[HP] Once Upon a Time in England

"The Story of Three Brothers" is finally finished.Sirius closed the storybook, and Harry bit his finger in thought: "Sirius, will the invisibility cloak my father left me be a holy artifact?"

"If you think it is, then it is." Sirius smiled. Since Harry eventually grew up in the wizarding world, Dumbledore changed his plan. He acquiesced to Sirius occasionally revealing some news to Harry, after all, he was a prophecy Son, he will know this sooner or later.

"Then can I show Ada the Invisibility Cloak?" Harry tilted his head and asked the second question, "It turns out that you have been secretly dating behind my back! No wonder you didn't let me and Ida's mother Speak, you are so selfish!"

Facing Harry's nonsensical accusation, Sirius couldn't laugh or cry: "Where did you learn these things?"

"I'm not going to tell you." Harry continued to speculate self-righteously, "Are you two officially reunited now?"

"You'd better sleep, Harry." Sirius shook his head helplessly.He must find out who led Harry astray, and now he said some earth-shattering words from time to time, who knows where he overheard them.

complex?Reunite after a broken mirror?

Sirius returned to the living room and sat down. Various toys and children's books were scattered on the carpet, adding a lot of popularity to 12 Grimmauld Place.This was once his dream home and now...

There was a familiar photo not far from his feet, and he picked it up.The people in the photos are carefree, unaware of the earth-shaking and uncertain future ahead.On the back is a line written in his own handwriting: March 1979, 3, Hyacinth and Sirius.

In the spring seven years ago, they had just got engaged, and they were burning wood for the fire.At that time, the Death Eaters were far less rampant than they are now, and people's lives were considered normal; he was just a newcomer in the Order of the Phoenix, and he had the opportunity to sneak in from time to time.

Every morning before he left the house she begged him to bring her ice cream from Florin's Soda Shop in Diagon Alley.When she blinked her innocent eyes and showed a flattering, hopeful smile, he couldn't help but hint: "No, miss. I won't run errands for you for nothing."

Then she would approach enthusiastically, act coquettishly, ask for kisses, people in their 20s and [-]s often kiss and kiss, and the taste changes.

That's why he's always late in the morning.With James' undisguised smirk, he listened to the exhortations or accusations from his predecessors about his lack of time concept, and he listened to his ears and ears, and his heart was as sweet as a pot of honey.

If he went back early in the afternoon, they would go for a walk in the nearby park together.Sirius would turn into a big dog and jump around to make her happy, even if it was a completely "doglike" behavior of picking up branches and holding a Frisbee, he didn't feel ashamed.She will bring her sketchbook and pencils, sit on the grass and draw.She can draw Padfoot vividly, but she prefers to draw him as a human being: basking in the sun, playing with cats, in a daze, profile, front, back, half profile... She walks In the end, he left behind many paintings, which he summarized into volumes and occasionally flipped through, touching the passing old days through the parchment.

In the evening, they cook together.None of them were great cooks back then, and they made a mess when they got together.Later, she gradually mastered a little kitchen skills, and often sent him to water the potted plants.In all fairness, the dishes she cooks are really mediocre, but he likes to see her bustling around: her hair is casually pulled and tied behind her head, and she is staring at the pot with a slight frown... He thinks this is very ordinary and very fireworks Qi, like a home he wanted.

There were images in Sirius' mind, about Hyacinth, and the past.For example, the express train they met for the first time, and the Muggle apartment where they lived together.She was wearing an ankle-length white dress and took the photo in front of the church where the petals were flying. On her left hand was an engagement ring that symbolized eternity, and she was holding him in her right hand.The bloody ring was later returned separately, along with the wand that had been broken in two.The Death Eaters had used this to imply that she was dead, and he believed it.

Later, facing those who didn't know, he only briefly brought up the past with a few sentences: "My fiancée was born in Slytherin, and they blamed her for my sake. Later, I was careless and let them get away with it .”

This is gradually being passed on as a story of deep love and longevity.Even those who opposed their love in the first place were blamed, such as the deceased McKinnon couple, and her uncles: the Prewett brothers.

When the news of Caradoc's death came, Dorcas did not shed tears. She said with a blank look: "The dead are relieved, but the living will continue to suffer."

Years later, when Sirius drank hopelessly in the dead of night, he remembered Dorcas' words.He deeply agrees with this, and understands her death-defying fight.How can a man not go mad if he loses what he loves forever?

He was lucky compared to Dorcas, at least they had a brief good time.

"What are you doing here?" She came down the stairs in her dressing gown, her hair hanging down her shoulders.

He was in a daze for a moment.

"Ada likes Charms," ​​she told him gently, and put the first-year Charms textbook on the coffee table, "just like you."

His heart suddenly softened, and at night, they seemed to have lost a little bit of thorns and defenses: "Do you still remember this photo?"

"I remember." She smiled lightly, "It's been many years."

There was a bit of astringency in her ending, and he noticed it.After a moment of silence, he asked, "Did you have a hard time at that time? When you were pregnant with Ida."

"Yes." She whispered, "I was terrified in Parkinson's Manor, I couldn't eat, and I wasn't allowed to go for a walk. When I thought that this child would be taken away by Death Eaters after birth, I felt Might as well have had a miscarriage...I've tried bouncing and falling and hitting the corner of the bed on purpose, but she's strong."

"Why was Rozier there when you gave birth to her?"

She turned her head and gave him a deep look.

"This is not an interrogation." Sirius immediately explained, and he added in a low voice with difficulty, "I just want...to know how you got here."

She didn't answer for a while, and her eyes fell on the wine cabinet: "You have begun to have the habit of drinking."

Sirius suddenly thought of the confused night a few days ago, at this time he was very grateful for the dim light in Black's old house: "Only occasionally."

"I'd like a drink," she said.

This is generally a harbinger of beginning storytelling.Sirius poured some for her and some for himself.

"Of course she will be here. She has connections with almost all pure-blood families." She chuckled lightly, her eyes darkened, "I showed signs of pregnancy not long after I arrived at Parkinson Manor, Edmund told me after verification After seeing Rozier, she quickly came up with a good idea: a child with the blood of the Black family, and his father is from Dumbledore's side, wouldn't it be a waste not to make good use of it?"

It turned out that Rozier planned her fake death, so it was also Rozier's idea to disguise her identity for her?

"She wants 100% to keep me out of the spotlight," she echoed his doubts. "Fake identity is the easiest way."

"Pansy is not your child." Ada was born at the end of 1979. In any case, she could not have given birth to a second child five months later. "That opal necklace was given to you by Rozier, and you Wearing it in all the family pictures, so…”

"You don't need me to tell you, you guessed most of it yourself." She gave him a teasing look, as if she had insight into his little thoughts, "Edmund has nothing to do with me, the necklace is just to guard against people like him of."

Sirius wanted to be thankful for the cleanliness between Edmund and her, and also wanted to sigh because of the person who died under the necklace: "The Bode and Raphael Roland you mentioned before are not you Did you kill it?"

She didn't answer, just took a few sips of the wine in the glass silently.

"Afterwards," she shook the remaining liquid in the glass, hesitated, "did you not find someone else?"

"No."

"Really?" She raised her eyebrows in disbelief.

"There have been people who have tried to fall in love with me," he told her mysteriously, "but she failed."

From the moment he slammed Marlene away from the tent, he knew he might not be able to accept anyone else.However, she would be wrong:

"You said another name that night."

"That's the fault of the love potion." He blurted out, as if he was eager to distance himself from the girl who took the drug, "I know it's you."

She raised her head and looked at him with a half-smile, and in her eyes he saw the reappearance of yesterday.

"Tell Edgar about Rozier," he said impulsively, "and you'll be free."

"Freedom?" She drank the remaining wine, "With Rozier here, I will not be free."

He remembered that she said that the handle in Rozier's hand prevented her from taking risks. How important was that?

How important was it that she would accept the dementor's kiss and not betray Rozier?