On Halloween, Calder, Haig, and the other international students helped Haig transport the super pumpkins behind the house to the Hogwarts.
Tomorrow, they would all become sweet juice, hot pies, and other delicacies at the Halloween feast. Because they lived close to each other, the international students had a good relationship with Haig. The lively Bart and Peter often went to Haig's cabin to have a private kitchen. So when Harry came to visit Haig this day, he found that they had set up a pot.
They were cooking pumpkins.
"Harry is here, come,
Sit here. " The cabin was full of people. Haig drove Yanya to the bed to make room for Harry.
He greeted everyone one by one.
Harry found that they were cooking pumpkins with water.
No seasoning was added, but Haig's pumpkins were very sweet.
Plus, it was steaming hot.
It was quite comfortable to eat at the end of October when the temperature dropped sharply.
Harry filled a big bowl and listened to them talk as he ate.
"The weather in England is really annoying."
Peter was complaining. "Apart from the lack of fun, the underground rain is also uncontrolled cooling.
I now understand why magic is the best developed in England. You really need magic to ensure that you have dry clothes every day, right? "
It seemed that the weather in England was more of a blow to the American students than the food in England. Harry laughed and said, "Is that why you don't like to wear the Spiderman uniform in the Hogwarts? Is it hard to dry after washing? "
Kronos, who was sitting next to Peter, rolled his eyes. "So you all think that Spiderman's uniform was washed diligently in New York?"
"Hey! Colo! " Peter, who was exposed, quickly covered his brother's mouth and changed the subject. "Speaking of the weather... Red Robin should be the most suitable for this kind of weather, right? When I watch the news, I always think that Gotham City doesn't have many sunny days all year round. "
"Yes, the people are simple and honest. Gotham City is full of talents. Ahm!" Everyone laughed together.
Harry smiled but found that Red Robin was not present. He could not help but ask, "Tim didn't come? I don't think I've seen him recently. "
"That's because you're busy rehearsing every day," Peter explained. "But I also feel that Red Robin seems to be in the lab these days."
Bart interrupted, "It's probably because of that ball!" When he saw Harry looking at him curiously, he continued, "Yes, it's the walking ball that you pounced on. Tim seems to be studying that thing. It's your principal …"
"Bart!" "Mr. Allen!" Haimei and Haig shouted at the same time.
"I think we shouldn't talk about Dumbledore," Haig said in a muffled voice as he stared at the fire. He seemed a little uncomfortable after hearing Bart's words.
As for Hai Mei, the dark-skinned youth looked somewhat serious.
For a moment, the conversation by the fire became awkward. Just as Harry was hesitating whether to change the topic, Kronos burped and said slowly, "Ah … if only there was a grilled fish now!"
"Hey, hey, hey, someone help me hold Calder down!" Bart shouted. Everyone laughed together, and the atmosphere became lively again. Young Hero Hai, who was innocently dragged down by Bart, could only shrug his eyebrows. "You guys …"
In order to take care of Young Hero Hai, Haig did not have any grilled fish or grilled prawns at the barbecue party. Calder also knew that Bart was joking, so he laughed and said, "Don't just blame me — there are no fish in the black lake!"
"Yes, there are only mermaids!" Harry thought of the terrifying creatures with sharp teeth in the black lake and wondered if Calder understood the mermaid language.
"What mermaid?" The international students were curious.
Harry described the appearance and habits of mermaids to them in detail. "Well … in short, they are not characters that appear in fairy tales!" Seeing that Young Hero Hai was deep in thought, Harry wondered if he had violated a taboo, so he asked softly, "Calder?"
Calder hesitated for a moment and said slowly, "I swim in the black lake twice a day … but I don't see any mermaids? There is a big octopus though … "
Young Hero Hai's swimming was obviously not as simple as breaststroke and butterfly stroke. He also knew that there was a big octopus, which meant that it had dived into the depths of the black lake. Harry asked in surprise, "You really don't see them? They should be living behind the habitat of a group of red hats … "
Calder thought for a moment and did not say too much, but he still said cautiously, "I should be more familiar with the black lake, but I really don't see any mermaids like you said. However, I have seen red hats and Grindel."
Calder was not a person who liked to joke. He was a man of few words, but the words that came out of his mouth were guaranteed. So Harry was stunned. He was still a little absent-minded until he left the hut and returned to the Union Building for the last rehearsal.
He walked to the black lake. In the windless and rainless night, the black lake was like a large smooth glass mirror, reflecting the clear moonlight and sporadic diamond-like stars. It was too quiet, too quiet.
Harry knelt by the lake and put his wand into the water. A dark blue light shot straight into the depths of the black lake. The boy held his breath and listened carefully, but he could only hear the amplified sound of flowing water. He did not even catch a trace of the mermaid's scream. So, Harry took back his wand and thought to himself, the mermaids are really gone.
Harry was not a person who advocated scientific rationality, but he did believe in some theories. The world was not composed of some isolated elements. In the network of time and space, a butterfly could fan the direction of an era. Everyone was consciously or unconsciously promoting the development of other people's destinies, and walking together in the magnificent destiny. Then, looking at it from another perspective, if one observed carefully, generally speaking, the occurrence of big events often had signs. The disappearance of the bees might be because Derrick was planning a conspiracy under the Great Medusa Waterfall. The disappearance of the dolphins might be because the Space Demolition Office was preparing to forcibly demolish the earth. What about the disappearance of the mermaids? What did it mean?
Harry did not know. He just randomly recalled some abnormalities that he did not pay attention to at that time: Peter's mobile phone, Ke Luo's radio, the continuous heavy rain …
"Ah …" Harry touched his scar, not sure if the pain just now was real or an illusion.
The final rehearsal went smoothly. Kamia's devilish training was relatively successful. They finally confirmed the position on the stage, and then Kamia said a few words of encouragement to everyone, saying that everyone's performance was great. She said that they should have a good rest tonight and come two hours early tomorrow.
These were just general words of encouragement, but Harry felt that Kamia seemed to be a little out of it today. Perhaps his question the day before yesterday had stimulated her?
When Harry mentioned the symbol that day, Kamia's face changed instantly. Moreover, her expression was not indifferent, nor was it angry, nor was it even vigilant. It was … an expression between surprise and fear. She did not answer Harry's question, but calmly warned the boy, "You're crossing the line." Then she drove the boy away.
But because of Kamia's answer, Harry felt that he had asked the right question. He remembered that someone else seemed to have said something similar to him — some things, we can't go too deep, or we'll cross the line. Yes, the mysterious Phoenix girl, she had warned Harry like this.
Harry took off Polly Garde's dress and looked at Kamia hesitantly, wondering if he should tell her about the disappearance of the mermaid.
But Kamia did not give Harry a chance to hesitate. After she finished telling him what to do, she pulled Ginny away. Then Ron pulled Harry back. "Hey, brother, wait a minute!"
"Uh … What's wrong?" Harry came back to his senses and looked at Ron. He found that the Weisles boy was pulling him to a corner. "What's going on?" he asked.
After Ron confirmed that the others had left, he blushed and whispered to Harry, "That's … Harry, don't tell anyone else!" After getting the assurance, she continued to whine, "I think … Is that Parkinson's still angry with me? You know … Last time, Drac and I … "
Harry stared at Ron's blushing face and suddenly had a more frightening idea. "Ron … Are you, uh, in love with Pansy?" After saying this, Harry found that he did not know for a moment whether to remind Ron not to fall in love early or to remind him of the difficulty of the marriage between the Lion and Snake Courtyard.
But Ron immediately jumped up. "Who likes Pansy?! She's a Slytherin! "
"That's not a big problem …"
Ron angrily and anxiously emphasized that he had absolutely no feelings for Pansy. He then said, "Every time we rehearsed, she would look at me like that (he made an imitation), as if I was an extra-large potato!"
This metaphor was really original. He was indeed Kamia's student. Harry did not understand what Ron meant. "Then what do you want? Let me remind you, Pansy doesn't usually look people in the eye, right? "
Pansy was quite tall among girls, and she usually looked down at Harry.
Ron was angry. "How can I act with her like this? And Hermione — Hermione is in the same team as Pansy. You live in the United Building, so you don't know that the two of them are together all the time! "
Even if they were together, that was not the right way to use it! But looking at his good friend's depressed face, Harry had to seriously pat him on the shoulder and asked in a low voice, "Haven't you thought of apologizing to Pansy or something?"
Ron's shoulders drooped and he said bitterly, "I want to! How should I say it? Saying 'sorry, I shouldn't have said that you're not good-looking', isn't that just adding fuel to the fire? "
This time, the idiom was used correctly, and it was quite reasonable. Harry scratched his head and racked his brain to recall how Hermione had been annoyed in the past. Then he was surprised to find one thing — in the past, the two of them used to wait for Hermione to calm down herself!
Imitating Kamia's posture of biting the pipe, Harry frowned and sighed. "How about this, you go to the Whaling Willow and cut a willow branch, then tie it to your back and go to Pansy. If she forgives you, then everything will be fine. If she gets angry — you have something to defend yourself with, right?"
While Harry and Ron were discussing how to apologize, Kamia was taking Ginny for a walk by the Black Lake. Of course, the two of them did not know about the news related to the mermaid. They were just strolling slowly.
Ginny held Kamia's hand in one hand and her bottle in the other. From time to time, she looked up at the female professor, who was whispering something to her. "… Ginny, tomorrow's performance, we must ensure that it is very, very successful … So, this is a secret between the two of us, right?"
Ginny looked at Kamia's black eyes shining in the night, bit the pacifier for a while, and then slowly nodded.
Kamia breathed a sigh of relief, took Ginny's hand, and walked in the direction of the Whaling Willow.
Fifteen minutes later, they appeared on the street of a small town in Swansea. At night, there was only the empty moonlight on the street. On both sides of the street were low salt white huts, and several windows were still lit with warm yellow lights. In the distance, there was drunken singing and women's laughter, and stray cats tiptoed past the two.
"Yes, this is the background of the story …" Kamia took the girl's hand and asked in a low but excited voice, "Captain Kate, are we going out to sea?"
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