[hp] Rescue Mr Diggory

Sirius' bedroom looked very spacious, with a large bed with carved patterns on the headboard, long velvet draperies covering the high windows, thick dust on the chandeliers, candle stubs still in the sockets, frozen. The candles were dripping like ice crystals, but it looked like the chandelier had been completely abandoned, for there was a fairly new portable kerosene lamp on the bedside table.

When he was a teenager, Sirius seemed to be trying to annoy his parents. There were several large Gryffindor flags in the room. The gold and red flags had long faded, as if he was playing with his family to emphasize his relationship with the rest of the Slytherin family. out of place.There are also many pictures of Muggle motorcycles, and even a few posters of Muggle girls in bikinis, recognizable as Muggle girls because of their motionless, faded smiles and frozen faces on the paper. His gaze was in stark contrast to the only wizard photo on the wall, which was four Hogwarts students standing together arm in arm, laughing at the camera.

There was also a thin layer of dust covering the pictures on the walls and the headboard of the bed, a cobweb was pulled from the chandelier to the top of the large wooden wardrobe, and rats could be heard scurrying as they walked toward the middle of the room.

Camelia stood in the middle of the room, looking at the dust in front of her eyes, she couldn't help but said, "Don't you even clean it up? How do you live in this state?"

"Believe me, the cell in Azkaban is a hundred times worse than this. It's not that I haven't cleaned it, at least the bed is clean, you can sit here." Sirius has already sat down beside his bed Yes, and patted the seat next to her to indicate that Camelia could sit down.

"If you live like this, you will get sick sooner or later." Camelia took out her wand and wanted to use the cleaning spell on the small places first.

But Sirius stood up and grabbed her wrist at this moment, and pulled her back with a little force, so that the two of them fell into the velvet bed at the same time.

"What are you going to do?" Camelia turned her head angrily to look at Sirius who was smiling at her.

"Don't rush to clean up. Let's take a rest first. You must be very tired recently."

Hearing this, Camelia bounced up, crossed her hands to protect her chest, and retracted her body involuntarily, trying to distance herself from Sirius, looked at him vigilantly and said, "I warn you not to Come on, I'm your junior, and I'm not some random girl."

Sirius flicked Camelia's head unceremoniously, "Now the little girl is thinking about something messed up. Do I look like that kind of person?"

Camelia covered her reddened forehead, pointed to the posters of girls in bikinis on the wall, then roughly gestured to the distance between the two of them and said, "It's really hard for people to believe you like this." ah."

"Those posters were put up when I was young. Everyone has a young age." Sirius laughed a little angrily, "You really wronged me, what can I think about you? You and Harry About the same age, I treat you as my own children."

Camelia said: "But you are only Harry's godfather, and have nothing to do with me."

"You really don't believe me? We've been through life and death together." There was disappointment in his tone.

"Well, I believe you." Camelia said, but she frowned not long after she finished speaking, covering her heart with a slightly painful expression.

Sirius asked hurriedly, "What's the matter?"

"It's nothing, it's just an old problem." She murmured, "I seem to have forgotten to bring medicine today. I wish my father was here, and I can ask him to rub it for me."

Sirius looked away slightly and said, "Can you tell me how to do it?"

Camelia didn't seem to hear what he said, so she asked again in confusion, "What did you say?"

Sirius cleared his throat, and said quite seriously: "I mean, if you are really suffering, I can help you."

Although he didn't get Camelia's consent, his hand was already halfway out.

Seeing this, Camelia immediately knocked off his hand that was about to move vigorously with a blank face, and then said a little angrily: "I know you have no good intentions. Think about it, any decent father will really move To touch your own daughter's chest? And it's such a big daughter. When I say this, you should scold me or my father."

Sirius withdrew his hand back, "Did you set a trap like this? It's too nonsense, I thought you were really uncomfortable just now."

Camelia said: "But I didn't see how worried you were just now. Anyway, my father never stared at me with that kind of eyes."

Sirius asked back, "What kind of look?"

Camelia said more and more angrily: "It's the straight look in the eyes of ordinary men when they see women."

"Okay, I'm really afraid of you. I admit it, I'm a jerk, and I really wanted to take advantage of you for a while just now. It's my fault, and I apologize to you." Sirius put his hands together He raised his head in a gesture of surrender, "But seriously, if I were younger, or if you were a few years older, maybe I might really pursue you. A girl like you is indeed very impressive. Heartbeat. It's a pity that you are too young for me."

Camelia said: "What? Don't you like to find someone who is much younger than you?"

"That's not true, I've had quite a few girlfriends too. But you're about Harry's age, and that's a big deal. That boy Harry - oops, I'll leave it at that, let him talk about it himself." No matter how bastard I am, Sirius Black, I can't compete with James' son, he's still my godson!"

Sirius chuckled as he spoke, which made him look much younger, and then he talked to Camelia about his youth.

"You should be able to imagine that when I was young, there were always many girls around me, and I couldn't be driven away. Of course, there were many girls around James, but Lily was always the only one in his eyes... As for As for me, I’m not that picky, if I see something pleasing to the eye, I’ll talk to it, and after a while I’ll feel bored and tired, so I’ll just change it.”

"You are so irresponsible in dating, no wonder you are still alone now." Camelia gave him a blank look, feeling sympathy for his former girlfriends in her heart, but in fact this kind of sympathy may be superfluous, saying Maybe these people are all eagerly waiting to get such a momentary favor from him.

"You forgot that I stayed in Azkaban all these years. But before the James family had an accident, I had been working for the Order of the Phoenix. I was too busy in those few years, so naturally I couldn't take care of it. about it," said Sirius, "I remember once taking a girl of Muggle blood to my house for dinner and telling my mother I was going to marry her, which made them mad. I didn't really like the girl very much, Even I can’t remember what she looks like for a long time, I just remember that her name is not cute, like a boy. That day she cried a lot because of my words and stained a good dress of mine, I was not angry but instead I'm so happy, that's the first time I've been happy about having a girlfriend."

"What happened next?" Camille asked.

Her question seemed to take Sirius a little by surprise, "We broke up as soon as we returned to school after the holidays. I really can't stand her always pestering me, there is no freedom at all, and she probably believes that I will It's a lie to marry her."

Camelia no longer wanted to make any comments on these irresponsible behaviors of Sirius, nor did she want to hear about his extremely rich relationship history. For a while, she even thought of the current "Playboy" Davis, but if he Sirius is also insignificant.

So she tried to steer the subject elsewhere, "So you were kicked out of your house because you wanted to marry a girl of Muggle descent?"

"No, they didn't chase me away. I wanted to go." He suppressed his smile and his eyes became serious.

"Escape from home?" Camelia couldn't believe it.

"I was about 16 years old, about the same age as you are now," said Sirius. "I really had enough."

"And where did you go?" Camelia asked, staring at him.

"James' house," said Sirius. "The old Potters were very friendly. They almost treated me like a second son. During the school holidays, I lived temporarily at James's house. When I was 17 years old, I found myself. My uncle Alphard left me a good amount of gold, and my mother probably got rid of the tapestry because of that. Anyway, I've taken care of myself since then, but Bo Mr and Mrs T always welcome me to their home for dinner every Saturday."

Camelia asked curiously: "What tapestry? Is it the one Kreacher has been talking about?"

"Yes. My mother regards the tapestry embroidered with Black's family tree as a treasure. You are also from a pure-blood family. I think your Shafiq family should have something similar."

"Yes, but our family tree is recorded on a special large sheepskin scroll. Only our Shafik left in England now, most of the others have flowed to other parts of Europe. Some of them went to the United States.” Camelia said while thinking, “My grandpa told me that if a wizard family wants to truly keep its bloodline pure, it cannot live in the same place all the time. Because the number of wizards in the country must be It is limited, and in order to ensure bloodlines, pure-blood wizards are only willing to find wizards of the same bloodlines to marry, but if they continue to reproduce like this, they can only last for a few generations at most, and the more problems will arise in the future, because there will be too many people in the future. Many wizard families are related by blood."

Sirius snorted coldly, "To be honest, my parents are cousins ​​who are related by blood. So, see, in order to maintain the purity of blood, they are so crazy that they can do anything."

"Yeah, I think it's probably because of this that most of my relatives have left the UK and emigrated abroad, in order to find pure-blood wizard families in other countries to breed healthy offspring."

Sirius said coldly: "So you, Shafik, are also staunch pure-blood supporters?"

Camelia said: "I don't know those Shafiks who are outside, but my father and I are not supporters of the pure-blood view. Muggles are back, but he doesn't hate Muggles, and even likes some Muggle inventions, thinking that these things are much more convenient than magic. In short, our family is not that kind of fanatical supporter."

"That's good." Sirius nodded, lay back on the bed, looked at the cobweb-covered ceiling, and murmured, "I often think that I was not born into such a crazy and paranoid family, but lived in What would my life be like in a family as enlightened as you and James."

Camelia also imitated him, lying on her back and looking at the ceiling, and asked again: "You just said that your uncle was dismissed because of you, so what about you?"

"Naturally. My dear old mother destroyed me after I ran away from home—Kreacher loved to whisper the story."

"But I still don't understand why?" said Camelia.

"Run away from home?" Sirius smiled wryly, and smoothed his long, unkempt hair with his hands, "Because I hate all of them. My parents, don't you understand? They are crazy about pure blood, They believed that members of the Black family were naturally noble, and my idiot brother was too weak, so they believed their words."

Camelia listened quietly to Sirius' narration without saying a word: "He is younger than me. But people keep reminding me that his son is much stronger than me."

"But I never heard anyone mention that you have a younger brother."

"He's dead," said Sirius. "Stupid idiot . . . he joined the ranks of the Death Eaters."

Camelia said incredulously, "Is he a Death Eater?"

"Camelia, listen to me, after seeing this house, don't you understand what kind of wizards my family are?" Sirius said impatiently.

Camelia swallowed, "So your——are your parents Death Eaters?"

"No, it's not, but trust me, they think Voldemort is right. They're all in favor of maintaining the purity of wizarding blood, getting rid of Muggle-borns, and letting pure-bloods take power. Before Voldemort showed his true face , a lot of people thought he was right about some things...but when they found out that he was going to do anything to gain power, they were all timid and backed away. I think my parents must have thought my brother was right from the start Joined and thought he was a brave little hero."

"Was he killed by an Auror?" Camelia asked uncertainly.

"Oh, no," said Sirius, "no, he was killed by Voldemort. Or, more likely, he was killed at Voldemort's orders. I don't think he's that important yet, and Voldemort needs to kill him himself. From what I've read since he died, he was pretty deep, and then he was terrified of what he was being asked to do and wanted to quit. Well, you can't just ask Voldemort that you quit and be done with it. Once you become a Death Eater, you either work for him for the rest of your life, or you die."

It was surprising enough to hear that Sirius had a younger brother, let alone that he had been a Death Eater.

Camelia felt more and more surprised, and couldn't help being more curious about Sirius' younger brother, "Can you tell me, what's his name?"

"Regulus Black, usually we call him Rael. He's just an idiot, nothing to rave about."

Although Sirius' tone was a little impatient, he seemed to have a deeper affection for his younger brother than he did for his parents, and he could even tell that he was still very sad about his younger brother's death, and hated him for being useless.

Because she is also an older sister at home, this reminds Camelia of her younger brother.

"I also have a younger brother named Anders, he is very good. But I don't like him so much, he is too good, just like seeing myself when I was a child, I always hope that he can be more self-willed and act more like a child."

Sirius said sharply: "Are you afraid that if he is too sensible, he will take away your father's love?"

"No, you misunderstood. Although Anders is my stepmother's son, the relationship between me and him is not as bad as outsiders imagine. My father likes me more. He is willing to do anything for me, but But he doesn't want to spare a little time to play chess with Anders, let alone be proud of the talent he has shown in it."

"If you want me to say you should be happy. You shouldn't pity the child born to that vicious woman. Think about how much harm she has brought to you and your mother. Your father is simply a fool, played by a woman Go round and round." Sirius muttered.

"But Anders is innocent, he's just a little guy, he didn't do anything wrong, he didn't hurt anyone." Camelia said softly, "His mother is crazy, in St. Mungo's, probably I can't accept the fact that I have done so much, but my father still doesn't love her. It will be reported soon that she is crazy."

In the past few days, Camelia has been tired of thinking about these things. She has always felt that her parents' divorce was caused by herself, so she has been brooding about it for more than ten years and cannot forgive herself.But I never expected that there was another hidden story behind this.

Even now, even Camelia's stepmother cannot deny the fact that if she hadn't insisted on marrying Mr. Shafik back then, Camelia's life would have been completely different.

At least she will have a healthier body than she is now, and she will not spend her childhood alone amid doubts, because no one will think she is a squib. Under the love of her family, she will gradually grow into a confident and generous girl, maybe As soon as she entered Hogwarts, she would be very popular. She didn't have to envy anyone, because only others envied her. With such a family background, smart and beautiful, she had almost everything a girl wanted.

That was the life she was supposed to have, but the jealousy and paranoia of her stepmother messed it all up.She drugged Camelia's mother, causing her to give birth prematurely. She thought she could kill two people, but she didn't expect to underestimate the power of maternal love.

Camelia's mother gave birth to the child desperately, and the god of death was reasonable, and did not take their mother and daughter away, but Camelia's heart also suffered from the root cause of the disease. No matter how hard you try the day after tomorrow, you can't make up for the congenital deficiency. After undergoing so many major operations as a child, Camelia always feels flustered when she is too emotional or after strenuous exercise. It is time to undergo a major operation, otherwise she will not live long.

As for her belated wizard talent, it was because her stepmother fed her a potion that suppressed the magical power in the wizard when she was young, and the potion was originally used to control and heal the silent. , but they lived in an era where the wizarding world was separated from the Muggle world, little wizards were no longer forced to hide their true power, and the Obscure had long since ceased to exist.

If it wasn't for the accident when she was nine years old, which caused Camelia to burst out the magic power that had been suppressed for a long time, maybe she would live as a squib for the rest of her life.

It turned out that Rita Skeeter of the "Daily Prophet" was always able to get first-hand information because her stepmother deliberately leaked the news to her, and going around their family affairs once again became the guarantee of daily sales.

Being deceived for so many years, Camelia thought she would feel angry and unwilling, but when the truth was in front of her, she hoped that this was a ridiculous dream she had, because it made her feel that her life was more like It's a joke.

At the same time, her mother's attitude also made Camelia feel disheartened. In her memory, her mother was always hot and cold. Sometimes she seemed to love herself very much, but sometimes she didn't seem to love her that much, or her mother gave her a lot of love. love is always short.

After crying in my mother's arms that day, I held her hand happily and walked all the way, and refused to let go until I got home.When she was with her mother, she felt as if she was a child again. She almost forgot about the mess at school and the grief of having to break up with Cedric. At that moment, she just wanted to be a carefree A carefree child, although at that time she had realized that something serious might have happened at home, but she just wanted to stay in her mother's arms for a little longer.

But when she woke up the next morning, she found that her mother left without saying goodbye again, and left overnight after she fell asleep, leaving a message saying that there was still a lot of work to be done over there.It seems that the fight for custody seems to be because she can't swallow the breath of the year, or she wants to prove to the outside world that she is not the hard-hearted French woman in the report.

Camelia kept using various reasons to persuade herself not to think so, but her mother came back in such a hurry and left in such a hurry, like a gust of wind that could not be caught, blowing away all the reasons that had been woven for her over the years Get it clean.

"That's what she deserved." Sirius snorted coldly, "And the biggest mistake your brother made was insisting on coming to this world and being your father's child."

"But no one can choose their own birth." Camelia smiled wryly, "Everyone was never asked if they would like to come to this world before they were born, but I think most of them don't want to, otherwise Why is it that the first thing everyone does when they come into this world naked is to cry, maybe then realize that there is a lot of suffering waiting in this world."

Sirius said: "But this world is far more than suffering. There are many things that make people feel worth living. When I think of those friends, I feel that it is very worthwhile to come to this world. You are the same, there is always something It’s what you feel is worth living for.”

Camelia didn't speak. For a while, she thought about a lot of things, but she thought about her family and Cedric the most, but she was not sure, because when the depression was severe, she would even choose them when she was sick. Forgotten, thinking that there is nothing in the world worthy of her nostalgia.

Now she started taking pills again, insomnia became more frequent, and the desire to drink became stronger. She knew that her depression was recurring again, and her Patronus Charm was no longer valid.Some time ago, she always felt that Aurora was so stupid that it made people feel distressed, but in fact, she and Aurora were the same, maybe one day she would follow in Aurora's footsteps, if it wasn't for her, she still didn't finish reading here words of mission.

She was staring at the ceiling in a daze, when Sirius suddenly said: "Camelia, don't think about anything, just sleep well. Everything will be fine when you wake up."

When Camelia woke up, there was no sign of Sirius in the room, and the whole room looked much brighter and tidier. Maybe Sirius secretly cleaned it up after she fell asleep, at least she couldn’t hear it. The sound of rats was gone, and the messy posters on the wall were taken down, leaving only a group photo of the predators, and the dust on them was gone.

Walking out of Sirius' room, Camelia noticed a small sign on the door next to it, and the paint underneath had deep scratches.So she stopped at the head of the stairs and took a closer look. It was a small sign full of style, with very neat handwritten letters, very similar to what Percy Weasley would nail on the bedroom door:

without my permission

No Entry

Regulus Arcturus Black

At first she didn't intend to go into Regulus' room, but when she was about to go downstairs, she heard the voices of Lupine and Sirius from downstairs. They seemed to be arguing, so she stopped and listened for a while.

"Do you know how old Camelia is? She's still my student, you can't do that, Sirius." Lupine had never been so angry.

"Of course I know how old she is, so you don't need to remind me repeatedly. What are you thinking, what can I do to a girl who is about the same age as Harry?" The irritable Sirius actually asked Lupine at this time. calm down.

"You took her into your room," said Lupine.

"Yeah, what's wrong with me showing her around my room?"

"But is it necessary to spend an afternoon visiting your room? I still say that you don't mess around and act like an elder. The children have been looking for Camelia just now. If you let them know that she has spent the whole afternoon stay in your room..."

Sirius interrupted Lupine impatiently, "So what if they know? Nothing happened to either of us, but what about you and Tonks?"

The voice of their conversation gradually decreased, so small that they could not hear what they were talking about, and their positions could not be seen from above.

Camelia stayed at the stairs for a while, but she was still not sure if they had left. She was afraid that if they were still there, it would not be good for her to just go straight down and run into them. After all, they had been discussing her just now. So she decided not to go down for the time being, but she was in a panic because she was too idle, thinking that she could go to Regulus' room to have a look.

Regulus' room was larger than Sirius's, and Slytherin's silver and green were everywhere, covering the bed, the walls and the windows.The Black family crest and the motto of eternal purity are carefully painted on the bedside, and there are many yellowed newspaper clippings glued into an irregular collage.

On closer inspection, it's all about Voldemort, and Regulus seems to have become a Death Eater after being an admirer for a few years.Camelia was about to sit down and read the clippings, but a little puff of dust rose from the coverlet and she stood up again.

There was a picture on the table, a Hogwarts Quidditch team smiling and waving in the frame, each player had a snake pattern embroidered on their chest, it was the Slytherin team.She found Regulus almost at a glance, sitting in the middle of the front row: black hair, a slightly haughty expression on his face, he looked like his brother, but smaller and nowhere near as handsome as Sirius , but this face is more than enough to please a girl.

He's a Seeker, Camelia thought silently.

Under the photo frame was a soft leather book with a green cover, which seemed to be a diary. Camelia picked it up and looked through it. It was indeed Regulus' diary, but this diary was not complete and should be missing. several pages.

Regulus had written something about Voldemort and the Death Eaters in his diary, and Camelia was about to read it carefully when something hit her on the back of her hand.

"That belongs to Master Regulus! Kreacher doesn't allow anyone to touch Master Regulus's stuff! Put it down, put it down! You have no right to touch it!"

I don’t know when Kreacher came in, it was telling Camelia viciously, and what it just used to smash people was an old locket, maybe it was a relic of a member of the Black family, Sirius said it Always pick up these rags as treasures.

Sirius and Lupin who were downstairs probably heard Kreacher's voice and ran up.

"Kreacher, I told you not to be so rude to anyone here!" Sirius yelled before entering the house, which made Kreacher punish himself for disobeying his master's orders.

Seeing that she couldn't stop Kreacher from hurting her, Camelia immediately said in a panic: "Sirius, order it to stop!"

Sirius had to say, "Okay, Kreacher, I order you to stop and get out!"

Kreacher did as he did, lowering his head and nose almost to the ground, and was about to walk out when Camelia stopped him.

"You forgot something."

She was about to hand it the locket that Kreacher had used to smash her just now, but this made Sirius frown.

"Why are you stealing these junk again? How many times have I told you..."

Camelia stopped him, "Give it to Sirius, these things are useless to you, and don't be cruel to it in the future, treat it better."

"But..." Sirius was about to say, but Lupine beside him pressed his shoulder, and he stopped talking.

Kreacher was muttering to himself again, "This is not a junk thing, Master Sirius is talking nonsense again. Yes, because it belongs to Master Regulus, and Master Regulus asked Kreacher to keep it..."

The author has something to say:

As for dog dads, everyone agrees that they are more fun-loving and unrestrained, so I lean on the image of a prodigal son and a playboy, holding that I was not very responsible in my early years.About his mentality of flirting with Jamie and wanting to tease him when he sees a beautiful girl, because some bad habits have not been changed.

In this chapter, Daddy Dog mainly wants to tease her, and also because he loves her a little bit because he learned about her family, so he wants her to relax.As for Lu Ping, he just misunderstood the dog father, because the dog father was irresponsible for his relationship in the early years, which made Lu Ping very uneasy.

Dog dad and Jamie have no relationship line!Do not misunderstand!