[HP] This Evil

On the first Christmas at Hogwarts, Catherine did not come home, Cecilia stayed in Germany, and her parents went to France to attend a ghost seminar.

There were very few Slytherins staying in school, and she was the only one in the first grade, and the rest were all seniors, whom she didn't know.It was almost noon when Catherine woke up on Christmas morning, and she was alone in the dormitory, wearing a nightgown and walking barefoot from one end of the dormitory to the other, and then back to this end, repeatedly, several times, Greeting to the mermaid in the black lake through the glass, the mermaid grinned at her and swam away with the fork in her hand.It wasn't until Catherine realized that her feet were freezing cold that she remembered that she should go to look at the presents under the Christmas tree in the lounge.

The Christmas tree in the Slytherin lounge is a bit like the one in Ferrara's house. They are tall and tall, but the decoration is simple. There are no layers of colorful ribbons and shiny pendants, only a slender silver tree. The wavy ribbon hovers from the top to the tail of the tree, and 49 small silver bells are evenly hung on the branches. Each bell has a small snake of different shapes, but none of them has a core, so even if you touch it, you will not be able to see it. There will be no sound, and instead of stars placed on the top of the tree, there will be a silver snake spewing letters.

There are not many gifts under the tree, and most of them have been taken away by their respective owners.Catherine carried her small part to the window, and began to unwrap the present under the gaze of the black octopus.As expected, no gift from her parents, Cecilia's is a book about transfiguration, every year Cecilia gives a book, just like she gives Cecilia a quill and ink every year Same; Daphne sent a brooch with a unique shape, packaged in a crystal box, very delicate, but a bit dazzling; Pansy was a handkerchief, made of oriental silk, which seemed very expensive; Millicent’s was candy, coconut flavored Yes, not very sweet.Blaise, Theodore and the others seemed to have agreed to give them all the hairpins. Even the style was the same, the same ugly, but there were slight differences in color, but this was also normal, because Catherine and Daphne also Together, I asked someone to buy some identical biscuits as gifts for the boys.It was only later that Catherine sent Ferrara's house elves to London to buy a pair of Quidditch gloves as a gift for Draco, but it was too busy for the two house elves, and they hadn't done it for many years I've searched all over London to find the best pair because of broomsticks.

Now there is Draco's gift, the rectangular box wrapped in green silk, tied with silver ribbon, but instead of a bow, a silver three-dimensional orchid is embedded in the knot.Inside the box was a small model of the Nimbus 2000, with a topaz broom and obsidian handle, on a silver carriage.There is also a greeting card.

Catherine:

Merry Christmas!

I don't know what you like, but I like broomsticks, and since you like Quidditch, I think you like it too.I was going to send you a real Nimbus 2000, but someone at school already has this and I don't want to give you something that someone else has and they sure don't have this model because it's expensive and no one else can afford it! ― Draco Malfoy

The small greeting card was densely written, and Catherine unconsciously read it several times before putting it down.The fireplace in the living room is not very hot today, Catherine only put on a spring school robe over her pajamas, sitting on the floor by the window, her body is as cold as the lake outside the window, this year's Christmas is not too bad , she thought while touching that delicate model.

The light in the Slytherin lounge was always dim, and Catherine was sitting in a corner by the window in her black robe, holding the model in her left hand and her wand in her right—her wand never left her body, and there was a huge round table beside her , so no one found her there, until her legs felt numb from sitting for a long time, Catherine stood up holding the window, took the gift to the lounge, ate some cold pasta, and went to the library. The library continued to revise the potion treatise.

Because it was Christmas, there were very few people in the library, only some seniors who were preparing for the exam, and the rest were Ravenclaws, but Catherine was surprised to find that Harry and Ron were also there, and they walked away with her accidentally. Facing a head-on, Ron immediately took a step forward and was ready to quarrel, but soon he found that without Draco, no one wanted to quarrel, he was embarrassed for a while, and backed away.Catherine stared at Harry for a while, then walked sideways past him, but still didn't say the "sorry" that lingered on her lips.

After the monster in the Forbidden Forest had appeared that day, she and Draco, oh, and Fang had run away, leaving Harry alone.In fact, she thought that she had done the best of humanity by pulling Harry back then. After all, even the three of them together were no match for monsters. If she and Draco didn't run away, would they have to accompany Harry to die? But she didn't know why. , she always felt a little guilty when she saw Harry, which was really a rare psychological feeling.However, even if this happened again, they would definitely do the same as before, at most they would just give Harry a hand, and if he didn't follow, they wouldn't go back to him, let alone stay there to wait for him.So there is no so-called "sorry", just a meaningless nonsense.

When she returned to the lounge, Catherine looked under the Christmas tree again, but there was still no gift from her parents. "They're busy," she said to herself.