[HP] Flower of Eternal Life

The fourth grade curriculum was easy for all four children as they were already halfway through their fourth year, and although the current curriculum was different from their future curriculum, there were still many things they were familiar with part.

It's unfortunate or fortunate that since Albus and Esther had a friendly conversation with Tom on the first day of school, the whole Slytherin isolated the three of them together, which saved a lot of trouble, in all fairness Neither Albus nor Esther are good at this kind of extremely polite society.

In contrast, except for the time spent with Rose and Will, they spend most of their time with Tom.This Muggle-born boy is as intelligent and talented as Rose, and he is loved by almost every teacher, which may be one of the reasons why Slytherin students isolate him.

Although when getting along with Tom, Albus occasionally felt an inexplicable sense of disobedience, but he couldn't explain the reason, and gradually he didn't care so much. After all, he was willing to treat their friendship as well as Esther. Boys as friends.

"I remember who Tom Riddle is!"

One day, when the four partners gathered for a tea party in the Room of Requirement, Rose suddenly showed a look of enlightenment, and said to the other three: "Do you remember the papers that Will brought from the Room of Requirement? That day we He copied Tom Riddle's paper during the quarrel!"

Will shrugged and replied indifferently: "A wonderful coincidence." He took a bite of the apple pie in his hand. It was something they got from the Hogwarts kitchen. After all, the Room of Requirement couldn't conjure it. food comes.

Rose seemed a little disappointed that others didn't pay much attention to this topic, but she quickly brought up a new topic: "By the way, Will, how is your Animagus doing?"

"Animagus?" Albus widened his eyes in surprise, he looked back and forth between his two friends, and finally fixed his eyes on Will, "Do you want to become an Animagus?" ?”

After desperately swallowing the piece of pie in his mouth, Will complained a little unhappy: "Rose, let's not talk about this!" His cheeks turned red, and he was a little embarrassed to look at his friend: "Actually, I've only just started, and I haven't been able to get into the shape I want very well."

We all know that Will's Transfiguration is one of the best in the grade, but Animagus is obviously one of the most advanced Transfiguration, which is not easy for a fourth grader.

"Come on, Will, show us." Rose said kindly, and Will couldn't stand Rose's persuasion, muttered "Okay", then stood up and walked a little away from them.

He stood there with his eyes closed and muttered something, and then a faint light surrounded his body, his body became shorter, his short blond hair grew longer, and the last adult golden retriever appeared in the original Where Will was standing, except the eyes were still blue and the tip of his nose was a ridiculous white.

"Wow." Albus couldn't help exclaiming, and Esther couldn't help applauding Will: "You're amazing! This is incredible."

"But it's not a success yet. I mean I haven't been able to become like a real animal. I guess it will take a few years to perfect it. To be honest, it was a fluke this time. The last time I did it, I lost it." In the end, Rose helped me put it back.” Will returned to his original appearance, blushed and returned to his seat, and he picked up his bottle of butter beer and drank a little uncomfortably. Get up trying to hide embarrassment.

"I really wish I could have this kind of outstanding talent in a certain area." Albus murmured, noticing the eyes of his friends, he replied a little flustered, "Rose is the best in the whole year." Witch, Will's Transfiguration is better than anyone of his age, and Esther can independently configure the potions in those NEWTs in the fourth grade, but I don't seem to have anything to show for it."

"Albus, I think you are also very good, you are the most powerful Seeker in Hogwarts, besides, your DA courses have always been excellent, haven't you?" Esther smiled slightly, singing like a song Said in a soft voice, "I think we are just right now. Everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses, so we can stay together like this to learn from each other's strengths and overcome difficulties together." After she finished speaking, she looked at her friends with gentle eyes, He seemed not at all ashamed of his embarrassing words.The other three children looked at each other wordlessly for a moment, and finally smiled at each other in relief.

"I agree." Will grinned and said, "In this case, in order to strengthen our friendship, why not work together to help me complete my homework on Charms, Potions and DA?" Luo gave her a merciless slap in the face: "Do not use practicing Animagus as an excuse for not doing homework!"

"It's too much! How do you know me so well?"

The laughter like silver bells spread in the cozy cabin. Even in such an era of isolation and helplessness, they can still rely on each other.

The arrival of October brings a bleak autumn wind.The air gradually became colder, and the lush trees in the Forbidden Forest were also dyed a golden color.

Even so, the four partners still like to gather under the beech tree by the lake to do their homework, and their classmates seem to be very surprised that the students belonging to the two houses of Gryffindor and Slytherin have such a good relationship .

"In their view, Gryffindor and Slytherin are inherently at odds. I don't think we had such a serious antagonism with Slytherin in the first few years at Hogwarts?" Will said from his magic Li Li raised his head and rubbed his brow that was aching because of desperate thinking.

Albus nodded in agreement with his point of view. In fact, except for the naughty Bagman brothers in the dormitory who were always arguing with a few Slytherin students, there was no such serious conflict between others.Albus and Scorpius of Slytherin are both enemies and friends. They compete with each other in the Quidditch field and cherish each other.In addition, the dean of Slytherin is Esther's father. In the potion class they took together, the dean fully demonstrated the fair treatment of the two colleges (even slightly favoring Gryffindor in some cases) , This made those Slytherins who were very arrogant at the beginning restrained their spirits, and did not dare to confront them tit for tat by relying on the headmaster's preference.

——The above statement may be biased, although Albus thought so in the first year, but in the next two and a half years, he found that the children of Slytherin were not always so unkind, and sometimes It's very pleasant, for example, they will raise funds and invite some famous bands to perform for the teachers and students of the school on Christmas and Easter, without worrying about the cost.

When they were arguing over a certain issue in their Charms homework, the sound of approaching footsteps interrupted their conversation.

Esther was the first to notice someone approaching, and she raised her head with a dreamy smile and said cheerfully, "How are you, Tom."

Tom Riddle of Slytherin returned her a friendly smile, nodded politely to the other three and said, "I hope I didn't disturb you, Professor Slughorn asked me to bring a message, he Hope Esther and Miss Weasley can join his little party at the Slug Club on Friday night, and you can bring your friends."

Esther and Rose exchanged glances, then nodded and replied: "Okay, we will go, thank you, Tom." After a short pause, she said to Tom: "If you don't mind, can you take a look at this ?We actually had a little disagreement about the charm."

Tom seemed not expecting such an invitation, and an indescribable expression crossed his face, but he quickly agreed to join their discussion.

Later in the day, when they returned to the auditorium from the lake together, Tom seemed to have liberated himself from his initial cautiousness and anxiety. In his own words-"It was very interesting to discuss these issues with you. I never thought I could look at things from this angle.”

They parted at the entrance of the auditorium. When Rose and Will walked to the Gryffindor table together, Rose said to her little boyfriend: "Tom Riddle is actually quite interesting, he is very talented and Very popular with teachers, I think he is a promising student, but why have I never seen any information about him in modern history?"

Will shrugged. He knew nothing about the history of the wizarding world, except for the great war that shook the entire wizarding world more than 20 years ago that his friends occasionally mentioned.

"Maybe he died before he became famous?" he said casually, sitting down on the bench, and using a fork to fetch himself a piece of grilled steak that smelled delicious.

"Why can't you say something good?" Rose punched him half amused and half annoyed, and then put the subject to the back of her mind, after all, pumpkin juice and vanilla pudding were more attractive to her now .

Later that day, when Tom Riddle returned to his bedroom under the lake, he told his pet, a female tree boa, about the day's experience.

"Do you think they will become your friends?" the tree boa asked quietly in a tone almost whispering, as if discussing an ulterior secret with him.

A stern smile appeared on the corner of Tom Riddle's lips, and he replied in a low voice: "I just think they are quite interesting, but my friend...? No, I don't think so."

☆、Chapter 6