Alice's Travels

Alice quietly left Hogwarts the next day.

She hesitated between saying goodbye to Malfoy, and finally left him a message.

The setting sun gradually falls from the horizon, light and shadow are intertwined and cover the earth, and night falls.

During dinner time, the dining hall was bustling with students, who were chomping on food as usual.

Malfoy was a little absent-minded, his eyes looked around, and then looked out the door.

Harry and Hermione were munching and talking quietly at the Gryffindor table, while Ron was stuffing chicken legs into his mouth.

After waiting for a while, Malfoy was no longer in the mood to eat, and got up and strode away.

His footsteps shuttled quickly around the castle until he almost circled around, returning from the Astronomy Tower to the Slytherin lounge.From time to time, students walked back to the dormitory through the lounge, and Malfoy sat firmly in the middle of the sofa like a sculpture, frowning.

Time passed by, and people in twos and threes in the lounge had returned to the dormitory, and the silence spread like ink dripping into the water in an instant, until no one came back.

Malfoy finally moved his stiff body and walked back to the dormitory with a gloomy face.

But when he opened the curtain and walked to the bed, he saw a piece of paper and a small snake made of paper lying on the fluffy quilt.

He reached out and picked up the paper, which read——

I'm leaving Hogwarts, I wish you all the best.

Alice.

As if a fierce anger suddenly ignited from the bottom of his heart, Malfoy gripped the paper tightly, his fingertips turned pale.He gritted his teeth tightly, his gray-blue eyes shone with a menacing light, and his face was frighteningly dark.

Alice first arrived in London. She didn't rush to go abroad immediately, but planned to hide here for a few days.

She wasn't sure if anyone was secretly watching Hogwarts, and she wasn't sure if her disappearance would have any impact, and she didn't want anyone to notice her whereabouts at all.

That risk is too great, and it is easy to cause mistakes.

Alice took off the wizard's robe and used the confusion spell to stay in the hotel. She stayed in the room quietly for two days, and everything seemed to be calm.

She left London for Paris, flew from Paris to New York, and finally returned to China after going through many twists and turns.

She couldn't figure out whether it was because she was afraid of being discovered, or because she was timid because of her closeness to her hometown. In short, the moment the plane landed slowly at S City, she knew that the previous days could be completely turned over.

Hogwarts, just think of it as a dream.

After traveling for five years, whether she is Ye Ling or Alice, she has finally returned to the embrace of the safe and sound motherland and her family.

A fifth-year student from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Witchcraft and Wizardry has disappeared, and that student is also the headmistress of Slytherin.Umbridge grasped the news immediately, and attacked the protection and management of the entire school.

Dumbledore has been away from school, and he seems to be too busy to be seen all day.

So the burden of how to teach and protect the students naturally fell in the hands of Umbridge. She firmly controlled these rights, put forward more stringent requirements and measures for all teachers and students, and especially began to instruct some Students closely supervise Gryffindor, especially Harry and others.

Malfoy was the first to bear the brunt, and he took the initiative to stand in front of Umbridge and expressed his willingness to monitor Potter and the others' every move. Of course, Umbridge agreed with great joy.

In fact, she was also suspecting that the reluctant Potter had some kind of secret organization with his companions, perhaps always ready to support Dumbledore - which the Ministry of Magic would never allow.

Malfoy has been in a bad mood lately.Alice's silent farewell flooded his heart with overwhelming anger, and he wished he could immediately rush to her and ask her loudly why she did this——

Why didn't he even give him an explanation in the end!

Looking at the calm, nonchalant reactions of the Potter trio, Malfoy had every reason to believe that she must have told them, she must have said goodbye to them - but she hadn't said anything to himself.

It had always been like this—he was never as good as Weasley, Granger, or that Potter in her heart!

With cold flames in Malfoy's eyes, he angrily stopped the three of Harry in the empty corridor.

"Tell me," he said, glaring at them all, "where did she go—"

"Aren't you bothered," said Ron impatiently, "Alice is missing, missing—do you understand, no one knows where she's gone, how many times do you have to ask to shut your fat mouth?" -"

"Shut up, Weasley!" said Malfoy viciously. "You can't lie to me—she must have told you before she left, and said goodbye, didn't she?"

Ron cleared his throat subtly.Malfoy's complexion immediately darkened, and his angry eyes swept over the three of them, his eyes became dark and gloomy.

"Why do you want to know about Alice so much—" Harry said, watching his reaction, "Umbridge has already sent a notice to the Ministry of Magic, and if there is news, it will be announced..."

"That was three days ago!" said Malfoy icily, "but the truth is she's been gone for more than a week, she's long gone, hasn't she—"

"Listen, Malfoy," said Hermione calmly, "you didn't say anything at first didn't you—so that no one paid attention to it, and no one realized it happened, even if you knew Alice is...but she must have told you too? You're not completely ignorant, are you?"

"So what, you know better, don't you?" Malfoy said coldly, "You just have to answer me, where did she go—"

"We don't know," said Hermione, looking at him quietly. "Indeed, no comment."

Malfoy pursed his lips and cast a quick glance at them with freezing eyes before turning and striding away.

"Why did you tell him," Ron muttered dissatisfied, "just let Malfoy keep pissing off—"

"He is also angry now, don't you see it?" Hermione glanced at Malfoy's back, and said with some clarity, "And he may continue to be angry for a long time..."

"He seems to care about Alice," Harry said after a moment. "He cares about Alice's whereabouts, doesn't he?"

"Maybe more than that," said Hermione meaningfully.

"But Alice still thinks we're better friends," Ron said with a grin. "It's such a joy to see Malfoy deflated, I'm going to keep that in my head..."

Hermione rolled her big eyes upward, and Harry smiled as he watched her.

In 1995, Alice's parents may have just met.

The weather outside was bright and sunny, with a cloudless blue sky.

After Alice walked out of the airport, she was going to visit her father's house first.She got into the taxi and said with a jerky accent in Chinese that she hadn't spoken for a long time, "Master, please go to No. 408, Qiwu Road."

"The little girl speaks Chinese well," the driver praised, "but did you mispronounce the place name? We don't have Qiwu Road here..."

"How come—" Alice opened her eyes suddenly, thought for a while and said, "Then go to the No. [-] Experimental Primary School, isn't that okay?"

"No problem, the Experimental Primary School is on the side of Wutong Road," the driver said immediately, "Do you understand what I'm saying?"

"Okay, please hurry over." Alice urged.

"Oh, yes, yes," the driver asked chatteringly while driving, "little girl, have you ever been to China before? Our country is good, and international friends are very welcome. By the way, are you Which country is it..."

Alice suppressed the uneasiness in her heart all the way, while answering the driver's fancy questions, and soon arrived at the destination.

Alice knew that Experimental Primary School was on Wutong Road, but Xiwu Road crossed Wutong Road, and the primary school was obviously at the intersection where the two roads intersected. Her home and primary school were only separated by this intersection, so she knew better.

After getting off the taxi, the gate of Experimental Primary School seemed to be vaguely remembered.

But when Alice stood at the intersection and looked across, she found that the scene had completely changed.

The house she was familiar with was gone, replaced by a shopping mall under construction, all surrounded by partitions.

The driver was right, this road was indeed not called Qiwu Road, but Hanning Road, and everything she was familiar with along the entire road disappeared.

Except for this school, everything around her is strange to her.

Alice's eye circles instantly turned red.She resolutely walked on the two roads countless times, and even expanded the area round and round along the way, trying to find familiar things in her memory, regardless of attracting more and more people's curious eyes——she kept going Search and search, until the night is gradually approaching, until the lights come on.

The biting cold wind blew mercilessly, and the icy air enveloped the earth.

Alice walked aimlessly back to the opposite side of the school, and sat down on the cold and hard steps under the orange-yellow streetlights.

Thousands of lights are on, those who return home enjoy the warmth, and the homeless people endure the severe cold alone.

A gust of wind whizzed by, and Alice suddenly felt as if even her heart had been frozen for an instant.