[hp] warm as jade

After the Quidditch match, Slytherin, who was the loser, became closer and more proud.This is especially evident in the first grade.

On almost all occasions, you can see eleven little furry children wearing silver and green scarves gathered tightly together, talking and laughing, or quietly, but the intimacy that flows between them is It's not hard to see—the number of wizards is very rare, and there are only a dozen or so wizards in one grade in one college.Eleven people are already all the new students in Slytherin.

Rong Jiu's phrase "Slytherin is the best" has become the mantra of the entire academy.The previous dissatisfaction with Rong Jiu also melted into her proud and affirmative tone.After all, almost all Slytherins and their parents have studied in Slytherin, so the sense of identity and honor for the college has long been engraved in their bones.Rong Jiu felt that this was very similar to the hereditary system in ancient China. One person in the ancestors was a Slytherin, and then everyone behind them was a Slytherin.

When Rong Jiu told this idea to his companions, almost all of them laughed.Draco lifted his chin slightly, and a proud smile appeared on his lips: "Slytherin is an honor, and not everyone is lucky enough to have this honor."

"So I'm so lucky." Rong Jiu sighed.

Lila suddenly asked, "Jiu, why haven't I seen you go to Potter and the others recently? What happened?"

After a while, ten surprised eyes fell on Lila neatly.After all, Rong Jiu and Harry were very close back then, and Lila was the first to have an opinion, and also the one with the biggest opinion.

Lila cleared her throat: "Noble princesses also have the right to befriend commoners. We should lament the good luck of commoners instead of restraining noble princesses."

Amidst the good-natured laughter, Rong Jiu replied solemnly: "Because I want to study hard and improve every day."

Tukara Angus stabbed quickly: "I trust you, because Professor Snape will definitely supervise you!"

Before Rong Jiu vomited blood, classmate Pan Xi made another stab: "And it is absolutely supervised every day, every day to improve!"

Rong Jiu stopped vomiting blood, Rong Jiu just fell to the ground and couldn't get up.

"By the way, Jiu, what will you do for Christmas?" Daphne asked concerned, "You seem to be the only one staying in our academy!"

Rong Jiu shrugged: "Who knows."

While talking, they had already entered the auditorium, and the Christmas atmosphere inside was already very strong.There are swirling snowflakes on the ceiling, hanging ribbons of holly and mistletoe on the wall, and the Christmas trees stand tall and straight in the auditorium, with various decorations hanging on them.

Eleven children naturally walked to the far side, five girls on one side and six boys on the other.The one singled out today became Cruces Dylan.He complained angrily: "When will it be Draco's turn? I think I've already eaten in front of the air several times!"

Draco replied triumphantly: "It depends on when you can surpass me in homework grades."

Rong Jiu pushed the turkey sandwich towards Cruces, Eli Gejill put the pumpkin juice in front of Rong Jiu, and Theodore Knott passed the carrot to Pansy.The Slytherin table was full of harmony, mixed with low laughter.

In this piece of peace, Snape floated past like a dark cloud, and then landed straight on Rong Jiu's head.

The latter was eating happily, when suddenly a shadow was cast on her head, with a vegetable leaf in her mouth, she raised her head blankly...

The Slytherins were holding back their laughter so painfully, Rong Jiu still had a bit of salad dressing on her mouth, her expression was innocent and frightened, at such a serious moment, she did not forget to swallow the vegetable leaves bit by bit , the cheeks bulged up a little bit, like a hamster caught stealing food.

"I heard that Miss Rong will stay in school for Christmas?"

Rong Jiu swallowed hard while nodding wildly.

"What are your plans for Christmas?"

"Study hard and improve every day." Draco replied quickly.Snape glanced at Draco, Draco immediately lowered his head obediently, picked up a cup and took a big sip, but in a panic, he got the most hated pumpkin juice, and spit it out out.Fortunately, he was still sane and didn't spray at Snape, but Blaise beside him was attacked, and the Slytherin table was in chaos.

Rong Jiu finally swallowed what was in her mouth, she felt that she almost choked to death.But in the next second, she immediately felt that this was a very wise approach, because Professor Snape said lightly: "Very well, then come to my office at ten o'clock every morning during this vacation."

After speaking, without looking at Rong Jiu's reaction, the dark cloud floated away lightly.Leaving behind a group of people trying to hold back their laughter and gloating, and a dazed Rong Jiu: "I just now, did I have an auditory hallucination?" On the last day before the holiday, Slytherin had almost left, and only the first grade was left. Next, Rongjiu, the left-behind child.When she saw off the group of friends and returned to the common room, she was surprised to see another person sitting on the sofa reading a book, and that person raised his head in surprise.

It seems to be in the third grade... Rong Jiu greeted politely while recalling: "Hello, senior."

"Hello, I'm Clive Boschi in the fourth grade." The man responded, "I wonder if I have the honor to know the name of this beautiful lady in front of me?"

Such a tone reminded Rong Jiu of the twins in Gryffindor.She replied: "I am Jiurong from the first grade."

"I have heard of your name for a long time." Clivey exclaimed.Receiving the latter's puzzled look, he winked at her and said solemnly: "Slytherin is the best!"

"..." Rong Jiu's face quickly turned red.Just pass on this sentence, why do you have to pass on who said it?

"Ah, that's right." Clive took out a note from the book, "Is this for you? Well, you are the child who was tutored by the dean alone?"

"So it was given by Professor Snape?" Rong Jiu felt a burst of sweetness in his throat, which became more obvious after meeting Clivey's sympathetic gaze.

A note as wide as the palm of your hand, on which it is written in neat italics: Three o'clock in the afternoon, office.

"Thank you." Even though Rong Jiu hated the person who sent the message to death, he had to smile.In fact, she also knew that without Clivey, Professor Snape would have informed her in other ways, "Well... I think, I have to go to the library, just in case."

Clive now showed full of sympathy: "I understand."

So Rong Jiu turned around and left the common room.When passing the entrance of the auditorium, he happened to bump into Harry and Ron.Rong Jiu greeted in surprise: "Hey, Harry, Ron, aren't you going home?"

"Well, yeah, I don't really want to go home," Harry replied, "Ron's parents went to see his brother."

"Although it's not very good to say this, I'm really happy to see you all here." Rong Jiu smiled sincerely, and Harry responded with an understanding smile, and Ron's freckles turned red.

"Jo, where are you going?" Harry asked.

"Go to the library," Rong Jiu sighed, "Professor Snape told me to go to his office at three o'clock in the afternoon, I want to hug Buddha's feet temporarily, so as not to die too ugly."

"It's terrible." Harry and Ron sighed at the same time, they could fully understand Rong Jiu's expression.

"But it just so happens that we're going to the library too," Ron said.

"Eh? Working so hard? Are you Hermione up?" Rong Jiu doubted.

"Speaking of which..." Harry and Ron exchanged glances, "Do you know Nicolas May? We're looking for someone like that, um, because... because..."

"Sorry, I haven't heard of this name before." Rong Jiu thoughtfully interrupted Harry's entanglement, "But I can help you pay attention, maybe I will find it in the book I read later."

While talking, Rong Jiu motioned Harry and the others to go to the library together.Harry smiled gratefully.

Probably some kind of secret.Rong Jiu thought, he is really an honest child, he is not willing to lie, nor will he know how to lie.

The scene cooled down for a while, and they walked through the hall together and went upstairs.After a long time, Ron suddenly choked out a sentence: "Last time...thank you."

"Ok?"

"Hermione told us you stopped Snape too, um..." Ron stammered, "You didn't stop her, I mean..."

"Oh, that, it's okay, we are friends." Rong Jiu smiled, "But to be honest, I really don't think it's Professor Snape, oh don't make that expression, listen to me. Professor Snape He is giving me tutoring every day, and I think I will know more about his abilities, to be honest, if it is really Professor Snape, Harry must have been smashed to pieces!"

Harry asked, "Well, how did you find out? A lot of people thought my broom was malfunctioning."

Rong Jiu shrugged: "It's actually very simple. When Senior Weasley wanted to stop you, the broom was avoiding him. If it was just a malfunction of the broom, it wouldn't be so spiritual to hide from you."

"Sharp." Harry praised heartily.

"But I still can't think of anyone other than Snape who would do that," Ron muttered.

Rong Jiu said helplessly: "I don't have clear evidence to prove that Professor Snape is innocent, but I believe it's definitely not him. This is logic. When he was teaching me, he had sparred with me, and I tried my best To attack him, he doesn't even need to draw out his wand, he can use the silent spell to be completely immune. Of course Harry is very powerful, but we should be on the same level, facing Professor Snape, we are actually all powerless."

Ron said: "Okay... what you said is indeed very reasonable, but who would it be?"

Harry said suddenly, "Ron, I thought maybe we could ask Nine for help on this—"

"Harry, wait." Rong Jiu interrupted him, "If you need any help, you can just tell me the question, for example, you only need to ask me if I have heard of Nicolas May, you don't need to tell me why You need to check him. Tell me, if you tell me that you are going to stuff Draco in the toilet, will I help you or tell Draco?" Rong Jiu joked.

"Jiu, it's not that I don't believe you, it's just that this matter is a bit outrageous, and, besides, Snape is your dean, Hermione said it's best not to tell you, lest you embarrass yourself." Harry eagerly explained .

Rong Jiu once again praised Hermione, a caring and smart little witch!

"Well, that's why I'm going to seriously look for Nicolas." Rong Jiu winked at Harry and the two of them.At this time they had reached the door of the library, Rong Jiu walked in first, Harry and Ron had to follow behind, but heard a soft voice from the front, "After all, we are friends."

"Eighteenth Century", "Elementary Potion Ingredients", "Detailed Explanation of Transfiguration"...

Rong Jiu's fingers slid across the spine of the book, browsing through various names, corresponding to Professor Snape's courses, and finally selected a book called "Millennium: The Solitude of Wizards", which talked about various aspects of the wizarding world in the past 1000 years. This kind of thing belongs in the history of magic.

The recent after-class tutoring mostly explored the similarities and differences between magic and Taoism. Professor Snape believed that the two should come from the same source, but they had different results. (Rong Jiu: "Do you still need to think about it? It's obvious." Professor Snape: "So for the clever Miss Rong, the two parchments about the effects of various parts of the spider should be no problem at all. Right." Rong Jiu: "...") If you can't cast two spells at the same time, you can only shorten the casting gap as much as possible, but the two spells with different results should be able to be cast at the same time.

It's like your piggy bank has only one entrance, then you can increase the speed of inserting coins at most, but no matter how fast you insert it, you can only enter one coin at a time; but if there are two entrances, then you can insert coins at a time Two go in.

Although Professor Snape and Professor Dumbledore both believe that two types of magic can be cast at the same time, rigorous professors still hope to find a solid basis, so Rong Jiu spends almost all of his spare time studying the history of magic recently, trying to find any evidence .

One day later, she realized that it was completely meaningless for her to flip through books in the library, because the professor had read almost all the books in the library, including the first section.How that lonely, even autistic boy longed to be strong.

Back to the present.The time for reading always passed quickly, Rong Jiu even missed lunch.When Mrs. Pince came to remind her that it was 02:30, she was startled by the passage of time.

After greeting Harry and the others, Rong Jiu walked slowly towards the familiar office.Now, the portrait on the side of the office is very familiar to her. Seeing her, she even teased: "Little girl, are you here to die again?"

Rong Jiu replied listlessly: "If the professor knew what you said, there would be no scum left in your portrait."

The potion-making witch in the portrait kept her mouth shut obediently.Rong Jiu sneered and said the password.

Passing through the stone statue, the door behind was actually open, Rong Jiu lightly knocked on the door frame: "Good afternoon, Professor Snape."

Snape sat behind the desk: "Very punctual." It was a greeting to Rong Jiu.

Seeing that Rong Jiu found a place to sit down, he lazily said, "I have other things to do this holiday."

Rong Jiu's expression was incomparably pleasantly surprised for a moment, it was almost radiant, and there was also a little gloating, although it was not obvious, but Professor Snape is such a keen person, he captured it accurately, he was displeased Order: "Put away your stupid expression, Miss Rong."

Rong Jiu immediately put on a very serious look, and the speed of changing his face made Snape choke. He couldn't help but think back to the honest, quiet and polite child who just entered school.At that moment, he wondered if he should reflect on his own parenting method, but the thought was quickly forgotten - tact and time-consciousness are the characteristics of Slytherin.

"It was Dumbledore's idea to let you practice in the office." A trace of disgust flashed across Snape's face. "Every day at ten o'clock in the morning, train here for two hours on time. Don't try to be lazy, I will know."

"Yes." Rong Jiu's answer was loud and clear.

"Also, about your training content, keep it a secret." Snape said, "Aside from you, me, and Dumbledore, no other creature can know about it, do you understand?"

Professor Snape is really getting more and more scary, he hardly needs to move his lips when speaking... Rong Jiu nodded in agreement while thinking.

"Very good." His expression softened a little. "This afternoon is the last training session of this semester. Let me see how much our strongest Slytherin has improved?"

Rong Jiu: "..."

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Two hours later, Rong Jiu had completely slumped on the chair. She felt that the last trace of magic in her body had been squeezed out. In such a cold weather and such a gloomy office, she was so tired that she was sweating.

But her progress is also remarkable, at least she finally forced Professor Snape to use his wand - after a frontal disarming spell, she quickly made a sneak attack with a fireball, and the timing was just right, which was the first time in Snape's eyes Show a trace of certainty.But what he didn't expect at all was that this was actually a feint, and the fireball was followed by a petrification spell!

It was this quick and well-timed combo that made Rong Jiu so tired, and also gave her a precious positive comment: "Miss Rong is still very cunning."

But after the compliment was over, Professor Snape lowered his face again: "Put away this dying look."

Rong Jiu was crying, the hand that raised the wand was trembling, after adjusting his breath for a while, he weakly performed a "cleaning" on himself.

Now Rong Jiu doesn't look embarrassed, she looks like a neat and tidy person.

Looking at Snape sitting there calmly, without even a single wrinkle in the wizard robe on his body, Rong Jiu can't wait to beat him up with a sack on his head one day. Can barely fight a close match!

"Before we say goodbye, does Miss Rong have any questions to ask?" Snape saw the reluctance in her eyes, and a slight smile appeared on his lips.To be honest, he is really satisfied with this student, this is really a Slytherin, although she is very close to the group of Gryffindors...

Rong Jiu wanted to shake her head, but suddenly remembered Harry's question.If anyone could answer this question, it would be the professor.Thinking of this, she asked, "Professor, do you know Nicolas?"

The moment she asked this question, Rong Jiu felt a strong pressure rushing towards her face, the professor's black eyes were extraordinarily sharp, like an arrow off the string, passing straight through her Eyes, all the way to the deepest part of memory.

Maybe it's because she's too tired... Rong Jiu felt that the office was blurred in her eyes, and many memories were turned over.

A girl stood alone on the edge of the playground, holding a freshly bloomed flower in her hand, and a group of children made faces at her and shouted at her: "Monster!"... endless cinnabar symbols... A horrible ghost... No, no, it's not these memories, they are all gone!

Those scenes suddenly shifted to Hogwarts, the cheers, joy and regret when the Sorting Hat called out "Slytherin!"... the touch of the flight class day, the tears welling up from the girl holding the potion bottle... the warmth before Halloween Consolation and thrilling moments... The loneliness and incompatibility of Hagrid's hut... The shock and pride of the Quidditch match... The unity of Slytherin... The gratitude and debate at the door of the auditorium... Finally, it was fixed in a green eye, sincere Looking at her anxiously: "Do you know Nicolas May?"

Rong Jiu suddenly came back to her senses, she was actually distracted!I am so tired.She glanced at the professor anxiously, but found that although the professor's face was gloomy, it wasn't that kind of displeasure, but... sad?

She rubbed her eyes.I must be dazzled!The moment she put down her hand, she saw an unhappy professor. While she was relieved, she couldn't help but despise herself: I'm really not used to not finding something unpleasant.

"Alchemy." Snape said the title impatiently, "Is everything in the library just a decoration?"

Rong Jiu was in tears, she was already the student with the most students in the library in the entire Slytherin!

But Professor Snape stopped looking at her, and picked up a book instead, the purpose of driving her away was very obvious.

Rong Jiu stood up clutching her heart, and walked out.Professor, you can be more tactful, and I can pretend that I don't see it.

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Many people are very happy on Christmas Day.

Dumbledore brewed a cup of tartary buckwheat with a smile. He seemed to be able to hear the wailing in the underground office. It was great to drink tea.

Harry puts on the jumper Mrs. Weasley had given him, and discovers a relic from his father.And also received an answer about Nicolas May.

Draco received a brand new wizard robe, with a subtle snake print on it.

Pansy received a necklace from Draco.

Rong Jiu gave away a lot of things on this day. She gave her friends snacks she made, and she gave Professor Dumbledore tartary buckwheat.Her friends also replied with a lot of gifts, but she didn't receive them immediately. In that cold basement office, while practicing with all her strength, she yelled unjustly: "Why did you let me supervise you?" ?!"

The portrait of the potion witch replied gloatingly: "Who knows—hey, don't be lazy, shut up, and practice hard!"

"One day you will be burned by me to nothing!"

"I'm waiting! Is your wand so limp? Use some force!"

"To shut up!"

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After the holiday, everyone returned to school radiantly, but unfortunately Rong Jiu collapsed. She was lying in the infirmary. Madam Pomfrey was taking the medicine while nagging: "Nowadays, children should pay attention to their hard work. Your body is continuously overdrawn, your tendons are damaged, you have to stay in the infirmary overnight..."

Rong Jiu looked at the ceiling, feeling very comfortable.That damn portrait was finally cleaned up by me!Did she think she couldn't break through the protective cover that Professor Snape had put on!

And Snape, whom she was talking about by the way, returned to the school from outside in a hurry. After entering the office, before he had time to catch his breath, he was startled by the crying sound. When he looked closely, it turned out to be He stayed to supervise the portrait of Rong Jiu.On the portrait at this moment, there is only a cauldron and a weeping witch with half of her face left.

"Shut up!" Snape snapped impatiently.

"Professor, but she burned my clothes..." the witch cried, "I can't see anyone!"

"Oh?" Snape finally had a little reaction, "It seems that she is not lazy."

He hangs this talkative portrait here, in fact, it is the homework he assigned to Rong Jiu, which is called supervision, and it is actually a test.He could see that the little Slytherin was actually a very bad-tempered child, and he would not bear it.But she can only break it during this holiday if she goes all out to attack every day in practice time.

What a good seedling.

Bypassing the portrait, he returned behind his desk.Everything is not the same as before, obviously rearranged.Thinking of this, Snape suddenly had a headache. During his absence, that kid must have messed up his office countless times, and then went to repair it with a guilty conscience. He had to check the potion ingredients later. No harm... what is this?

His eyes fell on a box on a stack of papers, which depicted a hissing snake, tied with a silver ribbon, and under the ribbon was a card that read in still immature cursive :Merry Christmas!

When I took it apart, it was a pair of gloves.Inside is soft fleece, which casts a long-lasting warming spell.The spell caster's level is obviously not at home, because he can feel that this spell will not exist for too long.The outside is dragon skin, and there is a small silver snake embroidered on the wrist in the shape of an "S". I don't know if it represents Snape or Slytherin.

Can enter his office, immature fonts, poor production techniques.Who is the giver, the answer is ready to come out.

"Christmas presents..." Snape let out a long sigh, sinking deeper into the chair.How long has it been, not being cared about, not being remembered, ever since that sentence was uttered, his world has no temperature anymore.

People who walk alone in this world either have nothing to bear, or carry a lifetime of burden.

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