Wild child

"...me?" Ron whispered subconsciously.

The three of them stood on a staircase between the fourth and fifth floors on the east side of the castle, facing a half-person-high portrait.At the longest time, this staircase can go from the first floor to the seventh floor, but it is the fastest and most irregular in the castle.Hogwarts students usually don't go here, because God knows where it will go when they climb up-it is said that some twenty years ago when a boy was standing on it, the stairs suddenly disappeared, and three hours later the stairs Reappearing on the west side of the castle, the student is stuck upside down in Myrtle's ladies toilet.

It is a portrait of a somewhat eccentric girl with a beautiful face, but with curly ochre-colored hair on the left and straight black hair on the right. A closer look reveals that her left eye is dark brown and the right eye is pure brown. black.On the lower left picture frame, where the name and year of birth and death of the person in the picture are usually marked, it says: Me Makrios (810-862), the founder of the space magic system.

"Good evening, Miss Mary Minnie." Fanny slightly raised her face and smiled obediently at the person in the painting.

His voice was soft, his expression was pure and innocent, and his big brown eyes with faint blue luster blinked. The two boys next to him were suddenly a little dumbfounded.

The girl in the painting smiled slightly at Fanny, "Where do you want to go today?"

"Will you take me to the statue of Priest Karman on the first floor?"

The girl smiled again, and the portrait silently separated from the middle, becoming two, each depicting a woman around 50 years old.Those two people looked exactly the same, the one on the left had brown hair and brown eyes, the one on the right had black hair and black eyes, they were both serious and dignified with an elegant temperament.

Fanny pulled the two boys who were dumbfounded again into the dark hole exposed after the portrait was separated. The portrait was closed again, and the confined space immediately fell into an indissoluble darkness.This kind of environment will give people quite a lot of pressure. Harry couldn't hold it anymore. He took out his wand and said "Luminescence". Responding, Fanny looked as usual, obviously quite used to it.

"What the hell is this?" Ron muttered. "I feel like I've been swallowed by a giant squid."

If Fanny hadn't led them all the way down the three floors through an unimaginable route, he had already developed a sense of trust in this confident girl, and he would never have entered such an inexplicable place.

"Don't mind, Miss Mary Minnie." Fanny didn't answer, but quickly gave Ron a threatening look of "shut up", put her hands together and smiled apologetically, and spoke to somewhere in the darkness with her crisp and beautiful voice. Jiao.

Now the two boys really began to doubt the safety of entering here, they kept silent and looked around.

At this time, a ray of light penetrated, and they almost jumped up, but they saw Fanny moved to the source of the light with a disdainful expression, it turned out that it was a hole.Harry and Ron glanced at each other, swallowed and followed, and then they found themselves standing in a familiar corridor. A girl named "Miss Mary Minnie" appeared in the picture frame behind them for a moment, and then turned back into an empty space. frame.Next to the picture frame is the solemn statue of the priest Karman, looking very gloomy in the dim light.

It wasn't until the three of them walked to Hagrid's hut on the edge of the Forbidden Forest under the leadership of Fanny that the boys dared to speak again.Harry told Fanny to stand back, and they knocked on the door of Hagrid's cabin with Ron.

Fanny watched with amused Harry as he nimbly pulled out the fudge and stuffed it into the spaniel's mouth, gluing its two rows of teeth together, and led the spaniel out of the house to introduce Fanny to him.The Hound was quite clever, too, and it nodded and wagged its tail after Harry finished speaking.

"If you want to enter the Forbidden Forest, Fang must lead the way." Harry patted the big hound on the head.

"We're going to follow the spiders to find clues," said Ron. "If you're scared, you can go back now, and you won't be caught anyway."

Fanny looked at the two pale-faced boys who had no confidence in their voices, "...You guys are not too scared, you must take the dog to strengthen your courage."

— in one sentence.Immediately someone was embarrassed.

"If you are scared, you can go back and tell me how to find the spider." Fanny said narrowly.

The fact that Hermione was attacked had already made Harry and Ron determined to find the culprit at all costs, and they would not agree to such a suggestion even to save face, so after a six-foot-tall spider passed by , three people and one dog followed the traces into the Forbidden Forest to search all the way.

In fact, in terms of saving face, among the three, the one who has the deepest knowledge of the word "support" is Fanny.When she came to the edge of the Forbidden Forest and saw the deep forest with dark shadows under the dim moonlight, she already wanted to retreat, not to mention that the two told her to follow a furry spider that could swallow her in one bite. .

Fanny's courage often comes from people around her. For example, when she was in the orphanage, many children witnessed her defeating a much stronger opponent with one enemy.She once climbed up to the steeple of the church and jumped around twice under the watchful eyes of Smith. No one saw that her legs were weak with cold sweat. Only Fanny knew that when she was on the top, her vision was blurred and her heart was almost stop jumping.But after that, her fear of heights almost healed, and her courage gained weight again.

The same is true now, as the calmest of the three, Fanny is having the deepest doubts about this plan in her heart: follow the spider to find the truth?Are you sure it wasn't sent up to feed the spiders?Could it be that something that so many teachers can't find out can be known to spiders who can't even get close to the venue?It's almost the same as finding a horseman who can predict.

"...Who is that person in that portrait?" Harry's question, obviously to ease his mood, almost tripped the nervous Fanny.

Clearing her throat, she replied in her usual unhurried and nonchalant tone: "Mary and Minnie are twin sisters born at the same time with their heads joined. That portrait is of them when they were 15 years old. One year they had an operation to have their own lives - 'cut' in the book parlance - and separated into two people. But their minds were never separated, and all that research was done by two people They only belonged to each other, and no one was married. Later, a magic experiment went wrong. Minnie, who was conducting the experiment, was seriously injured and died a few days later. The moment she closed her eyes, Mary on the bedside fell down at the same time for no reason. .Their wills were written by the two of them separately, but when people checked, they found that there was no difference in wording, number of lines, punctuation, and even the handwriting was almost exactly the same."

The two boys were stunned for a moment.When it comes to Fanny's favorite thing to do, listening to stories and taking risks are tied for the first place, and telling stories is second. She doesn't need them to ask, she just pours out what she knows.

"'me' is what they call each other, and to them each other is themselves. If portraits were made of them separately after their death, they refused to appear in the frame, and people had to combine their portraits and paint them separately. It was like that year. But when they need to divide their work, they will also separate for a while, just like before, and the portrait at this time is like the other portraits when the person in the frame died."

"So... what's going on with that dark room?" Ron asked.

"They are the founders of space magic. How could they not do anything after staying on the wall for so long?"

"The portrait can also change the structure of the castle?" Harry wondered.

"God, you don't think the castle built by the four founders looks like this, do you? No matter how great they are, they only lived for decades. Where did they get so much time?" Fanny rolled her eyes at him, "All the portraits are now appearing in the castle. Behind the wall is a part of the castle itself. You can change the castle according to your own ideas. As for the degree, it depends on your ability. Mary Minnie is one of the first portraits to come to the castle. Most of the organs and secret passages here are created by them. It was built, which is why I tried my best to get acquainted with them. With their guidance, I can save a lot of trouble."

"How do you know this?" Harry asked.

"Don't you have "Hogwarts, A School History"?" Another big eye roll.

"Merlin," Ron also rolled his eyes, "I'm going to the school hospital to see if Hermione has passed away unfortunately, and her soul is attached to Fanny Sanchez's body."

"Don't compare me to her." Fanny shrugged. "It's impossible to explore the castle without basic knowledge. I don't study for such a noble reason as 'learning'. George and Fred don't have the patience, so I also know several places that they don't."

"By the way, were you apologizing to Mary Minnie in that dark room just now?" Harry asked again. It's also getting darker.

"Yeah, it's not because of Ron's rude words." Fanny leaned into the gaps in the bushes to see, "The sequelae of that operation, and the two people had different experiences, but their thoughts were connected. Later, they There is something wrong with their spirits. I said that they are not married, in fact they cooperated to kill every man who could fall in love to ensure absolute ownership of each other. If you offend them... Shhh!"

After hearing that, the two people who were already terrified were frightened by the "hush", and then they also heard a burst of clicking sound coming from far to near.The two boys who remained silent looked at Fanny at the same time, and saw that she chose a few places around them to look around for a while, and spread her hands: "We are surrounded by spiders, at least ten of them. I have to leave the rest to you , I don't have spider friends. By the way, do you know how to communicate with them?"

To put it bluntly, even if the light source was only the faint light from the tip of Harry's staff, Fanny's pale face could be seen. Looking at the expressions of the two guys—Harry's face was pale and his knees were trembling, but Ron did not tremble. From the moment the spider showed its "face", it kept its mouth and eyes wide open and screamed - I knew they hadn't thought about this at all, and they came with the mentality of taking one step at a time.

So they came to find the spider in a fit of rage and didn't know what to do... How could anyone with a normal IQ do such a thing!Fanny took a deep breath and shouted at a far-reaching volume amidst the clacking sound of the six-foot-tall, eight-eyed, furry spiders clacking their pincers longer than human legs: "We are Hagrid's friend, can we talk—?!"

There were three or four waves of echoes, and Harry finally came to his senses and took over the job he had planned to do: "Yes, we are Hagrid's friends!"

Next, Fanny was basically watching Harry talking to a giant spider named "Aragok" who could barely speak human language. I dare say that this pest was hatched and raised by Hagrid himself, so forget it. , he kindly found it a wife and turned them into a litter... She began to have sincere admiration for the legendary gamekeeper.

Maybe it's time to get on good terms with this huge figure, she didn't think Hagrid had only kept giant spiders as a monster in his long cry.Although she has a better impression of exotic plants than monsters, Professor Sprout has shown her all the plants that can be shown to her, so it is not bad to see animals.

"...but I can't stop them from having a good meal. Farewell, Hagrid's friend."

——Well, under the premise of basic and sufficient security, at least there must be no teammates like pigs.

Ron with his mouth wide open and Fang the Hound formed the Freezing Scream II...biological group, Harry did not lose his courage in the dying struggle, but he obviously didn't think the wand in his hand could do anything, Fanny thought he was picking teammates His vision is enough to prove his strength.

Fanny took a small step back to the side. She wished Harry could be higher, so that she had enough cover to make small moves.

A red light rose from between the two of them, and then bloomed into eyes full of brilliance.I don't know if the eight eyes will make the spiders feel more dazzling, anyway, Harry closed his eyes and squatted down, the fireworks almost exploded against the scalps of the two of them, and he smelled his hair burnt the taste of.Then he was pulled by a strong force so that he staggered and almost gnawed on the mud.

"Aren't you going to run and wait to get into the spider's stomach?" Fanny ran wildly with one hand and the other, she had no energy left to control the dog.

The potential exploded at the moment of life and death, and they had been trained before. When the light disappeared, the spiders found that the three children and a dog had disappeared from sight.

"Find them! I can smell them! They didn't run far!" A roar of clatter came from between Aragog's two pincers.

"Good thing, you originally planned to use this teacher who escaped inspection?" Fanny gasped and asked Harry next to him in a whisper. They were huddled together in a not-so-secret corner, and there were two spiders not far away just now. crawled around, but ignored them, as if because of the cloak that was as light as air around them.

Harry nodded, not in the mood to speak.Fanny just threw up a hard puller and blew it up at a height she thought would block the sight of the spiders. The reaction speed of the Gryffindor Seeker was also unimpressed. He hugged his teeth.When the light was about to disappear, he took out a bag of something and pulled Fanny over to cover the three of them and a dog inside.

"What do we... now...?" Ron asked with his teeth clenched half alive.

"What do you think? I fully believe that they can smell us." Fanny let out a foul breath, without her explaining, several people can see the spiders shrinking the encirclement here, "Did you hear the sea?" How happy is Greg's good friend that we're gone?"

No one responded to Fanny's taunt, and Fanny couldn't hurt the death that was right in front of her eyes.

Harry took a deep breath and made up his mind, "I'll—"

"It's all petrified."

Ron suddenly fell on Harry's body stiffly, and subconsciously supported his friend. Harry was stunned, "What are you doing—"

"Stay still, and escape when you see the time." Fanny got out of the invisibility cloak without looking back.

Fanny ran for more than ten meters as silently as possible while maintaining a cat waist posture, and then stomped her foot into a muddy puddle, and there was a clear "pop" sound.Plunging headlong into the bushes, it was the season of revival of all things, branches and leaves with thorns or without thorns whipped her whole body, Fanny greeted the designer of the wizard robes in her heart, running in the bushes was already very uncomfortable Oh, and the hellish outfit with a toga and long sleeves will make it even more difficult for her.Being pulled from time to time, Fanny was scrambling to escape, and within a few steps, she felt that several places of her skin were directly in contact with the cold dew and the hot kisses of those branches and leaves.

"They're about to catch up, hurry up!" "Run! This way!" Fanny threw dung eggs and fireworks behind her, and Fanny even improvised a few lines commonly used in fleeing in a hurry, hoping those spiders would Stupid enough to think her companions were running for her life alongside her.

Everything she could use in her pockets was gone, and a well-grown vine tripped her and sent her flying straight ahead before rolling several times and falling face-down to the bottom of the slope.The landing site was quite soft, and there was not a single tree in the surrounding area for more than ten meters.After wiping the mud all over her face, Fanny immediately understood the reason for the emptiness around her: it was a forest swamp, and she fell to a position close to the center under the powerful force of inertia.

Her ankle hurt, and Fanny struggled a few times without standing up. Hearing the rustling and intensive clicking sounds of the spider legs getting closer, she felt that she was sucked into a mouth full of mud. Bitter.

He left the warm and soft bed in the castle and ran to the Forbidden Forest with an aristocratic bastard who wished for the death of Muggles, and then searched for spiders with two idiots who didn't know what they were going to do. The escape journey of the companion, and finally became the spider's meal in the putrid mud.

Well, at least the stars can be seen in this clearing.

Suddenly there was a dull grinding sound beside her, and Fanny remembered the pranks she had done on the path before. Those wheels that were still turning would make such a sound when they sank into a pothole.She would always show up with Smith when the car owner was in dire straits and try her best to help, and finally got the car out sweating profusely. The car owner would also send snacks, change and a series of compliments.

Obviously there won't be any cars here, most of them are another fierce forest creature, it seems that it's not certain who she will be a good meal for.Turning around, Fanny was immediately covered in a large handful of mud.

Scratching her face, she saw... a car stuck in the mud with its wheels still spinning.The style is so old that Fanny thinks it is a miracle that it can start, and the surface is bumpy and seems to have been in a serious car accident.

Fanny was dumbfounded for a second, and even lowered her head to make sure it wasn't a country road full of ruts.

This place should be...a primeval jungle in the general sense, that's right, well, the creations of the wizarding world are indeed rather strange.

The lights of some kind of creature resembling a car flickered, the door slammed open, and it honked its horn a few times impatiently, probably urging Fanny into its belly.Looking back at the two giant spiders that had stepped into the swamp, and weighing the fate she could accept, Fanny grabbed the door frame and climbed into the passenger seat.