Ravenclaw's Sapphire

Zoe likes being in the library.The administrator, Mrs. Pince, is very strict, and will impose severe punishment on every unruly student caught, which also discourages mischievous students from using this place as a meeting place.She will often appear in the library, only for the senior students of OWLs and NEWTs. She will not meet people of the same grade here, and there will be no awkward staring at each other or deliberately avoiding each other.

Halloween is approaching, and Zoe didn't go to the library. She was busy borrowing potions from the Potions classroom to refine potions after class (which caused her to get a lot of eyes from Professor Snape), and compared the effects of the two potions that were vaguely described in the book , which directly occupied her time for nearly a week.By the time she has time to go to the library, it will be another weekend.

There are many people in the library today, probably because the weather has become colder and colder recently, and the drizzle outside the window has increased the number of people wandering in the castle.After walking around, she didn't find an empty table. Zooey wondered if she should go back to the dormitory directly.

"There's room here," said someone to her right.

At first Zoe didn't realize she was talking to her until the other person raised his voice and called her name at the same time.

After hesitating for a moment, Zooey still walked over.

Hermione pulled the pile of books on the table to her side, her face was rosy, and Zooey also noticed that many of the books on the table were not related to the course.

"Don't worry about it, I still have something to do." Zooey raised the book in her hand.

"Okay. Then wait for me." Hermione had a tough attitude. She quickly packed her schoolbag, and when she looked up, Zoe was almost at the corner.

"Hey! Hey!" She ran to Zoe, "Why do you ignore me?"

"I also want to ask why you chased after me. I don't think we are familiar with each other, Miss Granger."

"Because I'm interested in you, Zoe Siegel! Are you really a child of You-Know-Who? Do you really inherit his powerful mystical powers? Can you cast jinxes? I can't get a loan The note about the banned book, Professor McGonagall said it was too early for me to understand those... Do you know the mysterious man? I couldn’t find too many detailed descriptions in the book. It can be seen that they are all afraid of him, but you see the mysterious man Since I've done so many horrible things, I think it's normal to be scared..." Hermione didn't care about Zoe's increasingly ugly face, and just kept talking like a cannonball.

"Enough! Shut up! Mouth!" Zoe gritted her teeth and jumped out, "Since you are so obsessed with him, why don't you call him Voldemort? If you want to get first-hand information about him, don't ask me , to Azkaban—"

Only then did she notice the horrified gazes of passers-by. She said the taboo name, and a scream escaped from a girl's mouth, followed by someone gasping for air.Everyone who came into contact with Zooey's gaze stepped back unconsciously.

Zoe grabbed Hermione's arm (she was still in a daze) and ran straight down the corridor.

*****

"Now you're happy." Running to an empty corner, Zooey panted, shook off Hermione's hand, and was about to leave angrily.

"Hey! My question—"

Zoe turned her head and glared at her: "Yes, yes! I am the child of that monster, okay! If only I were an Animagus, I just want to turn into a fire dragon and burn you to death! I have a chance, let me put a death curse on you-why do you keep asking questions that shouldn't be asked?"

"Why shouldn't you ask? I don't think it should be hidden. Well, I mean it was your father who committed the crime—"

"I! No! Yes! Father! Dear!" Zooey's eyes were red, and she suddenly pulled out her wand, the fluorescent light flashed between the wand, she pointed the wand at Hermione's face, "I'm going to blow your mouth to pieces!"

"Oh, well, I'm sorry to offend you, but you wouldn't want to do that." Hermione was calm, "You will be expelled for attacking me."

"Exit? I am the descendant of the scariest dark wizard. Do you think I will be afraid of being expelled?" Zoe stared into Hermione's eyes. She wanted to find confusion and fear in girls' eyes, which often made Zoe There is a masochistic pleasure.

"Of course. It's the best thing to be able to study at Hogwarts! You like to study, and I like to study too. We haven't decided the winner yet. Do you want to run away without fighting?" Hermione followed closely , "Of course I won't lose."

She stood in front of Zooey with her hands folded, neither hiding nor running away, her eyes were straightforward and arrogant.Zooey was suddenly discouraged, and waved her hands to leave.

After walking a few steps forward, she turned suddenly, raised her eyebrows and held out her thumb to Hermione, then turned down and made a demonstrative face at her.

*****

"That's why you secretly helped those Gryffindors at the risk of your life?" Draco's eyes widened in surprise.

They stood in front of the Ravenclaw common room, and under Draco's various questions, she could only confess her whereabouts.Draco had been worried because he hadn't found her in the crowd while the prefects were calming the flustered students.

"I didn't help her. I just waved my wand at the troll." She was just attracted by the sound of the troll, and originally planned to take a look and leave.But I saw the giant monster in the toilet—and the three little lions who were being targeted by it.

At that time, the lion cubs had already controlled the situation, the Boy Who Lived was hanging on the troll, and the Weasley's youngest son also read the Levitation spell correctly. Knocked out, everyone is safe and sound, a happy ending for all.

But the troll suddenly went berserk, it accurately grabbed Harry who was stuck on its neck, and then easily threw the boy onto another boy, the wand fell out of his hand, and the troll grabbed Hermione again— — She panicked and huddled in a corner, unable to move.

Ron, so that none of the three had time to control the wooden stick on top. Once the troll moved in front of Hermione, the wooden stick couldn't hit it, and the three of them would only be torn to pieces by the angry troll.

Hermione felt the troll's stinky roar was deafening, and the furry hand almost grabbed her waist, but the troll suddenly froze in place, and could only growl angrily—there would be no more There was a chance, the out-of-spell stick had flown high enough that it lost its only chance to dodge it.

Zoe left the toilet before the professors who had heard the sound saw her.

"Well, I don't understand why I should be nosy, with the professors around, nothing will happen to them..." Zoe looked blank, "But Draco, she is the first one who is not afraid after I came to school." My person. She treats me as naturally as anyone, and I have to say I'm...happy."

She said the word awkwardly, Draco hadn't heard Zoe express such frank feelings to outsiders for a long time, except when facing Harry.

He could only watch as the smile on her face became less and less as she grew up. She learned to pretend to be harmless in front of others, actively avoided crowds, and no longer extravagantly sought new relationships.Even the self who grew up with her will feel a slight gap when talking - after all, there are some views that cannot be compromised between him and her.

Draco clearly remembered that Zoe liked to cry when she was a child. She faced too much malice, but she couldn't defeat them. She could only use crying to relieve her fear. She also liked to hide and watch him secretly. She is obviously older than him, but she looks like a pitiful little sister.

It was only gradually that she cried less and less, and she just endured stubbornly, but no one would hold her hand for help. She became more and more extreme and sensitive, and she was no longer willing to trust others. In the end, she even They didn't leave the house either.If it weren't for Dumbledore's insistence, Draco thought, the two might have drifted apart like this.

"Draco, do you think this, this will be very strange?" Zooey kept curling her hair with her fingers, she hoped that Draco could give her an answer, but the unknown changes that may be caused, this is also Make her uneasy.

Draco used to think that he was the one who could protect her and change her, but now that he thought about it, he couldn't do anything, because he couldn't ignore the name that called the wind and rain in the wizarding world.And the person who had this possibility appeared, but it was a Mudblood—a Muggle-born child that Draco despised.

Of course he doesn't want Zoe to make new friends, he hopes Zoe can rely on him, just like now she is looking forward to his opinion-Draco understands that his answer will affect Zoe's decision, if he says "No", with Zoe's attention to him, he can continue to monopolize her friendship.

Just as Zoe only had Draco's friendship, Draco only had Zoe's friendship.Zoe was the only equal friend he identified with, and he didn't want to lose her.

He was silent for a long time, and finally followed his own mind, and said——