[Comprehensive HP colleagues] That year

Regulus probably began to think that his elder brother Sirius was blessed but not blessed when he was about six or seven years old.

It started when Sirius started pretending to be sick half a year ago.Why pretend to be sick?Because he hates going to those Slytherin parties, he hates everyone wearing a false mask, he hates people's endless flattery, he hates a bunch of girls chattering around him, he hates boys who are desperate comparisons.

Getting along with them is better than chatting with Xia Kelin.

He tried complaining to Walburga several times, but to no avail.For Walburga, Sirius was her magic weapon to show off at the banquet, how could she let it go.So gradually, attending the party became a torment for Sirius. After enduring it for a year, Sirius finally felt that he couldn't bear it anymore, so he simply started to pretend to be sick.

The trick of pretending to be sick was very effective at the beginning. Walburga heard that Sirius was sick, so he immediately asked him to lie down on the bed and rest, exempting him from the obligation to go to the banquet. It’s just that this kind of trick is used too much, Walburga Jia also felt something was wrong.

Finally, Walburga learned from Kreacher that her so-called sick son was actually alive and kicking at home.

"Siris, you really disappointed me. Don't you know why I took you to those banquets? Regulus never had a chance to go. You are the heir of the Black family, and the people who attended those banquets were There are prominent figures in the pure-blood family, and it will be of great benefit to you to associate with them, but you have failed me so much!"

Sirius knew he was wrong, but he was still very unconvinced.At those banquets before, he didn't make any friends, but he learned to talk back from other children: "Those people at the banquet are pretentious. I don't like the atmosphere there, so I don't want to go."

"You rebellious son, dare to talk back to me!? Are you pretending to be sick?" Walburga roared angrily.

"It's my fault to pretend to be sick, but I'll tell you calmly that I don't want to go, you don't care at all, and you said I was throwing a child's tantrum, what can I do if I don't pretend to be sick?"

"You, you!" Walgab was almost speechless by Sirius' disrespectful tone, "you" took a long time to catch his breath, "you really don't know what to do, I recently Too used to you, aren’t you!? Your skin is itchy, aren’t you!? You dare to talk back!”

Faced with his mother's stern voice, Sirius was somewhat frightened.He drooped his head and said nothing.

But Walburga is not so easy to pass: "Don't think it's over if you don't talk. If you really realize your mistake, you should admit it and promise not to do it again in the future."

Sirius remained silent.

"Are you a coward, aren't you? When you talk back, your voice is higher than anyone else, and when it's time to admit your mistakes, you're dumb."

Sirius clenched his fists tightly, and then mustered up the courage to say decisively: "I won't pretend to be sick anymore, but I won't go to those banquets either!"

This remark made Walburga very angry.She was annoyed that it was not Sirius who was pretending to be sick, but the reason why he was pretending to be sick.

Laughing out of breath, Walburga said, "You really have hard wings, don't you? I won't talk nonsense with you. Either I guarantee that I will obediently go to the banquet in the future, or I will punish you. You choose!"

Sirius shuddered unconsciously when he thought of the scene of family law enforcement when he was a child, but he still gritted his teeth and refused to let go.

"Good! Good! You are my good son!" Walburga said, took his wand from his pocket, and yelled a spell at Sirius.

Sirius suddenly felt as if there was an invisible whip in the air, whipping himself hard.

Walburga glared at his eldest son with fiery eyes, and said fiercely, "Is it guaranteed?"

"No!" Sirius resisted.

Walghab began to repeat the spell over and over again, and Sirius felt his whole body being whipped one after another, the pain was unbearable, and tears rolled tenaciously in his eyes. A whip.

"Guaranteed or not?"

"No!"

"Okay, okay, let's see how long you can be stubborn! Kreacher!"

The pig-nosed house-elf immediately appeared: "What do you want, master?"

"Put this bastard," Walgab pointed at Sirius, who was curled up on the ground in pain, "shut him into the reflection room (1), and don't give him food without my order!" Then he said to Sirius Said, "I want to see if you would rather starve to death than guarantee!"

This was the first time Sirius came to the reflection room, and after Kreacher closed the door of the reflection room, there was hardly a gleam of light.

Sirius panicked, he was not afraid of hunger or pain, but he was afraid of the dark.

Before he was three years old, he broke into a small room by accident and was locked behind it.That room was not as dark as this one, but it was also very dark, and no matter how much he cried and shouted, no one paid attention to him. The air in the small room was getting less and less, and he gradually became unconscious.At that time, Regulus had a rash that couldn't go away, and his parents took Regulus to St. Mungo's, only to return the next day to find that he was gone.When Sirius woke up, he had already been picked up by his parents, and he was seriously ill after that.Since then, he has been particularly afraid of being alone in a dark room.The curtains in the house couldn't be opened or let in light, so he never turned off the lights when he went to bed at night.Now suddenly locked in such a claustrophobic dark room, fear surrounded him, and he felt that he could not breathe.He knocked loudly on the door of the reflection room, feeling as if he had returned to the nightmare he had when he was a child, crying, "Let me out, let me out."

No one pays attention to him.

"Let me out, please, let me out, I can do whatever you want, let me out, I can do whatever you want!"

Walburga was taken aback.She didn't expect the reflection room to be so effective. How could she think that Sirius would persist for a long time before compromising, but he gave in as soon as he entered?She opened the door of the reflection room, only to find that Sirius fell out headlong, with his right hand tightly clutching the collar on his chest, as if he was about to suffocate, and his body was also convulsing non-stop.

Sirius is not the kind of kid who can put on a show, what's wrong with this kid?Walburga was also a little flustered.She carried Sirius into his bedroom, left Shaklyn and Regulus to watch him, and hurried out to find a therapist.

Seeing Sirius' sad look, the two children burst into tears. Regulus looked at his brother and cried, "Brother, brother, what's wrong with you, don't scare me!"

At this time, Xia Kelin faintly uttered a word: "Claustrophobia."

"Claustrophobic what?" Regulus didn't hear clearly.

Xia Kelin was taken aback, and murmured: "I... I don't know, this word entered my mind all at once."

When Regulus heard that Shaklin didn't know, he turned his attention back to his brother.

"I'm going to get a glass of water." Xia Kelin said and wanted to leave, but Sirius grabbed her sleeve.

Sirius said painfully, "Don't go, don't leave, don't leave me alone."

At that moment, Xia Kelin suddenly felt a strange feeling in her heart, she sat down again, and said soothingly: "Okay, I won't go."

When Walburga called a therapist, Sirius was much better. At least he was no longer convulsed, although he still looked out of breath.The pure-blood healer, who was born and bred in the wizarding world, obviously hadn't heard of Muggle claustrophobia. He said that Sirius was probably frightened, and he prescribed a dose of life-death water for Sirius and left.Sirius gradually fell asleep under the effect of the sleeping potion, and finally returned to normal when he woke up the next day.

From then on, Walgab never dared to shut Sirius into the reflection room easily, but this did not prevent her from using the reflection room to scare Sirius, and she found that this trick was very effective, and Sirius has been obediently and peacefully since then. She goes to a party.

Sirius was deeply disgusted by those annoying banquets that he had to go to, but fortunately, the new joy Shaklin discovered slightly eased his depression.

Shanklyn's newfound joy is fiddling with magic items.

Although Sirius was rated by the portraits at home as the offspring with the best magical aptitude and brains in the past century, he has always been impatient if he is not interested in things.Since birth, learning etiquette, studying family history, learning foreign languages, and attending banquets, nothing in his life could really attract his interest until he discovered Shaklin's talent in the study of magic items (2).

In Sirius' words, Xia Kelin's talent is simply "the anger of the heavens and the hatred of others".The most peculiar thing is that even those very stubborn magic items, once in Shaklin's hands, they immediately become extremely docile, allowing Shaklin to dismantle and reassemble obediently. Sirius is very envious of Shaklin.

Since then, being able to play with magic items with Xia Kelin after returning home has become Sirius' greatest hope at those banquets.

At the beginning, Xia Kelin played with ordinary magic items, but later she felt dissatisfied. After she was 8 years old, she began to extend her hands to black magic items.

This is really an easy task. The Black family can be said to be the base camp of black magic, and there are black magic items and books everywhere. Shaklin thinks, as a member of the Black Family, how can black magic skills not be cultivated from an early age, Sirius agree with this.

In order not to lose to Xia Kelin, Sirius frantically browsed the black magic books at home during that time, and by the way, he also attracted Regulus.

However, the more he watched, the more awkward Sirius felt.The black magic he yearns for is the kind of little evil curse that can play tricks on people, not the curses in books that make one's scalp tingle.But those books at home are all about curse-level black magic.

Sirius told Xia Kelin about his reading feelings during this time, but after hearing this, Xia Kelin gave an educational speech to Sirius:

"Sirius, you look at things too one-sidedly. Magic is not good or bad, it is just a tool, the key lies in how people use it. Even if it is black magic, evil people use it to do evil, and good people can use it to protect others I can't remember it if you don't mention it, and I will get angry when you mention it. Now there are some sanctimonious and self-righteous white wizards. They have been attacking black magic and insulting black wizards. This is really unreasonable. White magic can also be used to kill people !Wizards who use white magic to do evil are also evil. The world's criticism of black magic and black wizards is simply prejudice!"

Xia Kelin was filled with righteous indignation, but Sirius was confused by the words: "Xia Kelin, wait a minute, what is white magic? What's the matter with white wizard?"

Xia Kelin choked for a moment, and then said in disbelief: "White magic is the opposite of black magic, and a white wizard is a wizard who is good at white magic. This is common sense. What can be explained?"

Sirius was very unconvinced: "Isn't your explanation too vague? And it's completely contradictory. Black magic is a spell used to harm, control or even kill others. If you want to say relative, wouldn't you It is a spell that is not used to harm, control, or even kill others? So can white magic hurt people or not? If it can hurt people, how can it be said to be relative?! There are so many magics that are not used to hurt people Go, what about packing spells, fluorescent spells, is it possible that as long as you know those spells, you are considered a white wizard? Doesn’t that mean that everyone can be a white wizard? So the white wizard means ordinary wizards?”

Xia Kelin choked even more, and after thinking for a long time, she said: "Uh... Relatively means spells that have a positive impact on people, such as healing and protection. But sometimes, if you want to protect a person, you may need hurt another person."

"According to what you mean, are black magic and white magic classified by effect or by purpose? It's not the former. If they are classified by effect, then the guardian spell you mentioned is both white magic and magic. Black magic, but it’s not right to divide it according to its purpose, as you have said, some people use white magic specifically for evil. If it is neither divided according to effect nor purpose, then what kind of division is it?”

Xia Kelin was choked and speechless, this is an endless loop, okay?

Looking at Xia Kelin who was speechless for a long time, Sirius felt that he had finally figured out the depression of being looked down upon by his cousin: "I can't say it, it seems that you don't understand those two words at all, what are you doing?" Which book I read it in, tell me and I will find it, and then we can study it together.”

But Xia Kelin was still speechless. She took it for granted that since there was black magic, there was also white magic, and since there were black wizards, there were also white wizards. Where did she read it in some book?

Sirius looked at Xia Kelin's uncomfortable expression, and asked suspiciously: "Could it be that there are no such words at all, but you made them up to fool me?"

"Of course not, I just, I just forgot which book I saw it in for a while, I have read so many books, how can I remember everything in any book, I will tell you when I find it later You."

Unfortunately, before Xia Kelin found the book, the black magic research activities of several people were discovered by Walburga. She immediately confiscated the black magic items and books, and reprimanded them with a serious face: "It's important to be interested in black magic." Good thing, but how old are you? You don’t measure your own magical powers, you think black magic is so easy to learn? None of you are allowed to touch these things until the end of the first year at Hogwarts!"

So Xia Kelin was hit.

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(1) The setting of the reflection room comes from "Flame and Sunshine"

(2) Xia Kelin likes to play with magic items, which comes from Sylph's character design in "Black Honor"

The author has something to say: For Black Dengwen, White Wizard is a very ironic term.I've always wondered, what is the definition of a white wizard to them?