Chapter 043 Mermaid Queen

"Catherine, what the hell is going on?" Draco was confused.

"That's all I can say, I can't meddle with the rest." Catherine stepped back and said goodbye to Draco very politely, "I'm sorry, I still have to go to Diagon Alley." With that, he immediately turned around and left the second-year dormitory.

"What's going on?" The second-year Slytherins looked at each other, but then they all rushed back to their bedrooms, pulling out their rejects mirrors and asking their parents.

As soon as Lucius heard his son's relay, Malfoy's manor immediately became chaotic, and then the homes of other classmates followed suit, and when the news spread, the entire middle and upper classes of the wizarding world were all in turmoil, and the culprit was shopping with Snape at this time.

"You really shut them all up?" When Snape sent Catherine back to her dorm last night, he found that all the animals were gone.

"I'm 100% sure I'm going to have all the animals in cages before I leave!" Catherine raised her hand and swore, "If you don't believe me, you can check my memories!" ”

"And how did they all disappear?" It wasn't that Snape didn't believe Catherine's words, but the fact was so bizarre that he couldn't understand how he could get rid of all the animals in such a short period of time without damaging the cages.

"I'm more curious, what can they be used for?" Those animals have been poured a lot of "lemon tea", although it is diluted, but the effect of the medicine has not disappeared, thinking about the ending of Dumbledore, Catherine really can't think of any other use for them, "Is it being eaten?" ”

"I haven't been able to show up for two months—" Snape sneered, "and it's all too easy to find an idiot. ”

Thinking of the terrifying effect of that cup of "lemon tea", Catherine shivered fiercely and pushed open the door of the "Ollivanders Wand Shop".

"Ahh Catherine! And Severus! It reminds me of the scene when you came here last year—" Ollivander was about to start his old nostalgia again, but Snape cut him off mercilessly.

"Mr. Ollivanders, are you ready for your new wand?" Snape asked coldly.

"What an inconsiderate old man!" Ollivander muttered in displeasure, turned his head and asked Catherine cordially, "How well is your magic controlled?" ”

"What do you think?" Catherine flipped her right hand and conjured up a bright pink rose.

"Merlin!" Ollivander walked in quickly, carefully examining the flower, "You're actually already the eighth order!" It's incredible, you're only twelve! ”

Catherine smiled slightly, did not answer, just closed her eyes and released her right hand, and the roses turned into a light pink mist and slowly drifted away, and when the mist touched the wand box on the shelf, they began to tremble slightly, but soon the tremor stopped.

As the mist spread, more and more wands fluttered, but none of them answered Catherine, which made her frown in displeasure, and suddenly a flash of blood flashed from her palm, and then she felt a call.

Catherine urged the magic, and the other two saw the pink mist that filled the entire shop suddenly rush into the back hall, and they looked at each other, and Ollivander immediately ran inside, while Snape stayed by her side to guard her until she lowered her hand and opened her eyes.

"It's amazing!" Ollivanders' exclamation came from the back of the shop almost at the same time, and then he stumbled out with a delicate white jade box, "I really didn't expect that I would be able to help it find its owner in my lifetime, I thought that I would be like my ancestors, and I would have no choice but to leave it to my descendants as a useless ornament." ”

"Why?" Catherine asked curiously.

"Because it's the work of my grandfather's grandfather—" Ollivander opened the box and showed Catherine his treasure, a seven-inch-long, white, apparently not wooden wand.

"The body of the staff is the white jade coral of the Arctic abyss, and the core of the staff is the voice bone that the mermaid queen Ruona voluntarily sacrificed before she died." Ollivander gently pulled the wand out of the box, "If it weren't for the merfolk who didn't need to use their wands, my ancestors would have marketed it a long time ago, because it was so suitable for water magic. ”

Catherine took the wand in surprise, stretched out her right hand and carefully grasped the handle of the wand, a faint red light instantly wrapped around the entire wand, and then the tip of the wand spewed out a strong stream of water like a waterfall, drenching all three people present.

"Catherine!" Snape shouted loudly, but found that his voice was strange, and when he opened his eyes, he found that the entire store was filled with water, and the streets outside were still bustling and lively, and not a single pedestrian noticed what was happening here.

"What's going on?" Ollivander asked in a strange voice, his body already beginning to float.

"I didn't make it." Catherine shook her head, her hair was completely spread out like a pile of brilliant aquatic plants, although her feet were still on the ground.

With a poignant song, Catherine's wand began to glow silver, and there were more mermaids in the store, changing as the lyrics changed.

"Beautiful Atlantic,

is the hometown where we were born,

Rich Atlantis,

It is the home where we grew up;

We play together, we travel together,

Go on an adventure in Bermuda,

Go hunting in the Marianas,

Go to Eritrea for fun,

Go to the Ursa Major constellation for a workout.

Until the abominable Flicka,

Forcibly separating us -

My dear Jora,

Where the hell are you?

Why do I search all the waters,

I can't find you any traces,

Even if I take the power of the four seas,

Help, the people of Gaia,

But I still can't hear from you.

My dear Jora,

Where the hell are you?

Why did I exhaust my life's work,

Can't find you?

Have you fallen into the hands of Salaman?

Otherwise, why even Wendini

can't find your final whereabouts,

O my poor sister!

I'll definitely find you,

Even if I don't have peace when I die,

Even if I completely disappear for this,

I want to be with you too,

My dear Jora! ”

After the singing stopped, the figure of the mermaid queen Jona suddenly floated in front of Catherine.

"Would you like to help me find my sister? Young－Fairy!” She pleaded in pain.

"I—" Catherine was about to say yes when Snape grabbed her right hand.

"Why use your gift for seduction? Dear Mermaid Queen! Snape asked coldly.

"You—" The Mermaid Queen stared at Snape for a long time before she said apologetically to Catherine, "I'm sorry, Young-Fairy! ”

"Why?" Catherine asked.

The Mermaid Queen didn't answer, but looked at the wand, and Catherine looked over and immediately understood what she was referring to.

"I can help you, but—" Catherine smiled, "it's not gratuitous. ”

"I understand!" The Mermaid Queen quickly swiped a complex rune across her chest with both hands, "This is my personal seal, it should be able to help you." ”

Catherine stretched out her left hand, and the rune instantly disappeared into her palm.

"I'm sorry for you!" The mermaid queen pounced on Catherine, and the girl stepped back in surprise, only to find that the water that filled the entire shop was gone.

"Smack!" Ollivander slammed into the floor from mid-air, kicking up dust all over the floor.

"It's a hallucination!" Snape looked around in amazement, there was not a trace of any sign of flooding.

"It's amazing!" Ollivander jumped up from the ground and threw himself in front of Catherine in surprise, almost slapped by her palm, "I have sold eight thousand five hundred and ninety-one wands in my life, and none of them have ever been as miraculous as they were just now. It's really ......."

"How much?" Snape interrupted his exclamation again.

"W-let me look it up!" Ollivander hurried to the counter to look through the ledger, "Well--special wand--there's it, 975-Garon." ”

"No need to look for it!" Catherine immediately filled out a check, slipped it into Ollivanders' hand, and quickly left with Snape.

"Why are you running so fast!" Ollivander ran to the door, but Catherine and Snape had disappeared from the crowd, "Well, I want to tell you the story of her sister!" He casually dropped the check into the counter.

"It should be able to withstand your power, right?" Once back at Hogwarts, Snape asked.

"There's no problem at the moment, but there's always a bad feeling." Catherine looked at her wand worriedly.

"Because of the lyrics of 'gone in smoke'."

Catherine shrugged her shoulders and put away her wand.

"What about my next Occlumency training?" Catherine asked, "I can't be sure when those meetings will end." ”

Snape pondered for a moment, and found that there were still boring things that were relatively important to Catherine at the moment, and he was naturally unhappy about this.

"Continue in November." He said through gritted teeth.

That night, Draco brought Lucius a thank you gift, a letter sealed with magic, and Catherine sensed it and called Dobby to give it to him.

As soon as Dobby got the letter, his green eyes blurred, and when he opened it tremblingly, tears remained, which was a suicide note left by his mother.

By the beginning of the second week, Catherine's sophomore career had finally become stable.

The second year, like the first year, only had seven courses, and this time Catherine finally didn't have to worry about the Charms and Transfiguration classes, with the family inheritance and the right wand to use her magic as she pleased.

Professor Sprout in the herbology class asks for a group of four to help Mandrake change plates, and Pansy and Blaise run to Draco as soon as they don't want to be the couple's light bulbs, and Catherine jokingly calls them the new Slytherin triangle.

Potions was still the only Gryffindor and Slytherin class to be taken together, and the smell of gunpowder in the two houses had become more intense after a summer of fermentation and the Quidditch duel, so Snape was more targeted at Gryffindor.

Harry's save zài made Gryffindor's score drop as fast as a slide, and this time Catherine didn't go out of his way to defend him, but Slytherin's status as a future female prefect made most Slytherin restrain the arrogance of the-for-tat confrontation with Gryffindor, after all, no one wants to be the "three fires" of "new officials".