Wild child

The Duncan and Field families, like most wizards, settled near Muggle settlements. Their daughters, Christopher and Isabella Duncan, have been inseparable since childhood, exploring together, doing silly things together, and sharing secrets with each other.At the same time, like all wizarding children, they dreamed of Hogwarts and talked about it every day.

Time elongated the figures of the two girls, 6 years old, 7 years old, and 8 years old... The two families were fully prepared to prevent the chaos caused by the first awakening of magic power, which did not happen.The sisters have never shown any magical talent, which undoubtedly cast a shadow on their supposedly carefree childhood.They have been trying to find some abnormal phenomena to comfort each other and their families, believing that such misfortune will not happen to them.

Yet what should come will come. During the summer vacation when they were 11 years old, they sat together in the yard every day from June, looking forward to the arrival of the owl until September.

With a glimmer of hope that something might go wrong, they went to King's Cross Railway Station accompanied by their parents. As a result, no one was able to enter the beginning of wizards' dreams——Platform Nine and Three Quarters.

The Fields and the Duncans wrote letters to Hogwarts and the Ministry of Magic respectively, and the replies were like death sentences - Christopher Field and Isabella Duncan did not possess the special talents to enter Hogwarts.

Squibs, a derogatory term for someone born into a wizarding family without magical talent, are far less likely than Muggle-borns.Ironically, this small probability event happened at the same time in the only two adjacent wizarding families in a small town.

For Squib himself, being an ordinary person in the Muggle world was much more pleasant than trying to squeeze into wizarding society as a second-class citizen.But to be a different person in the family and stay away from the world that I dreamed of since I was a child, not everyone can accept this fact.This also became a fork in the fate of the two who were once close.

Bella never gave up her efforts to enter the wizarding society. She begged her parents to buy textbooks and a wand to study at home day after day, waving the wand and chanting spells over and over again, and cared for it with utmost tenderness and meticulousness.From the age of 11 to 18, she memorized all the textbooks fluently, and was able to concoct all potions that did not require spells, but the wand never sparked even a single spark in her hands.Even her parents began to persuade her to go to a Muggle school to live her own life, but Bella, who has always been gentle, would not listen to anyone's nonsense at this time.

In the end, Bella was desperate. She went to the Leaky Cauldron and got drunk on the graduation day of the wizarding class her age. When she woke up from the hangover, she was already in John Conwell's bedroom.Soon after that, the two lived together without a wedding, without blessings, without promises.Even though not long after marriage, John exposed his true nature, promiscuously in the bar, drank unconscious every day, and beat and scolded her when he was sober, Bella still stubbornly lived by his side for several years.

Speaking of the past, even after all she has endured, Mrs. Conwell seems to have only given up hope, and the desire to "take a place in wizarding society" has never disappeared.It is difficult for Fanny to understand Mrs. Conwell's persistence. For her, the world is too big and time is never enough. There are always other and more desirable things waiting for her to pursue.

She can cling to something, but never pushes it.Just like when a child sees the toy he wants, he will roll over like a baby and beg his parents, and he will try his best to complete the task of "washing the dishes for a week" or "mowing the lawn". At most, they will cry and make a fuss, and then they will find a new toy.

Christo obviously thought the same way. She took the opposite path. After crying bitterly, she took the initiative to ask her parents to contact the nearby Muggle secondary school.With her clever mind, she successfully passed the middle school stage, and then with her unique concentration and flexible thinking, she graduated from the university's law school with honors and soon became a well-known lawyer.Afterwards, he sometimes dressed in formal clothes and argued with each other in court, and sometimes wandered around the world covered in dust and dust.

Her life was too perfect, she was beautiful and rich, met a suitable travel companion, had a daughter, and had friends all over the world.The combination of characteristics ranging from thrills to affluence and so on, so that most people are only envious and ignore the fact that Christo is always alone.After she was 15 years old, she never returned home. She worked part-time to complete her degree, and worked hard in society alone.Same-sex attracts, she and her husband are unwilling to make compromises in their own lives, although the two are partners who understand each other, they get together less and stay apart more.

"I told her that you can't start a family with someone and not give up your own way of life. CC said, 'I don't need Chuck in my life, I want him, so go with him. Together. When I'm in front of me, he'll see that I've always been the woman he fell in love with, and I won't be living in hell without him'."

"Honestly, she's arrogant, sharp-toothed and opinionated, and she doesn't hide her attitude, which is crazy. But when you are in a difficult situation, you find out how lucky you are to have her by your side. She never blamed my choices, always listened to me venting to her. I can still think of her saying 'I really don't approve of you doing this. But since you've made up your mind, good luck' Look. She is so strong, she seems to be able to lift a mountain, and you can always borrow strength from her when you are weak."

"I took care of her in the hospital when you were born, and Charles came back from Africa two days later. CC didn't blame him at all, and was delighted to hear his story of escape from the indigenous community. Charles offered me to be your godmother , was rejected by CC. She said... She said, 'Vanny Krisdo Isabella Sanchez is Bella's daughter, not a goddaughter. If she dares not admit it, I will strangle her to death and reborn '. At that time, I was really... very depressed. I ran out of the house many times, thinking of finding a place where no one was around to end my life. CC must have seen it, but she certainly didn't know it. What she said gave How brave I am..."

"She always handed you over to me to raise you, and said things like trouble you again. In fact, this incident gave me a lot of comfort. I wanted to tell you when you said they were irresponsible last time, but I'm really too cowardly, not as brave as her...I really don't deserve her...don't deserve anyone's trust like that..."

Mrs. Conwell clutched the fabric of her knees, tears streaming down the backs of her hands.

"No one knows how difficult it is for her... I should know, I'm her best friend, watching her from beginning to end...but I pretend not to know. I'm jealous of CC, I'm jealous of her being able to live You are so wonderful, you can live according to your own wishes... I... I spent all the money she left you... She opened a special bank account, and the money in it is enough to pay for your child support. She deposited it in Every penny I took...gambled, drank, spent God knows where..."

"I don't know if CC knows about this, she has kept you with me, and never changed the password... until... until she really left, I didn't wake up and realize how much... …many……"

"Bastard?" Fanny said a word, and Mrs. Conwell trembled.

"Yeah, I'm such a jerk. I betrayed my best friend and sent her daughter to an orphanage...During those days, the only thing I could do was paint, except you. I was able to forget those things while I was on the canvas. After... after sending you to that place, I started selling paintings for a living. I could have brought you back two or three years before that, but I really don't know how to face you who look like CC... If it wasn't for Dumbledore, I might not be able to do it in my life..."

"You don't know... don't know how much you look like her... When she was 15, because of something her brother Sam said... In those days, the status of Squibs was very low, but CC was never there They hid when they were guests, and they didn't try to hide their identities... Sam and CC's parents were ridiculed a lot because of this, and Sam and CC had a quarrel that day, it was very loud, and Mr and Mrs Field didn't speak for CC... Later, CC left home. When CC made up her mind, she could really do a great job. She completely broke off with other people, never asked them for a penny, and never went back to see them. I don’t know her What method was used, her parents and brother have been unable to find her..."

"So, I was really freaked out when I knew you left... I thought I lost you... I didn't really want to stop you from going out, I knew I couldn't - who ever could stop CC? … ...But I'm really afraid that you won't come back..."

Mrs. Conwell was already weeping. She reached out her hand, but she didn't touch Fanny, but put it on the edge of the bed.Fanny looked at her quietly for a while, then stretched out her hand, hugged Mrs. Conwell into her arms, and stroked her hair like comforting a child.

"It's okay, it's okay, I'm here. You won't lose me, I promise."

Neither of them mentioned what happened that night after that. Fanny accepted the "activity funds" provided by Mrs. Conwell without any objection, and Mrs. de Conwell packed her luggage for herself.Although everything was in place, her plans were delayed for a few days when Mrs. Conwell offered to take her to see CC's brother, Fanny's uncle, Sam Field.

Not long after Sam graduated from Hogwarts, he caught up with Voldemort's power in England reaching a peak.The Field family didn't want to take this muddy water, and moved to live on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa, where Voldemort hadn't set foot yet. During this period, they have been paying attention to the changes in the European wizarding world. Several years after the "Savior" Harry Potter defeated Voldemort, most of the Death Eaters obeyed the law and the political situation stabilized.The Field family was about to move back, but heard the news of Christo's death.Old Mrs. Field was seriously ill, the couple finally settled in Egypt, and Sam returned to England with his wife.

Now Sam works in the Personnel Department of the Ministry of Magic, and his status is quite high. The family of three lives near a Muggle town called St. Mary.The Field family can also be considered an ancient pure-blood family, with somewhat of a family background. It is said that the family moved to the current address because Mrs. Field did not want to live in an ancient villa far away from human habitation.

Fanny looked around for a while in front of the yard with the small "Field" sign hanging on it. She could see that the Field family was living a good life. Beautiful, Fanny had the illusion of returning to the Hogwarts greenhouse.The areas where various plants are planted maintain different stable temperatures, and great efforts have been made to cast spells around the periphery so that Muggles can't see the abnormality.

It was Mrs. Sandra Field who answered the door. She had long black wavy hair, bright black eyes, perfect olive skin, and her appearance and character had typical Mediterranean characteristics.She was petite, less than five feet tall, and weighed no more than 90 pounds in the photos in the house—because of her big belly.Sandy's movements were quick and strong, which worried people about the second Field child.

The first child of the Field family is Lucy Field, who coincidentally is the Ravenclaw girl who, like Fanny, often works for Mrs. Sprout.She is extremely attractive and can be said to be a model of the excellent combination of her parents' genes.Medium height, honey-colored skin, slender and well-proportioned body, he walks lightly and gracefully, like a supermodel walking on the stage.The black and white eyes on the round oval face are as calm as water, and the full red lips seem to express their heartfelt feelings.

Lucy is two grades higher than Fanny, and she has loved herbalism since she was a child. She transplanted one-third of the plants in the yard by herself.Thanks to Lucy, the Fields learned a lot about Fanny before.

"Do you like our garden?" came a deep male voice.

Xunsheng raised his head, hey, the face contour like a knife, long straight nose, serious and rigid expression, really a typical British man's appearance.The familiar gray hair and blue eyes indicated that the man who had just appeared was indeed Fanny's uncle whom she had never met, but Fanny always had a sense of seeing Snape.

The two sat down in the living room, and the conversation was mostly about Christo Sanchez—"Liz" as Mr. Field called her.Fanny was perfunctory while holding the teacup. She could feel that Mr. Field was looking at her all the time, with complicated emotions in his scrutinizing eyes. She wondered what kind of attitude he had towards his sister whom she had disapproved of. .

It was difficult for her to feel any familiarity with the name Field, even if it was her blood relative.There are countless ways for wizards to find people, even she can think of more than a dozen. CC—she subconsciously used the title of Mrs. Conwell—no matter how powerful she is, she has a little more magic knowledge than ordinary people. Three wizards can't find a blood-related squib?Mrs. Conwell believed this nonsense, but Fanny did not.

Probably seeing Fanny's boredom and indifference, Mrs. Field asked Fanny: "I heard from Lucy that you and Harry Potter captured the Slytherin heir last year, right?"

"Uh..." This question is really hard to answer. "Precisely, it was Harry who stopped the Heir of Slytherin. You know, the savior. I... arrived after the battle."

"That's a big deal. What kind of battle was there? Did he duel the Heir of Slytherin?"

"Well, that's right. He's very powerful." Stabbing the basilisk controlled by the heir to death with a single sword would count as a duel.

"He was only 12 years old at the time, and I don't think he was strong enough to defeat the heir of Slytherin." Mr. Field interjected, "There must be something else about this..."

"He beat You-Know-Who at the age of one, my dear," said Mrs. Field.

"I don't think so, Sandy." Mr. Field said to his wife, but his eyes were only on Fanny, "I was still abroad when the mysterious man was defeated, what happened the year before last, and Fanny's first grade We don't know the truth of the matter, either one of them. We only see that everyone is credited to Harry Potter, and besides that, Dumbledore is giving Gryffindor a lot of points for his own words. As we all know, Dumbledore Mostly from..."

"With all due respect, Mr. Field." Fanny put down her teacup, "Since I am the same age as Harry, I am completely unaware of the first thing you just mentioned. As for the second and third things, Dumbledore has already He explained that he is obviously much more authoritative than me. If you don’t even believe him, it doesn’t make sense for me to explain it. If you believe it, then I don’t need to make any additional descriptions. It’s really inconvenient to disclose the specific situation, and I All I can say is that credit to Harry is entirely reasonable."

"That is to say, Dumbledore asked you to keep this secret. I personally think this is very telling." Mr. Field leaned forward slightly, "Of course, I will not force you to go against Dumbledore's wishes. Gryffindor Dumbledore has always been famously loyal."

"Thank you for your tolerance. I can only disappoint you on this matter. The secrecy has nothing to do with which college I belong to. I don't think this is a situation that everyone should know."

"You mean it's your own decision?"

"True. But I won't deny that Dumbledore asked for it."

"In my experience, the facts that are asked to withhold are usually some sort of conflict of interest."

"You mean that Dumbledore benefits from being attacked as a Muggle-born other than being removed from his position as Headmaster?"

"I mean how the heir of Slytherin was caught. As far as I know, we still don't know who caused all this attack, how it was done, and we haven't heard of anyone responsible for it. .”

Unknowingly, the smell of gunpowder in the room became stronger and stronger, and the rhythm of the two of you coming and going became faster and faster, and a dozen rounds passed in a short while.Field, Mrs. Conwell, and Lucy could not intervene.Fanny, who plays with words, has been familiar with it since she was six or seven years old, so she can be said to be watertight.However, Fanny could feel that Mr. Field was not a very curious person. It is estimated that this questioning was also related to his sister. If they grew up together, there must have been many such conversations.

This is also part of the "similarity test with Liz".Thinking of this, Fanny became tired of the verbal swords she had always been keen on.

Fortunately, there was Mrs. Field, she stood up from the sofa to block the sight of the two: "Hey, take it easy, gold medal debaters. It's attacking Muggles and mysterious people again. I don't want my little Baby listen to these births."

"You're right, Sandy." Mr. Field shook his wife's hand and gently let her sit back on the sofa. "I'm just glad Liz has a daughter who looks like her."

Presumably you were not very happy about the existence of this squib sister when you kicked her out of the house.Fanny shrugged, noncommittal.

"In that case... Hey, Fanny." Mrs. Field winked at Fanny, "What do you think we should name him?"

Fanny was taken aback. Knowing the gender of an unborn child is not surprising in the wizarding world. The question is why did this job fall to her?

"Sam wants to call him Adolf - come on, who would want their son to have the same name as Hitler?"

It turns out that Hitler's name was Adolf.Fanny basically returned the Muggle history to the teacher, she blinked calmly, and Mr. Field's face was a little embarrassed.

"I've always wanted to have a child like you, lively, smart, and brave. Not as quiet as the two of them." Mrs. Field looked at her with a smile, "How about a name that starts with F?"

not so good.The two who had quarreled just now reached a consensus, and Fanny was quite self-aware, regardless of whether boys or girls were born with such personalities, it was definitely because the Creator had dozed off.But hospitality is hard to come by, and Mr. Field’s dilemma made someone find it interesting, Fanny began to think seriously.

"F..." The nature is hard to change. The first word Fanny thought of was not suitable for a name. I don't know if Mr. Field could see it, but his face turned dark. "How is it, Francis?"

"Francis? Free man, that's fine," said Mrs. Field, turning to her husband. "There's nothing more important than freedom. Isn't that right, dear?"

Mr. Field, apparently relieved he hadn't heard worse words, nodded even if he didn't like a foreign name.

"Did you hear that, Frank?" Mrs. Field gently stroked her swollen belly.

Seeing that the family of three began to feel affectionate, Fanny and Mrs. Conwell bid farewell knowingly, and Lucy sent them to the gate of the courtyard.Compared with her mother's elder brother, Mrs. Field and Lucy felt more like family members to Fanny. It seemed that the two siblings were not right.

In any case, the matter of "admitting relatives" came to an end, and Fanny's journey began.