The pond
Hippolyta and Sev arrived at the pond.
"Here we are," he told her cheerfully, and looking at her. "Do you like it?"
"It's great, Prince," she too. "We could take a bath."
Booah… she doesn't cut a hair.
"What do you think?" she asked him.
"It's a bit compromised, Hippolyta. Don't you think?"
"I know that I can trust you, you have already made it clear to me, and even more so with the scared look on your face and what you just said," completely unconcerned. "If you wanted to go too far, you would have accepted immediately."
"Sure…"
"I'm not ashamed. Are you?" she asked.
"I'm not."
"Then there is no problem, but we will do it later. First things first, the curses and fighting, and when we get hot we'll take a bath." And looking at her clock, "It's still twenty to ten, lunch is at two, we have plenty of time." And taking out her wand, "It's true that there are a lot of bugs, which ones do you hunt? Those that fly or those that crawl?"
"Those that crawl are easier, but those that fly are more fun, you have to sharpen your aim a lot," Sev explained.
"Of course, I've already realized that, I'm not stupid," something annoyed.
"Of course, sorry. What you may not have realized is that you don't have to throw the Imperius directly at them. You can throw it and keep it in the path you guess the bug is going to take, and then, as it passes, it falls under it."
"Oh..." she said, understanding. "Well no, I hadn't thought about that. Of course, it's easier that way. The other way is almost impossible, because they fly very fast."
"That is."
"Do it, let me see it."
Sev pulled out his wand and hunted down a bug, putting it under non-verbal Imperius on the first try, intercepting it in its path. He made it continue flying at his whim.
"Wooow… you're an ace…" Hippolyta exclaimed deeply admired.
"Do you want to try, now that it flies slower?"
"Okay. What is the intention?"
"Desire to subdue, to dominate," he replied.
"Of course, I look stupid. I'm going to make it verbally, I don't know non-verbal ones yet."
"Try, all you have to do is say it in your mind while thinking about the intention."
"Oh... well how easy," she said.
"Come on."
Sev made it fly very slowly and Hippolyta launched the non-verbal Imperius into the trajectory the bug was describing. She also hunted it down the first time and Sev undid his Imperius.
"Bravo, Hippolyta, first time, you got it. Now control it, make it fly however you want. You don't need your wand anymore, just imagine what you want it to do."
The girl made it fly like she flew on a broomstick, vertiginously, rising high, diving downwards and making very sharp turns. Her face reflected deep excitement.
"Wooow… it flies like you," he told her, admired.
"Shut up, shut up, don't distract me."
"Okay, okay…"
Sev caught another bug and played chasing Hippolyta's.
"You won't catch me!" she exclaimed, excited.
They laughed. She would occasionally direct her bug at Sev's face to annoy him, and he would try to get it off of himself with his hands. They spent a good time like this, until the girl got tired.
"I already get this. How do I undo it?" she asked.
"Desire to release it."
"Without a wand or counterspell?"
"Nothing, just a desire to free it," he answered.
The girl released it and the bug continued flying in its usual way.
"Now I'm going to try to hunt it down," she said.
"Come on, try."
She tried, on the third pass of the bug she succeeded. "I have it!" excited.
"You are an ace, Hippolyta," admired.
"I'm going to release it again, until it comes out the first time."
"Go ahead."
She tried two more times, the third time, she caught it. "Take that!" excited.
"You are incredible, Hippolyta," admired.
"More times, until I get it the first time every time." She tried repeatedly, if she failed one time she would start counting again, she was not satisfied until she succeeded nine times in a row without failing. "What do you think?"
"You are very tenacious, that's how you learn." Another of her characteristics.
"What is tenacious?"
"That you never give up," Sev replied.
"Oh yes, I never give up. That's why I know I will win the war or die in it, but I will never give up," with absolute conviction.
Merlin, I love her so much it hurts. "Did you have a good time?"
"A blast. Better than flying," Hippolyta answered.
They laughed.
"Let's go with the next one," she proposed, spirited. "Crucio. How we do? Flyers or crawlers?"
"If you throw a Crucio at a flyer it will stop flying and fall into the water."
"Well, but it continues to suffer in the water, right? Or do you have to point the wand at it all the time?"
"No, it's like Imperius, you throw it and it stays until you undo it," he replied.
"Great, then we can make many suffer at the same time," excited.
They laughed.
"I already know its intention, to make suffer, to torture," she said.
"That is."
"I'm going there." She threw a non-verbal Crucio at a bug and caught it the first time, it fell into the water and writhed.
"Look look!" Hippolyta exclaimed. "How the scoundrel suffers!"
They burst out laughing.
"Other!" She hunted another one, the same thing. "Come on, help me, let's make a collection."
They laughed a lot.
Sev also started throwing Crucios and hunting bugs that fell into the water. When they had a dozen he told her, "That's it, these won't recover even if we release them."
"Of course, because they got wet and their wings were damaged from twisting so much."
"That is."
"Then we won't hunt anymore, otherwise there won't be any left for the next time we come," she agreed.
"Sure."
"But at least this way we have gotten rid of those who would bother us when bathing."
"Well yes."
"Let's go with Avada," Hippolyta proposed. "Avada Kedavra, right?"
"That is."
"Intention to kill."
"Exactly," Sev confirmed.
"Are you going to teach me more besides the Unforgivables?"
"If you want I am."
"It's for distributing the bugs. How many curses are you going to teach me?" she asked.
"If you want, as many as there are bugs."
"Wooow... Prince," admired. "It was true that you knew more curses in first grade than the seventh-years, right?"
"Of course it was true."
"Wow... Prince, there is no other like you," even more so. "Lucky you didn't join the bad guys."
"Well yes."
"I don't think I would have been able to kill you."
"I think so, you have more spirit than me," he disagreed.
"Luckily we will never see it. I would have suffered a lot having to kill you, I had you signed since my first year. Now I think I wouldn't have been able to do it."
Ugh… I can't stand it, Sev thought. He took a deep breath. "Oh... I wouldn't have been able to kill you either."
"Come on, don't get serious. Throw an Avada."
Sev launched an Avada at one of the bugs, which stopped squirming.
"One less!" she exclaimed, excited. "Now me." Hippolyta did it. The first time, both by aim and intention, the same result as Sev. "Another one less!"
"Wow… Hippolyta," admired. "You are magnificent."
"I don't do anything that you don't do," downplaying its importance.
"But they didn't come out for me the first time, far from it."
"Oh no?" she asked, surprised.
"No."
"Oh…"
"You will be the terror of the Death Eaters. Do you know what your name means?"
"No, I do not know."
He told her the story of the Amazons.
"Wooow... how awful..." she said.
"What do you think?"
"I'm not like that, I don't hate men just for being men."
"Well, they killed those who tried to invade them," Sev explained.
"But also their young sons."
"Yes too."
"I am malefic, but not that much," the girl said.
"Of course, neither am I."
"But I do like that they were warriors."
"Well, stay with that, queen of warriors," he said.
"That is, that is, warrior. We have forgotten about the bugs and the poor are suffering. There are ten left, we'll divide them, half for each one, five. Teach me four other curses to end them, and the last one, another Avada."
So they did, they killed the ten remaining bugs, both at the first time.
"And now we eliminate them with Reducto," he proposed.
"Intention?"
"Disintegrate."
"What's that?" Hippolyta asked.
"That they disappear into very small pieces."
"Great. Six per head."
They did it, both at the first time too.
"What a well spent morning!" she exclaimed, enthusiastic. "Let me count. Three Unforgivables and five other curses, eight. Now I also know more curses than the seventh-graders."
"True," proud and satisfied.
"We are a little more alike now."
Wooow… "But don't brag about it, huh?" Sev warned.
"Ugh, Prince... you offend me," somewhat sad and disappointed. "Have I not shown you enough that I know how to keep a secret?"
"Yes, of course you have. Sorry."
"No problem. Aren't you tired? We have been standing for a long time without moving. That's more tiring than walking."
"True."
"What time is it?" Hippolyta asked.
"It's past ten thirty."
"Bah… it's still very early. Let's sit for a while."
They sat on the ground, at the edge of the pond, facing it but also turned towards each other to see each other.
"What time do we have to return?" she asked.
"Leaving here at half past one we'll have time. We are not going to return along the path, we are going to take a shortcut through the Forest."
"And to come out in front of the castle halfway between the path we entered and the Lake."
"Bravo, Hippolyta!" admired.
"I orient myself very well, you know, from my wanderings through the forests of my town. If I didn't, I would be lost."
"You shouldn't walk alone."
"Why?" she asked.
"In case you get lost."
"What nonsense, I've done it since I was little and I orient myself very well."
"In case you meet someone who wants to hurt you," he warned.
"Another nonsense, I always carry my wand. Don't you see me capable of defending myself?"
"Of course you are capable."
"And even more so now that you have taught me curses," the girl said.
"Booff… Hippolyta. Be very careful with using curses. If you can't prove that you did it to defend yourself, they can send you to Azkaban."
"Yeah. Even if they are not Unforgivables?"
"If you kill, yes, and all the ones I have taught you are Unforgivable or mortal," Sev answered. "Use defensive spells, and better if they leave no trace. If you run into someone, don't wait for them to approach you, cast a Stupify on them and run away. They will recover on their own and will not remember what has happened to them."
"Sure. Can I ask you another serious question? Don't answer it if you don't want to."
"Ask it."
"Why didn't your mother defend you from your father?" Hippolyta asked.
"Booff… I prefer not to answer that now. It's very hard for me to think about it."
"Okay, don't answer me. And that? Why didn't you defend yourself?"
"I did it once, I almost threw an Avada at my father, but I reconsidered at the last second and cast a Stupify," he replied.
"When was that?"
"At Christmas last year, before I turned fifteen. I was punished for using magic outside of school."
"Just for a spell?" she asked, surprised.
"No, for more. I trapped him with an Incarcere, levitated him to the street and put anti-Muggle protection on my house."
"Oh…"
"And if I use magic again outside of school before I turn seventeen, I would go to trial, and with the fame I must have in the Ministry it would be very easy for them to condemn me," Sev added.
"Sure…"
"That's why I need an escort in the summer."
"Yeah. And yet you risked it by lynching the Gryffindor and Ravenclaw malefics," the girl said. "If they had denounced you, you would have also gone to Azkaban."
"Probably."
"Ugh... I really regret calling you a chicken the other day. You are not chicken at all, you are very brave."
"Thank you, Hippolyta. You are too, much more than me."
"No, I'm not braver than you."
"Yes you are, you are not afraid to tell me everything to my face and I am afraid to tell it to you."
"But if you don't tell me it's not out of cowardice, but to not bother me or make me feel uncomfortable," she deduced.
Wow… she totally gets me. "That is."
"I'm not telling you everything either, believe it."
Wooow… she is as in love as I am, he thought. "You are doing well."
"I stay with the eagerness."
"Me too."
"And couldn't you teach me some curse that is neither Unforgivable nor deadly?" Hippolyta asked.
She's great, how she changed the subject so that we don't get moved again. "Of course I can. I'm going to show you a curse invented by me."
"Invented by you?" very excited.
What a different reaction from Valerie's, Sev thought. "Yeah."
"And when did you do that?"
"Also last year."
"And isn't it very difficult to invent a curse?" she asked.
"Not too much, if you know Dark Magic and Arithmancy."
"Arithmancy?"
"Of course, Arithmancy is used, among other things, to invent spells," he explained.
"Wow…"
"What electives do you have?"
"None," the girl replied.
"What are you saying?" very amazed.
"What you are hearing. For Defense they do not ask for any electives."
"Ugh, Hippolyta... but there are many more interesting things to learn…" Sev opined.
"Yeah, now that you've told me, I would have liked to take Arithmancy."
"Ask for an interview with Slughorn when the exams are over and ask him to let you enroll next year. It will also help you improve potions, which they do ask for in Defense. I'm going to talk to the old man so they let you do it."
"Ugh... But if I haven't started from third grade I'm not going to pick up the pace," she was worried.
"I'll help you as much as I can, also in the summer if you want, and you can also ask Ariel for help, he takes it."
"I already know. What other interesting electives are there?"
"All," he replied.
"Also Divination?" very surprised.
Something else in common. "Yes, also Divination. It always seemed silly to me, but premonitions exist, I have had them."
"Wow…" Hippolyta was amazed.
"And Ancient Runes, to read very old magic books."
"Yeah…"
"And Muggle Studies, to learn about the world beyond magic," Sev continued.
"Sure…"
"And Care of Magical Creatures is very pretty. You girls can touch the unicorns."
"Oh…"
"Do you know that I once saw an unicorn right here, there in front?" He pointed to the other side of the pond.
"Oh really?" amazed.
"Yeah. Only once, and I have traveled through the Forest dozens of times. And it didn't run away from me, we stayed looking at each other."
"Wooow... And will they let me enroll in more than one elective?" she asked.
"Of course, Hippolyta, surely they will."
"Which ones do you have?"
"Arithmancy and Runes. I also had Care of Creatures but I left it this year to prepare for the OWLs. And luckily I had those two because I needed them for the second NEWT that I'm going to take."
"Are you going to do two NEWTS?" she asked amazed and admired.
"Yes, Medimagic and Defense." He told her about his scholarship at St. Mungo's.
"Wow... but you are a genius," very admired. "You invent spells, potions, everything, without having graduated yet."
Great, the mutual feeling of admiration we had for each other has developed, it grows and grows, more and more, indeed, this is forever. "Also the counter-spell to the curse that I invented, a Dark Magic healing spell."
"Wow... And how many more?" Hippolyta asked.
"Another three for the moment. One so they don't hear you when you speak, I invented that one in third grade, it was my first."
"Wooow… how useful. "
"Indeed. Another one that lifts you off the ground by hanging you by your feet and the counter-spell of it," Sev continued.
"Wow… how fun," laughing.
"Yes, very funny," ironic. "I cast it verbally and the Gryffs copied it to me. It was the one they broke my arm with just before the mess."
"Did they break your arm?" she asked, alarmed.
Booff… I screwed it up. "Didn't you know?" calm down. "Don't you say that you know everything that happens at home? Everyone already knew it at the first party."
"They would be the elders, I didn't find out anything," calm down now.
She is terribly empathetic, at least with me.She imbues my feelings instantly. "Well, I'll tell you." He told her.
"Then it doesn't seem right to me that you have forgiven them," she said a bit recriminatory.
"Many people have also forgiven me for wanting to become a Death Eater."
"But you didn't get to do it, you didn't get to hurt anyone, and they did do it to you, many times, too," very sure of herself.
"It doesn't matter, now we're going to have Black as a spy and I'm going to take revenge on Potter by beating him at Quidditch thanks to you," Sev reassured her.
"Shock that one!" excited. They high-fived. "And the other spell you invented?"
What a good memory she has, she always picks up the thread of the conversation where we left off.A very well structured mind, she has received a very good education. "One to close and its counter-spell to open. Doors, my trunk, cabinets, anything."
"Very useful too, that only you know it," Hippolyta opined.
"Of course, that's why I invented it, when I lived with the malefics in the same bedroom,"
"Sure. Have you rested yet? Can you show me that curse?"
"First I'm going to teach you the counter-spell, it's a song," he proposed.
"Go ahead."
Sev chanted the counterspell of Sectumsempra.
"Wooow... how well you sing," she said admired again. "Is there anything you don't do well?"
"Yes, fly like you," humble.
"Well, well, you fly very well. Brad was right, if you had started as a child, Slytherin would have won the last three championships."
Wooow… she finally admitted it, indeedshe loves me, Sev thought. "But then you wouldn't be the Seeker, and I prefer that you be."
"Wow... thank you..." moved. "Sing again, go on, until I learn it."
He sang it three more times, while Hippolyta looked at him adoringly. The next, she joined him. Wooow… she sings fantastic, better than Valerie, and she has learned it even before her, she has a gift for music. The next time, Sev fell silent.
"Don't shut up, I don't know it yet," Hippolyta told him, patting his knee.
She already dares to touch me. "Okay, let's go on together, let me know when you have it."
They sang it three more times.
"It's done," she said.
"Okay, now you alone, let me listen to you, sing it three times too."
She sang it alone. Wooow… what a voice she has, speaking it doesn't seem like it.She is an angel.She reminds me of that Brazilian girl Peter named me, Elis Regina.
When she finished, she told him, "Prince, have I done it right?" patting him again. "You're in a drool."
"I can't wait to tell you any more, Hippolyta. You are wonderful, you fascinate me, I am crazy about you."
Hippolyta burst into laughter. "How you hallucinate, Prince!"
He laughed too. It's still early for this, I shouldn't have told her, but she took it very well, I haven't ruined anything. "You have no idea how well you sing."
"Well no, I had no idea, it's the first time in my life that I sing."
"Oh…"
"And what's that for?" she asked.
"To express feelings with more than just words."
"Oh…"
"I'll teach you music too if you want, I play the piano a little," Sev suggested. "I will play for you to sing."
"And you can't sing while you play?"
"Yes, I can."
"Well, I prefer that we sing together," Hippolyta said. "I liked singing with you more than alone. Give it again, many times."
Wooow… Despite what I just told her, she doesn't fear it or reject me. On the contrary, she wants even more closeness, so I have done well, wonderful.
They chanted the counter-spell of Sectumsempra many times. At one point, Hippolyta went up to the treble, singing an octave above him. They continued until the girl got tired.
"Did you like what I did?" she asked, excited.
"A lot, you have sung the same thing but higher."
"What do you mean by higher?"
He sang to her in octaves so she could distinguish the difference. "Do you take it?"
"I think so."
"The incredible thing is that it occurred to you and it came out on your own. You have many gifts for music."
"Wow... well I think I like it," Hippolyta said.
"Of course, and you're great at it."
"Booff… we won't have time to do everything we want next year," a little worried.
We will do it even if I have to abandon all my women, I would stay with her forever, Sev thought.I haven't been with anyone since Sunday, not even to sleep, and I haven't missed it at all, I haven't even gotten horny in all this time nor have I done it alone, I just thought about her. "Yes, we will have, you'll see."
"Well, can you show me that curse now?"
"First I'm going to teach you two other spells, the one to not being heard and the one to close."
"Brilliant!"
He taught her the Muffilato, the closing spell, and its counterspell. Then he Summoned a cushion and they used it to practice Sectumsempra. In ten minutes Hippolyta knew how to launch it non-verbally and controlled. Still, she spent almost another twenty tossing it and repairing the cushion.
"This spell is the best!" jumping out of joy, leaning on his shoulders. "We are going to be the terror of the Death Eaters! We will snack on them watching them bleed to death, a slow death, so that they suffer! How many do we carry? Nine!"
Sev laughed. She's dying to hug me. "My number."
"True, your number, your birthday," stopping jumping but without separating from him.
It was after eleven thirty. "We have two hours left," he said. "If you want to fight and then take a bath, it's better that we get started now. After bathing we will have to dry off."
"It's true, it's true..." separating. "Come on, then let's fight, but there's not much room here."
"If we go around the pond, a couple of minutes away there is a space quite clear of trees."
"Let's go then. What do we do with the cushion?" she asked.
"When we get back I'll reduce it and take it home in my pocket."
They started walking around the pond.
"You have to learn to make things disappear," said Hippolyta.
"Well yes. I know how to disappear and I don't know how to make things disappear."
"Do you know how to disappear?" amazed. "Can that be done?"
"Yes, the old man taught me, so that I am more protected in summer," he answered. "Do you want to see it?"
"Sure. Go ahead."
Sev became invisible in front of Hippolyta.
"Wooow… what an amazing thing. Move and appear somewhere else."
He did it.
"Great! That way there's no way they can catch you," she said.
"I will teach you."
"Prince! Life is not going to be enough for you!"
They laughed.
"Let's fight, come on."
They reached where he used to fight with Lauren. I haven't been here for a long time, but I don't miss her at all, today only Hippolyta exists for me.
"Shall we take off our robes? We are going to sweat," Hippolyta proposed.
"Of course, we take them off."
They took them off and hung them from a branch.
"Why haven't you put on your usual clothes?" she asked.
"Because you were going to come with your robes."
"Wow…" moved.
They fought, he enjoyed it like never before. In a little less than an hour Hippolyta controlled the entire non-verbal OWL syllabus, including the counter-spells, and she did not use a single Protego, she dodged perfectly, so well that, being far superior to her, he barely caught her.
"Hippolyta, you are magnificent," deeply admired. "You were right when you said that you didn't need squads, or to become invisible, or anything at all. You have so much talent, aim and agility that you will be invincible. I'm not afraid for you at all. You will win the war, you will not perish in it."
"Thank you, Prince," moved. "That, coming from you, is a very big compliment."
"We will continue fighting whenever we can. We will return before the end of the term, and starting in September we will do it every week, with the Army, but also sometimes alone, here. Let's end with something very special. Do you know what a Patronus is?"
"Of course I know, Prince."
"Have you ever conjured it?"
"No, I haven't."
"But you know how it's done," he guessed.
"Yes, I know."
"Do it non-verbally, together."
They made the passes and evoked. From the tips of their wands emerged two medium-sized birds of prey, which began to fight, clashing with their claws, flying. She has known instantly what her happiest memory was.
"Wow, Hippolyta, at first, keep the evocation."
They kept them for five minutes.
"Do all Patronus do that?" she asked him.
"No, just mine and its twins."
"Do you have more than one Patronus?" surprised.
"Yes, I do."
"How odd. Shall you show me?"
"Sure." Sev recalled the last memories he had conjured Patronus with. All non-corporeal. "Oh… I no longer have several…" very disturbed.
"And so?" silky, as if afraid of disturbing him.
"It's very long to explain, Hippolyta, one day I will do it. Let's go back to the pond."
They picked up their robes and returned in silence.
"Prince, if you don't feel like taking a bath anymore, we can go back to the castle now."
"Do you feel like it?"
"Yes, I do, I am very hot."
"And what makes you think that I don't?" he asked.
"That you were very happy and suddenly it went away."
"Booff… Hippolyta. This morning has changed my life completely. Everything has turned upside down."
"I understand what you mean, it has happened to me too. Do you want to know what my happiest memory is?"
"If you want to tell me, yes."
"When you told me that you don't forget anything that happens to you with me," she confessed.
"It is also mine, when you have answered me that you will not do it either."
"Come on, Prince, let's go take a bath. You'll see how much fun we'll have."
They undressed, Sev stayed in his underwear and so did Hippolyta, but she didn't take off her shirt. He thought, Like me when I bathed in the river at Cokeworth, but for very different reasons.And to think I've only bathed once since then and how bitter it all was.And now it's too sweet, so much so that I can't handle it.I feel like crying all the time and I don't know if it's out of sadness or happiness.
They got into the water, at a good temperature, since it was stagnant and hot. It covered more than it looked, enough to take a few strokes. Luckily, Sev had learned to swim when he bathed in the pool with Lauren. But his peace soon ended, because Hippolyta did not stop bothering him, trying to put his head into the water, and on more than one occasion he swallowed water. She also dived to catch him by surprise underwater, scaring him to death.
He taught her the Levicorpus and the controlled Liberacorpus and they played at making themselves fall headlong into the water. They had a great time, laughing all the time, with wet wands.
This is really going back to the happy childhood that I didn't have. This is what I want and not adult relationships, not yet. I have skipped the stages of innocence and with Hippolyta I can live them while I wait for her. She is that soul friend that I love and that I know she reciprocates, which I never had with Lily. How nice it would have been to live two or three years as friends who know they will be future boyfriends and we didn't have that. She went very suddenly from one feeling to another and we didn't have time to enjoy it, because at the same time we had to hide.
And I have lived for so many years wanting to experience that feeling, pure and innocent, never obtaining its correspondence, that I have been left with a void, an infinite nostalgia for not having felt it. And now I feel that I prefer to give up everything I have in exchange for that, because my true aspiration in life is to be happy with these simple things, with these types of things. This is what makes me feel clean, valuable, that they appreciate me only for my soul, for my way of being, and not for my physique or how well I do it. Purity.