Chapter 47

The day after the Cross Road Banquet is the day to leave by train. The carnival at the dinner continued until the roaring train.

Daphne naturally held Mu Yu's arm when she was about to step onto the train, and she instantly frowned. She would rather Daphne's attitude continue to be about using each other and each getting what they need.

This is good for everyone.

What she wants is a deal with the Greengrass family, not a fragile, naive, ridiculous friendship between girls.

"Yu, you promised to write to me during the summer vacation." Daphne pulled her through the carriages, saying yes, but her tone was full of hesitation.

"As long as there is time," Mu Yu let her hold his arm, finding it unprecedentedly difficult to put on the gentle mask, "but I will bring you a gift."

They stopped in front of a cubicle, Mu Yu Yu was a few steps behind Daphne, unwilling to walk any further. Pansy and her companions' loud laughter could be heard from here.

Since that incident in the first grade, she has rarely had direct contact with Pansy.

"This compartment should only be able to seat one person, go ahead." She pushed Daphne gently and brushed her hand away.

Daphne took two steps forward, but unexpectedly turned around when she was about to enter the cubicle. Her blue eyes were filled with Mu Yu's most annoying emotion, meaningless sympathy and pity.

She also thought she was hiding it well.

"You really decided to go to Northern Europe alone." She bit her lip hard and put her hand on the half-open compartment door, refusing to move even half a step. "Dad takes us out every summer vacation..."

Mu Yu stood there. Listening quietly to her unfinished words, it was so calm, so calm that there was no expectation in her eyes.

Daphne still can't forget that day in the common room. This girl also spoke softly in an extremely plain tone of voice that there has never been a drug to prevent death in the world. She was so stupid at the time that she couldn't even understand the sadness behind the calm.

An apology at a Halloween dinner seems too frivolous in comparison.

Someone was already calling her in the cubicle: "Xiao Di, why don't you come in?"

She had never been so embarrassed.

"I know everything." Mu Yu didn't let her embarrassment last long. She shook Daphne's hand briefly, as if she was very grateful for her intentions, "Thank you, Xiaodi. It's just that I quite like traveling alone. Yes, there will be unimaginable fun during the trip. "

She turned the jade pendant around her waist, and it had never become hot since that day.

How could Daphne imagine such fun?

"Letter, gift, don't forget it," Daphne squeezed back hard and smiled with a rare smile, "Happy summer vacation."

She walked into the compartment and took it with her door. After the door closed, Mu Yu put away all her pretense of gentleness and walked straight to the last carriage, not expecting that someone had already sat in the compartment she had always loved.

Theodore Nott sat back on the window seat, silently holding a book and reading.

Advanced potion making, Mu Yu immediately recognized it. Theodore Nott has read nearly three-quarters of the thick book.

At least Nott would be quieter. She sat directly opposite and opened a spell book to read.

The train rumbled and accelerated forward, passing over lush hills one after another, leaving the sun behind.

Dappled light spots danced on Theodore Nott's thin cheeks. It was not yet noon, but the sun was dazzling enough to block him from enjoying the scenery.

The cart rolled from far to near towards the corner compartment of the train. The soft and kind voice of the witch selling snacks became clearer and clearer. The fireworks in the corridor were trying to squeeze into this compartment. A cubicle with a weird atmosphere.

Mu Yu always buried his head in the book and turned a deaf ear to all the noise. She was undoubtedly greedy and insatiable when reading, and the spell that exploded on the snow in Godric's Hollow on Christmas Eve reminded her of her insignificance over and over again.

When the compartment door was opened, she raised her head briefly and was about to politely refuse the witch's sales pitch. She didn't want Theodore Nott to say before her: "One of all the desserts, thank you."

He held various kinds of cakes in his arms . The colorful candies and snacks came back and poured them all onto the small table.

The mixed aroma of various desserts continues to ferment in the sun, and the air seems to be dyed with a layer of sugar.

"You're not hungry at all." Theodore picked up a piece of pumpkin pie. The moment he opened his mouth, Mu Yu closed the book in his hand with a snap and put it away quickly, so that Theodore Donault got only a fleeting glimpse.

Just such a glance made his eyelids twitch.

"I only know that someone didn't have breakfast." Mu Yu glanced at the dazzling array of snacks on the table and turned to look at the passing scenery outside the window.

He didn't look interested at all.

Theodore Nott pushed half of the snacks in her direction: "Would you like some? I seem to have bought too much."

Mu Yu retracted her gaze from the car window, neither touching the snacks on the table nor explicitly refusing. She was just studying the changing expressions on Nott's face.

His calmness bored her.

"If you don't want these, it will just be a waste. I can't take them back, my father..." When he mentioned his father, he flashed a trace of obvious rejection, "I won't allow it."

Old Nott raised her eyebrows and said that The pile of candies was placed in front of him again, and at the same time he handed over a few silver coins: "Then I'm welcome."

When he saw the few silver coins, Theodore Nott's expression dimmed, and he said again He put it into his pocket without saying a word.

The fragrance of pumpkin pie spreads straight into the throat, and the warmth caused by the fermentation of the fragrance spreads into the stomach bit by bit. The jade pendant also became hot.

Mu Yu's other hand stroked it again and again.

Theodore Nott could not have seen it.

"You went out that night." He seemed to be looking for a random topic, but his words were not so relaxed.

Mu Yu let go of the jade pendant, and her hand had already touched the wand: "I go out almost every night."

The aroma of the dessert was tainted with a different flavor by the tension that was about to break out.

"Of course, it's normal." Theodore Nott shrugged, as if he didn't notice the sudden change in the atmosphere in the cubicle. On the contrary, he continued to eat candy leisurely, "Why do you want to choose the divination class? Don't you think so?" People who don't think about their future careers."

Mu Yu released her wand, which didn't mean she was unwary of Nott.

As long as he is willing to pretend, she will act with him.

"My future will never be determined by the courses I study now." She didn't want to talk too much about this topic. There was nothing to talk about. "You don't seem to have thought about it."

She didn't expect Theodore Nott to answer seriously.

"I just want to be a medicine dealer," he held his chin and answered extremely seriously. "The customer will send me the list of potions they need, and I will send the potions out under a false name."

He tried to impress the girl opposite him. I could find the slightest bit of emotional fluctuation, but I was destined to be disappointed.

"My father may have other expectations for me, but I just want this. Staying in Godric's Hollow, no one knows me, no one can disturb me."

He rummaged through a pile of desserts without interest.

Mu Yu put down the half-torn chocolate frog package and stared at Nott intently: "Selling potions." Her gentle tone seemed to be tempered with honey along with the candy, "Theodore, your talent is enough. Achieve your greatness. Is it really what you want to hide in Godric's Hollow and be a potion merchant that no one knows about?"

She seemed to be confirming something carefully, but it was more weird than a simple confirmation.

As if trying to induce the little remaining desire in his heart.

The latter thought could not remain in Theodore Nott's mind for a second.

"My father's expectations...are even crazier than you imagine," he looked down at the lines on the table, "I don't want to be a member of a group of lunatics, nor do I want to join a group of fools."

"Crazy, fool," Mu Yu With a chuckle, she swept all the candies on the table into her pocket. She no longer cared about the increasingly hot jade pendant. "In order not to join them, I will do whatever it takes."

Sunshine can always package decay into magic and evil. Disguised as good. Today's sunshine is particularly dazzling, dazzling enough to tempt people to make promises of unknown importance and forget the hints that have been given in the dark.

"Whatever it takes."

The train was slowing down slowly, and the outline of platform nine and three-quarters was looming in the distance.

"What a pity." Mu Yu murmured softly as the whistle blew. As the train pulled into the station, the soft murmur evolved into a soft, unclear response: "My grandpa also wished that I would be safe and happy throughout my life."

For a moment, I didn't know what she was regretting.

They were almost the last ones to get out of the car. Mu Yu looked up at the blue sky above his head and held the jade pendant tightly in his hand, even though it was so hot that it was no different than holding a pot of boiling water.

It was a pity that it only lasted a moment, and her heart was now occupied by the promise that was about to be fulfilled.

She had never seen the misty rain or sunset in Albania.

I wonder if I can get even a little bit of the charm of London

. "Yu." Theodore Nott called her name seriously for the first time, but he could no longer say what he said after that. It didn't work in the past, it doesn't work now, and it won't work even more in the future, in the flames that are flickering and getting stronger and stronger.

A hunched man walked slowly toward Nott. He was wearing a gloomy robe, which was incompatible with the lively and festive station. With every step he took, Nott's face turned pale.

On the train, the sweet fragrance in the compartment and the sunshine flowing freely were broken as the man approached, first into a transparent and illusory ghost, and then into an unreachable dream.

The man stopped first when he reached Mu Yu.

There was no doubt that this was old Knott. Mu Yu had no intention of having any entanglement with him. She wanted to leave quickly but was caught by her sleeve.

Before she could actually take any action, Old Nott's disdain, arrogance and even intimidation collapsed in an instant. He quickly let go of her as if he was shocked by something.

His left hand was tightly covering his right arm, and Mu Yu did not miss this subtle movement. He almost walked around in embarrassment, and then there was a bang behind him.

He impatiently grabbed his son and apparated away.

Large swaths of dark clouds passed by, blocking the dazzling sunshine just now. The weather in London has always been changeable.