[HP] Once Upon a Time in England

"No one can tell how many Horcruxes Voldemort has created, so we can only collect every clue like a needle in a haystack." Dumbledore said, "Actually, I'm quite happy, because we finally saw a little victory over Riddle. dawn."

"Ah."

"So I hope you can temporarily put aside your prejudice against each other and stand on the same front." When he said this, Sirius and Regulus glared at each other, and Dumbledore's tone seemed very helpless, "We Must be united, this is an important prerequisite for defeating Riddle."

Under his silent urging, Sirius and Regulus reluctantly turned to each other and shook hands extremely quickly.

"I don't have any enemies with him, Dumbledore." Sirius declared as soon as he let go of Regulus' hand, "I just look down on him occasionally."

Before Regulus choked, Dumbledore spoke first: "Then I hope you and this one can also maintain a non-hostile state."

"Who?"

Dumbledore didn't answer, he raised his voice and said to someone who was not there: "Come in."

They heard the door of the principal's office slowly open, and a person walked up the spiral staircase.

"—You!" Sirius really jumped up, and he and Snape looked at each other viciously from a distance, as if they would flash out their wands at any moment and kill each other, "You..."

"Sirius!" Regulus interrupted him, who was also looking at Snape with a more complicated expression.

"Severus has been working for me for several years." Dumbledore quietly confided the explosive news behind them, "Of course, he is still a Death Eater in name only."

"You trust him? Dumbledore, I thought you were a sensible person!"

"I trust Severus, Sirius." Dumbledore replied clearly, "I don't expect the rift between you to disappear overnight, but... now you have to cooperate."

……

Dumbledore revealed Snape's identity as a double agent, but why didn't he tell Snape Regulus that he was also a double agent?

Regulus couldn't guess the reason.

"Hello." Edgar interrupted his contemplation. At some point, he came to Regulus. At this moment, he frowned and stared at the empty table not far away, "Why does Sirius always look up? class?"

"Perhaps you gave him too little?"

Edgar shook his head incredulously: "I just sent him a letter asking him to come here for a meeting. Guess what he replied to me?"

"Ok?"

"He proposed to open at 12 Grimmauld Place." Edgar probably thought Sirius was crazy, "Did he forget that he still has a Harry Potter at home?"

The more people went in and out of 12 Grimmauld Place, the less safe Harry became.Edgar didn't understand why Sirius would suddenly change his cautious style of doing things. He had always been very fond of Harry in the past.

"He promised me to live at 12 Grimmauld Place after he's done with the Dark Lord," Regulus probed. "Is he trying to throw two more parties before he moves out?"

"This is the legendary invisibility cloak..." Regulus muttered to himself, while stretching out his hand, the silver-gray cloth poured down from his fingers like water.He was far from the only one whose eyes were glued to the invisibility cloak—Edgar, Moody, the Longbottoms, and Marlene all sighed at the ingenuity of the invisibility cloak.

"I also have an invisibility cloak, but it can't compare to this one at all." Moody's tone was obviously jealous, "I guess this is the secret of you doing bad things but never getting caught?"

"Not exactly." Sirius winked at Remus, "We have more magic weapons than this one."

"There's still the Marauder's Map, right?" Frank, the former Gryffindor prefect, exposed it on the spot. "It's not still in Filch's hands, is it?"

"I have to talk to Dumbledore when I have time, and Harry will definitely return it to its original owner when he goes to school in the future."

"Leave Filch alone, he never dreamed that Hogwarts would be ruled by Potter and Black again after so many years."

Everyone present laughed, except Marlene, who wasn't happy about it.Marlene was very curious about the progress of Sirius and the woman, but he didn't say anything, and she couldn't get reliable news from others.

"Well, to get down to business," said Moody, amidst some laughter, "Edgar, do you have any news to announce?"

"First of all," Edgar looked at the few people present, and now they are sitting in the restaurant at No. 12 Grimmauld Place, with a bottle of butterbeer in front of each of them, and the atmosphere is a little relaxed, "Dumbledore doesn't want to Maintaining such close cooperation with the Ministry of Magic."

"Is it because of Scrimgeour's attitude?"

"Not only that. Dumbledore doesn't want others to think that he is too close to the Ministry of Magic, because... many of the actions of the Ministry of Magic are unpopular." What Edgar said was that Crouch blindly arrested the suspected Death Eaters before. "Also, we suspect the traitor is from the Ministry of Magic rather than the Order of the Phoenix."

"Have you found evidence?"

"Some." Marlene said, "McNeil, the Executioner of the Fantastic Beasts Regulation and Control Committee, has been tirelessly trying to get close to people from the Department of Mysteries recently, and to find out what's going on in the Department of Mysteries. For example, where are the prophecies kept. "

"It's suspicious..." Frank glanced at Moody, "Will the mysterious man want to get the prophecy ball about him?"

"There is only one possibility." Moody urged Edgar, "What else did Dumbledore say?"

"Dumbledore thinks that we can't pin our hope of defeating the mysterious man on Harry. He hopes that we can find the remaining Horcruxes as soon as possible." Edgar looked at the people around the long table. They have fought side by side for many years , trust each other, and cooperate perfectly, "Now that we have known the existence of four Horcruxes and found three of them, Dumbledore believes that there are three more Horcruxes that have not been discovered-yes, he thinks that You-Know-Who made Seven Horcruxes."

Seven is a magic number, and they all know it.

"It's just a hypothesis, right?"

Edgar nodded.

"But... what if there are not seven Horcruxes? How do we know if we have found all the Horcruxes?"

"Of course we will know." Remus said unexpectedly, "The truth is pieced together by clues one by one. We are at a loss now, but as time goes by, we will always know what the answer is."

"Makes sense." Frank echoed, "Well, did Dumbledore say anything else?"

"He, Regulus, and I are mainly responsible for the Horcrux matter. Remus, Alice, the task of you two is to keep an eye on McNeil and pay attention to other suspicious persons; Frank, Moody, you have to Stabilize Scrimgeour first, and don't let him jump out to make trouble at this point. The rest..." Edgar suddenly stopped talking, and they all heard a voice clearly in the silence.

"Wisson, what are you doing—"

"Shh!"

Sirius' expression changed.

"Harry?" Remus looked up in confusion, "Sirius, they..."

"Wesson Black!" Sirius swung his wand, and the door of the dining room swung open, allowing him to see two guys who wanted to run but couldn't.

"I just want to get a piece of bread." Wei Sen didn't change his face, "Can you?"

"Hi, everyone." Harry laughed like he was crying.

"Are you eavesdropping on us?" Sirius tried his best to suppress his anger, "Come with me."

Edgar looked at the crowd and felt a headache: "What should the rest of you do... Forget it, let's talk about it in the next meeting."

He shouldn't have come to the meeting at 12 Grimmauld Place believing Sirius' nonsense!

How can you go to someone else's house for a meeting!

"Am I usually too kind to you? So that you have no sense of proportion, especially you, Wesson, you are too much!" Sirius rebuked him harshly, and he escorted Wesson and Harry upstairs, "You, Harry, go face the wall and think about it. You, come here, I'm going to talk to you now..."

His words were stuck in his throat just like Edgar's previous words.

"Weisson, what trouble have you caused?" Hyacinth walked downstairs in a half-dream, and then woke up completely in the eerie silence——

Moody, Frank, Alice, Edgar, Remus, Regulus, Marlene.

Dazed, shocked, confused, surprised, want to laugh, gloat, angry...

"Mom," said Wesson, adding fuel to the fire, "come and meet Papa's guests!"

"Oh." Regulus whispered to Edgar beside him, "Look, that's why he missed work."