[HP] Butterfly Effect

After dusk comes night.

This place is near the sea, and the forest is dry and fresh due to the scorching sun during the day. Once night falls, a layer of fog will soon form and hover inside.The afterglow of the twilight has not completely dissipated, and the water vapor in the air is gradually thickening, still carrying the sun's halo, shining slightly in the gradually darkening environment.

Aurora followed Snape all the way into the forest, the surrounding light was getting darker and darker, and some luminous magical herbs began to slowly spread their branches to emit a little faint blue light.

After passing through a relatively open road, Aurora saw a dark brown bulletin board at the end of the direction Snape was heading towards, on which was written something like "Danger Zone" in a kind of fluorescent paint that had almost peeled off. , do not approach".

It seems that the front is a place where magical creatures and potion materials are concentrated, so it is listed as a restricted area by Muggles.

Snape stepped forward, waved his wand to float all the wire around the sign, then walked in, turned to look at Aurora.The girl withdrew her curious gaze, and quickly followed his pace through the arch bridge made of bent wire.

There are huge slanted and fallen tree trunks everywhere here, and the dense moss has woven a new green coat for them. The soles of the feet are different from the solid ground just now, and there is a thick layer of humus.The vegetation in this area is denser and more humid than the previous forest. Clusters of magic snow hydrangea bloom like a large expanse of solidified pale snow, and more Bowtruckles are lying on the tree trunks, looking at these two people curiously.

After being silent all the way until now, Aurora felt that it was necessary to find a topic to adjust the atmosphere.So she took the initiative to ask: "Do you come here often? I mean, you seem to be familiar with the road here."

"I've been here many times." Snape replied, increasing the effect of fluorescent flashes, and holding it over Aurora's head, "When you need more troublesome materials." Aurora nodded: "I heard that there are wood hemlocks. Wherever there is, there will definitely be scarlet scorpions."

Snape added: "Dragon's claw flower and poison dart toad are also good neighbors."

"So we have to find the eggs of the scavenger bird first." Aurora continued.Snape reached out, took out a few thumb-sized bird eggs with spots from his coat pocket, and handed them to Aurora: "I think this is what you're talking about."

"You already found it?" Aurora looked at the other party in surprise, and then took the eggs that were still slightly warmed by the other party. "It seems that we can save a lot of time."

"I think so."

Soon, a large piece of silver-edged pine cedar with hemlock appeared in front of it.

The way to tame the scarlet scorpion is not difficult, but the risk factor is very high.Their body size is considered medium among scorpions, and their bodies are dark red in normal state, and bright red like bleeding when provoked, and their tail hooks are highly poisonous.

Fortunately, this magical creature is a solitary animal. It usually feeds on the juice of wood hemlock and some smaller insects, and it loves the eggs of carrion birds the most.As long as you break the eggs and place them away from the wood hemlock, they will be attracted quickly.

"Then pinch the lower end of their tail hooks, they will lose their strength, and finally scratch their abdomen." Aurora said, ready to reach out and get close to the scarlet scorpion that was happily licking the liquid in the eggshell.Snape stopped her with his wand and handed her a pair of thick old buckskin gloves.

Aurora froze for a moment, looked up, and saw the other party's pale face with no expression, his eyes were blurred by the fog, and she could only hear what Snape said, which was still clear: "I assume you intend to test whether it is Does Apparition go to St. Mungo's faster, or does its poison kick in faster? If I were you, I wouldn't just grab it with my hands."

The girl nodded and put the glove on her right hand, and then she realized that the glove was certainly not the size of her hand, but it didn't look like it would fit Snape's hand either.Its original owner should be an adult woman with long and thin fingers.

Before he had time to think about anything else, Aurora stretched out his fingers and quickly pinched the scarlet scorpion's tail hook, then scratched its abdomen.The scorpion's body quickly turned from the startled blood red back to dark red, and its two pincers dangled limply.

The little guy who was dizzy from being scratched upside down lay on Aurora's left hand for a while, then stood up shaking three times, shook the tail hook, and climbed along her arm all the way to the shoulder, demonstrating Sexually, he clamped his two pincers.

Snape packed the wood hemlock into the potion bag he carried with him, then turned to see the scarlet scorpion lying on Aurora's left shoulder, and a Bowtruckle on the right shoulder probing the pricked edge .

Scorpion obviously had a big opinion of the young man in front of him who had robbed him of the hemlock, and kept wagging his tail hook at him.Aurora looked at the scorpion and then at Snape, making a reasonable guess: "Maybe it's a boy."

So same-sex repels.

Snape twitched the corner of his mouth: "Then should I be happy for you or sad for you?" "From your point of view, it should be something to be happy about." Aurora replied with a smile.

"Let's go, and the Dragon's Claw Flower." Snape glanced at the docile scarlet scorpion lying on her shoulder, and said calmly, "I hope the poison dart toad you meet later is also a... boy .”

In response to the other party's deliberate long-tailed sound, Aurora just pursed her lips and shrugged, even shaking the tea roll and scorpion on her shoulders.

This scene was a bit creepy, and Snape was sure that if another person was lying on the body of this scarlet scorpion, then that person would be lying down, otherwise the wood hemlock in the potion market would not be sold at sky-high prices.

"Let's go." He glanced at the scorpion.

"it is good."

With the help of Scarlet Scorpion, the process of finding Dragon Claw Flower was much faster, but this was completely an accident.The reason was that when Aurora tried to get close to the poison dart toad, the other party unceremoniously spit out its tongue and saliva at her.Snape was well aware of the toxicity of the poison dart toad, and when it spat at Aurora, he quickly pulled the girl behind him, but he didn't expect that because of his pulling, the scarlet scorpion on Aurora's shoulder would be thrown off Go out and catch the saliva spit out by the toad.

In the next second, the whole body of the enraged scarlet scorpion turned red like blood. It jumped up from the ground and landed in the center of the large flower disc of Dragon Claw Flower, aiming at the face of poisonous dart toad, raised its pincers and slapped it in the face.

Toad jumped away with a strange cry, covered his face with his sticky bright green webbed claws, and stared at the red scorpion with black eyes.The scarlet scorpion seemed perplexed, and slapped his backhand again, the tail hook raised high, and the spike was blood red.

The poison dart toad reacted, adjusted its posture, and spit out its black tongue full of venom at it, but was pierced by the scorpion's tail hook and screamed wildly.

In short, this is a complete victory for the scarlet scorpion. With both sides covered in poison, whoever is fierce is justified.Then Toad squatted obediently beside him, using his two small webbed claws to help this extremely vicious scorpion clean the cockroaches on his body little by little.

Stunned, Aurora then officially announced her decision to name the heroic scorpion Cranberry.

After Snape collected the dragon claw flowers, the corner of his mouth twitched when he heard Aurora's thoughts: "I have to say that it's a good thing that sometimes the language is difficult, but I don't know what it thinks about this name, it's really curious .”

"I don't think it would mind, right Cranberry?" Aurora reached out to the scarlet scorpion, who quickly climbed onto her hand, all the way up, lying on the girl's shoulder, the tail hook softly shrugged .After watching the fight just now, Chajuan silently climbed to lie down on top of Aurora's head, not to provoke the new cranberry.

"Professor, what is the last thing you are looking for?"

"The tail whistle of a magical creature," said Snape, looking further into the forest.The forest at night is very quiet, and when you listen intently, you can hear the faint sound of waves, coming from the vast ocean below the cliff at the edge of the forest.

The two continued to walk forward for a while, crossing a narrow stream.There are more and more large magical animals here. Some dodos, which are considered extinct in the Muggle world—wizards become ball escape birds—are still gathered and active here in small numbers, and there are also some eagle-eyed sika deer, And scavengers all in shiny blue.

The bird is said to be able to imitate some of the last calls of an animal after it eats its decomposing carcass.

But obviously, none of these magical creatures were what Snape was looking for.His attention was on the ground, and from time to time he would cast a spell or two into the grass with his wand, which would startle a group of black beetles and flee in all directions.

Aurora followed behind him, suddenly regretting that she didn't bring out the small flashlight.Although the effect of the fluorescent flashes was very good, and Snape took care to hold the light above her head so as not to irritate her eyes, but every time the wand was shaken, there was a burst of light and shadow around her, making her look very dizzy.

She rubbed her eyes and took a step back, accidentally stepped on something, looked down, it looked like a bunch of withered weeds.Aurora stretched out his hands to push back the dead grass, but found that it felt a little wrong to the touch. It didn't feel like weeds, but rather...

Snape originally turned his head to tell Aurora to go on, but when he saw the thing wrapped around the girl's ankle, he quickly walked over to stop her hand: "Don't move, it's snakeskin."

"...What?!" Aurora broke out in a cold sweat suddenly, feeling that it was difficult to breathe, "What did you just say?"

Snape glanced at her. "Snakeskin. Come on, it's nearby."

So...the last magical creature you're looking for is a snake? !Aurora felt that her whole body was not well, a chill shot up her spine and exploded up her head, and her whole body was trembling slightly.

"You...you want, a snake's tail whistle? I mean, a rattlesnake kind?"

"No. There's a big difference between a Mangulas whistler and a rattlesnake. I think Mr. Scamander should have made that clear in his book."

After Snape finished speaking, he looked back at the pale girl, as if realizing something, he raised his eyebrows, and his deep and sweet voice was drawn out inexplicably: "Are you afraid of snakes?"

"Most people are afraid of snakes." Aurora replied vaguely, her eyes cautiously but flusteredly scanning her surroundings. "Many of them are poisonous and fierce."

"There are plenty of non-poisonous ones too." Snape snapped at this poor excuse, pointing at the cranberries with his wand, "Actually, I think if you're so afraid of being poisoned by something so-called 'venomous', then You should be more afraid of it, shouldn't you? You don't know the poison of the scarlet scorpion, do you, or do you think it was very gentle when it stabbed the poisonous dart toad?"

"...but they're too big."

"Then imagine your coffee bean Thestral?"

"...but they have no legs."

Snape opened his mouth, and then looked down at the girl who was still struggling from the corner of his eyes: "Then I saw you were very happy when you were eating fish?"

"...But they still like to clump and elongate, then clump and elongate, and then clump and pull again..."

"Maybe!" Snape interrupted her, his face turned somber like a dark cloud over Britain that would never go away, "Would you faint from fright whenever you see someone kneading dough in the kitchen?"

Aurora was speechless, and it seemed that the dean of the Snake Academy felt offended by the emblem of his academy.She has absolutely no conscience, she is simply expressing her respect for snakes.

She touched the tip of her nose, and was about to explain what she said, but saw that Snape looked at her suddenly became very strange, and couldn't help asking: "What's wrong?"

"Nothing." He replied.

It was a red Mangulas snake with bright dark purple pupils. It was about the size of a normal Zhuyeqing. Its slender and flexible body hung down from the branch above Aurora's head, spitting out purple-black letters gently. Touching the tea roll lying on top of her head.

The little thing grabbed Aurora's hair as a rope, and slid it to the end of the hair with a sharp sound, trembling.The red snake looked curiously at the tea roll that slid down all of a sudden, stretched its body even longer, and poked down along Aurora's back in a void.

While Snape pulled Aurora behind him, he cast a spell and knocked the red snake flying, and fell into a pile of grass not far away.

Soon, more hissing sounds came from the surroundings, and many red ribbons hung down from the black and green dense canopy, curling up and spitting out forked letters towards them, looking like layers of wind blowing. Open the densely corrugated red curtains.

In this scalp-numbing situation, it doesn't matter whether the snakes are venomous or not, because the number alone is enough to scare people.

If it weren't for the conditions, Aurora really wanted to take out the Salazar diary in her schoolbag, throw it on the faces of these snakes and smash them to death.She couldn't remember if Newt's book had any record of the taming of magical creatures of pure snakes, but if there were, she didn't think she had the guts to go near them.

Creatures like birds and snakes are not counted, they still have the appearance of birds as a buffer.

that dream.

Aurora clutched Snape's robe tightly, dripping with cold sweat, her mind was full of that dream, crawling with snakes of various colors, overwhelming the sky.Now she began to wonder if she was still dreaming, not waking up at all.

When she was still in a daze, a bright red mangulas suddenly fell from the tree, landed right between Aurora and Snape, wrapped around her hand, like a ball of flames without temperature, dazzling and Cold, with bright purple pupils.

Aurora screamed and instinctively backed away, trying to throw it away with her arms.Snape turned his head immediately after hearing her cry, and more snakes fell from the canopy above his head, dazzling like fire falling from the sky, burning in circles between the two of them.It didn't take long before the whole area was filled with that terrible red color.

Aurora took out the wand, but remembered that she did not have the right to use magic outside the school. Extreme fear forced her to escape from the sea of ​​fiery red snakes and rush into the boundless dark forest.

"Field, come back!" Snape frowned, looked at the slender figure running away in a panic, and quickly threw a few petrification spells and fuchsias at the red snakes that had approached Aurora to repel them.

But because magical creatures are born with a certain resistance to magic, and it will grow with their size and age, ordinary spells can only work on some young red snakes.

If it is a magical creature that is huge and hundreds of years old, there is almost no magic that can harm it.

Aurora ran forward all the way, the leaves and branches lashed at her, she was panting desperately, and she couldn't see the way in the dark.After running for an unknown distance, Aurora suddenly tripped over a fallen half-rotted tree trunk and fell straight forward.The whole person slid on the ground for a certain distance and rolled several times. His knees, calves, and palms were all worn out and rolled up. The skin was blood red and excruciatingly painful.

The rustling sound came from the grass, and the speed of the Mangulas snakes was as fast as those rumors. They almost had no effort to catch up with the little girl who was overwhelmed by fear. The red waves were like dyed Like a blade of blood piercing through the darkness, it narrowed to the person lying on the ground.

"Don't come here, don't come here!" Aurora tried her best to curl herself into a ball, blood was squeezed out from the wound on her calf, leaving a light blood stain on the ground, "Don't come here!"

Cranberry and Tea Roll jumped off her shoulders, making a warning move towards the wave of red snakes around them.

"Don't come here...don't come here..." Aurora hugged herself tightly, repeating these words over and over again, as if hypnotized, not caring at all that such movements made her blood flow faster.

It's a dream, it's just a dream, wake up...it's a dream...

At this time, Salazar's diary suddenly flew out of Aurora's canvas satchel. Immediately afterwards, the diary suddenly opened by itself, the pages rattled, and bursts of green light burst out.Aurora raised her head and heard an unfamiliar voice speaking softly and quickly in a language she didn't understand at all.

Perhaps because she couldn't understand the content, Aurora focused more on the voice itself.It was a young man's voice, between the mature and low voice of a man and the clear and sharp voice of a teenager, very pleasant and comfortable, with a snake-like silkiness, which made people feel a little trembling and eerie.

He doesn't seem to like to use much force when speaking, and his voice is so ethereal that it is extremely unreal, like the whispers of those ghosts. He is also used to slightly dragging the tail at the end of the sentence, but because of the low pitch, there is an invisible pressure.

For some reason, Aurora trembled inexplicably when she heard this voice, feeling as if a lazy snake had licked her fragile throat, and cold sweat covered her forehead.

Slowly, the snakes began to retreat, and the diary closed and flew back into the schoolbag, disappearing.

Not far away, a group of light illuminated by fluorescent flashes is rapidly approaching.Snape pushed aside the low branches in front of him, and saw Aurora sitting on the ground in a daze, the hem of the light yellow T-shirt and navy blue trousers were cut, and the calf was stained with blood, looking quite embarrassed.

His first reaction was that Aurora was bitten by the Mangulas Whistle Snake, and his face immediately became very ugly.Fortunately, after Snape checked her wound, he realized that it was not a bite, but just a serious abrasion. The blood color was also normal, and there was no sign of poisoning.

Without the suppression of the voice just now, the bloody sea of ​​snakes gradually began to become restless again.Aurora shuddered and shouted: "Go away! Everyone go away——!"

Not knowing whether it was because the influence of that voice was still there, or because her cry was too shrill, the group of snakes hesitated for a while, and finally disappeared instantly after being frightened by the sharp fronts that Snape threw at them.The bright red that was still a vast ocean just now was engulfed by the blackness of the forest in the blink of an eye, so that there was no trace of it that appeared.

Seeing this immediate effect, Aurora sincerely felt that the existence of violence in this world was justified.If only she had this escape speed.

"I'm sorry, Professor..." Aurora wiped her face, her hands were covered with cold sweat, and she staggered to get up to carry her schoolbag, but she kept slipping and falling. I was so scared just now, I'm really sorry."

When it came to the end, Aurora took the initiative to shut up, because she found that her voice was out of tune, and there was a kind of useless crying.

Snape pursed his lips with an uneasy expression, and originally wanted to ask her about the strange human voice he vaguely heard just now, but seeing the girl who couldn't even stand up, he finally gave up asking: "This question leaves nothing to be desired. Now tell yourself."

As he spoke, he knelt down and checked Aurora's injuries.His hands were cold, as if they had just been scooped from the ice, which made Aurora shiver.

"It's still moving, better than I thought."

The smell in the forest is very stuffy, the thick smell of earth mixed with the smell of rotting branches and leaves, and there is also some vague snake smell, which makes people sick and tense.And when the familiar and bitter smell of potion on Snape's body penetrated into his nostrils, Aurora's eyes felt sore and wet for no reason, and he quickly turned his head away to look elsewhere.

She begged herself to think of something else, or find something to distract her.Tears trickled down from her eyes, and she couldn't stop them.

This is wrong, she is not in danger now, there is no need to cry.The wound hurts, but that's not the main reason, she just can't control it, as if her body and will are completely out of touch.The more she told herself not to cry, the faster the tears fell.

Snape looked up and saw that Aurora was turning her head in a direction where he couldn't see her face, her thin shoulders trembled slightly, and there was a slight sobbing sound.He frowned, feeling a little inexplicably irritated, and he forgot half of what he said just now, which made him even more irritated.

But in the end, he still brought her to this kind of place. Although he didn't know that Aurora was so afraid of snakes, the main responsibility still lay with him.

"Don't cry," he said, handing out the handkerchief he was planning to use to bandage her wound hastily.

Aurora froze for a moment, took it over and wiped away her tears, "Thank you."

Then neither of them spoke again.Seeing Aurora staring at the darkness ahead for a while, Snape said in a cold and determined tone: "Regret?" "No... just..." Aurora thought for a while, and finally answered honestly, "I'm a little hungry."

She told the truth, she hadn't had dinner yet, and after walking and running in the forest for so long, she was already hungry.

snape,...

So you really can't expect a Slytherin and a Hufflepuff to talk on the same channel, their focus will never get together, and each will feel that the other's brain circuit is strange.

The author has something to say:

Update from going to the hospital soon...my mouth, it's too bad to open...

Here is a fat chapter [exhausted JPG]

It's said that you don't cry until the professor comes, of course it's because you like him [being beaten away].People, sometimes it’s okay if the person I care about is not around, but when I see him, I feel so wronged and want to cry [Desperate laugh JPG]

The last setting about the magic resistance of the magic creature is my private setting.Because I always feel that the original book is very fascinating. The professor is such an awesome master. In the first book, he can be made like this by a three-headed dog. He directly petrified the other party like Hermione dealt with those elves in the second book. Wouldn't it be fine?

So I feel that Rowling may not have thought too much about some places, so let’s just make a private design. The larger the body and the older the magic creature, the stronger the resistance to magic.Otherwise, with so many spells, there is no need to think about the outcome of a battle between wizards and magical creatures.