[Comprehensive English and American] Ripples in time and space

"Where is this?" Bucky asked, he was still wrapped in the quilt of the army hospital bed, and asked as he got up from the ground.

"I don't know, but it should be in England." Kelly said, she looked around, and it seemed that it was early winter, the weather was cold, the night was falling, the fields were lonely, and there was no one there. "Anyway, it's in Europe..."

She reached out and grabbed Bucky's hand, "Let's go to London first, are you ready?"

"I guess so," Bucky licked his lips nervously, "Your adoptive parents couldn't be more difficult to deal with than Nazis, Kelly?"

"That's not possible." Kelly laughed, and gave Bucky a brisk tug, "But they won't make things difficult for you, I've given them enough shock—and the wizarding world and Muggles …I mean, unlike ordinary people, the development of modern technology has no impact on their lives, and it doesn’t matter if you came from World War II or World War I.”

"Equally difficult to adapt?" Bucky asked dryly.

Kelly stretched out her hand and leaned against his chest, "Hey, it's okay. If you're too nervous or don't want to see them yet, we can live in London first, and wait for you to adapt to this era." She said softly, "I've been away for a long time anyway, not less than a few days or a few months."

"No, that's not enough." Bucky laughed and rubbed her curly hair, "Just as we said before, you take me to Madam Pomfrey, and then go home and tell them what happened afterwards experience."

Kelly squinted her eyes and rubbed her head against his hand, and laughed: "Then go to London. Get ready, three, two, one—"

The next moment, they had appeared on the streets of London, and Kelly landed precisely outside the door of the Leaky Cauldron. This place was already under the protection of a spell, so passers-by outside could not see them; The guest couldn't see the two of them either.Bucky took a few breaths and looked up at the dilapidated sign of the bar.

"Is this the Leaky Cauldron?" He asked curiously. Kelly had told him and Steve a lot about the wizarding world when they were teenagers. Bucky even saw it from the Pensieve. I looked at the pedestrians outside again, they seemed to ignore this place completely, "It's hard to imagine that they really can't see this place."

"If I take you a few steps, you won't be able to see." Kelly said with a smile, "Ordinary people can only enter here if they are led by a wizard. But don't go in now-I don't know that I am missing How long has it been..."

"It's January 1994th, 1." Bucky responded, turning his head to Kelly's questioning gaze, signaling an old woman walking away with a roll of newspaper in her hand.Kelly rewarded him with a surprised and appreciative look.

"That's about a year and a half." She calculated. "It's not too long. Harry should not be in the fourth year. I don't know how Moody explained my disappearance in the Ministry, or whether I should When I get back, I will try to explain myself..."

While muttering to herself, she pulled Bucky a few steps out, and Bucky looked back with surprise on his face: "I really can't see the Leaky Cauldron."

"Yeah." Kelly forced a smile. She missed Minerva, Joanna and others very much after she left these years, but when she came back at this time, she inevitably felt a sense of homelessness.She pulled out her wand, recalling the days when she was studying at Hogwarts in the past, and pointed forward: "Call God to protect you!"

A silver-white stag emerged from the tip of the wand and disappeared into the night. Kelly retracted her wand and walked side by side with Bucky like an ordinary couple walking along the street, explaining: "It should still be in the middle of the semester, I'll send a message to Minerva and Elfstone first, asking if it's convenient for us to go back. Your wrist is not injured by magic, Madam Pomfrey can—"

Before she could finish her sentence, a silver-white tabby cat suddenly ran up in the distance. Kelly couldn't help but pause. Although Bucky couldn't see the patron saint, he also turned his gaze to its direction.The tabby cat quickly ran to her, and said in Mag's voice, "Of course, come back as soon as possible!"

Kelly seldom heard such an eager tone from Professor McGonagall, and she couldn't help feeling a little hot in her heart.After the tabby cat finished speaking, it turned into a silver mist and dissipated. She blinked her eyes and suppressed the sudden sore nose before turning to Bucky and smiling, "Are you ready to see your father-in-law?"

Although she was full of laughter, she couldn't hide the tension in her eyes.Bucky caught her expression, held her hand tightly and reassuredly, and said, "Let's go."

Kelly nodded, closing her eyes and imagining McGonagall's house in Hogsmeade. There was a soft "snap", and when she opened her eyes again, she was back in front of the familiar porch. The moonshine grass in the yard grew taller, but everything else remained the same as before.

She took a deep breath, let go of Bucky's hand, walked forward, and was about to knock on the door, but the door suddenly opened inward.A white-haired old man stood inside the door, staring at Kelly for two seconds in surprise, and then both of them called out in unison: "Kelly!" "Elfstone!"

The previous tension dissipated instantly, and Kelly threw herself forward, allowing Elphinestone to hug her tightly.The two embraced for three seconds, and Kelly passed over his shoulder and saw Mag coming out of the house quickly, she broke away from Elphstone's arms, and quickly walked towards her: "Minerva! "

The two walked quickly to influence each other, until they were within reach, but Kelly's pace couldn't help slowing down: McGonagall had never been a very revealing person, and she rarely hugged Kelly.But before her hesitation showed on her face, Mag stretched out her hand and hugged her.

It was a short hug, but Kelly's eyes were still wet when she let go.Her biological parents have never seen each other, and this feeling is largely projected on McGonagall and Elfstone.In addition, for Kelly, she has been separated from them for nearly 20 years, and now that she finally sees them, she just feels a surge of excitement in her heart, and she can't say anything else for a while.

"We've heard Bill talk about your experience." Elphstone spoke first, "So, this is Bucky?"

"Yes." Kelly quickly blinked away the wetness in her eyes, turned her head and smiled at Bucky, "But I think you all already know each other... these are my parents, Elphstone , Minerva. This is Bucky, my boyfriend."

"Mr. Uquilt, Mrs. McGonagall." Bucky nodded towards the two of them, Kelly caught a glimpse of him covering his left hand slightly back, but the other two didn't notice.

"We saw you in the Pensieve, Mr. Barnes." Elphinstone reached out to shake his hand, "Like Kelly, just call us Elphinstone and Minerva. "

"Then please call me Bucky too." Bucky said, bending his eyes and showing them a bright smile - he used this smile in Brooklyn back then to win all battles, from girls as young as seven or eight years old, up to 80-year-old grandparents can be dazzled by him.It was obviously no exception here, Elphstone suddenly smiled kindly, and Mag's expression softened a lot.Kelly stood by and looked at him, feeling the same feeling in her heart for the umpteenth time—at this moment, she felt that she could keep looking at him until the end of the world, could watch him without blinking for ten years, and Never get bored.

She lost her mind for a moment, and when she quickly recovered, Mag was asking: "In your world, has World War II ended?"

"Not yet," Bucky said, and Kelly cut in: "Actually, that's part of why we came back—Bucky lost his left hand in battle. Can you take us to Madam Pomfrey, Minerva?"

McGonagall and Elfstone noticed Bucky's empty left wrist, and they were startled. They frowned at the same time. Kelly noticed that Bucky tensed up a little nervously, but the next moment McGonagall Grid immediately agreed: "Of course! You should have said earlier, Kelly—come here."

She walked into the living room quickly, and Kelly motioned for Bucky to follow. When the two of them walked to the fireplace, Mag had already grabbed a handful of floo powder and threw it into the fireplace. The flames suddenly turned emerald green. She Turning back to Kelly, he said, "Go to my office."

Kelly nodded, and McGonagall walked into the fire, uttered "Transfiguration Office!" clearly, and disappeared.

"You go first, be careful not to choke," Kelly said, and Bucky walked into the fire, said "Transfiguration Office!" and disappeared into it.

"As a novice using Floo Network for the first time, his performance is much better than yours." Elphstone said with a smile.

"I just lowered my voice a little bit!" Kelly smiled and gave him a non-threatening look, "Are you coming too, Elfstone?"

"Of course, of course," Elphinstone said, and Kelly stepped into the fire and gave the location.

When she climbed out of the Transfiguration office fireplace, Meg was cleaning the soot off Bucky with her wand.Kelly cleaned herself up with a wave of her magic wand, and helped Elphstone clean up the dust on his clothes.

"This way." McGonagall said, she opened the door, and the four of them came out in a file and walked towards the infirmary.Although it is not yet the curfew time, it is already very late. There are not many students in the corridor. Occasionally, there are students who come and go at such a late hour. They are probably a little guilty. They saw Professor McGonagall and hurried away. Met a few people.

"Poppy," said Professor McGonagall, pushing the door straight into the hospital wing. "Are there any students here?"

"No, thank God." Madam Pomfrey said, coming out of the room, "What's the matter, and who—"

She saw Kelly at a glance, opened her mouth, and swallowed all the words that followed.

"Madame Pomfrey." Kelly greeted her with a smile.

"Kelly! I can't believe it, you're really back!" Madam Pomfrey exclaimed in surprise, her eyes swept around the four of them, then turned to Bucky, she didn't ask any questions, but her eyes clearly showed curious.

"Poppy, we need your help to treat this child." McGonagall said, gesturing to Bucky who was standing behind her, "He lost a left hand—"

Madam Pomfrey exclaimed, she hurried forward, McGonagall stepped aside, Madam Pomfrey stepped forward, grabbed Bucky's left arm, and Kelly waved her wand to untie the wound. bandages.

"I have done emergency treatment, but there is no potion—" She explained a little embarrassedly, after all, Madam Pomfrey is much better at medical magic than she is, "Can you give him another diagnosis Is it? I've dealt with quite a few injuries, but..."

"This place is scary enough." Madam Pomfrey said with a serious face, "What dangerous thing have you all done?!"

"World War II." Kelly shrugged.Madam Pomfrey gave her a stern look.

"Sit on the bed." She pointed to a hospital bed and said to Bucky, then turned around and went inside, mumbling something like "the battlefield is not the place for these young people to go".Bucky walked to the edge of the bed and sat down, and blinked helplessly at Kelly, who gave him a look of "I told you this was a peaceful age".

Madam Pomfrey returned soon after, holding a slender bottle containing a crimson potion in her hand.

"Bones and muscles need at least a full day to re-grow, and they can't be disturbed until they grow well," she said, and with a wave of her wand, a hollow that was a circle larger than a normal palm appeared out of nowhere below Bucky's left wrist The shell covered everything from his wrist to the silver shell, "Don't try to take off the fixed cover before then, and you know that the pain-relieving spell is not good for regrowth, Kelly."

"I know." Kelly said obediently, "Bucky, you'd better drink it fast, this one is terrible."

Bucky took a deep breath and drank the liquid in the bottle in one gulp, his whole face wrinkled tightly together.Madam Pomfrey threw him a set of nightgowns that had been magically enlarged.

"It's going to be a rough night," she warned, casting a sideways glance at Kelly. "I won't be checking, but if you need anything, you can call me."

She turned to Kelly and Meg, the stern expression on her face finally dissipated, and she showed a smile: "I think I should let you catch up first, but you have to tell me about your experience tomorrow, Kelly. You don't look like It seems like two years have passed, but it seems like I have grown up by five or six years."

It was only then that Kelly remembered that when she entered this world, she was randomized to be 27 years old. In addition, after being strengthened with serum, she grew a little taller, so she naturally looked a lot older.McGonagall and Elfstone must have noticed it too, but they didn't explain it.She smiled at Madam Pomfrey: "Of course, I have a lot of things to tell you—after I left here, I realized how many things I haven't had time to learn from you..."

It wasn't exactly a way to make her happy, and Kelly really felt that way with all her heart.No matter what, Madam Pomfrey was much happier, she patted Kelly's arm: "Okay, the patient needs to rest, if you have nothing to do, go out as soon as possible!"

"I'm going back first." Kelly turned to Bucky, "There are still a lot of things to deal with, I think I have to tell Professor Dumbledore..."

"Yes, Professor Dumbledore!" McGonagall said suddenly, "I almost forgot—he's not at school right now, I have to send him a message first, Kelly." She paused and looked at Kelly Li, "After that..."

Madam Pomfrey had already gone back to the inner room. Kelly hesitated before looking at her: "Of course I will go home with you." She said, "There are still many things I want to tell you..."