[HP] Butterfly Effect

Mistletoe twigs, daffodil flowers, mermaid tears, crab claw, dried specially treated primrose rhizome, unicorn horn powder, and finally Horntail eye extract.

The pure quality Horntail Longan's eye extract will show a very brilliant color, like molten gold, and it is an essential potion raw material for treating severe eye injuries.

Snape used his wand to guide those rare golden extracts to flow into the cauldron, the dark potion juice immediately boiled, the color became lighter, the excess water evaporated, and finally shrunk into a gray viscous liquid.

As soon as he divided the brewed potion into three bottles, Dumbledore's head appeared on the fireplace in his office in a weird and slightly wicked way.Snape saw that the old Headmaster's entire head was ablaze with green flames, and the wizard's hat on top of his head was bouncing like a lit bonfire.

"Good afternoon, Severus, I have some good news for you, I thought you'd be interested." Dumbledore said, a few sparks of ashes fell from his beard.Snape extinguished the flame under the cauldron with a wave of his hand: "With pleasure, sir."

"I'll wait for you outside the castle."

Leaving the cellar and going outside the castle, Snape saw the silver-haired headmaster teasing the flaming phoenix at a glance.The other party waved goodbye to Hagrid, and Phoenix stood on Dumbledore's raised arm, tilting his head in Snape's direction and screaming.

As Snape guessed, the news Dumbledore brought was related to the Ministry of Magic.The Legal Department of the Ministry of Magic headed by Amelia Burns has decided to withdraw the "wartime monitoring operation" against Snape.In the future, he will not be approached by the Aurors of the Ministry of Magic's Legal Department at any time. In other words, the Ministry of Magic has basically recognized his current innocence, but his criminal record is still kept.

At the same time, the Malfoy family was also successful in whitewashing.

This was completely expected from Snape.

"Honestly, their discussion took too long this time. It has never been this long. But anyway, the result is very pleasing, isn't it?" Dumbledore said to Snape, his eyes Through the crystal glasses, it is projected to the limit of what the sight can touch.

There is a piece of translucent clouds and mist intertwined, and the gray-blue sky bends down to kiss the outline of the deep green mountain peaks, as intimate as lovers.

"Indeed," said Snape, smiling very politely.But it was undeniable that he was really happy with this result, because it meant that he would be much freer in the future, at least the people from the Legal Department of the Ministry of Magic would no longer trouble him for no reason.

Most importantly, he is now the head of the Slytherin house, and this decision by the Ministry of Magic will undoubtedly restore Slytherin's current reputation to a certain extent.This is also the reason why Snape has tirelessly cooperated with various investigations by the Ministry of Magic in the past few years.

"Oh, and. The boy Regulus has returned with a message. He has visited Horace..." said Dumbledore, his voice almost dissipated in the wind.

A strong wind blew across the Forbidden Forest, blowing away the words Dumbledore whispered.The dense canopy turned into a turbulent green sea, and the rustling sound of the branches and leaves rubbing against each other was as powerful as a thousand birds flapping their wings together.It was almost dinner time, and many students who had gone to Hogsmeade during the day began to come back one after another.

Seeing Snape and Dumbledore standing outside the castle, everyone was stunned, and began to ask each other the time in whispers, and some looked up at the sky in surprise.In the end, everyone found that they did not miss the time to go back to school, so they looked at Dumbledore and Snape in unison, dazed and innocent.

"I believe the elves have prepared a steaming hot dinner and are waiting for you. What are you waiting for, go back, children." Dumbledore waved to them, smiling kindly.This kind of warm and friendly smile undoubtedly made Snape next to him even more eerie, not to mention the sinister and vicious smile on the corner of his mouth.

Most experienced little wizards knew that if Snape showed this expression, the other party would be in great trouble.

So they immediately ran into the school with a lot of noise, as if there were some giant man-eating monsters that had matured for thousands of years chasing them.

"It's better to be young, always so energetic." Dumbledore squinted his eyes and looked at the running figures of the children, and said with emotion.

The corner of Snape's mouth twitched, he tried his best to restrain the urge to sneer, and turned his head to continue the topic just now, but when he just turned his head, he saw two figures he was very familiar with.

Remus Lupine and Aurora.

The two were close together, walking slowly, stopping now and then to whisper something, but mostly Remus was talking.Aurora's head was bowed down, her long pale golden hair scattered in the wind, covering Remus' arms and palms.

At this time, Dumbledore also found them, so he took the initiative to greet the two of them and said, "Are you planning to join our dinner event?"

Remus raised his head in astonishment, as if he had just noticed someone in front of him, and immediately responded meekly: "Hello, Professor Dumbledore, Severus." Snape twitched the corner of his mouth perfunctorily as an answer, His eyes fell on Aurora, who seemed to be completely unaware of the people around him, and still lowered his head without any reaction.

It wasn't until Remus reminded Aurora twice in a low voice that she finally had a reaction. She looked up at the two people in front of her in a daze for a while, her eyes were red from crying, and her voice was a little hoarse: "Hello, Professor." After finishing speaking, She belatedly added to Dumbledore, "Hi Headmaster."

Dumbledore touched the phoenix, who was visibly agitated, and looked at Aurora who was in a trance thoughtfully: "Did something happen?"

Snape frowned and looked at the pale girl, and found that there was no life or light in her eyes, only mechanically reflecting what she saw, a lifeless gray.

"This..." Remus looked at Aurora, "Can I talk to you alone, Mr. Headmaster." Dumbledore's blue eyes flickered, he nodded in understanding, and raised his hand to let Phoenix fly back to the office: "Let's go. Then..."

He looked at Snape, who turned his body expressionlessly: "You should go back to the restaurant, Miss Field."

"That's up to you, Severus."

As soon as Dumbledore finished speaking, Aurora suddenly trembled as if stimulated by something, and said in a panic: "No! I'll go back by myself... I can go back by myself. I'm sorry."

After finishing speaking, she withdrew the hand holding Remus, rushed towards the castle with her fastest speed, bypassed the restaurant and the crowd, and went directly back to Hufflepuff's dormitory, without even taking off her coat in time, wrapping her Shrinking into the quilt under the snow-like low temperature, the whole body was shaking uncontrollably.Aurora didn't dare to ask Snape to take her back, even though she wanted to see him more, while she could still see, but she was afraid that she wouldn't be able to help but say everything.

She buried her face in the temperatureless quilt, her nostrils were filled with the familiar faint fragrance, but hot things still gushed out from her eyes and shattered on her fingers and between her hair.

While weeping silently, Aurora couldn't help but think of the scene when she first came to this strange world, the feeling of desolation and desolation, no past, no memory, no answer, only a vague future that can't be seen at a glance and a forced to accept false identity.

But now, she is about to lose even the color of this future road.For the rest of her life, she can only be accompanied by the darkness that is gradually encroaching. Everything she cares about, loves deeply, and dreams of realizing will all disappear from her eyes little by little.

More memories flooded in like uncontrolled floods, they were the crystal waves and vast forests of Plymouth, the mottled deep and ancient rock yellow of Hogwarts, the gloomy gray-green in the Forbidden Forest, the damp rain and fog of England, It is the splendor of the sunrise in summer, and it is also... When I was 11 years old when I was frightened by Peeves when I first arrived at Hogwarts, I looked up in a panic, separated by the warm lights of most of the restaurant and Sneaker. The moment when Pu's pair of dark eyes without temperature meet.

And those black eyes that often appeared in her dreams when she just woke up, so similar to Snape's eyes.

She's a lonely ghost with no memory, she's a traveler from another time and place - that's all Aurora can remember when she came to this world.

So what if her memory is actually problematic?

What if she had actually forgotten a lot of other things that had happened?

Maybe, what she thought was not true, what she believed was tampered with, and she was never the person she thought she was.

Who is she?

Who were those people she had forgotten?

She has been given a suspended death sentence by St. Mungo's, how much longer can she cling in vain to images of the world?

Maybe in the not-too-distant future, she'll wake up one morning and find she can't see anymore.

After that, it will be endless and hopeless darkness.

Aurora grabbed her long hair in pain, tears rolled down, soaking a large area of ​​the pillow.She had never collapsed like this before, it was as if she was imprisoned in the deepest seabed by despair, all the darkness and heaviness were on her body, leaving her no room for struggle, and even lingering on her last breath was full of pain.

She finally began to cry unbearably, and the increasingly clear voice disturbed the Salazar diary she kept in the drawer.It floated out of it, hanging open in front of Aurora.On the light yellow page, the emerald green poisonous snake was staring at her motionlessly, and spoke: "What's wrong?"

Aurora sat up, cried and raised her head. Transparent tears dripped continuously on the back of her hands. She couldn't speak a complete sentence for a while, but could only speak a few words intermittently.The general meaning is that her eyes cannot be cured, and she will never see again in the near future.

Salazar was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and a light green magic ripple seeped out of the diary, brushing against Aurora's eyes like an invisible hand.

"This is a very harmful black magic that can kill you." Salazar withdrew the magic power, and his cool voice was cold and tough, reminiscent of some kind of enraged poisonous snake, "Who did it?"

Seeing that she just shook her head, Salazar couldn't help but clicked her tongue, "Your wound was healed by someone, don't you remember who it was?"

"I don't know, I really don't know..." Aurora buried her face in her knees, her voice sounded very hoarse with a strong cry.

Sara looked at her and was silent for a while. She didn't know what to think of, and finally sighed and said, "Don't cry, I won't ask any more. There will be a solution."

She looked up with tears on her face: "What did you say?"

what did you say?

It seems that a long time ago, someone asked him this question, with the same tone and expression, and even the appearance and hair color were almost the same.

In an instant, the emerald green poisonous snake in the diary suddenly froze, and shouted: "Hull?"

Aurora was also taken aback, and subconsciously looked left and right: "Who... are you calling?"

She wasn't even a little sure that it was Salazar who had just spoken.Because she has never heard of someone who can call out another person's name in such a fragile way, as if calling for a dream, each syllable is full of masochistic forbearance, and behind the inflated ending is a surge of collapse.

She was a little intimidated by this tone. Although the voice was not loud, the words she said made people feel as if they carried the whole world.

"It's okay, you should go eat." In less than half a second, the poisonous snake returned to its usual arrogant and indifferent appearance.

The diary is closed.

……

Obviously, Aurora did not come to the restaurant for dinner.

Snape was sitting on the teacher's table, and he knew it with a glance in the direction of the Hufflepuff table.He retracted his gaze, randomly took some food in front of him on the plate, and cut it open with a knife.Professor Flitwick and several other colleagues were asking how the Ministry of Magic's Legal Department judged Snape this time, and Snape had to repeat what Dumbledore told him to meet their concerned eyes.

"Oh, that's a good thing." Dean Sprout looked at him in surprise, as if he felt that he should not have behaved in this result, "You should be happier." Professor Flitwick agreed .

Snape paused for a moment, raised his eyebrows and raised his chin, with a deliberate delay in his tone, as if he was emphasizing something: "Actually, I'm really happy."

The rest of the professors looked at each other and laughed in unison.Snape's face darkened immediately: "I'm glad to entertain you."

That doesn't sound convincing.

Hudson shook the eggnog in his hand at Snape, and said half-jokingly: "I sincerely suggest to Severus that you can make your happiness more obvious. If I say so, you just No one who looks at you will think you are happy."

"I will seriously consider your loyal proposal." Snape gave him a whoosh look, and out of the corner of his eye he glanced in the direction of the Hufflepuff table, only to catch a glimpse of Dumbledore coming in through the gate to join the group. A late dinner.

His demeanor was slightly different from usual, not as relaxed and happy as before, but with an imperceptible heaviness.

Snape put down the tableware in his hand, waited until Dumbledore sat down beside him, and then asked casually: "You seem to be in a bad mood." Dumbledore sighed, and the white sugar in the spoon was like Snowflakes sprinkled into the cup, melting little by little: "Anyone who knows such news will feel sorry for the child."

After stirring well, he suddenly asked: "That kid Aurora didn't come to eat?" Snape replied: "Indeed." Then he realized that he should at least look in the direction of Hufflepuff's table symbolically, otherwise This answer seems too perfunctory.

But Dumbledore didn't seem to care about this, he accepted Snape's answer, and didn't intend to ask for confirmation: "The child..." He didn't go on, just sighed in a way that couldn't be ignored and disturbed with.

Snape noticed that Dumbledore only kept the topic between the two of them, and the other professors had no chance to pay too much attention to their conversation, so he really couldn't pretend he didn't hear the other party's sigh, so he had to Follow up and ask: "Do you need any help?"

"Remus took Aurora to St. Mungo's today." Dumbledore tilted his head, his eyes didn't fall on anything, "There's something wrong with her eyes."

Snape didn't answer.

"St. Mungo's healer said that Aurora's eyes had been damaged by a very powerful black magic, so she would have symptoms of snow blindness and vision loss." Dumbledore said, "If timely and effective treatment is not taken, Aurora Lola will be blind soon. Maybe in her graduation year."

Black magic, damage, relapses from snow blindness.

Snape realized the reason almost instantly. After all, Aurora's eyes had been cut by the Shadowless Curse before she went to Hogwarts, and she was already blind at that time, but she was blinded by herself Barely remedied it back.

As for the matter after she seemed to have regained her sight, Snape didn't pay much attention to it at that time, and didn't think about paying attention to it.Because not long after that, Lily was killed by the Dark Lord in Godric's Hollow, all his attention was focused on this matter, and the endless regret and pain made him completely unable to remember and did not want to remember other.

And when I saw Aurora again, it was already a year later, at her entrance ceremony.

As for snow blindness... Ever since he knew about her Hufflepuff blood, Snape has always thought that it was just a hereditary disease in her family - in fact, everyone in the know thinks so, never thought There will be other reasons.

He suddenly remembered that in the Potions class a few days ago, Aurora squinted her eyes and stared at the blackboard with great difficulty, and finally lowered her head helplessly and said to herself that she couldn't see what was written on it.

Snape began to recall the course of his treatment of her, trying to find a clue that Aurora's eyes had deteriorated so badly.However, the truth was that he couldn't remember exactly how Aurora's eyes were at that time. He only knew that it was bad, but it wasn't completely incurable for Snape.

Because back then he didn't care about any of that.And compared with Lily's death, these things seemed too insignificant at the time.

How many wizards died during the rise of the Dark Lord, and how many families were broken and scarred by it?

It is impossible to count.

but……

"Is it because of that time?" Dumbledore said his guess, "The child was in the year before entering school, what happened in the London theater. St. Mungo couldn't find out what black magic cut her Eyes, I only found that she had been cured before, and now she is gradually relapsing. So..."

"Is it because of that accident?"

"I suppose so," Snape replied curtly, jaw tightening.

Noticing Snape's blank expression, Dumbledore finally turned his head completely, looked at the other's face for a while, and said calmly: "But anyway, as you said at the time, I think you have indeed Tried my best."

Snape almost couldn't help sneering when he heard this, he knew what Dumbledore meant, and Dumbledore never felt that he really tried his best in that accident.The reason why he said this now, and deliberately added the sentence "just like you said at the time", is nothing more than trying to disgust him with a vague and tactful reminder.

However, it is undeniable that Dumbledore was indeed right, Snape did not try his best in the accident in Aurora.He just did what he thought he should do, that's all.

And now, she's going blind again.

Because he didn't try his best at the beginning.

A very familiar feeling gradually grew in Snape's heart. When he called out Mudblood to Lily because of his extreme humiliation and loss of control, when he found out that the Dark Lord decided to attack Lily's family because of his informant Sometimes, this feeling is so sharp and clear.

"I'll find a chance to see how Miss Field's eyes are." Snape said, looking at the students in the dining room with a stern expression.

"That would be great, Severus."

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