HP Midnight Light

"...the Far Eastern heritage has been mixed with gravel. Also gradually alienated from us are the British patients - a few days ago I received a warning from an enthusiastic person who warned me to be wary of patients. I believe that this patient is completely terminally ill and there is no cure for it. I have temporarily found a new helper, and my love is willing to help me organize the paperwork to lighten my burden. I must pay special attention to every move of the pearl, and I am worried about her The alienation will further expand in a year, and it will bring unnecessary troubles to you, me and many people... Dear Gryffindor allies will leave the castle soon, and there is no doubt that they will advance to our real trouble, not to mention the fact that there is now a depraved Slytherin in the mix..."

The door was knocked lightly twice, and Lucius put down the letter in his hand: "Please come in, dear."

Narcissa came in with a cup of coffee, she put the steaming coffee on the table, turned around and came behind Lucius and pressed his shoulder for him: "Did Signus write again?"

"Yes, he has repeatedly emphasized to me the difficulties he is facing." Lucius held Narcissa's hand and sneered, "He just wants to get my promise. You must have seen how urgent he is." I want to secure my position."

Narcissa lowered her eyes and stared at the thick stack of letters beside the table: "What did he say this time?"

"Rozier's daughter makes him feel threatened, Parkinson has his own opinion and refuses to be controlled by him, and it seems that these two pawns are about to be out of his control. In addition, he also warned me that the predators will soon will join the camp of the White Wizard..."

"He wants you to realize that you are in the same boat." Narcissa glanced over the letter, "I thought Signus was a smart guy, but I didn't expect him to be in the same boat as Rozier and Parkinson." lingering on issues."

"Parkinson doesn't pose any threat to him, he just doesn't want Rozier to overwhelm him. But I'm also disappointed that he will be held back by Rozier." Lucius re-read the letter , "He also said that Maggie was helping him sort out the paperwork, and he also mentioned the Slytherin girl we had a relationship with once."

"He hopes to bind us tightly through the relationship between Regu and Maggie?" Narcissa observed her husband's expression, "What do you think?"

Lucius pondered for a moment: "He should be very clear that this kind of clinging seems to be solid but meaningless, so I guess he is just testing us." He unfolded a blank parchment and picked up the quill, "If you have time If so, please ask your sister to visit once, Sissy."

"Lucius, how ambitious do you think Signus is?" Narcissa asked after hesitating for a while.

"I can't say. But I'm curious how far he can go." Lucius read the letter from Young Signus, "After all, he has many competitors."

"...I believe that a mere patient should not be enough to make you feel threatened. As for that pearl, as long as you can show convincing means and courage, I think the adults will definitely favor you. This kind of blood relationship Inheritance does bring certain advantages, but don't forget that your surname was once compared to the noble Black. All in all, instead of panicking over the legacy of the Far East, consider how to restore the past glory. "

Hyacinth put down her pen, and gently pushed the translated letter to Sirius.He picked it up and read it roughly, and couldn't help laughing: "It seems that your Slytherin pride is facing a bad situation at this time."

"Is this letter addressed to Signus?"

"That's right." Sirius folded up the letter, "Your old friend Cornelia is about to tear himself apart."

"What do you think will happen next, Sirius?"

"I'm afraid nothing will happen. If Signus hadn't lost his mind, he would have read this letter knowing that he should be dealing with Death Eaters instead of a Slytherin Dark Arts group. At least not in the short term." Infighting with Rozier." Sirius tidied up the things on the table, "We're trying to get Rozier's letter or something... that way we can know what she's up to, but she's better than Signus is far more cautious and cunning, and we're not even sure where she'll put the letter..."

Hyacinth was lost in thought, Signus occupied the Room of Requirement, and Cornelia rarely appeared in the dormitory and lounge, so, what kind of place did she find to carry out secret activities without doing anything for nothing? What do others know?

"Hyatings, Hyacinth?"

She blinked, and Sirius was looking at her worriedly: "I'm sorry, are you too tired?" He looked at the time, "Maybe we should reduce some tasks."

"No, I was just thinking about something. What were you talking about?"

"I said we were considering someone who could replace us at Bosworth's Corps, and I wanted to hear your thoughts."

"Me?" Hyacinth was a little surprised.

"Yes, you." Sirius waved the letters happily, "You don't realize how important they are, do you?"

Under his expectant eyes, Hyacinth thought seriously for a while: "Dirk Cresswell?"

"He is indeed very qualified, and he is also a bitch wizard." Sirius agreed, but he immediately asked tentatively, "Then have you considered yourself?"

Hyacinth froze for a moment, and quickly denied, "No. I'm not suitable to be a leader, um... Maybe it's not unsuitable, but I'm happier when I work behind the scenes. Why do you ask? "

When he met those smoky eyes, Sirius felt suffocated again: "It's nothing, just asking casually. I find that you have become a lot more confident recently-I mean, compared to before .”

"Then I have to thank you." Hyacinth lowered her head and began to organize the ink tank and quill in front of her. "Well... you are quite contagious." She said uncomfortably, and then added to explain for herself, "I don't have to be careful with you, I'm very happy anyway." The more he said, the more chaotic, Sirius rested his chin and looked at the tips of her red ears:

"It's half an hour before the curfew, do you want to practice the spell?"

"Okay." Hyacinth drew out her wand, "Whirlwind—"

But Sirius suddenly got up and walked behind her, reached out to hold her hand: "No, your hand should shake faster, like this—a whirlwind!"

-February 1978, 2-

"Get up, Sirius, and be a brave man!" James chattered while standing on Sirius' bedside, "Today is your last Valentine's Day at Hogwarts!"

"Forget about Valentine's Day." Remus entered the door angrily, holding a large stack of chocolates in his hand, James couldn't even see his face, "This is what the enthusiastic girls insisted on me at breakfast." Come back and give it to Sirius." He let go of boxes of chocolates and let them fall on Sirius' bed, while Peter also struggled to hold at least fifteen boxes of chocolates:

"I'm so glad this is the last Valentine's Day! There won't be any trouble like this again." As soon as James took the pile of candy, Peter fell to the ground.

"It's because of the last Valentine's Day that they are so enthusiastic." Remus rubbed his sore arms, looking helplessly at Sirius who pulled up the quilt and pretended he wasn't awake, "He's planning to die on the bed ?"

"I think it's very possible." James reached for the box of chocolates closest to him, and read the card on it aloud, "'Your black hair is as smooth as ink, and it seems to me that you are missing a pair of hands They comb carefully; maybe when the love is strong, I will--'I can't read any more, this girl must be trying to do something dangerous to you, and you will have to go around when you see her in the future."

"This one too: 'If you're willing to peel off the candy wrapper, you'll see my fiery heart', she must have put in the love potion." Peter snickered and read the contents of the note.

Remus simply grabbed a box too: "'Don't turn a blind eye to me! I will curse you with a hundred curses!', this is not good! Some Muggle novels in my family are like this: Girls Because of love and hatred, they do some crazy things that leave readers speechless. In a book, the heroine even had to choose to imprison the hero because of love."

Peter felt incredible: "What kind of book is this?"

"A very famous Muggle romance novel." Remus shook the card in his hand, "The heroine is a countess, and her husband seems to be at odds with her husband. The heroine is a knight under the earl, who was supposed to fight the world, who In order to win his heart, the countess went to a witch and cast a spell on the knight—a certain monologue of the countess was exactly the same as what was written on this card!"

"What kind of novels are you reading, Moonface!" Sirismon sarcastically sarcastically under the quilt, "You are really more and more dangerous!"

"I'm trying to convince this guy to ask Hyacinth to hang out or something, but he refuses to live and die, and I don't know why he is shy." James sighed again and again, walked over to the full-length mirror and began to organize himself , "If the NEWTs test 'how to chase girls', Padfoot will definitely get a T! At this rate, he won't make any progress in another ten years."

"What do you know?" Sirius sneered, pulling the quilt off his face, "Things should be done gradually and slowly."

"Whatever you say, but if you take your time like this, I think Edmund Parkinson of Slytherin will be one step ahead." James tried to flatten his hair one last time, and talked with everyone before angering Sirius. Farewell, "Goodbye!" Of course he has a date with Lily today.

"So what about Parkinson, Hyacinth doesn't like him at all." Sirius stretched and said confidently.

"We saw Parkinson at breakfast just now, and he looked refreshed and triumphant." Remus said sadly, "If something goes wrong, there must be a monster."

Under such continuous bombing, even Sirius couldn't help feeling a little guilty.

"Okay, okay, I'll go take a look." He muttered, checking the time, but it was still very early, and most of the Hogwarts students were probably still in bed.

But when they climbed out of the rest door, they found Hyacinth standing outside with a face of panic: "I have something to tell you!" She said impatiently.

Last night, Hyacinth was woken up in the middle of the night by a slight noise from the next door. It turned out that it was Cornelia calling her and Olivia's names in a low voice.When Hyacinth was about to respond, she heard rustling sounds from the next door. She gently lifted the curtain of the bed, and saw Cornelia tiptoely put on her robe and left the bedroom.

She remembered that Sirius and the others were trying to obtain the correspondence between Cornelia and other people, so she got up quietly and followed them out, only to find that Cornelia left the lounge familiarly.She followed at a distance, and Cornelia didn't seem too worried about being followed, only looking around when turning and going up the stairs.Therefore, Hyacinth was able to follow all the way to the second floor smoothly.

"But Filch happened to be coming from the other end of the corridor as I was following the second floor, so I had to hide in an empty classroom as close as possible. When I came out after he left, Cornelia had disappeared Where. I'm sure she didn't go up to the third floor, because I caught a glimpse of her walking along the corridor on the second floor, and Filch went directly to the third floor..." Hyacinth finished in one breath, "Then I walked along the corridor. I walked around the second floor, but I didn’t hear any sound and saw no trace of anyone. I was worried about being discovered, so I went back to the dormitory as soon as possible, and Cornelia came back almost an hour later.”

"There aren't any secret passages on the second floor." Peter seemed frightened by the story Hyacinth narrated, he said sharply, rolling his eyes between Remus and Sirius, "There's no way she built a passage by herself .”

"If only we had the Marauder's Map," Remus said.

"what is that?"

"A map we used to use as a prank was confiscated by Filch last year because of James' carelessness." Sirius frowned, "So, it is very likely that Rozier is not the first time to leave in the middle of the night Slytherin dorm?"

"I don't know, I was woken up yesterday because of insomnia, maybe she did this before, but—" Hyacinth stopped talking, "Are you going to investigate this matter?"

"Of course." Sirius' eyes sparkled, "This is a big breakthrough, if we can know where Rozier is carrying out her activities, then we can know what she is doing - just wait for me. " He hurriedly gave the order to return to the Gryffindor common room.

"This is a very important clue, thank you." Remus also said sincerely, "We have been trying to figure out what Rozier is doing since this semester, but she didn't even give a clue. We will stay. But this time with your clues, we may be able to obtain a lot of useful information."

"She is really careful." Hyacinth nodded.Cornelia never left any discarded parchment, she must burn them on the spot; the cabinets and drawers in the bedroom are always double-secured with alarm locks and spells.If it wasn't for the accidental insomnia last night, she didn't think she would have known that Cornelia would be adventurous in the middle of the night anyway.

At this time Sirius came out again: "I have already contacted James with the double-sided mirror, and he said that he and Lily will be back soon."

"Are you sure he's not mad? You're messing with his well-planned date."

"Of course I'm sure, Lily is also yelling at the side to come back as soon as possible." Sirius said, "They said to meet at the secret passage on the fifth floor."

"The secret passage on the fifth floor?" Hyacinth asked suspiciously.

"There are a lot of secrets in Hogwarts. I doubt that the castle itself is alive and can do magic tricks." Sirius said as he trotted downstairs with them, "Of course, Hyacinth, you also Will it be kept a secret from us?"

While speaking, they had come to a large mirror on the fifth floor. Hyacinth watched Peter step forward and scratched an inconspicuous and unique relief on the mirror. Under her dumbfounded gaze, the relief slowly transformed into Got a doorknob!With a slight twist, Peter opened the mirror outward.

"This is a door!" Hyacinth was dumbfounded.

"That's right." After the door was fully opened, it was dark inside, and Remus walked in first. He waved his wand, and the torches on the walls on both sides were lit, illuminating this spacious but long secret passage , "This passage leads to the unloading area outside the Devis and Bans store in Hogsmeade. But this is not the best place--" Remus led them forward for a distance, and then he Standing still somewhere, Hyacinth looked at it for a while before realizing that there was a door on the right that almost merged with the wall. Remus opened it and led them in. Inside was a very small room. The room has no windows and no decoration, just a round table and a few chairs.

"Although I don't know who dug this passage, but the person who designed it is quite considerate." Sirius said, while pulling out a chair for Hyacinth, "I think James and the others are coming soon."

Hyacinth couldn't help but look around: "Is this your usual secret base?"

"We have so many secret strongholds, this is just one with a better environment—ah, James!" The door was pushed open, and James and Lily rushed in panting:

"We're going full steam ahead, brothers—and sisters! All Hogsmeade thinks we're breaking up!"

Lily pushed James away: "Tell me what's going on, Hyacinth."

Hyacinth had to retell the story, and finally added her own guess: "I think Cornelia has been doing this for a long time, because she seems to be quite familiar with it, if not at all. nervous feeling."

"I doubt whether she does this every day, or whether she has a fixed or irregular time." Lily was the first to speak, "If she walks like this every day..." She glanced at the four predators, "How could she do it once? You didn't hit me."

James continued: "Hyase said she was not invisible or nervous, so she probably spent a long time researching the various problems that might be encountered along the way."

"There is also a worse possibility that she is very confident that she can quickly solve any obstacles that may arise on the way." Sirius said heavily, "If this is the case, it would be terrible."

"But—" Remus glanced at Hyacinth hesitantly, "Are you sure she doesn't know you're following her? After all, it's such a long distance."

Hyacinth's heart skipped a beat, and the five people at the table all looked at her: "I think... no?"

"Don't do it a second time." After a while, Lily shook her head and said, "That's too dangerous, Rozier is not easy to deal with." She glanced at the other four people, "These days you I have already started translating those letters, and you must have noticed that even Signus is quite afraid of Rozier."

"You should know that her father is Evan Rosier, a notorious Death Eater, so we are worried that she has learned a lot from him." Sirius promised instead, "Leave this matter to Let's go, don't follow her any more, okay? For your own safety."

"If necessary, you can consider repairing your relationship with Sister Signus." Remus continued to suggest, "Although she will definitely be more inclined to her brother, considering the influence of Regulus Rozier must be cautious about his relationship with her, otherwise he will dig his own grave. Therefore, if Signus's sister is willing to restore the old relationship with you, for her sake, Rozier will not dare to do anything to you easily .”

"But Regulus—" Hyacinth glanced at Sirius quietly, "I always thought that his position in the Black Magic Group...was not very high."

"That's only in the group, Signus is too much to cover the sky with one hand. In fact, the Dark Lord is eager to win over a few pure-blood families who are light-hearted. Even if we push Sirius in front of him, the Dark Lord will be happy to push him away." Be a guest at the table and don't ask about him running away from home." James' words were exchanged for Sirius' laughter, "On the other hand, Signus is also worried that Regulus' sharpness will easily overshadow him, So he's hoping he can use his sister to get Regulus to serve as his servant wholeheartedly—these Slytherins are a mess."

"If you ask me, Regulus shouldn't be so stupid, otherwise he wouldn't be the 'proud young master' of the Black family. This is Kreacher's famous saying, and it used to be at least in front of me every day. Say it aloud twenty times."

"I'm afraid you don't know, the last time I had a conversation with Olivia was not a pleasant one. I tried to make her understand that Signus was using her, but she didn't seem to care."

"Of course she will trust her brother more, not to mention that love always makes people blind." Remus didn't care about this.

"You might as well go to Margaret, she might be willing to help." Sirius said, "but from now on you have to beware of Rosier. Speaking of which, I can teach you a very useful little jinx." Rees pulled out his wand at a very fast speed and pointed at James, a flash of light flashed, and with the sound of Peter gasping for air, James was hung upside down in the air by the power of the spell, and his robe fell to cover his body. Head, Hyacinth covered her mouth desperately to keep herself from laughing—James was actually wearing a Muggle suit and trousers!And those shiny leather shoes!

"Enough is enough! You stupid dog!" Jaime yelled angrily.

Hyacinth suddenly remembered that this was the spell James had cast on Snape when the Marauders and Snape had an argument after the OWLs two years ago.However, unlike last time, Lily was the first to laugh happily, explaining to Hyacinth: "Look, if you cast this spell on anyone, that person will let go without warning." wand in the

After James had given up struggling, Sirius flicked his wand again, and James fell to the ground with a slam.

"If she really dares to do anything to you, come and tell us." Sirius thought for a while, "Let the predator teach Rozier how to behave."

After hearing the intention of Hyacinth, Margaret pondered for a moment: "I will try to persuade Signus and see if I can use his hand to influence Olivia."

Hyacinth nodded gratefully. She found that Margaret seemed to have lost a lot of weight, and her mental state did not look very good. "Are you all right?" she asked bluntly.

"It's not bad, it's just that I'm a little tired recently." Margaret didn't want to talk more, "Although I will try my best to help you and Olivia to facilitate the relationship, but the effect is still up to you. As far as I know you and Olivia Her last conversation ended badly, so I hope you don't say anything she doesn't want to hear," she said bluntly.

"Is it because of Sirius that you are willing to help me?" Hyacinth couldn't help asking again, "Are you friends?"

"No. Sirius is just my former marriage partner. I'm afraid Signus will not be happy to hear such words." Margaret flatly denied, "The only reason I'm helping you is because I saw you Slytherin's situation, it's just a small gesture of kindness."

She realized that Margaret's demeanor had become far more distant and polite, a change too hasty.To a certain extent, it was even suspicious. Reminiscent of Olivia's changes, Hyacinth couldn't help but wonder if Signus was responsible for it.

"Maggie, I think the time is almost up." Signus came out of the dormitory, he stopped three or four meters away from them, and looked at Margaret with questioning eyes.

"Here we come." Margaret closed the book on her lap, her expression became more and more indifferent, "Goodbye, Miss White."

She got up straight and walked away with Signus.

"What did she come to you for?" Signus asked after stepping out of the stone door.

Margaret stretched out her hand to stroke her hair, and withdrew her hand from Signus's arm without any trace: "Her words reminded me of something, why don't I talk about it in detail when there are few people."

On the way, the unmarried couple met Severus Snape on a narrow road. Naturally, Signus was able to greet Snape cordially, but Margaret didn't say a word except for the initial nod. Didn't even look at Snape more.

"You wouldn't be so indifferent to Severus, would you?" Signus asked tentatively.

By this time they had entered the Room of Requirement, and Margaret chimed, "I'm sorry, but when I saw him, I remembered how stupid I was."

Signus chuckled: "You seem to regret it?"

"Looking back now, I was really obsessed with ghosts at that time." Margaret said lightly, "But who hasn't been stupid? You don't mind the old things between me and Snape, Sig Nas, compared to him, you and I are obviously much better suited."

"Of course, I don't care about such a small matter." Signus smiled and sat down opposite her. "Let's talk about Hyacinth."

Margaret sorted out her thoughts a little bit: "She came to me suddenly and complained about some gossip about her and Gryffindor in Hogwarts. I then thought that although Hyacinth is nothing to be afraid of, if It doesn't seem like an option to let her get closer to Gryffindor like this."

"what do you mean?"

"Gryffindor wants to use this knife to cut our fingers, so why don't we turn the other way?" Margaret said, "Since she showed a little regret, we must forgive her for a moment regardless of the past. Confused." Margaret didn't go into details when she stopped talking.

Signus stared closely at Margaret's face, but she just calmly took out a small mirror from her robe pocket, tidied her hair, and then put the mirror away to wait for Signus' next words.Signus couldn't find anything suspicious in her demeanor and behavior, so he half-cast his eyes and began to seriously consider Margaret's proposal again.

Meanwhile, Cornelia and Edmund pass each other in the hallway outside the lounge.Their eyes only met for a short moment before they quickly avoided.It's just that Cornelia's mouth curled up into a smile, and Edmund nodded his head slightly invisibly.

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Note:

1. Pearl of the Far East: Dogwood (Cornelia) is native to East Asia.

2. The British Patient: Edmond Parkinson's Syndrome.The codenames Signus uses all imply his mockery of them.

3. Dirk Cresswell: A character in the original novel, one class lower than the pro-era, a witch of a kind.He was praised by Slughorn as a very talented person. He forged a fake family tree in "Death Hallows" but was discovered. He escaped on the way to Azkaban and met Dean Thomas and Teddy who were also at large. Tonks, later killed along with Teddy.

4. The passage behind the mirror on the fifth floor: It leads to somewhere in Hogsmeade, but it has collapsed during the child generation.

5. The Marauder's Map: The Predator was taken away by Filch while he was in school, the exact time is unknown.

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