Alice's Travels

That night Alice, Hermione, and Harry took the injured Ron back to the castle, and then sent Ron to the school hospital—Ms. Pomfrey treated Ron, and he fell into a coma again. nothing serious.

The estrangement between Alice and them because of Malfoy and Buckbeak disappeared without a trace in front of these things.

Together, they reported the dementor attack. Dumbledore used the incident to ask the Ministry of Magic to withdraw the dementor. At this time, there were rumors that someone saw Black in the ordinary world. Almost agreed to Dumbledore's request and drove the dementors stationed at Hogwarts back to Azkaban.

Snape's mood was obviously terrible, his face was more gloomy and harsh than before, and his cold gaze always became more cold and intimidating when passing Alice.

Alice was thinking that she finally knew why Snape hated Harry so much and why he had a soft spot for finding faults - think about his hatred for Black, and think about how Black and Potter have always been the best. Friends - everything seems to be clear.

In the student days, Snape, Black, Potter, and Lupine may have a mutual dislike or hostile relationship just like Malfoy, Harry, Ron, and Hermione now, and Alice believes that they At that time, the relationship must have been worse than that between Malfoy and Harry. Their hostility seemed to have risen to the point of hating each other's life.

Lupine resigned after returning to the castle the next day-Snape revealed in front of the students that he was a werewolf, and most students and parents would not be willing to let a very threatening werewolf to teach class.

Frustrated and saddened by this, Harry went to see Lupine off.

Alice felt that this was actually quite normal, and that Lupine's identity was indeed very risky - he couldn't be lucky to say that he was fine just because he hadn't had an accident before, because if something happened, the person he might have met would be finished.

Some students feel a little sorry, because Lupine's departure means that their Defense Against the Dark Arts class will have to change teachers again, and it is difficult to say whether the next teacher who takes over will be someone like Lockhart or can teach with Lupine. as well.

Hearing the comments in her ears, Alice twitched her mouth, thinking that the teacher of Defense Against the Dark Arts class changed every year, probably this class is really poisonous.

On the last day of the semester, the test results came out.Alice did well in the exams, only the potion was slightly worse - she probably won't get better.

The House Cup is once again shared between Slytherin and Gryffindor, this is the third year that there has been a double win.

Hermione handed the Time-Turner back to Professor McGonagall before the holiday, and decided to resume normal school hours.

Alice didn't make a request to take another look. She realized that this time-turner would not be the only one in the Ministry of Magic, which means that the wizarding world has a way to travel through time, and after decades In 2024, I don't know how this kind of time-traveling props will be improved—it may be related to the reason for her time-traveling.

At least so far, no one has known about her time travel, nor has she received any messages asking her to do certain things—or these are all related to the former time traveler.

There are too many questions hidden in Alice's heart. She is looking forward to the day when she can solve the mystery, and even more looking forward to the day when she can go home.

The students had all gone home by the Hogwarts Express, and Harry had temporarily returned to his aunt's house—Sirius had found a place to hide and kept communicating with Harry.

As usual, Ron invited Harry, Hermione, and Alice to their house to play during the summer vacation. They made an appointment to keep in touch, and they could go there to play together when they had time.

Alice visits Hagrid after the holidays, and he has been morose and depressed since Buckbeak was executed.

Alice tried to comfort him so that he would not look so lifeless.Fortunately, at least Hagrid finally stopped crying.

She received a letter from Ron during the summer vacation, inviting her to watch the Quidditch World Cup, and Harry and Hermione would also go, Alice declined - she was really not interested in Quidditch.

However, bad news came after the Quidditch World Cup-the Dark Mark appeared again.That is the mark of Voldemort's organization. They have attacked ordinary people. It can be said that it is an act of spreading terrorism by terrorists.

After Alice saw the news in the newspaper, she immediately wrote to ask Harry about their situation. Fortunately, they were all fine, but some ordinary people were attacked, and they told Alice that Malfoy was there at the time, and Malfoy's Dad was probably one of the Death Eaters.

Alice didn't take it very seriously, not to mention Malfoy's family, even most of the students in Slytherin advocated the theory of pure blood, which was exactly in line with Voldemort's intentions—otherwise, why would Slytherin always be considered a Evil, is it the birthplace of the dark wizard?

But they won't succeed, Alice thought, if racism is to succeed, wouldn't the world's development have to be set back decades--are those civilizations, technology, and military progress in vain?

But this group of people is scary, and the scariest thing is the hot-blooded lunatics. That kind of people are not even out for fame and fortune, but just have fanatical thoughts and want to take actions to hurt others——Alice I sincerely hope never to meet such a person.

In fact, there was still a faint thought in her mind - when Voldemort was still alive, those terrorist attacks were often carried out, and some wizards, especially dark wizards, were often undisguised in front of ordinary people. After so many years, the horror The attack happens again, will the country really not discover the existence of this group of wizards?

How far will they learn about these unknown explorations?At that time, will wizards be supervised or take measures such as national defense...

The leisurely holidays passed by in a flash, and the time for the start of school soon arrived, and the students returned to the campus again.

At the banquet of the new semester, the fourth graders including Alice also welcomed their new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher—Professor Moody.

He was a very ferocious-looking old man, with gray hair and a disfigured face covered with scars.He has a limp leg and a cane, and has a false eye—a magical eye that is said to see through.

Alice didn't have a good impression of this man at first sight, although he was a very good member of the Aurors who had been fighting against Voldemort. After retiring, he accepted Dumbledore's invitation to come to serve as Defense Against the Dark Arts The teacher of the art class - but he always gives people the feeling that there is a factor of irritability and restlessness, as well as madness.

Yes, it is crazy.

Alice thought, I don't know if it's because he is an old man who has come from the past war, and he has retained the bloodiness of the original war period, or because he has a sense of stubbornness unique to the old man, in short, he doesn't look at it like Dumbledore It looks peaceful and wise, but it makes people feel scared and subconsciously wants to stay away.

In fact, not only Alice, many students were too scared to speak after seeing Moody for the first time, and they didn't dare to make any movements. Watching him with Dumbledore's introduction, he walked to the guest table and sat down.

There was a tense atmosphere in the auditorium, and Moody seemed indifferent to the cold response from everyone.He first sniffed the sausage on the plate in front of him, as if to confirm whether it was poisonous, then he took out a knife from his pocket and inserted the sausage and began to eat it.While eating, he used the huge fake eye to keep turning around in the eye socket, looking at the auditorium and the students.

Alice saw that his hand, which had taken the bottle from his cloak, was also scarred, and he took a long gulp.

Vigilant, suspicious, and fierce, these are Alice's first impressions of him.

Dumbledore followed up with news that quickly thawed the tension in the Great Hall—the Triwizard Tournament would be held at Hogwarts this year.

It was a competitive competition between Hogwarts and two other schools of magic - Beauxbatons and Durmstrang. The three schools each selected a warrior representative to compete in three magic items.

And this game has been interrupted because of too many deaths.

Alice pursed her lips, which meant that the Triwizard Tournament's competition items contained a high risk of death—dangerous competition.

However, Dumbledore immediately announced a restriction on the number of people who signed up for the competition-must be at least 17 years old.

Alice breathed a sigh of relief, it had nothing to do with them, otherwise Harry and Ron would have signed up according to their personalities—even though Dumbledore had said that the risk of death was high.

Alice has always stayed away from this kind of competition that may cause life-threatening, but this group of passionate people is different-she watched Harry, Ron and a group of Gryffindor students get angry and lost for a moment. The expression thinks, idiots, they are all idiots, what is more important than life?

On the second day, a large wave of owls came to the dining table in the auditorium again, and Malfoy received candies and cakes from home again.

A very sweet and alluring breath got into Alice's nose, and she couldn't help but glanced at it and saw Malfoy taking out a cute and delicate cake from the box, painted with a layer of bright colors There is a small cherry on the petals made of cream, which looks beautiful and delicious.

How happy... Alice looked away and thought silently.

However, in the blink of an eye, she saw that the cake that was in front of Malfoy just now had arrived on her plate. She immediately looked up and found that Malfoy was distributing the candy to Crabbe and Goyle, as well as Parkinson and the people who often followed him. Her companion - Daphne Greengrass.

"I'm tired of these—" Malfoy said as he tossed the last candy to Goyle.

Parkinson was originally angry at him for giving the cake to Alice, but the next second he saw him grab a handful of candy and put it in front of him, he grinned in surprise—you know, Malfoy has always treated him The pastries sent from home are very precious, because they are all made by his mother.

Noticing that Alice's gaze was still on him, Malfoy raised his chin slightly and said triumphantly, "Here, you don't need to thank me—I'll eat it for you."

Alice looked down at the cake, then at him, and curled her mouth.

Malfoy looked away instantly.

"Oh, thank you so much, Draco—" Parkinson muttered with a piece of candy in his mouth, raising his eyebrows at Alice triumphantly, "You gave me too much, I have to It takes a long time to eat—”

"It's okay, eat slowly." Malfoy said indifferently, "Anyway, the family will send it to me."

Parkinson gave a surprised smile, "You mean—"

Alice didn't care what they were saying, just picked up the knife and fork and began to eat the cake in front of her in small bites.

so sweet.