[HP] Magic didn't give up on you

James Potter finished his Quidditch practice, took a broom, and hurried across the auditorium to their school newspaper.From the moment you set foot on the stairs leading to the school newspaper, the road is full of dangers and dangers; there are eyeballs that were thrown up maliciously on the stairs, bloody scattered all over the floor, making the whole staircase look horrifying; There is a sticky liquid like oil, if you don't pay attention, you will fall, and your face will come into close contact with the disgusting things here.

Childish little trick of the naysayers.With the broom in one hand and his wand drawn in the other, James cleaned up at least two puddles of oil, a pool of slugs, bloody eyes rolling all over the floor, and several large fecal eggs along the way.This really mobilized some of his enthusiasm, and when he finally opened the door of the club activity room, he looked energetic and arrogant.

Unexpectedly, there was an ambush here—Peves rushed out, throwing chalk stubs in his face.Seeing that he was caught off guard and thrown straight, Peeves immediately laughed happily and threw him even more vigorously.

"Arrogant Potter has also been recruited! Lord Peeves' No. 14 spoils today!" He happily made up his own out-of-tune ballad, and ran around the activity room with increasing excitement.

There are several people in the activity room—since the new issue of the school newspaper this semester was sent out, there have been people on duty here to prevent opponents from rushing in and causing damage inside.They originally had a well-arranged roster, and everything was not heavy, but almost everyone would spontaneously come to work overtime, and would come here to report when they had nothing to do, so there were always a lot of people in this activity room, to some extent , it's almost like a second home for those who work on the school newspaper.

"You're here too, Potter." Lily Evans raised her head from a pile of documents, glanced at him, turned a blind eye to Peeves who was running around, and asked him in a normal tone, "How's the situation outside?" ? There were a lot of big shit eggs in the hallway when I came here, I cleaned out some, but there may be a new batch now."

"Yeah, and some eyeballs and slugs, I cleaned them out along the way," James answered her, frowning impatiently at Peeves' chalk tip, raising his wand, and pointed angrily in his direction. refer to.

A piece of chalk changed direction in mid-air, rushed backwards towards Peeves, and stuck it in his nostril.Peeves was taken aback, swore (but wisely) and floated away, he's always been a little bully.

"What kind of spell is that, Potter?" Lily asked with interest. Next to her, Catherine, the seventh-grade Hufflepuff deputy editor, waved her wand and lifted her own bubble head spell, and looked over with interest as well.

"A little charm." James cleared his throat, a little unnaturally, but said quite normally, "It's very simple, you-you can use it if you are interested, and people like Peeves are always It's kind of useful."

He shared the spell, and the members of the school newspaper in the activity room tried it, and the effect was really good, and everyone was satisfied.

It has been more than three months since the school started, Christmas is approaching, and the preparations for the new issue of the school magazine have basically taken shape.After the huge news in the last issue of the school magazine, their preparations for this issue of the school magazine were under tremendous pressure.There are not only criticisms from the outside world, but also obstacles from within the school. After discovering that this is not a newspaper simply sharing interesting things in the school, many students also have different degrees of cowardice and shrink back. These are like basins of cold water. Pour it on the heads of these enthusiastic school newspaper members.

But nothing can quench the fire in one's heart.Although the conditions are more difficult than before, and they are no longer sought after by the whole people as before, their determination to participate in the newspaper has become more determined, and no one complains about staying here day after day.

But the classes that should be taken still have to be taken, there is no doubt that their current job is still a student after all.James and Lily are both sixth graders in Gryffindor, and they have to take several advanced courses together. They stay in the activity room until the class is about to start, then leave the school newspaper together and go to the common classroom .

Not surprisingly, when they came out, they found something new at the door of the activity room—several broken bones. They were all shocked, and after careful identification, they were sure that they were not human bones, but their expressions remained the same. It's all ugly.

Lily took a deep breath to calm down her violently beating heart. She pressed her lower lip hard, and the expression on her face became more determined.James pointed his wand at the bones and said a spell, and the bones disappeared without a trace. Lily held the book and turned to look at him.

"You seem to be very good at some little charms that are not in the textbook." She said that since fighting side by side that night during the summer vacation, she found that she had become able to see some of the good points in Potter objectively—of course, She never ignored his arrogance and such shortcomings, but when he stopped stalking her indiscriminately and was busy with the tasks of the school newspaper, he would not go to Sif all the time... …After Snape's troubles, he suddenly became more pleasing to the eye.

Or maybe she just saw more aspects of this person, people are always very complicated, no one is born to grow up according to all aspects of his preferences, Lily thinks this is also understandable.

"Ah, I think me and my friends are good at it," said James, without taking credit for it, just shrugged. "My parents taught me some, and Sirius must have had some tutoring, but he Don't like to mention...Peter's mother is also a very knowledgeable witch, and Headmaster Dumbledore once considered hiring her as our Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, but it didn't seem to work out, and he was very disappointed. Dealing with Peeves This spell was actually invented by Remus, who has always been very knowledgeable about these little spells."

"Remus is too low-key." Lily said, "he is obviously very smart and gentle. I think he is a bit like Eli...but he seems a little withdrawn. I think the most striking thing he does is And you and Blake became friends. Why don't you publish all these practical little charms in the school newspaper? Give him a chance to show his talent."

James grinned and shrugged.

"I also think it's okay, but Remus is always not very confident, and I will continue to persuade him." He said, smiled unconsciously, raised his eyebrows with a little secret pride, and said, "Speaking of which, His talent is not buried, I think we have a great invention that uses his whimsy, in fact, not only him, but the rest of us-"

"What invention?" Lily asked, James just opened his mouth, but suddenly reacted, and immediately closed his mouth.

"Well... a small invention, in fact, it's not as great as I said." He said a little hesitantly, his eyes wandering left and right, obviously not good at lying, and he seemed guilty of guilt.Not being able to show off was a bit aggrieved to him, but he undoubtedly kept his bottom line, tightly shut his mouth, and kept silent on this topic.

"Oh, don't be nervous, I don't have to know." Lily said reassuringly, looking at James who was not quite right, she felt fresh and inexplicably different.

She thought that as long as she wanted to know, Potter would have nothing to hide from her, but she didn't expect there to be.This made Lily raise her eyebrows in her heart, but she didn't say it out loud.

James was visibly relieved, and he immediately seemed more relaxed.

"It's not about me alone. When I say it, I need to take other people's feelings into consideration. After all, I'm not sure if they want other people to know." He explained nervously, looking at Lily, " . . . Anyway, I want to say that I didn't mean to hide from you, or to whet your appetite, Evans."

I didn't say anything.Lily shrugged and said only: "It seems that you are a good friend."

"I really think so." James grinned, raised his hand and scratched his hair a little embarrassedly, and suddenly became a little suspicious, "I don't know if I'm thinking right, but... I thought... during the summer vacation After that night, we're kind of friends, Evans?"

Lily stood still, turned her head, and looked up and down James with critical eyes.James stood up nervously, looking like he didn't know where to put his hands and feet.

"Perhaps," she said cautiously, "if you don't do anything overly obnoxious..."

"I'll try my best." James said earnestly and sincerely, his hazel pupils were fixedly looking at her, a very warm color, "If you find something annoying, you can tell me, Evans, I Think I'll try to change that."

Lily was startled, then shook her head.

"No one should change for another, I think," she said, looking at him with green eyes.

"But I would," James said at once, and began to ruffle his messy hair again unconsciously. "I suppose it's not a bad thing for a person to want to be better?"

Lily looked at him for a while, then turned around, left a word, and continued walking towards the classroom.

James froze in place, the words echoed in his ears, making him feel as if he had been completely petrified for a moment, completely forgetting what he should do.

"Then you can call me Lily, James."

When the Christmas holiday came, all the members of the school newspaper did not choose to stay at school. Each of them carried dozens of freshly released new issues of the school newspaper, and took on the mission of distributing them to everyone in need .

This is not an easy task. As the periodicals headed by the "Daily Prophet" fanned the flames, some adult wizards who had no actual contact with the school newspaper shifted their emotional balance, and began to feel that this group of wizards who had not graduated from the school students are messing around.

Could a newspaper with the largest circulation in the wizarding world in Britain be lying?Of course not, this is much more credible than a school newspaper.

There is nothing wrong with wizards having such ideas, but such views must not be allowed to continue to spread.They printed more copies of the school newspaper this time, and thought of many ways to disguise these school newspapers.

Speaking of which, this was the inspiration given to them by the school administrator Filch—they assumed that the school newspaper was a dangerous item that Filch forbids to bring into the school, and how to successfully deliver it to the school would become their own. Students have always been amazingly talented in their creative thinking on issues that have been studied.

But Eli didn't join in. This Christmas holiday, he has more important things to do.

"The influence of the mysterious man is quietly spreading among the senior students." At the Order of the Phoenix assembly, Eli briefly introduced the situation, "There are a lot of them among the sixth and seventh graders. Everyone says that there is Dumbledore in Hogwarts, It is the only area that the mysterious man cannot touch. The more this kind of saying spreads, the harder the mysterious man and the Death Eaters will try. If there is a flag standing there, breaking it as soon as possible is of course a good way to severely damage the morale of the enemy. Method."

"It's conceivable." Edgar rubbed the space between his brows and said wearily, "But we don't know the specific movements of the mysterious man, and we can't predict his actions, which makes us a little passive."

"Yes, I thought of this possibility." Eli said calmly, "So I published a report in the new issue of the school newspaper that the Death Eaters couldn't refuse."

The other members of the Order of the Phoenix looked at him.

"What report?" Alastor Moody asked suspiciously.

"With the assistance of Professor Dumbledore, I published a new recruitment notice for the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor." Eli said, "This time the method is a bit different from before."

"What method?" Several people asked together.

Eli looked up and glanced at them.

"Hogwarts Defense Against the Dark Arts professor recruitment review," he said.

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