The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

Soon, Tom found out the address of Scarborough Market - the formation of this market originated from the Vikings. They often landed in England and plundered, but they also carried out normal trade, and Scarborough formed a regular market for this reason. The market took place every autumn and lasted for one and a half months. .

This fair has been going on for hundreds of years, and not even the Vikings would raid here during the fair.

Scarborough Market is about forty or fifty miles away from here, and just walking there might break your legs. Then Hermione looked at Tom.

"You should still retain your abilities, right?"

"Of course!" As soon as she finished speaking, an elegant male unicorn appeared in front of Hermione's eyes. The beautiful silver hair caught Hermione's eyeballs at once. This beauty made her not want to move her eyes away at all.

Looking at the unicorn's bright silver hair, Hermione couldn't help but get closer to him, and then stroked his back, feeling the satin-like feel. But suddenly, she remembered the true form of this unicorn, and her face turned hot.

She rode on the unicorn's back and followed him all the way to Scarborough Fair.

There's a reason why you don't use Phoenix form. The distance along this road is not close. If it is a genuine Fox, it may be able to arrive quickly. But as a replica, Tom has not yet mastered the magical function of teleportation, so he can only fly honestly to Scarborough Market. It will take at least twenty minutes to talk. In order to deceive others, Tom must fly higher. What if Hermione falls from him during the flight?

So it was better to turn into a unicorn and let him carry Hermione there - and as a unicorn, Tom felt inexplicably comfortable when Hermione was close to him, especially when Hermione touched her back. Various massages are also pleasing to the body and mind. Unfortunately, Hermione only touched it for a short while and then stopped.

The speed of a unicorn in the forest is no less than that of a horse, and its endurance is far beyond that of an ordinary horse. About two hours later, Tom drove Hermione to Scarborough Market.

This market is much larger than the market in the small town just now, probably hundreds of times the size of the previous one. It is full of small merchants and hawkers shouting about selling their goods, and there are also capable merchants selling goods and buying specialties here.

Tom felt the atmosphere of medieval fireworks for the first time.

In the market, they easily found the spice merchant and bought the four spices. The merchant very thoughtfully helped them wrap these four spices together. Only then did Tom realize that these four spices represented the sweetness of love, strength, loyalty and courage respectively.

After buying the spices, they walked to the south of the market, asking for Ben's address as they walked. Finally, they found Benn in a small village south of the market.

Ben looks to be a young man in his early twenties, with a strong build and slender limbs. He has some fields at home and hires more than a dozen people to help him farm. After taking the spice bag, he showed a sad expression.

He thought for a while and said to Tom, "Please give me a message. Just tell Elaine and ask her to make me a linen shirt. However, after the shirt is made, it must be washed in a dry well. Let it dry on a stick of withered grass, and when the shirt is made, it must be able to contain the water without leaking a drop. If we can do this, we can get back together and become each other's true love."

Tom \u0026 Hermione:…

When they returned to the town, it was already afternoon.

Elaine was waiting for them at the entrance of the town.

After hearing Ben's reply, Elaine stamped her feet: How could such a thing be done! Didn't you just have a quarrel with him? Why be so stingy!

She was a little angry, "Then please tell me again. I also have a request for him. I want him to harvest the grain with a leather sickle, and then thresh the grain on the wall, but not a single seed falls on the ground. If he can get this done, then we can get back together and be true love for each other.”

Tom had already figured out that the young couple was probably having trouble. However, the message still had to be brought. Tom knew that if he wanted to complete this copy, this couple was the key.

"Okay, I will convey your words to you, but if you want, my good friend can help you finish this shirt."

Benn's request was a bit outrageous, but it was not difficult for the wizard to achieve it.

"Really?" Elaine raised her head in surprise, "Can you really make such a shirt?"

"Of course, we are travelers from afar." Tom smiled.

"But if you really like Ben, it would be better to get back together with him as soon as possible. When two people get along, they need to tolerate each other."

Elaine lowered his head and said nothing.

Tom pulled Hermione aside and whispered to her the method he had thought of. Then he was on his way to Scarborough Fair. Fortunately, for some reason, Tom, who had been running around for most of the day, had no idea of ​​eating or drinking.

A day later, Elaine had made the linen shirt that Ben wanted. She handed the shirt to Hermione, who walked into a dry well with the shirt.

"Clear water like a spring!" A gurgling clear spring emerged from the tip of Hermione's staff, and there was also a water source in the dry well. She successfully washed her shirt at the bottom of the dry well. The washed shirt was placed on a piece of withered grass, and Hermione used a floating spell to make the shirt and the withered grass float in the air. Soon, the distant mountain breeze dried the shirt.

Finally, Hermione followed Tom's instructions and asked for a candle, and smeared it on the surface of the shirt over and over again. After applying it, she rolled a hot pebble on the shirt, and the wax melted into the gaps in the cloth. . This kind of shirt will not leak even if a glass of water is poured into it.

After the shirt was finished, Elaine asked Hermione to send it over for her and see if Ben had harvested the grain as she requested.

Hermione shook her head. She felt that the couple really had a stomachache: they clearly liked each other, but they refused to give in and created problems for each other. If this continued, they would only miss out on their marriage.

However, Hermione believed that Tom had found a good solution.

With some stomachache, Hermione set out on the road to Scarborough Fair.

Meanwhile, Tom was already standing on Ben's threshing floor.

"Awesome, how did you do it? You can make a leather sickle as hard as a stone!"

Tom:…

This is nothing, some big guys can even make a knife out of rice, but Tom doesn't have that skill, so he can only make do with a petrification spell.

As for threshing grain on the wall, Tom's solution was to put a layer of cloth on the ground. And in order to prevent the wind from blowing away the millet, he also covered the outside with a layer of gauze.

In this way, it was possible to thresh millet while standing on the wall, and not a single grain of millet fell to the ground.

After the last handful of grain was taken care of, Ben was so tired that he almost collapsed. He staggered down from the wall, and then walked to Tom: "Please, go and talk to Elaine, just say that I have done it! Let us get back together."

Tom nodded and started on his way home again.

This time, he met Hermione on the way. After some discussion, the two decided that it would be better to take Elaine with him to see Ben. The couple was at odds with each other. Someone must tie the bell, which saves Tom the two of them from running back and forth.

But when they returned to the small town, an unexpected scene appeared.

Although the town is not prosperous, there are still hundreds of people living in it, and it has a lot of vitality. But when Tom returned here again, the entire town had been reduced to ruins, and even the tallest church only had ruins left. Other houses were turned into piles of rubble and charcoal, and were buried by wildly growing weeds. Occasionally, hollow skulls can be seen among the weeds.

Tom relied on his memory to arrive at the door of Elaine's house, and found that Elaine's house, like the rest of the town, had also turned into scorched earth. He picked up a hair crown with brown spots in the weeds and gently wiped it off. The dust on top.

"Tom, here...why? I don't understand..." Hermione looked at this strange yet familiar scene and said in disbelief, "We were only gone for half a day!"

"Go back to Ben." Tom immediately returned with a hair crown. This time, the small village south of Scarborough Market was still there, but the moment Tom walked in, he felt that everything here had changed subtly. : The house and fields are still familiar, but all the details have become out of place. Even the villagers seem to have changed.

When he came to Benn's house, he found that the house also looked abandoned for a long time.

Tom stopped an old farmer passing by, "Do you know where the owner of this house has gone?"

A trace of memory flashed through the old farmer's cloudy eyes, "This house used to belong to a man named Benn. In the early years, the Viking pirates made trouble and many towns in the north were razed to the ground. He took the initiative to respond. I accepted the lord's call and went to fight the Vikings, but I never came back. In the end, I only sent a jar back... These were all decades ago... Why do you ask about these things?"

"Nothing," Tom shook his head, "Then do you know where Ben was finally buried?"

"No!" The old farmer pointed to the house, which was buried in the backyard of his house, under the oak tree.

Tom and Hermione walked through the collapsed door and walked into the ruins of Ben's house. Under the oak tree in the backyard, they saw a small grave that was almost buried by weeds. In front of the grave there was only a two-foot-square stone with a Engraved with Ben's name. Under the stone, there is also a necklace with a cross.

Tom wordlessly took the linen clothes from Hermione's arms, but as soon as the clothes came into contact with the air, they quickly rotted and turned into fly ash.

Tom gently dug out the necklace and tangled it with the hair crown.

[Double copy: Clear Scarborough Fair!

Mission goal achieved: Fulfill Elaine and Ben's wishes.

Copy reward: Divination talent +1]

[Divination: 4 (gifted)]