[HP] Raven

Episode 14

Alex embarks on a night tour.Her Animagus is a raven, which gives her ample opportunity to fly around at night, and classmates who go out on dates after curfew and sneak back will open the cellar door, and she can sneak back to herself bedroom.

She didn't know how many times she heard the wolf howling at Hogwarts, and finally decided to check it out.The night was heavy with dew, and she frowned because of the cold air, but she was stunned by the next scene: a deer and a huge black dog, for some unknown reason, were holding down Remus Lou on the ground. flat.

Alex stopped on the branch, staring in shock, feeling anchored.

Lupine looked very painful, he kept howling-making a wolf-like sound, and the light of the full moon shone on him, and he writhed even more, his pale skin was even paler in the moonlight, even a little A little bit of fur grows...

He is a werewolf.

Remus Lupine is a werewolf.

Alex was struck by his ignorance and insensitivity, which was why he never had class on a full moon day and always went to other people to borrow notes.The raven shook its wings, watching Lupine finally calm down accompanied by the deer and the black dog, and flew to the Hogwarts castle where the lights had been turned off.

She decided to keep it a secret for Lupine, who was a good sheep and never teased anyone.She sort of understood why Lupine in the Mirror of Erised was always himself.

Because that means, he is an ordinary person.

Alex is ashamed of her slip of the tongue that day, and Lupine is tortured by the secret, but she hastily says that he is the happiest man in the world.But to apologize is obviously a more stupid choice, and it will only embarrass him more.

The next day happened to be the weekend, and she could finally go to Hogsmeade with the large group.Mrs. Everly, her grandmother, took one look at the notice and signed it without asking where Hogsmeade was - just didn't care.Alex was at the end of the line, ahead of a group of Slytherin girls, and Louise Goyle had recently become obsessed with a purple bow.

There is an ethos of comparison in Slytherin. Although it is impossible to sell the best goods in Hogsmeade's boutique, as long as they are exquisite enough, they will be regarded as rare good things, such as being able to shine in the dark Beads, or hair clips and headbands that can be spelled and changed color, she remembered that Greengrass had many similar things and regarded them as treasures.

She saw Lily and a few Gryffindor girls standing at the front of the line, chatting happily, holding a flyer for some unknown store in their hands.The foursome of Gryffindor's hijackers were also not far away, and she couldn't help frowning as she glanced across Sirius Black's profile in a hurry.

"Evely."

She turned her head, and Regulus was standing behind her. He was much taller than when he met last year. It may be because of the convenience of Quidditch training. His black hair, which was slightly long before, was cut short, and his hair was broken. on the forehead.

"I didn't expect you to go to Hogsmeade, too," he seemed surprised, "you stayed at school before."

"Just went if I wanted to. Hogsmeade does have a lot of fun, doesn't it?" She cleared her throat, seeing "another Black boy", she remembered Lily's last rumor.

Their last conversation was over.Alex hilariously denied what Lily said, how could Regulus like her?He's the "always pure" Blake, and her origins are a pureblood-Muggle elopement joke - which got her a lot of backslashing from her classmates.She doesn't share the values ​​of Black, and Regulus is the much-loved youngest son of the Black family.She could understand that Regulus was in contact with her, because he was thirsty for knowledge and powerful abilities, he needed someone to guide him, and his parents also had great expectations of him.As for anything else, that's impossible.Alex never dreamed, she knew that sooner or later he would marry a wife from a pure-blood family.

"Where are you going?" he asked eagerly.

"I don't know..." She didn't think about it, hesitated for a while, thought of the exit of the secret passage last time, and said casually, "Honeydukes Candy House?"

--

As it turns out, Alex isn't a fan of Honeydukes Candy House.There was a lot of voices, all of them were students of Hogwarts, and it was impossible to stand still inside. Everyone was chatting and moving at the same time, and the voices of conversations from different directions gathered in her ears only gave her a headache. Touching the shoulders of strangers, colorful jelly beans are placed in glass containers of various shapes, like a large colorful ocean.Her eyes are not used to accepting so many colors, and things that are too exaggerated and bright make her vision very tired.And she doesn't like sugar very much. Although the heavy caramel smell in the air is intoxicating at first, it soon makes her throat swell, and she becomes a little bored.

Alex and Regulus struggled to follow the crowd around the small shop, and she took a small bag of candy and hurried to the checkout line.There are five or six chocolates in the palm-sized cellophane bag, which are neatly wrapped in emerald printed tin foil.She waited a moment before realizing she didn't know the flavor of the chocolate in her hand, and looked down to study the fancy language on the cellophane bag.

"Mint." Regulus said coldly.

"What mint?" The concentration of caramel in the air was too high, and she felt that her brain was stuck and her reaction became sluggish.

"chocolate."

"That's it." She glanced down at the small silver bag of chocolates in his hand, feeling that it would be impolite not to ask, "What about yours?"

"Coconut." He smiled shyly, a little embarrassed to admit what he likes.

"That's good." She was a little at a loss for words.

Regulus didn't realize her boredom at all, and happily talked to her about Quidditch. He valued Slytherin's honor very much, and he was the kind of Slytherin who would be happy because of the house points , Alex was a little ashamed when he heard him say that she only read books to get good grades in her final exam, and she never really considered adding points for the college.This was especially true for Quidditch. She didn't know who won the Slytherin match last time and what the score was, so she only listened, echoed occasionally, and didn't comment easily.Soon it was her turn to check out, she looked at the cashier who was smiling too enthusiastically, although it was offensive to say so, but his laughter made her scalp tingle, and she couldn't help but hate Honeydukes Candy House even more in her heart, quickly put the two A silver Sickle was handed over.

As they squeezed out of the shop, a few members of the Slytherin Quidditch team showed up, one of whom Alex had an affair with, the senior boy who had made trouble with her last year with the Quaffle.The boy obviously saw her, and smiled contemptuously, as if he wanted to laugh at her, but he didn't speak for some reason.

Regulus greeted them briefly.

They wanted to take Regulus away, saying that they were going to the Three Broomsticks to hold an emergency meeting, and they wanted to get this year's Academy Cup no matter what.

"It turns out that the battle is so tense this year." She didn't expect that the atmosphere inside the Quidditch team was already the same as the final battle.

"Because the score is too tight this year, the gap with Gryffindor is only five points." Regulus explained.

"Come on." She said briefly, as if this sentence was enough to express all her support for the Academy Cup.

"Can you watch, Quidditch?" he asked.

"Ah, when?" She didn't understand at all.

"Next Friday, it starts at four o'clock."

"Well..." She really had nothing to do at that time, and she didn't particularly want to see it, but since he asked, Alex felt that she had no reason not to go, "I will go."

He looked at her inquiringly. "Thank you, Everly."

"You're welcome, and," she glanced in the direction of the Quidditch players, teased plainly, "If you don't go with them, the Quidditch captain of our house will take his Nimbus 1975 Come to beat you."

Regulus had no choice but to leave in a hurry. After they said their goodbyes, Alex went into the stationery store alone. She saw Lily and another girl from Grandu picking out quills. As soon as Lily saw Aya Alex greeted her and asked her to pick with them.

The Gryffindor girl who'd been following Lily—Alex finally remembered, it was Mary MacDonald—was very keen to buy a quill made of peacock feathers, with a beautiful nib that was an arrow cluster Generally silvery white, it is also very smooth when writing.

Mary MacDonald murmured, staring at the quill pen in ecstasy. "If you write with this kind of pen, you can probably study the history of magic very seriously."

Lily giggled. "Then you should buy it, as if it's for OWLs."

Alex smiled too.At this time, she heard the sound of the glass door being pushed, and when she looked at the door, she realized that it was James Potter, followed by Sirius Black and Remus Lupine.

"Evans!" James greeted very warmly, "and Macdonald and Everly."

"Good morning, Potter." Lily nodded.

Alex knew that this was Gryffindor's home court, so she ran to the side quietly. There was a relatively small quill pen on the counter by the door. The dark red feather was shiny and the refill was transparent. Glass.

"Like this one?" The store owner is a middle-aged woman wearing glasses. Seeing Alex staring at the counter, she came over to greet her.

"Excuse me, what animal's feather is this made of?" Alex didn't say whether he liked it or disliked it.

"Raven." The shopkeeper said briefly.

She thought of her Animagus, and was a little interested. "I thought ravens had black feathers, lady."

The owner pushed the glasses and said patiently: "If mixed in the right proportions, red coral, ocher and crocus can dye the feathers of ravens dark red, and can also be dyed into other colors, such as emerald and navy blue. "

"May I try it?" She wanted to buy it.Grandma gave her a lot of pocket money, but so far she has nowhere to use it.

Without saying a word, the shopkeeper took out the quill and handed it to her.Alex tried it on a blank piece of parchment and she really liked it.

"Everly!" Sirius Black walked over.

"Black." She put down the dark red quill coldly, not very willing to talk to him.

"Well, I'm here to apologize to you," he said hesitantly, "I was wrong last time, I shouldn't have made fun of you, and I'm sorry... about your father."

"It's over, Blake," she said, turning to him.

"Evely, don't act like no one understands you. I know what it's like to be abandoned by your family," he said, shrugging. "I'm the only Gryffindor in my family. I have a cousin and The Muggle got married and my mother removed her from the family tree."

So did Alex's dad.Pure-blood families have almost strict regulations on the marriage of offspring. Once the rules are violated, they will only be expelled.

Sirius spread his hands. "I used to have a good relationship with her. This is too bad."

Alex's face softened, and she nodded. "It's really too bad."

he continued. "It must have been hard for you when your father died. But all I want to say is that things will get better over time. Hogwarts is a great place. Headmaster Dumbledore told me that everyone who wants help here Everyone will be helped."

She sighed. "Thank you, Blake."

"What's more, your grades are so good, every professor seems to be willing to talk to you more," Sirius made a strange face very frankly, "and I am always punished for compulsory labor."

And that's not because you like to play tricks.Alex cursed in her heart.

"Blake! Alex!" Lily Evans' voice came, "We're going back together!"

--

It wasn't until Alex went back that she realized she had forgotten to buy the quill, but she'd go back to Hogsmeade next time, as long as no one else bought it.

"How are your electives?" Lily asked as she flipped through the book.

"Ancient Rune? I like it quite a bit, and the Protection of Fantastic Beasts class is not bad."

"I knew I would choose ancient runes," the red-haired girl complained softly. "The content of the divination class is like a mess. Is the prophecy really credible?"

"Perhaps," Alex said ambiguously.

Just then the owl brought her a very small parcel.It was impossible for her grandmother to send her something, let alone others. She opened it suspiciously, and the dark red quill lay quietly in the box.

Surprised and puzzled, she took out the crimson quill, and even teased her own owl. It spread its wings and fluttered a few times, successfully splashing the rainwater outside on the table.

"Oh, Alex." Lily exclaimed, and quickly removed the parchment she put on the table.

"Sorry, sorry." She hastily stretched out her wand and restored everything with a drying spell.

"This pen is very beautiful." Lily looked at her and said sincerely.

Alex nodded and echoed, "It's really beautiful."

Only then did she realize that there was a folded note at the bottom of the box. She opened it and was stunned.

"I, Sirius Black, would like to express my sincerest apologies."

The author has something to say: the sentence at the end is based on the ending of Azkaban... Sirius agreed to let Harry go to Hogsmeade hhh

However, in this article, there is probably no need for the godfather to agree separately, and James will grab the paper and sign it as soon as possible (.

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