HP's Adagio Minor

Hogsmeade? The Three Broomsticks

Sally Ann was lying on the soft seat table by the window, the quill in her hand was non-stop, and the wind outside was mercilessly beaten on the window by the sleet - in the past, the Three Broomsticks were always full of people, but today However, the cold climate has blocked the footsteps of many people.

Originally, Sally Ann could also go to the Hogwarts library to study by herself like most Ravenclaws, or stay in the dormitory to read books, but these comfortable choices are not comparable to butter beer.It's just that the precautionary measures around the school are getting tighter and tighter, and it's really not easy to come to Hogsmeade—especially after going through a long queue and Filch being blocked in front of the oak gate. After repeated testing with his spy device.

Anthony and his pal Terry Boot sat on another soft seat, and they were playing with the latest "Treasure Adventure" from the "Currant Toy Company"-after the dice landed, every grid in the sand table It will show a completely different simulated scene, and those realistic sounds, lights and shadows are very magical.

"Dear Lola,"

Sally Ann wrote on the patterned letter paper,

"Thank you very much for the gift you sent, we all like it, especially Anthony - he plans to play all the endings corresponding to the number of grids in the game, this is really a big project, even if there is a strategy in hand, it is very difficult It was done, but he never got tired of it.

I think you can see that we are much freer now than last term.According to the 'OWLs' results of last semester, there are only six courses left in my curriculum, and I am very glad that I did not take other less important subjects, after all, the homework is much more difficult than before-of course, You can't always relax when you don't have classes, because the professors always give a lot of homework - Professor Flitwick said we are now warming up for 'NEWTs', and I think he is right exactly.

The one that bothers me the most is probably the silent spells - Defense Against the Dark Arts, Charms and Transfiguration are all starting to require us not to say the spell aloud to make the magic work - Merlin!It's not easy!

In the common room or at dinner, there are always people practicing with their faces flushed, and I am one of them (grimace).Compared with Professor Snape's merciless penalty for those students who 'chant' in class, I'd rather stay a little longer in Professor Sprout's herbal conservatory - facing those difficult to deal with at least she won't stop us from chanting out loud..."

Soon, a page was finished, and Sally Ann moved the letter paper to the side, then took out a new one, and continued to write:

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Anthony and I are in the same class except for a few important courses that are related to graduation grades, and we have to arrange our own time - he stays up late to calculate complex astrological trajectories, and falls asleep during the day, while I have to go to the library all day to dig out old books and translate A large block of symbols on it - if it's a Quidditch practice, I won't even see him...

Actually, I'm not complaining, it's just that we've been together for a long time, and it's really not as warm as before, and all the feelings have become faint-maybe love is like this, although I'm used to each other's company, but I have to let go Some space to give life that must be faced alone.

Having said that, I have to admit that the news of your breakup with Anos really 'shocked' me—even though it happened last month, and you kept it a secret for so long—Merlin!I really don't know what to say, do you know how confused I was when I first read the letter? !

Let me tell you, there is no need to break up like this between you. Parents will definitely worry about their children's feelings before making a final decision. Isn't that what Anthony and I are like?What's more, the Barodis family does not need to rely on marriage to consolidate their status at present (this is what you told me)-I can fully imagine how sad you will be-so, I can't understand Aunt Sunderland and Auntie Why is Uncle Degar so worried.

But anyway, Lola, we are immature now, and in the dialectic of things, at least you now have regained the treasure you once held in chains—freedom!And I believe that all this will not continue to get worse, after all, after staying in Durmstrang for so long, your 'heart' must be much 'stronger' than mine..."

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After writing three sheets of letter paper in one go, Sally Ann put down her pen and picked up her half-drunk wine glass—the spelled butterbeer was kept at a suitable temperature, neither too hot nor too cold.

[If only Hogwarts elves could make this, it shouldn't be too hard, maybe I can try it myself...]

As she thought, she accidentally dropped the letter papers on the ground, and one of them happened to cover the instep of the person who had just passed the aisle—Brace Zabini stopped, waved the wand in his hand silently, and easily passed Cleaned up the ink stains on the trouser legs due to the not yet dry letter paper.

He glanced lightly at the letter paper, paused slightly after seeing the address and the name of the person, and then looked away without leaving a trace, "The next person who passes by will not touch the ink bottle."

"I'm sorry, but this was an accident."

Sally Ann had no intention of arguing with the inexplicably arrogant Slytherin. Seeing this, the other party did not make any more sarcasm. Instead, she went to the bar and ordered a drink, and then leaned lazily by the wooden pillar in front of the stairs.

"What happened just now?" Anthony asked after recovering from the game sandbox.

"Nothing, how is the battle going? Did you win?"

"Not yet, we've reached an impasse—" He looked at the empty wine glass on the girl's table, "Do you want another drink?"

"No." Sally Ann shook her head.

Terry Boot on the side took a few sips of butter beer and clicked his mouth, "This thing will change its taste when it's cold...Hurry up, let's continue!"

"Ok."

At the urging of his friend, Anthony turned his attention back to the game again.

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After a while, the door of the Three Broomsticks was slammed open, and someone said angrily: "—he's stealing from Sirius!"

Sally Ann looked up and saw 'Charming Potter' (as the girls have privately called him since he became Professor Slughorn's beloved student and captain of Gryffindor Quidditch) and His buddy, Granger, and Weasley walked in together.

"I know, Harry, but please stop yelling, everyone is watching you." Granger looked a little embarrassed, she whispered again, and walked to the counter of the bar, while Potter He was still angrily saying this to Weasley in his seat.

Sally Ann did not stare at this 'celebrity' curiously like the others. The Gryffindors were chattering all day long in school, and she had long been used to it.

"Crackling-"

The square in Anthony's hand exploded with colorful fireworks-he won the game.

"We're going back," he stretched, "I feel a little tired."

"My stomach was protesting," says Terry Boot. "It digested breakfast."

"Almost all the restaurants in the village are closed, we have to go back to school to eat," Sally Ann packed her book bag, "but before that, I have to post the letter."

"For Lola? Okay, but I suggest you choose manual delivery. In this weather, Durmstrang may have had a blizzard for several nights in a row."

"Of course, I think so too."

Sally Ann and Anthony smiled at each other.

"Can you please stop showing affection at the teahouse, this is not Mrs. Puddiffe's teahouse..." Boot couldn't bear it a little bit, "In order to appease the wounded young heart of me, a bachelor, we have to buy something fun."

"But the condiment shop is sealed off with wooden boards, we saw it when we entered the village just now."

"Then go to the Honeydukes Candy Store and get something delicious."

"Okay, let's go!"

The three Ravenclaws put on their cloaks, scarves and gloves, and prepared to leave the warm comfort.The two senior Gryffindor girls a few tables away seemed to feel that the weather would only get worse if they stayed any longer, so they also stood up.

As soon as the door was opened, the sleet of rain and snow blowing in the wind was mixed with the severe cold wind, which scratched her cheeks sorely——Sallyanne recited a windproof spell in a low voice, and only then did she feel relieved.

They trudged through the frozen slush, planning to take a shortcut to the Wizarding Post Office on Central Street.

"It's too cold, how about giving me another shot, Sally Ann?" Boot sneezed.

"Why don't you come by yourself." Anthony glared at him dissatisfied, seeing that this guy was unwilling to take his hands out of his pockets at all, so he could only cast a warming spell on him.

After arriving at the post office, Sally Ann went to the window to handle manual delivery, while the two teenagers huddled in the narrow hallway, hiding from the denser and faster rain and snow.

"I guess he must be confused, after all, it's an 'evil' school of black magic." Boot looked at the postman's face turning blue after hearing the destination of the letter, and muttered in a low voice.

Then, the three of them walked through the alley again and came to the fork in the road, only to see several vague figures gathered together in the distance, and noisy voices continued to come.They walked up quickly - in the middle of the crowd, a Gryffindor girl was lying on the ground writhing and screaming, her eyes were wide open, as if a terrible force was tormenting her.

"Katy! Katie!"

"Hold her, hold her——!"

"The spell stops! No, no!"

Weasley, Granger, and the other senior girl tried to silence her, but nothing worked.

"They walked behind us just now," Sally Ann said. "What the hell is going on?"

"Get out of the way! Let me see!"

At this moment, a voice from outside the crowd shouted loudly——Haggar, Hogwarts' protection of magical creatures teacher and forestry caretaker, came, followed by Potter, who was out of breath.

Hagrid only looked at the girl for a second, then bent down to pick her up without a word, turned and ran towards the castle.After a few seconds, Katie's screams were inaudible, and there was only the whistling of the wind.

The next day, the whole school spread the news—and this seventh-grade Gryffindor girl named Katie Bell was transferred to St. Mungo's Hospital for Injuries and Magic for intensive treatment early in the morning. The reason why he was cursed was because he almost touched an opal necklace with a vicious curse on it...

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"The social practice registration for this school year starts today. It will be divided into three batches. Each batch of students will have a week-long practical activities in a unified training place... I personally suggest that everyone actively register. The social practice scores can be obtained at the end of the term. You can get extra points in the 'OWLs'... Students who want to participate can go to the student union office, or the student union resident point in the hall to register..."

Professor Scott was talking dryly, and the chalk behind him was unaffected at all, still crackling and writing class notes on the blackboard.

Lola propped her head, the shorthand quill in front of her was bouncing back and forth on the parchment, she stared at a series of smooth handwriting, but her thoughts drifted out of the classroom, so that she failed to notice the misspelled words of the quill.

For the Durmstrangs, it is really not easy to squeeze out time to participate in social practice in fifth grade, but Lola has made up her mind - after class, she will go directly to the student union office , wrote his name on the thin registration form.

Since breaking up with Anders, Lola has had many suitors around her, but she hasn't dated any of them.In her memory, Anos is everywhere in the school, in the corridor, in the library, in the self-study room, on the river bank—she misses him all the time, but at the same time, she hates him for being behind her parents' interference. Compromise, those who hate him leave without saying goodbye.

Such contradictory thoughts almost drove Lola crazy, and she desperately wanted to change to a different environment to breathe.And in the personnel list, the girl was a little surprised to see Adrian's name—not only did the two participate in social practice in the same group, but they were also assigned to a group.

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Student social practice base? Forest farm

"... I didn't expect that this job looks easy, but it is not easy to do."

Lola dragged a mountain log to the iron frame and fixed it, then pulled the knife back and forth to saw the log into small pieces, "And what I didn't expect was that the social practice turned out to let us bid farewell to the magic wand, 'handmade 'Work."

"This is also a required course for field practice," Adriatic swung the long-handled axe, and split the short logs into chunks of firewood, "Of course, I don't think we will have a way to find tools after losing the wand. "

"Pfft!" Lola couldn't help laughing.

"—After building two more piles of firewood, we can apply for another group." Adri moved the split wood to the firewood house, and then the two of them neatly removed the half-rotten trees on the wood with a knife. Peel off.

After working for a while, they finally piled up another pile of firewood—but before proceeding with the last pile of firewood, they decided to take a short rest.

"Adrey, why are you the first batch here?" Lola was holding a hot teapot, sitting on the wide wooden fence, "I thought you would wait for Frigo to sign up with him after the league ended. ",

"First of all, I'm a prefect, so I have to take the lead, and Frigo and I... it's hard for us to get together now." Adri's tone was light, he took another water bottle from Lola, and looked up After taking a few sips, "After all, he is also very busy now. Apart from participating in Quidditch training, he also has to be acquainted at the sorority party, show off, and fall in love with those schoolgirls."

"He and the girls? At the sorority? How is that possible!" Lola was surprised. "You, you and Frigo didn't always—" She paused, "You always liked him, didn't you?"

Adriatic turned his head suddenly, he stared at the girl, a sharp glint flashed in his eyes, "How do you know?!"

"Oh, I don't mean to offend." Lola was not intimidated by the boy's angry questioning, on the contrary, she also felt that it was a novelty that Adrian no longer maintained his usual gentleness, "but it's not hard to notice , although your relationship with Frigo has always been very close, it is clearly different from ordinary good friends—maybe you haven’t noticed that you often keep a subtle distance from your classmates, just like me and…”

Having said that, Lola's voice gradually decreased.

"Tali and the others know too?" Adrian asked after a moment of silence.

"I don't know, but I'm sure they are very careful people."

Hearing what Lola said, Adrian's face was a little stiff, and after a while he smiled bitterly and said, "You mean, even they are... yes, after all, this kind of thing happens frequently in school, and I have already behaved enough It's obvious, how could they not notice it!" He looked at the girl, "Lola, don't you think we should do this? After all, in the traditional sense, we are brothers after forming a new family..."

"But from the perspective of surnames, you have no blood relationship at all, and this is indeed a fact-I don't think you need to be disturbed by this. According to the laws of some countries, two same-sex wizards with different surnames can combine ——Therefore, there is no 'should not' in this matter itself."

"But he is as insensitive as a rock," Adriatic said bitterly. "Last time, he asked me which girl in the cheerleading squad of a girls' school it is better to ask."

Lola has never met this handsome prefect with such a decadent side, so she can only try her best to comfort her, "No one will not feel that they are liked."

"So he is avoiding me and asking me to give up, but he himself would rather stay in place than confess this matter to me - he is a fool." Adri said angrily, and jumped off The fence, kicked the freshly formed, not strong enough ice shoots on the snow into pieces.

Lola looked at his distraught look, and suddenly remembered that Pierre hadn't read those photo magazines for a while, and whenever Adrian left early for a meeting, he would put down his knife and fork and stay alone.

"Maybe he is not as dull as you think, and, I envy you all—at least, he is still by your side—unlike someone who has gone far away and lived the leisurely life of his heir." .

Lola's words made Eddie stop his venting behavior, and he leaned back to the fence silently. For a while, the surroundings became silent—only the sound of snow falling after the branches shook slightly.

"Okay, let's keep going, finish it sooner, and we can go back to the dormitory sooner." Lola pretended to be brisk and said, trying to break the condensed atmosphere around her. She imitated the viciousness of the boy just now and jumped down. High fence.

"Ah, my feet are so numb." She stood there and muttered softly.

"Actually," Adrian said suddenly, "he's not doing well now—the forces of the Death Eaters have invaded Germany, and the governments of various countries have also terminated all business exchanges with Germany at the end of last month and sealed off the borders. "

"Who are you talking about?" Lola turned around in a daze, and asked in an inflected voice, "Why do you mention Death Eaters?"

Seeing the girl staring at him closely, Adrian looked away uncomfortably, "...Although the Ungenard family and the von Stilland family are related by marriage, they belong to different countries after all—our it can not be helped."