Ravenclaw's Blue Gem

"Don't let your emotional shift towards the horseman affect your judgment, Zoe. You still have a lot of chances that you can save to kill your brother." Max looked at her, "You are the same as it. It's my child."

"I don't have a brother who shows his murderous intent, hides in the shadows and wants to bite someone else's throat at any time." Zoe said dissatisfiedly, "Needless to say, I will certainly help the horseman to solve it, so I can clean it up. You have caused another mess."

"So tell me what it is."

"Chimera." Max's relaxed tone was like saying that she raised a harmless little squirrel in the forbidden forest, rather than a high-risk magical creature whose size is proportional to the degree of danger.

Chimera is no stranger to many people. First of all, it is a magical creature that the Ministry of Magic’s Department of Magical Creatures Management and Control has explicitly forbidden to own. Any wizard who is found to raise or create a Chimera will be immediately arrested. At the same time, the Chimeras raised by the wizards were put to death regardless of their size, type, and state (that is, whether they were in their infancy or whether they showed obvious aggressiveness).

It was not without reason that the Ministry of Magic was so trembling.Chimera has been identified as a magical creature that is not suitable for keeping for centuries, just like basilisks and giant dragons. They are never good-looking creatures. If you say that basilisks can still be snakes. Laoqiang control, and the number of giant dragons is very rare, Chimera will only be classified as a complete dangerous beast, whether it is ferocious and animalistic, or those shocking cases of killing a large number of owners and innocent people. .

Chimera’s childhood period is very short. They grow rapidly through constant feeding, but when their size grows so large that they can slap their owner on the wall with a slap, the second stage of growth will bring uncontrollable evil. Personality, Chimera was born as a restless monster created by combining the elements of a variety of creatures. The original intention of the wizard to create it was to combine the advantages of creatures to create a powerful but controllable monster. .

But it turns out that it is almost impossible.Perhaps because of the instability and rejection of the elements, Chimera's mood swings are very large, their tempers are usually very impatient, and their carnivorous characteristics are overwhelmingly dominant, which also causes Chimera to only eat meat.There are only a few cases to prove that they have a relatively high level of IQ. Other Chimeras all act instinctively. In addition, they are large in size and consume energy very fast. They need to eat three to four times a day, every time. Need to eat a lot of meat, every time you eat, it will mess up the surroundings.

"You are likely to destroy the ecology of the forbidden forest!" Zoe said urgently.

"No." Max shook his head, "You look down on this historic forest too much. It's just Chimera, and the number is too small to pose much threat. It's just that I didn't want to expose the Chimera here. That’s why I chose to trap it there. You must know that the forest ranger in this school is an excellent expert on magical creatures, and it happens that he is good at the biggest and most dangerous kinds of magical creatures."

Chapter 59 Tasting (Part 1)

It was late afternoon when he came out of the library, and Mrs. Pins glanced at her before Zoe left, probably because she was puzzled that she had occupied a table in the afternoon just to sleep.Zoe didn't mean to explain, and Mrs. Pins didn't ask her.

Although the conversation with Max can be regarded as intelligence, it has no positive effect other than making people more tired.Judging from the scenery outside the window, there is not enough time to get back to the auditorium even now.Anyway, he wasn't very hungry. Zoe planned to go back to the bedroom directly. It would be nice if he could save time for sleeping, but his body could not afford the accumulated fatigue.

In fact, she didn't want to go back to the bedroom because she didn't want to see Luna.Even if the heart is ready to break off friendship, if this scene does come, you will experience another pain like a sword piercing your heart.She knew that Luna wanted to talk to her, and that was the proof that the girl wanted to trust her.

But every time she wanted to tell everything, because she believed Luna would not talk about her secrets everywhere, but whenever the words came to her lips, Lucius’s figure flashed past, and then she Will subconsciously choose to be silent.

Luna is different, she has told herself so.But then there will be a rebuttal voice: don't you also think that Mr. Lucius is different?But what are you getting now, and who caused the treatment you are now suffering from?Trust can only be relative. When a piece of information may make you irreversible, do you choose to put the key in someone else's hand?

Zoe knows that this is actually her own feeling, so she always chooses to be silent about some secrets, but now Luna comes to the door, she does not want to end this relationship, she hopes Luna can continue to stay by her side, But if the price is to expose her secrets, can she make such a choice after experiencing betrayal?

If one day even Luna betrays herself, if one day everyone she loves will no longer stand on her side... "Zoe, Zoe?" The voice in her ears frightened Zoe With a jump, she quickly raised her head and looked at Hermione who was close to her in a panic. Hermione looked at her worriedly.

"You have a bad face." If the person who asked her the question was Hermione, would she be willing to tell her all the facts, as she had told Dumbledore.But Dumbledore knew all this, she just confessed some facts to him.If Hermione knew that her body might be occupied by someone who did not belong to her, would she still be willing to smile at herself?If she knew that she didn't know it in the end, and she failed in the fight against Max, would she see that the person was not herself?

"I just woke up, so I don't seem to be very energetic." Zoe said, disgusted with the lies he blurted out.She didn't want to lie in front of important people, she didn't even want to lie in front of anyone, she didn't want to be a person like Max, the kind of empty shell left with hypocrisy and acting skills.But sometimes Zoe discovered that she probably couldn't really become the kind of person she dreamed of.

Maybe Mr. Lucius’ incident was actually just an excuse. She had been used to decorating herself with lies from the beginning, and she would never get out of this quagmire."Really. Have fun at Hogsmeade?" She kissed the corner of Hermione's mouth while no one was around. The girl blushed and coughed pretentiously, but did not continue to struggle with the previous question.

"I have a lot of things to tell you. I gave Luna the things you asked me to buy. She said she would bring you back to the bedroom." Hermione said happily, "but you have to eat something before then. Things." She took out the wrapped bread and drink from her arms in twos or twos. "Why didn't you go to the auditorium for dinner?"

After taking the food with some warmth, Zoe smiled more sincerely: "Thank you. I didn't notice the time, I overslept."

"And your face, what's the matter? You must be hiding something from me!" Hermione saw the scar on her face at a glance. Although there is a tendency to heal, it is still very conspicuous. "Wait, I think I want to see what kind of curse should be used in this kind of time..." She held the wand hesitated for a long time, and finally put it down, "I'll go to the infirmary with you, I'm not sure, if something goes wrong, it won't Up."

"Don't scare me, it's just a small injury, you can't be able to handle it." Zoe teased her, "When will Miss Know-it-all lose self-confidence in dealing with problems? No matter how complicated and difficult it is, she should have it. The will to pursue, understand and resolve."

Hermione coughed a little harder. Zoe felt this a bit like Umbridge for a moment, because the old hag always liked to cough in class to show her sense of existence, but compared to Hermione, In Zoe's mind, Umbridge was in comparison, and he was insulting the action of coughing.

"Don't want to interrupt." She glared at Zoe sternly. "If you stay in the castle, you can't get hurt."

"Actually, I just went to the Forbidden Forest." Zoe can find an excuse without even thinking about it, and what she knows is that Hermione will never go to me to verify, "Professor Snape asked me to collect some materials, and then I accidentally made a little hole in the face. It's no big deal, this little hole is not even a wound."

"How can you be so careless!" Hermione frowned. "Don't think that this wound is nothing. Do you know how many bacteria are in the Forbidden Forest? If they all get into your wound and cause you to be infected How to do!"

"Bacteria?" Zoe missed the point, but was attracted by this novel vocabulary. "What is that? New Muggle words?"

"Uh, you can just treat it as a type of creature that our eyes can't see. Some of its types can make human injuries more serious-in short, it is to make you pay attention to maintaining the wound! You are interrupting again!" Hermione He looked very angry, "How can Snape let you do such a dangerous task alone? Doesn't he know that students can't go to the Forbidden Forest?"

This is a misunderstanding of Snape. You must know that if there is a need to collect materials, Snape will indeed go with Zoe. Although he nominally just stares at Zoe to prevent her from being lazy, as long as it is a little bit lazy. Anyone with a head will understand that he just wants to protect Zoe from possible danger.

Zoe told Hermione about the incident that Snape had brought her back from Umbridge to "make up lessons"."Professor Snape's character is easy to be misunderstood, but he is really good to me." Hermione was surprised. Snape's character was far more than "misunderstanding" for the Gryffindor students. , But in the end she expressed willingness to reshape her impression of Snape.

"By the way, Hermione, I want to tell you something." Zoe remembered the conversation with Max. "Never go to the Forbidden Forest during this time. You'd better tell other Gryffindor students too. You must know that the students in your college like running to all kinds of dangerous places."

"What happened?" Hermione asked. Obviously Zoe couldn't talk to her like this on a whim, with such a serious tone.

"I found traces of some large magical creatures in the Forbidden Forest. It is very dangerous and almost destroyed all the surrounding trees. I don't know how large its range of activities is, but students who venture into the Forbidden Forest are likely to bump into it. Get things they don’t want to meet. In that case, they are likely to be injured or even...death."

"Really." Hermione also got serious, and Zoe nodded to her."You're right. If that's the case, I have to be optimistic about George and Fred, and Harry and Ron. These guys like to run into the forbidden forest if they have problems."

After they arrived in the infirmary, Umbridge had already left, but fortunately, Mrs. Pomfrey was still there.Madam Pomfrey eased the wound on her face. When she stroked Zoe’s cheek with her wand, the latter stepped back uncomfortably. She suddenly remembered Doris’s abrupt behavior at noon today. Finally, the little goodwill accumulated because of her firmness when she stated her ideals disappeared in an instant.

If she saw the chairwoman of the female student council again... "Mrs. Pomfrey!" Zoe had a hell of expression, Doris' voice came into this room earlier than hers, followed by a series of words. Footsteps.Doris looked more energetic than she did in the morning. Her eyes were so excited that she was about to shine, carrying a large box in her hand.

"Let you wait a long time, Doris special sponge cake No. 31!" If Zoe is not mistaken, even Madam Pomfrey, who has always been gentle, when Doris put the box in her When he was on the table in front of him, he unconsciously moved the chair back, his smile froze.

"I've had dinner, Doris." Madam Pomfrey said softly, but with a firm tone.

"It's a pity." Doris pressed her forehead dejectedly, "I should have come to you earlier. Everyone I went to find told me that I had dinner. Where can I go now? Supper..." She noticed that there were other people in the infirmary and turned her head.

"Oh, good evening Siegel, I have been looking for you for a long time, my tester."

Chapter 60 Tasting (Part 2)

Chapter Sixty

"I'm not your tester." Zoe took a step back reflexively, looked at Dolise alertly, and glanced at Hermione concealedly, and found that she was looking at Dolise curiously.Zoe planned to "shut up" as long as Doris didn't stop her mouth and wanted to spit out something messy and misleading.

But Doris seemed to have amnesia. Zoe was still awkward, but she ran up to Hermione in two steps without burden at all, and said to Hermione, "Hermione Granger, would you like some dessert? ?"

Hermione was also a little uncomfortable with her suddenly, but compared to Zoe, she accepted it faster because of no preconceived bad impression."No, I..." But she looked at Doris with a very disappointed look, and swallowed the words in her mouth again, "If it's just a little bit?"

"Of course! Just taste it!" Doris rubbed her hands in excitement, and then she looked at Zoe again, "Siegel, you definitely want to have some, you can't wait."

Zoe really wanted to tell her immediately that she had eaten dinner and didn’t want to touch it, but Hermione was right next to her when she came. Min is curious; secondly, she is really interested in the taste of the sweets. Just thinking of the smell of the cake that was ruined before, she is curious whether she will still enjoy the sweet comfort when eating it in her mouth sense.

Doris took Zoe's silence as acquiescence and smiled happily.She opened the lid of the box, and the tempting fragrance came out again. The mellow fragrance of eggs, milk, butter and other ingredients not only does not make people feel greasy, but even wants to open all the pores, and then turn this sweet The breath is completely locked into the memory.

"It smells good." Hermione's words this time brought deep anticipation. Even after dinner, no one would refuse to add some such attractive snacks after the meal.

Zoe also had to admit this, even among the skilled house elves at Hogwarts, none of them could make this fatally attractive food.She really wanted to take away the cake that Doris was carefully dividing into pieces. Not just one, two or even three of them could be eaten directly. Just smelling the smell made her hungry stomach even more uncomfortable.

Doris divided a portion and was about to pass it to Hermione first. Hermione refused. She had already seen that Zoe was looking forward to it: "Give it to Zoe first. She didn't have dinner." Doris' eyes lit up. , Hand the plate to Zoe."Don't worry, there are many more. You can eat the whole whole." She said happily.

Zoe crossed one of the corners and was about to deliver it to her mouth: "What are you looking at me for?" She frowned and put the cake down, Doris stared at her intently, looking very expectant.

"Don't worry about me, you eat, you eat." Doris waved her hand."How could I be able to eat if you stare at me like this." Zoe glared at her."Don't worry about these trivial things, I like to see how others eat." Doris wanted to dispel Zoe's wariness.

"No." Zoe said directly, "Don't look at me, or else I won't eat it." Although I have high expectations for this cake, if you have to accept the treatment being watched by Doris , She might as well bear not eating.

If Doris refuses, she will take a bite without her attention and return the plate.

Doris thought about it again and again, and turned away reluctantly: "Well, I won't watch it, you can eat it." Seeing her compromise, Zoe was relieved.She cautiously raised her fork, admiring the cuts of the square sponge cake adorned with cream and fruit. Zoe put the cake in her mouth while expecting what kind of feast he would enjoy.

She closed her eyes and was about to savor the rich taste in her mouth. The smooth taste of the cream has a refreshing sweetness. Although the sweetness is a bit too much, it is still qualified. Fresh fruits not only enhance the depth of the cake taste, but also make people Enjoy the crispy texture, and finally the body, body, body of the cake...