Homecoming from Hogwarts

Chapter 11 The restrained edge (signed out, please collect and invest)
In the evaluations of Severus Snape and Hagrid, Amosta Brayne in school was a low-key and withdrawn person, and even he himself did not deny that this was an appropriate evaluation.

However, this is not because Amostar himself is a wizard who rejects people thousands of miles away.

You know, Brian is an 'outsider'. Before coming to Hogwarts, he always thought that he just crossed over to a parallel world called Earth.

In the previous 11 years of his life, he spent a lot of time adapting to a country with completely different living habits and cultural customs from his previous life, and spent a lot of energy picking up the cultural knowledge he had mastered in his student days to actively prepare for the future.

However, the admission notice from Hogwarts disrupted all his plans, making his previous efforts almost in vain.

Why did he behave so out of tune with the surrounding environment in the first few years after entering Hogwarts?
This problem is very easy to explain.

First of all, the existence of magic directly overturned the world outlook and values ​​gathered by Amosta II for nearly 30 years. In those years, he was in a state of confusion. On the one hand, he had to admit that magic really existed and worked hard to learn Magical knowledge, on the other hand, he always wanted to use a 'scientific way' to explain the rationality of the existence of magic, which made him a split personality.

Secondly, the plausible plot memories left in his mind also made him feel painful.

Amosta knows that he is in an extremely real magical world, not in a juvenile book. Here, there are dangerous and vicious magical creatures, evil curses that cannot be guarded against, cruel and bloody dark wizards, and unscrupulous methods. There are conspiratorial schemers, base and shameless hypocrites.

Although Amosta remembered some names, he could no longer recall the plots derived from the characters in the plot, so he couldn't directly judge whether they were 'good guys' or not.

Especially when he entered the magic world, he knew his own weakness and powerlessness, and being vigilant towards anyone was his way to ensure his own safety.

In Hagrid's mouth, the indifference and isolation of the students of Slytherin House are the most insignificant to him.

After all, his young body contained a mature soul.

Severus Snape was the only wizard he recognized in this school back then. As for the reason, it was inseparable from Amosta's embarrassing background.

At that time, Amosta was poor, and the little stipend from the school could not support his advanced learning progress except to ensure that he could afford second-hand books and teaching aids.

In order to save his poor financial situation, Amosta had to find a way to make some money by himself. Since the second grade, he began to brew potions privately for sale.

At the very beginning, he could only use the cheap raw materials in the student storage cabinet to brew some simple potions, earning a meager profit, and adding up.

It wasn't until the second semester of the third grade that he received a big order worth [-] Galleons - brewing a long-lasting invisibility potion.

In order to be safe, he used the Disillusionment Charm many times to sneak into the restricted area in the middle of the night to search for information, and asked Snape about the key to brewing this potion.

Amosta couldn't be careless about this, the person who bought the potion didn't provide the raw materials, and one tail feather of the invisible beast, the most expensive invisibility potion, was worth six Galleons, and five galleons were needed to make this potion Tail Feather, which will almost consume Amostar's deposit.

It's a pity that things in the world often don't go as expected. If there are no accidents, accidents will eventually happen.

Because of his inexperience, Amostar mistook the dose of Abyssinian shrunken fig juice, and the potion failed to brew.

Because of this, Amostar was depressed for several days.

But just before the Potions class a week later, Amosta went to get the raw materials used in the class, and found a bundle of ten invisible beast tail feathers in his usual storage cabinet. This is a precious material. Usually doesn't appear in the little wizard's storage cabinet at all!

What's more, in the following class explaining the ecstasy potion, the nonchalant Professor Snape actually talked about the invisibility potion to everyone in a nonchalant way!
This made Amosta realize that he was afraid that the matter of brewing and selling potions in private would be seen by the always cold-faced dean.

Situations like this happened several times later, but both sides maintained a very high tacit understanding, and no one tried to break it.

Because of this, Amosta gradually began to trust Severus Snape. Before that, he had always been wary of Snape, because he had learned from chatting with students in the same hospital that Snape Pu seemed to be a follower of the great Dark Lord in the past. When the Dark Lord fell, he escaped the trial of the Wizengamot because of the asylum of Principal Dumbledore.

However, the close relationship with the dean did not change Amosta's idea of ​​keeping a low profile. He still kept silent in school, trying not to conflict with others, or to be too good to cause others to be jealous. This situation It lasted until he was in the fifth grade before being broken by an accident.

That was what happened at the end of November 86.

The winter of that year was particularly cold, and the 84-year-old Grandma Felena did not survive until the coming of New Year's Christmas.

For the grandmother who took good care of her own growth and dedicated her life to charity, she was Amosta's most beloved old man. Her death caused Amosta to suffer a lot.

But because that year was the OWLS year, the schoolwork was quite intense, and there was not much time left for Amosta to grieve. Therefore, after attending the funeral of the old man in a hurry, Amosta had to return to school without stopping to continue his work. of studies.

Back to the late night of early December 1986.

The pitch-black night was like a huge curtain that tightly covered the earth. The fierce cold wind swept over the black lake that had begun to freeze, and the ice slags that collided with each other made a crackling sound like a corpse chewing bones.

After confirming that all his roommates were in deep sleep, Amosta sat up with a blank expression. He quietly dressed, and took out a framed black and white photo from the dark compartment next to the bed.

The common room was quiet, and the long, low room looked more like a burial chamber with its pale green lights, rough stone walls, and many empty carved soft chairs.

The students of Slytherin House were not as keen on exploring the castle in the middle of the night as Gryffindors, so Amostar didn't run into a single student while walking through the maze of dizzying passageways.

Still, there's nothing to worry about if you do.

Amosta is very confident in his mastery of the Disillusionment Charm, he can completely hide his body while moving, even Filch's malnourished cat walking by can't notice anything unusual.

"Hey, little guy, I think you must be lost!"

When passing through the hall, the voice above the marble stairs caught Amosta's attention. He took a few steps closer and looked up, and found that it was the prefect of Gryffindor, that Bill of the Weasley family, who was talking to him. A Hufflepuff wizard speaks.

"Go back to sleep, little guy, or I'll send you to see Professor Sprout."

"Okay, okay, Prefect Weasley, I'm going back to the dormitory now!"

Hearing that he didn't have to be deducted points or sent to the professor for confinement, the little wizard caught by Bill was grateful. He hurriedly bowed to Bill to apologize, and then ran away in a hurry.

After dealing with this unruly little wizard, Bill stroked his long hair that was loose on the back of his head, hummed a song and walked up the marble stairs, continuing his duties as a prefect.

Amosta stood at the bottom of the stairs and watched Bill's back disappear out of sight. The eldest son of the Weasley family trusted by Dumbledore, the much-anticipated Bill Weasley was well received by teachers and students in this school It's not just because of outstanding achievements, but it does have an extraordinary personality charm.

But among the senior Slytherins, Bill Weasley had a very bad reputation.

They thought that Bill Weasley, who hung out with a group of Muggle-born wizards all day long, had betrayed the honor of the ancient wizarding family, and secretly, they had no less plans to teach Bill a lesson.

But each time, they were beaten badly by Bill Weasley and his strong Chaser brother, no matter how many men they sent out.

Therefore, this has led to Bill Weasley almost becoming the public enemy of Slytherin students above the fifth grade. In particular, there are rumors that Principal Dumbledore seems to intend to hand over the position of President of the Boys Student Union to Bill when he is in the seventh grade. After giving it to him, this kind of targeting became more and more obvious.

Amosta smiled silently, turned and walked towards the hall towards the Forbidden Forest.

All these troubles have nothing to do with him. After all, no one would foolishly expect that a transparent figure in Slytherin who has no sense of existence can defeat the proud son of Gryffindor College who is as dazzling as the sun.














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