Magical Studies at Hogwarts

Chapter 20 Stewart's Kindness

After leaving the auditorium, Ike came to the edge of the Black Lake alone.

Hogwarts was very cold in January. There had been a few snowfalls in the past few days, and some of them hadn't melted yet. When the wind blew, they hit their faces like ice slag.

Ike put a warming spell on himself, and still felt cold, even though his body would not feel cold at all under the effect of magic.

"boom!"

A snowball flew from behind, Ike moved the snowball slightly with his fingers and stopped half a meter behind him, then flew towards the direction of attack at a faster speed, and a dozen more snowballs flew from the ground, followed by Then flew out.

"Ike! Stop it!" Stuart dodged aside the moment the snowball stopped, but the snowball came too fast, and it took five or six hits in a row to escape the follow-up attacks.Seeing more snowballs floating up, he begged for mercy.

Ike smiled and let Stuart go.While shaking the snow on his clothes, Stuart complained: "The snow has melted for several days, and it's all black! I have to wash my clothes when I go back. You know I hate washing clothes the most."

"It's all the house-elves doing the laundry. What's bothering you? Besides, you started it first, so I just fought back."

Ike put a cleaning spell on Stuart: "There's still magic, isn't it?"

"Clothes cleaned by magic have no soul." Stuart tidied up his clothes and rubbed his hands. "It's so cold, I really don't know why you came here."

"Come out and blow some air, don't you think the current Black Lake is very beautiful?" Ike pointed to the frozen lake in front of him and said, "You don't want to go skating?"

"I don't want to." Stuart shook his head like a fly. "Roger said that the giant squid in the black lake likes to tap the ice from below when the little wizards skate. You know, it is so big that it doesn't know." Light and heavy, it often breaks the ice surface."

"Is that so? Forget it. I don't want to drink Madam Pomfrey's special cold potion. It will be uncomfortable to see the smoke coming from my ears."

"You're right to think so." Stuart replied, then hesitated for a moment, and said carefully, "Ike, actually, when I came here, I thought... that is, I feel that something is wrong with you recently..."

"If possible, please tell me, we are friends, aren't we?"

Ike turned around, looked at the cautious Stuart, and couldn't help showing a smile.

"It's just some small troubles when learning the spell, nothing can't be solved. I just relax a little, and the problem will be solved soon."

"Okay." Stuart nodded, "However, I want to say that you don't need to push yourself so hard, and you don't have to be so stiff with Morag and the others."

"Actually, everyone knows that you have sealed yourself off..."

"Many times, I feel that you push yourself too hard. Hogwarts has never had a first-year student who can master silent spellcasting and unarmed spellcasting like you..."

"I think it's actually a good thing if you try to communicate more with people, isn't it?"

"Everyone doesn't actually hate you, it's just..."

"Just afraid of me, isn't it?" Ike still had a smile on his lips, but Stuart shuddered for no reason.

"That's it! That's it!" Stuart said loudly, "Sometimes your expression is really scary, especially when you use that kind of eyes..."

"It's really scary. I feel like I'm suffocating several times!"

Ike patted Stuart on the shoulder with a smile, and said, "Okay, I see, I will pay attention."

"You'd better do it!" Stuart showed a vicious expression, "Otherwise, even if I can't beat you, I will definitely make you pay the price!"

"Okay, okay, I see." Ike moved his fingers, and a whirlwind swept the snow within three meters in front of him to the Black Lake. It looks good.

"I just haven't figured out something."

"what about now?"

"Figured out."

Stuart looked at Ike's smiling face. Although he still had doubts in his heart, Ike said "you believe me" all over his face, so he believed it for now.

This sentence of persuasion is due to love, and Ike naturally understands this, and he can only thank Stuart who came to say this.

"Perhaps, we should really try to get in touch with them?"

On the way back, Ike was thinking while listening to Stuart talking about some interesting things recently.In fact, he also knows that the current isolated situation is caused by himself.Just like Morag, although he always greeted with blank eyes every time he met, didn't he also use Snape's gaze to scare people?

One point for playfulness, three points for deliberation, and the remaining six points for vigilance can be put down.

at least for them...

In the next period of time, Stewart and others found that Ike gradually became more cheerful. Although he still ran away from time to time, he would slowly join the conversation between them, the activities in the common room will also be there.

It's just that the habit of frightening people with eyes is still there from time to time, but after such a long time, I'm actually used to it.

Even Morag would only roll his eyes when Ike showed Snape's gaze, and talked and laughed at other times.

This is good, at least it looks a lot more harmonious.

"...Professor Flitwick, that's it. Ike is much better now, and I think he is indeed slowly integrating." Sitting opposite Professor Flitwick's desk, Stuart said, holding a cup of hot chocolate.

"That's good." Professor Flitwick took out a small cake from the drawer and handed it to Stuart. "Sure enough, it's better for you to communicate with each other, and Mr. Strider can listen to it."

"So, Mr. Ackley, would you like another small cake? I always think this is the best dessert in Hogwarts." Professor Flitwick took another small cake from the drawer and handed it to Stuart.

"No, Professor Flitwick." Stuart waved his hand.

"Okay." Professor Flitwick grabbed another handful of candies from the drawer, "Let's get some candies, actually, I don't like these candies very much, but I get a lot of them every Christmas, especially the pile of cockroaches. , omg! I don't know why there are such horrible candies!"

"Professor Flitwick..." Stuart looked at the pile of cockroaches crawling around on the table, and said with some resistance, "If possible, I would like some piles of cockroaches. Ike likes to eat this very much, although I also think It's scary."

"Really? Mr. Stuart's taste is very similar to Dumbledore's." Professor Flitwick wrapped up the pile of cockroaches in the drawer and handed them to Stuart. "They are the only two people I know who like this thing." , Maybe the two of them like it in the whole magic world, maybe?"

As he spoke, Professor Flitwick blinked.

"I think so too." Stuart took the paper bag, got up and said, "Professor Flitwick, can I go, I'm going to send these to Ike quickly."

"Of course, Mr. Ackley." Professor Flitwick nodded, watching Stuart leave the office.Fingers tapped rhythmically on the table, then picked up the quill pen and wrote something on a piece of parchment, then folded the paper into a paper crane, threw it into the sky, and the paper crane flew out with its wings flapping.

"Maybe you don't need to be so nervous..."

　I worked overtime until 10 o'clock, it's a nuisance, there is another chapter around 1 o'clock

　　
　
(End of this chapter)