HP's Adagio Minor

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In March, Scotland slowly wakes up in the mood of spring, and the never-ending sea breeze sweeps across the highlands, spreading the seeds of dwarf fern all over the field.Between the rolling hills, an off-road four-wheel drive motorcycle travels along the winding rails, shallows, gravel, valleys...it is not afraid of anything that hinders it.

Lola gripped the handle tightly. Although the journey was bumpy, there was an indescribable novelty.However, the operation of any means of transportation requires the support of 'energy'. Staring at the constantly beating red dots on the display screen, she pressed the accelerator to the bottom helplessly—after she bit the bullet and continued driving for a few minutes, the 'numb' Melon machine 'finally got stuck in the mud and couldn't move.

At this time, the setting sun had already sunk into the horizon, and in the deep blue sky, only the star Sirius was shining coldly. The girl jumped out of the car seat resentfully, and walked along the track.She stepped on the muddy wet soil, turned up a higher hillside and looked into the distance, but apart from the continuous wilderness, she didn't even see the towering spire of the old castle.

In the blink of an eye, the sky was getting dark, and a large cloud of fog rose from the surface, but the railroad track disappeared in a flash?!

[This must be a high-level concealment magic,]

Lola thought to herself, but didn't know which direction to choose.

Just when the girl was at a loss, there was a faint sound of horseshoes coming from far and near. She groped in the fog following the sound, and accidentally squeezed into the magic barrier. The dense fog gradually dispersed, revealing a narrow driveway surrounded by dense forests The ground stretches its branches and wraps the sky airtight.

The sound of horseshoes was close at hand, but it stopped abruptly.

"Who is there?"

A deep female voice resounded in the darkness, and then a ray of fluorescent light illuminated the surroundings——Lola half-covered her eyes with her hands, and slowly got used to the sudden light: I saw a light carriage parked by the side of the road, a glazed cart There was a glimmer of light in the window, and the four Grellon horses leading the carriage pouted, their long, shiny black mane almost hanging down to the ground.

"Please forgive me, I strayed into this place and didn't mean to block your way." Lola stepped back cautiously, and quietly clenched the wand around her waist with her right hand, "...Maybe you can tell me that this place is far from Hogwart How far is it?"

"Are you going to Hogwarts?"

The owner of the carriage opened the window, and under the brim of the hat embellished with gorgeous ornaments, a pair of slender and charming eyes sized up the girl, and finally stopped his gaze on her messy long silver hair.

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The elegant carriage is filled with the fragrance of rose dew, and the wall-mounted oil lamp sways slightly as the wheels move forward. Under the shining light of the fire, two beautiful shadows are projected on the window.

"...So, Miss Barodis wants to find someone?"

"Yes." Lola nodded, "Sally Ann is not only my cousin, but also my best friend, but she hasn't sent me a reply in the past few months, so I thought... "

"I can understand your feelings," Mrs. Zabini slowly closed the feather fan, and saw her red lips lightly parted, and the words she spit out were low and blurred like rhymes, "But after all, the teaching philosophy of each school is different. Laxity is the opposite, especially for Hogwarts - it's not what it used to be."

"Of course, ma'am, I totally agree with this! It's just that I hope to meet Sally Ann before I go back to school—I miss her so much!"

The girl's words were sincere and sincere, even though she was wearing trousers, her sitting posture was still very regular and decent, and her speech and behavior all showed good upbringing-of course, the behavior of the other party breaking into a world full of magic traps is indeed a bit risky, but Madame Zabini didn't care.

She remembered this child, even though she only saw it once at the funeral of old Pritchard, but such a unique hair color and exotic northern temperament were impressive.And in the girl's bright emerald eyes, the look condensed is more tenacious and indifferent than her peers - she is as quiet and peaceful as her name 'Lola', with a sense of indescribable independence , as if drifting away from the whole world.

Wait, Lola Barodis?

Mrs. Zabini's eyes showed a hint of doubt. She felt that the name was inexplicably familiar, but she couldn't remember where she had seen it before.But in just a moment, she brought the topic to other things.After disclosing some basic information to each other, the two ladies quickly got to know each other in a short conversation, and the atmosphere in the car became more harmonious.

At this time, the carriage had already entered the small town of Hogsmeade.Since the new government came to power, this town of pure wizards has been stationed here by special personnel from the Ministry of Magic. Even Hogwarts students or residents of this town must show special letters when entering and leaving the town. Foreign wizards without letters are not allowed to stay here for a long time.

Lola could fully imagine that even if she came here smoothly, she would be deported because she didn't have a permit—and what's worse, she might be taken to the city as a Muggle-born wizard or a pure-blood traitor. Ministry of Magic interrogation.

Of course, none of this happened. After the staff member who wanted to check the carriage recognized Mrs. Zabini, he smiled wrinkledly, and even Lola's identity was passed by in an understatement of greetings.

"I really don't know what to say—if it wasn't for you, I'm afraid I'd still be wandering in place at this time, and I wouldn't be able to discern my direction until sunrise." Lola said gratefully.

"The dew is heavy at night, I can't bear to see you alone." Even for the sake of the Pritchard family, she would not ignore it coldly, "I originally wanted to book a room at the Three Broomsticks, but I didn't realize that It’s full — it looks like you’ll have to squeeze in the lobby if you want a nostalgic glass of cherry soda mead.”

Lola and Mrs. Zabini got out of the carriage and walked into the small and dark hotel next to the Three Broomsticks.

"I want one, no, two warm and comfortable rooms."

"Oh, thank you, Mrs. Zabini . . . I think I'm ready for that."

Lola hurriedly took out the Galleon to pay the rent, the pocket money in the small bag was enough for her to live here for a while.Seeing this, Mrs. Zabini did not insist anymore, but invited the girl to enjoy afternoon tea tomorrow.

Lola readily accepted, bid farewell to this unexpectedly easy-going lady, and went back to her room to wash up.After eating some dry bread with the cream soup, she lay on the hard wooden bed and let out a sigh of relief. She was extremely tired, but the strange things around her made it impossible to fall asleep all at once.

Graham didn't know if he had returned to Latvia and was separated from him during the apparition. He should be very worried. I hope that Mr. Muggle has sent his message back home... It is conceivable that he plans to Coming to Hogwarts will definitely surprise everyone, and parents may be angry, but if this is the way to know Sally Ann's situation smoothly, what's so bad about it... As for the beast riding competition, the next schedule You don't need to play by yourself, even if you return to the team late, it shouldn't be a big problem. Anyway, Professor Mandeln has given his students the 'privilege' of teaching assistants, and he has done all this as a social practice for this semester... At this point, I don't know what Alexei is doing, maybe, she should find a way to tell him, so that he won't be anxious because he has no news from him...

After thinking wildly for a long time, the girl finally fell asleep.

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She slept very restlessly that night, and Lola woke up early.

Staring at the shabby room, she was stunned for a while before remembering that she was in Hogsmeade—but although minors were allowed to use magic here, it was still under the supervision of the Ministry of Magic, so Lola had to live on. Like a 'Muggle'.

The streets are often patrolled. In order to avoid the troubles caused by her Eastern European appearance, Lola hardly ever goes out except to drink tea and chat with Mrs. Zabini occasionally——she plans to go to Hoag When Watts' students come to the wizarding town, try to find a way to contact Sally Ann.

Saturday came quickly, but very few students entered the town.Lola crouched on the window sill and watched the figures in uniform robes - most of them were students of Slytherin house, as could be discerned from the inner lining of the cap and placket.

Lola couldn't help but her heart sank. She had reason to suspect that after the extremely eccentric former Slytherin headmaster, Professor Snape, became the headmaster, the entire Hogwarts system would definitely change drastically.According to Sally Ann's description in the letter, it is not difficult to infer that Gryffindor must bear the brunt of the suppression, and the other two colleges cannot stay out of the matter-they have to be forced to stand.

Although Durmstrang and Slytherin House got along fairly well during the Triwizard Tournament, they belonged to two schools after all, so although Lola knew a lot of Slytherin, she didn't know much about it. Convince them to bring themselves a letter.

There is nothing worse than this. Seeing the sun go down, the girl was anxious in the room—just at this moment, there was a hasty knock on the door.

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"Please come in."

Mrs. Zabini put down the teacup in her hand and looked at the young man who pushed the door in.

"Mom." Blaise Zabini closed the door gently, and sat down on the chair beside her under the signal of his mother, "I didn't expect you to come in person."

"I haven't seen you for several months, Blaise." Mrs. Zabini looked at her son tenderly, "It's very unusual that you chose to stay in school during the Christmas holiday...I guess you don't want to stay in school during the Easter holiday. Will be back—don't you know your poor mother is at home, anxious not to hear from you?"

"I have been writing to you, once a week. Before graduation, I have to participate in social practice twice. Taking advantage of the vacation is the least impact on the schoolwork arrangement, and you know, I don't like your current residence."

He never called that house home, and in his heart, there was no other home but...

Mrs. Zabini only showed a charming smile when she heard the words. She knew that her son was a little bit resistant to her several marriages, and his growth also exacerbated this negative emotion. This is why she came to Hogsmeade specially—— Although the current situation does not involve the Zabini family, she still has to remind him that after all, he is still a little immature in communication methods-and these contents are obviously not suitable for writing in letters that will be monitored at any time.

After half an hour, Mrs. Zabini filled the teapot again. Her expression seemed very satisfied, and she was a little relieved, "I like drinking scented tea more than others. Look, what a beautiful tea soup."

"I think I must go back. Professor Slughorn has invited me to the club."

Blaise stood up, and Mrs. Zabini looked at his tall and thin figure. Although the conversation seemed to be only about "official business", the relationship between the mother and son was not alienated. He was her only son. Mrs. Zabini knew very well At this point, the wealth of the entire Zabini family belongs to him, as long as he wants it.

And Blaise has indeed been moving in the direction of the heir, he has done a good job, even as good as the young master of the Malfoy family - but occasionally, she can't help but want to tease him, expecting him to be as shy as he was when he was a child Cute look.

"By the way, on the way to Hogsmeade this time, I happened to meet a female student from Durmstrang... I heard that her ancestral home is in Latvia on the Baltic Sea. Bearing her family, Barodis the Silver Ax is famous in the wizarding world."

Mrs. Zabini spoke slowly, seeing her son's figure as expected.

"...Lola Barodis?"

"What? You know Miss Barodis?" Mrs. Zabini pretended to be surprised, but before her son could speak, she justified herself, "Ah, yes, she once represented the school in the Triwizard Tournament. I remember that You've been talking to me about these 'northern visitors' for a while... She lives in Room 7 on the second floor, maybe you can give her this plate of delicious baked biscuits for me?"

After his mother complained a little about the hotel's poor food, Blaise couldn't say no more.But after the door was closed, he stood in the dark corridor, but an indescribable emotion arose in his whole body.

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Through the wooden door, Mrs. Zabini could not help laughing when she heard her son's footsteps leave after a short pause.

She knew Blaise very well. Although he looked like her, he was proud and sensitive by nature, and he was critical in his bones. In this, he was very much like his biological father.Therefore, he rarely makes friends, and rarely has anything to look at.

And in the corner of the cupboard in his study room, the chic little gift box has been kept for several years, and it has been specially cast with a dust removal spell-it says parting gift on it, signed by Lola Barodis.

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Walking down the second floor, Blaise brushes past a stumbling, cursing alcoholic.He frowned, the hotel with mixed dragon and fish was really annoying.In the room at the end of the corridor, the number plate with 'No. 7' was already rusted. Blaise was about to knock on the door, but found that the door was not locked.He hesitated for a moment, then pushed the wooden door lightly, the sour voice made the room look more shabby and empty... but there was no one in it?

At the moment when the young man was puzzled, a gust of cold wind was blowing towards the door, he instinctively took a step back, and almost fell against the door frame.

Lola originally thought that the bastard who smashed the door was causing trouble again, so she quietly stood behind the door, and when the man came in, she greeted the man with a beautiful backspin kick. She wanted to follow up with a straight punch, but found that the man unexpectedly It's a familiar face—it's just that it's impossible to stop this physical attack, so he had to try his best to deviate the direction a little.

Blaise stared at the fist fixed on the tip of his nose, and his eyes changed. If he hadn't been concerned about the person who punched, he might have thrown the curse away in the next moment.

"Why are you..." Lola lowered her fist. She didn't feel that she had done anything wrong—well, she couldn't use magic, so she could only rely on force to protect herself—but the livid face of the other party was really ugly , so she explained embarrassingly, "Sorry, I thought it was that person just now, he broke my door lock..."

Blaise snorted coldly, and stuffed the biscuits that were almost spilled on the ground into her hands, "My mother gave it to you!"

"Oh, thank you."

Lola took the plate and took the opportunity to look at the other person—he seemed to be a little taller than before, and his facial features were more three-dimensional. His cheekbones, eyebrows and eyes were almost exactly the same as those of Mrs. Zabini, but he had the unique vigor of young people.

It's just that these two people are not a "reunion of old friends". The atmosphere of the cold scene lasted for a while, and Blaise bowed slightly to say goodbye.

"Wait!" Lola hurriedly stopped him, "Well, Zabini...can you please bring a letter to Sally Ann? I'm here to see her this time, um, about some family matters— She hasn't written to me for months."

"It's not far from Ravenclaw Tower." Blaise squinted at the girl.

Lola understood what he meant, and was very helpless, "I'm not yet an adult, so I can't use magic 'outside school'."

She glanced at the broken door of the room, thinking that it would be suspicious if she asked someone to repair it later - because only minors would be trapped by Zongsi, unable to cast a simple repair spell.Could it be that she was going to tell someone that her wand was broken?Wouldn't this be even worse without an excuse?

You can't use magic, so why come here, a boring adventure.

The young man spoke with a poisonous tongue, and then walked out the door.

"Brace!"

Lola grabbed the other party's school uniform, only to force the "cold face king" to turn around in anger - he waved the other party's hand, "Miss Barodis," the young man raised his head, extremely arrogant He said, "I don't think we know that well - Slytherins don't have the slightest friendship with any other house, and always have, haven't they?"

"It's just a letter! Oral messages are fine too!" Lola interrupted him, "I'm just worried about her, and want to make sure she's doing well now, as for whether she's familiar with her... Could it be that you've lost your memory?!"

The girl attributed the other party's yin and yang to the British's high self-esteem-they always felt that the origin of the wizarding world was here.But Lola didn't realize at all that Blaise was actually angry because of the previous embarrassment-not every magic school puts as much emphasis on physical training as Durmstrang, at least not Hogwarts.

"I just want to ask you to do me a favor, count me as a favor to you!"

Lola has done her utmost sincerity, and finally met an acquaintance here, and she doesn't want to give up the opportunity easily.But Blaise didn't respond positively, until the other party left without saying a word, Lola sighed in frustration and anger.

Really, I hate this kind of soft and hard guy the most!

The author has something to say:

It's getting closer~~Finally come to Hogsmeade~~

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To be honest, I like to write this kind of guy who doesn't eat hard and tough, and has a venomous tongue. It seems that Blaise has been written as a Scorpio from a Virgo? !Well, anyway, Lola and the original supporting role will not go to CP, everyone will watch and cherish it.

Anders: I'm so miserable right now, I'm working as an undercover agent among a group of idiots, when will I play?

Alexey: My girlfriend disappeared, I can't find her, even though I'm the second male, how about asking for some help?

Heinrich: The author thinks my mature charm is more and more suitable for Lola?It's shameless to call it a CP, but I don't want to refuse for some reason...how about adding some drama to me?

Everyone at Hogwarts: Hey, hey, this dungeon is obviously our home game, so don’t waste time on romantic drama~ Hurry up, activate the buff, activate the skills, pay attention-the big devil is coming! ! ! !