014 Lawrence's frustration
Lawrence and Fleur Square walked the streets, which was their recent activity before dinner time, because Fleur didn't like to stay in the Black family's old house, she thought it was 'weird', but she could understand Lawrence's reason why they would live in it,
"You asked me to ask for you," said Fleur, "Diggory was still undergoing the Aurors' refresher course, and he was taking John's fellowship at the time. Delix's mentoring course, so I didn't get the meeting instructions."
"I see." Lawrence said they stopped under the streetlights,
"Do you care about not being able to join the Order of the Phoenix?" Fleur asked,
"If you join to know what kind of mission you'll perform," Lawrence paused before replying, "then yes, I do."
"Hmm." Fleur pulled Laurence, and the two stood facing each other, and Fleur, who heard Lawrence's words, couldn't hide the smile on her face, and tried to lure Lawrence to smile as well, but Lawrence didn't laugh, just quietly didn't speak,
"I...... Can't tell you," Fleur's smile faded, "it's not my fault."
"I don't mean to blame you," Lawrence forced the corners of his mouth to smile, but apparently unsuccessfully, "Actually, you were right to do it, because you promised Dumbledore."
"Actually, apart from the Order of the Phoenix, Dumbledore agreed that we should tell our family about joining the Society, and he just needs us to think it through ourselves," Fleur's voice grew quieter, "but I don't dare."
"I don't dare tell my parents what I'm doing," Fleur continued, "they only know that I work for the British Ministry of Magic...... It's the same with Diggory, and I think a lot of our members are like that."
"I'm sorry," Lawrence said, a strong sense of powerlessness welling up in his heart, "I just ...... I feel powerless."
"When you graduate next year, there's no reason why they shouldn't let you join." Fleur tries to comfort Lawrence,
Lawrence didn't reply, just took Fleur's hand, and they followed the same path back to the Black family's old mansion, and did not speak again all the way until they stepped on the stairs of the old mansion, and Fleur stopped at the bottom of the stairs,
"If," Fleur seemed hesitant, "if you want me to quit—"
"No, I'll adjust my emotions," Lawrence guessed what Fleur was trying to say, "If that's really what you want to do, I don't have any reason to stop you."
"And do you know what I want to do now?" Fleur asked,
"How would I know?" Lawrence replied, he watched Fleur raise her head and look at herself, this did not need to continue to ask, because her blue eyes did not hide the slightest emotion, even people who could not break hearts could see that Fleur was on tiptoe under the stairs, Lawrence bent slightly on the stairs, and the distance between the two of them was getting closer and closer......
The door of the old mansion was opened, and Mrs. Weasley poked her head out, then retracted, and she knocked on the door deliberately and hard, and waited a moment before poking her head out again,
"I want to tell you where you've been?" Looking at Lawrence and Fleur, who had already separated, Mrs. Weasley said with an unchanged face, "If you don't come in soon, dinner will be cold."
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Just a few days after Ron and Hermione sent Harry's birthday present, Harry was attacked by Dementors in Little Whiking,
Angry Mrs. Weasley took Montongues. Fletch blocked the door of the old mansion, accusing him of serious dereliction of duty in a super high decibel voice, and his fierce momentum even made the portrait of Sirius's mother dare not show his head, until Dumbledore arrived at the mansion later,
Lawrence found that the few of them were obviously well aware of the news that someone was protecting Harry, and they had probably already eavesdropped on it through their telescopic ears.
Compared to Ron, Hermione, and Ginny's initial worries, the twins were optimistic, after all, Harry had managed to repel the Dementors.
A few hours later, their only concern was that Harry had to pass the Wizengamot hearing, but the news made Hermione jump to her feet, and she muttered 'It's not legal', and locked herself in her room rummaging through her extensive extracurricular reading materials.
"So what will happen to Harry?" Ginny turned to Lawrence and asked Lawrence, how convenient it was to have such a human-shaped library nearby,
"No," Lawrence replied, "this is in full compliance with the terms of the emergency use of magic, which is the fundamental right of every wizard guaranteed by the International Wizarding Federation - the Wizengamot cannot circumvent this law as long as there is enough evidence or testimony to prove that Harry is right."
"Then it'll be fine," Fred said lightly, "Looks like we'll see Harry in a few days?"
Fred guessed correctly, on the fourth night after Harry was attacked by the Dementors, a group of members of the Order of the Phoenix took Harry from Privet Road to the Black family's old mansion, but this time the operation was obviously very secretive, until the twins eavesdropped on the movement downstairs and did not know that Harry had arrived at the old mansion, and the two of them knocked on Lawrence's door.
"Little Harry, Lawrence." Fred winked at Lawrence, Lawrence closed the book he was reading, and the three of them disappeared from the fourth floor at the same time, and the next moment, they appeared in the middle of Harry and Ron's room on the third floor, and the sound of their arrival obviously startled everyone in the room,
"Don't make a fuss—" Hermione really couldn't do anything about the three of them,
"Hello, Harry," George said with a smile, "we hear your pleasant voice."
"Hey, don't keep your anger in your heart, just let it out." Fred went on to say,
"I'm just passing through, I'm waiting downstairs for the meeting." Lawrence shrugged his innocents,
"So you've all passed the illusion test?" Harry asked angrily, "And then Lawrence regained his memory?"
"Clear the game with a high score." Fred replied, "I have to say a few words for them, they don't just help clean the room this month."
"You see, Lawrence regained his memory, right?" George nodded,
Harry took a deep breath, he thought he would hear how Lawrence had recovered his memories with the help of his friends, but George and Fred looked at each other,
"No, Lawrence's recovery of memories has nothing to do with them." Fred shrugged, then shoved the long retractable rope in his hand into his ear, trying to hear the movement downstairs,
"So you can keep scolding them, Harry." George spread his hands, and after the twins' string of nonsense, Harry's lips twitched, and most of his anger disappeared,
"Are you helping us or are you hurting us?" Ron said dissatisfied, "And you only saved thirty seconds to go downstairs like this, right?"
"Time is money, little brother," said Fred, "in any case, keep quiet, you're interfering with our reception—telescopic ears."
"Old." George added, "We've been working on a wireless version recently."
The door to the room was opened, and Ginny's long red hair appeared from behind the door,
"Hey, Harry," said Ginny happily, "I think it's your voice that I hear."
"The telescopic ears don't work," Ginny said, turning to her twin brothers, "Mommy cast the Immobility Charm on the kitchen door."
"It's a shame." George sighed, and he and Fred looked at each other, who began to pull the rope and retracted the telescopic ear, Lawrence knew that tonight they would definitely start working on how to improve it to a wireless version,
"What do you want to eavesdropping?" Harry sat down on the bed and asked,
"As for what the hell that old guy Snape is up to," Fred replied, "it's top secret, and we've tried several times without success."
"Snape? He's here too?" Harry bounced off the bed,
"Of course, who isn't here?" George sighed and said, "There are a few names you'll be familiar with, like Diggory's little white face—"
"Diggory?" Harry shouted, and his face fell in an instant,
"He's not a little white face," Hermione retorted, "he was the president of the male student council last year, and now he's taking an Auror training course—"
"Aurors?" Harry's mouth opened wide, and then sat back on the bed, Lawrence felt full of envy and frustration,
"But it was Lawrence who was the most in the limelight last year—" Fred scoffed, "not that guy."
"Not to mention that Lawrence came close to joining the Order of the Phoenix." George added, "They politely refused our request to join, but they had an additional meeting on the issue of Lawrence joining."
"No matter how small the gap is, there's no point in not joining - I'll go back to my room and wait for them to finish." Lawrence said coldly, he could see that Harry was interested in the topic, but he didn't really want to talk about it, so Lawrence disappeared from Harry and Ron's room with a thud.
"I'm going to bring you the exception to the use of magic by minors that I found." Hermione got up from the chair on the other side and walked around Ginny and left the room,
"Uh-" Harry was stunned, he realized that in the month he had returned to Privet Road, what had changed was the same as the Order of the Phoenix, and no one had told him at all.
"Uh-huh, remember Fleur. Dracul? She also joined the Order of the Phoenix." Fred cleared his throat and said, Ginny let out a loud snort, and Ron made a strange noise in his throat,
As Fred and George narrated, Harry's mouth opened wider and wider, and he finally believed that he had just seen it right, and Lawrence, who seemed to be at ease with everything, flashed a trace of frustration under that cold expression.
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Off topic:
I really like some small details in the traditional version (the simplified version doesn't seem to have one?). I'm not sure), some pronunciations like:
Wickdor couldn't always pronounce Hermione's name as standard,
Hibiscus is not very standard in English, (in the traditional translation, similar sounds will be used, such as "wo" instead of "I", to achieve the effect of non-standard pronunciation)
Ron eats and stuffs his mouth to speak, (using a similar sound throughout the paragraph, but you can guess the meaning)
I like these details.