Harry Potter and the Way of Reason

Wide and empty stone walls delimited Hogwarts Castle, and the biting January wind howled around, making strange murmurs and whistles as it blew past the closed windows and stone towers.Most of the freshly fallen snow had been blown away, but there were still scattered pieces of re-frozen ice clinging to the surface of the stone, reflecting the harsh sunlight.From a distance, it looked like Hogwarts had hundreds of eyes blinking.

A sudden gust of wind made Draco flinch, trying to clinch closer to the stone wall, even though it was impossible to clinch any tighter.Stonewall feels and smells like ice.Some utterly meaningless instinct seemed convinced that he was going to be scraped off the outer walls of Hogwarts, and that the best way to avoid falling was to waste time on this irrepressible reflex, which would probably have to throw up last game.

Draco tried not to think about the void six stories below him, but seriously thought about how he would kill Harry Potter.

"You know, Mr. Malfoy," said the young girl beside him in a chatty tone, "if a prophet told me that someday I'd hang with my bare hands on the edge of the castle, trying not to look down or think about me How much Mum would have screamed if she had been there, I can't guess how it happened, except that it must have been Harry Potter's fault."

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Earlier:

The two Confederate leaders stepped over Longbottom's body at the same time, their boots dropping at almost the same pace.

There was only one soldier standing between them and Harry now, a Slytherin boy named Samuel Clemons, his wand whitishly pinched, held upwards to support his iris Law wall [2].The boy's breathing was rapid, but his face showed a grim determination, the same grim determination burning in the eyes of his officer.Harry Potter stood behind the Prismatic Wall, by an open window at the end of the corridor, his hands mysteriously behind his back.

They had twice the strength of the enemy, and the battle was almost absurdly difficult.It should have been easy, but the Dragons and the Sunshine Corps worked together effortlessly in practice, and they've been hostile for so long that they know each other well.Morale is high, and both armies understand that this time they are fighting not just for themselves, but for a world without traitors.Despite the astonished protests of the two officers, the Allied soldiers insisted on calling themselves the Dehe Sunny Dragoons, and making the logo of a smiling face wreathed in flames as their emblem.

But Harry's soldiers blackened their insignia - it wasn't like smeared black, more like they'd scorched part of their uniform - and in a desperate rage they were at Hogwarts Castle. Fight everywhere.The coldness and anger that Draco sometimes saw on Harry's face seemed to be transmitted to the soldiers, and they fought as if it wasn't a game.Harry had put his tricks out there, and there were little metal balls (Granger recognized them as 'ball bearings') rolling on the floor and on the stairs, and they couldn't get through without clearing them.Only Harry's army had practiced cooperating with each other to cast hover spells, sending their own men flying, right over the obstacles they had set up...

You can't bring devices into the game outside of the game, but you can cast Transfiguration spells at will during the game, as long as they are safe.It's so unfair when your opponent is a boy raised by scientists.Who knows about ball bearings, skateboards, or high ropes?

So the situation becomes like this.

The last remnants of Harry Potter's army were cornered by the surviving forces of the Allies.

Weasley and Vincent had raided Longbottom at the same time, and it seemed as if they had been practicing for weeks rather than hours, but Longbottom somehow managed to curse them both before he collapsed .

So now there are only Draco, Granger, Padma, Samuel and Harry, and from the way Samuel looks, his Prismatic Wall won't last long.

Draco had already pointed his wand at Harry, waiting for the Prismatic Wall to fall of its own accord; there was no need to waste a Shieldbreaker until then.Padma pointed her wand at Samuel, Granger pointed her wand at Harry...

Harry still hid his hands behind his back, not pointing his wand at anything; he watched them with a icy face.

Perhaps a bluff.I'm afraid not.

There was a short, tense silence.

Then Harry spoke.

"I'm a villain now," said the young boy grimly. "If you think it's so easy to deal with a villain, you'd better think twice. If you can beat me when I'm fighting seriously, I'll admit defeat; and once you lose , we will come back again next time.”

The boy held out his hand, and Draco saw that he was wearing weird gloves, with fingertips made of a special light gray material, and a buckle that fastened the glove tightly around his wrist.

Beside Draco, General Sunshine gasped in panic.Without even asking, Draco cast the Shieldbreaker Diamond Curse.

Samuel wobbled a bit, letting out a scream as he wobbled, but held on to the wall; if Padma or Granger attacked at once, they would run out of strength and probably be defeated outright.

"Harry!" Granger yelled, "Are you kidding me!"

Harry had already acted.

As he jumped out of the open window, he said in a cold voice, "Follow me if you dare."

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An icy wind blew around them.

Draco's arms were starting to tire.

...It turns out that yesterday, Harry carefully demonstrated to Granger exactly how to deform the glove he was wearing, which used a material called "Gecko bristle"; Fragments of the shoe were glued to the toe of the shoe; and then Harry and Granger played childishly, trying to scramble a little on the walls and ceiling.

And, also yesterday, Harry had given Hermione exactly two doses of Featherfall in total, telling her to pocket it "just in case".

In any case, Padma would not follow them anyway.She is not crazy.

Draco carefully tore his right hand off the wall, stretched it as far as possible, and slapped it on the stone wall again.Beside him, Granger was doing the same.

They've taken the Featherfall potion.It was a side-step of the rules of the game, but unless one of them actually fell, the potion wouldn't work, so as long as they didn't fall, it wouldn't count as using the item.

Professor Quirrell watched them.

The two of them are absolutely, completely, completely safe at this moment.

Harry Potter, on the other hand, is dead.

"I wonder why Harry would do that," said General Granger thoughtfully, as she slowly tore the fingertips of one hand off the wall with a long, sticky sound.Her hand slapped back against the wall. "After killing him, I must ask him."

It's amazing how much the two of them have in common.

Draco didn't particularly feel like talking right now, but he said through gritted teeth, "Probably revenge. For that date."

"Really," Granger said, "it's been so long."

Stick it on.Puff and tear it off.

"He's such a sweetheart," Granger muttered.

Stick it on.Puff and tear it off.

"I must find a very romantic way to thank him."

Stick it on.Puff and tear it off.

"And why doesn't he want to see you?" Granger asked.

Stick it on.Puff and tear it off.

An icy wind blew around them.

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Some may feel more secure once they have their feet on the ground again.

But if the so-called solid ground is a sloping roof with rough planks and much more ice on it than a stone wall, and you can run over it at a very high speed...

Then very unfortunately, you will find that you are dead wrong.

"Luminescence!" Draco yelled.

"Luminescent possession!" Granger growled.

"Luminescence!" Draco howled.

"Luminescent possession!" Granger roared.

The distant figure ran and dodged, and at the same time continued to climb in a hurry. Although they didn't hit, the distance between them gradually narrowed.

Until Granger slipped.

In retrospect, this was inevitable, in real life you wouldn't be able to run at high speed over an icy pitched roof.

It was also inevitable that Draco turned around and grabbed Granger's right arm and pulled her because of the suddenness of the incident, but she had completely lost her balance and slid down, pulling Draco along with her. , it all happened so fast—

It was followed by a heavy and painful fall to the ground. In addition to Draco's own weight, there was also a part of Granger's weight on the roof. If she had landed any closer to the edge of the roof, they would probably have died. She stabilized, but unfortunately her body tilted again, her legs also slipped down, and her other hand was crazily grabbing...

That's why Draco ended up clutching Granger's arm until his knuckles were white.Her other hand frantically reached for the edge of the roof, and Draco's shoe toe gripped the edge of the roof's planks.

"Hermione!" Harry shrieked from afar.

"Draco," Granger whispered, and Draco looked down at her.

This may be a mistake.Below her was a vast void, nothing but air, hanging from the edge of the roof jutting out of the stone walls of the Hogwarts main building.

"He'll come to my aid," the girl whispered, "but he'll cast the Luminosity Charm on both of us first, and there's no way he won't. You've got to let me go."

This should have been the easiest thing in the world.

She's just a Mudblood, just a Mudblood, just a Mudblood!

She doesn't even get hurt!

…Draco's brain wouldn't listen to anything he was telling himself right now.

"Let go," whispered Hermione Granger, her eyes twinkling without fear, "let go, Draco, let go, you can beat him yourself and we have to win Draco!"

There was movement, someone was running towards this side, he was getting closer.

Oh, be sensible...

The voice in Draco's head was too much like Harry Potter giving him a lesson.

…Do you want your brain to run your life?

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Aftermath, I

Daphne Greengrass had a hard time refraining from interjecting when Millicent Burst retold the story in the Slytherin girls' common room (the common room is at the bottom of Hogwarts Lake The cellar is cozy and cool, with fish swimming past every window and full of sofas for you to lie on).Mainly because, in Daphne's opinion, it's still a pretty good story without Millicent's embellishments.

"And then?" Flora and Hestia Carlo held their breath.

"General Granger looked up at him," Millicent said grandly, "and she said, 'Draco! You must let me go! Don't worry about me, Draco, I promise I'll be all right!' 'What do you think Malfoy did then?"

"He said 'Never!'," cried Charlotte Wieland, "and held her tighter!"

All the girls who listened to the story nodded yes except Pansy Parkinson.

"No!" said Millicent. "He let her go. Then he jumped up and hit General Potter. It's over."

There was a stunned pause.

"How could he do that!" Charlotte exclaimed.

"She's a Mudblood," Pansy said, sounding very confused. "Of course he let it go!"

"Okay, then, Malfoy shouldn't have grabbed her in the first place!" Charlotte shot back, "but once he's got her, he's got to hold on till the end! Especially when facing impending doom! Tracy Davis, who was sitting next to Daphne, nodded heavily while listening, expressing her approval.

"I don't understand why," Pansy said.

"Because you're not even an ounce of romance," Tracy said. "Plus, you can't just drop a girl like that. A guy who drops a girl like that...he can drop anyone. He'll drop you too , Pansy."

"What do you mean, give up on me?" Pansy asked.

Daphne could take it no longer. "You know," said Daphne darkly, "you're sitting at our long table eating breakfast one day, and the next thing you know, Malfoy has given up on you and let you fall off the top of Hogwarts tower. That's this means!"

"Yes!" said Charlotte. "He's a man who can abandon a witch."

"Do you know why Atlantis fell?" Tracy said, "Because someone like Malfoy abandoned it, that's why!"

Daphne lowered her voice. "Actually... what if Malfoy made Hermione, I mean General Granger, slip in the first place? What if he meant to make all Muggle-borns trip and fall?"

"You mean—" Tracy didn't dare to breathe.

"Exactly!" said Daphne dramatically. "What if Malfoy is the heir to—Slittering?"

"The next Fallen Demon King!"

The gag was too much to hold back, so by nightfall it had already spread throughout Hogwarts, and the next day it made the headlines in The Quibbler.

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Aftermath, II

That night, Hermione made sure to get to the classroom they usually stayed in early so that when Harry got there, she was sitting alone in a chair, quietly reading.

If a door can be pushed open apologetically, it is creaked like this.

"Uh," Harry Potter cleared his throat.

Hermione continued reading.

"I'm, uh, kind of sorry, I didn't mean to make you actually fall off the roof or something..."

It was actually quite an interesting experience.

"I, ah... I don't have much experience in apologizing. If you want me to kneel down, or buy you something expensive, Hermione, I don't know how to apologize to you. What should I do? Can you tell me directly? "

She continued to read in silence.

She didn't seem to know how Harry could apologize.

At this moment, she was just curious about what happened next. If she read the book for a while, what would happen?

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[1] Frontal Lobe Chaochi: Thanks to @流灵 for giving the title translation comments.The authors liken the brain to an automated control system and the frontal lobe to an override switch.The general idea is: the brain will carry out automatic control according to the previous behavior of the person, and the frontal lobe can interrupt this automatic control to produce changes in behavior patterns.If the brain’s judgment does not exceed rationality (normal parameters), the frontal lobe will acquiesce. If it exceeds the rational range (abnormal parameters), the frontal lobe will enforce control within the rational range. The frontal lobe here represents self-control or morality.Frontal lobe: It is part of the vertebrate brain, located in the front half of the brain (in front of the parietal lobe, above the temporal lobe), and is the largest part of the human brain.This structure is related to the formation of human language language, language expression (Broca's area), autonomous consciousness and control of voluntary muscles. zh.wikipedia/wiki/%E9%A2%9D%E5%8F%B6 Override: Override control (overrides) is also called alternative control or selective control system. Its characteristics are: under normal working conditions, the The parameter will not exceed the limit, so it is not considered to be directly controlled; under abnormal working conditions, the parameter will reach the limit value, and at this time it is required to take strong control measures to avoid exceeding the limit. hgbbs.net/bbs/thread-102544-1-6.html

[2] Rainbow Magic Wall: It comes from the protection spell setting of a role-playing game "Dungeon and Dragons" (D&D) with a fantasy background. It is said to be a vertical opaque wall—a A shimmering plane of polychromatic light that protects you from any form of attack.

[3] theheirofSlipperin: The Slipperin here is a homophonic stalk, homonymous with Slytherin.