[hp] warm as jade

Before the holidays were over, Draco finally completed his four-house puzzle.

It is not accurate to say that he completed it independently, because Draco is very stubborn at certain times.Every time, he would put together the Ravenclaw pattern as slowly as possible, and then try to put together the Slytherin pattern in a way that challenged himself. As a result, he was not sure whether he really surpassed himself when he was almost finished, and finally They will all break up and come back.If it hadn't been for Rong Jiu who couldn't see it and asked, "Can't you finish Slytherin first, and then Ravenclaw?", he probably wouldn't be able to finish it by the end of the holiday.

This scene of Draco being stupid and then woken up by Rong Jiu will happen every few days.At this time, the expression on Lucius' face is wonderful, and his heart is very complicated.After all, sometimes, there is no harm without contrast.

Look at his beloved son, who has been pampered since he was a child, and has been raised by a pure wizard education.Looking at the descendants of the Black family who lived outside, it was only in the past two years that they came into contact with wizards.The education received by the two people can be said to be very different, and the effect is obvious... unscientific.

Rong Jiu, No.1 in Slytherin for two consecutive years, if it wasn't for the teacher Lockhart who met this year, he would only get an E in Defense Against the Dark Arts, and it is uncertain who will take the first place in the grade; Laco, Slytherin's No.7 in the first year, made great progress in the second year and became No.3, but this still couldn't calm the waves in Lucius' heart-these two people should be the opposite. Normal plot!Is there really a natural difference in IQ?

If Draco knew his father's thoughts, he would probably cry aggrievedly: Although Rong Jiu has only just come into contact with the wizarding world, her life as a Taoist priest in the past few years is not for display; even if it is for display Well, Professor Snape didn't just use it for decoration!It’s not just about looks!Daily high-intensity training, from the theoretical remedial classes in the first year to the practical training in the second year, you can see how terrible the intensity is just by seeing how miserable she is every time she comes back, but anyone with an IQ can't be outstanding.

"I remind you, this year the dementors will be at Hogwarts, don't try to mess with them, money and status mean nothing to them. Especially if you will be allowed to go to Hogsmeade. Lucius gave Draco a special look, "If you get into trouble with them, even I can't save you."

"Okay dad." Draco's expression was rare serious, "I won't let you down again."

"I hope so." Lucius snorted.

Narcissa went up and gave Draco a hug and a kiss: "Honey, you are our pride no matter what."

"Yes, Mom." Draco laughed, "I am your son, and I will definitely make you proud!"

The corner of Lucius' mouth twitched slightly.Handsome, proud, and self-confident, this is his son, even if he has some shortcomings, he is still his pride.

Seeing that the mother and son still had something to say, he turned to Rong Jiu with a much gentler expression on his face: "At school, Draco wants you to take care of him."

"Don't worry, Uncle Lucius." Rong Jiu raised his eyebrows and raised his chin.This kind of Malfoy-like expression on her body makes people feel cute, but it's so incongruous, it made Lucius laugh for a while: "Draco is still a little impulsive in many ways, I hope he can learn from you To some calm."

"Yes, dear." Narcissa also turned around, and also gave Rong Jiu a hug and kiss, "You have to take care of yourself at school, if you encounter any trouble, don't carry it yourself, you have us .”

"Mom, I'm an older brother, and I'll protect her." Draco interjected, but got a disgusted look from Narcissa: "I'm thankful that you take care of yourself, baby."

"Who is the real one!" Draco yelled dissatisfiedly, making the others laugh.

"Okay, it's time to get in the car." Lucius patted Narcissa, motioning for her to let go of the two children and let them get in the car.When Narcissa turned her head back, tears welled up in her eyes, which made Lucius' heart soften for a while, "Okay, Sissy, we'll see you again at Christmas."

"It's a good thing you didn't send him to Durmstrang," Narcissa muttered.

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Draco and Rong Jiu were sitting in a box near the rear of the car, and it wasn't long before Pansy and Blaise found them.Pan Xi rushed forward and gave Rong Jiu a big hug, while Blaise sat beside Draco, he greeted, "Hey, you two, how are you doing on vacation?"

Draco shrugged, "Not bad."

"Did you take some potion? You've grown so much!" Blaise looked at Draco with his tongue, "Not only the height, but I can't even recognize this face!"

"The young master of the Malfoy family, the little prince of Slytherin, lives up to his name." Pansy said softly, "It has become even more charming after this holiday!"

"Yeah, apart from not sleeping well, there is no problem." Draco's face twitched, and this voice would evoke some bad memories in him...

"Oh, Jiu told me you like to wake up early, but unfortunately no one ever wakes you up." Pansy giggled, "You slept too well, Draco?"

Rong Jiu turned her head to the outside, looking at the sky.

"Don't fall into my hands!" Draco glared at her fiercely, "This matter will not pass!"

"It was actually an accident." Rong Jiu looked up at the sky again, "Didn't Uncle Lucius say that he hoped you would not waste all your time on the bed."

"I won't forget who misled me." Draco snorted.

Pan Xi leaned into Rong Jiu's ear and asked in a low voice, "What happened?"

Rong Jiu coughed: "Well... I will tell you when I go back."

"Oh...Okay." Pansy didn't ask any further questions, and started the next topic, "I went to Egypt with my mother on vacation..."

"Wow……"

After a while, Theodore also came over.Fortunately, several of them were thin, otherwise this small box would definitely not be able to squeeze them.The holidays were shared: Pansy went to Egypt, Brace went to Alaska, Theodore went to Durmstrang to visit their schools.Because of Lucius' overtime, Rong Jiu and Draco could only obediently stay in Malfoy Manor to recuperate.Hearing the wonderful talk from my companion, my heart started to itch, and I made up my mind to go out and have fun in the next vacation.

"Maybe we can go to China to see." Draco suggested, "Look at your hometown, and you can also go to eat the delicious food you mentioned, it must be better than your cooking."

"Really!" Rong Jiu was overjoyed at first, and then fell down, "I don't know if it's okay, my father said that I'm not allowed to go back, saying that there is some chance..."

"Going back and traveling are two different things." Draco pointed at himself triumphantly, "And maybe you met me in your life and became my younger sister. I'm your savior! You have to be right in the future I'm better."

"...Although I don't want to admit it, what you said seems to make sense." Rong Jiu slapped his forehead in despair, "The biggest consequence of not going back is that I will have an extra brother, my God, the savior is like you, I I don’t think I have much hope of surviving.”

A wave of detonating excitement immediately ushered in the small box, screams and laughter, which almost shattered the compartment.Several people fought together, some helped Draco, some helped Rong Jiu.After stopping their hands, several people were already disheveled and out of breath.Seeing each other's embarrassed appearance, they couldn't help laughing together.

"Okay, okay, I have to buy something to eat." Rong Jiu tidied herself up in a few clicks, "This trouble has consumed a lot of energy."

"She should be coming..." Draco looked at the time, "Well, it's one o'clock."

As soon as the words fell, the fat witch appeared outside the carriage.Rong Jiu chose chocolate cake and pumpkin juice, which drew Draco's disgusted expression: "How can anyone like pumpkin?"

"It's delicious." Rong Jiu deliberately opened up the pumpkin juice and put it under his nose, "If you don't believe me, just smell it..."

"Go away!" Draco ducked back in horror, "Get that thing away from me!"

Theodore looked at the two who were fighting again, then at the fat witch who was smiling, and said speechlessly, "Please ignore them, I want these."

"And me, I want a licorice lollipop."

"What a coincidence Bryce, I like that too. I want to."

"I still want that..."

Once you start shopping, it is difficult to think about the end.So when the fat witch left, the smile on her face was indescribably bright.

"By the way, I saw Harry Potter just now, and it's in the box next to us." Theodore picked up a box of Bibi's multi-flavored beans, opened it, tasted one, and his facial features immediately wrinkled together, "Bah, mustard delicious."

"Yo, what a coincidence." Draco snorted and straightened his clothes, "Come on, go say hello?"

"Farewell, Draco." Rong Jiu tugged at the hem of his clothes, "Why bother with them."

"They dirty my eyes." Draco's face was full of disgust, "Oh, the self-righteous 'savior', the rat who betrayed the blood, the mudblood... and put on a self-righteous appearance, it's really disgusting!"

"Yes, yes, so the noble young master of the Malfoy family, why bother with them?" Rong Jiu smoothed Draco's hair while stuffing chocolate into his mouth, "Come on, be good."

"Jiu, you're like feeding a pet." Pansy couldn't help laughing again.

"Oh." Draco replied with a noble and cold smile.

Around three or four o'clock in the afternoon, it started to rain outside, and there was singing in the small box.Don't look at Pansy who usually likes to speak in a high-pitched voice, but she sang surprisingly well, making Draco's stinky face soften after hearing Harry was next door, which greatly inspired Pansy.Rong Jiu clapped his hands lightly to keep time with Pan Xi, and Theodore also joined in.Blaise, with a lollipop in his mouth, seemed to be obsessed with listening, and his eyes were fixed on Pansy.

The rain outside the window was getting heavier and heavier, and the sky was getting darker, and the lights in the boxes and aisles were all turned on.Pan Xi just finished a song, took the water from Rong Jiu, moistened her throat: "Are we almost there?"

"It will take a while." Theodore estimated the time and replied affirmatively.Unexpectedly, as soon as the voice fell, the train began to slow down.

"Huh?" Pansy's eyes widened, "Why did you arrive early?"

"It's definitely not here." Rong Jiu looked out the window.Even though I can't see it clearly, I can still be sure that this is not what it looks like outside Hogwarts, "There are no lights outside."

"Then why stopped?" Draco frowned, "I don't remember my dad ever telling me that the trains have been reformed, they can't be so much faster."

Rong Jiu stood up: "I'll go and have a look."

She opened the door of the carriage, looked towards the aisle, and saw a head protruding out at a glance: "Tsk... definitely did not arrive at the station normally, and there was no notification sound, and a group of people who didn't know the truth were watching."

The train jerked to a halt, and there was a distant ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, thud, as if luggage had fallen off a rack (Pansy: "Oh no, my crystal slipper!").Then, out of nowhere, all the lights went out and they were plunged into darkness.

"What's wrong?" was Draco's voice.

"Ouch, it's my leg!"

"I'm sorry Blaise."

Rong Jiu shook his head, and pulled out his magic wand from his robe: "Luminescence flashes!" Ending the chaos in this small box.

"It seems that someone is getting into the car." Theodore raised his ears and listened carefully, "Oh...someone is looking this way."

Rong Jiu glanced out, and the fluorescent light shone through the glass, shining a little bit of the corridor: "It's Weasley. Ginny Weasley. I guess she's looking for the next door."

"Tch." Draco turned his head disdainfully, "What's the use of looking for them."

"It's dangerous to find brother." Rong Jiu turned back and smiled, winking at Draco.

Draco's expression froze.

Rong Jiu heard a slight rubbing sound, turned around, only to see the door of the box sliding open slowly.A figure in a cloak was just outside the door, tall and big, almost touching the ceiling, his face was completely hidden under the hood, the hand that pushed the door was gray and gloomy, with a faint light, and he could see clearly the Slime and spots.Such a terrifying thing is almost face to face with Rong Jiu.

"Dementor..." Draco said the name outright.

As if the name had stimulated the dementor outside the door, it leaned forward, and then took a long, deep breath, making a gurgling sound from its throat.The surrounding temperature dropped suddenly, and a bone-piercing chill invaded Rong Jiu's body.

Behind him came some indistinct, frightened, meaningless voices.This resounded in almost every carriage, like the arrival of the scourge, the doomsday, people are struggling in pain, waiting for someone to redeem them——

"Rogue!" The sharp voice suddenly broke the stern atmosphere, and there was a dull voice, which seemed to be the sound of hitting a bucket.

what is that?

Draco worked hard to gather his attention, and the surrounding scene gradually became clearer.But...he still doesn't seem to be fully awake?Why did he see the girl at the door of the carriage glowing?Still raising your hand?The big hood opposite her is tilted to the front?

Are you dreaming?He seemed to see...Rong Jiu slapped the dementor?

Looking at the dementor again, after maintaining this posture for two seconds, it quietly turned its face away.

Then he turned around silently and floated towards the train door.

"...Am I dreaming?" Draco rubbed his eyes.At this moment, the chill had dissipated, and the lights above his head had returned to light, but the chill hovering in his heart and the soaked clothes that hadn't faded clearly showed that this was not a dream, but...

"You slapped a dementor?" Draco looked at her like a monster, "You, don't you feel scared? Something like that, it's like December throwing you in ice water to soak It's the same, I can't move..."

"What?" Rong Jiu slammed the door of the box, sat back on her seat, took a pack of chocolate frogs to tear open, and glared at him, "I think you're scaring me again, where is that thing with you?" It’s so scary, what makes people feel that they won’t be happy, what is cruel and ruthless, apart from the built-in cooling function and low appearance, what’s so special about it?”

"You...you didn't feel it?" Pan Xi hugged Rong Jiu's arm while her teeth were still chattering, "I couldn't think of anything good when it came in."

"Yeah." Blaise echoed, although he looked calm, but his face was pale, and he didn't seem to be okay, "This reminds me of when I fell into the lake and almost drowned when I was a child... just now I thought I would Suffocating!"

Theodore nodded and said, "Me too. At that time, I just felt that I didn't have any good memories in my life... But speaking of it, when the Dementor appeared just now, I seemed to see your body glowing."

"Yes, yes, I saw it too." Draco was drinking water, and said hurriedly when he heard this, "It's so green, I thought I was hallucinating."

"Green and shiny..." Rong Jiu murmured, looking thoughtful.

"Speaking of which, I was really terrified just now." Theodore continued, "Nine actually hit the Dementor. I thought it would come up and suck her soul away."

"Suck the soul?" Rong Jiu listened freshly, "Do you think my soul is a drink?"

"You don't know?" Pansy looked up in surprise, "God, don't tell me you don't know 'Dementor's Kiss'!"

"Oh...does that thing have a mouth?" Rong Jiu's focus is always quite unique, and the people in the room can't stop hearing black lines, and they all talk about science for her.

"No one knows what's under the cloak..."

"Everyone who has seen it is dead!"

"No, it's not that he's dead, but his soul has been sucked away, and he's become a walking corpse. It's worse than death."

"Its ultimate move is that when he wants to kiss you, it will suck your soul away..."

"Oh, no wonder it's called a dementor." Rong Jiu nodded and laughed, "If that's the case, it's quite normal."

"Ah?" The people in a box were all dumbfounded, is that normal?Was she talking about the dementors, or was she talking about herself?

Don't be kidding, is there a normal one between these two?

"It's okay, it's okay." Rong Jiu quickly stopped talking, "I just sighed at its name. As for what happened just now, I don't know what happened, maybe it was because I was too panic-I saw it came up I thought it was a hooligan, and I was only paying attention to my anger, so I didn't realize the change carefully. As for why it left like this, it may be because it didn't know what it meant to be slapped..."

It sounded like there was something wrong, but there was nothing to refute it, and the others just brushed off the topic. After all, it was not a pleasant memory.

Rong Jiu leaned against the car window, staring outside in a daze, not knowing what she was thinking.Suddenly feeling kicked by something, he couldn't help but look up, and saw Draco raising his eyebrows at her with obvious doubts on his face.

Rong Jiu pouted in the direction of Hogwarts.

Satisfied that he didn't bother her anymore, Draco turned to join Pansy in encouraging Blaise to sing and listen.Blaise is a powerful young man, blushing and heart beating abruptly, very pitiful.

Rong Jiu shook his head and suddenly laughed.

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Dinner went very well.After all, after experiencing such a fright just now, having a big meal in such a warm, safe and bright place is simply one of the three great joys in life. Oh, and the other two are the famous bridal chamber wedding night, and it's time for the gold list.

Dumbledore announced the change of teachers for this semester: Hagrid will be the teacher of the Protection of Magical Creatures class (Draco: "This kind of person can still be a teacher, if my father knows, look, he won't allow it There are such confused teachers and principals!"), and the fact that dementors will be stationed at various exits of the school.

What made Draco even happier was that he had just learned from Neville that Harry fainted from the shock of facing the dementor on the train.So while Dumbledore was speaking, he turned around and challenged the Gryffindor table: "Hey, Potter, I heard you just passed out on the train?"

"Shut up, Malfoy," said Ron.

"Oh, so it seems to be true?" Draco sneered, "Why, you're not even afraid of the Chamber of Secrets, but you're afraid of a dementor!"

Now Ron was speechless, and turned around bitterly, pretending not to hear the laughter behind him.

After eating and drinking, everyone returned to the common room.Since they had just returned to school, a lot of luggage needed to be sorted, and no one stayed in the lounge, so they all returned to their dormitories.Rong Jiu excused that he ate a little too much, and wanted to stay in the common room to digest food, and asked Pan Xi to go back and tidy up first.After a while, Draco also slipped out of the bedroom.

"What's going on on the train?" He asked straight to the point, "Every time you put on that expression, you don't tell the truth, don't try to hide it from me!"

"I don't want to hide it from you." Rong Jiu rolled his eyes at him, "There were too many people at that time."

With a satisfied look on Draco's face, he straightened his short hair, then fell down on the sofa and raised his legs to the table: "What's going on?"

Rong Jiu took out two lollipops from his pocket, stuffed one in his mouth, and threw the other to Draco: "You know I was born as a Taoist priest, and I have a lot of research on ghosts. My family has more than a dozen generations of lollipops People, all have to deal with them, and of course, with people."

"Get to the point." Draco poked his ears.Regarding Rong Jiu's family background, he doesn't need to go into details.

"To put it bluntly, my family has been studying souls for more than ten lifetimes." Rong Jiu rolled his eyes at him, "And dementors specialize in attacking souls."

Draco was a little dazed for a moment, but after he realized it, he couldn't help but put away the posture of the second generation ancestor just now, straightened up, and looked shocked: "You mean...you are not afraid of dementors?"

"I guess, the dementors you are talking about will absorb all happy memories, that is, absorb part of your soul. It's nothing for a short time, after all, everything has self-healing ability, but if you stay with them for a long time, the soul If the recovery cannot keep up with the consumption for a long time, then the soul will be lost. This is the reason you said why people who stay with dementors for a long time are not normal." Rong Jiu analyzed.

"Do you have a way to protect the soul?" Draco's eyes widened. He knew what this meant—it might even subvert the rule of the Ministry of Magic. After all, one of the Ministry of Magic's reliance is Azkaban!

"The way the dementors attack the soul is too superficial." Rong Jiu shrugged, tantamount to acquiescing to Draco's statement.

"How?" Draco leaned forward excitedly, "Can I do it too?"

Rong Jiu sighed: "Even though the way it attacks the soul is superficial, after all, the soul is very mysterious." Pulling out a jade pendant from his collar, "I guess, it was the one that was attacking the soul when we were on the train. kick in."

"Heirloom." She took it off and handed it to Draco, "Father was worried that I would be outside alone, so he gave it to me in advance. There are many generations of painstaking efforts inside, but in fact it can only defend the basic soul Attack, but just enough to beat the dementors - but if it really is the 'kiss of the dementors' may not be able to help."

After all, it was just a talisman, and it might not be effective against methods like depriving one's soul.

"That is to say, it cannot be mass-produced?" Draco handed the pendant back in disappointment.

Seeing his disappointed look, Rong Jiu knew that he was worried about the Malfoys, so she couldn't help but soften her heart: "Not necessarily, researching things is difficult, but copying things is much easier. I'll write a letter to my father Let Uncle Lucius forward the letter, maybe he still has a way to come up with something similar."

Both of them belonged to the action group, so they found paper and pen at that time, and wrote a letter overnight. Draco also specially wrote a letter to Mr. Rong, packaged it and sent it to Lucius, asking him to forward it to Mr. Rong.

Lucius's political acumen is not to mention, he clearly knows how much benefit he can get and how much trouble he will cause if he succeeds, he can't help but feel grateful for his decisiveness and straightforwardness at that time, and he likes Rong Jiu even more.Of course, this is all for later.

"I suddenly feel like a family." Draco hugged a cushion, his lips were slightly curled up, not a bit domineering, looked at Rong Jiu who was also nestled on the sofa and hugged the cushion, and added, " us."

"Not before?" Rong Jiu rested her chin, blinking at him.

"Before... more like a better friend?" Draco curled his lips, "You always give up on us for those idiots of Gryffindor, hmph, you are willing to tell them anything."

Rong Jiu chuckled: "I didn't say anything to them. You know, the colleges are different, and some things are hard to say."

"It seems that you may not have been happy before." Draco also laughed, "Then I can rest assured."

Rong Jiu got up and pressed the cushion to Draco's face.

"Okay, okay," Draco hurriedly begged for mercy, "That's all in the past!"

"However, Draco, don't keep targeting Harry and the others." Rong Jiu fell back on the sofa, the flames flickering in the fireplace reflected on her face, which seemed unreal, "I think... …no need."

"It's not just because of you, I've disliked them a long time ago." Draco had that cold, disgusted expression on his face again, "Everything you do should be done with noble skin, without brains, Regardless of the consequences... That Weasley, who never considered his family before doing things, only had emotions but no brains; He's a Mudblood; heh, as for the 'Savior' Potter, he didn't see his own value clearly, and let himself be depraved, being at the mercy of these two people, it's ridiculous!"

"You don't have to intercede for these stupid people."

"I'm not worried about them." Rong Jiu pursed her lips, "I just think that you represent the entire Malfoy family, and they all represent themselves. You are not on the same level, no matter how you fight it, it will be ugly. It's you."

Draco's pale face was blushing slightly, it was unknown whether it was out of shyness or anger, but he didn't speak immediately, but lowered his head, thinking seriously about Rong Jiu's words, obviously he had listened.

The two of them... It seems that they really feel like family members.

Rong Jiu has a feeling of dependence on Lucius and Narcissa. The first is that they are elders, and they are always gentle and caring when they first met. For her, it really means that there is a little family affection in it.

But Draco met as a classmate, and after a long time of getting along, they became friends.The first impression is so important, so even though they have become the Russian family in name, they still regard each other as good classmates, even if they sometimes jokingly call them brothers and sisters, in fact, they are the same as Draco and Rong Jiu There is no difference at all.

until this moment.

She only wanted to tell him the secret, writing letters late at night to bother her father, just to do something for the Malfoy family; and he, who has always held himself up very high, could hold back after hearing her rebuttal. His own temper to think, because he believed she was for his own good.

Does this mean that there is a little selfless trust and dependence between relatives?

"It's true." Draco snorted, "Why should I lower my status to care about them."

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