Chapter 22: Lovegood's House
Packing up some very important things and packing a small suitcase, Brandi said goodbye to Mrs. Weasley and left the Burrow with Luna.
According to Mrs. Weasley, the Burrow was not far from Lovegood's house...... But the actual situation is very appropriate to describe it as a dead horse running from a mountain. They had walked for more than an hour before they saw the strange house on top of the hill in the distance.
"You didn't just come here on your legs, did you?" Brandi rubbed her soreness calves and looked at Luna in disbelief. Seeing her nodding blankly, he almost didn't catch his breath. I'm a Merlin, there's a reason why girls are good at shopping!
By the time they reached Luna's doorstep in the truest sense of the word, the clock had jumped to noon. Brandi only felt that the cookies he had eaten earlier had already been digested, and he was now hungry enough to eat a cow.
"Has Mrs. Lovegood made lunch?" He licked his lips and asked impatiently.
"Mom?" Luna shook her head, and she stepped forward and patted the sign hanging on the courtyard door. "Mom, she can't cook for us, she's been dead for two years."
Brandi was stunned, remembering what she had said at Anna's house - she needed to be stronger.
"I'm sad." He muttered.
"yes, that's really scary......" Luna didn't show much expression on her face, and she squeaked the courtyard door open with difficulty, waving Brandi to follow. But I still have my dad, you know, dad he should have liked the way I laughed more than I was sad all the time. And that doesn't mean I'll never see my mom, does it? ”
She turned around and chuckled softly at Brandy.
For some reason, the heavy feeling in Brandy's heart disappeared with Luna's smile.
The environment of Luna's house is probably as bizarre as Luna herself, and the path leading to the door of the courtyard is not a neat straight line, but a winding path. The trail was lined with all kinds of strange plants, and Brandi was confident that he had done well in the herb class, but the only thing he knew in this yard was weeds - he didn't know if they were weeds or not, in fact, it was like a bag of gems stuffed with a stone, and the normal first reaction would be to think that it was not an ordinary stone......
He saw a bush full of fruit in the shape of a small orange turnip that Luna wore on her ears. Gu Luna called this thing Airship Lee, and wearing it on her body can improve her ability to accept anomalous things...... However, Brandi privately thinks that when you can hang carrots on your body as decoration, you are actually more receptive to anomalous things.
They crossed the trail, and in front of their house, a middle-aged man in sloppy clothes was standing on the side to greet them.
"I'm back, Dad." Luna trotted up briskly and hugged Mr. Lovegood.
"This is ...... Barton? He stroked Luna's blonde hair lovingly, and his gentle gaze turned to Brandi's body—suddenly scrutinizing and sharp. That glance made Brandi take a half-step back a little nervously, and for some reason he had the feeling of being targeted by the eagle guarding the cubs.
"Huh...... Hello, Mr. Lovegood. Brandi said tremblingly. Thank you very much for allowing me to be a guest at home. ”
"Brandy, this is my father, Xenophilius Lovegood." Luna poked her head out of her father's arms and made a long-overdue introduction. "Come in with me, and I'll show you my room."
Brandi didn't dare to move, and when Luna said the words 'my room,' Mr. Lovegood's eyes seemed to have just become more severe. He felt like he was being poked with that kind of real gaze all over his body now......
"Luna, any boy can enter a girl's room." Mr. Lovegood said softly to Luna, and glared at Brandi fiercely. "When you reach school age, you should know these truths."
"But Brandi isn't just a random boy." Luna let go of her father and ran over to grab Brandi's clothes. As he was about to go inside, Brandy reluctantly passed by Mr. Lovegood, despairing to see the look on his face as ugly as a bedbug.
"Hmph, stinky boy." He whispered a few dry times between his teeth, and then under Brandi's stunned gaze, his face suddenly changed to a bright and gentle smile. "Lunch is ready, you'd better wash your hands and eat first."
This meal was quite tangled, which is not to say that Mr. Lovegood is not a good cook, on the contrary, Brandy has rarely seen a bohemian old man make such a delicious dish: the chicken is marinated just right, and the fish soup is very delicious—although the extra two long legs in the soup make Brandy a little unacceptable for a while, but he can drink three bowls of soup alone in one go.
But the problem is that if there is always someone staring at you during the meal, then even the most delicious food will taste like chewing wax.
Brandi was clearly in this awkward state - he had to deal with Luna's whimsical topic while enduring eye attacks from her daughter's controlling daddy. Yes, the daughter is in control...... Judging by the two obvious changes in his expression towards himself and towards Luna, Mr. Lovegood must have been a late daughter.
So after a meal, the shadow area in Brandi's heart was incalculable.
To make matters worse, at night, an owl appeared outside Luna's window and asked Mr. Lovegood to go to the Ministry of Magic early the next morning for a two-day review of the magazine "Contradiction".
What does this mean?
It means that he needs to throw his baby daughter and a stinky boy of unknown origin at home!
Two days!
Mr. Lovegood's face was almost distorted when he saw the letter, and he had a man-to-man conversation ♂ with Brandy while Luna had helped him pick up the airship lees. "Stinky boy, if you do anything strange to her, I'll pour the sauce into your eyes! And it's the kind of semi-solid, with mayonnaise and boiling ground gordigan tea! ”
Although he didn't know what a terrible thing Godigan tea was at that time, he also knew how amazing the lethality was from the boiling top. That was probably the worst Brandi was scared of...... All night he sat in the courtyard of Lovegood's house, with a wreath of flowers that Luna had tied for him, and watched in a trance, as Luna ran up and down among the bushes in the garden. At that time, he and Luna were very similar in temperament.
That night, Brandy, who slept in the same room as Mr. Lovegood, had nightmares...... I dreamed that I was tied to a pillar and constantly doused with slimy dark purple gadgets.
The next day, Brandi was dazed and couldn't breathe, and he woke up to find two airship bags stuck in his nose, and Luna was sitting on the ground next to him, chuckling.
"I thought you'd breathe with your cheeks like the fish-men." She stood up, and Brandi found her dressed in plain black robes, carrying a backpack, and a slightly curved wand pinned to her ear.
She pinned her wand to her ear?
As if noticing Brandi's gaze, Luna flicked her hair, making her wand stand out a little more.
"It's much more convenient than taking it out of your pocket~"
………… Brandi subconsciously touched the wand in his trouser pocket, full of black lines.
"By the way, what are you doing here?" When he slouched up from the ground, he did not dare to go to bed because of Mr. Lovegood's connections, and had to spend the night on the ground.
"Aren't we going on an adventure?" Luna patted her backpack, "Adventures require gear, right, I've seen it in the Wizard Bell Wilderness Biography." I'm all set, when are we leaving? ”
Brandi was stunned for a moment, then hesitated to speak.
“…… It's not safe there. ”
"How can the adventure be smooth sailing?"
"I mean...... That's where Voldemort attacked before, the Ministry of Magic hasn't lifted the lockdown yet, and you're a freshman who hasn't yet entered school. I can't guarantee your safety—"
Luna stared at him with a dreamlike expression on her face.
"My mom. She's a brilliant wizard, you know, she's quite fond of experimenting. One day, she got a new spell out of nowhere, and she couldn't wait to try it, and I was sitting next to her. She had also agreed to go with me on the hillside in the evening to see Willy, a goblin I had named. ”
Brandi was infected by that heavy atmosphere and did not speak.
"But then, a burst of blue light burst out of her wand and hit the test bench - my mother grabbed me and threw me out the door—'Run!' , she said. The house exploded, rocks were thrown everywhere - I was just without my mother. Luna said in a blank breath. Mom, she didn't keep her promise...... She couldn't play with me on the hillside anymore. ”
"I'm sorry." Brandi lowered his head. He felt his cheeks lifted up by a pair of soft hands.
"So, don't make me sad anymore, okay?" Luna stared at him tightly, "You promised me ......"
Immersed in sadness, Brandi nodded without even thinking about it......
Then, immediately after, he saw Luna leave the room as if nothing had happened, and then brought in a plate of syrup cakes, urging Brandi to hurry up and eat and leave, with no sad look on his face. He was stunned, and then reacted.
Oops, fooled!
Looking at the breezy girl in front of him with black lines, Brandi flew over 10,000 owls in his heart.