Chapter 63: The Shadows

The next morning, the weather was clear, and the students still came to the hall to eat as usual, and no one knew that just last night, outside the village of Hogsmeade, a murder had taken place.

Ning An and Daphne were eating at the table, today's breakfast was Ning An's most hated beans, the salty green beans had a very astringent taste, and the taste was far worse than all kinds of small cakes.

"What's going on there?"

Daphne turned her head to look down the small hallway leading to the foyer behind her, where it seemed like a crowd of people were gathering around the bulletin board.

Ning An glanced up, and it happened that Samantha came over from there.

"They're going to run a dueling club." With a strange expression on Samantha's face, Ning An guessed that he must have wanted to participate in a duel, and then was excited to be able to seriously injure his opponent.

"Dueling Club?" Daphne asked suspiciously, "Do you want to participate?" ”

"Of course—" Samantha replied without hesitation, and judging by the look on his face, Ning An knew she had guessed correctly.

"What about you? Ning'an. Daphne asked Ning An again.

"Go ahead, I'm not interested—" As he spoke, a large flock of owls flew in from the window, and they landed on the students' tables, and there was another commotion.

Strangely, an owl flew to Ning An's table, a brown long-eared owl with a pair of beautiful black ear feathers standing up high, and an envelope wrapped in yellow paper tied to its feet landed on Ning An's dining table.

"Frigga ......"

Ning An gently rubbed the owl's head, Fuliga likes to eat raw beef, but unfortunately there is no beef for breakfast today, only beans, trying to grab a few beans and hand them over, but in exchange for an owl peck.

"You've it off—" Daphne, who also recognized Frigga, scoffed.

Not paying attention to Daphne's ridicule, Ning An rubbed his pecked palm a few times, and before he returned to Hogwarts, he asked the vampire Baron William to take Friga to Grand Hangdon to facilitate their contact.

But they hadn't been in touch for a long time, except for a correspondence at the beginning of the school year, and now Frigga had sent a letter, no doubt from William.

Untying the letter, Ning An slowly opened the envelope and took out the letter paper inside, Daphne and Samantha looked at Ning An curiously.

I saw that the letter reads

Dear Niang,

It's been three months since we last parted, and I'm writing to you now in my new home.

I've been busy with my work since I moved, and I've cut back on my contact with you because of the small cost of living, I heard you're doing well at Hogwarts?

Nothing special, just as your uncle, a greeting on Christmas Eve, well, Merry Christmas, maybe I'll give you a gift then.

P.S. I found the ring you lost, I think you should change the problem of losing it.

Love your uncle, William]

Putting down the letter paper ning an anxin a big stone settled this is a letter sent by baron william there is no doubt that niang is the pseudonym they agreed on before it is useless nonsense important in the appendix of a sentence.

The lost ring was found by me, which means that Ning An had previously instructed Baron William to go to Grand Hangleton to look for Marvolo? Gaunt's ring had been found by William, and it was inlaid with the deathly holy weapon that Ning An needed most, the Resurrection Stone.

Fold the letter paper and put it in his arms, Ning An took out a small note and wrote briefly on it with a quill:

"Stay away from dangerous things, waiting for me."

When he was done, he put the note in an envelope and retied it to Friga's feet.

He gently stroked Friega's head, signaling that it was time to return the letter. Fuliga, who didn't get the beef, let out a "coo" muffled cry in dissatisfaction, pecked Ning An hard again in anger, and then flapped his wings and flew away.

Ning An smiled bitterly and shook his head, and didn't say anything more, Samantha on the side was a little dumbfounded, was this owl raised by Ning An? Ning An was actually so kind to it, how long had it been since he had seen Ning An show such a warm smile?

Patting her cheek, Samantha quickly woke herself up, "That's a dream, that's a dream...... he said hypnotically to himself.

Ning An quickly finished his breakfast, the beans on the plate barely moved, and casually stacked the plates together, and Ning An stood up.

"I'll go first, it's a little stuffy here, I'm going out to get some air." They didn't have classes this morning, and Ning An somehow suddenly wanted to take a good walk around the school.

Maybe it was the influence of killing Montongues, maybe it was seeing Friga suddenly bring back memories, maybe it was just that he was too tired lately, and Ning An had a thought in his heart that he wanted to escape from it all.

Bypassing the foyer on the first floor, you enter the spacious hallway, where rows of tall stone pillars open the open courtyard, and cold wind blows through the open-air path from all directions.

The cold wind hit his face, which eased Ning An's mood a lot, he found that he was not as strong as he imagined, he also had limits, everything he endured seemed to have erupted after killing another wizard last night.

Although he was still able to calmly dispose of the corpse, he transformed and flew back to Hogwarts, where he went back to bed seemingly uneventfully. However, last night he had numerous nightmares.

Each time he used the Diamond Heart Charm, his distorted faces appeared in front of him, and they knelt and cried and begged to let them go, and then the screen changed, and Harry, Ron, and Hermione appeared, and they lashed out at his ruthlessness, Hermione wept bitterly.

Ning An wanted to wake up, but he couldn't struggle with this nightmare no matter what, and he found that he had lost his mana and forgot all the spells.

So Daphne, Samantha, Walter and the others left him with disdain on their faces, and when he panicked, a blinding green light flashed, and Mundungus held his wand, laughing at him maniacally, and his red, swollen and bloodshot eyes stared at Ning An, and then he shouted: "Avada suo-"

Ning An found himself by the small tree outside the village of Hogsmeade, a dark green light shining on the heavens and the earth, and he was hit, struck by the death curse of Mundungus.

Slowly turning to the side, Ning An fell weakly, but it was not the cold earth that greeted him, but the warm embrace.

He opened his eyes, and Calidora appeared, smiling as before.

Ning An opened her mouth to say something, but she couldn't make a sound, and then, Calydora opened a book.

"No, no—" he shouted inwardly, but he could only watch as Calidora fell into the green light again.

"Don't ——!" Ning An woke up like this, and after the nightmare, he didn't sleep all night.

Walking in the empty corridor, Ning An's mood gradually returned to cold, and he tried his best to bury the nightmare of last night and stop thinking about it, so as to relieve the discomfort in his heart a little.

Suddenly, a girl's voice came from the front: "—do you want to use your stupid reasons to explain why you broke Matilda's vase?" The voice was aggressive.

"—actually, I don't want to smash it." The answerer's tone was calm.

Ning An turned the corner and saw three girls standing in the corridor in front of her, wearing white shirts and gray woolen vests, and the blue ties on the shirts marked the identities of the three Ravenclaw students.

Two of the taller girls were surrounding a girl with waist-length light blonde hair, with angry expressions on their faces.

"Wow! What are you going to say about that spider plant—"

"Fly Hook"

"Yes, Bughook! Parasitized by a bug hook? The big girl waved her arms excitedly, very emotional.

The girl who was surrounded in the middle looked away at this time, she actually noticed Ning An's appearance, she turned her eyes to Ning An's side, and then Ning An saw the girl's appearance clearly.

She looked a little smaller than Ning An, with long variegated blonde hair reaching up to her waist, silver-gray eyes looking at Ning An hazy, and her eyebrows were very light, giving people a mysterious feeling, but a pair of carrot earrings hanging from her ears destroyed the mystery and made her look weird.

She looked at Ning An, but opened her mouth and whispered to the two girls: "I don't want to break it, it's just that the spider plant parasitized by the hook is very dangerous, if it is accidentally hooked, it will die of illness in three days." ”

"Enough! Luna, Crazy Luna! ”

The tall girl seemed to be unable to stand the other party's nonsense any longer, and she said angrily: "No one has seen any hooks!" There's no such thing in this world! Listen to me! It's better not to do this kind of thing again in the future! No one wants to listen to your scimitar-horned snoring jokes! ”

"I thought it was our Slytherin patent to have more people and less to bully others, when did Ravenclaw do this kind of thing." Ning An stepped forward with a sneer and said lightly.

The two tall Ravenclaw girls only noticed Ning An's arrival at this time, and their faces were slightly unnatural.

Although they were very unhappy with what Ning An said, the two of them just glared at him fiercely, stomped their feet and left.

And Luna still looked like she was sleepwalking, standing quietly in place, looking at Ning An.

"Do you believe in the existence of the Fly Hook?" Of course, Ning An guessed who was in front of him, believing in the hook or something, I'm afraid that there is only Luna of Ravenclaw in the whole of Hogwarts? Lovegood too.

"Of course."

Luna smiled lightly and confidently replied in the affirmative, "So please don't stand under the mistletoe, or you will be easily hooked by them." ”

For Luna to seriously admit these strange topics, Ning An didn't know how to continue. Just now, because I had a good impression of Luna when I was studying in the past, I subconsciously came out and helped her say something.

But now that he realized that there was a living person standing in front of him, Ning An stopped talking, and it must be better if there was no intersection between the two, so he raised his leg and skipped Luna and continued to walk forward.

However, before he could take two steps, a girl's calm voice suddenly came from behind him: "Are you in pain?" ”

Ning An stopped.