[HP] Companion

The fifth grade passed in a busy way.

The OWLs exam ended amidst howling ghosts and howling wolves. Some walked out of the exam room screaming "Don't argue with me", some murmured "What's the answer to this question?", and others were calm and confident... such as Tom .

Regardless, we ended up on that familiar train.The scenery outside the window receded quickly. I came back to my senses and looked at Tom who was quietly flipping through the book.

I must say something.

After I got off the train, people from the saints would come to pick me up.We would fly to Germany for an unknown treatment.Merlin knew when we would meet again.

even……

I drop the fleeting bad thought: "Tom, I wish you the best of luck."

"Good luck," Tom replied.He was going to look for his father this summer, and I vaguely felt that something bad would happen. I originally proposed to go with him, but he rejected it.

Then I can only wish him the best of luck.No one can change what Tom decides.We sat on the train for hours and finally reached the platform.We kissed goodbye, and finally a familiar ethereal voice interrupted: "Hey, can you please finish this soon?"

I turned and there was Cynthia Lovegood, who had graduated a year earlier and was already one of the cadres of British saints.Most of my contact with Edith is through her.I said good-bye to Tom for the last time, and followed Cynthia out of this jumbled place.

"We'll use the Portkey to go to a stronghold in England, and from there we'll fly to Germany."

"……fly?"

Are you going to fly to Germany on a broomstick?Portkeys, Floo, and Apparation don't cover such distances, and I honestly don't know how to get from England to Germany the wizarding way.

"You'll know." Lovegood tilted his head and smiled at me. She took out a book and I put my hand on it. "Let's go without further ado."

Portkeys and Apparation are just as bad.Lovegood and I landed on a lawn. If Lovegood hadn't helped me, I would have fallen to the ground like a dog chewing mud.

After standing still, I looked at the place called "stronghold".This is the territory of Muggles, and the war has also left scars here. The dull atmosphere in the square is uncomfortable, everyone comes and goes in a hurry, only the buskers are willing to stop and perform, and are grateful for the little fee they get.

No hilarious laughter, no anticipation of the future.

"Our stronghold is here, follow me." Lovegood led me into a telephone booth, she dialed a phone number, and we immediately descended to the ground, Lovegood's tone was cheerful, "This design imitates The British Ministry of Magic. The little fool who designed this is hoping that some Ministry of Magic idiot will walk into our place by walking into the wrong phone booth one day, so that he can sneak into the Ministry of Magic without any problems."

"Rather than expect people from the Ministry of Magic to be stupid, it's better to catch them yourself. Here we are."

After descending from the phone booth we came to the inside of a house.In the center of the room is the symbol of the saints - the resurrection stone, the old wand and the invisibility cloak. Under the sign is their slogan "For the Greater Good". A table and a few stools are simply placed in the room. to something else.Several wizards in the room were sitting or standing, and they immediately became serious when they saw us.

"Miss Hellman." They greeted me and saluted me almost at the same time, which surprised me.Although I know that Edith has a very high status among the saints, this is... a bit too exaggerated.

There were five of us besides Lovegood and myself.Three women and two men.They wear different robes and cloaks, but all have the saint's emblem on their chests.They pushed open the door on the other side, and the room was connected to a garden.Two thestrals parked docilely on the lawn, with ropes hanging from their bodies and connected to the carriage behind.Lovegood and I sat in the back.Two sorceresses sit on thestrals, while the rest rise up with broomsticks in hand.

"I've heard that thestrals are very difficult animals to domesticate."

"It is true that no thestrals have been tamed in England, but they come from Germany," said Lovegood, whose eyes sparkled with interest in thestrals. "Those two sitting on them, they are sisters, Excellent trainers of magical animals, more than half of the animals in the saints are managed by them."

"The remaining witch is one of Durmstrang's best graduates. She is proficient in all kinds of black magic. Because of an experiment failure, she can no longer speak. Although she can only use magic silently, it is reasonable to say that the magic spell The power will decrease, but she is the one who kills the most."

"The black person out there. He's French, he's traveled all over the world, and he's familiar with magic everywhere. Then he got involved in a murder case, and the Ministry of Magic locked him in without hearing his testimony. Prison. After escaping, he joined us."

"The biggest one out there. Lord Hellman once saved his life, and he is also the one who has followed him the longest. He is more loyal than anyone else, no matter how harsh and excessive the request is, he will perfectly fulfill it."

After speaking, Lovegood let out a breath, as if this introduction had consumed all her energy: "Master Hellman has sent all her capable men, which is enough to show how much she attaches importance to you."

I don't need Lovegood to tell me about it.I also knew what Edith was trying to convey with this: "And you, Lovegood?"

"I?"

"You've introduced everyone, but you haven't introduced yourself yet."

Lovegood rolled his eyes and laughed without warning: "Cynthia Lovegood, an unknown researcher. Because of the temporary attention, she often gets carried away."

"I'm valued because of you, Alice."

indeed so.

If it weren't for the fact that I first met Lovegood, a saint who had just graduated for a year, how could she have had the opportunity to contact Edith.

She's reminding me that Edith gave me everything, so isn't she the same.

Without Alice Hunter, how could Lovegood have been taken seriously so quickly.

The Thestrals were fast and in a few hours we reached Germany.When entering Germany, the sky was completely dark, and the light rain was falling silently. I couldn't see anything outside the window, but I could clearly feel Lovegood's relief.

"We'll be safe in Germany."

After entering Germany, the speed did not slow down. We arrived at the destination a few minutes later. The two sisters drove the Thestrals to another place. Lovegood saluted me slightly: "Then our mission is completed, Alice .”

In the end, only the biggest—the most loyal wizard, whose name I later learned was Brooklyn—was the only one who walked into the manor in front of us with me.

The manor reminds me of Muggle nobles from a century or two ago, but maybe that's when the manor was built.The gate of the manor is an iron gate more than two meters high, and the surrounding walls are painted with white paint.Every light in the manor is shining brightly, walking into a huge garden, a huge fountain in the center is spraying spring water unscrupulously, there are some round stone benches and tables in the distance, and a few house elves are standing on top of them. Repairing the garden with light rain.

There was an elderly man standing at the door of the house. His silver hair showed his age, but his back was still straight and his eyes were not clouded by dust.Brooklyn told me that it was Mr. Alston, the butler of the Hellman family. After Brooklyn and I approached, he bowed to us—or me: "The patriarch is waiting for you, Miss Alice."

Following the butler, we walked into the living room, where Edith was already sitting.That was the first time I saw her.Her long hair had begun to turn gray, and there were some wrinkles on her face.But that didn't affect her beauty.She has green eyes, and those eyes are full of joyful light.She sat there gracefully, and she had an aura that was not easy to approach just by sitting.She was wearing a moon-white robe with complex magic circles embroidered with gold thread, and she could even feel the flow of magic power inside.On the chest of the clothes is the family crest of the Hellman family - a crossed sword and a wand.

"I turned off everything today just for your arrival." Edith held my hand and sat on the sofa with me. She looked me up and down, and her smile gradually widened: " I knew it. You're just like your mother."

"The patriarch," Mr. Alston said, handing me a cup of tea, "Miss Alice has been on the go all day, and it's time for her to rest early."

Edith shrugged: "Well, what you said is always right. Alice, you go to rest first, and we can talk about things tomorrow. Auston will take you to the room."

"One more thing, Mr. Grindelwald just now..."

"Didn't I tell him to give me a day off?" Edith frowned in dissatisfaction.

"The saints are busy, Mr. Grindelwald must be because—"

"You always have good things to say about him, Alston," Edith interrupted with a wave of his hand.She pulled me up and pushed me out of the living room, "Okay. Alice, I'll show you the room. If there's anything you don't like, just tell the house elves. Oston, help I'm going to get rid of Gellert."

"Patriarch..."

Mr Alston's complaints were shut inside the door.It seems that the relationship between Edith and Grindelwald is not an ordinary subordinate. Could it be that they also knew each other before?I think of Dumbledore again... Stop, Alice, you're going to make up a family drama.

On the way to my room, Edith asked me some more questions, mostly about my body.She just asked questions without any conclusions, but I think she should already have the answer in her heart.

She took me to the room and said good night to me at the door: "I wish you a sweet dream, Alice. Seeing you is a rare joy for me in recent years."

Edith has always given me the impression of being decisive, swift and resolute, and at the same time a bit lazy and playful.Her sudden utterance sounded sad, but before I could say anything, she was gone.

Seeing you is a rare joy for me in these years.

I chewed this sentence over and over again.So what have you been upset about, Edith?