novelraw Chapter 18 The Milk Box
Chapter 18 The Milk Box
Harley has never been picky about the ingredients—she used to not even mind the way she cooks, but she has just been spoiled by Grandpa Ah Fu recently—she doesn’t hate green beans, but she can’t say she likes them. Eat, don’t have and can’t remember” category.
What is this all about? !Harry shook his head, realizing that his attention had been distracted by Queenie unconsciously!
"Uh..." She felt that she must look stupid, facing the blonde girl in front of her, it seemed that she could only utter monosyllabic onomatopoeia...
Queenie had already roughly settled the solid food on the dinner plate in the pick and choose, and started tearing the milk carton-Harry noticed that she was really picky eater, and she was eating according to her mood, considering that she didn't take it in the first place. How many.
When Harry was still switching between dazed and divergent thinking, Queenie had already inserted a straw into the box with a small opening, drinking milk while staring at her curiously with her big blue eyes, her cheeks bulging. drum.
Harry's spine was shivering at this sight, and she felt as if she could look straight into his heart.
"You should eat, this mashed potato will only get worse and worse." Queenie bit the straw, pointing to Harry's dinner plate, "I know you have a lot of questions to ask me, I will answer you while you eat .”
Hari nodded dumbly, and began to stuff food into his mouth mechanically, but his eyes were fixed on the blonde girl opposite, as if he was afraid that what she said would mean nothing.
"Okay, it's nothing strange, I might be a little too abrupt today. Dad always taught me that if I abuse my abilities, I will suffer a lot one day," Queenie shrinks her neck, and finally reveals With a trace of timidity, he looked around cautiously, "No one should be able to hear us."
Harley didn't answer, she was still in a daze as if she was out of the situation.
"You can't blame me for today's situation, I've noticed you since the first day you entered school." The milk in the carton should have bottomed out, and Queenie sizzled the straw.
"I've been watching you, uh...listening to you? Otherwise, who do you think informed Damian Wayne? No matter how powerful he is, it's impossible for him to know that something happened to you so quickly."
Seeing Harry's puzzled look, Queenie added, "There aren't many wizards in Gotham Elementary School, and you're the first one I met!"
"Won't the children of wizards go to elementary school? I heard that we don't go to special schools to learn magic until we are 11 years old," Harley finally said a complete sentence for the first time after meeting Queenie, gratifying to congratulate .
Queenie shook her head and shook the milk box in her hand, as if checking how much was left in it.
"The situation of both of us should be special. Although my grandma is a wizard, my grandpa is a No-Maj and my father is a squib, but my grandparents are still very good to him..."
"No-Maj? Squib?" Harry had to interrupt Queenie's narration, she had never heard of these two new words.
"'No-Maj' is what wizards call ordinary people, and 'Squibs' are non-magical children born of wizards—in most cases, the children born of wizards are also wizards, but there are always In some cases... just like the offspring of 'No-Maj' will suddenly produce a magical child." Queenie explained patiently.
"Wow...you know a lot about wizards, unlike me, who doesn't know anything." Harry was fascinated and admired sincerely.
"That's because I have my grandma," Queenie giggled, putting down the milk carton in her hand, "I'm the only one in the three generations of my family who has inherited my grandma's talent—it's the innate Legilimency ability. Say yes It is more appropriate to say that it is a curse than a talent."
Seeing the corner of Queenie's mouth drooping suddenly, Harry subconsciously pushed his milk box to her.
"Why do you say that? I think this ability is so cool! Like me, I really want to know what other people are thinking. Is there anyone who doesn't want to?"
Queenie waved her hand and pushed Harry's milk box back, "Hey! I know you don't want to drink milk, don't try to push it to me, your grandpa Alfred will be angry."
Harley was instantly deflated, and she suddenly realized very clearly that the first thing she had to get used to when making friends with Queenie was her blurting out "I know..." from time to time
"Thanks for reassuring me though. But it's not 'cool', you try to hear what other people are thinking all the time? Hear all the things they don't want to say? Trust me, Some things are not spoken out precisely for the sake of world peace."
Hmm...According to Queenie, Harley has enough energy to imagine.
She really... can't have a personal experience for the time being. Anyway, the ridicule from her cousin and classmates, the sneer from her uncles, aunts, and some relatives were all fired at her without reservation. How much more lethal can their unspoken words be?On the contrary, if she had the ability of "Legiliency", she would definitely know all the truth very early... Knowing that her parents are still great people.
"Oh...Harry..." Queenie's little hand had already touched Harry's, "I'm sorry..."
Harry knew that Queenie must have "heard" what she was thinking just now.She doesn't dislike this feeling, and it saves her the effort of organizing words!What's more, she couldn't open her mouth to communicate with others because of such an exposed vulnerability.
"I'm fine," said Harry, squeezing Queenie's fingers, "it's just...it feels really...weird..." She grimaced.
Queenie shrugged, withdrew her hand, and began to tear the milk carton for Harry, "Fortunately, I know that what you said was not malicious... Grandma has been very open since she was a child, and I still can't do it. Although I haven't talked to others My classmates have revealed their abilities, but maybe it's because I always accidentally show them in actions? Anyway, I don't have any friends at school. Before you came, I was tied with Damian Wayne for the top two in Gotham Elementary Strange. Now, the three of us may stand on top of each other."
Harley, who already has friends, doesn't care what is weird or not, just let them say.It's just... Even at school, she still couldn't escape the fate of being forced to drink milk. She thought that Grandpa Afu would definitely like Queenie very much.
"That's for sure." Queenie handed back the box with the straw inserted to Harry, catching the words in her head again.
"..." Harry tried hard to clear his mind, but failed.
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School life finally became less boring after making friends with Queenie, and Harley would no longer be Damian's little follower after getting off at the school gate every day—Queenie would be at the school gate every day wait for her.
She knew that Queenie's father was a professor of psychology at Gotham University—although he was born a squib and couldn't do magic, he seemed to have inherited some of her mother's talents, and had made great achievements in No-Maj criminal psychology.A few years ago, she was invited to teach at Gotham University, so the Queenie family settled in Gotham.
After the two little girls met at the school gate, they would go to the third grade classroom together, talking and laughing. Queenie was in the class next to Harley.
But on the first day, Queenie hid by the wall and waited for Harry. After Damian got out of the car with Harry, she even dodged behind the wall. If she hadn't smashed the car when Harry passed by A pebble came by, and Harry didn't see her at all.
"From now on... I'll wait for you here," Queenie bent down, trying to use Harley's small body to shield herself from Damian's sight, "Your brother is terrifying, really!"
"Is there?" Harry looked at the back of Damian's brother who had gone away, and didn't understand what aspect Queenie was referring to. Damian was sometimes quite gloomy, but he was a good brother!
"You should 'listen' or 'observe' Cousin Dudley in my memory, he is really scary." Harry seriously justified Brother Damian's name.
"Oh! I've seen it before, it's different... Damian..." Queenie suddenly fell silent, looking at Harry's wide-open eyes, she felt that what she said would be too cruel , this is something that needs to be communicated within their family, and she should not interfere.
So she changed her words abruptly, "It's...it's nothing. Well...let's go to the classroom."
"Do you know some... secrets about him?" Harley grabbed Queenie who was trying to escape, her eyes revealing a trace of injury.
But she blinked immediately, and her eyebrows wrinkled slightly, "Then you still don't tell me, never, Damian is my brother and my family. I don't care what he was like before, anyway He's fine now."
Queenie wanted to touch Harry's hair, she knew that the girl in front of her was not being duplicity, but was really willing not to know.
"Okay, I won't say."
Queenie stepped forward, intending to pull Harry back to the classroom, but her gaze accidentally passed over Harry's head and landed on Damian who was standing at the door of the junior high school teaching building.
Had Damian been watching them both?Queenie didn't know, but her Legilimency ability couldn't radiate that far, maybe Grandma's words could.
She knew how much blood the boy had on his hands, even when he was a toddler, and she knew that he had loved to kill.
Before Queenie had time to show any panic, Damian turned and walked into the teaching building.She swallowed quietly, and decided that she would never probe Damian's memory and thinking out of curiosity in the future, and she might be silenced someday...
And Harley, who has been silently following Queenie, is not unaware that her family has something to hide from her... She just doesn't mind, um... not that much, they will talk about it one day, right?
The author has something to say:
*Little Queenie's character will not be applied to her grandma like a sweet sister like Big Queenie, set between Big Queenie and Tina, the use of her own abilities will be higher than grandma's, and she will be a bit skinny, the academy will be Thunderbird + Gryffindor; Harley is also Thunderbird + Gryffindor. If the college is set in advance, the little angels don't need to guess.The two girls will first toss and break in Ilvermorny, and then challenge Grandpa Deng's heart.