Chapter 4 The Power of Choice

Lions, eagles and badgers are all warm-blooded animals, but snakes are cold-blooded animals, but it is not a symbol of evil as the world understands one-sidedly. The symbol of alchemy is the ouroboros. The staff with two snakes and wings represents Hermes, the god of ancient Greek mythology, and represents commerce, while the staff with a single snake is Asclepius, the god of medicine in ancient Greek mythology. Slytherin, which stands for medical, also has Slytherin graduates at St. Mungo's.

Even with their bad attitudes and bad tempers, there are a lot of high-achieving Slytherins, snakes are considered a process of recovery and rebirth, and snakes are a pretty good mascot in a way.

Pomona had a strong hunch that the mean boy would most likely be sorted into Slytherin, while the red-haired girl who accompanied him would be sorted into Gryffindor. She is a Muggle, today is her first day in Diagon Alley, accompanied by her Muggle parents, they are all new to wizards, it seems that they regard Diagon Alley as a tourist attraction .

Recklessness is an important characteristic of Gryffindor, and the only one who can perform guardianship duties in this group is the boy's mother, a pale, tired, and vicissitude-looking witch. Just now, Pomona met Blake who wanted to be a Gryffindor in Madam Malkin's shop, and now she met a Slytherin who could make friends with Gryffindor, and the "Snape" Ma'am" was already dressed like a Muggle. In Greenwald's time, he advocated that wizards should rule Muggles by nature, but this witch can't wait to forget her identity as a wizard. She can't find other words to describe these people she meets today except weird.

"Why are you following us?" Severus Snape hissed like a snake, threatening the two little badgers who didn't know the dangers of the world.

"Buy a wand!" Pomona said plausibly. "Everyone knows that Ollivander's wand is the best."

When Pomona saw Lily Evans' full trolley, she knew Ollivander was next on their way. This is not a rule made by anyone, but people believe that when they are in a good mood, the wand they choose is the most suitable for them, and shopping usually makes people happy. Although Lily Evans' parents don't know magic, they do. Dress up as a wizard, and with the protection of three adult "wizards", there will be no thieves who don't have eyes to attack them.

"Aren't you buying your textbooks for this year, Pomona?" Lily asked her enthusiastically.

If you carry a lot of money, unless you are super powerful, try to keep a low profile and keep a low profile, or bring a thug who is difficult to mess with at first glance, preferably a half-giant, so that you can walk on the street. No one will dare to hit your mind.

Lily Evans is as eye-catching as fire. She is wearing a Hogwarts school uniform, and she is full of innocence and kindness. This kind of person is usually easy to be deceived. Fortunately, she has a good Bodyguards, so she can be unaware of the dangers around her.

She was a lucky girl, protected everywhere, and Pomona considered herself as lucky as she was, she had bodyguards Pete and Mrs Sprout herself, the only difference was that she didn't have the full family.

"I haven't decided where I will go to school." Pomona replied honestly, "Maybe I won't study in England."

Lily looked stunned "Is there any other wizarding school besides Hogwarts?"

"Yes, there are many, but there are three most famous in Europe. My father is French. Maybe I will go to Beauxbatons in the end."

"Then you can go to France and buy a wand."

Pomona couldn't describe Snape's weird behavior in words, he seemed to hate someone intervening between him and Lily.

"You mentioned three schools just now, which one is there besides Beauxbatons?" Lily couldn't hide her curiosity and asked.

"There is also Durmstrang, which only accepts pure-blood students and condones black magic. Grindelwald graduated from there." Pomona didn't say a word. Among the three schools, Hogg The graduates of Woz are the worst. Durmstrang is located in the north of Scandinavia, and it is cold for most of the year, so it creates a tough character for the students, while Beauxbaton is located in Billy. Niusi Mountain was donated by the legendary first alchemist Nicole Lemay who created the eternal Philosopher's Stone. It has breathtaking castles and lawns. Relatively speaking, there are only three founders of Hogwarts. And the wizard Dumbledore who later defeated Grindelwald is relatively famous internationally. The decline of talents is a problem faced by the entire magic world. Therefore, the appearance of the dark lord with extraordinary magic power made the entire British nobles crazy about it, and thought that This is the rise of the British Isles again.

"Who is Grindelwald?" Lily looked at Pomona with her beautiful eyes. Pomona looked back at Snape. Snape frowned, obviously he didn't tell the dark side of the wizarding world. she.

A half-breed and a Mudblood, they'd have a harder time than Pomona in a school full of Death Eaters.

Every Hufflepuff must remember that doing the right thing because it is the right thing is more important than hard work.

Pomona felt that Lily Evans had the right to choose. Being an ordinary person might be mediocre but she could be happy and even live a long life. Snape didn't tell her about the potential dangers of the wizarding world and let her rashly break into a place that meant nothing to her. Living in a world you don't know is irresponsible, even selfish.

With such a strange temper, he must have no friends. If Lily also left, he would study at Hogwarts alone, and he would be alone everywhere. But it's not fair for an ordinary girl who doesn't belong to this world to struggle to adapt to a strange environment to become a wizard, and even lose her own life because of an unintentional mistake, especially now that the castle is full of Death Eaters.

"He was a Dark wizard," Pomona said. "He ruled the wizarding world for twenty years, was active all over the world, hated Muggles and believed that all Muggles should be exterminated."

Lily was clearly stunned by what she heard.

"Why would he think that? I mean, why?"

"Because he thinks that if magic is seen again, wizards will be persecuted by Muggles, so we must live in the dark. Do you remember the witch hunts in the Middle Ages? You and I are the kind of witches who are going to be hunted by the church."

Lily covered her mouth in surprise.

"Enough!" Snape growled, pulling Lily behind him.

Pomona turned her attention to Lily's parents, "I think you need to know this. The wizarding world is very novel, but Lily is not here for fun. She will study, live, and even get married and have children here. She will interact with you in the future. Fewer and fewer, and the help you can provide her is limited. There have been years of grudges between Muggles and wizards, which cannot be resolved by enthusiasm and kindness alone. Many witches have been tied up by ordinary people like you Burning racks, many of them are innocent people who did not use black magic to harm others, do you have any other children besides Lily?"

"There is one," Lily's mother said after a long time. "She's Lily's sister."

"Then why doesn't she come today?"

Mrs. Evans was silent.

"Parents will always leave before their children. The last remaining family members are her sisters. If she doesn't support Lily, who can help her?"

At this time, she could already see the sign of Ollivander's Wand Shop, so she waved at this group of strange people, took Pete's arm and ran towards the shabby little shop.

"Did you know? Every college has its own ghost." Pete said with a smile, "Guess who Hufflepuff's ghost is?"

"Fat Friar," Pomona said grimly. "Mrs. Sprout said he was the only one who saw the potential good in Peeves. What good is that bastard?"

"Oh, I'm afraid you will have to ask him after you enter Hogwarts." Pete patted Pomona on the head. "I look forward to your arrival, junior."