HP's Impassable Time

Chapter 24 The Continuing Cold War

When Lily woke up from a light sleep, she saw Meow Meow's big butt facing her at first sight (_), and the basilisk's rustling head protruded from the front of Meow Meow's furry body, and saw Lily wake up.

"Are you awake? Sand."

"Shusha, what time is it?"

Lily rubbed her eyes and asked, but got no answer.

Miaomiao turned around slowly and rubbed her head against Lily's arm.

"I thought you were going to stick your ass on me all the time!"

"Sand!" ┻━┻ヘ╰(ε╰)

Miaomiao was a little furious after hearing what Lily said.

"Shusha, you have taught Meowmiao for so long how Miaomiao still only knows how to rustle when she is in a hurry."

Lily patted Meow Meow on the head.

"Yes!" Miao Miao opened her mouth slightly, pulling the corners of her mouth to both sides of her face before making a vague snake sound.

"Okay, my cat is the most talented cat."

Lily patted Miaomiao's head again and comforted her with a smile.

"Hmph, it's just that the two sounds can't be pronounced correctly. What a genius, Sha." Shasha just said in a low voice, but it didn't dare to let Meow Miao hear it. Although it doesn't break the defense, it can't stand the high frequency!It makes me dizzy every time.

"Sha!" Miaomiao narrowed her eyes dangerously and looked at the basilisk's head, as if she was studying the best angle to attack.

Rusha broke out in a cold sweat (snakes don't sweat in heavy fog, neither does the basilisk), and quickly changed the subject: "The sun is about to set, your old...that professor is back."

Lily was distracted by what Rusha said, felt the protest in her stomach, and remembered the embarrassment of fainting in the restaurant in the morning.

"I am going tocook."

After throwing down a sentence and two pets, he quickly walked out of the room.

Miaomiao still squinted her eyes, her two-color pupils seemed to glow.

"That, Miaomiao, what you said is very good, really, did the snakes who didn't see it understand it! Sha, really, I didn't lie to you, Sha!"

"Silly" Miaomiao pulled one corner of her mouth strangely again, revealing her bared teeth.

"They're pretty silly, but they're snakes after all, Sha! Then I'll go down and see what Lily cooks, Sha!"

After speaking, she quickly crawled towards the door, and Miaomiao lowered her half-arched back, lay down on Lily's quilt, and licked the cat's paws, not chasing Rusha.

When Lily went out, she looked at Snape's door. The door was still closed, and there was no sign of anyone coming back.

When thumping down the stairs, Lily noticed that the stairs were no longer creaking, and she slowly stepped lightly. It seemed that Snape had returned.

After arriving in the kitchen, Lily remembered that she hadn't gone shopping for ingredients for three or four days. Looking at the time, it was past five o'clock in the afternoon. If she was lucky, she might be able to catch the evening market.

Lily took a look at her attire and found nothing wrong, so she picked up the pounds and shillings at the door and went out.

First, I went to a few markets that I often go to. I was not very lucky. I only bought some potatoes. The other dishes did not look very energetic, so Lily didn't buy them.

Then I went to a comprehensive department store supermarket in the small town. The supermarket is not very big, but it is still full of things. Seasonal fruits and vegetables are sorted and placed in wooden lattices. Snacks and condiments, as well as daily necessities, toothpaste and toothbrushes.

"Ah! It's Lily, I haven't seen you for a few days, is school starting?" (^ω^)

The one who spoke was Mike, a salesperson in this store. He was only in his 20s. He had a good temper and was very patient. He would recommend some affordable discounted products in the store every time. He and Lily sometimes had a few words. one of a kind.

"School starts in less than two weeks. I went on a trip with my father two days ago and didn't come home. Is there any fresh food?"

"Pumpkin, the goods arrived in the afternoon," Mike pointed to the wooden square diagonally opposite the counter.

"It looks great," Lily picked two not-so-big pumpkins to the counter, then went back to the snack area and took two pieces of chocolate and a bag of salt back to the counter.

"how much is the total?"

"One pound and fifty shillings, would you like some meat?"

Mike pointed to a thick box of steaks, wrapped in plastic wrap, in the safe by the counter.

"This morning's goods, I don't want to keep it until tomorrow, originally it was five pounds, now I will give you half price, how about it?"

Mike smiled and looked at Lily to sell.

Lily took a closer look at the meat, and it looked really good, so she nodded.

Michaela opened the door of the freezer, quickly put what Lily wanted into a paper bag, sealed it, and handed it over.

There are a lot of things, and it is very difficult for Lily to hold them.

"I'll be changing shifts in 5 minutes. If you're not in a hurry, just wait for me. I'll take you home."

Seeing Lily struggling, Mike looked up at the clock at the entrance of the supermarket and said.

Lily showed her eyes from behind a somewhat tall paper bag: "It's okay, I can handle it. Thank you for your kindness, bye!"

"Okay! Goodbye, Lily."

"bye!"

After walking out of the supermarket, Lily walked back holding the kraft paper bag with difficulty. Because of her stature, Lily had to stop and lower the paper bag slightly to look at the road before walking for a while. It was more troublesome when crossing the road. After the time when most people get off work, there are not many cars on the road.

Lily, who had passed five levels and defeated six generals, finally kicked the door closed. After a sigh of relief, she put the kraft paper bag on the ground, hung the key on the hook at the door, and put the remaining change back into the change box.

It was said to be a change box, but in fact there were about 400 pounds and more than [-] galleons in it, all prepared by Snape.

Lily stared blankly at the box full of 'change', and soon came to her senses. After changing her shoes, she dragged the heavy paper bag to the kitchen.

Lily recalled the scene of snatching fish with Miaomiao, there was a place on the window lattice with Miaomiao's paw prints.

Soon Lily took care of the pumpkin and the big piece of steak, made a rich pumpkin soup and grilled steak, and then put the fermented dough that had been rolled into small balls on the greased baking tray, Put it in the preheated oven and adjust the temperature and time.

"Shusha, you go ask Professor Snape to come down for dinner."

Lily put the pumpkin porridge on the dining table, and when she saw Shasha lazily nestling in the sofa, she ordered it to come up.

"Okay, Sha" Shasha climbed off the sofa and climbed to the second floor.

When Lily brought all the dishes, Snape just came down from the stairs, followed by Rusha and Meow.

No one spoke during the meal, and Miaomiao and Shasha also got a large piece of barbecue, which was delicious.

After dinner, Snape went to the potions laboratory in the basement, and Lily cleaned up the dishes.

The two did not meet until bedtime.

Lily was reading "Magicweave Basics" in her room. Lily had read this book many times, and there were only eight runes in it. Now Lily was able to draw seven proficiently. A little bit of magic pattern of water vapor, now she only has half the chance of success in drawing it, Lily wants to learn this before school starts.

While practicing the spell, an owl flew to the window and accidentally hit the window with a crisp sound, and the glass shattered...

It broke...

Lily was also drunk, and she looked affectionately at the obviously bewildered owl with her hand still in the posture of drawing a wand. (Д)ノ

The owl was not injured, and when it came to its senses, it quickly dropped the letter on its feet, and flew away without a trace, leaving only Lily asking the sky in front of the broken glass on the ground.  ̄* ̄||

What a crime! ! !

The appointed Lily picked up the letter, carefully shook off the glass shards on it, put it on the desk, and cast a spell.

[The broom is flying] [The setback is flying]

Then brooms and broomsticks flew in through the open door, and Lily grabbed them.

Whoa whoa whoa!

The glass was all swept into the setback, Lily checked the surrounding ground again, and when she saw that there was nothing left, she went downstairs and dumped the broken glass into the trash can.

She put down the broom and glanced at the location of the basement. The door was closed and Snape was still in the basement.

Lily, who went upstairs, looked at the hole in the window speechlessly, and the cold wind from outside was rushing in.

"It's quite cool."

Lily thought bitterly.

It was too late today, Lily could only take a piece of cloth and fix the four corners with magic to act as the lower glass temporarily, and went to the building materials store tomorrow to buy a piece of glass and put it on.

Miaomiao lay motionless on the bed, and what happened just now didn't seem to affect it at all.

Lily sat down at the table and picked up the letter that caused trouble. It was a letter from Hogwarts, and this year's letter came quite late.

Lily flipped through the back of the letter, removed the wax from the Hogwarts logo, and opened the long letter.

There are also a list of books for this semester. There are not many books this year. Defense Against the Dark Arts has only one "Learning to Defense" this year, followed by three books in the prophecy class "Number Prophecy", "Crystal Ball" and "Seeing the Essence Through Phenomenon". Others only need to buy the third volume.

After a cursory glance, he put the letter on the table.

Lily lay back on the bed and soon fell asleep.

Snape in the basement came out with a tired face in the middle of the night. When he passed the trash can, he saw the glass shards in the bucket. He waved his magic wand to restore the glass shards, but there were still some missing parts, and then fell silent That night Lys Snape heard movement upstairs.

When I reached the second floor, I knew the source of the sound. There was a small voice coming from Lily's door, and she opened the door with a gap, and saw a thin strip of glass hitting the bottom of the door one after another, trying to get out of the gap at the bottom of the door. go out.

Snape looked at the glass that could only stand up speechlessly, and really didn't want to suggest that it could turn itself sideways and go out.

The pane of glass soon realized that the door had opened a small gap, and slipped through the gap Snape had made.

Then Snape heard a small 'wave' from downstairs, and waved his wand [Glass is coming].

The glass downstairs hovered in front of Snape. Snape slowed down and entered the room. He saw the letter from Hogwarts on the empty desk and the cloth-covered area on the window.

Speechlessly, he looked at Lily who was sleeping honestly. =_=

[quick recovery]

Then the cloth from the window flew off, the glass returned to its original position, and two old nails on the ground came out from under the bed and nailed back to the window frame.

It had long been discovered that Snape's meow eyes would glow in the dark when he came in. After seeing Snape gently exit the room, he closed his eyes and fell asleep again.

Snape, who had exited, closed the door gently, and then returned to his room, lay back on the dark green bed, and watched the curtains on the top of the four-poster bed slowly fall into a dream.

It's just that the dream tonight was not satisfactory, and it was already the next morning when Snape woke up from the nightmare.

On the dining table downstairs was breakfast covered with a gauze cover. Lily was not in the room, nor was she in any corner of the room.

Finally Snape saw a note near the fireplace.

Snape, who had read the note, gripped the note angrily and threw it on the ground. He could vaguely see the words Diagon Alley and Hogwarts written on the note.

After taking two steps, Snape turned back, picked up the note on the ground, smoothed out the folds and stuffed it into his pocket.

Lily went to Diagon Alley early in the morning.

Going out of the quirky shop, Lily was wandering the deserted street with a small silver and green striped bag on her back. Because she came too early, half of the shops were closed.

Lily had never been here so early before, and was secretly regretting her mistake. The stone paved road was extremely smooth, without any small stones, so Lily had nothing to vent her anger on, and could only rub the bag in her hand.

Lily's current slant bag was made by her a long time ago, and the space inside is only as large as a travel bag and a half. Since the bag Snape made for herself, this bag has been forgotten in a corner for a long time.

Lily has already calculated that this bag is enough to hold this year's books and a set of wizard robes. What makes Lily happy this year is that she seems to have grown by more than one centimeter, and one set of school uniforms has begun to fade because of the constant change. See It looks gray (in fact, I can't see it, it's just because Lily has the condition to be hypocritical, so I'm hypocritical).

Came to Mrs. Wood's clothing store, but it was also closed, Lily was about to lose her patience.

Fortunately, after walking for a while, the light at the entrance of a cake shop was on.

"Ding!"

Jessica is a student of Hufflepuff. Her parents are both wizards. She opened a sweet cake shop on Diagon Street and also sold ice cream.

I had already graduated from school last year, but the intern qualification I applied for in the Ministry of Magic has not yet been obtained, and I have been helping my family's shop at present.

Open early every morning, because she is used to getting up early.

Today is the same as usual, I first turned on the magic lamp at the door, and then packed the things in the store. After counting the time, Hogwarts is about to start again, and I heard the doorbell when I was lamenting that I have not adapted to the life of graduation. .

"welcome."

Jessica saw a little girl entering the door, wearing Muggle white casual shoes, black thin-leg pants, and a strange cat-shaped logo on the white baggy five-quarter sleeves.

"Hello,"

The little girl spoke in a crisp voice, and looked around after entering the door.

"It hasn't been packed yet, but the first batch of cakes will be baked in about 15 minutes. If you want to eat, you can wait here."

Jessica pointed to several tables in the room.

When Lily entered the cake shop, she looked around and saw that it hadn't been cleaned up, so she was worried that someone would tell her 'sorry, we won't open the shop until later', and then she would be kicked out.

Although it is the end of August, it is still a little cold in the morning.

When she said that she could wait for a while, Lily happily found a seat and sat down, for fear that the shop owner would regret it if she sat late.

Lily lay on the table boredly and looked at the street of Diagon Alley through the shiny window. The words on the window blocked part of Lily's sight, but it didn't affect Lily.

There were more and more people walking on the street, and the cake Lily ordered just now was ready.

Jessica put the strawberry cake on Lily's table and looked out following Lily's gaze. She didn't see anything special, so she shook her head and went back to the counter to get busy.

Lily ate the cake with a small fork, seeing more and more pedestrians on the street outside, and the sunlight was shining on the stone-paved road through the tall buildings.

After eating the last few bites of the cake, Lily paid for it and started shopping for supplies for the next semester.

Holding the checklist, all the options on it were ticked off, Lily heaved a sigh of relief, luckily all the small bags were packed.

When she was walking back, she suddenly looked back to the alley at the rear left. There was nothing there. Lily turned around and shook her head, shaking her head away from the illusion that someone was following her, and continued walking towards the quirky shop.

It rained for a while, even on the day of the Hogwarts Express ride.

Snape and Lily hadn't spoken to each other these days, and Snape often went to Hogwarts and was rarely at home.

When she woke up in the morning, Lily took the luggage she packed yesterday downstairs, but there was no one downstairs, and Snape didn't come back yesterday.

Lily thought that Snape would send her to the station, but obviously he couldn't, and there was no chance to get back her own little black bag now.

Pulling the suitcase above her knees, hugging Meow Meow, rustling around her wrist, Lily recalled again after realizing that she hadn’t forgotten anything before holding Meow Meow with one hand and pulling the suitcase with the other, and dragged the spider to the end of the alley. I locked the door before rushing to the train station.

The journey went smoothly, but Lily always felt that something was following her, which made Lily look around a little nervously, and the nervous feeling caught the taxi driver's attention.

"Little girl, what's the matter with you? You look very nervous."

"It's nothing, it just feels like someone is following me." Lily looked outside the car again.

"Let's go out on a long trip by yourself for the first time!"

The taxi driver knew that Lily was going to King's Cross Station so he guessed.

"That's it!"

Lily thought for a while and thought it should be the second time.

"That's normal. When I first went out as a child, I felt as if someone was following me. Guess what?"

The driver stopped suddenly, as if expecting Lily to ask himself, Lily did not disappoint the driver, and continued to ask.

"what happened?"

"It turned out that my mother was worried that I would quietly follow me all the way, and didn't leave until I reached my destination."

The driver seemed to think the story was out of place, he added.

"At that time, I didn't find her following her in class. I just had a feeling, you know, that she was still young and easily insecure."

After arriving at the station, Lily bid farewell to the enthusiastic and talkative driver. When she arrived at Nine and Three Quarters Station, her coat was damp, and Meow Miao's hair was also messy.

The basilisk hiding under Lily's arm turned its lower body from time to time, and Shasha liked the damp feeling in the air.

Lily was a little itchy and couldn't tell Rusha.

Lily, who was still in the crowd, saw the rain-soaked Harry trio push the cart towards the pillar between platforms [-] and [-].

What caught Lily's attention was the small owl cage on Ron's cart. Inside was a small owl that was about the size of a palm. The fur on its body was a little fried, like a moving yarn. ball.

Knowing that the three of them had disappeared behind the pillar, Lily went up and happened to meet a pile of red hair. Lily remembered them as members of the Weasley family.

"Hey! Isn't this Miss Eyedrops of Slytherin?"

The twins were the last to go in, and just in time to see Lily from the crowd coming by alone, George called out.

People around were driving cars, so no one paid attention to this side, even if one or two people looked over, they quickly averted their eyes.

"Oh? Did Miss Eyedrops get in the car by herself?" Fred looked in the direction George pointed, and also saw Lily holding the embarrassed cat.

Lily heard George calling her, but she was thinking that she was indeed from Slytherin, but what the hell is Miss Eyedrops?

Lily intends to ignore them, who knows if she is calling herself.

Unexpectedly, George pushed his cart to the left of Lily, and Fred moved to the right.

"Miss Eyedrops is so hard that she doesn't know us!" said the twins together.

George: "I'm George."

Fred: "I'm Fred."

In unison: "The Weasley twins."

George: "You remember when you were in first grade,"

Fred: "Sold us eye drops."

Unison: "We think the idea is very good."

Lily rolled her eyes, you guys think you are three and a half sentences!No, it's two and a half sentences!

Lily remembered that the atmosphere between Gryffindor and Slytherin was not very good at that time, and things that stared at each other often happened. Borrowing some eye drops by myself, for some reason, it seems that many people came to ask for it later, and I made a fortune by the way.

But whether the Gryffindor twins have been sold, Lily said that she has no impression at all.

George and Fred looked at each other, and they both saw it and remembered it.

"Hey! Are you interested in joining our business?"

Lily, who didn't want to bother with the twins at first, decided to take care of the two psychopaths when she heard about the business. (_)

"what business?"

When the twins saw that there was a door, they got straight to the point and told about their fake wand and some magic candies. They also gave Lily a fake wand and a small bag (only four candies) of taffy.

George: "We have an order in hand now, but the production is relatively slow, and there are problems with raw materials."

Fred: "So we're underfunded right now."

George: "And new potion candies."

Fred: "I heard that you have something to do with Professor Snape."

George: "I heard that your potion grades are excellent!"

Fred: "We can give you a stake in our business."

Unison: "Do you want to think about it?"

Because several people were talking, they stopped, and they were still in the King's Station. Meow stood back on the box when Lily took the fake wand and candy.

Lily looked at the things in her hands, made a thought, and said to the twins after thinking for a while: "I can think about it. I need to see their performance when I go to school. I don't know how much money you need."

Unison: "Of course, the more the better."

George: "Oh! We should go."

Fred: "Yeah, let them find out we're gone again."

The two looked at each other as if thinking of something, and said goodbye to Lily quickly.

All in unison: "See you at school, we are waiting for your good news!"

After speaking, he pushed the car into the station, leaving behind Lily who was still thinking about the twins business standing in the crowd.

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