Together [HP]

The next day, Hermione became very nervous, and in Potions she kept asking Jacqueline to reassure her that Hagrid would not be expelled.Jacqueline was confused by her, and had to hold her hand several times to avoid adding the wrong medicine.Finally, before get out of class was over, under the stern gaze of Professor Snape, she dazedly handed in a bottle of potion that was barely qualified.

And when she fully realized what she had done, it was time to stand on the edge of the Forbidden Forest with Hagrid, who was carrying half a dead cow on his shoulders.So, to be precise, she should be regarded as being awakened by the weird, shrill cry that Hagrid just made.And the familiar pain in her arm made her know without turning her head that Hermione's nails might have left marks on her arm again.

"What are we studying in this class?" Jacqueline asked in a low voice.

Pan Xi, who was beside her, gave her a look of resentment, "Does it mean that I sold you now, and you will count the money for me?"

"You won't sell me," whispered Jacqueline. "Why are we hiding behind a tree?"

Pansy shook her head, at this time Hagrid called out again, and then Jacqueline saw a pair of bright white eyes gradually getting bigger over there, followed by a dragon-like face, neck, and body with bare bones. A huge, winged black horse emerged from the darkness.It looked at the students for a few seconds, flicked its long black tail, then lowered its head and started tearing at the dead cow with its fangs.

"Above Merlin." Jacqueline exclaimed.

"Why didn't Hagrid bark?"

"What is eating meat?"

Two questions sounded from Jacqueline's sides, one from the left and the other from the right.

"Oh, here comes another one!" Hagrid said proudly, and the second black horse appeared from the forest, folded its leathery wings, lowered its head and greedily ate the raw meat, "who sees it now, raise your hand .”

Only a few people in the class raised their hands, Jacqueline, Harry, Neville, and...

"What should we watch?" someone asked.

Hagrid answered by pointing to the dead cow on the ground.The class stared at it for a few seconds, some gasped, and Parvati screamed.To the unseen, pieces of flesh peeling off their bones and disappearing into thin air must have looked eerie.

"What?" Parvati asked terrified, retreating behind the nearest tree. "What is eating it?"

"Thestrals," said Hagrid proudly, and Hermione said "Oh!" next to Jacqueline, "there are a lot of them here at Hogwarts. Now, who knows..."

"But they're very, very unlucky!" put in Parvati, looking terrified, "and bring all sorts of dreadful misfortune to whoever sees them, as Professor Trelawney once told me . . . "

"No, no, no," Hagrid said with a smile, "that's just superstition, nothing inauspicious, they're smart and useful. Of course, this group doesn't have much to do, the main thing is to pull the school carriage, unless Dumbledore Going on a trip but don't want to Apparate. Here's another couple, and lo and behold..."

Two more horses appeared quietly, one of them passing Parvati.Trembling all over, she hugged the tree trunk tightly and said, "I feel something, it seems to be beside me!"

"Don't be afraid, it won't hurt you," said Hagrid patiently. "Now, can anyone tell me why some people can see it and others can't?"

Hermione and Jacqueline raised their hands at the same time. Hermione glanced at Jacqueline and put her hand down.

"Say it," said Hagrid, smiling at her.

"Thestrals are only seen by those who have seen death," Jacqueline said, and then she looked at Parvati. "That's why some people think that thestrals are a symbol of death."

"By the way," said Hagrid gravely, "Slytheringa ten. Thestrals..."

According to the normal development, they will indeed have a very interesting lesson today. As far as Jacqueline knows, there is no history of taming thestrals in the UK. It means that everything is developing in an uncontrollable direction.

Hermione looked at the rapidly disappearing flesh, then at Umbridge again, and sighed very slowly.

"Did you get the note I sent to your cabin this morning?" Umbridge said slowly and loudly, as if the other party was a foreigner and mentally retarded. "Say I'm coming to your class."

"Oh, see," said Hagrid brightly, "I'm glad you found the place! Look, I don't know, can you see it? We're talking Thestrals today..."

"I'm sorry," Professor Umbridge said loudly, cupping his hands to his ears, frowning, "what did you say?"

Hagrid looked a little puzzled.

"Uh, thestrals!" he said loudly. "Big horses, uh, with wings, you know!"

He eagerly slapped his thick arms twice.Professor Umbridge raised an eyebrow at him, writing on the clipboard while reading, "By clumsy gestures?"

"Okay," said Hagrid, turning to face the students, looking a bit flustered, "Uh, where did I go?"

"Looks like a bad memory," said Umbridge, loud enough for everyone to hear.Draco Malfoy looked like Christmas had come a month early, and Hermione was flushing with anger.

"Oh," Hagrid glanced uneasily at Umbridge's clipboard, but continued bravely. "Yeah, I was about to tell you how this herd came to be. This one, started out with just one stallion and five mares. This one's called Wuwu," he patted the first one, "my favorite Yes, the first born in this wood..."

"Did you know," interrupted Umbridge loudly, "that the Ministry of Magic has listed thestrals as 'dangerous animals'?"

"Thestrals are not dangerous! Of course, if you get really upset, they might bite you."

Umbridge didn't answer.After making the last note, she looked up at Hagrid, and said slowly and loudly, "Please continue the lecture as usual, I want to be among the students," she pointed at each student, "walk around." She Pretending to be walking, Malfoy and Pansy Parkinson were secretly laughing. "Ask some questions." She pointed to her mouth again, indicating to speak.

Hagrid stared at her, clearly not understanding why she thought he didn't know normal English.Hermione had tears of anger in her eyes. "Hare, wicked hag!" she whispered.

Then, in the next action, Jacqueline can swear the most vicious oath she knows to the tombstone of the Graham family. There must be another person in her body, because it is impossible for her to make it when she is awake. of.

Jacqueline took a few steps forward, walked to Umbridge's side, and stretched out her right hand. The ring that meant she was now the heir was glowing blue-green in the sunlight.

"Senior Investigator Umbridge, I'm so glad you're here." She laughed and said loudly, "Thestrals are the most mysterious creatures, and our family has been trying to domesticate one, but unfortunately it didn't work. Ah, of course,"

Jacqueline grabbed Umbridge and brought her to the rapidly dwindling piece of beef, "Although the Ministry of Magic lists them as 'dangerous animals', look, how cute they are Animals. What's more, dogs will bite people when they are in a hurry, right. Look, they eat with great relish."

"Of course, of course, you will say they have a bad reputation, but that's only because they are only seen by people who have seen the dead. Those are just superstitions, and ignorance. I firmly believe that a high-ranking investigator like you is Won't believe this." She lowered her voice and tilted her head toward Hagrid.

"Of course, I agree with you. Sometimes I don't quite understand what he's saying, but he's still my professor."

Jacqueline raised her face and looked at the puzzled Hagrid, "Why don't you introduce it to Professor Umbridge? As far as I know, these are the first batch of tamed thestrals in Britain. Can you tame them?" Is it because they treat you as the same kind?"

Hagrid froze there, looking a little speechless.Hermione looked frantic, looking at Hagrid eagerly, begging him to speak.Umbridge looked like she wanted to write something on her clipboard, but Jacqueline held onto her tightly.

"Hogwarts doesn't need to keep some useless things, right?" Jacqueline said loudly pretending to be mocking.

"No, no." Hagrid opened his mouth wide, "Thestrals, thestrals are not useless things. By the way, they, after they are tamed, like this group, they won't get lost and have a good sense of direction Amazing, just tell them where you want to go..."

"Assuming they understand you, of course," Malfoy said aloud.

"I think it's not too different from riding a hippogriff." Jacqueline said to Malfoy in a louder voice, "Of course, if I can, I'd rather ride it." Dragon. But," Jacqueline finally let go of Umbridge's hand, and there was a red mark on Umbridge's wrist.

"Thestrals are really cute, aren't they? Professor Umbridge? Would you pass on to Minister Fudge, if you could? I love the birthday card he sent me!"

"I'm not normal." Half an hour later, Jacqueline desperately rubbed her red and hot face with her hands, and walked with Pansy on the path back to the castle.Just 1 minute ago, Hermione, who was rushing to herbal medicine class in the greenhouse, kissed Jacqueline heavily on the face.Jacqueline's face was instantly hot enough to boil the water.

"I really can't believe it, how could I be so impulsive. It must not be me, someone controlled my body, or someone cast the Imperius Curse on me."

Pansy didn't even want to give her the whites of her eyes anymore, "Aren't you afraid that Umbridge will retaliate against you?"

"Just because I like Thestrals?" Jacqueline whimpered in her palm, "Her boss is barely qualified to write me a birthday card. But I really shouldn't..." Jacqueline rubbed her own Face said, "Why should I make her doubt me for a Thestral."

"Did you read the book I gave you?" Pansy asked.

"Oh, Jacqueline suddenly said with some embarrassment, "I, I had this idea, but, um, but there are a lot of homework recently..."

It's true, December brings more snow and an avalanche of homework for fifth graders.As Christmas approaches, the prefect's work is getting harder and harder.They were responsible for supervising the decoration of the castle, watching the first and second years indoors between classes because of the cold and rain, and patrolling the corridors with Argus Filch in shifts, because Filch suspected that there was a fight during the festival. May increase.

And these things, Jacqueline escaped without exception. Whenever the male and female chairmen came to her, she happened to have something to go to Yuna's office.

"I said earlier that Dumbledore should find someone who is more responsible than me to be a prefect." Whenever Pansy looked at Jacqueline with condemning eyes, Jacqueline said plausibly, "What's more , we have another prefect, and we'd love to have his badge sparkle!"

Jacqueline was talking about Malfoy, and Malfoy is very interested in everything that can find opportunities to confine people.

"You can't hide." Pansy said, burying her head in her homework again, Jacqueline looked up at the snowy sky outside, at least, Christmas is here, she can not see her for a while classmate.

The day before the Christmas holiday was the most difficult. Professor Flitwick noticed that they were all absent-minded, so he simply let them practice freely.

Malfoy and Goyle, with Black behind them singing Weasley is our king, playing cards.

Pansy was pestering Hermione across Jacqueline, eager to find out why Harry and Ron had disappeared.But Hermione didn't want to talk to her at all, so she kept talking loudly to herself that she was going skiing with her parents for Christmas.

The two of them were talking like chickens talking to ducks, shouting loudly.

"Enough!" Jacqueline slammed her book on the desk, and not only Hermione and Pansy stopped, but the whole class looked at her. "If you two don't find out, I'm going to read the book!"

"Okay." While stroking her nails, Pansy pulled the half of her body back to the chair, "I found her face full of autumn red this morning. If you ask me, she must be in love. But I Wondering who it is, I don't think she'll find anyone comparable to Cedric."

Hermione pursed her lips, then snorted, took out a heavy book from her bag, and spread it on the table.

"If you have something to say, just say it if you don't want to hold it in," Pansy said. "Tomorrow is the Christmas holiday. Do you need to work so hard?"

"Oh, that's right." Hermione pretended not to care as she flipped through the book, "Harry and Cho kissed yesterday."

Pansy gave a big gasp, then burst out laughing, "Potter and Chang! I'm sorry, but I can't imagine that."

Jacqueline could not imagine such a scene.But, just now, when Hermione said 'kiss', she couldn't help thinking, if it was her and herself...

Stop, stop, Jacqueline.What you've been doing lately is some unrealistic idea.

But, seriously, if it was true...

Jacqueline couldn't help but turned her face sideways, and her eyes couldn't help but look at Hermione's lips, which were pink and tender, and were now pressed into a thin straight line by Hermione.

If...then it should taste good...

Jacqueline's throat moved up and down, and her body leaned in slowly before her brain could react.

"Jacqueline!" The lips suddenly opened and closed in front of her.Jacqueline was startled as if she had just woken up from a dream, and she quickly shrank back.

"What are you doing?" She lowered her head and straightened her hair so that the loose blonde hair covered her flushed face.

"What were you doing just now?" Hermione asked in a panting voice that sounded like she'd just run a few kilometers.

"No reason..." Jacqueline replied, resting her head on her right hand, "You... just thought your book was interesting. What's the matter with you?"

"If I write to you for Christmas, you'll write me back, right?"

"Of course." Jacqueline replied quickly, "I haven't replied to your letter since."

Hermione really wanted to refute, but she decided to give up. After all, Jacqueline didn't choke her with the summer vacation, and she didn't have to send herself there.

"I can give you my parents' mobile phone number, if you can't reach me..."

"It's not necessary," Jacqueline said. "I have... I, if I can't find you, it means you went there."

"I'll write to you even when I get there," said Hermione cautiously. "I really will. But Jacqueline, please, you must read my letter and don't burn it again."

"You are very noisy!" Jacqueline said loudly, blushing and frowning, "Can you let me read a book quietly for a few minutes?"