Crossing into Regulus

The Quidditch match ended with a rousing result.Regulus found it very interesting listening to Ron explaining the idol's behavior excitedly beside him.

It turns out that the Quidditch game is also quite good.

In the tent at night, the boys were all excited, the twins, of course, because they had won money.

Arthur didn't worry about his son's gambling. He was worried about something else at the moment.He grabbed Regulus who had just come out of the shower, and spoke after deliberating, "Uh, Rael, you tonight..."

The twins came up to him grinning, and George said, "Dad, you won't let Riel share a room with the girls, will you?"

Fred said, "We don't mind sleeping with Riel."

"Rael, you look hot in a men's shirt," George added.

Regulus looked at Arthur's headache and said to the twins, "I'm still wearing pants."

Arthur's head hurt even more.

Regulus patted Arthur's arm, "I'll just change back." In the second half of the sentence, he had already changed into a male voice. Regulus, with his long hands and feet, propped up the men's shirt on his shoulders, and picked on the twins. lower eyebrows.

George was not without disappointment, "Hey..."

Fred rested his head on his brother's shoulder and sighed.

Arthur smiled gratefully at Regulus.

In the middle of the night, Regulus was awakened by Arthur, and there was commotion outside the tent.Arthur hurried out again to find the girls.Regulus dazedly grabbed a coat and put it on, and followed the equally dazed Harry out of the tent.

Outside they saw a masked police procession, and a family of Muggle administrators floating above the procession.

Regulus fell asleep standing up for a while, while Harry pulled him out of the way.

After a while only Ron and Hermione were left.

Regulus opened his eyes and looked at the trio around him. Hermione met his gaze, and then the girl cried out in frustration, "Rael, you haven't transformed."

Regulus blinked away his drowsiness and said, "Huh? Then I will change now."

"It's useless, you must have been seen." Hermione frowned.

"It's okay, I'm not an important person, but after all, what's going on?" Regulus rubbed his eyes vigorously, and looked out of the woods.

"Those people's hoods look like Death Eaters..." Harry whispered.

Ron immediately became nervous, and Hermione did the same. The three of them pulled Regulus deeper into the woods.

Regulus hurriedly comforted the little guy, "It's okay, don't be so nervous."

Without looking back, Hermione said, "Rael, what do you think we're nervous about? It's you, we're worried about Death Eaters finding you."

"Uh..." Regulus was dragged away obediently.

"Instead of worrying about that big fool, you should worry about yourself first." The slow beating voice sounded.

Regulus noticed that Harry and Ron turned around tensely, their wands clutched tightly in their hands.He then turned his gaze to see a little Malfoy standing against a tree, looking at them with contempt.

"What do you mean, Malfoy?" Harry asked in a low voice.

Regulus tilted his head and looked at Harry. This was the first time his cutie spoke in such a disgusted tone.Is little Malfoy over there annoying?

"They're looking for Muggles, Potter, and I think the one behind you, the Mudblood, would be a suitable target." Malfoy smiled at Hermione with his chin lifted.It doesn't look cute at all.

Regulus followed Hermione curiously, "Mudblood?"

Hermione blushed, but before she could make a sound, Ron spoke first, "Be careful what you say!" Hermione quickly grabbed Ron and Harry, because both of them wanted to rush to beat Malfoy .

Regulus stood aside and watched the quarrel between the little guys nonchalantly, and said, "Uh, Hermione, I think little Malfoy is reminding us to protect you, why are you so angry?"

Harry and Ron froze.

The little white hair over there changed his leisurely attitude and gave Regulus a vicious look, but unfortunately Regulus didn't see it with his back turned.

He opened his arms to embrace Hermione and Harry Ron, "Then let's go quickly."

After walking two steps, he turned his head and thanked Xiao Baimao who was standing there in a daze.

After finding a relatively quiet place, Ron smiled and said, "Rayle, you are amazing. I just want to laugh when I think of Malfoy's stupidity. You actually said thank you to him."

It was only then that Regulus remembered that the little white hair was the disgusting Malfoy that Harry often mentioned in his letters.

Boys' friendship.

Regulus said nothing.

It was much quieter over there in the camp now, and Hermione sat on the ground hugging her knees and said, "The administrator will be fine."

"They'll be fine," Ron reassured her.

Harry held one of Regulus' hands tightly, his eyes fixed on the light in the cracks in the trees.

Regulus patted Harry's head.

At this time, a voice sounded, which was very conspicuous among the crowd of illogical shouts, because it was a clear incantation, "The bones reappear!"

A green light emerged from the darkness, quickly jumped into the sky, expanded into a skull, and then a boa constrictor swam out of the skull's mouth, bent and fixed.Then slowly increase.

Dark Mark.

Regulus took a moment to recognize it, mainly because it was too big and the color was not black.

The three of them turned pale with shock, and Hermione was the first to react, pulling Regulus and running away, followed by Harry and Ron.

But before they had gone far, there was a series of crackling sounds all around them, and a group of wizards apparated around them, surrounded them, and dozens of wand tips were aimed at them.

Harry pulled Hermione and Ron to lie down without thinking. He didn't have a third hand, so he could only yell, "Get out of the way!" Restraining himself from calling out Rael's name.

But it was too late, Harry looked at Rael and looked back at him slowly, behind and in front of Rael, who did not know how many words "fainted!" to him.

Harry's eyes widened, "No!"

Another voice said, "Stop! That's my son!"

After the red light passed, Regulus stood upright, holding a spinning red ball in his hand, looking innocently at the wizards around him.

Arthur strode out and looked at Regulus in horror, "Rael, you..."

"I'm fine." Regulus smiled, stretched out his hand and bounced the ball, threw it into the air, and let it explode on its own.

Both Harry and Ron Hermione got up.

Arthur looked at the children with shaking hands and said, "You guys, are you all right?" His voice was also shaking.

"Get out of the way, Arthur." A cold man stepped forward, staring at Regulus with a serious gaze, "Which of you conjured the Dark Mark?"

Although this was the question, Regulus felt that the other party already had an answer, so he ignored him.

"We didn't!" Harry snapped, pushing himself to stand beside Regulus.

"We didn't do anything!" said Ron, too.

Hermione took a deep breath tremblingly, and said, "It's not us, just now we heard someone walking in the woods, and then that person said 'the bones reappear', and then the Dark Mark appeared."

The cold man opposite stared at Hermione with his bulging eyes, "You seem to know how to conjure the Dark Mark, miss."

Hermione flinched back in horror.

Regulus put his arms around Hermione, looked at her calmly and said, "I didn't."

He used me, not us.

Arthur tried to intervene between the two confronting people, "Mr. Crouch, it won't be Rael, it won't be." He was a little nervous and guilty, after all, he knew Rael's details.From a personal point of view, the person who conjured the mark was definitely not Rael, but it is true that Rael was once a Death Eater.

Mr. Crouch had devoted his life to destroying the Death Eaters, and no matter what, he couldn't let him catch Rael.

The man who broke the deadlock was Amos Diggory, who dug into the bushes for a long time, and appeared with an unconscious house-elf in his arms.

The atmosphere on the court became tense again. It was Crouch's house elf.

After a recovery spell, the elf slowly woke up.

Diggory took the wand from the elf's hand and said, "Little goblin, you were found under the Dark Mark with a wand in your hand, please give us an explanation!"

The little elf looked at Diggory panting, then at the big skeleton in the sky, and cried, "I, I don't, I don't know, what's going on...I don't know, sir!"

Digory snarled, waving his wand, "Clarify the situation! At least tell me where you got that wand!"

But Harry spoke up, and he rummaged in his pockets, then looked at Diggory's hand again, and said, "It seems to be my wand."

The wizards all stared back at Harry.

Harry rummaged through his pockets again, before confirming, "It's mine. I've never bothered to use my wand, never noticed it was missing."

Digory looked back at the elf again, "So you stole Harry Potter's wand to conjure the Dark Mark, doesn't it?!"

The little elf shook his head while trembling, tears streaming out hard.

Hermione suddenly puffed her chest forward and said, "It shouldn't be Winky, we heard that voice chanting a spell just now, that voice is very deep, definitely not Winky."

"Yeah, it was a human voice, maybe a man," Ron insisted.

"Yes," Harry nodded, "at least not from elves."

Regulus didn't speak, but just watched quietly, because Arthur secretly gave him a low-key wink.

Digory ignored them, but docked his own and Harry's wands and cast the Flashback Charm.

The elf trembled even more as a gray shadow of the Dark Mark emerged from the tip of Harry's wand.

"The evidence is solid!" exclaimed Digory.

"Are you saying that I regularly teach my servants how to turn the Dark Mark?" Crouch said coldly.

Digory took a step back in fright and stammered his denial.

"I said, do we have to worry about whether a house-elf has conjured the Dark Mark here? Can't someone apparate away after conjuring and throw away the wand?" Arthur interjected again.

"I think what Weasley said makes sense. It's impossible for the other party to finish changing the markers and stay there waiting for us to catch them." A witch in a woolen dressing gown said.

"Then this little elf should be able to see who it is, because it was stunned just now." Digory weakly changed direction.

As a result, everyone stared at the elf again.

The elf looked at Crouch trembling, incoherent, "I, no, I don't know, sir...no one..."

"Amos, I want to deal with my house-elf by myself, isn't that a problem?" Crouch said coldly, although what he said was a question, there was no questioning tone at all.

Digory flinched.

Arthur quickly took advantage of the embarrassment and said, "Well, if it's okay, I have to take the children back to the tent, Amos, Harry's wand..."

Digory handed it to Harry.

Arthur pushed the children away quickly, and Hermione seemed to want to stay and see how the elf would be dealt with, but Arthur didn't say a word, and forced her to leave.

Back in the tent, Regulus saw Bill sitting at the table, holding a sheet to his bleeding arm, Charlie and Percy were hurt too, but not as badly as Bill, the twins and Ginny were fine, but looked hurt. startled.

Overall not bad, on this night when the Death Eaters popped up.

Arthur walked back and forth in the tent, rubbing his hands, "No matter what you say, go to rest, we will leave early tomorrow morning."

Over there, Bill was talking about their affairs, "After that sign appeared, our side was in chaos, and those people all ran away at once."

"But why are they running away?" asked Ron.

"If you tried to clean yourself up after your boss disappeared, you'd run away if you saw the Dark Mark now," Bill said, lifting the sheet to look at his arm.

"Then the people who created the Dark Mark did it to scare them away?" Arthur stopped and looked at Regulus.

Regulus was looking at Bill's wound, he thought for a while, put his fingers on the wound for a while, the bleeding stopped, the wound seemed to be solidified, he looked up at Arthur, "It's not me, I forgot How did the sign change?"

"We said it before, it wasn't Rael, there was someone else there then," said Hermione eagerly.

Arthur nodded to reassure her, "I know, I was just thinking about what we would say if Mr. Crouch came to his senses and remembered Rael."

As soon as these words came out, the tent fell silent.Regulus smiled and said, "It's okay, at least he doesn't know if I'm still me, so I'll just say I'm my distant relative."

Arthur nodded worriedly.

"Then at least I won't have to be a girl anymore," Regulus concluded.

The author has something to say:

This chapter is written without emotion and is very painful. I have always avoided using the original text for a long time, even if it is rewritten, it is very uncomfortable.

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