Together [HP]

They crossed the platform with the magic chessboard again, and this time there was no shadow on it.

"Sometimes I am very curious about where they will go." Jacqueline shook her head, and she said with some wonder, "I began to think whether they spent most of their time exploring this castle, which let them know Lots of secret passages that I don't know about. But of course, they could just be sleeping in their old beds."

"They have their own lives, Jacqueline," Hermione said softly, and she pushed open the small door leading to the main building and walked to the right, but Jacqueline stopped her.

"We're not going to the big restaurant this time, Hermione." Jacqueline took Hermione's hand and led her to the left, around a turn, and a red log staircase leading to the first floor appeared in front of them.

"If you would like to have a more vivid understanding of the history of the Middle Ages," Jacqueline bent slightly towards Hermione and stretched out her hand, "I can tell you how a polite gentleman invited a A lady went down this staircase."

Hermione smiled and put her hand in Jacqueline's palm, pretending to lift the non-existent skirt corner, she bent slightly to salute, "If you want to hold my hand, you don't need to find so many excuses .My knight."

"I'm going to keep my manners, my lady."

"If the two of you don't plan to come down to eat, Sean will start talking about how he captured the fugitive for the fourth time." William's figure floated down from the middle of the stairs, and he folded his arms, "Before you Before Dad can't bear it and wants to come to you, come down quickly."

"I thought you'd love that story," Jacqueline said as she walked past William, taking Hermione's hand down the stairs.

"Oh," William clutched his chest, pretending to be hurt, "If I don't pretend to be interested in listening, few people in this family will listen to the story enthusiastically."

"That's right." Jacqueline pursed her lips and snorted, "It's as if you never forced me to listen to those Quidditch games you brag about."

"It's not the same." William followed behind them. "Everyone would rather hear an anecdote about a wonderful Quidditch match than a boring arrest case."

Jacqueline shrugged as her answer.She and Hermione descended into a large, empty hall on the ground floor.

"This is the front hall of our house." Jacqueline introduced to Hermione. "Passing through here is our front door, and you will reach the garden. On the right hand side of it is the current living room of our house. Residents of the town or It’s something that is not very private, and my mother will discuss it here.”

"And here on the left," Jacqueline led Hermione into a room on the left, which was no smaller than the place where they ate yesterday.

"This is where I told you, we used to hold dances." Jacqueline whispered, Yuna in the restaurant, James was facing them, and Sean, he stretched his neck and looked nervous looking at the door.When he saw Jacqueline walking in holding Hermione's hand, he screamed strangely as if someone had strangled his neck.

"I'm so glad to see you here, Uncle Sean." Jacqueline pulled Hermione over, and they sat at the edge of the round table.

The round table was full of food, cornbread, sausage, grilled chicken, and the caviar salad that Norm was obsessed with.

Yuna put down the teacup in her hand. "You're late, Jacqueline."

"I took her to tidy up in the room. Graham taught... madam." Hermione explained hastily.

"Oh, her room seems to have been trampled by trolls." Yuna nodded slightly, "It's really hard for you, Miss Granger." Then, she looked at Jacqueline, "I hope, in the grid You can keep your room clean and orderly when Miss Ranger is away, Jacqueline. Not like your father."

"I just lack someone who can help me tidy up the room..." James just followed Jacqueline's words, and immediately realized that something was wrong. He pretended to cough and poured himself a glass of brandy.

Yuna glanced at him, "You can find a girlfriend who can clean up the house for you."

"No," James said emphatically, "it's not necessary. I'm not targeting you," he nodded toward the few present, "but I don't think I could find a more perfect woman than my daughter's mother. "

"We can discuss this matter later," Yuna said softly, "Sean has something to ask, right?"

"Yes, cough," Sean coughed hard to cover up his strange almost abnormal voice, "this should be Miss Hermione Granger?"

"Hi." Hermione held out her hand, "Are you...?"

"Sean, Sean? Ogden, I am Jacqueline's godfather." Sean stood up slightly, passed in front of Jacqueline, and held Hermione's hand tightly, "I have to say, I was so surprised, so sorry, I was determined to meet you. I have never seen anyone who can summon a Patronus in formation for the first time. I must say, your influence on Jacqueline must be very big .”

"A formed Patronus?" This time not only James and Hermione, but even Yuna was surprised. She put down her knife and fork and looked at Jacqueline. "Can you summon a formed Patronus?"

"Oh," Jacqueline blushed a little, and she brought herself some cornbread and sausage, "it's nothing, I mean, you can probably do it. Of course, I don't know Hermione you can No, but..."

"That must be a very good memory." James' eyes lingered on Hermione's face for a while, and he raised his glass, "I really want to thank you, Miss Granger. Daughter is such a beautiful memory that belongs to you."

"It's my honor." Hermione hastily raised the glass of orange juice in front of her.She looked at Jacqueline, who was busy cutting the roast chicken on her plate, Hermione smiled sweetly, "Jacqueline took me to see the nearby village, and it gave me many good memories .”

"It's great to be young." James smiled and shook Yuna's hand. "I never had a love while studying. When you start working, you will find that you don't have much time to really be together."

"I won't let this happen." Jacqueline said dissatisfiedly, frowning, "By the way, Hermione, in addition to being an Auror, Uncle Sean is also a member of the Order of the Phoenix. He is the one who helped me Found the location of your fireplace."

"Under the current situation, this is probably the least thing worth showing off." Sean smiled wryly, "But since Miss Granger is there, I think you know the Weasleys. ,Is it right?"

"Yes." Hermione nodded anxiously, "May I ask..."

"Arthur is nothing important." Sean shook his head, "This is the only news I know. About him," Sean looked up at Yuna, "I think maybe Mrs. Graham is more important than us. Knows better. They have people pretty much everywhere they should be."

"I do know someone at St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Injuries and Injuries." Yuna took a sip of black tea, and she glanced at James slightly complaining, "But it's thanks to James. Speaking of Arthur, he Appears to have been bitten by a snake, and they're trying to get his wounds to scab over. But that's not what I saw, so..."

"Everything they haven't seen, they will be skeptical." James shrugged helplessly, "Only believe what they see. Sometimes this is a good thing, sometimes..." James pursed his lips, After making a grimace, everyone at the table understood what he meant.Sean and Hermione couldn't help laughing, but Una and Jacqueline looked at him frowning.

"Anyway," James stood up from the dining table, "I have to go, and spending three nights in this castle in a row is a record. If Arthur comes to chase me away, it will be terrible." It’s just too uninteresting. What’s more, there are a bunch of cute creatures waiting for me outside.”

He bent down and kissed Yuna, then pressed another kiss on Jacqueline's forehead.Then he walked up to Sean and gave him a strong hug, "I hope you, like me, can return to your battlefield as soon as possible, my old man." Sean laughed back and hugged he.

"We can't let Rufus fight alone for too long, can we?"

Finally, James walked up to Hermione, shook hands with her, and took the opportunity to whisper in her ear, "If this is not asking too much, I hope you can stay until after the New Year."

He let go of his hand quickly, but Hermione looked at James a little confused, but soon, Hermione understood that Jacqueline was going to that church on New Year's Day.

"I will, Mr. Harris."

James laughed loudly and opened his hands, "It seems that, except for my daughter's mother who can take good care of herself, I have nothing to miss here."

"What did you promise my dad just now?" Jacqueline looked at Hermione in a daze.

"This is a secret between Miss Granger and me." James winked at Jacqueline, stepped into the fireplace in the dining room, said a name neither of them had ever heard, and disappeared into the fireplace.

"So," Jacqueline asked again when Jacqueline and Hermione returned to Jacqueline's room and began tidying her bedroom, "about that secret between you and my dad." When Jacqueline saw Hermione take out a package of unopened owl food from under the bed, she gasped, "Haiger must have hidden it here."

Hermione glanced at Jacqueline, handed her the bag, and continued to kneel on the ground as if digging for treasure, cleaning under Jacqueline's bed. "We're not up to anything, Jacqueline."

"Oh, of course, of course." Jacqueline touched her nose, she looked at her desk, thinking about what things could be thrown away, and said, "It's just, sometimes, you know, I My father is like a cold, he will have some, um, how should I put it, unbelievable thoughts."

"His idea is not unreasonable." Hermione said, and once again took out a book from under the bed, "Seriously, Jacqueline, you can't think of your bed as a storage cabinet .Huh? "The Twelve Ways to Charm a Witch"?"

Hermione subconsciously read the name of the book, Jacqueline blushed immediately, she jumped over with one step, snatched the book from Hermione's hand, and hurriedly tried to stuff it into herself In the bookshelf above the desk.

But Hermione stood up with her chest folded, "Is there anything you want to explain about this book?"

"Pencey gave it to me for my birthday," said Jacqueline, a little embarrassed. "I don't understand what she means. But, I can absolutely guarantee that I never opened it." She said, He took the book out from behind his back and handed it to Hermione, "Look, the girdle on it is still intact."

"So, are you regretting that you haven't had time to read this book yet?" Hermione asked, raising her eyebrows.

"Oh, of course." Jacqueline nodded, and Hermione pursed her lips immediately, but Jacqueline continued on her own, "If I read this book, although I don't know that it contains What, but I think I will do better when I invite you over this time."

"You don't have to be perfect at this," Hermione said gently. "The most important thing is that we both have very good memories. Also, I should really congratulate you on your success in summoning a well-formed guardian." God. In DA, we practiced for a long time, only some people can do this."

"Of course we have some very good memories." Jacqueline nodded as she should, and then she looked around and took a look at her room, which was clean and tidy and finally revealed its original appearance, "There are some not so good Yes, hard memories." She sighed.

"Hey, if you don't do it yourself, how are you going to know..."

"How hard is it to keep elves?" Jacqueline and Hermione said in unison. "Come here." Jacqueline smiled and waved to Hermione, and Hermione walked over with squinting eyes, "I just remembered that if there is a place I didn't take you there, I would be so stupid."

"Where is that?" Hermione asked curiously.Jacqueline made a quiet gesture, and she pulled Hermione out of the room and up an outside staircase to the third floor of the tower, where a bare cage stood.Jacqueline put the bag of food for the owls next to the cage, then she walked to the window, raised her head to the ceiling and shouted, "I'm going up."

However, nothing happened.

Jacqueline blushed, "The number of times it didn't respond can be counted on your fingers."

Then she said it again: "I'm going up."

This time, a gap appeared in the ceiling, and a staircase was lowered slowly, but it stopped halfway.Hermione stood aside, covering her mouth and smiling.

"I'm going up...ah, forget it." Jacqueline blushed a little irritably and stretched out her hand to grab the stairs down. "It's really not very stable sometimes." Jacqueline touched her nose, she made a gesture of invitation to Hermione, and then climbed up behind Hermione. "But don't worry, I'm researching this problem. When you come back next time, I must have solved it. Of course, maybe another spell that is easier to use may be replaced."

"It's so beautiful here." Hermione climbed up the stairs with both hands and feet, and came to the fourth floor of the tower. There were sparse stars floating around her, and some constellations could be vaguely recognized.At that moment, Hermione felt as if she was among these stars.What's even better is that some kind of magic seems to be applied to the walls on this floor, and those walls don't seem to exist anymore. Standing in the center of the room, Hermione can directly see the surrounding scene.

The small garden in the castle seems to be lit up all around, but if you look closely, you will find that those are little fairies that can glow.Outside the castle, the river in the forest reflected a little bit of light under the moonlight.And farther away, in the village, there are dots of light.

"I was just thinking," Jacqueline pulled Hermione to sit on the carpet. They could grasp the stars in front of them as soon as they stretched out their hands, but they couldn't really grasp them. Those stars were like flowing water. slipped out of hand. "If the ceiling at Hogwarts can reflect the real starry sky, then I can make my ceiling and walls do the same."

"And." Jacqueline blushed again, she lay down, and Hermione followed her example and lay on the unicorn blanket, which was soft and warm. "I'm just, uh. I remember the night the cold caught your tower. When we had to sleep together in the hall, Pansy told me she thought we were camping."

Jacqueline stretched out her hand as she spoke, trying to catch the stars in mid-air, but this time they were a bit too high.Hermione looked at Jacqueline's hand waving in the air, and she also slowly reached out to grab it in her palm.Jacqueline smiled, closed her eyes, and continued, "So, I thought, why not?"

"It's a wonderful thing to be able to spend a night in silence with the one you love, looking at the sky full of stars."

"You must be a genius." Hermione looked sideways at Jacqueline, and said very seriously and affectionately.

Jacqueline smiled shyly, "I know a very smart person. She once said that there are many very important things in this world, and being smart is just a few of them."

Hermione laughed softly, "Is there anything else?"

Jacqueline looked at Hermione, her eyes were gentle but firm, "Yes," she said softly, slowly leaning towards Hermione, and kissed her gently, "For example, SPEW and your DA."