Chapter 2395 Intentional or Unintentional
Regarding some old things about Tia back then, Snape, as the elder brother, naturally did not know before receiving this letter. After all, when the incident happened, he and his sister Tia were just a pair of strangers living in a foreign country. people.
But unlike Snape, as the welcome person responsible for guiding Tia to become a wizard and enroll in Ilvermorny, John obviously knew a lot more stories than the former. Except that he had no way of knowing that Brooks had secretly fallen in love with that timid little girl, he knew most of Tia's experience after she skipped school and went to New York that year, and even personally participated in some of them during that period. .
"...I didn't have any money on me at the time, and I didn't dare to talk to others, so after two days, I almost thought I would starve to death there. Every day I could only stay in the corner of the subway station, because there were Free water to drink, and if you want, some kind people will occasionally give you some food if you sit on the side of the more crowded aisle-there are a lot of homeless people there, and I met one of them. How can I, who is penniless and have nothing, barely survive there..."
This is the description of the situation she encountered when she first arrived in New York, which was briefly mentioned in the letter Tia wrote to her brother Severus. To be more specific, she didn't go any further, but just judging from these few words, she can roughly understand what kind of predicament she encountered when she was less than thirteen years old.
But what to say? In fact, Snape also knew very well what the United States was like back then. Tia met homeless people there and got advice and help. This is actually not because she was lucky, but because on the streets of New York...especially in those neighborhoods that are not rich, there is never a lack of The presence of homeless people.
Tia lived in a church orphanage since she was a child, and was later introduced to Ilvermorny by John. She lived on the school's bursary. Even the textbooks and school supplies were second-hand and cheap. How could there be any money for her after playing truant? use?
It's just that it can be seen from this that she was under so much pressure at school that she seemed a little desperate when she escaped.
"Yes, I regretted it when I shivered in a corner of the subway station for several consecutive nights, and I always wondered if I should go back quickly... But, Severus, do you know? I It wasn't because I was afraid of punishment. After all, I voluntarily gave up going back to school. I just felt that Ilvermorny might not be a place for me from the very beginning—someone like me didn't deserve it at all. "
"Yes, Ilvermorny is actually very beautiful... Aside from the sights that other people cast on me, the days there are really beautiful. Especially after experiencing a homeless life in New York, I feel it even more, every day To have steaming food, thick and warm mattresses and bedding, and endless knowledge to learn—it doesn't get any better than that."
"But... yes, I'm just a useless orphan picked up by Mr. Stewart by luck.
I can't stay there, not because people are targeting me, just because I don't fit in the goodness there...I don't deserve it. "
Three paragraphs, three "yes" in a row, exhausted all the inner feelings of little Tia at that time. She was cowardly and submissive when she was young, and she felt that she was not worthy of staying in the grand and magnificent Ilvermorny Castle—that was not the life she could have, at least in her heart back then. I think so.
"...but soon, I had no room to think about it anymore."
Suddenly, a turning point ended the rapid change of the situation at that time. Why did Tia return to Ilvermorny and stay there until graduation? It was not because of her remorse, nor was it because of her hunger, but because after experiencing the anxiety of wandering the streets of New York, she was suddenly involved in a major case that shocked the entire American magic world. among!
And that incident can be said to have directly led to a major incentive for the Stewart family to send people to Europe to officially intervene in this disaster recently.
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"John, are you back? Has Brooks gone back?"
When John Stewart crossed the strait from the port of Calais and brought the other wizard of the three to Clacton-on-the-Sea in southwestern England, he saw that the entire team of the workshop had been waiting here for a long time.
And at this moment, the person who asked him for questioning was the captain of the team and the head of the wand research and development team in the masonry workshop, Master Jonkel.
That's right, these are the very few non-Stuart family members in the so-called "Stuart Family Institute". It's just that the workshop sent him to lead the team this time, not because he was an "outsider", but because Mr. Junker had outstanding strength and great reputation in the workshop.
This is the son of Johannes Jonkel, one of the four famous wand makers in the modern American magic circle. He is already in his early forties this year.
"Of course, I drove that kid back before I came here—don't worry, he still listens to what I say." John waved his hand at Jonkel and replied quite casually.
Seeing John's sloppy look, Junker obviously had nothing to do with it, so he could only shake his head secretly.
The fact that Brooks followed secretly couldn't be hidden for too long, but the pair of Stewart brothers took the initiative to explain the reason why Brooks accompanied them on the way here, and John also promised that he would never let the kid follow up with the UK. Junkel reluctantly agreed to the brothers' plan to go to Italy first.
Of course, Junkel's compromise is not just because of this.
"...What about Mr. Snape? Prince...well, I mean, have you seen Miss Tia Snape?"
Seeing that Jonker immediately asked about the harvest of this trip to Italy, John could only shrug his shoulders and spread his hands, showing a little helplessness.
"That Mr. Snape doesn't eat hard, and doesn't leak water. We almost got into a fight this trip, let alone seeing Miss Prince."
John didn't change his tune, and still called Tia by the surname "Prince". In the end, he changed his frivolous appearance and said in a rather serious and helpless way:
"This time is for the future of the United States, but there will be no next time! Those people at Hogwarts are not easy to mess with at all-they don't use our wands, and we don't have much advantage against them. It is unwise to infiltrate their neighborhood for the first time to deliberately stir up conflicts."
Obviously, judging from what John said, what the three of them did in Italy was intentional!
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