Chapter 1229: The Trial of Seven Lives
In Granger's room, the Granger couple sat on the sofa comforting their daughter. The mother stroked her daughter's hair, looked at her frustrated daughter and explained, "You can't be blamed for this, Hermione, this day was meant to be so horrible and how it was arranged. ”
"That Lucius used to be so arrogant and tough when he was in trouble with us, and we didn't expect him to be so timid...", Mr. Granger said as he stopped talking when his wife glared at him, "don't worry, his family doesn't blame us." ”
"Emily contacted me with the sigil and he didn't have much of a problem... But we've got two of them in tonight—" Hermione lowered her head, pressed her hand to her forehead, and said worriedly, "and Helena, she's gone after being scared away, and she doesn't know where to hide." ”
"That female ghost seems to have always been very ladylike, but her face seems to have turned white with fright just now, and she fled quickly..."Mr. Granger looked a little happy when he recalled the previous situation, "Hermione, doesn't that mean that you were successful tonight? That girl is a ghost herself, and I didn't expect you to be afraid of ghosts." ”
Embarrassed, Hermione covered her face with the hand on her forehead, and she was now more worried that Helena had told her grandmother, Morgan Lefay, that she had been bullied.
"Miss Granger," a voice came from the entrance floor, and the head of the Necro Knight, who had just been dropped on the ground by Hermione, asked angrily, with his mouth open, "It seems that no one wants to come here for a long time, can I put my head back?"
"Oh, Ivar I'm sorry. Hermione jumped up from the couch, grabbed her hair, and said in chagrin, "We've canceled this session, I'm not going to do it again"
"I'll just do it myself!" the severed head said as he directed his body to move, but because he wasn't used to this perspective, he stepped on a jack-o'-lantern, "I'm sorry..."The Headless Horseman fumbled, raised his head and cast a negative energy on the circle of marks on his neck, and then healed as before, he shook his head and picked up the broken jack-o'-lantern, "Dobby, I'll throw it in the well first, I'll remember it later!"
Hermione, who had already gotten up, didn't sit back, but walked to the window worriedly? Hands on the windowsill? Leaning forward to look out, you saw those little wizards outside the door hurrying away with panic on their faces as they passed by their door? Some even went around the street and back...
And that even includes the House Ghosts? When Hermione saw Nick, who was almost headless, floating over, it seemed that she was not paying attention at first, and she didn't notice until she got too close? It made his head hang from his neck with his immediate backward movements, and Lockhart, the ghost of Ravenclaw's New House, walked straight across the street with Patricia and Nancy, pretending not to see Granger's house—because Lockhart tried to knock her down when Patricia was pointing to the room but failed because of the spirits? Whispered for Nancy to quickly take her daughter away.
"They're sure to know! Two adult wizards were stunned by me... The rumors of the wizard are fast..."Hermione hammered the windowsill with her fist in annoyance? Then she noticed her parents' smiling expressions and said annoyedly, "At least let's get rid of Daddy's remaining stock of tooth candy and the candy we don't eat..." Haven't made it to the door yet? She stretched out her hand and handed it to the little wizards passing by the door, "Who wants sugar? Don't worry about being scared, the illusion has stopped!"
But when the little wizards saw Hermione, they screamed and ran away, and Foley, who had supported Harris last semester because of Sirius's relationship, stared at Hermione vigilantly and drank to his daughter, who was so naïve that he wanted to come over, "Don't go!
"None? I'm not—" Hermione wanted to explain, but the other party had already left with her daughter in her arms? But the sound of horses' hooves made Hermione turn her head and find the centaur in armor coming with his daughter dressed as a Hogwarts student? He has black hair and a black body, and looks a lot rougher than Ferencze? Her daughter with a candy basket in her arm? And a paper bag full of fish and chips in your hand? Every now and then she feeds her old centaur father.
Receiving the goddess Apocalypse in Luna's disguise, the centaurs have recently taken the initiative to try to integrate into the wizarding society, and Bane, who was previously a little hostile to wizards, has become a member of the Hogwarts Forbidden Forest Guard, and took the initiative to take his daughter to start the festival of the two-legged people.
"Good evening, Bane, is this your daughter?" Hermione quickly reached out and handed the candy to the pony in the old Gryffindor uniform, "Kid, would you like some candy?"
"Thank you!" the centaur girl lifted her basket with great pleasure - as a foal who had always lived in the Forbidden Forest and lived a tribal life, she was genuinely fond of accepting this change in modern civilized life, the wizards here were not as bad as her father had always instilled in her, her candy basket was full of candy as proof of that, and now she could easily buy 'pretty Umi' treasures outside the mirror, and she could wear all kinds of beautiful clothes - Although they cost a sum of money that wizards call money, her father's salary was enough to cover it.
"Miss Granger?" At this time, Bane noticed the witch in front of him and her identity, which made his abdomen rise and fall violently, and beads of sweat were dripping, and the bold and irascible centaur suddenly became a little embarrassed, and his voice trembled: "Sorry, I'm not familiar with the terrain of the city..."
Hearing the name Granger, the little centaur girl was startled, dropped her paper bag to the ground, and cried and stretched out her arms to shout to her father beside her, "Daddy, she caught me... I don't want to die!"
Bane immediately pulled his daughter behind him, leaned halfway and stretched out his arms as if to stop Hermione, holding her in his arms, his voice trembling a little: "Miss Granger, my foal is too young for her to participate in your trial..."
"I'm sorry, I just wanted to..."Hermione was a little overwhelmed by the guilt of realizing that the other party was scared by herself, but she realized that the other party's lines were wrong, "Wait, Bane, what you said about trials and death... What's going on?"
"My daughter's little witch friend came over to warn us..."Bane's body sank and veins bulging on all four legs, "Say Miss Granger, you set up a trial in your house tonight... She told us that seven wizards had already died in failure..."
Hermione was stunned by the rumors that had been exaggerated to such an extent, and she gestured to try to explain, "I'm not, I don't, don't talk nonsense... I just scared people out, how could I possibly kill someone... uh..."
But Hermione's gesture made the centaur father and daughter misunderstand, and they were even more frightened.
"I'm sorry, Miss Granger, we still need to rush back to the tribe to see the stars..."As Bane spoke, he flicked his long-standing four legs, pulled his daughter and began to run reflexively in the direction he came.
"Dad, my fries are still on the ground!"
"No, go back to Mr. Grindelwald and ask for another bag... Just remember to pick more raspberries in return!"
Hermione, knowing that she was being praised by a variety of terrifying rumors that had been spread out of the know, looked at the centaur father and daughter running fast with their hooves on a stern expression, and finally reluctantly picked up the paper bag they had dropped, and the chips and fish in the bag emitted the fragrance that indicated that they had been fried just right.
Hermione's eyes were drawn to the bustle of the new neighborhood, the brightly lit house was not quite the same as the eerie dwellings on the street, ordinary as if it were an ordinary family, but the screams and exclamations and applause that sounded every once in a while made it even more eerie and terrifying in the calm, but it kept attracting wizards and their children to squeeze into the crowd, and there were constantly wizards with paper bags and satisfied expressions coming out of the crowd.
The only thing that is the same is that the wizards have avoided this kind of house like the Granger family as much as possible - if it weren't for the fact that the wizards usually treat their house with a very friendly and even somewhat flattering attitude, the Granger couple who have just come out of the house even wonder if they are experiencing some kind of discrimination again.
"Mom and Dad... Looks like no one dares to come over tonight..."Hermione shook her head and turned closer to her parents, pretending to be calm and said, "Let's go, let's go to the new neighbor's feast, and let us open our eyes to what he has done to make these wizards love and fear..."
But as soon as Hermione finished speaking, a door to the other world began to appear in a corner of the courtyard.