[HP] Raven

Episode 15

Alex really never cared much about the Quidditch match. She walked to the Quidditch pitch as promised, only to find out that the match was Slytherin vs. Gryffindor.She sat down where the green flag was flying, and found that Sirius Black was in the middle of the first row of the Gryffindor auditorium, holding at least ten small red flags in his hands, and gave them all to Mary Mac Tang Na asked her to send it back, and he conjured up a large red banner out of nowhere, with long golden tassels hanging from the edge, and a huge lion's head painted on the banner.

Alex heard movement around her, and realized that it was Greenglass and Louise Goyle who were busy. They also took out a large handful of green flags and a huge dark green banner, on which was a The silver snake spitting out the letter can be said to be evenly matched.

Alex suddenly felt a little funny.The last time she watched Quidditch was probably in the second grade, and there was no such trick back then-everyone waved their scarves to show their position, who knew that after three years they would have evolved so many new weapons.

When the team entered, she saw James Potter in the Gryffindor uniform. He was obviously taken aback when he found Alex came to see Quidditch, but quickly engaged in it with a serious face. in combat state.

With the blowing of the whistle, the game officially began.

Some student stuffed a small green flag into Alex's hand. She looked around at the students who were cheering hoarsely, waved it after a while, stopped for a while, and then waved again. Will be blown off in the gust of wind.While watching the game, she saw Sirius waving the big Gryffindor flag non-stop. The bright red color almost split the air flowing around him.

"The Snitch! They're after the Snitch!" Suzanne Crabbe beside her suddenly shouted excitedly.

Alex shifted his gaze to the field.

"Come on! Come on!" Standing in the front row, Dahlia Greengrass jumped up so fast that Alex genuinely worried for a second that she would fall off the stands.

Regulus Black and the Gryffindor Seeker were in different corners of the field, and they rushed like two rockets towards the little golden dot that kept shaking.There was only a muffled sound, their shoulders collided, and the flying broomsticks broke in unison. They fell from the air like two small dots and fell to the ground.

Mrs. Hooch, Professor McGonagall, and Professor Slughorn all jumped up from the audience in shock.

Alex held her breath, her eyes fixed on them.The figure in the red team uniform sat up from the ground first, while Regulus in the green team uniform lay on the ground, motionless.

Professor Slughorn rushed towards the pitch on his chubby belly. "Hurry up! Find Madam Pomfrey! Go now!"

Dahlia Greengrass screamed. "Merlin, Black is hurt! He's bleeding!"

Alex did see it too, blood trickling from his brow, but she couldn't make a sound.

oh.Merlin.

However, at this moment, Regulus' shoulders suddenly moved. He stood up from the ground, wiped the blood from his forehead, and spread his palms. The Golden Snitch suddenly stopped above his palms, with gray eyes shining brightly.

In the next second, Alex felt the cheers around her gushing out like a volcanic eruption, filling the entire stadium.

Slytherin won.

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The Gryffindor classmates all left the arena angrily, Sirius Black was especially angry - he was the first in the audience to stand up and leave.Alex saw that no one was leaving the field, and under pressure she could only stay and watch the rest of the game, which had nothing to do with Quidditch.

Madam Pomfrey rushed in like a white whirlwind, and Regulus was carried out by two players, perhaps because he won the game, the atmosphere was chattering and laughing, without the dignity of being injured at all.He even lay on a stretcher happily discussing the celebration banquet and the Academy Cup with his teammates.

The Slytherin audience gradually dispersed, savoring the joy of victory.Only then did Alex remember that there was Professor Slughorn's Slug Club tonight. She was already an old member of the club and had to go.Professor Slughorn is often most satisfied with students like Alex, who are quiet, smart, and worry-free, and won't make him lose face if he doesn't make trouble for him. Be a good listener.

She rushed to the venue in a hurry, only to find that the venue had been decorated beyond recognition.The words "Slytherin" were plastered everywhere in silver, and the walls were also temporarily painted in a color similar to emerald with a spell. The portraits on the walls were replaced by the former heads of Slytherin The resplendent and resplendent fireplace was changed to gleaming silver by a student who is good at transfiguration.Slytherin's victory over Gryffindor in the Quidditch match greatly boosted the spirit of the Lion House. Years of conflict between lions and snakes had already given any match between them a trace of incompatibility.Professor Slughorn didn't want to offend anyone, but he was overjoyed, acquiescing to his students to "decorate a bit" in celebration.

Lily Evans has arrived, she looked at the silver and green field, and turned her head to ask Alex. "How is this going?"

"Slytherin won Quidditch," said Alex curtly.

"Oh, it sure looks like that," Lily Evans nodded, accepting the fact calmly, "No wonder Potter and Black didn't come."

Alex couldn't hold back after all, and asked, "...don't you regret it?"

Lily-Evans is very mature in this regard: "If you lose, you lose, come back next year. Who's going to win all the time?"

Alex nodded appreciatively.If it was Slytherin who lost, she would probably say the same thing.

In fact, not only Sirius Black and James Potter, but most of the Gryffindors did not come. They seemed to expect that it would be Slytherin's home court, and they all missed the Slug Club. reunion.Professor Slughorn was surrounded by many Slytherin students. They shared wine and desserts, and there were enthusiastic laughter from time to time.The Ravenclaw students all gathered together eating biscuits and chatting, discussing Wizard Chess and a new book in Lihen Bookstore. A Ravenclaw alumnus named Lovegood seemed to want to create a New publications, several Ravenclaws are also eager to try.They also seemed to know that such an occasion is not suitable to appear beside the professor, so they huddled together in the corner to entertain themselves.

Alex stayed with Lily Evans until she saw Severus Snape.If Professor Slughorn's two favorite students in Slytherin are who, it must be Everly and Snape, but if you can only choose one, in fact, Snape and her are hard to distinguish, Their conditions are even surprisingly similar—highly talented, unsociable, taciturn, mixed race, and their origins are all jokes.

Snape looked at Alex sullenly, and Alex frowned.

Just at this moment, an unknown Slytherin boy yelled "Here comes the winner", and Regulus, with bandages on his shoulders and head, entered the venue together with two other Slytherin Quidditch players .

There was an instant burst of cheers, and someone fired a salute, sending silver and green bits of paper all over Alex's head - apparently all from the Slytherins.Where did they need a celebration banquet? They simply turned today's Slug Club event into a Slytherin celebration banquet.

"Everly! Snape! Come here quickly!" Professor Slughorn's excited voice came, "I want to take a group photo with the students of our school."

"Sorry, Lily, first I—" She gave Lily-Evans an apologetic look.

"It's okay, let's go." Lily waved her hand very understandingly.

Alex walked over, and Professor Slughorn was already surrounded by many students. Their dean had a red face, and he embraced Regulus Black, who was heroically injured today, with one arm, and the domineering man with the other. The Slytherin Quidditch captain who bullied her...was clearly some pureblood of high blood.

"Come here, Everly, you're going to be squeezed out of the camera - stand here, don't always shrink in the corner." You can tell from the voice that Professor Slughorn has obviously been drinking, not honey Cordial, a soft drink that doesn't get you drunk, but real wine, and more than a little.

She could only move in the middle, squeezed to where Slughorn pointed, between Regulus Black and Dalia Greengrass, she watched Greengrass take a step to the side with a little embarrassment , to make room for her.

The atmosphere around her was so cheerful that she had no choice but to smile at the camera.After the shutter flashed, everyone in Slytherin cheered for a while, and Professor Slughorn brought out more snacks and drinks to entertain everyone.Just as Alex was about to find Lily Evans, she found that Severus Snape had leaned over to talk to her anxiously, so she gave up and hesitated for a while at the long self-service table, Mead and hot cocoa chose the latter.

"Evely," Regulus approached her cheerfully, "we won."

She took a sip of hot cocoa and nodded. "Yes, Blake, we won."

Alex had never seen such a happy Regulus, his soul seemed to be lit up by this victory, and all the paleness and introversion before had disappeared temporarily.she asked, glancing at the bandages on his shoulders and forehead. "Is your injury okay?"

"Madame Pomfrey said the forehead will be fine tomorrow, but the shoulder may take a while."

"broken?"

"A bit more serious, a comminuted fracture."

She took a breath and said to him carefully, "Blake, you should be more careful."

"It's nothing, be happy, Everly, we won, and Slytherin is going to take the house cup," Regulus was completely immersed in joy, and he even pointed to the plaster cast on his shoulder, "You Do you want to sign it?"

Only then did Alex realize that several of his classmates had already written their names and words of encouragement on his cast, and she recognized some of the signatures from the players on the Slytherin Quidditch team.Regulus handed her a pen, Alex thought for a while, picked a corner on the plaster cast on his left shoulder, wrote a very short "I wish you well", and signed her name on the back, " A. Everly".

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"So, you and Severus Snape have known each other since childhood?" Alex held the astronomy book in his arms, and was about to start reviewing it today.Getting closer to the OWLs, even she had to get ready nervously.

"We lived close together when we were kids," Lily said simply.

"Friend?" Alex remembered that when she first met Lily in the third grade, she was not accompanied by Severus Snape almost all the time.If it is an example of lions and snakes getting along in harmony, at first she really felt that they got along well.

Lily-Evans nodded. "A friend indeed."

Alex lowered her head and wrote the review outline in her notebook. "That's good. There aren't many examples of lions and snakes living in harmony."

"Aren't you too?" Lily blinked and asked back.

"Maybe you are more inclusive."

Lily said very bluntly: "There's nothing wrong with you, Alex."

"Facts speak louder than words. I really don't have a lot of popularity." Alex laughed at herself.

"Have you worked hard for this?" Lily asked.

"Lily, people who are really popular don't need to work hard for it, have you worked hard for it?"

"……No."

Alex shrugged.

Lily was silent for a while, then suddenly asked: "Alex, what if your best friend, I mean, your very best friend, did something you didn't agree with and wanted to keep doing it? "

"How do you define 'something you don't agree with'?" Alex put down her quill and took the question as seriously as she would a paper.

Lily spoke hesitantly. "Such as playing with classmates who you think are bad morals, or...for some reason, bullying your friends."

"Why bully?"

"I don't know, my friends are all very good people," Lily seemed to recall something from the past, "but Alex, that friend always makes me angry, too stubborn."

"That's not anger," Alex said, interrupting her.

"What?" Lily couldn't respond.

"You don't get mad at someone you like, Lily, and you don't get mad at those things if you still think of him—or her— as your friend. Because you like your friend, you'll just be sad and Disappointed," Alex said.

Lily asked, "So you're saying...he made me sad and disappointed?"

Alex nodded.

"Then should I make it clear to him?" Lily asked.

"I don't know. I don't have a friend like that," Alex said honestly, "but if it hurts you, I advise you to give him up early."

Lily was thoughtful.

"However, what can't be discussed after OWLs?" Alex pointed to the textbook in front of him, "Could it be more important than OWLs?"

"Exams are important. But he's also an important friend, Alex, and he's important to me too."

"Oh, then you just have to think about it yourself." Alex doesn't have a friend who is important enough to give up preparing for the exam, but she thinks that Lily can certainly have her own persistence, "It's just... If it was me, I would rather be good at it first." Exam. By the way, have you thought about what to do in the future?"

Lily was a little surprised. "We're only in fifth grade."

"Graduated in seventh grade."

"Also... I might want to do research on potions, but I haven't made up my mind yet," Lily looked at her, "What about you?"

Alex nodded. "I also think that maybe we will be colleagues. But I am also very interested in ancient runes. If some research institutes are willing to let me participate, that would be fine."

Just at this moment, James Potter walked over swaggeringly. "Evans!"

Alex looked up at him and asked Lily suspiciously. "It's him?"

Lily rolled her eyes. "certainly not."

"What's his'? What are you talking about?" James Potter felt that he had heard some terrible news, and shouted loudly, "Evely, if you don't explain clearly, I will give you Sending a giant toad makes you sleepless."

"Thank you very much, Potter." Alex crossed his arms and gave him a cool look. "May I ask if I can make a fortune by reselling magical animals?"

"Enough, Potter!" Lily said, "It's none of her business."

"Then you explain it yourself." James faced her. He didn't know when he got a golden snitch in his hand, and he threw it up and grabbed it from time to time, probably to attract the attention of others.He was the Chaser on the team, after all, the Snitch had nothing to do with him, and he obviously couldn't throw a Quaffle the size of a coconut all day long, which would have been even more stupid--stupider than it was.

"Can you stop being so boring." Lily said helplessly, she stood up, "Alex, let's go."

Alex had to stand up with her, and she gave James an angry look. His presence seriously hindered their normal study life.

"Evans, Everly, where are you going?" James Potter asked anxiously.

"I want to go with Alex to a place where there are no egomaniacs, and then concentrate on reviewing our OWLs." Lily quickly took her away.

The author has something to say: I am very happy every time I write about Stupid Deer Chasing Lily.Zhan Li is so genuine... No one else can envy her, really.

Alas, after many years, if Snape could know that Lily said "he is also very important to me", wouldn't it be considered a death sentence (however, OWLs will be coming soon