Chapter 59: About What Happened to Hermione Granger in the Kitchen
The kitchen at Hogwarts is a large room with a high ceiling located below the dining hall.
At the door of the kitchen is a picture of a large fruit bowl, and if you gently scratch the big green pear in the picture, the big pear will squirm and laugh, and then the pear will turn into a big green doorknob so that anyone who wants to enter the kitchen can pull the door open.
The kitchen is as large as the canteen above, and the surrounding stone wall is lined with glittering copper pots and basins, including several boilers, and bean sprouts, shiitake mushrooms, and anchovy mushrooms in the corner of the stone wall.
In the kitchen were four long wooden tables, which were arranged in exactly the same position as the tables of the four faculties in the auditorium above. The house-elves in the kitchen put the students' meals on the table when they were ready, and when it was time to eat, the food was passed to the long tables in the cafeteria. Someone once put a few copies of the lamprey version of the stargazing sky made by themselves on these tables, but during the meal, these stargazing sky appeared on the long table in the cafeteria along with the meals made by the house-elves, and one of them appeared directly in front of Zhang Xu.
At the other end of the kitchen is a large brick fireplace, and in front of the fireplace are rows of tables and chairs used by students who often come in the evening.
The flames in the fireplace stood on the charcoal and danced merrily, and as the flames danced and twisted, the charcoal under their feet made a "pop", "pop", "pop" sound from time to time.
Bursts of fire shone through the fireplace, shining on a table in front of the fireplace, and the mess of parchment and quill on the table, against the flickering light of the fire, seemed to silently tell of how they had been treated roughly. Several of the parchments still had a little water trail on them, and it looked as if someone had dripped tears on them.
On a chair next to the table sat a young girl.
The girl sat down in her chair as if she had no strength.
Her feet were stretched out straight, and the soles of her feet were leaning limply on the ground in either side.
Her entire hips slid to the front of the chair, and the weight of her body pressed against the bits between her hips.
Her waist was bent, her whole back leaning against the back of the chair, and her trembling hands were hanging limply on either side of the chair.
The back of the chair supported her weak head.
Her mouth opened slightly, her lips moving, as if she wanted to say something, but it seemed that her throat was blocked by something.
Her eyes stared blankly at the kitchen ceiling, tears constantly rolling through the corners of her eyes.
Tragedy is the destruction of valuable things in life to show others, and today's Hermione has experienced the birth of a tragedy of her own.
Three hours ago, when Hermione was called to the kitchen by Zhang Xu, she had a bad feeling that something very important to her was about to happen, and something very precious to her was about to leave her.
When Hermione arrived in the kitchen, she saw several classmates gathered around the table, and her anxiety intensified.
Although she was mentally prepared at first, during the painful process, Hermione had been comforting herself in her heart, this must be something wrong, and there must be a turnaround in the end, maybe this was a nightmare in itself, and she would soon wake up from the nightmare. But when it was all over, Hermione broke down, and instead of a nightmare to wake up to, she was confronted with the reality of Red Fruit.
Starting with Zhang Xu, followed by several other students from the magic family, the appearance of each one made her miserable.
With each passing minute, the pain in Hermione's heart increased by a point, and the hope in her heart decreased by a point, but she could not stop, she could only continue mechanically, trying to alleviate the pain in her heart through action, and find the hope that might exist.
At the last moment, Hermione had given up, because she could no longer see any hope, and could only rely on the constant movements of her hands to vent her heart.
In the end, everything was over, and Hermione's heart was completely broken, and she finally realized that some things in the wizarding world were not as beautiful as she looked, and some of her innocent and romantic fantasies in the wizarding world had left her.
During her nearly two years of exposure to the wizarding world, Hermione met all kinds of wizards, from people she hated to friends who could trust each other's lives.
When Hermione met the man, she was drawn to his magic and his experience at first. Teenage girls are the easiest to worship idols, and in Hermione's mind, he is already her first idol.
How Hermione had believed in him, trusting him unreservedly in everything she said and did. At home, she happily tells her parents, who know nothing about the wizarding world, about his deeds, about the adventures and stories he has experienced. It can be said that Hermione's trust in him is even second only to her trust in Dumbledore.
Today, however, that trust is completely shattered. When Hermione was pressed on the chair by Zhang Xu for five minutes, in the face of the facts in front of her, her trust in him was shattered little by little, and then smashed into fine sand.
Daphne Greengrass, who was standing on the sidelines and watched the whole process, looked at the time and finished eating, then walked up to Hermione, patted her still trembling shoulder, and asked, "Are you hungry?" I'll cook a bowl of noodles for you to eat. ”
Hermione, who came back to her senses, shook her head, then turned her head to look at Zhang Xu, who was sitting by the fireplace, and asked, "Have you considered my feelings?" ”
"This kind of thing happens, and no one wants it to happen." Zhang Xu shook his head and said.
"Let me be quiet." With that, Hermione got up from her chair and hobbled out of the kitchen.
"We're not going too far with Miss Granger by doing this." One student said.
"I just didn't expect her to be so vulnerable, and I didn't expect what just happened to hit her so hard." Zhang Xu said.
"You really don't know the heart of a girl, let her peel off the hypocrisy of the person she admires the most, little by little, to reveal the ugly true face behind her, this kind of thing is very cruel to a girl with a sensitive heart." Daphne Greengrass said.
"But she's the only one who can put it together in such a short period of time." Another student said as he looked at the parchment on the table that Hermione had messed with because of the final inner breakdown.
"After the Easter break, we're going to hand it over to the Ministry of Magic's Department of Magical Law Enforcement. They'll do the rest. You can let your family put a little pressure on the Ministry of Magic, so that the Ministry of Magic can take our work seriously. A student from the Snake Academy said.
Several of the other students nodded.
In the past few months, some of the students of "Tea Time After School" have used the power of their families to quietly investigate the characters that appeared in Lockhart's books.
Yesterday, all the survey results were summarized, but in the face of the complicated information, these students suddenly did not know where to start.
So someone came up with a method, based on Lockhart's book, according to the appearance of the characters in the book, the content of the book and these survey materials are all correlated and organized, and the two are compared.
And the best person to organize these materials is naturally Hermione Granger, who is known as the "big mobile library".
Although many people are suspicious of Lockhart, Hermione has always believed in and admired Lockhart, which can be seen from Hermione's ability to memorize almost all of Lockhart's books upside down and answer Lockhart's quiz with perfect marks.
However, in the process of compiling this information, Hermione found that the person in Lockhart's book did not mention Lockhart in the slightest, and that Lockhart's place in the book was constantly occupied by characters such as the ugly old American wizard and the open-mouthed witch.
It's obvious that Lockhart's book keeps all the things that other people do on their own.
In the end, Hermione saw that none of Lockhart's books featured Lockhart himself, and that the original protagonists in the books had been attacked by the Oblivion Spell, and her heart shattered, and her heart shattered.