[HP Sirius] Sweet Potions

Homeless?

Ursa looked at him with mixed sympathy.

Sirius grinned brightly: "Oh! You know I'm just joking, right? Don't worry, I have somewhere to go."

"I remember you staying at Mr. Potter's," said Ursa.

"James and his parents went to the funeral of a distant relative." Sirius replied, tidying up his messed-up clothes, "so I am indeed homeless now. But don't worry, I can go to Andromeda I will stay at my cousin's house for a few days."

After Sirius finished speaking, he turned into a big black dog again.

It walked to the door, looked back at Ersa and barked lowly, as if saying goodbye to her.

"Goodbye." Ursa said in a low voice, waving her hand.

Then she watched Sirius silently and turned and disappeared behind the door.She suddenly felt a little lost because she wasn't sure when she would see him again.

After breakfast, Ersha and Anna left.

Ursa apparated with her mother to a village in the Highlands where her grandfather once lived.She thought it would be a good place for her father if he was looking for a hiding place that wouldn't be easy to spot.

It was an old house on a hillside, and the grass-green paint on the outer wall had peeled off a lot.The garden of the house is full of dilapidated withered grass, and the windows have been covered with a thick layer of dust, which does not look like it is inhabited.

"I never knew the Greens had a house here," Anna muttered under her breath. "Looks like that idiot—I mean your father kept a lot of things from me."

Erza remained silent.She took an old key from her coat pocket and inserted it into the keyhole on the door.

Because her grandfather cast many protective spells on the door and added a Muggle lock, the door cannot be opened by magic, only by a key.

The mother and daughter opened the door and walked in.There was a musty smell that no one had lived in for a long time.

"I don't think he has come back." Anna said with a frown.

Ursa drew out her wand, "Luminescence." She raised her head to look around carefully, and then said softly, "No, I think he's been back recently."

She pointed to a picture frame on the wall, and the pictures in the frame were still.In the photo, a little girl in a dress is sitting on a bench with a balloon.

"This is you." Anna recognized the girl immediately.

"This is the picture my dad always carries with me," whispered Erza, "so he must have been back." She took the frame down and slid her fingers across the cold mirror, "Look, there's almost no dust on it, so he must have I came back recently."

At this moment, a voice suddenly sounded from behind them.

Erza was startled, she and Anna turned around almost at the same time, and saw her father standing behind them.

"Here you are, Ersha." His voice seemed to come from far away.

Ursa watched his mouth open and close, and suddenly realized that his body looked a little transparent, a bit like a Hogwarts ghost, but more real than a ghost.She understood immediately what had happened.

"It's manifestation magic." Anna whispered in Ersha's ear.

Erza nodded slightly.

At this moment, the apparition of her father began to speak again.

"Only you can enter this house, so I left you this message," he said hoarsely.

Ursa couldn't help noticing that he looked tired and even older than usual.

"Don't try to find me. Some dangerous people are looking for me, and I don't want you to get involved," he continued. "Also, I'm in a safe place, so don't worry about me. My last advice is, stay in the Hogwarts, Ursa... only there is the safest now, I believe no one can invade there now."

He was silent for a moment, and then repeated what he said at the beginning: "Remember, don't come to me, it's dangerous, understand? Hope we can meet again soon."

Watching the phantom fade away, Anna looked to her young daughter.

"What are you going to do, dear Ursa?" she asked.

Ursa took a deep breath, "You heard what he said." She forced a smile, "I plan to go back to Hogwarts."

"You don't have to follow his orders." On the way back, Anna said a little dissatisfied, "Why didn't you leave England with me?"

Ursa replied with a worried face: "He said I shouldn't go to him, so I won't do that. I will continue to stay at Hogwarts to teach Potions."

Anna was a little surprised and said, "Don't you think it's more fun to travel with me?"

Ersha shook her head, "I'm sorry, Mom... I'm still very worried about him, so I want to stay in England and wait for news from him."

"This is too stupid, silly girl." Anna said with a sigh.

She suddenly realized that her daughter obeyed her father's words like a well-trained soldier, without even the slightest complaint.But she couldn't tell what happened between them, because Ersha spent most of her life without her company.

Thinking of this, Anna suddenly felt a little guilty again.

"Then I shall stay too," said she. "I shall remain in London for the time being."

"But what about your girlfriend?" Ursa asked in surprise.

"She'll understand," Ana said. "Actually, I'm thinking about breaking up with her, so don't worry about me."

Ursa looked at her hesitantly, then smiled, "Okay."

Then, the two of them returned to Mrs. Robert's warm house again.

A few days later, Ursa said goodbye to her mother and boarded the train back to Hogwarts.

In the carriage, she saw Sirius standing alone on the platform from a distance.

It's just that she hasn't seen him for a few days, but the moment she saw him, she couldn't help getting excited secretly, as if she hadn't seen him for several months.

She watched Sirius' every move through the window.She looked at him silently, from his elegant black hair to his slender legs.She suddenly noticed several young female students standing not far behind him and pointing at him.

Ursa's sudden realization of how popular her boyfriend was among the girls made her secretly happy and strangely satisfying.

Sirius didn't notice Ursa.He glanced down at his watch, and a few minutes later his friend James appeared panting with his luggage.They greeted each other shoulder to shoulder and looked intimate.

They got on the train, and Sirius saw Ursa standing by the window staring blankly at him for the first time.

Erza was ready to greet him.She suddenly felt that after observing closely, Sirius seemed to be more handsome than a few days ago.She couldn't help but secretly became nervous, watching the other party approaching her anxiously like a little girl in love.

But all these thoughts are only carried out in her mind, she still has that indifferent appearance, she looks like a proud beauty.

When Sirius saw her, the smile on his face stiffened slightly.Then he quickly lowered his head and chatted with James.

When he passed by him, Ersha greeted him with a slightly hoarse voice.

"Good morning," she said.

"Hello, Miss Green." James greeted her with a little surprise, as if he had just noticed Ersa.

Sirius looked at Ursa and moved his lips, but he didn't say anything in the end.He turned his head away seemingly calmly, and then left closely behind James.Ersha stared at his back for a long time, but he didn't even look back.

In the following time, Ursa kept thinking about Sirius' performance just now.

—He looked so cold.Erza thought to herself.

She couldn't help but start thinking about the bad side.

Perhaps he was beginning to regret his association with her.Because she is still their teacher after all, and she is more than two years older than him.Thinking of this, Ersha immediately felt a little restless.

She was starting to get a little angry with Sirius.If he didn't want a long-term relationship with her, he shouldn't have come to her on Christmas Day, she thought, a little annoyed.

When the train was about to arrive at Hogwarts, Ursa finally couldn't sit still.She stood up and slammed open the sliding door of the box.

She pretended to be casually approaching the Gryffindor box, but saw Sirius standing in the aisle chatting with a fourth-year Ravenclaw girl.

The girl was petite and pretty, and seemed to be of Asian descent.She was giggling at one of Sirius' jokes.

Ursa stopped immediately.She stood there blankly looking at the two students who were chatting happily, and suddenly felt a little silly.She pursed her lips and turned around to leave.

But she was suddenly unwilling to walk away like this.

So she turned around abruptly, fiddled with her messy curly hair, then raised her chin slightly and strode over.

As she passed them, she cast a sideways glance at the two laughing fellows.

She felt Sirius watching her.But her self-esteem was troubled, which made her not look back at him immediately.She left expressionlessly as if she was just passing by, and she didn't glance back until she was about to leave the box.

But Sirius had already looked away from her.

After returning to Hogwarts, everything seemed to be back to normal.

But Ersha couldn't calm down for a long time.On the one hand, she was worried about her father's safety, and on the other hand, she was distressed by what happened to Sirius.

In addition, a potion she was researching that could help control the abilities of Transformation Magus also encountered a bottleneck, so she began to spend a lot of time in the library, studying those potion science books that no one had touched for hundreds of years .

Sirius and James were rarely in the library, so Ursa had little contact with him outside of class.So a whole month passed, and they didn't even have a chance to get along alone.

Ursa found that she didn't need Sirius' company as much as she thought, and she began to suspect that she might not really like him.She believed Sirius was the same, otherwise he wouldn't have kept his distance from her.

But she soon realized that she was wrong.

One day after dinner, as soon as she returned to her office, she was hugged tightly by a pair of strong arms.

She was startled, and just about to struggle, she heard a slightly hoarse voice saying in her ear: "...Don't be afraid, it's me."

Ursa immediately felt her heart beating like a drum.

Sirius was hugging her tightly from behind, almost strangling her.The familiar breath enveloped her, and she clearly smelled the smell emanating from him.She felt her breathing quicken and her teeth trembled slightly, only then did she realize how much she missed this feeling.