Alice's Travels

Alice went to look for Hagrid after Malfoy fell asleep, and he looked absolutely lost, with water in his dark eyes.Harry, Hermione, and Ron stayed there with him.

"Did the others say anything afterward?" Alice asked Hermione.

"It's not the Slytherins—" said Ron sullenly, "they've been clamoring for Hagrid to be fired!"

"Everyone was probably a little spooked," said Hermione impartially. "Hagrid had been looking at those fantastic animals afterwards, and no one wanted to get any closer."

"It's a little dangerous indeed," Alice nodded, "but Hagrid won't be fired, right?"

Hagrid raised his big head to look at Alice and lowered his head again, saying in a low voice, "It's just a matter of time—oh—Malfoy, is he all right?"

"He's not badly hurt, is he?" said Ron.

"I've already taken medicine and fell asleep, so it shouldn't be too serious." Alice walked up to Hagrid and knelt down, looked up into his eyes and said, "It's okay Hagrid, it's just an accident—it could happen at any time." If an accident happens, you don’t have to blame yourself too much, but you should be more careful in the future, okay?”

"Malfoy deserves it!" said Ron immediately. "He asked for it!"

"Yes, we can all testify," Harry said, looking at Hagrid, "you've said that if you offend the hippogriff, it will attack. That's Malfoy's own problem."

"No - it's all my fault - I was just trying to make my first class a good one - the hippogriff should be saved for later..." said Hagrid sadly.

"But, Hagrid, what happened to Malfoy really wasn't your responsibility—" said Hermione sincerely.

"No, Hermione, Hagrid is the teacher of this class after all," Alice said, shaking her head. "He's supposed to keep all the students safe—although it's true that Malfoy was the one looking for it first. Before aggressive animals are brought in, one should think about taking some precautions."

"Fortunately, this incident is not too serious, but it is also a warning. So Hagrid, you have now become your most respected teacher at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry—you must learn to be a Qualified and excellent teachers, right?" Alice said encouragingly.

"Yeah, things are not that bad, don't be sad, Hagrid." Hermione comforted.

"Don't worry, we will support you." Ron said seriously.

Harry nodded heavily.

"Oh—it's great to have you all—" Hagrid wiped the water from his eyes, and seemed to regain his spirits, and his huge body stood up at once, "I think I should go and visit Malfoy now—— "

"In a little while, he may still be asleep now." Alice said with a smile.

Malfoy didn't go to class for several days, and he didn't come into the dungeon until Potions class on Thursday morning.

Alice saw that one arm was wrapped in a bandage and hung with a strap, and he walked over swaggeringly, so she knew that his injury was probably healed, and the other [-]% was just pretending.

"Sit down," Snape said lazily.

Harry and Ron exchanged annoyed glances for a moment.Taking a glance from the corner of the eye, Alice guessed they must be complaining about Snape's favoritism in their hearts - it was obvious.

After Snape used 'Clean Up', he demonstrated the making of the shrinking potion, and then when the students were working, Malfoy began to use Harry and Ron to help him with his arm injury as an excuse—— What could Snape do - of course he was used to him.

Alice looked at Malfoy's incomparably smug smile and Snape's flash when he turned around—the corners of his mouth curled coldly and he thought, oh well, it seems that he is also a little bit good at rectifying Harry and Ron Happy.

You two are really interesting, Alice thought to herself, the best thing is that the little counselor can always switch between the two states of counseling and tugging freely - tugging after counseling, tugging but not counseling.

Different from Alice's relaxed and joking mood at the moment, Harry and Ron were very upset-Malfoy was obviously pretending to torment them on purpose!

After Alice was dazed for a while, something went wrong on Neville's side. He accidentally cut off the mouse's liver as a spleen, and put it in the cauldron—the color of the potion immediately changed from the bright green gradually revealed. It turned orange and started bubbling.

Snape noticed the situation immediately, and walked over quickly, scooped up some with a spoon and slowly poured it back into the cauldron. A mouse's spleen, a little leech juice is enough, isn't that clear enough? How can you tell your elm head to understand?"

Neville had already begun to habitually tremble when Snape walked over, and his face flushed even more after he spoke.

"Professor, this is my crucible." Alice looked at the orange potion and said calmly, "I think maybe it can be changed." Neville has been helping her deal with those small animals for the past two years, so Changing the crucible now can just return some favors.

Malfoy's original gleeful smile gradually disappeared, and he frowned and gave Alice a vicious look.

Snape turned his gaze to Alice, and said coldly: "Putting away your showing off tricks, Altman, don't always be self-righteous - that will only make you look arrogant and stupid!"

"So Professor, tell me what to do now?" Alice looked up into Snape's eyes and said, "Who can help me now? When you criticize me for being useless - I can only help myself Isn't it?"

Snape seemed to stare at her for a second before he said sarcastically, "I really should applaud you—Miss Altman, who always likes to meddle in other people's affairs, may be able to establish a Slytherin and Gryffindor in the future." There are many friendship lines, don’t you think?”

"Then, at the end of this lesson, let's look forward to the results of your potion, Altman." After finishing speaking, Snape walked away dragging the long black robe.

"Oh, thank you so much, Alice." Neville whispered as if he had just escaped from the heavy oppression, "but what are you going to do?"

"It's all right." Alice gave him a reassuring smile.Anyway, Snape wouldn't do anything to her.

Malfoy watched this scene from a distance with an angry expression on his face, and took a few steps closer to him by taking the daisy root that Harry and Ron had cut.

"How touching!" he whispered mockingly to Alice, with a malicious sneer on his face, "you're a real Gryffindor savior!"

"That's none of your business!" Ron said angrily from the side.

The anger in Malfoy's eyes became heavier, and just as he was about to speak, Alice spoke first, "Your injury hasn't healed yet, isn't your arm hurting?"

"Go back to your seat, be careful we squeeze you." Alice tilted her head and looked at him seriously, and changed the topic with a few words.

Malfoy seemed to be choked, the anger on his face dissipated, he rolled his big eyes at her, snorted before turning around and walking back slowly.

Snape really came to test Alice's potion before get out of class was over - the effect was not successful, he satirized Alice contentedly with the corners of his mouth raised.

Parkinson came to the front row and gave an undisguised schadenfreude laugh, looking as happy as if she had won the first prize, extremely smug and brilliant.

Neville looked at Alice worriedly and guiltily, and lowered his head for a while.

Alice tried her best to resist Snape's venom attack by keeping her left ear going in and out of her right ear, her lips were pursed into a straight line - she rolled her eyes countless times, thinking - as long as you are happy, "dear" professor.

In the afternoon, it was Professor Lu Ping's Defense Against the Dark Arts class. Lu Ping took everyone to a practical class in the staff lounge.

He locked a boggart that could transform into the most feared things in people's hearts, locked them in a cabinet, showed them, and taught them how to deal with it-a 'funny funny' spell.

Lupine had the students practice facing the Boggart individually and using the spell on it.The first person he called up was Neville. Neville stood in front of the cabinet with a pale face. Lupine opened the door after a countdown—an angry Professor Snape walked out immediately, and Neville raised his hand. Raising his wand and screaming a spell - Snape instantly transformed into a ridiculous figure in Granny Neville's clothes.

The Gryffindors laughed, and the Slytherins glared at them.

Alice was expressionless. She was thinking about what she was most afraid of?

Lupine then called out the names of one student after another, and the Boggart turned into a mummy, a horrible ghost, and then under the influence of the spell, he took on a funny look.Finally, after a long time, Lupine called out Alice's name, "Alice, it's your turn!"

Alice raised her wand and walked to the front, and the Boggart "snapped" into a black-haired young woman lying on the ground soundlessly - her face was pale, as if she was falling soundlessly into a deep sleep.

"Funny, funny!" Alice's pupils dilated for a moment, and immediately shouted a spell.

Lupine frowned for a second, and before he had time to see the woman clearly, the Boggart turned into countless strands of fine smoke under Alice's spell and disappeared.

"Very good!" Lupine quickly stretched his brows and said, "Students are doing well, everyone subdued the Boggart--students who are not in the back, don't be discouraged, there is next class, I will let you Individuals have experienced real practice. I think everyone in this class has experienced it, so, homework..."

Hermione and Harry hissed regretfully and exchanged glances, because they hadn't had time to face the Boggart.

Alice didn't care about what Lupine said, her heart was pounding, but she still couldn't recover.The woman lying on the ground is of course the real her, and what is she most afraid of?Apparently - the real her is dead - she can never go back - only to stay forever in this strange parallel time and space - without a family.