[HP] The Power of Love

"Wake up, baby Regina~" A gentle male voice rang out in the room decorated in pink, and the bright sunlight came in through the wide and clean windows, giving the handsome father sitting beside the children's bed and him a peaceful sleep on the bed. Zhengxiangtian's little daughter was covered with a layer of hazy white light.

"Hmm~" Regina frowned dissatisfiedly, pursed her lips, made a vague protest, and dragged the quilt to cover her face.Little Mr. Orange looked at her, smiled lovingly, gently pushed the quilt away, leaned down and kissed her chubby little face, and said seductively: "Get up, mom and dad will bring you a baby today." You go to the zoo!"

zoo?

Regina was powerless against such bait.She reached out and rubbed her eyes, blinked her long eyelashes a few times, and woke up.

"Good morning, baby~" Her father smiled and helped her to sit up, leaning his face to wait expectantly for a morning kiss full of milky fragrance.

"Good morning, Dad." Regina kissed him perfunctorily and got up.

"Good morning, Grindelwald!" With far more enthusiasm than she had for her father just now, she threw herself on the photo frame on the bedside table, and kissed the wizard inside who was embarrassed and desperately trying to avoid it.

Little Mr. Orange's face contorted instantly.

Different from other girls of the same age, there is an entire wall of Regina's room with large and small portraits, and the people living in it are all famous dark wizards in history, almost without exception, they have similar eagles. Hooked nose and sullen countenance.When Regina, who had just woken up, ran over enthusiastically and said good morning to them all with her face up, the black wizards nodded arrogantly, and at the same time breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts, feeling that this over-enthusiastic little girl Father - as he was standing there now in a daze - had made a wise decision to insist on hanging them high on the wall out of Regina's reach.They looked sympathetically at Grindelwald, who was wiping the drool on his face vigorously and hiding behind the photo in embarrassment.

Little Mr. Orange, who was completely ignored, looked at his precious daughter with an extremely unbalanced mind, trying to show off her cuteness to the portraits.

—One day!I'm going to throw all these damn dark wizards out!

The jealous dad shook his fist in his heart angrily and swore - although it wasn't the first time.

Unfortunately, as long as Regina is in this house, it seems that this wish will never be realized.

There are always such non-mainstream children in the world.

In contrast, Regina Orange, who only worships a powerful dark wizard, is actually not so shocking.

At dinner, when old Mrs. Orange heard her grandson complaining about Regina's strange hobbies for the hundred and first time, she defended her.

"It's not her fault. It's in the nature of wizards and witches to seek power. What makes the most powerful wizards happen to be good at the Dark Arts?"

These irresponsible remarks made Mr. Orange speechless. After a long time, he said madly with a green face: "But Regina is my daughter! Mine!!" The beautiful daughter who worked so hard to raise is closer to those ugly and gloomy portraits than to him? ! !What is "just worshiping the most powerful wizard"?nonsense!Otherwise why didn't she fall in love with Dumbledore?He beat her "favorite" Grindelwald's No. 1 in the contemporary magic world! (Of course, just because Mr. Orange Jr. thinks so, doesn't mean he's happy to see another addition to his list of "rivals.")

"Oh, come on, Lei Zhe," old Mrs. Orange patted Mr. Orange on the shoulder warningly, "this is not Slytherin at all."

"I'm a Ravenclaw through and through!" Little Mr. Orange retorted proudly with some dissatisfaction.

"Oh, yes, yes. I almost forgot. Your brain is really good, Lei Zhe." Although you will be silly once you enter the father mode.

Old Mrs. Orange said casually, a look of disapproval on a face that looked only thirty years away because of the potions and maintenance.As the daughter of the Gaunt family - although she was expelled from the family for refusing to marry her brother, but eloped with a Muggle - old Mrs. Orange had the blood of the great Slytherin in her body after all.Isn't it normal that her great-granddaughter would be fascinated by black magic and powerful forces?

oh!Grindelwald is such a lovely blond boy!Hadn't she herself been secretly infatuated with old Mr. Orange for a time before she fell in love with him?Even now, when she occasionally passes by Regina's room, she can't help but take a second look at her nightstand!

Regina felt that her father didn't understand her at all.

In front of the powerful black magic, the feeling of being dangerous and exciting, tense and excited, trembling with fright but unable to bear being strongly attracted is so wonderful!

However, when Mr. Orange talked about her "little hobby", he always frowned in disgust, and always tried to "get her back on track".

"In terms of acceptance, Dad is not even as good as Muggles!" Regina pouted.

Old Mr. Orange patted her head with a smile after hearing this, picked up his favorite great-granddaughter and put it on his lap.

"This is the generation gap." The Muggle, who was over 120 years old but looked younger than his grandson because he had used the beauty potion, said solemnly.

Old Mr. Orange remembered with some nostalgia that nearly a century ago, he accidentally discovered the magic talent accidentally revealed by the old Mrs. Orange in the town market, and because of curiosity and interest, he pretended to be ignorant of it. The process of getting close to this girl who was so pure because she was closely supervised by her father and brother, and then gradually fell in love with her, and then tried her best to trick her—ahem, "pursuit"—to her.

Although the old Mr. Orange's courtship process was dangerous and difficult-he even suffered serious life threats from members of the girl's family-he finally succeeded in persuading her to run away with him.Their life afterwards was peaceful and sweet. For the past 100 years, the couple has been newly married every day. Even if there were occasional quarrels, they quickly reconciled after a few hours.

If it weren't for his strong curiosity and love for the unknown and potential dangers, he wouldn't have such a happy marriage.And the excitement and excitement mentioned by the great-granddaughter when talking about black magic, isn't it exactly the same as when he first faced his wife's magic?It can be seen that this is all inherited from his good genes!

This pair of grandparents and grandchildren who "have no generation gap" have a good relationship because of their "common" hobbies.Mr. Orange Sr. was her "favorite family member" until Regina was six years old.

It's a pity that even with the beauty potion that old Mrs. Orange took the risk of stealing from her home (this was probably the only one left in the world at that time), old Mr. Orange still had it just a few days after his 127th birthday. He passed away without warning in his sleep.Even if there are potions that prolong his life for decades, he is just a short-lived Muggle after all.Old Mrs. Orange, too sad to last till the end of her husband's funeral, followed her.

After burying the two relatives, Mr. and Mrs. Orange continued to live in the ancestral house of Orange Manor, while their son, Mr. Orange Jr., moved to London far away with his wife and daughter Regina—— Living in an old house filled with traces and memories of loved ones is all too easy to be emotional.Regina is only 6 years old, and being too sad is not good for her development.

Fortunately, she is only 6 years old and has not yet fully understood the meaning of death. She just loses her temper and cries loudly because she has not seen her dear great-grandparents.

Fortunately, after moving for a while, Regina gradually regained her original vivacity - thanks to their new neighbors, the Evans family - they are a warm and kind couple, and two beautiful and friendly little girl.After Regina became good friends with them, she quickly discovered that the youngest of them, Lily Evans, was also a little witch like her.

As she was used to living with wizards and Muggles since she was born, Regina did not treat Petunia and Lily any differently, just because Lily was a few months younger than her, she took extra care of her.

Although Penny was a little jealous of her sister and Regina's "special abilities", she held the talking and singing magic doll that Regina gave her, and used Lily's pocket money that she had accumulated for many years to mail order for her. With her magic comb, she conveniently wears different hairstyles and stole the limelight at the school dance, so she doesn't feel particularly dissatisfied in her heart.

It wasn't until a few years later, when Petunia and Lily were playing in the garden of the community and met Severus Snape for the first time, that she developed a certain degree of aversion to magic for the first time—the guy who lived in the slum The dirty kid, he was the one sneaking around and peeking at her and Lily, but he refused to admit it!

"I didn't peek!" he denied.He looked hot and uncomfortable in the sun, with dirty hair, "I'll never peek at you again!" he said to Petunia viciously, "You're a Muggle!"

Although Regina also mentioned that the wizarding world calls people who don't have magic "Muggles".But the words "Wizard" and "Muggle" are as plain as "British" and "French" from Regina's mouth, but the tone of the wild boy Snape when he mentioned "Muggle" , It's almost like calling something dirty!

--oh!She really hated this Snape!

Penny wished Regina was there at that time—if Regina hadn't happened to travel abroad with her parents at that time, and didn't play with the Evans sisters as usual, she would have helped her teach this long-eyed man a lesson. On top of the brat's!

To Petunia's disappointment, however, when Regina finally met "that Snape", she seemed to take an immediate interest in him.

—that bulky and queer dress, that sallow, bloodless face, that greasy, long, ragged black hair, that crooked, aquiline nose, and even that undisguised face from Muggles. She had an arrogant and contemptuous look—"You can tell that she's not a child of a good family!" She whispered in Petunia's ear.

Petunia agreed with Regina's words very much... But what happened to the unconcealable excitement in her tone and the sparkling eyes? !

Especially when Severus showed one or two proficient magic skills intentionally or unintentionally, and revealed his deep understanding of potion knowledge in the conversation, Regina seemed to be fascinated by him-although She also pestered her parents to teach her most of the contents of the Hogwarts senior textbook in advance, but she never practiced almost every spell to a proficiency like Severus.He even plans to invent his own magic!This is something she never thought about.

Regina felt more and more that this little boy who had made her friend extremely unhappy had the potential to grow into a powerful dark wizard, so when Petunia spoke ill of Severus again, she turned against him. Come and enlighten her.

"Honey," she said to her friend with experience, "you know, those powerful dark wizards always have such and such eccentricities." This is what she feels most!Just like her beloved Grindelwald, he has obvious autism-he always hides behind the portrait, so she hasn't been able to kiss his face for a long time. "People have to accommodate them for their rare gifts - which is hard sometimes."

"It's not just difficult—it's impossible!" Petunia rubbed her shoulder angrily.Just a few minutes earlier, Severus had purposely broken a branch on top of her.

But Regina thinks Penny's got a bit of herself this time - who made her laugh at Severus' weird smock as his mother's maternity dress?But Regina didn't want to destroy the relationship between Penny and her, so she swallowed her opinion silently.

Regardless of Petunia's reluctance, with Regina's extra attention, Severus, who had never had a playmate of the same age from the wizarding world, quickly became Regina and Lily's new friend, and received an invitation Invitation to their home.

The Evans couple are honest, kind, and good people. Although they were a little wary when Severus first came to see Lily—after all, his appearance could not reassure parents—but after getting to know him After a little, it became warm to him.However, while sympathizing with Severus, the Evans couple still did not forget to always warn their young daughter not to go to "places they shouldn't go", after all, Spider's End Alley really doesn't have a good reputation as a slum.

In contrast, Severus clearly preferred Regina's pure-blood parents - the little Oranges were quite calm when confronted with him.There was no inquiry, no pity in their eyes, as if there was nothing surprising about his poor appearance.

Little Lady Orange even smiled delightedly at him when he first came to see Regina, and warmly invited him in to sit on their clean soft sofa, gently waving her wand .The transparent tea table in front of him was immediately covered with a lot of snacks and drinks.

Severus was almost flattered.He would never know that after he left with a dressed Regina in his arms and a bag of warm butter cookies that Mrs. Orange had forced upon him, little Mrs. Orange burst into tears of joy in her husband's arms.

"Our baby has finally recovered from the loss of his great-grandfather!" The cheerful and decent daughters of the Evans family should not be Regina's favorite at all!Regina was so out of sorts that she was willing to be friends with them who had no trace of a dark wizard at all!

Little Mr. Orange embraced his wife with emotion.He still didn't like Dark wizards though, and even less of those brats (whoever he was, whatever their relationship was) who could get his precious daughter's attention even more than he did.But that pales in comparison to Regina's mental health.

Oh, what a beautiful misunderstanding.If the old Mr. Orange, who knew Regina best in the family, was still alive, he would definitely scoff at the idea of ​​his grandson and granddaughter-in-law.Originally, for a little girl with a normal sexual orientation, it is impossible for her to be attracted to same-sex friends in the same way as to be attracted to her by opposite-sex friends!

Regina is naturally ignorant of all this.After they met Lily at the door of Evans' house, they said enthusiastically, "Severus, shall we go to your house to play?" She never let go of her curiosity about the "Dark Wizard Family". But I didn't know this new friend very well before, so I didn't have the nerve to speak.

Lily opened her eyes wide in surprise.She really wanted to tell Regina that her parents said it was not safe for Severus to live, but it was hard for her to speak up in front of Severus.

"I..." Severus subconsciously refused.He was really ashamed to take his only two friends to that dark, cold, shabby place that couldn't be called "home" at all - especially since they were both beautiful girls - you know, he was It is at the time when I gradually develop a vague affection and curiosity towards the opposite sex, and when I value face most in front of them.

Regina didn't understand Severus' unspeakable secrets - she was just a little girl who was only four or five months older than Severus and Lily.On the contrary, Regina believed in her heart that Severus' refusal was just a way for dark wizards to keep their secrets.After giving Severus a knowing look (and bewildering him), Regina whispered, "We'll keep your secret! Right, Lily?" She turned her head and stared Foggy Lily.

Lily nodded blankly, although she had no idea what Regina was talking about.

Severus was surprised.He didn't know that the secret Regina was talking about was his "dark wizard family", and he thought she knew about his parents' disagreement.

"Okay then." He said hesitantly.So they walked together to Spider's End.

"Where are you going?" A shrill voice sounded behind them as they walked halfway, getting closer and closer to the narrow, dirty street.

"Petunia!" Lily shouted in surprise, with a hint of welcome in her voice.But Severus turned sharply.

"Who's peeping at whom now?" he cried. "What do you mean by stalking after us?"

"Severus!" Regina called out to him in disapproval.Petunia was already blushing.

"I'm not following you!" Petunia screamed.Then she turned to Lily and said loudly, "Did you forget what mother said? How did you come to such a low-class place?"

This sentence made Severus' pale face flush with anger, but his inferiority complex quickly turned paler again.

"But Regina is there!" Lily argued.But her sister had already grabbed her hand and dragged her back hard.

"Regana, you go back with us too!" Penny also did not forget to shout to Regina, "Only those who don't know what to do," she said, and she glanced at Sif with disdain. Les glanced, "That's the only way to go to that kind of place!"

Before Regina could speak, she saw a small stone bouncing up from the ground, hitting Petunia on the forehead with a "slap".Petunia staggered back a few steps, tears streaming out uncontrollably.A big shiny bump soon bulged on her forehead.

"Penny!" Lily screamed, but Petunia had already turned and ran away crying.Lily asked Severus: "Did you do it?"

"No." He looked arrogant and panicked.

"You did it!" She stepped back. "It was you! You hurt her!"

"NO, I have not!"

But the lie did not convince Lily.After giving Severus a hard look, she ran out of the alley to chase her sister, and Severus looked at her back in confusion and pain.Both Petunia's comments about where he lived and the fact that Lily was mad at him chilled him.He felt terribly sad until a warm, soft hand grabbed his.

"Severus," Regina reassured him softly, "don't pay attention to Petunia. She's just...well, you can't expect a Muggle to understand wizards. You see, I think this place is cool Extremely."

Severus pursed his lips and turned to look at her, his eyes full of suspicion and vulnerability that worried about being hurt again.

"It's true!" Regina swore, raising her hand.

"It's fine if they don't go, let's play, Severus? You promised to take me to your house."

Severus saw the anticipation and sincerity on Regina's face.

"It's no fun," he muttered.But his face was a little more bloody than before.With a bit of anger, he held Regina's hand tightly and strode towards home.

They walked together to the door of No. 19 on Spider's End, and Severus looked into Regina's curious eyes again before taking out the key to open the door.

Regina followed him into a small living room, looking around wide-eyed as if she had stepped into a hospital room.The dirty walls were empty, covered with various scratches and filth of suspicious colors, and thick cobwebs formed in the corners.The only window, too, was very narrow and dusty, and the sun hardly penetrated, making the tacky sofa, a modest armchair, and a rickety chair all look like little ones in the gloom. It is a monster hiding in the shadows just around the corner.

The damp, dusty, and rotten-sweet smell in the room made Regina cough, and quickly suppressed it, admiring in a low voice.

"Ah! So evil!"

This room is exactly the same as her imagination of a typical evil dark wizard's house after long-term exchanges with the portraits of idols.

Severus' mouth twitched.With some inexplicable emotions, he re-examined the dirty and simple house he had lived in for many years, and the inferiority complex hidden in his heart disappeared unknowingly——could it really look so ugly? evil?

However, not long after he had relaxed, there was a sudden heavy knock on the door, and then the door was kicked open and slammed against the wall.A drunken Tobia staggered in.The original color of his clothes could no longer be seen. As soon as he entered the door and saw Severus, he stared and cursed: "Freak!" Tobias's gloomy face was full of disgust, as if he was hiding some garbage She seemed to avoid him far away, and staggered up the stairs.

Severus immediately turned even paler.He didn't expect that his father, who was always away at home, would come back at this time.This is the first time he brought friends to play at home.His fragile self-esteem was already crumbling when Petunia humiliated him just now, and now he let his only remaining friend meet this father who made him even more ashamed.

The only thing to be thankful for now is that when Tobia came in just now, he didn't find Regina standing in the shadows and didn't embarrass her face to face.Even so, Severus was almost afraid to look at her at all - he was afraid of seeing something in her eyes that would embarrass him - be it contempt or sympathy.

——Maybe it was a mistake to bring Regina and Lily home today.

Severus thought desperately.

"Wow——" Regina was shocked by Tobia's "momentum", and it took a long time to recover. "Your father - he must be a very evil Dark wizard!" she whispered in awe.Although she didn't feel any magical fluctuations on Tobia, Regina knew that some particularly powerful dark wizards could hide their aura.In her understanding, dark wizards are almost always like Tobias—dark, vicious, and unkempt.

"..."

Severus didn't expect Regina to think of this, and the corner of his mouth twitched, "My dad, he's a Muggle!"

"...really?" Regina said in disbelief. "My great-grandfather was a Muggle, and so were many of my friends. But your father... he doesn't look like one!" There was old Mr. Orange, Petunia, and her former Muggle neighbours, all in their clean clothes and polite "normal" appearance.

Severus coughed lightly.He didn't want to discuss the subject at all.Regina didn't seem to look down on him for it, which made him feel better.

"Let's go out—my dad is at home, and it's inconvenient to do anything."

So they left the gloomy Snape house together and went back to the sunny street.

Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, Regina turned 11 and received an admission letter from Hogwarts.

"You'd better go to Slytherin," Severus nodded emphatically, "that's the best house. Right, Regina."

The three of them sat in a circle on the grass under a row of trees by the river, with no one around, and Regina took her new wand out of her pocket every few minutes and fiddled with it.Both Severus and Lily looked at her with envy and longing.It had been more than a year since they'd had trouble going to Severus' house together last time.The little ones are always easy and nice.

"I'm not sure," Regina mused. "My father is Ravenclaw, and he said that house has the biggest library in the school."

"Wow! Library!" Lily said yearningly.

"But I think I will probably go to Slytherin," Regina raised her chin, pretending not to care, "After all, I have Slytherin blood. Have I mentioned it to you?" She said proudly Watching her friends widen their eyes.

"Salazar Slytherin?" Severus asked. "You mean one of the founders of Hogwarts?"

"Hmm~"

"Then you must have learned magic well!" Lily gasped enviously.Because of Regina's generous loan, she has finished reading "Hogwarts - A School History".

"...Of course." Regina blushed a little, and secretly decided to go back tonight and preview all the textbooks for the entire school year of the first grade, "When you come to Hogwarts to study next year, I will tutor you. Yours." She patted her chest and promised.

"Is it true? I mean..." whispered Lily, "will my letter be delivered by an owl like yours?"

"Usually," interjected Severus, "but you were born into a Muggle family, so someone at school will go and explain it to your parents."

"Is there a big difference between being born into a Muggle family?"

Severus hesitated, dark eyes darkening in the depths of his eyes.But Regina replied without hesitation: "No, there is no difference."

"That's good." Lily breathed a sigh of relief, it was obvious that she had been worried.

"You know a lot of magic." Severus pursed his lips and changed the subject, "I see. You'll have a great time at Hogwarts."

Lily stretched herself and lay back on the grass covered with fallen leaves.She turned her head to see Regina kicking back and forth in procession with her new wand, directing a string of pebbles.Lily let out a small exclamation, watching them fascinated.

"Won't the Ministry of Magic punish you for this?" Lily asked. "Severus said you can't use magic outside of school..."

"It's okay with us, we haven't entered school yet!" Regina said, "Children can't help it, so they don't pursue it."

"But once you officially become a student at Hogwarts," Severus nodded emphatically, "they start teaching you magic, then you have to be careful."

Lily was silent for a moment, staring longingly at the wand in Regina's hand.

The afternoon sun is very pleasant, falling on the grass through the wide shade of the trees.Footsteps and laughter came from the far end of the gravel road.Regina quickly stuffed her wand into her pocket, and the group of pebbles immediately lay motionless on the grass as if they had lost their lives.

But the Muggle family didn't approach them, but stopped 50 meters away from them, spread a large plastic sheet on the ground, took out food, and started a picnic, talking and laughing.

At such a close distance, magic can no longer be used, otherwise there will be danger of being discovered.All three children sighed in disappointment.Regina picked up those small stones boredly, and threw them into the small river ahead one by one.

A silence simmered between them for a short while, until Lily broke it.

"How's your family going?" she asked, looking at Severus.

There seemed to be a crack in Severus' eye.

"Very good," he said.

"Did they stop fighting?"

"Oh yes, they've been arguing," Severus said.He grabbed a handful of leaves and tore them to pieces, obviously not realizing what he was doing. "But the quarrel won't last long, I will leave home." He looked at Regina enviously.She was only born more than four months earlier than him, and just because her birthday was before August 8, she could go to Hogwarts school a full year earlier than him.How lucky she was.

"Your dad doesn't like magic?" Lily continued.

"He doesn't like anything...to that much," Severus said.He remembered that Regina once misunderstood his Muggle father as a dark wizard, and his gloomy mood improved a little, and a smile could not help but appear on the corner of his mouth.He looked up at Regina, and Regina was also looking at him, probably remembering this, and sticking out her tongue embarrassingly.

"My great-grandfather was also..." Regina looked at the family having a picnic not far away, and said in a low voice, "... Muggles. But he likes magic." In fact, after meeting Tobias Before Snape, Regina never thought that anyone would hate and fear magic to that extent.

"Everyone's different," Lily concluded like a little grown-up, "whether he's a wizard or a Muggle." Her parents were Muggles too, but loved her just the same.She couldn't imagine how anyone could hate their own children as much as Severus' father.

Severus lowered his eyes sullenly.Although he doesn't like his father, he doesn't like others to comment on him.

"Hi!" Regina changed the subject, "Let's talk about something happy!"

"What?" Lily asked.

"I'll tell you about the dementors again!"

"Okay!"

Severus raised an eyebrow and said nothing.Having been friends with Regina for so long, he can barely touch her temper now.As far as dementors were concerned, it certainly looked like something Regina would do.Unbeknownst to Severus himself, he was much more relaxed than before.

"If you use magic outside of school, they'll catch you!"

"Ah!" A terrified low cry.

Severus rubbed his twitching forehead.

"And then they'll kiss you!" Regina said deliberately, moving closer to Lily.

"Ah!!" Lily covered her mouth nervously, her expression changed.It was as if there was a dementor standing beside her at this very moment, planning to kiss her.

"They're not going to throw you to the dementors because of that!" Severus finally couldn't help it. "Dementors are for punishing those who really do bad things. They guard the wizarding world of Az Caban Prison."

Both Regina and Lily turned their heads to stare at him intently.Severus blushed rapidly after a few seconds.

"You're so boring," Regina said disappointedly.

"..."

"..."

"Ah, Regina!" Lily suddenly realized and said angrily, "So you lied to me!"

"..."

"..."

The author has something to say: Old Mr. Orange (Muggle) * Old Mrs. Orange-[Brother and Sister]-Old Gaunt {contemporary with Dumbledore (1840)}

Mrs. Orange*Mr. Orange-[cousins]-Mother Voldemort

Little Mrs. Orange * Little Mr. Orange - [cousins] - Voldemort (1926)

Professor (1960) * Regina (1959) - [cousin and nephew] - Voldemort

Click here to see the wizard genealogy of the Black family drawn by Rowling, and you will find that in those days, "blood betrayers" who were expelled from the family were really common... ╮(╯▽╰)╭