Ravenclaw's Blue Gem

The expectant and nervous freshmen screamed and rushed to get off the train. The platform roof was immediately filled with dark crowds, and more people wanted to squeeze in. No matter what grade, they all didn’t want to get wet. student.

The sky had already darkened, and the outline of the smoke from the chimney of the train could still be seen in the dim light.Although the speed of the team was slow, it finally moved a little bit under the guidance of the prefects.The lantern in Hagrid's hand flickered, and the freshmen chased him behind him like chickens, for fear that one of them would be lost without paying attention.

"Zoe, are there any people left behind?" Anthony watched the crowd nervously and moved forward a little bit. Even if he was excited because he got a little closer to the girl before, now he has nothing but fatigue. Impressed.

"Nothing." Zoe flicked his wet hair and pinned it behind his ear. "It should be the last one. I didn't see anyone coming out of the train."

"The weather is really horrible. I just want to go back to the lounge and have some hot soup." Anthony complained, but he was relieved. Then they just need to follow the end of the line and go to the carriage. You can go back to school if you move forward.

At this moment, two groups of dark shadows rushed over from the other side, and when they got closer, the two of them could see the true meaning of the shadows.

"Ernie, Hannah?" Anthony greeted them. The two were soaked and panting. "Why did you get here?" He asked because of Ernie McMillan and Hannah. Abbot is the prefect of Hufflepuff.

"No, no..." Ernie's face was as pale as paper. He obviously wanted to talk, but the words kept stuck in his throat.Hannah is not much better than him.

"First go smoothly." Zoe raised his wand to help them clean up the rain on their bodies and clothes. Even if the raindrops still hit them, the speed of getting wet was much slower.

"It's gone!" Ernie recovered faster. He straightened up and said nervously, "Did you see a little guy? It's a girl. Hannah saw her walking in another direction. We followed Route chased, but never saw her again!"

"It's a freshman." Zoe and Anthony's faces suddenly became serious. It is not a trivial matter that a freshman leaves the team and may disappear.

"She may have gone to Hogsmeade Village." The train's terminal station is Hogsmeade Station. Compared to other routes, it is more likely that new students will go to the village in an unfamiliar environment.

"Let's find them separately." Zoe said. She thought about it, "Are there any clues you can provide?" The two shook their heads, saying that they didn't see anything.

"Professor Hagrid should have begun to take the freshmen across the lake. Anthony, can you please go to the professor? Just take the carriage back. We need to explain the current situation to them. If we are mistaken for our disappearance, it would be bad. Yi asked.

"No problem." Anthony nodded, but then asked hesitantly, "Then how do I know where you are?"

"Go to... the pig's head bar." The four people in this place knew that, except for Zoe who tried to persuade Aberforth, the remaining three were gathered there because of joining the DA group. People, as long as they achieve their goals...if they don’t, they will all gather there in the end."

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Zoe held up the wand in his hand to let the fluorescent light shine further.I really don’t know why I have suffered such a crime. If there is no such thing, I should sit in a carriage sheltered from wind and rain, dry the moisture on my clothes, wipe my hair, and chat with friends, at least not. Will be so embarrassed now.

But you can't leave a freshman who doesn't know anything.Zoe sighed. Perhaps because of the heavy rain, almost all the surrounding shops were closed, occasionally bright light could be revealed from the house, but it was extremely quiet, leaving only the sound of rain and himself stepping on the ground. Footsteps.

There is no way to go any further. The strange building standing at the end is called the Screaming Shack. If there is none here, you have to look back.Zoe leaned his wand toward the corner of the street, where there was an alley, but there were many wooden boxes in the front. The new students didn't need to hide and seek with them. Zoe tentatively shouted a few times before removing the wand.

After walking a dozen steps further, a faint sound came from my ear, looming, most of the sound was swallowed by raindrops, but when I listened carefully, it was indeed human crying.With a sigh of relief, Zoe hurried to the place where the sound was made.After a while, someone was seen sitting with their backs against the wall of the screaming hut, with their face buried in their arms.

"Hey!" Zoe yelled several times before the girl finally noticed someone calling her. As soon as she raised her head, she saw an aggressive and stern girl walking towards her.

It is impossible to say that it is impossible not to be angry. As soon as Zoe sees the girl not only leaving the team without permission, causing countless troubles to the prefects, but also sitting and crying here, the nameless fire will burst out."You--" Before she could say the reprimand, she stopped talking to the panicked and helpless eyes of the new student.The first sentence to say now should be to vent anger?

If the person here is Dumbledore... "It's okay." Zoe said this in a bad tone, knowing that she was going to get angry before, "Don't be afraid, we are all looking for you . Come with me and I will show you a place to rest for a while and have a drink."

In the end, the tone finally softened. Zoe had never spoken to a stranger in this tone, and felt very awkward.An invisible trickle gushed out of her wand, which gathered above the two of them to form a transparent umbrella, bent over and reached out to the girl, trying to pull her up first.

Xu was drenched in the rain. The newborn's hands were cold. She did not resist. She stood up docilely. Her eyes were red. She didn't know which ones were water and which were tears. Zoe sighed and took a handkerchief from her pocket. Take it out and gently wipe her face.

I don’t know which sensitive nerve this new born has touched. The tears that were finally stopped came from his eyes again. Zoe was caught off guard, but she rushed to hug him tightly. The robe dampened by rain can no longer feel the humidity of tears.

I want to push away. I originally didn't know someone, but there was always a knot in my heart. Zoe could feel this person not only holding himself, but also shaking.Are the first-year freshmen so small?Only to my chest, I was definitely not so naive when I was in the first grade.As Zoe thought, he gently patted her back with his other hand without a wand.

Instead, she cried more fiercely.Zoe sighed helplessly.

But I didn't find it annoying, even if it was such a move that I had never thought of doing before.Did Dumbledore feel the same way about himself?Zoe had no way of knowing it, and it was impossible to ask, but if this was what Dumbledore expected of her, could she convince herself.

"I'm sorry... I, I... I ran away because of curiosity, and I couldn't find anyone when I walked..." After crying for a long time, the girl's attitude eased much, but she was still sobbing.Although she no longer held Zoe, she still clutched her sleeve tightly.

"Go back first." Zoe led her towards the pig's head bar. "When you divide the college, it's time to write a review. You'd better not hit Professor McGonagall, she is very strict; but unless you Enter Slytherin, and don't expect Professor Snape to be tolerant to you."

"College?" the girl asked in confusion, "but it was not written on the notice..."

"They don't write everything on it. When the school arrives, the principal will be responsible for introducing the precautions. Of course, after dinner." Zoe said casually, "Many things cannot be explained clearly in just a few sentences. You will live in this school for seven years, as long as you learn about it slowly..."

"My parents didn’t want me to enroll because they thought it was ridiculous and thought it was a prank show. But then they couldn’t explain the peculiarities I showed before, so they let me enroll. The girl is very nervous, "I want to ask, are there many people like me?" She stared at the wand in Zoe's hand eagerly, "I also have one. I tried it on the train, but it didn't work. ."

"As long as you study carefully, there is nothing you can't do..." The gloomy outline of the pig's head bar appeared in the field of vision.

Chapter 30 Ariane Dumbledore (Part 1)

When the door opened and the tension continued to spread, even the pig's head bar did not escape the fate of fewer customers.Aberforth didn't care about his empty bar, wiping the glasses methodically.He noticed someone coming in and just raised his head, a look of surprise appeared on that calm face.

"Why are you here?" Aberforth stuffed the veil into the cup and put the cup on the counter. He opened the baffle of the counter and strode forward to the two of them. The new student was screamed by this loud voice. The old bearded man was startled, and shrank behind Zoe.

"Did you sneak out of the castle with this kid at night?" Aberforth just glanced at the new student, then focused on Zoe.

"It's been a long time, Mr. Aberforth." Zoe sighed. Because of Umbridge's difficulties last year, she had never been to Hogsmeade once, and naturally there was no chance to continue to convince Aberforth. Go and mend the relationship with Dumbledore.

"Can you please let us stay here for a while?" She knew that Aberforth must have misunderstood. "Of course, just wait until the professor comes to pick us up. The kid accidentally left behind, and we still have two others. Find them together, and they will come here to gather."

"Don't always think of me here as a place for you little guys to rest. How many times do you want me to say that underage wizards are not welcome here." Aberforth snorted, and walked back to behind the counter. The figure disappeared behind the curtain.

Zoe knew he had acquiesced to the existence of the two, and took the still nervous girl sitting on the chair in front of the counter.As soon as they sat down, Aberforth returned to the counter, holding two new towels in his hands.

"Here, don't catch a cold." He handed them the towels and took the tea from the jar on the shelf. He must not often entertain guests for tea, and it took a lot of work to find two teacups.

Zoe wiped his hair dry, then used a spell to make himself feel a little dry."Don't be too slow, you will catch a cold." The girl looked a little dazed, but she unconsciously put the towel on top of her head.Zoe sighed and leaned in to help her dry her hair, and then help her dry her robe. Since the girl did not resist, things went well.

"Drink it to warm up the body." Aberforth brought them two cups of hot tea.

"Thank you, you really are a very gentle person." Hearing Zoe say so, Aberforth did not reply, but pushed the cup forward again.

"Mr. Aberforth, have anything major happened recently?" Zoe asked a question casually, thinking of killing the time.

"It's okay, as long as you can get used to the dark mark floating in the sky, the increased crime rate and the sluggish business. Now fewer people are willing to go out for a drink at night. Ms. Rosmerta is more formal. I'm here. They are all suspicious guys." Aberfu replied absently.

"The Ministry of Magic has achieved some results and captured a few Death Eaters. But who knows if they will escape soon? Azkaban, who has lost the dementors, is based on the Aurors who are now guards. It's hard to be reassuring."

"Do you also think that the dementors should continue to guard Azkaban?" Zoe frowned, his tone unhappy.The freshman on one side heard a lot of unfamiliar terms, wanted to ask but didn't dare to interrupt the conversation, just stared at the tea in his hand.

This issue has been arguing for centuries. When Damocles Rohr was the Minister of Magic, he was the first to propose a plan to transform Azkaban into a wizard’s prison. He sternly ignored the opposition that appeared at the time, and Those prisoners who violated the wizarding law (later people generally believed that some wizards detained as prisoners were Rohr’s political enemies) were all thrown into this natural prison. He advocated that this is safe and saves extra manpower. , Dementors are a natural barrier, and wizards who have been confiscated with their wands cannot escape the chase of these monsters.

When Rohr gained power, he suppressed most people's doubts.On the surface, his approach has worked perfectly. Since Azkaban became a wizard prison, there has not been a prison escape. At that time, the Auror did not have a dedicated position and office. The Ministry of Magic had many things to deal with, including Dealing with wizard affairs and dealing with Muggle attacks that occur from time to time, there is no extra manpower to guard the prisoners.

More than a decade later, Rohr’s successor Perseus Parkinson also miscalculated the people’s anti-Muggle sentiment and was ousted from a series of activities by political opponents. Naturally, it is impossible to separate his mind and pay attention. The situation of Azkaban, let alone the prisoners who are still serving their sentences in Azkaban, has long been forgotten.

The name of the next Minister of Magic is Eldridge Diggory. This new minister with strong ability and ambition noticed the existence of Azkaban when he was dealing with affairs, so he took time to go to Azkaban. I want to check the operating conditions of the prison.But what he saw on that isolated island was not a prison, but hell.He saw with his own eyes the black monsters taking the body of the dead wizard and burying him in the soil behind Azkaban (there were already several unknown graves), and the rest were almost completely crazy, skinny, Unconsciousness, this is not serving a sentence, but inhumane torture.He returned to the ministry, and in the proposed Auror recruitment plan, the issue of setting up a committee to rectify the treatment of Azkaban was added, but he unfortunately passed away before the problem was resolved.Afterwards, the Minister of Magic, who took office, ignored Azkaban's problems without exception.

"Breatures like dementors should never try to use them, but let them disappear. If they are naturally occurring creatures, they are naturally eligible to survive, but they are not monsters that appear voluntarily. I would rather let them They are destroyed."

"Even if they might want to live?" Aberforth asked.

"Yes, this is the best way I can think of. It is also okay to say that it is selfish, because they just exist in themselves, they will harm what I want to protect." Zoe said softly.

"I don't care what you want to do to the Dementor, as long as you can protect yourself." Aberforth said, "Do you think I would like the Dementor and Azkaban? Have I told you , My father died in Azkaban? He was a good father who stood up for his family, but I never saw him again."