[HP] Raven

Episode 07

When Sirius Black appeared, it caused some small and small movements, not because he was so handsome that he overwhelmed the audience, in fact, when he high-fived Nick who was almost headless, he moved too much. He almost knocked down the statue of Merlin on the cream-colored pillar, but fortunately he helped it back quickly with his eyesight and hands.

"Hey, young man, you have to be more careful next time." The translucent Nick warned without seriousness at all, and flew out through the glass window with his dangling head on his head.

"That's how he is." Lupine sighed.

James Potter laughed out loud, and the Ravenclaw girls who were doing their homework at the next table gave him reproachful looks.

"What are you doing?" Sirius Black came over, reached out and patted Lupine on the shoulder vigorously.

"Oh, Sirius," Lupine muttered slightly complaining, "my handwriting is crooked."

James Potter saw Sirius as if he saw something funny: "Did you help Filch pass the toilet again?"

"Forget it," Sirius Black snorted, "his mongrel cat is so bad-tempered that it makes hair all over my trousers."

James Potter laughed and said, "It's really empathetic, I know how to keep you warm when the weather is cold."

"Then I have to take you with me next time, or just go with the four of us," Sirius showed a grin, "By the way, where is that little Peter?"

"Defense Against the Dark Arts class has a make-up exam." Lupine said weakly while lying on the table, "Also, for things like voluntary labor, just bring James with you. You'd better let me go."

Sirius Black and James Potter burst out laughing, they joked with each other a few more times before letting each other go, and Sirius walked around in front of Alex, copying it in his cloak pocket.

"So you're here, Everly."

He was at least two inches taller than the last time I saw him, and he looked down at her with a sense of oppression.

"Good day." Alex bit off the strange-flavored beans that had been in his mouth until now.Jalapeno-flavored, spicy and salty.

"By the way, just right, I almost forgot," James Potter interjected anxiously as if remembering something important, "Evely, I didn't give you the last photo."

"Photo?" She turned her head to look, but couldn't remember what was going on.

Sirius did not forget to reply to Potter. "It's been so long since the World Cup, and the photos will fade away."

Alex didn't remember anything at first, but then she remembered that everyone took a group photo when they went to watch the Quidditch World Cup, between the meal and before the start of the World Cup.

Potter waved a spell, and the photo flew over like a rocket.

She took it quickly - given that the damn hard cardboard was likely to hit her in the face in a second.

"Sorry, sorry, it wasn't intentional, I promise." James Potter made a face, still smiling.

She felt sorry for Lupine from the bottom of her heart, and understood why he had such a helpless expression all day long. If she was around such a person, she would have been mentally weak by now.Resisting the urge to hex James Potter, Alex looked down at the photo.The first thing I saw was Peter Pedilou. He was as short as an underdeveloped primary school student, and he looked a little awkward and pitiful among a group of young people who were in their puberty, smiling tremblingly.Followed by James Potter, he stood in the middle of the air, moving his shoulders from time to time, with a smile on his face as if showing off his good popularity.Sirius Black stood next to James Potter, maybe because of the angle, he seemed to be slightly taller than the Potter next to him (they usually look about the same), smiling freely and freely, as if nothing could As if he could be bound.Lupine pursed his lips and smiled coyly.Lily Evans stood between two Gryffindor girls whom Alex didn't know very well, her mouth and eyes curled into a charming arc when she smiled, and her shiny red hair fell on her shoulders. Pretty and striking, winking playfully at the camera.

"You're here, Everly." Sirius Black leaned over the table, his fingers flicking across the photo in Alex's palm.

Alex was startled by his movement, looked in the direction of his finger, and found herself in the borderline of the crowd without accident, staring at the camera with her face slightly sideways, compared with her companions around her Standing straight, the corners of the mouth and eyes are too serious, almost still, except for the occasional subtle movement of the lips or blinking of the eyes, she guessed that Lily-Evans saw herself in the honor list.

"You don't smile at all, it looks like you're going to be on the battlefield in a second." Sirius Black seemed to have discovered something interesting.

She was at a loss for words, didn't know how to respond, and simply kept silent. When she habitually rubbed the photos with her fingers, she realized that they were two stacked together.

"The one from Evans, please." James Potter promptly answered her doubts.

She was about to ask Potter why he didn't go by himself, when she saw Lily Evans appearing near the long table, and the red-haired girl saw them—or Potter, to be exact, and turned around and ran away in a blink of an eye.Only then did I understand that Sirius Black's phrase "If you don't give it, it will fade" may be ridiculing Potter's treatment of Lily Evans.

Fine.She sighed, nodded, and vowed that she would never go out with James Potter and the others next time. How to treat Potter should be Lily-Evans' business, and she shouldn't have herself in Lily's business position.

Sirius Black sat down across from her, and then kicked James Potter under the table without a moment's rest.

"Can you be quiet for a minute, please. I'm still doing my homework." Lupine said again.

Sirius Black made a face at him. "Remus, why are you complaining every day. Look at what Everly didn't say."

She pretended to read the book seriously with her head down, but her heart tensed as if being called by a professor. It seems like she's a set that doesn't make noise.

"This is too rude, Sirius, use your empathy to think about it, maybe people think a lot and just don't talk about it." Lupine scratched his eyebrows with a quill, as if his head hurt.

Seriously, Lupine inadvertently hit the ten ring again.A book could be written about what she had to do with Sirius Black.This had to make her vigilance start to make troubles, anxiety spread from the soles of her feet to the top of her head, she tried to give Sirius Black a little color with the sharp words she wanted, but in the end it was forgotten, and she could only find a way to cover up her cramped.

"Really?" she said instinctively, saying something casually.

Sirius Black turned his head and glanced at her with a smile, his gray eyes were filled with a clear smile, as if he had anticipated her embarrassment.

She couldn't bear it anymore and stood up.

Everyone looked at her in unison.

"By the way, I kind of took a step ahead...The Charms Club, I almost forgot. Sorry." She paused, and found a good enough reason for herself.

"Then your notebook I..." Lupine obviously hadn't finished writing.

"It's fine until the next Potions class. I won't need it recently." In order to prevent Lupine from going to the Slytherin common room to "take risks", she took the initiative to give him a lot of time, and then raised her hand. legs away.

She found a chance to pass that photo to Lili the next day, but fortunately Lili didn't make things difficult for her, took a look at what it was, and accepted it without further ado.

Alex breathed a sigh of relief and swore to herself that she would never do this kind of work again.

Lily turned to other topics when she spoke. "The recent potion activity group is very interesting. We are trying to concoct a potion that can make people grow a lot of hair at once."

"That's nice. A lot of British wizards will need it," she remarked.

"You haven't come to the Potions Lab recently, we need a teammate like you." Lily Evans' tone was a bit sad.

Severus Snape was definitely not part of her "we", Alex thought, and every time she stood next to Lily, he wished she would disappear in place.

"Spell Club is fun, too," Alex said frankly, adding after feeling that the statement was a bit blunt, "and besides, we can sit together in class."

Lily was lying on the table with her cheeks in her hands. "Has anyone ever told you that you are unfeeling?"

Alex froze. "How to say."

Lily thought for a moment. "It always looks like this... in a hurry, as if there is nothing worth thinking about."

"No, probably." She reflected on the evaluation of "unfeeling", shook her head, and then couldn't help thinking: Maybe there are not even people who can make evaluations, but it seems to have verified Lily-E Vince's observations.

Lily glanced at her helplessly, and the two of them lowered their heads and started to do their homework at the same time.

The common room is the best source of news at any time, which is why Alex has never given up going there to do her homework, although occasionally missing some rumors will only save her time to do more she wants to do , but it doesn't hurt to hear what other people are up to once in a while.Therefore, she often occupies the sofa farthest from the fireplace, doing some less mentally demanding assignments, such as a short essay on the protection of magical beasts, or picking up a book.

The news of Madam Pomfrey's accident reached her ears at this time.

"Those idiots in Gryffindor said their Quidditch player with a broken arm went to the hospital wing and found her on the floor—" said a Slytherin boy one level ahead of Alex.

"Poisoning, it must be poisoning." Louise Goyle shook her head and brought a tray full of refreshments.

"Then where is she now?" Suzanne Crabs walked along two strawberry towers. They quarreled because of the division of food, and were quickly pushed out of the circle by other students who were eager to hear more.

Dalia Greengrass has unknowingly become the center of gossip again, and she is always well informed: "She has been sent to St. Mungo's. Dumbledore said that it was the cry of the mandrake that caused Yes. Her earmuffs aren't on."

"But she's Madam Pomfrey!" The younger students couldn't believe it.

"People are always negligent." Parkinson rolled his eyes.

The young Slytherins discussed and sighed for a while before they all dispersed. Everyone had their own business to do.Alex returned to the dormitory, after thinking about it, she tore a note from her notebook and wrote "Have you heard the rumors about Madam Pomfrey?", held it against it with her wand, and recited the spell , the note disappeared.

Another note came 1 minute later.She unfolded it.

"Yes, Alex, it's true."

Alex was dreaming again at night.The dream was chaotic, with giant monsters showing their teeth and claws appearing from time to time, chasing and fighting for no reason. When I woke up, it was midnight, and the surroundings were silent. I only felt that the world outside the four-poster bed was full of monsters and ghosts.

She turned over, and her plan to try to fall asleep again was abandoned after an hour passed. After changing her clothes, she left the bedroom with a candlestick.

Two in the morning.

The idea of ​​a night excursion sounds very much like a Gryffindor thing, the silly kind.But it will become more acceptable if it is interpreted as "night walks that help ensure sleep quality".

It was not a peaceful night, the rain was heavy, and the wind threatened Hogwarts' brick structure and windproof spell. She wrapped her clothes tightly and walked from the cellar to the first floor, remembering what other classmates had said to her , "Echoing around Hogwarts like a ghost", in fact, she is quieter than a ghost, not like Nearly Headless Nick or Peeves can cause a disturbance everywhere, and she is not like Myrtle Cry all day long.Her pace slowed down as she passed a room with a half-open door, a room that didn't know what to do, and was locked in memory all year round. There were countless such scenes in Hogwarts.

No one should be here at this time, she took two steps closer to the room with the candlestick, and then stopped where she was, with the hand holding the wand hidden under the wizard's robe.

Lily Evans once said that this is one of the reasons why Hogwarts is attractive, and it always hides many places worth exploring.Very Gryffindor, Alex thought at the time, although the secret is fascinating, but life-saving is more important, who knows why the locked room suddenly opened.

The people in the room, more alert than she'd thought, leaned forward.

They breathed a sigh of relief to each other.

"Lupine," she let go of her hand under her wizard robe, her sense of humor was inappropriate, "it was a night full of surprises."

"Uh, good evening, Everly, I didn't expect to see you here..." He scratched his head shyly at her, "Do you want to come in?"

Alex nodded and followed Lupine into the room, which was empty except for a very imposing mirror reaching to the ceiling with gibberish spells written on top, framed in gold, and under the mirror in the shape of two animal claws bracket.

"Mirror of Erised." Alex read the words engraved on the top of the mirror, "Is it different from other mirrors?"

Lupine didn't explain, coughed a few times. "Perhaps you should try."

Although she didn't deal with Lupine many times before, perhaps because he seemed to be as overthinking as she was, and compared to Potter and the others, he seemed very mature. Alex trusted him unexpectedly and walked to the In front of the mirror, she was slightly taken aback.

In the mirror, she saw her mother, who was always 25 years old, with long loose hair like gentle vines, and light blue eyes looking at her proudly, as if admiring a masterpiece.

It turned out that she was as tall as herself.Alex thought to herself that she had lost her mother for too long, and she needed a little time to recover the memories related to her mother in her mind.

"She's your mother, isn't she?" Lupine said in a low voice, as if she was having a sweet dream and he didn't want to wake her up.

She nods. "Yes."

In the mirror, the image of the woman began to blur, she blinked gently at Alex, and then gradually disappeared.

Lupine's voice softened. "I'm very sorry."

Alex stared at the empty mirror. "It's been a long time."

"This is the Mirror of Erised," Lupine explained. "It reflects the deepest desires of the human heart."

The dark night makes people more sensitive than usual, the pale crescent moon hangs in the night sky, and the moonlight spills in from the window, as if coating everything with a melancholy background.

"What about you, have you tried?" she asked Lupine after a moment's silence.

He nodded.

They looked at each other as if they were exchanging some secret, and Lupine took a step forward and stood in front of the mirror.

From Alex's point of view, it was nothing special, Lupine was Lupine.

"It seems that you are the happiest person in the world." Alex unconsciously said what she thought.

Lupine gave a very short smile, although he didn't look happy. "really? Thank you."

They walked out of the room together in silence, and it was only when Alex was about to go downstairs that Lupine said, "You know what. Madam Pomfrey was injured and now at St. Mungo's—"

"I've heard. Still, thanks for the notice."

"Maybe we should all be more careful. When Madam Pomfrey is not around, it will be a lot more troublesome to be injured."

Alex nodded.They said goodnight to each other and turned to leave.