[HP] Butterfly Effect

The air in the Forbidden Forest was damp and heavy due to the abundant moisture, and time was captured by the magic of language, making it extremely slow and stagnant.During the few seconds that were so long that it was close to eternity, the dark green river with irregular snow-white water splashes was the only living existence.

Snape couldn't see Aurora's expression, but the truth in her tone was undeniable, as well as the subtle to profound sense of emptiness and depression.

There are clear drops of water dripping from the silver fir leaves above the head, which is the result of overnight dew gradually accumulating on the leaves until they are unbearable.They are scattered on the branches and leaves of parasitic plants attached to the trunk, swaying a short-lived shimmering light.

Slughorn didn't seem to think there was anything wrong with Aurora's words. After all, the Lily Potter he knew was definitely an existence that could make many girls envious and jealous: "It's so normal, isn't it? It's hard for you to see someone like She's such a fine witch."

"It's a pity that she was killed by Voldemort." Aurora's tone was still light, and there was a subtle coolness in what she said.She looked directly at Slughorn's suddenly pale face, her expression was still gentle: "What's the matter, Professor?"

"Don't mention that name!" said Slughorn, a little flustered, the deliberate severity in his voice paled under the circumstances.Aurora nodded apologetically: "I'm sorry Professor, I didn't expect your reaction to be so big."

Slughorn looked at her oddly, a little bewildered and cautious, as he always did whenever he came up with any subject about the Dark Lord: "Hasn't anyone taught you that? And none of your classmates? "

"I don't think any of my classmates will discuss this person when they are bored, Professor." Aurora smiled briskly, "As for the others, my father, you know, he also died because of this person. And Lime Si and Sirius don't shy away from his name, so I don't feel like I can't mention it."

This is indeed true. All of Aurora's knowledge of the wizarding world came from Sirius and the others.And they didn't deliberately instill in Aurora the awareness that she couldn't mention this name until she came to Hogwarts.Regarding this phenomenon, Aurora asked curiously several times, and without exception, she received dozens of terrified looks and explanations from other little badgers.From then on, she followed the others in calling him "mysterious man" as the Romans did.

"You should be talented!" Slughorn replied a little out of breath, "Don't mention it again." "I see." Aurora obediently obeyed the other party's request and continued to ask, "I heard that you He used to be his professor too, right?"

Slughorn froze for a moment, hesitated silently, and finally said: "Yes. He was still a very good student at that time, so to speak, perfect. Who would have thought..." At this point, Aurora He noticed that his whole body trembled uncontrollably, as if he had thought of something particularly terrible.

"No one would have guessed, Professor." She looked at the other person, trying to initiate the conversation, "It can only be said that he violated your trust, that's all. You have taught many other excellent students, such as my father , and Mrs. Potter you just mentioned."

This name is like a raw olive wrapped in crushed ice. It is really difficult for her to direct her tongue to smooth it smoothly, and her mouth will be full of blood if she doesn't pay attention.

After a pause, Aurora continued with Slughorn's slowly improving expression: "I think, if you knew that he would be what he was later, you would definitely stop him, right?"

"Of course." Slughorn's voice sounded a little vain and high-pitched, and even had a bit of sharpness that couldn't be suppressed, which was very abnormal.His eyes dodged Aurora's, and he landed on a clump of lantern grass by the river bank, his thumb vigorously stroked the buttons on his coat: "I just talked about Sirius and the two of them, are they okay now?"

"It's good, they're in Hogsmeade." Aurora said, "Sirius still doesn't plan to go back to Black's house. Regulus will come here occasionally, of course, mostly because he has to." He just came."

Slughorn snorted inexplicably, sounding very nervous: "I thought the relationship between the two brothers would be much better after that kid Regulus helped him overturn the case." Aurora pulled his hair away Behind the ear, with a faint smile: "Siris is just this character. The two of them have different beliefs about bloodlines, but they are both stubborn. But this time Sirius has been hit hard. It's just a short time to ask him It's impossible to get more gentle."

"Shock?" He blinked.

Aurora deliberately reminded: "That's right. Because he never knew that Regulus had changed his mind long ago, until Regulus joined the Order of the Phoenix. And before that, Regulus had He lost his memory for a while, because he discovered that the mysterious man was making Horcruxes, and he also found one of them, which cost him a lot."

Snape found that Aurora was actually a quick learner. He once told her that when talking to Slughorn, he must not appear too deliberate, because he is very alert and can easily detect the other party's intentions. .If he wants to change the subject, just follow him and never contradict him, just bring the direction back skillfully.

At that time, Aurora just nodded with a slight frown, indicating that she knew.

So far, she seems to be using it well.

"yes……"

"That's right. Regulus took over from my father in the Order of the Phoenix, so I know. He and the others are now looking for You-Know-Who's other Horcruxes."

"Who told you this?"

"Remus and others, sir. I'll go to Hogsmeade to see them as soon as I have time on weekends."

"Then they told you this?" Slughorn's face was a little pale, and he still didn't look at Aurora, "Aren't you scared?"

"Not at all," Aurora replied. "If I had to say it, I'm actually very grateful to them."

"grateful?"

"Because they let me know what kind of person my father is, and let me know that there is a reason for him to leave me." She said, her tone was calm but firm, "and what Sirius and the others are doing now is to let My father, and the sacrifices of others made sense. Am I right, sir?"

"Yes, you understand very well." He replied stiffly, and wiped his fingers along the void of his forehead, looking very disturbed, "It's very late, I have to go back, Aurora."

"Goodbye." She said goodbye to the other party politely, without holding back.

Seeing that Slughorn had disappeared into the gray-green shadows and mist of the forest, Aurora sighed and let herself lie down on the thick trunk.The loose blond hair hangs on the water, like the fragile light seeping from the cracks in the clouds, dangling and bright.

Snape finally came out of the shadows: "You've basically done it."

Aurora turned over and sat up, looked at the other party in surprise, and said after a while: "Did you hear everything?"

Including the line where she said she envied Lily?

The din of the river fills the silent gap between the two.Snape didn't seem to have heard what she said, but calmly commented on what she did just now: "He is willing to follow your words to express his views on the Dark Lord's student days, which shows that you have shaken him at some point .It was a good job just now, Field."

"Thank you." Aurora said thank you uncertainly.I don't know if it's because she has been fighting wits and courage with Slughorn for too long during this period, but she is now habitually trying to figure out the other's tone and reaction.For example, Snape didn't answer her question, but he didn't show the slightest sign of anger, which meant that he couldn't answer, so he could only change the subject like Slughorn.

Having said that, the Slytherins do seem to have some obvious things in common.

But why didn't he answer?

It's not an embarrassing thing for him to hear or not.

"So... you did hear it all?" she asked tentatively.Snape stared at her with slightly frowned eyebrows, his pale face was so conspicuous against the dark forest background, he asked in a cold tone without fluctuation: "Is there anything I can't hear?"

Aurora's eyes froze behind the glasses, and she reached out to pick up the satchel on the meadow: "...No." She beckoned the magical creatures to get in, jumped down from the tree and said goodbye to Snape, and left soon As fast as Slughorn.

When the forest was empty and quiet again, Snape suddenly remembered a lie Aurora had told Slughorn.She said she hadn't learned the Patronus yet, but he could see that was a lie.

Because she didn't want to expose her patron saint.

Patronuses are reflections of spirits, mirror projections of those whom wizards fall in love with.

A very absurd but clear connection gradually took shape in Snape's mind, which connected what he didn't understand before with what just happened, forming an obvious explanation.

Everything was perfect, except that the idea itself was absurd.

……

Aurora ran out of the dining room with Melanie's letter and went straight to the basement, trying to tell Snape the contents of the letter.

However, as soon as she ran down the marble stairs, she saw a group of people chattering around in the direction of the Hufflepuff dormitory.Soon, Madam Pomfrey and Amanda rushed out of the crowd with two students in their arms.

Aurora quickly moved out of the way for them, and after confirming that they were two Gryffindors with a curious glance, she asked Bradley next to her, "What happened?"

"I don't know, they seemed to be fainted by something or something." Bradley shrugged, "It is said that someone heard the screams of the two of them, and when they ran over, they were already unconscious gone."

"Dizzy?" Aurora repeated, and asked again, "Where is it?" Bradley reached out and pointed at the dark end of the corridor where the Hufflepuff dormitory was located, "There. I don't know what they saw, I think Peeves did a good job, what do you think?"

That place is the direction of Helga's room, in other words, the direction of Slytherin's chamber of secrets.

Aurora suddenly felt cold from the top of her head to the soles of her feet, "Are you sure they're okay?" "Madame Pomfrey said they just fainted, so they should be okay." Bradley scratched his head and replied.

"That's it... I still have something to do, so let's go first."

"Okay, see you next time."

"See you next time."

Aurora quickly returned to the dormitory and opened the drawer, only to find that Salazar's diary was no longer in it.She went to the kitchen with a strange face and found Aidara, the little elf, who was dozing off.After shaking her awake, Aurora lowered her voice and asked nervously, "Adara, where is Mr. Slytherin's diary?"

Aidara rubbed her eyes, bent down towards Aurora, and replied: "The master is feeding Abyss in the secret room, is Miss Aurora going to visit them?"

"Take me there, please."

After snapping her fingers, Aurora came back to her senses and found that she was already in a secret room full of cold and dark green eyes.The door was open, and Aurora could catch a glimpse of some of the furnishings in Helga's room, such as the table and a corner of the dresser.

She walked in and saw a completely strange man standing there with his back to her.He was wearing a dark green robe that was almost dragged to the ground, the deep color was so thick that it was almost as black as the night sky, and the edges were rolled with fine and simple silver edges.There are green magic light patterns emitting from his hand, the cracks on the wall are being quickly repaired, and the hole is being filled again.

An elephant-nosed pangolin with smooth and hard scales was lying motionless on the ground, as if dead.

"Master." Aidara knelt on the ground and saluted respectfully.

To be honest, Aurora was taken aback by the person in front of her, thinking that she had entered the wrong room, apologized in a low voice and was about to turn around and leave.However, in the next second, a very familiar cold voice stopped her: "I remember I told you that anyone who dares to come here again, I will definitely kill them. Right?"

Aurora's mind went blank for a moment, then turned around, looking at the other party who also turned around.

She felt even more frightened, and couldn't help but started to back away, even subconsciously wanting to touch her wand.

The person in front of him was very young, he looked not much older than Aurora, at most seventeen or eighteen years old.He has long black hair, tied casually, with a few strands hanging down his shoulders sporadically.Under the warm light, the overly sickly pale complexion presents a faint ghost-like translucency, as if he has never seen sunlight. When he speaks, his brows are wrinkled, and his jaw is habitually raised upwards. Seems very impatient and extremely arrogant.

This person reminded Aurora of Sirius and Riddle, because their faces had a beauty that was so sharp that it made people feel stinging.The difference is that Sirius gives people the feeling of being wild and unruly, while the person in front of him is very close to Riddle, both of them are gloomy and cold, just looking at them makes hair stand on end.

But this is not the reason why Aurora feels so scared.

What she was afraid of was that the other party actually had a pair of emerald green vertical pupils, like the eyes of a snake, and the black pupils were slender and straight, full of subtle attack power.Especially when he squints to look at people, those long and narrow eyes look even more terrifying, as if a poisonous snake is staring straight at you.

The letter paper in Aurora's hand fell off all of a sudden, her lips trembled a few times, but she didn't make any meaningful syllables, and stared at the other party in horror: "You...of...you..."

Many books have said that Salazar Slytherin looked different from ordinary people, and it seems to be true.

"What about me?" He tilted his head, and the gloom on his body became stronger, "Are you listening to me?"

"You are..." Aurora tried hard to control her trembling tongue, and her scalp felt numb when she looked at those green vertical eyes, "You are Slater... Sly..."

"Slytherin." He continued stiffly, looking at her with disgust, "I'm asking you, I remember I warned you not to let anyone come near here, right?"

"Uh...it seems...it's like this." Aurora's mind turned with difficulty, and she suddenly regretted why she just broke in and bumped into the founder himself.If she had known that he would suddenly pop out of the diary to speak out, she would have killed her not to come in.

"Like?" He bit the word threateningly, his expression didn't change much, but his voice was completely cold, "Do you think that what I told you before was just to tease you?"

"No." Aurora calmed down, and tried to step back slowly until she grabbed the door frame of the stone door, her body tensed, "I don't know how they came here, it was just an accident."

The oppressive force that I feel directly facing myself is really terrible, and it is not at the same order of magnitude as what Aurora usually feels when talking nonsense with each other with a quill pen in the diary.Now she was wondering how she had lived peacefully with this Mr. Horcrux for so many years.

At this time, the elephant-nosed pangolin suddenly trembled on the ground, then stood up unsteadily.It stared blankly at the two people in the room for a while, then immediately jumped into Aurora's arms, quickly shrinking into a round brown ball.

"Where did it come from?" Aurora asked blankly holding the still shaking ball.

"Those two Gryffindor idiots got it." When Salazar spoke under his breath, there was always a slight hiss in his tone that was too natural, which made Aurora feel chills , "They almost used this thing to dig through the wall of the room. It can be seen that they are too lacking in discipline."

When Aurora heard this, she fully understood that Newt's appearance rate during the summer vacation was too high, and his deeds were too amazing, which caused a wave of Fantastic Beast fever in the school from the beginning of the term.For a long time, Aurora felt that she was treated as a rare animal for people to visit. Filch had caught several students who raised magical creatures privately this semester. The two Gryffindors probably felt that this Usually no one comes to the corner, so this elephant-nosed pangolin was brought here.

This is actually not much news, after all, last week Vox told her that a roommate in their dormitory got a salamander from Hogsmeade, and the people in their dormitory still keep it in the fireplace , From time to time, I sneaked out and took it out to let the wind go, but I have never been discovered.

But this time, the elephant-nosed pangolin raised by the two students accidentally dug the corner of Helga's room, and almost broke through.

"But..." Aurora hugged the ball tightly and looked at him with wide eyes, "They really just passed out, right?"

"That's not likely." Salazar said indifferently, his face looked very dark and mean, and he was not humane at all. "Perhaps when they learn what to touch and what not to touch, it won't be too late to wake up."

His words made Aurora feel trembling from the bottom of her heart again, and she immediately remembered that in the dark war years in which the founder lived, killing and death were nothing more than normal things.The reason why Hogwarts was established is because that era has accumulated too many bones of wizards and Muggles.

Not to mention that he himself once casually mentioned that the first few people who got this Horcrux all ended in misery.

So should she be thankful for those two Gryffindors?After all, they haven't gone to see Merlin right away.

From this, she also suddenly understood why in every version of Slytherin and Legend of the Chamber of Secrets, Salazar was always portrayed as a sinister and perverted devil.Although there are indeed many exaggerated and distorted elements, it has to be said that "the book is honest and I am not deceived".

"But they don't know it's... I mean, they don't really mean it, sir."

"You got it the other way around. The reason they're still alive is because they didn't do it on purpose this time." Salazar sneered, "Otherwise, what do you think?"

It seemed that this place, or rather, everything related to Helga was a forbidden area for him.If anyone offended, Salazar would deal with it mercilessly.

So what happened between these two people?Aurora thought of this countless times.

Salazar ignored her astonishment, and stretched out his hand to let the letter that fell from Aurora's hand float into his hand: "What is this?"

As he spoke, he opened it and glanced at it, his eyes froze slightly for a millisecond, like a cold light flashing across the surface of emerald.

Reminiscent of the content of Melanie's reply in the letter, Aurora suddenly felt a very bad premonition, and collapsed heavily, oppressing her.She subconsciously glanced at the door, and then at the secret room behind her, but it was a pity that she couldn't get out.

She regretted again why she hadn't gone straight to Snape.

"You've been researching this in a sneaky way for the past few days?" Sara checked the letter at an astonishing speed, and pulled it all the way to the bottom in a few glances. "About my descendants?"

Aurora was silent for a while, and admitted: "I'm sorry to offend you, sir, I'm really researching this."

"So what's your conclusion?"

"That person should have no direct blood relationship with you."

"That person." Salazar played with the title on the tip of his tongue, understood, and stared at her at the end of his eyes, his eyes were cold and gloomy, and he couldn't see any emotion, "You are talking about your enemy Bar."

Salazar knew everything about Aurora except that she was not from this time and space, and he could easily guess it.

"I think it should be the enemy of many people." Aurora replied after consideration, "But you are right, it is also mine."

Salazar stared at her in silence, calm and sullen.Those eyes were very sharp and made people feel very uncomfortable, as if even though he was standing straight in front of him, he was still kneeling down in spirit.

"You are very interesting." He refolded the letter paper, his tone was as indifferent as if he was evaluating an object, "I was obviously afraid that I would be a lunatic like that Voldemort, but I pretended to know nothing. I'm anesthetized. Should I praise you for your strong mentality?"

Aurora was stunned for a moment, probably figured out the attitude of the other party, and replied sincerely: "I don't think you are as crazy as him. It's just that I thought at first, if he is really your direct descendant, then probably... ’ She paused and said honestly, ‘It’s going to be embarrassing.’

"Then why didn't you hand me over to your principal?" Salazar narrowed his weird vertical pupils, and the ironic smile on the corner of his lips was so creepy that his teeth ached.No matter how beautiful his face was, he couldn't save the sinisterness in his expression.

"Because I think you are you, and he is him." Aurora answered as easily as possible despite the harsh scrutiny of the other party, "I think I'm pretty good at judging people."

"is it?"

"I think it should be intuition." She scratched her hair, feeling that her reason was so real that it was clumsy.

Salazar's pupils trembled slightly, and the actions and words of the other party reminded him of another person irresistibly.

A girl holding her hand and running across half of the sun and half of the sea in the bright green of summer.She was lying in the middle of the intertwined dark green branches, her pale golden curly hair hanging down in front of Salazar, disturbing his sight and touching his face.

"If you have to ask why, I don't know." Helga replied happily, with a very comfortable look, "I think it should be intuition. Don't underestimate the discernment of a natural animal trainer, Sal .”

He regained his senses, threw the letter back to Aurora, and said in a cold tone: "I am not the only one in the Slytherin family, and I am not the only one who has been recorded. Just look at your family and you will know. So don't make a mess Everything is on my head! And..." He pointed to the wall of the room that had been repaired intact, "I will say it for the last time, no one, come in, come here! Do you hear me? Next time, I think Dumbledore will just have to wait for me to jump into the lake to get those stupid bones!"

His voice is not loud, but every word he speaks is full of cruelty. If anyone dares to object, he will immediately strangle him to death.

Aurora hugged the group of pangolins and nodded desperately: "I really remember, I will go and tell the principal right away."

"No need, I'll go find him myself." He looked at Aurora, "As for you, remember what I said, do what you need to do."

"Okay, I'm leaving now." She quickly retreated into the secret room, and looked up to see Helga's portrait on the bedside cabinet, as if she was leisurely making tea.

Noticing Aurora's gaze, she made a comforting gesture, smiled softly at her, and started pouring tea into the teapot.

"Anything else?" Salazar realized she hadn't left yet.

"You care about her, don't you?" Aurora said suddenly, "The way this room looks like, you think she'll be back any minute."

"Teach you a rule." He looked at Aurora coldly, "If I'm not interested in your affairs, then you'd better not be too curious about mine."

"Sorry." She looked away, and took out the locket from her pocket, "I've always wanted to return this to you, and today is just right."

Salazar was stunned for a moment, walked over and grabbed the locket: "Where did you come from?"

"Professor Dumbledore gave it to me. It was made into a Horcrux by Voldemort before, and it has been destroyed now." She answered truthfully.

"Only this one?" he demanded, almost outraged.

"what?"

"I mean where he found the locket, and only it?"

Aurora shook her head: "I don't know, should there be anything else?"

Salazar was silent for a while, then said, "You go."

Aidara quickly disappeared into the air with Aurora.

Salazar opened the scarred locket, wiped off the black ash inside with his pale fingertips, injected light green magic power into it, and three words engraved upside down appeared inside the box.

This is designed for the convenience of the person wearing it to see.

It says,

Here, my love.

Tomylove

The author has something to say:

I gave up struggling, I can’t write other pits until this pit is filled... Let’s fill the pit together...

Kiss everyone at the bottom of the pit, thank you for helping Amway get this article out.

Congratulations to Lao Fuxi for mentioning the Snake Ancestor's love token locket, and the golden cup double kill! ! ! !

In addition, I found that Rowling is very malicious towards handsome guys. In hp, no matter who they are, the more handsome they are, the faster they die.

Send a second-year middle school boy snake ancestor for you to play with ♂, have fun, eh?