[HP] If youth has an ageless face

"Who are you looking for?"

"Professor Slughorn asked me to give this to Miss Edwin La Davis." The errand boy handed over a scroll tied with a ribbon, and at the same time, he did not forget to peek at Edwin La.

"Here, yours." Sylvia tossed the scroll to Edwina while closing the door of the box, but the boy boldly leaned closer to the glass and looked inside again, "Some people have already The reputation has spread so far... This kid is probably only a second-year student? You are really charming."

"Isn't I always like this?" Edwin pulled the scroll and looked at it, then smiled slightly, "It's an invitation from Slughorn."

It seems that what she said in Diagon Alley was not in vain.Slughorn had clearly taken a fancy to her, and now she was no longer the girl someone took to the Slug Club, but the one who had received the invitation.

Edwin La is very satisfied with this change.Sylvia on the opposite side snatched the invitation and looked at it, it said——

"Edwin pulls:

It would be my great honor if you could have lunch with me in carriage C.

Yours faithfully: Professor HEF Slughorn"

"You succeeded!" Sylvia said sourly, "Tell me how you did it." Edwina graciously ignored the jealousy in her words, but stretched his body: " What is this, just a small meeting with the professor. It is far from what I want." She took out a small round mirror from her robe pocket, and looked at herself carefully.Sylvia recalled her words, but she was not reconciled:

"We are all in the fifth grade, why don't you put your mind on the OWLs exam?"

Edwin pulled the mirror shut with a snap, and laughed at her while braiding her hair: "Don't tell me you decided to take an exam to change your life. Don't be so naive, please. Even if you get an 'O' in every subject, wait for you After graduation, you still have to compete with those rich and powerful people in your family. Do you think you have the ability to make up for the inherent difference between you and them? Huh? Besides, you and I are not the kind of all-O at all student."

"What are you worrying about? No matter what, your brother can't ignore you."

"I don't intend to rely on him." Edwina replied calmly, "I have nothing to do with the property of the Davis family, and now I can't borrow the advantage of this surname."

Sylvia looked a little surprised.Perhaps Edwin's tone was too indifferent, and she didn't dare to continue asking for a while.Edwin pulled the braids and asked back, "Didn't your parents contact you?"

"No." Sylvia sank into her seat and replied sullenly, "I told you: I don't even know who they are. I guess after all these years, they should have I'll just forget about it." She looked out the window and sighed deeply, "Anyway, the money they left me was only enough for me to spend a year or two after graduation... Since then, I don't know how to live go down."

Edwina glanced at her, but didn't answer immediately.Sylvia's goal all along is to find someone in Hogwarts to start training, and use it as a long-term meal ticket in the future.But how could it be so easy.Her stumbles on Lucius and others have proved that the beauty in front of her is actually an empty-headed, superficial idiot. Maybe she can do it in the short term, but she can't hang out in the social circle for a long time.

"What do you think?" Sylvia finally couldn't help asking herself, "With my appearance, is there always someone willing to pay me to be his mistress?"

Be someone's property?Edwin La didn't think it was a good idea.

"Maybe." She responded vaguely, not wanting to waste too much time on Sylvia, "but your previous idea may not be unfeasible. If possible, find a job and live a stable life. It's pretty good too."

"It's pretty good too? That's not what you said just now." Sylvia's eyes widened. Edwina had already grabbed the invitation and was about to go to the appointment. "What about you? What are you going to do?"

"Me?" Edwina smiled and waved the invitation card in his hand, "First of all, I'm not a person who can pay bills by myself."

"Edwinra! You're here!" She was by no means the only one Slughorn invited, but in his eyes, she might be the one with the most "potential".Slughorn therefore gave her a rather warm welcome.

"Miss Davis, did you have a good summer vacation?" When she sat down with a piece of pie, Edwin discovered that the group of Slaters sitting next to him was led by Signus Burst Forest.There was nothing wrong with this seating arrangement, but after Luke Wood's incident, Edwin La thought they might not be too friendly to her.

"Pretty good." She smiled. "What about you?"

"Exciting," Signus said meaningfully, "especially... I've heard some interesting stories."

"Really?" Edwin asked back, "For example?"

Signus coughed and lowered his voice slightly as Slughorn was chatting with a small group of Gryffindors. "It's just a joke, Miss Davis. Once upon a time, there was a wild horse with a heart higher than the sky and a life thinner than paper. It believed that it was special, and it was delusional to make the unicorn fall in love with it. Of course the unicorn didn't like it." Dirty wild horse, but it has been entangled with the unicorn, entangled, and entangled... Finally, the unicorn stabbed its heart with its own horn in a rage. It just wanted to teach the wild horse a lesson, who The unicorn felt very guilty, but when dying, the wild horse still stared at the unicorn and said, "Merlin! Please prepare a group of unicorns for me in heaven." ' . . . Is that funny to you, Miss Davies?"

No one around laughed immediately, but they were all paying close attention to Edwina's reaction.

"I think the joke makes sense." Edwin La said with a smile, "The wild horse is obviously not an ordinary wild horse, but a thestral. So it is invisible to innocent people, and only haunts the unicorn day and night. "

"We all know that anyone who has seen death can see thestrals, Miss Davis."

"It depends on why you're seeing it," Edwinra said. "Thestrals are naturally terrified by people with evil intentions, and the approach of them by those who are open-hearted. In this story both the unicorn and the horse Even if you seek benevolence and gain benevolence, no one is more innocent and noble than anyone else. From this we can see two truths..."

Signus' complexion has become ugly: "Please tell me."

"First, people should not be judged by appearance." Edwin pulled the corner of his mouth deliberately at him, "Second, good and evil will always be rewarded."

"What are you talking about here, Miss Davis?" Before Signus had time to speak, Slughorn came over, "Mr. Burst, are you okay?" He looked at the livid face Signus, asked.

"Mr. Burst told me a joke full of flaws just now, and I corrected it one by one. I think he still needs some time to digest this fact." Edwina lightly changed the subject, "By the way , do you know Gilderoy Lockhart, Professor?"

"Ah... I know him." Slughorn said with great interest, "He has graduated from Hogwarts for several years, and I have kept in touch with him intermittently. Are you asking because you watched His book?"

"That's true. The things in those books are scary just to read." Admiral boasted. "Is he that good at school, Professor?"

"In my impression... it seems to be not bad. But he must have become different after traveling around the world." Slughorn replied, "Then again, when Ravenclaw There is also a student who is also very good...”

The topic was diverted indefinitely.Edwin La realized that Darren was not on Slughorn's invitation list, so was it because he didn't want to attend this kind of party, or was it because Slughorn didn't know the specifics of the Zabini family? What about the situation?

All afternoon Slughorn talked to them with gusto about the exploits of his former pupil.This box did not meet Edwina's expectations, so she soon got tired of the endless chatter, but she must not leave halfway...

At last, as the train passed through a long stretch of fog and into the red glow of sunset, Slughorn looked around and blinked in the twilight.

"Ouch, it's getting dark! I didn't notice they had all the lights on! You better go back and change into your school robes. Signus, come and drink my old mead when you have time. Four of you , I'm always welcome, but please—don't let McGonagall catch you all getting into trouble. And you, miss, you're a member of the Slug Club now, aren't you?" He winked at Edwin , "Okay, let's go, let's go!"