HP Midnight Light

- January 1997, 9 - Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

"Regardless of whether Daphne is Rozier's heir or not, the Dark Lord is currently short of manpower. You have to step on her to take over, so that our whole family can have a bright future! Do you understand? No matter what she says, you are not allowed to turn against her , if you dare to offend her, you will be finished!"

Millicent carried the suitcase and followed Daphne into the dormitory with a heavy heart. The old Mrs. Burst's order was still echoing in her ears before boarding the train.On the way back, Daphne has been complacently showing off to her how she plans to take revenge on those people she dislikes this year.

"They're going to get a taste of me soon." Daphne said without hesitation, "The Dark Lord thinks highly of me, he thinks I'm a very important person among the Death Eaters—you know what that means, don't you?" ?” She looked at the flying scenery outside the window and bragged about how much the Dark Lord trusted her and how eager she was to help him control Hogwarts...

"You never said before that you were Rozier's heir."

Daphne's chattering stopped abruptly, and she glanced at Millison: "I have been blinded by Astoria's parents for many years." She pointed to the necklace around her neck, on which hung the eye-catching, legendary "If I hadn't found this by accident, I'm afraid I don't know who I am until now... What is that?" Her eyes fell on Millicent's chest, where there was a shiny Glowing brooch.

Millicent bowed her head—this brooch was forced on her when she helped old Mrs. Bulstrode bring breakfast to Olivia this morning.Olivia mumbled some words like "prom" and "graduation" from her mouth. Millicent didn't understand what she meant, but Olivia insisted that she wear them with great excitement.This exquisite brooch did not match Millicent's thick and thick appearance at all, but Olivia stared at her intently and kept saying it was beautiful.

The tragedy of Olivia is an educational model that the old Mrs. Burst relishes and repeatedly renders. She uses this as a template to repeatedly instill hatred and hostility towards others in Millicon.Millicent knows her aunt's story by heart, and she sincerely feels sorry for her, but she doesn't think that the origin of the tragedy is the so-called "Burstrode's curse".If it weren't for the old Mrs. Busted's obvious bias between the two children, Olivia might not have been pushed into the pit of fire by the conspiracy of her mother and brother.

"You're so pretty, like a princess." Olivia stared at Millicon and murmured fascinatedly, "They did that to me a while ago..." Then the words changed to Mirison again. Sen couldn't understand nonsense, but Millicent looked down at the brooch, and was a little flattered to realize that Olivia's words just now were actually the first compliment she had received in many years.

Yet it came from the mouth of a madman.

"Um... yes, it's a brooch." Millicent noticed that Daphne was staring straight at the brooch, and she pretended to reach for the snacks while covering up the new gift without a trace.

Daphne blinked her eyes, and quickly put on a dismissive expression: "What age is this, why are you still wearing such old-fashioned things?" Her eyes were still glued to the brooch, and she spoke unscrupulously On the contrary, "Don't wear it when you get off the train. It doesn't deserve you at all. People will laugh at me when they see you walking with me."

Millicent didn't say anything, she tried to force herself to sit in the chair so as not to jump up and get angry at Daphne.

However, Daphne continued to babble on about herself as if she didn't know anything about the danger: "I'm going to say hello to Snape later and see what she looks like. Of course you don't understand, this This feeling is really exhilarating!"

Her face was full of complacency, and Millicent frowned and turned to look at the scenery outside the window. She understood the current situation and Daphne's current identity, but she disagreed with the old Mrs. To make a right decision.A long time ago, Millicent had begun to realize that Daphne did not treat her on an equal footing. To her, Millicent was not a friend but a follower, who came and went as soon as she was called.And the same is true of old Mrs. Bulstrode, she controls Millicent as a grandmother, and turns all dissatisfaction with reality into Millicent. She doesn't care what Millicent thinks, she only cares about the so-called lost brilliant.

Perhaps they should pay for their naivete, thought Millicent, who must not allow old Mrs. Busted to manipulate her as she had her own daughter.It is enough for the tragedy to be staged once, and there is no need to repeat it again and again, otherwise it is called a real "curse".

But now, as soon as Daphne entered the door, she threw the suitcase away, then fell on the bed and said naturally: "Pour me a cup of tea."

"No." Millison resolutely refused after taking a second to consider the consequences. Meeting Daphne's unbelievable eyes, she retorted bravely, "If you want tea, you can pour it yourself. I have my own thing to do."

"How dare you!" Daphne exclaimed in surprise, she turned over and sat up on the bed and stared at Millicent, "You mean to resist me—"

"I didn't mean to rebel against you, Daphne." Millicent clarified, "No matter who you are, you are not my master, and you can't control me. Maybe I caused you some unnecessary misunderstandings before, But now we may have to make things clear." She thought for a while and added, "I'm a little blunt, so don't mind. After all, Rozier is very general in the rumors. "

Leaving Daphne in shock and bewilderment, Millicent turned around and took out the clothes one by one from the suitcase.

The tense atmosphere intensified in the silence, and then Daphne's arrogance became weaker and weaker in Millicent's calm actions, and then she finally withdrew her resentful gaze.

She knew she had lost a follower.

- 10 October - Ministry of Magic, London

"We lost Lupine and Tonks."

The Death Eaters reported tremblingly.

"Fool!" Umbridge snapped. "You've lost a werewolf and a bastard!"

"Shut up." Alex interrupted her lightly. He gave Umbridge a sideways look. A half-breed."

Umbridge's face turned an ugly liver color.Alex smiled slightly, and asked furiously, "Where did your locket go?"

"It was taken by Potter." Umbridge admitted through gritted teeth, which earned Alex a mocking laugh:

"It doesn't look like it came from the right place, does it?" Umbridge continued to ask the Death Eater amidst a mixture of exasperation and disbelief in his stare, "So what happened to Hogwarts? "

"It's calm." The Death Eater replied, after thinking for a while, he added, "There are some students who are secretly provoking trouble, but Snape and the Carrow brothers and sisters have already sent people to investigate, and these students can't make any big fuss. storm."

"I know it's none of my business, but I still want to ask—" Yaxley paused, "are they all loyal to the Dark Lord?"

"The Gryffindors obviously don't, the rogues must have come from Gryffindor. We think Hufflepuff and Ravencrowy must have had a lot of disobedience to the Dark Lord, but at least on the surface they don't." Dare to resist."

"And what about Slytherin?"

"Basically nothing," replied the Death Eater. "There are only two people who are less reliable if I have to say it—Pansy Parkinson and Blaise Zabini."

Yaxley understood immediately. "Yes ... I see what you mean. We have nothing in our hands to blackmail them."

"Zabini is indeed difficult to deal with. His mother left her son and her husband and fled to Bulgaria." The Death Eater's face was smug, "But it is not difficult to deal with Parkinson. Pansy Parkinson's mother is in long-term treatment at St Mungo's, she has been diagnosed as mentally ill and would be the most suitable hostage if necessary."

"mental illness?"

"The details are still unclear, but the source is reliable." The Death Eater lowered his voice, "It was revealed to us by a healer who was previously favored by Malfoy."

"Very good." An imperceptible sneer flashed across Yaxley's face, "You should tell the master the news."

The Death Eater showed a distressed look: "The master has ordered Snape to take full charge of Hogwarts affairs, and the Carlo brothers and sisters will assist. However, Snape did not raise any doubts about Pansy Parkinson's position. "

"Oh..." Yaxley snorted faintly, "Of course, Snape is our hero after all."

Instead of asking the Death Eater any more questions, he dismissed him after a few pleasantries.

"You don't seem to trust Snape that much." Umbridge, who had been observing secretly, said sharply, "Are you jealous of him?"

Yaxley's face was gloomy, but he ignored Umbridge's last provocative words: "I heard that Snape once prevented you from stepping down. It seems that you still have a grudge about it, don't you. It's a pity he It's not someone you can offend now."

"He's just a slick old man!" Umbridge exclaimed angrily. "Say what you want, Yaxley, but he obviously annoys you!"

"Regardless of what the Dark Lord thinks, I've always had reservations about Snape." Yaxley turned to Umbridge with a downcast face, "but it's none of your business. After all, Snape doesn't need Use a fake locket to hide your parentage!"

Umbridge changed color in embarrassment: "Why do you—"

"I know exactly what you are, Umbridge, it's different now than when Fudge was in power, don't take yourself too seriously!" Yaxley reminded meanly, "Now you can go , I also want to speak a few words with the minister."

Sinix, who had been cast with the Imperius Curse, sat obediently on the chair, turning a deaf ear to their words.

- December 12 - Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

The snow piled up on the grounds of Hogwarts little by little.Pansy stood on the bridge and looked at the castle and the Whomping Willow in the distance. Her heart became heavy because of some inexplicable things.

"Pansy!" A figure shouted from the other end of the bridge, Blaise ran over quickly, he didn't wear a scarf, his face was flushed from the cold, but his expression was very excited, "I found something, you must know .”

Pansy raised his eyebrows: "Is it related to the Dark Lord?"

"No." Blaise restrained his smile a bit, and tremblingly pulled out a piece of parchment from his robe pocket, "I think I deciphered what was in the note your mother wrote to Olivia."

Pansy was stunned: "What?" She asked in a raised voice in surprise.

"Hush!" Blaise made a silent gesture, he unfolded the parchment, and the top line copied the original text on the note, "I have checked a few ancient magic scripts these days to see if there are any What is the mystery, it turned out that these letters are actually a string of codes. I tried to decipher them today, and the result I got was a sentence—”

He pointed to the line below.

"'Don't go the old way, go the new way,'" Pansy read out. "That doesn't make sense."

"Yes. I couldn't translate the whole sentence, so I guessed part of it. But I think the gist of the sentence is 'don't make the same mistakes again.'"

Pansy nodded in agreement, pointing to the third row: "Then what is this?"

"This is the cipher obtained by retranslating it with arithmetic and divination. The process is more complicated, but I believe I have translated it correctly." Blaise replied, "'I end where I started'—what do you think?"

"I don't understand." Pansy raised her hand to brush the snow particles that fell on her eyelashes, "This must refer to something that only she and Olivia can understand, but Olivia is so crazy After so many years, why does she think she can still understand the meaning of the note? What's more, there are actually three sentences hidden in this note!"

"Frankly, I don't think we'll be able to figure out what the next two sentences mean anytime soon," Blaise said, "but I'm curious about the first sentence—'that baby is dead', which obviously It refers to the real Rozier's heir, and this note must have been sent to Olivia after the child died. So this brings up two questions: first, what is Olivia when she got it? Second, why did she give the note to Violet instead of you?"

Pansy shook her head, "I don't know."

"If we keep checking, we may get more things, it just takes a little effort."

"Brace," Pansy said softly, she refused to read the note, but stared at the distant mountains in the snow, "I actually don't care about these past things anymore, I don't want to be entangled by them any longer."

"I know." Blaise replied calmly, "I just want you to know that if you take the time to decipher, a note will show you more than you expected."

Pansy turned around in surprise.And Blaise just shrugged and talked about something else: "Come on, it's almost lunch time."

The author has something to say:

Note:

1. Old Mrs. Burst hates Cornelia, but she likes power better.

2. ["They did this to me for a while..."]: Olivia refers to 1976 before Signus and others officially started to do things.

3. [Ring]: As mentioned above, Cornelia left it at the Greengrass house when she was in orphanage.Also as Sean said, the night the Death Eaters burned Rozier Manor, they took what they felt they needed to take.Lucius took the diary (Voldemort gave it to Evan for safekeeping), and the opal necklace made by Cornelia was also taken away and left in the Bojinbok shop.The "ancestor's bone" in the opal necklace material was mentioned in the previous article: Cornelia took away the remains of her mother (that is, Edmund's mother) in the tomb.

4. [Yaxley and Snape]: At the beginning of the seventh book of the original book, Yaxley and Snape had a disagreement over when Harry moved from the Dursleys' house, and Voldemort believed Snape's words

5. [Umbridge and Snape]: Near the end of the fifth book, when Umbridge asked Snape to interrogate Harry with Veritaserum, Snape mocked her

6: [I end at the beginning]: This is the opposite of "I open at the end" in the original book

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