outwards to open a door.

"You shouldn't be in front of me...Forget it, I'll wait for you on the sixth floor." Esther said with some embarrassment, and ran downstairs.

After Leona took the schoolbag, Esther accompanied her to find the Charms classroom, and also took a look at the location of the Transfiguration classroom along the way.When Leona started class, Esther went to the dormitory to get the books for the day, and went back to the second floor of the castle to find an empty classroom near the Transfiguration classroom to pass the time.

But this is really not an easy task.Except for the first door, which she opened easily, only to find that there was a wall behind it, she couldn't open any other doors easily.Finally, a kind medieval portrait told her that the door next to her could only be opened by stroking the top horizontal stripes, and she finally found a place where she could rest for a while.She thanked her for her help by admiring the colors and costumes of the portrait, which made it very useful.

But it wasn't until the first Transfiguration class that she realized that getting lost or doors were minor problems, and the learning content was the biggest challenge.The serious-looking Professor McGonagall silenced the class, "Transfiguration is the most complicated and dangerous magic in the Hogwarts curriculum. I hope you will keep your spirits up and take it seriously."

She turned and waved her wand at the lectern, turning it into a pig and back to the lectern.Esther and the students around him let out an exclamation, and looked eagerly at Professor McGonagall.

"The larger the object, the more difficult it is to deform, and it is even more difficult to turn an object into an animal. I hope you will lay a solid foundation and proceed step by step. Now take out your notebook, and I will explain the basic principles first." Professor McGonagall glanced at each one. people.

After an hour of explanation, Esther's notebook has been densely written on several pages.The rest of the time Professor McGonagall gave everyone a match and asked them to try to become a needle.Esther recalled the point just now, and waved his wand at the match, but there was no response.She took a peek at the other classmates, and everyone was the same.

Sure enough, the difficulty of Transfiguration was completely different from those spells she learned at home.She couldn't even feel the magic power fluctuations when she chanted the spell.She carefully read the main points of the record again, and decided to round the square column of the match first.

When the class was about to end, although no one could turn a match into a needle, several people made the match differently.Calista Foley's matches were silvery, Bland Hopkins's were thin, and Esther made the sticks a little rounder.Professor McGonagall nodded with satisfaction to the three of them and encouraged everyone to keep working hard.

Before announcing the end of the get out of class, Professor McGonagall assigned them the first assignment at Hogwarts - a fifteen-inch-long "Discussion on the Basic Principles of Transfiguration", and said that they would check their after-class practice results in the next class.

Esther and his roommates went to the restaurant together, hurriedly grabbed a sandwich to fill their stomachs, and then rushed to the castle foyer to gather, waiting for Professor Sprout to take them to the herbal medicine class in the greenhouse behind the castle.Although Professor Sprout looked good-tempered, the Slytherins still went over and waited in advance.Professor Sprout is the head of Hufflepuff, which means strength and authority.While Slytherins don't like Hufflepuff, that doesn't mean they challenge a Headmaster with stupidity or recklessness.

Professor Sprout took them to Greenhouse No. [-]. He first talked about the classification and learning points of some herbs, and then asked them to observe the characteristics of the plants in front of them.

"Be careful! Your position is on the left!" Esther heard someone say in a low voice, and she took a peek at Claire Parkinson, who was frowning at Orion, as if they were too close And dissatisfied.

The next day was the weekend, and it was time for Esther and Leona to go to the library to finish their first assignments. "Esther, do you know? I heard that Wilkes' father was a murderer," Leona whispered to Esther, "They seem to call him a Death Eater, and he was killed by the wizard police. Remember how embarrassed he was on the train? I heard that someone wanted revenge and wanted to trouble him."

"There are no police in wizards, only law enforcement and Aurors." Esther corrected her.

Leona said dissatisfied, "Hey, did you just notice this? We're talking about the murderer's son!"

Esther stopped writing and looked at Leona, "If I'm not mistaken, he shouldn't have the chance to choose who will be his father."

Leona said angrily, "I was worried about you, but you were talking to him!"

"I'm just stating the facts," Esther smiled at Leona, "thank you for your concern, but we sat in the same box with him all day, and he is still alive. So you don't know if he is in danger or not." Do you need to hear from others?"

Leona's angry face was flattened, "I didn't know that at the time."

"Instead of caring about him, it's better to care about your thesis. Do you want to consider writing the dissertation on transfiguration first? This will save you a lot of worry when you have class next week. I will write about the same for next week's thesis on Charms. It's gone." Esther pushed the pile of books in front of Leona.Leona glanced at Esther sullenly, but still took the pile of books and was about to start the second homework.

The preview is of course effective, which not only allowed Esther to complete the Charms paper ahead of schedule, but also allowed her to perform well in Professor Flitwick's class, earning an extra point.

However, the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, which should have been quite interesting, forced Professor Brock to attend a reading conference according to the script.The following history of magic is also the same, except for the fact that Professor Binns is a ghost, which is a little interesting, both the content and the way of explanation are extremely boring.

Soon Esther went through the most stressful class since entering school - Potions class.The Slytherins sat down early and got ready, especially when they knew it was the Headmaster's class and they weren't in a good mood.When Leona came to the classroom with her roommate, she found that there was no chance to sit with Esther.Slytherins and Gryffindors are very different, and the green camp and the red camp are as incompatible as water and fire.Leona had no choice but to find a place as close as possible to Esther and sit down, feeling more and more troublesome that they were not in the same academy.

Suddenly the door was slammed open, and Professor Snape, still in black robe, walked to the podium and glanced at each of them with a stern expression.Esther tried to keep his eyes on Professor Snape without showing any expression of fear.

Professor Snape's gaze didn't rest on anyone, which made Esther relieved.After waiting for a while, Professor Snape spoke, and said slowly in a deep voice, "Potions are an extremely delicate form of magic, and it's not too much to call it an art. Here you don't need to wave your wand frequently, but It takes precision, patience, and talent. I'll teach you how to increase your reputation, brew glory, and even prevent death. Some of you will feel the magic of potions, while others—" He paused slightly Said sarcastically, "All I can say is sorry."

Sure enough, Esther thought secretly, no wonder the clerk would sympathize with her, and couldn't even be friendly in class.

After the roll call, Professor Snape wrote down the potion formula, operation steps and precautions for treating scabies on the blackboard.He divided the students into groups of two and asked them to start making their own potions.The black-robed professor watched one by one in the classroom as they weighed dried nettles, crushed snake fangs, and boiled slugs.Compared with Slytherin, Gryffindor has received more criticism. After all, Gryffindor is mostly informal, and this does not go well with the meticulous production of potions.However, Professor Snape was not stingy with the Slytherins when it came to the choice of words and sentences.

Professor Snape walked to Esther's desk, looked at the slugs steamed in the cauldron, and suddenly said, "Miss Collins, please tell me what's wrong with Mr. Brook's slugs?" Esther was taken aback , looked at Professor Snape, who was staring at her through his long hair, which made her feel nervous.She hurriedly started to look for a classmate named Brooke. Behind her right, a slightly fat boy shrank his neck, allowing her to find the target in a flash.Esther looked at the slug in his cauldron, "He didn't add enough water once, professor, the remaining liquid is thin, obviously he found that the water was not enough and added it again."

"What about Miss Brown's?" Snape didn't let her go, still staring at her and asked.Hearing her name was called, Leona raised her head to look at the professor, then at Esther, obviously not understanding what happened.

In fact, Esther discovered just now that Leona has been steaming at high temperature, and this step should be steamed at low temperature first, so there is no rush.She answered the professor's question truthfully, hoping to let her go quickly.

"It seems that the materials Miss Collins bought were not in vain, and she did do some exercises." Professor Snape finally stopped asking questions, but said in a lazy tone, "I also hope that Gryffindor students can Be serious and don't make mistakes that even your fellow students can spot."

Leona saw that the black robe had disappeared from the corner of her eye, leaned over her head and said reproachfully, "You should have told me earlier." Esther shrugged, she really didn't think it was a big problem.

Until the end of get out of class, Professor Snape didn't pick on Esther again.On the way to the restaurant after class, Leona repeatedly asked Esther where he had offended Professor Snape, so Esther had to tell about the potion shop.Leona analyzed it for a long time, and felt that the biggest possibility was that he thought Esther underestimated the potion and deliberately took revenge on her.

Esther, who had calmed down, didn't think so.Potions are delicate crafts, and subtle differences may affect the final potency.Being able to distinguish these differences, no matter in terms of observation or experience, is obviously more demanding than simply making the right potion.And judging from the results, the color made by Leona is indeed different from that of Esther, and the effect must be different.

As expected of a professor of yin and yang, every time he teaches or helps, it is not easy for people to accept.Estelle was thankful that he forgot himself before, obviously he didn't, and by the way, checked whether the list for Estelle had been taken seriously.Thinking that he was still his dean, Esther couldn't help but feel blocked.

The most painful thing for Esther is undoubtedly the astronomy class, because the class is scheduled at midnight.Getting out of bed in the middle of the night, running through the entire Hogwarts castle, from the lowest dungeon to the topmost astronomy tower to attend classes, is there anything more torturous than this?Can't we find a classroom during the day and use magic to conjure a few stars for them to learn?Esther held up the binoculars and complained in his heart, trying to keep himself awake.It's not for grades, it's really because I'm afraid I'll catch a cold if I fall asleep on the windy tower.

Flying was another class with Leona that Esther hadn't known about until Friday.And obviously this class has a much better vibe than Potions.Ms. Hodge carefully explained the essentials of the movements and gave them time to practice freely.

Compared with the cautious Esther, the unrestrained Leona has done better. "Hahaha, Esther, relax yourself, look at your tense expression." Leona was floating in the air two meters above the ground, watching Esther slowly rubbing against the turf and couldn't help laughing.

Esther took a deep breath, imagined herself swimming, and let herself float upwards slowly. "Breathe, Esther, breathe, you're going to suffocate yourself." Leona leaned into Esther and poked her bulging, purple cheeks.

As the get out of class was approaching, Esther was finally able to take off and land freely.In fact, after trying it for the first time, the rest is not difficult.But Esther hopes to fly without relying on the broom, which is really uncomfortable.