novelraw Chapter 947 [Chapter 5] 32
Chapter 947 [Chapter 5] 32
Liu Quan stood in his low, shabby little room, staring at the calendar on the wall.
That little magic calendar can automatically refresh the date of each day, and now the date displayed on it is "April 1998, 4".
Liu Quan's gaze stayed on the number "1998" for a moment, then he smiled softly, shook his head, and said to himself: "...for me, the more I live, the more I go back. -"
Of course, she was also in an era more than 100 years earlier than the age represented by this number.But at that time, everyone used the year name for the year - such as "Qingying Second Year" - and it was not as intuitive as when seeing the numbers of the AD.
However, in a day like today, it is quite normal to have various emotions.In fact, she tried her best to control her emotions not to be too nervous or too excited, and she kept admonishing herself to remain absolutely calm and calm, because——
The day after tomorrow is May [-]nd.
The day of the final battle in the original book.It was also the day she had been waiting for for more than 20 years in this world.
Success or failure is here.
Liu Quan thought that his first night would be like the night before the college entrance examination, with mixed emotions, mixed with tension, excitement, anticipation, and fear. His heart seemed to jump out of his throat, pounding his chest fiercely like a drum, tossing and turning, making it difficult to fall asleep.
The reason why she can remember the date of the final battle in the original book is also because of this day-May [-]st, Labor Day, the day when the once-rare and expected Golden Week began, even after the holiday reform, it is still very It is important to have a small long vacation as a memorial.
In fact, these days, she has been hiding in Hogsmeade's Hog's Head pub from time to time.
An empty room on the fourth floor is her temporary residence. When she is bored and can't go out, she goes to chat with the portrait of Ariana on the wall. They talk about a lot of ridiculous troubles like a girl's best friend, which is very strange. topic of.
Frankly speaking, Liu Quan doesn't have many friends in this world.Not to mention Severus Snape, and when she was at school, her relationship with the Predator Quadruple was sometimes tense and sometimes quite tense-this time depended on whether the quartet provoked Snape again. , or be turned around by Snape; in the original book, Lily's female friend Mary MacDonald at school, in fact, and Liu Quan are just casual friends on the basis of roommates, and the relationship is not good enough to be both sides After she joined the Order of the Phoenix after graduation, and then returned to Hogwarts as a professor of Muggle studies, although she and her colleagues got along very well, they were not the kind of friends who could talk to each other without reservation.After all, the only person she can really talk about about her concerns and troubles is Arianna, who has lived in the frame for eight or ninety years and is actually almost a hundred years younger than her.
Only at this time did Liu Quan feel that he had really failed in life.But it seems too late to reflect now.She has been living like this for more than 20 years, and when this day comes to an end, she will either be smashed to pieces, or go home safely. The page is about to turn.
On the last night in April, Liu Quan and Ariana seemed to have a long, long talk.Liu Quan felt that sitting cross-legged on the dusty floor of the fourth floor, with a glass of Aberforth's home-brewed weird-tasting beer in hand, and a candle burning on the same dusty mantelpiece, she was In the flickering candlelight, the night when he was talking to the portrait on the wall above the fireplace seemed so unreal; but it seemed that he hadn't been so relaxed for a long time.
Finally, when Liu Quan returned to his room, he felt extremely relaxed and exhausted.As she climbed onto the rickety wooden bed, her mind went blank; she fell asleep quickly.
When she woke up the next day, it seemed to be past noon.Aberforth had no intention of waking her--he had always acted as if he couldn't care less about her life during the days she had been hiding in the Hog's Head, but no matter when she woke up or came back, the kitchen You can always find good sandwiches and beef soup.
Liu Quan went down to the kitchen on the first floor, but Aberforth was not there.The door to the Hog's Head was closed, and Aberforth appeared to be out.
As usual, Liu Quan found the big beef hamburger with a warming spell in the kitchen - since Aberforth occasionally heard the portrait of her and Ariana complaining about the dark British cuisine in the chat, especially the "terrible beef kidney pie". , never poisoned her tongue with those famous British dishes—and tomato and vegetable soup.These two methods were taught by Liu Quan to Aberforth when he had nothing to do. Her "ancestral secret recipe" is not ordinary hamburger or vegetable soup. Liu Quan has tried it himself and found it delicious. dishes and seasonings.
Liu Quan hurriedly finished the lunch, changed into ordinary Muggle clothes, and directly Apparated out of the Pig's Head Bar.
When she returned to the fourth floor of the Pig's Head Bar, it was almost dark.I don't know where she wasted most of the afternoon, her face was slightly tired, but she quickly washed her face with cold water, and quickly went into the bathroom to take a shower, and added a bottle of refreshment —she appeared again refreshed, as if the coming tomorrow was not the end of everything, but the new beginning of a better life.
After Liu Quan washed up, he realized that Aberforth had returned, and he didn't know what he was doing on the first floor.Liu Quan poked his head out from the stairs to say hello to him, and then went back to the small living room on the fourth floor, chatting with Arianna's portrait to ease the tension and anxiety of waiting for the heavy footsteps of fate.
They chatted and chatted, and finally Ariana made a request that would ease the tense and tense atmosphere in the room.
"Lily, dear, I've always remembered that beautiful poem you once read to me—you said it was written by a Muggle in Asia? trying to remember it..."
Liu Quan was slightly taken aback. "You mean "Song of Narcissus"?"
Seeing Arianna nodding in the frame, Liu Quan sighed.
"Oh, okay." She dragged a piece of parchment from the table and tapped it lightly with her magic wand, lines of beautiful and smooth handwriting appeared on the parchment.Liu Quan picked up the piece of paper, cleared his throat that was constricted by anxiety, and began to read aloud softly and calmly.
"Are you okay out there? Do you feel alone? Does the sky still turn red at sunset? Do the birds still sing on the way to the woods? Can you get letters I dare not send? I can express A confession that I dare not confess? Will the time pass and the rose wither?"
"Now is the time to say goodbye, like the wind that stays and goes away. Like the shadow that promises never to return; Little footsteps behind me, it's time to say goodbye..."
"As the darkness falls, will the candles be lit again? I'm here to pray that all cry no more, that you may know how much I love you. Long waits on hot summer afternoons. That An old path is like a father's face, a lonely wildflower, quietly disappearing."
After reading this, Liu Quan suddenly hesitated.The pause wasn't noticeable, but Ariana could still hear it.Her beautiful eyes stared at Liu Quan knowingly and sadly from the frame, and said softly: "Oh... Lily."
Hearing this call, Liu Quan raised his head and smiled at her.The smile was too short, and it passed by the corner of her lips.
But Arianna's call undoubtedly gave Liu Quan some time to adjust his mood.She picked up the parchment full of words again, and continued to read quietly: "...I have loved so deeply, and every time I hear your faint singing, my heart throbs. You pray, before I cross the dark river, with my soul's last breath—"
"I began to dream, one sunny morning. I woke up again, the sun hurt my eyes, and I met you, and you stood by my side."
She finished.For a moment, a faint, dreamy smile appeared in the corner of her eyes; but the smile only stayed there for a few seconds, and when she raised her eyes again to look at Ariana's portrait, the smile had disappeared .
She quietly used a sticking spell on the wall opposite Arianna's portrait, just where Arianna could see it from the frame, and stuck the parchment there, hesitated before saying: "I Put it here... so that whenever you want to revisit the poem, or remember it, you can see what it says..."
Ariana's expression changed from slight surprise to some kind of understanding and sadness.But she didn't ask anything, just nodded slightly and said, "Thank you, Lily...Thank you for your thoughtfulness."
Liu Quan stood there for a short while, first looking at the piece of parchment she pasted on the wall - the writing on it had been magnified by her magic spell, to ensure that Ariana could see it on the opposite wall Clearly—then she turned and gazed at the old little girl who had lived in the portrait above the fireplace and seemed to have become one of her best friends, and finally she said: "Ariana, wish me luck Bar."
Ariana rubbed the corners of her old-fashioned skirt with a little anxiety, and tightly shut her mouth, as if Liu Quan was going to die immediately if she made a sound.
There was an embarrassing and suffocating silence in the room.
At this moment, Aberforth's roar exploded downstairs: "Potter, come in, come in!"
Surprised, Liu Quan quickly exchanged glances with Ariana, without thinking too much, directly cast an invisibility spell on himself, then ran out of the small living room, and hid in his own room.
The author has something to say:
February 5:
When May was about to end, I finally wrote May in the original book [Hi!
So this chapter is about what Quanmei was doing on April 4th and May 30st
Quanmei is hiding in the Pig's Head Bar, I didn't expect it hhh
Of course it’s not hiding here all the time, it’s just occasionally coming to borrow
So Aberforth is really a good guy too
Regarding the secret that the girl said in the previous chapter, I thought about it for a while, and thought it would be better to explain it here in advance.
The girl actually doesn't have any real Lily's secrets to tell the professor.The professor already knows who the real Lily is, as stated in the previous chapter.
The girl deliberately said this so that the professor would not hesitate to rush to death during the decisive battle
In addition, this plot is actually a foreshadowing of a small abuse [Hey!
Because I really like that meme, so... hhh
Next update: tomorrow at midnight.