In the evaluations of Severus Snape and Hagrid, Amosta Brain was a low-key and withdrawn person when he was in school. Even he himself did not deny that this was an appropriate evaluation.
However, this is not because Amosta himself is a wizard who is repellent from thousands of miles away.
You know, Brian is an 'outsider'. Before coming to Hogwarts, he always thought that he had just traveled to a parallel world on Earth.
In the previous eleven years of his life, he spent a lot of time adapting to a country with completely different living habits and cultural customs from his previous life. He also spent a lot of energy to pick up the cultural knowledge he had mastered during his student days and actively prepare for the future. .
However, the admission notice from Hogwarts disrupted all his plans and made all his previous efforts almost in vain.
Why was he so out of tune with the surrounding environment in his first few years at Hogwarts?
This problem is very easy to explain.
First of all, the existence of magic directly challenged the worldview and values that Amosta II had gathered in the past thirty years. In those years, he had been in a state of chaos. On the other hand, he had to admit that magic was real and work hard to While learning magic knowledge, he always wanted to use "scientific methods" to explain the rationality of the existence of magic, which simply caused him to have a split personality.
Secondly, the specious plot memories that still remained in his mind made him feel painful.
Amosta knows that he is in an extremely real magical world, not a juvenile book. Here, there are dangerous and vicious magical creatures, evil curses that are difficult to guard against, cruel and bloody dark wizards, and unscrupulous evil spirits. There are conspirators and despicable hypocrites.
Although Amosta remembered some names, he could no longer recall the plots derived from the characters in the plot, so he could not directly judge whether they were 'good people' or not.
Especially after entering the magic world, he knew that he was weak and powerless, and being wary of everyone was his way to ensure his own safety.
According to Hagrid, the indifference and isolation of the Slytherin students was the least important thing to him.
After all, his young body contained a mature soul.
Severus Snape was the only wizard he recognized in this school at that time. As for the reason, it is inseparable from Amosta's embarrassing background.
Amosta was very poor at that time, and the school's small scholarships, apart from ensuring that he could afford second-hand books and teaching tools, could not support his advanced learning progress.
In order to save his poor financial situation, Amosta had to find a way to make some money on his own. Since the second grade, he began to brew potions in private and sell them.
At the beginning, he could only make some simple potions using cheap raw materials in the students' storage cabinets, earning a small profit, and accumulated a small amount.
It wasn't until the second semester of his third year that he received a big order worth eighty gold galleons - to brew a long-lasting invisibility potion.
In order to ensure nothing went wrong, he used the Disillusionment Charm to sneak into the Restricted Book Area many times in the middle of the night to search for information, and asked Snape in a roundabout way about the secret of brewing this potion.
This was due to Amosta's carelessness. The person who bought the potion did not provide the raw materials. One tail feather of the invisible beast, the most valuable in the invisibility potion, was worth six gold galleons. It took five to brew the potion. Tail Feathers, which will almost wipe out Amosta's savings.
Unfortunately, things in the world often don't go as expected. If there are no accidents, accidents will eventually happen.
Due to lack of experience, Amosta made a mistake in the dosage of Abyssinian shriveled fig juice, and the potion failed.
Because of this, Amosta was depressed for several days.
But just before the potions class a week later, Amosta went to pick up the ingredients for the class, and unexpectedly found a bundle of ten invisible beast tail feathers in his usual storage cabinet. This was a precious material. Usually they don't appear in little wizards' storage cabinets at all!
Moreover, in the ensuing class that explained the confusion drug, Professor Snape, who was as if nothing had happened, actually talked about the invisibility potion to everyone in an irrelevant manner!
This made Amosta realize that he was probably watching the cold-faced dean that he was brewing potions in private and selling them.
Situations like this happened several times later, but both parties maintained a very high level of tacit understanding and no one tried to break it.
Because of this, Amosta began to gradually trust Severus Snape. Before that, he had always been wary of Snape because he had learned from chats with students in the same school that Snape Pu seemed to have been a follower of the great Dark Lord in the past. When the Dark Lord fell, he escaped the Wizengamot trial because he received the protection of Principal Dumbledore.
However, the close relationship with the dean did not change Amosta's philosophy of keeping a low profile. He remained silent in the school and tried not to conflict with others, or to perform too well and arouse the jealousy of others. This situation It lasted until he was in fifth grade before being broken by an accident.
That happened at the end of November 1986.
The winter that year was particularly cold, and Grandma Felena, who was already eighty-four years old, did not survive until the New Year and Christmas.
For her grandmother, who took good care of her growth and devoted her life to charity, she had always been Amosta's most beloved elderly person. Her death was a huge blow to Amosta.
But because that year was the OWLS year, the schoolwork was quite intense, and there was not much time left for Amosta to grieve. Therefore, after hurriedly attending the funeral of the old man, Amosta had to go back to school without stopping to continue his work. of studies.
Time goes back to late night in early December 1986.
The dark night covered the earth tightly like a huge curtain, and the strong cold wind swept across the black lake that had begun to freeze. The ice shards colliding with each other made a clicking sound, just like the Inferi chewing bones.
After confirming that all his roommates were asleep, Amosta sat up expressionlessly. He quietly got dressed and took out a framed black and white photo from the secret compartment beside the bed.
The common room was quiet. The pale green lights, rough stone walls, and many empty carved soft chairs made this long, narrow, and low room look more like a tomb.
The students of Slytherin House were not as keen on exploring the castle in the middle of the night as Gryffindor, so while walking through the maze of dazzling corridors, Amosta did not meet a single student.
However, there is nothing to worry about even if you meet one.
Amosta was very confident in his proficiency in the Disguise Spell. He could completely hide himself while moving. Even Filch's malnourished cat couldn't notice anything strange when he walked by.
"Hey, little guy, I think you must be lost!"
As he passed the foyer, the sound of voices above the marble stairs caught Amosta's attention. He took a few steps closer and looked up, and found that it was the prefect of Gryffindor, Bill from the Weasley family, talking to him. A young Hufflepuff wizard spoke.
"Go back to bed quickly, little one, or I will send you to see Professor Sprout."
"Okay, okay, Prefect Weasley, I'm going back to the dormitory now!"
Hearing that he would not be deducted points or sent to the professor for solitary confinement, the little wizard who was caught by Bill was grateful. He hurriedly bowed to Bill and apologized, and then ran away in a hurry.
After dealing with this unruly little wizard, Bill touched his long hair that was scattered behind his head, hummed a song and walked up the marble stairs, continuing his duties as a prefect.
Amosta stood at the bottom of the stairs and watched Bill's back disappear from sight. Bill Weasley, the eldest son of the Weasley family who was trusted by Dumbledore, and the much-anticipated Bill Weasley, was well received by teachers and students in this school. Not just because of his outstanding achievements, but because of his extraordinary personality.
But among the senior Slytherin students, Bill Weasley had a very bad reputation.
They believed that Bill Weasley, who hung out with a group of Muggle-born wizards all day long, had betrayed the glory of the ancient wizarding family. Privately, they planned to teach Bill a lesson.
But every time, they were beaten badly by Bill Weasley and his strong Chaser brother, no matter how many men they sent out.
Therefore, this has led to Bill Weasley almost becoming the public enemy of Slytherin students in fifth grade and above. In particular, there are rumors that President Dumbledore seems to intend to hand over the position of President of the Boy Student Union to Bill when he is in seventh grade. After giving it to him, this targeting became more and more obvious.
Amosta smiled silently, turned and walked toward the foyer toward the Forbidden Forest.
All these troubles have nothing to do with him. After all, no one would foolishly expect a transparent figure from Slytherin with no sense of existence to defeat the proud man of Gryffindor House who is as dazzling as the sun.
