It’s quite pitiful.

"Let’s go, I’ll take you by Apparition." Vivi took Annie’s little hand and said to her, "You’ve just woken up and removed the Black Magic Curse, so it’s better if I take you by Apparition."

"Hmm..." Annie responded softly.

Like the girl next door, Annie really made it hard not to feel a sense of adoration, at least Vivi wanted to give her little face a good rub.

After a popping sound, they appeared in Harry’s room on White Island.

"How about this?" Cassandra suggested, "Annie can stay in my room for now, what do you think? My room is empty anyway..."

"Isn’t this not good?" Annie asked quietly, "If I stay in your room, where will you stay?"

"Of course, I’ll stay with a certain someone." Cassandra discreetly held Harry’s hand, as if declaring her sovereignty, "As you can see, this jerk is now my boyfriend."

Annie silently went "wow," she never expected that after sleeping for so long, suddenly... the least likely Cassandra would end up with Harry?

"Okay, okay, everyone knows now." Vivi looked helplessly at Cassandra, then turned back to Annie, "What do you plan to eat? Annie?"

"I think it’s best that Annie changes her clothes first." Cassandra said faintly, "Besides, Mr. Potter, please leave this room quickly—"

"Why?" Harry asked blankly.

"Because her clothes have been eroded by time and are about to fall apart." Pabi explained in a low voice from the side, "You better step out, Harry—Annie is still a young girl!"

"Oh... oh!" Harry realized belatedly and left the room.

"He’s still the same as before." After Harry left, Annie said with a slight smile, "Still so slow, so well-behaved and honest..."

"Him? Honest? Well-behaved?" Cassandra laughed as if she heard the funniest joke ever, "Don’t make me laugh, Annie—he’s more like a master-tricking rogue!"

"Isn’t he a rogue on horseback?" Vivi jokingly asked with a smile.

Cassandra blushed immediately.

Vivi’s use of the word "horseback" brought back some past images for her.

The association was really unhealthy, and she shook her head vigorously to throw the images out of her mind.

They scrambled and helped Annie into a set of fitting clothes. Annie wasn’t very tall, just a bit over 1.6 meters, while Vivi and Cassandra had tall, supermodel-like bodies, and Pabi... although not very tall, her size meant Annie couldn’t wear her clothes.

Our Pabi is quite a capable woman, okay?

After changing into a new set of clothes, Annie followed them to an outside restaurant for a meal to replenish her energy a bit.

After returning to the hotel, Cassandra packed all her luggage and then let Annie move in.

"Just feel free to stay there." She didn’t forget to reassure Annie, "Don’t worry about me."

"Mm-hmm." Annie nodded in agreement.

The next morning, the four of them took Annie by Apparition back to Hogwarts.

"Um," Vivi suddenly said, "there’s something you need to... well, be prepared for."

"What’s up?" Annie hadn’t realized the gravity of the situation yet.

"Well, you should know." Cassandra chimed in, "It’s no longer a hundred years ago—not the time when we were studying, it’s 1995 now, over a hundred years later, some changes, you should be somewhat... mentally prepared."

"What mental preparation?"

Annie suddenly felt an ominous foreboding rising in her heart.

The ominous feeling was like a bone-deep pain, chilling her to the core, making her mind spiral with wild thoughts.

She forcefully suppressed the worst thoughts and managed a reluctant smile.

"Will my brother have grown old?" Her heart pounded fiercely upward.

"Uh, he won’t ever grow old again." Pabi suddenly interjected.

Won’t ever grow old again?

Annie’s heart was filled with question marks.

Harry glanced at Pabi, thinking to himself that what she said wasn’t wrong either.

Sebastian indeed would never grow old again, after all, ghosts growing old was unheard of.

If it happened, it would be extremely bizarre.

He didn’t expect Pabi, usually so lively and cheerful, to tell such a grim joke, especially the very cold kind.

"Let’s have breakfast first." Vivi suggested, "And let Harry go find the two of them, okay?"

"Alright..." Annie felt anxious, feeling that something big was going to happen.

Harry picked up a sandwich from the kitchen and ran off, leaving the four women to eat breakfast leisurely in the small kitchen.

He first headed to the Hogwarts library, where at this time, Omnius was already awake.

Seeing Harry, he seemed quite happy.

"Hi, Harry?" he greeted, "Good morning."

"Good morning." Harry replied weakly.

"How’s it going? Did you rescue Annie?" Omnius got straight to the point, "Or do you still have no way to cure her curse?"

"Oh, it’s not that." Harry shook his head, "Just that there’s a little situation, Annie still doesn’t know you sacrificed yourself to save her, nor that Sebastian died in Azkaban and is now a ghost, she just thinks you guys have become old men."

"Oh, what’s the big deal." Omnius said nonchalantly, "What do you plan to do now?"

"Hiding it isn’t an option, better to rip off the band-aid, let her come see you guys first... by the way."

He turned his head and looked around: "Where’s Sebastian? Where did he go?"

"Seber’s over there sleeping, hey, seeeeeeeeber!" Omnius called out.

Harry turned his head and saw a green ghost floating in midair, seemingly asleep.

After being woken up by Omnius, Sebastian opened his eyes, bounced slightly, and landed on the ground.

"Oh, Harry." The first thing Sebastian did was ask about Annie, "How’s Annie? Did you guys rescue her? Did you cure Annie’s curse?"

"Hey, listen, brother, listen to me." Harry stopped Sebastian’s barrage, "First, Annie is no longer affected by the Black Magic Curse, secondly, she’s freed from the seal, and lastly... she still doesn’t know your current situation, for now... um, try not to scare her."

"Alright." Sebastian felt a weight lift knowing his sister was okay, "Then take me to her first, I really want to see her..."

"Okay," Harry took out the Crystal Ball and dialed Vivi’s phone number.

Once the call connected, he got straight to the point: "Bring her over."

"Okay." Vivi nodded in agreement.

Soon, the door was pushed open and the four girls came in together.

Walking at the back was the relatively petite and timid Annie.

Even though she had heard the three sisters give her a heads-up along the way, when she saw the transparent Sebastian, she still rolled her eyes and fainted.

"Annie!" Sebastian initially wanted to joke around, but when he saw his sister faint, he couldn’t help but rush over.

"How is she! How is she!" Sebastian’s soul was in turmoil.

Vivi crouched down, touched Annie’s neck, and looked up: "Don’t worry, she’s fine, she just fainted from not being able to accept it all at once, it’s nothing major."