[HP] Raven

Episode 09

The results of the herbal science quiz came out. Alex, the ever-victorious general, once again proved her "excellent predictive ability", and she got all the bets right.James Potter admired her deeply, not that he had to rely on her to pass the quiz every time he made a bet, but he thought betting was interesting from the bottom of his heart, and commented that she was "much more trustworthy than a divination professor", and expressed She promised to take her to Hogsmeade this weekend.

"Really?" She never questioned Potter's ability to play tricks, but whether she was reliable in doing business was still to be considered.

Potter vouched for it. "Of course, it's very convenient."

"Then what should I do?"

James Potter said mysteriously: "Do you know the secret passage? From the back of the hunchback statue can lead directly to Hogsmeade's Honeydukes candy house. At worst, I'll come to meet you."

On Saturday morning, Alex got up half an hour earlier than usual. After getting ready, she lay at the window to watch Professor McGonagall lead the students to Hogsmeade. As soon as the time agreed with Potter came, she walked around to the hunchback statue The back, which was indeed hollow, she got in and pointed her wand at the road in front of her. After walking for a long time, she heard a loud noise. She held her breath, and heard something similar to "the new Bibi strange flavor beans" and "Cream Strawberry Drops".

Potter was right!It really is Honeydukes Candy House!

However, he didn't wait for her at the agreed place. Alex waited for 10 minutes, secretly slandering that Potter was really unreliable, although he was indeed supernatural.

After looking around for a while, she was sure that the Honeydukes Candy House was occupied by a group of fifth-grade Hufflepuffs. They had never dealt with her before and didn't care about being recognized. Alex couldn't wait any longer and just walked out , and bought a pack of licorice wands pretending to be calm.

She paid the money and walked out of Honeydukes, and Potter didn't show up at the door, so she just walked into the streets of Hogsmeade without doing anything else.

"Evely, so you're here!" Heidi Peck called out to her, "Ed said you never play in Hogsmeade."

"The herbal science quiz is over, maybe it's time to relax." Alex smiled, and handed her a candy in his hand, "Just baked licorice wand, try it?"

Heidi Parker thanked her, took one in her mouth, and left. She said that she had a date with a friend, and asked Alex if she wanted to go to see beauty potions together.Alex declined her invitation and said that she wanted to go shopping alone. She became more courageous and walked around Hogsmeade alone. She didn't find Potter and the others, but saw a sneaky The shadow, it took her a moment to recognize it was Severus Snape.

He also shouldn't be here.

It was an open secret in Slytherin that Severus Snape came from a poor family and never went to Hogsmeade.Louise Gower has ridiculed him more than once for being "dirty and poor".

She followed his figure and found Rookwood in the seventh grade and a tall young man with blond hair. If she guessed correctly, the iconic platinum hair was obviously from the famous Malfoy.

Lucius Malfoy who has graduated.

Alex hesitated for a moment, then put on the hood of her cloak and followed.

In the dark alley behind the Pig's Head Bar, crates of rubbish were piled up, and there was a quiet hiding place behind the hill of rotten cabbage. She leaned against the damp corner, thinking about when they got in touch.

"...the road to honor must be stained with blood." Lucius Malfoy said in a low and dignified manner.

Very typical snake yard rhetoric.Alex held her breath and continued listening.

"...It is also an honor to be able to use your expertise, Snape. I believe that your chemical instruments can be used for this great common cause."

Was Snape brewing a potion for them?Alex thought of the paper that Snape had stuffed into his pocket in a panic that day.Nobody touches her laptop.If it is really according to the characteristics of the copying spell, it is if Snape accidentally copied it into her notebook...

"...This is also what he, our greatest leader, is willing to accomplish."

he?Alex frowned, intending to continue listening.However, there was an unusual sound coming from her side, and she felt hairy in her heart, and before she dared to turn her head to look, she felt that her mouth was tightly covered by someone.

"Hush—Evely, it's me," said a voice in her ear.

Sirius Black!

The two of them maintained a back-to-chest posture and huddled in the triangular area surrounded by the cabbage pile and the wall. Alex felt as if he was immobilized by a holding spell, and his heartbeat stopped.

Rookwood's sharp voice came from the other side of the cabbage pile. "...There is no such thing as getting something for nothing in this world, if you are willing to give your loyalty..."

Their conversation ended quickly, and after the three of them dispersed, Blake let her go.

Only then did Alex remember how to breathe.

Sirius Black spoke first. "I was in an emergency just now—"

Alex came back to her senses, wrapped her cloak tightly, and interrupted him in a calm tone. "I understand, it doesn't matter."

"James told me, he told you the secret way. He was with me all the time, but he didn't know where he went in the blink of an eye." Sirius Black explained, and the two of them walked out side by side go.

She nodded subtly, not knowing whether it was out of fear or shyness, her mind was in a state of emptiness.

"You heard their conversation just now." Sirius touched his nose as if thinking about something, "but it's best not to interfere, you know? This matter is not ordinary."

Alex didn't know how to respond in front of him, what happened just now played back again and again in her mind, she could only nod her head again, and said in as calm a tone as possible: "I understand what you mean."

Sirius Black also looked distracted, and he said goodbye to her as soon as they reached the main road in Hogsmeade.

Alex had originally wanted to mention the Severus Snape potion incident to him, but had finally given up.She walked around the street a few times to reflect on the physical contact that had just occurred, and now she was going to do something more important - that Snape's secretive potion, she was curious enough to find out Anyway, it can't be considered that she took the initiative to spy on privacy. If you really want to pursue it, you can only say that Snape was not skilled in using the copying spell.What's more, she didn't feel that she was less talented than Snape in potions, if he could do it, then she could too.

There were not many people queuing up at the post office, although there was only one window, she took the number and waited for a while before being called to the service counter.An old man with gray hair gave her an impatient look and asked what she was up to.She wrote a purchase order to Slugger & Ziggs Pharmacy in Diagon Alley with a large sum of money, and if she could, she could buy all the ingredients for that potion recipe there.

Merlin blesses them with the oil of the mermaid, although there is a high probability that it is impossible.Alex neatly copied the address of the pharmacy on the envelope.

The old man chewed strawberry preserves and pointed to the row of differently labeled owls on the shelf. Alex hesitated for a moment between the red for urgent and the green for flat mail.

"Hurry up, thank you."

"One Galleon."

She paid and went out, feeling that all she had left was enough to buy a cup of butterbeer, and began to regret it again, and it didn't matter if she chose surface mail.

In the end, although she drank the butterbeer, she didn't pay for it-she met Potter at the Pig's Head, and Potter apologized and helped her pay the bill.

"If there's a reason for that, I can understand." After all, Potter had told her the secret, and Alex didn't want to haggle over such little things with him.

"Actually, I was already prepared. I walked to Honeydukes Candy House with my cloak and Sirius—"

"...Excuse me, Cloak?" Alex cut him off.

"Yes, my parents gave it to me," Potter said in a low voice, looking around, "the invisibility cloak. Don't say it."

Surprised, Alex raised his glass and took a sip, then nodded as if swearing.

"And then you know, I saw that, Snotluck, and he and some—" Potter paused to think of the right words.

"Slytherin." Alex added for him very bluntly.

"Um, yeah," Potter said awkwardly, as if Alex had said what was on his mind, "I mean, 'those Slytherins,' they're not quite right."

Alex picked up the glass and took another sip.The story was pretty much what she thought it would be. "Actually, I followed, and so did Blake."

Potter asked anxiously, "What did you hear? Sirius has gone somewhere, and I have to look for him everywhere."

She recalled it. "Lucius and Rookwood asked Snape to do something for them... There seems to be a great leader."

Potter was thoughtful, and said a few words similar to "Sure enough", "I'm going to tell Headmaster Dumbledore".

They were silent for a while, consuming the butterbeer in their glasses. The Hog's Head pub was full of talking and laughing Hogwarts students, and it seemed strange that they were so quiet.

"Did you see what happened to Evans?" Potter asked after a while.

"No," Alex gave him a look, "but I want your cloak to be used for good?"

Potter blushed: "I can swear to Merlin, I didn't do anything disgraceful!"

"I didn't see her in Hogsmeade today," Alex really felt strange. It stands to reason that Lily knew she was in Hogsmeade, and would come to her to go shopping with her according to common sense. "What's wrong with her?" ?”

Potter wrinkled his nose. "Not that one, that snotty one—they had a fight."

"why?"

"It's not that she found out that snot-nosed and other s-- are very close to 'that kind of Slytherin'!" Potter patted his thigh vigorously at this point.

"She eavesdropped too?"

"No no no, just seeing him with them. It's too dangerous to eavesdrop."

Alex asked, "And then?"

"She went sad alone."

Alex was silent.I don't know what to evaluate.

Potter was visibly annoyed at the thought of it, gnashing his teeth at Snape. "That bastard snot, if I see him next time..."

"Sincerely advise you, don't mess around," Alex said in a tone that was not at all sincere and enthusiastic, "if you don't want to volunteer to help Filch flush the toilet."

The dark-haired boy in glasses drank all the butterbeer in chagrin.

"By the way, Potter," Alex asked deliberately, "do you know where I can get some...mermaid grease?"

After returning to school from Hogsmeade, Slug & Ziggs Pharmacy quickly sent over the needed raw materials. As expected, the mermaid oil has been out of stock for a long time. The shopkeeper expressed a strong apology and gave her Other raw materials ordered have been discounted a lot, but nothing is nothing.

The infectious disease spread further in the school. Heidi Parker was hit, and a rash started on her arm, and she was sent to the medical wing. At the same time, her good friend in the dormitory, Helen Claude, was also infected. I don't know if she finished her History of Magic paper before she was quarantined.This seems to confirm Helen's previous conclusion that disinfection is useless.These days, the Ravenclaws have recited more sanitizing spells combined than St. Mungo's cleaners.Horrified, Edmund Pike announced that the activities of the Charms Club would be suspended indefinitely until the spread of the contagion could be brought under control.

Seeing her classmates being quarantined and extracurricular activities stopped, Alex had the real feeling that the infectious disease was really sweeping through Hogwarts.I don't know who is still spreading panic everywhere, deliberately calling the infectious disease a plague, but it coincides with the "ancient wizards during the Black Death" in the history of magic textbook, and there are fewer people dozing off in the history of magic class. Most of them, although they were not listening carefully, all of them were staring palely at the illustrations in the history textbooks that showed piles of bones.

The advent of infectious diseases has caused the number of students in the library to decrease at a speed visible to the naked eye.Lily Evans also advised her not to study in the library. The two ran to the "secret base" that Evans had taken her to before, but because it was a semi-open-air environment, once it was windy and rainy, they could only Go back to your bedroom.

Of course she noticed that the "Slytherin shadow" beside Lily was gone.It seemed that Potter was right, Severus Snape and she had had a fight.But Alex doesn't intend to ask, as long as Lily doesn't tell her, pretending not to know is the option that saves the most effort and is the least error-prone.

A few days later, the owl brought a very light small package. Alex hadn’t received anything in the first place. She opened it suspiciously and found that it was a creamy greasy solid with only four Sugar cubes piled up so big.She turned her head to check, found the name "Potter" on the torn wrapping paper, and belatedly realized that it was the fat of the mermaid.

Although she didn't have a good impression of Potter, at first glance she would dislike him for being childish, always making noise, and arrogant all day long as if he was spoiled by his parents, but at this moment she also understood where his good popularity came from.He is really interesting.In response, she wrote Potter a brief thank you letter, and attached the prediction of the Potions exam "for reference only". Although she guessed he didn't need it, she could not rule out taking the prediction The possibility of playing tricks in front of others.

The materials have been prepared, so the cooking plan must be put on the agenda.Alex had to appear in the common room or library all the time. Although it was a special period, at least she couldn't make her disappearance seem suspicious, so brewing potions could only be done after the curfew at night.

The secret stronghold that Alex found was the women's toilet in the bathroom on the second floor of Hogwarts. If you go down the stairs, you can directly lead to the cellar, and you don't have to worry about being caught by the professor.What was even more satisfying was that there was no one here, only a ghost named Myrtle, and she didn't care about the dark and damp at all, and the environment in the cellar was not pleasant anyway, and she was used to it.

"You, you again—" Myrtle's voice came from the other side of the compartment, "Why are you here again? Are you here to see me?"

Alex didn't have time to take care of her, put the crucible on the iron stand to heat, followed the steps in the notebook, added dehydrated Lycoris and a drop of whip snake venom to the aging agent, and stirred twelve times in the same direction After adding the oil of the mermaid, I began to chant the spells mutated from the ancient mermaid script.

"The great Merlin gave us fields and forests to gaze at each other's ends, and we shall at last cross them to the riches of the soul."

"The great Merlin gave us mountains and deserts to gaze at each other's dangers, and we will eventually cross them and come to the fairyland of the soul."

"The great Merlin gave us trenches and shoals to gaze at each other's frontiers, and we will eventually cross them to the sea of ​​rest for souls."

This is an extremely rare language—the ancient mermaid language of Scandinavia is different from other language families. It needs to change the order of the languages, and the pronunciation is also very different from that of the northern places. The grammar is even more difficult. The masculine, masculine, and singular plurals of nouns alone are enough to stump a bunch of people.Alex spent several nights in the library looking up information in order to read this spell smoothly.

The transparent potion in the crucible gradually decreased, turning into a black-purple semi-liquid, a shallow layer covering the bottom of the crucible, exuding a bone-chilling aroma.

"You! Ignore Myrtle's words! Damn! Despicable!" Her deafening scream echoed throughout the toilet.

Alex carefully inspected the potion, seeing that the finished product in the crucible was more and more similar to the traits in the record, she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.The first phase has been completed, and the remaining part will be sealed for a week before continuing.

"You can be heard throughout the castle." She finally had time to deal with Myrtle, who had been arguing forever, and who knew that a ghost could be noisier than a bunch of ducks.

"You despise me! You despise me! I hate you!" Myrtle was so angry that she darted around like a deflated balloon, making a heart-piercing sound.

Alex ignored Myrtle, sealed the potion, hid it behind the fourth toilet compartment, and checked the time on her pocket watch—the third prefect night patrol was about to begin, and she had to get back before the prefect showed up. to the cellar.

"Why! Why do everyone hate Myrtle! Can someone tell me!" Myrtle knocked the door panel loudly, which was very clear in the silent night.

Alex said "Have a great night" and left in a hurry.

The author has something to say: make a final statement here: this article will have a relationship line between Alex and Sirius Black, and there may be a point where S&A is together, but this may not be the end of the story. What is the end of the story? Haven’t figured it out yet (in other words, Sirius will die, but there is no guarantee that Sirius & Alex’s relationship will be he) ← I hope you read it carefully

After thinking over and over again, the stupid and hesitant author couldn't violate the rationality of the plot development and the characters' personalities...but he impulsively and prematurely made a promise, and I apologize here.sorry.

Also, I revised the copywriting.It is actually unreasonable to say who the cp of an article is, one person can love another person. Sirius had a great impact on Alex's life.After thinking about it, what is cp? Alex is not a symbol, she is a living character. The concept of cp is too vague, and life, especially her life, is too complicated.