[HP] Once Upon a Time in England

The Burns siblings, the Longbottoms, Marlene, Moody, Sirius, Remus, and Hyacons sat around a long table with Dumbledore at one end and Regulus at the other. s.

"What I'm going to tell you is something that you have never heard of or seen, but it did happen." Dumbledore didn't speak, and he handed over the right to speak to Regulus, "The Dark Lord pursues something other than power. Same: Immortality. He believed that immortality meant defeating death, that is, never failing. As early as his youth, he began to explore the mysteries of immortality, and he did find a method that seemed to work."

No one interrupted his narration.

"From many years ago, the Dark Lord has frequently shown off his power to his minions, bragging that he is the 'Master of Death'. You all know that I am a Death Eater, but I actually regretted it soon after joining them .At that time, I didn't want to turn from darkness to light. I just wanted to know how to defeat him. So I began to explore what the 'power' the Dark Lord meant. I got some incomplete clues from his few words, and then an accidental The chance brought me into contact with the truth—the Horcrux.” Regulus spit out a completely unfamiliar word, and everyone except Dumbledore showed more or less puzzled expressions, “This is a lost It is a long-lasting and extremely evil black magic. It uses killing to split the soul, and then attach the split soul to an object. In this way, even if the body dies, as long as there is still a piece of the soul intact, the Dark Lord has a chance to be resurrected."

Sirius coughed, "When did you know?"

"Horcruxes? Spring 1979."

"So you've been keeping this secret in your heart all these years?"

"Correct."

"Didn't you want to come and find us?"

"As I said, at first I didn't think about abandoning darkness and turning to light. I didn't want to fall on the side of the White Wizard, but I wanted to destroy the power of the Dark Lord. This is not contradictory." Regulus explained one plus one like a child Said in a tone equal to two, "After I started to consider the possibility of joining forces with you, I need to continue to wait for the right time. This waits until now."

"Okay," Sirius pressed. "Did you retire from the Death Eaters partly to avoid the limelight?"

"Yeah," he admitted, "I was also worried that the Dark Lord would find out if I kept acting under the watchful eye of the Dark Lord... and I didn't want to work for the Death Eaters at all by then."

"How did the mysterious man know the existence of this magic?" Edgar asked.

"I do not know."

"Then where should we find these...soul fragments?" Moody struggled to spit out these last words. Obviously, even he had never heard of this kind of magic.

"I already got one." Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Regulus reached into his pocket and took out a gorgeous golden locket, "This is the legendary locket that belonged to Slytherin."

"But the relics of the Big Four are just a legend..."

"No." This time it was Dumbledore who answered Alice. "As far as I know, at least the sword of Gryffindor exists in the world. The good news is that it has not been defiled by the Dark Lord, because the sword can only be true." Gryffindors can pull it out."

The locket shone innocently and charmingly in the sunlight.The eyes of everyone in the room were glued to it.Such a legendary treasure has never been seen before, but when she thought of a piece of the Dark Lord's soul attached to it, Hyacinth suddenly felt sick, and then she guessed something else from Regulus' eyes staring at it. s answer:

"Is Olivia's death related to it?"

He was startled, and then showed a sad smile: "Yes."

"Can you tell us the same story?" Frank asked.

Ophelia in the water, Olivia who disappeared mysteriously, and Slytherin's locket.What kind of story will it be if you string all these together?

"At the end of 1978, the Dark Lord asked me for a house-elf to complete a secret mission. Without knowing the inside story, I volunteered the elf belonging to the Black family: Kreacher. The Dark Lord took Kreacher away, But I went home and waited. Kreacher had been missing for several days, but the Dark Lord had already returned to Castle Black. I had a faint feeling that something was wrong. Kreacher finally appeared when I couldn't help it anymore, dying and very weak. Under my questioning, it told me what happened—the Dark Lord took it to a cave in the sea, and there was a lake in the cave. He took Kreacher to the island in the middle of the lake, on the small island in the middle of the lake There was a stone basin containing a mysterious liquid. The Dark Lord ordered Kreacher to drink up the liquid, then put the locket in it, and left Kreacher to leave. The liquid was obviously some unknown After drinking the poison/drug, Kreacher had a terrible hallucination, it struggled to climb to the lake to drink, but as soon as it touched the lake, countless ghosts appeared at the bottom of the lake and dragged it down..." Lei Gu Les closed his eyes halfway, "The magic of house elves is different from that of humans. Before I dedicated Kreacher to the Dark Lord, I told it to come back to me after completing its mission. This sentence helped Kreacher get out of the lake .And it gave me the opportunity to learn about the Dark Lord's greatest secret."

He paused for a moment.

"After knowing that the locket was a Horcrux, I decided to go and retrieve it. In order to keep it secret, I am not going to seek any helpers. I made a private imitation of the locket and left a letter to the Dark Lord in it." A short suicide note. Everything was ready when Olivia came to the door. She may have seen something, because I was acting distraught and abnormal during that time. She asked me what was wrong. I lied and told Everything is fine with her. She looked dubious, but when I was trying to find an excuse to send her away, she suddenly found the fake locket I put on the bookcase. Before I snatched it, she opened it first and Saw the note inside. Then she froze for a while without saying a word and I freaked out and tried to convince her that the suicide note wasn't real. At that point she looked up at me suddenly and said, 'Sorry, I have to do this'—”

Hyacinth was taken aback for a moment, she suddenly guessed the follow-up story.

"—she used the Imperius Curse on me, and asked me to order Kreacher to obey her orders. Then she asked Kreacher to take her to the cave and replace the Horcrux..."

"She drank the poison/drug herself?"

Regulus didn't answer, and Hyacinth saw a fleeting gleam in his eyes.

-1979-

Regulus woke up in his own bed, he stared at the ceiling for a moment, then suddenly jumped up amidst Kreacher's low sobs: "Olivia!"

"Master Regulus!" The panicked elf ran over to stop him, "Miss Burst asked Kreacher to come back and wait for the master to wake up here. She said that the master must not disturb the mistress, and no one should know What happened today."

A big mistake had been made, Regulus was trembling all over, and he clearly heard the sound of his heart shattering into powder.He looked up at the clock in despair: it was two hours later.

"Miss Burst asked Kreacher to give the locket to Master Regulus." The elf trembled, tears rolling down from its eyes, "Kreacher didn't want to take Miss Burst to go, but Master Regulus told Kreacher to follow Miss Burst's arrangement."

Maybe Olivia just wanted to confirm what was going on with the suicide note at first, but when she stepped into the cave, she saw the locket soaked in the stone basin.She should have guessed the cause and effect.

Regulus didn't know why she made a decision in such a short period of time.Maybe she had her own guess before that, maybe his anomaly revealed the answer to her in advance... None of this matters.

There are very few people in this world who would rather let themselves die than a pixie.Regulus was one, Olivia was another.

He blankly took the locket from Kreacher.It was bigger than he thought, not heavy, very ornate, with a huge "S" carved into it.He stroked the raised embossed patterns dully, but he was thinking of another thing: Olivia was dead.

Regulus neither cared nor had time to think about what to do next. All he realized was one thing: Olivia was dragged to the bottom of the lake, turned into one of many Inferi, and never returned opportunities in the world.And he was the one who should have been swallowed by the lake.Regulus clutched the locket tightly, the pattern hurt his palm amidst Kreacher's low cry, tears blurred his eyes.

-Now-

"The relationship between Olivia and me was used by her brother, Signus Burst, and became a trump card in the game between him and Rozier. Signus believed that he could use this to make the Black family and even The Lestranges were all on his side. This capricious exploitation once hurt my relationship with Olivia, as did my cousin Bellatrix during the protracted marriage. I no longer support Signus. Later, as you know, Signus collapsed due to other reasons, and the Burst family fell overnight. At this time, I secretly proposed to Olivia against the wishes of Bella and my mother , the first time she chose to decline, but after I persuaded her, she agreed. And then... I learned the secret of the Horcrux."

"Have you never thought about what Olivia would do if you were to replace the Horcrux?"

"I asked Cornelia to let her cast a forgetting spell on Olivia after my unfortunate death. Given the frequent accidents among the Death Eaters during that time, Cornelia had no doubts." Regulus said lightly. Say, "I know it's a bad idea, but I had no choice at the time."

"But she didn't put an Oblivion Charm on you." There were tears in Hyacinth's eyes too—she had always liked Olivia, and even when they became less intimate, she never hated her.

Olivia is an innocent black sheep, a victim of a power struggle.She has never hurt anyone or done any bad things, the only two misfortunes are: she has a brother who is a Death Eater with a higher heart and a thinner life than paper, and she is in love with a brother who wants to defeat the Dark Lord of Death Eaters.

"Maybe she forgot, maybe she wanted me to remember her. In any case, Olivia left me nothing but memories." Regulus smiled at Hyacinth across the table, "You Are you also surprised that she can use the Imperius Curse? Olivia has always been far smarter and braver than we know."

Regulus thought about Olivia's feelings before she died countless times. For her, death may be a relief or an escape.In any case, she won't be coming back.

This also made Regulus think of defecting for the first time. If he wanted to take revenge on some people, he would definitely not be able to do it alone.Burst, Rozier, Lestrange... It's not easy to get rid of them one by one, but if he doesn't drive out all the dark wizards, how can he be worthy of Olivia who died young when she was young?

In 1981, Regulus received from Hyacinth the Olivia in the Water that he commissioned her to paint.It was also the year that he began to consciously withdraw from the inner circle of Death Eaters.Burst's downfall removed the last fig leaf between Rozier and Bellatrix, a protracted rivalry that ended with Rozier gaining control of White Castle in 1980.Bella's loss of power also gave Regulus a good excuse to retire. He disappeared completely in 1984, hiding in Lake Windermere with two secrets.

The negative influence of the Horcrux sometimes makes him have nightmares, hallucinations, and poor mood, so he gradually develops the habit of going for a walk by the lake.

By the lake, he can see the only girl he has ever loved in his life wearing a wedding dress and coming by boat through the mist in intermittent phantoms.