The Hogwarts Emerald

Chapter 1 Oliver Twist
In December 1977, heavy snow fell all day and only stopped in the evening, making the night even colder.

This is an old orphanage located in London, the capital of the United Kingdom. The welfare glory of the high-ranking masters has not spread to this orphanage. Fortunately, some kind-hearted people in society occasionally make some donations. So the children here can get some old clothes to keep warm. Fortunately, there are not many children here, otherwise there may not be enough to share.

After a busy day, Ms. Nancy was about to say goodbye to Sister Mary, the head of the orphanage. She was here to take care of the children on a voluntary basis. She was not a wealthy person, so she could not help the children here live a better life. But the kind-hearted Ms. Nancy always took some time to take care of the children here. This was the only thing she could do.

"This winter is really tough. Fortunately, the donations we received can help the children get through this winter," Ms. Nancy said to Mary.

The plump lady Mary made the sign of the cross before answering, "I always believe that God will take care of his children. I hope that all the orphans in the orphanage will have a good home, and they will be taken care of by their loving parents and live in a warm house."

"You are always so kind..." Ms. Nancy was about to leave the yard when she was attracted by a small cardboard box at the gate of the yard. "What is that?"

Following the direction of Ms. Nancy's finger, Sister Mary also saw the small box. Mary walked over and opened the box to check: "Oh! God, it's a baby."

Mary touched the baby tentatively. It was a very cold winter, and the baby's body was already a little stiff. Mary quickly held the baby in her arms and walked quickly into the room, "Help me, Nancy! She's still alive."

After hearing what Mary said, Nancy quickly picked up the cardboard box on the ground and followed Mary back into the room. Perhaps it was because it was no longer so cold inside, or perhaps it was because of the two ladies' sincere prayers and attentive rescue. In short, the baby recovered.

"Look." Ms. Nancy handed Mary a small piece of paper she found in the box. The handwriting on the paper was beautiful, and it should be written by a woman. It read: Esmeralda Twist, born in the evening of October 1977, 10.

"Poor little Esmeralda. She was abandoned by her parents when she was only two months old." Nancy said with some heartache.

Mary, who was wiping the baby's body, looked up and said to Nancy, "Maybe her parents have some unspeakable secrets..."

Before Sister Mary could finish her words, Nancy interrupted her, "That shouldn't be done. It's really... it's really too cruel! She almost died!"

"Oh..." Sister Mary let out a long sigh.

Spring goes and autumn comes, winter comes and goes, time always slips away inadvertently, and in a blink of an eye it is already the summer of 1989.

The orphanage was still the same orphanage, but it looked even more dilapidated, and Sister Mary had become a skinny middle-aged woman. The baby was already twelve years old, and Sister Mary usually called her Eda, while the other children in the yard secretly called her "monster".

The sky was gloomy and looked a bit depressing. Ada frowned and closed the window to deceive herself, as if this could isolate her from the humid and hot air outside.

Ada was not tall and looked a little thin, probably due to poor nutrition. Her long golden hair had lost its luster, her skin was a little pale, and her beautiful eyes were as bright as emeralds.

She was wearing a baggy old shirt, a pair of baggy old jeans, and a pair of slippers. Even so, anyone who saw Ada would think she was a beautiful girl.

"The weather in the Great Ying Empire is terrible!" Ada complained to herself, and then threw herself on the bed, with no image at all. Ada is a time traveler, and became the new Ada after the soul of the original "Ada" dissipated. As for why the soul of the original owner Ada dissipated, it was because the child had no mother, which is a long story.

After being picked up by Sister Mary, the original owner lived in an orphanage, just like other children in the orphanage. However, the difference was that the original owner, Aida, had been adopted twice, but strange things always happened around Aida, which scared her adoptive family, so they all made the same decision - to send Aida back to the orphanage.

Abandoned since birth and after these two abandonment incidents, the original owner Aida didn't know what was happening around her, but she hated herself more and more and hated this ability at the same time.

She began to change. She used to be well-behaved and sensible, but now she became capricious and violent, and she often came into conflict with the children in the orphanage.

When Ada was ten years old, she was surrounded and harassed by some local ruffians when she went out one night. However, the ability that she had always hated and suppressed burst out with huge and shocking energy to protect her when her life was threatened.

Aida was saved, and she returned to the orphanage like a zombie, falling unconscious on the bed. It was at this time that the time traveler took over her and became the new Esmeralda Drizzt.

In the next three days, this body repeated what a normal person should do every day like a machine on an assembly line, maintaining the normal functioning of the body. It was also during these three days that the time traveler roughly accepted the memories of the original owner Aida, as if he had watched a first-person movie. All kinds of setbacks and misfortunes ran through the short ten years of life.

After receiving the memory and formally controlling this body, Ada still couldn't believe it. She was a young man in the 21st century, an ordinary person who had been bedridden for a long time but still couldn't resist the call of the disease. Now she unexpectedly came to the British Isles in the 1980s and became a girl in an orphanage!

Resurrection from the dead, traveling through time and space to become another person, with a new life, this is the magic of fate, it is the skirt of the goddess of fate gently lifted! Ada is not used to a strange body and living in a strange place. It's not that she has never thought about going back, but the timeline is completely wrong. Her original body has died. What if she appears in the eternal destination of life, that small box, after returning, what should Ada do? And Ada has no way to go back. She can't die again, right? This kind of thing that requires a lot of effort and has no certainty, Ada doesn't want to do it.

So be it, make the best of it. This was the only way he could comfort himself.

After the initial discomfort, Ada, who was familiar with the life in the orphanage, also started a new life. Although she was poor, she was not tortured by illness. As for the children in the orphanage, they were not very friendly to Ada. Although the original owner had fought with them, she was a girl after all, and she lost more than she won. So these naughty children would show their strength by bullying this "monster".

After Ada came through, she took the initiative to teach the leading child a lesson twice. Then they calmed down and no longer dared to cause trouble for Ada. Ada also had no intention of continuing to argue with this group of children. Her future was not in this orphanage.

Ada had more important things to do. There were only two ways for poor people from an orphanage to change their lives. One was written in the law code and it was better not to mention it; the other was to go to school and study hard.

Fortunately, in this life, Ada's brain is very useful. Although she doesn't have a photographic memory, she is still a good child. Ada will also do some odd jobs in her spare time to earn some money to save, after all, the orphanage is too poor.

Ada didn't know what the ability that the original owner had always hated was, but that didn't stop her from trying to use it. Ada felt that this was a trump card that could help her survive, after all, this power did protect her at a critical moment.

In this way, Ada spent two well-organized years in the orphanage.

beep!beep!beep!
The strange noise coming from the window attracted Ada's attention. Ada looked up and saw that it was a gray owl pecking at the window with its beak, as if imitating the action of humans knocking on the door.

Owls are not uncommon in this country, at least Ada often sees them, but its anthropomorphic movements still make Ada feel interesting. Ada jumped out of bed, opened the window and let the owl in.

The gray owl flew in from the window, circled twice in the small room, and then landed steadily on the desk. It proudly stretched out its legs to Ada, with a letter tied to it. Ada first reached out and untied the letter from the owl's legs, then broke the remaining bread into crumbs and placed them in front of the owl.

The gray owl also put aside his pride after receiving the bread crumbs and said: Pride? What is that? Can it be eaten? Owls will never be slaves unless they are provided with food and shelter!

Ignoring the owl that had thrown its dignity to the ground, Ada looked at the letter by herself. The envelope was made of thick parchment, the address was written in emerald green ink, and there was no stamp on it.

Ada turned the envelope over. There was a wax seal and a shield emblem on it. The capital letter "H" was surrounded by a lion, an eagle, a badger, and a snake. Ada's hands suddenly trembled. These four animals and this emblem made her feel familiar.

Ada pulled out the letter and read:
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Headmaster: Albus Dumbledore

(President of the International Confederation of Wizards, First-Class Grand Magician of the Order of Merlin, and Chief Magician of the Wizengamot)

Dear Miss Drizzt:

We are pleased to inform you that you have been admitted to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Attached is a list of required books and equipment.

The semester is scheduled to start on September 1st.

In view of your special situation, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry will send someone to your residence to answer your questions and provide you with necessary assistance.

Vice-Chancellor

Sincerely, Minerva McGonagall

Ada fell down on the bed and muttered to herself: "This could kill people..."

Tangyuan wrote the time traveler’s name as Esmeralda or Aida, and used “he” as the third person; he wrote the original owner as Esmeralda or Aida, and used “she” as the third person.

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