Chapter 26 Dispute

"Daphne, I don't think there are any big problems with your paper. I have already highlighted some minor flaws." Mu Yu returned a roll of parchment to her.

"Yu, you are simply an angel." Daphne glanced at the neat and elegant notes on the parchment. She casually put the Potions homework aside, "You must have gone home during the summer vacation."

"Of course," Mu Yu picked up the delicate tea cup placed on the small table and took a sip, looking at Daphne's hesitant look. Knowing that she was very embarrassed about how to bring the topic to the target, "It must be very lively for you and your family to live together."

"It's not that lively. Our house is also on the mountain, and there are neither Muggles nor other wizards around." Daphne's whole body softened when she mentioned that house, and she lost a lot of the sophistication she usually seemed to have.

"We planted a garden full of different flowers. Astoria and I fought over the flowers when we were kids. Astoria liked lilies and I liked bluebells. In the end, Dad divided the garden. We won't have any conflicts anymore. It's just that the gnomes in the garden are very annoying. They always like to mess up the beautiful garden. Astoria even cried..."

She mentioned Astoria . It's like opening up a conversation box.

She rambled on about funny stories from her childhood, such as Astoria always wanted a wand, Daphne secretly stole her mother's wand for her to play with, and Astoria blew up a closet. She tries to make Astoria a birthday cake and nearly burns the house down. When she left for Hogwarts last year, Astoria burst into tears at the train station...

Mu Yu listened carefully to her every word without any impatience. It took a long time for Daphne to realize that she had spoken too much and almost forgot her original purpose: "Sorry, Yu, I..."

Mu Yu nodded considerately, and she played with the quill on the table: "It's okay. Daphne, even though I don’t have a sister, I understand.”

She understands how deep the bond of family ties can be, but that’s about it.

"You love her very much."

"Of course," Daphne's eyes were fixed on the potions paper that was put aside. "She is my sister who is closely related to each other. She is the closest person besides my parents. Astori Everything is fine, it's just..."

She didn't want to go on.

Either she thinks it's not time yet, or she doesn't know what to say.

By this time, the afternoon tea had completely changed.

Mu Yu turned the cup in his hand and asked after seeing that she really had no intention to continue talking: "What's wrong?"

She kept looking directly into Daphne's eyes when she asked, looking extremely sincere and a little bit obviously sad: " Daphne, I have always regarded you as a good friend, and I also regard Astoria as a sister." She held Daphne's hand, "Is there anything you can't say to a good friend?"

Under such a sincere look, Daphne There was a rare flash of guilt. Mu Yu's sincerity doesn't seem to be fake, but she is too utilitarian. She opened her mouth, but still no word came out. It was like he was trying to cover up his embarrassment by picking up the potion science paper and reading it. Although he still didn't answer the question directly, he rarely revealed a bit of truth.

Mu Yu's neat handwriting on the paper was in sharp contrast to her scrawling.

She raised her lips in a self-deprecating tone: "You may not believe it. When I was a child, I was actually very interested in potions, but I obviously didn't have the talent. I always didn't know how to mix the formula to brew the perfect potion. I couldn't even blow the crucible upside down. Less."

She kept flipping through the paper. The small flaws Mu Yu mentioned were obviously just polite remarks. You can tell her true level by looking at the full revision notes.

Mu Yu remained silent the whole time.

"Remember what Professor Snape said in the first lesson? The charm of potions lies in improving reputation, brewing honor, and even preventing death."

She bit her voice particularly hard when she talked about preventing death.

"This is wrong."

"Yu"

Mu Yu stroked the jade pendant and repeated again: "The magic medicine can only delay death, but cannot prevent it. There is no medicine to prevent death in the world."

Daphne opened her eyes wide, both She was confused and disagreed: "It is said that the alchemist's magic stone can make people immortal."

"The magic stone also needs to extract energy again and again, and the energy will eventually be exhausted." She was very firm on this issue, "Even if The magic potion that delays death also comes with a price, and if you try to change your life in the balance of heaven, you will definitely be punished."

She didn't expect Daphne to be particularly stubborn about this: "I don't understand balance, and I don't want to watch my loved ones understand it. Of course, people who are walking towards death will say a lot of truth. "

This is very impolite.

Even though Mu Yu was used to being patient, he took several deep breaths to control his emotions.

How did Daphne know that she hadn't experienced it.

The warmth of the jade pendant in her hand reminded her again and again of her grandfather's thin and old face when she said goodbye.

I don’t know if they have a different temperament by nature, but this is the second time they have had disagreements since the beginning of this semester.

Just as she was about to say something, the door to the common room was opened by several people, and Astoria walked in laughing with several first-year girls. She saw Daphne at the first sight, and excitedly waved to Daphne: "Sister!"

Her excitement subsided when she saw Mu Yu.

"I remembered that I had to go to the library to look up information." Mu Yu looked at the two sisters with a smile. No one could see her anger just now.

"Yu..." Daphne also realized the gaffe just now, and her reason told her that she should apologize, but now she didn't know how to say it in front of Astoria.

When she realized what she was doing, Mu Yu was already almost at the door of the common room: "Have a nice afternoon tea, see you later, Daphne."

She seemed to be a naturally good-tempered person, no, she was so good that Daphne even I don't know what kind of situation would make Mu Yu show his anger.

"Sister..." After Astoria and her partner whispered a few words, she and Daphne were the only ones left in the common room.

Daphne smoothed Astoria's wind-tossed hair: "Astoria, some social interaction is inevitable. It's just about discussing some deals. These are not things you need to worry about."

She said one word Not mentioning the argument and the almost quarrel between the two.

Astoria just needs to grow up happy.

Astoria held Daphne's hand instead, and she said firmly: "Sister, I'm not a child anymore."

I can also share your burden.

Going to the library was just an excuse. Mu Yu felt that she urgently needed a breath of fresh air.

For some reason she didn't want to be indoors at all right now, especially the dark basement of the Slytherin common room. It occurred to her that she had never been to a Quidditch pitch since first year. After all, she had never even touched a broom.

Maybe, it is also a good choice to go and take a look.

Mu Yu never met at the right time.

The two teams faced off on the court. You can tell from their team robes that they are Slytherin and Gryffindor.

The conflict between Slytherin and Gryffindor is more intense than any other house.

Mu Yu walked closer, and the stadium amplified the echo.

"No one asked you, you stinking little mudblood."

Mu Yu knew who said this even without looking at the person. She frowned slightly, this was not a good word.

I should say, very bad.

The ridiculous sense of superiority of a pureblood family.

Malfoy's words caused confusion to a certain extent, and the captain of the Slytherin team had to protect Malfoy with his arms to prevent the Gryffindor players from jumping towards him. Even so, Ron still pointed his wand at Malfoy's face: "You have to pay for this!"

Ron's wand made an explosion, and a green light did not hit Malfoy, but hit Ron. Thank you. Ron belched and spit out several slugs.

Slytherin burst into laughter, and Malfoy even fell to the ground and beat the grass with his hands in an exaggerated manner.

Harry and Hermione struggled to squeeze out of the crowd with Ron on their backs. Behind them was a short figure who kept looking at the image.

"Go away, Colin." Harry waved his hand in disgust. When he saw Mu Yu, he was stunned for a moment, then nodded slightly and pulled Ron away who was vomiting. Hermione turned her head and didn't look at Mu Yu at all.

Mu Yu casually found a corner to sit on the high platform of the Quidditch pitch. She held her chin and watched the figures flying around on the field with some boredom. She still didn't understand the appeal of Quidditch.

"Mudbloods don't deserve to study at Hogwarts." Tom Riddle sat next to her. He won't always be in the diary now. He became more erratic. Mu Yu never cared about what he was busy with every day.

That thing behind the pipe is getting more and more active.

"Don't say that word."

Tom Riddle raised his voice: "You wouldn't be like that old guy Dumbledore, getting close to a dirty Mudblood."

A fallen leaf floated to Mu Yu's head, and she brushed it off : "It has nothing to do with being close. Just saying such words will not make you appear more noble, nor will it make you win more people's hearts. On the contrary, the more you say this, it will only show your inner weakness."

Tom Riddle approached. He took a few steps ahead of Mu Yu and said, "I will use the basilisk in the secret room to cleanse the entire Hogwarts and sweep away those humble and dirty Mudbloods. I will drive Dumbledore out of the castle, and then there will be only one left in Hogwarts. The next house. I will fulfill the last wish of my great ancestor Salazar Slytherin."

"Pure blood is a joke. How many pure blood families are there now, even like Malfoy? The family has accumulated such a huge amount of wealth by relying on ordinary people. Other families are either losing their children or they are all idiots because of the marriage of several generations of close relatives." Mu Yu crushed the fallen leaf into ashes. , "Tom, are you really thinking about pure blood supremacy and restoring pure blood's former glory when you keep talking about it? You are just grabbing the power you want by weaving ideals for others. It's the same as grabbing power. Weave ideals for others, why don't you learn from Grindelwald?"

"How dare you..."

Mu Yu stood up directly. She always thought that Tom Riddle would wake up after his obsession: "Don't forget, you yourself are A hybrid."

He subconsciously wanted to pull out the wand, but found that he was just an illusory body now. A gust of wind blew by, making Mu Yu's robes rustle. Mu Yu's thin body stood steadily in the wind: "If you want to be the void that connects thousands of stars, then you must learn how to weave ideals for different people, and let all those who pursue ideals become your chess pieces. This This is the supreme power, this is eternity."

His handsome face was distorted by extreme anger. Perhaps this distortion also concealed a hint of panic at the discovery of his deepest secret: "Then, we have no choice but to part ways." He said coldly: "I will make my own plan, and you go and find what you want. I just hope you don't die in my hands."

"Then go ahead." He originally thought that Mu Yu would keep him for a moment, at least. He thought he would see a trace of nostalgia in Mu Yu's eyes. However, Mu Yu was just extremely cold: "You go ahead. I won't interfere with you. I will watch how you use that snake to clean Hogwarts."

Mu Yu has always been like this, she has never been indifferent to his stories. . No matter what the situation, the way she looked at him was no different from the way she looked at eleven-year-old Tom Riddle.

She could tolerate everything about him, but she was almost indifferent to the extreme.

It's a strange feeling. There used to be only three types of people in Tom Riddle's dictionary, one was those who could be used, the other was worthless ants, and the third was enemies.

Mu Yu does not belong to any of them.

People who can be used will not be as hard to catch as Mu Yu, like misty clouds. Tom Riddle wouldn't say a word of nonsense to an ant. As for the enemy...

the enemy will not tolerate everything about him and will not listen patiently to his story.

"In addition to making a comeback, I have one more thing to wait for. But you didn't come."

The diary still disappeared from Mu Yu's space ring.

The training had ended long ago, and Mu Yu's hands tightly grasped the railings of the stands, which were almost deformed.