Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 440 The real birthday present

Dear Harry:
When you read this letter, it means that the little puzzle I left you has been solved by you.

Here I apologize in advance, I have to take this way to communicate with you.

That idiot Snape made me revise every word more than ten times before letting me mail the letter.

I think you can also see that there are a lot of Lysnape's own boasting words in that letter... If your friends have read that letter together... If you are disgusted,
I say sorry.

Of course, most of the contents of the letter are still true, the secret order of the magic lamp, and the owl was indeed given to Ron.

That hypocrite Snape, with the power that Fudge gave him... Forget it, don't complain, so as not to affect your mood.

If you want to ask me what it's like living with Snape these days...

I can only tell you...

Although I don't have a wand, I have learned from scratch and made a Muggle-style handmade crossbow,
Maybe three weeks later, either Snape turned me into a toad first, or I used him as a target to practice how to shoot an arrow.

Okay, let's get down to business. I want you to be vigilant for the rest of the summer vacation.

Because I heard from Fudge - they still can't find a trace of Peter Pettigrew... The traitor is probably on his way to find the Dark Lord.

You have to be careful, and I always get the feeling from Snape and Fudge's reactions that they and Dumbledore are hiding something.

Although I already understand that even this guy Snape won't be against you.

But last time I saw with my own eyes how the dark lord's possessed form tried to squeeze blood from you.

And the Death Eaters with their unusual obsession with you.

I don't know why, but you have to be vigilant.

Dumbledore said that you had to stay at the house of your uncle and aunt, that idiot Muggle, before you became an adult, and he said that was the safest.

Although I don't know why, I hope you can abide by this rule, even if you can't bear it, try to avoid leaving there directly like last year.

If it doesn't work, I will use my name to warn those Muggles who push their feet.

In addition, if possible, I will not miss your birthday this year.

I'll do my best to make that request to Fudge.

Alright, that idiot Snape is on patrol again, I have to hurry up...

(The last line was so scribbled that it was almost a stroke, Harry and the others had a hard time deciphering it.)
……

Harry held up the letter, turning it over and over.

If the content on the parchment letter is not read...then in just five or six seconds, the content on the letter will be restored to the content of [Snape's modified version].

He kept pointing at the paper with his wand and muttering, "Harry! Happy Birthday!"

It was like hearing what Black said to himself.

This filled him with warmth.

——Except for the very annoying family of the Dursleys, Harry finally felt for the first time that his relatives existed in this world.

Harry compared the contents of these two letters back and forth, watched Black's complaints about Snape, and smiled in his heart from time to time, his whole body was warm, as if drinking a big mouthful of warm butter beer.

After that, under the instigation of McGuffin Ron, he reluctantly put down the envelope and began to search for the magic lamp in his suitcase.

They all want to see what kind of surprise Blake has left behind, and look at this legendary magic lamp.

After locking the compartment door.

Harry slowly took the magic lamp out from the bottom of the suitcase and placed it between his knees.

He tapped his wand as McGuffin said... on the flat, brass-like lamp.

On the crescent-shaped, slightly bulging belly of the oil lamp, dark green runes began to light up.

wandering.

"Harry! Happy Birthday!" he read the secret order.

The magic lamp began to tremble, shining a copper-yellow light.

Brighter and brighter.

Gradually, the entire compartment was illuminated golden, as if entering the underground treasure house of Gringotts full of gold.

A soft orange-red flame glowed slightly inside the lamp holder, and fluorescent flames spewed out of it, like vines growing...slowly and steadily wrapping around Harry's wand.

A violent flash of light caused several people to cover their eyes involuntarily.

After that, there was a violent fall, and they felt as if they were in an elevator that was descending rapidly and out of control.

Finally, when they opened their eyes, they found that everyone in the compartment had come to an extremely strange place.

"This is?"

McGuffin saw an endless wilderness before him.

All kinds of green plants are exuberant and full of vitality, vying to grow on this land.

The grass almost submerged their bodies... submerged to the abdomen.

Overhead was the summer sky, as blue as a forget-me-not.

The sun is scorching hot, there is no cloud, no wind, no insects and birds flying, as if everything in the world has been stopped, and they are left in a beautiful summer landscape.

Professor Lu Ping froze in place, staring blankly not far ahead.

Through the green ocean, not far in front of them is a two-story house, and there is an extremely tall tree standing upright, and the lush canopy almost covers the entire house.

"Is this the inside of the magic lamp?" McGuffin pinched a piece of grass and tried to stuff it into his mouth.

--Nonsence!

Although all this looked very real, it tasted like nothing. He just chewed a mouthful of air, which was more uncomfortable than biting a plastic bag.

Similarly, they can't smell the earth, the unique umami smell of grass.

The voice could only hear the hissing and rough panting of the people next to them in surprise.

Even so... But the world in front of him, no matter in terms of vision or other senses - is still truly terrifying.

The scorching sun made them sweat profusely, and the sea of ​​grass swayed slowly in the hot wind.

All this stunned them.

"Let's go!" Professor Lupine's voice became very hoarse for some reason, and he couldn't even speak.

He strode forward, even in a hurry, McGuffin and the others might be thrown into the grass if they didn't pay attention.

McGuffin and the others followed.

Soon, several people discovered that Lupin's goal was the house submerged in the sea of ​​grass and the extremely tall and strong tree.

When he came to the courtyard of the house, or in front of the giant tree, Lupine finally stopped and stood there.

McGuffin and Harry behind him also stopped.

There seems to be a very clear dividing line between the house and the grass.

A large green lawn forms the courtyard of the house.

In the courtyard, the soft and fine grass in front of them was completely different from the sea of ​​grass they had just experienced.

The long grass that grew to their chests was extremely dense and exuberant.

They grow wildly and intertwined wantonly, and are entangled with each other. Every step of the McGuffins is as laborious as if they are stuck in a quagmire.

These grasses are like some kind of animals and beasts, fighting each other, competing for sunlight and water, squeezing all the nutrients around them to grow crazily.

When they entered it, it was like breaking into a stormy ocean, obstructed and restrained everywhere, forcing them from all directions, as if they were driving a few people to leave this world that did not belong to them as soon as possible.

Although the weather was clear, it took McGuffin and the others a few seconds to see the house and the tree in front of Professor Lupine clearly from behind.

The two-story western-style building with white walls and brown roof, the purple wind chimes hanging on the corridor outside the house, the slightly swaying swing in the courtyard, the winding stone path paved with cobblestones, the giant tree that covers the courtyard, and the shade cast by the canopy for people to live in... Compared with the grass surrounding them just now, the scene here shows a warm and gentle family atmosphere.

But what shocked them even more was——

"what!"

Harry screamed in a daze, and he was as stunned as Lupine, and he stood still in place.

They only needed to take two steps and change direction, and they saw other people, and the strangers were not the staff and students of Hogwarts School.

That is--?
——It was a very beautiful woman with dark red hair and eyes as deep as two emeralds.

She was wearing a long blue dress, half lying and half leaning on the tree trunk, reading a book leisurely in her hand.

Holding the wand in the other hand, he pointed to a white cradle not far away, where a baby was taking a nap with a pacifier.

The cradle swayed back and forth with the waving of the magic wand, and the little one would make cute cooing noises in his sleep from time to time.

Standing next to the little one were two tall and thin men. A black-haired man looked at the little guy lovingly from time to time, and then whispered to another curly-haired man who didn't pay much attention to grooming.

But no matter who it is... they seem to ignore the few people who came out of the grass.

Harry recognized them immediately.

"Mom?" he called in a low voice, "Dad?"

No one paid attention, they seemed to be in two worlds.

Harry involuntarily approached step by step.

McGuffin wanted to hold him back, but was stopped by Lupine.

Professor Lupine shook his head firmly at the MacGuffins, pulled them into the shade on the other side, and said, "Don't bother Harry, I think I know what Black's real gift is."

Harry walked to his mother's side in a daze, and reached out to touch it with trembling hands...

unreachable.

It was as if there was a transparent film blocking Harry.

"Mother?"

Tears silently fell on Harry's cheeks. He looked at Lily's book and sometimes frowned, sometimes laughed lightly, and sometimes his eyes sparkled because of the sudden enlightenment of reading...

Seeing her turning her head to look at the little one from time to time, seeing that everything was safe and that the little one was still sleeping leisurely, she relaxed and continued to read the book again.

Harry watched all this with tears streaming down his face.

Lupine was not far away, leading McGuffin and the others to stand, he explained to several people in a low voice,

"This is Blake's memory. He should have used a magic lamp to illusory his memory and performed magical processing."

"That's why it's so real, but it is estimated that Black is also afraid that Harry will be addicted to this illusory memory illusion, so he deliberately modulated the entire dreamlike world into a scene without taste, smell, or even sound... so that Harry can clearly know that this is not the real world."

"That's his real gift," said Lupine.

Seeing Harry's reaction, McGuffin and Hermione understood not to bother him.

They just sat in the shade on the other side, watching Harry's family... studying this unreal space.

(McGuffin tried to fly into the air to see how big the illusory world built by this magical lamp is: Ron lay on his back directly on the ground, and began to fall asleep comfortably under the cool shade. Lupine and Hermione whispered about Harry's family, discussed the modern magic of the Arabian system to which the magic lamp belonged, and the impact of the magic system there on the wizarding world on the European side...)
Harry was just like that... lying next to his mother, or standing next to his father and Black... looking at them hungrily, watching them... There was a sharp pain in his heart, a mixture of joy and sadness ravaged him.

I don't know how long he has been here, but he seems to want to stay here forever and blend in with them.

until……

--boom!

The loud noise from a distance woke up everyone (including McGuffin, Lupin and the others).

Harry looked angrily at the sky.

All kinds of noisy and chaotic sounds came from the sky, the ground, the swing, and even the grass and giant trees... The whole space shook violently... Everything seemed to lose focus and began to become blurred.

The McGuffin screamed and fell from the sky, and then disappeared.

"--Do not!"

Harry yelled, trying to hold something back.

But the loud noise and vibration became more violent.

In a trance, Harry Lupine, Hermione and the others reappeared in the compartment of the carriage.

Their heads were dizzy, and it took them a lot of effort to calm down the nausea in their hearts.

At this time, several people found that the magic lamp had rolled from Harry's knees to the ground, and McGuffin, who had just disappeared one step earlier, was holding his head, half lying on the ground, retching, looking listless.

"What's the matter?" McGuffin asked weakly.

There was a sound of hammering on the door outside, perhaps it was this that woke everyone up from the illusory world created by the magic lamp.

"Who?" Harry asked furiously.

There was a hysterical noise outside, and all kinds of screams and ridicules appeared like waves.

Harry flung the door open to see who it was that was bothering them.

"why you?"

"Malfoy!"

cried Harry and Ron.

"Excuse me! Harry... get out of the way!"

Just as they were stunned, another person squeezed in from behind.

It was Percy Weasley.

With a straight face, he pushed Harry away with a 'positive' face, and forcefully pulled LS Malfoy into the compartment.

(End of this chapter)