[HP] Butterfly Effect

The moment the flame in the fireplace in the principal's office rose, the Salamander immediately curled up into a ball, jumped in as if seeing a life-saving straw, splashed a circle of scattered sparks and fell around.It crawled inside and let out a contented grunt, and the firelight reflected in the glass bead eyes, flickering and brilliant.

Dumbledore withdrew the wand that was lighting the fire, and turned to gently open the wooden box in front of him, revealing the ancient crown inside, and the cool streamer flashed across the sapphire.

Aurora explained the whole thing as fully as possible, since last year she had been bumping into Helena from time to time.However, she concealed the origin of the salamander, and only said that they were doing potion brewing exercises in the Room of Requirement, and then after eating, she found that a salamander in her satchel had disappeared, so she and her friends After going back together for a long time, I accidentally found this crown.

I hope that there is nothing in the pile of garbage of the century that Dumbledore hid when he was in school, otherwise he will know that the exact location that Aurora said is wrong.

The space of the Room of Requirement where potions are brewed and the space where things are hidden are not the same concept at all.

After Aurora finished speaking, she looked at the other party half-holding her breath, and found that Dumbledore's eyes had been dark all the time, as if he was thinking about what he had just said.

She touched the tip of her nose a little guilty.

After a while, the uncomfortably dark solemnity disappeared from Dumbledore's eyes.His eyes became bright again, like the vast sky after the clouds cleared, blue and peaceful: "Thank you Aurora, you have helped us a lot. And it is indeed as you guessed, Ravenclaw His diadem has been turned into a Horcrux. And thanks to your conversation with Ms. Gray, I think I know how it got back."

"How did it come back, Professor?"

"One year, he suddenly came back from outside and applied to me for the position of professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts." Dumbledore replied, the mist of the hot milk tea in his hand floated up, blurring his real eyes, "I rejected him .Because I could see that Tom didn't really want the job at all. And I could see that he knew I was going to say no, but he came anyway."

"He's never done anything for nothing, I'm sure of that. If he really wanted the position so badly, he'd do anything to get there, but he didn't, he just tried lightly."

"So I kept thinking afterwards, what exactly was he going back to Hogwarts for?"

When Aurora heard this, she couldn't help looking at the box in surprise.Dumbledore smiled, but looked far from relaxed, and tapped his wand on the edge of the wooden box: "Now I know, he came back to hide the diadem here, because it belongs here. It will make Tom There's a sense of satisfaction that he's taken over the school."

"If..." Aurora frowned, "Slytherin left the locket, Hufflepuff left the cup, Ravenclaw left the crown, and they were all made into souls." Then, what did Gryffindor leave behind? Will it also be made into a Horcrux?"

"Oh, don't worry about Aurora. The things left by Gryffindor are here." Dumbledore said, pointing to the sorting hat on the cabinet, which was resting with its eyes closed. "That's a sword. I think Tom really He thought about turning it into a Horcrux, but unfortunately, he didn't get the Gryffindor sword."

After finishing speaking, Dumbledore put the wooden box back on the lid, "About the fact that the crown is a Horcrux, Aurora, I hope you can keep it a secret. If too many people know about it, it will cause a lot of unnecessary trouble."

"I will."

"Hufflepuff will get thirty extra points for your help. You have recovered Ravenclaw's crown that has been lost for hundreds of years." Dumbledore winked at her, "But now, My suggestion is that you stop worrying about it completely and go back to sleep."

"Thank you, sir. But..." Aurora pondered for a while, then continued, "Actually, I was not the only one who found the crown at that time, so I don't think I should be alone..."

"Then add it for both Gryffindor and Slytherin." Dumbledore quickly understood what she meant, raised his teacup and gestured to her, smiling kindly, "I believe this will be their weekend." surprise."

"Thank you!"

"Severus, would you please take Aurora back?"

After Aurora got up and said good night to Dumbledore, she took the salamander out of the fireplace, and quickly left with Snape.

There is moonlight pouring down from the rare cloudless night sky, and the whole Hogwarts is immersed in such a delicate and cold dream, which is flawless and peaceful.The outline of the forest fades in the frosty moonlight, and the regular rustling sound of the leaves and the wind is as soft and soothing as a lullaby.

Aurora walked beside Snape, secretly sizing him up through the hair from the corner of her eye.Already approaching sixteen, with a year to go until she reached adulthood, her eyesight was exactly level with Snape's shoulders as her height changed from year to year.

Those thin, almost transparent rays of light like cicada's wings bloomed on his black robe, which unexpectedly matched his usual indifferent and inaccessible temperament very well.His eyes looked a little hazy in this dim environment, and the faint light spots spread out at the bottom of his eyes, turning into a rich silvery black, reminiscent of the dark color that rolls onto the beach with a clear silver glow on a full moon night waves.Aurora noticed that the ends of his dark curly hair seemed to be a little longer than before, just covering the sharp chin, and would hang gently by the collar as he walked.

When passing through a certain node, Snape's shadow overlapped with Aurora's, as if being hugged by him.However, in the next second, the two shadows staggered again.

Aurora stared at a pair of shaking silhouettes on the wall, carefully adjusted her position, trying to put them back together.

However, as soon as she slowed down, Snape turned his head sideways, his eyes were colder and elusive than the moonlight outside, staring at her and asked, "What are you doing?" Aurora was startled, and thoughtlessly Response: "It's nothing, I just think the moonlight is beautiful tonight."

The moment this sentence was said, Aurora felt that it seemed a little weird. She always felt that she had heard it somewhere before, and said that there was some deep meaning to it, but she couldn't remember it for a while.After all, this was the first time the two of them got together alone after the confession incident. The other party's attitude as if nothing had happened made Aurora feel very expected, but she was a little bit unavoidably disappointed.

After Snape heard her words, the corners of Snape's mouth twitched visibly, as if he was choking down some inelegant words.Aurora followed up again, and chose a relatively normal question that she still couldn't figure out: "Why did he make so many Horcruxes, Professor?"

"Because the Horcrux can preserve a person's soul, as long as the Horcrux is not destroyed, then even if his body is destroyed, he still has the ability to resurrect." Snape said, walking into the closed corridor in front of him, facing the deep darkness.He raised his wand casually, and a soft white fluorescent flash floated just right for Aurora: "Maybe he thinks it will give him immortality."

"Eternal life." Aurora looked at the halo, and had the illusion that Snape was holding the moon in his hand, "But you said that learning and using black magic will have some impact on yourself. If he Having made so many horcruxes, will there really be no side effects?"

Snape glanced at her, and replied, "Of course it will. When the soul is divided, his sanity, strength, everything will be equally dispersed."

Equally dispersed?That is to say, the real Salazar Slytherin is twice as shrewd and unpredictable as the one in the current diary?

Aurora felt a shudder just thinking about it, and at the same time realized a fact: "He seems to be particularly obsessed with everything related to Hogwarts, not just about Slytherin."

"Because here, he obtained his identity, knowledge, lineage, and status. That's why he's so persistent." Snape replied without emotion.It reminded him in a way of himself, too, when he first came to Hogwarts.I thought I could get rid of the shadow and decline of my original family, and I thought I could completely control and rewrite my life.

He hated his irresponsible Muggle father, Tobias, who drank all day long and beat and abused him and his mother.Tobias was furious at the slightest hint of magic, and to Snape he was the equivalent of nightmares and rotting filth.At the same time, Snape hated the ignorant and stupid Muggles around him pointing and sneering at his family.

Strength and status determine everything, Snape understood this truth very early on, and it is also a tacit law among the Slytherins.

For a while, he even felt that he was born for Slytherin.It wasn't until he indirectly killed Lily because of his eager pursuit of these things that he gradually woke up from this frenzy.

Lily is a passionate fire, pure and flawless.He never really touched her, he could only watch her from a distance, and every time he tried to get close, he would be burned all over by the scorching heat of the flames.

Sometimes Snape felt that he himself was a fallen man stuck in the mud. He and Lily were people from two different worlds. All his self-protection and armor were not accepted by the other party.To embrace her, Snape had to throw away all the weapons and disguises he relied on to survive, hide him under the heavy darkness, and expose his fragile soul naked to the flames.

A poisonous snake has the right to kiss flowers only after its fangs have been strangled.

However, without the protection of venom and fangs, the snake is destined to lose the ability to survive.

Maybe from the beginning, he shouldn't have longed for that untouchable spark, because they couldn't coexist at all.The glimpses of him when he was young were just for Snape to spend more than 20 years to wake up, they were completely inappropriate.

This conclusion made with a sigh made Snape's body stiffen, and even the fluorescent light on the tip of the wand in his hand dimmed.For a moment, he couldn't even figure out whether he was really thinking that or something else.

Aurora's eyes were dazzled by the sudden change in fluorescent brightness, and after rubbing her hand, she said, "Actually, this is another kind of attachment to Slytherin, right? Leaving aside concepts, many of his practices seem to be Getting closer to Mr. Slytherin, even trying to surpass the past."

Her words stirred a point in Snape's mind.He subconsciously repeated part of Aurora's words: "Close to Mr. Slytherin?"

"That's right." Aurora stretched his hands and counted, "I won't talk about concepts. Horcruxes are like this, black magic research is like this, and some strange attachments to Hogwarts are like this. And Professor Dumbledore later gave me In part of the memories I’ve seen, his later appearance..." At this point, she couldn't help frowning, as if she was frightened by something, "Looks like a snake?"

Aurora's words continued, but Snape was no longer listening.It suddenly occurred to him that eight years ago, when Scamander had just been awarded the title of second-class magician of the Order of Merlin, the Dark Lord had tried to take him under his command, but failed.

At that time, Snape didn't know much about people like natural beast tamers, and he didn't go into why the Dark Lord wanted Scamander to join him.But now he understood, because the two talents of natural animal tamer and Parseltongue were both complementary and complementary.

"If he still can't choose the position he should have, then he doesn't have to show up again." The Dark Lord gave the ultimatum lightly, with the sternness and coldness in his tone so naturally laid out, his eyes were a very deep red, It is so thick that it is very bloody, and it will always be cold and cold when looking at people.

He gave his chosen elite Death Eaters the right to attack the Scamanders at will once a deadline he had set was up.Because Parseltongue is one of his proudest abilities, the strongest proof that he has Slytherin blood in him.The Dark Lord couldn't possibly give anyone the slightest chance to live up to this sense of the sacred.

If you can't get the help of a contemporary natural animal tamer like Salazar Slytherin, then just destroy him.

From this point of view, Aurora is indeed right. Whether it is intentional or not, the Dark Lord is moving closer to Salazar Slytherin in many ways.

but……

Snape looked at the girl beside him, her eyes were quiet and soft, her long hair was hanging down, the color on her hair was so thin and gentle that it almost melted into the dark air of the basement.For the first time, Snape realized with such clarity, almost with horror, that Aurora was also a natural beast tamer, and this was something that many people knew.What if the Dark Lord really came back one day in the future?

This thought made him dare not think deeply, and the almost numb coldness climbed up his fingers from the blood, freezing his breath.

"Thank you for sending me here, Professor." Aurora turned her head, the too bright fluorescent light made her unable to see Snape's face clearly, "Good night, you go to bed early."

After finishing speaking, she put her arms around the sleeping salamander in her arms, raised her wand to light up the fluorescence, and walked towards the Hufflepuff dormitory.Snape withdrew the illuminating spell, and watched her disappear around the corner of the corridor along with the clump of light.

He suddenly remembered for no reason that day more than a month ago, the scene where Aurora summoned the patron saint in front of him calmly.At that time, she was standing in a delicate and cold light like this, just like when he first saw her in the memory of the Pensieve.

She, like her name, is light.

……

Snowing.

This year's temperature dropped extremely rapidly, without any buffer, and all the transitional autumn clothes were put away. The sudden frost and severe cold forced the students to take out the thick winter clothes and wrap them around their bodies.

When I got up in the morning, the Hufflepuff lounge was extraordinarily bright, because a thin layer of translucent ice crystals had formed on the windows, and the light guided by magic penetrated through, and I could see every trace of condensation on it.The snowy light is icy and cold, drawing a hazy blue and gray shadow on the glass, bringing a weird aesthetic feeling that is too cold to the whole glass. After a long time, you will feel as if you are staring at some kind of map connecting the unknown world. Sophisticated and detailed to admirable.

Aurora curled up on the sofa and exhaled into the palm of her hand, the white mist turned into water and stained her glasses.She wiped it off with a scarf, looked up at the dome of the living room covered with green plants and various flowers, touched the ears of the black cat Brett lying on her lap, closed her eyes and sighed.

Winter is here, which means snow that won't stop until spring, which also means she won't be allowed to go outside or stare out of windows for long periods of time for the next few months.

In just a few weeks, Aurora felt that she was about to become moldy. If this continued, sooner or later, she would stare through the roof of Hogwarts with her eyes.

She climbed off the sofa, smoothed the messy hair in the scarf and collar, and prepared to go to the library to kill time.But before she walked out of the lounge, the magical creatures that had been suffocated in the satchel for half a month started chattering inside, desperately trying to get out of it.

Aurora crouched next to the fireplace with her satchel tightly, and unzipped the zipper: "Grape, Buckbeak, be quiet. Don't force me to come down at this time, be good." The bird and snake stared at her angrily, He grabbed a strand of her hair and pulled it hard.

The green dragon took a peek from below, and there was an elephant-nosed pangolin eager to try on its head. It seemed to be weighing the success rate of the collective prison escape, and its huge clear eyes rolled around.

After a stalemate for a long time, Aurora compromised: "Okay, okay, wait a minute, I'll find something to cover my eyes and take you out."

There was a flurry of excitement in the satchel.

"But let's talk about it first." Aurora imitated the strong manner Newt taught her, and said word by word, "No one is allowed to run around, or you won't even think about going out until spring comes!"

She went back to the dormitory and took out a black soft gauze from the suitcase, tied it over her eyes, sat on the back of a coffee bean thestral, and glides out of the castle.

The long wind is biting and cold, and the kiss of snowflakes on the face takes away the rare and precious warmth.Aurora shrank her neck, groped to open the satchel by feeling, and put all the magical creatures inside except the fire dragon into the Forbidden Forest.They rubbed Aurora's face happily, turned their heads and got into the green forest covered with white snow, and the large pieces of snow that had been shaken off were shattered on the ground, leaving clean and pale patches everywhere.

Aurora tried to find Hagrid to hide for a while, but she knocked on the door for a long time but there was no response, so she had to give up.

The first one to come back was the unicorn shredded coconut. It bit Aurora's sleeve, shook it slightly, and lay down on the ground.Aurora sat next to it, half leaning against it to keep each other warm.

At this time, the snow was much smaller, and only a few sporadic flowers were still dangling and falling from the clouds, caught by Aurora's outstretched hand, and quickly melted away.She shook hands, and the loss of vision was unnerving, but novel.

When she first came to this world, Aurora has always wondered why Marianne is almost completely blind in both eyes, but many times she can be very keenly aware of many things that even she can't.

Now she understands that since there is no visual experience, all the attention is naturally divided on hearing, smell and touch.

She heard the howling sound of the cold wind blowing through the forest, the sound of snowballs falling from the branches, felt the cold temperature in the wind, and occasionally felt the small and sharp chilling feeling brought by snow particles brushing against her cheeks .There is also a strong frosty smell, mixed with the refreshing grassy smell of the forest, cold and fresh.

The effect of the warming spell can't last long at this temperature. Aurora rubbed her frozen red fingers in fear of the cold, feeling the low temperature and frost continuously burrowing into her robe.

A subtle sound of snow being trampled fell into her ears. Aurora noticed it sensitively, but couldn't discern the specific direction. She could only raise her head forward and asked, "Who's there?"

Snape saw her when he first came out of the Forbidden Forest, and his first reaction was a little stunned, and then a kind of unreasonable sullenness.Because there is heavy snow everywhere outside now, it would be crazy to run out at this time with the condition of her eyes.

However, he soon noticed that the other party's eyes were covered with a layer of black veil, so he couldn't actually see anything, and could only feel and feel with his hands.

The scene reminded Snape of the vision the Boggart had created, relentlessly revealing his deepest fears.She was blind and hated him so much that she was so mad that she almost collapsed and cursed him to die.

That memory was so vivid that for a moment, Snape thought the girl with the black veil in front of him was just another Boggart.Standing in the cold winter wind, he could clearly feel that he seemed to be sweating a lot.

Aurora, who hadn't heard the answer for a long time, became more vigilant, and while she was about to reach out to tear off the black veil from her eyes, she asked again: "Who's there?"

"You'd better not take it off." Snape frowned after seeing her action, and stopped her.Aurora stopped the movement, and turned to the approximate direction of the voice in a little surprise, looking very happy: "Professor?"

Her reaction was the exact opposite of the Boggart's, not only without any anger, but with a distinct sense of joy.

Snape glanced at the unicorn beside her and the green forest behind her, and basically understood why she was here alone.But Aurora had already told him first: "I'll take them out to let the wind out." She groped for the shredded coconut sugar and patted it, "It seems that they prefer the real ones compared to the environment in the satchel. Forest. I think maybe I've made a mistake somewhere and I need to improve."

While she was speaking, the magical creatures that had hunted came back from the Forbidden Forest one after another.Aurora touched them one by one, and after confirming that they were all there, Snape asked, "Are you all right? If you're all right, you can go back."

"It's ready." She closed the zipper of her satchel, and when she turned around, she subconsciously stroked the side with her left hand, and then felt that Snape suddenly grabbed her wrist and led her forward.

She looked up, and suddenly felt that the layer of black veil in front of her was extremely obstructive, because she really wanted to see the other person's expression.Although according to her guess, the emotional color on Snape's face would not be much richer than the snow layer on the ground.

A ridiculous idea took shape in my mind.If the other party can be pulled forward like this all the time, it seems that it is not completely unbearable to be invisible.

In the castle, many little wizards were chasing and playing and throwing snowballs at each other. The magic commanded a large group of ice and snow to float and collide, and a fine shard of snow fell down.Slughorn, who had just finished teaching the students, came out of the classroom and greeted them in surprise: "Severus, Aurora?"

"Mr. Slughorn."

Slughorn raised his eyebrows when the two men spoke the exact same words at the same time.He noticed that Aurora's eyes were covered with black veils, and asked worriedly, "What's wrong with your eyes?"

"It's okay, Professor." Aurora replied in a relaxed tone, "It's just snow blindness." When she said this, she could feel Snape's hand froze slightly for a very short time.

She went on to say: "I was very lucky, and Professor Snape happened to be there, so he brought me back."

She uttered lies so fluently that no one would question the authenticity of her words, as if she had never really known the truth.

"Then you should be very careful." Slughorn shrank his neck, and the hot breath he exhaled turned into white mist and dissipated. "Or I can help you see if there is any potion that can help you."

"Thank you, Professor, but I went to St. Mungo's to get the medicine two days ago." She replied.

"Okay then." He said with a little regret, turned around and saw Charlie Weasley who had just walked out of the classroom door, and quickly stopped him happily, "Charlie, good boy, come here quickly. I think you don't mind putting Send Aurora back?"

Charlie stared blankly at Aurora's appearance: "Your eyes..." "I'm fine." As she said, she reached out and took off the black veil and held it in her hand, her eyes narrowed unconsciously, and the corners of her eyes quickly turned red, " It's an old problem, you know."

"You'd better put it on, and I'll take you back."

Aurora hesitated for a while, and finally thanked Snape with difficulty under Slughorn's earnest gaze: "Then I'll go back first, thank you for sending me back."

Snape let go of her, his expression was so calm that he didn't say anything.Slughorn patted his stomach habitually, and let out a long sigh of emotion: "What a wonderful age, they are such a good match. What do you think, Severus?"

"If you mean that they are a man and a woman so they look good together, then I couldn't agree more." Snape replied coldly, the dark color in his eyes settling to almost sharp.Slughorn didn't notice his subtle change, just patted him on the shoulder: "Don't be so harsh, Severus, I know you like that kid Aurora as much as I do. But at the same time you have to admit , Charlie is also a very good student."

"Forgive me for disagreeing," Snape said bluntly, looking impatient.

"Oh, come on. College isn't everything. Think of Lily. You can't deny Lily too. What a lovely girl she is, like no other."

"So I have reason to suspect other people." Snape still seemed unmoved, as if Slughorn's words hadn't touched him.

Snow began to fall again.

……

A week before Christmas, Aurora went to Hogsmeade.Earlier, Remus said that Sirius was injured while searching for the Horcrux, and she didn't know if it was okay, so she wanted to take a look.

Remus picked her up at the station, apparating directly into the house to avoid the ubiquitous snow.Aurora untied the black veil covering her eyes, and shook off the brittle and hard ice crystals in her hands.She blinked in the room full of weak gray light, obviously feeling that her eyes took longer to adapt to the change of light in winter than before.

When she could see clearly, she realized that there was Regulus in the room besides Sirius.Compared with his brother's almost casual dressing habits, Regulus always looked so formal and elegant, from the dark green scarf pattern to the black buckskin boots, everything was meticulous.

Although they are two brothers, they feel that the difference is too great.Sirius' eyes are cloudy with rolling thunderclouds, whether it is gloomy or bright, there is always a sense of aggressive deterrence.The dark gray in Regulus' eyes was much colder and restrained, reminiscent of a deep layer of rain with a shimmer floating in it.

"Good afternoon, Aurora." Regulus greeted politely, and then said to Sirius, "So I just told you so much, I hope you can cooperate with my plan and send Berat The inheritance of the Ricks treasury is in hand. I have already arranged for the people in the Ministry of Magic, and now I am waiting for your confirmation."

"I'm not entirely sure what's in her vault, but she's very fond of what's in it, and the level of secrecy set up in Gringotts is very high. And..." His voice was clean and clear. , like an unreachable flower frozen in a layer of frost, beautiful and full of distance, "Bellatrix is ​​very valued by the Dark Lord. I personally think that he may indeed take one of the seven Horcruxes. Give one to her for safekeeping. Of course, the specific result will not be known until the vault is opened."

"But no matter what, this action will not make people gain nothing." He concluded.

"Bellatrix?" Aurora repeated, looking at Regulus with wide eyes in disbelief. "Why did Sirius inherit the inheritance of her treasury?"

"Bellatrix Black Lestrange." Sirius replied, with a clear sense of disgust, "she is my cousin. And of course his." Saying this, he turned to Rhaegu Les raised his chin.

"She killed my father." Aurora's tone became vain, as if she couldn't accept the fact, "But she...you are, a family?"

"She and I are not in the same family." Sirius refuted coldly, "And I will kill her one day for revenge, I can't wait."

"Sorry Aurora, I can't deny the kinship. I'm sorry about your father." Regulus said, looking at her.Aurora didn't know what to say for a moment, after all what Bellatrix did, there was no reason for Regulus to apologize.And she didn't intend to blame them, but she just thought that they would be a family, which was beyond imagination.

Do these three have anything in common?Your Black family is too unusual, isn’t it, is it really your own?

When she was still in a daze, Remus patted Aurora on the shoulder: "Let them talk by themselves, shall we go to the kitchen?"

"...Okay, okay."

The author has something to say:

Gangzhen, the only male character in this article who is really suitable for marriage and life, apart from Vauxbill Charlie, is Regulus...

Shuangshang is extremely high, deep, introverted and strategic, cold and restrained/desirable, I can! ! !

By the way, the phrase "the moonlight is beautiful tonight", I heard from a friend who is learning Japanese, probably means "I love you" in Japanese