CHAPTER XXV
Sally only felt her scalp tingle after listening to Ginny say everything logically at all. The thoughtful notebook, the paint chicken feathers all over her body on Halloween, in her intentional or unintentional words, seem to reveal a message, open the secret room, and the culprit who petrified those people is her!
Sally forced herself to calm down. "Who else did you tell these things?"
"There's no one else but Riddle. Ginny said, choking on a little as she had just stopped crying.
"Do you have the diary with you?"
"With it, I don't know where to put her so that no one else finds out. She pulled the diary out of her cuff, and there was a quill in it. "I, I wrote too many things in it, and I didn't want to be found out. ”
Sally studied the notebook, which seemed to be just a little more broken than the others. "You're saying you found it in a book your mom gave you. ”
"Yes. "Perhaps, if you want, you can try." Just write what you want to say in the blank space. ”
Sally looked at Ginny, hesitated, and picked up the quill. After thinking about it, I wrote "Who are you?" in the notebook.
I saw the words shine brightly on the paper for a second, and then it was as if they were sucked in, and after a while, a line of words appeared on the paper.
"Who are you?"
Sally hesitated and wrote, "Sally Potter." ”
"I'm Tom Riddle, nice to meet you, how did you get my diary?"
Sally looked at Ginny, who shook her head and said in horror, "Don't say it's me... ”
"I picked it up. Sally wrote.
"Liar, but it doesn't matter. Soon, another line appeared on the notebook. "What do you want to tell me?"
It occurred to Sally that the first sentence she wrote was: Who are you, then apparently she knows how to use this notebook.
"I want to know who you are, what this notebook is, and what Ginny's strange behavior has to do with you lately. Now that the other party already knows, she doesn't bother to beat around the bush. This time it took a while for the handwriting to become apparent. "I can take you to see what I recorded in my notebook. If you want. ”
"Thanks, don't want to. Sally wrote dryly, and she closed the notebook. Said solemnly to Ginny. "Ginny, if you believe me, then you should leave this notebook as soon as possible. ”
"Why... Ginny said with some horror.
"Because obviously this notebook has a mind of its own. I thought it might just be a more advanced magic, automatically replying to some of what you say based on what you say, but judging from the conversation just now, this notebook not only has its own thoughts, but can also do things that we can't think of. She remembered that a notebook had just told her to take her to see her, and she felt goosebumps all over her body. "Anything, if you can't see its brain and it has a mind, that's dangerous. I even suspect now that it's full of black magic. ”
"That... So what should I do. Ginny's tears were about to come out. Sally walked over and hugged her gently, saying, "It's okay, fortunately, I found it early." You can't rely on it anymore, burn it or throw it away, whatever you want. Don't hold it anymore. She paused, then added, "If you have something on your mind that no one can talk to, you can always come to me." I think I'll know Harry better than Riddle, if you want to know something about him. ”
"Nasty!" said Ginny, blushing. The atmosphere suddenly improved, and the two talked for a while, and Ginny said that she would say goodbye to Riddle when she returned, and that she could not burn him, because in her heart he was her friend. But throw it away anyway, in a place where no one will find out. Sally didn't understand why Ginny wanted to say goodbye to her, but she couldn't think of any good excuse to stop it. At this moment, George knocked on the door and came in, telling the two that the Christmas dinner was about to begin.
They had come to the Great Hall together, and this day the Great Hall was particularly magnificent, with not only a dozen Christmas trees covered with silver frost and a dozen thick friezes made of Parasitic and Holly on the ceiling, but also enchanted snow, warm and dry. Almost every student was given a turkey filled with delicious fillings. There is also the fig pudding that represents Christmas, and just as Sally was eating the third pudding, Les brought a special Christmas gift she bought, which she had read from a newspaper and the rest of the gifts could be prepared in advance, except for this one.
Schiller threw the package on the table and did not fly away, it fell and rubbed it affectionately with Sally, Sally took out the prepared owl snack from her pocket, and Schiller ate it with great grace before leaving the auditorium. Sally picked up the package, seeing that Snape's seat was empty in the auditorium's teacher's seat, and she didn't want to eat the remaining half of the pudding, she got up to leave, and returned to the Slytherin common room, where she opened the package and found that in addition to the gifts she bought, several greeting cards she had given to the Star Orphanage were also among them, which had been returned.
She took the gift and knocked on Professor Snape's door.
"Enter. Snape said. Seeing that it was Sally, it could only be Sally, he asked. "What's the matter?"
"Ahem, Christmas presents. Sally said. The expression was a little unnatural.
“。。。 Are you here for a Christmas present?" asked Snape. How could he explain that he didn't have the habit of preparing Christmas presents, in fact, he almost forgot that it was Christmas.
"No, I'm here to give a gift. Sally's face grew redder. "Professor Snape, please give me a moment to put down what I am doing and look at me. ”
“。。。 Snape wanted to refuse, but in the blink of an eye, Sally blushed like an apple on a Christmas tree. Swallowing the words of refusal again, he turned to look at her.
"Ahem. Sally threw the milky white ball hidden behind her upward, and then the ball exploded in all directions, and white snowflakes continued to fall from the place where it exploded, and then a burst of music sounded, and Sally sang softly along with the background music.
“we wish you a merry christmas;
we wish you a merry christmas;
we wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year.
we wish you a merry christmas;
we wish you a merry christmas;
we wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year.
good tidings we bring to you and your kin;
we wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year.
oh, bring us a figgy pudding;
oh, bring us a figgy pudding;
oh, bring us a figgy pudding and bring it fight here
oh, bring us a figgy pudding;
oh, bring us a figgy pudding;
oh, bring us a figgy pudding and bring it fight here
good tidings we bring to you and your kin;
we wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year.
music
we won't go until we get some;
we won't go until we get some;
we won't go until we get some, so bring some out here
we wish you a merry christmas;
we wish you a merry christmas;
we wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year.
Merry Christmas, Professor Snape"
The first sentence was a little trembling because of nervousness, and then she simply closed her eyes, and sure enough, the tension was relieved a lot. Snape looked at the little girl in front of him blushing and singing the Christmas song in a crisp and innocent voice. He had always thought that he was long past the age of the hairy boy, and he had always disdained such pediatric things, but when Sally finished singing the song, she opened her eyes and looked at him, and said seriously, "Merry Christmas, Professor Snape." He felt a crack open in his frozen heart, without warning.
As the music ends, the snowflakes stop falling. There was silence in the room, and Sally couldn't help but break the ice first, she laughed dryly twice, "Hehe, what, I've already delivered the Christmas present, so I'll go first." After saying that, she turned around and wanted to run, which was a bit of a desert and ran away.
"You don't want your Christmas presents?" Snape said to stop her.
"My Christmas present?" said Sally, happily, and jumped up to Snape, "What is it?"
Snape picked up his wand and tapped it to the empty space on the table, and a fig pudding appeared on the table.
Sally was stunned for a moment, then looked at him angrily, "This is your Christmas present, there is no sincerity at all." ”
"Don't?" said Snape, gesturing to put it away.
"If you want it, a piece of pudding is better than nothing. Sally said, eating the pudding in a few bites, it tasted exactly like the pudding at the Christmas dinner, and Sally still had a hint of hope that the pudding was made by Snape.
"Now that I've finished my pudding, I'm ready to go. Seeing that Sally had finished eating, Snape put away the plate on the table and wiped out all the traces of the snowflakes just now.
Sally complained about the perfunctory Christmas presents and went out with a smile on her face that couldn't be hidden. When Snape was alone in the room again, he could no longer return to the preoccupied scene he had before Sally arrived, and the empty room seemed to be constantly repeating the song he had just had. After several unsuccessful attempts, he threw the book in his hand a little angrily, leaned back in his chair and stared at the spot where the ball had just exploded on the ceiling.
bring us a figgy pudding and bring it fight here,good tidings we bring to you and your kin。
We're going to eat fig pudding, put the pudding here, and if we can't eat it, we won't leave.
A smile tugged at the corner of Snape's mouth, next Christmas, it seems that he will have to prepare gifts in advance.