【HP】Sugar Bowl

The small warm yellow lights of Goldstein's house were always on in the kitchen, warm and bright, filled with a strong sense of home.

But the atmosphere in the house was not as warm as usual. The mother and daughter of the Goldstein family looked at each other in silence.

Lida nestled on the sofa, holding a cute kitten pillow in her arms, playing with her shoulder-length black hair one after another.

Her delicate eyebrows were tightly frowned, and her expression was serious and serious. She was not at all mischievous and carefree in the past.

The only adult opposite her was not in the mood to admire her cute appearance, but looked at her with some trepidation.

Lida took a deep breath, stared at Beverly with round eyes, and said, "...you decide to marry your boyfriend?"

Beverly nodded, with a happy smile unconsciously showing on her face.

Lida took another deep breath and continued: "...Is your boyfriend a Hogwarts professor? Will you take me to Diagon Alley tomorrow?"

On Beverly's beautiful face that has been carefully cared for over the years, there was a loving smile: "Yes, Nini!" She called Lida's baby name affectionately.

"...His name is Severus Snape?" Lida had a look of disbelief on her face.

Beverly still had that look of happiness mixed with kindness on her face, and she said, "Yes, Nini, didn't you know him a long time ago?"

Lida's fingers accidentally pulled her hair heavily, and she exclaimed: "Oh!...I didn't know he was your boyfriend, and you decided to marry him!"

As she spoke, she straightened her body excitedly, and asked Beverly: "What do you like about him? Is Sirius Black not handsome enough, or Remus Lupine not enough? Why do you like Severus Severus?" Nep?"

Beverly rubbed her fingers and said, "Many people like him in our world, why are you so surprised, weren't you cute before?"

When she was talking to Lida, a childish expression bloomed unconsciously on her face.She looked at Lida stubbornly: "Besides, you haven't seen Sirius and Remus..."

Lida puffed her meaty face and asked: "Then they are not as good-looking as described in the book? Sirius is recognized as the most beautiful man in the HP series!"

Beverly recalled the appearance of Sirius in her memory, licked her dry lips, and she had to admit: "He is indeed... um... very handsome..."

Lida was even more puzzled: "Then why did you marry Severus Snape?"

Beverly got off the sofa, sat next to Lida, rubbed her little bun face, and said, "Sev is not ugly, and he has a fascinating aura."

Lida rolled her eyes at her, and continued: "I haven't seen him, so I don't comment...

Beverly, I know that in our world, many people like the professor's infatuation and feel sorry for his experience, but his infatuation is only for one person, you know..."

She couldn't hide her worry in her words, which provoked Beverly to hug her again.Lida looked up at Beverly's beautiful red hair and emerald green eyes, and said hesitantly, "...if...I mean if, he just treats you as a substitute?"

Beverly looked at her firmly: "No, he knows that Lily and I are different!"

Lida and her looked at each other for a while, the firmness in her eyes almost made Lida feel ashamed of questioning her, but unfortunately she didn't.

She loosened her frown, and said in a compromised way: "Okay, it's up to you."

Beverly cheered, hugged Lida and kissed again and again.Lida liked this way of expressing intimacy, but she didn't say it.

Early the next morning, Beverly pulled Lida up from the bed, put on the most beautiful lemon yellow skirt for her, tied two small braids, and put on a pair of small bow-shaped earrings for her .

Seeing Lida's drowsy appearance and not fully waking up, she couldn't help but kiss again and again.

Lida, on the other hand, woke up completely when she saw the black-haired, black-eyed man in black clothes standing at the door.She stood at the door and stared at Snape, unabashedly looking at this tragic character who had won the sympathy and love of thousands of teenagers and girls.

Unlike what Lida had imagined, the young man in front of her was pale, not as sallow as she thought; his body was thin, an enviable thinness; the most unexpected thing was his shoulder-length hair, It was tied low behind the head by a black hair band, and it was not obvious whether it was greasy.This kind of dress exposed his facial features. He was not ugly, but his temperament was very gloomy after being in the dark for a long time.

The two looked at each other for a while, and Snape spoke first: "Miss Goldstein, I think your mother taught you how to treat guests?"

Lida turned to let him in, but she squinted her big eyes in displeasure, glanced at his empty hands, imitated his tone, and snapped back: "Of course, but Mr. Snape, I think Maybe you don't understand the etiquette of being a guest?"

Snape looked at her, and Lida stared back without fear. Just as the two of them were about to continue talking, Beverly ran down the stairs with cheerful steps.

Seeing Snape standing at the door, she yelled happily: "Sev!" Beverly rushed over and hugged Snape, and tiptoed to kiss him on both cheeks.

Lida turned her eyes away, not to watch this movement that made her feel uncomfortable.Today, Beverly wore her famous work—an elegant white knee-length dress that framed her perfect figure—which made Lida even more upset.

As a fashion designer, every piece of Beverly's dress is very beautiful, but the dress she is wearing today has a completely different meaning to her. She is only allowed to wear the most important dress on the most important occasions. Representative skirt.

But it also told Lida how much she valued this meeting.Lida sighed, forget it, she didn't want to disappoint Beverly today.

The three of them came to Diagon Alley. Lida, who was a bit awkward at first, suddenly brightened her eyes after arriving in Diagon Alley.For this surprise at the age of 11, she held back her curiosity and was determined not to come to Diagon Alley before receiving the notice from Hogwarts.

Lida couldn't wait to grab Beverly's hand and said, "I want to go shopping by myself!"

Seeing her shining eyes, Beverly couldn't help but smiled and kissed her forehead, hung a purse full of silver Sickles on Lida's side, and said, "Okay, Nini, in the bag The money is enough for you to buy everything and some of your favorite snacks, if you have too much to carry, just put it in the store and wait for me to help you. See you later at the Broken Ax Bar..."

Lida couldn't wait to break free from her hand, and hugged her: "Okay, okay, I understand, see you later!" After saying that, she ran away.

Lida went to Ollivander's wand shop first and got her own wand. She hugged her wand and rubbed it fondly, then put her wand in the one prepared by Beverly, which can be hung on her waist in the holster between.

She then made a quick purchase of other things she needed, then stopped at a used bookstore to rummage through books that interested her.

Lida took out a dusty green book from the bottom corner of the shelf. The name on the cover was "The Joke's Book of Spells". Lida sat on the ground with the book in her arms and laughed a few times. Find a few small magic tricks that can make Snape dumb.

"Hey, George, look at this..." A boy with red hair appeared on Lida's left.

"Oh, Fred, it looks like someone has the same..." Another teenager who looked exactly like the boy on the left appeared to Lida's right.

Lida looked left and right, and the two braids were swinging with her movements.She dimpled from laughter, and then George said, "A harmless little hobby."

She put the book on her lap, stretched out her hands, and introduced, "My name is Lida Goldstein."

The red-haired teenagers looked at each other, each held a hand, "We are Weasley."

The boy on the left said, "I'm Fred and he's George."

Lida smiled and held their hands and shook Goldstein: "Hello, Fred, hello, George!"

Fred asked, "Are you a freshman at Hogwarts too?"

Lida withdrew her hand and nodded, "Yes."

George reached out his hand to brush off the dust on the green book: "You like these interesting things too?"

Lida replied naturally: "Of course! It's so interesting! It can also gain laughter and make some annoying people make some clowns. It kills two birds with one stone!"

Fred and George said in unison: "Yes, it's very interesting!"

Lida chatted with the Weasley twins for a few words, and she felt that they were more interesting than she imagined. The three of them quickly became acquainted and read this interesting magic book together.

George asked Lida, "So, you want to find a funny spell to play on someone you hate?"

Lida raised a finger and shook it solemnly: "Of course not! I like him quite a bit, this is just a way to welcome him."

Fred grinned: "I understand you!" He pointed to a little charm on the book and said, "How about this? Put a spell on food so that the person you want to trick eats it, and his face It will become the color of your imagination!"

Lida recited the spell several times with great interest, then nodded: "Sounds interesting! Let's try it?"

George said: "Good idea..."

Fred: "It couldn't be better..."

"But……"

"there is a question……"

"Who has something to eat?"

The boys dug into their pockets. George still had a few fudges made by Mrs. Weasley; Fred still had some Bibi flavored beans. Those weird colors made it hard for Lida to imagine what flavors they were. ; and Lida had some taffy in her pocket.

The three piled the candies together, and Lida nodded: "I think these candies are enough for us to try a few little spells!"

Fred picked out three candies, put them aside, and asked, "Who starts first?"

George waved his wand eagerly: "I'll go first."

Fred put three candies in front of him and made a welcome gesture.

George concentrated, waved his wand, and said the spell in the book to the three candies.

Nothing happened, and they didn't know if the spell worked.Lida looked at Fred, then at George, and asked, "Why don't we try first?"

Fred and George agreed, and each of the three took a candy and put it in their mouths.

Slowly, Lida saw that the faces of Fred and George turned blue starting from the necks, and she cried out softly.

Fred and George laughed and pointed at each other's faces, and the color stopped halfway up, so that the eyes were normal skin color above, dark blue under the eyes, and even the lips, only the teeth and The tongue, the place where people can find the lips, is even more ridiculous.

Lida smiled at Fred and George for a while, and then remembered that her own face had become like this, and quickly took out the small mirror in her pocket to look at herself.

Lida was taken aback by the half-blue face in the mirror, and then half-lyed on the bookshelf smiling.She regretted that she didn't have a mobile phone, so she couldn't take a picture of this fun and scary effect and send it to Moments.

This charm is very interesting, but the duration is very short.The three tried several spells, and found that the author of this book had also made a big joke with them, and all the spells were only half effective.

They tried a spell that turned the head into an owl, and only the mouth became an owl, and the eyes remained human.

Lida found it very interesting. She bought the book and made an appointment with the twins to learn the spells in it together when they arrived at Hogwarts.

Lida and the twins chose an irony spell for Snape. The person under the curse can only speak irony, but the effect is only five sentences.

But Lida thought it was enough, five sentences were enough for Snape to speak the truth.

During dinner, Lida never found an opportunity to carry out this mischievous plan.

At the end of the dinner, Lida had an idea, and carefully handed Snape a cup of tea with a flattering smile on her face, which moved Beverly, thinking that Lida was trying to please others because of her.

Snape took the tea and thanked him slowly, but he didn't intend to touch the cup of tea at all. Lida looked at him with some disappointment.

Not long after, he bid farewell. Before leaving Floo, he looked at Lida meaningfully. Lida was a little nervous. What did he find?Then she curled her lips again, thinking in a broken jar, so what if she found out, anyway, she is a brat now.

During the following holidays, Snape never came to Lida's house again, but this didn't affect Lida much. She still had a crazy summer vacation, and the days passed quickly with her.