[HP] Noble

Because Scorpius and Draco both need to accept the punishment of night travel, they have been sitting on the sofa in the common room since after dinner, chatting with each other—compared to the cold wind and snow outside Generally speaking, the common room of Slytherin is dry and warm, the whispers of the students talking and laughing and the sound of dry firewood crackling close at hand can easily make people lose their consciousness and fall into a light sleep.

Scorpius remembered arguing with Draco about whether the potion made by the dragon pod plant had the ability to repel vampires before he completely lost consciousness, and the next second, he fell asleep.

……

It wasn't until Draco pushed him awake with unceremonious strength that Scorpius yawned sleepily and sat up from the sofa, only then did he realize that there was no one else in the Slytherin common room at this moment except them. There is no one else.

"How long have I been asleep?" Scorpius asked.

"Enough for Goyle to eat three pieces of cake, and Blaise to play three games of wizard chess with me." Draco turned his head to show a not-so-friendly smirk at the senior Slytherin, and then twisted his head again Going back—at this moment, Prince Slytherin was putting the heavy winter cloak on himself without looking back. The special-shaped silver buttons on the cloak seemed to be very difficult to fit into the buttonholes. After a while, everyone was sleeping in the warm bed, but he had to be punished outside, which made Draco genuinely annoyed——

Until the light in front of him was blocked by a figure.

Frowning suddenly, Draco was about to raise his head to taunt the senior Slytherin who didn't have long eyes, but the moment he raised his head, he looked at those pupils as black as black pearls.

"The buttons of this Italian brand cloak are hard to get in if you force them," Scorpius patted Draco's hand away, lowered his head slightly, and his hand naturally reached for the button under Draco's chin. On the top silver button, grab the small raised corner with your fingertips, and easily insert the button into the buttonhole at an ingenious angle——

When he did this, the warm and soft hand brushed against Prince Slytherin's pale, tapered jaw intentionally or unintentionally.

"You just need to tuck it in at a slight angle - like this." Scorpius adjusted Draco's collar and patted Draco's chest casually.

When he looked up, he found that the platinum noble in front of him was staring at him with strange eyes.

"..." Scorpius sighed helplessly, he just woke up listlessly and turned around to pick up his cloak from the sofa, "I will buckle the cloak for you, although I don't expect you to tell me Thanks - but I'm pretty sure I'm not staring at me like I saw a mammoth dancing because of you."

Draco was silent for a while, and for the first time deliberately forgot that his aristocratic etiquette did not thank him at this time when he should thank him. He just raised his eyebrows and looked at him with a neutral look Senior Slytherin wearing a thick cloak: "I noticed that your cloaks are all made in Germany - why do you know how to wear my cloak?"

Scorpius ignored him.

Because the answer is very simple - this brand is Draco's favorite.And after seven years here, Scorpius has put the cloak on him countless times-oh yes, even when he just got up from bed in the morning and didn't open his eyes, he can put this The oddly shaped buttons were tucked precisely into the buttonholes.

When the two well-dressed Slytherins came to the hall together, the time was just at eleven o'clock. Looking at Mr. Filch limping towards them not far away, Scorpius looked subconsciously. Glancing in the direction of the Gryffindor tower—as expected, there was a crackling sound of running not far away, and the Gryffindor golden trio finally arrived at the appointment before Filch appeared and became furious. place.

Filch led them all the way out of the castle--to the gamekeeper's cottage.

When Hagrid came out of the room and announced that he would lead everyone present to complete the night tour punishment tonight, Scorpius took a moment to glance at the Gryffindors, the expressions on their faces seemed Lived once... well, at least it did at first, until Hagrid said—

"Close up your cloaks well, children, let me tell you, the Forbidden Forest in winter is much colder than you imagined, if it wasn't for such a big incident, even I wouldn't want to stay in it for even a little longer! "

After hearing this, Ron let out a difficult wheezing sound as if he was choking on a cake. Hermione exclaimed briefly and then covered her mouth in horror, while Harry opened his mouth wide. He shut his mouth, widened his green eyes as if he had heard something unbelievable, and looked at the half-blood giant who was grabbing his shoulders and pushing him forward——

And Scorpius noticed that even Draco beside him frowned slightly, and stopped following Hagrid closely.When the Gryffindor golden trio looked at each other and exchanged terrified glances, Draco said in an ambiguous tone: "I remember that at the opening night, Dumbledore made it clear that under normal circumstances students are not allowed to enter the Forbidden Forest. "

"You also said, 'under normal circumstances'." Hagrid glanced at Prince Slytherin nonchalantly, "Now you are students who are being punished, and there are only two paths before you—choose one, and I went into the Forbidden Forest, found the injured unicorn I found the night before, and brought him safely to your Care of Magical Creatures professor; option two, now go back and pack your bags, and sleep soundly in your bed One sleep—attention, one last sleep, and then I'll be kicked out of Hogwarts at dawn tomorrow morning."

Draco pursed his lips with an uneasy face, and then reluctantly raised his feet to catch up with the team in front.

"I'm almost amazed," Scorpius heard the Prince Slytherin mutter, "it's hell that the big man can go on like this without biting his tongue."

Scorpius sneered heartlessly beside Draco.

"It's nothing funny, Gretel," said Draco viciously, "I swear, I'll write to my father at first light tomorrow—I'll see what happens to the man who's about to pack up and be kicked out." who is it!"

And the truth is, if Mr. Big Malfoy had a way of getting Hagrid out of Hogwarts, he would have done so.Scorpius thought helplessly in his heart, and only spoke a few perfunctory words of non-enthusiasm. Before the other party turned his head and stared at him, the senior Slytherin waved his wand and used a lighting spell, He said, "To be honest, Draco, I actually think this punishment is a bit inappropriate—I have never seen a professor who made him stay up outside the castle in the middle of the night in order to punish a student who violated the school rules. Ordering him to violate another, more serious school rule..."

"Obviously, you've finally got the point," Draco said lazily, "which finally makes me want to talk to you again, Gretel."

From an angle that Draco couldn't see, the senior Slytherin rolled his eyes hard at the back of the platinum-blond head at his "condescension".

And at this time, the two Slytherins who finally calmed down and stopped complaining crazily finally had a chance to listen to what the Gryffindors in front were saying. Obviously, after the initial fear, they had completely fallen into the impending crisis. In the midst of exciting adventures, while Ron Weasley was enthusiastically discussing with the Gryffindor savior boy what evil creature would harm a holy unicorn—

"I think vampires—oh, not vampires, Harry, vampires—they're a little bit different from vampires, because I've heard that holy unicorn blood breaks their spell of immortality."

"They just have to go out into the sun and die," said Harry, "at least that's what it says in the novels!"

"That's all deceptive. Those advanced magical creatures don't have the natural weaknesses of the magical animals they inherited. If they inherited them, they would be incomplete evolutions!" Ron corrected.

Harry was a little confused, he didn't understand what "magic animals" and "magic creatures" didn't understand, but Hermione listened very carefully - after all, she read some knowledge from textbooks not coming.

At this moment, Scorpius heard Draco snort extremely loudly in his ear: "Nonsense."

Ron's face changed, and he turned his head: "What's your opinion, Malfoy?"

"I don't have any opinion," Draco said blankly, "I just can't understand that some people obviously don't understand magical creatures but pretend to be experts here, Weasley, you must have never seen the sirens who inherited The magical creature of the bloodline died on land because it was far away from the water source during the transformation—but no one dared to say that it was an incomplete evolution."

"I haven't seen it, have you seen it?" Being dismantled in front of good friends, the red-haired Gryffindor's face was pale and red under Scorpius' lighting spell.

"I haven't seen it," Draco said decisively, "I will see you when you become an incomplete evolutionary body, tsk, I heard that the Weasley family and the mermaid have a bit of a disagreement." Unclear --"

"Shut up! Malfoy!" Ron gasped, "Magical creatures only exist in dark wizard families, and our family is a bit—"

"That's for sure, I've noticed from the moment you just stared blankly in front of you." Draco interrupted Ron with a sneer. After speaking, Prince Slytherin turned his head and said He found that the senior Slytherin who was following him had a subtle expression——

"What's that expression?" Draco raised an eyebrow.

Scorpius wiped his face feebly: "It's just that I feel tired after listening to you arguing."

I don't know what the semi-merman Weasley, who has lost his magic power many years later, will think about tonight's conversation—although he is not a magical creature, the Weasley family may really be confused with those merman Relationship.

"Maybe in the end they will be sorry to find that the unicorn was just because it stepped on a bear trap left by a stupid half-blood giant and forgot to recycle." Draco lowered his voice and moved away with disdain. topic.

Scorpius shrugged and walked at the end of the line a few steps away. When he felt his shoulder touched by the top of a strange plant, the senior Slytherin Only then did they realize that they had entered the Forbidden Forest.

Just as Hagrid said, the Forbidden Forest in winter is really much colder than the outside, and the wind blows gusts, and the wind seems to penetrate the thick winter cloak and blow into the bones, and the tall trees sway in the night wind, like The projection of the devil shaking and grinning, the surroundings are so dark that you can't stretch your fingers. When you look up, you can only vaguely see tonight's dim moon through the gaps in the branches and leaves of the criss-crossing trees.

The source of all the surrounding light sources is only the kerosene lamp in Hagrid's hand, which can only be regarded as a symbolic lighting effect, and the light emitted from the tip of the wand in Scorpius' hand——

Draco hadn't used his wand to light up the Illumination Charm - apparently the Slytherin prince thought there must be other contingencies that would require him to use his wand, and he wasn't sure he'd be able to do so in the panic. He would rather give up the step of lighting the magic spell when he completed the series of actions of extinguishing the lighting wand - aiming at the target - launching a new spell.

"Follow me closely, I don't want to put any of you in danger, yes, what we are going to do tonight is very dangerous—"

Draco interrupted him mercilessly: "And when there is danger, the whole meaning of your presence is to have one more person screaming and running with us."

Scorpius: "..."

Harry: "Malfoy, if you don't want to come with us, you can leave now!"

"Really?" Draco laughed lazily and dragged on emphatically, "Then I'm going back now, I'd rather clean the trophy room for a semester than be here - oh Merlin's socks, that's What!"

The smile on Draco's face was completely subdued, and there was a rare expression of surprise on his face. The small team had to stop because of his exclamation—everyone turned around and walked along. Looking in the direction of the finger of the first-year Slytherin, in the depths of the dark Forbidden Forest, there seemed to be some translucent white liquid hanging on the dense bushes. Tick ​​tock drops from the leaves to the ground...

"It's unicorn blood." The tall figure coming from behind the Slytherins grabbed Draco's shoulders and stuffed him behind him. Looking at the pool of silver blood, Hagrid Said gruffly, "Obviously, we're afraid we've found a just-wounded puppet--so much blood, it's probably badly wounded, it can't go far, maybe around here--"

Ron: "We need to split up and find it?"

Hermione and the two Slytherins immediately stared at the red-haired Gryffindor's words - but unfortunately, Hagrid seemed to agree with him...

"This is the second time this week...but I bet the one I saw the day before yesterday wouldn't have bled as much if it was still alive—" Hagrid sighed heavily, which made the kerosene in his hand The lights shook, "I found a dead unicorn in the depths of the Forbidden Forest the day after this happened last week. Oh, coming to the Forbidden Forest tonight is probably the worst thing I've done this year. The right decision—"

"—if we now go back to Dumbledore and take care of it himself, half-giant."

Draco interrupted Hagrid expressionlessly. At this moment, the silver-gray pupils of the platinum nobleman flickered with a cold light: "You are going to face a situation where you don't know anything, so rashly take the A group of first-year students entered the Forbidden Forest - it seems that you really want to be kicked out, don't you, this time I promise that even Dumbledore can't save you."