HP's Adagio Minor

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As soon as Lola came to the secret study, she saw the portrait pacing back and forth in the frame, without the leisurely look of the past at all.

"What's up, Ruddy"

"Oh, Lola, you came so early today - I'm fine, I just can't stand it - what is this!" the portrait grumbled, "Another person has disappeared and died, and those who attacked the wizard Dementors, the world is in such a mess, why is there no one to take care of it?!"

Lola glanced at the thick old newspapers from the summer vacation, "It's really messy in England."

"No, no, no, not only England, but the whole of Europe is messed up!" The portrait pointed to a newspaper headline and said, "Look, even the headmaster of Durmstrang can't escape the pursuit of death—'Finland The Ministry of Magic has confirmed that the dead body of the man found in the Nellimer Forest Logging Camp yesterday morning is the headmaster of Durmstrang, Igor Karkaroff'..."

"To be precise, he's just the former principal, and he's been on the run for a year."

"But he is still dead. I guess he wanted to forcefully cross the border from Nellimer and enter Russia... God of the wild north, these Death Eaters are simply too rampant!"

"..."

Lola didn't make a sound, she didn't sleep well recently, and she really couldn't get up to discuss these things——Since she entered the Black Magic Association, she has been practicing the balance of magic control and internal magic value, but with the magic The sensitivity increased, and her eye circles became deeper and deeper.However, the portrait obviously didn't notice this, and continued to talk a lot on its own, almost repeating the names, causes of death, and places of discovery of almost all the living (now dead) people it had a little impression of.

"Lady!" Lola interrupted the portrait a little irritably, "Can't you be quiet for a while?"

"Quiet?! I've just been 'quiet' for four weeks." The portrait sat back on the chair with a puckered mouth, watching the girl unpack the tightly bound package in her hand, "It's from Hogwarts again? What did your good sister send this time?"

"I do not know."

Lola found the letter paper from a lot of strange things and started to read it. For a while, the study was so quiet that only the ticking of the chiming clock was left. This was because Lola couldn't understand the star and moon watch, so she bought it by mail order. .

Sally Ann's letter is still very long, almost listing all the interesting things during the summer vacation, and of course she did not forget to express her condolences to her old wand——

[...When Anthony showed me the spells he learned from DA, I thought, I must learn these too, but I did rush it so much that the fragile hazel wand broke in the middle, you know , I wanted to fix it, but Mr. Ollivander disappeared. My dad said that even if the wand is repaired, it will work differently, which is really bad...]

and excitement about the new wand—

【...Oh Merlin!This wand turned out to be better than I expected, and I have to confess to you that I didn't expect it to be so smooth, after all, I had to stay in the 'summer training salon' all day, and I couldn't go to Germany to meet Grigor. I met Mr. Vitch, but this famous master wand maker in Europe was able to choose a suitable wand for me through the fine data of the hazelnut wood wand, what a rare thing...]

For the recent turmoil in Britain, she still seems to have a lot of regrets——

[...Diagon Alley is really messy, my parents don't allow me to buy the school supplies on the enrollment form alone, but luckily Anthony helped me buy them all.By the way, remember the Gryffindor twins with red hair?We've also discussed where the two of them differed from one another's silliness - after they left Hogwarts, they opened a joke shop at 93 Diagon Alley and it was booming! 】

According to Anthony's description, it is a novelty and crazy shop. The brand-new window is full of colors, and there are all kinds of rotating, twitching, flashing, jumping and screaming products, and the giant posters posted on the side are even more humorous. Bitterness and irony coexist—Lola couldn't help but burst out laughing after reading the advertisement for 'Constipation Ren'.

"Quick-acting skipping candy... nosebleed nougat... magic wand... joke crucible..." The portrait tilted its neck and read the words on the large and small packaging boxes word by word, "Aha, there is still invisibility □□, whoever invented these things must be very fond of pranks!"

"You're right!" Lola shook off a whole set of anti-spell suits, touched the fabric carefully, and then frowned--explosive models are always difficult to attract.

"Hey! Lola, look, there are so many interesting things here, why don't you try one out?" The portrait looked at the girl eagerly, God knows how curious it was about all this.

"Oh, of course, but I don't want to juggle here right now, wait," Lola held a beautiful palm-sized box in her hand, and read the explanatory text on it, "'Daydream spell, just say one Spell, you can enter a high-quality, extremely realistic three 10-minute daydream, suitable for ordinary school classes... This is quite suitable for me!"

As she said that, she opened the paper box, and a beautiful colorful butterfly flew out of the box. When the wings flapped, there would be shiny gold powder sprinkled down—the girl stared at the butterfly, and soon felt that her whole body was floated up.She yawned and leaned on the sofa in a more comfortable position, enjoying the fun of fantasy.

The portrait silently watched the girl 'sleep' with her eyes open, and had no other way to pass the time except for the silly onlookers, so by observing the subtle changes in the expression on the girl's face, she guessed what she was dreaming about.

At first, Lola looked a little sluggish, with the corners of her mouth occasionally curled up, but soon, her brows were wrinkled, her fists were clenched, and she was dripping with sweat. After a while, she suddenly sat up in shock——

"How long have I been asleep?" Lola asked breathlessly.

"Only 10 minutes." The portrait is surprised that the girl wakes up from the hypnotic trick so quickly, but it can be seen that what she experienced was not a beautiful dream.

"I have to go, and I have to check the bed later." Lola stood up from the sofa and adjusted her robes. The sticky cold sweat on her back made her feel very uncomfortable, and she wanted to wash up urgently.Before using the Portkey to leave, she suddenly remembered something, "Professor Scott will announce the comprehensive evaluation of new members tomorrow, and my chances of being promoted to intermediate members are only about half."

"You should have more confidence."

"I will, see you tomorrow."

"Well, don't forget to bring the crystal ball, I love watching those elves make desserts."

"..."

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Saturday, the wizarding town of Syolva

Lola jumped off the reindeer tackle, and Yolanda and Lavinina got off behind her.On the way here, the two girls kept discussing the most fashionable and novel wizarding goods. It seemed that today they decided to do some shopping.

After finalizing the meeting time and repeatedly exhorting the two to pay attention to safety, Lola walked towards the 'Iris Kiss' alone.

As soon as Emily saw Lola, she hugged enthusiastically, "Oh! Lola, I won't see you soon, I miss you so much, how is your summer vacation!"

"It's very fulfilling! I've been soaking in sea water all day long, and I even wish I could turn into a fish." Lola smiled and handed over the paper box in her hand, "Newly released, from Durmstrang's underground kitchen."

"Oh, this is so rare—come here, Nata, and see who's coming."

"Good afternoon, Miss Barodis."

Nata, who was only six years old, was a little shy, but when she saw the magic wand and the joke cauldron, she suddenly became lively.

"OMG, are these all for me?!"

"Of course, you can take them all."

Seeing Nata's excited face, Lola and Emily looked at each other and smiled, and then "Iris Kiss" put up the sign of "rest".

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"It's changed so much here, I almost don't recognize it."

Lola sighed a little. Since the magic hurricane raged, most of the town has been rebuilt, and the old facilities have been demolished by the way, and the roads have been repaired uniformly, making it look brand new.

"You haven't been here for so long, no wonder you say that... By the way, I just asked someone to bring a kind of tea scented slices from Turkey last week. It is very suitable to be used with cakes. You will definitely like it."

While waiting for the master to make tea, Lola sat alone at the small round table in the flower gallery, watching a tall tree next to it drop blue-purple petals, covering the entire yard one after another, feeling a bit dreamy.

"It's so beautiful! It's autumn now, I didn't expect this jacaranda to bloom so luxuriantly." After Lola finished speaking, she was suddenly taken aback—she had never seen this kind of flower before, how could she say so? What about its name and growth habit?

"Probably because there are enough nutrients in the soil. You must know that I did not sprinkle plant nutrients less. This 'Blue Mist' was moved directly from Brazil. I didn't expect you to know it."

Emily's cheerful voice came from the small kitchen window, and after a while, she came out with a crystal teacup.The magic flame on the tray was dancing around the transparent teapot, the water inside was boiled quickly, Emily lifted the lid, twisted a piece of tea leaves into it, and then a fresh orange smell spread out.

"Welcome to taste."

"Thank you."

Lola took a sip and felt that the taste of this tea was stronger than the fruit tea she drank on weekdays. Just as she was about to open her mouth to speak, a round bubble that looked like an orange came out of her mouth It popped out, shaking tremblingly in the air, expanding until it burst.

"Orange bubble tea?"

"Ah, have you ever drank?! No wonder you don't look surprised at all." Emily said regretfully, expecting Lola to 'panic'.

Lola smiled, but the doubts in her heart were even greater, because she was sure that she had never heard of or tasted this kind of tea.

"Nata, come and eat cake!"

Hearing her mother's call, the little girl flew crookedly over on a toy broom, and the magic wand in her hand was still spitting out colorful fireworks.

"Look at you sweating, you're playing too crazy." Emily straightened her daughter's hair, and then distributed a piece of cherry cream cake to her plate.

Lola looked at the warm picture of the mother and daughter, and felt that all this was extremely familiar—the slightly crooked cream decoration due to melting, the number of cherries, the size of the cherries, and even the maple syrup flowing out of the stuffing, dripping The marks on the tablecloth... All of this made her feel extremely familiar, as if she had come to a dream.

Are you dreaming?

Lola shook her head secretly, feeling that she was thinking too much, but she couldn't explain this strange feeling herself.The dream and the reality were constantly overlapping and repeating, so that she was a little confused.

She raised her head, the dense clouds above her head covered the daylight, the cool autumn wind blew by, and the branches and leaves made soft sounds—if all this was the same as that daydream, then what would happen next?

The girl suddenly didn't dare to think about it any further.

At this time, Emily was teaching Nata to cut cake slices, and during the demonstration, a cherry was scraped off the table.

"Oh, how careless I was."

"It's okay, mom, the birds like to eat cherries too." Nata said innocently, grabbed the cherries and threw them into the grass.

"You, you can't just throw things around!" Emily said helplessly.

"But birds love cherries! Are you right, Miss Barodis? The birds will come soon, won't they?"

Facing Nata's expectant expression, Lola replied without thinking, "Yes, there will be a little bird taking the cherry. It is white and has long tail feathers..."

Before Lola finished speaking, a snow-like muffin bird with long tail feathers flapped its wings and landed on the grass.

"Lola, have you learned to predict?!" Emily couldn't help exclaiming, causing Nata to follow suit, "Wow, so, does it like to eat cherries?"

"No, I think, it hasn't had time to taste—"

The muffin bird flew up with the cherry stalk in its mouth, but for some reason, the cherry fell down again. Lola looked at this scene, her face became paler and paler.

"What's wrong with you? You look so bad? Are you uncomfortable?"

"No, nothing."

The bright red cherries rolled on the cobblestone path until they hit the wooden fence at the end of the garden, just outside the fence, a pair of elegant soft leather boots stopped.

"Sorry, the store is closed today." Emily said apologetically.

"Excuse me, ma'am, I'm actually here to find someone." The visitor saluted gentlemanly, and then shifted his gaze to Lola who was slowly standing up.

"Who is he? Do you know him?"

"Yes, he's mine, uh..."

After meeting Emily's ambiguous eyes, the girl's words automatically silenced.Emily was even happier about this, she had never seen Lola so at a loss.

"Can you go for a walk with me?" Anos, who was dressed in a handsome black dress robe, set off his handsome demeanor, leaned slightly, and invited with standard and decent etiquette.

"..."

Sensing Lola's hesitation, Emily couldn't help but push her. A little bit of motivation is always needed between young couples who are at odds.