Cousin
At the entrance of the Twilfitt and Tattings, Aquamarine parted ways with them. When they returned to Florean Fortescue's, they saw Commander Lovegood and Harry having a lively conversation from afar, but they stopped as soon as they saw Ginny and the others.
Harry looked around after seeing Crookshanks in Hermione's arms.
"Just this one?" he asked curiously.
"How many should I buy?" Hermione was puzzled.
"If you buy a Garfield, the store should give you an Odie… "
As a result, Harry was also successfully painted with Naruto makeup to complement Ron's.
"You should look at the big white bird Aquamarine bought! It's awesome!" Ron said proudly. "With an awesome name, Silver Taser!"
"Taser? Like Taser Face?" Harry gave a thumbs up, "Good name!"
"Don't you think it's a little weird?" Ginny, who was silent for a long time, suddenly said. "I swear to Merline, that bird wasn't in the pet shop before she came in. When we chatted just now, I went through every cage! Absolutely not!"
"Now that you mentioned it, the species of that bird is also quite weird." Hermione spoke while stroking Crook-Garfield-Shanks, "I'm going to check it online."
As soon as this remark came out, Ginny became so regretful that her cardiovascular system was knotted, one by one, all of them were dead knots!
"I have a lot of things to talk to you guys about." Hermione looked at everyone seriously. "It's best to consider making a long-term plan when we have free time. Now, I want to announce the good news, that is-" The smile climbed up to the corner of Hermione's mouth, "We can access the internet at school now!"
"Impossible!" Ginny felt like a knife was resting on her neck. "Hogwarts shields all signals!"
"Yes, so I don't need signals, look at this!" Hermione took out two small notebooks from her pocket like Doraemon, "Ta-da! Sync notebook!"
She took out another pen and asked Ron to write something secretly on one of the notebooks so that no one would see it.
"What you wrote is... why did you write Hermione's front teeth are beautiful?!" Hermione threw her notebook on Ron's forehead.
"These two notebooks are one set." Hermione walked over and picked up the weapon. "Whatever you write on one of them, you can see it on the other. My friend from France said these notebooks are very popular among couples."
"I remember using it when I was young… " Commander fell into happy memories.
"Oh~~~You plan to manufacture them in large quantities and sell them on campus to form a notebook network for everyone to do online dating!"
"No… " Hermione facepalmed at Luna's thoughts. "I studied these notebooks' systems and made a synchronized display based on the same principle!"
She took out a green plastic board from her pocket like Doraemon again, on which weird little building blocks were densely arranged.
"Ta-da! Granger's special synchronous display card. I modified the desktop computer at home. Now, as long as my laptop is equipped with this display card, and then replaced with this special mouse, we can see and operate it. The desktop computer at home doesn't need signals, so not being able to receive signals at Hogwarts wouldn't be a problem… Ginny, where are you going?"
"I… um… suddenly want to jog around the world..."
"Give me my laptop back before jogging."
Ginny stood on the spot with her hands on her hips, took a deep breath of the fresh air in the world she loved, and looked sadly at the vast universe, leaving Hermione a view of her back that seemed to have gone through vicissitudes of life.
"Today's bright sunshine reminds me of an almost forgotten past. A long time ago, my family raised a very cute canary. One day I took it out of the cage to play, and accidentally let it fly away from the open window. I looked everywhere but couldn't find it. I cried very sadly. That night, one of my distant cousins came to play at home and comforted me that in fact, the canary went to a distant place with its sweetheart. If I really loved it, I shouldn't cry, I should bless it silently because freedom is the true meaning of love!"
Ginny turned around like a great man and said in a low voice, "Hermione! You loved your computer! Right?"
"…Correct."
"She went searching for a happy life with her beloved Stephen… your… you… understand?"
Hermione went silent, everyone present went silent, and their empty eyes made Ginny silent.
Hermione wouldn't kill me when there are so many people watching… right?
Ginny peeked at Hermione's expression, her breathing almost stopped. She saw Hermione smiling. Smiling quietly.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" Ginny couldn't hold on any longer, crawling on the ground, kneeling at Hermione sincerely, ignoring the surprised gazes of passing pedestrians. "I will be responsible for that completely! I will definitely return a new one to you within a year! So please don't kill me!" Her tears spurted out like a water gun, drowning the floor, drowning her ankles, drowning her knees…
Hermione said nothing, embracing the sleeping Crookshanks, still smiling quietly, and walked slowly to Ginny's side. "I will give you a better one! Please! Think about Socrates! If you kill someone, what would he say!"
"I don't blame you… "
"Nononono… Socrates… how can you say that!"
"I said, I don't blame you." Hermione pointed to herself and said calmly.
"?!#%-...*%$?" Ginny's language function was lost.
"I really don't blame you." Hermione smiled with the effect of a five-hundred-watt light bulb. "Since you said you would repay me, why would I be angry then? I'll go back first to my room to tidy up." After speaking, she picked up her handbag and walked to the Leaky Cauldron alone, without saying a word.
Commander stepped forward to push up Ginny's dropping chin, then looked at the others. "Why do you stand so far away?"
"Commander, Luna, leave Ginny!"
"That's right! This is the end of the matter, don't make unnecessary sacrifices!"
Ron and Harry had already retreated to a hundred meters away when nobody was noticing them, their hands folded into a trumpet, and shouted towards this side.
"Ginny, you got hit by Hermione's stunt just now- the people who got hit with that will be retaliated against for a long time- "
"Retaliate by what- "
"We don't know- but it will be miserable- "
"Why are you guys standing so far though- "
"The people around the retaliated person are likely to be affected too- everyone- be careful- "
That is so exaggerated. Ginny laughed at the fuss of the two people in her heart.
Please, that's Hermione! Cute, pure, beautiful, generous, smart and kind Hermione! How could she treat me so excessively, while I would be placing an essential ballet to vote for her when she participates in the election of the Minister of Magic in the future!
Finally realising the psychological burden that had been carrying on her nerves for a long time, even if everyone insisted on standing a hundred meters away when contacting Ginny, her good mood could not be destroyed.
They wandered in Diagon Alley for a few more hours, stringing up a confession of things to be recorded in the evening. When the sun showed the colour of ashes that was about to extinguish, Luna and Commander were ready to set off for home.
"Ginny- see you tomorrow- "
"When are you gonna stop keeping your distance!" Ginny threw away the paper cup phone they handed over and shouted.
The plan to keep their distance is not realistic. When they returned to the Leaky Cauldron, the others had already sat at the dinner table, leaving a bench for them, and the three had to work together.
Dinner was lamb chops with parsley sauce, but the parsley sauce in front of Ginny was full of mustard flavour. She wanted to protest loudly to the restaurant, but as soon as she looked up, she met Hermione's warm gaze, which was full of "eat it all" pleading.
"It's delicious, it's so delicious that I shed tears… " The tearful Ginny found that the two people on the left were also moved to tears by the lamb chops.
"Why even us… "
"Because Hermione is not sure where Ginny will sit… "
This touch didn't last long. With a loud crash, the left leg of Ginny's bench broke, and a row of three people turned on their backs.
"You guys are so sweet!"
"You prepared a sideshow for us!" Fred and George nodded in praise.
"I'm so glad that you liked it… " Ginny sat weakly on the floor, telling herself over and over again that it was a coincidence, it was a coincidence! It had nothing to do with Hermione. Depressed, she was suddenly lifted up by a pair of hands behind her.
"You've become heavier, no wonder the chair will collapse." It was a young girl in her twenties with blonde hair standing behind Ginny. She kicked the broken stool away with her feet neatly, replaced it with a new one, and sat down at the dining table. She watched everyone cast unfamiliar eyes and laughed very happily.
"You don't recognize me? I remember everyone. This is Ginny, that is Aquamarine, George on the left and Fred on the right! Ron is the dorky one, Percy is the one with the RBF~~~"
"Wow, you can tell us apart, amazing!"
"Percy's RBF is easy to recognize."
"Don't say that to your brother!"
"Haha, it turns out it's you kid, you could've said hello in advance!" The atmosphere of the dinner was restored, everyone warmly welcomed the blonde hair to join and started conversations with her. The few who were standing also found a new place to sit down, Ginny was sitting next to the girl.
"Who is this?" she asked Ron softly.
The golden hair has sharp ears and agile hands and feet. Hearing Ginny's questioning, she turned around, squeezing Ginny's cheek with both hands.
"Don't recognize your cousin anymore? I am so sad~~~"
"Ginny, it's Tonks." Dad reminded her.
"Nymphadora!"
Ginny yelled happily, in exchange for a violent knock on her head.
"Don't call me that!"
"Then... Big Head Tonks… "
"No childhood nicknames either!"
Nymphadora Tonks, a distant cousin of the Weasley family. She is innocent by nature and loves children, perhaps because she has never really grown up herself. After graduation, unexpectedly, Tonks became an Auror with excellent grades. On the day she got the certificate, the shoe store in Diagon Alley had surprisingly good business. It was impossible to count how many people had to eat a pair of boots because they lost a certain bet.
"You haven't come to play for a long time." Mrs. Weasley offered a drink.
"Too busy."
"Taking a break today?"
"Nah, I'm still working late today." Tonks patted Harry on the shoulder. "It's all because of this kid. I'm taking records tonight."
"Tonks, you're already the team leader, you can ask the newcomers to do this kind of thing," Percy said.
"What team leader, I'm demoted!" Those who were sitting were surprised to hear the news, but Tonks merely waved her hand. "I attacked the old instructor, of course, not intentionally. That fake eye of Moody's, whenever he walks past the women's locker room, I want to fire a Blasting Curse, I accidentally chanted it that day… " Tonks grabbed the cup in front of her and drank. "Moody didn't care about this at all. It's not like he couldn't handle a small fireball? It's just a little burnt hair that dismissed me from my post! I was so mad!" She simply grabbed the clay pot on the table and poured it down her throat, boldly.
"You're gonna get drunk." Harry looked at her worriedly.
"How can you get drunk on milk? Tonks loves to drink milk." Ginny remembered an old photo at home. At a fancy costume party, seven-year-old Tonks was dressing up as Milkman Man.
Dinner was over quickly, and Tonks pulled Harry up and walked to the room upstairs.
"Wow~~~I'm drunk~~~" Tonks staggeringly supported herself with Harry, "Harry~~~ Come and play~~~"
"Liar, how can you get drunk on milk!" Ginny was chasing after her cousin, teasing her. "You just want to touch Harry up."
"I'm not that creepy!" Tonks cold sweat appeared on her forehead. "He's 13 he's still a kid! And so are you! Not only do you not recognize me, but also think I'm a pervert! How can you do this to your cousin, Ginny!"
"You look different every time, how do you expect me to recognize you?"
Tonks noticed Harry's puzzled gaze, triumphant. "Ah, kiddo, I'm a Metamorphmagus."
"What's that?" Harry was even more puzzled.
"I'll let you know soon enough. Tell me someone famous."
"Doraemon!" Ginny said rushingly.
"It's not imposing enough… "
"Mrs. Thatcher!" Harry said.
"Too imposing… I'll do Sophie Marceau."
Then what are you asking us for… Ginny and Harry thought dully.
Tonks covered her face with both hands and shouted "One! Two! Three!" Ginny and Harry looked at her expectantly, but she continued to count "Four! Five! Six! Seven!... "
Until counting to forty-five, Tonks revealed her face.
"Tonks! It's exactly like her!" Ginny exclaimed, and gently touched her cousin's nose, "I touched Sophie Marceau!"
"Tonks!" Harry also exclaimed, "This Sophie Marceau's head is so big!"
Ginny burst into laughter hearing this and rushed to say, "My cousin's measurements can't even compare with her head circumference. I heard that when she first went to school, she made the Sorting Hat cry."
Before Ginny finished speaking, Tonks kicked her out of the room.
"I will arrest you for obstructing official duties if you come in again!" Tonks slammed the door shut.
"Yea, yea, you think I wanna go back in again?" Ginny grimaced at the empty door panel and stuck her tongue out.
Then she felt an inexplicable emptiness.
On the first floor, Ron and the twins were playing cards. The adults were chatting while waiting for Tonks to come down. There was the sound of books flipping in Percy's room. Hermione was hiding somewhere to plan her next revenge. Ginny was standing there. The corridor felt empty.
She didn't know why she suddenly lost interest in everything. Feeling bored, not even wanting to take a bath, Ginny dragged herself back to her room.
She put her hand on the doorknob and felt a little awkward thinking about sleeping in the same room with her sister tonight. She slowly opened the door and walked into the room. The lights were not turned on inside, the curtains were closed tightly, and the glimmer of light leaking in from the corridor was mostly hidden by Ginny's shadow. She touched the sensor on the wall and turned on the lamp, and saw her sister half-lying on the bed by the window. Aquamarine turned her head and looked at Ginny motionlessly, making her feel a little panicky.
Ginny didn't want to let the atmosphere be too deserted, so she tried her best to start a conversation.
"That's kinda early for you to be already in bed… where's your bird?" After speaking, Ginny felt that this topic was a failure.
"…Outside… "
"Oh… "
Concise conversations were always difficult to carry on, and Ginny fell on the bed with a feeling of asking for embarrassment. She took her backpack and was planning to take out a Manga to read, but found that her whole luggage was turned over in a mess.
"Just asking… has anyone touched this bag?"
"I have."
Ginny didn't expect to get such a straightforward answer. She didn't even think that her sister would answer.
Should I be angry? Or should I pretend I didn't hear her? The harsh atmosphere brought Ginny's judgment to the bottom.
"Give them back." Aquamarine frowned and stood up.
"Hold on… you went through my bag… you asked me to give something back? Give what?"
"Don't pretend you don't know! Those silver coins were in the basement. I rummaged through every corner of the house and couldn't find them. I'm sure I put them in the basement the last time. Percy said that he saw you coming out from below. Were you there? Did you think those are Sickles? I'm telling you, they are useless to you. Give them back to me and I will give you the same amount of Galleon."
"Um..." Ginny tried hard to recall but remembered that the only two unkind things she has ever done were burning her wand and stealing the diary. "What?"
"Stop pretending!" Aquamarine almost broke out. She hurriedly restrained herself, sat down opposite Ginny, and tried to calm down. "Ginny, those silver coins are very important. Give them back to me and it would be a lot easier for both of us."
Aquamarine's words were like a match, igniting a fire twist on Ginny's head, and the sparks burned fiercely, instantly causing a firecracker in her heart to explode!
I'll let go of the checks! Let go of freezing me! Let go of everything for the past twelve years! But what the hell does this silver coin have to do with me!
Ginny slapped her hard on the table between the two of them, and for the first time in her life, she spoke to her sister in a volume over seventy decibels.
"Look at me! I. DON'T. KNOW!"
After speaking, she went to her bed, wrapped herself tightly in the quilt and stared angrily at the wall, staring at the weird patterns left on it because of the dampness.
The room was so quiet that a little sound of breathing couldn't even be heard. Ginny felt Aquamarine staring at her back, and although she didn't say a word out loud, the gears in her heart were turning like crazy.
After a long, long time, she heard her sister stand up, walk to her pillow side, and put something down.
"I brought you a gift, hope you like it."
Ginny pretended to be a sculpture, shrunk in the quilt, not caring to move. She heard her sister sigh and lay back on her bed.
"Ginny, you don't know what those silver coins mean… But, forget it, I will get more of those again… I often think back to our childhood, do you remember? You used to laugh at my name."
She let out a soft chuckle, which sounded as thin as a steel wire that went straight through Ginny's back.
"Laugh all you want, I will have a new name soon." She turned off the lights in the room, opened up the curtains a bit, and let the moonlight of the late summer shine on her face. "A new name, my dear sister."
Ginny bit her lip and tried to ignore these words. She kept studying the watermarks on the wall, trying to make some short stories about these weird graphics.
This crack is like the face of a child, I'll call her… Tia, this black spot is her father, and the little pit is her mother. Tia is an only child, beautiful and smart, and those scratches over there are the books she had read before the age of six. When she was twelve years old, Tia received a letter, the wall that was peeling off right there, from the patriarch of the Mason family, saying that Tia was actually the heir of the Mason family, because the Mason family gave birth to twins at the time, in order to avoid future fighting, they had to send one away. But Tia's sister has gone missing, so they ask Tia to be the heir. Before that, she had to go through a test and climb the Snowberg of the Dragon alone, which is the little bump. When she came to the mountainside, a dragon stopped her…
Ginny pressed her finger on the wall, playing the role of the dragon, and fell asleep in the battle between Tia and the dragon.
Her fantasy journey did not end but continued into her dreams.
Ginny's consciousness jumped through the chaos and walked into an unknown time and space. She gradually realized that these were the fragments of memories lost in the noise of Diagon Alley during the day.
She saw a roaring Sphinx, furious claws, bloodshot eyes, frenzied pouncing. It was struggling, but it was of no avail. It seemed to be locked by some force, sucked, lost its energy bit by bit, fell to the ground, and slowly disappeared.
She saw the vague figure of a woman, running away in the dark as if there was a huge horror rounding up behind her. The woman shot back countless spells, but she couldn't stop the hunter who followed closely, and the distance between them was getting smaller and smaller.
The woman fell down, and a child's hand stretched out to her. The picture was blurred. When she could see clearly again, the woman was gone. Only a small hand was left in the field of vision, and a silver coin with a sense of deja vu was lying on her palm….
Ginny sat up abruptly from the bed and shrank in the darkness, holding the quilt.
What was I seeing? Is it a Kiwi's memory or a nightmare?
She turned her head slowly, and across the bedside table saw her sister smiling in her sleep, a fuzzy, distant, smile from another world.
