HP solves the mystery

"Walburga, I heard that your eldest son is doing well at Hogwarts..." Voldemort said casually, sitting in a high position, looking down at the wand spinning in his hand.

Walburga's body trembled, but he managed to calm down and said expressionlessly, "Your Majesty, I only have one son, his name is Regulus Black... and he studies in Slytherin..." She answered, thinking about whether the Black family had done anything recently to arouse the lord's suspicion.

Voldemort glanced at her lightly and nodded to Lucius on the other side.

"Yes, Your Majesty the Duke." Lucius stood up and saluted. His voice was not loud, but it was clearly heard in the ears of the pure-blood nobles sitting there. "The Black patriarch published a newspaper to renounce and deprive his eldest son of his inheritance rights. Now I only have one son..."

Voldemort looked at the changing expressions of the people below with cold eyes, feeling only amused in his heart.

Did he choose these people? Could it be that these people chose him? If you even have the intention of being attached, just cut off those little thoughts that you shouldn’t have!

"Very good." Voldemort waved his hand and asked Lucius to sit down. He tapped his wand in the air, and a copy of the "Japanese Edition of the Prophet" appeared in front of everyone's desk. The content was information about Sirius's dethronement.

Voldemort tapped his fingers on the table, and the silver mask on his face shone strangely in the candlelight.

"I remember that the head of the Black family is Walburga, right?" He spoke lightly, looking at Walburga who had cold sweat on his forehead and a ferocious look on his face, and chuckled, "After the holiday, I will bring you Bring Regulus to see me, and I will give him the glory he deserves..."

Walb took a few deep breaths and tried to calm down the panic in her heart. She shouldn't let Orion play those little tricks!

"The Black family believes in your foresight, Your Majesty the Duke." Walburga felt her voice trembling, and she swallowed, "It's just that Regulus is too young, I'm afraid..."

"Walburga, I don't want to say it again." Voldemort stared at her with red eyes for a while, and the violence in his heart suddenly couldn't be suppressed. "Hiss... remember, there is only one heir to the Black family!" The wand was once again pointed at these followers at the meeting.

"Heart-breaking and bone-cutting!"

"Ah! Uh! Uh-huh!"

Walburga's pupils dilated, but his body did not dare to dodge and he withstood the blow, collapsing on the table.

The people around him couldn't bear to look at him, and they all narrowed their eyes, thinking about whether they could take the opportunity to bring down the Black family.

Fortunately, Voldemort only imposed a small punishment, otherwise the female head of the Black family would have been sent to St. Mungo's.

"Remember? Walburga." Voldemort chuckled.

Walburga opened her eyes in pain. The pain in her body made her mind clearer and she realized that this adult had seen through her little thoughts.

"Yes, Your Majesty the Duke, I will bring Regulus to visit you..." She held the table and lowered her head, saying respectfully.

Voldemort realized that his mood was wrong, but he felt that there was nothing wrong with it. He had been too gentle to them before.

He hummed in a nonchalant manner, snapped his fingers and disappeared from the spot. No one knew where he went.

The rest of the people in the conference room looked at each other and left one by one.

"Master, if you really want to do the best for the family, please stop using your evil thoughts." Bella smiled brightly, held her husband's hand and said something, without waiting for her to answer, and left with her head held high.

The packed conference room instantly became empty, and Walburga's straight back was slightly bent.

"Aunt Walburga, are you okay?" Lucius walked over and asked worriedly. This was a secret room outside the Malfoy family, and he couldn't leave first.

Walburga looked at his niece-in-law and shook his head weakly.

"Aunt, I think you should go to the Ministry of Magic as soon as possible." Lucius took out a bottle of magic potion from the secret compartment and handed it over, reminding him tactfully that he didn't like Sirius very much, even if he was Narcissa's cousin. .

Walburga thanked him in a low voice, took the potion and drank it in one gulp.

"Lucius... you don't understand how it feels to be the mother of a child..." She said to Lucius, and seemed to say to herself, "I just thought... that he would go home after suffering setbacks... …”

Lucius raised his eyebrows slightly. The Black family is really crazy, and they really value their family.

But it's a pity that someone doesn't appreciate it, and a little carelessness will endanger the family.

Let's not talk about how Walburga will handle this matter with Orion after returning to the old house. Even if they don't go to the Ministry of Magic, they will have to discuss it for a while.

On the other side, the Great Hall of Hogwarts School.

It's lunch time now, and most of the students are enjoying the delicious food.

"Um, Severus, is it really okay for it to eat like this?" Andre chewed the sausage and glanced back and forth on the green snake.

The basilisk disguised as Severus' pet snake spit out the message, swallowed another piece of steak that was cut into his mouth, and put his head into the cup of pumpkin juice to take a sip.

[Hiss... delicious, yummy... woo woo... the snake is really starving to death... Damn Salazar! Ouch, Severus, feed me another strawberry! 】

The corner of Severus's mouth twitched. After hearing the basilisk's words, he took out a plate of strawberries and put them in front of it. There were no more.

After getting along with each other for a few days, he found that this snake was not at all cold and scary as he first saw it, but rather a bit funny. It might have been kept for too long and was curious about all new things, so it had to hiss every time. Hissed for a long time.

"It's okay. Didn't you see it was very energetic after eating a large bowl of pudding before?" Severus poked the basilisk's belly with his finger, telling it to calm down.

"Well, I understand the truth, but why does it eat with its eyes closed?" Andre poured some gravy on the chicken leg and ate it with a big mouthful. "You have to watch it carefully. If it is taken away by an owl or a cat, But it’s not good.”

Severus nodded helplessly. Owls still live in an owl loft, and pets like toads, cats, and snakes can only be kept in the dormitory by themselves.

Fortunately, it was far away from the Forbidden Forest, otherwise he would have been afraid of recognizing the wrong snake and being bitten and sent to the hospital wing.

He previously thought that the basilisk could only communicate in snake language, but he did not expect that the basilisk could understand English.

In the words of a basilisk, I have lived for a thousand years, and I am not a strange species on the market now.

But this also made it easier for Severus, as he didn't have to hiss every day, and he didn't have to branch his tongue.

After lunch, Severus took the basilisk to Potions class. It wasn't because he had to leave it in the dormitory, but mainly because after the basilisk accidentally ate chicken last time, it shouldn't be a snake in the dormitory, so he was afraid of eating it again. Something strange.

As he was passing through the hall, he was stopped by an unexpected person, Jenny from Gryffindor, who stuffed something into his hand and ran away.

Severus watched the figure running to the red-haired girl's side, and saw Lily smiling brightly at him, and was filled with doubts.

The class bell rang, and he entered the classroom holding the note, sitting down and unfolding it carefully.

[Meet you at the old place at Black Lake at half past five, and we’ll talk about anything in detail. 】

Severus was a little curious. Lily's relationship with him at school was not as close as before, and he didn't know that there was anything that couldn't be said in school without going under the crooked-neck tree.

If Andre hadn't gone to herbal medicine class, he would have complained a few words. Maybe it was an old relationship that had rekindled. Everyone knew how passionate they were in the past.

Severus thought for a while and planned to go to the appointment, although he didn't know what happened to Lily.

Next to the black lake, under the crooked neck tree, Lily's red hair is particularly dazzling.

"Severus, we haven't had a good conversation for a long time...I heard that you passed the Apparition exam, congratulations..." Lily said softly, remembering something, and her face began to turn as red as her hair.

"Severus, you said that if someone... likes me..." She said softer and softer, her head gradually lowered, twisting her sleeves with her fingers, "If someone likes me, he is not a bad person... He is a friend who has hurt me before. …but he has reformed…do you think I should accept it?”

"Or..." Lily drew circles on the ground with her toes, "Do you agree or not..."

Severus was baffled by what Lily said. Could this be Gryffindor's new trick? He touched the wand in his pocket and looked at the hiding places around him from the corner of his eye. With Lily here, could Potter still be far away?

He couldn't understand the interest of adolescent girls in the sudden transformation of their sweethearts. Watching their sweethearts become handsome and outstanding, even if they are cold and indifferent, the human heart is very strange; coupled with Potter's love offensive, he wanted to see his sweethearts. Reaction.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Lily's shyness turned into anger, and she stamped her feet, "It's that guy James! He's not so annoying anymore..."

"What does that have to do with me?" Severus saw little Barty not far away and wanted to ask about Regulus's current situation, so he asked perfunctorily, "We are just friends, and I can't decide who you date. "After that, he walked in the direction of little Barty. There were not many opportunities for him to be alone.

Because of her complicated mood, Lily didn't notice the approaching person, but she could hear Zhu Ma's impatience, and her face turned pale.

"Severus, you have changed. You are nothing like you before!" She grabbed a corner of Severus' school robe and said aggrievedly, tears filling her eyes.

"Lily, let go!" Severus turned around, frowning and said helplessly, "Why have I changed? Isn't it because you think I'm learning black magic and getting too close to evil wizards, so you took the initiative to alienate me? "

Severus mercilessly revealed that although he was a time traveler and it was normal for him to want to stay away from people he was familiar with, Lily, after the previous 'werewolf incident', had a lot of trouble with the Gryffindor students and the Potters. After making biased remarks, I also kept my distance from him.

"No...it's not like that..." Lily said sharply like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, "That's all because you learned black magic and denied that James saved you! And you also used black magic to attack your classmates! "

"Yes, that's right, I just did the right thing!" She comforted herself and let go of her hand holding Severus's school robe, "And if you like me, you shouldn't do it just for small things. Alienate yourself from me. When I was angry before, you would ask Jenny to come to me to ask for peace, and you would also give me potion notes!”

"Lily, people will always change, and sacrifices are mutual. I can't always compromise." Severus sighed. The original person might do that, but he wouldn't.

"But, you obviously, obviously like me so much..." Lily shed tears of grievance, crying about all the 'evil things' Severus had done.

It's not that she can't detect Severus's thoughts, she just feels that she can choose a better one, not to mention that her mother doesn't like Severus who lives in Spider End Alley. He is still dirty and has bad habits. Poor boy, even if he is also a wizard, Spider End Alley is a slum!