[HP] Born to be a pair

Renee was staring blankly at the mouse on the table.

The mouse was covered in a transparent glass cover, squeaking in fear, and the pink claws under the gray fur scratched the dark primer.

It wasn't that she was afraid of mice—rats were a thing of the house by the lake, it was just that she was thinking about things, very, very important things.

"Professor McGonagall is looking at you." Padma bumped into her and whispered when she lowered her head to pick up the transparent cover.

Renee woke up suddenly, and the bubble of the barrier she vaguely touched exploded, revealing the stern, menacing green eyes beneath the smoke.

"Miss Hawke, you should start using your wand now," said Professor McGonagall, brows furrowed together. "The eyes alone won't make this mouse disappear."

In her eyes, Renee felt ashamed for no reason. Compared with Snape, Professor McGonagall made her respect more. Being caught by her in a daze in class was more uncomfortable than being cut with a knife.

"sorry."

She grumbled and took out her wand, hawthorn wood, dragon heartstring core, ten inches was just right for her to hold, and said with a light wave: "Disappear!"

The rat that was still screaming a few seconds ago disappeared in an instant, with the transparent glass covering it.

Professor McGonagall stepped off the podium, stopped beside her and Padma and took a closer look.

"Yes, it seems that you are very proficient in the disappearing spell."

Professor McGonagall's expression slowed down, but when his eyes touched the twisting mouse tail in front of Padma, he returned to seriousness.

"Miss Patil, you should understand that this spell may appear in the OWLS test questions, you'd better practice it a few more times."

With Padma's crying expression, Professor McGonagall took advantage of the opportunity to check the situation of the other people at the next table.

Two empty tabletops, three mice missing ears or legs, and a pink mouse tail still wagging.

"Everyone, please pay attention!" She frowned and returned to the podium, saying bitterly.

"Except for the classmate who successfully cast a spell on a mouse in this class, everyone else's homework is a paper on the disappearing spell of small mammals, thirteen inches."

The get out of class bell rang, and with Hufflepuff's wailing, Professor McGonagall packed his bag and left the Transfiguration classroom.

"How did you do it?" Padma hurriedly threw the remaining mouse tail into the box, retched and walked out of the seat, "You weren't even listening to the class!"

"... I have practiced." Renee said vaguely, putting the textbooks in her schoolbag.

"She's such a genius!" Lisa's startled voice came from behind them. "You don't know, do you? Longbottom got A's in all his potions papers! ——Honestly, did you ghostwrite it?"

Amused, Renee rolled her eyes and said, "Oh come on! If I ghost-written it, Neville at least gets an E?"

Lisa's information is always one step ahead of others. I really don't know where she usually stays. Does she haunt every corner of the corridor, using her big and long ears to eavesdrop on other people's conversations?

but--

The three of them were walking side by side when Renee suddenly said, "Lisa, I think—I want to ask you something."

"What's the matter?" Lisa said with a smile, "As long as I know, I will tell you!"

"You..." Renee hesitated and slowed down. Lisa and Padma also stopped at the same time. The three changed positions and walked around behind a piece of armor.

"Do you know the last name Shafiq? Do you know anyone with the last name Shafiq?"

Padma is a little confused, but Lisa is lost in memories.

"Shafik, such a familiar surname...I don't know anyone with the surname Shafik...but why is this surname so familiar?"

"The surname comes from the pureblood 28 family."

A timid voice said, they turned their heads at the same time, and their searchlight-like eyes shone on the face of the blonde girl with braided hair, and she blushed immediately.

"Yes... sorry! I didn't mean to overhear your conversation..."

After finishing speaking, she couldn't bear it and ran away, leaving behind a few people who were thinking.

Lisa was inspired, and suddenly she said, "Yes! That's right! That's what she said - she's Hannah Abbott of Hufflepuff, also from Family 28, no wonder she knows.

I saw it once in The Pure Blood Guide...don't look at me like that!I was just curious, I don't know who put this book in the library..."

"Is this book in the library?" Renee asked sharply, earning Lisa a shake of her head.

"Of course not! This book is a complete idiot's talk about 'helping these families maintain the purity of their lineage' . . . it's suffocating talk."

"Yeah!" Padma also interjected, "Who doesn't have a few Muggle relatives now? I dare say that the pure-blood families also have hidden Muggle relatives."

"You are joking!"

Another sharp voice broke in, almost cutting Renee's ears to blood.She turned to see a burly Slytherin girl glaring at Padma.

"No self-respecting pure-blood family would put themselves in that situation, being related to Muggles? What's next, spending Christmas with them?"

"Don't we have a clean and private space to talk?" Lisa complained.

Padma rolled her eyes, obviously not wanting to talk, she pulled the robes of the other two, trying to take them away.

"Who are you?" Renee asked suddenly, sizing up the other party without any trace, "Are you also from the 28 family?"

"Of course!" said the Slytherin girl triumphantly. "Millisson Burstrod, of House Burstrod."

Ignoring Padma's quickening of her cuffs, Renee said in a rare mocking tone: "Bost...? Never heard of it, you can't be lying to us, are you?"

Millicent Burst's cheeks flushed immediately, and they were so round that they bulged out a large mass of apple muscles, as if rouge had been stained on the dough.She pointed at Renee's nose angrily and yelled, "How dare you?!—are you, are you a half-breed bastard? Or a mudblood? Never heard of a wizard from Bulstrode..."

"Take it back!" Lisa, who is also a half-breed, was also furious. She even took out her wand and pointed it at Millicent, "Get your dirty sausage hands away from my friend!"

"It's not that I don't believe you!" Renee also began to pant heavily, but she tried to calm down and hugged the excited Lisa, "I've never seen the book "Guide to Pure Blood"—"

"Ha!" Millicent Burst laughed shrilly, quickly grabbed her schoolbag and rummaged through it, then threw a brand new book on Renee.

Renee hurriedly let go of the book and caught it. Padma looked over and said in a strange tone, "You actually carry this book with you?"

"If you find Burst on it..." Millicent Burst narrowed her eyes, "You..."

"I just apologize to you." Renee perfunctory her, quickly turned the pages of the book, and quickly found the surname 'Shafik' according to the initials.

It should only record some famous people, at least she didn't find the name she wanted to see, and the name at the end of modern times was 'Abigail Shafik'.

Seeing the name, Renee was thoughtful, and returned the book to Millicent Burst with a smile on her lips, and said cheerfully, "I found it, and it really has your name. I'm so sorry!"

Just as Millicent Burst sneered, she was poked in the nose by the tip of Renee's wand again. She didn't even notice when Renee took out her wand!

"Now, isn't it your turn to apologize to us too?" Renee said with a smile, poking her wand straight under the other's eyes.

"Apologies for what you said about half-blood wizards and Muggle-born wizards just now!"

Millicent Burst, however, had always been a wizard of physical force—perhaps her family should have sent her to some other gymnastics school than Hogwarts—but she threw up her hands, wanting to Grab Renee's wand.

Padma and Lisa screamed.

"Tarantella dance!"

A beam of white light shot from the tip of the staff and hit Millicent Burst. Her hands were frozen in mid-air, and her legs began to dance involuntarily—disorganized, not a dance step at all.

"Let's go, let her enjoy the dancing here," Renee said, raising her eyebrows, and the three of them left the row of clamorous classmates before most of the Slytherins arrived.

She guessed that there would be a lockdown soon, so Renee returned to the lounge immediately after today's class - before she left, she regretfully canceled tonight's date with Neville.

Seeing his dejected appearance made Renee very uncomfortable.

But the immediate matters are also important.

Renee tossed aside the pillow and turned out the diary underneath. The open letter lay crumpled aside, unable to hold her attention any longer.

After the manifesting spell, the first page of the bare diary finally had writing.

'Amelia Shafik'.

This is her mother's diary, and it begins on the day after she and her father got married.

' Greg sent me a beautiful diary today, and from now on I will write everything in it, and hope to read it with my children when I am old. '

The previous ones were all insignificant records, the daily milk order and the socializing of the neighbors, but Renee had read them several times.

She wiped away her tears and flipped through a few articles.

’ Abbie came to visit me today and Greg had just driven off when she Apparated to the door and almost freaked me out.

She went to Gringotts to change pounds for me - what a silly girl, who would send money as a wedding present?

I heard from her that the wizarding world has become more and more dangerous recently, because the family has an ambiguous attitude and refuses to show loyalty to the mysterious person, and something big happened...

I advised her to move in with the Muggle world, Greg would welcome them, but she wouldn't.

I hope Dad and Abby can tide over the difficulties well. '

Renee guessed that this person called Abi might be Abigail Shafik, Mom's sister.

But she had never met any of her mother's relatives since she was a child, neither this Abby nor her mother's father, and his father seemed to know nothing about it, as if her mother deliberately kept it from them.

She turned a few more pages, and some dates were not recorded in it, maybe her mother was pregnant at that time, and the first diary entry a few months later also confirmed Renee's thoughts.

'Finally out of the hospital!Home, sweet home!There were two people before leaving, and three people after returning.

Greg was holding the baby, he looked so at a loss and I asked him if he had a name for his daughter and he put a whole page of names in front of me!

In the end, after discussion, we decided to use the name Renee, lovely Renee, beautiful Renee, and we will have a daughter in the future. '

Renee let out a sob uncontrollably, and she couldn't help but be thankful that she had come back without dinner, while the other roommates were still enjoying dinner in the auditorium.

And after turning a few pages, the last page of the diary that she was least willing to face appeared in front of her.

'How could this be...how could this be...I thought they loved me, and I've lived there for more than ten years, so they just have the heart to watch me die?

But my daughter... Renee...

Abigail doesn't want to help me, I don't blame her, Dad is really cruel, she doesn't want to offend him...but what should I do?

I can only rely on Si Neff, only she can help me. '

And the date of this diary is exactly the day before the death of Amelia Vance—no, Amelia Shafik.

The author has something to say:

Renee always dies before Professor Snape is cleared, so she still thinks he's a runaway Death Eater.

Her wand was made of hawthorn, which wandmaker Gregorovich once wrote was "a very strange, contradictory wand".

Like the tree itself that gave birth to this contradictory quality, its leaves and flowers can be healing, while the smell of its branches can be deadly.

Just like Renee's contradictions and entanglements, paired with a strong and rigid core like Dragon Heart String, it symbolizes that she is also brave and stubborn.

"Pure Blood Guide" is from the original book, which contains the name Shafiq, but there is no introduction, so it was used by me haha.

感谢在2021-09-2818:43:17~2021-09-2918:14:50期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel of irrigation nutrient solution: 20 bottles of Liu'an Fengdi; waiting for more every day! 5 bottles;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!