HP Midnight Light

- Hallow's Eve 1976 - Hogsmeade Post Office

"Are you writing to Muggles?" Hyacinth had just posted the package when she heard Cornelia's voice. They hadn't spoken since that unpleasant conversation.

"Correct."

Cornelia stepped out of the shadows, and she took off her hood, revealing a pale face: "You even send them wizard candy?" she demanded.

"I've already told you: break with Muggles and even be hostile to them—forgive me, I can't do that. The Muggle world is part of me." Hyacinth asked back, "Have you not reconsidered, or have you decided? stick to your mind?"

"You are unreasonable, Hyacinth," Cornelia whispered angrily, "Your actions will only lead you to danger!"

"Thank you for your concern." Hyacinth said, she walked around Cornelia to go out, "but we made it very clear last time."

"You're crazy." Cornelia sneered, "You chose to be a pure-blood traitor?"

"It's you who's crazy." Hyacinth stopped, and she approached Cornelia, looking at the familiar face that was gradually eroded by black magic, "Look at you, look at Regu, look at Ollie , what have you become!"

"This is what we have always been." Cornelia snorted, "You think you can't accept it?"

"I don't believe you can hide your true colors for four years." Hyacinth whispered, "After you left Diagon Alley that day, the people you met said a lot to you, right?"

"You've become more articulate, Hyacinth." Cornelia evaded her question, "My good cousin has taught you a lot."

"Sorry, my nature is like this. You should know that even when I face Agnes, Betty and Vera, I am the one who takes the initiative. I do often show cowardice and low self-esteem, but this does not mean that I will be slaughtered." Hyacinth looked into Cornelia's eyes, "Why do you avoid talking about my question? Your own views are contradictory. On the one hand, the blood of wizards is precious, but on the other hand, they persecute hemp seeds—"

"They have the blood of thieves—"

"Okay, what's the matter with Snape? Seagaras really likes this 'impure' junior?"

Cornelia suppressed her anger: "Snape is loyal to us, we will not hurt our own people."

"It's such a flawed statement!" Hyacinth laughed sarcastically, "Who influenced you? Bella or Malfoy? Speaking of which, the time you made an excuse to leave before, did you also meet someone?" Where's the big guy?"

"You guessed it?" Cornelia put away her smile.

She admitted it.Hyacinth barely maintained her smile: "I'm not stupid, Leah. I can feel the change in you."

"You're smart then," Cornelia sneered. "Don't look at me like that, Hyacins. You made your choice and I made mine. What's the problem?"

Hyacinth choked for a moment: "I know you have always looked down on Muggles, and I know that Regu is a pure-blood. But Ollie—how could you make her like that? She shouldn't be involved in your black In the great business of magic, she—”

"But she's happy, isn't she? All Olivia wants is the company of family, friends, and Regulus." Cornelia looked at Hyacinth and smiled unscrupulously, "What does she want?" Nothing is lost either. She and Leigu can even be united under the blessings of so many people, for a greater good."

"Benefits? I thought they should be united because of love!"

"Don't be stupid, Hyacinth. Look at Narcissa and Lucius, and then at Bella and Rodolphus. Love can be cultivated, the important thing is to have the same mind. What's more, Ollie and Reguben have a heart-to-heart. Isn't that the icing on the cake?"

"This is sophistry." Hyacinth was speechless.

"You just can't refute it. Hyacinth, you told me to think carefully, you forced me to ask me, on the other hand, maybe you should also reflect on it, maybe you have to ask yourself." She raised her perfect hand Smiling reservedly, "I still have something important to do, excuse me first."

"Yeah, go meet your knight order. Have a good chat and learn a lot!"

Cornelia smiled slightly: "It's time for you to find your predator too? I wish you a happy time."

When we were young, we always thought our first encounter would last forever.Whether it is a friend hand in hand or a lover with the same heart.It's a pity that the fact is often that the song ends and the people part, forgetting each other.The reason is simply that we often underestimate human nature and overestimate human affection.

Hyacinth was walking on the streets of Hogsmeade when she suddenly felt that she had nowhere to go.

"Can I give you some money, little girl? Just a few Knuts." An old witch in a shabby robe suddenly grabbed her sleeve, and Hyacinth quickly stepped back and waved her hand: "I have no money. "

"I can tell your fortune, and the crystal ball will tell me your future—" The old witch seemed to have not heard her refusal, her dead tree-like hands had astonishing strength, and Hyacinth couldn't break free. "The ancient crystal ball hole wears the secret of the future, and the figure of the imprisoned is vaguely seen... The dim starlight does not illuminate the way forward... The long time has remained unchanged..."

"Please, if you want money, at least make a better prophecy." Hyacinth handed her a silver Sickle angrily, and this prophecy made her feel even worse.

"You don't believe in prophecy?" The old witch firmly held her wrist, the eyes under the hood seemed to be able to see through people's hearts.Hyacinth felt uncomfortable all over:

"Okay, okay, I believe..."

"Be careful with your eyes in the dark!" The old witch suddenly grabbed Hyacinth's shoulder and whispered in her ear, "I can see your future...either very good...or very bad..."

"Thank you, I'm pretty sure I won't survive today." Hyacinth panicked for no reason, she struggled desperately, but the old witch didn't let go.

At this time, a small figure ran out from the Three Broomsticks. Peter struggled to push through the crowd and ran to her, waving his hands and said to the old witch, "Go away!"

"Be careful..." the old witch finally said, she suddenly gave Hyacinth a sharp push, then spun around with a young man's vigorous skill, and Apparated.

"Are you okay?" Peter carefully looked at Hyacinth who was pushed to the ground, and she waved her hands and got up by herself:

"I've had all sorts of bad luck today."

"Would you like to join us for a drink at the Three Broomsticks?" Peter asked, and then he said emphatically, "Sirius asked me to call you."

Hyacinth dusted off her robe: "He should come out and invite me himself."

"It's too cold, neither he nor Remus will move." Peter replied honestly.

Hyacinth stopped, "What good did they do you?"

"Help me write my next Transfiguration treatise."

"You are too honest, Peter." Hyacinth sighed, "Let's go."

The Three Broomsticks was as warm as spring, which made Hyacinth's originally tense mood relax involuntarily.When she came to the exclusive seat for the predators, there was already a glass of butterbeer in the vacant seat.

"You got cheated of money, little girl." They obviously saw how the old witch pestered her, and Sirius said happily, "She often moves around this area, and I heard from former students that she insisted that she could see through it." future."

"She gave me a dire prophecy and I told her I was going to die today."

"You're better than me," Remus said, "the last time she wanted to pester me, but when she walked up to me, she burst into tears and forced me to give me two handfuls of Knuts, saying that my life has been miserable. , she couldn’t bear to prophesy.”

"That was the last time we came to Hogsmeade at the end of our third year, and it turned out that Remus was honored to be elected Gryffindor prefect in the fourth year." Sirius looked at him with a smile, "From then on, a miserable life began. "

"Thanks, Padfoot, I really enjoyed it."

Hyacinth couldn't help laughing.

"James and Lily are there, and he's dead set on letting us come," Peter squealed.James was pretending to be serious and sitting opposite Lily, and Hyacinth even felt that his hair had become a lot tidier.

"Poor prongs, it took him half a bottle of slippery liquid to make them compliant." Sirius sighed, "Speaking of which, we stumbled upon your 'friends' walking into the Hog's Head today. "

"Ha... yes," Hyacinth put down her glass and said angrily, "half the Slytherins have gone to meet their seniors." She said sarcastically, and the other three obviously understood up.

Sirius hurriedly explained: "Please don't mind, I briefly told them what happened."

"It's nothing. In fact, most people in Hogwarts already know about it. I'm slow to hear about it." Hyacinth took three sips of butter beer before continuing, "I'm afraid she and I It was a complete breakdown. We had a bit of sarcasm at the post office and ended up wishing each other a good day."

Remus choked.

"Rozier?" Sirius wasn't surprised, "I'm really not surprised at all, my good cousin has a similar style to Bella, and she won't be happy if she doesn't do something."

"I also hope that you and James will have less trouble." Remus pointedly.

"Wake up, Moonface." Sirius rolled his eyes at Remus, "But, have you thought about what to do next?"

"Actually, I concealed part of the content before. They set up a black magic group. They are busy with meetings all day long, and probably won't have time to deal with me in a while." Hyacinth put down her glass, "I hope Regulus and Or Livia don't be like Cornelia, then... I won't be in any trouble."

"Regulus shouldn't be as bad as Rozier." Remus echoed, and he turned to Sirius for support, but the latter suddenly put down the butterbeer:

"I have a good idea, why don't we go and hear what they're saying?"

"No, the whole black magic team is there, and there must be a few Death Eaters." Hyacinth shook her head repeatedly.

"A group of Death Eaters and a Snape are two different things!" Remus tried to dissuade, "You can't just swagger and listen to them."

"You're kidding, Padfoot." Peter was so shocked that he was about to slip out of the chair.

"I'm serious, three. I'm Gryffindor," he gestured to raise a sword, "Gryffindor has a bravery buried in his heart."

"I'm not Gryffindor!" Hyacinth jumped out of her chair, "It suddenly occurred to me that I had something to do—"

Sirius grabbed her, and when Hyacinth glared at him, Sirius smiled faintly: "Don't forget the end of August..."

Hyacinth couldn't forget what he had done to her that day, so she crawled back into her chair obediently.Peter looked bewildered at the coded words between the two, while Remus was still struggling:

"I remember that was Jaime's line. Also, we can't just go—"

"Anyway, I'm going to see what the group of Slytherins will say to their 'predecessors'. The group of Death Eaters who chose to take the risk of gathering in Hogsmeade must be to discuss some things in person." Remus' persuasion To Sirius, it was no different from the wind in his ears. He grabbed Hyacinth first, "Don't run away, you must go with me. Anyone else want to participate?"

"I." Remus said helplessly, "I don't expect to keep the prefect badge, but I hope everyone can come back undisturbed."

"I'll go too." Peter was the last to raise his hand.

Hyacons had never been to the Hog's Head, but Sirius seemed to know it all.He took them straight to the backyard, where there were some sundries piled up in the yard, and a goat was also tied up.

"No one told me to climb the railing!" short-handed Peter grumbled, and it was Remus who kindly gave him a hand to get him over the fence.

"Cornelia was here to meet someone," Hyacins whispered to Sirius. "She just admitted it to me."

"It must be some Death Eater. But do you think they will be on the first floor or the second floor?" Sirius asked back, and Hyacinth shook her head ignorantly. "Second floor," he said firmly to himself, "the second floor of the Hog's Head is full of individual rooms, which is a great meeting place for these Death Eaters." He motioned for them to follow, and the group crept through In the yard, the goat stared at them without blinking, and Hyacinth feared it might attract someone, but it just stomped its hooves, then dropped its head and continued to eat grass.

"How do you know this place so well?" Remus asked.By this time Sirius had led them around to the side of the house, where there was a rusty ladder that looked precarious.

"James and I have been here before." Sirius lowered his voice and pointed to the ladder. "From here is the warehouse on the second floor. I will go up first." He looked up at the transom, and took the lead in the first step Climbing up the ladder, Hyacinth looked at the creaking ladder in horror:

"Are you sure it's okay?"

"Don't worry, we've tried it." Sirius flipped through the air window quickly and nimbly, and then beckoned.Hyacinth was the second to step up the stairs. She couldn't imagine that she was walking with a group of crazy Gryffindors on the road to eavesdrop on Slytherin's secrets. If Cornelia knew, she might not survive today up.

"It's a mess here." Sirius gave her a hand to let her climb in, and Hyacinth found that it was an overcrowded warehouse, full of boxes full of old dust. "That's why people don't like to come to the Hog's Head Pub. It is said that the butter beer here is old and good." Sirius laughed.

Peter, the third to come up, had some trouble, being too short to reach the transom.In the end it was Sirius and Remus who co-operated to half-hug and half-shove him in.

"This is the last time!" Peter declared.

After Remus also stood still, Sirius told them the current situation solemnly: "Death Eaters may be in any room, or there may be someone guarding the door. In other words, once this door is opened, there may be a hundred The Avasor Curse is coming at us."

"Is it too late to go now?" Peter asked tremblingly, but he didn't move.

"It's late." Sirius snuffed out Peter's illusions succinctly. He put his hand on the doorknob, and all four people in the room drew out their wands.

Sirius turned the handle slowly, and the door opened.

The hallway was empty, which was both a blessing and a warning.The four of them listened in silence, and a woman's insolent laughter came clearly from the room at the end of the floor.

"Bella..."

"Shh!"

"Yeah, my great cousin." Sirius took out a mouse from his pocket with a gloomy face, and Hyacinth stared at it with horror for a long time before realizing that it was just a simulation model. "It's a little invention of ours," Sirius explained, and after he put the mouse on the ground, it slid towards the room spontaneously.

"Now we just need to hold this and listen." Remus handed over a cylindrical thing that looked like a phone.When Hyacinth put her ear close to it, Bellatrix's high-pitched voice came clearly——

"Don't worry, the others won't hear it," Sirius said, looking funny as he was also holding one.

"The Dark Lord has instructed us to do this." Bellatrix laughed triumphantly, "This is also a test for you, understand?"

"You want us to test them?" Cornelia asked.

"Trying them... not bad. If they refuse, they will appear on our list." Bellatrix's voice carried a huge conspiracy, "The Dark Lord is considerate, and he is willing to accept people from any house." .But the Dark Lord is not fraternal, and those who disobey us must be punished!"

Regulus: "What punishment?"

"Regu, you don't need to—"

"No, Signus, of course we'll give the answer honestly," Bella said lazily. "Clear."

There was an eerie silence in the room.Cornelia dared to ask: "So... as long as they don't agree to help us, they have to die?"

"That's not enough, silly girl. We occasionally threaten our parents with our children, and vice versa, and unless they always flatly refuse, the Death Eaters are happy to give them a chance." Bella chuckled softly, " Some of you look scared? That's not okay, how can a Death Eater be afraid of the blood of his enemies?"

This is an unfamiliar voice: "Okay, Bella, don't scare these children... The Death Eaters only need useful people at the moment. Therefore, your task is only to pay attention to those influential families, such as Mike Ragan, Potter—”

"Potter?" Snape repeated aloud, with undisguised disgust and hatred in his voice.

"Yes, Potter. Your feud with him does not hinder Potter's importance." The stranger repeated patiently. "Aren't you angry that he took your things? This happens to be a good opportunity. If If Potter joins us, his position will naturally be lower than yours, and you can take back what belongs to you as a matter of course; if he refuses, then you can use your power to get back your treasure... It's a great time to prove your strengths, Fleurs - and all of you. So, personally, I've always thought being rejected wasn't such a bad thing."

"You can see it!"

"Dear Bella, let's keep our opinions to each other," said the man with a smile.

"So we should start with Gryffindor?" Agnes asked, "But I have another question, what if there are people in Slytherin who don't want to follow us?"

"Stay till the end." Olivia said unexpectedly, "They are the heirs of the great Salazar anyway, and we must treat the Slytherins with kindness."

Agnes didn't answer, and the room fell silent again.

"It is true that there are still many people in Slytherin who refuse to take a stand. But in time they will know which side is right, and those people will make the right choice by then."

"You think so, Edmund?" Betty asked.

"He's right, even some pure-blood families still maintain an ambiguous attitude. I think—" the stranger draws out his voice, "they need some time to think. This is exactly one of the Slytherins. Weakness? People are always too calculating. But it doesn't matter, soon they will see the changes in history, and understand how bright our future is... To Slytherin, to the Dark Lord, to the greater plan!"

"To Slytherin, to the Dark Lord, and to greater plans!"

"Who is that person talking?" Hyacinth asked hastily when she heard the group of people coming down the stairs through the door.

"Lucius Malfoy," Sirius replied grimly, "So...they're after the prongs?"

"We'd better remind him," said Remus worriedly, "but skip the part about Lily, or Prongs will have to kill Snape."

"They used Lily as an exchange to lure Snape!" Peter trembled, his teeth chattering, "Maybe they will threaten James like this in the future!"

"Don't be afraid, Peter." Remus reassured, "Lily and James are not fools. The Death Eaters underestimated their power too much."

"We should tell Lily about this, so she'll know what Snape really is," suggested Peter.

Sirius was very calm: "We can do that...but it's best for Lily to realize Snape's true nature. Besides, this is not the most important thing now, Snape won't be able to do it for a while. Officially in league with the Death Eaters." What's more, many people will be in danger after today.

Hyacinth realized that the growth rate of the Black Magic Group in just a few weeks had exceeded her imagination. They had already come out of the stage of sitting down and discussing and began to formally accept orders from the Death Eaters, which meant that the Death Eaters believed that They no longer need to delve into "theory" but can go to "practice".This means that most of them have been recognized by the Death Eaters and become "reservists".

"Do you think they would really do that?"

"Oh, maybe, it's very possible. Killing a few Muggles can no longer satisfy the thirst of the Death Eaters, and they still need more people to join them."

"Threatening parents with children, and threatening children with parents. They have established a connection inside and outside Hogwarts. Do we need to warn others?"

"I don't know how many people we can warn, but at least you all have to notify your parents first." Sirius looked at Peter and then at Remus, his expression was extremely ugly, "I never knew—"

"Hey! It's you again!" The warehouse door was suddenly pushed open, and the owner of the Pig's Head Bar caught the four of them accurately. He looked down at Sirius, "Do you think that since the last time you and your straw nest Won't I take precautions after a friend tramples on my fence? Look boy, I'm not very patient—get out!" He shoved them down the transom in a ruthless way, "If you can't Go straight through the main entrance, so don't patronize!" He pushed them out of the courtyard door, and locked the courtyard door with a bang.

The goat looked up at them and continued to graze with its head down.

"Be careful of that girl who talks." Sirius said to Hyacinth, "You don't have anything in her hands, do you?"

Hyacinth shook her head and lied, "No. But I'm quite surprised that Olivia would stand up, and we almost had an argument before."

Especially when both Cornelia and Regulus were silent.

The author has something to say:

Note:

1. Mrs. Rosmerta: It is mentioned in "The Prisoner of Azkaban" that she was already the proprietress of the three broomsticks when she was in the pro-era.

2. "Gryffindor has the bravery buried in his heart" and the thing holding the sword is what James and Sirius did when they first met (see "Death Hallows").

3. In the previous chapters, Cornelia met a woman on the second floor of the Pig's Head Bar, and she obviously saw Bella.

4. Mouse bug: the predecessor of retractable ears.I think the Marauders are likely to be more creative troublemakers than the Weasley brothers.So they built a "Bluetooth headset"

5. The act of wooing James is actually not against reason. After all, James has not joined the Order of the Phoenix at this time, and he is only a pureblood of Gryffindor.

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