Sirius' mood improved a little.

After he learned that Dumbledore agreed to let Jane stay here for one night.

"I need to get rid of this thing first."

Dumbledore shook the locket in his hand. It didn't look fancy.

"I should have asked you to return the jade, but I'm afraid Spinner's End is well and truly a dragnet - you probably don't want to go into St. Mungo's again."

This seemed to divert Sirius' attention. He stood up and the gloomy look on his face disappeared:

"Of course, as I said, leave it to me!"

Harry also breathed a sigh of relief. He pursed his lips and revealed a sincere smile, looking at Jian Yu with joy in his eyes.

No one said a word when they saw this.

She was sitting beautifully in a dark green, extremely clean armchair, with an exquisitely carved teapot and teacups in front of her.

The house-elf Kreacher, who had previously mocked them, had already poured her tea and served her ten servings of snacks within a minute.

After seeing Dumbledore off, Sirius turned around and was also stunned.

But he had always been much thicker-skinned than Harry.

He pulled over a dusty chair, cleaned it up casually, and sat opposite Jian Yu. He turned a porcelain bottle into a teacup and filled it up for himself.

"What are you looking at, Harry? Come and sit down!"

He picked up a cookie and put it in his mouth, chewing it while calling his godson.

Kreacher hunched his back, dragged his feet, and walked slowly, step by step, towards the other end of the room, muttering in a low, hoarse voice:

"...Although the prodigal son agreed to let Kreacher take care of Master Regulus...but Kreacher still has to say...he and his Potter cub have no manners at all. Facing a noble lady who has done a favor to the Black family, they snatched food from her..."

Sirius's cookie got stuck in his throat, and he rolled his eyes.

"Should I be thankful that you called me a black sheep instead of a dirty bastard, Kreacher?"

He looked indignant, but then hurriedly explained to Jian Yu:

"Yu! I didn't steal food from you—"

Jian Yu didn't mind him eating a little too. After all, the amount Kreacher served was enough to almost kill a pig.

"Respectable Miss Jane, how kind..." Kreacher muttered, and quickly changed his words, "She brought back Master Regulus from the cold water for the Black family and Kreacher, and she even took into account the feelings of a dirty and filthy person..."

"What a pity he has done! He has snatched her from another's house in the presence of her elders. My mistress would be so disappointed if she knew him sitting here, seeing him treat Miss Jane like this, and seeing him use her favorite teapot?"

Sirius immediately pushed away what Kreacher called "the hostess's favorite teapot" with disgust.

"If you don't think we deserve my mother's teapot, don't bring it out."

he said coldly.

Kreacher looked at him with hatred and screamed:

"The mistress will not let the obnoxious young master use her teapot—but she is pleased to let Miss Jane use it—"

There was a loud sound of cloth being pulled apart from downstairs, and a female voice let out a deafening scream, and even the walls of the second floor were shaking:

"I grant it! I grant it! She is worthy to enter the house of my ancestors—"

"But you don't deserve it...you filthy and sinful bastard! The shame of our family, the bastard I gave birth to!"

Sirius leapt up and rushed down the stairs shouting "Shut up, you horrible old witch!"

Jian Yu heard the loud sound of cloth being pulled again, and then the female voice disappeared.

"My mother," Sirius came back breathlessly, "She's mentally ill... leave her alone."

Jian Yu nodded to show his understanding.

Sirius tried to ease the atmosphere. He stood up and planned to show Harry and Jane his room.

But Kreacher looked at him with a sad look:

"What a filthy young master... He wanted to show those unpresentable things to an elegant lady... But Kreacher couldn't stop him..."

"Shut up!" Sirius blushed and explained hastily, "These are just some photos of us back then. There's nothing shameful in my house!"

As if to prove himself, he rushed upstairs and pushed open the door of his room:

"I decorated it beautifully! My house is normal—"

His voice stopped abruptly.

Jane Yu's eyes were covered by Harry. She felt her body turned in another direction and heard a hurried "Don't look" in her ears.

But thanks to her good eyesight, she had seen the whole house clearly -

Isn't it just a bunch of stickers of Muggle girls in bikinis?

Why are you so excited?

Jane Yu pulled away Harry's hand that was covering her eyes.

"Ha... Harry... Take Jade to her room!" Sirius tried to maintain his last dignity and threw spells at the wall, "This damn permanent sticking spell! And... I'm not a pervert! Young and frivolous... Everyone has been young once..."

Bathed in Kreacher's mutterings of "dirty and vulgar", "beast in human form", and "shameless", one point of embarrassment turned into ten.

"Don't worry, Jade! I won't let Sirius near you."

Harry spoke righteously, and it was obvious that his suspicion of Sirius, which he had previously put aside, was now raised again.

In short, until Jane fell asleep, the voice that echoed throughout 12 Grimmauld Place was Sirius's explanation -

From time to time, there were Kreacher's lamentations and Mrs. Black's insults to her son.

......

But when Jane woke up in the middle of the night and went downstairs to get some water, she found Kreacher curled up alone in the corner of the kitchen.

"My dear lady..." Its face was covered with tears as big as beans. It struggled to stand up and bowed to Jian Yu, its voice hoarse, "Benefactor..."

Jian Yu was surprised to find that in addition to sadness, there was also a confused look on its face.

She poured two glasses of water and handed it one.

Kreacher opened his mouth, not even shedding tears. He looked at the water in his hand and then at Jian Yu, with a strange expression on his face.

It looked like it wanted to scream, but it seemed to be hesitating about something. Finally, it muttered in a very low voice:

"Miss, Miss, pour water for Kreacher... How about Kreacher, where is Kreacher's fire stick? Kreacher has to give himself two sticks..."

Jian Yu stopped it immediately.

She almost forgot that the elves' sensitive nerves would make them punish themselves.

Kreacher looked as if he wanted to frame the glass of water atop his mother's severed head as a medal of honor.

"Miss...Miss is a kind person..." It muttered, "Kreacher can't hide it from Miss...Miss's last name is not Black...Kreacher did not disobey Master Regulus' order..."

It looked like it had made up its mind. Tears welled up in its eyes again. It slowly took out a locket from the rags around its waist and handed it to Jian Yu with trembling hands:

"Miss... Locket... Master Regulus's Locket..."

"Master forbids Kreacher to tell the family... He wants Kreacher to destroy it... There is nothing Kreacher can do... Please!"

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