[HP] Butterfly Effect

The Daily Prophet wrote that London has recently entered a week of dark cloud weather without a ray of sunshine, and suspected alien invasive magical creatures have been found in various districts. The Ministry of Magic is investigating whether it is related to the deliberate malicious behavior of some wizards.

After Aurora finished reading the above reports and photos, dark gray and black clouds covered London like a hood, gloomy and terrifying like the end of the world.That kind of black is too textured and oppressive, making it impossible to look up at it.The dark clouds gathered and tumbling, with London as the center, crazily spreading and eroding the surrounding areas like a virus, which has seriously hindered the air traffic of the Muggle society.This bad situation lasted for a week, and all kinds of rumors grew out of this haze, and soon spread to every corner of London society.

The Ministry of Magic has pushed the enforcement of secrecy regulations to the highest level, and has also issued some rather tough temporary measures.

Turning to the second page of the newspaper, Azkaban was attacked by magical creatures three days ago. Fortunately, no prisoner escaped from prison.After preliminary confirmation, the identity of the other party is a group of Death Eaters who have not yet been arrested.As for the source of the escaped magical creatures, it is still unclear, but Minister Scrimgeour of the Auror Command believes that this is related to the smuggling of magical creatures in Southampton two months ago.

Seeing this, Aurora remembered that the two smugglers she met in Hogsmeade had mentioned this incident. Those magical creatures were attacked by Death Eaters and fled and disappeared.

Have those magical creatures wandered into London?

Before she could finish her thoughts, Mrs. Hooch walked onto the field in her gown, piercing through the wind and snow with her sharp and long whistle like a blade, opening the curtain for the last Quidditch match before Christmas.

Principal Dumbledore was unexpectedly late this time, and Aurora guessed that it was because of that room.Recently, she often ran into the old headmaster on the basement floor, and every time he smiled at her.But to be honest, Aurora always felt that he didn't really focus on himself, but seemed to be looking at other people through himself.

The auditoriums of Gryffindor and Hufflepuff are next to each other, with a closed observation deck in the middle, and only the doors on both sides can pass through.Aurora and Tonks sat together in the first row and watched the game for a while, and soon their eyes were stinging from the chaotic and dense snow, and the eye sockets immediately turned red.

The flying snowflakes turned into balls of pale flames in her sight, burning her pupils and retinas, causing burning pain.Thinking of Madam Pomfrey's warning, she sighed, wrapped her head in a scarf and prepared to hide under the watchtower.

That voice broke into Aurora's hearing at this time.

It's subtle and hazy, but undeniably very real.It sounds like the depressing sound of some aquatic creature in the deep water layer, with a strange low and ethereal, like a harp string being plucked slowly in the low range, spreading out a series of melancholy notes.

Aurora pulled down the scarf covering her eyes a little, squinted her eyes and looked around.The Golden Snitch flashed past her like lightning, so fast that it was too late to see its shadow clearly. The Slytherin Seeker immediately turned around and swooped over. fly over.Aurora took a step back and hastily put the scarf over her eyes again to reduce the secondary damage to the eyes caused by the cryogenic crystals.

The cold wind whizzed by, and the low temperature made it difficult to breathe smoothly.Before Aurora jumped off the seat platform and had no time to walk out, that ethereal and deep voice sounded again, the difference was that it was clearer this time.

She listened intently for a while, and after making sure that it was not her hallucination, she took off the scarf again, and looked up at the approximate source of the sound—a light gray sky with snowflakes falling like torn pieces of paper.

There was nothing in the sky except the teams of Slytherins and Hufflepuffs participating in Quidditch matches.

Aurora looked at it for a while, and finally returned to the place where she was sitting at the beginning, and pulled Tonks who was watching the progress of the game nervously: "Did you hear anything?"

"What what?" Tonks asked casually, still staring at the yellow and green figures chasing the Snitch in the sky.

"Sound." Aurora thought for a while, then added, "I'm not sure what it is, didn't you hear it? It's a strange sound."

"No." Tonks came back to his senses, looked at her blankly, and then looked around, "I didn't hear any strange sounds, did you hear it wrong?"

In fact, the entire Quidditch arena was extremely noisy because the game was coming to an end. Apart from everyone's fierce shouts, only the roaring cold wind could be heard.Tonks listened for a while, but couldn't tell what the strange voice Aurora was talking about was.

Aurora put the side of her palm above her eyes to cover the crushed snow and looked into the sky. A slender fishtail-shaped dark shadow cruised past the light gray clouds, with an elegant, flexible and incomparably smooth posture.It looks like a huge whale is freely passing through the thick and cold clouds, and the snow and frost in the sky are all waves of water droplets stirred up by it, covering the sky and covering the sky.

The sky is the ocean, and all people are active under the sea.

Aurora was stunned for a while, until she could no longer see the fishtail-shaped shadow, and then remembered Tonks next to her: "Did you see that?"

Tonks looked in the direction she pointed, "What?" It was a lifeless haze, under such bad weather, only the white snow on the ground still retained a clear outline, and the other scenery was covered by such harsh Light conditions are blurred.

"Like a fish," Aurora murmured.Tonks looked at her in surprise: "Are you okay? Your eyes look bad, are you hallucinating? Why are there fish here?"

Light and shadow staggered and rotated, and the huge fish tail appeared in the sky again. The moment it was raised and then shot down, the vast snow fell from the sky, as if the endurance of those dark clouds was finally stretched to the limit. Bit by bit tearing and bursting.

"It's coming again!" Aurora shouted, pointing in the direction where the fish tail disappeared.

"It's snowing heavily." Someone around said this.

The ethereal low-frequency sound that seemed to come from underwater aquatic life, mixed with wind and snow, clearly blew past Aurora's ears.

"What the hell are you talking about?"

The Hufflepuff Chaser slammed the Quaffle into the Slytherin hoop with a neat upside-down golden hook.The sky suddenly darkened at this moment, and the already weak and thin light was forced to retreat steadily by the shadows from behind the Forbidden Forest, and finally disappeared into nothing.

The arena gradually quieted down, and everyone could see a cloud as black as ink rolling towards Hogwarts aggressively, climbing into their field of vision like a dark beast that had rushed out of its cage , approaching with an irresistible attitude, crushing all the light spots and bright colors, flattening the outline of the mountain peak, spreading silently but quickly.

The sky was torn open by an invisible hand, and the endless darkness behind it surged like a wave.All this happened so real and illusory, as if watching a dark silent film, seeing how the world is wrapped in an endless blackness, a place without light, silent and cold.

Caroline stared wide-eyed at the black clouds that continued to spread, and said in surprise: "What is that? Flood?"

"It's dark clouds." Tonks frowned and looked at the top of his head. "The weather has changed too quickly." "And it's even worse." Cecilia added.

The sudden change of weather caused the visibility on the field to drop to a low point. Although it was close to noon at this moment, it looked similar to the gloomy dusk in summer.Fortunately, the previous score had been widened, and this Quidditch match ended with Slytherin's victory.

The whistle drew Aurora's attention back, and Dean Sprout came to inform the prefects to take the students from their respective colleges back to the castle.

"It's going to be a blizzard," she said.

Aurora was still staring at the sky, trying to find the fishtail-shaped shadow just now, but unfortunately her eyesight had been deteriorating and the sharp and long pain was becoming more and more unbearable, so she had to give up this move.

Everyone returned to the castle, and the next duel between Gryffindor and Slytherin occupied the center of the topic. Professor McGonagall felt very stressed even walking next to Snape, although she didn't show it .

No one talked about today's weather changes, after all, dark clouds and overcast skies are very common in Britain, and no one talked about the huge slender fish tail that appeared more than once in the sky.

It seemed that all of this was just Aurora's own imagination.

"You can't run into the snow again, Aurora, or your eyesight will be seriously damaged." After Madam Pomfrey treated her, she warned her again sternly, "When it is absolutely necessary, you It is best to blindfold your eyes with something that can block the light. If there are too many snow blindnesses in a short period of time, you will be in danger of blindness. You count and see that you have come to me every time it snows from the first grade until now How many times has it been here?"

The girl with red eyes rubbed her eyes and said with a smile: "I know Madam Pomfrey, I will definitely pay attention next time."

She walked out of the school hospital, stood on the edge of the corridor and looked at the sky that was no longer snowing.The color of the sky and the earth was reversed, and the pure white that was unattainable in the past covered the ground, as if what had just fallen was not snow, but the surface color of the broken sky.

There is no fishtail-shaped shadow, in fact, if it is possible to see it, after all, the current sky can't make out anything.

Tomorrow is the Christmas holiday, and everyone basically gathered in the castle auditorium to attend the party, or packed things in their dormitories, preparing to take the train home tomorrow morning.

Aurora sat on the stone bench in the hallway on the first floor, read a book for a while by the light of the candles floating everywhere, then took out the parchment and wrote to Remus, explaining her holiday arrangements for this Christmas, by the way, asking him Are you free to go to London with them.

Before the letter ended, the familiar melancholy and ethereal unknown voice suddenly floated over from above.When Aurora stopped writing and looked up, she saw the dark gray fish tail quickly cruising past in the black clouds.

She grabbed her schoolbag and jumped off the stool, chasing the fish tail all the way up.When they passed the corridor platform on the second floor, Professor McGonagall and Snape, who had just come out of the principal's office, happened to see her.

Professor McGonagall hurriedly called to her: "Miss Field, Professor Dumbledore...Miss Field?" Looking at the girl who had quickly disappeared around the corner, she said a little strangely: "Why is she in such a hurry?" Then she asked He rubbed his forehead, "God, I have to go find Felius later. Severus, please leave Miss Field to you, I have to go now."

Snape had no choice but to follow the hurrying figure that had disappeared.The dark clouds rolled and twisted in the sky, like a pot of black-gray potion being boiled, the clouds shrunk and spread to swallow each other, and gradually a few more obvious vortex centers emerged, attracting some students who were also chatting in the corridor Point to the sky and marvel.

He stopped at the side of the corridor and frowned to look at the weird scene in the sky, then turned up the stairs covered with faint yellow lights.

Aurora didn't hear anyone calling her at all, and ran along the windowed corridor towards an abandoned empty tower on the northwest side of Hogwarts.The fish tail seemed to be guiding her all the time, and it would suddenly reappear every time Aurora was about to lose it.

Hidden in the clouds was a magical creature she had never seen before, Aurora was so sure.Perhaps, even the sudden weather change just now had something to do with it.

She ran up to the observatory, facing the cold wind mixed with fine frost and snow particles.The plain white snow is boundless, pressing heavily on the Forbidden Forest, covering the condensed and deep forest green, and the dim gray light weakens the dazzling paleness, blocking everything here.

When standing at this height, the black and gray clouds seem to be within reach, floating lightly above the head.Aurora stood on the edge of the tower, leaning on the wall with one hand, and tentatively raised her head out of the wall to look at the clouds in the sky.

A strange and long cry came from the top of the head. Aurora stepped on the edge of the tower without any protective measures. Before she could see the whole picture of the fish tail, she was suddenly dragged back by someone grabbing her shoulders from behind.

Snape quickly let go of her, frowned slightly and looked down at Aurora, with his hands in the wide pockets of his coat casually: "Before you fall to your death because you want to appreciate the terrible weather up close , I think I have to tell you that Professor Dumbledore has something to ask you."

"There are fish in the sky." Aurora pointed to the dark cloud that was slowly swirling, "Really, during the Quidditch match, the weather wasn't so bad at that time, that's why they came."

After Snape listened, he looked up at the barren and barren sky except for the lifeless dim light, but he didn't see the fish she was talking about.He withdrew his gaze, looked at Aurora, and didn't make any comments on what she said: "You should go to the principal's office, Field."

Aurora watched the fish tail disappear into the clouds again, then nodded: "Thank you for letting me know, professor."

She thought that Dumbledore came to her for two reasons, either more details about the room that was found at the time, or about Salazar.But when she actually sat in the principal's office and sat in front of Dumbledore, she realized that she was wrong.

Aurora looked at Salazar's diary in front of her, and a "merrychristmas" parchment with Dumbledore's handwriting on it, and looked up in surprise, her eyes quite confused.Dumbledore handed her a pen, and the communication between the two was completely on paper.

This is one of the Horcrux weaknesses discovered by Dumbledore during this period of time.It can hear and feel people and magic fluctuations around it, but it cannot sense some non-threatening behaviors that have nothing to do with magic.

Aurora also wrote Merry Christmas, and then asked why the diary was taken out.Dumbledore returned, because he really had nothing to talk about with this Mr. Slytherin, and it was useless to put it here.

She glanced at the familiar dark green old soft leather diary, not quite understanding what this had to do with handing it back into her hands.Judging from their reaction when they just discovered this diary, it should be impossible to give it to themselves again.

Dumbledore wrote, "I believe it is better to return it to you than to leave it here. As for the reason, I will give you an answer after I have thoroughly figured out whether my guess is correct. But I hope that if you feel If the diary has threatened you, or asked you to do anything close to the Myrtle bathroom or other places you haven't been, please tell me immediately. No matter what happens, I promise you that I will do my best to protect you safety."

Aurora looked at it for a while, and probably guessed that Dumbledore's talks with Salazar had collapsed. Both sides were unwilling to make even the slightest concession, but there was no way to take the other party in a short period of time, so they had to change the method. break the ice.

But she really didn't think she could have this ability. She and Salazar were able to chat with each other without any obstacles, just because she never asked those sensitive questions about the secret room and others. .Just like once the question about Helga was touched, Salazar still turned his face and refused to recognize anyone, and the speed was almost faster than turning over a book.

Dumbledore really got the wrong guy.

She wrote it all down on paper, and pushed the parchment and diary in front of Dumbledore.Snape sat aside, seeing Aurora's actions, the expression on his face softened imperceptibly, but he still looked expressionless.

Originally, Aurora thought that Dumbledore would be disappointed with her answer, but when she carefully looked at the old headmaster, she found that he did not show any disappointment, but showed a faint smile instead.Then he turned his head to look at Snape, who had been sitting aside the entire time, making no attempt to join their pass-a-note game.

Aurora didn't understand why he was looking at Snape, but she resisted the urge to turn her head after Dumbledore's, and just looked at the opposite person with wide eyes.

Dumbledore scribbled his final words quickly, the sound of the quill nib dipped in ink gliding across the page smoothly.

Aurora took the piece of paper and saw that it said, "No, I don't need you to talk to him to find out how to enter the secret room. I just need you to keep it safe from anyone else. I can't be [-]% Sure the reason you're safe even if you get close to the diary, just found something in Helga's room where you found it last time, but obviously you're a good custodian. We may never understand Don’t open the mystery of the secret room, but at least it can’t increase the threat to the school.”

"Can I ask what you found?" she replied.

Dumbledore replied, "Not yet, I will have to confirm it thoroughly before I can tell you."

Aurora was silent for a while, finally picked up the diary, and nodded to Dumbledore.Snape frowned, and looked away calmly.

"That's right." Aurora turned over the already filled parchment and wrote a new sentence, "There are fish in dark clouds, Mr. Principal, really."

After Dumbledore finished reading, he turned and looked at the sky outside, "Go back first, and leave the rest to us." Then, he said to Snape, "Please send her off, Sir Fleurs."

Aurora got up and said goodbye, and followed Snape all the way in silence to the basement level, where the Slytherin and Hufflepuff dormitories separated.

"I hope this heavy snow has not blurred your vision to the point where you can't see the road ahead, and where you should try, Field." He glanced at the diary held in Aurora's arms, and suddenly said arrive.

"Thank you for your reminder, I will remember." After speaking, Aurora turned and left.

Back in the dormitory, she put the diary on the table, read it for a while, then took a deep breath and opened it.

The paper snake on the pale yellow parchment immediately changed from a sluggish slumber to an alert one, and the purple letter waved menacingly at her.

She picked up the quill and wrote on the page, "Merry Christmas, Mr. Slytherin."

Salazar raised his chin and looked at that sentence for a while, his golden vertical pupils changed from a cold stare at the beginning to a kind of all-too-familiar revulsion.He swung his tail, and the letters immediately jumped into his mouth in line and were crunched and crushed: "He actually asked you to trick me, I think he is really old and confused."

This is the rhythm of opening and kneeling... So, Dumbledore really found the wrong person.

Aurora sighed, since the other party knew about it, it was impossible for her to deceive him no matter how extravagantly she made it up, she simply replied: "Yeah, I felt the same way at the time, so I refused."

"What do you mean?"

"Later, I thought it was not bad. When you come back, my Potions will be saved, right?"

"Then what about your mission?" Salazar asked calmly, raising the tip of his tail and resting it under his chin.

"The principal didn't expect me to ask things that he couldn't ask. He wasn't so confused. He just thought that you two were tired of seeing each other anyway, so he gave me this diary again." wrote At this point, Aurora hesitated for a while, and finally, she was overwhelmed, and asked very directly, "Is the legend about your chamber of secrets that they said about you true, sir? Does it really exist?"

Salazar glanced at her: "Why do you ask me when you already know?"

"But those are just legends after all, and not all of them are true. You've heard it before, so of course you can't believe it all." Aurora replied.

Salazar didn't speak, but looked at the girl in front of him with a very strange look.Aurora remembered this kind of look. She had seen it on some science and education channels on TV. In the program called "Entering the World of Mentally Handicapped Children", those doctors looked at patients with this kind of look.

Can she poke this paper snake with a pen...

"It exists, it's no secret to you, and there's nothing to hide. As for the real reason for building it, I won't say it, and you don't want to ask it from me. And your principal is worried, I can only say, you'd better persuade him not to waste his efforts, even if he knows where the entrance is, he will never be able to enter let alone destroy the secret room." Salazar wrote a long and beautiful passage Font, "However, it will not be opened for a while, at least I don't have this idea for the time being."

enough.

Aurora was relieved, and began to write down other things that happened during this period with great interest, focusing on introducing her new partner, Winged Demon Blueberry Jam.

Blueberry Jam crawled out of Aurora's sleeve, and curiously wanted to touch the moving paper snake with its barbed wings, but unfortunately, the snake ancestor smiled and scared it into a specimen and stuck it on the wall, trembling for a long time fell to the ground and curled up into a green cocoon.

I haven't seen him for more than two months, but the other party's eerie and brutal style has not changed at all.

This is him.

Everything is back on track.

The author has something to say:

Today's BGM is very suitable for the part where the dark clouds come.

This magical creature is my bullshit, eh.

I cut my hands when I cut potatoes, and I cried bitterly.

What happened last night and today is simply the fastest day since the pit was opened.Did the pit friends who are one step away from Twilight next door climb the wall together?

Congratulations to Snake Ancestor for returning, looking forward to doing things at Christmas.

Today's sugar is still in the gap.

It was announced in advance that at the end of the summer vacation of the third grade, Lao Deng Fengsao walked around to find out the relationship between Aurora and Badger Zu.

Make a wish, there will be a lot of comments tomorrow [Star Eye]