[HP] Magic didn't give up on you

Until he stood on a high black rock with his legs, with a steep cliff on his back and the surging sea under his feet, Sirius still had a sense of absurdity that he was doing something bizarre.

Of the many adventures in his life, this was perhaps the most bizarre and incredible.He wants to travel in time, go back to five hours ago, and save his death eater brother whose life or death is uncertain, and the thing that put him in danger is related to the mysterious person he is loyal to... Every sentence sounds like It was all so unreasonable, but he had no reason to refuse or hesitate. He had to go on this incredible trip, because his brother was here and probably needed his help.

This uneasy guy.Sirius exhaled, and Eli put the invisibility cloak borrowed from James on him, stared at him intently, and lowered his voice.

"The upper limit is five hours, and you must not go too far. Any wizard who has time traveled for more than five hours will not come back safely." He whispered, looking upset, "When I went to borrow the time converter I was just wondering if anyone could help you, but last night was Christmas Eve, and it was really hard to find someone who could show up in another place... Once you fail to come back on time five hours ago, he will be there five hours later It will also disappear out of thin air, you know what I mean, right? Disappeared in the gap of time and space, probably never come back, must pay attention to safety, Sirius."

"I know." Sirius took a deep breath, said calmly, and said in a flat tone, "If I can't come back, then say sorry to James Lily for me, I can't go to their wedding due to objective reasons Also, if I disappear, all my property will be donated to the Order of the Phoenix—in addition to my personal savings, my uncle Alphard, who was also expelled, left me a considerable inheritance, the key is in In the snack box in my room, you let James look through it."

"Don't talk about this." Eli interrupted his behavior similar to confessing his last words, frowned, gave him a worried look, and sighed deeply, "Professor Dumbledore is showing me the time-turner." When I asked for the address here, his expression was very serious, but he couldn’t come here. He was in the Wizengamot yesterday to deal with work, and he didn’t return to school until this morning. It coincides with your time. If he is here, I think for sure... No, we can't rely on him for everything, it's not a risk he should take, he has more important things to do, we have to rely on ourselves."

I know.Sirius nodded, and Eli gave him one last deep look and said, "Good luck."

His figure disappeared on the black rock, the sky was bright, and he was the only one standing quietly all around, facing the turbulent sea water, with complicated emotions.

An hour ago, Kreacher brought Eli here to confirm the location.Kreacher brought Regulus here five hours ago, then left him behind and went home by himself?Sirius found it hard to understand, and he still couldn't get rid of the sense of absurdity in his heart.But he picked up the time-turner hanging around his neck, stared at it for a while, and turned it five times.

He felt that he was flying backwards quickly, and all kinds of fuzzy clouds shuttled in front of his eyes.The sky quickly turned from bright to dark... He stepped on the ground again, the sky was still dark, and the surroundings were dark, only the sound of sea water churning could be heard.

He really came five hours ago.Sirius took a deep breath, the night wind blowing past was bitingly cold.

After Regulus separated from him, did he come to such a ghostly place?What was the important thing that he had to do alone in the middle of Christmas night?Sirius was puzzled, but he didn't have much time to think. With a bang, the shrill voice of the house elf appeared in the air first.

He really came here, Sirius' heart sank suddenly.

They were not far from him, and Sirius breathed more quietly, and in the dim night, he heard the house-elf speaking in a frightened, inflected voice with clearly audible tremors.

"That's right here, Master Regulus... The lord brought Kreacher to apparate here, and cast a counter-curse in front of him, you can't apparate there..."

"Thank you, Kreacher." Regulus whispered, "Let's go, hurry up."

The tip of Regulus' wand lit up a bit, and Sirius carefully covered himself completely under the cloak and followed them.The three of them climbed down the rock one after the other, and swam towards the cracks in the rock in the sea water.Sirius discovered that Regulus couldn't swim - that was normal, he really didn't remember his brother could.

A person came to such a place recklessly.Sirius twitched his lips inwardly.He followed them to the depths of the cliff, stood in the middle of the cave, and looked at the rock wall in front of him with Regulus.

"He made you cut your arm and smear blood on it, didn't you?" Regulus asked.

"Yes, Master Regulus..." Kreacher moved anxiously, looked at the rock wall in front of him, thought of his own experience behind it, and shivered uncontrollably, "The lord didn't say Why, he just made Kreacher do it... of course, Kreacher is just a house-elf..."

"It seems we'd better do it this way." Regulus nodded, rolled up his sleeves, exposed his arm, and cut his arm before Kreacher realized what he was going to do.

This surprised both Kreacher and Sirius, Sirius almost couldn't hold back and rushed over, but Kreacher had already rushed forward in shock, hugged Regulus' arm in horror, and was about to stop the bleeding .

"Please let Kreacher do it, Master Regulus!" he said emotionally, shaking his head in panic, "Kreacher can't let Master Regulus get hurt—Kreacher is willing to do it for Regulus!" Master Les dedicates everything!"

"But I just want you to be well, Kreacher." Regulus smiled, stopped him from stopping the bleeding, and said gently, "You only live once, and so do house elves. You have to take good care of yourself ...Don't always punish yourself, I always want to say, in fact, you have done a good job, don't blame yourself for anyone's accusation. Well, I have cut my arm, just a little blood, I am not that Fragile."

He smeared his own blood on the stone wall——the stone wall shone brightly, and after absorbing enough blood, it opened with a white light.Sirius followed them, passed the stone wall briskly, frowning tightly, he couldn't hide the ominous premonition in his heart, which made his heart colder than just soaking in the icy seawater in December.

What kind of place is it that you need to use blood to get in?Sirius already had the answer in his heart, but he didn't want to think about it at all.He followed Regulus, stared at his back, and felt an impulse in his heart, wanting to take Regulus away before everything happened.

After silently repeating the rules and taboos of time travel that Eli repeatedly emphasized to him, he finally suppressed this tempting thought.

Inside the cave was a large black lake, and in the middle of the lake something shone green.Regulus stood by the lake, observed carefully for a while, then suddenly waved his wand to stir up the lake water a little.

In an instant, the waves changed suddenly, and along with the stirred up lake water came out one after another swollen corpses, their heads and hands were white, and their facial features were deformed by the water, basically no one could see what happened before. Their eyeballs were cloudy white, empty and unfocused, but they rushed straight towards Regulus as if they were being directed by someone.

Sirius gasped sharply, and was about to rush forward, his wand clenched tightly in his hand, making some movements unavoidably.

But now that no one was paying attention to him, Regulus took two steps back and staggered to the ground.Panting in shock, Kreacher rushed over in fear and stopped in front of Regulus.

"Master Regulus!" he yelled in horror, leading Regulus back in a panic.

An infernal corpse's white hand grabbed Regulus, and the slippery feeling caused him to have an expression similar to panic and nausea in his slightly tranced expression, and he finally came back to his senses.

With the help of Kreacher's desperate tugging, they got rid of the infernal corpse, and each elf was gasping for breath, and Sirius' relieved voice was mixed in and completely covered up.

"Inferi," Regulus murmured, with a wry smile on his pale face. "Innocent Muggles, missing wizards and witches. They keep saying he's manipulating Inferi, but I don't think so." See, and keep lying to myself that those are just sensational rumors... I think I finally know where all those Inferi appear, Sirius and Eli are right, I'm the most naive and stupid one. How many of them are there Infernal corpses, hundreds? Thousands? I will..."

His face became even paler, with almost no trace of blood visible. He took a deep breath, revealing a kind of firmness and solemnity that regarded death as home, but also showed weakness and fear uncontrollably.

"Master Regulus, don't say that about yourself!" Kreacher said hastily, "Master Black is a villain! He made Mistress and Regulus sad! He—"

Kreacher shuddered, uncontrollably about to start punishing himself.But Regulus stopped him, and he trembled, staring at Regulus devoutly, as if staring at his own god.

"What are we going to do next, Master Regulus?" He asked in a low voice, cautious in his voice.

"We're going to the center of the lake, Kreacher." Regulus said softly, he reached into his pocket, and took out the golden locket he had prepared.

"It's the same as the one you saw, isn't it, Kreacher?" he asked in a low voice, "I copied it after the portrait of the Slytherin locket, it should be similar... After I finish drinking the liquid, you Just change the locket, put the one I prepared in it, and take out the one he put in... After three days, someone will ask you to pick it up, and then you will hand over the locket to him. After that, you will Forget about everything here, don't tell my family about me when I go back, take good care of my mother, my father's condition is rapidly deteriorating, this is the punishment of the Black family who is not firm enough, she can't bear more Take care of her, don't tell her about me..."

"Master Regulus!" Kreacher turned pale in shock, he shook his head vigorously, and tightly grasped Regulus' arm in fear.

"Don't go!" he hissed, his voice completely hoarse, with a mournful sharpness, "Master Regulus, if you must do this now, please let Kreacher take your place—Kreacher has already I've drank it once, and I know how painful it is, Kreacher can do it! Kreacher is willing to drink it again for Master Regulus! Kreacher is willing to die for Master Regulus!"

"This is an order, Kreacher." Regulus said calmly.

Kreacher's mouth that was eager to speak immediately seemed to be choked by something. He opened his mouth and couldn't make a sound. He could only look at Regulus helplessly and desperately, looking extremely pitiful.

"I order you—go back safely." Regulus smiled at him, and said softly, touching the pillowcase on his body, "Live well, Kreacher, you are a very good house-elf. Proud of being a family member like you. Don't let me see the sacrifice of innocent people again... until I'm done, okay?"

Kreacher couldn't speak, just shook his head vigorously, weeping silently, desperately and irresistibly followed Regulus' instructions, took him on a boat, went to the center of the lake, watched him drink the green liquid, and then twitched painfully.

"Stop! Master Regulus! Stop!" Kreacher yelled in dismay, throwing himself beside Regulus, trying hard to grab his cup, "Let Kreacher come! Kreacher is willing! Kreacher has already Very old! Master Regulus is only 17 years old! Kreacher must protect Master Regulus—please order me—”

"Don't try to do it for me, Kreacher." Regulus curled up on the ground in pain, gasping for breath, struggling to find his own voice, and spoke in an extremely weak voice, "Help me continue scooping, Kreacher...until the scoop is empty. Don't stop, let me drink it all..."

"Kreacher doesn't want to do this!" Kreacher said in tears, but he couldn't help taking the cup in Regulus' hand, scooped up another full cup, and poured it down for Regulus.

"Kreacher doesn't want it, Kreacher doesn't want it..." Amidst Regulus' sudden violent convulsions, Kreacher burst into tears.

"Help me..." Regulus' consciousness was no longer clear, he muttered to himself deliriously, his eyes were slack, and he was gradually losing consciousness, "Help me...Mom, Sirius...help I... no, don't save me, I have to bear the consequences of my choice... I'm alone... no, save me, there are yin corpses in the lake... a lot of yin corpses... I don't want... it's cold..."

"It's over, it's over, Master Regulus!" Kreacher quickly switched the real and fake lockets.The green liquid in the stone basin was slowly condensing again. In the pain of Regulus' throat and internal organs being burned, Kreacher rushed over with tears, and had no choice but to scoop up the black water in the lake and pour it into Regulus. Throat.

It made him look a little better... but it also seemed like an invitation to the bottom of the lake that couldn't be refused.Countless Yin corpses emerged from the bottom of the lake and crawled towards Regulus who was curled up on the ground.

Frightened, Kreacher desperately dragged Regulus towards the boat. He could leave alone, but he had no choice but to go back the same way with Regulus.The Inferi couldn't catch him who could teleport to the other side, but they could catch Regulus. They came ashore, squeezed into the water, stretched out their arms towards Regulus, and dragged him to the bottom of the lake .

"Go away! Go away!" shrieked the house-elf in terror, and with all his might put his master into the boat.Inferi gathered beside the boat, dragging the unconscious Regulus down.The little house-elf terrifiedly cast all the magic he could think of, but the house-elf couldn't handle fire, and other means of attack had little effect on the Inferi.

The boat was strenuously heading towards the lake, and the corpses were densely blocking the way forward.Kreacher held Regulus tightly, casting all the magic he could use with a shrill voice.

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way! Get away from Master Regulus! Help him, please someone save him—fire! Kreacher needs fire! Who can give Kreacher a fire—"

A few seconds after his words fell, a flame suddenly appeared on the surface of the surging black lake.

It wasn't too big a group of flames, but the flames were intense and hot, and they were burning in their direction.It seemed to appear from the edge of the lake, but at this moment Kreacher had completely ignored it.He shouted ecstatically, and immediately accelerated the boat and quickly approached the shore.

But the fire wasn't big enough, it was difficult to burn on the lake, and there were too many Yin corpses.Kreacher desperately urged the boat to approach the shore, but the flames were getting smaller and smaller—the boat was getting harder and harder—and his strength was gradually exhausted, unable to withstand the drag of the Inferi, Regulus being slowly dragged into the lake—

"Save Master Regulus! No matter who it is! Save him!!" Kreacher screamed in panic. The voice was so shrill that it broke the heart. As if falling into an ice cellar, the whole person began to tremble.

"I order you, Kreacher." An unusually weak voice sounded, and said softly, "Leave here immediately, at this very second, leave immediately, and don't come back."

"Master Regulus..." Kreacher's astonishingly large eyes widened in horror.He looked helplessly and desperately at Regulus who barely opened his eyes, saw that he let go of the hand that was holding him uncontrollably, saw him being dragged into the lake by countless hands, slowly Slowly leaning back and sinking...

With a bang, he disappeared into the cave.At the same time, Sirius Black yanked off his invisibility cloak and rushed forward.

The boat was still a little away from the shore, but he leaped forward and grabbed Regulus' wrist precisely.

Regulus looked at him unresponsively, and two seconds later, the unbelievable astonishment in his eyes instantly turned into unacceptable horror.There were too many infernal corpses, even though he was dragged by Sirius, he was still slowly sinking. He took a sharp breath and began to struggle with all his might.

"Let go of me!" He said hoarsely, looking at his brother in despair, and hissed at him, "If this continues, you will also fall into it--Mum can't lose her two sons at the same time! She can't bear it Such a blow—"

"Then you come up to me!" Sirius said furiously, pulling him up with all his might, "What are you doing? Giving yourself up to die generously? If you really want to die so much, I suggest you turn from darkness to light and join Phoenix from today Society, you Death Eaters must never have imagined that people die every day on our side—don't die here! Regulus!"

"I don't want to either." Regulus murmured, smiling weakly at him, tears running down his face, "Give up, Sirius, take care, you're right, keep fighting. "

"I won't give up!" Sirius gritted his teeth, and the wand in the other hand continued to emit flames, forcing back the ghosts rushing towards this side, "Don't give in to fate, don't bow to evil, don't say goodbye to adversity. Give up—don't give up! Regulus!"

Blazing flames shot from the tip of his staff, igniting the nearby Inferi, and they let go in pain, and he yanked Regulus out of the lake to the shore.

He gasped for breath, and Regulus' eyes were full of astonishment.He looked at his brother silently for a while, then struggled to get up and took out his wand.

They sat together, surrounded by corpses rushing in all directions.Sirius gasped for breath, but laughed.

"See, Regulus?" he said. "Don't give up. There's another fight."

Regulus was too weak to hold his wand steady, and he couldn't cast a spell, but he still smiled and took the wand in his hand.

Inferi swarmed toward them—but suddenly there was a soft, sweet song in the distance.

singing?No, tweets.Sirius was startled, and looked into the distance suddenly. After a few seconds, he saw it—a golden and red phoenix flying towards them, with a brilliant stream of light on its wings and tail feathers.It twittered softly like singing, across thousands of mountains and rivers, and came to them.

"Actually, before handing over the Time-Turner to you, I also went back to five hours ago. I was running out of time and only had time to do a little thing-I said something to Fox." Dumbledore said to the sitting principal In his office, Eli said, "To accomplish the almost impossible, we need not only time, but also miracles—and the phoenix is ​​a creature that can always perform miracles, isn't it?"

"Yes, I hope it can create a miracle this time." Eli took a deep breath, stared at the crossbar Fox perched on, and said softly, "I also sincerely hope that the power of every ordinary person will be combined , can be gathered from a small twilight into a miracle and hope that can change the world. This is exactly what we are going to do, Principal Dumbledore."

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