[hp] stay out of it

Vincent is very satisfied with the current situation. Although there are challenges in life, it is not urgent. Give him a certain amount of time, and he is sure to get out of danger.

Thinking about it later, he was too optimistic.How could the smooth sailing days be with him all the time, he should have cherished it before.

The housewarming celebration held under the Nanhe tree that day was not characterized by grandeur, but by joy.The members of the Order of the Phoenix, as well as the four students of Ravenclaw, including Vincent, all knew that Voldemort's rise was imminent and that turmoil was coming, but at the moment of peace, they were all enjoying the party with vague unease of.

The holiday is over, back to Hogwarts, this strong fortress that is usually able to isolate the influence of the external situation, now there are some bad signs.The Slytherin students held their heads up high, with deliberate smirks on their lips, and when they clashed with students from other colleges, they would curse out sentences such as "You guys won't be happy for a few days anyway".

The professors said they didn't like it, and the kids inside were spreading shadow of the situation.But Umbridge was messing around, and no one could give an absolute order to deter the Slytherins from shutting up for a while.

While trying to prevent them from disturbing people's hearts, Vincent and the others also hope to find out what their fathers are secretly planning.Eve said that Malfoy must know something. Malfoy protested, saying that his father is still locked up in Azkaban, which is basically Voldemort's backyard. The absolute safety of people.

Things in this regard have been arranged, so within a few days, people from the Ministry of Magic raided Malfoy Manor, and found a lot of serious prohibited items inside. Narcissa Malfoy was taken away for investigation. Lucius was also transferred from Azkaban.Because prohibited items were said to concern the Department of Mysteries, they were locked up in the secretive department's own cell.

This time Malfoy's noble old brand in the wizarding world is completely smashed, but if the Order of the Phoenix finally defeats Voldemort, the Malfoy family will return to the upper-class wizarding world with a more glorious posture.

Before that, Malfoy had to bear the overwhelming ridicule and increasingly undisguised ridicule from the Slytherin people headed by Elerin.

At a DA meeting, people talked about this.Given how often Malfoy led the Slytherins to do the same to Harry in the first few years, he didn't get much sympathy on everyone's lips.

"Dog eats dog," said a Hufflepuff student with some satisfaction, and the other students agreed, giggling.

Yves knows more than anyone else.Because Malfoy joined the Order of the Phoenix camp, he completely gave up fighting for status in Slytherin. The Malfoy couple's special detention is also a way of protection. It got worse.

Of course, the first person who forced him to betray Voldemort was Yves himself, but later the Malfoy family was very proactive, but as far as Draco was able to be contacted by Yves, the spy showed more sincerity than S Professor Nepe also convinced him much more.

In the past four years, the students have had a long-standing grudge against the Slytherin bullies headed by Malfoy, and the critical words in the small symposium made Eve, who knew the inside story, unable to listen.

He looked back for Vincent, who was leaning against the soft wall at the other end of the house with Bellini, their heads next to each other, earnestly studying the words on a huge thick book.

Eve stood up, stretched, and rejoined his little Ravenclaw group.

"Hey, what are you doing?" Eve sat down lazily, squeezing his head to read the words on the book.

Then he gave up.

"What are you looking at?"

"Muggle history, political struggles." Bellini said without looking up, and quickly turned another page.

"Bellini wanted to study conspiracy and struggle," Vincent said. "Is there anything more useful than reading a history book?"

"You can read the history of the wizarding world."

"We've finished reading it," Bellini turned another page, "I have to say that the wizarding world has been in a mess since it took shape, either fighting wits with Muggles, not like Muggles at all." Organized intrigue. I learned a lot here."

Vincent pointed somewhere in a low voice and explained a few words about the background, and then they turned the page again.

"Oh, really?" Eve also became interested, he squeezed Vincent into the middle, and watched it together.

So, the three Ravenclaws read a professional book that had almost nothing to do with their knowledge at an enviable speed. It was very easy for them, and they had time to discuss after turning the pages.

The DA members finished their short meeting in the afternoon and left one after another. Eve was the first to realize that they were left behind. He rubbed his eyes and waited for Bellini to put away the big book. The three of them Get up and prepare to go back to Ravenclaw Tower.

Before leaving the Room of Requirement, he said to Vincent, "If I were you, I'd check on our little spy. His situation sounds worrisome."

"I don't know." Vincent scratched his hair and carefully left the Room of Requirement after Bellini and Yves. The three of them watched the door gradually disappear.

Vincent said: "I thought I should avoid him a bit—you suddenly wanted him to attack Old Gower on a whim that day. I think he probably hated me very much. After all, I forced him to go to Barry. of the forest."

"Then you should apologize."

Vincent was taken for granted by Ive, and then rolled his eyes: "You came up with a bad idea, okay? If you insist on forcing him to defect from the Death Eaters, what can a fifth grader do?"

"That's not necessarily true," Eve snorted, "The Death Eaters are very vigilant. It's normal for the members of the Order of the Phoenix to be unable to speak out. But these students are full of loopholes. Even if we can't find direct information, small details from members of their family will be useful..."

"Wait. You asked me to ask him to apologize, and in the end you want me to ask him to collect information." Vincent suddenly turned around, blocking Yves' path.There is no one in the corridor now, and any sound is particularly obvious. Vincent lowered his voice and frowned: "Is this a plan you have long thought of? You were going to use him to get Slytherin before." information?"

"How could I think so far?" Eve spread his hands and said, "Can I still ask Dan Qi to send you a message, let Malfoy hear it, and then calculate that you will bring him? Relax , but I happen to really want to have a Slytherin insider, boom, he bumped into him again, and the family conditions are also very suitable for being forced into disgrace, so—”

Vincent stared at him, and after a few seconds, he said: "I don't know what you really think. This kind of thing should not be allowed to involve students in the first place. Your setbacks in Bairui Forest clearly show that After that—”

"So what?" Eve folded his arms, and his tone was no longer kind: "You don't know what kind of people Slytherins are. Maybe our little classmate accepted the Order of the Phoenix. Olive Branch performed very well after that, which changed my impression of him, but it still cannot change the fact that he is a Slytherin—the education they received from childhood is different from ours, and we will not be the same after all. This kind of person, there is no need to consider everything as a real companion."

"My dad was Slytherin-educated, how?"

"But he's a Gryffindor."

"So this also supports your point? Malfoy hasn't done anything heinous yet, and you've already used him as cannon fodder."

Eve had no choice but to make a gesture of pressing down, asking for the atmosphere to be calmer. "I have to warn you—this is all your assumptions, and nothing has happened yet. Maybe no one will be hurt if the process is done properly."

"Can you get away with the fact that your plot has not been realized?" Vincent snorted. He turned his head and patted Bellini, telling him to go back along the corridor with him.Bellini witnessed a dispute erupted suddenly between the two friends. He looked at this and that, but he didn't say anything to persuade him. He followed Vincent and continued walking.

"Okay," Ive softened his tone when he was annoyed by the aggressive Vincent. He caught up with Vincent and looked at him as he walked: "What are you struggling with? The group of Slytherins really There is no cure, don't pretend you don't know. I also know that you are not a saint full of kindness, well, for example, Bruce, you see that when you face him, you don't realize that you have so many righteous principles—— "

"Okay, let's talk about it," Vincent said, "Did you never think that he was the one I brought over—I brought it over, my man, you did it rashly, and it was just a sloppy explanation afterwards, Didn't you think it would make my relationship worse?"

Yves was dumbfounded: "I didn't know you were really friends with him." He blinked his eyes: "Your relationship is always very tense. Let me say that the people who are most hostile to him on the surface are Harry and the other three. , it's you..."

"So it was my fault for not letting you see it." Vincent said sarcastically.

Ive tried to explain something, Vincent waved his hand: "Forget it, I didn't think carefully at first. When you made that request, I really didn't stop it."

"That's right." Ive followed Vincent's words and immediately tried to get rid of the responsibility.

"——I just want him to get out of the circle of Death Eaters as soon as possible. I didn't expect you to have other plans in private." Vincent said: "Yves, I suggest you reflect on it."

Bellini said, "Where are you going?"

"I'll go around the sixth floor and see if I can meet him."

After Vincent finished speaking, he headed towards the stairs.

Yves was speechless by what he said, and only half-jokingly vented his anger when he left, saying: "'I suggest you reflect on it'——you hear how he is getting more and more arrogant and domineering now?"

Bellini was not deceived by Yves' momentum, and asked directly: "So, how do you plan to reflect?"

Yves drooped his head, thinking about how to apologize to Vincent: "Why don't you find him some off-the-wall books, this guy will love this."

When Vincent said that he was looking for Malfoy on the sixth floor, he was only using it to prevaricate Bellini casually. He had no basis to prove that the probability of finding Malfoy on the sixth floor would be higher.He just wanted to be alone for a while after bickering with Yves, so as not to put himself in an awkward and stiff atmosphere.

He casually wandered around the empty classroom on the sixth floor for a while, pretending to be looking for someone, and then calculated that it was going to be bedtime, and he was going back to the tower—now he is not like when he first came to the first grade, he is not so interested in this world. This kind of alienation, but now, he feels that he really lives in this world, so he must consider not to deduct too many points from Ravenclaw.

Unexpectedly, he actually met Malfoy.

The world is really wonderful, isn't it?Vincent thought, ten minutes ago, he was still arguing with his classmates over him, but now this sloppy guy is sitting proudly on the desk in the empty classroom, distracted.

There is no one else to accompany him - this is natural, he is now on the opposite path to Slytherin, although such a correct history will help him a lot in the officialdom after the war, but now it will undoubtedly make everyone feel worse about his isolation .

Vincent hesitated for a few seconds, not knowing whether to go in or not.

Although he had yelled at Yves just now that he and Malfoy were friends, he wasn't sure if he was treated in the same way in Malfoy's heart.After all, he has never brought Master Malfoy any party, fun, etc. that a normal friend can give, and there are a lot of fights and troubles.

After standing for a while, Vincent thought it was better to leave.But at this moment Malfoy seemed to have heard something, and suddenly turned around.Vincent had no choice but to say hello and walked forward.

Before he could say a few words, the bell for turning off the lights rang.The sound of the ancient bell reverberated in the empty classroom, shaking the air and ups and downs here. The moonlight was very dim tonight, forming a particularly solemn atmosphere together with the sound of the bell.

"I don't know if it will snow this Christmas." Malfoy suddenly said something that surprised Vincent. Based on his observations over the past five years, Malfoy is almost certain that when it comes to things like Christmas The one who sniffs when the festival is full of warmth and purity.

Vincent leaned forward and looked out of the window. The moon was reddened, with clear spots visible on the surface, as dark as ink pads sealed against the dark blue sky.

He thought of Christmas a year ago.The big and the small Crouch made the school into chaos. Fortunately, Sirius, who was hiding in Tibet, was cleared of his crimes in advance, but Vincent himself, contrary to his old way of life and being at the forefront of troubles, passed out and stayed in the school hospital for a long time. Lie down until the night of the 24th.

It really feels like a long time ago.

But speaking of it, he still hasn't figured out why he fainted suddenly at that time, and then the world order's punishment for him was silently terminated. Up to now, he has changed the trajectory of the world too much, but The terrible sense of dizziness of the soul like that in the first year at Hogwarts has never appeared again.

What Malfoy thought of was another aspect: "I remember you and Bruce had a conflict before Christmas? It's a pity you didn't kill him sooner..."

"What do you mean?" Why did it involve Bruce again?

Malfoy shook his leg. "Didn't Bruce tell you? He contacted Voldemort before Christmas, made a pact with him, and then helped the Dark Lord—I mean, Voldemort, resurrected, provided him with hiding places, funds, medicine Help, most of all, get Potter's blood on Easter."

Vincent felt like he thought of something.

The thought was so fast and terrifying that even he himself didn't realize its meaning.

Malfoy's words came through vaguely as if through a layer of glass, and Vincent seemed to listen but not listen. "It seems that the benefit he gave him is the emerald ring during the summer vacation - you said that the ring can revive the soul."

Vincent stood up abruptly.

He paced back and forth between the aisles quickly: "Bruce and Voldemort met at that time, made a deal. Voldemort gave him the resurrection stone-I said how Bruce got the resurrection stone; and he helped Voldemort get Harry blood, to revive Voldemort—”

Malfoy looked at Vincent who was out of control for some reason.

The already gloomy moon got into the mist, and the classroom fell into an ominous darkness.

"Little Crouch was caught before Christmas, and then there was someone else who helped Voldemort in the house, but I didn't expect it to be Bruce!" Vincent couldn't believe that he had let such a big trouble under his nose.

He stopped suddenly in the darkness.He recalled suspicious details.

At the critical moment of the Warriors' training, Bruce and Elaine suddenly disappeared.When he came back, he was in a good mood and generously returned all the things Helen left behind to him.

Thanks to Vincent's superior memory, he now remembers every detail clearly.

Why is Bruce suddenly elated?Why is he no longer attached to Helen's relic?He should be jealous, because it was Helen who left it to Vincent instead of him, but he gave it back to Vincent so simply——

Because at that time he knew the way to bring Helen's soul back.Voldemort's resurrection stone.Voldemort didn't care about the power of the stone, but Bruce did.Even if, even if it was a piece of Horcrux, if Bruce could help Voldemort with a piece of remnant soul obtain a body, it would be very cost-effective to promise him a Horcrux.

and so--

Vincent recalculated the complicated, cumbersome, and useless formulas he had discarded for a long time.He modified a few parameters and added a few more, taking into account the new information obtained today, he found that it was completely correct, it was so easy...

"Who died at the end of March?" Vincent asked suddenly.

Malfoy didn't react.

"It's Alan Baker. The Daily Prophet missed the obituary," Vincent himself replied.His head hadn't worked as well as it did today for a long time, and it was spinning fast at this moment.

Alan Jefferson Baker was a wizard in the Ministry, with disheveled, disheveled, unkempt hair.When Vincent was hiding in a Muggle hotel, he was the one who came to the door and instructed him to go to Hogwarts to study.

"That's fair..." Vincent murmured like a raving.

"What?" Malfoy asked immediately.

"Wait, I'm going to do the math."

Vincent raised his hands as if conducting a symphony, making gestures and strokes.

Then on Easter, Bruce's henchman Elaine dies, along with Lydia from Beauxbatons, one behind the other.

Bellini's parents, Mr and Mrs Hornby, last month.

Vincent realized what this meant.He fell back a few steps and touched a chair, which was covered in thick dust. He ignored it and sat heavily on it. The dust stirred up and filled his nasal cavity, and a strong bitter taste appeared in his mouth at the same time.

Malfoy heard that there was no movement, and walked over looking for impressions, but thanks to his childhood training, Vincent could see clearly in the dark, and easily avoided him.

Vincent looked sadly at everything around him.

All this is fair.

At the beginning of his arrival in this world, this axiom was clear, and he would be severely punished for any small action, even if it was a subjective thought.

But he exists after all, and he exists here abruptly. Even if he doesn’t have any subjective thoughts, he is still changing the course and direction of the incident bit by bit, not to mention that he later came up with various methods to bypass the painful situation of order. punish.

So the attack on the soul ceased.

The final stun, when Voldemort lost Crouch Jr. as a necessary part of the resurrection operation.Vincent had passed out that time - Voldemort's rebirth was so important, so easily prevented, that Vincent should never have woken up as punishment for interfering with it all.

Bruce rescued him by mistake.

He wanted to resurrect Helen so much, he followed the old story of the Resurrection Stone in England, and used his family power to get to Voldemort. In order to get the Resurrection Stone, he offered to help Voldemort resurrect—so he succeeded the little Crouch who was captured again, As Voldemort's hand and ear at Hogwarts, planning a conspiracy against Harry, the world is barely back on track.

Vincent woke up.

That was an opportunity.When an outsider acts so easily and again and again, the order changes its methods.

Equivalent exchange.

As much as you have changed, I will take from you.

Barty Crouch was prematurely lifted from the Imperius Curse, and he avoided death.Alan Baker had a broom accident that evening.

Harry was involved in the resurrection ceremony early, and Cedric Diggory was not in the woods at the time, so he was not affected and died.And that day Lydia died.

Barty Crouch Jr. was imprisoned by the Ministry of Magic in advance, and he avoided death.So a little later after Voldemort's resurrection, Elaine died.

Sounds like a good deal?Anyway, life and death will not affect Vincent's safety. Compared with being punished in the soul, the life and death of others can be sternly watched - so Vincent didn't notice the replacement of the three lives that deserved to die and those who didn't deserve to die .

But that's just the prologue.Buty Cedric and his ilk were not what Vincent cared about, but then, Sirius, whom Vincent really cared about, also avoided his terrible fate.

As the same price, the Hornby couple who warmly entertained Vincent during the three-year summer vacation and Christmas vacation died.

Vincent couldn't tell which was scarier, the doomed death of a father he'd finally cared about in his life, or the retribution his best friend's parents had suffered in the Death Eater for his actions Under the raid of gangsters.

Both are equally terrible.So he avoids the former and leads to the latter.

Vincent sorted out all this over and over again, and he trembled all over.He didn't know how to face Bellini.This crime is too heavy.He had caused the deaths of Bellini's relatives for his own—inadvertently, but what did that mean?He still remembered Bellini's pain in the past month, how could he feel at ease about it?

Vincent thought again about Dumbledore's fate.

Dumbledore will not die.He knew, because the ring that was destined to curse him had been burned by himself with Fiendfire.

Who will die in his place?Vincent weighed the weight of Professor Dumbledore in his mind, and found someone with the same status, would it be Flitwick or McGonagall?

Then, later on, Lupine, Tonks, Fred, would lose their lives, should he care?But if they are saved, there will be other people who will suffer the misfortune that does not belong to them.

It's all, it's all because I care too much...

Vincent's head seemed to explode with a bang.

If he hadn't cared about everyone in this world from the beginning, then no one who died now would make him sad or grieve...

and so……

Vincent's remorse made him feel sore——

From the start, I should have stayed out of it.

The author has something to say:

The stalk that had been buried for several years was finally used up.Tired.

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As I said, there is no random digging, and there is no digression. The ending was set very early.Today is the topic chapter~!

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Looking back at the previous episodes, do you feel suddenly enlightened?Proud~