[Comprehensive HP colleagues] That year

"Goldstein? Edith? Why are you here?" Sirius asked, looking at the two classmates in blue ties.James noticed that Sirius looked at Edith with an unnatural look.

"Obviously, the trials of our two colleges crashed. It seems that the captain of your college wants to have a friendly match with us and select new players by the way." Anthony Goldstein replied.

"That's good. They all say that your captain is the most skilled Chaser in the school. This time I have to see it." James said excitedly.

Just as they were talking, the captains of the two colleges called everyone to gather and explained the selection rules.

An hour later, James and Sirius successfully became Gryffindor's Chasers and Seekers, and Mary became the backup Chaser. On Ravenclaw's side, Anthony was not selected, but Edie Ruth becomes the backup Seeker.

"Congratulations, Sirius." After the trials, Edith took the initiative to find Sirius, and congratulated Sirius under James' weird eyes.

"Thank you, and congratulations to you too." Sirius responded with some embarrassment.

"It's just a substitute, and it's not much to celebrate." Edith said a little disappointed.

Sirius didn't know what to say.

At this time, Edith looked at James who was in the way and said, "I have something to say to Sirius alone, can I trouble Potter to avoid it for a while?"

James' expression became even weirder. He looked at Sirius and then at Edith, pointing fingers in his heart: Why do the girls have to talk to Sirius alone? I want this kind of treatment too!

Sirius frowned and said, "I have nothing that James can't hear." Edith is no better than Lynn, this Miss Malfoy has a bad record, and James is safer .

Edith looked at Sirius, with disappointment in her eyes, she took a few deep breaths before she spoke again: "Well, it's really not something to listen to, I just want to ask you for some hair."

"Hair? What do you want my hair for?" Sirius asked in surprise.

Edith gritted her teeth and said, "Didn't my Xingxue branch suck your blood at the end of last semester? I went to Ollivander's place again this holiday, and he told me that my magic power has been destroyed. Inspired by the Xingxue branch, but I have to take some hair from the head of the wizard who fed the Xingxue branch to make the wand core. Tell me, why am I so unlucky?"

James was confused and didn't know what Edith was talking about. Sirius understood, but he was also speechless.It wasn't that he was reluctant to part with his hair, but he used his hair to make a magic core for a girl's wand. Such a situation gave Sirius the illusion that his life was connected with that girl's.

After what happened at the end of last semester, he no longer rejects Edith, but their friendship is not at all good enough to hand over his hair easily, right?Compound decoctions, love potions, and many potions use hair. It can be seen from this that wizards cherish their hair very much and will not give it to others easily.Those children who grew up in the Muggle world don't know this, and Edith grew up in the wizarding world, so it's impossible not to know this.But she made this request so generously without treating herself as an outsider, it seemed... like...

Sirius didn't dare to think about it anymore.But if it is not given, it seems very unreasonable to let Edith have no wand to use.

"How many do you need?" Sirius asked slowly.

"I don't know, four or five should be enough."

"Don't know? You didn't ask Mr. Ollivander?"

"I forgot to ask, you can give me four or five sticks first, if it's not enough, I'll take care of you."

Sirius was even more speechless, is this girl a little self-conscious, one time is not enough, but twice!

"When do you go to Ollivander, I'll go back with you. Just give him my hair."

"Oh, why bother, the wand shop is closed at night and on weekends, and our classes are staggered during the day, when will I have to wait until we can go together? I want to get my own wand as soon as possible !"

Just then, Sturgis yelled at them from a distance: "James, Sirius, hurry up, Quidditch meeting!"

Sirius looked at Edith who was looking at him, and at Sturgis who was anxiously calling in the distance. He gritted his teeth and gave it up. He really pulled out four or five hairs and gave them to Edith. Be careful, don't let others accidentally pass by." I shouldn't be so unlucky, I just happened to meet someone who wants to use his hair to do bad things.

"Who is so bored to steal your hair." Edith curled her lips, thinking to herself, this Sirius is really unpleasant.

The Quidditch meeting was over, and James and Sirius returned to the dormitory. James couldn't wait to ask: "What did Edith Malfoy mean just now? I asked you at the end of last semester and you hesitated." Said, but the more secretive you are, the more curious I am. What happened to you in the Forbidden Forest? When did you and Malfoy start calling each other Christian names? Because the last time you overheard Don't you also hate her for bullying Evans?"

Sirius looked at James, and finally spoke slowly: "It's nothing. She called me to the Forbidden Forest suddenly to show me a plant called Xingxue tree. Don't ask me what it is, I don't know either. Anyway, we later found out that her unicorn horn-like thing was actually a Xingxue branch. After that, we met a lot of spiders, no, not a lot, but super many, densely packed, and countable Unclear. Then, strangely, the leader of those spiders can speak human language!"

"Can speak human language?!" James' eyes widened in shock.

"Yeah, I still wonder if I was dreaming at that time. Spiders can talk, but Edith seems to be very familiar with the background of that spider. They talked about Hagrid and the Chamber of Secrets .”

"Hagrid? Isn't Hagrid the Hogwarts groundskeeper's assistant, the tall one?"

"Really? I don't remember. I was injured, and I was in a daze. I didn't know if what I heard was true or not. Malfoy was not injured at the time, and she could have escaped first, but she stayed for me." Come down and deal with the spider leader, so... I don't think she's too bad, and then we call each other Christian names."

"Then...then what kind of star and tree sucks blood, what's going on?"

"Speaking of this, I felt even more like I was dreaming. Edith accidentally let the branch touch my wound, and then it began to suck blood crazily. The more it sucked, the more golden it became. My vitality is the same. The golden light drove away those spiders, and I was exhausted. Then, Edith actually looked at me and cried, complaining that she couldn’t do magic and couldn’t save me. She waved her branch angrily and shouted "Blood tonic is coming", who knows that this spell has succeeded."

"Flying Curse? Isn't that a spell for seniors? She cast a spell successfully for the first time, so she's such a senior? I don't even know how to spell this." James said enviously.

"Oh, why are you bothering about this?" Sirius patted James on the forehead, "Shouldn't the point be that she recovered her magic power with my blood? No matter how I think about it, it's weird."

"It's weird. The whole thing is weird," James concluded.

*************

Edith got Sirius' hair and asked for leave that day to send it to Ollivander.After another three days, she finally got her own wand as she wished.On the morning of the same day, Sirius sat at the dining table, looked at Xia Kelin's letter in his hand, and raised his eyebrows.

The letter read: [Today at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, classroom 511, Avalon party, no late. 】

"These girls really treat Avalon as a big deal." Sirius said, showing the letter to James.

"Avalon? Is that the academic research institute that your cousins ​​envisioned during their summer vacation to stand shoulder to shoulder with Hogwarts?"

"Don't make it so serious, it's just that everyone gathers together to study this and that. How about it, do you want to join in?" Sirius asked.

"Come on, academic research, it sounds like a big head to me. I'm still not suitable for such high-end and atmospheric things." James shook his head.

"If you don't go, I don't want to go either." Sirius pouted.

"No, you'd better go." James tilted his head and said, "Your cousin has always disliked me. If she knows that you want to quit because of me, she will have to dislike me even more? You are now in Your family has no status enough, I think you should not offend your relatively sensible family."

After hearing what James said, Sirius sighed.Xia Kelin didn't have a good face from the first time she saw James, and he understood that, although he didn't know why.But what James said is also right, almost everyone in the Black family has been brainwashed by that mysterious person now, only Shaklin seems to be more sober, at least she has never said anything in favor of that person.After all, he needed an "ally" in the Black family, even if that "ally" was only a distant one.

************

That afternoon, to show his sincerity, Sirius came to the appointed classroom early and saw that Lynn was the only one in the classroom.She curled up on the sofa with her arms around her knees, looking very vulnerable.

"What's wrong?" Sirius asked concernedly.

"It's nothing, it's just...Boggart, I'm a little confused..." Lynn murmured.

Sirius understood immediately.Last year's Defense Against the Dark Arts class was taught by Blenheim Stoke. Although it was a pity that the first grade only taught theory and had little practice, Sirius believed that Stoke's teaching method was much better than that of old Binns.However, most Slytherins don't like Professor Stoke very much, because he is always willing to assign some extra "useless" homework, such as discussing how to rescue Muggles from the claws of dangerous magical creatures without being discovered by them The presence.Sirius heard that many Slytherin students complained to their parents about Professor Stoke's pro-Muggle tendencies, so these parents wrote a joint letter of protest to the school board headed by Abraxas Malfoy, demanding that Stoke Tork stepped down.Originally, Principal Dumbledore planned to fight for Professor Stoke, but Professor Stoke, who was unwilling to bother with campus politics, offered to resign and went home to concentrate on writing a book.

These are all gossips that Lily Evans' roommate Alison Goodman found out from somewhere, and Sirius didn't know if it was true or not.It was true, however, that there had been a new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor this term.Compared with the chubby Professor Stoker who always smiles, the new Professor Carlotta Pinkston is as strict as Professor McGonagall, and in the first class of this semester, she Let the students face the Boggart who can conjure up the person or thing most feared in the heart.Sirius had heard from Sturgis that they had only learned Boggarts in the third grade.

"What's your Boggart?" Sirius asked Lynn.

Lynn was silent.

Sirius felt a little uncomfortable, but he still said against his will: "I'm sorry, this is your privacy, I shouldn't ask such a question."

Lynn looked up, looked at Sirius' handsome face, and said softly, "Yes...it's a Chimera..."

"Chimera? That bloodthirsty monster from Greece? How could it be it?"

"I... I read... I saw this giant beast in a book, it was scary..." Lynn said hesitantly.

Sirius looked at Lynn and felt that she was obviously not telling the truth.

"Actually, I'm not that afraid of that kind of thing," Lynn murmured, "it's just that that kind of thing brings back a lot of my memories, those memories that have been dusty in my heart and haven't been touched for many, many years. , good, bad..."

Sirius looked at Lynn. In fact, he really wanted to ask what kind of memory it was, but he didn't ask.Because Lynn's expression told him that it was really a very private memory.

So Sirius changed the subject: "We're also on the Defense Against the Dark Arts, my Boggart, which surprised me."

"Oh?" Lynn was really distracted, she really wanted to know what Sirius, who seemed to be fearless, what his Boggart looked like.

"It's Regulus."

"What?" Lynn felt something was wrong with his ears.

"It's my brother. Boggart's closet was opened, and I saw him lying on the ground, as if dead."

Lynn opened her mouth in surprise and wanted to say something, but finally said nothing, but the shock in her eyes still fell into Sirius' eyes.

"Don't be so surprised. It's human nature to be afraid of the death of a loved one. In that family, Regulus is the only one who still has feelings for me." Sirius said it as if it was a matter of course, but he didn't think so in his heart.He actually always thought that his Boggart would be Andy's corpse.It never occurred to him that his inner worries about Regulus had surpassed the nightmare of Andy's death.

Lynn looked at Sirius, struggled a lot, and finally said, "I'm surprised, not because of your Boggart form, but because your Boggart is a bit like Shaklin's. "

"Shakelin?" This time it was Sirius' turn to be surprised.

"Yes, Shaklin's Boggart, it's very strange, there are more than one, it was you at the beginning, your movements are very strange, you hold a wand in your hand and stretch forward, your face is very thin, your expression is both scared and surprised, and your body is bent backwards , like a bow, Xia Kelin read funny funny, and Boggart turned into your younger brother. His appearance was even more terrifying. Although his eyes were open, they were sunken, as if he had no vision, and his complexion was like a corpse. Same, no, it’s not like, I think that’s the state of Inferi, and then the Boggart turned into your cousin Bellatrix again, she was smiling smugly at first, and then the smile suddenly froze, the eyes The house seemed to protrude, then it fell to the ground, and finally an empty and dark mansion, and then Shaklin finally got rid of the Boggart. I think Shaklin's Boggart is very scary, as if saying, Everyone in the Black family..." Lynn couldn't go on.

"They're all going to die, aren't they?" Sirius quietly took up Lynn's words.

Lynn looked at Sirius in sadness and embarrassment, and said hesitantly: "I think Shaklin really loves you and everyone in the Black family, otherwise, her Boggart wouldn't be..."

There was a look of emotion in Sirius' smoky eyes.

Lynn pondered for a while, and said a thought that has been haunting her for a while: "Sirius, you told me before that Shaklin sometimes acts very sympathetic, and sometimes she is too sympathetic to the so-called pure blood glory. Maintenance, so you can't be sure about her attitude. Have you ever thought about testing her attitude through a method?"

"Test? How to test?" Sirius looked at Lynn solemnly and asked.

"Didn't Teresia say before that we hope that our research team can join or study as long as they have the ability, regardless of college or school? Perhaps, we can recommend a Muggle-born classmate to join the group, and then see Shakelin's reaction." .”

"It's a good idea, the question is who do you want to recommend?"

"I... the candidate in my heart is Lily, Lily Evans."

Sirius almost jumped up when he heard the words: "Lily Evans?! What are you kidding?! It's not like you don't know that Evans and I don't like each other."

"It's just a misunderstanding between you. If you leave out the fact that she is friendly with Snape, what else does she dissatisfy you with?" Lynn said with a headache.

Sirius looked at Lynn, but did not speak, but frowned.He recalled that his dissatisfaction with Evans was indeed because she favored Snape again and again, and as long as it had nothing to do with Snape, Evans' behavior was really nothing to be criticized.

"I'm not saying it's definitely Lily, but Lily is the most suitable candidate I can think of right now." Seeing that Sirius didn't speak, Lynn continued, "Lily is the best student among Muggle-born classmates. That's right, she loves to study, which is in line with Avalon's recruitment principles. She is my friend again, and she can tell me anything Xia Kelin said to her."

Sirius searched his brains, but he didn't think of any other points besides his personal grievances that could prove that Lily was not a good candidate, so he said depressedly: "Then you are responsible for hiring her, don't ask her because I and her are both Gryffindors." Just let me do it."

"Of course, if you invite Lily, Lily will agree to join. To be honest, I think our relationship is really strange. You and Lily are the only two friends I have in Gryffindor, but you two Personal feud, Snape and I were Lily's only two friends in Slytherin, and Snape and I didn't get along very well."

Sirius grinned when he heard the last sentence, and Lynn complained in his heart: I know you wish everyone in the world could not deal with Snape.

At this moment, Xia Kelin and the two sisters opened the door and walked in.

***************

The meeting in Avalon moved on to the topic of extended membership.

Teresia spoke first: "Now our team consists of two Slytherins and two Ravenclaws, one Gryffindor, and Hufflepuff is missing. Gloria and I are in Hogwarts this time. I got to know Chroy Jones from Hufflepuff on the Tet Express. She was the first Hufflepuff in the final exam last year, and she looks good. I mentioned our Avalon to her, and she was very interested Yes. So I recommend her to join, does anyone have any doubts?"

Sirius, Lynn, and Xia Kelin didn't know much about Jones, they only knew that at least her parents were wizards, and she was really good at studying.There was no objection to Thearesia's proposal.

Xia Kelin asked if there were any other candidates recommended by other people. Sirius received Lynn's eyes and did a good job of mental construction, and said, "I don't know the students from other colleges, but if Gryffindor For more, I recommend Lily Evans."

As soon as the words fell, everyone in the classroom except Lynn looked at Sirius with strange eyes.

"Hey, hey, don't think too badly, I guarantee with my gender, the previous rumors about me and Evans are purely false." Sirius quickly explained, "I recommend her purely because of her good grades , and loves to study, especially in potions. Slytherin and Gryffindor take potions classes together, Xia Kelin, Lynn, you should know her talent in potions."

Sister Alma and Lynn both expressed no objection, only Xia Kelin seemed to be a little conflicted.

Xia Kelin asked, "Sirius, is this the only candidate in your mind?"

Sirius replied without thinking: "I can't think of anyone else for the time being. You know, Gryffindor is not a research-oriented academy."

Xia Kelin thought about it for a long time, but in the end she couldn't make up her mind, and finally said that she would go back and think about it.

So Lynn and Sirius began to worry.

Then they put Lily's matter aside and began to study the association's constitution...

=======================================

The last chapter of the previous volume mentioned Sirius and Edith's trip to the Forbidden Forest. The plot belongs to "Stars, Perseverance". For details, see Chapters 24-26 of this article.

The author has something to say: the next chapter will be about Xia Kelin