Chapter 43: The Witch Shadow Empire
Of course, Ginny has reason to be surprised, her feelings about Andrew are very conflicted, there is a little girl's worship of heroes, and there is also a trace of envy for Andrew's superior family background and good social relations.
This situation has been slowly affecting Andrew since he entered Ginny's world. Her admiration for Harry had grown older and more experienced, and Ginny began to be freed from a narrow world.
A few minutes later, Hermione entered the Great Hall with a thick, unnamed black book, and behind her was a group of talkative prefects, most of whom were talking about Andrew Lee, who had been the school's biggest figure during his stay at Hogwarts. Hermione chose the position opposite Andrew, which made her less nervous, she first greeted Ginny, and then pretended that she had just spotted Andrew.
The smell of breakfast made everyone's appetite move, and Andrew couldn't help but eat a little more, but Andrew had another small expectation in his heart, although he had been in contact with Qiu Zhang during this time, but the two really hadn't seen each other for a long time.
"Hermione, does Autumn still need to train?" Andrew asked.
"No, I think she shouldn't have played today, oh, she's coming. ”
A group of Ravenclaw girls entered the auditorium, and for some reason, the Ravenclaw girls seemed to be particularly fond of getting together. As the Quidditch princess of Ravenclaw, Autumn was in the middle of the crowd: with smooth hair, a round face, and a smile that would never disappear, shining into the auditorium like the morning sun.
Andrew stood up, and Cho seemed to sense something, and turned his gaze to this side: "Oh my God, that's Andrew Lee, he's back." At this time, a Ravenclaw girl beside Qiu said in surprise.
And Qiu couldn't help but cover her mouth to prevent herself from shouting excitedly.
The two hugged tightly in the auditorium, causing a commotion and Slytherin boos.
"Let's go out for a walk, I don't think Professor McGonagall will like us in public. Andrew Lee said with a smile. "It's nice to have a cool shade, but dear autumn, I've never noticed that there are so many birds in the Forbidden Forest, and how many 'surprises' the birds in the trees give you. The two walked arm in arm along the edge of the Forbidden Forest, and Andrew smiled as he pointed to the dense canopy above his head.
"Andrew, there is no way to have a 'surprise' in the past two days, you are finally back, if it weren't for the fact that you send me owl letters every once in a while, I would almost be unable to go to the Himalayas to find you," Qiu Chao's boyfriend shrugged and said, "I'm really worried that you go to a place like that alone!"
"It's not as dangerous as you think," Andrew replied, "and probably the greatest danger I have ever encountered is the snowball thrown at me by a group of snowmen, who may have taken me for some kind of animal, and their snowballs were thrown so far and so hard that I almost got buried in the snow." ”
"Really? I thought those snowmen were fiction. Cho nodded, grabbed her boyfriend's arm, waved at the small animals on the edge of the Forbidden Forest, and pulled Andrew into the Forbidden Forest for a stroll.
Looking at the disappearance of the two of them, Hermione's eyes showed a hint of gloomy, she lowered her head and brushed her brown hair, looked up and became happy, and said to Ginny beside her with a smile, "Let's go too, Ginny." ”
"Oh, my little Hermione, don't be sad, use another boy to top it first, I've thought about it seriously, I've analyzed it, from Andrew's point of view, she can't handle it, it's better to be cheaper than others..."
"Ginny, shut up—" Hermione interrupted her friend's gibberish in annoyance, and pulled her towards the open-air café two or three hundred meters away, where she disappeared into the crowd a moment later.
If you don't have Brazil, you don't know how popular football is, and if you don't have the United States, you don't know how eye-catching ice hockey is. And if you don't go to the wizarding world, you don't know how popular Quidditch is.
A game of Quidditch between the house teams turns a world-famous magic school into a playground, and the twins shout hard, run mobile stalls, and some sell all sorts of themed memorabilia, and you can see that the magic items are the most popular, whether it's vomit candy or fake wands.
What he saw was incomprehensible to Andrew, but it didn't stop him from being in a good mood, and as he walked, the young man followed his girlfriend through most of the campus to a low, classical English building surrounded by green lawns, leaving only a stone road for four people to pass side by side, connecting the old wooden doors.
It was already a living quarters for Hogwarts students. The flow of people has decreased a lot. Pointing to the low stone building not far away, Qiu said, "Look, the Ravenclaw Tower is even more magnificent now. ”
"Oh, it's not much grander, it's more like an old castle. Moving in to be a princess must be very suitable for you. "Look at the stone buildings crawling with mottled lichens. Andrew said casually.
"I've noticed that you're getting sweeter and sweeter now. The girl replied with a smile, and before her words could land, she suddenly heard someone shouting: "Qiu, it turns out that you are here, everyone is looking for you, do you want to join us, today..."
"What's wrong with Oriya?" Qiu asked strangely as she looked in the direction from which the voice came and saw a sweet-looking young girl in a silky wizard's robe walking towards her along the campus road with six or seven young men.
"These are a few seniors in the fifth grade," Oria said in a 'neck-cutting' motion, panting and whispering, "You also know that our 'Witch Sisterhood' has a good relationship with the 'Wizard Brotherhood' now, but in the morning Paciti handed them over to me and said that they were taking them around the campus..."
Hearing that it didn't matter, Qiu didn't wait for Oriya to finish speaking before planning her words, "Oh, I'm sorry dear Oriya, my boyfriend is back, since it's not important, I'm afraid I can't help you." ”
"Is this your boyfriend, Andrew Lee, a Ravenclaw legend..."Olia was stunned for a moment, then noticed Andrew standing next to the girl, and blurted out in surprise.
After that, she felt that her words were very impolite, and the girl hurriedly said: "No, I don't mean anything else, I mean, the style is different, the style is not what I like... Hi there, I'm Olia Mira. ”
"Hello, I'm Andrew. Andrew smiled and beckoned.
"Oh, I've heard your name, and that doesn't bother you, goodbye. Because of the gaffe just now, Olya seemed to be anxious to let the two of them leave so as not to continue to be embarrassed, but at this moment, a short, ordinary-looking black wizard next to her suddenly said, "Oria, we are going to go to the Raul brothers separately." Didn't you say that a person can't cope and needs to ask a friend for help, how can you find someone and let her leave?"
"But Joyce, didn't you hear just now, Cho's boyfriend is here, and there's no way she's going to help you lead the way. ”
Hearing the girl's words, the short black man looked at Andrew and Tina, with an inexplicable jealousy on his face, stepped forward, touched a black iron ring on his right index finger embossed with an open book, and whispered in a quiet and magnetic tone: "It's just to lead the way, and it won't take much time, just lead the way..."
His voice seemed to have some kind of magic in it, and people couldn't help but want to listen to it with their hearts and be addicted.
When the companions on the side saw the black man touching the ring and speaking in this tone, three or four of them couldn't help but change color on their faces, and they wanted to step forward to stop but seemed to have some scruples, and then one of the handsome young men in the audience with a pale face, a thin face, and sculptural features sighed, and said: "There is purification only when there is washing, and there is holiness when there is sin." Let the Joyce brothers spend the day as they please..."
"It's Brother Roy. The handsome young man's command made the angry man reluctantly dissipate his anger, and bowed his head respectfully, but instead of the slightest gratitude from the short black man, it added a somewhat distorted expression to his face.
Seeing the black man gritting his teeth, Andrew suddenly sighed and said: "I just returned to Hogwarts, which is known as the "safest place in Britain", and met a Hogwarts student who used black magic as a means in less than two days, it seems that the world has really changed, and even the best Hogwarts that has been protected have been eroded by black magic.
A young Hogwarts wizard with a hesitation, anger, fear, and jealousy, and a tragic future in his hands, mastering the dark arts, the world is getting more and more chaotic. ”
"You, you're not affected by the 'Truth Curse'..."Seeing that the magic he cast was actually out of order, the short black man's eyes widened in shock, and the magic instantly reversed under the distraction, causing him to faint to the ground with convulsions.
"Not to mention his magical powers, which are not much greater than ants, just to say that this ridiculous experience of dark arts can even use magic to control others, you little wizards are really reckless, I think you should be Slytherin students, is it possible that Professor Snape has allowed you to use dark magic at school at will?"
Seeing that the black man suddenly fell to the ground before he could do anything, Andrew smiled dumbly, turned his gaze to the handsome young man who looked like the leader, and said.
Although there were not too many pedestrians around, the black man's convulsions quickly attracted the attention of many people, and noticing that someone was surrounding him, Roy suddenly said apologetically to Andrew: "I don't understand what you're talking about, but I'm really sorry." Joyce didn't know where to learn some magic that he couldn't name, and after being exposed to those strange magics, he liked to experiment with people everywhere, and he got into a lot of trouble but always didn't repent..."
"No need to apologize, Mr. Roy, I forgive him. Andrew shrugged and said, after which he suddenly stepped forward and whispered in Roy's ear, "But I want to remind you of two things, one is that your companion has been consumed by magic, if you are really an ordinary student, you should quickly use a healing spell on him now;
Second, beware of the black magic..."
The last four words of the young man's words were soft, but Roy felt stiff all over, and the cold hairs on his back stood up, and he didn't bother to pay attention to the faint red thread falling from Andrew's sleeve as the young man in front of him spoke, and fell on the black wizard with the wind.
The red thread was as clear as the purest crystal in the sunlight, and then it contracted violently and flew like a steel needle from the string into the brow that lay on the ground and continued to wail and twist, and then vanished.
"Don't pick up the Joyce brothers yet. The red line disappeared, and Roy finally calmed down again, and seeing that three or four enthusiastic wizards had gathered around him, he hurriedly whispered orders to his stupid companions around him.
After that, Roy turned his head as if he wanted to engrave the appearance in his heart, and looked deeply at the hands holding Andrew and Qiu, Shi Shiran glanced at the back of Andrew who walked along the stone road through the lawn to the low building, and suddenly showed an anxious expression on his face, and shouted to the well-wishers who surrounded him: "Please don't come around, my friend has an asthma attack, and he needs enough space to breathe." ”
Hearing his words, the crowd that had rushed forward immediately dispersed, and under the attention of more than a dozen pairs of eyes, Roy walked to Joyce, who had been helped up by his companions, and took out his wand from his pocket and released medical magic at Joyce, while his mouth squirmed slightly, and he didn't know what spell he was chanting, while stretching out his right hand to caress the face of the short black man.
Roy's wand soon summoned an illusory little snake, and a faint milky white glow began to flow on the surface of the small snake, constantly curling and wandering in the void, spitting out letters from time to time.
The light of the little snake drifted slowly into the sunlight and burrowed into Joyce's nostrils, and after a while the black man stopped convulsing, and then woke up with a shake of his groggy head.
Seeing Joyce open his eyes, he slowly regained his intuition, and as the brilliance of the wand flashed continued, his whole body was sweating profusely, and Roy, who was almost in prostration, finally showed a relaxed expression on his face, and said with concern, "Brother Joyce, you are awake." ”
"Roy...", in a daze, he saw that the face of the person who was close at hand, and the face that was constantly shaking in front of him was actually Roy, and the black man exclaimed weakly, as if he was very frightened, but then gradually regained consciousness made him recall his important position at this moment, and the expression of sincere fear on his face disappeared without a trace in an instant.
Noticing the change in Joyce's expression, Roy's eyes faintly flashed with anger but did not attack, but reminded in a gentle whisper: "Brother Joyce, you can't attract everyone's attention now, otherwise once an accident occurs, I think you know how serious the consequences are." I came up with an idea to use asthma as an excuse, you just say a few words of thanks now, and then we'll go. ”
Joyce could be reckless because he didn't care about Roy's thoughts because of his peculiarity at this time, but he had to care about the existence of the void.
Thinking of the punishment he could receive after the terrifying existence was furious, the short black man couldn't help but quietly shudder, struggled out of the support of his companions, stood up straight with the discomfort, took a few deep breaths, shook his head vigorously and shouted to the crowd of onlookers: "Thank you, thank you guys." I just had an asthma attack and I'm completely fine now. Thank you all, thank you very much. ”