Ravenclaw's Sapphire

Zoe and Padma chatted for a long time by the fire in the living room. The girl seemed to want to vent out last year's curiosity with this year's. They tacitly did not bring up the issue of family background, but talked about Starting summer homework and the new semester they are about to start.

They also talked of Gilderoy Lockhart, of course, the dashing fellow who kept making small jokes with the teachers around him at the start-of-term banquet, and the professors were all reserved and kept their new colleagues in an unfamiliar situation. Distance, but more or less friendly, except for Snape.The bat-like man had a dark face, focused on cutting up the chicken on his plate, and deliberately munching on it when Lockhart accosted him.

"It's late, it's time for us to rest." Zooey finally found a chance to say "I want to leave" tactfully.

When she returned to the dormitory, she waved her wand towards the extinguished candle, and a shadow came over when the candle was rekindled.

Luna Lovegood stood upside down on her own bed in her pajamas, like a bat hanging upside down.Her cheeks were already a little (HX) blood-filled, her arms were trembling, and when she heard the sound, she raised her head with difficulty, just in time to meet Zoe's wide-open eyes.

"What are you doing?"

"A... ritual..." Luna's voice was weak, "Let me... better... enter..."

"Your face looks like you've drunk three catties of eggnog." As soon as the words finished, Lu Na fell on the bed with a thump.

"I'm out of strength." She gasped.

"Well, why are you here?" Zoe asked hopelessly, especially when she saw that Luna's luggage was all here.

"I live here. It looks quite spacious, and I never imagined that there was only one person living there before." Luna looked around, "Can I put a poster here?"

*****

"Sounds like a good thing, you shouldn't be alone all the time, Zoe. You need to find more like-minded people in this school."

"It's okay, I have Draco, and you." Zooey said indifferently, and at the same time ended the last sentence of this paragraph with a fancy font.

The new semester just started, and the students had to devote themselves to their studies. The courses in the second year were much more difficult than the first year, and the amount of homework increased. Similarly, Hermione went to the library more often.She often invites Harry and Ron, but they are always rejected. The boys don't want to face the dilemma of staring at the parchment and not being able to write a sentence, let alone one of them will scribble when they are struggling. Full sheet.

Hermione looked up at her sternly: "But we are not in the same academy as you. Except for doing homework and public classes together, our time schedule overlaps very little. It is impossible for you to be alone nearly [-]% of the time .”

"Why not? I've always come here like this..." Zooey muttered, "It was your comments about me that drew them here. It's like a bear smelling honey."

"Padma will be angry when she hears this metaphor, you really put gold on your face." Hermione covered her mouth and laughed, "They are all good girls, just a little naive..."

"Love to join in the fun."

"Well, I like to join in the fun. But they are very energetic, and Lavender is a little proud of having talked to you before." Hermione fell silent while talking, and she remembered that her roommates were always twittering recently, "Okay , They are indeed a bit...gossip."

"Even Lockhart's Defense Against the Dark Arts is a lot more interesting than what they bother me with. I hear you guys are a bunch of Cornish elves? My class was mutant vampire bats, Those bats flew around the classroom as soon as they saw the light, and bit the necks of at least four people. I would rather compete with these little arms and legs, at least they won't make my neck keep turning to find the target." Zuo Yi complained, "Lockhart himself is completely different from the image in his book! I thought I could be taught by an experienced wizard, but look what he's doing!"

"Hey! Zoe, you're talking too much, Professor Lockhart just hasn't figured out the right way to teach, but I can see him improving..."

"For example, the second volume of Gilderoy Lockhart's personal information? I heard that you got full marks. That paper is full of nonsense!"

"So now you have a new roommate, how is she?" Hermione decided to steer clear of the subject.

"I'm not used to it. I feel like my personal space has been invaded. I can't even freely decide when to extinguish the candles. I need to worry about the girl's schedule...but I like the thoughts in her mind. She will A good Ravenclaw . . . what's up?"

Hermione was bluntly surprised, and Zooey asked depressedly.

"It's rare that you compliment other people."

"At least for those who admire me, I can still say a few nasty words." Zooey finished writing the ending in twos and then stood up, "Bye, I'm leaving first."

"Have you finished?" Hermione grabbed Zoe's homework and spread it out, "You didn't discuss the spiritual symbolism of the bonfire ceremony for wizards in the seventh century, but only wrote about the actual function of the ashes produced by the ceremony... Binns The professor will just give you an E or an A for it, even though you've made the history more attractive."

"It's okay, that's it." Zooey said, "I have some things to do recently, maybe I won't finish my homework so seriously."

"If I need to do something..."

"Of course, I will ask you for help then."

******

There is a dense forest in front of you, the leaves cover the sky layer by layer, the crooked trunks seem to be hiding monsters, it is quiet and deep, and the light and warmth are all swallowed up, as soon as you step into the forest, the surroundings immediately become chilly, from time to time There will also be animal screams from the depths of the forest, and the ground is covered with a thick layer of rotten leaves, making it look very desolate.

Zooey clenched the wand in her hand and entered the Forbidden Forest.This is a place that Dumbledore has always forbidden her to enter.

She avoided the crowd and moved quietly by herself.She first figured out how Filch was doing, and then she acted while everyone was in the auditorium for a Halloween dinner, hiding it from everyone.The cheerful festive atmosphere is an effective enough anesthetic. People who are addicted to pumpkin pudding don't have time to pay attention to every student. They are too busy getting the delicate delicacy into their stomachs.

She wanted to retrieve the lost memories, and among the large number of fragments, she saw the Forbidden Forest and some residents living here.

Hermione had mentioned to her that the centaurs here were very hostile, especially a centaur named Baine, who would almost forcibly attack every human being he saw.The destination of her trip was the place where the centaurs gathered. It was impossible for her to tell anyone that they would not allow her to take risks.

She shouldn't be alone, she knows that as long as she asks, Draco and Hermione will do their best to help her, but she can't tell them about it, should she say "Hey, I want to prove I've killed people... or something, can you help me?" It would only cost her a precious friendship.

Moreover, this is my own business, and I can only face it by myself.Zoe told herself that over and over again.

She has no memory of ever being in the Forbidden Forest before, but her legs lead her naturally, and she doesn't even need to stop to discern the path, she can walk through these thick tree roots calmly, as if she once visited here Countless times.

Then she saw a giant tree reaching to the sky.The trees in the Forbidden Forest can grow without any scruples because they have never been damaged by humans, and because they have been guarded by previous guards.But no tree was thicker or taller than it, hundreds of feet in length, and a dozen men could not surround it.The surrounding trees seem to be guarding it, its roots are buried deep in the ground, and the exposed parts are twisted and twisted.

"She" once proudly told Zoe that this tree is the totem of the centaur tribe, and the tribe built around the giant tree, "As long as we see this tree, we should know we are home."

As she continued on, a large clearing could be seen through the bushes ahead, with smoke rising faintly along the sky.

"Please go back, human, you don't belong here."

A silver centaur stood in front of her without much hostility, obviously treating her as a lost student.