[HP] The Elegance of the Night

Slytherin House had a good weekend because of the victory of the Quidditch match. On Monday, Professor Lupine appeared in Defense Against the Dark Arts class. He brought a glass water tank containing Hink Punk, which An ugly one-legged creature that looks like wisps of smoke lures travelers into swamps.

"Don't worry, I'll tell Professor Snape, you don't have to write that paper." When the lion cubs complained about the homework as long as two sheets of parchment assigned by Professor Snape, Professor Lupine said .

"Oh, I've finished writing, it's very rewarding..." Draco took out two parchments detailing the characteristics of werewolves, and glanced at Lupine with a smirk.Igil was flipping through a book of "Advanced Defense Against the Dark Arts" and recorded useful spells, and didn't pay attention to the content of the class at all.

"He usually looks sick, I didn't expect..." Pansy sat on the seat behind Igil and played with a small lace fan. Anyone in Slytherin who completed homework like her should know this What is the identity of the teacher? Only the group of Gryffindor lion cubs who always like to drag their homework to the end surround Lupine in admiration.Of course, Miss Know-it-all Granger was an exception. She didn't actively raise her hand to speak in class, and she didn't grab the front row seat. Werewolves are an extremely aggressive race after all, isn't she afraid?

Ravenclaw defeated Hufflepuff at the end of November, which means that Ravenclaw will become the opponent for the championship with Slytherin if there is no accident. Of course, if Gryffindor can compete with Hutch in the next semester Patch's super high score in the game will also threaten Slytherin's aspirations. The little snakes stepped up their training under the strict requirements of captain Flint. The cold and biting wind and heavy rain continued until December, Igil sometimes goes to see Draco practice, and since the first Quidditch match, no dementors have been seen on campus, and Dumbledore's rage seems to have confined them to the post at the school's entrance up.

Two weeks before the end of the semester, the weather suddenly cleared up, and the muddy ground was covered with a layer of shiny frost one morning. A notice was posted on the Slytherin bulletin board that on the last day before the semester holiday, little wizards could go to Hogsmeade through.Igil did not apply to stay in school this semester, and he booked a ticket for the Hogwarts Express early on to go home for Christmas.

"Igil, do you still have the coupon for the dreamy fruit pudding?" On the morning of going to Hogsmeade, Draco Star-eyed Malfoy asked Igil such a question eagerly. "I don't eat black pudding in the morning if I have it."

"..."

When queuing up to Hogsmeade in the morning, Mr. Filch, the administrator, stopped Harry Potter at the door. He said it was for Harry's safety, and the vice-headmaster personally gave the order.

"I have my guardian's signature, Mr. Filch." Harry raised his eyebrows, "Professor McGonagall doesn't approve of my going, but he doesn't restrict my freedom!" He emphasized his tone, "If that's what she meant, I will obey, and now I am going to find her."

Filch checked the list with feigned impatience, but anyone with a discerning eye could see that he was guilty. Filch hated every student who broke the school rules, especially Harry Potter, who was in the second grade because of Lori. Mrs. Si's petrification incident involved his identity as a Squib.

"He looks less and less like Gryffindor." Igil understood that Harry's changes were all due to his father, but could a person really change so fast?It's still like this.

"It's so charming. Potter is very popular recently." Pansy squinted at the few little witches who were chattering together. Regardless of appearance, the aura of the savior alone could attract many people.

"Hurry up." Draco urged outside the door, and the little snakes immediately followed.

No matter how many times you go to Hogsmeade, you can experience freshness. This small village full of wizards is decorated with Christmas atmosphere. The eaves and tree trunks are full of beautiful light sources. The footprints were soon covered with snowflakes again.

Honeydukes Candy Shop has launched a new product, a fruit flavored fudge, Draco can't walk when he sees it.

"Mine, mine, it's all mine..." The platinum boy wanted to wrap up all the fruit candies in the store. When he was dragged out of the store by Igil, he had packed all the fruit candies. As for the dreamy fruit pudding, That is definitely indispensable.

"Is that a new variety? Why haven't I seen it?" A sixth-grade witch asked the owner, Mr. Froome. She is a loyal customer of the candy store and holds a 7% off gold card for the Honeydukes store.

"Sorry, this is not for external supply." Mr. Froome said regretfully.

The white Hogsmeade is as beautiful as a picture scroll, but the windy and snowy weather made Igil feel his hands were about to freeze. He and Draco walked into the Three Broomsticks, the famous bar The place was crowded and noisy, weird people in strange clothes could be seen everywhere, they found a remote place to sit down, Igil took off his snow-covered cloak, and Draco went to order two cups of frothy, steaming butterbeer.

"Merry Christmas!" Draco raised his glass and took a big sip, the hot liquid entered his stomach, warming people up from the inside out in this cold season.His face was flushed, and he didn't know whether it was from the cold or the heat from the wine. "Igil, come to my house as a guest during the holiday." The platinum-haired boy said, and Igil nodded and accepted.

"Dirty, stinking traitor!" That's when they heard Hagrid's voice, so loud that the whole bar fell silent. "I met him! I must have been the last to see him before he killed many! I was the one who rescued Harry from James and Lily's house after they were all killed. Poor little thing with a long gash on his forehead and his parents are both dead... that's when Sirius showed up. I didn't know he was James and Lily's secret keeper, I thought he'd heard I got the news of the attack by the mysterious man, and I was there to see what he could do, and I comforted that murderous traitor!"

"Hagrid, don't! Keep your voice down!" Professor McGonagall said, and Hagrid's roar immediately quieted down, and now Igil couldn't hear what they were saying clearly.After a few seconds of silence in the bar, the noise resumed, but people frequently looked in that direction.

"What a disappointment, that half-blood giant." Draco rolled his eyes. After Hagrid was fired, he still became a Forbidden Forest hunter under Dumbledore's care. He was really angry for Igil.

"Secretary..." Igil watched the beer in the glass bubble up one after another. He really knew too little about the uncle who was expelled from the family.But he took his father's word that Sirius was not a traitor.

When Igil drank a full glass of beer, the Hogwarts faculty left the bar, Professor McGonagall, Flitwick, and Hagrid, a man wearing a dark yellow-green bowler hat and a dignified manner walked in Ahead of them, he was Cornelius Fudge, Minister for Magic.No wonder they were talking about Sirius Black, the Ministry of Magic's main concern right now was how to catch him.

"Harry, Harry..." Minister Fudge had just stepped out, and the blue-eyed boy stood up from the seat not far from them. The angle was blocked by a Christmas tree. If it weren't for the shouts of Ron and Hermione, Yigil wouldn't notice him either.

Harry Potter pushed the door out with a pale face, forgetting to bring his thick cloak. Hermione and Ron dropped their drink money and chased them out. The shopkeeper Mrs. Rosmerta covered her mouth in surprise. She also participated in the scene just now. discuss.

"Why is he here?" Draco said unexpectedly, and Igil raised his glass blankly, only to realize that the wine was empty.

"Hello." Just as Igil ordered two more glasses of butterbeer, Allie Windsor approached their seats.The beautiful red-haired girl put her big beer-filled mug on their table with a thud. Mrs. Rosmerta served butter beer to the two little wizards of the Snake Yard, and Ellie generously tossed it to her. Jin Jialong waved his hand: "There's no need to look for it," the girl said.

"You are so generous, beautiful lady." Mrs. Rosmerta happily accepted Jin Gallon, and Ellie sat gracefully in an empty seat without the consent of others.

"Ellie Windsor, what are you doing here?" Draco didn't welcome her at all.This girl used to be eccentric, but this semester, she became more and more troublesome in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class of the two professors.

"Aren't you going after your friends?" Igil said coldly. He thought that the girl had corrected after two years, but he didn't expect it to be the same.

"What he needs now is calmness, and I'm not very good at comforting people." Ellie lowered her eyes, seeming a little sad. "I'm here to apologize, Blake." Allie kept her head down, her hands intertwined and hidden under the table, "I've been thinking, if I hadn't called you Blake in the Forbidden Forest last time, maybe you wouldn't have been hurt .”

"..." Igil didn't speak, but Draco spoke: "Miss Windsor, what do you mean?"

Ellie ignored the platinum boy. She raised her head and gazed at the wanted notice posted behind the hotel door. Sirius looked fiercely at the people coming and going in the hotel with his downcast face. "Actually, I've always wanted to call you Igil. The surname Black is easy to cause misunderstanding." The girl's voice was clear and proud.

"Please call me Blake, Miss Windsor," Igil said alienatedly, "You have nothing to apologize for. It was the Hippogriff that hurt me."

Ellie smiled reservedly, and glanced at Igil's face a few times with insightful eyes, then took a sip of butter beer from her cup: "Blake, what do you think of black magic? I'm sorry to take the liberty, I pay attention You have been watching "Advanced Defense Against the Dark Arts" until recently, do you think black magic is evil?"

"There is no good or evil in magic, Miss Windsor, the key lies in the people who use them." Normally, he would not say a word to this red-haired girl, but today the girl gave him a different feeling, and her words and deeds were more in line with her Her identity gave Yigil the desire to talk to her.

"Blake, if someone could give you unimaginable power, would you be willing to pay for it?" Ellie's voice was full of bewitchment, which gave Igil a sense of familiarity.

"I seem to have heard this kind of rhetoric somewhere." Igil thought for a while, "Miss Windsor, has Hogwarts developed a new club recently?" This was the trick my father used when he bewitched others to join the Death Eaters. , starting from a small community and then developing into a huge force.

"No," Ellie's smile froze, "I should go." The girl said as she drank the butterbeer in her glass and put on her thick cloak. The wind blowing in from outside made the wind chime at the door jingle rattle. "Welcome to come again next time, beautiful girl." Mrs. Rosmerta shouted loudly.It's rare to see such a generous girl, I hope she can come by more often.

"..." The corner of the red-haired girl's mouth twitched visibly, and there was a faint red light in her green eyes.

Harry didn't know how he got back to Hogwarts, and when he woke up from his stupor, he was already holding a leather-bound photo album in his hand.It was what Hagrid had given him two years ago, and it was full of pictures of her parents.He sat on the bed and covered the surrounding curtains, flipping through the photo album page by page, until he saw their best man - Sirius in the photo of his parents' wedding day.

He had never associated this smiling handsome man with Sirius Black before. If he hadn't heard the professors' chat in the Three Broomsticks bar today, he would have no idea that the man on the wanted list had such a relationship with the Potter family. A deep bond.It turned out that his parents knew that Voldemort was chasing them 13 years ago, so they used the Fidelity Charm to hide their address.But Voldemort still killed them. Could it be that Sirius, the Secret Keeper, really betrayed his parents?

For some reason, Harry's first thought at this time was not how to get revenge, but what Tom had said to him before coming to school.Harry lay on the bed motionless, the door of the dormitory was opened, and Ron's voice came through the curtain hesitantly: "Harry?"

"Hmm." The blue-eyed boy sat up from the bed and lifted the red curtain.

"Harry, you—you look bad."

"I'm fine." Harry saw Hermione standing at the door. Hogwarts witches were allowed into the boys' dorms, but not vice versa.

"Harry, you really don't look good." Hermione walked into Harry's dormitory and looked anxiously at his face. "Harry, listen," she exchanged glances with Ron.They had discussed it before coming, and they had rehearsed countless times Harry's possible answer, "You must be upset about what we heard today, but the important thing is that you must not do something stupid."

"for example?"

"Like going after Sirius Black," said Ron sharply.

"I will not do stupid things, but I will pursue him, and I will hear the truth from Sirius Black." If Sirius really betrayed his parents, he will not let this man go .

"Harry, if it was me, I would kill him directly," Ellie strode in.She came out of the bar and went straight to the Gryffindor common room, and just heard Harry say outside the dormitory, "Any excuses from traitors are just excuses for their lives. You won't like it." of."

Can’t give Sirius a chance to stand up, he can only go on according to the original book if he continues to escape the plot, if they catch the real secret keeper Peter because of Sirius, the return of the main soul will be in the foreseeable future, and Dumbledore’s death will also be Unsteady, the girl's eyes glowed red.He believes that Ellie herself would say the same, and the girl can only listen to him in order to survive.

"Needless to say, Ellie, I've made up my mind." Harry looked at the smiling man in the photo, his parents were holding a glass next to Sirius, smiling happily.Life is so fragile that it can easily disappear with just a killing curse, but he can only truly avenge his parents if he hears Sirius tell the truth with his own ears.Because someone once told him that what the eyes see is not necessarily the truth.He has experienced this kind of thing once...