the lost castle

"On the road of fate, there are many things you can't see..."

Under the sunlight, the black lake is slightly rippling with psychedelic refraction. Occasionally, a dark shadow floats under the water surface with deep and shallow uniform ripples, and immediately disappears and sinks to the deeper lake bottom.The castle's towers and flat, broad body, solid and unbroken, cast shadows on the edge of the forest in the distance.

The smile on Godric's face remained until Mia's back disappeared on the road leading to the Forbidden Forest outside the castle, and immediately turned annoyed to look at Rowena and Helga who also sent them off.

"Merlin, what did you call her for?"

Rowena re-looked the blond knight up and down with a kind of surprise-like doubt, and after making sure that he didn't break his head after returning from time travel, she said dully, "Is she the daughter of Salazar?"

"Hell, just because she's Salazar's daughter..." Godric whispered angrily, "Don't you know that Salazar doesn't like his daughter?"

"Yes, but he doesn't like anyone, does he?" Helga stood on the porch behind them.

"Who said that, he obviously likes it very much—cough!" Gryffindor swallowed what he just said for a second with an embarrassed expression, and then returned to the situation as if nothing had happened, "You don't think Mia has a gloomy temper. Weird, looks even weirder in people's eyes, abuses cruel magic to kill people for no reason, ignores whatever is said to her, and is so arrogant that it is unbearable. What's more annoying is that she never listens to other people's advice. Are you still determined to see that Muggle aristocrat who insists on making troubles wholeheartedly?"

Rowena and Helga looked at me and I looked at you, and finally burst out laughing.

"... Godric."

"What are you laughing at?!" A certain knight was about to breathe fire like a fire dragon.

"Don't you think... except for the last sentence, Salazar has all the problems you mentioned, and they are definitely much more serious than Mia?"

"..."

"Even if you have a soft spot, you wouldn't dislike Salazar's daughter, right? Her mother has been dead for more than 20 years, and Salazar doesn't even remember the Marquis from the Aveling family."

"... Rowena! I didn't mean that!!" Godric jumped, seeing that the explanation became more and more unclear, "In short, she gave me a very bad intuition, and I always feel that bad things will happen... "

"Uh, we understand." Rowena continued to chuckle.

"You don't understand at all!" A certain knight was annoyed.

"Godric, you have to understand that getting lost in time is a terrible thing. We only hope that you can find your way back through blood. It is precisely because Mia is the daughter of Salazar that we do this."

"Okay... so what about Ansair?"

"Huh?" The topic changed too quickly, forget it, I didn't know Gryffindor on the first day, even if I was very confused, Helga still answered slowly, "Teaching the children in the castle ,What's wrong?"

"The last two years, no! From now on, keep a close eye on him and don't allow him to leave Hogwarts!!"

"Huh?" That's your knight entourage, your loyal companion, and one of the few professors at Hogwarts. His legs are on his body. Why do you stare at him like this?

"He will have an accident and die very early." Gryffindor scratched his hair in confusion.

"...you saw it in the future?" Helga's voice was very soft, as if it would disappear at any time.

"Really? What did those books say, did they mention us?" Rowena was immediately excited, and even more eager to rush back immediately to study time magic dialectically.

"……No."

That ending was very bad, he couldn't say.

"it's a pity."

Yes, that ending, he Godric.Gryffindor would never allow that to happen!

"Ask Sarah to come out for dinner. Tonight, you must tell us what it will look like in 1000 years. Isn't it interesting..."

"Salazar is in the kitchen." Helga interrupted Rowena's excitement.

"...Damn it!!" Rowena suddenly lifted her skirt and rushed into the castle, "Godric, what are you doing there, hurry up! If you can't catch Sarah before those stupid house elves knocked unconscious Racha kicked out of the kitchen, not to mention today's dinner, tomorrow's breakfast won't even exist—"

Under the sunlight, the gorgeous jewelry reflects the gorgeous brilliance on the elegant long dress, and the crown inlaid with pearls and sapphires is attached to the long tea-gold hair, flying wantonly, and the bright, wise and always smiling appearance gradually follows the hurried Quickly disappeared at the end of the porch.

Hogwarts, you will always stand here even if you fade away.

But only here is Hogwarts that belongs to him and Salazar, Hogwarts with Rowena and Helga.

"By the way, Helga, how do you know that Salazar is in the kitchen?" Godric turned his head and asked until he couldn't see Rowena's back.

"Guess, I saw fresh cod."

"Oh, Merlin, Rowena is said to be the wisest and smartest, but I often feel that she is self-willed like a child..." The blond knight blinked with a playful expression, "And you are more worthy of admiration, Helga! Come on , Ravenclaw for her breakfast tomorrow, Gryffindor for his chance tonight, let the three of us get Salazar drunk!"

The gates of the castle closed slowly, Helga turned around, and watched the knights in silver light armor striding through the high-domed porch, how wonderful, those people said that Hogwarts would still be here after 1000 years, but that After all, they didn't see it with their own eyes.Does it now mean that the most persistent worry in her heart is unnecessary?No matter how unpredictable and moody Salazar is, Godric is there, and the history of time shows that Hogwarts has not changed, and the four of them will always live like this.

Under the setting sun, the red-haired, brown-eyed witch smiled like this for a long time.

"Helga? I didn't say anything about Rowena just now, I didn't say anything! You are not allowed to tell her behind her back!"

Hogwarts, you will always stand here even when we die.

-

The crude wooden bucket contained clean water, but the careless person threw the dirty rag into the bucket and carelessly stuffed the dishes into the dirty water.

"Oh!! Harry, what are you doing?"

"Ah!" Potter looked at the freshly washed dishes caught in his hands and soaked in the sewage, and suddenly jumped up and panicked.

"Ron is gone, and Hermione is not as distraught as you are!" George and Fred muttered as they wiped the floor, then turned around, "We agreed to find a way."

"Merlin! You know what I saw just now!" Yaxley swept in like a gust of wind, waving his withered fingers exaggeratedly, "Godric. Gryffindor!"

The Death Eaters of the Order of the Phoenix who were mopping the floor and washing dishes in the room all squinted at him.

"You don't see each other every day?"

"No—Merlin!" Hermione was the first to react, "You mean, they? Are they back?"

The founder of Slytherin and Gryffindor is back?

Everyone froze on one movement.

What about Ron, what about Arthur and Hagrid, and Bella?

"There must be something we don't know..." Neville murmured nonsense that everyone knew, but this time no one expressed contempt, but all of them were thinking painfully about what else they had been thinking about for 23 years. Nothing like understand.Only Hermione, slowly turning her head, stared at the Savior.

The castle is very big, there must be endless things to do, everyone quickly dispersed and continued to be house elves,

Hermione followed Harry until no one was around.

"Harry!"

"Hermione?"

Although the once beautiful and intelligent girl has experienced so many years, she is still the most dazzling one among them, just like a long time ago in the Hogwarts library in the afternoon, one hand decisively pressed the middle line of the page he turned. , proudly and absolutely positively saying that the answer is here.

"Harry, tell me, you don't want to go back, do you? Even if you occasionally think about it, it's someone else, and you don't want to go back to that predicted fate in your heart!"

Castle, Death Curse, Dark Lord, Savior.

Of course, what may be needed is a soul, a desire or simply a firm will.

"I don't know...Hermione, I really, don't know."

The author has something to say:

To admit that no matter how good a friend is, trust is also a very fragile thing that needs to be maintained

Salazar and Lingcha rejected others, and never defending was the only mistake they made

Helga's suspicion of him stems from the gradual unhappiness over time, other people's opinions, and even other friends and Hogwarts. Her conclusion is correct. Salazar is a dangerous person who is difficult to grasp and guess. She can't I am sure that such a person will have an impact on the future of the four of them. The root of the tragedy in the portrait is here. In the castle, she knew that Hogwarts existed for thousands of years before she had this idea. Later, Gryffindor The feelings of Slytherin are accepted again, so Helga's concerns and her indifferent attitude in the portrait at the end will not exist here.