Wild child

Waking up the next morning, Fanny became a little strange.Well, a little weirder than usual.

"Dogs? Hagrid only has Fangya...I mean as far as I know." Hermione seemed to have thought of something, and she bit her white teeth, "Buckbeak's business is not over yet, if he If you make any dangerous moves, I will..."

The fork clattered into the plate, and Hermione's expression made Fanny think Buckbeak was safer.Hermione was so busy as soon as school started, and she didn't know how many courses she had taken. Topics that had nothing to do with studying would most likely trigger manic symptoms within three rounds.The recent quarrel with Ron added fuel to the flames. If Fanny said that these two good friends really got along well, one raised a cat and the other raised a mouse. Baring his teeth, Ron wanted to strangle it to death when he saw it.

At lunch, the two girls each held a book while eating and reading.The Harry, Ron, and Weasley twins exchanged a dumbfounded expression, and George boldly approached Fanny: "Magical Creature Classification Guide? I remember you didn't choose magical creature protection?"

After reading the last picture in the canine index, Fanny snapped the book shut, and a gust of wind blew both her and George's bangs.

"Is there a problem?" He turned his head sharply.

"……No."

It wasn't until dinner time on the third day that the deterrent effect faded, and Ron, who came over to take a look again, couldn't help it anymore.

"Why do you keep reading books about animals these days? And you don't only read about dogs, do you?"

Even Hermione turned her head to look over, thinking that she hadn't gained anything even after reading Hermione's biting textbook these days, Fanny raised her head: "Hey, you all go to protect magical creatures!" Lesson? Did Hagrid mention a giant black dog?"

The expressions of the three of them and Neville next to them all changed, especially Harry.The direction of Hermione's expression change was completely opposite to that of the others, and she didn't hide her contempt: "I've heard of it, but it's not Hagrid, it's Trelawney."

"That's a sign of death! Did you see it?" said Neville, terrified.

Fanny was stunned, she asked why the dog looked so familiar, had she seen it on the cover of a death prophecy book in Lihen Bookstore?

"Where did you see it? At Hogwarts? Was it a black dog the size of a bear?"

"...Yes." To Harry's three consecutive questions, Fanny thought for a while and only answered the last one.

——Do you want to tell him "I almost killed Omen of Death while driving a car in the Forbidden Forest"?The amount of information is a bit large.

Harry's expression instantly became terrified, and Hermione explained with a deeper layer of contempt: "Some people have recently suffered from death phobia... There are also people who have suffered from death prophecy for many years."

It is well known that the divination teacher Trelawney predicted that the savior would have a bad death. Fanny nodded and remained silent.Hermione's insulting remarks were immediately denounced by two Trelawney supporters, Lavender and Parvati, and the topic of "black dog" was quickly forgotten.

After a long debate, the pastor in the small town completely gave up her future in religion. Fanny never objected to the existence of "God" and "fate". Connection, like she believed that the dog had nothing to do with Death.

It was Friday, coincidentally, the next day in the first Quidditch match of this school year, Harry fell from a height of hundreds of feet due to a dementor, and Fanny happened to catch the dementor in the stands Before he caught his attention, Harry's gaze fell.

At the edge of the Forbidden Forest, the figure of a black dog as big as a bear flashed by.

Even last year, when someone was trying to clean the college of Muggle blood, Fanny didn't feel that there were so many things to worry about.

The first is "abnormal business", um, that is, studies.

By intuition, Fanny has been here for two years.Her sense of magic is much sharper than her peers, and she can pass most of the spells by "closing her eyes and waving the wand randomly". With this method, as long as she repeats the spell, her weakness will be obvious, but she can cope with the classroom test. No problem.Besides a certain type of spell...she actually practiced it a lot.The love for exotic flowers and plants and the favor of Professor Sprout are directly reflected in her herbal medicine grades, which benefit her potion grades by the way, and she is always lucky enough to touch the right plants to make up in biological materials The mistake in using it saved Fanny from repeating the Potions class.

But starting from this semester, the sudden increase in homework was second to none. Fanny found that more and more parts of the course needed to understand the principles to complete, and her original foundation was extremely weak.What's more terrible is arithmetic and divination. At the beginning, she took this course because she thought the name was easy to pronounce, but now she regrets it.This is a course that has no room for laziness. Everything is based on complex and cumbersome calculations. It is most suitable for Hermione who is rigorous and enthusiastic about learning—and Hermione is indeed fascinated by it.

With that comes a lack of energy.There were fewer and fewer classes that she had the energy to doze off, and the time-consuming study time increased dramatically. The night tours that already accounted for most of her physical and mental expenditure continued to increase, and Fanny couldn't hold it anymore.Her dark circles were almost as deep as Lupine's, and it had taken her four months to barely finish Dumbledore's new book list.

There is also the extra task of Professor Sprout. From this semester, Fanny began to work in the greenhouse relatively regularly, adding up to two or three hours a week to stay in the greenhouse from the first grade to the graduating class. The magical creatures that were supposed to be plants wandered around to help out - to put it bluntly, to see the world.Among the students with such treatment, Fanny is the only Gryffindor, and the others include a Ravenclaw girl and a few Hufflepuff students. It seems that Professor Sprout is more inclined to leave the opportunity To the people of this academy.

Of course, Fanny is very happy about this, and she would be even happier if there is no occasional errand work.The herbal medicines needed by the teachers of various subjects and the school hospital are basically supplied by the greenhouse, and the potions class uses the most.Running all the way to the basement with burdens of heavy dead people and some wriggling and smelling strange smells, and watching the old bat's face, it's really not a good job.Especially after school started, when Snape saw Fanny, his gaze always passed over her head, making her wish to smear the pimple vine pods in his face.

Then there is the dog that is said to herald death. Fanny used two bottles of color-changing ink to make color-changing paint as a reward, and asked Sunny to take her to run around the Forbidden Forest for more than a dozen nights. Once met Crookshanks.The cat wasn't in the kennel every night when Fanny set out, and since it was fine, Fanny didn't bother to get Hermione to nag her.She had a strange hunch that the dog mattered.

After that, Fanny has been busy since she lost her first Quidditch game in Gryffindor. She thought that if she could do repetitions so patiently in other courses, she would definitely not be so strenuous now.

"Call God Guard!"

A mass of silvery mist gushed out from the tip of the staff, thick enough to condense and dissipate.

The Patronus Charm is an intermediate-to-advanced spell, originally not at the level of a third-year student, but Fanny insisted on clearing her mind before going to bed for two years, which helped her a lot without her knowing it.This is the basic practice of Occlumency. The essence of Occlumency is to enhance the control and concentration of one's own emotions and other aspects, and this is precisely what the Patronus Charm works on - to suppress fear and despair, and to concentrate Think back to happy things.

"Falcon? It's really suitable for you." Malfoy folded his arms and looked on, subdued and marveling. "I heard that the nests of falcons are rotten haystacks full of lice on the barren hills, and beggars don't want to live there."

The last thing, Fanny really didn't know why she still took such precious time to chat with this bastard - he likes to wear bandages to pretend to be wounded, or what does it matter to her if he wants to take off the bandages and find someone to fight?

Speaking of which, this guy has good eyesight, but she went through the illustrated book to find out that there is a bird called a falcon that looks like this.It seems that he has done his homework as a student of the Protection of Magical Creatures class, and he can even recognize this kind of animal that is not very classified as magical creatures.

"Falcon would never allow himself to stay in his comfort zone, and I'm glad I didn't have to run around like someone when a dementor showed up."

"It's about going up to them and comparing who is more simple-minded? They will like you very much, Miss Gryffindor."

"The Patronus isn't just for self-protection. A fast escaper like you doesn't need a Patronus, because the only time you're going to keep anyone in your back is when you have your back on a Dementor, Mr. Slytherin. "

Got stabbed again, and Malfoy's voice was a little shaky when he replied.

"Fortunately, none of the people worthy of my protection are idiots who would go to them themselves."

"The people you say are worthy of your protection are those who don't need protection. When they need it, it's when it becomes worthless to protect them."

Fanny has been refraining from hurting others recently, but tonight she broke her work all of a sudden.She was always happy to see Malfoy get angry, but the boy's sudden ugly expression and quick footsteps when he left showed that he was really stung, which made the joy in Fanny's heart that he finally let out his anger slowly fade away. .

Shouldn't you be kind to that kind of guy?Fanny pouted.

The day was so busy that Fanny quickly put the idea behind her, but Malfoy's expression at that time still occasionally swirled in her mind.

Fanny did not go home during the Christmas holidays. On the morning of December 12, she sent Smith a birthday present.It’s not that she’s still angry—in fact, there’s nothing to be angry about. She already knew what Smith was thinking. Before, she always felt that since Smith lived a life she envied, it was only fair that she should have something that Smith was jealous of.There are some things she wants to think about first, she can't run away from home and go back without making any progress.

Harry was homeless, and Hermione and Ron kindly stayed with him at school during the Christmas break.Before going to bed at night, Fanny found that Hermione was checking the moon phase table again. On the calendar that was compared, Christmas Day was circled. Fanny guessed that those circled days must all show "full moon" on the table.

That's not a good sign, but certainly not surprising at all.Hermione would be ashamed of her know-it-all reputation if she didn't associate a teacher disappearing once a month and a Boggart turning into a full moon.Although she didn't think Hermione would spread the word about it - especially since she'd been fighting with Ron and Harry since Christmas - Fanny decided to talk to her.

It's not easy, Hermione is more like a spinning top than ever since Buckbeak's trial was settled, talking to her is as cautious as entering a minefield.So Fanny went around three or four tables and arrived at Hermione's side, straight to the point and wanted to talk about "Lupine's identity". An empty classroom.

"You mean you're going to reveal Lupine's identity?" Hermione raised her eyebrows high.

"Don't you think students have the right to know what is in their class?" Fanny asked.

"Aren't you ignorant of the prejudice against werewolves that most people here have! Would you like to see Lupine lose his job and us lose our best Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher?"

"It's better than being bitten by your own teacher."

"He won't bite anyone! Maybe you forgot that Lupine never showed up on a full moon!" Hermione said with disbelief on her face, "First agreeing to execute Buckbeak, and now betraying Lupine! I How come I didn't realize you were so..."

"what?"

"Such a Slytherin."

"I..." Fanny realized that she had played, "I never agreed with Buckbeak's execution! I just said it hurt people. I didn't want to betray Lupine, but... I thought it was troublesome." That's all."

"When did you guess Lupine's identity?" Hermione narrowed her eyes suspiciously.

"Not much earlier than you."

"Then you knew that I had found out, and you wanted to test whether I would inform you."

"I……"

"In your eyes, am I the kind of person who will betray others?!"

With a loud and stern voice, Fanny turned her eyes away guiltily: "I know you're not, I just... um, just to make sure."

"Oh, make sure." Hermione sneered, "Who would think they are qualified to 'confirm' others?"

Hermione left angrily, and Fanny was secretly annoyed, and she didn't dare to say anything to the angry Hermione. She spent several days sorting out several rolls of parchment that might help Buckbeak's cases and legal citations. In the past, he apologized repeatedly as a guarantee, and finally got Hermione's understanding.

Fortunately, it's a holiday, and if she still has to deal with class and homework, Fanny will definitely be in a mess these few days.

The Christmas holidays passed quickly, and then January unknowingly turned into February, although this was not felt from the temperature.

Harry seems to be very troubled these days, he's pretty predictable, especially when his best friend shares a dorm with you.Fanny knew that his main worries were brooms and dementors.After Harry's old broom broke in the last game, an unknown person gave Harry the world's best broomstick as a Christmas present, but because Harry was being chased by Sirius Black, Hermione, who found it too suspicious, reported it to McGonagall, so Harry is now a Seeker without a broom.And this is one of the reasons why Hermione and Ron have a cold war.

Fanny can't help you much at this point, she doesn't have the guts to steal from McGonagall's office, and she's not rich enough to buy a broom for Harry—Harry probably misses fire, or else He can use his parents' inheritance to buy another one himself.

So she planned to comfort Harry from another direction. Like everyone else, she hoped that Gryffindor would win the Quidditch trophy, and part of her motivation came from this.

But she found that Harry was already prepared in this regard, and after two rounds, Fanny knew that Lupine was teaching him the Patronus Charm.The Savior is so easy to deal with, Fanny was worried about the world while walking on the way to find Lupine.

Lupine was preparing lessons, but fortunately he was calm, and when he heard Fanny's request, he just let the quill fall to the table.

"Call God Guard!"

The silver mist condensed into the shape of a falcon, and this time it was very stable, circling a small circle above the two of them.

"I've been practicing since the first game in Gryffindor, and I was just hoping to get a hands-on experience."

"It took only three months to reach this level? It's a remarkable achievement, Fanny." Lupine put away his surprised expression, and put the pen back in the ink bottle, "but I'm sorry, I don't think I can agree to bring A student confronting a dementor, no matter how talented she is. This is too dangerous, and the dementor is more terrifying than you can imagine."

"But you made Harry confront the dementors."

"Why... that's just a Boggart, weaker than a real dementor. And with enough protection."

"Dementors have less influence on me than Harry, and my Patronus is stronger than his. If you take me to the Forbidden Forest, you can protect me as much as you protect Harry."

"That's different, as long as I step forward, the Boggart will become..."

"Full moon."

"Yes, but that's not the case with real dementors. And I'm not very good at dealing with dementors."

"You made the dementors retreat on the train."

……

This tug-of-war finally ended with Lupine saying that he could "consider it". Fanny didn't expect a better result, so she was not disappointed.Lupine agreed it was best of course, even if he didn't agree, it would certainly help to know that she could summon a Patronus and had such a wish.If it’s too bad, let Sunny go there. Although there is no definite information that the dementors can’t affect the car, it’s not a problem to let Sunny run quickly when something feels wrong.

Walking out of the door, Fanny almost bumped into a person at the door of the office.

Before she could calm down, she smelled an indescribable smell of pungent wolfsbane juice mixed with various things. Fanny belatedly remembered that the full moon was approaching, and Lupine had to drink this a few days in advance. medicine.

Could it be that he accidentally bumped into Snape...?Fanny's heart skipped a beat, and when she raised her head and met a pair of gray eyes, she immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Everyone could tell that Snape hated Lupine, probably because he didn't want to deliver the medicine himself to meet Lupin, so he let some sycophant who happened to be there run errands.Maybe there is also the meaning of hoping that he will get a reminder. After all, Malfoy is a top student in Slytherin, and his brain is only a little worse than Hermione.

Malfoy has always looked down on Lupine who looks poor and miserable, and he looks very unhappy about being captured by Snape, with an unlucky look on his face.Fanny was in a good mood, and after thinking about the cause and effect, she said "excuse me" and left.Lupine's voice came from behind, and he was equally calm and polite to the student who occasionally laughed at him for dressing like an elf.

The day quickly passed to the day of the game between Gryffindor and Ravenclaw. For Gryffindor, this was the last chance, and only success was not allowed.The gun that Harry got back the day before the game—otherwise this stubborn guy might have to ride a Comet 260—was a great boost to morale, and the team performed supernormally, and the victory was no surprise. It's over.

Among the festive Gryffindor crowd, Fanny thought she might be the only one who wasn't too happy.

After dinner, she came to a tapestry on the fifth floor that she had visited countless times.She had been holding back on this for a long time, and she didn't find a chance to signal Malfoy until dinner time.

"I didn't propose to compete with you this time. I wanted to tell you that such a thing will never happen again."

The author has something to say:

Introduction to falcons: Falconiformes are mostly solitary, with strong flying ability and one of the animals with the best eyesight.Falconiformes are at the top of the food chain among birds and have important ecological significance. Many falconiformes are considered to have good qualities such as bravery and perseverance, so many countries' national birds are Falconiformes. .

In fact, at the beginning, I just hoped that Fanny’s patron saint could fly... Then I felt that swallows and sparrows were a bit delicate, so I chose falcon