Chapter 16: Before Halloween
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it's Halloween Eve, and at breakfast, Daphne receives a package from her cat's head.
"It must be my mother." Daphne frowned and said:
"She always gave me and my sister a lot of candy on Halloween...... Yes...... You see. When she opened the package, a large box of pear hard candy appeared in front of the three people.
"Look, I guessed it." Daphne took out the sugar and gave it to Ning An and Calidora, who were beside her.
Ning An noticed that Calidora's mood was a little low, and thought to herself that she might be missing her deceased relatives. So he changed the topic and said:
"Doesn't The Witcher's Halloween need to play something?"
"What do you want to dress up in? Wizard? Witch? Daphne scoffed:
"Or pretend to be a werewolf? That would cause a riot, a werewolf breaking into Hogwarts? ”
"Haha, that must be funny, you know I'm joking-" Ning An shrugged casually, his time at Hogwarts had brought him back to the carefree feeling he had once felt at school.
"What are we going to do today?" He then asked.
They didn't have classes all day today, and they only needed to attend the Halloween party in the evening, so Ning An wanted to ask the two of them what their plans were.
"Oh, I'm sorry, Ning'an." Daphne smiled teasingly again, and she took Calidora's hand and said:
"It's 'girl's time', I'm going to have a good bath with Carly or something......"
Listening to her words, Caridora didn't know what came to mind, and suddenly blushed. After getting acquainted with it, Ning An found out that this is actually a very shy girl, although she always likes to pretend not to care and conceit on the surface, but she is an introvert on the inside.
Hearing this, Ning An also knew that he might have to rely on him alone to pass the time today, so he stretched out his hand and made a stop gesture and said:
"Oooh...... Got it, got it, got it, Daphne you don't need to describe your shower so vividly. ”
Interrupting Daphne's teasing, Ning An smiled helplessly: "Then let's separate here, right?" ”
"Of course haha, I wish you a nice stay~" Daphne smiled and pulled up Calidora, and the two didn't know whether they planned to go directly to the bathroom or do something else, so they walked up the stairs and walked away.
Ning An shook his head with a smile, ate his breakfast, and was about to get up to leave, but someone behind him unexpectedly stopped him.
"Oh my God, Ning'an! It's been a long time since we've seen each other! Listening to some familiar voices, Ning An turned his head, and then he was stunned.
Two girls stood in front of her, one of whom he knew, "Meghan Jones", whom he had met on the train on the first day he had been at Hogwarts.
Jones was later assigned to Ravenclaw, and the two had little chance to meet, not expecting to meet at breakfast.
And the girl standing next to Jones was the one who surprised Ning An. This is a tall girl, who looks older than Jones, and the most important thing is that she is very similar to Ning An, with black eyes and black hair, she looks like a girl from China, Ning An saw her, and vaguely guessed who it was.
Megan? Jones seemed very happy to see Ning An again, she showed a bright smile, looked at Ning An and said:
"I really didn't expect to see you again so late, Ning An! How did you get sorted into Slytherin, I thought you were going to get sorted into Hufflepuff, how, were you bullied in Slytherin? Why are you eating here alone? Did you really not make friends? ”
Jones was like a Pandora's box that opened the chatterbox, and Ning An was bombarded indiscriminately, Ning An didn't have time to answer her questions one by one, she seemed to suddenly realize that the companion who had been left out in the cold hurriedly pulled the girl next to her over and said:
"Come and see, Ning An, are you from the same country? This is my senior sister in Ravenclaw, her name is Cho? Sheet. Jones said excitedly, as if he had never seen an Asian.
Ning An was still a little embarrassed, who knew that Qiu Zhang had generously stretched out his little white hand, and said to Ning An with a smile: "Hello, I really didn't expect to see someone of the same blood at Hogwarts." ”
Ning An also stretched out his hand, gently shook the other party's soft hand, and then said: "Ah, yes, I didn't expect it, are you from China?" ”
"Well, I'm Chinese." Qiu Zhang laughed at him again, and Ning An suddenly felt that this girl was so beautiful when she smiled
"My grandmother moved from China to the UK, and I grew up in London, but my family often tells stories about China."
"Haha, that's pretty good, anyway, it's nice to see you at Hogwarts, I guess the two of us are the only two, right? There shouldn't be any other Chinese companions here, right? Ning An quipped.
"Hahaha, that's an interesting analogy, yes, we're the only ones here. Qiu Zhang also laughed, her eyebrows curved into a crescent moon, and the two small tiger teeth at the corners of her mouth were also revealed when she smiled.
"Hey, two, it's time to catch up, don't ignore me, okay?" Jones saw the two of them chatting happily on the side, and couldn't help but interject and say.
"I said Ning An, didn't you make friends in Slytherin, then I'll come to you with Qiuduo to play with you in the future." Jones said sympathetically.
A worried look appeared on Qiu Zhang's face, "I've heard that Slytherin people...... It's usually not very friendly...... Are you ......" She considered her words, as if she was afraid of accidentally piercing Ning An's isolated situation at this time, causing Ning An to be embarrassed.
Ning An shook his head and said seriously: "That's not the case, my friends are busy with other things, they just left for a while, rest assured, I am not isolated." ”
Qiu Zhang breathed a long sigh of relief, and Jones circled around Ning An a few times, she was short in stature, and only then did she reach Ning An's shoulder, she looked at Ning An suspiciously and said, "It's really fake, no matter what you think about your character, you will suffer in Slytherin, right?" Are you trying to save face? ”
"No, Slytherin can make true friends." Ning An said sincerely, and at the same time secretly sighed that he didn't expect that he would be an easy character in Jones's eyes.
Seeing the sincerity of what he said, Jones no longer doubted it, and she suddenly looked around, and saw that there were not many people left at the table, and then she exclaimed:
"Hey! Autumn, I still have classes to attend. Just now, she also happened to see Ning An before she came up to talk a few words.
"Ah, I have a divination lesson too." Qiu Zhang patted his head, and said to Ning An with some nervousness:
"No one wants to be late for Professor Trelawney's class, or she'll start divining your fate in a weird way, and maybe you'll be able to relate to it next year."
"Oh, there's no time, that's it, we'll come to you often, goodbye Ning'an!" After Jones finished speaking, he pulled Qiu Zhang to go upstairs, and he didn't know if the classrooms where the two of them were in the same direction.
Qiu Zhang smiled and waved his hand at Ning An, and said gently, "So, see you later?" Ning'an. ”
"Well, see you haha." Ning An also smiled and waved his hand, watching the two of them leave the lobby.
Looking back, he suddenly found that he seemed to have become an idler?
"Well, if you have time anyway, why don't you go and see if that room is good."
Ning An was going to go to the Room of Requirement, which was simply a natural place for combat training, this magical room was the magic of Hogwarts, he could only enter it when people really needed it, and when it appeared, it was always arranged to meet the needs of those who asked for help.
Ning An went through the changing staircase to the eighth floor of Hogwarts Castle, where he had never been before, this floor was where the Gryffindor common room was located, Ning An also saw several Gryffindor students along the way, fortunately, they didn't stay long, and soon Ning An was left alone in the corridor.
He easily found the tapestry of the troll stick beating the stupid Barnabas, and turned to the other side, which was an empty stone wall.
"I hope it doesn't hurt to hit it." Ning An joked with himself with some worry, "I want to think about it...... I need a combat training house, I need a combat training house. ”
Ning An was concentrating on silently thinking about the training room he wanted to go to, and at the same time gritted his teeth and rushed towards the empty stone wall.
"Po" was like a stone thrown into the lake, Ning An felt as if he had just passed through a thin veil, and when he came back to his senses, he found that it was still the wall in front of him.
This time he didn't hesitate any longer, and then, as if through a thin veil, this three times, when Ning An looked up again, a very smooth door appeared on the wall in front of him.
"It's done! Ha ha. Ning An clapped his hands excitedly, and the next moment, he couldn't wait to push open the door and walk in.
It was a very empty room, the floor was paved with cyan stone bricks, and many thick pillars, I don't know whether they were used to support the roof or some other purpose, standing in the room, and the four walls were a breathtaking pure black, as if even the soul would be sucked away if you looked at it intently.
"It's amazing." Ning An exclaimed, this room with no decoration was his most ideal combat training ground.
"These large stone pillars can be used to dodge magic...... Hmm......" Ning An pinched his chin and thought, he walked to the wall again and gently stroked the cold pure black wall, "This...... Seems to have the effect of exercising mental strength? ”
After approaching this wall, Ning An suddenly felt a chill all over his body, and it was only when he concentrated his spirit to resist this chill that the temperature gradually returned to him.
After just a while, Ning An felt very tired, his eyelids couldn't be raised, and the whole person was like swimming back and forth in the pool for dozens of laps, extremely tired.
He didn't dare to stay in front of the stone wall any longer, so he reluctantly came to the center of the room, leaned against a large stone pillar, and slowly slipped down.
"Yes, it's awesome." This room is exactly what he wants now, it doesn't need too many complicated settings, just the simplest environment, the most direct magic confrontation, and there is a weird black wall that seems to be used to exercise the spirit.
"Looks like the training is going to be brutal, haha. But...... Looks like I'm going to have to get some sleep first. Ning An's eyelids were already fighting at this time, and after a while, he finally couldn't support it anymore and fell into a deep sleep.