Chapter 2393 In that Year, I Skipped School and Went to New York

People in this world can be roughly divided into two types, one is men and the other is women... This is nonsense. However, there may be another way to divide this vast sea of ​​people, one is people who live a mediocre life, and the other can be called "people with stories".

Tia is a woman, and a woman with a lot of stories. Not many people knew her story, and even Severus, his brother, hadn't had a detailed understanding of her past so far.

Tia herself didn't want to mention it, and with Professor Snape's character, she naturally wouldn't take the initiative to interrogate her, so the long-lost brother and sister got along in such a muddle-headed way.

Yes, until today, when Severus opened the letter from France. In the letter, Tia also expressed her heart to her elder brother for the first time, explaining her student self through lines of words...

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Tia briefly described how she entered Ilvermorny through the guidance of John Stewart at the beginning of the letter.

She did not include her own life in the church orphanage in the United States as a child. Because obviously, she didn't want to remember those days at all.

In fact, since the time of studying in Ilvermorny may not be so good, Tia hardly talked about the past after she came to Europe and even met her brother. If there was no reason for this incident, maybe she would never want to mention it in her life.

That's right, during those years in Ilvermorny, Tia's life was not safe.

Perhaps because of its deep roots, Ilvermorny, like Hogwarts, is divided into schools for admission, and it is also divided into four colleges. The four founders of Ilvermorny each chose a magical animal as a representative, and divided the school into the "Horned Water Serpent", "Ocelot", "Thunderbird" and "Pukki" colleges.

When the little wizards are guided into Ilvermorny, everyone will pass through the castle hall one by one, and the four magic statues located at the four corners of the hall will then reveal their visions—the crystal on the forehead of the long-horned water serpent is shining dazzlingly, is It sees the wisdom of a scholar; the leopard cat raises its claws and roars, it sees the body of a brave man; It is that it sees a good heart.

When the vast majority of students experienced this traditional sorting ceremony, one of the four statues showed a vision, so they were sorted to their corresponding colleges. But over the years, some young wizards with special characteristics have often been spotted by multiple statues.

For example, Mr. Barlow Stewart, who is one of the two principals of Ilvermorny,

That is the one who led a team to the UK in a private capacity to help out a few days ago. When he first entered school, there were three statues at the same time expressing the hope that he could enter the college he represented.

And more than ten years ago, when Tia walked through the foyer of Ilvermorny Castle, the crystal shone, lightning flashed and thunder thundered—the Horned Serpent Academy and the Thunderbird Academy welcomed her at the same time.

Afterwards, Tia, who chose to become a member of the Longhorn Water Snake Academy, naturally also learned about the selection criteria of the four major academies. She was puzzled and wondered why the horned water snake statue representing the wisdom of scholars favored her, and why the Thunderbird statue representing the adventurous soul would send invitations... She didn't understand until she graduated in a daze, She didn't even figure it out.

Of course, the doubts in Tia's mind were ignored for the time being. The problem is that whenever there is such a student who causes multiple colleges to "compete" during the sorting process, it is almost doomed that this student will get attention from all sides in his future school life .

And this meant that Tia's every move would fall into everyone's eyes during at least the six months to a whole year after entering school.

There is no doubt that these days are completely disastrous for Tia!

Maybe Tia does have good wisdom, or maybe she actually has the quality and ability to take risks. After all, the four magic statues were originally made by the founder. According to the school history of Ilvermorny, they Few mistakes. But with her cowardly personality that was "forced" when she grew up in the orphanage, these characteristics that she was born with have obviously never been brought into play, and have always been hidden in the deepest part of her small body .

Faced with the observations of many peers around her, and even professors who have implicit expectations of her, as if holding a magnifying glass, others may wish for this kind of attention, but she is really very embarrassed.

And precisely because of this "special treatment", coupled with Tia's own taciturnity, she has never been able to make even a single friend.

So in the whole school year of the first grade, Tia didn't have any outstanding performance, and she would always make all kinds of big or small mistakes because of the pressure brought by the eyes of others. Maybe it was painful when she was bullied in the orphanage in the past, and her body was always full of scars, but now that she is going to school in Ilvermorny without physical torture, she still lives exhausted, and even feels more difficult than before.

"Why is everyone looking at me like that? I can't do it well... I really can't do it well, I'm slow at learning spells, and I don't have a very good memory. I can't tell the difference...I'm sorry, please don't look at me anymore, and don't look at anyone!"

To be honest, at the beginning when everyone was not familiar with her, many classmates around her may have paid too much attention to her. Because of the special features revealed during the sorting, everyone felt that she might show some characteristics that others did not have. Whether it was envy or jealousy, the little wizards and many professors were watching.

But gradually, the gazes deliberately cast on her are actually decreasing, after all, that's what happens if you look at her too much.

However, perhaps Tia herself cared too much, and there were some classmates who laughed at her, so that she only felt more and more breathless every day.

In the second year, when she was promoted to the second grade, there was no Tia in the auditorium on the first day of school.

"...I skipped school. I sat for a long time at a burger joint at the foot of Mount Greylock on the first day of school, and then I dragged my suitcase back to the station and took a train to New York. At an intersection in New York, I saw the same Brooks who played truant to find me, but I avoided him that day and didn't see him."

In a letter to her brother, Tia wrote so.

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