[HP] Butterfly Effect

If it weren't for the fact that Remus Lupine attended the Ministry of Magic's criminal trial against him as Aurora Field's guardian more than a year ago, and agreed to Aurora's defense against him, Snape would not have On such a rainy afternoon, I remembered that there were still a few hours until the night of the full moon.

He really hated being indebted, and he couldn't figure out how someone could disappear at a fixed time every month and ask for leave for so long, and the people around him still couldn't guess his identity.

After picking up a bottle of potion from the cabinet, Snape went straight to the fireplace in his office, to the Three Broomsticks pub in Hogsmeade.But his arrival was not so coincidental. The receptionist said that Lupine was not here, and that it was the second person to see him today.

Now that he's no longer at work, there's only one place to find him.

Snape didn't stay long, didn't bother to ask who else had come to see Lupine, and left the bar directly to apparate towards the screaming shack floating in the gray mist in the distance.

According to the past practice, Snape would give the wolf potion to Lupine two or three days in advance, but this time was an exception.Because he put more thoughts on the method of destroying the Horcrux given by Salazar, and the Slytherin locket that had been made into a Horcrux.

Since the three Unforgivable Curses are now under the strict control of the Ministry of Magic, it is too risky to destroy the Horcrux with the Killing Curse. Dumbledore means that he is more inclined to experiment with the venom of the basilisk.After all, compared to Fiendfire, which has a high risk factor, the basilisk venom is actually the safest, but how to obtain this deadly poisonous substance is a difficult problem.

Regarding this point, Dumbledore has his own ideas, and they are highly feasible.At least Snape realized it when he was in the headmaster's office and saw that Adara the elf had actually brought the old headmaster a vial of basilisk venom.

"I'm curious what kind of exchange you made with it, so that it brought such a precious venom." Snape looked at the small bottle of viscous liquid that was as transparent as emerald green, and asked in a flat tone.

"There is no exchange, Severus." Dumbledore replied briskly, "Aidara's job as an elf in the Slytherin family is only to feed the basilisk, ensure its survival and let it guard the Chamber of Secrets, but did not say It's not allowed to take its venom. And I think for Adala, she has the same sense of responsibility to the Slytherin house as she does to the Slytherin house."

"And Slytherin House belongs to Hogwarts." Snape understood what he meant, and at the same time had to admit the headmaster's shrewdness.He is very good at finding and taking advantage of the flaws in some things. From this point of view, he is really suitable to be a politician of the Ministry of Magic rather than the headmaster.It seemed, however, that Dumbledore was not at all interested in a position at the Ministry of Magic.

Everything is the same as what Salazar recorded in the Horcrux scroll, and the basilisk's venom can destroy the Horcrux.The locket of the Slytherin family returned to its original shape after being drained of a semi-coagulated liquid similar to black blood, except for a few cracks.As the powerful black magic of the Horcrux dissipated at the same time, there was also an imperceptible and fragile scream, as ethereal as if it came from another time and space.

After destroying a horcrux, Dumbledore's more worrying problem came again. He didn't think it was the only horcrux made by the Dark Lord, but he didn't know how many such horcruxes there were.

Even if only one still exists in this world, then the Dark Lord has a chance to be resurrected.

The Screaming Shack was as dilapidated as ever, swaying in the overwhelming wind and rain as if it would collapse in the next second.Snape found Lupine here, but he didn't expect Aurora to find here too.Only then did he remember what the waiter had said before, that someone else had come to look for Lupine, and it seemed to be her.

Aurora accepted the fact that her guardian was a werewolf surprisingly well, just as she knew that Snape had something to do with her father's death, she was surprisingly objective and rational.Sometimes Snape couldn't figure out what she was thinking, and if she really thought identity and past were so unimportant, why was she acting so weird when she knew her blood in the Hebrides.

Or, she just doesn't think it matters to her what other people are—a perception that's vaguely unpleasant.

It's a new week, and it's business as usual, except for Aurora.Ever since she guessed Lupine's identity as a werewolf, Aurora had suddenly started avoiding Snape as much as possible, except in the impossible situations of class.Several times Snape noticed that when she saw him from a distance, he immediately turned around and walked away, or when the two eyes met inadvertently in the restaurant, her eyes would immediately stagger.

And the last time he went to the Forbidden Forest to look for potion ingredients, Snape also heard from Hagrid that he hadn't seen Aurora for a long time.

She was a little abnormal, as if she had encountered something, or heard something others said, so she began to avoid him.As for who said it, Snape wasn't sure, it might be Lupine, it might be Salazar Slytherin.But from another point of view, Snape felt that Aurora's awareness was too slow. She should have been like this from the beginning, but now she suddenly woke up for some reason, and the reflex arc was long enough to be taken. The bottom of the Black Lake.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help sneering.

"Uh, Dean Snape..." Hagrid looked at the black-clothed professor in front of him strangely and cautiously, scratched his thick beard, and reminded him kindly, "If you don't let go of that alligator frog, It's dying."

Alligator Frog stared at Snape with wide eyes.

After coming out of the Forbidden Forest, Snape went straight back to the cellar office and started to grade the students' papers, but at this moment there was a knock on the door.

He could probably guess who it was, because Aurora was arranged here after her confinement ended, and it was almost time for her to come here.So Snape replied without looking up, "Come in."

After finishing speaking, he opened the window a little with his magic wand, allowing fresh air to flow in, and the gray orange-red glow that flowed into the ground, covering the ground like a film.In the narrow sky outside the window, the dome, which had been occupied by lead gray clouds for a whole day, finally had a gleam of bright color, but that gorgeous and fragile color came from the setting sun that was about to go down, and burst out in a flash.

To Snape's surprise, it was Dumbledore's newly appointed Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, Victor Hudson, who entered.Snape raised his eyebrows, keenly aware of the straightforward helplessness in the other person's face, so he pointed to a chair next to him, and the chair automatically slid behind Hudson, crushing the ground Dim light.

"Sorry to bother you at this time, I just want to trouble you with one thing."

……

Agreeing to Hudson's assistant's request, for Snape, most of them had the mentality of watching the new professor joke.He didn't know why Dumbledore would never be able to maintain even half of his usual sagacity when it came to choosing a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.

Defense Against the Dark Arts class for the new school year was scheduled for Thursday afternoon, which meant that until then, Snape still had time to leisurely brew some potions.At lunch, Mrs. Sprout told Snape that the dragon's blood and mandrakes she had planted in the greenhouse were ripe, and that he could go directly to the greenhouse to pick some if he needed it.

However, he did not expect to meet Aurora and Charlie Weasley in the greenhouse.

Seeing the familiar figure of the young girl walking nimbly and lightly through the wanton and warm fiery red with the lush flowers in her hands, Snape suddenly withdrew his hand that was about to push open the greenhouse door.

Aurora didn't notice that there was anyone outside at all, and just followed what Amanda from the school hospital said, and carefully helped organize the required potion materials.It wasn't her business, but since Amanda asked her for a favor, she agreed.

The sunshine after autumn has lost the liveliness and livelyness of summer, but presents a kind of indifference and delicacy that is too thin. Through the glass of the greenhouse, it falls on the girl's long pale golden hair, blooming a circle of faint light. gosh.With a wave of her wand, several tin watering cans jumped up from the ground, poured water on the unripe flowers one by one, and flew happily in the air.

"Will you still be here this Christmas?" Charlie asked Aurora while avoiding the water droplets, "We can go back together then."

"Okay, thank you Charlie." Aurora smiled at him gently, "How about the chocolate I brought you last time? If you like it, I'll bring some more for Christmas."

"George and Fred love it so much, I brought a few dollars with me when I came to school."

"nice! You love it."

The two chatted and walked together from the other side of the greenhouse.Aurora held those crimson magic roses in her arms, and the water droplets in the kettle fell from the top of her head, hanging on her long hair and arms, as well as those blooming flowers, scattered like the next A crystal rain.She put the flowers in her hand into the lead bucket, squatted in front of the mature fire dragon's heart, stared at them in a daze, the sun illuminated half of her side face, and a few strands of golden hair were almost transparent against her the auricle.

Charlie called her a few times, and Aurora came back to her senses and got up to take back the spell, patted the scattered water droplets on her body, and walked towards the door with him.

She opened the door and straightened the straps of her satchel, not noticing the black-clothed professor standing in the dark behind her.

"Charlie has been coming to help me in the greenhouse during this period. I haven't noticed why, but now I know. Charlie is also a very considerate and lovely child. They are really a good couple." Sne Dean Sprout's voice suddenly came from behind Pu.The witch in the old dark brown sweater was smiling at the two children who had gone away, and said to Snape, "Right Severus?"

Snape stood in the shadows and smirked, the dim tail of light swept across his face, making his expression look extraordinarily unreal at the moment, as inhuman as a painted mask.He raised his head slightly in response.Sprout knew that he had never been interested in such things, and it was a good answer, so she pushed open the greenhouse door and said, "It's not easy to get some consent from you. Yes. Why didn't you go in just now?"

"Actually, I thought it was time for me to cooperate with the new Professor Hudson." Snape replied, "He has classes at this time, right?" "Yes." Sprout thought for a while The son nodded, "If I remember correctly, it should be for the fourth-grade children of our two colleges."

He said goodbye quickly.

Walking into the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom, Snape looked over the heads of all the Slytherins and down to the corner of the third row of Hufflepuffs huddled together by the window.Aurora stood behind a group of little badgers who lowered their heads and discussed in muffled voices. The side face kissed by the light was exactly the same as the portrait of Helga placed in the secret room, reappearing as if going back in time.

She turned her head, saw Snape, and looked away as if electrocuted.There was a wince in her clear warm brown eyes, much like a cat awakened by thunder on a rainy night.

"Okay kids, let's get started." Hudson shook his hat to signal the children to be quiet, then put it back on the top of their heads, "The main content of this class is to understand and apply one or two Spells. We will still practice in groups later, and the same sentence, don't be nervous, there are two professors here today, you are absolutely safe."

"Professor Hudson doesn't know what safety is. It might as well be like before." Caroline's face was extremely pale, and her stomach churned because of nervousness and fear, and she almost felt like vomiting.Lorna speculated hopelessly, "Maybe that's what he thinks so we can be more positive in future classes."

The people around were still discussing, the demonstration between the professors had already started, and the children from the two colleges surrounded each other clearly.Aurora and Beverly stood close together in the middle of the two houses, like a buffer barrier, which was a great comfort to the other Badger House children.

"If I have to choose for a while, I still want to choose you." Aurora lowered her voice and said to her partner almost silently, "Promise me?" Beverly looked at her slightly, blinked, and said: "We've been partners for almost half a semester, of course." After finishing speaking, she frowned, "but I don't know why Professor Hudson asked the dean to be his assistant, it's not What a wise choice."

"Absolutely not." Aurora agreed, shrunk her hands and hid most of her palms in her sleeves, then stuffed them into the pockets of her jacket, lifting her shoulders so that the caramel-colored sweater collar covered her chin.Her redundant movements caught Beverly's attention: "You don't need to be so nervous, the big deal is that the dean asked us to choose. I guess he will let me choose first, and I will just choose you."

Beverly's words were correct, Snape would always prefer Slytherin students, so if he had to choose, it would be Slytherin students.But Aurora sighed, she was not nervous about this, but about having to face Snape now.

A student fell in love with her professor, she didn't even dare to think about such absurd things, and what she didn't even dare to think about would be the consequences if Snape found out about her feelings.How would he react, perhaps with contemptuous ridicule, or more perhaps, with disgust at the admiration of a student from a most despised academy?

Aurora felt a headache, and just thinking about it gave her a deep, piercing fear.

There are three things people cannot hide, cough, poverty, and love.She's never been a preeminent master of cover-ups, she's just going to lose flat.

There were times when Aurora felt that the rest of her time at Hogwarts was terribly long.The only good thing now is that Aurora's mind still cannot be read, and this secret can be buried in the bottom of my heart.

but……

She reached out and rubbed her head, trying to put aside those thoughts and focus on the demonstration in front of her.As for the etiquette before the duel, Aurora still remembered that it was what Regulus taught last year.While the little badgers were chattering about who would win or maybe a draw due to the fact that they were all from the same school, the duel between Hudson and Snape had already come to an end—the French native The new professor was forced by Snape's magic to take several steps back before barely standing still, as if he couldn't hold his wand in his hand.

There was a cheerful cheer from the Slytherins, and the Hufflepuffs hesitated for a moment, remaining neutral.

Seeing Hudson rubbing his shoulders with a grin, Snape raised his eyebrows slightly and said half-truthfully, "Do you need a rest?" Hudson shook his head, indicating that he was fine, "very Nice shot, really eye-opening."

He spoke so sincerely that Snape fell silent.

Then, Hudson said to the children around him: "Okay, the spells were taught in the last class, so it's up to you next."

If there was a hole in the ground right now, the Hufflepuffs wouldn't hesitate to jump into it, no matter if it was a mountain of knives or a sea of ​​fire.

The place was dead quiet.

Hudson winked helplessly at Snape, who didn't respond, but touched the tip of the wand in his hand with the fingertips of his left hand.Hudson cleared his throat and announced: "Today's training method is still one-on-one, but now there are two professors, so we will select some students for tutoring, and then they will conduct combat drills, one by one. Come."

"For the sake of fairness, I will not lead the students of Slytherin." Snape added slowly, the habitually protracted low tone was extremely pleasant, reminiscent of the gorgeous and desolate scene where gemstones cut petals and dyed red all over the place .

After hearing this, the Hufflepuffs turned as pale as if they had just raised their heads from a pile of flour.So life is always unexpected. When you feel that the previous days are bad enough, it will always gently teach you, don't cry, there will be more later.

Before the little badgers collectively took a breath and retreated, the wand in Snape's hand suddenly turned an arc flexibly, pointing at a certain girl below: "Let's start with you."

The shadow moved slowly to the sides, and Aurora looked up, and saw the young man in black was looking at her without emotion with his chin raised slightly.

The author has something to say:

The defense of the final draft in early November has been busy for a while now.I came back today to see that there are still people there, I thought there was no one [laughing and crying]

I received the news before that no matter whether it is comprehensive or not, as long as you write HP, you are not allowed to enter V. If there are children's shoes who want to write HP in the future, think twice before acting.

A lot of things have happened during this period, and there has been no code word. I was emotionally broken some time ago, and I have just stabilized these days.

The only thing I can promise is that this article will not be cheated, maybe it will be slower, but it will not be cheated.

There will be major events in the fourth grade, such as Sirius will be online, fifth, sixth and seventh grades will be briefly written, and the focus will be on Aurora being a teacher at Hogwarts in the later period.

I will start to re-code words recently, kissing one by one.