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Ginny admired her endurance for the first time in her life. That day, she endured the sultry heat, lack of oxygen, backache, and Aquamarine's way of acting spoilt that would only appear in a romantic novel that day. She stayed inside the cabinet until Snape finally left at eight o'clock in the evening. She even suspected that she was scrapped when she crawled out of the cabinet.
Hermione and the others went crazy looking for her, and almost fainted when they saw Ginny appearing in a distorted figure in the lounge.
Ginny asked to watch Hermione put her into the pot with her own eyes, saying that it would not bear the torture she suffered.
"It will be ready in two weeks." Hermione threw the ingredients into the cauldron and heated it up.
While waiting for the potion to be completed, Ginny and Luna frantically flipped through various illustrated books and encyclopedias. Ginny thought it might be helpful to find monsters that can petrify people and see what habits they have.
"Woah, there're a lot of things that can petrify people. I wonder why haven't we all became stones yet." Ginny looked at the growing list in front of her. She felt that this method was too much work. She wanted to find all the things this type of monster would fear. Now it seems like if they really wanted to do that, they'll at least travel half of the world.
"The more I look at it, the more I feel that this world is weird. Everything could exist." Ginny's worldview was impacted. "I now think your famous saying is really great - be ready to believe in any unbelievable things at any time."
"My mother told me, she said that our world is a recycling bin, in Genesis, the creator threw whatever that was failed to make at us."
"What the bloody hell did he threw… look at this, Medusa, Maniac Anaconda, Red Dragon… " Ginny put the record under Luna's nose, "Those are okay, this one is too abnormal… "
Luna took it and saw that something called Basilisk, born from a rooster's egg and hatched beneath a toad. The most wondrous thing was its method of killing. It not only has deadly fangs but also a stare that would murder or petrify people. Anyone who comes into direct eye contact with the Basilisk will be killed immediately. Basilisk is the mortal enemy of spiders, so as long as there is a Basilisk, spiders will flee. The crowing of a rooster is fatal to Basilisk, so it flees when it hears the crowing.
"Wow! Such an extraordinary background. But I think the basilisk is very gentle, at least it respects its parents, because, well, it's very respectful to roosters."
"Good point… " Ginny nodded. "But the rooster is considered his father or mother? If the rooster is the mother, can it adapt to the fact that a little snake would call it Mum? If the rooster is the father, how would he face the fact that he laid an egg? How would he explain the origin of the egg to the hen? If he recognizes that toad as the mother… what if the toad is a male… "
"Alright, next one. This one is even fiercer," Luna cut in Ginny's endless thoughts. "Cold Joke Mar. This one is quite weird, everything it says is cold jokes, as cold as possible. The book says a Cold Joke Mary appeared in Vatican City in the 18th century, and the bishop at that time is still placed as a statue in Vatican Square."
"I found an interesting one. Grumpy Cat, during the estrus period, whenever they put up a grumpy face to someone and meow, the person under attack will be petrified. The last Caspian Tiger was petrified by Grumpy Cat about half a century ago… "
"No, this is the most interesting one… "
The two people gradually forgot the main purpose of searching for information and began to select the strangest petrochemical animals in the world. Finally, they reached an agreement:
The Oriental Mythical Beast - Grass Mud Horse(1), its background, and its petrification effect are the most advanced.
That afternoon, Luna went back for a nap, and Ginny returned to her room. The dormitory was empty on the weekend afternoon, so she sat down and continued to study the beast almanac.
Suddenly, the door was pushed open behind her.
"You're back." Ginny thought it was a roommate, and greeted casually.
"Ginny, it's me."
What is she doing here? Ginny recognized her sister's voice, shocked at first, and then started to feel dizzy.
"How did… " Ginny wanted to ask how did her sister come in. After she opened up, she suddenly realized how stupid this question was, so she decided to change her greetings. "How nice of you for visiting me!" Ginny said joyfully.
Ginny walked over quickly, and she saw Aquamarine frowned a little.
Aquamarine looked around at Gryffindor's dormitory, curled her lips, and said, "All the decorations are in red or gold; Although full of joy, it is really easy to cause visual fatigue, but remember that Godric is very fond of eastern countries, then using their representative colours make sense. Speaking of colors, of course, I personally recommend green and silver."
Ginny thought, are you here to discuss colour psychology with me?
Then, Aquamarine suddenly asked something irrelevant:
"Some of Hagrid's roosters are dying."
"Oh… " Could it be that she came to me to discuss improving the living standards of poultry and protecting the rights of animals? Ginny had no idea where this conversation was going.
"Ginny, do you need any help from me?" Aquamarine asked softly.
"Er… " Did she came to help me with my homework? Ginny was considering if she wants to ask her sister about this matter or not.
"I feel that you're don't look very good lately. If there's something wrong, you can always tell me."
"Okay… "
"If you really don't wanna talk about it, you can write diaries, communicating with yourself can help too."
"Diaries?"
"You know, there was a Russian writer - "
"Tolstoy? The one that died?"
Aquamarine let out a dry laugh. "He wrote diaries to improve his writing skills. He recorded his great life. Don't you wanna be as great as him? You can start from here" She said and walked towards Ginny's table, seemed like she's looking for something. Ginny got a feeling that she shouldn't let Aquamarine see her studies of beasts that have the ability to petrify, so she hurried to hide her records and notes.
"This is too messy, let me clean it up - " She stopped as she spilled the ink bottle, the ink was all over Aquamarine's sleeves.
Looking at her sister's dirty robes, feeling like she's screwed, Ginny apologised over and over again.
"Don't be silly, Ginny." Aquamarine smiled as she gave herself a Scourgify, "A robe isn't as near important as you."
"Thanks… " She's usually not like that, Ginny thought.
"But why are you so nervous? Are you afraid that I might found your diary?"
"No I… " Why does she keep mentioning diary? Ginny was confused.
"Silly kid… you don't have to keep everything to yourself." Aquamarine sighed, "Ginny, remember, you're the precious child of our family. Whenever you're unhappy or you meet some difficulties, you can always tell us. So if you're bothered by something, just share it with us. It's a simple way for all of us to show love towards each other."
What's wrong with her today… Ginny was full of questions. Did she mistake me for Malfoy? Or Snape? Or whoever…
"Thank… thank you… I… er… I wanna go wash my hair… "
"Alright, I'll head back to my room." The other party seemed to be dissatisfied with her answer, "Whatever happens, tell me first. Okay? I am your strong sister and I won't leave you alone."
"That's very kind of you." Ginny tried to show that she felt that having a younger sister, especially one who was stronger than herself, was something to be proud of. "I'm so glad to have you around."
"Me too!" Aquamarine smiled and touched Ginny's cheek. "Do you think Mum would agree us to marry each other? Haha… "
Ginny couldn't stand this kind of fake intimacy. She stretched her hand behind her back and pinched herself, still putting up an innocently and happily on her face.
Aquamarine took away the hand on Ginny's cheek and turned to leave.
Suddenly, Ginny looked at her sister's back and blurted out:
"Don't you think I'm born without much intelligence?"
"What are you saying~" Aquamarine laughed playfully and left the dorm.
Liar! You've always thought I'm born without intelligence! The person you and Snape were talking about was me! What you wanna find is the diary, you're the one who put it in my bag in the first place!
(1) Grass Mud Horse, in Chinese the pronunciation of this phrase is very close to a particular curse word. Since it has the word "horse" in it, the Chinese joked that this is a mythical beast.
