The morning sun has risen, spreading her light and warmth to the earth and the entire community. The green shade outside the window swayed gently with the breeze, casting soft golden light spots on the window glass.
But now no one knows how many times we can see such a beautiful sunrise.
Everyone in the living room has dispersed one after another. A new day has arrived and everyone has something to do. Compared with the disastrous changes that make people helpless, teaching students to study is their own job. Even if they lose the school for a while, they still have to do what they need to do.
Only Minerva, and the two Muggle women she brought with her, had not left yet.
The three of them sat at the small round table in front of the window, with the window as the boundary, the two Muggles sitting at one end, and Minerva sitting at the other end.
The atmosphere on the small round table seemed a bit cold.
Behind the makeshift bar not far away, Aberforth was still cleaning his goblet as usual, boredly, and only occasionally glanced at the three of them, as if he was already used to seeing this world. All kinds of trivial things, not much interest in prying.
However, Minerva, who has always been very decisive, obviously rarely appears to be so indecisive, which makes people somewhat curious.
I don't know how long it took, but I just knew that the re-poured black tea on the small round table had also cooled down again, before Minerva finally spoke first.
"Mrs. McGregor..."
Minerva had just spoken, but unexpectedly, the older of the two Muggle women opposite suddenly spoke too. Although the other party still looked a little shy, as if a common peasant woman shrank in the face of an aristocratic lady in the past, the meaning behind her words was surprisingly tough.
"Miss Magna, let's... talk alone first!"
The posture of this old woman, whom Professor McGonagall calls "Mrs. McGregor", does not actually appear to be very firm, but the tone of her voice, soft and timid, seems to have an unquestionable flavor. .
"Mom?"
Beside her, her daughter, who always had a look of sadness on her face, seemed to subconsciously call her mother after hearing this. But after seeing the expression on her mother's face, she didn't say anything more. She just stood up and greeted Minerva across from her respectfully, then left the small round table and walked towards the door step by step, and then left temporarily. here.
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Caitlin was just a very ordinary daughter of a Scottish farmer. She grew up walking between fields and wooden fences. He has a capable and reliable father, an introverted but kind mother, and a silly boy from his neighbor who has liked him since he was a child and is quite handsome.
Later, although it was somewhat unfortunate because my father passed away a little early and he couldn't even make it to his wedding, that was all more than ten years ago.
Seven years ago, I was finally succeeded by the stupid boy next door, got married, and gave birth to a child for him. Watching the children grow up day by day, washing clothes and cooking, and helping her husband take care of the milk-producing cows, my life was ordinary but happy.
Then, the beautiful girl who was somewhat famous in the local countryside also saw the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes in the mirror as the calendars overlapped.
There's nothing we can do about it. Isn't that what life is like? Although there were some regrets, Caitlin still had a slight smile on her face, because her son was healthy and sensible - as an ordinary farm woman, this was probably enough.
It's just occasionally... It's really just occasionally. When I go for a walk in the nearby suburbs with my mother, I pass by the small old church. I will see my mother stop for a moment and look at the window on the second floor of the church with a look of reminiscence. .
In Caitlin's impression, her mother had always been an ordinary farm woman like herself, simple and hardworking every day, and she aged a bit quickly. All she cares about every day is three meals a day, the nursery behind the house, as well as her daughter’s life, children, and family. She is a bit nagging at home, but seems a little shy and introverted when she goes out.
However, when her mother stood and stared outside the old church, Caitlin vaguely saw a look in her body that was rarely seen in normal times.
Caitlin felt that her mother must have some past events that even her daughter was not aware of, but even if she asked about them afterwards, her mother would never go into details.
Until one day, when Caitlin returned from delivering food to the field as usual, she saw her elderly mother carrying an old suitcase belonging to her late father, hunched over her back and standing there with an inexplicable determination. Courtyard entrance.
Just when Caitlin looked confused, her mother said to her without hesitation:
"Call Liam and pick up the kids from school. We need to get out of here."
"What?" Caitlin walked forward confused and hurriedly took the suitcase from her mother's hand, "Mom, what's wrong? Leave here? Do you want to travel somewhere?"
For a moment, Caitlin almost thought that her mother was showing signs of Alzheimer's disease, and she hurriedly tried to comfort her mother. However, the changes afterward made her realize that she was the one who failed to understand the situation.
Since the evening of that day, there have been a lot of news about the accident on TV, and soon, the accident turned into a disaster. After that, this kind of news suddenly disappeared and was replaced by more entertainment programs and talk shows.
In the end, the mysterious world full of magic and wizards that was originally unknown was revealed bit by bit in every detail of life.
Until the government came forward to officially announce the existence of the wizarding world, to be honest, the whole process actually only took a few weeks.
In the end, Caitlin and her family left their hometown together - not because of her mother's will, but because of the cooperation of military and police forces from all over the country, starting a panic-stricken migration.
Perhaps it was also from the first day when her mother's abnormality was confirmed that Caitlin began to realize that the secret in her mother's heart that she never talked about with others might be related to the magical world that was gradually revealed in front of everyone. But after that, Caitlin never mentioned it again, and just kept it silently deep in her heart.
Because so far, the magical world that has been gradually revealed has been accompanied by the aura of disaster, which makes Caitlin still unsure whether her mother's secret is a good thing or a bad thing.
Until... finally, disaster hit their little family head-on, and then the sky for her, an ordinary peasant woman, suddenly became dark.
Her husband Liam died to protect the child; the child is still in a coma and requires magic to treat.
"Why wasn't I the one who died?" Caitlin stood at the door of Aberforth's temporary bar, thinking blankly.