[HP] Walk in Thorns and Flowers

Christo cried all morning, and Ernie really didn't know what to say. Fortunately, they didn't have any classes this morning.

After finally waiting for Christophe to stop crying, she raised her head, but Ernie was puzzled by the first sentence she spoke: "Brother, can you walk with me to Slytherin?"

"Now?" Ernie asked cautiously.

Chris nodded, her nose was red, and her big watery eyes looked at him.Ernie just nodded.

"Let's go." He pulled Christo up and straightened her slightly loose hair. He was a little worried but still said with a smile, "I think we need to hurry up." They walked along the corridor to the stairs , go down the stairs.

"Brother..." Christo looked around and asked hesitantly, "Was I also afraid of snakes when I was a child?"

Ernie paused, he didn't turn his head, he seemed to be focusing on finding a shortcut: "I don't know, Dad cast a spell on our manor, so that there will be no strange creatures, basically since childhood, I haven't seen any snakes."

"Really?" Kristo asked suspiciously.

Ernie stopped and flicked her forehead lightly, his eyes turned into crescent moons with a smile, looking very warm: "Christopher is the little princess of the McMillan family, so everyone wants to put You are well protected, how could you let dangerous things approach you, stupid!"

Christo's cheeks bulged all of a sudden: "I'm not stupid, I just can't figure out why I'm so afraid of it every time..." Almost every time I think of that wet, slippery, sticky The touch, the disgusting taste, the suffocation and the despair.

"Okay, Kerry, where are we going now?" They were already in Slytherin territory, scattered with silver and green decorations.

"Brother, I want to find a character in a portrait. His name is Knight, and he is an earl. There should be a snake wrapped around his arm." Christo tried hard to recall the appearance of the character he saw that night, but unfortunately At that time, the attention was drawn away by the snake.Ernie took her to the wall and visited the portraits one by one. Fortunately, some of the portraits had a good relationship with Knight and pointed them out.

"Miss McMillan?" Knight, who was taking a nap, was woken up by Ernie, and the first thing he saw was the girl's slightly angry face. He quickly rolled the snake on his arm into his sleeve, stood up, Some innocently said, "What happened?"

"Mr. Knight, have you been spreading gossip around lately?" Christo asked mildly.

Knight breathed a sigh of relief: "Of course not, I assure you, miss, this kind of thing will never happen."

"But." Chris gritted his teeth, "I received a special gift this morning!"

"Really? That's really a pleasant thing. I've been here for many years, and no one has ever given me a gift." Knight said flatteringly.

Ernie looked at his sister's ugly face, and said helplessly, "It's a dead snake, sir, do you think it's okay?"

Knight suddenly jumped behind the chair, he looked at Christophe's big eyes, but now he stared even wider, and quickly raised his right hand: "I swear, I don't know anything about what happened that day." Say, as an earl, consistency in words and deeds is a must have virtue!"

"But, apart from my brother, Professor Dumbledore, and Harry, no one in Hogwarts knows about this?" Even a fool could hear the dissatisfaction in Christophe's words.Knight immediately put on his most sincere expression, and said, "I really don't care about my business..." He suddenly thought of a possibility, and his face turned pale, "Well, wait a moment, you two—" His whole body He quickly disappeared from the screen, and about half a moment later, another man came in after being pushed and shoved. He didn't seem to wake up, and said to Knight in a daze: "Good man, what are you doing in such a hurry?" ——Yo, that little girl who is afraid of snakes, let me guess what you are doing here?" He ran to the forefront of the painting with a playful smile.Christo picked up the wand and poked him on the neck without hesitation: "You don't have to guess, let me tell you directly, have you told others that I am afraid of snakes!"

Porgy brushed his brown hair, and said triumphantly: "How is it possible, miss, at most I just chatted with other portraits, that night, a Gryffindor lion cub almost killed the great Earl Knight, fortunately the heroic Porgy appeared, this story is not bad."

"Like the first time I saw you, standing by the stairs?"

"Of course." Porgy looked at her like an idiot. "My picture frame is hanging by the stairs!"

Ernie suddenly had a bad premonition, and he asked tentatively, "Then what happened that almost killed Mr. Knight."

"Oh, that little lion is afraid of snakes, and she actually used a blazing fire to drive away the snakes in the portrait... um..." Before Porgy had a chance to finish speaking, Nat covered his mouth and dragged him behind the chair .

"Porgy didn't do it on purpose, Miss McMillan, he's just so boring, he's become a bit... um... cock." Knight quickly explained that he didn't want to be burned again, and he was full of enthusiasm for the little girl. guilt.Porgy, who realized that he had accidentally said the words, also nodded quickly.

Christo poked the portrait several times angrily, and the gorgeous room in the portrait shook.If it was a real person, she would definitely treat her with a potion, but here it is—Ernie patted her on the shoulder lightly, signaling her not to get excited.Christo gritted her teeth and asked, "Then do you still remember those people passing by there at that time?"

Porgy racked his brains to recall for a while, and then said slowly: "A group of Slytherin students—" Half of him was already hiding behind Knight, and was glared at by Christo, and quickly poured beans Si De said, "The sixth grade looks like purple, yes, it seems that someone is wearing a purple robe, which is too conspicuous. Among the group of students, um, that... seems to be gone." His eyes rolled in the eye sockets for a few laps.

Christo felt that her thoughts had fallen into a deadlock again, purple robe?But Hogwarts students are all plain black robes...

After returning from Slytherin's territory, Christo thought about it for a long time, and finally found that the dead snake incident was as clueless as the broom incident. She almost wondered if a certain owl in the school had Alzheimer's disease , unfortunately, its food was just thrown on her table as a package.

The Weasley brothers had long guessed that the Invisible Book was her masterpiece, and now they took the opportunity to spare no effort to spoof her—a bunch of new products—every time Chris read the pre-set keywords, they would Transform into a very real snake, once Christo screams, it will turn into a puff of smoke and disappear .For a while, Christo looked at Amber and felt that it was a magic item of the Weasley brothers. She simply suspected that she had persecution paranoia.Fortunately, she still had Hermione and her brother, who had forbidden the Weasley brothers to get close to her.

Christo didn't write these things to Lockhart, she was afraid that he would be worried, besides, maybe she was really sensitive, Porgy didn't think of those students until now.But there was still a good thing at last - Lockhart sent her his new book, a biography "The Heroes Under Bran Castle" written for Mr. Antle.Hermione likes this book very much, and she has fallen into a surprising admiration for Lockhart (because Lockhart attached his own photo and biography in the author introduction), Christo dared not tell She, Lockhart is a real idiot.

To Christo's surprise, one day she also received a gift from Cedric, which was a badger's pillow.

"I went to Hogsmeade for the first time today. When I saw this badger, I guess you will like it. It's cute, and it's the natural enemy of snakes!" Cedric said at the time.Christophe's eyes lit up as soon as she heard the snake's natural enemy, and she took the big pillow and carried it back to the dormitory. Along the way, she received countless surprised looks—a Gryffindor holding a badger?

Christo didn't care that much, she put the pillow on the bed, she didn't know if it was because of her psychology or something, she felt that since that day, she had slept very peacefully every night.Two months into school, Christo finally felt that she could barely adapt to life at Hogwarts. Although the Weasley brothers' props still made her shudder, there were no accidents at all.Hermione still had a difficult relationship with Harry and Ron, which was causing her some headaches - she could always hear complaints from both sides.

On the eve of Halloween, in Professor Flitwick's Charms class, Hermione and Ron were in the same group. Christophe thought that this would ease their relationship a little bit, but it was even worse. As Min walked through the crowd, they heard Ron say angrily, "No wonder everyone can't stand her, she's like a nightmare!"

Christo clearly felt Hermione tremble.

"Christopher, I think I have to go to the bathroom first, you go to eat." With tears in her eyes, she tried her best to push away the crowd in front of her and ran away.

"Hermione!" Christo stamped her feet behind, she pulled out her wand and poked Ron in front, and said loudly, "Even if you are dissatisfied with Hermione, please find a place where she is not around to complain." OK?"

A trace of uneasiness flashed across Ron's face: "How did I know you were just behind..." He muttered a few more words, and Christo didn't have time to take care of them. She had to go find Hermione—how could she have time to eat now? .

When Christo found Hermione in the bathroom on the third floor, she was squatting in a corner and crying loudly.Christo gently put her arms around her shoulders: "Don't cry, my good girl, Ron is just talking casually."

Hermione raised her head, with tears all over her face, she choked up and said, "But, besides you, I don't have any friends. Does it mean that everyone doesn't like me?"

Christo wiped her tears: "How could it be? Hermione is so powerful, Professor McGonagall likes you very much, hey——" She suddenly put on a straight face, "Do you think I'm a weirdo... ..."

"No! Of course not!" Hermione retorted immediately, and her tears surged even more crazily, "Maybe it's just that you are kinder than ordinary people, and everyone can't stand me." She buried her head on her knees, The empty bathroom was filled with her cries and echoes.Christo had no choice but to gently stroke her messy long hair.

"I... I... Christo... I don't know what to do?" she said weeping.

"Hermione, in fact, you just need to relax and act like an 11-year-old girl. You are too careful and working too hard..." Christo sighed.

After an unknown amount of time, a strange sound was mixed into the cries, low and thick, as if some huge creature was slowly moving over.She suddenly opened her eyes wide, and pushed the crying girl beside her, "Hermione, don't cry, we are in trouble!"