Chapter 68 Apple
So will Della go back to the dormitory? Of course not - curfew is not a reason for her to change her plans, especially with a permit in hand.
As soon as she walked out of the Potions classroom, looking at Snape's unhurried back, Della first closed her eyes and felt it. After making sure that no one was looking at her, she touched Maggie on her shoulder. The little snake immediately understood and fell to the ground, slid a few times, and disappeared around the corner.
Della slowly raised her wand and cast an invisibility spell and a silencing spell on herself, then walked out of Hogwarts Castle.
Along the way, there were cold-colored things rolling around at my feet. These were snakes that obeyed Maggie's orders. Recently, they always rolled around outside the castle.
The rolling movements under their feet were much faster than Della's steps. They replaced one after another, mostly following Maggie who had taken a step ahead, and escorting Della was just a side job.
Della went to the Shrieking Shack again, and Maggie had everything ready again. Looking at Maggie who had become one meter long, Della raised her eyebrows and skillfully took the red spirit powder and put it into different calibers of the hourglass-shaped device.
"Ha-si-sa (What's the point of calling so many snakes)?" Della said as she adjusted the equipment.
"Xi-Sa-Ha (We asked them to look for materials in the Forbidden Forest before, and now it's just right to take them back together)." Maggie gently lifted a piece of the floor with her snake's tail, and there were a lot of things neatly stacked on the panel below.
Della paused for a moment, then continued to mix the tools in her hand. She put another portion of red spirit powder in, "Haishi-ha-shashi (You seem to have found more than just the materials you need now)."
"Ha-s (Be prepared)." Maggie watched Della's actions intently.
"..." Della gave him a look. As for what kind of diseases required the preparation of herbs to make poison potions, she didn't want to discuss it with the little snake.
After turning over the assembled half of the metal opaque hourglass, Della continued to fiddle with the other half. At this time, most of the snakes around her had retreated, but Maggie next to her suddenly turned her head with a huge movement, spitting out her tongue and looking in the direction of Hogwarts Castle.
"Hai-xi (what's wrong)?" Della stopped what she was doing and tilted her head to look at Maggie.
"Ha-sa-ha (I feel something)" Maggie hissed and slid her body, as if to confirm something, "Xi-sa-ha (something appeared in Hogwarts)."
"Hai-xi (what)?" Della frowned slightly.
"Haishiha-shahi (I can't explain it clearly, but something has definitely appeared)." Maggie spit out her tongue, and her clear yellow eyes flickered in the moonlight, flashing a strange light.
Della moved her fingers, and the unusual things Harry had experienced since the beginning of the summer vacation slowly came to her mind. She gritted her teeth and began to adjust the instrument in front of her again, "Hahi-ha-shahi (This is actually not so surprising, is it)."
"Haiha-shi-shaha--(Let's not talk about that. I didn't have lunch today, and why didn't you care about me?)" Della said as she picked up a handful of red spirit powder.
"Ha-hi (I'll give you another apple)?" Maggie turned around and looked at Della with a hint of teasing in her eyes.
Hearing this, Della stopped what she was doing and glanced at Maggie, "Haha-sa-hi-ya (Even Professor Snape knows to care about my love life)."
"Ha-si-sa-ha-si (Like you call it love life, life is fluid, and I certainly believe my girl will get over it soon)."
And what a piece of shit Malfoy is, Maggie added silently as he spun around and returned to his normal size, wrapping himself deftly around Della's shoulders.
Having been with Maggie for so long, Della caught the meaning behind his words. She chuckled and remembered what Snape said in the office this afternoon. Indeed, if she hated Lockhart, there was no reason for her to like Draco so much.
But matters of the heart cannot escape the constraints of time and place. At least last year, Draco was in the right place at the right time, and made a choice that could be called a turning point.
However, Della could not make any compromise on this conflict.
Let's take it one step at a time, Della thought after closing the last hole on the device. She raised her wand and walked back a few steps, casting a spell on the device on the ground, "Light and Dark Flip!"
The metallic hourglass flipped over, and Della waved her wand again to open the heavy curtains of the Screaming Shack. The bright moonlight poured down, instantly covering the hourglass.
The rotation of the hourglass slowed down and gradually stopped. The metal shell of its upper layer began to fade, turning into a transparent texture with a mother-of-pearl luster, revealing countless small hourglasses that continuously flowed upward and downward.
The last of the six phases of alchemy is reincarnation, which is mainly determined by testing the material's adaptability to the essence of the sun and the moon and the mixing effect of the two essences. As for the reaction time, it depends on the performance of the material itself. It is considered good only when the powder in the center of the hourglass turns completely black.
After casting a Confusion Charm on the window to create the illusion that the curtains had not changed, Della cast a Compression Charm on the herbs under the floor, putting them all into a magic capsule.
After doing all this, she stretched her body and prepared to go back to Hogwarts.
After returning, I will first check out how the experiments on gold, wood, water, fire and earth in the stone chamber are going, and then I can take a rest. This day of twists and turns is finally over.
Della hurried back to Snake's Tail and prepared to take a shower and go to bed, while the troubled little Master Malfoy was still sulking at the table.
I don’t know whether I’m angry with myself or Della.
He was still sitting on the chair with an apple in front of him. His left hand was resting on the small desk, revealing the silver snake bracelet he had just put on yesterday. Draco flipped through the open Potions book intermittently, unable to read a single word.
"Damn it!" He closed the book, took a few steps in frustration, and then fell on the bed.
"Della, Della." Draco muttered a few words in a not very real voice across the quilt, and the little snake in his left hand slid down, and this time it wrapped the entire red rope around itself.
Draco raised half of his blushing face, stared at the obedient little silver snake with red eyes, stretched out his hand to tease its raised snake head, "Why can't she be as obedient as you."
After saying that, he buried his face again, and only moved his left hand to stroke the little silver snake from time to time.
Last summer vacation, he was criticized by his father for not doing as well as two Muggle-born wizards in the exam. Della was okay, but the name Hermione Granger made him hate the whole vacation.
Later, he didn't know what went wrong with his father. Not only did he go to Della's house, but he also made such a strange suggestion. Draco became jealous and crazy when he thought about the possibility of uninterrupted contact with the Savior during the summer vacation when he was guarding a letter.
And now...
Draco didn't know how to face tomorrow.