HP Midnight Light

In the blink of an eye it's time for fifth graders to take their OWLs.

Professor McGonagall drove all the students of other grades out of the auditorium. Hyacinth put down her knife and fork and walked out with the flow of people, feeling that time flies.With the fleetingness of the fourth grade, she will soon start preparing for the OWLs exam, but thinking of her own results, Hyacinth inevitably feels sad.

"Anyone want to take a break outside and read a book?" Hyacinth asked.

"Since when did you love studying so much?" Olivia was extremely surprised, "I mean, we all finished the exam."

"Well... yes, but I decided to try to be a good student." Hyacinth replied, "After all, it's time for our exam next year."

"I have to post a letter." Cornelia had been absent-minded, but at this moment she suddenly greeted them, "See you later."

"Okay." Olivia and Hyacinth were already familiar with this, and they all knew that Cornelia was coming into contact with more and more things related to black magic.But no one has a position or reason to stop it.

"Let's go." Olivia greeted.They walked through the hall together into the bright sunlight, when Olivia suddenly said again, "Hyatings, tell me the truth—you don't have any other thoughts about Sirius, do you?"

"Of course not." Hyacinth denied without thinking, "What's the matter?"

"Are you sure?" Olivia asked again, "I mean... don't you like him?"

"Sirius is indeed very charming, but I don't dare to expect that we can have something." Hyacinth laughed self-deprecatingly, "You see, I'm so ordinary, and someone like Sirius just looks like me. Not in another world. As charming as he is, I don't get lost in daydreams."

Olivia looked relieved: "That's good."

"What's the matter?" Hyacinth asked curiously.Olivia looked around to see if anyone was around, and then lowered her voice: "I heard what Leigu said: Mrs. Black plans to get Sirius engaged this summer."

"What?" Shocked, Hyacinth asked, "With whom?"

"Margaret Watson, you met once at Narcissa's house." Olivia said this gossip with great interest, "Mrs. Black thinks she is a suitable candidate, and she believes that the marriage contract can slightly restrain Xi Reese some..."

Although she had clearly realized the gap between Sirius and her, when Hyacinth heard that he was going to get engaged, she still felt sour for no reason: "Then they are really a good match." Right." Of course she remembered Sirius's treatment of Margaret, he treated her differently from the rest of the Slytherins, which at least proved he didn't hate her, did it?

Olivia didn't notice the subtle change in her tone: "Margaret's whole family is from Slytherin, and they are of ancient pure blood just like Black. What's more, she is Narcissa's close friend. On the day of the party You may have noticed that Bella is also very interested in her..."

Hyacinth knew that she was not qualified to comment on this matter, but her heart still hurt a little.

"Let's go to the grass to bask in the sun, or go to the lake, the giant squid may surface in this weather." Hyacinth didn't care what she was talking nonsense, she just wanted to lure Oliver away as soon as possible Ya's attention kept her from bringing up the unpleasant subject.

They quickly found a shade, and Olivia took off her robe and spread it on the ground.In order to prevent her from continuing to talk about Sirius' engagement, Hyacinth hastily handed her the Charms notes: "Come and test me."

"The spell... but are you sure you don't want to practice with your wand?"

"It's better for me to lay the theoretical foundation first." Hyacinth said.Olivia shrugged, and turned to the first page of the notes: "So——describe the movement of the wand when casting the summoning spell."

The sun was gradually rising, and Hyacinth's review had turned to practice under Olivia's instigation.She rolled several pieces of parchment together to form a paper ball, threw it over and over, and asked Hyacinth to call it back.

"The parchment ball is flying!" No. 20 three times, and the paper ball hit Hyacinth's hand without any mistakes.Olivia took it over and opened it, picked up a stone from the ground and wrapped it in: "Let's make it more difficult..."

"Their exams seem to be over?" Hyacinth heard the noise coming from the direction of the castle.

Olivia also stopped what she was doing: "That's right, it's them." The paper ball rolled from her hand to the ground, Olivia jumped up and looked towards the crowd, trying to find her brother "Have you seen Signus?"

The students poured out of the hall onto the lawn like a tide, and as they approached, Hyacins saw many familiar faces.Signus waved to Olivia from a distance, with a big smile on his face, and then he and his friends walked towards the edge of the Forbidden Forest.In my impression, this seemed to be the first time Hyacinth saw Signus showing such undisguised happiness.

"He did well in the exam, at least he had to be an 'excellent'." Olivia said happily.

"Congratulations." Hyacinth couldn't help noticing that the predators were walking in their direction.

"Sure enough, they attract attention wherever they go." Olivia commented.The predators had stopped in the shadow of a beech tree not far from them. A group of girls walked towards the lake and looked back boldly. They were giggling, but no one dared to go forward. strike up a conversation.

"It's human nature." Hyacinth muttered darkly, she picked up her notebook and pretended to be reviewing, but in fact it was difficult not to be distracted and listen to the movement of the predator.

"Practice the Flying Curse for a while longer?" Olivia suggested enthusiastically.

"No, let me rest for a while."

Olivia dug out a wine glass from her schoolbag and began to practice the transfiguration spell with it.Hyacinth was staring at the notebook absently, but out of the corner of her eye, she noticed that Remus had already taken out a book and started reading while sitting under the shade of a tree.Sirius stared casually at the students wandering on the grass. His expression was proud and tired, but he also looked very handsome in this way. She also accidentally - and for the first time - discovered that when Sirius's When the hair hangs down in front of her eyes, it will inadvertently bring out a bit of elegance, but she has never seen such elegance in other people's hair.

what's on your mind!Hyacinth hurriedly forced herself to read the spell notes—who invented the Appearance Curse?How she knew, it didn't matter.

As for James, he took out a struggling Snitch from his pocket, and was taking turns catching it with difficult moves.Peter watched his movements with his mouth open, panting and applauding.

"Where did he get that thing?" she asked Olivia.

"Hey, I thought you were reviewing. Maybe you stole it?" She looked sharply into the distance, "Oh! Look, Evans is not far away." She pointed to the lake, Lily's red hair stands out even in a crowd.

"He likes to show off in front of Evans?" Hyacinth noticed that after Sirius said something, James put away the snitch and stopped showing off.Only Sirius seemed to be able to hold James back a bit.Then James said something to Sirius, and Sirius suddenly turned his head in a certain direction, motionless—

"No, he likes her, so naturally he wants her to pay attention to him." Olivia smacked her lips, swiped her wand and turned the toad back into the wine glass, "Oh! Snape is going to be unlucky." She put the wine glass Stuff it back into your schoolbag.

Hyacinth had barely had time to see Snape leaving the bushes to cross the grass when James and Sirius were on their feet.

"All right, Snotluck?" James called out.

Snape dropped his schoolbag quickly, as if he was always ready.But James was quicker to disarm him.

Sirius gave a short and crisp laugh: "There are many obstacles!"

Although it was very immoral, Hyacinth found it childishly cute when Sirius made fun of Snape.

Snape lay panting on the ground as James and Sirius approached him step by step, raising their wands.The surrounding students all turned to look at them, some stood up and slowly approached, some showed expressions of doubt and fear, while others seemed happy to see the result.Remus sat on the spot as if he was still concentrating on reading, but his brows were slightly frowned.

There were quite a few Slytherin students nearby, and when they realized that it was Snape who was being attacked, they either walked away, or simply walked over to see how the battle was going.Olivia clearly knew what Snape was about to face, but she didn't hesitate to pull Hyacinth into the crowd.

"How'd you go, Sniffer?" James asked, glancing back at the girls by the water as he spoke, clearly trying to get Evans' attention.

"I'm staring at him, his nose is touching the parchment." Sirius said meanly, "the parchment must be full of big oil stains, they can't even try to read a word."

Several onlookers laughed loudly, Snape was obviously not popular, and even the Slytherin students didn't seem to mind participating in the ridicule.Although Olivia and Hyacinth didn't laugh, they were looking forward to what would happen next.Peter screeched and chuckled applaudingly, and Snape struggled to his feet, but the spell didn't work.

"You—wait," he panted, looking up at James with a look of complete disgust on his face, "you—wait!"

"What are you waiting for?" Sirius said coldly, "What do you want, snotlite, rub your nose on us?"

A flurry of foul language and curses came out of Snape's mouth, but his wand was ten feet away, so nothing happened.But James obviously wasn't going to let him go. "Wash your mouth—clean it!" he said coldly.

Instantly pink soap bubbles came out of Snape's mouth, and his lips were covered with froth, making him want to gag, but he couldn't breathe—

"Let him go!"

James, Sirius, and many other onlookers turned their heads to look, and James' free hand quickly reached for his hair.It was a girl walking from the lake. She had thick dark red hair and amazing green eyes.

"How are you, Evans?" James' tone suddenly became friendly, and it seemed deeper and more mature.

"Let go of him," Lily repeated, looking at James with a disgusted expression, "Why did he mess with you?"

"Well," said James, pretending to be musing over the point, "it's mostly because of him, if you know what I mean..."

Many onlookers laughed loudly with understanding, and Sirius and Peter also laughed, but Remus, who seemed to be still studying his books, didn't laugh, and neither did Lily.

"You think you're funny," she said unconvinced, "but you're just an arrogant, bullying scumbag, Potter. Let him go."

"If you hang out with me, I'll let him go, Evans," James said quickly, "Go on... hang out with me, and I'll never wand old snot again Hair."

"Even if I had to choose between you and the giant squid, I wouldn't go out with you," Lily said.

"Go back to your words, prongs," Sirius said cheerfully, turning to Snape. "Oops!" he cried, but it was too late; He had pointed his wand straight at James, and there was a flash, and a deep gash appeared on one side of James' cheek, and blood spattered his robes.

"What kind of spell is that?" Olivia gasped - many of the surrounding students did the same, mixed with a few short screams.

James turned sharply, and after the second flash, Snape was hung upside down in the air, "What kind of spell is this again?" Hyacinth asked following the second exclamation of the crowd, Snape's The robe fell over his head, revealing skinny, pale legs and a pair of panties that were turning black.Olivia made a small sound somewhere between a lament and a laugh.

Among the people around, many applauded and even cheered.Sirius, James, and Peter laughed without hesitation, and the robes covered Snape's face, so that no one could see his expression, but Hyacinth thought about it, and she felt that she might feel ashamed. die.

For a moment, Lily's expression fluctuated, as if she was about to smile, but she still insisted, "Put him down!"

"Of course," said James, jerking his wand up.Snape fell to the ground and curled up in a heap. He shook off his robes, stood up instantly, and raised his wand.But Sirius had already shouted, "Petrification!" Snape fell on his back again, stiff as a slab of stone.

"Let him go!" cried Lily to the cheers, drawing her wand.Both James and Sirius watched her carefully.

"Hey, Evans, don't make me put a curse on you," James said seriously.

"Then break the spell for him!"

James sighed deeply and broke the petrification spell in a low voice.

"You go," he said as Snape struggled to his feet, "fortunately, Evans is here, Snotl-"

Snape cut him off: "I don't need help from a stinky little Mudblood like her!" he yelled.

Lily blinked.

"Very well," she said coldly, "I won't worry about that anymore. Also, if I were you, I'd wash my panties, snotty!"

"Apologize to Evans!" James yelled at Snape, his wand pointed threateningly at Snape.

"I don't need you to force him to apologize." Lily turned and shouted at James, "You're as annoying as he is!"

"What?" cried James. "I never said you were—you know what!"

"You think it's cool to look like you just got off your broomstick, so you mess up your hair, show off with that silly snitch, and cast spells on anyone you meet in the hallway that annoys you , just because you can—I wonder how you can get off the ground with such a big head on your broomstick. You make me sick." She turned sharply and ran away.

"Evans!" James called after her. "Hey, Evans!"

But she didn't look back.

"What happened to her?" James asked.He tried to casually address the question as if it didn't matter to him, but he failed.

"From the undertones of what she said, all I can say is she thinks you're a little arrogant, buddy," Sirius said.

"Yeah," said James, looking genuinely annoyed now, "yes—" There was another flash, and Snape was thrown upside down in the air again.

"Who wants to see me take Snotluck's panties off?"

The people around laughed. Lily's departure seemed to mean that Snape had lost his last barrier.

"This is too much!" Olivia whispered, "Don't worry about Lupine, he is also a Gryffindor prefect!" He was pretty much the only one who stayed out of it.

But Hyacinth suddenly thought of someone who might be able to save Snape. She stood on tiptoe and looked, and there was a small group of Slytherin girls gathered at the other end of the lake.

"I'll be right back."

"Hello—" Olivia turned her head, and Hyacinth had disappeared into the crowd with agility.

"Margaret, Margaret!" Hyacinth shouted, Margaret turned her head, and the Slytherin girls who were with her also looked at her in surprise, Hyacinth stopped She stopped, "Well...can you come here?" She motioned Margaret to take a few steps away.

Margaret blinked: "What's wrong?"

Hyacinth looked back under the tree, and there was still a large group of people gathered there: "Uh...the predators are bullying Snape—a bit too much." She emphasized tactfully.

Margaret looked into the distance: "Do you think I should intervene?" She seemed to be not so firmly on Snape's side, which surprised Hyacinth: "I thought... I thought you liked Snape..."

Margaret glanced at her, and Hyacinth suddenly remembered that she was engaged to Sirius.This thought made her a little uncomfortable, but a dark voice in her heart told her that if Margaret stood up to defend Snape, her engagement with Sirius would definitely not take effect.A person as proud as Sirius would definitely not tolerate such a thing... Hyacinth felt a little ashamed of her thoughts, but Margaret said as if talking to herself:

"I like Snape? Oh... maybe... who knows."

"Perhaps you should follow your own will." Hyacinth said with a thought that she didn't know whether it was good or bad.Margaret seemed to sigh silently, but she finally softened her tone: "I'll go to Signus first."

What made Hyacinth sympathize with Snape was that even the prefect Signus was not very willing to intervene in this matter.

"This is not an ordinary humiliation." Margaret reminded that she had asked Hyacinth about the specifics of what happened, "You can't let predators bully Severus."

"Why are you always cleaning up for Snape, Margaret?" Signus lowered his voice. "Do you know what they say about you?"

Margaret was silent for a while: "Just take it as a help, Signus..." Hyacinth stared at the grass in front of her, and could only hear the conversation between them.

Margaret and Signus seemed to face each other in silence for a while, and then Signus finally moved towards the predator's direction.Hyacinth catches up to Margaret cautiously, only to find that she looks normal.

"I'm fine." Margaret guessed her intention and said simply.Her attitude brought a tinge of guilt to Hyacinth.

When they returned to the scene of the incident, they found that Snape was still hanging upside down in the air.James didn't take off his panties, though.

"What are you doing?" Signus spoke directly to the crowd watching. He was obviously intimidating, because not only the Slytherin students, but everyone fell silent, "I never knew you would Will 'enjoy' the process of witnessing others being bullied, even this person is from your house." He looked at several Slytherin students sternly, and Hyacinth found that Olivia had hidden at the end of the crowd, "Bo T, Blake, put Snape down, and five points will be deducted from Gryffindor for your humiliating behavior." He changed his business tone, "I also have to remind you that as a prefect, you must at least You gotta get your friends under control, Lupine. You gotta live up to your badge."

Remus had put down his book and stood up from the ground, his face was almost expressionless: "I did not fulfill my responsibilities—"

"—but you should also look at the good things Snape has done." Sirius said to Signus with a bad attitude, James' face was still dripping with blood, and Snape looked At least there was no trauma.

"Maybe Snape went too far, but as far as I know, you guys started it first." Signus said calmly, "The entanglement between the three of you must be clear to both deans, I don't want to be in the OWLs Report your behavior during the exam, but please be a little mindful of your behavior! What do you think, Lupine?"

Remus gave James and Sirius a stern but resigned look, and they both reluctantly shut up: "I agree."

"I hope you can improve. As for the others, shouldn't you need to watch?" Signus drove away the others, and he nodded politely to the Marauder and Snape, "I wish you all the best in the future The exam is going well. Goodbye.” He nodded to Margaret, and he still gave Hyacinth a meaningful look, which made Hyacinth shudder, but Margaret disturbed her immediately. There was a slightly awkward atmosphere at the scene.She walked directly towards Snape: "Severus, are you all right?"

"Don't worry about me!" Snape said in a bad tone when he saw her. He seemed to want to go to the lake to find Evans, but there was a hesitant look on his face.

A trace of confusion flashed across Margaret's face, but she still persuaded her in a nice voice: "There is an exam in the afternoon, Severus—"

Snape slung the bag over his shoulder without a word, and walked towards the castle.Margaret watched his back, and after a while, she suddenly turned and left without warning, as if she was going back to the lake to find her friends.

Hyacinth wondered how Sirius would feel about this, but he didn't seem to care that Margaret stood up for Snape.Sirius turned his head lazily: "We should be the only ones who will deduct points from Gryffindor during the exam, prongs?"

James grinned: "McGonagall has long been used to it."

Then they turned to Hyacinth together, and James smiled menacingly: "Is it you who sent the rescuers, little girl?"

Sirius looked very disappointed: "I didn't expect you to help the snotling."

Hyacinth thought of his marriage contract with Margaret with mixed feelings, and didn't want to talk to Sirius at all.At this time, she was horrified to see James pull out his wand again and was playing with it in his hand: "I still want to practice the petrification spell—" James smiled, and Hyacinth jumped up and turned around and ran.

"Do you think she knows the Killing Curse?" James turned his head and asked Sirius. Remus, who had been aggrieved, couldn't help it any longer: "You can think about it with your hair. , prongs!"

The author has something to say:

Note:

1. Regarding the OWLs incident: My personal opinion is that James didn't take off Severus' underwear.It's true that James has been targeting Snape, but I don't think he's going to lose his mind completely, and Lupine isn't going to sit by all the time.What's more, there were so many students present at that time, there would always be someone to stop them.So I guess that James' humiliation to Severus should not have reached the level of taking off his underwear. This memory is important to Snape probably because of the end of his friendship with Lily rather than being humiliated.Of course, this is just my personal opinion.

2. The so-called engagement: This is completely private.I guess Walburga should be a relatively conservative feudal woman. She married her cousin herself, and she has a strong desire for control. Maybe she intervened in the marriage of Narcissa and Lucius.So she might also want to dictate her son's marriage, so that should be possible.Secondly, I think Sirius needs more reasons and flash points for running away from home at the age of 16 (that is, this year), and this is just one of them.

3. In this chapter, the part where James humiliates Snape and Lily to help is based on the original text, with some minor revisions.

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