Chapter 005: Tracking
"Tracking."
The purple-haired girl tapped the heel of her shoe on the glass coffee table on the foot, and Tonks noticed that there was an extra piece of paper on the coffee table, and she picked it up and looked at it carefully, and found that it was some time and place.
"This is my approximate itinerary for tomorrow, and you can use this to follow me, but don't let me find out, because as soon as I notice something abnormal, I will disguise myself and remind you," the purple-haired girl nodded to her cheek and smiled brightly, "I won't use the time-consuming and laborious makeup technique I have now." ”
Tonks' heart involuntarily "chuckled" as she thought of the "Tonks" she had seen yesterday, which made her back immediately ooze a sweat.
"Good night!" The purple-haired girl stood up, swayed over to Tonks, leaned on her shoulder and whispered in her ear, "I hope you can sleep soundly tonight." With that, the girl giggled and left the room.
Tonks shook his head with a wry smile, took out the map of Bristol, studied the location on the paper carefully for a long time, and finally put on his wizard's robe and left the room, she had to step on the spot to observe the environment first, otherwise with her lame tracking skills, she would definitely soon be discovered by Catherine "anomalous".
At eight o'clock in the morning on the 21st, Catherine, who had recovered her original appearance, went to the most famous restaurant in Bristol for breakfast, then walked around the University of Bristol, bought some local snacks in Bristol for lunch, and then went shopping for clothes and dinner, and finally went to the airport to take a helicopter to Weston-Sea.
It's a very ordinary itinerary, and Tonks follows it easily, because Catherine has not taken any anti-tracking measures, and has not even carried out regular reconnaissance inspections, as if she is really just an ordinary person who has come to Bristol for tourism.
But the contact in the past two days made Tonks not dare to underestimate this red-haired girl who has not yet turned 14 years old, the other party is not only smart and wise, but also extremely cunning. obviously has the strength to completely suppress herself, but she refuses to show it easily, so she is now extremely sure that Catherine is definitely showing weakness.
This made Tonks more and more cautious, and she mustered up her spirits, concentrated her full attention, and followed Catherine cautiously until the helicopter in which the girl was flying took off, and she relaxed a little, and rode her Comet 260 far away.
I don't know if it's because I'm too nervous during the day. When Tonks relaxed, she quickly felt tired, especially when the cool evening breeze caressed her cheeks, she couldn't help but close her eyes and take a nap, until she was awakened by the weightlessness caused by the sudden fall, and then hurriedly pulled the broomstick under her and rushed back into the sky to keep up with the helicopter not far away.
But when that helicopter landed at the airport in Weston-on-Sea. Tonks found that there was only one driver in the cabin, and she hurriedly ran to check, but the driver was not Catherine at all.
Tonks hurriedly apparition back to where he had dozed off. She soon spotted someone riding a broomstick to the northeast, and apparently Catherine had seized the opportunity to slip out of the helicopter when she had an accident.
Considering that Catherine's broomstick was by far the fastest firebolt, Tonks immediately gave up on using the Comet 260 to chase after him. Use the Phantom Apparition to return to the south-west city of Bristol and detect the Firebolt once again.
Luckily, Tonks soon discovers where the firebolts have landed. Unfortunately, her detection magic caught Catherine's attention, and when she hurried over with her apparition apparition, she saw the red-haired girl wave her wand and transform herself into a blonde white-collar worker.
Tonks immediately caught up with the blonde white-collar worker, but as soon as she turned a corner, she found that she had lost her figure, and luckily Catherine had already demonstrated how to follow a disguised Magus, and Tonks naturally copied it all.
However, Catherine's psychological quality is much stronger than Tonks's, and the object she has become with illusion has almost no flaws, Tonks can't recognize it at all, and in the end she can only rely on intuition, what people didn't expect is that the new Auror's intuition is extremely accurate.
Catherine didn't know that Tonks had relied entirely on her instincts to keep up with her, but she wasn't prepared to let the other man follow so easily, so when Tonks followed her into a remote alley, the girl suddenly turned around and attacked.
Caught off guard, Tonks hurriedly drew his wand to fight back, but could not resist Catherine's full suppression, and was quickly knocked unconscious, and by the time she came to her senses, the red-haired girl had long since disappeared, and she hurriedly apparitioned herself to the port of Weston-on-the-Sea.
The docks of Weston-on-the-Sea Harbor are still quiet, but the shops along the road have changed from the depression of the day, and the noisy singing, colorful lights, and the smell of alcohol wafting in the wind have made the place lively, and Tonks has completely lost the clue to follow Catherine.
As it approached midnight, Tonks began to panic, and she kept rummaging through her belongings, searching her memories, hoping to find a way to determine Catherine's approximate location, but unfortunately she never found it.
Tonks sat down on the ground in a dejected manner, clutching her hair in frustration, and she began to wonder if she was really that bad enough to deal with Bellatrix, and she could excuse that the other party was a battle-hardened Death Eater, but Catherine was a Hogwarts student who had not yet graduated, and she could still leave the other party behind.
Tonks looked up at the sea in the distance, she felt that her future seemed as dark as it, there was no glimmer of hope in sight, she hoped for a little light that would allow her to discern the path ahead, but all the things she longed for were behind her.
Tonks turned her head to look at the sluggish atmosphere across the street, she felt that she should have a drink like them, forget all her worries, she got up, crossed the street to the door of a bar, reached out and grasped the doorknob of the glass door, but when she looked up at the glass door, she found that her hair had turned gray.
As a disguised Magus, Tonks was well aware of how emotionally susceptible her appearance, especially her hair, was, but she had never seen them so dull, especially when she opened the glass door of the bar, which began to slowly turn white.
Tonks clutched her head, anxiously trying to stop her hair from turning gray, but she was horrified to find that her talent for disguise had suddenly become as difficult as a toddler's, as if it was slowly disappearing with the color of her hair.
Tonks was dumbfounded, she didn't understand what was going on, why her talent for disguise had suddenly started to disappear, was it because she couldn't find Catherine?
Tonks was at a loss, she felt that her world was crumbling, her glamorous future was disappearing, she was going to be even more mediocre than the average wizard, and she was likely to spend her life doing nothing, all because she had lost the talent of disguise that Merlin had given her.
Tonks couldn't believe it was true, and she was desperate to get herself drunk at once, so that maybe when she woke up tomorrow, things would be back to normal, but when she held the doorknob of the bar again, she seemed to see Catherine's disdainful gaze and her parents' disappointed eyes in the reflection of the glass door.
Tonks stood there stunned, staring blankly at the glass door in front of her, she seemed to see that she was going backwards, she was getting smaller and smaller, until she became a newborn baby, and then slowly grew up again, only this time, she didn't have a rare talent, she was no longer the center of attention, she was like a classmate in her house, ordinary and ordinary became the cornerstone of the wizarding world.
"It seems, it's not that bad." Tonks muttered to herself, and then she suddenly felt a little abrupt, in fact, what she was losing at this time was not her disguise talent, but her self-confidence.
Or should it be said, she never had the confidence to win, whether it was against Bellatrix or Catherine, she had no desire to win, so when she encountered setbacks, when she couldn't see hope, she chose to back down and gave up fighting.
"So the Sorting Hat really wasn't wrong, I'm a Hufflepuff," Tonks smiled wryly and lowered his head to look at his hands, "an ordinary cowardly grassroots guy." ”
Tonks looked up in frustration as his face grew old through the glass door, his straight spine began to bend, his bright eyes clouded until they finally turned into a pile of black bones and a few wilted strands of hair that were completely indistinguishable.
A strong unwillingness suddenly emerged from the bottom of Tonks's heart and quickly surged over her head, she suddenly clenched her hands and gritted her teeth hard, unwilling to succumb to this sad future, but the cruel reality was forcing her to bend her legs little by little.
When her knees were about to fall to the ground, Tonks suddenly burst out with all his magic power, blowing up the glass door in front of her, and her white hair, which had lost its luster, turned into a short pink hair in an instant.
The Muggles around her all looked at her in horror, but Tonks just straightened up, turned his head to look at the dark docks, and walked slowly but surely towards the darkness, the surging magic surging around her as she walked.
Shards of glass flew up from the ground and turned back into the glass doors of the bar, the dark lights soon returned to beating, and the roar of singing and drinking filled the streets again, as if nothing had happened, and the Muggles continued their revelry tonight. (To be continued......)