Chapter 318
Chapter 318
Probably suffered the biggest blow in his life so far. Until Christmas, one of the princes of Gryffindor, James Potter, seemed a little lost—so obvious that many people could see that he was in a low mood .
His previously violent pursuit of Gryffindor top student Lily Evans seemed to come to a screeching halt after a certain point.Now, although he and Lily Evans can still talk normally, but every time at this moment, he almost always shows a look of embarrassment and unwillingness, like a big abandoned dog (?) The expression made the onlookers feel puzzled and sympathetic.
However, his and his close friends' hostility towards Slytherin - especially Severus Snape - has not been lessened by his little-known failed confession.On the contrary, maybe because of the frustration of his confession, the "evil Slytherin snot" was able to haunt Lily openly because he "knew Lily before", which made James even more annoyed and gritted his teeth.
However, what happened that day seemed to make James feel a little better.
Because there will be a holiday in a few days, no matter how emotionally frustrated or unsatisfactory, facing the arrival of the holiday—especially a wonderful festival like Christmas—no one will be completely indifferent, unless someone like Severus Sneaker Pu is a young man with a poor background who has never felt the warmth of a family.
James is in a good mood today.Gryffindor's Quidditch team has won by a large margin in the recent games, and they have been studying very hard recently—otherwise, if Gryffindor can't compete for the academy this year Cups would have greatly disturbed their consciences - making up for many of the points deducted from Gryffindor in the last Screaming Shack incident.
When he was walking around a corridor corner with a stack of textbooks under his arm, he heard Peter beside him gasp suddenly.
The thin gasping sound was a bit abrupt and sharp, which made people feel a bit like the sound made by some kind of unlovable small animal. James stopped subconsciously for a moment, and asked with a frown. Said: "What's the matter, Peter?"
Peter seemed to hesitate for a moment before pointing to a certain direction diagonally ahead of them.
"There... Evans seems to be there." He seemed to muster up the courage to say the name, and immediately took a step back after speaking.
James was silent for a moment, raised his eyes and looked in that direction, and saw Lily Evans standing near a French window.
The glow of the setting sun slanted into the castle from the large floor-to-ceiling windows and projected on her body, making her whole body seem to be coated with bright colors.
James Potter, the golden boy of the Gryffindor generation, suddenly turned gray.
Next to the French window was a protruding wall pillar, so from James' angle, he couldn't see who Lily was talking to.
He snorted and didn't know what to say for a while, so he turned his head and deliberately turned in another direction, and said loudly: "What's there to say? Let's go, let's go—"
"You don't want to know what she said to whom, buddy?" Sirius said lazily from beside him.
Since the last time James got angry and lashed out at Sirius because of the strange coincidence that Sirius was older than Lily by three months, the atmosphere between the two of them was somewhat awkward—usually No problem at all, but once the subject of Lily Evans is touched, the atmosphere is immediately terrible and tense.
At this moment, Sirius probably also wanted to take the initiative to show favor to James, so as to quickly resolve the reef of their friendship (?), so he casually swayed to James' side, bent his left arm and put it on James' shoulder, and smiled meaningfully laugh.
"You probably haven't noticed—her expression is not very good. It seems that this conversation must be very unpleasant. If you want to be a gentleman, how about going to help her?" He said in a relaxed tone James came up with ideas, just like the dog-headed military adviser that every boy in love must have around him.
After a few seconds of silence, James turned to Sirius.
"Hey buddy, do you think this is feasible?" He hesitated to ask the opinions of several others.
Peter nodded furiously when his gaze came over him.Lupine sighed secretly, lowered his head slightly, and did not express any opinion.Sirius had a foolish smile, and when his eyes met James's, he pointed his chin in the direction of Lily Evans, as if to signal James, "That's a great opportunity, come on." Come on buddy!".
James took a deep breath, handed the textbook under his arm to Sirius, and then brushed his unkempt hair with his hand—it didn't seem to be neatly arranged much—with a hand that he thought was the most handsome posture, slowly walked over.
As a result, before he even walked up to Lily, he heard her slightly angry voice.
"Mulciber and Avery... those two are not good people! Sev, they are definitely not the people who should be friends! If you get close to them, you will get nothing!"
...Snotlinger? !
James tensed up all over for a moment, and the alert antenna subconsciously went up and beeped; he took a few more steps, only to find that in the shadow formed by the protruding wall post, Severus Nepe was standing there with one leg half bent, holding a worn-out textbook in his right hand, casually resting that hand on his half bent leg, leaning his back against the wall, standing in a careless and careless posture. patient.After hearing Lily's words, he turned his face to the side, showing that he didn't want to obey her at all.
The next action of Gryffindor's King of Night Walking James was to quickly pull out his wand, and cast a Disillusionment Charm on himself with his backhand.
For some reason, he didn't want the two of them to find himself listening in on their conversation right away.Although he knew that it would be terrible if Lily found out about this kind of listening, his intuition told him that if he stayed and listened a little longer, he would be able to get to the real handle of that annoying snot-nosed man!So in order to defeat the snot-nosed man and let Lily recognize the snot-nosed man's true colors, he felt that he should stand here and pretend to be a little bit more listening.
As a result, he heard something extraordinary in the next second.
"Sev, have you ever heard the word 'racist'?" James heard Lily ask angrily.
racism?
James thought quickly, is that a Muggle term?Does it mean that those arrogant Slytherin purebloods - like Malfoy and others - look down on all half-bloods and Muggle-born wizards?Merlin, even though the Potter family is also pure blood, but he really doesn't like the look of Malfoy's family, staring at other half-blood and hemp-blood wizards is like staring at a piece of spoiled spherical cheese!
He could have sworn that snot-nosed man was also secretly imitating those guys, because more than once he noticed that the snot-nosed man stared at Lily's back during class, as if he was staring at a piece of beloved, but unfortunately spoiled. The balls of cheese are the same!He should have told Lily about it, but he felt that Lily would refuse to believe it!Tsk, did she have too much confidence in that snot-nosed man? !That guy is not a nice guy—
Sure enough, the next moment he heard Lily continue to question that snot-nosed man angrily.
"Sev, you look down on those Muggles and splinter wizards, you discriminate against them from the bottom of your heart... You used to be just because of 'Lily is your friend', so you arrogantly decided to let me go, didn't you? "
discriminate.It's really not a good thing.thought James.
Moreover, he visually guessed that Lily was so angry that she was about to explode.He noticed that the way she stared at Severus Snape was angry, sad, and anxious.He thought a little jealously that Lily had always been so nice to this Slytherin snot from the beginning!Always care about him!But he doesn't seem to appreciate it at all!Also not gregarious!It's not worth her being so kind to him at all!snort! !
Yet Severus Snape didn't speak the whole time.
The expression on his face was very strange - it wasn't very clear from James' angle, but the slightly distorted expression of his lips seemed to have some kind of stubbornness, hatred and pain. He pursed his lips, His face was pale, his eyes did not fall on Lily in front of him, but passed over her shoulders, and stopped at a certain place at random—maybe the end of his line of sight was only something on the opposite wall, such as a magical portrait.
This silent resistance irritated Lily even more—at least it seemed to James.She said in one breath:
"...You discriminate against my kind, all the witches except me, so what is the difference between discriminating against me? If we hadn't known each other since we were young, would you be like Mulciber today? Like them, they cast evil spells on me mercilessly, hoping that I would die quickly so as to maintain the so-called "purity of wizard bloodline"? Have you ever thought about how the wizard race appeared a long time ago? Could it be that wizards have been parachuted into this world since the beginning of the world? Aren’t all wizards born of Muggles in the very beginning?…”
James felt that it was difficult to hide the surprise and disbelief in his heart.
What?That Mulciber cast a jinx on Lily? !He's going to settle accounts with that evil Slytherin!
Who knew that with a thought and a subconscious movement of his body, the evil Slytherin snotling instantly locked his direction, straightened his body suddenly, and shouted sharply towards him: "...Who is it?! Who is there?!"
Lily seemed to be taken aback for a moment, then turned her head abruptly.
James hesitated for a few seconds, but he still didn't leave, but continued to stand where he was, and lifted his illusion spell.
The moment his figure emerged, he heard the annoying snotluck gasp.
"Look, who is this—" The silky voice that became even more annoying was deliberately lightened, and the ending was slightly raised, as if the tone of the voice was soaked in poisonous juice.
James frowned in disgust the moment he heard Snape speak.
"A reckless and conceited murderer of Gryffindor, isn't he?" Snape had a grim smile on his face.
I don't know if it's an illusion, but James seems to feel that, compared to the gloomy, introverted, withdrawn and out-of-group last semester, Severus Snape's current personality seems to have changed and become more insidious , Indifferent and disgusting from the bottom of my heart.He couldn't say exactly when this annoying change had started, but there was no doubt that even if Severus Snape had become too bad to hang out with those villains, Lily wouldn't have Give him up easily.
The thought is so annoying.James felt his face tense unconsciously.
"Being friends with a bad guy who dared to cast a jinx on Lily shows that - snot, you're nothing but a villain!" he retorted.
Lily seemed to want to stop the two of them from arguing in the corridor now, but she was a step too late.
Snape gave her a cool look.
"Gryffindors are always meddling in their own business," he whispered in a tone that sounded like a sneer.
"You go out at night, cause trouble, don't cherish the life you have, and spend your days happily in Hogwarts... I am different from you." He said slowly.
"You don't know why some people pursue great power seriously and fanatically... How ridiculous, if it's not to make yourself strong, why do you come here to learn? - Only when you become strong, can you It’s good for yourself. Your kind of life, which is full of how to get into trouble, how to cheat, how to play Quidditch, or other trivial truths, is not what I want.”
Snape twisted his lips and sneered.
"Stupid Gryffindors, you never know what's right for others. You just impose your own self-righteous ideas on others—"
"Hey! Snot!!" James roared angrily.This sound finally alerted the other three people who were ambushing in the distance, waiting for the good news of his successful courtship.
Even though they couldn't hear the content of the conversation here, James' yell just now was loud enough.They looked at each other, seemed suspicious, and then walked towards this side.
Maybe it was because he saw that there were so many people on Gryffindor's side, and he was too lazy to waste time entangled with Gryffindor; Snape didn't speak anymore, but went straight past the ugly Lily Ewan Si, quickly walked away in another direction.
The author has something to say:
February 7:
Sorry for being late today. . .Because there is going to be a long-lost chapter of more than 4000 words!
A while ago, due to illness and different opinions from everyone, I felt a bit of a low tide. . .Although I am still coughing now, the author Zhe still hopes to cheer up every day and write more wonderful ideas【.
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