HP solves the mystery

Lily's words had no impact on Severus, but he was a little curious about what made her have such strange thoughts.

In addition to preparing for exams, wizards spend their free time at school or going to Hogsmeade, occasionally gossiping with others about the 'love triangle' between Lily and the three of them.

"Headmaster Dumbledore, during my recent night patrol, I noticed strange signs in the Forbidden Forest." Hagrid thought he was discussing the strange things in the Forbidden Forest with Dumbledore in a low voice, but in fact, people nearby could hear the voice. , "The unicorns no longer move in that area, the centaurs don't know what to do in the central area, even Aragog seems to be sick, and there are many fewer little spiders than last year..."

Dumbledore stroked his smoothly maintained beard, and while listening to what Hagrid said, he remembered what Moody had said yesterday.

"Oh, Hagrid, they are different from us. Maybe a special time has come?" Dumbledore comforted softly, "Or you can ask Professor Kettleburn, he is an expert in magical animals?"

Hagrid thought of the old professor who always went to the Fire Dragon Sanctuary to see fire dragons even though he only had one arm and half a leg. He was still in the probation period. He rubbed his nose awkwardly and rejected Dumbledore's proposal, saying that he would check again. .

"Headmaster Dippet will kill him," Hagrid muttered, said goodbye to Dumbledore and went to Sprout's greenhouse.

Dumbledore sighed and returned to the office under the curious eyes of those around him.

If Severus heard their conversation, he would definitely reply that it was all the Basilisk's fault.

The weather is neither hot nor cold in mid-June, and more and more little wizards love to hang out by the Black Lake. It can also be regarded as a date spot, with pairs of couples cuddling together and basking in the sun.

Severus stood alone on the tower on the west side of the castle. This is the place where astronomy classes are held to observe the stars. It is also the highest point and can clearly overlook the entire Hogwarts.

In addition to him, there are several Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff students here. They are here to hide. The overly enthusiastic questions from the fifth and sixth grade juniors and juniors make them unable to resist. Now they can play wizards there. It's chess.

Severus was leaning against the wall with a book. He could see Potter riding a broomstick and playing tricks with Lily, and he could also see Peter Pettigrew and Lupin, who seemed to be talking to each other, but their expressions were not very good.

A flash of brown hair in the corner made him narrow his eyes. After a while, an angry Sirius walked out of the woods, followed by a sneering Regulus.

Severus thought to himself that the way the two brothers in different camps got along was really special. Although he had no prejudice against Regulus, he really didn't want to see Sirius.

The clock tower bell rang, it was lunch time, and the little wizards on the tower came downstairs to eat.

Students in fifth and seventh grade eat while reading, just to review more so that they can pass the exam smoothly.

After dinner, I returned to the cellar. The dormitory was quiet, and Andre was not there, but there was a half-open book on his desk, and there were scattered chocolate wrappers in the corner.

Severus glanced curiously and found that it turned out to be this doctrine... By the way, is Andre still a believer? You can't see any trace of it in your daily life.

But he didn't care. The newts exam was coming soon, and he had to brew the potion to familiarize himself with the feel.

The basilisk and the bag with the Seamless Stretch were nowhere to be seen, and Severus guessed they had gone to the Forbidden Forest.

The Bowtruckle with the bent twigs had long since recovered, and was sent back to the Forbidden Forest by the Basilisk two weeks ago. When he came back, he brought with him the branches of a pear tree and a bag full of pears. The bag of pears is still there. Have finished eating.

Severus grabbed one, washed it, and ate it.

On the other side of the Malfoy Manor, Lucius asked the house elf to bring several boxes of ruby-like cherries to Voldemort's manor. The fruits produced at his farm were of very good quality and had always been the first choice for the shops in Diagon Alley, so the single It makes sense to give Voldemort cherries.

The big and red cherries are as crystal clear as pearl agate, and the fragrance can be smelled from a distance.

Nagini salivated when she saw it. After the house elf Feifei washed the cherries, she put her head into the basin and ate them quickly.

[Tom, hiss... these cherries are delicious, sour and sweet,] Nagini swung her snake tail happily. Although the cherries are not as delicious as the veal, it is good to change the taste occasionally.

After hearing this, Voldemort picked up a cherry and pinched it gently, and the full juice stained his slender white fingers red. He frowned, put the pinched cherry into his mouth and bit it gently, it was sour and sweet. The sweet taste spreads in your mouth.

As expected, it was just as Nagini said. Voldemort narrowed his eyes, picked up another one and ate it.

It’s funny to say that when he was a child, he lived in an orphanage. At that time, it was a problem to have enough food, let alone eat well. He only learned about many things when he went to Hogwarts to study. It turns out that he can eat sugar and bread at will. , meat and fruits are also common; these are only things that ordinary students can eat, and the nobles who occupy the top resources don't know how good their lives are.

At that time, he had already achieved most of his ambitions, but he no longer had the sense of satisfaction that he felt from eating sugar cookies.

[Tom, do you still eat these? ] Nagini looked at Voldemort in a daze and asked curiously.

Seeing that his cherry had been eaten, Voldemort was drooling and looking at his hands, with the corners of his lips raised slightly.

"Go and ask Feifei to give you a bath. Your share for today is gone." He hissed to Nagini in Parseltongue, speeding up his eating of cherries.

[Hmph, Tom, good Tom, I haven’t eaten the cake yet. ] Nagini wrapped her snake tail around Voldemort's wrist and said coquettishly, [I want to take another pudding, is that okay? 】

Voldemort reached out and patted its snake's tail, agreeing to its request. What could he do if he didn't agree? This snake can really haunt people for a whole day.

In the study of Malfoy Manor, Lucius rubbed his swollen temples and put down what he was doing. He stood up and opened the window. Outside the window, Narcissa was playing gently with her daughter in the garden.

The mother and daughter seemed to have noticed him. Narcissa waved to him while holding her daughter who was chasing the white peacock.

Lucius was infected by his daughter's angelic smile and couldn't help but smile.

"Laila, let daddy hug you." Lucius walked out of the study, called his daughter's name affectionately, threw her into the air and caught her with his hands, which received a string of laughter like silver bells.

"Luke, don't do this." Narcissa saw Lucius throw it four or five times, each time higher and higher. She quickly stopped her husband's dangerous behavior, hugged the child and wiped her daughter's chubby face with a handkerchief.

Lucius shrugged helplessly, picked up the flower cake on the table and ate it.

The alyssum flowers in the garden exude a sweet smell, and the roses and tulips are also blooming. The purple flowers of lavender are pecked by the passing white peacocks and brought to the grass aside.

Laila looked at the swaying tail of the white peacock, broke away from her mother's arms, and used her short legs to chase the white peacock who had just regained her composure.

There was a lot of excitement in the garden, and the white peacocks lost many of their feathers as they were chased. However, because this was their little master and there were house elves watching eagerly, they did not dare to resist and could only run away like crazy.

Lucius and Narcissa leaned against each other, watching this funny scene with soft eyes.

When Laila was tired from playing, she lay down in her mother's arms and fell asleep.

"Luke, is there really... no way out?" Narcissa looked at her daughter's lovely face and touched her soft golden hair, with tears in her eyes.

Lucius thought of his father's reply, and his gray-blue pupils were filled with pain and sorrow. No one could break that curse.

"Sissy, I'm... sorry..." Lucius said bitterly. Who would have thought that the Malfoy family, which has been inherited for thousands of years and is rich, can't even save the life of a girl.

The hope that floated in Narcissa's eyes disappeared, her long eyelashes kept trembling, and the accumulated tears burst out of her eyes.

Lucius sighed deeply, looked at his crying wife distressedly, and once again thought about whether it was right to keep her by his side when his daughter was born.

As if feeling her mother's sad mood, Laila suddenly turned over on the bed, holding Narcissa's clothes in her hands, and muttered, 'Mom'.

Narcissa heard her daughter's call and couldn't bear it anymore. She lay on her husband's shoulder and sobbed softly.

"Sissi, I'm sorry..." Lucius patted Narcissa's back gently, looking at his daughter's little face that was flushed from sleep, feeling extremely painful in his heart.

Back to a year ago, Lucius was still happily writing to his father Abraxas, telling him that his wife was pregnant, and that it had been verified by magic that she was a girl. In the letter, he proudly said that his father had no daughter. , now he is going to have a daughter.

His daughter, the little princess of the Malfoy family, is bound to become the jewel in his hands.

However, Abraxas' words were like pouring cold water on him. The letter stated that his daughter would not live to be three years old. The reason was actually a curse received by the Malfoy family!

Lucius was so angry that he was not even afraid of his father's dragon pox (one thing is that dragon plague syphilis is a highly contagious and potentially fatal infectious disease.), so he Apparated to the remote manor where his father was recovering to question him face to face.

"Lucius, I know what you are thinking." Zhuo, who was three meters away from Abu, looked at his dusty son, knocked on the table with his hand wearing dragon leather gloves, and said in a calm tone, "The curse is already It happened hundreds of years ago. When your grandfather told me at first, I didn't believe it either..." At this point, he paused.

Lucius tried to calm down his anger and nodded for him to continue.

"Do you remember Belinda? That little girl with a pair of round gray eyes, light blond hair, a chubby face, and a soft voice?" Abu closed his eyes and recalled, because he was infected with dragon pox. Pain appeared on the blue face, "Well, maybe you don't remember, that was your sister, Lucius... She was only five years old at the time..."

When Lucius heard this, he stood up suddenly, his shoulders were shaking, his lips were trembling and he was speechless.

"Impossible! I have no memory at all! There is not even a photo of her in the manor!" Lucius's chest heaved violently, and he gritted his teeth for a long time to say this.

Abu curled his fingers, turned around and ordered the house elf to take out a booklet from the study.

"Look, Luke, your mother and I worked hard to keep Belinda alive until she was five years old... She gradually became weak from a strong and lively deer... for no reason... just like the curse said..." Abu pointed to the booklet with sadness in his eyes, "When you go back, don't go to the magnolia forest behind the family tomb. I don't think that's what you want to see..." After that, he got up and left.

Lucius pursed his lips when he heard this, and opened the booklet with trembling hands. It was full of photos of himself when he was one year old. No matter whether the boy in the photo was crying or laughing, there was always a girl standing next to him.

He stroked the rough edge next to the book, and two lines of tears fell quietly. He didn't know how his father felt about missing his lost daughter alone after his mother died.

After Lucius left the manor, he went straight to the family tomb.

He used the snake-headed scepter to open the secret door and saw the cemetery that had been passed down by his family for nearly a thousand years, as well as the ancestors buried here.

He went to the magnolia forest and used a magic wand to cast a spell to make the vines give way, and then he really understood his father's intention.

Here you can see row after row of children of the Malfoy family who died in infancy, and most of them have tombstones of girls.

Lucius looked over with trembling lips. There were baby girls who died at just three months old, and there were also girls who died at the age of seven.

And his sister Belinda, among these small tombstones, actually lived a long time!

It's all that damn curse! Lucius returned to the manor in despair, hugged Narcissa's waist tightly, and absorbed the warmth from her body.

Narcissa didn't know why, but she hugged her husband back tenderly.

Lucius felt sour in his heart, but when he thought of his father's words, he couldn't help but feel worried and had to tell his wife the sad fact.

Today, my daughter Laila is over one year old and in good health.

Lucius and Narcissa worked hard to find a way to break the curse, and they also asked their father for help.

In order to avoid being sad, Abu only met his granddaughter once when she was one month old. At other times, he asked the house elf to send her gifts. He actually loved his granddaughter in his heart.

Seeing that his son and daughter-in-law asked for help, he asked the house elf to send the collected medicinal materials, hoping that they could make up for their regrets.

Voldemort naturally heard about this, and he was curious and a little emotional. He silently assigned the task of going abroad to others so that he could spend more time with his daughter.

When the child turned 100 days old, he was invited to a party. As a guest, he was not allowed to do anything disgraceful. From a distance, he saw a fair, tender and beautiful child, with arms like lotus joints that made him endure. I can't help but want to poke and poke it to see if it is as soft as I imagined.

Narcissa and Lucius looked at their children with love in their eyes, and he could imagine how happy it would be to be their children.

Voldemort couldn't help but think of his mother. Perhaps at a certain moment when she was pregnant with him, her heart was full of love for him and she was also looking forward to his birth, right?

No one knows Voldemort's psychological activities, but he was in a good mood during that time and rarely used Avatar and Crucio to deal with his subordinates.

Severus knew a thing or two about what was going on with his friend's family, but he couldn't help at all, and with exams approaching, he had less and less free time, and he had to control the troublesome Bowtruckle.

Yes, that's the bowtruckle he rescued.

According to the basilisk Haierbo, it used a country turtle to replace the Bowtruckle, and it can be raised by just giving it some food.

When the basilisk said this, the small Bowtruckle flew up and hung on it, poking wildly at the snake's body with its hands made of branches.

[Hiss...I was wrong, hahaha, stop scratching...] The basilisk twisted its body on the small bed, and was afraid of crushing the Bowtruckle, so it could only keep begging for mercy.

Upon seeing this, the Bowtruckle stopped his movements, placed his hands on his hips in a dignified manner, and cursed without knowing what to say.

"Bahba! Bahba! Bahba! Bahba!"

The basilisk flicked its tail and had to take out the snacks it had hidden in its possession to give it to the irritable Bowtruckle.

Severus didn't know for a moment whether to blame the basilisk for its abduction or to be surprised by the Bowtruckle's personality.

The basilisk hid its head in the crib, enjoying the massage from Bowtruckle, and sighed in his heart that he finally had a bather who could clean his scales for a long time.

Severus knew nothing about it and was still wondering how to send the bowtruckle back. One snake was enough for him.