"Now there are some books left to buy. The Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration and..." Vaux looked at the densely packed list of equipment with a bit of a headache, and unconsciously deviated from the straight line behind Remus, dressing up at the door of a shop with a girl who came up from behind.
After the other party was knocked a step away, he fell down the steps and twisted his feet, his originally neat and smooth brown hair suddenly scattered, dark brown eyes swept sharply towards Vaux, the bottom of his eyes seemed to be as cold as rolling ice, and the tip of the thin wand subconsciously slipped out of her cuff a little, hidden under her white fingertips.
Aurora hurriedly ran between the two and apologized first: "I'm sorry, he has been walking and looking at the things in his hand just now, and he didn't notice someone behind him, sorry." Are you okay? "
The girl didn't answer, but turned her gaze unhurriedly to Aurora, who noticed that her eyes flickered strangely, as if in disbelief. Immediately after, the girl straightened up and moved closer to Aurora, her gaze sliding down her long light blonde hair to the pocket watch on her chest.
Aurora subconsciously took a step back, she didn't remember seeing this girl, but she was so tall, half a head taller than herself, not much shorter than Vaux. And she looked at herself so strangely.
At this time, the girl finally spoke, her voice as cold as ice beads falling into the bottom of the frozen river, "It's not you who should apologize, right?" "
"It's my fault, I'm really sorry." Vaux politely and politely accompanied. The girl ignored him, as if she hadn't heard him at all.
Finally, as Remus approached, the girl put away her look at Aurora. The wand disappeared silently into her cuffs again, and she reached out to dust her dark gray pleated skirt briskly and gracefully, and entered the bookstore in front of her without looking back.
Apparently she also came to buy books, maybe she was also a Hogwarts student.
"Let's go. We also have to go in and buy books, and when we buy them, we can go home. Aurora said as she lightly touched Vaux with her elbow.
The bookstore was overcrowded, and the first and second floors were crowded with children in their teens and elevens who had come to buy books, and the noise of joy almost lifted the roof of this small shop. Aurora finally squeezed out of the crowd to get a copy of "Standard Spells • Elementary", and the "Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi" had been sold out in a blink of an eye.
Obviously just a time to turn around - of course, it is not easy to turn around in such a crowd.
At this time, the girl who was knocked down by Vaux just now suddenly came over and shook a hardcover book in her hand towards Aurora: "Are you looking for this?" "
"Ugh." Aurora quickly circled around, quickly confirming that it was impossible to find the same one, and nodded, "Yes." It's a pity that I wasn't so lucky and didn't grab it. "
"Here you go." The girl's demeanor and tone are as beautiful and unapproachable as a pre-set delicate mechanical doll, and the indifferent and sweet voice is smooth as smooth silk, without a trace of ups and downs, "I just took two copies in my hand, and one more came out." "
"Ah, thank you." Aurora hesitated, thanked politely and took the book. The girl withdrew her hand and walked past Aurora outward, her long brown hair jumping briskly behind her. It looked like the pile of brick-thick books in her hand couldn't hold her back at all.
"Have you bought it all?" Remus walked down from the second floor with Vox, "If it's all together, let's go back." "
"And the last one."
Eventually, Aurora and Vox each returned home with a pile of books and a wire cage containing their animal companions. Despite Remus' suggestion that it would be more convenient for owls to deliver messages and parcels, Aurora insisted on buying the black cat curled up in the corner of the store.
Probably because the color of the cat's pupils was a little close to Aurora's long hair, and when he opened his eyes, he was as bright as carrying the sunshine on a sunny day in midsummer. And instead of teasing owls, Aurora prefers this fluffy little guy who can be held in her arms and huddled up in a bed to sleep.
Aurora named her black cat Bright, which means bright and radiant. The reply to Hogwarts was brought along by Vox's owl Hastings on the night of his return.
After nightfall, Aurora was in her room packing up her belongings to take to school. Bright sat quietly on the bed and watched as she emptied almost all the clothes in the closet, and then there was still quite a bit of space in the suitcase to fit some books.
Aurora looked at it, took out her childhood clothes from the bottom of the closet, cut them open with scissors, and then sewed a simple style satchel with needle and thread. When the heavy luggage was put on the bed, Bright was shocked, and then quickly jumped on the bedside table, tilted his head to look at the owner, and did not make a sound.
When everything was ready, Aurora took off her clothes, and the letter in her pocket suddenly slipped out of her shallow pocket and floated to the ground. She picked it up and opened it.
"Dear Aurora, my daughter, since you have seen this letter. Then I think you're ready to go to Hogwarts. It used to be my school, and I loved it and loved it enough to give it my all. I hope you enjoy it there as much as I do.
I saved a sum of money for you at Gringotts, and if used properly, you should be able to use it just right until fifth grade. Therefore, I sincerely recommend that you work part-time during the holidays, and quite a few shops in Diagon Alley will provide students with very good vacation positions. Of course it's great if you can get a job in Plymouth.
After being targeted by the Death Eaters, everything I had in the wizarding world was closely monitored. I can't write to you, and I can't easily move funds from my account somewhere else. Fortunately, Professor Dumbledore reached out to help at a critical moment and took the initiative to send letters and money for you, but he could only transfer a little at a time.
He was a great and loving principal and teacher, and if you had any difficulties, you could go to him. But I hope that's when you're clueless. The daughter of the Field family never asks for someone easily, even if the other party will not refuse.
Finally, you are my pride. Always be.
As a side note, I want you to get a share of Ravenclaw, which was my former house, and if so, you'll have to work extra hard. Of course Gryffindor they are also very good. No matter which college you go to, please always remember that it is your own cultivation and knowledge that make you successful, not the glory and rumors of the academy.
Love you forever, Emmond Henry Field. "
...
1982 • 1 September • King's Cross Station, London, England
On the day they left for school, Remus Lupin and Vox's father, Scott, came to see them off.
Aurora pinched the ticket, pushed the cloth box containing her suitcase and Bright, and followed closely behind Remus. The ticket says that train 5972 will be waiting at platform 9 and 3/4, when the time comes, it will depart on time.
"Will such a platform really exist?" Vaux said as he pulled the knot of his neckline a little looser. Today was the first day of school, and Scott had prepared a casual formal suit for him that looked quite decent, but it seemed that Vox missed the trackover he folded in the box even more.
Aurora chose a simple light gray long-sleeved T-shirt, a loose green overalls with a stand collar and short sleeves, and tied her long hair loosely behind her head. When the two children first met in the morning, Aurora joked that Vox was like a young master who went to the ball, and that she was the cleaner who stayed behind to clean up the scene.
"It's always right to follow Remus anyway." She didn't seem to care about these strange details at all, and she was in a happy mood, looking at the people and things around her along the way.
When she walked to the middle of platforms nine and ten, Aurora found that in addition to a few of them, some other children gradually joined in. Their equipment is similar to their own, except for some owls and toads, and some trunks are almost higher than their own heads.
Vox's father can only stay here, he can't do magic, he can't go to the world behind the walls.
"From the moment you pass through this wall, it's all on your own." Remus touched Aurora's head, "Your father will be proud of you." "
"Take care of yourself, take care of Aurora." Scott hugged his child, the emotions in his eyes complicated and deep. From today onwards, his children will go to the magical world from which his wife came, and he will have to stay away forever.
"You have a picture of your mom, right? If one day you see her, tell her I'm still waiting for her at home, forever. "
"Okay Dad." Vaux wrapped his backhand around his father, "We'll all be back, I promise." "
After saying goodbye to Scott, Remus led them through the ginger wall that stood between platforms ninety, and when Aurora opened her eyes again, a train with pure white steam above her head and the golden letters "Hogwarts" flying at the front appeared in front of them.
One after another, children got on the bus, some of them were senior students. Aurora and Vaux waited patiently next to the line, waiting for the crowd to pass before getting on the bus, and Remus wrote his address with a pen in the notebook he carried, as if remembering something.
At this time, Aurora heard a red-haired teenager next to him who was waiting to line up tilting his head and saying something to his companion: "Hey, have you heard?" The Head of Slytherin House changed at the end of the school year and was also taught the school's Potions compulsory course. God, this class of freshmen is so miserable, I have to sympathize with them. "
"I heard that he came near the end of the school year because the handover and other things never showed up at the school. But I've heard that he is even harsher and ruthless than Horace, and if he wants to become an Auror, he must excel in advanced Potions class. The Slytherin guys are out of luck. The dark-haired boy snorted.
"But he's the Head of Slytherin after all, and the real miserable thing should be our houses, right?" The redhead pouted, "So what's his name?" I'll have to see if he has any other electives, and I'll have to avoid them all. "
"It seems to be called... Severus Snape. The black hair pushed his chattering companion into the car.
Aurora watched as they got on the train, and she followed Vox to the last step of the train at the end of the line.
"Aurora, take this." Remus quickly tore off the page of the notebook and handed it to her, "If anything, let Vox's owl send a message." "
"Oh, okay." Aurora hurriedly went to pick it up, the train was ready to start, and a slight tremor came from the handrail she was holding in her hand, "Remus, what do you know about Hogwarts... Seaver what Snape? "
I don't know if it's an illusion, but Aurora felt that after she said the name, Remus' expression suddenly became very strange. He shook his fingers in the void, and then put them into the pocket of his coat: "How do you know this person?" "
"I just heard that he seems to be the new Head of Slytherin and is going to teach us Potions." Aurora replied, "Would it be serious if Potions didn't pass?" I read that book "A Thousand Amazing Herbs and Fungi" and found it difficult. "
Now Remus's expression could not even be described as strange, it was simply unpredictable, as if he was going to perform a unique trick called how to use facial muscles to show the sunny and thunderstorm weather in Britain. Aurora didn't feel anything yet, but now when she saw him like this, she suddenly had a premonition of impending disaster.
"Remus?"
"Oh... What a surprise. Remus opened his mouth a few times, as if he had a lot to say and didn't know where to go, "He... It's hard to generalize. In short, you pray that you don't get sorted into Slytherin, and that is, don't provoke him. With that, Remus muttered a few words that Aurora didn't listen to at all. Words that were too softly spoken were crushed by the rumble of the train.
But she was concerned with another question: "What does it mean to provoke him?" "
Remus' expression froze, "This..."
The train left, and Aurora was pulled into the compartment by Vaux.
Thick white boiling steam continued to float out of the locomotive, and the Hogwarts logo stood at the front of the locomotive, sharp and shining in the sunlight like a sheathed blade, breaking through the layers of sunlight drapery, whistling all the way away, and the distant horizon was a pale golden yellow.
Vaux and Aurora struggled through the carriage aisles together, and the compartment rooms along the way were almost full. Vaux's stature was a bit striking among a group of his peers, and each of the escaped owls used his unkempt brown hair as a temporary stop, which drove him crazy.
Finally found a free private room, and the two children couldn't wait to squeeze in. Aurora took Bright out of her arms and brushed her messed up dark hair.
At this moment, the carriage door opened again, and Aurora saw the brown-haired girl she had met last time in Diagon Alley and another smiling girl with a maroon wavy curl and beautiful blue eyes standing in the doorway.
"I'm really sorry, it's just you guys who are still free here, do you mind the four of us squeezing together?" The smiling girl squeezed in first, placing the heavy suitcase in her hand next to Aurora's seat.
"Okay, of course." Aurora saw that Vaux's gaze touched the cold brown-haired girl the moment she quietly looked away, focusing all her attention on the idyllic scenery outside the window.
"Caroline Cooper, pure-blooded family." The smiling girl threw herself towards Aurora, her thick maroon curls draped over her shoulders, gentle as a quiet flowing river on an autumn night.
"Aurora Field, half and half."
The brown-haired girl gave Aurora a quick look.
"What about the two of you?" Caroline turned to look at Vaux and the girl, who were also silent. The hair color of the two people soaked in the sun is strikingly similar.
"Gerard Chevalier, half and half." Vaux replied briefly, his gaze wandering politely towards Caroline for a moment.
"Beverly Greenberg, don't know the pedigree." The brown-haired girl's answer was equally brief.
For the time that followed, Aurora felt that the carriage they were in was definitely the quietest in the entire Hogwarts train, even though Caroline kept talking and she kept talking. But the atmosphere on the other side is obviously not so harmonious.
It swayed until the sky was already dark, and the train gradually slowed down.
Hogwarts, arrived.