[HP] Butterfly Effect

I don't know if it's too late for me to lie on the ground and pretend to be sick.But thinking of the identity of the other party's potion master and the consequences of being exposed, Aurora felt that it was better to forget it.

Aurora stood there for a while, then walked forward resignedly with her head down.The Hufflepuffs standing in front gave way very quickly. Their movements and expressions gave Aurora a miserable feeling that she was a death row prisoner who was crossing the sea of ​​people to meet her executioner.

"Is there any volunteer in Slytherin House?" Hudson shook the wand in his hand at a group of little snakes with strange faces below, with a relaxed smile, showing a mouthful of neat and white teeth.

Beverly raised her hand without thinking, but Hudson didn't choose her, but a girl behind her, Elijah Shaw.Beverly frowned. Even in Slytherin, Elijah was notoriously weird.Not only because she is a student of the Snake Academy, but like Vox of Gryffindor, she is very interested in the cold weapons and equipment of Muggle society, and she has an innocence that does not conform to Slytherin traits. People from that college have an unpredictable gray curiosity.But then Beverly discovered that this innocence is actually another social method of Elijah. In this era when the Dark Lord has left a heavy shadow even though he has disappeared, it is almost impossible for others to notice that she is a Slytherin. .

In short, she is not such a lively and harmless person on the surface.

The one-on-one sessions totaled 10 minutes, during which time Aurora had to face Snape alone, which was worse than any situation she had ever imagined.She hadn't started practicing for a few minutes, and she had already made up dozens of excuses in her mind to skip class.She really wanted to pretend that nothing had happened, and then complete the demonstration beautifully, but it's a pity that Hogwarts doesn't offer acting training courses.

She really hadn't learned how to deal with the situation.

Seeing the silver-blue radiance on the tip of Aurora's wand dissipate again, Snape frowned and stared at her, his tone was cold, with a hint of sarcasm as always: "Did you really listen to what I just said?" , Miss Field?"

Aurora withdrew her outstretched arms somewhat discouraged, and let the magic power scattered in her body due to distraction aimlessly be released from the wand, blooming like fireworks in the light golden sunlight.

Everyone around her was watching her, half sympathizing and half gloating.

For the first time, Aurora looked up at Snape without emotion, the light stained by the glass and the man's tall shadow half-shrouded her body."You shouldn't have picked mine, Professor," she said to her potions master.

Although whether the result is good or bad is a good sign for Snape.

"It's my decision who to choose, Field, and you don't need to question it." Snape replied coldly, "If I were you, I would first put away all those messy things in your mind, Concentrate on learning the spell in front of you. I suppose if you get rid of all the mess, you won't really get rid of your whole brain?"

Aurora froze for a moment, thinking that he already knew what she was thinking.The thought startled her, but then she remembered that her mind was not affected by Legilimency, and it could only be said that Snape saw her inattention.

While she was still silent, Snape saw the students around who were watching the scene.He raised his chin slightly, and said in a cold and low tone, "Professor Hudson, I think the other students seem to be quite busy. How about you come up with a written task to help them relieve their boredom?"

After a gasp, no one dared to look at Aurora again.

"Now, try again," he said.

Aurora took a deep breath, told herself not to think about anything else, and focused on directing the magic power to the wand.Just when she was about to wave her right hand, Snape suddenly put his hand on her shoulder, wisps of green magic power flowed out from his fingers, and began to guide her magic power along Aurora's arm.

"Spell."

"Vine grows." Aurora subconsciously recited the already familiar spell.

The brilliance blooming at the tip of the wand began to take shape quickly, forming a translucent silver-white vine plant in the air. The slender and flexible branches stretched and grew at will, and entrenched into different shapes with the pull of Aurora's wand , with a soft cool halo in the air.

"Hands up." Snape didn't use much effort, but channeled Aurora's magic power at the beginning.Just like he thought, Aurora wasn't concentrating enough and was distracted thinking about other things so it didn't work out.

The light yellow cypress wand was pulled upwards suddenly, and the silvery white vines instantly grew wildly on the top of the classroom, and a strange and beautiful light green color began to gradually spread from the bottom of the vines, as if watching how the miracle of life painted this huge plant. Vibrant colors as they should be.

The light green is injected into the inside of the plant like blood, and finally countless heavy light-colored flowers bloom on the top.Snape withdrew his hand, and the strange green color disappeared from the plants immediately, and together with the avalanche, there was also the sea of ​​flowers and clouds suspended in the midair of the classroom, falling down from everyone's heads like heavy snow in mid-winter, Glittering in the autumn sun that fills the classroom, but disappearing before it touches the ground.

"It's so beautiful." Someone exclaimed, trying to catch that illusory beauty.The flowers were weightless, scattered on the children's shoulders, in their hair, and in their eyes.

Aurora withdrew her magic power, and the silver-white plants gradually shrank back. She felt as if she had just had a dream.

"A miracle." Hudson looked in admiration at the flowers that shone like diamond powder and disappeared quickly, "It seems that two different magic powers can really create incredible spell effects. You know what my teacher taught me before When I was there, his magic power turned into flames and burned all my hard work, and by the way set his own pants and hair on fire. So that day, all the students in Beauxbaton's school came to watch the fire like a nightmare , it seems that cooperation is really important.”

After talking, Hudson couldn't help laughing because he remembered the scene at the beginning.Snape nodded symbolically and ignored him.The other students stood where they were, not knowing what expressions to make about the situation just now.On the contrary, Ilya put on a cute smile like a cat, patted the little snakes and little badgers in front of her, and said mischievously: "What are you doing in a daze, hurry up and laugh with Professor Hudson."

The Hufflepuffs tried it foolishly, and found that awkward laughter can only be done with acting skills.

"Okay, okay, it's time for you two to demonstrate." Hudson cleared his throat and said.

Aurora stood opposite Ilya, habitually stood sideways, raised her wand high, and focused on looking at him.Based on Aurora's personality, Hudson assigned her to the defensive side, using vines to grow against Elijah's magic.

The demo worked out well, as Hudson expected, Aurora has always been good at defensive spells, she's not the type to take the initiative.

The Defense Against the Dark Arts class this time passed extremely long, and when Hudson said that the get out of class was over, the little badgers almost collapsed with stares at the stars.

After leaving the classroom, Beverly and Aurora walked together.She looked at Aurora's face, hesitated for a while and asked, "Are you okay?"

Aurora nodded, followed the corridor full of juniors running around to the corner at the end: "I'm fine."

"I actually guessed that Professor Snape would choose you, so to be honest, I wasn't too surprised at the time." Beverly said.

"Why?" Aurora was a little surprised. "I'm not very good at this subject and potions, especially potions. It might just be a coincidence that he chose me."

"Do you really think so?" Beverly stared at her, her dark brown eyes were silent, "I think you are very special in Hufflepuff, and the professor has no reason not to notice. "

Beverly's words caused Aurora to have some subtle emotional ups and downs, between a kind of joy and subconscious denial.Beverly then went on to say: "I haven't seen him personally guide anyone with magic power, not a single one."

Aurora was silent for a while after listening, rubbed her fingers unnaturally against the lines on the spine, and then replied with a smile: "That's because when the Sorting Hat assigns almost all the most talented students to your college No. He doesn't need to guide you with his own magic at all."

"Aurora." Beverly tilted her head and looked at the girl in front of her calmly and seriously, as if she wanted to catch the change of expression on her face, "Professor, he wouldn't use magic power to help a student from the outer courtyard so casually. a special case."

"Does the special case mean that I will become the topic of your Slytherins recently?" Aurora thought of the expressions of those students in the class just now, subconsciously raised her shoulders, and asked.

"If that's what you're thinking about, shouldn't it be your academy that you should be worried about?"

"...makes sense."

……

Autumn passed quickly, and two months of peace passed by in a flash.In early November, Aurora began to have a steady correspondence with Newt Scamander, who had returned to the UK from Australia.The other party is preparing a new book, and sent some samples and photos of various magical creatures to her and Professor Keitel.

Aurora cherished those photos very much, and put them together with the letters in the Helga manuscript that she had already thoroughly flipped.During this period of time, she devoted almost all of her free time to developing and planning her own magic satchel, or hiding in the Room of Requirement with Vaux and Beverly to brew potions, and rarely went to the forbidden Forest.As for Snape, they hardly ever saw him, except in class or the occasional unlucky solitary confinement.

For this situation, Aurora feels very good, because she will not think a lot in a mess if she sees less.Adjusting her mentality is a very strenuous task, but fortunately, she has always been a person with good endurance.Now that she can adapt to this world and identity that does not belong to her, she can also adapt to this kind of relationship that is destined to be absurd and fruitless.

So far, she's been doing just fine.However, Salazar held a different view on this. He pointed out sharply that Aurora's mentality was just because she knew that with Snape's character, it was very difficult or almost impossible for anyone else to like him. , or he himself fell in love with someone else.So even if Aurora deceives herself by doing nothing, it won't change the status quo, and she can't get it or lose it, just keep watching.

Aurora stared at the handwriting for a long time, until those overly exaggerated and gorgeous letters twisted and twisted into tiny snakes in her eyes, and then she suddenly figured it out.Salazar was right, no matter what he did, he would not change the status quo. In this case, it seemed to be a good thing to do, anyway, it is impossible to ask for more, right?You can't pray that the head of Slytherin will go blind one day, the chance is not as high as Hogwarts exploding in place.Now this is pretty good, it's time to give full play to the academic spirit of the Badger Academy.

Salazar was so angry at the girl's interpretation that he vomited blood, and the handwriting that emerged on the light brown paper was black and sharp, as thick as a chiseled ink: "You stupid Hufflepuff!" Aurora smiled and looked at the staring A paper snake with golden snake eyes, fiddled with the tail of her hair with a quill, and hummed a few folk songs happily.

After a long while, Salazar suddenly asked: "You never thought there was a possibility between you, did you?"

Aurora was taken aback by his words, and replied inexplicably: "No, didn't we discuss this topic before?"

"Then if given the chance, would you stay at Hogwarts because of him?"

"I think I will."

"Then when will you give up on him?"

The topic suddenly became weird.

Aurora instinctively felt that Salazar was not really wanting to know his own thoughts, but was thinking about another person through himself.She looked at that sentence cautiously, and after thinking for a while, she replied: "I think, maybe it's when he doesn't need me, or when he has someone else around him."

Salazar wiped the words off with his tail: "And if he's never had anyone else around, you'll never give up?"

"That... depends on the situation."

"what's the situation?"

"...that is... when I found out that he didn't need me at all, of course I had to give up."

"How do you know he doesn't need it?"

"It feels like that."

"And what if your senses are wrong?"

Aurora was confused by this series of pressing questions, but she still answered honestly: "If I have really worked hard for a long time, but I still don't feel that the other party cares at all, then why should I think it is worthwhile for me to continue to guard?" Meaningful? He may feel that he has shown it, but I don't think so, I think he treats me no differently than anyone else. It can only be said... we are not suitable."

Salazar didn't speak, but for the first time, Aurora's words were not immediately destroyed, as if he was thinking about something.After a while, he asked again: "Then will you regret it?"

"I don't know about others, but I won't regret it." Aurora replied, and after thinking about it, she added, "But I also hope that this will never happen to me again. In fact, I don't think so. People would be willing to encounter this kind of thing. People are selfish, and they all hope that what they give will be rewarded."

"Understood, you go to class."

The diary closed automatically, and Aurora sat on the chair for a while before recovering.For no reason, she thought of the portrait of the girl on the bedside in the Slytherin secret room, and seemed to vaguely understand why Salazar asked these questions.

Shouldn't she have said the phrase "I don't want to meet again"?

……

After Transfiguration with Ravenclaw, the weather has obviously changed.The sky outside the castle turned leaden gray, interspersed with the dark shadows of the distant mountains, misty and gloomy.Not long after Aurora walked out of the classroom, she met Bill Weasley who was waiting by the corridor.He saw Aurora first, greeted her through the crowd, and walked over wrapped in a robe worn in early winter and dressed in a cold wind: "Something happened, Vox is in the school hospital now, do you want to go see him?"

"What happened?" Aurora was taken aback, and quickly followed Bill's footsteps and asked.In a few words, Bill explained the conflict between Beverly and another Gryffindor in Professor Flitwick's Charms class just now, which was the cause of the whole thing.

Aurora was even more surprised after hearing this: "Beverly? She has never been the kind of willful and impulsive person, how could she be like this?" "Yeah, you know that almost... or a large part of our college is related to Slytherin We don't get along well." Bill explained, "You may not feel it in Hufflepuff, but this kind of thing really happens every day. Vox was injured this time to protect Beverly, but I said, what a stupid and shrewd thing he did."

After arriving at the school hospital, Aurora saw Madam Pomfrey treating Vox's wound caused by the spell.The brown-haired boy grinned in pain and sat on the bed. He reached out to touch his neck and side face, which were also injured, with his hands covered in white cream and mixed ointment, but was slapped away by Beverly, who was frowning slightly.

"Don't move around if you don't want to be disfigured or disabled." Beverly said coolly.

Vox gasped in pain, and suddenly caught a glimpse of the blond girl beside him, "Aurora, are you here too?"

"Yeah, I ran into Bill right after class. How are you doing?"

"It's no big deal. Fortunately, those guys are not good at learning, and the effect of the spell is not even half of it."

"It's thanks to your quick flash." Bill knew that he was doing well by looking at his mental state, and couldn't help joking.

"It's also thanks to you being so stupid and not fighting back." Beverly made up the knife.Vox looked at her helplessly, "I've done this for you, can't you comfort me?"

"I didn't ask you to help me."

"Forget it, I really don't want to help, now you are sitting here with potion all over your face."

"I'm not you, I'll fight back."

"If you fight back, they will really be endless. Believe me, Max and the others are famous for teasing and taking revenge on others, especially Slytherins. If they fail this time, they will wait Next time, don't bother with them. It's a good thing they hurt me this time, and the incident didn't make a big deal, and Professor McGonagall won't deduct too many points. At least our college's points are preserved."

Beverly didn't speak, her dark brown eyes blinked, and she turned her head to look elsewhere, as if she didn't hear Vox's words.

Aurora smiled knowingly: "That's why you sacrificed yourself heroically in a hurry and saved the beauty as a hero. You can think of so many things in such a short period of time, and you also consider the collective honor of the college, which is very far-sighted." Ah, classmate. The Ministry of Magic needs people like you, and so does the Wizarding Society."

Bill grinned sullenly, and Vaux coughed awkwardly: "It should."

Aurora poked his frizzy hair with his hand: "You really didn't fight back at all? This is not your style." Vox rolled his golden brown eyes and admitted: "Okay, also It's not that they didn't fight back at all, at least they don't even think about eating properly during this period of time."

"What did you do to them?" Beverly looked at him suspiciously.

"I put a Toothache Charm on them."

"..."

Beverly looked at the boy in front of her expressionlessly, sitting motionless on the chair.Amanda, the school doctor at the side, recorded Vox's situation, and said half-jokingly: "Over the years, as long as Slytherin and Gryffindor have taken classes together, there have been no accidents. You are not bad luck. "

"Is he lucky to be like this?" Aurora said a little funny.Amanda shrugged, shook her wrist to close the book, and inserted the quill back into her thick hair: "Then you should come here for an internship for a while, and you will know what I said is true. The two colleges really It's hard to get along well, the traditional customs are probably like this, hahaha."

Bill raised his eyebrows, and his blue eyes were full of meaningful gazes, and he turned around the two people opposite him: "That's not necessarily true, there are exceptions to everything, I think the two of them cooperate well."

"Agreed." Aurora smiled and clapped her hands in agreement.

The author has something to say:

A posthumous update just before the paper's final check...

By the way, it will definitely be updated on the day of the premiere of Fantastic Beasts [-]. As for whether there will be occasional dead bodies in the middle, I am not sure, because I have no manuscripts... I have to save a fig leaf to continue updating.