Hufflepuff never works overtime

Faith walked to the fireplace to greet the two old people. She politely introduced herself to the two, "Hi, gentlemen, I'm Faith Orest."

"Nice to meet your child," the white-haired old man in a blue robe with a long beard nodded to Faith with a smile. His appearance was exactly the same as those great magicians in TV shows. , "I'm Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry."

"Hello." Faith looked at Dumbledore curiously, and the old man noticed her eyes and smiled kindly.

"Hank Greengrass," said the old man wearing a black robe holding a cane. He raised his chin slightly and squinted his eyes to look at the girl in front of him. When he saw her long golden hair, he showed a little imperceptible Disgusted, "You are the daughter of Apetos."

"Yes, sir."

Faith looked at the old man in front of her with some anxiety, which was quite different from the image of her grandpa. She already had a premonition that this meeting would not go on in a pleasant manner.

"You live in this kind of place?" Hank's eyes looking around and his unceremonious speech made the corners of Faith's mouth droop gradually, and she frowned even more disdainfully when he caught a glimpse of the family portrait on the fireplace head.

"This is my home, sir." Faith calmed herself down, and her tone was not as friendly as before. "I'm very happy with it."

"It would be ridiculous for the Greenglass family to live in such a place." Hank was very dissatisfied with Faith's words, and he knew that his rebellious son would only bring Greenglass' name into shame. Knowing that it was because of the existence of this girl in front of him that his family was almost expelled from the 28 holy clans.

"Actually, sir, I have introduced myself just now. My surname is Oreste/Oreste/, which is my mother's surname and the surname of our family." Mentioned his previous surname or family, I have no idea of ​​the meaning of this surname, and I have no interest in knowing."

"You!" Seemingly shocked and annoyed by the actions and words of this never-before-seen granddaughter, Hank's expression darkened instantly, but fearing the presence of Dumbledore, he forcefully suppressed that anger Going on, "That means you are going to continue living in this world with that stupid... that Muggle's surname."

"No." Seeing the old man's face soften a little, Faith said slowly but firmly, "I will enroll in Hogwarts under the name of Faith Orest."

"Make trouble for no reason!" Hank almost roared at the girl in front of him who was not taller than his chest, and his hand holding the cane was shaking.From Faith's eyes full of determination and alienation, he seemed to see the boy who left without hesitation more than ten years ago.

For a ridiculous Muggle, regardless of the family's honor, he raised him for so many years, but he left his family and that woman to hide in the Muggle world without even a trace of affection.

His son was the same, and so was his granddaughter. He came here today to bring this dazed girl back and tell her how she should live as a Greengrass.

"Expelliarmus /Expelliarmus/"

Just when Hank raised his wand-holding hand, Dumbledore's indifferent words made his plan come to nothing, and the pain in his wrist forced the wand to fall into the hand of the person who had been silent all the time.

"This is no way Greengrass," the white-haired old man frowned, and he nodded apologetically to the frightened Faith, "I'm sorry, my son, because he is your blood relative, so I told you He said that you are about to enter Hogwarts, now it seems that this conceptual contradiction will not disappear because of this."

Faith didn't answer Dumbledore's words, her chest heaved violently, her eyes fixed on Hank who was at the side, the disappointment and anger in her heart were mixed, almost burning her reason.

"Sir, please take your ridiculous remarks and weapons and leave my house immediately!" Faith felt her whole body trembling, but she still restrained herself from showing a trace of timidity, "You are not welcome here A guest like you, my life has never intersected with you in the past, and there will never be any in the future."

It's not that Hank didn't hear what Faith said, but he didn't pay her any attention. In his heart, this girl had been brainwashed by the Muggles around him. He just glared at Dumbledore angrily, watching that old face as always that disgusting smile.

Dumbledore shook his head at him, "I respect this child's choice, since she is unwilling to accept the invitation of the Greengrass family, then it is inappropriate for you to stay here."

He handed over Hank's wand and said softly, "I believe you will make a wise choice, don't you?"

"Very stupid." Hank snatched his wand, glared at the two of them with angry eyes, and left with Apparatus.

Faith didn't have time to calm down, she looked at Dumbledore who was still in the living room, and said. "Are you also here to look for Faith Greengrass? If so, I can only tell you sorry, I'm afraid you will return with regret today."

"Calm down, child, your current state is not suitable for a normal conversation." Dumbledore just waved his hand, and Faith felt a coolness spreading from her forehead, dispelling her inexplicable anger .

After calming down, on the one hand, she was shocked by the unfathomable strength of this old man, and on the other hand, she was glad that he was willing to stand by her side in the dispute between herself and that person just now, otherwise today's matter might not be able to end.

"I'm sorry... I was too emotional," Faith nodded apologetically to Dumbledore. After the anger subsided, she felt an indescribable emptiness and confusion. Now she began to feel that entering Hogwarts It's not a good decision to go to school.

"Son, don't pay too much attention to what Greengrass said just now, he was just dazzled by what he thinks he is different," Dumbledore walked to the fireplace, and picked up the ammo under Faith's still somewhat guarded eyes. Family portrait on a shelf.

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The author's words:

After struggling for a long time, I am still not ready to let the protagonist's surname go back to Greengrass...

This chapter has been checked for a long time in strange places. You can guess the easter eggs in the names of Faith and Hermione, although I have made a little deformation for better reading.

If you guess it, add another chapter, it doesn’t matter when you guess it~

Chapter 8 Albus Dumbledore

"Sir, do you have any thoughts on this photo?" Faith saw Dumbledore staring at the photo in a daze, thinking that he was wondering why the people in the photo couldn't move, and couldn't help it. He opened his mouth and reminded, "That was taken for us by the Muggle doctor when I was just born—with a Muggle camera."

"Forgive my rude behavior just now, I just feel a little emotional when I see the old acquaintance." A trace of nostalgia flashed in his deep eyes, but when he looked at Faise, his eyes turned back to wisdom and kindness. The Orest I know—whether it is your father or your mother, they are very upright, brave and kind people."

Faith could hear the sincerity in Dumbledore's words, she moved her body away silently, indicating that the other party could find a seat to sit down, but the hands on both sides of her body were still rubbing the corners of her clothes uneasily.

"I'm sorry that there is nothing at home to entertain you." Faith looked at the old man and said shyly. After seeing Dumbledore shaking her head indifferently, she also opened the opposite chair and sat down. "You Do you know my parents?"

"I once fought side by side with your father, he was one of my proud students, and your mother..." Dumbledore glanced at Faise with a regretful look, and showed her a comforting smile. "Although she is not a wizard, she has given us a lot of unexpected help. Anyone who knows Irene will not deny that she is a wise and mysterious woman."

Faith gradually relaxed when she heard Dumbledore's words. She obviously didn't know that she just looked like a red panda with its limbs spread out to intimidate the enemy - it didn't have any threatening effect at all.

"If they know your performance today, they will definitely be proud of it. I also look forward to Hogwarts getting a talented student, so please don't be disgusted with the wizarding world just because of Greengrass' words." The old man's slow tone was full of persuasiveness, and Faise listened to his words without even a trace of doubt or defense in her heart.

"There are people who think like him in Hogwarts, Mr. Headmaster." Faith bit her lower lip a little uneasy. She is not a person who likes controversy. The appearance of Greengrass magnified The confusion in her heart was overcome.Since there is no adult around who can make decisions for her, and she cannot discuss this matter with her friends, she is afraid that Hogwarts will run counter to her imagination just like Hank.

"Such people will never disappear no matter where they are," Dumbledore obviously noticed the inner helplessness of the child in front of him. He did not choose to comfort her blindly, but told the truth, "Although Hogwarts We also recruit Muggle-born wizards and half-blood wizards, and provide them with equal educational resources, but due to the influence of the wizarding world environment, there is always no shortage of people who think they are superior."

Before Faith could express her shock at Dumbledore's unreserved answer, she fell into deep thought. She really needed to think about whether she was really determined to study at Hogwarts.

Dumbledore waited patiently for the child in front of him to digest the amount of information he just said. He believed that this child would give him a satisfactory answer, because judging from her previous performance, she perfectly inherited the good qualities of her parents Peace of mind.

"I've made up my mind, Mr. Headmaster." Faith didn't make Dumbledore wait too long, and when she finally made this decision, she felt a sigh of relief from the bottom of her heart.

"I want to go to the school my father graduated from, and I don't want to miss this opportunity to go to the wizarding world. I will prove to those who look down on me that a person's ability is not entirely determined by his birth."

Looking at Faith's eyes shining like emeralds, Dumbledore felt that his trip was not in vain, and he stroked his long beard in relief.

"I will be relieved to get your affirmative answer. If the children of Apetos reject Hogwarts, I think many old folks will be very disappointed." Dumbledore stood up with a smile, he had no choice Use the fireplace or Apparate to leave, just walk up to the gate like a normal Muggle after visiting a friend's house.

After Faith opened the door for him, Dumbledore nodded her farewell and added mysteriously before leaving, "As for the preparations for the start of school, I think your little friend should be able to help a lot. , might as well ask her."

Faise who closed the door was a little puzzled by Dumbledore's last words, she?Is it the rabbi...

Speaking of which, Rabbi is a house elf brought out by his father from the Greengrass family. Maybe it once accompanied his father to buy things for school.

Even knowing this kind of thing, Mr. Principal is really an unpredictable wizard...

Faith nodded to herself, turned around and walked towards her room. Perhaps the other party had already discovered the existence of Rabbi and Hermione, but fortunately, he didn't seem to have any further thoughts.

"Hermione, I'm done." Faise waved her hand towards the corner of the stairs, and pushed the door open after hearing the door lock 'click'. "Sorry for making you wait so long."

"Are you okay, Faith?" As soon as Hermione saw the door opened, she rushed towards Faise, just like a big golden retriever obediently waiting for its master to come back. The little lion inspected her in all directions , Make sure she is unharmed before letting her go.

"God bless," Hermione patted herself on the chest, her big brown eyes glared disapprovingly at Faith, "Why did you lock the door, that old man was really scared to death when he roared downstairs I'm sorry, I still can't hear what he said. Anyway, this offensive behavior is really too much, I thought your grandpa would be a little more polite and understand your mood..."

"Sorry Hermione," Faith fell headfirst onto the bed, covered her face with a pillow, and said in a muffled voice, "Can we not mention that person?"

"It's not a good choice to escape, Miss Orest," Hermione ruthlessly snatched the pillow away, so Faise could only sit up with her mouth puckered, and continued to listen honestly to Miss Granger expressing her dissatisfaction.

"Yes, it is my fault to deprive you of the chance to be a hero to save the beauty."

Hermione couldn't help rolling her big eyes when she heard Faise's words, she poked Faise's forehead with her finger, "I'm telling you this question seriously, okay, have you ever thought that he really What should I do if it is against you? How can you let such a person in the door casually. "

In fact, it's not that Hermione has never tried to sneak out of the room, so as to defend her little friend in front of the bad guys, but obviously her small body can't shake the door lock.

I must learn the spell to open the door when I go back, the little lion secretly argued in his heart - of course even if she could use the 'opening spell', she would not be able to get out with the rabbi guarding the outside.

"He was burned from the fireplace, and I didn't open the door for him." Faith muttered in her mouth to defend herself, and when she heard Hermione's doubtful voice of "Huh?", she quickly shook her head to indicate that she had nothing Say.

Well... She also admitted that it was a bit too much to lock Hermione up in order to keep Hermione from running around, but what if she did run out and was punished by the wizard to become a ferret?

Ah, but Hermione is more suitable for chipmunks than ferrets...

Finding that the person in front of her started to wander off again, the chipmunk took her nuts, no, it was Hermione who tapped Faith on the head with the pillow, "Are you listening to me?"

"Am I listening..." Faise sat down honestly. After three years of getting along, she knew very well where Hermione's bottom line was.

"If I see him treat you like this next time, I must let that guy know how rude it is to yell at someone's house."

Seeing the lion cub strutting and punching, Faise felt that her anxiety had been relieved a lot, so she suddenly leaned over and kissed Hermione on the face.

"Thank you Hermione, I feel a lot better having you here with me today."

Hermione stared blankly at Faise's smiling eyes, her own figure was clearly reflected in the water green pupils, she felt that her ears were so hot that they were about to burn, so she quickly looked away , whispered, "This is what I should do."

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The author's words:

While my mind is screaming 'they're still kids! 'But the shy lion cub is really cute

Isn't this chapter very fat!

Chapter 9 Guess

"Hermione, are you sure we have to go to such a far place to relax..." Faise looked at the person who was walking on the mountain road for an hour but was still bouncing, and felt that the other party and herself seemed to be two people. Species, she didn't understand the difference between here and the park next to her home - except that it was bigger, farther, and more tiring.

"Don't you think that in a sparsely populated natural environment, your brain won't think about those annoying things?" Hermione held Faise's hand so that the person who was almost paralyzed to the ground behind her could borrow some strength. , but that guy quickly pressed half of his body on top of her.

Hermione could only sigh helplessly when she heard the panting sound in her ear. Since she and Faise got acquainted, her physical fitness has been getting better and better.

"Honestly Hermione," Faith swore she couldn't take a step, and she completely gave up the unrealistic fantasy that she decided to exercise every day at the graduation ceremony, "if we don't take a break, my brain will really work." If it’s because of the lack of oxygen, I can’t think about anything.”

"Okay, then you can lean against me and rest for a while," Hermione found a suitable place to sit under the shade of a tree, she took out a book from her satchel and spread it on her lap, "I don't know What kind of textbooks will your school use, so I chose a GCSE (British Examinations) extra-curricular reading."

Faith deftly rested her head on Hermione's shoulder—since she was a little shorter than Hermione, this action was the easiest for her—she glanced at the book in Hermione's hand, the broken letters seemed to be Jumping in front of her eyes, it took her a lot of energy to barely keep up with the rhythm of Hermione's reading.

She just persisted for two pages and then gave up. She hoped that the magic school would not have these long-winded textbooks. After all, there should be no second Miss Granger in Hogwarts willing to help her so kindly. Just because of taking a bunch of P (poor), it caused a grade to be repeated.

At the thought of being separated from Hermione, Faise couldn't help but feel depressed. She tried her best to immerse herself in the sound of reading, so as not to worry about the future prematurely.

Hermione speaks much slower than usual when she is reading, and she is used to pronouncing every word clearly - the teacher has praised her more than once for her standard pronunciation - but this makes her tone more or less It's a little strange that some boys will deliberately imitate Hermione's tone of speech to laugh at her.

But Faise is obviously used to it, and she even hopes that every teacher can speak as clearly as Hermione. If the math teacher can explain those formulas more, instead of blindly copying examples on the blackboard, her math score will be lower. It will not be so regrettable.

"Face, are you listening?" Hermione expressed a little disappointment that Faise didn't listen carefully to her reading, and she elbowed someone who was wandering away.

"I'm sorry..." Faise didn't dare to look Hermione in the eyes. She let her body slide down and buried her face in the open book on Hermione's lap, completely interrupting their reading activity today, "I Just thinking that this might be the last time you study with me makes me feel very confused."

"I'll send you a lot of letters, so many that you'll have a headache." Hermione stroked Faith's fluffy little head. She had always been envious of Faith's soft and long hair, especially when paired with her white hair. Her skin and big eyes make her look like a Barbie doll.

Hearing Miss Granger's self-aware speech about her talkativeness, Fayse couldn't help laughing, "I've already mentioned this to the rabbi, and she will forward your letter to me It doesn't matter if it's shorter, promise me, don't forget about it, okay?"

"Of course!" Hermione agreed, it was just a piece of cake for her, "Will you write me back? It doesn't take much, just write what you want."

"If you don't mind reading my nonsensical content, of course."

"By the way," Faise suddenly remembered something, turned around, and found that Hermione's face was only a few centimeters away from her, she could even clearly see Miss Granger's fluttering eyelashes, Faise hurriedly sat down When she got up, her voice was a little shy and unnatural, "You haven't told me where your school is yet."

"Um, regarding this issue, you may also have to send the letter to my house first, and then pass it on to me after Mom and Dad," Hermione didn't notice Faise's expression was wrong, she was racking her brains to come up with a reasonable excuse, "Because my school may not be very convenient to communicate with the outside world..."

"Meow!" Hermione's words were interrupted by a sharp cry, and she breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, she was really not good at hiding things, especially lying to people close to her.

A black shadow sprang out from the grass, arched its back towards the grass, all the hair on its body exploded, its tail stood up high, and it made a threatening sound.

The conversation between the two was interrupted by the sudden appearance of the kitten. Hermione's attention was immediately attracted by it. On the other hand, he looked in the direction of the grass with some curiosity, but after waiting for a long time, there was no other movement inside.

"Hermione, did you just want to tell me about your school?" Faise broke the silence first. She didn't expect the other party's school to have such special regulations. You must know that even Hogwarts can communicate with the Muggle world through letters. — but requires a specially trained owl as a messenger.

"Ah, it got away..."

Hermione expressed regret that the topic just now had to be continued, she pulled the grass beside her a little uncomfortably, her tone was extremely stiff, "I'm sorry, Faise, the school asks me to keep it secret, even you and I can't tell it."

The two fell into embarrassment again, not looking into each other's eyes, Faise whispered in her heart, why did she feel that Hermione's school was as mysterious as Hogwarts...

Also, the address needs to be kept secret, you can’t go home during the semester, and you can only deliver letters to your relatives. Could it be that...

Faith was shocked by her own imagination, but the more she thought about it, the more certain she was of her guess. She stared blankly at the little lion sitting there with an uncomfortable expression.

Did Hermione get hired by MI6/MI[-]? ...

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Really thank you guys for your support!Your posts, comments and rewards are the greatest joy when I code words~

I have finally reached the first important point of this article, and the identities of the two will be revealed slowly! (Am I the only one who finds their mutual misunderstandings hilarious...)

I hope Harry can appear before Chapter 20_(:3」∠)_

Chapter 10 Sniff

Those institutions in the movie really like to recruit agents when they are young, Faith nodded unconsciously, and Hermione was exactly 11 years old, which fits the bill.

According to her rich experience in watching spy movies—most of them belong to PG13 movies, although Faith believes that the interests of wizards should not be bound by Muggles, her mother Irene insists that when she watches those movies, adults or The rabbi must be by her side - Faith compared Hermione's characteristics with the protagonists of the movie one by one.