Chapter 2716 Firebird Land (24)
Astonia Greengrass has a sister named Daphne Greengrass. Although she is also very beautiful, she is different from her sister who is quiet and loves to sing. She is a member of the dueling club inside Slytherin, and she is not subject to Laghorn's invitation.
"Dean~" Pomona looked up and found that it was the freshman Ross Zeller who had come to her office.
"Here you are," she said sweetly, handing a box to Pomona.
"What's this?" Pomona asked.
"Your Christmas present," said Ross Zeller.
"You gave it to me?" Pomona asked.
"No, it was given to you by all of us," said Rose.
Pomona remembered her pearl hairpin, which was also given to her by students with seven-year-old pearls.
Not all of them are perfectly round, but when made into hairpins they look like perfectly round pearls.
So Pomona took the gift box...
"Stop!"
Just as her hand was about to touch the gift box, Snape appeared.
His expression was serious, and he looked at Rose Zeller with fierce eyes, which almost made her cry.
"What's the matter?" Pomona said impatiently.
"You forgot the necklace you gave Dumbledore," Snape said rapidly, and looked at Ross Zeller. "Put things down."
The ignorant freshman put down the gift box and ran out of the office in Pomona.
Pomona saw him take his wand out of his sleeve, and then aimed a "blazing fire" at the gift box.
She really has nothing to say.
After the gift box was burned to ashes, a Snitch bracelet appeared on the table.
It's made up of three parts, the Snitch's wings are disassembled to look like a bird's wings spread out, and the round Snitch body is a small box that can be opened to hold...uh...
Snape let the bracelet levitate, and examined it carefully.
"This can be used as an amulet, do you have dragon blood?"
"What?"
"I said, this bracelet can be used as an amulet. Do you have dragon blood?" He actually repeated it patiently.
Only then did she realize what the snitch box on the bracelet could hold.
"Dragon blood is so expensive now." She complained.
"I have some there," he said in a tone that was obviously smug but pretended to be no big deal.
"Can you buy it?" Pomona said cooperatively in an adoring tone.
The old bat laughed, and Pomona couldn't help but secretly rolled his eyes.
"And it is the painstaking effort of the dragon, which is better than the ones on the market."
Dragon's blood can only be taken once, it is sprayed when the dragon's heart is pierced, although the method is cruel, but just like Snape said, it is indeed more powerful than ordinary dragon's blood.
"Why aren't you talking?" Severus asked.
"I was thinking of Newt Scamander," said Pomona, his face changing quickly.
"He once helped Dumbledore retrieve the 'blood oath' with Grindelwald, which also looks like jewelry." She said as a remedy.
Snape didn't speak.
"How's Albus doing now?" Pomona asked.
He picked up the document she had just looked at on her desk.
"What's this?"
"Slughorn's menu, he needs it for the Slug Club's Christmas party." Pomona sighed. "He pays for it himself."
"Since he's going to pay, why are you sighing?" Severus asked.
"I've never cooked a dragon's egg," says Pomona.
Severus was shocked.
"This food is very popular with middle-aged and older people," Pomona said, but she doubts that it will be eaten by teenagers?
"How about letting him hire the cook himself?" Severus said.
"This is against the rules. What if something goes wrong? He invited almost all the senior students."
"Not all of them," Severus scowled.
"I know, Daphne Greengrass was not invited, but she still became Zabini's dance partner." She frowned, very distressed "Why did the old slug invite Astonia but not Daphne?"
He didn't speak.
If Severus hadn't been so eager to "get ahead", he might have become a member of the Slug Club, but he had already been invited by Lucius Malfoy to join the Death Eater's club.
Dean Thomas was mediocre in sixth grade and Ginny was the top girl in the next grade, and if they were the same grade, they wouldn't be a "food chain" level at all.
After not taking herbal medicine class, Dean had more time to practice potions and defense against the dark arts, but Harry invited him to join the Quidditch team to replace the Chaser position that Katie vacated. This made many Gryffindors dissatisfied with Harry too.
The goalkeeper is still "excusable", and most people still think that the Seeker is the coolest position, and have not noticed that the playing style of other academy teams has changed.
Except for Ron and McLagan, no one is fighting for the goalkeeper position. There are many people who can be the Chaser. Why Dean Thomas?
"What's this?" Severus asked.
"Jam pie." Pomona looked at the pie on the table with only one piece eaten. "Take it if you want."
After speaking, she stood up and picked up the traveling cloak from the shelf.
"where did you go?"
"Greenhouse," Pomona said, flipping the cloak inside out to the invisible side.
"It's snowing outside," Severus said lazily.
"I know! People don't even go to the Potions Club much recently, so today is the best time to act."
"What action?"
"Catch the thief!" she said aggressively, "I want to catch the guy who stole my potted plant."
"You started dropping things, after Slughorn came back?" Severus asked.
Pomona didn't answer.
"Then he suddenly had the money to throw extravagant parties," he continued.
"He's a potions master," said Pomona.
"But he didn't take anything with him when he ran," Severus said. "I heard he even hid in a Muggle house."
"I don't want to go on!" Pomona said angrily.
"Why?" Severus asked, and then, without waiting for her answer, said self-containedly, "Patricia Linnaeus again?"
She was so anxious that she didn't know what to say.
"Everyone thinks she is, only you think she's not." Severus said wearily.
"What is it?" Pomona asked.
"Don't be so stubborn," he said in a low voice that sounded like a warning.
Snape also liked to warn people when he was a child, but at that time he hadn't changed his voice, and Gorgon and Lily could completely ignore him.
"How are you going to explain to others that you're here?" Pomona asked, trying to stay calm. "You're not a Potions Master anymore."
"What do you want?" he said indifferently.
She smelled the sweet and sour smell of jam tarts in the house, and she knew it was delicious just by smelling it.
However, when she saw the former potions professor covered in darkness, Pomona actually wanted to use poison if she was not afraid that the rats would eat the poisonous pie and die, and the smell of the rotting corpse would make the guests from afar uncomfortable. Not a mousetrap to catch mice.
"Can you tell me why Malfoy is catching birds?" Pomona asked.
He was silent.
"One of my students saw it in the seventh-floor hallway, don't worry, he told me without telling anyone," Pomona said.
Even though he was a first-year freshman, James Tucker had heard of Malfoy's "big name", and he was afraid that he would be the same as Roger Malone, and the result was even worse.
"Still not talking?" Pomona asked.
"I don't know." He said stiffly, as if resisting some kind of torture.
He looked very depressed, as if he was bent all of a sudden, and he completely lost the complacent look just now.
So Pomona took off the cloak again and threw it on the ground.
Albus once said that even if people all over the world despise him, misunderstand him, and ridicule him, as long as there is one person who understands and approves him, he will not give up in despair. Feeling in love with her, even if her appearance is not the most beautiful.
She hoped that he wouldn't care, it wasn't a beautiful half-breed Veela who was kissing him at this moment.
"How about saying 'good job'? Instead of just giving someone an ice cream."
She seemed to hear Albus whispering in her ear.
But she really didn't know what he was doing, how to say "well done"?
"I want you to do something for me." After the kiss, she said against his forehead.
He looked at her with pleading eyes.
"Find out why Slughorn invited Astonia Greengrass."
Maybe it was because her voice was so cold that it woke him up a bit.
"This is a prepaid reward." She pinched his big nose and returned to her seat.
"He betrayed him twice," said Pomona, picking up the jam pie and eating.
"He and who is he?" Severus asked.
"Albus and Grindelwald." Pomona licked the jam on his finger. "They made an oath never to hurt each other, so the vial of the blood oath broke, for the first time."
"Don't you want to ask when is the second time?" she asked after a while.
"Do you know what the relationship between Albus and Grindelwald is?" Severus asked.
"They used to be like-minded confidants," Pomona said.
He suddenly smiled strangely.
"What?" she asked strangely.
He walked away with her unfinished pie.
"Hey!"
"You want me to find the reason, and that's it." He said without looking back.
She curled her lips in displeasure, and picked up the Snitch bracelet on the table.
"What will you get me for Christmas?" she whispered, and put the bracelet in a drawer.
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As soon as Georgiana finished talking with Baynes, Luderer walked over to meet them.
"I guess I'm going to get dinner ready," Fabolt told her, and then he looked at Luderer, nodded, as if in some sort of handoff, and turned to leave.
They hadn't talked face to face for a while since entering Belgium, and she didn't know what to say for a while.
"The senior officials showed you something?" Luderer asked.
Georgiana looked at the military academy students who served as guards of honor. They were curious and longing for everything in front of them.
"Compared with serious discourse, palace drama is just a kind of entertainment, but it is indispensable in the court." Ludrell said, "The king thought that soldiers would make the atmosphere very tense, so he established a military academy, hoping to be able to learn more about it." Cultivate commanders who are like gentlemen."
She didn't expect that so soon, so many people knew that she had read Sir Bacon's book, and she didn't expect that so many French people had read it.
"Those who have wives and children have already paid the pledge to the god of fate." Georgiana said with a smile, "Whether it is a great good deed or a great evil deed, a wife and children are a hindrance to major events. You know Desai of the 22nd Cavalry Regiment Major Weir? Is he a big man?"
Luderer looked shocked.
"I saw with Mr. Fabolt just now that Leon Cour's granddaughter is dating him." She said in a low voice, as if telling a secret to Luderer, but she didn't say 'don't tell others '.
