[Comprehensive English and American] Ripples in time and space

"Okay." Kelly agreed readily. She had expected it to be the Weasleys—and the idea of ​​Professor McGonagall being the guardian was indeed a bit scary, but she was confident that she would at least not be the type McGonagall hated. And anyway, she was better than Snape. "However, principal, can you cast a space expansion spell for me—or take me to buy a box?" She pointed to the things piled up in the corner with an innocent expression, "It's easier for an 11-year-old girl to go shopping by herself than I imagined." It's going to be difficult."

"Of course." Dumbledore smiled, and with a wave of his wand, a blue suitcase appeared out of thin air. "It matches your dress," he explained, "or do you prefer other colors?"

"That's good, thank you!" Kelly happily piled things into the box by category, and finally closed the lid.Dumbledore commanded the box to float smoothly into the air, and followed them downstairs. "Thank you, Tom." He greeted the boss behind the counter.

"At your service, Professor Dumbledore!" Tom exclaimed happily.The two of them walked into the backyard of the Leaky Cauldron, and Dumbledore held out his hand to her again.

Kelly took a deep breath this time before grabbing his hand.The second Apparation was just as difficult, but she felt that the time she had to gasp for breath was a little shorter afterwards, and she decided to count that as progress.She raised her head, only to find that the two of them had apparated directly to the door of Professor McGonagall's house. It was in the corridor of an apartment building with the word "302" on the door plate. Dumbledore held out his wand, Tip lightly knocked on the door.

The door opened immediately, and it seemed that Professor McGonagall was already waiting for them.Her serious face appeared from behind the door, and she nodded at Dumbledore: "Professor Dumbledore." Then she lowered her head and greeted her: "Miss Cosmo."

"Professor. Please call me Kelly." Kelly smiled nervously.Dumbledore briefly greeted Professor McGonagall and then apparated away again. It seemed that he was really busy as the headmaster—and now he probably added Sirius' affairs.Professor McGonagall closed the door and turned around, and for a moment Kelly looked a little bewildered like a real eleven-year-old girl.

"You can call me Minerva at home, but of course, once you get to school, I hope you still call me Professor McGonagall."

"Okay, Professor...uh, Minerva." Kelly smiled a little shyly.

There seemed to be a smile on the corner of Professor McGonagall's mouth, but Kelly was not familiar with her at all, and she was not sure if it was really her smile. Walk inside the room: "Your room is the second on the right..."

In fact, Kelly soon discovers that living with Professor McGonagall is not as difficult as she imagined.Although Professor McGonagall is very serious, she is also an upright, considerate and good person. On the second day of her stay, she took the initiative to take Kelly to buy back clothes for four seasons for her.At the same time, this also means that Kelly can directly ask her many questions in the textbooks. She quickly discovered that Professor McGonagall's knowledge is far more than Transfiguration, and her explanations on many other subjects are also very simple and clear.At the same time that Kelly felt that she was admiring herself more and more every day, she herself could not help but develop a great closeness to Professor McGonagall.Of course, one of her regrets is that Professor McGonagall's books are too advanced, and she still can't understand them now-Kelly was never a nerd when she was in school, let alone a study freak like Hermione, but you know, when you In an era without Internet and mobile games, what entertainment is there besides reading?

A month passed quickly, and on September [-]st, Professor McGonagall sent her to platform nine and three-quarters.

"I won't go in." She stopped outside the railing, waved her wand and cast a feather charm on Kelly's box, "I don't think you would like to be the center of everyone's attention before school starts. object."

"Of course, thank you, Minerva." Kelly returned a sweet smile, and she looked up at the railing over there, "Just walk in, right?"

Mag nodded, but then raised his hand to signal her to wait.She turned and greeted a dumpy lady with a large family next to her: "Mrs. Weasley."

"Charlie, don't run around! ——Oh, Professor McGonagall!" Mrs. Weasley took her hand out of her busy schedule and shook hands with her. "I didn't expect to see you here!"

"Here to see off a freshman." McGonagall briefly introduced, and gestured to Kelly.Kelly gave Mrs Weasley a polite (11-year-old way) smile: "I'm Kelly Cosmo. Nice to meet you."

"Oh, nice to meet you too, my dear! Bill is also the first student in our family to enter Hogwarts this year—" Mrs. Weasley shook her hand enthusiastically, then turned her head away Called: "Bill, bring Charlie over here! Take care of your brother!"

"I'm afraid it's inconvenient for me to go into the platform." Professor McGonagall said, and Kelly admired her for being able to keep a serious face in the face of this mess, "If it's convenient, I want Kelly to follow You go for a while."

"Of course, of course, my dear, come on!" Mrs. Weasley agreed lovingly. Professor McGonagall thanked her, said goodbye to Kelly, and left. Kelly watched her Apparate disappear, guessing She may have gone straight to Hogwarts, or she may have gone home to use the fireplace.

She turned her head and saw the oldest red-haired boy looking at her curiously. Seeing her turn her head, the boy stretched out his hand first: "Hi, Bill Weasley."

"Kelly Cosmo." Kelly shook hands with her. Before she could say anything else, a younger boy appeared behind Bill and shouted cheerfully, "I'm Charlie!"

"I'm Patsy." Another, smaller boy was not far behind.

"Why were you sent to school by the professor at Hogwarts?" Charlie asked impatiently, "Did she tell you how we are sorted?"

"Yes! Neither father nor mother would tell us." Bill's eyes lit up, "Do you know? You are Professor McGonagall's daughter?"

"Come on, don't be so rude!" Mrs. Weasley interrupted their questioning, urging them through the railing, but Kelly could see a well-disguised curiosity on her face.Bill and Charlie stuck out their tongues and trotted across the railing, then Kelly, and not long after she passed through the barrier, Percy and Mrs Weasley followed suit.

"But Professor McGonagall was her teacher when Mom went to school." Patsy pointed out the error in Bill's deduction just now.

"Oh! Is that the granddaughter?"

"Boys!" Mrs. Weasley, who was only two steps behind, snapped them off, and turned to Kelly: "I'm sorry, dear, if you don't want to answer—"

"It's okay, Mrs. Weasley." Kelly smiled at her. Of course, what she answered would not be the truth, but the "external version" confirmed by Dumbledore: "My mother and Professor McGonagall are Distant relatives, but she found out that they passed away a long time ago when she picked me up this year... Well, so she took me to live with me..."

"Oh, boy, what a pity." Mrs. Weasley hugged her affectionately.

"It's okay...it was a long time ago." Kelly said with a little embarrassment.After all, what she said was all lies, and seeing Mrs. Weasley sympathize with her so sincerely, she couldn't help but feel a little guilty, and at the same time, she couldn't help feeling a little bit sore - her own parents, the real parents, she would never I won't be able to see her anymore, and they won't know that she is still alive in another world...

"Okay, kids, get on the train!" The Hogwarts train whistle blew, interrupting this moment of embarrassment for Kelly just right, Mrs. Weasley was busy helping Kelly and Bill put the box away. Getting on the train, "Letter home at school, Bill!—oh and you, Kelly, I'd be glad if you could write too..."

"Thank you, Mrs. Weasley. Goodbye!"

"Goodbye, Mom."

"Don't forget to write, Bill!"

"Tell us what the sorting ceremony was like?"

Both stood at the door and waved until the train started.Kelly took a step back first, picked up her suitcase, and gestured for herself to find an empty seat first.It wasn't until the train turned the corner that she had found an empty compartment near the end that Bill dragged the suitcase and chased after her.

"So, do you know how Hogwarts is sorted?" he asked.

Kelly blinked at him: "You'll know when the time comes."

"Shall we mail the letter together, Kelly?" Joanna raised her head from across the desk and asked, "We can go for a walk around the field before the sun goes down, and you won't be bored in the library."

A week into school, Kelly has made two good friends at school: Bill and Joanna, whom she met on the train.Joanna was assigned to Ravenclaw like her, and Bill was assigned to Gryffindor.The other three girls in the same dormitory also have a good relationship with her, but they are still a little strange when getting along.

Of course, she has also felt that some students will cast unkind eyes - because she performed too well in class.The 21-year-old Kelly is less eager to show off than the 11-year-old Hermione. Her approach is much gentler, but jealousy is always inevitable.But in fact, she doesn't care much about the fights between these 11-year-old girls.You can't please everyone, can you?

"You go first." Kelly said, "I'll read for a while."

Joanna rolled her eyes, with an expression of "I can't stand you", waved to Kelly and left.Kelly doesn't blame her - if it was her before, she might not be able to understand the behavior buried in the book all day, but for her now, her improved intelligence makes her understand and remember quickly, and reading From a mentally demanding errand to easy entertainment.

She picked three books, finished the thinnest one before the library closed, and walked back with the other two in her arms, but it seemed that she took a wrong turn, and suddenly she didn't know that she was in Where is it - she has never been to most of Hogwarts, and it is strange everywhere.Fortunately, she knew which floor she was on, so she wandered around looking for the stairs, trying to at least get to the floor where the Ravenclaw common room was—

"I thought it was curfew now." A low voice suddenly sounded behind her.Kelly staggered in fright and almost dropped the book to the floor.

"Principal! Sorry - I got lost on my way out of the library..." she explained, blushing.

"I believe that no student would go on a night walk with two books in his arms." Dumbledore smiled, "But you just happened to be on the right road - this road leads to both the headmaster's office and Ravenclaw tower."

"Are you coming back to school so late?" Kelly asked, keenly picking up the meaning of his words.

Dumbledore held up a hand, the Resurrection Stone ring shimmering in his hand, and Kelly gasped before realizing that both of his hands were intact, "You - that's great! How many are left?"

Dumbledore held up three fingers. "Nagini may be difficult for us to catch," he said. "And the diary, and Harry..."

Kelly immediately recalled the plot in the original book, a fragment of Voldemort's soul was accidentally split and attached to Harry, but fortunately he used Harry's blood in his resurrection, which established a mysterious connection between the two of them So much so that when Voldemort intended to kill Harry, he only killed his own soul, while Harry survived intact.

"Now that Sirius has his reputation restored, can he take Harry out?" She asked suddenly, "You know, Harry's uncle and aunt are not good to him. And Peter is also locked up Zkaban..."

She knew immediately that Dumbledore had understood her cue, and he frowned and gave her a stern look, but at the same time seemed to be thinking about the suggestion seriously, "It's a risk." He said slowly, "Too risky..."

"I'm just making a suggestion." Kelly said cautiously, "But it's up to you to decide whether the arrangement can be successful..."

Dumbledore just nodded slowly, but didn't speak any more. Kylie followed him for a while, went up two more flights of stairs, and finally saw the corridor she was familiar with.

"Good night then, Headmaster." She stopped and said goodbye to Dumbledore, "Thank you for sending me back."

"It's a courtesy to escort a lady home at this late hour." Dumbledore smiled, but Kylie could see he was still thinking about that.The headmaster walked away down the corridor while she turned to the brass doorknob.

"Which word can completely summarize the problems in the universe?" Eagle Head asked her softly.

"42." Kelly blurted out without thinking while she was still immersed in the short conversation with Dumbledore.

"A meaningful answer." The doorknob answered, and the entrance swung open.Only then did Kelly realize the answer she had just given, and she stood dumbfounded at the door of the common room.

"What the hell," she whispered to the doorknob in the silence.

The author has something to say: About the meme 42... This is a meme in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. If you don't understand it, it won't affect the development of the plot. Don't worry about it XD