【HP】Sugar Bowl

The warm common room of Gryffindor was noisy, and there was no quiet time for this group of restless lion cubs.

Lida walked out of the dormitory bored, and when she was going to take the captain out for a stroll, she saw Fred, George, Lee Jordan and a group of boys sitting on the sofa, playing wizard cards and yelling excitedly. Call.

Lida leaned over to look with great interest. As soon as Jordan saw her, his face blushed and he began to stutter: "Ah...Goldstein, please... please... sit here..."

What a cute little boy, Lida thought.She accepted his kindness with a smile: "Thank you, Jordan." Jordan's face became even redder.

Fred was playing the wizard card in his hand and asked Lida, "Would you like to play together?"

Lida took a card from him and looked it up curiously. When she heard his question, she looked up at them: "I've never played this before, and I don't even know the rules."

Fred and George looked at each other and smiled a little badly, "This is not good!"

George went on: "If you're a wizard, you have to play the wizard card—"

"- great fun"

"—and very simple"

"Come and try?"

"join us!"

"You'll find a lot of fun!"

"a lot of!"

Lida was very happy to be amused by their naughty little appearances, and nodded: "Okay, just try it. You teach me!"

The rules of wizard cards are similar to the rules of Muggle poker. After playing a few hands, Lida has already mastered the skills of this game proficiently.

She thought of the smirk of the Weasley brothers before, and a flash of inspiration flashed in her little mind, which also evoked a wicked smile.She put together the cards in her hand and discussed with the little boys: "Look, the wizard card is really very simple, playing it like this will make it less interesting..."

Seeing her unrestrained expression, Fred knew that she was about to start playing some cute little tricks, and said with her: "--it is true."

George, who knew his brother's thoughts well, glanced at him and said, "——Why don't we add some tricks!"

Lida took out her small purse and put it on the coffee table: "How about we have a gamble?" Lida had won or lost in the few wizard cards she played before, so it was hard to tell how good her skills were.A novice, with a bag of Silver Kesi and Copper Knuts, was tempting enough.Several young boys around her glanced at each other, took out their pocket money and put them on the table.

The Weasley twins also let out their purse, and Lida glanced at it.During this period of time, she has been obsessed with reading in the library, and she hasn't seen Fred and George very much, but she also knows that they have made a lot of interesting gadgets and sold them, but she didn't expect them to make a lot of money.

The boys who participated in the bet chose one person to compete against Lida as a representative. It was a boy in the same grade as Lida, named Brown Giles.Lida had heard of him and knew that he was an outstanding boy in his grade.However, Lida smiled at him sympathetically, he would not defeat her.

Since Lida was still a novice, none of the boys present pressured her to win except Jordan, who blushed at her.Lida turned to Fred and George who hadn't made up their minds yet, and asked, "What about you? Who do you want?"

George said, "—it was a tough decision—"

Fred went on: "We're friends with Giles—"

"And we also know his strength—"

"There is no doubt that his skill at the game is unmatched—"

"In Gryffindor!"

Lida was amused by their funny faces, but she thought the twins would beat Giles to win.While sweating their pockets, Fred spoke again: "But you're a girl—"

"The cutest girl in Gryffindor—"

"I'm sure you're a nice guy—"

"Coincidentally, Fred, I thought so too—"

Fred and George said together: "So we want to pressure you to win!"

As they said that, they pushed the purse towards Lida. Lida put the purse away, and with a nod of her head, she readily accepted their compliments.

Lida did win the battle of the wizard cards, and she won beautifully.Soon, Lida spread the glorious story of Giles and his party throughout Gryffindor.Everyone was still talking about it until they took the Hogwarts Express back home for Christmas.

The time spent in Hogwarts passed quickly. In the past few years, Lida found her favorite research direction - magic circle.

Lida firmly believes that everything in the wizarding world is closely related to the magic circle, and even the magic source of wizards can be traced through the magic circle.

But magic circles are really difficult to understand, and she has to spend a lot of time, even during the holidays, staying in the library of Goldstein's house to study. Faced with the fact that Snape.

Yes, Snape and Beverly had been engaged two years ago. Although they were not married yet, Lida couldn't even accept that they were engaged.However, the fact that Beverly respected Lida for not changing her surname to Snape really made her breathe a sigh of relief.She couldn't imagine what would happen if it was known at school that she was about to become Snape's stepdaughter.

Lida, who is obsessed with studying and cannot extricate herself, often stays up all night to study the direction of the magic power of a magic circle.As a result, she missed many things. For example, Beverly has not made clothes for a long time, but she still leaves early and returns late every day; Yes, there are some Lida doesn't know, including Sirius Black, who looks very similar to her.

She missed the duel between Sirius and Snape. This duel could not resolve the grievances between them, but it could make them less blatantly confront each other in the Order of the Phoenix; The moment when he wandered in front of the library and was finally stopped by Beverly.

After another night, Lida was catching up on sleep on the couch.Normally, no one would disturb her at this time, but the door of the library was broken open violently. Beverly hurried in to wake up Lida: "Nini, wake up!"

Lida opened her eyes with some reluctance, and looked at Beverly in confusion. The ignorant look on her face made Beverly both distressed and loved.She cast a tidy spell on Lida, hugged her hard, and kissed her forehead.Then he picked up her suitcase with one hand and pulled her with the other, and Apparated to the station.

Apparition made Lida, who was not very awake at first, even more dizzy. Beverly watched anxiously as she couldn't open her eyes, and was about to send her to the car. When she looked up, she saw that she was talking with Wes. Mrs. Ley said goodbye to the Weasley children.

Beverly greeted them with her arms around Lida: "Hey, Molly! Children!"

"Hey! Aunt Beverly!" The children of the Weasley family shouted together. Mrs. Weasley saw that Beverly was holding Lida with some difficulty, so she hurried up to help her and asked, "Where is Lida?" What's wrong?"

Leda's weight was taken over half by Mrs. Weasley, which made Beverly feel a little more relaxed. She sighed, wiped the sweat from her brow with one free hand, and rushed to Weasley in embarrassment. Madam smiled: "She didn't sleep last night, so she almost missed the start of school."

Mrs. Weasley looked at the dark circles on Lida's face with tenderness and blame, and taught Beverly: "She's still a child! How can you make her forget to go to bed?"

Hearing Mrs. Weasley's scolding, Beverly stuck out her tongue. She liked Mrs. Weasley's lesson, which made her feel warm and loved. "It's because my supervision is not in place, but this is also a characteristic of Goldstein's family, isn't it?" She looked at her daughter lovingly and said, "To be honest, I wonder why she was assigned to Granville. Fendor, not Ravenclaw."

Mrs. Weasley told the twins to take Lida into the car and take good care of her, and told Ron, who was going to study for a year, "Be good! Don't watch Harry Potter! Do you understand?" After Ron nodded, she stood there with Beverly, watching Hogwarts quickly go away.

The twins and Lida got into the car, and there were no empty cars, so they had to put her in the same car as Ron.Fred and George said hello to Harry Potter, then turned to their little brother and said, "Leave Leda alone!"

George said, "If Lida didn't get enough sleep, you woke me up—"

Fred: "Something terrible is going to happen!"

George's expression looked exactly like Fred's: "Maybe she'll turn you into a toad!"

Ron was obviously taken aback. He glanced at Lida cautiously, and stammered to retort: ​​"...she...she can't do it..."

Fred shrugged and said, "You gotta know she's the smartest little witch in Gryffindor!"

George said, "Did you forget the last time she beat Giles out?"

Then they said together: "Don't wake her up!"

Seeing that Ron was so frightened that he didn't even dare to look at Lida anymore, the twins left contentedly, and they had to rush to see the marsupial spider that Lee Jordan got!

Thanks to the twins, Lida had a good night's sleep on the train, and even Hermione came to find Toad on Neville's behalf, but Ron's gestures made her voice much quieter.

"Wake up, Lida!" Fredella took her hand and put it on his shoulder, and George took her other hand and put it on his shoulder.The two of them worked together to lift Lida up.

Lida finally regained consciousness a little. She struggled to open her eyes, feeling as if she was floating in the air.She cried out with some discomfort: "Fred, George, put me down, this is too uncomfortable!"

Fred and George did not let go, but took her off the train quickly.

"Hang on, Lida!" said Fred, putting his hands around her waist to make her feel a little better.

George said, "If it's a little later, we'll miss the party!"

Fred went on: "The most important thing is—"

"Harry Potter's Sorting Ceremony!"

Lida looked at Fred and then at George, and said in surprise, "Harry Potter?! Has he come to Hogwarts?"

"Yes!"

"And you shared a car with him on the Hogwarts Express—"

"And our little Ronnie—"

"It's a pity that you fell asleep!" The two said in unison.

Lida wailed, hung on the two of them, and let them take her away.Lida didn't need to work hard on her feet, but her mind was very clear, spinning quickly, and she felt as if she had forgotten something very important.

The three of them rushed to the auditorium at the last moment of the sorting ceremony, and quickly took their seats under Professor McGonagall's stern gaze.Lida sat between Fred and George, complaining, "Why are you growing up so fast?!"

In the first and second grades, Lida was as tall as them, or even a little taller than them, but today when the two of them drove her, she realized that Fred and George were almost half a head taller than her. .

The auditorium was already quiet, and Fred leaned close to her ear and whispered, "Because we ate too much—" Her ears were red with hot breath.

George also leaned over: "And it consumes a lot——"

Fred and George clapped their hands lightly and said, "We're busy exploring—"

"mischief--"

"Invent something new—"

"Voluntary labor--"

"—Training with Quidditch!"

Lida's eyes widened in shock: "What? When did you join the Quidditch team?!"

George winked at Lida exaggeratedly: "When you were holding that thick book "Structure of Magic Circles." Lida thought about it, and it should be in the second grade.

"Merlin, I can't imagine I missed so much!" Lida was a little disappointed, she also wanted to join the Gryffindor Quidditch team.

Fred patted her on the shoulder and was about to comfort her when the sorting ceremony began.Harry Potter was sorted into Gryffindor, and Lida and the twins yelled, "We've got Potter! We've got Potter!" but she wasn't surprised by the result.

Lida finally realized something was wrong when she saw Harry Potter sitting across from her.Two years ago, she seemed to know about Harry Potter and some conspiracies, but now she has less and less memory of these things, and some of them can't remember clearly.

Early the next morning, Lida received a letter from Beverly, who told her that she had indeed forgotten something, but she refused to tell Lida what she had forgotten.Beverly said that this is the genetic gift of the Goldstein family. At birth, some people will have some prophetic memories, which cannot be spoken or shown to others; Other talents appear, and with these gifts, those inborn memories will completely dissipate.

Lida's talent gradually emerged as she deepened her research on the magic circle, so her innate memories began to fade.Lida felt a little dazed. She held the letter in one hand and covered her heart with the other. It was always tightening, making her unable to relax.