Wild child

Fanny received two letters at breakfast the next day.The first letter was from Miriam - the owl that Dumbledore gave her - Mrs. Conwell told her that the innocent traveler was fine, and that Mrs. Conwell paid him anonymously. All treatment expenses; the other letter was sent by the prefect Percy Weasley. It is not common for Dumbledore to deliver letters to first-year students. A list of books.

The oblique and long handwriting at the bottom of the book list reads: Empty your mind before going to bed every night.Another: Your performance last night was wonderful.

So from this day on, there was a thin figure in the library.She stared at the book in front of her and muttered, seeming to be very focused, but she kept stroking her short, messy light gray hair with her hands, scratching the ground alternately, her body was dangling, and there was no part of her body that did not appear restless. The expression seemed to be forced to eat something very bitter.

Fanny's so-called "reading" is really reading a whole book word by word. This is the only way for her not to lose sight of the world within two lines.After reading it, she changed to another book, neither thinking nor memorizing, and in her own feeling, she couldn't remember what the last line she just read said.

After reading a book on a book list every two months or so, Dumbledore would immediately give a new one, obviously knowing her progress very well.But he didn't have any opinion on Fanny's swallowing style of reading, and he never assessed Fanny's mastery.Fanny breathed a sigh of relief. In fact, after reading half of the books on the first book list, she had already fallen to the point where she felt like vomiting when she saw written materials.

Afterwards, she took flying lessons a few times, but Fanny, who was very athletic, obviously had no talent for flying. It wasn't until the third lesson that she could barely manage to ride a broom and couldn't even move.Malfoy saw it, and a swoop knocked her out of the way.

Fanny glanced at him coolly amid the laughter of the audience, which was a sign that she was going to "return" to someone.If Mrs. Evan was seen by her like this, she would definitely be more cautious, but as a novice, Malfoy obviously didn't know that there was a knife hanging above his head, and he triumphantly imitated the way Fanny fell.

Ten minutes later, Malfoy took advantage of Fanny's "unpreparedness" and repeated the trick.Fanny looked terrified, and changed her panic posture to sit sideways, as if she was about to fall off.But when Malfoy was placed two feet away, her expression changed suddenly. She pulled out the broom under her body and punched it in front of her. Then she landed on the broom with one hand, slightly bent her knees to cushion, and handsomely shook off the hair in front of her face.

Malfoy was hit in the face by the club and fell on his back.The group of Gryffindors laughed and applauded much louder than the Slytherins just now, and several people even fell off their brooms and pounded the ground with laughter.

"Hey, you don't want to be beaten by me in front of so many people. I don't like wands very much." Facing Malfoy who was furious and pulled out his wand and pointed it at her face, Fanny folded her arms and said softly. The old god was there, but his eyes were extremely vigilant.

Fortunately, Mrs. Hooch appeared in time to stop the upcoming disputes. The disgraced Malfoy put away his wand and rode on his broom again, looking down at Fanny with contempt: "You mud that can't fly to the sky, you should go back to your dirty Muggle alley go inside."

"Flying into the sky, be careful of your old man." Fanny's face remained unchanged, her eyes flicked to the part where Malfoy was in contact with the broom.

Malfoy obviously hadn't forgotten his robed flight without a broom, his face turned green, and the broom spun straight back into the middle of the Slytherins.The Gryffindors rushed to Fanny's side and applauded. Fanny and a group of people clapped their hands one by one, laughing ostentatiously.

For a long period of time afterwards, Fanny would appear to be inflexible in one arm or walk with a slight limp from time to time, but concealment has always been her strong point, and only Hermione noticed it occasionally.Fanny's explanation for this was that she was careless and kept forgetting to jump over those annoying steps in the school.

Later, Fanny passed the flight class final exam with a high score second only to Harry in Gryffindor, while Hermione flew at a low altitude and got the only "pass" in her student career.

After the second conflict, in addition to Mingli's rivalry with Harry Potter, Malfoy had another secret opponent.Sometimes when they met in the library, the two would read a book as if they were glued to a chair. Often, the administrator, Mrs. Pince, would drive them out together, and then they would each carry a stack of books to their own room. Direction, never go the same way with the other party, and there is no eye contact during the whole process.

On weekdays, the two have nothing to do with each other, and they don't bother to mention each other in words. The rivalry behind the scenes is mostly like this.

After getting acquainted with the structure of the entire library for those book lists, Fanny also began to look for some books that were not on the book list.In fact, she doesn't hate the book itself. She can read the plot and monster books without eating or sleeping, and even suspend her evening activities. It's just that the theoretical books will make her fall asleep when she is alone.

Such books only held her attention when she was in a fight—perhaps because she could imagine spell after spell cast on that face not far away.

She spent her holidays with Mrs. Conwell. Before the holiday, she would "polish up" all the stories that happened in Hogwarts a few days in advance, and then spend the whole holiday time enjoying Smith's admiration.

In the alternation of campus life consisting of reading, night tours, and dozing off, and off-campus life consisting of bragging and doodling on homework, Fanny's time flies by.

"Are you going out again tonight, Fanny?"

Fanny, who was about to sneak into the common room unnoticed, withdrew her steps and looked helplessly at Hermione, who had an expression resembling Professor McGonagall.

"I don't think you'd be wise to do that," Hermione continued gravely.

"Yeah, I'm not as smart as you, so you'd better leave that to smart people."

"The heir of Slytherin is still active, it's very dangerous for you to do this." Hermione said as gently as possible after getting along with Fanny for a year and a half.

"That's great, I also want to say hello to the heir of Slytherin."

"If you sneak out again in the middle of the night, I will tell Professor McGonagall!" Seeing that Fanny ignored her completely, Hermione became anxious.

"Please, I don't owe you money, what does it matter if I was eaten or petrified?" Fanny frowned, "Granger, when you have that time, you might as well comb your hair , my neighbor's poodle has smoother fur than yours."

Hermione choked immediately, with a faint glint of water in her eyes, she turned her eyes away from Fanny in annoyance.She knew that calling her surname was a sign that Fanny was already a little angry, and if she continued to argue, she would only be ridiculed several times more, and it would be of no use.

"Okay, go read your book, I just finished it." Fanny's tone eased, she flipped through her schoolbag, and a copy of "The World You Don't Know" drew an arc in the air and landed on He on the chair next to Min.

This is a book of anecdotes and strange events. Hermione has been searching the library for books related to the main character of the now-famous Chamber of Secrets. Fanny, who has considerable experience in searching for such books, gave her a lot of references.

Afterwards, Fanny crawled out of the portrait hole and trotted down the corridor. She was delayed by Hermione just now, and it was already a bit late.

"I thought you didn't dare to come." When he arrived at the appointed empty classroom, the boy's arrogant voice rang out on time.

Last semester, Malfoy called Hermione a "mudblood" in public on the Quidditch pitch, and Ron cast a curse on Malfoy that hit him instead.With the Slytherins falling down from laughter and physical conflicts on the verge of breaking out, Gryffindor recognized that Fanny, who had the worst mouth and just happened to watch Quidditch training, appeared on the stage, almost saving her status in a verbal battle. Lanffindor's face.

Malfoy, who was so irritated by Fanny, challenged again. Since then, the contest between the two has gradually become a fixed frequency. Every month or two, someone will fight for various reasons, exchange wands, and then the two will fight in the middle of the night. Find a place to compete—of course, in complete secrecy, and both sides obviously think it is a shame to have such an opponent.

At the beginning, Fanny and Malfoy met in the spacious secret passage behind the mirror on the fifth floor, but during a contest before Christmas, three Thunderbolt bombs bounced back and forth, and the secret passage that had been in disrepair collapsed.Helpless, the two met in an empty classroom this time.Fanny had no problem with that, she thought it would be more exciting and interesting to risk being caught by Filch or the inspector.

Now the two are quite proficient, exchanging wands like a ritual, and then put on a posture and start fighting.

As a member of a pure-blood magic family who was educated by nobles since he was a child, Malfoy is not many times stronger than Fanny in terms of system theory or spell application, but Fanny keeps making strange moves and can always pull back a trick at the last moment.Originally, Malfoy wanted to ridicule Fanny for using Muggle methods, but Fanny said:

"You'd better think of it as a wizard dueling draw. According to your argument, 'draw with a cunning wizard' sounds much better than 'win with a Muggle'."

So Malfoy acquiesced in the "tie" result.

The results this time were similar to those in the past. After being blocked once, the two learned to behave. This time, they chose an empty classroom on the first floor that had not been used for more than ten years, except for a few lights and a large classroom. There is no blackboard outside the pile of dust and moss, so it is easy to escape and avoid causing damage.

Another tie, both of them looked at each other with disdainful faces, and had nothing to say.Malfoy took away her wand and left. Fanny also planned to go back to the dormitory, but she didn't want to go back when she thought of Hermione and the Fat Lady, and she started wandering around the campus as usual.

Filch's route has long been mastered by her. Peeves has reached a secret agreement with her and will never trouble her again. Every corner of the castle has been explored, and the armor that can change Having played it all, and found all the secret passages that can be found, Fanny became a little bored for the first time.

Strolling along the way, Fanny wondered if it was time to visit the Forbidden Forest next time.However, I heard that Hagrid, the gamekeeper, was very difficult to deal with. The Weasley twins tried to sneak in countless times, but they were driven out within 50 meters.

Perhaps we should start with the big dog named Yaya. It seems that the students' attempts failed because of the dog's incomparable nose.Next time steal some meat from the kitchen to bribe it, or get some plant juice or something to put on it so that it doesn't smell, Benjamin said they used to pretend like this...

Dangling her thoughts, she turned in the direction of chickens and dogs, and when she came back to her senses, she was already on the eighth floor. Fanny decided to recall her past life.

Ten minutes later, Fanny climbed to the top of Gryffindor Tower, found a relatively comfortable corner sheltered from the wind, curled up and closed her eyes, and fell asleep.For about four hours before dawn, Fanny couldn't sleep well. The cold night wind and the hard ground always made her miss the dormitory and Mrs. Conwell's warm and soft bed.

Has it been so delicate in less than two years?Back then, she could fall asleep just by sitting anywhere... Fanny frowned, half because of her stiff and sore neck and back, and half because of herself who was no longer used to this way of sleeping.

The red sun is rising, a rare sunny day, the sun sticks out from the low mountains in the distance, and the golden red light spreads rapidly, starting from the horizon, causing everything to cast long shadows in the opposite direction of the light.

Dumbledore quietly looked at the girl sitting obliquely in front of the guardrail. Her legs were dangling outside the guardrail, as if she was sitting on a park bench instead of a hundred feet above the ground.The sunlight coated her with a layer of golden red, depicting the delicate outline of her side face.Blue light shines from the bottom of the eyes, forming a wonderful harmony with the warm light.

Dumbledore had never seen her look so content.

When the sun was completely over the mountains, she raised her hand and used her thumb and forefinger to form a rectangle, keeping the incomparably vast world seen from the tower and the rising sun in her palm.

"Good morning, Fanny."

Fanny, who jumped off the guardrail, received an unexpected greeting, and was so shocked that she almost fell over.

"...Oh, good morning, sir." Knowing that Dumbledore would not do anything to her, Fanny, who saw the person coming, looked calm and confident.

"Do you like Hogwarts?" Dumbledore smiled as always, his eyes turned around Fanny's Muggle sportswear.

Fanny hurriedly put on the school robe she was carrying in her hand, which she just took off for the convenience of climbing the guardrail.

"Yes, sir. It's interesting here."

"Well, I think so too." Dumbledore nodded. "You must have discovered a lot of interesting things. As far as I know, you seem to have shifted your sleeping time from the first half of the night to the daytime."

"Uh... almost." Fanny smiled guiltyly.

"Besides the fun?" Dumbledore changed the subject, "What do you like here?"

"The food is delicious, there are many interesting places in the castle, there are good books in the library, and the beautiful sunrise and sunset can be seen from the tower..." Fanny tried hard to think of words, "And...uh, living in a dormitory comfortable..."

There are actually many things that can be said, but the proportion that is suitable to be said is not large.Although Dumbledore has always been open-minded, Fanny still doesn't think it's a good idea to show off in front of the headmaster that she has done bad things to the administrator and classmates, and went to Hogsmeade to smuggle prohibited items.

"Other than that? Fanny, do you like Hogwarts itself?"

"...I like it, there is nothing wrong here." Fanny was somewhat confused by Dumbledore's question.

"Do you have any favorite courses? Do you have any favorite teachers? Have you made good friends? Even, is there anyone you really hate?" Dumbledore's blue eyes sharpened.

Fanny looked at him.

"There's nothing bad or particularly good here for you, like an orphanage, is there?" said Dumbledore. "You've never fit in here, like being in an orphanage. You There you live your own way—fights, pranks, fights, and when a better life unfolds before your eyes, you don't hesitate to throw away the old parts, the ones you once loved, almost The person who risked his life for it will be completely separated from you at that moment."

Fanny didn't say a word. It was about a year ago that she thought of Gerda who had protected her so much and those children who had shared with her through thick and thin.

"I promised Gerda you would be happy here, Fanny." Dumbledore seemed to sigh.

"But I'm very happy!" Fanny finally spoke.

"I'm just a little surprised and disappointed, Fanny." Dumbledore shook his head, "After studying and living here for more than a year, you still regard yourself as an outsider. The orphanage is a place for you to pass by. It would be better if there is This is also the place where you pass by. You have been refusing to invest in it, and you have left after experiencing it. If you live like this, after a few decades, you will certainly have many wonderful experiences, but you will leave in your life what?"

"I'm not going to criticize your way of life, I just want to give you some advice as someone who has been there. When you travel long enough, you will find that the most unforgettable part of your memories will always be about the people around you Yes. Everything around you does not exist to fight against you. Trying to integrate into this place, whether you like it or hate it, requires your understanding, harmony and experience.”