Chapter 258 Humanity and Sophistication

This is an antique study room, with rows of bookshelves filled with countless books in various languages, even some written in ancient runes. There was a photo of a man on the quaint desk. It was the man in the photo album that the house elf was looking at just now.

The man looks very handsome. He looks a little serious when he is not smiling, but when he smiles, he is as warm as the sun, as if it can melt the ice in winter.

The windows in the study were closed. There was a carved wooden rocking chair in front of the window, which was rocking slowly. An old woman was sitting on it with her eyes closed and taking a nap. Once people get older, it is common for them to lose energy.

Beauty is in the bones but not in the skin. Although the old woman has gray hair and wrinkles on her face, she can still see her beautiful face when she was young. Hearing the call of the house elf, the old lady slowly opened her eyes. She said softly: "Is there any good news, Agnes?"

The house elf Agnès bowed deeply and said: "Master, the monsters in Hogwarts Castle failed to harm the lady. The latest news is that Dumbledore has solved the monsters in the Chamber of Secrets."

The old woman seemed to really not want to hear Dumbledore's name. She asked absently: "Agnès, do you think I should send her to Beauxbatons or Durmstrang?"

"Maybe the young lady prefers Hogwarts, where she has her friends." Agnès said cautiously, fearing that she would offend the owner. The elf held up the newspaper clipping with both hands and placed it on the old woman's body. forward.

Taking the newspaper clipping, the old woman read it and said: "Yes, Louis was very dissatisfied with my arrangement at the beginning, and he lost his temper and ran away from home. His daughter's character will naturally be like him. Even his Mothers cannot arrange their lives arbitrarily."

"Master Louis was still young at that time and had not yet realized your good intentions." Agnès said, "He has always loved you very much."

The old woman did not answer any more words, but concentrated on reading the newspaper clippings. Louis is the sad thing for the old woman. She made the worst decision in her life and lost her excellent son. It was also because of this decision that I could only face this more outstanding granddaughter across the sea.

"Agnès, she is even better than Louis. At her age, her father cannot do such a great thing." The old woman gently stroked the cheek of the girl in the photo, her somewhat cloudy eyes full of tears. Tenderness, and the girl in the photo is Ada who just appeared in the Daily Prophet.

This old woman is Ada's grandmother, and the Louis she talks about is Ada's father, the father she has only seen in the Mirror of Erised.

Looking at Ada in the photo, house elf Agnes felt very distressed. She asked her master: "Master, are we going to bring the young lady back in the summer? She has endured a lot of wind and rain outside."

The old woman shook her head and looked out the window. She said: "Not yet, Agnes, wait a moment. Although the house is not big, it must be cleaned. Wait until I clean the house. Clean and my little Ada can go home and she won't have to go through that pain again."

Naturally, Ada, who was in the Scottish Highlands, had no way of knowing about the conversation between the old woman and the house elf on the other side of the strait, nor did she know that she had a grandmother in this world. She was in trouble at the moment and was not happy at all. She is famous, but there is an old saying: People are afraid of being famous, but pigs are afraid of being strong.

This is the situation of Ada now. What she did in school was published in the "Daily Prophet", which made more wizards know about her, but at the same time, it also made some people red-eyed. Ada's sudden Becoming famous attracted the attention of these people.

They can allow Ada to run rampant in the school. In their eyes, a student cannot make any waves. But they couldn't allow Ada to have such a big influence outside the school, and they couldn't let someone with an unknown background like Ada step in and call the shots.

Climbing high and falling heavily, they first maliciously promoted Ada so that Ada could gain more prestige. Later, a lot of negative information was revealed about Ada. She was arrogant and domineering in school, beating classmates, contradicting professors, and doing all kinds of evil.

A series of remarks that confuse right and wrong, successfully smeared Ada's image, and some people who did not know the truth began to follow suit and slander Ada. This kind of remarks reached its peak when it was revealed that Ada was an orphan, and all kinds of obscene remarks and weird remarks appeared.

This deja vu scene was very familiar, after all, Ada had just seen a similar scene in Lockhart. It's just that there is still a lack of brainwashing fans who come out to clean up the floor.

Soon, the "brainless fans" who washed the ground appeared. They restored the truth of the matter and refuted the slanderous remarks. The direction of public opinion changed again, and Ada once again became the top figure in the British magic world. Because of her status as an orphan, she gained countless mother fans.

These mother fans are not just talk, they are a group of people who are really old enough to be Ada's mothers.

But these ever-changing remarks are not what makes Ada feel troublesome. These public opinions that follow the wind and rain have no influence on Ada at all.

What really troubles Ada is that there are always people trying to have a relationship with her recently, and some people want to adopt her. What's even worse is that some people are hysterical, saying that they are Ada's biological parents, and they only abandoned her as a last resort. Ada's.

Some people even ran to the school, crying to Dumbledore with runny noses and tears, hoping to take Ada home. Some people have never even seen Ada before and don't know if she has any characteristics such as birthmarks. Some people can't even tell Ada's full name.

This wonderful performance, let alone the young Ada, even the well-informed Dumbledore was a little overwhelmed. Professor McGonagall was even more furious. She wanted to use the stone pier in the school to drive all these people out.

Even if Ada does not have the legendary close relationship with Dumbledore, nor does she have a mother-daughter relationship with Professor McGonagall, she alone is enough to make many people think.

Pure-blood families may still have concerns of one kind or another, worrying about affecting the purity of their family's bloodline. But those who dare to say this about recognizing relatives, or come directly to the school to recognize relatives, have no such worries.

They have strength, fame, good looks, and talents that are visible to the blind, but they don’t have a family to rely on. This allows some small families to see opportunities. Making a gamble and investment in Ada is completely worth a try for these small families.

Some people extended an olive branch, hoping to gain Ada's friendship and lay the foundation for future cooperation; some people were more direct, trying to make Ada their own, whether it was their daughter or daughter-in-law.

There are also people who know Ada's close relationship with the Weasley family, and these people are envious of Arthur Weasley. Some people think that he is far-sighted and placed a bet on Ada when Ada's statement was not obvious; some people think that Arthur Weasley just got lucky and happened to pick up such a piece of diamond.

But what they don't know is that the Weasleys didn't take Ada in for a bet or to pick up treasures. They just simply liked this girl and wanted her to have a family.

If we have to say that the Weasleys are lucky, it probably means good things come to good people!

Thanks to book friend Futu Xuan for the reward