[HP] Raven

Episode 13

It has been a week since Alex returned to school again. The news about her father has spread throughout Hogwarts. Everyone knows that this is a "voluntary accident" and no one will take a breath Drinking so many sleep aid potions, nothing but wishing to die.Lily had been doing activities with her during that time, and the two of them went to the library or the long table to read, eat candy, or chat—most of the time it was Alex who listened to Lily.She had no real sense of the bereavement, always feeling that it was just a dream.Lily, James, and Sirius all expressed their condolences to her, and Sirius even apologized to her. Of course Alex would not argue with him, but she still couldn't cheer up.

The matter of the infectious disease actually had a vigorous follow-up-Principal Dumbledore severely expelled individual students, and it is said that some of them were handed over to the Aurors of the Ministry of Magic. Alex heard Lily mention it several times, but everyone The truth of some things is still covered up.And, Alice Pence is still alive.Alex didn't bother with these chores anymore, her life was messed up enough.

That day, Lily and she were discussing the formula of some kind of potion on the long table, surrounded by noisy classmates, the final exam was coming, and everyone was talking about whether Professor Slughorn would come up with some difficult problems this year to make things difficult for everyone , Professor McGonagall also said that this year's test papers will be more difficult than previous years - in preparation for the fifth grade OWLs.

"Are you ready, I mean OWLs?" Lily asked a little nervously.

Alex was still a little dreamy. "It's pretty good. Anyway, that's a fifth grade thing."

Lily seemed to want to comfort her, but was afraid to mention her sadness. "Yes, there is still one year left. Let's prepare together."

Alex nodded, and continued to lower her head to write her herbal homework.

"Evans, Everly, you are all here!" James Potter appeared at the long table probably before dinner.

"What's the matter, Potter?" Lily stopped the History of Magic paper in her hand.

Potter looked at Lily. "You didn't go to Hogsmeade this weekend."

Lily sighed. "The exam is coming soon, Potter, I choose to study hard."

"That's exactly what you'd say." Potter sat next to her, grinning.

Alex put her head down and continued to do her homework. She knew that James Potter had always wanted to go to Hogsmeade with Lily, and he might want to date.This concept is not new in fourth years, and there are always many pairs of students in the teahouse in Hogsmeade, which is not unusual.

"Hi, Everly," Sirius walked over, followed by Lupine and Pediru, "I went to Hogsmeade to buy you a present."

She raised her head numbly.

"Have fun, Everly, here." Sirius Black threw her a small rag doll.The rag doll is the size of a palm, and to be fair, it looks a bit like her, with long black hair, blue eyes, and wearing a black wizard robe.

"Thank you." She was a little listless, but thanked politely.

"This is no ordinary rag doll," Sirius continued, "it will be fun if you press her stomach."

"...Like this?" Now that he had said that, she stretched out her finger and tapped the puppet's belly.

As soon as she pressed her finger down, the puppet with black hair and blue eyes let out a sharp cry: "I love you! I love you! I love you!"

Alex turned pale with fright, jumped up from the chair, and her heart jumped to her throat.

"What is this?!"

As if he had expected her reaction, Sirius laughed, and James and Pedilo laughed too. They seemed to be watching a funny comedy scene. After all, Avery was always a good student who was determined and serious. .The entire hall of Hogwarts was surrounded by their laughter, and the echo lingered in the empty dome. Many students looked up from their textbooks and parchments to look at them, wondering about the famous foursome Another fun thing happened.

Lupine was the first to speak out. He gently pushed Sirius, who was trembling with laughter, and said in a low voice, "This is not fun, Sirius, for Merlin's sake, don't stop talking." Laughed."

Lily looked at the pale Alex with worry, and stood up from the chair, glaring at Sirius Black and James Potter with her big light green eyes. "You guys are really going too far."

James stopped laughing immediately, and kicked his good friend who still didn't realize the seriousness of the problem.

The pranked protagonist, Alex Everly, stood there in a daze, her face turning red and then pale. Lupine looked at her worriedly, as if observing a tower that was about to collapse.Lily hesitated, wanting to grab Alex and say something comforting to her, but before she could speak, Alex immediately put away all her things on the desk.

"Sorry, I'm sorry." She hugged her books and stationery and hurried away with a panicked expression.

Alex stepped out of the hall without looking back. She walked around the Black Lake first, feeling very tired, and went to sleep in the dormitory in the cellar alone.The moment she woke up, she felt that she never wanted to talk to Sirius Black again in this life.

The final exams came in droves, and she was in no mood to study. Lily-Evans still came to her between exams, and brought stacks of review materials and candies and snacks like condolences. Sirius and James had a few times Both tried to talk to her, but Lily chased them away.They upset Alex.Although she was grateful to Lily, she had to admit that the help was minimal.After the exam, she got into the car home in a daze, forgetting to say goodbye to the others.Custody of her went to her widowed grandmother, and her only aunt, who was married to Eastern Europe, did not attend the funeral.She moved out of Seaweed Lane and lived with her grandmother in an overly empty ancestral house in Austria.

"From now on, as long as you live here, you must always watch your words and deeds." When she stepped through the door, her grandmother stared at her with piercing blue eyes, making her only request.

She was ill when she first moved in, because of her father, and maybe because of the new environment.A house elf was by her side every day, and the grandmother never showed up.

Lily sent her a letter at the beginning of the summer holidays about her vacation, Lily seemed to be having a great time, Alex replied saying that she and her grandmother spent all day together, she made up some activities that did not exist To hide the fact that my grandmother almost never sees or talks with me, mainly to reflect the enrichment of my summer vacation.She wanted to be alone for a while, afraid that Lily would ask her out to play.

Some of the remaining letters are from the Pike siblings and Helen-Claude, who seem to have met in the Muggle world. Helen-Claude said that their haunted house always stigmatizes wizards, which is similar to how Muggles used to treat wizards The misunderstanding is not unrelated, Edmund Pike also said that the "roller coaster" in the "amusement park" has no broomstick excitement at all, Alex doesn't know what it is, Edmund Pike also complained My sister bought a lot of refrigerator magnets and almost filled the refrigerator with them.Heidi wrote back to say that Edmund was not at all as heroic as he had shown in the letter-he might be the first wizard to vomit out his stomach while riding a roller coaster.

Unexpectedly, Regulus also sent her a letter, mainly to condolences and disclose his summer vacation life. The whole family was "trapped" in a high-end resort. His parents and a man named Zabini She and her fiancé lived there, and his brother always found a way to run down the mountain to chat with the Muggles who milked goats and planted wheat, or simply went fishing with the boatman by the lake, This made his mother very angry and had to restrict his range of activities.The rest of the content was mostly related to books. Regulus was no less passionate about knowledge than she was, which surprised her.

When Regulus mentioned her brother, she frowned slightly, remembering her unpleasant experience, but she decided to forget everything.

"Sounds like a good vacation, Blake," she wrote back dryly.Then he recommended two books that he had borrowed from the Hogwarts library.

When Regulus wrote back, he sent an owl with a small leaf wrapped in parchment.Thick blades with diamond-shaped strips are perfect for bookmarks.Alex tucked it in a Transfiguration book.

The life in the ancestral house is dull, no one talks to her most of the time, and the grandmother never saw her after the funeral, except for the occasional footsteps, she wondered if her grandmother really lived here, the second floor The above rooms are almost all locked, only the library and bedroom are the few places she can enter casually.There were several house-elves, whose names she could not pronounce, and which were terribly frightened when they saw her.The three meals a day are delivered to her room by the house elves, and they are taken out after she finishes eating. I don't know if the dining room is locked by her grandmother or she feels that she has no right to eat at the table.Occasionally other people would come from the ancestral house, who looked like officials from the Ministry of Magic and lawyers, and they would just give her a shallow nod, and say "Miss Everly" as a greeting, not at all. Unexpectedly, as if she should be there, quietly like a ghost holding a book or simply staring at the stained glass window.

The two domestic owls, perched on the railing of the arched windows, seemed to be dozing one moment, and fluttering about with their wings flapping the next.Another house-elf was standing on a floating rug, wiping a brush and a rag, bit by bit, wiping the windowpanes and the statue on the porch.

Every day, I heard the sound of the brass bell first. There was almost no gap between the portraits in the foyer. Most of the people in the portraits were sleeping, quarreling occasionally, and asking her questions in German. She couldn’t understand. Can shake his head at them and leave in a hurry.

Heavy velvet curtains leaked light through the thin arched windows.In order to see things clearly, all the lights have to be turned on.

After a while, Alex would secretly open the bookcase.

There are some photos hidden in the cabinet. A noble and beautiful woman is sitting on a chair, holding a baby in her arms, and an eleven or twelve-year-old girl is standing beside her, with her hands resting on the back of the chair.After careful identification for a while, she realized that the woman holding the baby was a grandmother—the beauty was old, but her sharp and alert eyes were not old, just like the sapphire necklace on her neck.The eleven or twelve-year-old girl was obviously her aunt. Alex had never met her, and she never wanted to come back after hearing that she was married to Eastern Europe.At first glance, Alex found that she was very similar to her grandmother, father, and herself. The blood was very stubborn. They had the same blue eyes, deep eye sockets, and thin lips. It sounds a little gloomy and sad, as if there is some ulterior painful secret hidden behind it.

She chooses to spend most of her time in the library. Some books are in German, and only half of them are in English. When she reads, she can only pick out all the books she understands, and some of them are related to black magic. , was also included in the readable range by her.

To pass the time, and to spare the pain, she began researching how to become an Animagus.The incident at Hogwarts made her feel that danger was coming, and she didn't want to join those small groups of pure blood, so she had to find a way to hide.Turning herself into a vase or a ground lamp can deceive everyone's eyes, but it is too difficult for her to remain still for a long time. Considering this, she started to study Animagus with a fluke mentality .If it is done well, it will be somewhat safer.

She has been busy with this matter for almost the whole summer vacation, hiding in a dark corner of the library alone, trying to turn herself into an Animagus. She recorded a lot of tricks and experiences in detail, and she studied them one by one, and it was already the end of summer vacation when she really practiced.

Her Animagus is a raven.

The raven is a symbol of death.Unexpected, but also reasonable.She loves the animal and embraces the best news of the year.

She has grown taller again. The 15-year-old girl in the mirror has slender thick eyebrows, slightly drooping blue eyes, a high nose bridge, and thin lips. The whole person looks very delicate, pale, and somewhat melancholy.Very "Slytherin".Like most people her age, she began to work on her appearance, trimming her eyebrows, putting on a little tinted lipstick and keeping her black hair below her shoulders.

She sat with the Parker siblings on the train to Hogwarts, and they brought her some small gifts, souvenirs from the amusement park, small key rings, etc. good-looking.Alex didn't go anywhere for the summer, but fortunately there's a new limited-edition ink in Diagon Alley, and she's chosen three colors for them to distribute, and everyone seems to be happy.

Maybe it was because the new term was off to a good start - her Ravenclaw friends always made it easier for her, and she had a new goal: OWLs that required her to work hard.Her mood improved a lot.Regulus Black would sometimes study with her by himself and ask some questions about potions. He was also very interested in ancient runes, and he planned to continue studying ancient runes as an elective course in the new year. Interests and hobbies are contagious, and even Alex began to read some books related to ancient spells, and studied mermaid language and ancient texts in Nordic mythology.

Once when she came out of the library, she happened to see Regulus holding a book, waiting for her at the door.

"Do you have any questions?" She asked habitually.

"Yes," Regulus pointed to a section of ancient mermaid writing in the book, which he seemed embarrassed to admit.

She started to translate where he pointed: "I throw the net of desire to your beautiful eyes. The waves like spinning wheels cannot wash away my deepest and most inexpressible love."

"This word, is love?" He pointed to the word.

She thought for a while and explained to him: "In the mermaid language in the northern part of Scandinavia, the word 'love' has a rather partial usage, especially in the Barents Sea area. The suffixes will be subdivided into different types, one is impossible to achieve, and the other is possible but not currently achieved."

He paused: "So, which one is this?"

She looked at the context and said without hesitation: "The latter."

After dinner, she met Lily-Evans in the foyer, and Lily looked even better, always with plenty of suitors.Alex would tease her a little when he was in a good mood.

"I always feel that I can't study with you all the time. If this continues, as soon as I leave the rest room in the cellar, countless boys will wrap me in a sack and throw me into the black lake out of burning jealousy. -"

"It's impossible, Alex." Lily couldn't straighten up laughing after hearing this.

"So who is Prince Charming?" She didn't mention love on the surface, but she was really curious about Lily's taste in boys. "At least reveal the possible characteristics, so I can be mentally prepared."

"Stop kidding, Alex. I don't have anyone I like, and besides, I can't possibly like a boy on a white horse, that's animal cruelty."

"The one on the broomstick?" she asked casually.

Lily interrupted her and asked, "Leave me alone, Alex, do you have any boys you like?"

"Me," Alex smiled flatly, remembering the doll that said "I love you", "No."

"Ah, I thought you had it." Lily sighed in disbelief.

She said "ha". "Why do you think so, Miss Lily-Evans?"

"The way you behaved that day, it looked like you had someone you liked." Lily didn't say it clearly, but Alex knew what day Lily was talking about.

Her tone cooled down. "It was Blake who went too far. Everyone is offended to be treated like this."

Lily seemed to think that there was nothing wrong with this remark, so she hesitated for a while. "Actually, it's not that I want to pry into your privacy too much, Alex, do you know that there are some rumors about you in the grade, and I heard too much, so I want to ask your real thoughts."

"What?" Alex really didn't know.

Lily whispered to her mysteriously: "Someone said, 'The other Black boy' likes you."

The author has something to say: Sirius was, very naive (sigh, the stupidity of adolescent boys

I just like dog blood plots, I just like Lei Gu, and I am willing to give him a chance.And I love how "another Blake boy" sounds like "another Boleyn girl". TheOtherBlackBoy, TheOtherBoleynGirl (laughs)

And, I still want to reiterate that this story guarantees the survival of all members of the parent generation, but it does not guarantee any he

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