[HP]Aluet

I was tossing and turning on the bed, and there was a crisp sound of something landing next to my ears. The sound seemed to be a small stone bouncing past my door, and I was awakened instantly.

I got up from the bed, put on my robe and opened the door. The corridor outside the door was dark, only a few dim candle lights were on.

I was just about to go back to my room and continue to sleep, when I suddenly caught a glimpse of a figure flashing past the end of the corridor, so I closed the door and followed on tiptoe.

The door of the room inside was ajar, and the light inside was still on. I looked in through the crack of the door and saw Ranbusi's silver-white hair.

"My Lord Dark Lord. I have something to ask you—"

"what's up?"

"I've always felt that the relationship between you and that Ashley is not simple. Do you like her so you keep her by your side?"

The air was silent for two seconds, and I saw Ranbusi kneeling on the ground with a plop, trembling violently, biting his lip in pain, but he didn't dare to make too much noise.

"Ranbusi, you've just been with me for three or four months..." Riddle's voice was chillingly calm, "That's how courageous you are."

"I'm sorry—I'm sorry, Lord Dark Lord." Ranbusi was able to take a breath, his hands were bulging with veins, and his forehead was covered with fine sweat, "I just discovered by chance that she doesn't have the mark of the Dark Lord, worry It will be detrimental to the owner."

Riddle stood up from the chair, paced slowly beside him, and tapped his fingers on the table.

"I know that although you haven't been with me for a long time, you have indeed made a lot of contributions, Ranbusi. But you shouldn't—want to meddle in my affairs." He said slowly, "I keep Of course she has my reasons. Her ability is very special, it conflicts with the Dark Arts, and I don't want her to become a Death Eater."

"However, if she is not under control, I am afraid that she will destroy our plan sooner or later. Uncertainty is the most unnegligible factor—"

"That's enough, Ranbusi, that's enough." Riddle interrupted him impatiently, "her character is too weak, she is destined to be unable to do anything, and she is not enough to pose a threat to me. I still need her for the time being The ability, the damage caused to me by the Horcrux is too serious."

"Yes."

I watched Ranbusi stand up staggeringly, I turned my head and walked back, but when I reached the corner, I was suddenly stopped.

"It's so late, why don't you go to sleep?" Ranbusi forced me into a dark corner.

I stared at his smiling face: "You did it on purpose."

"What are you talking about, my dear Miss Ashley. Don't you want to explain your eavesdropping?"

"You deliberately drew me out to let me hear this, didn't you?" I looked at him coldly.

He laughed out loud, "You're pretty smart."

"You don't have to do that."

"Why not? Let you see his true attitude towards you earlier. I'm doing this for your own good."

"I already knew, Ranbusi. I don't care what he thinks of me. It has nothing to do with you."

"You really don't care?" he said jokingly.

"Stop being self-righteous, we don't know each other well." I wanted to leave, but I saw Nott turning in from the outside.Ranbusi looked at Nott who suddenly appeared, and his face suddenly became very gloomy.

Nott's eyes swept over the two of us, and finally settled on Ranbusi, with a bit of irony in his tone: "You're not interested in her, are you, Ranbusi?"

"The vision is really bad." He walked straight into his room without looking back.

I stared at the door of Nott's room, and my eyes felt hot. I pushed Ranbusi away from me, strode back to the room, and locked the door.

I lay on the bed with my eyes wide open.I felt a little wronged, but I knew that crying could not solve the problem. I tried my best to keep the tears from falling, and the dissatisfaction and hatred deep in my heart surfaced more and more intensely.

I can't be in a hurry.I tell myself.Sooner or later I will show them how foolish and arrogant it is to attribute me to weakness.

It snowed heavily in Scotland for several days in a row at the end of December.

I stood on the high ground, looking at the familiar Hogwarts Castle in the distance.All in all, if it weren't for the Azkaban thing, I would still be in seventh year at Hogwarts by now.

I flew to the top of the most conspicuous astronomy tower, stayed there for a while, then changed back into human form, cast a disillusionment spell, and walked quietly in the corridor.

I came here this time, except for a few important personal items, I didn't bring anything, including the double-sided mirror.I'm [-]% wary of Riddle, I don't trust anything he gives me, who can guarantee whether he will use some tracking spell on the mirror?

I walked past a few classrooms and looked in, and I saw Minerva at the podium teaching first graders how to turn matches into needles.I glanced at the time.According to the previous class schedule, they will finish class in 2 minutes.I'd love to say hello to Minerva, whom I haven't seen for a long time, but I know I can't because I can't explain all of these things to her.

In a blink of an eye, the get out of class bell rang, and the students ran out of the classroom one after another.I stood where I was, deliberately avoiding everyone who was about to run into me.Minerva came out of the classroom, I followed her for a while, and she went into the bathroom and turned on the water.

"Hi, Professor McGonagall." Mettle leaned over the sink, "get out of class is over?"

Minerva smiled at her.

"I used to have Ashley who would chat with me, but now that she's gone, you're busy too." Mettle propped her face in a daze and sighed, "I'm so boring, Mag .I have to find something to do so that I'm not so alone."

Minerva paused as she washed her hands.She silently turned off the tap and dried her hands.

"Today's class is over, I'll go back and prepare." Minerva twitched at her, "I'll come back later." She picked up her textbooks and left the bathroom in a hurry.

I watched her back go away, and walked up the stairs on the side.I went to Dumbledore's office and knocked on the door.After a while, the door was opened, Dumbledore looked around, and finally his eyes fell on me - I undid the Disillusionment Curse.

I've never seen so many complex emotions in his deep eyes - after being surprised, there was a hint of joy, which was then covered up by a layer of deep sadness.

He invited me into the office, locked the door, stood there motionless, staring at me from above the glasses, raised his eyebrows one last time, and shook his beard: "Nice to see you again, Ashley. "

"Me too, Mr. Dumbledore." I bowed deeply and sincerely to him.

"A lot of things have happened in this year, and I can't sum it up for a while." I said.Dumbledore nodded understandingly.

"But I came to you this time because of something very, very important." I continued, "Perhaps, this matter is so serious that it concerns the safety of the entire wizarding world and the Muggle world." Dumbledore wrinkled solemnly He raised his eyebrows, motioning for me to continue.

"Tom Riddle is traveling and making friends, it's hard to imagine—" I followed Dumbledore's expression, "I know he's just a kid in your eyes, but he is. I don't know what he'll be doing in When will this all be done, but I have a feeling something will go wrong soon, sir.

As far as I know, he's managed to create at least two Horcruxes, a Slytherin pendant and a Hufflepuff chalice—I haven't figured out where yet, I'll try to find them and try to destroy them—"

"Aisley," Dumbledore interrupted, "it's too dangerous. You're a child, you can't do this."

"I'm not a child anymore.—We're not children anymore, Mr. Dumbledore." I added, "You don't have to worry about me, I'm just telling you this. It's easy to say anything without fanfare. And I'm a bit of an Occlument Occlument, right?"

"Aisley, come back, Hogwarts will keep you safe."

"I can't come back, Professor." I shook my head with a wry smile, "I've already made a mistake."

He opened his mouth and said in an affirmative tone: "I can help you with the escape as much as possible—you are a kind and good boy, I understand you, Ashley—and I can accept you again at any time. "

A warm current surged through my heart, and I smiled, but none of this could change my mind.

"No, from the moment I allowed myself to do the first wrong thing, I will never be able to accept myself like this." I said, "I have a knot in my heart, Mr. Dumbledore, and I still have to untie it." Don't open it."

Dumbledore remained silent, and I took out the conch given to me by the mermaid from my arms: "It's too dangerous to put this on me, I'm not at ease, so I give it to you."

He took the conch and looked at it in the palm of his hand.

"I got it by accident. If necessary, I can use it to summon the mermaid group and ask for their help. I think it may come in handy sometime." I explained, "I can't stay here for long, I Always worried that something might go wrong.”

So I said goodbye to Dumbledore and opened the door.

"Aisley."

I turn around.

"Protect yourself." Dumbledore thought for a moment, and finally only said this sentence.

"I will."

I closed the door and cast the Disillusionment Charm again.

I walked through the long corridor, intending to fly away from Hogwarts from the Astronomy Tower, but a familiar figure approached me, and I froze in place.

I didn't expect to actually bump into him.

Orion looked thinner than before, and his appearance remained almost unchanged.As he was walking, he was holding a notebook to write down something, the pen was on his lips and thinking, his pace was neither too fast nor too slow. As if sensing something, he raised his eyes, turned his head, and looked in my direction, but saw nothing.He turned his head and continued walking, thinking it was an illusion.

I followed him in a mysterious way, and came to the tall beech tree-it was now a white color covered with ice and snow.

I stalked closer, and he turned a page, drawing casually in the margins of a black ice-covered lake, empty benches, and snow-falling beeches.

A tear slid down my face and landed on my shoe.The tip of my nose was a little sore. In my panic, I forced myself not to make a sound, and took a step back. Orion was keenly aware of something, and stretched out his hand towards me, touching the corner of my clothes.

I turned my head and wanted to run away, but he quickly reached out his hand again. This time he groped and grabbed my sleeve. I pulled my hand hard to try to break free, but he used his strength to hold my hand tightly. Feeling the pain he cast a manifesting mantra and pulled me back a bit and I turned around.

He saw my face and was stunned for a long time.

"Aisley?" He tentatively asked softly.

I dodged my eyes and could only nod my head, hoping that I could pull my hand back, but he didn't follow my wishes, instead he clenched even tighter.

"No," he passed the fiery temperature from his palm, "I thought you were dead..."

I had no choice but to let him hold it like this, and my heartbeat speeded up a little abnormally: "No, I'm fine, Orion."

"Where have you been?" he asked.

"This...it's very complicated——" All the things flashed through my mind, and I finally made up a random reason, "Actually, I just found a place to stay after I came out, and I didn't go anywhere."

He stared straight at me for a while with black and bright eyes, and finally lowered his head: "Are you lying to me?"

"No!" I waved my hand hastily, but when I saw his expression, I was finally defeated again, "...I still have things to do, Orion, and I can't come back now. I'm following Li Del..."

"Riddle?" He frowned, "You..."

"It's not what you think—" I looked around and cast a soundproofing charm to make sure no one could hear me.

"I'm sure you know what he's planning now." I said with some difficulty, "He——is the murderer who killed my father. I have to do something."

Orion looked a little shocked, and was silent for a while.

"So, just pretend that you don't know anything, and just pretend that I haven't been here today, okay?" I was still a little worried when I thought about his relationship with Alphard, so I reminded him.Although I don't have a bad impression of Alphard, he is also a member of the Death Eaters.

"I'm with you." He said suddenly.

"...What?" I thought I heard it wrong, but he repeated it again in a more determined tone. I was a little surprised for a while, and it took me a long time to react. I shook my head hastily, "No——are you crazy?"

"Why not?" he said. "Nott has come to see me, and Alphard has gone, and I can go too."

I looked into his melancholy black eyes, and felt sad, about to burst out of my heart: "You can't go, you obviously don't want to, and you've already refused—it's not as simple as you think, you will never want to go." Doing what he did, being a Death Eater is just going to make your life miserable, Orion, you deserve to be free. I'm different, I've got nothing left."

The wind blew across the lake, bringing up the fine snow covered on the branches, which turned into cold and fine water droplets and sprinkled on my face.I reached out and wiped it, ending the oppressive silence.

"Merry Christmas, Orion." I curled up the corners of my mouth as nicely as possible.

"Merry Christmas." He lowered his head, his eyelashes trembling slightly, revealing a lonely smile.The shallow pear dimples melted his cold and arrogant temperament, and I suddenly felt that he was like a fallen leaf in late autumn, which could be broken by the wind.

His grip on my hand was undiminished, he was approaching me tentatively, as he had done under the snowy mistletoe at Hogsmeade last year.

"Orien." I whispered his name.I heard a sigh deep in my heart, so I looked away from his eyes, "I should go."

He paused for a few seconds, and finally let go of my hand slowly.

"This is the second time you have rejected me."

"Goodbye, Orion." I stepped back and gradually disappeared in front of him under the effect of the illusion spell.He stood there looking at the direction where I disappeared, without moving.I looked around at everything, every inch of land, trying to imprint this in my mind.Hogwarts Castle is lit up, I guess the Christmas tree lights in the Great Hall are lit, the candles on the ceiling are presumably lit, the elves are ready for dinner, and the year is drawing to a close .

Tears welled up in my eyes, and I watched it all with a wistful smile, as if I had spent my last Christmas in my seventh year at Hogwarts.

I hesitated for a while, then came to Orion again and gave him a very light hug.

I walked behind the hidden tree, turned into a bird and flew into the sky.I hovered above Hogwarts, circle after circle, and finally flew away into the distance.

Hogwarts soon left me, and with my six years of memories, it stayed there.