[HP] Magic didn't give up on you

It is hard to describe the feeling of knowing that I am related to the notorious Lestrange family.Eli read history books with his father since he was a child, and coupled with what he saw and heard at Hogwarts for a year, he had already made some conclusions about Voldemort and his career—this is a racist with blood supremacy, a wizard Hitler of the world.This kind of person will never win the final victory even if the situation is strong at the moment.Because in the final analysis, this kind of concept is against the law of historical development and is untenable. There is no reason why wrong claims can brainwash everyone.

But now he's been told that his maternal ancestral home was passionate about the cause -- a sad fact that even though Eli only just found out who his ancestral home was, he still Feeling complicated.

He made a quick decision and didn't stay in Regulus' box for a long time. The news he received today was already shocking enough. He felt that it would be best not to overwhelm his ability to accept it frequently in one day.He bid farewell to Regulus as thoughtfully and politely as possible. Regulus watched his back in the box and left. The empty box was so quiet that there was only the sound of the steam train rumbling.

But speaking of it, it’s still better than at home, at least what I hear now is the sound of the train running, instead of my mother’s angry cursing and my brother’s relentless retort, arguing from morning till night.Regulus was neatly dressed, and now he had changed into the Hogwarts school robes, from the tip of the hat to the cuffs.He sat quietly in the box and returned to being alone again, unexpectedly remembering his mother's voice again.

"It must be assigned to Slytherin, Regulus." Walb said emphatically, stroking his hair very lightly, but the expression on his face was distorted to the point of deformation, "I never thought that one day I would Worry about this—it's all because of that damned bastard Sirius! I can only count on you, Regulus, don't disgrace the noble and pure Black family!"

Regulus nodded under his mother's oppressive gaze, and did not speak. He has always been quiet and introverted—if there is already an overly rebellious and disobedient child in the family, the other child will often become more obedient Be nice, always.

"Make more good friends at school!" Walburga urged, frowning tightly, "Since Sirius entered school, our family has become a joke in the eyes of others... What should those families think, Such a scum came out of the pure and noble Black family! You must change the image of Black in the eyes of others, Regulus, this is what you must do! I also believe that you can do it!"

"I will, Mom." Regulus assured her, and then asked somewhat hesitantly, "But what kind of person is worth socializing with? The adult mentioned it, Eli Smith...?"

Walburga showed an unbelievable expression, her lips were lifted up, and she let out a sneer mixed with disgust and disdain.

"Who are you talking about, Regulus, a bastard born of a self-willed scum?" She said contemptuously, and gave her beloved young son a stern look, which was exactly the same as when she looked at Sirius for a moment.She said decisively in a bad tone, "It was just a chance to attract the attention of that lord. The generation of the Lestrange family is really depraved, and they really pay attention to that kind of scum! Don't let the filth of the bastard on him Blood has stained you, Regulus, if you meet him at school, you must stay away from him."

Before Regulus could respond, a voice suddenly came from the stairs, interrupting their conversation.

"And I say, why don't you buy him a hood, mother? Hogwarts is full of half-blood wizards, Muggle wizards and Dumbledore's supporters. If you let your beloved son go to school, who knows What's going to happen? He's so innocent after all."

Regulus looked up, his brother Sirius came out of the room, went to the kitchen to get a bag of bread, and then walked back upstairs—obviously, he didn't plan to come down to have dinner with his family today.

Walburga glared at him and sternly sternly, her arrogance and reserve had been worn out by arguing with her eldest son all summer: "This is how you talk to your mother? Remember you The blood of the Black family!"

As if I really wanted to bleed this kind of blood.Sirius pouted.Before the two continued to quarrel, Regulus intervened in time to separate the two who were in bad mood.

"Don't worry, I will definitely go to Slytherin, mother." He assured his mother, "I will inherit the honor of the Black family and do my part for this family."

When Walburga faced his younger son, his mood immediately calmed down a lot.Hearing her son's words, she finally showed a happy smile.

"We all believe in you, my dear boy," she said softly, more like a mother than ever before, "we will be at home waiting for your good news, Regulus. The Slytherin lounge is at At the bottom of the Black Lake, you can have a sweeping view of the lake, you will definitely like it."

She gave her oldest son a last gouging look, and finally walked away. She was going to a tea party with the ladies.The remaining two brothers in the living room looked at each other, and the atmosphere was a little delicate.

Although one of the two is a student of Gryffindor and the other is a reserve soldier of Slytherin, objectively speaking, the relationship between the two is not bad. After all, they are brothers who grew up together, only one year apart.Sirius cleared his throat and asked him, "Have you bought everything in Diagon Alley?"

"Not yet, I want to go with you tomorrow, with me here, mom won't always think about talking about you." Regulus said.

Sirius raised his eyebrows and shrugged: "I can't guarantee that."

But apparently, he didn't reject this suggestion. It wasn't really like what his mother said, he was spoiled by outsiders, and everything in this family was not pleasing to the eye.Regulus looked at his brother, thought for a while, and asked him, "Sirius, you and Eli Smith are classmates. What do you think of him?"

"It's pretty good," Sirius said, "smart, friendly, and very mobile, don't listen to my mother's nonsense."

"I think so too," Regulus said thoughtfully. "Wizard blood is amazing, isn't it? Even with a Muggle father, he's no doubt lucky to show the best of the wizarding family. The excellent part of the bloodline is really amazing."

Sirius froze for a moment, and looked at him in astonishment, as if he were watching a gorilla who suddenly spoke, as if he was meeting his brother for the first time.

|"Do you know what you're talking about, Regulus?" he asked gravely, looking him up and down several times with a frown, and said in disbelief, "You sound exactly like Mommy! Get away from her Boy, I think you're going out of your mind. Oh, yes, you'd better stay away from Eli, he's done nothing wrong, so there's no need to listen to your logical nonsense."

His tone of voice was so impolite that even a person like Regulus who knew him very well could hardly cheer up for a while.Of course, their communication was ineffective, and they broke up unhappy. Although they went to Diagon Alley together the next day, today he got on the train without hesitation under Walburga's reprimand, and went to find his friend. Friends, Regulus and his mother talked for a while, boarded the train alone, found an empty box and sat down alone.

He thought about what would happen at the station, but he didn't expect to run into Eli Smith on the train.Regulus stared at his own shadow on the glass, thinking inadvertently that there is indeed no shadow of a pure-blood wizard family on Eli's body. It seems that Sirius' statement is not completely unreasonable.

Of course, Eli was completely unaware of Regulus' thoughts at the moment.He hurriedly walked through the boxes on the train, and he really wanted to see his two friends—even if they were quarreling and having a cold war, they could still chat together. With a Slytherin joining, there was a high probability that the conclusion could be drawn. become more rational and objective.

At the back of the train, he finally saw his two friends - but he stopped abruptly before opening the door and going in, listening in amazement to their violent voices arguing.

"I know! I know you'll have other friends too! I didn't stop you from making friends!" Lily raised her voice and said angrily, her voice was rarely so sharp, "I would respect your friends—if They respect my word! Did you hear what they said when I spoke to you, they told me to go away! Because I'm a mudblood of low birth! Evil Gryffindor!"

"Don't talk about yourself like that, Lily!" Snape stopped eagerly, but his voice amplified, "Avery was just joking—he was born into a pure-blood wizard family, that's the common perception over there, he Not aimed at you! He is friendly most of the time - he made friends with me, a half-blood wizard, doesn't that mean that his blood prejudice is not as deep as his family? You have to give him some time to change!"

"I'll give him time? I'll give him time?!" Lily laughed in disbelief. "Why don't you sit with your pureblood friends, Sev? Wait until you've had enough time to change them all." And then introduce me to your lovely friends, before convincing them not to look at me like they're seeing something dirty - I didn't provoke them! They did it!"

The box was quiet for a few seconds, the two looked at each other unwillingly, Snape closed his eyes.

"I only have these few friends, one of the few, Lily." He said bitterly, and finally bowed his head first, "I don't want to lose any of you-I know today's matter is that Avery doesn't take Reason, I will go back and tell him, give me some time, please..."

"I don't understand, Sev." Lily's tone also softened, and she sighed, "Why don't you make some good friends? There are so many friendly people in Hogwarts, but you chose those the worst……"

Snape's tone became a little weird.

"Worst? Who?" he asked sharply, a little subdued. "All the Slytherins? Maybe you think every one of them is terrible, but at least they don't openly tell me every time they meet me." Laugh at my clothes and hair."

The box was quiet for a few seconds again, and Lily realized that she had said the wrong thing.

"I'm sorry...I'm not..." Lily stammered a little, feeling at a loss, "I didn't mean that, Sev...I know Potter and they are annoying, I know! I don't think all Gryffindors are Friendly! But... But there are still people we all think are nice, right? Like Eli? We can all tell who's really friendly..."

Snape looked at her deeply, his eyes were darker than he had expected.

"Yes, he is a very good man, smart, handsome, gentle, the best friend in your heart... But Lily, I will not be like that, I am a Slytherin, born, I have been in a few I yearned for this place when I was old... What do you want me to change? Like Eli? I will never be like that in my life, I am not that kind of person, I won't be the one you... Kind of a person, I'm sorry."

The box fell into a deadly silence. It took a while for Lily to move again. She grabbed Snape's arm as if frightened, and her voice broke a little in anxiety.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry...I really didn't think about it that way...I think you're good! I really do! That's why I...that's why I don't want to see you make some, some bad friends! I..."

Eli took a deep breath, turned around and left the door of the box without a sound, he knew that it was not suitable for him to appear here.

It was hard to imagine that so many things happened on the first day of the second grade, and it was so complicated that he felt a little dizzy for a while.He ended up looking for his roommates—they were all warm and friendly, but they didn't like studying very much, and they didn't go to the library, a place where Eli was often seen, unfortunately they didn't have much chance to get along, and Didn't become very close friends, but still a very good person.Eli joins them, but he's been preoccupied, a little absent-minded the whole time.

Fortunately, the Hogwarts auditorium was still the same as before, which made Eli feel a little more relaxed when he sat down at the long Gryffindor table.He looked at the long table of teachers and staff. Dumbledore was sitting in the middle, wearing a purple robe studded with stars. Their eyes met in mid-air for a moment. Dumbledore's eyes were as gentle and calm as ever, which made Yi Layton felt much more at ease.

"Not with your friends?" The person next to him suddenly asked him, "She doesn't seem to be in a very good mood."

"I think she may need to be alone more." Eli said vaguely, glanced to the side.

The Gryffindor boys sat together. There were only two boys' dormitories in this class, and there were not many of them together.When Eli came in, the side next to Sirius happened to be empty, and he decided to sit next to him in an instant. The roommates didn't notice the difference at all, and sat in a row so naturally, which seemed very harmonious.

All right.Sirius shrugged - he obviously didn't really care about Lily, he just wanted to have a word with Eli.The two of them looked at each other, and Sirius suddenly raised his eyebrows, and clicked his tongue knowingly.

"It seems that you know." He said without beginning and end.

Of course Eli knew what he was talking about. His eyes fell on the freshmen waiting in line not far away, and he whispered, "I saw your brother on the train."

I guess so too.Sirius shrugged and looked over as well.They watched quietly together for a while, the hat hesitated for a while on Regulus' head, the long table between Slytherin and Gryffindor was eerily quiet, and all eyes fell on the slightly thin boy .

When the Sorting Hat finally called out Slytherin, Narcissa Black on the Slytherin table was visibly relieved, and James next to Sirius let out a disappointed groan.

"It's boring being a Slytherin," he said bluntly. "I thought you'd influence your brother more, Sirius."

"Don't think so badly about me, I'm an outlier in our family." Sirius said indifferently, "Reculus is my mother's favorite, he has always been very obedient, my parents like him very much, He thinks exactly like them. If any of you happen to talk to him, just ignore him, they're all a little bit of a bug about talking to themselves and not caring what anyone else thinks."

He didn't look at Eli, but Eli knew that Sirius had said those last words to him.Regulus had finished classifying the colleges, but the students in the auditorium were still whispering, their eyes kept sweeping across Sirius and Regulus, and the decibels of their voices became more and more careless.

"It's the first time your brother let me know that Narcissa Black can laugh." James commented, "Every time she sees you, she has a long face. So flimsy."

"That's not the case." Sirius said lightly, "She also likes Regulus very much—it's a family after all, isn't it?"

His eyes fell on the Slytherin table, staring at the Black cousins ​​sitting together for a while, and then looked away indifferently.Eli turned to look at him, realizing that he probably didn't really care about his loved ones, but he just couldn't force himself to sit at that table.

"I think like-minded friendship is more important than unchosen family love." Eli said suddenly calmly, and everyone around him looked at him, "We sit together because we are equally upright and brave, not because we share the same surname. What kind of surname, I think that's all right, don't you?"

"Of course!" James responded enthusiastically, holding up his cup full of pumpkin juice. "Who can refuse to be a brave lion! I can't anyway. Let's drink to Gryffindor—" "

Everyone laughed, and everyone raised their glasses very much. Everyone seemed much happier.

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Thank you Qiqing for being precious and learning to be brave~