Wild child

There was a bang, and Fanny got used to it somewhat, but just swayed in place.Then she found herself in a dark field, except for the light in the front window, and only a light on the horizon could be seen as far as the eye could see.As for the house in front of me...

Benjamin's house is at least well-off compared to it, and even without Dumbledore and Lu Fanny, he can be sure that the person living in it is a wizard—otherwise, how can this thing not collapse?

Almost at the same time as the two appeared, a gray-haired man rushed out of the room.

"Professor Dumbledore!... Who is this?" He hesitated when he saw Fanny.

"Good evening, Remus. This is one of my little friends, it's okay." Dumbledore said calmly, "Fanny, this is Remus Lupine, a very capable wizard."

kid?Wow, what an honor.Fanny blinked, "Hello, Mr. Lupine."

"Hello, Fanny...please come in, please come in."

The house was obviously cleaned and tidied up for Dumbledore's arrival, but it still couldn't hide the feeling of shabby and dilapidated.The three sat down at the table - Dumbledore made a copy of a stool for Fanny before the host's embarrassment showed up - and after each had a cup of tea, it was Dumbledore who spoke first.

"As I said in my letter, Remus. I would like to ask you to be the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts from September onwards."

"Thank you for your trust, Professor. But I'm afraid..."

"I have complete confidence in your abilities and you will make an excellent teacher."

"No, I mean...you know..." Lupine glanced at Fanny, "for the safety of the students..."

It could be seen that Lupine wanted and clearly needed the job, but had been refusing it for some reason related to the safety of the students, despite Dumbledore's reassurance that he had taken corresponding measures.

During the conversation between the two, Fanny looked at Lupin without saying a word. He must not be more than 35 years old. Judging from his white hair and patches, his life is no less desolate than Benjamin.

—Abject, but apparently not depraved.As a wizard, it's easy to do well in the Muggle world, all you have to do is drop a few things.That which sustains a man to see himself as a human being has not been taken away from him, as can be seen in his eyes.

The part of the conversation that was "related to the safety of the students" was not going smoothly, Lupine hesitated to prevent Fanny from being present, and Dumbledore let it be and did not intend to make it clear.

Alright, quiz time.Dumbledore valued ability but lived in such a miserable life. The safety of the students was not a problem.

"Mr. Lupine, are you a vampire or a werewolf?"

"Ah... I'm a werewolf." Lupine said with an odd twist of his face, as flatly as possible.

Fanny nodded and drank her tea, which stunned Lupine for a moment.Dumbledore continued the conversation as if nothing had happened, and it went much smoother now.His powers of persuasion were not faultless, and Lupine's wavering continued to deepen.When Lupine began to lower his eyes, hold his glass and purse his lips in silence, Fanny knew that the matter was close, and the final blow was only needed.

"Fanny."

"...What's the matter?" Fanny was a little bit late to react—mainly because she didn't expect that Dumbledore would shoot her after the intense persuasion work.

"tell me your opinion."

"I..." Fanny looked at the two people with different expressions, and took a breath, "Werewolves are a general term for people who change into wolf forms at a certain moment..."

She recited all the knowledge about werewolves she knew, and then looked directly at the confused Lupine and said, "I want to show that I am not a fool who knows nothing about werewolves and is talking nonsense. The idea of ​​a werewolf as a teacher at Hogwarts."

"Since Mr. Dumbledore invited you to be a teacher, there is definitely no need to worry about safety issues, because he will never risk the safety of the students. He also promised to persuade other teachers to keep it secret, so you are important to us. Just an average, new teacher, accepted only by how well you do in class - not too difficult since we already had two 'superior' human teachers. Oh, If you do it too badly, I might get rid of you by revealing your identity."

As she spoke, she gave Dumbledore a sideways look, which meant that if she wasn't worried about safety, she was afraid that you would trust someone wrong again.Dumbledore was smiling, and Lupine was listening intently.

"If you're a good teacher, even if your identity is revealed, someone will remember that you're not a biting lunatic, and they'll remember having a good time with a werewolf. If you're not, say it badly , I don't think your life could be any worse. While the danger of werewolves is undeniable, I still don't think there is a consistent bias against this group. I think that many werewolves who will intentionally bite people are also discriminated against by those Created. There is no better place to start than school for accepting sane and harmless werewolves and correcting long-held prejudices."

"And as a student, I'm hoping that Professor Dumbledore will hire more werewolves, giants and centaurs. How interesting that would be. Hogwarts is going to be the best wizarding school in Europe, only academic excellence... er, probably not enough Yes."

It's an old problem, and the tone becomes louder as you talk.Fanny shrank her neck.

"In short, the only question is whether you want to. Stopping hundreds of teenagers from blowing up classrooms every few days, and dozens of teachers in a row for less than a year, and they are either killed or injured. I don't think it's a good job. .”

"Well said." Dumbledore slapped his hands twice and turned to Lupine, "You know the safety measures, this kid knows a lot more about werewolves than most people, and you agree with her attitude." Understood. So, would you like to be the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts?"

Lupine was silent for a long time, then nodded.Fanny breathed a sigh of relief, and she felt that Dumbledore next to her had the same reaction.

Now that the goal has been achieved, Dumbledore greeted for a while and got up to leave.Lupine kept murmuring his thanks as he sent them out.

"Since you have decided to take office, you have to be careful, Remus." Dumbledore chuckled, "This kid is holding you back. Her standards are very high—that's not just a threat."

Fanny's expression was tangled, but Lupine showed a real smile for the first time, "This can always remind me not to relax."

The two appeared at the entrance of Diagonal Alley, the night was deep, and there were only a few people in the alley.Most of the shops are closed, and the Leaky Cauldron, which is still lit, stands out at the moment.

"Sir, did you take me there because you thought it might help Lupine?"

"Yes. The same words will have different effects when they are spoken by students. I think it will be much smoother if a student with an open attitude is present. But you guessed Lupine's identity faster than I expected."

"Because I think you're the kind of person who puts everything in the school...well, I mean without prejudice and just looking at ability."

"Thank you very much for your trust, Fanny. I am very touched..." Dumbledore's eyes made Fanny a little confused, but he changed the subject immediately, "Good night, Fanny."

"Good night, sir."

The slightly blue eyes watched the tall figure disappear in the night, and the owner of the eyes turned and entered the dimly lit bar.

As Dumbledore said, life in Diagon Alley is very interesting.Fanny hesitated for a while before accepting the bag containing the living expenses given by Mrs. Conwell, but this psychological obstacle soon passed, but she was a lot more cautious when spending money, which made her in this street Feeling extremely painful every time.

By the time the school started, she was familiar with all the nearby alleys and alleys besides the main street. When she encountered some unruly people in Knockturn Alley, Fanny had to use her fists and kicks to persuade them to leave.

After living in the bar for a week, she ran into Harry by accident, and learned that he had to live here because he blew up her aunt as a balloon, and she was not punished. Fanny was very amazed.

More than a month passed quickly, and Fanny boarded the Hogwarts Express.If she hadn't met Snape and Dumbledore, she would definitely not be what she is now when she got on the train, but Fanny still regrets the "walk to London" trip she missed.

Sitting in the same carriage with the Weasley twins and Lee Jordan, they chatted happily for most of the day, and it is conceivable that Filch will face another disastrous year.Of course, this is already the norm.

The accident happened when the train was approaching the station, the train stopped with a bang, and then all the lights went out, and darkness enveloped the entire carriage.

Even in the wilderness without lights, there is no such darkness at night: it is so thick that it will drown people like water.

Through the darkness, Fanny saw that she was on the edge of a cliff. There was not a trace of cloud in the air. The open fields and dotted cities spread from far below her to the end of her field of vision. tone.The crowd on the cliff was approaching her, and there was no way to retreat.

"Die, monster!"

"Mongrel!"

"Bitch! Get out!"

The voices were very noisy. She heard Smith, Orozco, Mrs. Evan, and many, many familiar voices belonging to the children in the town, the voices of Hogwarts students and teachers.

A hand grasped her, cold, pale, and stiff, belonging to the child who had been lying on the beach for two days.

"Ahhh!"

"Fanny? Fan—Fanny?"

George's or Fred's voice came, trembling.Fanny hit the window frame with the back of her head, and the pain made her wake up a little bit, and only after realizing that her thing had left did she regain a little strength to struggle and make a sound.And the sound she made just now was just a whisper with a trill.

Ugh, what a shame.

The chill hadn't gone, and the lights hadn't turned on yet, so the thing was probably in the adjacent compartment.Just as Fanny realized it, a figure suddenly appeared beside the opened compartment door.George shrank back subconsciously, his back collided with Fanny's nose who was struggling to get up.

The courage to save face supported Fanny to speak: "Who?"

Pausing for a while, a voice came over, the effect of domineering was far less than usual, but the dragging tone was the same.

"It sounded like you were screaming, Sanchez."

Immediately, two words popped into Fanny's mind, one beginning with F and the other beginning with S.

"I hit my head and it was a real shock."

"Bumped your head." Repeated meaningfully. "Perhaps you should change into a robe with suction cups so that you don't slip out of the seat when you pass out?"

...... #￥%#%￥.The anger almost burned the chill in an instant.Turning her mind, Fanny found a stronghold to fight back.

"Thank you for your concern, Master Malfoy. By the way, wouldn't the dementor happen to be in your box right now? Squeeze past it to remind me to change clothes. It's very brave."

Fanny meant that he was scared and escaped.Malfoy clicked, and just at that moment the lights came on, and she wasn't too surprised to see someone flush—the guy looked ashamed when angry.

Wait, he seems to be really—— shy, or it would be more appropriate to say annoyed.

After the panic had settled down and the eyesores left, starting with Fred, the box started a trend of "laughing at Malfoy the Coward", and Fanny chatted with each other.When they arrived at the station, the topic had already been led to "what is a dementor" and "Azkaban is terrible", Fanny couldn't help but silently despise the three new fifth grade seniors while popularizing her knowledge .

Then Fanny learns that someone is even more embarrassing than she is: Harry passed out straight after the Dementor entered the door.But her first reaction wasn't ridicule, it was - something terrible must have happened to Harry.

The carriage that can move on its own takes the students to the castle.

Probably because of those dementors hanging around the school, there has been a slight sense of tension in the castle since the beginning of the school year, and this atmosphere scratched the Gryffindor Tower Fat Lady on Halloween Sirius Black After the portrait reached a small peak.

Naturally, Hermione began negotiating with Fanny, who often went out at night, about safety issues.

"Okay, Hermione, I can take care of myself." Fanny sighed. "Don't forget who is being turned into a sculpture. Believe me, following the rules will not help personal safety at all."

"You really..." Hermione shook her head, "Forget it, whatever you want. I think I'd better end this conversation before you start calling me 'Granger'. You haven't Having done that, it really makes me worry that something is wrong with you."

Fanny scratched her head and smiled wryly. Hermione's eloquence was by no means inferior to hers. The only thing missing was that Hermione was a good person and never wanted to say hurtful things.At this moment, she was trying her hand at a trick, and she was so blocked that she couldn't speak.

"Something happened during the holiday... just think of me as repentant."

"Well..." Hermione gave Fanny an attentive look, "Can I take this as an apology?"

As expected of the smartest student in the whole year... talking to smart people saves effort.

Only when you lose something do you know how to cherish it. This saying is very vulgar, but it is true.When standing in front of Benjamin's tomb, Fanny had a flash of inspiration and remembered what she had failed and missed. Some people call this an epiphany.She had never been so thankful that Hermione had only been petrified and had time for some things.

Now she could say that she had finally made a friend at Hogwarts.

While it's nice to have friends, the fact that "Hermione's only friend" still bothered Fanny deeply.After that conversation, Hermione started nagging her day and night after school hours, making her feel like she was being stalked by an academic giant squid.

When I wash up and leave the dormitory in the morning...

"It's time for Lupine to teach us about Hincklepunk today, I just read the introductions in The Wilderness Visitor and Guide to Fantastic Creatures..."

at lunch...

"I think what Professor Binns said just now was wrong. The sign of witch hunting in the Crimea region should be..."

When doing homework...

"Muggle studies done? Let me see - (takes it) - Faraday's discovery of electromagnetic induction in 1831 is a sign, but I think the Muggle use of electricity began with..."

at dinner...

"You should make an outline and summarize what you have learned every day, so that when it's time for the exam..."

Before going to bed...

"When you go out today, you should look at the phases of the moon and draw them, Professor Sinistra said..."

The fact that there are 5 years left to graduate made her feel another kind of deep sadness. If she wanted to write a message, what Fanny wrote to Hermione would be "You are my hell".

But it also made her understand why Harry and Ron maintained their average and above-average grades with so many "activities"—this is the so-called power of motivation.They often looked at Fanny with sympathy and sympathy, which made Fanny's teeth itch.

Since Hermione had a new "favor", the two of them felt more relaxed, and she obviously thought it was much more enjoyable to talk to Fanny, who could barely keep up with her own train of thought.After all, Fanny is the only person in the grade who can compare her reading volume and coverage, and even read more than her in some aspects.No matter how sloppy you read it, there is always a difference between having read it and not reading it.It's also because Fanny couldn't help but interject from time to time to add something, which fueled Hermione's enthusiasm for discussion.

It's time to learn to shut up.

Carrying a bag that smelled like meat and walking in the corridor filled with all kinds of strange shadows, Fanny silently admonished herself for the nth time.

With the food in hand, her destination this time was naturally not the empty classroom.

Originally, after the matter of the heir of Slytherin, she had already planned to ignore that Slytherin bastard, but when she met someone's provocative gaze on the second day of school, she subconsciously pointed her left hand to the side.This is the challenge. After school, I change my wand behind the tapestry there, and I have to go if I don’t go at night.

Unfortunately, Malfoy had scratched his arm by a strange beast named Buckbeak in the first Care of Magical Creatures class that afternoon.The class taught by the previous magical creature protection teacher was known to be simple, safe and easy to pass, which did not attract Fanny's interest, so I didn't choose this class when I filled out the form, but thanks to Pansy Parkinson, I just finished the first class. The whole of Hogwarts knows that "the new teacher Hagrid caused a serious injury to a student in the first class".

Had I known it was Hagrid teaching...

Fanny thought about it, and went to the tapestry after school.

"Coming so late will make people think you are timid." One of the mouths that came first still couldn't spit out ivory.

"Am I late? I suggest you visit Madam Pomfrey again. There must be something stuffed in your head for making such a fuss every time."

"You'd better hope that your brain isn't stuffed with straw, lest I burn it tonight."

"After you were sent to the school hospital by a bird? I was more worried that I didn't have enough straw in my head to make you lose too badly-I didn't want to have Snape wring your neck. By the way, when you Are you screaming and rolling all over the floor?"

Malfoy was angry, which was extremely rare in his history of cursing, and there seemed to be some kind of magic in this girl to dull his mind.

"Do you want to fight? I'm going to feed that little bird some delicious food, and reward it for eliminating harm for the people. It will be even better if it practices its accuracy."

"Don't be scared to cry by that 'little bird'! That... thing almost broke my arm!"

The thick bandage on Malfoy's right arm under the rolled-up sleeves is very eye-catching. Judging from the shape of his mouth, Malfoy probably wanted to say "that beast", but these words would be difficult for him to utter if he was not in a hurry .Even though she couldn't say it, she still wanted to make herself appear "ruthless". Fanny always laughed at his temper.

"Burned, cut, fell, pierced by the wire when jumping over the wall," Fanny showed him the scars on her hands and legs, and then gestured to a mark on her jaw, "I stepped on spikes. You want Are you hurting me? No one gave me a holiday when I was fighting."

"...I didn't say that."

Fanny turned her head to look at him, and Malfoy handed over the wand with his left hand. He really intended to fight.

"Forget it." Fanny lowered her wand.

Malfoy narrowed his eyes, provoking him to make a move and then give up?

"I don't bully the wounded, I don't do what those people did."

"You want to admit defeat?"

"I didn't say it, but it's up to you to pretend that I've surrendered. I won't fight anyway." Fanny put her wand back in her pocket, "Are you going to cast a spell on someone who doesn't have a wand?"

Malfoy snorted and put away his wand, and when Fanny left, he felt his unclear eyes following behind her.

Therefore, the first contest of this school year was actually only verbal and did not take place formally.

Malfoy didn't challenge again after that, and neither did Fanny, because the bandage on Malfoy's arm was never removed.There are no magic spells on the hippogriff's claws. In the world of wizards, purely physical injuries don't need bandages for so long. Even if a limb is cut off for two months, the incision will heal. obvious.

"He just wanted to look bad so Buckbeak could die!" Hermione was outraged.

"It did hurt people, and if it was put to death it would be the fault of whoever brought it to the classroom."

"How dare you - Hagrid told us what to do with it! Clearly! Malfoy himself was stupid for not following his orders!"

"Is an aggressive, dangerous creature with fangs and claws a reasonable first class for a third grader?"

"Buckbeak is not dangerous! Harry is still flying in the sky on it! How do you think Harry wasn't scratched?"

"..."

The quarrel happened at dinner on the day of the incident, and the purpose of Fanny's midnight outing was to verify Buckbeak's danger and practice true knowledge.Hagrid used to accompany Buckbeak by the Forbidden Forest until dawn almost every day out of guilt and his own love for such animals. The matter of Buckbeak's trial has been finalized these days, and Hermione wants him to win the lawsuit. It took a lot of examples and figures for him before Hagrid spent that time in the house.

The dog problem is more difficult to deal with. Fortunately, Yaya saw that Fanny had stopped biting since the last expedition in the Forbidden Forest. She slipped into the house and fed Fangya a piece of fragrant dog while Hagrid was out to take care of Flobber caterpillars in the afternoon. Schnitzel, topped with powdered narcissus root soaked in wormwood juice, a simple powerful sleep aid.Yaya, who has often eaten delicious food from Fanny for more than a month, swallowed it without the slightest bit of vigilance, but this time he was sleeping soundly.

Fanny shivered in the cold November wind and approached the strange figure by the edge of the Forbidden Forest. She felt that the dementors in the Forbidden Forest were inseparable from her freezing like this.Buckbeak turned his head abruptly, his fierce and piercing eyes made Fanny nearly fall over in fright.

Is this dangerous?

Trying not to turn around and run away, Fanny took two steps closer to look at those eyes, bowed, took a step back, and continued to stare at those eyes.Buckbeak didn't move. During the confrontation, Fanny felt her knees start to tremble faintly. She stood there almost waiting for the monster in front of her to violently attack and hurt people.

Buckbeak finally lowered his head and bowed to Fanny until the wind made Fanny almost cry.

The first step is completed, it is not difficult.

"Hey, Hagrid has something to do today, mind if I stay here?"

Seeing that Buckbeak's front paws were about to rise, Fanny stepped back and raised the bag in her hand to Buckbeak's nose—if it had one—in front of Buckbeak: "A little gift."

Food bribes are always most useful to beasts, and Fanny has been doing this to the orchard dog since she was 5 years old.

With a flick of Buckbeak's neck, he tore open the bag in Fanny's hand, and the chicken legs fell to the ground.Fanny swallowed, she really didn't see how this thing was not dangerous.

Probably because of being chained, the monster is not in a good mood.So Fanny sensibly caught fire when she raised her head after eating.

"I'll be back in two days!"

However, the direction of Fanny's stride was not the castle, and she slipped out against the wind, of course not just to give the monster a bag of chicken legs.At the stop, a trail leads to the dark depths of the forbidden forest. This is the exit of the forbidden forest where she narrowly escaped last year.As soon as the footsteps stopped, the two headlights lit up like eyes.

"Good evening... Sonny."

It can't be blamed on Fanny's awkward calling, it's really embarrassing that the name chosen by the car man is too embarrassing.

The matter has to start with last year's horror trip in the Forbidden Forest. After Fanny threw an olive branch at a car, the feeling of one person and one car with the same temperament quickly warmed up. After calling "Mr. Car" for a while, Fanny proposed Give it a name.

Carrying on the usual picky style, he asked about male and female names all over the place, but finally the most common name "Johnson" was chosen.Fanny thought it was a mouthful and said, I'll call you John. Originally, there was no other abbreviation for this name, but the car disagreed and insisted that if Fanny wanted to shorten it, she could use the second half of its name.

Regardless of how the two communicate, the root cause of the awkwardness is planted like this.You said, it would be awkward to call an old grandfather-class car son (meaning son in English)?As a compromise, Fanny called him sony.

The one who was called son was very natural. When Fanny entered the belly, the lights flashed twice, and the horn sounded for a long time, marking the start of a new trip to the Forbidden Forest.

"Have you found any new interesting places? Remember to avoid those damn cloaked monsters... and don't break into the centaur camp again."