[HP] Magic didn't give up on you

After returning from the Easter break, Hogwarts’ summer vacation began, and all the fifth and seventh graders found that the OWLs and NEWTs exams were just around the corner, which made every student who was about to take the important exams a little nervous.

The sky over the school is also shrouded in tense clouds as if it were appropriate for the occasion—but it’s not just because of the exams. With the blockbuster of the Hogwarts school newspaper and the return of students during the Easter holiday, the entire magic The world has its own popularity.Almost every wizarding family in the UK has someone who graduated from Hogwarts. Such a newspaper reporting on the real-time status of Hogwarts can easily evoke the memories of these people and gain their natural favor.But not all the graduates agreed with his viewpoint. Several gossips showed that innocent copies of the school newspaper were ruthlessly shredded the day they were brought home by the students.

In fact, the same is true for the students at school.It hit the school, but it wasn't popular with everyone - all the Slytherins didn't like the paper, what scoundrel things were it saying?Who is she insinuating overtly and secretly?Boring, stupid, ulterior motives, and sinister as hell!

"Look what stupid things are on here." At the Slytherin lunch table, a seventh-year student curled his lips in disgust, and said disgustedly, "It's unbearable, the idiots in this school are getting more and more stupid." More than that, thank goodness I'm graduating soon and going to do something great and not have to deal with these frisky, dirty idiots, blood traitors, and mudbloods."

"It also said that there is a Slytherin deputy editor in the school newspaper." The female prefect of the sixth grade of Slytherin said sarcastically.There was a mocking sneer on her lips, as if she was being forced to mention a piece of disgusting garbage, "Look at what that idiot with the pseudonym Silver and Green Corolla wrote in the school newspaper - The History of the Unforgivable Curse And reflection? What does this mean, no one knows the signature spell of that lord? Powerful, outstanding, admirable, sweeping away all obstacles with thunderous momentum - and this man who claims to be a Slytherin house is in What does he think that the Unforgivable Curses are outlawed for a reason? It's a common choice of all? What nonsense! I doubt he's a Slytherin at all! What Slytherin would say that?"

"Of course that's not a real Slytherin student." Another prefect in her year said contemptuously, "It's probably because the group of people from the school newspaper are making up and forcibly fabricating the identity of a Slytherin student." , to show my impartiality. I think this is very likely, after all, the editor-in-chief is that Eli Smith, a fool with noble blood but willing to degenerate, just like the hopeless Sirius Black, All of them have tarnished their lineage, more annoying than those congenital idiots. Especially Eli Smith, the lord even looked for him! Sooner or later, he will know what he missed. I really want to see him one day It’s too regretful to cry bitterly.”

"This day is obviously not far away." Someone said with certainty.They looked at each other, and from the eyes of other people, they could see the yearning and enthusiasm for that adult.

"Of course we didn't say what you meant, Regulus." Avery suddenly thought of something, smiled flatteringly at Regulus, and gave him a sympathetic look, "But to be honest, Your luck is really bad. There has never been a hopeless scum like your brother in the Black family. no way."

Regulus ignored their ridicule or flattery, he was eating his lunch quietly and politely all the time, appearing more silent than usual.But no one will ignore him because of this, as the only official Death Eater in the school, the lucky one with the Dark Mark on his left arm, he and the Black family behind him are valued by that adult, no one is so stupid It was not a pleasure to find him.

But other people's unhappiness is still to be found.The Slytherin seventh-year prefect cleared his throat deliberately, causing everyone on his left and right to look at him.

"Except for the deputy editor who is probably not so personal at all, we noticed that the author of an article also looks a bit suspicious." He said slowly, and his eyes fell on a long table who was holding a book and reading intently. On the black-haired boy, "The excellent spell improvement has made the professors full of praise... And we all know who is the most talented student in the school?"

It took Snape a moment of silence around him before he realized it was he who had been mentioned.He immediately raised his head, his face paled slightly.

"I've seen that article, I don't see anything in it that says college, I think it's just a short academic paper, and I hope you noticed, it's not black magic, and I'm good at it The fields and directions are different." He said, his sallow face was tense, so that no one could see the uneasiness and apprehension hidden in it, "And I hate those idiots as much as everyone sitting here."

"But you are friends with Eli Smith." Someone said suspiciously, "That deputy editor Lily Evans is also your friend, isn't it? If your friends are all in the school newspaper, then you will become Very suspicious."

Snape took a deep breath and said nothing.The person next to him stretched out his arms, grabbed the book in his hand, and then screamed in a fuss.

"Look, a book of Charms!" he exclaimed. "Here's the proof!"

Snape snatched the book back with all his might, gasped and frowned in disgust.

"That's because I'm about to take the OWLs exam." He said coldly, "If you can take out your book a little during class and open it, you will find that this is what Professor Flitwick mentioned in class. old book, Wilson."

Wilson was furious, but he was a little unable to refute. He stared at him resentfully, his eyes still full of suspicion.

"But you're still suspicious—"

"Okay, Wilson." Regulus lowered his eyes and used his knife and fork, and said suddenly, "Severus is also my friend. According to your logic, maybe he should be more trustworthy."

Wilson seemed to have been strangled suddenly. He opened his mouth and finally grinned awkwardly.

"Yes, that's right..." he said, muttering and hastily skipping the subject, "I think you're right, Regulus."

Regulus put down the knife and fork, picked up the cup and took a sip of pumpkin juice.His and Snape's eyes briefly met in mid-air, Snape took the lead to look away, and he also lowered his eyes for a short while in silence.

When they finished their lunch and left the auditorium in twos and threes, Regulus and Snape left at the same time. Even if there were still people who doubted Snape, they dared not stare at him so brazenly again—Snape It doesn't matter if Pu is offended, but Regulus is different. He is a Death Eater, and his family is very powerful. Although his temper is not bad, it does not mean that he can tolerate repeated offenses from others.

The two walked out of the gate of the auditorium and were about to turn a corner to the road leading to the Slytherin cellar. Suddenly, several mixed voices came from the stairs not far away. They were chattering, lively and lively, and they couldn't help but simultaneously Turn around and look.

"I never knew that the students in the school were so enthusiastic. After returning to school, I finally finished reading the submissions I received. It's unbelievable that we have read them for so long." Lily shook her head and complained, her face was bright With a smile, obviously not really feeling unacceptable.

"It's taken for granted. Do you still remember the first day when we opened the door of the activity room? The owls almost drowned us." Catherine also smiled and moved her joints while walking, "It's indeed a big project, but it doesn't There is no doubt that we can publish another issue before the holiday, which is very good, which is very beneficial for us to strike while the iron is hot. And Eli is right, we can pay more attention to the current situation of foreigners after the holiday, and subtly add our opinions to our newspaper , the magic world really needs such a newspaper that dares to tell the truth."

"Maybe I have to ask you guys more to collect materials." Lily said, "Although I usually don't think there is anything, but as far as this matter is concerned, it is really inconvenient for me to spend the summer vacation in the Muggle world. I can't use magic and I can't do it." What. But I thought maybe I could find a summer job at a Muggle newspaper and see what we can learn."

"Great idea!" Catherine's eyes lit up, and she praised her vigorously, "Then we'll wait for your good news—speaking of which, I've wanted to ask since just now, why are you so uncharacteristically quiet, Potter?"

Seeing that someone finally noticed him, Potter, who had been following them all this time, hurriedly danced and danced, trying to express himself. Lily sighed and rubbed her forehead with her hand.

"Actually, I glued his mouth up." She explained to Catherine, "I had to work overtime to read the manuscript, and Potter kept nagging me, I think my brain is going to explode... this The little spell doesn't work as soon as you eat or drink, so if you really want to talk, why don't you run to your friends in the Great Hall, Potter? Come on, go."

James was taken aback by her question, then stopped waving his arms and continued walking obediently.

Lily looked at him suspiciously, frowned, and said without knowing, "Are you not in a hurry?"

Catherine, who had seen through everything, touched her chin, hesitated for a moment between puncturing or not, and then decided to hold her hand high and let James go.She glanced behind her, and said casually: "It seems that he wants to follow you more than talk, Lily."

Lily froze for a moment, thought for a while, drew out her wand, and read a counter-curse to him.

"What the hell are you trying to do, Potter?" she said, frowning. "You've been hanging around all morning! Don't be so cheeky just because you're Eli's friend, you didn't read the manuscript this morning! "

"I've finished reading my Quidditch special edition!" James, who was finally able to speak, said aggrievedly, "Catherine especially emphasized to me that I should not interfere with the affairs of other editions, saying that my barren brain can't comprehend its mysteries at all. -"

"I'm right." Catherine said leisurely, commenting on the weather, "just telling the truth."

"So don't you have anything else to do?" said Lily sternly. "We've got an exam soon, Potter!"

"There's one last weekend to Hogsmeade before the exams!" James said at once, obviously wanting to say it a long time ago, "I just wanted to ask you if you'd like to come with me- er, okay Well, I know you definitely don't want to..."

He gave a dry laugh to Lily's frown, and said in a long-term manner: "I found out that you are very busy in the morning. You also said that we are about to take the OWLs exam, and the school newspaper will involve a lot of energy. So you Would you like to find someone to help? This year's Quidditch match is completely over, and I happen to have time."

Lily was taken aback for a moment, she rarely found that what James said was really worth listening to.

But she was really worried about this person.Lily looked James up and down suspiciously, and questioned bluntly: "So what can you do?"

"I'm at least familiar with the process, right? And I'm also one of the editors—" James just said something, and seeing Lily's face change, he immediately changed his words, "Yes, at least I am familiar with the process. So I can probably always help of?"

Lily looked him up and down, and James tried to hold his head up.

"Okay." Lily said not very trustingly, looking at him suspiciously, but she really needed help now, so she could only continue, "So... when can you come and help?"

"This weekend," James said immediately.

Lily raised her eyebrows with doubts in her eyes.

"Aren't you going to Hogsmeade this weekend?" she asked.

"I've been there many times!" James assured, slapping his chest, "and I'll go whenever I want... No, I mean, of course it's your business—no, the newspaper business is more important!"

Regulus watched them talking all the way, walked into the auditorium together, turned his face sideways, and glanced at Snape next to him.

Their figures had disappeared, but Snape was still looking there silently.

"How likable, isn't it, Potter and his friends?" When Regulus looked over, he suddenly said, with an unnatural indifference in his tone, "If you also want to ask my school I can tell you right now, Regulus, I really—hate—being compared with these idiots—”

Regulus didn't speak, they looked away and continued walking towards the Slytherin cellar in silence.

Inexplicably, he recalled the brief meeting and conversation with Eli yesterday in the Room of Response on the eighth floor.

"The extreme antagonism in the school after the school newspaper appeared?" Eli shook his head, "It's not like that, Regulus. This kind of antagonism was not brought about by the school newspaper, but has always existed, but it was previously Covering the voice. It’s hard to imagine, isn’t it? From the perspective of the number of people, it seems that the voice of the majority is covered by the minority. But in many cases, each of us is the silent majority, and our hearts are not without Thoughts, no point of view, but no one stands up and speaks for themselves, so most people would rather drift along in a muddle. But we all know that the current situation is different from the past. Everything will be fine.”

Follow your own ideas and really do what you want, Regulus.Eli told him that the more we try to do more, the less we can do.But even if it is less, we still have to do it.

Is he retreating again and again?Is there a time when you can no longer return?Is he a retreater or a persecutor?Regulus found it difficult to think these things through.But the development of things is always so fast, no one will wait for him to figure everything out.They finished their OWLs, Snape and Evans fell out completely, he returned home, and Sirius came back with the new school newspaper, which was torn to pieces by their parents...

There was an article by Sirius and one by him.Using the pseudonym of the silver-green corolla, I carefully thought about the topic for a long time, and asked questions that I couldn't understand, and then it was torn to pieces, and fell on the carpet at home as cold as snowflakes.

It was as if a part of him had been torn apart here too.Regulus was in an untimely trance, and Sirius and his parents had an emotional quarrel, shouting something angrily.

Regulus looked up at him and heard what he was shouting clearly.

He's saying: "I didn't - choose - to be born into the Blakes! Don't hold me to your - your - rotten theories! You guard this gloomy house and put yourselves Be the same person, but I'm not the same! I'll never—won't—be like you—"

He rushed upstairs, Regulus followed secretly, and came to the door of Sirius' room, and saw him packing his luggage.

"Whoever wants this surname wants it." Sirius kicked his suitcase open and threw clothes into it roughly.Regulus stood at the door and saw him pack his suitcase, open the window, and turn his head to give him one last look before leaving.

"Do you know what our parents want you to do? Do you know what you're doing?" he heard his brother whisper. A throne high above you. You may not mean to harm the innocent, but you are helping them every moment. Do you understand, Regulus."

He strapped his suitcase to the broomstick, jumped out the window, and leapt.

Under his gaze, he escaped from this delicate cage.

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