Chapter 004: Harry Potter

“Welcome－to－Gringotts! Young－Fairy!”

When he straightened up, Catherine noticed that the other party was slightly shorter than herself, with a swarthy face that showed intelligence, a pointed beard, long hands and feet, and did not seem to be human.

But instead of asking in front of her, Catherine nodded her head and followed Snape into the bronze door.

Behind the bronze door is a silver door with the following inscription on the two panels:

Please come in, stranger, but watch out

What will happen to insatiable greed,

Blindly taking, not getting for nothing,

will be punished most severely,

So if you want to get from our underground vault

Take away a fortune that never belonged to you,

Thou hast been warned, O thief,

Beware that it is not a treasure that is invited, but a bad retribution.

They made their way towards the silver door, nearly colliding with a giant who was about to come out.

"I'm sorry! I didn't notice! The giant said in a little flustered, his voice very loud, "That little cart makes my head dizzy. ”

The giant pulls a little dark-haired boy behind him, ready to get out of the way, when suddenly he recognizes the man who almost collided with him.

"Professor Snape, huh? Are you also out to pick up new students? The giant spotted Catherine's, and greeted him warmly, "Little girl, what's your name!" ”

"Catherine." The girl replied with a smile.

"Catherine!" The giant suddenly bent down and stared into the girl's eyes until he could see their color, "What's your family name, well, take the liberty of asking." The sudden proximity of his huge head, and his flustered and anxious tone, could easily cause great pressure on strangers.

"I'm an orphan." But Catherine just looked at him and blinked, without a trace of strange expression on her face, still smiling the same.

"Orphan, are you really an orphan?" The giant jerked to his feet, his shout of surprise in the small space that made people deeply understand the meaning of deafening.

"Yes, I was abandoned on the night of Halloween ten years ago." Catherine frowned slightly imperceptibly, but replied with a calm smile, she did not think that there was anything to surprise the orphans.

But the giant immediately covered her mouth as if she had just said something terrible, and then he looked back and forth quickly back and forth between the girl and the boy beside him with those black beetle-like eyes, and even though his face was almost covered by the messy beard, Catherine could see how incredulous his expression was.

The girl looked at the boy and saw that he seemed to be as tall as herself, but very thin, he was wearing a wide set of old clothes, which made him look even thinner, he had an emaciated face, jet-black hair was messy, a lightning scar on his forehead, a pair of round-rimmed glasses glued together with many scotch tapes on his nose, and a pair of emerald green eyes behind his eyes, which were probably the only places in his whole body that looked pretty.

And the girl was neatly dressed, with a long ponytail obediently behind her head, in good health and good spirits, and she really did not find any resemblance between the two of them, and even their current posture was completely different.

The girl stood with her waist straight beside Snape, and the boy cowered behind the giant, his eyes sneaking a glance at Snape from time to time.

Catherine realized that Snape was glaring at the boy.

"Excuse me, who are you?" Catherine asked suddenly, breaking the awkward atmosphere that was beginning to emerge around her.

"Oh, I'm the keykeeper and hunting groundsman at Hogwarts," the giant replied in his loud voice, "My name is Rubeus Hagrid." ”

"Hello, Mr. Hagrid, this is- he must be my classmate!" Catherine snuck Snape's hand.

"Just call me Hagrid, he's your classmate Harry Potter!" Hagrid said proudly patting the boy on the shoulder.

Catherine held out her hand to him, smiled and said, "Hello, Harry, I only learned today that I was a wizard. ”

"Hello, Catherine, I am, no, I only found out today that I am a wizard." Harry hurriedly took Catherine's hand.

"Hagrid!" Snape suddenly spoke coldly, so frightened that Harry immediately let go of Catherine's hand and prepared to hide behind Hagrid, "How long are you going to block the passage?" ”

“Oh! Sorry! Sorry!” Seeing the crowd blocked by his massive body in the silver gate, Hagrid's face turned red.

He hurriedly stretched out his left hand and pulled the black-haired boy to the wall of the foyer to make way for the people behind him, and with the other hand he pressed tightly on a pocket on his right chest, his eyes vigilantly watching everyone who passed him, and only after everyone had passed did he breathe a sigh of relief.

Hagrid's actions intrigued Catherine, but before she could think about exploring it, Snape pulled her through the silver door, and she barely had time to wave goodbye to Hagrid and Harry.

Although she didn't understand why Snape had suddenly become so rude, and could tell from the way she lipted that Harry was asking Hagrid why, Catherine decided to ask her because their voices were completely muffled by the noise outside Gringotts, but as soon as she turned around, she was distracted by the scene in the hall.

In this tall marble hall, there are about a hundred or so creatures that look like the greeters standing in the doorway, some sitting on high stools behind a long row of counters to entertain guests, others guiding guests in and out of the countless doors leading to different places.

"They are?" Catherine couldn't help but whisper to interrogate.

"Goblins!" Snape moved his lips and led her to an idle elf with a blank expression.

"This is Catherine, she needs to exchange it for huàn muggle currency." Snape said in a cold voice.

"How much do you want to redeem? Miss Catherine. The goblin stood up and looked at the girl.

"Ten thousand pounds." Catherine pulled out a neat stack of banknotes from her tote bag.

"Are you sure?" The goblin asked, lifting his glasses.

"Yes." Catherine smiled and nodded.

"Then you'll need to wait a minute, pull the ring!" The goblin summoned another goblin, "Take this gentleman and young lady to the lounge." ”

Pull Ring led them through a door with a "Lounge" sign on it.

"Professor Snape, is Harry Potter famous?" When Pull Ring left, Catherine asked.

"He-" Snape's tone was full of undisguised mockery, disdain, contempt, and contempt, "yes, he's a 'celebrity' indeed. ”

"Why?" Catherine was surprised by his tone.

Snape was slightly stunned, as if he was concerned about something, and he pondered for a moment before speaking in a low, slow tone.

"About twenty years ago, there was a powerful wizard who called himself - Voldemort—" Snape clenched his left arm and paused for a moment before saying the name, "but people called him more often 'the mystery man,' 'the man who couldn't even mention his name,' or—' The-Dark-Lord', he gathered some servants, known as the Death-Eater, and he forced more people to be loyal to him, and he tried to rule the wizarding world, and those who opposed it were brutally persecuted. ”

At the time, Albus Dumbledore, the Dark Lord's feared man, had formed an Order of the Phoenix to organize a group of people to fight him, and Harry Potter's parents had joined in from the start. The Order of the Phoenix was so successful that the Dark Lord decided to hunt them down - many of his members died at his hands, including Harry Potter's parents. ”

"It was Halloween Eve ten years ago, and the Dark Lord killed Harry's father, James Potter," Catherine found out that he almost gritted his teeth when he uttered the name, "and his mother, Lily Evans." But he couldn't kill Harry Potter - Harry Potter had just turned a year old, and he was no trace since, some said he was dead, others said he wasn't, but it was clear - the Dark Lord had fallen, the Ministry of Magic had captured a large number of Death Eaters, and the wizarding world had returned to normal. So—"

"People sing about Harry Potter as a savior." His eyes were full of naked disgust.

"Oh! So," Catherine decided to change the subject, "why was Hagrid so curious about me, especially after knowing that I was an orphan?" She shifted her gaze to Snape, "And, you had the same look on your face when you first met me. ”

Snape stared at Catherine's face and was silent for a long time before answering.

"Lily—" Snape paused before continuing somewhat unnaturally, "Evans is not only Harry Potter's son, she also has a daughter named Catherine, Harry Potter's twin sister, she has the same burgundy hair as Lily Evans, but her eyes are brown. ”

Catherine's eyes widened, her mouth covered in shock, and she listened to Snape continue.

"After the Dark Lord attacked their house, two people went to the scene as soon as possible, one said she was dead, the other said she was still alive, but there was only the bodies of her parents at the scene, and she was missing and has not been found."

"Who are those two people?" Catherine asked eagerly.

"Hagrid and—" Snape said after a pause, "her godfather." ”

Catherine didn't understand why Snape hadn't said the name of the girl's godfather, but it didn't matter now, what mattered-

"Hagrid is the one who thinks she's dead."

Snape nodded.

"So," Catherine paused, "you think she's dead." ”

Snape was silent for a moment before saying, "Dumbledore says her chances of survival are almost zero. ”

Catherine was stunned for a moment, she didn't expect the headmaster's figure to appear here, and she couldn't help but ask, "Then why do you suspect that I am the missing girl now?" ”

"You look very much like Lily when you were kids," and while Snape did look at herself, Catherine felt that he was looking at someone else at all, "except for the eyes." ”

Catherine didn't say anything more, just lowered her head away from Snape's gaze, the thing she hated most was to be used as a stand-in for another person, but it seemed like something that was destined to be unavoidable.