HP Starlight

With the proficiency in the basic knowledge, Esther's mature and calm mind finally showed its advantages, and the learning effect improved by leaps and bounds.The extra points for questions from the professors in the class were gradually taken over by Esther. Of course, these courses did not include the history of magic and astronomy.

The flying lessons also made Esther more and more handy, as if he had suddenly opened up.Esther recalled riding lessons when she was a child, and felt that broomsticks and horses really had a lot in common.You can't use them as tools, they have feelings too.When your aura is strong, they will become tame, and when you feel inferior and nervous, they will bully you in turn.

In addition to going to the library with Leona, Esther also likes to watch the seniors practice magic in the lounge, which allows her to gain a lot of experience.Especially when encountering a theoretical Defense Against the Dark Arts professor like Professor Bullock, self-study is particularly important.Slytherin is quite tolerant of powerful and even dangerous spells, and it is often seen that someone is studying them in the lounge.Sometimes they would invite the headmaster to come to the lounge to demonstrate some spells in person. As long as it wasn't too much, Professor Snape was willing to cooperate occasionally.

I have to say that Professor Snape is indeed a very powerful teacher.After watching his spell demonstrations a few times, Esther finally understood why he was so young, with a bad temper and eccentricity, yet he was respected and obeyed by the self-important Slytherins.His spells are neat and crisp, he reacts quickly during battle demonstrations, and he has a wealth of knowledge, always using the most direct method to resolve attacks.Sometimes even one person has no trouble coping with the spells of multiple seniors.He also has a lot of research on the formation and deciphering of jinxes, poisonous curses and curses, and there are almost no questions he can't answer.Slytherins have a strong heart in their bones. In the face of absolute strength, cynicism or critical eyes seem to be tolerated, or even irrelevant.

It's Halloween soon, and Hogwarts students don't dress up as ghosts and ask for candy (perhaps because they're already wearing wizard robes and the table is full of candy).It made her nostalgic for the days when the Muggle world was going around in vampire costumes.However, during the dinner, the auditorium decorated with thousands of live bats and the giant jack-o-lantern that can seat three or four people also made Esther feel fresh.The sumptuous meal and the performances of the ghosts are even more shocking.Esther happily abandoned her nostalgia for Muggle activities and enthusiastically devoted herself to the banquet.

In the little spare time left, Esther devoted himself to exploring the castle.Learning to find shortcuts can save a lot of time, especially if you have a friend who lives on opposite ends of the castle with you.And this "two poles" are reflected in all aspects from the geographical location to the relationship between the colleges.This work became even more important as Hogwarts entered the Quidditch season.

Fortunately, the library under the management of Ms. Pince is not affected by the outside atmosphere, which allows Esther and Leona to temporarily avoid the disputes between the two colleges.They spend more time in the library together than before, which makes their homework seem insufficient.So they started reading widely to pass the time

The busy days always fly by quickly, and it is Christmas holiday in a blink of an eye.This is Esther's first holiday in Hogwarts, and she is going home to spend the holiday with Aunt Connie.

"I thought you wouldn't come back until next semester, Hogwarts is also very interesting for Christmas." Aunt Connie said to Este gently.

"But I don't want you to spend the holidays alone." Esther's tone was full of coquettishness.

Aunt Connie patted Esther's head lovingly, "I lived alone before you and your mother came, and I got used to it. But you, have you made new friends? Tomorrow we will go to Diagon Alley for you Friends prepare Christmas presents."

When Aunt Connie took Esther to Diagon Alley the next day, it was already full of shopping crowds.The shops on both sides of the street are also decorated with colored balls and Christmas wreaths, and the festive atmosphere is even stronger than that of Muggle shops.

Esther chose a copy of "Hogwarts, A School History" as a gift for Leona. In addition to the introduction, there are illustrations in it, so that she can let her parents know about Hogwarts.

She chose candy and snacks for her three roommates as gifts, and she couldn't go wrong with giving them something to eat anytime.

For Aunt Connie is a wizard hat.This is a cursed hat, which looks like an ordinary hat to Muggles, and only wizards can see the bright colors and embellished patterns on it.

Esther also bought some greeting cards for her professors.The greeting card was embellished with some stars by her magic, appearing and disappearing, which looks very realistic.

But she also prepared a bottle of green ink for Professor Snape.Because every time Leona sends out papers, except for the grades of A or E, there are only a few revisions.Even if her thesis gets an O, there will be a long list of comments.She felt that she had wasted so much ink from Professor Black that he didn't even have ink for Leonardo to write some.

Before returning home, Esther did not forget to visit the Muggle shop.She had chosen a glow-in-the-dark alarm clock for Harry, remembering the last time he had said that he wanted to know if he missed dinner when he was locked up.

Although there are only two of them for Christmas, Esther hopes to make the family more festive.Esther used her mother's wand to hang decorated balls and bells all over the Christmas tree with a floating charm, and placed a star on top.

Aunt Connie bought a turkey leg, and the whole turkey was too big for them.Esther helped spread the marinade, and the two talked and laughed, making the house not deserted at all.

After breakfast on Christmas morning, Esther and Aunt Connie came to unwrap presents under the Christmas tree.Aunt Connie gave Esther a sweater, and Esther put it on without hesitation.Each of the three roommates sent her a set of classroom notebooks with transcription functions, and words written in the first notebook would automatically appear in the other notebooks. "Looks like your class notes are very popular," Aunt Connie teased her.Esther curled her lips, and she was able to let them find such a lazy invention.Leona's gift was a beautiful quill. "It just works with a notebook." Aunt Connie said with a smile.Esther didn't know what to say to express his feelings.She tried to tear open a box of Chocolate Frogs but before she could eat, the doorbell rang.

Esther walked quickly to the door, it was Harry. "Merry Christmas, Harry, come in, I'll get you a cup of hot chocolate." She said, turning around to see a chocolate frog crawling up the table with puffy eyes.She hurried over, grabbed the chocolate frog and ran to the kitchen to stuff it into her mouth.

"Merry Christmas Connie, Merry Christmas Esther, I saw the sign you left on the snow outside my house," said Harry.This was what the two of them had researched last year in order to avoid Aunt Petunia's discovery.

"Oh, that's great," Esther said vaguely.The chocolate frog wriggled in her mouth trying to get its head out.

"It's a good thing you're back, otherwise I wouldn't know where to hide. Aunt Marge is here, and Lippi—her dog." Harry said as he tucked himself into the sofa.

Esther finally swallowed the chocolate frog whole, retched and asked Harry, "Who's Aunt Marge?"

"My uncle's sister, horrible woman," said Harry.Seeing Aunt Connie bring gingerbread and chocolate cake for herself, I added a thank you.

Esther handed him the hot chocolate and took out the alarm clock, "Christmas present for you."

Harry looked at the alarm clock and was very happy, "That's great, thank you, Esther." But then he became depressed, "But I have nothing for you."

"Do you have a candy box in your pocket? You can give me candy." Esther thought Harry would at least get a box of cheap candy at home.

"A box of dog biscuits," Harry said disgustedly, pulling it out. "Aunt Marge just gave it to me. She gave Dudley a computer-controlled robot."

"Uh, a box of dog biscuits would be nice too, you can give it to me so you're not the only one receiving dog biscuits."

Harry couldn't help laughing at Esther's words.

Esther spends a holiday with Harry so much that she returns to Hogwarts to find her homework unfinished.So she asked Liona to go to the library for the first time.

"Have you finished your History of Magic dissertation? Show me." Esther asked Leona bluntly.Neither of them liked History of Magic, it was boring.Esther can still read it as a bedtime story before school starts. After reading aloud by Professor Binns after school starts, she feels that she no longer needs any bedtime stories. Thinking about the sound can keep her from insomnia.

"Esther, look, it's Wilkes." Leona suddenly lowered her voice.

Esther looked up and saw Orion limping a little to Mrs. Pince to return the book.Mrs. Pince yelled at him dissatisfied, "Why did you make the book so wrinkled!" Orion apologized softly.

"It looks a bit miserable, doesn't it?" Leona said to Esther sympathetically, "I rarely see him in the library."

"In fact, he rarely leaves the dormitory." Esther remembered that he hadn't seen him in the common room much.

"Is there no one in Slytherin to help him? It's so cold-blooded." Leona didn't realize that the opposite was a Slytherin.

"Thank you for your pertinent evaluation, sympathetic Miss Gryffindor. I don't know who told me last time that he is the son of a Death Eater and told me to stay away from him." Esther said jokingly .

Leona pretended to vomit and said, "Please, Esther, don't imitate your dean, okay, potions class once a week is enough."

In fact, Slytherin is relatively harmonious, at least on the surface.Especially for pure blood like Orion, they can be distinguished from each other by their surnames.Moreover, there are many marriages in the family, and most of them will form a small circle after entering Slytherin.But Orion was excluded.Est guessed that this was a sign of their guilty conscience.After the downfall of those who cannot be named, it took a lot of effort for many pure-blood families to distance themselves from the Death Eaters.At this time, helping a descendant of a Death Eater would undoubtedly increase the risk of being suspected.A shrewd Slytherin will not let his clean feathers get dusty.

Esther is also a person who doesn't like to be nosy, not to mention that the other party has no willingness to ask for help.But sometimes if you don't look for trouble, trouble will find you.After Wednesday's herbal class, Esther left late to ask Professor Sprout a question.On the way back to the castle, he saw Orion collapsed in the snow.Not far away, two Gryffindors and a Ravenclaw student were pointing their wands at him, and two of them, Esther, remembered blocking them on the first day of school.

As a Slytherin, you can't go around and pretend you didn't see it.Esther gritted her teeth, pulled out her wand and ran over, "All petrified!" Esther chanted a spell at the leader, who immediately stiffened and fell down like a stone slab.Seeing someone engage in battle, the other two quickly turned their wands and fired spells in Esther's direction.Esther lowered his body and rolled around on the ground, while releasing the leg-locking spell towards the opposite side.The spell that moved Esther missed the opponent, but in order to avoid it, the opponent stumbled over his petrified companion in a hurry.Esther took the opportunity to run to Orion, pulled him up and ran away.

The two rushed back to the common room in the cellar in one breath.Esther slumped on the chair next to the fireplace, and the fatigue after the tension swept over her body instantly, making her not want to move.

"Sorry to trouble you, I'm afraid you will be in trouble now." Orion said apologetically.

Esther looked at him, "Can you tell me why this time?"

Orion pursed his lips, and it took a while before he said, "All three of them had family members killed by Death Eaters. Dearborn's father, Meadows' aunt. Fenwick's uncle. And I Happened to have a Death Eater father."

"Your father killed them all?" Esther asked.

Orion seemed reluctant to answer, but he forced himself to say, "I don't know, I haven't seen him much."

Est nodded in understanding.

A moment of silence.

"If the mysterious man comes back, will you join the Death Eaters?" Esther asked suddenly.

Orion looked at Esther suddenly, his eyes full of fear.He didn't expect Esther to ask so directly.He hesitated for a moment and said, "I don't want to be my dad."

Another moment of silence.

"Let's go together in class from now on, don't always sneak around alone, you haven't done anything wrong." After finishing speaking, Esther got up and walked into the girls' dormitory, leaving Orion with a surprised expression on his face.

Since becoming friends with Orion, Esther is more eager to learn magic.She dug out all of her mother's old textbooks and began to study the spells she learned in senior year.But at this moment, something went wrong with her wand.At the beginning, when she tried spells such as silent and breathless spells and imprisonment spells, she seemed to feel that the wand was resisting her magic transmission.After she tried hard a few times, the wand became less effective even for her skilled spellcasting.She's having a tantrum, that's Esther's first thought.But it seems silly to think so. Will the wand still express its thoughts and wishes independently?Even if she could express it, why stop her from learning those spells?Esther couldn't figure it out.

After doing a lot of research in the library, she thought she should write to Mr. Ollivander, who had sold her the wand.Find out what the problem is and if you need to fix it.

Soon Esther received a reply, which generally meant that the core of the phoenix tail feathers did have some ideas of his own, but he was also very curious about the situation Esther encountered.He suggested that Esther had a chance to check out the store.Until then, develop a good relationship with the wand and make it trust you.

Developing a relationship with the wand, Esther felt that Mr. Ollivander was joking with her.But recalling the process of learning to fly a broomstick, she thought maybe she should give it a try.A broomstick has the same emotions as a horse, so you only need to have the confidence to control it.But what kind of emotion does a wand need?She had already tried to force it, and it was evident that it resisted.Do you want to coax?

Esther felt a little ashamed coaxing a wand, and she needed to try it secretly somewhere where no one was around.After searching repeatedly, she took out her wand in an unpassed corner of the underground corridor, ready to start a verbal attack.

"Hello, I mean, how are you? You see we've been together for months, you know me. I need to learn how to protect myself a little more. You should support me, right?" Ace Te chattered incoherently, "You see, the Silent Curse is very useful, so that the opponent cannot attack, as well as the Imprisonment Curse. Why don't we discuss and learn the Silent Curse first? Do you agree?"

"I didn't expect the Sorting Hat to choose a crazy student into Slytherin." A deep voice came from behind with a hint of sarcasm, and Esther cried out "ah" in fright.

Esther looked back to find that Professor Snape was looking down at her, and the open door behind him showed that this was not an empty corridor, but the office of the black-robed professor.Esther immediately awkwardly wishes she could escape through the wall like a ghost.

"Come in." Professor Snape led Esther into the office, sat down behind the desk and asked, "What are you doing there?"

"Um, exchange feelings with the wand, Professor." Esther felt that she had never been so ashamed.

"Exchanging feelings with wands?" Professor Snape obviously didn't understand.

"It's like this, professor. I felt that the wand was a bit resistant when I was practicing spells some time ago. Mr. Ollivander said that I should develop a relationship with it." Esther said in a hurry, hoping that Professor Snape didn't need her again. Explain it.

"What spell did you practice?" Professor Snape asked.

"The Silent Curse, sir, and the Imprisonment Curse." Esther answered honestly.

"I thought Miss Collins was only overconfident when it comes to potions, but I didn't expect the same to be true for spells. Can you tell me, Miss Collins, what makes you so arrogant that you think you can master five or more in the first grade?" What about the content?" Professor Snape raised his eyebrows, and turned over the old account again.

Esther understood that it wasn't the wand's problem, or rather, it wasn't what she thought it was, it was her own problem.Insufficient ability will make the core of the wand resist. This is not just a matter of saying a few good words and discussing it. She needs the approval of the wand.What Mr. Ollivander said should also be referring to gaining trust by gradually increasing the difficulty of casting spells.She was completely wrong.

Esther blushed and was caught twice by Professor Snape, what a misfortune.But she still wanted to try her best to save her face. "But the professor, I have successfully released the petrification spell. I think it is a control spell, and it is no different."

"Of course it's different. The Petrification Curse makes people stiff. It's his own state that changes. Your so-called control is just taking advantage of this state. But the Silent Curse and the Imprisonment Curse are you actively controlling the other party and forcing the other party to obey through external force. Your ability determines the strength of your control. Of course, the mind is also very important, tell me, have you really thought about controlling others? Do you have a strong desire to control?" Professor Snape faced Snape Leitling always showed rare patience.

Esther seriously recalled that she had always been an easy-going person, without any ambition or desire, so that she didn't believe it when the Sorting Hat said she was Slytherin.

"No, sir, I have never thought of trying to silence someone or tie him up." Esther was a little discouraged.

"So it's impossible for you to practice these spells now. There are many ways to subdue others, and not all of them require advanced spells. More flexible thinking and quick reactions are required in confrontation. You can try disarming spells, spells It's disarming you." Professor Snape resumed his deep, serious voice in class.

Esther recited the spell silently several times in her heart, feeling that her magic power was about to move.She said to Professor Snape, "Professor, I think I can do this spell."

Professor Snape said impatiently, "Just listen to it once? Miss Collins is really a genius, no wonder she is always so arrogant."

"Can I try?" Esther wanted to prove himself very much.

"Then try it," Professor Snape drew out his wand, "I think that way you can accept reality and keep your feet on the ground."

"Disarm!" A red light shot out from the wand and went straight to Professor Snape who was opposite.The black-robed professor didn't expect that Esther would really succeed, and it was already too late when he started to defend.The wand came out of his hand, and he was also knocked on the shelf behind him, and the bottles and jars containing the specimens were shattered all over the floor.

"I'm sorry, Professor, I didn't mean it. I, I mean, I didn't expect the spell to be so powerful." Esther quickly picked up the wand and handed it to Professor Snape, and then used spells on the ground to restore the original state. , I thought it was over.

Professor Snape's face was so gloomy that he was almost dripping ink. "Yeah, I didn't expect that Miss Collins had such a strong desire to attack her professor. Confinement for a week, starting tomorrow night, at six o'clock, come to my office, don't be late."