Hug
Sev waited until Hippolyta calmed down and asked her, "Are you tired, honey? Since we had breakfast you've barely been sitting for five minutes."
"Yes a bit."
"Then let's sit down, come on, and continue chatting until your friends come."
"But I want you to continue hugging me," she objected.
"Of course I hug you, but sitting down."
"Does it matter that they see us hugging when they arrive?"
"No, honey, it doesn't matter at all," he reassured her. "As you told me yesterday, we're not doing anything wrong, we're just pampering ourselves, letting them think what they want. From now on I'm going to hug you whenever I feel like it and I want you to do it too. Will you do it?"
"Yeah."
"That's how I like it. Let's do something then. Come." Sev separated from her, sat facing the pond with his back against the trunk of a tree and his legs spread. "Sit between my legs, come on, and lean on me."
"Ugh... but I can't see you like this…"
Sev laughed. One of these days I'm going to eat her. "Hippolyta, you can't have everything at once. Either I hug you or I look at you. Choose."
"I don't know…"
"A little bit of each. First I hug you until you rest and when you get bored or your friends come, the four of us sit down like before, we face each other and I look at you while I ask you the Defense theory."
"Okay."
Hippolyta sat between his legs, Sev surrounded her with his arms and gave her kisses on her head. "Are you comfortable?"
"Yes a lot."
"You can lean on me more, lean your head on my shoulder."
She did it.
"Better?" he asked.
"Yes better. How warm you give me."
"Were you cold, honey?"
"Yes, a little, because I only wear the short sleeve under my robes," answered the girl.
"Ugh... And why haven't you put on some more clothes?"
"I already told you, because I don't like the cute clothes I have at all."
"But you could have worn the uniform sweater," said Sev.
"I do not like it either."
"Me neither, honey, but look, in almost five years I have only had the school uniform as decent clothes to wear, I couldn't change my clothes even on outings to Hogsmeade. And in winter, when I walked through the Forest, I was covered in cold. If at the moment you don't have anything else, until we buy you more clothes in summer you have to dress with what you have. Don't be silly, I already told you that external appearance doesn't matter at all. Did you wear your trousers yesterday to your exam?"
"I did," she responded.
"That's how I like it. Did the teacher tell you something?"
"No."
"And the other kids?" he asked.
"Neither."
"Very good. I have bad news."
"Which?" asked Hippolyta.
"What I promised you the other day, that you could dress in class however you wanted, is not going to be possible."
"Why?"
"Because there are very poor students at school, like myself until recently, and wearing an uniform makes it difficult to notice who is poor and who is rich," Sev explained. "Do you understand?"
"Sure…"
"But the rest of the time, on the weekend and outside of classes, you can dress however you want, and you girls are going to be allowed to wear trousers like us."
"Wow... great," she approved.
"You will no longer be cold in winter. And an idea occurs to me."
"Which?"
"I'm going to try to Summon a sweater that you like for the remaining days of the term and that you always wear it so you don't get cold," he proposed.
"Brilliant…"
"Let's see how it turns out, huh? I have never Summoned clothes, maybe it don't turn out pretty."
"I don't care, if you Summon it I will be very excited to wear it," said the girl.
I adore her. "I already know what color you're going to want it."
"Of course you know."
"Black," he said.
"That is. The clothes I'm going to buy this summer are going to be all black."
Sev laughed. "It's going to look like you're going to a funeral."
"Why? Black is the most elegant color. My Mum has a black evening dress and it is the one in which she looks the most beautiful."
"True, black is a very elegant color. I also like to wear black and dark colors. Light colors don't suit me."
"The black t-shirt you were wearing on Saturday when we flew in the afternoon looked very good on you, better than the green one," Hippolyta said.
Oh… It's the first time she's told me something about my physique, she's already paying attention to that too. "Oh, thank you. Yes, I like it better too, but I also like green a lot, huh? It is the color of vegetation and the color Sly. Do you know what the squads made up of all Slys or most of them are going to be called?"
"What?"
"The Green-Silver Squads, the most combative," he answered. "The first line of the Wizarding Army."
"What is that first line?"
"In a battle, those who are in front, those who fight first and protect those who are behind."
"Oh... then they are the ones most at risk," she deduced.
"Of course, but also the most capable of winning."
"Sure…"
"Have you slept with your blanket these nights?" Sev asked.
"I have."
"Have you been cold?"
"I haven't," answered the girl.
"Very good. Do you keep it in the trunk?"
"Sure."
"Did you have a good time flying yesterday?" he asked. "You didn't tell me anything, you didn't even pay attention to me when we came back from the field."
"Yes, I had a great time. Just so you know, I let you catch the Snitch, huh?"
Sev laughed. Oh, she doesn't care at all about taking away my illusion that I had done it for myself. "Yeah, I know, Hippolyta, I'm not silly."
"It cost you more than the other day."
"Of course, because the other day he had to win the bet, I had a very strong motivation, you already realized."
"And I didn't pay attention to you when I came back from the field because I wanted to talk to Black," she explained.
"Sirius."
"That is."
"He doesn't like being called Black at all, you can imagine why," said Sev.
"Yes, I know."
"And what did you talk about?"
"I told him that we already had a spy," Hippolyta responded.
"Oh really?" amazed.
"Of course, him. I also told him about the Death Eater addresses."
"Really?" he asked.
Hippolyta laughed. "Sure."
"I had already told him on Saturday, it had occurred to him too, but I told him that it was your idea, huh?"
"Oh, he didn't tell me anything about that, he congratulated me on the idea," she said.
"How nice he is, not to take away your enthusiasm. Well, I have good news to give you related to him."
"Tell."
"Do you remember that last Thursday I told you that with luck a Dueling Chair would be created at the school of which I would be assistant and later professor?" Sev asked.
"Yes of course."
"Well, Sirius is going to sponsor it."
"What is sponsor?" the girl asked.
"Donate all the money necessary to start it, and he will make it a condition for doing so that I'll be the teacher and no one else. So it's almost certain that I'm going to stay at Hogwarts after I graduate. We will have four years and not two."
"Wow… what good news."
"Who would have thought, huh?" he wondered himself. "The money from the Black family, from a family of Death Eaters, is going to be used to give me a job, to be protected from Voldemort and so that we can be together for two more years."
"Wow, yes... incredible, Prince... So we're going to have time to be boy and girlfriend..." she was excited, turning to look at him.
Sev laughed. Her and her numbers.It's to eat her, she sets deadlines for love. "Hippolyta, stop thinking about the issue. Maybe we will be dating much sooner, maybe even later, when you are no longer at school and you come to visit me, or maybe never. For the moment we are fine as we are."
"Will I be able to come visit you when I'm no longer at school?"
"Of course, what did you think? I have already told you that I want to be with you forever, whenever you want, whatever it may be."
"How lucky..." she said.
"I'm lucky that you love me, you're worth much more than me."
"That is not true."
"Yes, yes it is," he disagreed.
"We are worth the same, otherwise I wouldn't love you."
How wise she is being still so young.A very good education. "Well yes, maybe yes."
Shelley and Ariel returned, they saw them on the other side of the pond and began to surround it.
"Here come your friends, how quickly they have tired of fighting, they are untrained," said Sev. "Do you want us to sit like before or do you prefer to stay like this?"
"It makes me a little embarrassed to stay like this."
"You have not answered my question. What do you want?"
"Stay like this," Hippolyta responded.
"Then forget the embarrasment, that's nonsense, okay?"
"Okay."
"You'll see how well I hide if they say something," he said.
"What disguise are you going to do?"
"Tell them the truth, that you were cold."
"Wow... very good," she approved.
The kids arrived where they were.
"What?" the oldest asked them. "Have you gotten tired of fighting yet? How little endurance you have, before you resisted the entire day."
"It wasn't for that, Sev," said Ariel. "You still have to ask us the Defense theory, the four of us fight and take a bath, and it's already a quarter to eleven."
"Okay... Then it's okay, we have two and a quarter hours left, because after bathing we have to dry our hair. Sit down, come on, and I'll ask you Defense. Hippolyta knows everything very well but verbatim, and I already know that you, Ariel, know how to express it in your own words. How do you do it, Shelley?"
"Also verbatim," answered the girl.
"Very well, then let's do something. I'll ask a question, first Ariel answers in his own words and then you also try to express what you know as he does, learning from him. Does it seem good to you?"
"Okay," Hippolyta replied.
"I don't know if I'll know," Shelley said.
"Okay, but try," Sev encouraged her. "If it doesn't work out, you say it literally."
"Okay."
They did it like this. Sev asked them, Ariel responded with his words, and then the girls, taking turns in each question, answered it as well. Hippolyta is more willful, she makes much more effort to express herself than Shelley, who does not pay as much interest, despite having a better vocabulary and expression, Sev valued. In addition, Hippolyta does not leave out a single relevant piece of information, she improves Ariel's answers and by far those of Shelley.She rightly gets better grades in theory, as soon as she learns to write she will surpass both of them.She should also read in summer, to acquire vocabulary and style.
Shortly before finishing they ate the sandwiches they were carrying. When he finished it, Sev told them, "Don't trust yourselves. The only one who is for Outstanding is Hippolyta. Shelley, I don't think you'll pass the EE, maybe practice will save you, but you're weak in theory, and you, Ariel, express yourself very well but you leave out data, maybe you won't reach the Outstanding either. You will have to press ahead next year if you want to prepare well for the OWLs, this one is for Outstanding in Defense. Let's fight?"
"Let's go!" the three shouted, and jumped up.
They fought in the space cleared of trees, Shelley and Ariel against Hippolyta and Sev. Although Hippolyta was the weakest because she had trained less, she made up for it with her agility and aim and by having Sev as a partner, the best of the four. Since the boy was a little lower in level than him and his friend was also not far behind him, the fight was extremely balanced.
Wow, wow… The second best duelist at Hogwarts, accompanied by a third year girl, against two other third years, and we maintain a balanced fight. Interesting.
When they finished Sev told them, "Any of you could beat the vast majority of seventh graders. You will be the replacement in command."
"Good!" the kids exclaimed.
"Let's go to take a bath!"
The kids ran to the pond, Sev followed them with long strides. When he arrived they had already undressed and were getting into the water. Ugh… I'm going to feel a little ridiculous playing with them in the water.Bah…what does it matter, I'm going to have a great time.
While he began to undress, Hippolyta asked him, "Prince! Can I teach them your spell?"
"Of course, Ariel already knows it."
"Let's get our wands."
They came out of the water again for them. The four of them played for a long time at throwing the Levicorpus, the four of them were hanging in the air, and they threw the Liberacorpus all at the same time to dive at the same time. Who could have said it?The spell that I have invented that has given me the most discomfort is now the one that makes me enjoy it to the fullest.
When they got tired, they continued playing catch and dive until one o'clock, when they went out to dry off and change Disillusioned.
To return to the castle, Sev asked Ariel to carry the backpack and carried Hippolyta on his back, since the girl was exhausted. And surely last Thursday she was even worse, it was the adrenaline of her emotions that made her resist, and despite that she made the great effort to eat the entire two plates of lunch.Of course, she is extremely willful, she will overcome her problem, what happened on Friday and Saturday was nothing more than a small bump.
Shortly before reaching the edge of the Forest, Hippolyta whispered in his ear, "Prince, can we try our Patronus, or is that compromised too? I think mine has changed, I have several memories to try since Thursday."
"I think mine too, and I have to do it, because on next Thursday I'll take the Defense exam in the OWLs and it is a mandatory subject, if I don't pass it I won't get the Outstanding. Okay, let's try them when we leave the Forest."
"I have three. Two from Saturday, when you caught the Snitch and when we cried together on the couch, and one from today, when we hugged each other."
"Okay, they are the same as mine. It was a shame not to have tried Saturday's, because if today's is better they will come out uncorporeal."
"Yeah... what a shame."
"But it doesn't matter, an uncorporeal one is not the happiest memory, but it is also a very happy memory, and if the last one is the best, it means that we are getting happier every time. How about?"
"Brilliant."
So they did, when they left the Forest, they tested their three memories. Saturday's ones uncorporeal, the hawks emerged as they both recalled the first hug they had given each other.