Alice's Travels

Snape once again took the initiative, his face twisted into a weird smile - he designated Malfoy and Harry as model contestants to Lockhart.

Harry pursed his lips, as if he had expected this outcome - just as Snape grinned and spoke.

Malfoy walked over imposingly, Snape approached him and whispered something in a low voice, and he immediately sneered, with a smug smile on his face.

The corners of Alice's mouth twitched again. Snape must have had a grudge against Harry in his previous life, right?Revenge of killing one's body or taking one's wife?Otherwise, what grudges and grievances made him not let go of even a 12-year-old child?As a child weighing one or two hundred pounds, can you be more mature?

Hermione stood nervously with Ron, watching Harry on the stage.

After Lockhart's countdown, Malfoy quickly raised his wand and made an 'out of the hole' at Harry - a long black snake jumped out of his wand, with its head high and slid towards Harry Passed by - the crowd screamed, some started backing away in terror, and soon a clearing was cleared.

Alice had never seen this spell before, it should have been taught to him by Snape just now.She saw Harry standing there motionless as if frightened and staring at the black snake—and when she turned her head, she saw that Snape looked quite useful, using a lazy Tone said, "Stay still, Potter. I'll take it away..."

Hermione stared closely at Harry and the snake, her eyebrows curled together into two little knots.She held her wand tightly in her hand, afraid that it would rush towards Harry in the blink of an eye.Ron also watched the movement on the stage nervously.

However, before Snape could walk over, Lockhart yelled for him to come and then stretched out his wand and cast a spell on the black snake—as one can imagine, his spell not only failed to subdue The snake, instead, enraged it—he let it bounce high into the air and land hard on the ground.

Alice frowned, and Hermione didn't turn her eyes to Lockhart this time but kept her eyes on Harry.

The snake quickly lifted its head from where it fell, bared its fangs, and slid towards the student who was closest to it at this moment. The boy's face paled in horror. Just as Alice was about to raise his wand, Snape walked quickly In the past, there was a strange "hissing" sound-not from the snake, but from Harry.

As if he was talking to the snake, he approached cautiously, his mouth kept making "hissing" sounds, and what was surprising was that the snake was as soft as if it understood. He collapsed on the ground softly, completely without the angry and fierce appearance when he tried to attack just now.

Alice looked at Harry in surprise. Could this be his special function?

But the reaction of others was far beyond Harry and Alice's expectations. Not only did the rescued boy not express his gratitude to Harry, but he still yelled at him in horror, "What trick are you playing?" Turning around and rushing out of the auditorium—Alice looked around and found that other people were also terrified and whispering.

Malfoy frowned, looking thoughtful.

Snape came over and waved his wand, and the black snake disappeared in a puff of black smoke.His expression became inscrutable and meaningful—Alice discovered a lot of hidden things from the dark eyes he looked at Harry, and he had many secrets—about Harry, about himself.

Ron hurried up and pulled Harry down, and whispered to them, "Come on...get out first..."

Alice pulled Hermione and ran out quickly behind Ron and Harry. Ron seemed to know something about it.

"You're a Parseltongue, why didn't you tell us?" Ron asked directly as soon as he left the crowd.

"What am I?" Harry asked.

"Parseltongue! You can talk to snakes!" said Ron.

Only then did Alice remember the history of the four colleges she had seen, and the snake was the symbol of Slytherin. She frowned and said, "If I remember correctly, it seems that Slater is the one who can talk to snakes. Lin's people?"

"More than that," Hermione said while looking at Harry thoughtfully, "Salazar Slytherin's famous skill is being able to talk to snakes, and your ability to know this at least shows that you should have a strong relationship with him."

"Like, his great-great-great-great-grandson or something..." said Ron.

Harry opened his mouth wide, "No—no, I just told the snake not to attack Justin, you were all there, and you all heard me—I always think that this kind of thing is nothing special, and many people should Can it be done?"

"No way," Alice shook her head, imitating Harry's voice and "hissing" twice, "Can you understand what I just said?"

"Oh, it's not—" Harry snapped back, "that's what you heard—what I said—is that so?"

"Yeah," said Ron, "everyone heard it - you sounded like you were urging the snake, no wonder Justin was so terrified, it was creepy, you know?"

Harry was startled, feeling a sudden sense of panic.

Hermione also looked a little heavy-hearted, "Now, the whole school will know about your relationship with Slytherin. From what we know so far, Harry—you are probably the descendant of Slytherin."

"But I belong to Gryffindor..." Harry said, realizing where his panic was coming from - belonging.

"Slytherin was about 1000 years ago," said Hermione. "Whether you have his blood or not, it's hard to prove."

"Hey!" Alice woke up the three people who were in a frown, "but so what? Even if Harry is a descendant of Slytherin - so what?"

"Not so much—" Harry mumbled, "meaning the Sorting Hat should have put me in Slytherin, not Gryffindor—" His voice stopped, because his heart A small ugly voice sounded, ha!But the Sorting Hat was meant to put you in Slytherin, don't you remember?

"Is that so? Does Slytherin represent evil, bad, bad?" Alice reached out and poked Harry on the forehead, "Slytherin is just a symbol, it may represent certain qualities, but it definitely Can't represent a person—”

"You are who you are, Harry Potter," said Alice, "you don't decide what you're born - no one can decide, but just as the children of good people are not necessarily good and the children of thieves are not necessarily thieves, you You can't change what's there, but you can be who you are - so what if you're a Slytherin? You'll always be a Gryffindor."

"You're right!" Harry's eyes lit up, Hermione smiled, and Ron laughed in surprise.

Alice smiled, "You should think about it, whether it is Slytherin or Gryffindor, even if you really entered Slytherin, it only means that you have some of its characteristics—— Doesn't mean you're the same as Snape or Malfoy, right? And Snape isn't the same as Malfoy, right?"

Harry laughed, and said with some doubts as if suddenly remembering something, "Oh, then you—"

"Then how do you look like a Slytherin?" Ron asked directly, "I don't think you look like one at all."

"Perhaps, they look alike." Alice said with a smile, and lightly revealed the question—as for what she was thinking, who knows.

"Actually, I think we shouldn't keep dividing people by house," said Hermione, "just like Alice is a Slytherin, but she's our good friend—and Gryffindor isn't everyone. They are all our friends. Although Snape is usually hateful, he will still save Harry when he is in danger; Malfoy is usually annoying, but at least he hasn't done too bad things—— "

"I can't believe you'd speak to Malfoy for Snape!" said Ron. "I thought you'd just protect that idiot—"

"Don't say that about him, Ron!" Hermione snapped.

"As you saw today, he couldn't even catch a single move from Snape," Harry said again with the utmost honesty.

"Don't say that, Harry—" Alice said with a smile, "he's just a boy of one or two hundred pounds."

"Pfft—" Ron laughed directly.

Hermione blushed a little, obviously she also thought of Lockhart's performance in the auditorium - indeed, it was not so satisfactory.

"Well, Hermione, you don't have to speak for him at all," Harry said with a slight smile. "He's not a good teacher, is he—because obviously, his level of Charms is not up to par."

"Oh—" Hermione drawled her frown but didn't retort, remembering the scene where Lockhart's "help" only irritated Harry when he faced the threat of the black snake.

Finally, everyone didn't take the matter of Parseltongue and whether they were descendants of Slytherin any more.

However, only Hermione and others would think so, because Harry soon discovered that the Gryffindor students began to avoid him consciously or unconsciously—Justin even hid in another dormitory.

Alice was in the library listening to Harry whisper in her ear, "They don't even talk to me now!"

"Aren't we still with you?" Ron muttered.

"It's normal," Alice said, "You have to know that when you act different from the people around you, there are only two ways to blend in. One is to change others, and the other is to change yourself. But as you can see , It's hard to change other people's minds, everyone has their own cognition - and it's hard for you to change, so the easiest way is to ignore them - what do they do?"

"But—well," Harry said sullenly.

"Look, I told you," said Hermione, looking at Harry, "leave them alone—you can't get everyone to believe in you or be your friend."

"You are not money, how can everyone like you?" Alice said, "There will always be some people who don't understand you, misunderstand you, alienate you or even isolate you, and there will always be people who don't like you or hate you, but the same you Wouldn't you like that kind of person, wouldn't you? And you should be thankful that there are always people who are willing to believe in you and accompany you at any time—Hermione, Ron, and me, are you moved?"

Harry looked at Hermione, then at Ron and Alice, and smiled with the corners of his mouth curled up, showing a row of neat teeth.

"You're such a teacher sometimes!" said Ron to Alice.

"Oh, if I were, I think you've already been deducted points by now-" Alice reached out and pressed Ron's head on the parchment, "Look at your homework, what are you scribbling, um ?”