novelraw Chapter 359
Chapter 359
Finally finished eating, Dumbledore stood up and asked the students to stand up too.Then with a flick of his wand, some of the tables whizzed away to the walls, leaving a space in between.He conjured up a high stage and stuck it to the bottom of the right wall. A symphony orchestra actually appeared on that stage out of thin air.
Professor Flitwick was wearing a gorgeous tuxedo and stepped onto the podium. In order to match the decoration in the auditorium, he actually held a silver-white baton that looked like ice and snow in his hand.He raised his hands up, and the band members raised their instruments in unison.With a wave of his hand, the beautiful dance music echoed in the magnificent Great Hall of Hogwarts.
The four warriors and their partners began to dance.Harry jumped very stiffly, but fortunately he didn't step on Parvati's foot.Unlike the other three pairs, in this one it was Parvati who was making Harry dance and twirl.Fortunately, this public performance did not last long; soon, many people also entered the dance hall, and the warriors were no longer the center of everyone's attention.
Harry noticed that Dumbledore held out his hand excitedly to Professor McGonagall, who was standing beside him in a dark green robe and a brand new pointed wizard hat.Professor McGonagall extended his hand to Dumbledore with a smile on his face.Standing next to the two of them, Snape, who was still wearing the same black robe as usual, was stern, with his hands behind his back, standing upright like a statue, as if he didn't notice the Hogwarts headmaster at all. It's like going to the dance floor.And Lily Evans, who had just kindly returned Harry's gift tonight, stood beside him, with a faint smile on her lips, her eyes kept falling on more and more people on the dance floor, just It seems that I have infinite interest in everyone's dance, and I am very focused on watching.
However, the real situation among the professors at Hogwarts was far from being as peaceful and trouble-free as Harry had seen.
Dumbledore spent the whole night trying to hint at Snape asking Willow to be his partner, and after Snape ruthlessly rejected him countless times, he still couldn't see him getting angry or giving up.At this time, before he took Professor McGonagall's hand and slid onto the dance floor in a very gentlemanly manner, he winked happily at Snape and Willow Springs standing beside the dance floor.
Snape ignored his gaze and stood still more rigidly.
Liu Quan had no choice but to sigh, and cast his eyes to somewhere on the ceiling.
Then they all heard the old wizard mutter: "Oh, such a fine evening, and no dancing—don't you feel sorry for the ball?"
Snape glared at him viciously.
Liu Quan had no choice but to pretend not to hear Dumbledore talking loudly to himself.
But it seems that Dumbledore has made up his mind to frame his two out-of-tuned and unharmonious subordinates on the dance floor tonight. Every time he passes the professor's chair while dancing with Professor McGonagall, he will say loudly After repeating the "talking to myself" just now, and repeating this four or five times, even the headmaster of Durmstrang, the tall Igor Karkaroff and the headmaster of Beauxbaton, who stood aside, The taller giantess Madam Maxim understood Dumbledore's "hint", and then looked sideways at Snape and Liu Quan.
However, there is a slight difference in the expressions of the two of them. Madam Maxime is purely curious. In addition, Hagrid came over frequently to show courteousness, so her attention was often distracted, not always on Snape and Willow Springs. ; but Karkaroff, headmaster of Durmstrang, is different.He also ended up dancing with a certain female professor of Beauxbatons, and when he came back, he stood upright on the sidelines again, gazing at the field in a seemingly leisurely manner; but when he understood that the headmaster of Hogwarts When he planned to force Snape to invite the beautiful red-haired and blue-eyed professor next to him to dance tonight, his eyes frequently stuck to Snape and Liu Quan, going back and forth between the two of them. He hesitated, as if he could analyze the mysterious truth of this matter with only two eyeballs.
This kind of curious or probing look from others made Snape's expression even more rigid and gloomy.He stared at the cheerful Dumbledore, and quietly clenched his fists hanging by his side.
Liu Quan tried not to look at Snape, but locked his eyes on the dance floor.She saw many of her familiar students dancing in pairs, some stumbling - like Harry, but some dancing surprisingly well - like Neville.
At first, Liu Quan focused most of her attention on the dance floor just to ease the embarrassment brought about by this situation.But gradually, she found that her eyes were chasing after those children who had shined in the original book one by one. No matter what their standpoint was, they were still immature teenagers in their early thirteens and early fourteens.Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Neville Longbottom, Luna Lovegood, The Weasley Twins, Draco Malfoy, Blaise Zabini, Cedric Dee Gorey, Zhang Qiu... They were all the protagonists in countless fanfictions, repeating different combinations, telling stories one after another, but now their real people are standing in front of her alive, not dead, not parted, not separated. Sin, no pain.
If only time could stop at this moment forever.Liu Quan thought.
Just like the feeling that came to her mind the moment she saw Sirius Black who escaped from Azkaban again.
Sirius wasn't a [-]% good boy when he was in school. His thoughts and ideas of mistreating Snape, in Liuquan's eyes, were as abhorrent as Snape's unstoppable hope of getting closer to the Dark Lord at that time. annoying.But when they met again more than ten years later, the torment and pain of the past carved indelible marks on their bodies, Liu Quan suddenly felt a kind of nostalgia for the old days and extravagant hopes for youthful memories.
But time flows forward and never stops.Their destinies are also drifting apart and cannot be reversed.And the only thing she can do now is not like a majestic lion always attacking head-on, but like a poisonous snake lurking in the darkest corner, patiently waiting for the moment when she can kill with one blow.Before that moment comes, she can only hold her hands, can only wait, and can only watch the shadow of death approach one person after another she is familiar with.
Liu Quan's eyes fell on Cedric Diggory who was dancing on the dance floor with Zhang Qiu in a gentlemanly manner.
This Hufflepuff prince is usually so polite to everyone, he doesn't seem to want to offend anyone - even Neville, who is notoriously dull, Cedric treats him the same as he treats any Gryffindor The students are as gentle and personable.He is really a good boy, Liu Quan thought.
He didn't deserve to die like this.But there was nothing she could do.If she still has a semblance of reason, she should know that she can't help him - the powerful "plot inertia" is always hanging over her head like a sword of Damocles, as long as she acts rashly Immediately fell down and punished her mercilessly.
Then she heard a smiling old voice greeting her beside her.
"Lily, which one of your proud students is so focused?" Dumbledore finished a few dances and was obviously very proud of his dancing skills. He walked up to Liu Quan and interrupted her thinking with a smile.
"I guess it must be Harry?" He didn't care at all that Snape next to him showed a toothache-like expression when he heard Harry's name, and guessed kindly—although he probably realized that the end of Liu Quan's line of sight was actually It fell on another Hogwarts champion.
Liu Quan pulled the corners of his lips stiffly and smiled, and replied perfunctorily: "...Harry did a good job in the first game."
She didn't respond directly to Dumbledore's speculation that he deliberately sabotaged the atmosphere.
Dumbledore seemed to think her reaction was very funny, he laughed, returned and took a glass of mead from the table and handed it to Liu Quan, blinking happily at her. "I think you can forget about those lovely children tonight and focus on enjoying such a rare night-well, have some sweet drinks, Lily. I noticed that you didn't drink much of this all night Delicious wine."
Liu Quan was a little surprised, but still took the glass of wine.Then she suddenly noticed that the old wizard gave her a quick wink.For some reason, that little action gave her a surge of confidence, and she drank the glass of wine as soon as she raised her head.
After drinking that glass of wine, she noticed Professor McGonagall's stunned expression, as if she couldn't adapt to her sudden boldness; Dumbledore's smile had a hint of approval besides a hint of constriction; and he worked hard tonight The poor target of the villain - Severus Snape, head of Slytherin and potions professor, was so dark that he was about to send out a tornado immediately.
Liu Quan slowly moved her right hand holding the empty wine glass around behind her, and then slowly shrank behind Snape under the gaze of the six eyes of the three people - there was no way, if she stood in this position if she wanted to To reach the table, one had to go around or over Snape—it was impossible for her to go over it, but it was still possible to go around, right?
So she stared with six eyes, and slowly shrank behind Snape, being very careful not to touch his body or clothes, stretching her right arm and stretching and stretching— —finally reaching the table, slamming the empty wine glass back, and then snapping back and standing up straight in a second, as swiftly as a self-recovering carpentry tape.
Dumbledore grinned, pulled out the chair for Professor McGonagall and sat down in a very gentlemanly manner, stroked his chin buried in his white beard in an interesting way, stared at Snape and Willow Springs, and then spoke slowly at Willow Springs Tun Tun pulled out a chair by himself, and when it seemed that he was going to sit down, he pretended to make a fuss and shouted in a low voice: "Oh, Lily, people who haven't danced can't sit down—"
Then, I don't know what spell he put on that chair, it slipped out of Liu Quan's hand with a light and delicate struggle, and ran to hide behind Dumbledore's chair with a tap dance. .
Liu Quan was taken aback for a moment, and looked at this joking old wizard with a bitter face.
Principal, what are you playing!Kneel down!If she sits faster, she will make a big fool of herself tonight in front of all the staff of the three magic schools!Did Dumbledore think that having her humiliated so much in front of Severus Snape would make him give her a dance out of pity!
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February 9:
Basically all day tomorrow will be spent traveling. . .So suspend the update for one day, and the day after tomorrow will still be sleepy because of the jet lag. . .So it will be stopped for two days in total, we will continue the day after tomorrow~~ Thank you for your understanding [Doxiaza]