In the last few days, Sirius never came to her again, and Hyacons never took the initiative to ask about the progress of the matter.She knew that Cornelia's words still created a certain disguise for her, although she categorically denied that she had an untimely admiration for Sirius, but-even Hyacinth herself couldn't tell, what was it? Adoration, or true love?

Occasionally, Hyacinth caught sight of predators scurrying by, and she could not help noticing that they were always followed by a few affectionate glances wherever they went, and she was forced to realize that most of them were directed westward. Reese left.Even though as the male lead, Sirius never gave these girls any response, but this did not prevent them from praying to Merlin for a romance with him.Hyacinth finally realized that although Sirius would be troubled by the marriage contract and felt imprisoned by the family, Sirius was still Sirius no matter what, and his light would not be dimmed by these trifles.

Of course she doesn't want to become one of those silly crushes, after all he is the brightest star in the night sky, even the night will be reduced to his set, and hyacinths are just hyacinths after all, beauty is beauty Well, but can't overwhelm the crowd.However, she couldn't control herself and tried to find Sirius in the crowd again and again.

This frustrates her.

To add insult to injury, as the holiday dates approached, Hyacinth was forced to remember that James had said that Mrs. Black and Mr. Watson had decided to exchange tokens as soon as the holidays arrived.

Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.

It was finally the last day, and the Hogwarts Express would leave the next day.

On the way back to the lounge, Hyacinth saw Olivia and Regulus playing by the lake from a distance.The difference from last time was that this time they were just sitting side by side under the shade of a tree overlooking the Forbidden Forest and mountains on the other side of the Black Lake.

People said that Olivia was Regulus' little girlfriend, and they were almost a recognized couple, the only thing they lacked was a little spark.Hyacinth sincerely hopes that they can cross the critical line of friendship as soon as possible. After all, the relationship between them is already one of the few pure and flawless things in Slytherin, and these two people are so suitable...

"Half-blood traitor." Hyacinth said the password, and the stone wall slowly opened to both sides, and she walked into the common room.

On the last day of the semester, the lounge was very lively, but apart from the joy of the approaching holiday, there seemed to be another emotion secretly surging in the air.Hyacinth stepped into the lounge unsuspecting, the stone walls closing behind her.However, the moment Hyacinth raised her head, she fell into a daze: Today, the Slytherin lounge seems to have changed completely.Her eyes were immediately drawn to the wall—the green wallpaper was replaced by a black and white pattern, and the entire wall became another look.Hyacinth stared at the patterns with wide eyes. They were more like small murals. The only special thing was that they looked strangely familiar...

The people around seemed to cast their gazes one after another, and they laughed and pointed at her.

"Ha, Hyacinth, you are finally back!" At this moment, a crisp female voice overwhelmed all the noise, and the noisy crowd immediately fell silent.Hyacinth looked away, and the three girls broke through the crowd and came to her.

"We've been waiting for you for a long time."

She stepped back warily, pursing her lips.These three girls who are in the same level as her have tried their best to tease her since the first day of school, and once made her school life very bad.Later, as she got acquainted with Olivia and Cornelia, these three people gradually stopped bothering her.She always thought that they had found a new person to play with, but now it seemed that they were just trying to create more trouble for her.

"Hyase, take a good look. Do you like it?" Alicia was the first to come forward, "We have prepared it for you for a long time, as your—end-of-term gift."

The visitor is not good.Hyacinth chose to remain silent.

"Why don't you take a closer look?" Betty smiled and pointed to the ceiling, "Or do you not like your masterpiece?"

This sentence once again aroused the laughter of the spectators nearby, and an alarm bell buzzed in Hyacinth's mind. An enlarged sketch.Without exception, it was written by her.

"You—" Seeing Hyacinth's reaction, the laughter on the side became more enthusiastic. She glared sullenly at the three unscrupulous girls on the opposite side, "You go through my things?"

"That's right," Vera stopped laughing and looked at her with her arms folded. "We heard that you are very proficient in Muggle paintings. But none of the three of us understands Muggle art, so we had to hang it up for everyone to see." Take a look. Seriously, do you like this exhibition?"

"Vera, it's too much. You can see that Hyacinth is so excited that she can't speak."

"You're a freak, White. No one can draw Whomping Willow, but you have a soft spot for it. Is it because you think you're equally ugly and unpopular?" Alicia said tartly, and she Pointing to the paintings on the wall one by one, "I'm curious how much you spent on it, White? Are you so poor that you can't even afford new books and robes, but you have time for 'art'?"

"Shh, Alicia," said Betty loudly, "Hyatings has saved a lot of money on new gowns. Look, isn't she wearing Madam Malkin's second-hand gowns? It's you Called 'the pile of rags at the door'."

"Oh, that's it!" Alicia sang in unison, "Merlin, if you hadn't said it, I wouldn't have known that thing would be a robe. Seriously, everyone, I used to think those were discarded." rag."

The laughter grew louder, and everyone gathered around with great interest to see how they would punish the little Muggle arts freak.Hyacinth felt the blood rushing to her brain, she was speechless, and the only thing she could do was to glare at the three hateful girls.

"Oh, White, what are you looking at me like that for?" Alicia said in a childlike voice, "I'm so scared." Betty giggled.

"Take those pictures down!" cried Hyacinth, staring furiously at Alicia's repulsive face, and slipped a hand into her pocket.

"What are you talking about, I can't hear very clearly." Alicia put her hand to her ear with a puzzled look on her face.

"You beg us," said Betty cheerfully, "be careful!" She paled, but Hyacinth had already drawn her wand—

"All petrochemical!"

Alicia dodged it: "Too slow, White!"

"What's the use of having your wand drawn out?" Betty looked at her with a smile. "We all know you're not good at spells at all, are you? Also, what a Squib's daughter can do—"

"Don't say that about my mother!" Hyacinth yelled.

"You say no?" Betty gave her a mocking look. "Where did you grow up? Dirty Muggle streets? I wonder what your Squib mother was after your short-lived father died." How did you grow up?" She raised her hand to signal people to look at the words on the wall, "Is it all about these? This is wonderful! Then your parents saw that you were able to hold an art exhibition in the Slytherin lounge, You must be very proud of me, right?"

"Shut up! Never insult my parents in front of me!" Hyacinth pointed at Betty angrily, "Crucio!"

A blinding jet of light from her wand hit Betty with perfect precision, and she fell to the ground with a scream.The onlookers screamed or gasped, but Betty got up from the ground in a blink of an eye, and she seemed unscathed.

"You dare to lay hands on me?" Betty screamed furiously. "I have to show you something, stupid girl! You can't use the Unforgivable Curse because you don't have the guts." She waved her wand, He smiled viciously: "Cruciate!"

Unprecedented pain suddenly spread to Hyacinth's whole body, as if someone was scraping her bones with a knife.She dropped her wand uncontrollably and fell to the ground, screaming and twitching.Betty's triumphant laughter, the hissing air-conditioning of the onlookers, and some small screams were mixed together.

"This is the real Cruciatus Curse! Idiot. Do you want to do it again?" Betty laughed triumphantly, the pain slowly receded, and Hyacinth found her lying on the ground in a twisted position, her wand in three meters away.

"Get up, monster!" Alicia came over and kicked her, "Do you want to do it again?"

"If I were you, I would step on a few more feet, Alicia." Vera said with a sneer, "It's like this."

Vera stepped on Hyacinth's face hard, and Hyacinth could feel the soles of her shoes scratching her face, and the warm blood flowed from her nose, but she couldn't scream, Because Alicia leaned over and put her wand against her throat: "Want to try the Imperius Curse, little girl? We can let you do a tap dance in the hall."

"Yes, yes, we broke into your dormitory, stole your paintings, and humiliated you, but what can you do? You still want to use the Cruciatus Curse! If I were you, I would go to St. Go see if there's anything wrong with you." Betty said in a strange voice.

"Okay, okay, everyone." Vera clapped her hands, "Let's talk to this freak, negotiation can solve the problem, don't you agree, Miss White?"

Hyacinth couldn't answer, she grabbed the back of the robe roughly with both hands and dragged her up from the ground, Hyacinth felt the tingling pain from her scalp, but she had no time to care about the pain, Cruciatus cursed her Her thinking and feeling were dulled.Alicia was still holding her wand at her throat.

"Listen, dear Hyacinth, baby, if we catch you doing this damned Muggle art again," Betty pronounced loudly, "we'd love to practice what we've learned on you. spells, understand? There are many spells besides the Cruciatus Curse that I want to practice."

"Also, I don't think you are worthy of this thing at all." Vera said softly, she picked up Hyacinth's wand, and when she exerted force on her hand, it snapped into two pieces lightly, "Take it and make it In memory of your lost Squib mother." She rudely stuffed the severed wand into Hyacins' robe pocket.

"Finally," Alicia hissed close to her ear, like a snake spitting out a letter, "Siris Black won't notice a thing like you, give up!"

The last trace of blood faded from Hyacinth's lips before she had time to think about how they knew.Vera also came over: "You like him, don't you, little bastard? But Sirius won't notice you...you're worthless at all..."

"Okay, that's it. Our art exhibition is over." Betty clapped her hands and said briskly, "Well, we will keep these paintings here for the time being, and anyone who likes to see them can take a look."

As soon as Vera let go, Hyacinth fell to her knees on the ground.The people watching the theater gradually dispersed, and she tremblingly picked up the poor wand on the ground.Many emotions churned in her chest—anger, humiliation, sadness.Her mind was in a tangle, wondering which was worse—parents being humiliated?Wand broken?Laughed at yourself?Breaking into the dormitory and looking through her things?Paintings on the wall?Or... Sirius Black?

Thinking of this, Hyacinth suddenly raised her head and looked at the wall carefully—nothing!That portrait of Sirius Black wasn't among them!

Ignoring the gazes of others, she staggered towards the bedroom.The dormitory was not cluttered, and it seemed that they found her sketchbook without any problems.Hyacinth opened all the drawers and cabinets, turning things into a mess.She even checked under the bed, but there was nothing, nowhere.

Yes, they must have taken it.

She was on her knees exhausted, and the portrait was done sloppily, but anyone could tell who it was.Now, they have such a wonderful handle, how could they not make good use of it.

"Hyssings? I saw your paintings downstairs, what's going on?" Ollie's voice came, and she pushed open the half-hidden door, "Merlin, what's going on!" She was shocked Shouting, he lifted Hyacinth up from the ground.

It took Hyacinth 5 minutes to finish talking about what had just happened, intermittently and incoherently, and the Cruciatus spell interrupted her thoughts from time to time.After listening to her, Olivia's eyes were burning with anger.

"This is really too much! The Unforgivable Curse? They dare! Vera, Betty, Alicia... all day long, bullying the weak and fearing the strong! What else can they do?" Olivia was trembling with anger, she never Find two bottles of potion in the drawer, ask Hyacinth to drink one of them, and then help her apply white cream, "You rest for a while, I will go down and help you finish those paintings." Olivia helped her pull it out Bed curtain, "Don't think so much, go to sleep first."

She left the bedroom.

When Hyacinth woke up again, she heard someone talking in a daze.

"...In short, that's it, they are too much."

"Did you go and clean things up afterwards?"

"Yes, fortunately it's not a permanent sticking spell."

"Then you should rest early."

"Leah!—have you nothing to say about that?"

"say what?"

"They used the Cruciatus Curse! It's the Unforgivable Curse! How dare they use it openly in school?"

"This is indeed wrong, and we can give them a warning when the time is right."

"Warning? Is that all?"

"Otherwise, what else do you want?...Aren't you clear about the current situation...which side to choose...it won't end well..."

"you sure?"

"Of course I'm sure..."

"Leah, you—"

"It's too late now, I'm tired, you should go to bed earlier."

what are you guys saying?Hyacinth wanted to ask.But drowsiness surged up again, wave after wave, washing away the incomplete conversation in her mind.

Hyacinth woke up the next day with a splitting headache.Her last memory of last night was that Sirius Black's portrait had disappeared.

"What's wrong with you?" A few hours later, when Hyacinth was huddled in the empty box alone in a daze, James opened the door and poked his head in, "Hey, where are your cronies?"

"I'll let them go." Hyacinth insisted on staying alone, but Olivia couldn't resist her, so she had to find another box with the other two.

"There is no other place, do you mind if we come in and squeeze in for a while?" James asked with a playful smile, but Hyacinth was in no mood to retort, she shrank back to the window to make room.

Peter whispered outside the carriage, "What's the matter with her?"

"What's wrong with you?" Sirius also walked into the box. Although Bai Xian could heal the trauma, everyone could see that Hyacinth's spirit was not good.

She didn't want to repeat what had happened the night before, but there was one other thing they could help with.

"Any kind soul," she said, taking the broken wand out of her pocket, "can you fix it for me?"

Even Remus was taken aback at the sight of the wand, which had clearly been violently snapped in two.

"There's no way to fix a broken wand," Sirius shook his head, "You need a new one." Hyacinth took it back and put it back in his pocket without saying a word.

"What happened?" he continued.

"It's okay." Hyacinth stared at the rapidly receding scenery outside the window.

There was a moment of silence in the car window, and through the reflection of the glass Hyacinth saw the predators whispering silently.After a while, James took out a deck of cards and started asking the others to play together.Hyacinth fell asleep by the window.

When she woke up again, the train had pulled into the station and started to slow down for the last time.She dragged the suitcase out from under the seat, and as the predators hurriedly got out of the car noisily, Sirius suddenly said goodbye to her: "Then goodbye."

"See you next semester." Hyacinth replied, but Sirius suddenly smiled:

"Maybe we don't have to wait until then."

What?When Hyacinth looked up, he had already left the carriage behind Remus.

- September 1976, 6 - Wood's Orphanage, London

The bell on the door jingled, and the sleepy woman with puffy eyes behind the reception desk gave her a lazy look.

"Who is it?" Came a female voice full of aura, "Stop being lazy and slippery!" The woman behind the reception desk was reprimanded.

"Good afternoon, Mrs. Barmer." Hyacinth waved to the female executive who hadn't seen her for a long time, and a girl rushed over and hugged her, "Long time no see, Ann."

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