[hp] stay out of it

"Hey, are you ready to go now?"

asked Malfoy, following White, who was hurrying along.

White raised his hand and released a Patronus, and flew towards the south, which was the approximate direction of Malfoy Manor, apparently to answer Bruce Boyle.

White continued to walk down a few steps before realizing that the exit here was above the space.He made a "cut", murmured something about Sirius's whims, then turned around and ran in the right direction.

"Hey, I'm still standing here."

White stopped in his tracks. "Oh, sorry." He looked at Malfoy. "You mean...?"

"If you're going to my house, take me back by the way." He ordered.

White shrugged: "Did you forget what you said—I'm going to the Muggle street where Helen and I lived for a long time."

Two guys who have always been in trouble, meeting in a non-wizard place, it seems that it will not be a peaceful meeting.If you want to think badly, you may draw your wand and cast the spell at you.

"You are waiting for me at my house, and I will be back as soon as possible." White turned his head and prepared to leave.

Malfoy narrowed his eyes, seeing his back was about to disappear around the corner of the stairs, but he didn't know how to persuade him not to go.Although Bruce always puts the smiling etiquette of a senior wizard in front of others, he is not a reliable guy in any way.

Malfoy was very pessimistic about their little date, and as soon as he was in a hurry, he blurted out: "You left me at your house. If I never come back, wouldn't I be torn to pieces by Sirius?"

White rubbed his chin, thinking that it was funny for Malfoy to think that he would lose to Bruce: "A wizard like Bruce who doesn't focus on magic, no matter how strong his obsession, is easy to defeat. If you Don't worry, you can follow me."

Malfoy rolled his eyes: "If I go with you, your chances of winning will not increase."

"On the contrary, it will decrease," White said with a smile: "You are quite insightful about your own abilities."

While talking, the two had already reached the hall, and White took off his cloak from the coat rack, but suddenly changed his mind. "Get your wand out."

"what?"

White looked Malfoy up and down, and said: "I just realized that this is an excellent opportunity to practice Defense Against the Dark Arts. You know, your ability to practice magic has never been strong, and even the Defense Against Magic The culture test can't compare to the Harry you despise..."

"It's just that this time it's lower than him." Malfoy was poked in the sore spot.

"And in the next few years, there will be more and more occasions that require us to use magic proficiently, and you know the reason—"

"That's right, I don't think I will be the target of the attack." Malfoy raised his head proudly, still proud of his family being the most capable subordinates under the Dark Lord.

White tapped Malfoy's head with his wand: "That's not necessarily the case. After the war really comes, you can't be in your mother's arms forever."

White ran away for a while, and then said: "Originally, it was Dan Qi who came up with the plan to take people to a certain dangerous place to practice magic together. In the future, he planned for the three of us to take risks together—just like the three of Harry You know. But Bellini is still mad at me, and Dench has to be on TV a lot lately. So, this rare opportunity is here for you.”

"On TV?"

"Never mind that." White waved his hand. "In short, Bruce just looks treacherous, but in fact there is nothing to worry about. You follow me and experience the feeling of using magic between life and death, and how different it is from using it in a classroom."

"If it's nothing to worry about, how can there be a situation between life and death?" Malfoy stared.

"Don't always pay attention to the details, Malfoy." White said with a smile: "If there is any crisis, I will let you take care of me." Saying this, he opened the door of the house, neatly The ground turned somersault with the shift of gravity, and jumped on the grass outside very gracefully.

Malfoy sneered: "If anything, it should be me helping Bruce, the Dark Lord's subordinate." But he still walked closer to the hall and walked through the door.

This time he was prepared, and White was used as a reference first, so he didn't stumble and stagger a few steps like the first time he entered the door, at least he stood firm.But compared with White, he was still a bit embarrassed.

Sirius, who was humming a ditty on the beech, immediately made a mocking sound.

Malfoy pretended not to hear, and really didn't want to be here for a moment.

"I'm going out." Vincent said to Sirius.

"It's been less than half a day since you've been home!" Sirius objected from within the canopy, from which Malfoy felt the glare.

"It was Bruce looking for me."

There was a rustle in the tree, and Sirius jumped down from the beech.

"It's okay, Bruce's head is spent elsewhere, his magical ability is not worth mentioning." Vincent said.

"But he's Beauxbaton's representative, isn't he?"

"I believe there was money and power trading in it. Bruce was homeschooled most of the time and didn't have much connection to the school."

Sirius was silent for a moment, looking at Vincent.Finally, he gave in: "Then you go."

Vincent assured: "There will be no problem."

"I hope so." Sirius made a grimace, and planned to go back to cut the beech branches and leaves: "Since you have decided to go, I will not stop you. lest you keep everything secret from now on."

When Vincent apparated away with Malfoy, he happened to meet Lupine who had Apparated under the beech. Vincent only had time to make a welcoming expression before disappearing into thin air.

Lupine came here to visit his new house after receiving three letters of impatience mixed with enthusiasm from Sirius.But even for a wizard, a big house turned upside down from the inside out is a bit ostentatious.From the scene in the window, he saw that the house was upside down even inside. He frowned and remained silent for a while, and decided to put this big house with puzzling everywhere aside.

"Just now, did Vincent leave with Malfoy? He is really proficient at apparating, and he can bring such a student who has no experience in apparating at will." Lupine decided to praise another thing that is more commendable.

Sirius said proudly: "Yes, they in the Order of the Phoenix said that he is very talented. Maybe he can reach the height of the principal."

Lupine said: "You are too partial to your own child. I think he is far from Dumbledore. First of all, he can't achieve an intimate relationship with everyone like Dumbledore."

"Genius doesn't need to socialize." Sirius whistled: "If I can think about everyone like the principal, I will be worried."

Sirius never bought Dumbledore's account like Lupine did. For Lupine, the kind and kind headmaster who treated everyone equally made him trust him wholeheartedly, but Sirius never lacked approval.Of course, there is still some basic respect for the principal.But he has never been able to understand Dumbledore's understanding and reuse of those "reformed" wizards.In his opinion, because pettigrew Peter is too dangerous to give such a person the slightest chance of betrayal.And Dumbledore's benevolence on this point is really a bit unwise.

Lupine didn't comment on Sirius' slight complaints about Dumbledore, instead he brought up Malfoy: "Is their relationship so good now? It's just a vacation, what are they doing out there?"

The sun was getting hotter and hotter, and it was uncomfortable to stand outside and talk.Sirius simply gave up on pruning his beech, letting Lupine inside, saying, "He's been worrying."

"How do you say it?" Lupine poked his head outside the door to look at the furnishings in the hall, and then turned the doorknob. Under the force of the magic in the room, it landed firmly on the floor of the hall above.

Sirius helped Lupine hang up his robes as he led him into the dining room. "Vincent always has a strange idea that war will happen immediately."

"It's not impossible."

"Dumbledore will not allow war." In terms of magical ability, Sirius trusted the principal very much. "And Vincent seems to feel that the war will not only happen soon, but also affect these children. Therefore, he has to make a magic practice plan for his partners--of course I support the use of more magic, but the use of magic Using it as a task to plan, I always feel that the effect will not be very good."

Sirius carelessly made tea for Lupin in the kitchen, directed the light brown tea in a circle in the air with his wand, and ostentatiously landed in the teacup without spilling a single drop. "In my opinion, of course it was our time, the process of mastering the magic ability far surpassing the classmates during the crazy run was the best."

The Whooping Willow on a full moon night has mostly bad memories for Lupine, but seeing Sirius laughing so nostalgicly, he couldn't help but recall the funnyness of the thrilling time at that time.

"That time you bumped into a chair, James thought I was going to transform, and cursed and knocked your nose." Lupine fiddled with the small ornaments on the dining table, a little smile appeared on his mouth.

"Speaking of James," Sirius happily brought two teacups to the table: "Harry will come and live here soon. Although Voldemort is lying in the gutter, everyone , the situation is still stable, and this summer can be very happy."

"Well, this place won't be lively for long. Compared to yours..." Lupine motioned to Sirius' house with his chin, "After all, the house at the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix is ​​much more comprehensive. In a few weeks, these students should be concentrated in Go live there for a long time."

"Poor them," shrugged Sirius. "That house has every evil creature in it except dementors. I wouldn't live there anyway."

Lupine didn't like the gloomy old house very much either.To be fair, although Sirius's upside-down house is overblown, he managed to fill every corner of the house with sunlight, and the obvious Gryffindor style of the house made Lupine feel very at home.

Sirius took a sip of his tea: "In short, Vincent wants to take his friends to risk-controllable magical places outside the school to experience more things. The protagonists of these plans should have been Ravenclaw students, But he seems to have had an argument with one of them, and the other retreated into Muggle circles..."

"I should ask Narcissa for the tuition fee." Sirius finally said seriously.

Master Malfoy's precious feet had never set foot outside of wizarding circles and into filthy Muggle hangouts - except when he was involved in the china stone incident, and this time.

Vincent White was getting a lot more familiar with the Muggle world.

He hadn't set foot on this street since the china stone incident in second grade.

Most of the changes on Fran Street were in the old house where Helen and little Vincent lived for several years.The house was auctioned off by the government a few years ago, and now it is no longer full of homeless people, and has moved into new families. The trees are full of traces of the new family.It was completely different from the nondescript house where wizards lived in seclusion before, and it was full of Muggle's own peaceful and peaceful atmosphere.

The 11-year memory of White's body has almost merged with the soul of the newcomer Jiang Jin five years ago. Jiang Jin also dreamed of being White more often in his dreams, but less often as a scientist in his previous life.The sense of identification with his identity made him reject this place even more.The old house on Fran Street was the place where Jiang Jin started all his life in the wizarding world, and it was also the place where White and Helen died.

Bruce made an appointment here to meet, and he didn't know why.

According to Malfoy's narration, Bruce seems to have temporarily obtained the gemstone ring of the Slytherin family, which is also the legendary resurrection stone, because of Voldemort's favor.That means that Helen will be summoned to the world immediately.

If Bruce was successful, what was he asking of himself?

Do you want to announce something to yourself, Helen wants to explain something, or you want to have an intimate family dinner?

Vincent's mouth curled into a sarcastic smile.

Bruce, as the wizard with the purest lineage of the Boyle family in the past hundred years, actually put his mind on finding his biological mother who was hunted down by the French magic circle. The pursuit for several years made him paranoid and hysterical, although he still maintained He has a polite and pure-blooded image, but the persistence and madness flashing in his eyes make Vincent unable to have a deep friendship with him—even though his attitude towards Vincent is always sincere and enthusiastic.

Vincent had already notified Bruce with the Patronus just now, telling him to meet on Fran Street now.

As long as things related to Helen are involved, Bruce has always acted vigorously and resolutely.Vincent looked up at the old house, he was probably already waiting inside by now.

Helen was cast by the wizard sent by Boyle's family to read the instigating curse, and then committed suicide.

Bruce Boyle.

Now you actually choose this place as the meeting place on your own initiative.

Hatred for Bruce welled up in Vincent's heart.From a young age, Bruce was well-clothed and well-fed, and he was wandering with Helen...

No.

He came back to God.

He has completely blurred the boundary between himself in his previous life and the original owner of this body, little Vincent.

Malfoy made a suspicious sound behind him. Vincent collected his mood and turned to him and said, "Bruce is not a difficult opponent. If there is a duel in a while, try to find a place where you can block your body and not be noticed. stand..."

"You asked me to plot?" Malfoy expressed disdain for this way.

"It's not me who was knocked down by the curse." Vincent knew that there would definitely be a big battle at Hogwarts two years later, and Malfoy, who had always been just talking on paper, couldn't even protect himself in it. "Let's experience what it's like to really attack with magic. Harry has been on the verge of life and death a few times."

Malfoy rolled his eyes in response.

Vincent looked up again at a small window in the old house, which was Little Vincent's bedroom.He still remembered the scene when Helen brought him into this community and tidied up the bedroom for the first time.And now that window has been repainted.

With mixed feelings, Vincent walked into the old house.

It's a little after noon on a Saturday, and the whole family (the Trons, according to the sign) are all gathered in the dining room, without exception, with their heads bowed, their arms buried in their plates, and their meals stained. .

The body is still slowly rising and falling.It seems that he is not dead.

Bruce didn't hide deliberately, just sat on the sofa in the living room.Playing with the ring in one hand.

Vincent gently stroked the fine lines on the surface of the wand with his fingertips.

There was a moment of silence in the room.

"That ring." Vincent said, "Did you call her back?"

Bruce turned his head and said in surprise, "You know this ring?"

Vincent ignored him, raised his wand slightly, and cast a revealing spell over the house.

A certain wall emitted a very penetrating fluorescent light.The shape of a person is light and fluttering.It was a ghost.

Malfoy gasped, seeing a ghost for the first time outside of Hogwarts.

Vincent took a breath.Frowning.It took less than a second to realize that the ghost image did not belong to Helen.

The ghost of a man.

Vincent understood all this in an instant—why Bruce had the resurrection stone but didn't resurrect Helen, but invited himself to this old house—

"You can't call her back, can you?" Vincent said softly, his voice rising with some sarcasm.He lifts his chin and looks at Bruce with contempt in a tone that makes Bruce feel like a complete fool.