Willow Quan stood in his small, low, dilapidated room, staring at the calendar on the wall.

That little magic calendar automatically refreshes the date of each day, and now it says "April 30, 1998."

Liu Quan's gaze stayed on the number "1998" for a moment, then he chuckled softly, shook his head, and said to himself: "...... For me, I'm really going back more and more—"

Of course, she was also in a time more than a hundred years before the age represented by this number. However, at that time, everyone used era names—such as "Keio 2nd year"—and it was not as intuitive as when you saw the numbers of the Common Era.

However, on a day like today, it is normal to have some various feelings in particular. In fact, she tried her best not to be too nervous, not too excited, and kept telling herself that she had to remain absolutely calm and composed, because—

The day after tomorrow is May 2nd.

The day of the final battle in the original book. It is also the days she has spent more than twenty years in this world in total, waiting for it.

It's a matter of success or failure.

Liu Quan thought that the night before he would be in the same mixed mood as the night before the college entrance examination, mixed with nervousness, excitement, anticipation, and fear, his heart as if it was about to jump out of his throat, and the beating of a drum violently against his chest, tossing and turning and unable to sleep.

The reason why she was able to remember the date of the final battle in the original book was also because of this date - May 1, Labor Day, the day when the once-rare and long-awaited Golden Week began, and even after the holiday reform it was still important, to have a small long holiday as a commemoration.

In fact, these days, she has been hiding in Hogsmeade's Hogsmeade's Hoghead pub from time to time.

An empty room on the fourth floor was her temporary residence, and when she was bored and couldn't go out, she went to chat with the portrait of Arianna on the wall, and they talked about a lot of nonsense and strange topics like best friends from a little girl's time.

Frankly, Liu Quan doesn't have many friends in this world. Severus Snape doesn't need to be mentioned, and when she was at school, her relationship with the Marauder Quartet was sometimes softened and sometimes quite tense - this time depends on whether the foursome provoke Snape again, or be turned around by Snape; Mary McDonald, Lily's female friend at school in the original book, is actually just a general friendship with Willow Springs on the basis of roommates, and the relationship is not good enough to stick a knife in both sides; After returning to Hogwarts as a professor of Muggle Studies, she and her colleagues got along well, but they were not the kind of friends with whom they could make unreserved friends. In total, the only person she can really talk about a little bit of her worries and troubles is Ariana, who has lived in the frame for eighty or ninety years, and is actually almost a hundred years older than her.

It was only at this time that Liu Quan felt that he had really failed in life. But it seems to be too late to reflect now. She had been living like this for more than twenty years, and when the day came to an end, she would either be broken to pieces, or she would return home safely, in short, she would never see the people here again—a long page in her life was about to be turned.

On the last night of April, Willow Springs and Ariana seemed to have been talking for a long, long time. Willow felt that the night when she sat cross-legged on the dusty floor of the fourth floor, with a strange-tasting Aberforth beer in her hand, and a candle lit on the equally dusty mantelpiece, and that she had been talking to the portrait on the wall above the fireplace in the flickering candlelight, seemed so unreal, but it seemed like she hadn't been so relaxed in a long time.

Finally, when Liu Quan returned to his room, he felt extremely relaxed and tired. Her mind went blank as she climbed onto the rickety wooden bed, and she soon fell asleep.

When she woke up the next day, it seemed to be past noon. Aberforth didn't mean to wake her up—he had always seemed to be too lazy to care about her life and death during the days she had been hiding in the Hog's Head Bar, but no matter when she woke up or returned, he could always find good sandwiches and beef soup in the kitchen.

Willow Springs, down to the kitchen on the first floor, Aberforth was not there. The door to the pig's head bar was closed, and Aberforth seemed to be out.

Willow Springs, as usual, found the insulated beef burger in the kitchen—Aberforth hadn't used the famous English dishes to poison her tongue — and tomato and vegetable soup — since she occasionally heard her and Arianna's portraits complaining about dark British cuisine, especially the "horrible beef kidneys pie." Both of these recipes were taught by Willow Springs, whose "ancestral recipes" were no ordinary burgers or vegetable soups, with the addition of several side dishes and spices that Willow had personally tried and found delicious.

Willow Quan hurriedly ended the lunch, changed into ordinary Muggle clothes, and left the pig's head bar directly in a phantasm.

By the time she returned to the fourth floor of the Pig's Head Bar, it was getting dark. I don't know where she delayed for most of the afternoon, her face was slightly tired, but she quickly washed her face with cold water, and quickly went into the bathroom to take a shower, plus a bottle of refreshment—she appeared refreshed again, as if the coming tomorrow was not the end of everything, but the new beginning of a better life.

After Willow Springs' washing, he realized that Aberforth had returned, and he didn't know what he was doing on the first floor. Liu Quan poked his head out of the stairs to greet him, and then returned to the small living room on the fourth floor to chat with the portrait of Ariana, to relieve the tension and apprehension of waiting for the heavy footsteps of fate to descend.

They chatted and chatted together, and finally Ariana made a request to ease the tension in the room.

"Lily, my dear, I always remember that beautiful poem you once recited to me—you said it was written by an Asian Muggle? it was so moving...... Can you recite it to me again? I want to remember it......"

Liu Quan was slightly stunned. "You said the Song of Nacissos?"

Seeing Ariana nodding in the frame, Liu Quan sighed.

"Alas, well. She grabbed a piece of parchment from the table, tapped it with her wand, and lines of beautiful and smooth writing appeared on the parchment. Liu Quan picked up the piece of paper, cleared his throat that was tense because of apprehension, and began to read in a soft and calm tone.

"Are you okay over there? Do you feel lonely? Will the sky still turn red at sunset? Will the birds still sing on the way to the woods? Can you receive a letter that I dare not send? Can I express a confession that I dare not admit? Time will pass and the roses will wither?"

"Now it's time to say goodbye, just as the wind has stopped and gone again. Like a shadow, it is time to say goodbye for the love that has always been hidden, for the little grass that kisses my tired ankles, and for the little steps that follow me......"

"As darkness falls, will the candle be lit again? I pray here that all will stop crying, so that you may know how much I love you. On a hot summer afternoon, there is a long wait. That old path is like a father's face, a lonely wildflower, quietly disappearing. ”

Thinking of this, Liu Quan suddenly stumbled. The pause wasn't obvious, but Ariana still heard it. Her beautiful eyes looked at Willow Spring sadly in understanding from the frame, and whispered, "Oh...... Lily. ”

Hearing the call, Liu Quan raised his head and smiled at her. The smile was too brief to pass across the corners of her lips.

But Ariana's call undoubtedly gave Willow Quan a little time to adjust his mood. She picked up the parchment full of words again and continued to read quietly, "...... I have loved so much, and my heart throbs whenever I hear your faint singing. I pray for you, with the last breath of my soul before I cross the dark river—"

"I started dreaming, a sunny morning. I woke up again, my eyes pierced by the sun, I met you, and you stood by my side. ”

She finished. For a moment, a faint, dreamy smile floated in the corner of her eye, but it only stood there for a few seconds, and when she raised her eyes again to look at the portrait of Ariana, the smile was gone.

She quietly cast a paste charm on the wall opposite Ariana's portrait, and just where Ariana could see from the frame, she glued the parchment there, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "I'll put it here...... That way, whenever you want to revisit the poem or remember it, you can see what it's about......"

Ariana's expression changed from slight surprise to a certain understanding and sadness. But she didn't ask anything, just nodded lightly and said, "Thank you, Lily...... Thank you for your thoughtfulness. ”

Willow Springs, who stood there for a moment, first looked at the parchment she had taped to the wall—the handwriting on it had been enlarged by her spell to make sure Ariana could see it clearly on the opposite wall—then she turned to stare at the old little girl above the fireplace who had been living in the portrait and seemed to have become one of her best friends, and finally she said, "Good luck to me, Ariana." ”

Ariana rubbed the corners of her ancient skirt with a hint of uneasiness, and kept her mouth shut, as if as soon as she spoke, Willow Spring was going to die.

There was an awkward, suffocating silence in the room.

Just then, Aberforth's roar exploded downstairs: "Potter, come in, quick!"

Liu Quan was startled, quickly glanced at Ariana, and without thinking too much, he directly added an invisibility spell to himself, and then ran out of the small living room and hid in his room.

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May 31:

At the end of May, I finally wrote about May in the original book.

So this chapter is about what Izumi was doing on April 30th and May 1st

Quan Mei hid in the pig's head bar, I didn't expect it hhh

Of course, I haven't been hiding here all the time, but I occasionally come to borrow it

So Aberforth is really a good guy

Regarding the secret that the girl said in the previous chapter, I thought about it for a while, and I thought it would be better to explain it in advance here.

The girl doesn't really have any real Lily's secrets to tell the professor. The professor already knows who the real Lily is, as stated in the previous chapter.

The girl deliberately said this so that the professor would not hesitate to send him to death during the decisive battle

In addition, this plot is actually a foreshadowing of a small sadistic stalk [Hey!

I really like that stalk, so ...... hhh

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