[HP] Butterfly Effect

Spring at Hogwarts begins with a cold and lingering rain.This is a good thing, because it means that the snow season is over and the temperature will gradually rise.When the rain stopped and the sky cleared up, a layer of light green could be vaguely seen far away, and the outlines of the mountains and the colors of the forbidden forest gradually became more vivid, fading away bit by bit. An inhuman livid.

It was so cold on the day of the melting snow that even the naughtiest children would not go outside the castle.The ancient and thick city walls protected everyone inside, silently resisting the extreme low temperature outside.

Today is the weekend, and everyone in the common room of Hufflepuff is huddled together to write papers. The snow-melting sunlight is magically introduced into the room, shining brightly and abundantly, but unfortunately it is still not much warmer than winter.A warm bonfire is burning in the fireplace, the wood is crackling and sparks are bursting out, and all kinds of dark green vines and colorful flowers are hanging from the top of the head.All kinds of snacks, daily prophets and textbooks were passed around in the hands of the children.Children in the upper grades will spontaneously help the little wizards in the lower grades with tutoring, and when they encounter something they don’t understand, it becomes a topic for everyone to discuss together.

This has always been the tradition of the little badgers. If others need it, they will help them if they can, and rarely think about why.

The time slipped to almost noon, and everyone else went to the restaurant for dinner in twos and threes. Aurora was still sitting in the best-lit place in the lounge, with a stack of newly written Transfiguration and Potions papers in hand.After putting away the quill pen, she rubbed her sore hand bones, looked at the empty lounge and sat quietly for a while, then took the written paper back to the dormitory.

She planned to go to Hogsmeade with other people in the afternoon, first to tell Remus about her current eye condition, and second to see if she could get a pair of glasses in Hogsmeade or something.After all, because of her eyesight, Aurora had been forced to give up her position in the corner of the Potions class, and sat in the front row of the Hufflepuff students, right behind the Slytherins.

If she couldn't see clearly again... she could only sit in the Slytherin team. That scene was very exciting to think about, so glasses were a must.

It is this process that may be a bit torturous, because Hogsmeade is above the snow line, and it is snowy all year round.

After eating, Aurora went to the school hospital, where Amanda was on duty.When she heard that the other party came to ask if there was any potion for snow blindness here, Amanda froze for a moment, and then paused when she turned the spoon in her hand: "Eh? We don't usually prepare for this. Almost no one has snow blindness, and that kind of potion is very troublesome to make. I remember that only Madam Pomfrey and Professor Snape can make it. I tried it as a challenge, but the quality is not very good, and I drink it I advise you better not to try what I did."

"I see." Aurora touched the tip of her nose, and the result was similar to what she expected.She smiled and waved her hands: "Then I'll go first, have a nice lunch."

After speaking, she turned and left the school hospital.

Snape stood at the end of the side corridor at the entrance of the hospital, and saw Aurora who had just come out by accident.He thought about it and confirmed that he didn't see her going to lunch in the restaurant just now.

The girl's figure quickly disappeared around the corner of the corridor. Snape walked over and pushed open the half-hidden door, and handed the common potion he had brewed to Amanda.The other party seemed to be alone with the head of Slytherin for the first time, and his speech was a bit awkward. The hand holding the potion bottle unconsciously rubbed the smooth body vigorously, and thanked him stammeringly: " Uh...thank you Dean. Uh, I mean...you've been thankful."

Although he knew that according to Snape's personality, he would usually leave after delivering the potion, unless Madam Pomfrey would have a chat with her when she was around, but Amanda still couldn't keep from being nervous.So when Snape didn't leave directly but responded to her thanks, she could hardly hold the quill in her hand for taking notes.

He said, "You too, there will be students coming here at noon."

Amanda was stunned for a while, and then realized that Snape should have seen Aurora on the way here, so she said: "Yeah... er no, it's actually okay. The girl just came over to ask, without her The potion you asked for went away, and it didn't bother me much."

Snape raised an eyebrow and repeated her words: "Nothing she wants?"

"Oh, she asked if there was any potion here to alleviate snow blindness, but you know, professor... almost no one in this pharmacy school uses it, and it's very troublesome to make, so we don't usually prepare it." Amanda replied.

At this time, Madam Pomfrey came back from the outside, she was not surprised when she saw Snape, and greeted him naturally: "Severus."

Snape nodded slightly in response, then walked over to communicate with her in a low voice.Amanda wiped the thin sweat from her hands, and sighed inwardly that Snape had come to discuss something with Madam Pomfrey, no wonder he stayed here just now.

After a while, she saw Madam Pomfrey nodded and put the woolen coat in her hand on the hanger beside her, and Snape also left quickly.

……

There is no so-called perfection in this world. Even magic has its limits and things that cannot be changed, such as vision loss.

So when Remus heard that Aurora's eyes were starting to lose sight of things in the distance, his face immediately became a little serious: "When did it start? Why are you telling me now?" Aurora took a sip of her hand Hot honey milk, scratched his face a little embarrassedly: "Recently, I began to find that I can't see clearly. But I think it should be fine with glasses, and it's not a big deal, so I didn't tell you, lest you worry .”

"But I remember you weren't snow blind before." Remus frowned, instinctively feeling something was wrong, "You didn't have it when you were a kid in Plymouth, didn't you?"

"That's true. But Madam Pomfrey said that some people will be like this, such as my family inheritance." Aurora shrugged helplessly.Remus put down the bottle in his hand, stared at her earnestly, and said softly and affirmatively, "Aurora, your father doesn't have snow blindness, I know that." At this point, he clicked as if he had figured it out. Nodding, "But you may have inherited Marianne."

"These are not too important, anyway, I am already like this now." Aurora said, looking at the pure and flawless white snow outside the window with some fear and nostalgia.They are piled up and solidified. The snow on high places reflects a blue silhouette under the high-altitude clear sky. The snow layer on the gentle terrain is coated with a circle of scattered and shiny golden halos. There are fine floating snow in the air. The crystals spread in large groups, forming a layer of translucent blue smoke, which is too beautiful to behold.

She looked away: "By the way, is there any place to get glasses here? I've been struggling to read the blackboard recently, so I want to get glasses." Remus looked at her for a while, and then said: "Yes, but I always I think it would be better for you to go to St. Mungo's Hospital for an examination. If you have gradually shown signs of snow blindness before going to Hogwarts, I am not surprised that your eyesight has deteriorated like this. But suddenly it is getting worse and worse. Seriously, I always feel uneasy, maybe it’s not necessarily caused by other reasons.”

"Is this necessary?" Aurora said hesitantly, her hands tucked into the sleeves of her sweater kept rubbing against the warm cup, "Forget it, it will trouble you." Remus touched it Her hair, persuading patiently: "Even if it is snow blindness, you must bring some medicine back, right? Otherwise, what if the temperature suddenly drops and it snows again?"

Aurora thought for a while and felt that it was indeed the case, so she agreed to Remus's proposal, and the two of them prepared to leave for St. Mungo's immediately.

This was Aurora's first time here, and it was very different from what she had imagined, at least in terms of clothing.Doctors in Muggle society basically wear white clothes, and only put on dark green surgical gowns when they start to perform surgery.It is said that this color is chosen because the optic nerve is prone to fatigue when the optic nerve is in contact with the red color of blood for a long time during surgery. of blood.So they simply changed the surgical gown to green.

The therapists of St. Mungo's were all wearing dark green robes, and they hurried through the bustling crowd, looking very conspicuous.

When Aurora looked at these healers, her eyes were full of admiration and envy, because being a healer meant that their potions were all excellent without exception.This is something she can't envy in her life, so she can only see as much as possible.

Thinking of this, Aurora suddenly felt that those therapists even walked with a holy light.

Remus took her to the waiting reception area for a while to see the explanations of the departments on the floor, and finally, with the help of the information desk, chose the second floor that was more suitable for the direction of the attending, that is, the "Biological Injury Department".

Aurora was slightly surprised when she heard this suggestion.Because as far as she knew, the biological injury department mainly dealt with injuries caused by attacks by magical creatures, so she shouldn't go to the second floor in this situation.

Of course, the other floors looked even more unlikely.She was a little depressed because of this, isn't there anyone else in the wizard who also suffers from snow blindness?For example, set up a "natural injury department"?

The attending doctor in charge of the "Biological Injury Department" was Hippocrates Smethyke. He and Remus seemed to be very familiar. When they met, they always called each other by their Christian name instead of their last name.

Aurora sat on the stool and let the other party check her eyes.Then she saw that the other person's face changed from calm at first to strange, as if a little unbelievable, his eyes rolled twice in a strange way, and he uttered two inaudible words.

Then, he put down the quill that he was going to record, stared into Aurora's eyes and said to Remus: "First of all, I have to say that you are right to worry, this is not ordinary snow blindness, but it is not something I am good at either. range. I sincerely recommend that you go to the fifth floor, maybe they will have a way."

Aurora was a little dazed after hearing what he said, and she couldn't find her voice for a long time. She could only hear Remus asking in a very soft voice: "The fifth floor is the Spell Injury Department. Why are you going there?"

"Hmm..." Hippocrates fiddled with the ring on his hand, touched his chin and replied, "Her eyes seem to have been damaged by a very powerful black magic, which is why snow blindness and deterioration of vision appear. .But... Logically speaking...she shouldn't be able to..."

"Wait. You just said... black magic?" Aurora retorted subconsciously, buzzing in her mind, "I'm sorry, I don't mean anything else, but I think it seems a little impossible. I never remember that I was What black magic has hurt the eyes."

Remus' expression also changed, a heavy melancholy crept up his face, spreading in every detail of the corners of his eyes and brows: "Are you sure?"

Hippocrates rubbed his forehead and seemed to be very incomprehensible, but he still said: "You should go to the fifth floor as soon as possible. If this continues, Miss Field's vision will only get worse. But I will not change In my opinion, I think that her eyes were indeed damaged by a kind of black magic, and it was a very powerful and terrible black magic."

"What is it?"

"Frankly speaking, I have never seen this kind of injury, and I really can't tell what kind of black magic it is. You guys go to the fifth floor."

Aurora sat by the side blankly, completely unable to digest the therapist's words.She thought it was just a joke, didn't she lose her eyesight because of too many episodes of hereditary snow blindness in the Hufflepuff family?Why did it become hurt by black magic?

While she was still in a daze, Remus had already thanked Hippocrates, got up and dragged Aurora, who was still in a trance, to the fifth floor.When they stopped on the landing at the corner of the stairs, Aurora suddenly grabbed Remus's hand tightly, as if grasping some life-saving straw, stared at him blankly, and said in a trembling voice: "He must have made a mistake, right? It must be, right? Otherwise, how could I not remember that I was hurt by some black magic?"

She suddenly felt very scared, afraid of her own memory blank, just like she didn't know where her soul came from... Could it be that there is something wrong with her memory?

This flashing thought was too terrifying, Aurora didn't dare to continue at all, but after emptying her mind, she couldn't find any credible reason to fill it up, leaving only empty questions, which was undoubtedly more tormenting.

"Don't worry about Aurora, let's go to the fifth floor first." Remus put his arm on her shoulder, trying to comfort her and said, "I believe there will be a solution, don't worry, okay?"

Aurora blinked unnaturally, swallowed the soreness in her throat, tried to calm down, and nodded: "Okay."

However, Abigail Hardy, the head therapist of the spell injury department on the fifth floor, gave the same test results as Hippocrates—Aurora's eyes had been cut by a very powerful black magic, so Snow blindness and vision loss are only now present.

"I believe Hippocrates tried his best, because even I have never seen this kind of injury, and I am completely unable to judge what black magic caused you. But what really surprised me is your eyes now status." Abigail pushed the glasses and said, "It stands to reason that after suffering such injuries, you should have lost sight a long time ago, but you have only now experienced vision loss. The situation, it’s really unbelievable.”

Aurora sat on the stool, her body was leaning against the wall with her head bowed, her voice was so soft that she could hardly hear it: "So, should I actually feel lucky?" Abigail shook her head: "No, I mean, your The eyes should have been healed by someone, but because of too many times of snow blindness, there are signs of relapse. This symptom is very special, it behaves exactly the same as ordinary snow blindness, but the real nature is completely different."

"Healed?" Aurora murmured and repeated, it was difficult to measure the huge amount of information behind the word, "but I have no impression at all."

Abigail couldn't bear to look at the girl in front of her, but she still explained: "There are many ways to erase memories, such as forgetting potions, forgetting curses, etc. These are not the most important things now. What needs to be solved is how to stop your eyes from deteriorating, otherwise..."

She suddenly stopped talking, and for a moment, there was only a frightening silence in the entire office.

"Otherwise what will happen to me?" Aurora looked at each other with wide eyes, trying to capture every detail of the expression on her face.Abigail looked up at Remus at the side, hesitating.

"Aurora, how about I talk to the therapist first?" Remus said to her after discussing.Aurora flatly rejected Remus's suggestion, her erect body trembling slightly: "No, tell me, I want to know."

Abigail sighed: "If it keeps going like this, your vision will get worse and worse until you can't see anything."

She said this in a low voice, and her tone was even deliberately soft and gentle, but after it fell on Aurora's hearing, it was still as sharp as a knife, cutting through the disguised illusion one by one, oozing blood , revealing a bloody wound.

"Then I..." Aurora couldn't make any other sounds after saying one word.She blinked vigorously to dispel the increasingly sharp sour feeling, and tried to speak several times but only made a sound of gasping.

"Then is there any way to stop her eyesight from deteriorating?" Remus asked anxiously.

"Now I can only alleviate her snow blindness symptoms, but it is difficult to improve her eyesight, because..." Abigail took off her glasses, rubbed her eyes with the back of her hand, and continued, "Because she doesn't know whether she was caught It was injured by some spell, so it will be very difficult to treat."

"But it's not hopeless, is it?"

"I thought, I can try to alleviate this symptom as much as possible."

"Can't it be completely cured?"

Abigail was silent for a while, "I have never seen this kind of black magic, and it is very terrifying. The reason is that the disability it causes is irreversible and can only be alleviated as much as possible. Although I don't know why her eyes It looks so intact, this is definitely not something that Bai Xian can do. But the fact is that her eyes are disabled."

"But……"

Remus wanted to say something else, but Aurora interrupted him suddenly.She clasped her hands together, her face was pale, and her eyes were dark and empty without focus: "Can you tell me, if... as you said, I can't be cured completely. Then... "

She paused, and then asked in a humble tone that was almost prayerful: "Then how long can I see?"

After Aurora finished speaking, she felt as if she was standing on the edge of an endless abyss with her eyes closed, as long as the other party opened her mouth, she would be pushed down.She couldn't help thinking of her magical creatures, the beautiful blue and purple of Grapefruit, the gray and white of Buckbeak, the emerald green of the forest, the blue of the sky, the bright gold of the sun, and the bright red of roses.

And she has always dreamed of traveling all over the world to find all kinds of magical animals.

These things seem to have suddenly become cans that are about to expire, and are fading little by little, losing their original vitality.

The last thing that stuck in her mind was Snape's appearance.Aurora realized that she might never see him again someday in the future.

When she thought of this, she couldn't help trembling.

Aurora then heard Abigail give the answer: "Maybe three or four years, if nothing is done."

Three or four years?Aurora was stunned. Doesn't that mean she will be completely blind when she graduates?

"Of course I'm talking about not taking any treatment. If the treatment is right, pay attention to avoid the onset of snow blindness in winter. I think... it will be much better." Abigail finally said.

"So, I did... have my eyes cut by someone using black magic?"

"That's it."

"But someone I don't know has healed me?"

"That's it."

The author has something to say:

The last paragraph reminds me of a stalk I read a while ago:

When you were born, you got two names tattooed on your body.One is your soul lover and the other is the one who is destined to kill you.

And you can't tell who they are.

But wouldn't it be more exciting if it was the same person?

Like egg tarts. [challenging smile]