[HP] Alchemy and Love

"He's a werewolf?!" The other two shouted at the same time, and their expressions immediately became serious. "This is not a trivial matter, you should tell us, Loren!" Tina scolded.

"It's not serious, really!" Lorenthia quickly argued, "It doesn't affect that he is a very good person...you all know him too!"

"We know him?" Newt asked in surprise.

"Yes," Lorenthia turned to look at him, "Do you still remember, just two years after I entered school, you once mentioned that Headmaster Dumbledore wanted to help a werewolf kid enter Hogwarts? He said that kid deserved an education, and he asked you to help convince the school committee."

"Ah, it's him!" Newt suddenly said. "So fast, he graduated in a blink of an eye-I've only heard about that kid once or twice since then, and I've never met him. How is he?" "

"I didn't think about it until he came to apply for the job." Lorenzia said, "I didn't even know it was him at first...he had a few good buddies in school, and the pranks made chickens fly The dog jumped. Seems like he was a prefect, I remember?" She turned to Tina imploringly, "Don't really worry about me... He hasn't had anything happen to him in seven years at Hogwarts, has he? You supported his deserving educational opportunities, too, didn't you?"

"Well, well, since you're speaking up for him like that," Tina said, her expression softening but her brow still furrowed, "if you're sure, that's fine too. I'm not entirely worried about him Working in your shop..."

"Then what else is there to worry about?" Lorenthia smiled.Tina looked at her completely innocent appearance, and just shook her head: "It's nothing."

She lowered her head and ate a few mouthfuls of food. Newt and Lorenthia discussed the topic of werewolves, which soon turned into a purely academic direction.Lorenzia's maternal grandparents are both in the United States, and both grandparents have passed away. She almost regarded Newt and Tina as her grandparents since she was a child, and she has also received a lot of influence from them in terms of magical animals. By the end of dinner, the three of them chatted had a great time.After the meal, Lorenzia took the initiative to clean up the dishes, while Tina took Newtra to another room.

"Honestly, I think we need to see that werewolf kid sometime—what's his name, Remus Lupine, isn't he?" she said in a low voice. "We'll be there in a few days."

Newt was surprised and amused: "You don't have to worry so much..."

"I'm not worried about the werewolves! You know I'm on the same page as you when it comes to his admission," said Tina. "What worries me is that you saw the way she defended Lupine. ?"

"What's the matter?" Newt asked. "He's been here for almost a month. They've probably become very good friends."

"Oh, I hope it's just good friends," Tina said. "Do you remember the first time you went to New York? I broke into the magic convention with your suitcase, and we were all killed Grab it."

"Of course," Newt said.

"If they had interrogated me first instead of you, I might have spoken for you like this," Tina said.

"...Oh." Newt said, a look of enlightenment gradually flashed in his eyes, but a smile could not help but appear on the corner of his mouth, "Oh."

"What are you laughing at, Newt Scamander, I'm telling you something serious!" Tina said, but she couldn't help laughing.Newt reached out to take her hand, and they looked at each other tenderly for a moment.

"Anyway, if that's the case," Tina finally brought the topic back to the topic, "I'm a little worried. I'm not discriminating—but, after all, being friends with a werewolf is different from falling in love or even getting married. It's going to be tough... Loren is like my own granddaughter after all."

"I understand," Newt said, "but you don't need to worry. Maybe it's just a misunderstanding? After all, worries are just—"

"I'll make you suffer twice." Tina interjected.Both of them laughed.Listening to the sound outside the door, Tina let go of her hand: "Okay, I guess Loren has finished washing the dishes, I'll go and have a look."

Indeed, Lorenthia was coming out of the kitchen when she went out.Tina asked, "Do you want to move here?"

Lorencia's face brightened, and she hesitated again: "But I can't move the laboratory here..."

Her parents have now moved to the United States temporarily, and Lorenzia lives alone in the family house.Since she and her father are both masters of alchemy, a large basement at home is full of alchemy laboratories, which cannot be brought over.

"Really not considering moving them into a box, Loren?" Newt asked from behind.

"Don't instigate her!" Tina said funny and angrily, "You can go over there when you are working, and then eat and sleep here, isn't it good? Others have moved away after they got married. Is there any vacant room at home?" few."

"Okay—is it the same as in the previous summer vacation?" Lorenzia laughed and kissed Tina on the cheek, "Don't wait for me to sleep. I'll be back after finishing today's research!"

She said good-bye to Newt and Tina, and went out the door, and in a few moments the lights came on in the adjoining house.

It was a huge surprise for Newt and Tina to come back, even if they had to solicit guests alone the next day, it didn't break Lorenthia's good mood.The only thing that disturbed this happiness was the vague uneasiness about last night's full moon night - Remus had already asked for leave in advance, and today was the day after the full moon, so he really didn't come.Lorenzia was leaning on the counter with the books spread out in front of her, but she barely read them.She couldn't help thinking wildly: although she knew a lot about werewolves, she never knew how the werewolves who locked her up would spend the night of the full moon.This will undoubtedly make the werewolf feel anxious.Will he hurt himself?Or is the process of transformation a burden on the werewolf's body itself?Only then did she realize that all the descriptions of werewolves she had seen were all about teaching people how to identify, defend, avoid or subdue werewolves—there was never any description starting from werewolves themselves.Not even Newt's book, due to the lack of sources, can do such a description.

...it shouldn't be.

Her wanderings were interrupted by the sound of a bell at the door.Two people walked in, a man and a woman, who looked like a couple, and Lorenthia always felt that they looked familiar.

"Is there anything I need?" She asked, standing up from behind the counter.The red-haired lady turned to her, and Lorenthia recognized them at once: James Potter and Lily Evans!When he was in school, James chased Lily so shockingly. In addition, he was Gryffindor's Chaser, and he often had the opportunity to show off, so that even Lorenthia was always alone like this, and was considered "" The nerds know him too.

She looked at the two with a hint of curiosity: until she graduated, Lily still hated James very much. Although she had heard from Lupine that they finally tied the knot, seeing them standing in harmony now Together, she is still a little uncomfortable.

"Oh, we're just looking around." Lily smiled sweetly at her. "Choosing Christmas presents for friends."

Lorenthia nodded and sat back down again, while James and Lily walked away, looking at the goods displayed on the shelves, whispering from time to time.She tried to keep reading the book on alchemy, but for some reason, she kept getting the impression that James and Lily were whispering about herself.

Maybe it was just an illusion—at school, Lorenzia, who lived alone and out of place, always felt that her classmates would whisper to her behind her back, but many times it was just the result of her too strong self-consciousness.She resolved to ignore it and keep on reading.

"Hi!" cried James Potter after a moment.Lorencia looked up and saw him beckoning to her: "Can you introduce me?"

Sighing in my heart—it's not that I don't like him, but because of the reluctance of a patient with social phobia—Lorenzia walked over: "What do you want to know?"

"Sorry for disturbing your reading." Lily spoke first, and smiled apologetically at her: "Well, this." She raised her finger and pointed to the three sets of double-sided mirrors placed side by side on the shelf, "What's the difference between these? "

"Besides the price?" James added, and Lily poked him quietly.

"The main difference between these two types is safety." Lorenzia said, pointing to the two sets of mirrors at the front, "This one over here—the most common double-sided mirror, I think you all know it already. You can chat with each other by calling each other's name. But this kind of mirror is more accessible depending on the owner. If one of the mirrors falls into the hands of other people, as long as you call the other party's name correctly, you can still communicate. In addition This kind of step needs to go through a magic confirmation. Once confirmed, only two people who have recognized each other can chat. It is completely useless for others to get the mirror. If you want to change the holder, you have to go through a set of steps to erase The original magic certification, rewrite."

James stared at it with interest. "That would be very useful. What about the third?"

"This should be regarded as my new invention. It should be called a multi-faceted mirror. A set of mirrors is held by different people. Any two of them can communicate by calling each other's names." Lorencia said.

"Like a telephone?" Lily asked, and she added, "Oh, sorry, a telephone is a kind of Muggle..."

"I know," Lorenthia said. "I did get the idea from the phone."

"So, what the hell is a phone?" James asked curiously.

The two girls took a long time to explain, and finally they used the metaphor of a multi-faceted mirror to make him understand the function of the phone.James was immediately interested. "I think we need something like that, don't we?" he said brightly. "That sounds more comfortable than kneeling in front of a fireplace and talking. Or we could buy a set." This kind of multi-faceted mirror, I and you each take one, and then there are Padfoot, Wormtail and Moon Face..."

"I don't think so. It's messy enough for you and Sirius to have a set of double-sided mirrors. If you let each of you have one, I think sooner or later I will come home and find our house has been bombed." Lily boarded up Face came, pretending to be angry and said, but there was a smile in his eyes.Lorencia hesitated for a moment and asked, "Did you already have a set of double-sided mirrors?"

"Oh, yes—sorry, James was just curious about the three sets of mirrors side by side, so I wanted to ask you," Lily said.

"Ah, it's okay!" Lorenthia said hastily, "I'm just... well, many magic items are not irreparable after being damaged. I thought your original two-way mirror was broken... then I can see Looking at the fragments of the mirror, maybe it can be repaired, you don't have to buy new ones. There are many alchemy items that are forced to end their useful life early... This is a pity."

"Does this place still undertake the business of repairing damaged items?" James asked with great interest.

"Normally," said Lorenthia, "but you are friends with Remus, and you can make an exception—"

"You know we're friends with Remus?" James asked in great surprise.His surprised expression made Lorenthia laugh: "Of course! You are so famous in school."

James puffed out his chest proudly, and Lily gave him a helpless and funny look.Turning to Lorenthia, she said, "Don't worry about it—we're a little curious, Remus talks about you a lot."