[HP] Alchemy and Love

In truth, Lorenthia's life didn't get any more exciting or dangerous after joining the Order.

It's more like giving her a window into knowing and helping people whose lives are more dangerous.In the next few sessions she met more people: Frank Longbottom, Marlene MacKinnon, Arthur Weasley, Mundungus Fletcher, Sturgi Podmore, Elphias Dorji.There were two others she had only met once: Albus' brother, Aberforth Dumbledore; and Hagrid, the school's gamekeeper.

"Why is Aberforth so indifferent to Headmaster Dumbledore?" she had whispered to Remus privately.From her own family, she knew that not every wizard of high achievement had good family relationships.But Dumbledore - it seemed hard to imagine anyone not liking and respecting him.Dumbledore and Newt are her two most beloved elders, both of whom are always so tolerant, kind and wise, Lorenthia really can't understand why Aberforth is so rude and indifferent to him, and Albus is so rude to him. My younger brother is so patient.However, Remus didn't know, and even Sirius and James, who always liked to join in the fun, said that almost no one in the Order of the Phoenix knew about it.The only ones who could possibly know were Mad-Eye Moody and Professor McGonagall, but no one dared to ask them.

Of course, in addition to the members of the Order of the Phoenix, she also occasionally met their family members—the sister of the Prewett brothers, Molly Weasley, came once, and gave her a warm hug as soon as they met, almost Did not strangle her to death.She and her husband Arthur kept thanking her, almost panicking the withdrawn Lorenzia, not knowing how to deal with her enthusiasm, and finally resorting to the Prewett brothers and Remus to rescue her.

"Molly hasn't officially joined the Order of the Phoenix, but she's pretty much the same as one of our members. Except she doesn't attend meetings, she's seen everyone here." James whispered gloatingly, "You'd better hurry up." Get used to it, there will be more opportunities to be entertained by her in the future."

Lorenthia gave him a weak look: "Is it too late for me to quit now?"

"Oh, you've gotten too involved in this secret activity." James threatened her with a serious face, "Even if you want to quit now, we can't let you go, your scope of activities will be strictly limited Prepare dinner with Molly every time we have a meeting within the scope of the Order of the Phoenix."

Lorenthia silently covered her face with her hands, while Sirius laughed wildly and without sympathy.

Of course, after the initial scare period, things weren't so bad.

Maybe it wasn't bad from the start.The members of the Order of the Phoenix have their own characteristics, Caradoc Dearborn is taciturn, and Fabian Prewett can't stop all day long; Dorcas Meadows has a kind of style and authority, and Peter Pedilou cringed all day long.Some of them became instant friends with her, while others had personalities that didn't quite get along with her.

But none of that matters.Importantly, she found a sense of belonging here.

It's a sense of belonging that not even Hogwarts offers.Parts of her that have always felt lonely are finally understood here—her parents and teachers can understand her love of alchemy, Newt and Tina can embrace her introverted personality, but few understand why she To insist on staying in the UK.

In fact, the reason is very simple: to resist Voldemort.She can't fight and doesn't have the courage to face the battlefield, but she can still resist in her own way, but the problem is that almost no one thinks so except her, and the only ones who understand her approach are Newt and Tina. Remus.

And now that she's suddenly in the midst of a crowd of like-minded people, each of whom takes this as a commonplace, natural decision, is touching enough.What's more, most of them are very good people, even Molly Weasley, who made her feel at a loss at first, soon she was able to talk and laugh as usual.

From winter to spring, the Death Eaters' rebellion never stopped, but the small shop was still maintained.After all, despite the turmoil, people still want to buy things and get by—even sales of many defensive items have increased dramatically.Fortunately, now that Remus's alchemy level has improved a lot, it is no longer a problem for him to make relatively simple magic items alone, so Lorenthia added this fixed item to his work content: helping the shop to process For magic items, the processing fee is paid separately.She herself simply stayed in the alchemy laboratory all day long, and rarely came out to greet customers.

April came without knowing it, and on this day Remus walked into the store as usual, and saw that the store was open, but there was no sign of Lorenthia.He walked into the alchemy laboratory at the back familiarly, and Lorencia was there.She heard the voice, smiled and raised her head to say hello: "Hi, Remus."

"Good morning." Remus said with a smile, glanced at the sketches and materials spread out on the table, and raised his eyebrows in surprise: "Aren't you researching a new type of communication card today?"

Since Green and Williams disappeared after that battle, the Order has been unable to find any trace of them.For the past three months, everyone has been brooding over this matter. Apart from taking care of the store business and improving equipment for the Order of the Phoenix, Lorenzia also devoted most of her free time to this research. However, the proposed plan was always repeatedly rejected by herself.Hearing Remus's question, she shook her head: "Take a break to make other interesting gadgets for now. Can you knit?"

That's right, what surprised Remus was spread out on the table, a pile of fine blue wool and a few very thin sweater needles.He shook his head: "No. Why, do you want to add new products to the store?"

"No, this kind of blanket takes too much time to weave, and I don't have time to supply it to the store." Lorenthia shook her head and smiled, "It's a gift for the new twins in the Weasley family, remember Is it? The good news came yesterday."

Yesterday, April 4st, Molly gave birth to twins.In the evening, Arthur received the news at the regular meeting of the Order of the Phoenix, and left early, almost dancing, so all members of the Order of the Phoenix knew the good news immediately.Remus smiled at her, "You're so thoughtful."

"I'm still worried about what other people plan to give." Lorenzia frowned at him in a pretentious way, but with a smile in her eyes, "Come and help me knit, when the time comes, the blanket will be ours." Send them together."

Remus shrugged helplessly, walked over to face Lorenthia as promised, and helped her comb a large ball of fine wool into five strands, winding them on five different fine wool needles. "What kind of velvet is this?" He asked casually, while identifying the texture of the velvet, "If it hasn't been dyed... Scarlo cashmere?"

Lorenthia nodded with a smile.Although the name of this animal is called Skalo sheep, they are actually a magical creature that lives in the forest. They are just sheep-like in appearance, and their turquoise fur is their protective color. "This is an uncommon weaving method, which is only used on blankets used by babies." She selected five needles and knit them one by one, changing a needle from time to time, explaining to Remus, "Generally speaking, no enchantments will be placed on baby items, as all enchantments will leave magical fluctuations, and in cases where the spell is too powerful or unstable, this fluctuation is likely to affect the development of the baby's own magical abilities .In this case, if you want them to become magic items, you can only use the method of changing their own materials—such as the refining method in alchemy; or changing their combination. You see, like this.”

She showed Remus the piece she had just knitted, and although it was only a finger-length strip, it could already be seen that it was arranged in an intricate pentagonal pattern, "with the yarn itself to create a magical Textures are somewhat similar to simplified versions of runes and alchemy circles - this basic texture is very stable and will not lose its effectiveness due to deformation. Although its power is weak, the countless runes on the entire blanket Superimposed, it can play a considerable protective effect. If the child falls from a height, the blanket can automatically wrap him, which has an effect similar to the feather spell."

"I didn't know you were so ingenious before." Remus laughed.

"I only know this one." Lorenthia lowered her head embarrassedly, "It's just because it can't be replaced by magic spells, and the fabric is not convenient for alchemy synthesis - I don't know any other tricks." I will." She laughed and said, "And you see, I can only knit blankets now - I don't know how to do it if I turn a little corner."

She said so, but her hands were not slow at all.Remus helped her untangle the five strands of thread so they wouldn't tangle.The two of them didn't say anything for a while, just chatted casually occasionally, but the atmosphere was extremely comfortable and harmonious.Although Lorenthia's men moved quickly, the weaving method was complicated after all, and there was only a small piece after weaving for a while. Remus looked at it for a moment and asked, "Do you want to weave two?"

"Three," said Lorenthia, "and one for my sister—she's due in August."

"Congratulations!" Remus said, and Lorenthia laughed: "Thank you. I'll probably close the shop for another week and go to America to see them."

"Still not going to tell them about your joining the Order of the Phoenix?" Remus asked.

Lorenthia's expression suddenly fell.She sighed and shook her head: "I don't want to say it, they won't understand. My mother will definitely use kidnapping to keep me in the United States." Sad and guilty, fighting Voldemort is—this can be said to be our joint responsibility. I am only worried that if they find out in the future, they will blame Professor Dumbledore for it."

"To be honest, I'm surprised that he would allow you not to discuss it with your parents." Remus said, "Although I also think that this is your decision, but..."

"I know, I know. I don't think it's the right thing to do." Lorenthia said distressedly, "I just can't think of any other better way...don't mention this, okay? There are too many headaches, and I need to do some mechanical work like weaving blankets to clear my mind."

"Of course, I'm sorry." Remus agreed softly, while quickly separating the two balls of wool that were almost tangled together, "Would you like to tell me why you are troubled? Or is it a problem with the communication card?"