[HP] Magic didn't give up on you

As his wife and old schoolmates chatted enthusiastically about old times, Mr Smith cast a thoughtful glance in his son's direction to make sure he had boarded the train.

Then he was surprised to find that his son was still on the platform, standing facing the train, looking up at the scarlet train in front of him, and seemed to have a strong interest in these ordinary carriages.

Is there a magical element in this ordinary means of transportation?It looks like any other train.Mr. Smith looked at the train curiously, feeling a desire to study carefully.

However, this is really difficult to achieve. He can't even come to the platform to explore by himself, and can only be brought in by his wife's arm, let alone do further research.So Mr. Smith had to give up this tempting idea and smile proudly instead.

As expected of his son, he completely inherited his scholar genes.It's a joy to see young Eli facing a world wider than his father's.

After completing a whole set of reading comprehension in his mind, Mr. Smith, who was satisfied and looked away, didn't know that the inference he made was far from the truth.The main reason Eli had to watch the trains now was that he couldn't stare long into the face of a strange girl—it would be so rude.

What is more disturbing than rudeness is the silence. It is really difficult to expect two strangers who just met to have a good conversation. After exchanging names, the two exchanged a few simple greetings, and looked at the train at the same time in a slight embarrassment. , both were quiet for a moment.

The Evans couple expressed their happiness that their daughter's mood had stabilized, and they did not disturb the children's chat. They walked away a little bit in good faith, and still looked around happily. With a heartfelt smile.Petunia stared fixedly at the steaming scarlet train in front of her, and after a while, she spoke reluctantly.

"Where is your school?" She asked, tightly clutching the handkerchief Eli had just handed her, her emotions still a little tense, and her tone deliberately armed, "Wouldn't it be out of England, or underground? In the sea? A place where Muggles can't go?"

As soon as she finished speaking, she was surprised to find that the person next to her laughed.It made her gasp nervously, and almost immediately became hostile again.

"If you think what I'm saying is ridiculous—"

"I didn't mean that, sorry." Eli waved his hand, still smiling, and turned his face to look at Petunia, his voice was much more relaxed than before.

"It's just because I've heard these words many times during the summer vacation - my dad keeps asking, and he doesn't know magic. My mom can't explain clearly, so I bought the school history of this school for him to read... a lot of wizards I didn't think about it, I just took it for granted that there would be no Muggles there, but in fact the school should be in Scotland, and it has been cast with magic that can't be seen, which can be understood as a blindfold."

No one had ever told Petunia about this, the wizarding world had nothing to do with her, and of course no one would care whether she was curious or not.Although her complexion was still not very good-looking, she listened very attentively and was almost enthralled.

"...my sister received an admission letter this year." She whispered, lowered her eyes, and fell silent again.

Eli glanced at her sharply, but didn't pierce her sudden depression, and took up the topic in a natural tone.

"I'm also a freshman this year." He introduced himself, sincerely, "Magic is wonderful, and she will definitely have a good time at Hogwarts. But the school for ordinary people is also very good, I like the elementary school." Technology classes and art classes, very interesting, my mother said that Hogwarts didn't have these classes, and she also thought it would be great to figure out how the clockwork works."

Although she also said that she could use a wand to cast a spell, and the same effect could be achieved immediately, and there was no need to really study the operating principles of Muggle mechanical creations, but Eli did not say these words.

Petunia's eyes wandered over him.

"Your mother was a wizard and your father couldn't do magic?" she asked, with a strange eccentricity in her voice. "How did they get together? I mean—"

She hesitated, and did not express her true thoughts.The corners of her lips were tightly pursed again, showing the deliberate arrogance that was aroused, as if she thought that she would not be at a disadvantage in terms of momentum.

Eli knew what she meant, maybe it was something she had experienced before that made her have some prejudice against wizards, thinking that wizards look down on Muggles, let alone marry them and form a family.

... To be honest, this may not be called prejudice.

Eli paused briefly, but did not answer the question directly, but raised an eyebrow slightly.

"Probably because both sides are human beings, there is no reproductive isolation, and biologically they can combine and reproduce." He said a little narrowly, "It can be a strong proof that wizards are not monsters, right?"

Petunia choked at his smile, and stared at him disapprovingly, almost exasperated.

But she didn't say anything mean this time—just a faint blush on her face, and she fled from Eli, running to where her parents were standing, hugging their arms, and it was far away. Yuan Di glanced at him again, staring at him cautiously and vigilantly, as if guarding against his sudden burst of laughter mocking her stupid speech.

Seeing her expression, Eli couldn't help but laugh.This short episode put him in a strangely good mood, until he sat in the private room, and when the train pulled out of the platform and passed through the gentle wilderness, there was still a faint smile on his lips.

His compartment was at the back of the train, and at first there was no one else but him.It wasn't until the train drove for a while that there was the sound of luggage being dragged on the ground outside the box.A few seconds later, the box was pulled open from the outside, and a smiling face poked in.

"Sorry, are there still two vacant seats here? The other boxes are full."

Eli was a little surprised, then shook his head: "There is no one else here, please feel free."

Thank you so much.Lily breathed a sigh of relief and walked in first.The half-length black-haired boy followed her, his gaze paused on Eli for a moment, his face darkened, and after noticing where his gaze fell, he unconsciously clenched his hands.

After Lily sat down, she also found the boy on the opposite side looking at her, and greeted her friendlyly: "Hi, my name is..."

"Lily Evans." Eli said, returning the same friendly smile, her eyes fell on the corners of her still red eyes, "You left in a bit of a hurry just now, your sister didn't say goodbye to you, she feels very sorry ...I think she's also sorry for saying the wrong thing in a hurry, although she didn't say it so clearly, but I felt it."

The two people on the opposite side looked at him blankly, as if he was speaking a foreign language.They looked at each other for a while before Lily let out an exclamation as if she woke up suddenly.

"Penny?!" Lily's eyes widened in astonishment, "You know Petunia?! How did you know each other??"

How does this sum up, on a whim?Eli thought for a while, and modified it a little: "It's a coincidence."

Well... Lily was still in shock, but she finally smiled.

"Penny doesn't hate me." She said sincerely, "I'm really sorry for what I saw... If Penny doesn't want to forgive me, I really don't know what to do That's good."

Snape, who was sitting next to her, had been silent the whole time. Hearing Lily's words, he still couldn't hold back, and twitched the corners of his lips.

"That's just a Muggle," he said, glancing at Eli, interjecting deliberately to get Lily's attention. "It doesn't matter what she thinks, we're wizards, Lily."

"Sev!" Lily stopped him reproachfully, and cast an apologetic glance at Eli, but found that all the friendly smiles on Eli's face had been put away, showing a cold alienation.

"My father was also a Muggle." He said flatly, his eyes falling on Snape.

Snape paused, and looked at him silently. Neither of them continued to speak, and the originally friendly atmosphere in the box immediately froze.

Lily was very sorry, she hurriedly apologized on Snape's behalf, and hurriedly explained to her friend: "I'm sorry, Sev didn't mean it! He just has a little... a little... you are all half-blood wizards! And both mothers are wizards." , Dad is an ordinary person, quite similar, right?"

Snape's eyes fell on the dark-haired boy opposite.

He was handsome and elegant, well-dressed, with a new and beautiful suitcase, his name was embroidered with gold thread on the inside of the wizard robe cuffs, and the white shirt cuffs were exposed inside. From head to toe, it was written that he had a happy life and was cared for properly and happily.

Not the same, not at all.Snape withdrew his gaze abruptly, and remained silent in front of Lily, without uttering a word, he just pulled down his wizard robe calmly, trying to cover his overly fat trouser legs.

Eli noticed his secretive behavior carefully, paused, and bent the corners of his lips again amidst Lily's apology.

"So none of us escaped, we were all involved? Well, maybe I don't appreciate the humor in this way."

The atmosphere calmed down quietly.

Although there was a small accident when they met, they got along very well during the rest of the journey. Influenced by the historian's father's spirit of seeking knowledge, Eli can also speak clearly about the history of the magic school.Eli was also interested in Snape's experiences with spells and potions, which Lily would love to know.When they were about to arrive at Hogwarts, they finally finished the discussion reluctantly. Everyone felt that what they said today was too much.

"We're going to be sorted, it's really nerve-wracking." Lily took a deep breath uneasily, "Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, Slytherin... Eli, where do you want to go? "

"My mother told me about the characteristics of the four Hogwarts houses, and she said she wouldn't be surprised if I was assigned anywhere except Slytherin." Eli said thoughtfully, "But she insisted that I would go to Ravenclaw, where there are people who are interested in knowledge, and I think it sounds good."

It's great to have your own goals, Lily sighed enviously: "You and Seaver both have their own favorite colleges, it's great, I wish you all your wishes come true...I don't know where I will be assigned yet, Seaver said I Best to go to Slytherin, so that later we can..."

"Slytherin?" Eli froze for a moment, with a strange expression on his face.

Snape frowned, and cast him a provocative look—although we had a happy conversation along the way, he still had some inexplicable hostility towards Eli, which he didn't want to admit.

If he is as brazen as those two idiots in the box before... Snape thought threateningly, looked at Eli, but was stunned for a moment after seeing his face clearly, and then reacted suddenly, his face suddenly changed white.

"Eli!" he said suddenly and hastily, "you don't—"

Before he could stop him, Eli continued talking.

"You are not suitable to go to Slytherin, Lily." He said in a calm tone, without disdain or admiration, just stating the facts objectively, "I heard from my mother that almost all Slytherin students are proud of their pure blood, They have unreasonable malice towards Muggle-born students, and will use insulting names and exclude them in every way. Even if you are a very good girl, in some people's eyes, birth is enough to make you You are condemned, as long as you have Muggle relations, you are a lump of mud that deserves to be trampled on the soles of your feet."

Lily and Snape's faces paled a little.

"Does being from a non-wizard family have a big influence?" Lily asked in a low voice after being stunned for a while.

Snape raised his head sharply and glared at Eli viciously, feeling angry and hated that he had mercilessly exposed the cruel reality for Lily.

However, to their surprise, Eli shook his head without hesitation.

"I don't think so," he said, facing the eyes of the two of them calmly. "A person's excellence lies not in his birth, but in his choice of person—my father always told me that. He's a Muggle, and at the same time Also a very good guy.”

He thought of something, and suddenly bent the corners of his lips: "All prejudice should be eliminated, right? We all know that wizards are not monsters, but some wizards want to see their compatriots like this. Let me tell you, Lily, these people still Not as brave as your sister, at least she dares to face her own mistakes, what do you think? Don’t pay too much attention to it, the key lies in yourself.”