The effect of Motla Rat Juice was indeed very good, and soon the injury on Pansy's back shoulder was almost healed.
As a result, Miss Parkinson, who was not hindered by her pain and could not rush back to Hogwarts immediately, seemed to have no choice but to lie in bed and take a short nap.
However, today I have been busy since morning, so I should be very sleepy by now. While waiting for Iluli to come back, she lay on the bed and rolled over in a daze for a while.
But now lying on the bed, Pansy only felt that she was not sleepy at all. After closing her eyes, her mind was filled with whether she could go back to school in time...
Yes, as long as she could get back to school in time, she didn't even have to go back to the dormitory. She could just find an excuse to get up early and get through it calmly.
However, it would be too suspicious if you didn't even go to the auditorium for breakfast.
"Otherwise, why don't you worry about the broken wand and go back first?"
This thought only stayed in Pansy's mind for a few seconds, but she quickly put it aside.
Let's not talk about how to go to class without the wand - these are all trivial matters. The main problem still lies with the three Aurors. If he were to find out about her in the future and find that she had never been to Ollivander, it would be difficult to explain.
Of course, if Ollivander's Wand Shop didn't open until very late, she would have no choice.
In this way, Pansy tossed and turned in bed and managed to survive until dawn.
"Wow-"
When Pansy stared at her panda eyes and saw the first hint of white halo in the sky through the window, she immediately lifted the quilt and got out of bed.
In fact, she only took off her outer robe when she lay down last night, and now she didn't even need to waste time getting dressed again.
"Iluli...Iluli, wake up!"
Compared to Miss Parkinson, who was restless from beginning to end, although the fairy-mixed Iluli didn't sleep very peacefully, she still managed to fall asleep for a while.
But when Pansy went over and pushed her shoulders a few times, she opened her eyes with a little alertness, and then hurriedly sat up.
"Good morning, Miss Parkinson..." Iluli turned to look at Pansy, and then said with a little worry, "Oh, you don't look good. Did you not rest all night?"
As soon as she saw Pansy, she remembered what happened last night.
Especially those words at the end, when she asked to accompany Pansy to the wand shop, she was still surprised when she recalled it.
Yes, Pansy did agree, but that wasn't the point.
The key point is that Iluli almost never expected that she, who had always followed the rules, would actually do two things in a short period of time that ignored her master's feelings.
As for the first time, it was when she was determined to complete the ancient magic ritual.
Just as Iluli was sitting on the bed in a daze, Pansy suddenly spoke again.
"Well, it's true that I can't get enough rest and can't sleep... Let's not talk about it for now. Get up quickly!" Pansy urged softly while putting on her outer robe, "We should go."
To be honest, thinking about Mr. Ollivander, the owner of the wand shop, he is obviously very old. Although the elderly usually get up early, there is no telling when exactly they will open the door to welcome guests.
However, no matter whether he was early or late, Pansy planned to go there early and find an inconspicuous corner to wait. If necessary, she was also prepared to use the Auror invisibility cloak that Maka lent her.
"Are you ready?"
Not long after, Pansy saw that Eluli was already dressed, and immediately called her to the door of the room. In the blink of an eye, the two of them left the room one after another and hurried downstairs.
…
Diagon Alley early in the morning is actually not much different from that at night—it's just a little brighter.
The cobblestone streets were still winding as usual, but there were almost no people on the streets. Even if I could see one person occasionally, it would be the strange shopkeeper who had come out of Knockturn Alley and was about to go to the Leaky Cauldron to have some breakfast before going to bed.
After all, their shop would only be open at night, selling some questionable products that would be inconvenient to display even in Knockturn Alley during the day.
Pansy and Iluli walked quickly through the closed shops, and before long, they arrived at Ollivander's Wand Shop.
It was almost the same as when Pansy came here to buy her first wand. The gold sign above the door had peeled off more gold powder, and the words "Ollivander" also looked full of history.
It's just that the display window, which was originally covered with dust, seems to have been cleaned again by Mr. Ollivander in recent years. Unfortunately, this made the sample wand placed on the purple cushion look even more dated.
"Stop standing here, let's wait in the alley opposite!" Pansy was stunned for a while, then gently pulled Iluli, who was also in a daze, "You should be able to see it from over there. To Ollivander's door."
While there was still no one around, the two figures, one large and one small, quickly got into the alley full of debris and hid behind a pile of wooden crates - these messy things were obviously from the old restaurant next door. From the store.
Once the two of them had managed to hide their respective figures, the most boring waiting time began.
Pansy soon discovered that just standing here and waiting made her think. In order to divert her attention, she thought for a moment, then lowered her voice and asked:
"Eluli, are you planning to buy a new wand soon? I haven't thanked you properly for dealing with the Aurors last night. How about... I give you a new wand that I have as a gift?"
A thank-you gift worth seven galleons was not an amount that even Pansy could give away casually. Because no matter what, the Parkinson family can no longer be called wealthy, and her parents don't have much pocket money to give her.
"Oh, no... How can this be done!" Iluli shook her head repeatedly, "That's too valuable, I can't accept it."
"Don't say that," Pansy said immediately, "when you went to buy the healing potion for me, didn't I give you money? The so-called friend, I think, is just that, there is no need to worry about it too much. And... "
Having said this, she paused for a moment and then said seriously:
"And to be honest, I didn't know what to do at that time. It was you who helped me get through a crisis - you know, I absolutely cannot let the Auror capture me. That would make me become our Patriarch." The biggest stain on the Jinson family!"
Pansy's words were not nonsense, because she really thought so in her heart.
Given the dire current situation of the Parkinson family, if something goes wrong again, they may not even be able to survive in the top social circles of the British wizarding world.
And when the time comes, she, the member who left the last footprint on her family, will undoubtedly become the sinner of the entire Parkinson family.
Because of this, Pansy doesn't know now whether she is deliberately befriending Iluli in order to complete the task, or whether she sincerely wants to express her gratitude to her.
Well, maybe it’s a bit of both!
On the other side, Iluli seemed to understand Pansy's feelings after hearing her sincere words. It seemed that she knew quite a bit about the twists and turns in the pure-blood family.
"All right… "
Pan Xi finished speaking, but saw Iluli finally nodded and said:
"I've never made friends, so I don't know how to be a real friend... But I think it's like what you said! Thank you, Parkinson Jr.... No, it's 'Thank you, Pansy' !”
As the two of them hid in the alley and exchanged words from time to time, time also gradually passed under Pansy's seemingly intentional but occasionally sincere words.
For a moment, Diagon Alley, which was still somewhat dark, was slowly lit up by the rising sun, dispelling the remaining gloom from last night.
And when Pansy suddenly caught a glimpse of Ollivander's door being pushed open from the inside out of the corner of her eye, her heart seemed to become as clear as the sky at that moment.
"It's open! Iluli, Ollivander's is open..." she exclaimed happily, "It turns out that Ollivander's Wand Shop opened so early. If I hadn't come here to stare at it so early today, I would still be there. I do not know!"
"That's great!"
When Iluli saw it, she couldn't help but feel a little joyful on her face.
Obviously, if she could go back in time after spending a little more time with Pansy, she would naturally not want to be punished unnecessarily.
And since Mr. Ollivander came out and opened the door so early, there might still be enough time, right
"Let's go quickly!"
As they were talking, the two were about to walk out from behind the wooden crate. But at the moment when half of Pansy's body had left the pile of boxes, she suddenly caught a glimpse of a rather familiar figure passing by on the street outside the alley.
Immediately afterwards, the man seemed to notice the alley filled with debris, and suddenly turned back to the entrance of the alley, and then rushed in.
"You... hmm? Are you Miss Parkinson?"
"Ah!" Pansy couldn't help but become confused when she saw it, "Mr. Martin? Why are you-"
Before she could finish her words, the other party reached out and blocked her mouth. Then he pushed her and hid behind the crate again.
"Be careful, don't talk! There are Aurors following me..."
Pansy's mouth was covered by him and she couldn't speak, and behind her, Iluli was also a little at a loss because of this unexpected change.
For a moment, the alley suddenly became quiet.
In about two or three minutes, Pansy saw several figures appearing outside the alley through the gaps in the crates, including the Auror who knocked on their door last night.
Then, one of those people turned around and walked into Ollivander's door.