HP Midnight Light

"Don't forget my little party tomorrow night." After Thursday's potions class, Slughorn specifically told Cornelia, Olivia, and Regulus, "A former student of mine Come too, he has just been selected for the Irish national team this year. I guess Regulus will be very happy to see him." After getting an affirmative answer, Slughorn showed a satisfied smile, and then he saw the Hyacinth, "Miss White," his voice suddenly cooled down, "Next year will be the OWLs year, you know it's very important, right?"

"Um……"

"So if I were you, I wouldn't have the attitude I have now." Slughorn said sarcastically, "in case the grades become too ugly."

Hyacinth nodded repeatedly, and Slughorn was too lazy to talk nonsense with her. He chatted with the other three cordially for a few more words, then turned and left, as if she had become transparent.

The atmosphere was a little stagnant.

"Snob!" Olivia cursed softly at Slughorn's back.

Cornelia glanced at Hyacinth's face, and coughed lightly: "Anyway, we were just going for a walk, and his party was quite boring."

"Then I will go to the library to study tomorrow as the dean ordered." Hyacinth smiled pretending to be indifferent, "Slughorn is still the same..."

Olivia hesitated to speak, but Regulus spoke before her: "That's right, can you help me find a book in the restricted-book section?"

"Regu!" Olivia was taken aback.Cornelia "hush" her:

"Have you finished reading the book I told you during the summer vacation?"

Olivia stared at Cornelia in shock: "Leah!"

"Don't worry." Cornelia comforted in turn, "It's just an advanced potion guide."

Hyacinth didn't know what this so-called "advanced" meant.However, Olivia's eyebrows were already knitted together: "Then who recommended the book you are looking for now? Signus? I want to warn him not to do such a thing again!"

"Now there are more forbidden books secretly passed on in Slytherin, and those senior students have been secretly practicing some spells." Cornelia said nonchalantly, "Signus himself is an expert in it. .”

"Signus is Signus, and Regulus is Regulus." Olivia looked at Regulus sternly, "You promised me not to touch these black magics at least until the OWLs exam!"

"That's just a gimmick, Ollie."

"I'm just learning about it." Regulus quibbled, "You should read that book, Ollie, and then you'll see how superficial the knowledge we've learned in Potions class is. You know Stein Laghorn repeatedly praised Snape as a potion genius, right? If he hadn't found some inspiration from some places, how could he have made so many innovations." He then lowered his voice, "The book I'm looking for Bella told me about the book, and she said that the Dark Lord started from that book..." Regulus said with admiration, Hyacinth was stunned, and Olivia's face flashed A trace of astonishment, but Cornelia has already asked excitedly:

"Bella told you?"

"Yes."

"Then you must get it, Regu!" Cornelia's eyes were shining brightly, "Did Bella tell you anything else?"

"She just told me to get the book first," Regulus replied, turning to Hyacins with a hint of pleading in his tone, "Can you—"

"I can get it, Regulus." Cornelia volunteered, but Regulus shook his head:

"The gossip says that this Friday is Mrs. Pince's birthday. In the evening, she will go to the Three Broomsticks to celebrate. When she comes back, she will definitely drink a little too much, so Friday night is the best time to start, Because there will be Slughorn's party that night, Mrs. Pince will definitely relax her vigilance..."

"Hyase." Cornelia called her name, and she didn't say anything, but the meaning behind her words was already very obvious.

"Okay..." Hyacinth was in a dilemma, "I could try, but if I didn't—"

"That's not your fault." Regulus quickly excused, "Bella herself admitted that the book might have been confiscated long ago."

"Great." Cornelia said briskly, "I'll forge a note signed by Slughorn and give it to you, and you just do as I tell you."

"Forged note?" Hyacinth was frightened, "If found out, I will be fired."

"It's not that serious. I'll add some extra confusion agents to ensure the success of the plan." Cornelia coaxed, "If it doesn't work, you can just run away. Whether you can get the book or not is another matter."

"Hyase, it's okay if you don't want to." Regulus said, "I can find another way myself."

But now she can only bite the bullet and agree: "Well... let me try."

At this moment, Olivia hummed lightly from the side.

"Come on." Cornelia said first, "You don't want Regulus to fail to keep up with the Slytherin trend, do you? His surname is 'Black'! Not to mention the relationship with Bella..."

"Ollie." Regulus tugged at her sleeve and whispered something next to her ear. Hyacinth couldn't hear the content clearly, but Olivia's face paled slightly:

"Really?" she questioned.

"Of course." Regulus promised, "You'll see."

"That can't be done, Mr. Lupine, you know the rules of the school." As soon as Hyacinth walked to the door of the library, she heard Mrs. Pince's laughter. Her laughter was quite different from usual, which can be seen from Regulus The grapevine is reliable, "unless you have a note signed by the professor."

"It's Friday night, Mrs. Pince. Can't you be more accommodating?"

When Hyacinth walked in, Mrs. Pince was sitting behind the information desk with a faint blush on her face, and the four predators stood in a row opposite her.

"No, Mr. Potter." Mrs. Pince refused with a smile and shook her head, "Ah—Miss White?"

"I'm here to borrow a book," Hyacinth tried her best to behave as usual, "this is a note signed by Professor Slughorn..."

Peter made an odd sound.

"Hey! Hyacinth!" James interrupted her suddenly enthusiastically, "I was going to tell you something, come on—" He dragged Hyacinth out of the library without any explanation.

"Potter!"

"A note signed by Slughorn?" The other hand pulled away Cornelia's forged note, and Sirius looked at the signature on it, "With all due respect, why do I think it looks a bit fake? He looked down at Hyacinth. "You look a little guilty, little girl."

"Give it back to me!" Hyacinth jumped up to snatch it, but Sirius easily lifted it out of her reach:

"And it smells a bit of potion on it, don't you think, Moonface?"

Remus took the note and smelled the ink on it.

"I'm guessing it's the delusion potion," Sirius said.

"should be."

"You have a very dangerous idea, little girl."

Deciding to keep quiet, Hyacinth found herself in a trap.

"Hey, don't be so scary, Padfoot." James said with a smile, "How about this way: let's take this note away, and then promise not to tell anyone the mystery of it—"

"Why don't you return the note to me," Hyacinth suggested cautiously, "then let's just pretend nothing happened."

"That won't work. Or do you want us to give it to Professor Slughorn?"

Hyacinth thought about this possibility for a while, but she was relieved: "Then you hand it over. Anyway, he knows that I don't have the ability to prepare the confusion potion."

"Why are you like this!" James jumped, "You will be expelled for forging a professor's note, don't you know?"

Hyacinth looked indifferent: "Maybe I can sue Professor McGonagall before I am expelled." Hyacinth thought that McGonagall was much stricter than Slughorn.

Sure enough, there was a trace of something bad on James' face, and he smirked: "Don't be like this. Go back to our original plan. As compensation, I can give you ten private photos for free. The three of them You take your pick. You can give Sirius' share to your friend..."

"Thank you for your kindness, Potter," Hyacinth sneered, "but there's enough firewood in Slytherin's fireplace, and there's no need for them to add to the building blocks. You can keep those pictures, whether it's a paper airplane or when Scratch paper must be fine."

James' expression suddenly became indescribable. He glanced back at Sirius, who flicked the note in his hand slowly: "Then...we will lend you this note. We will help you with any books you want. You take it." He had a particularly gracious expression, "What do you think?"

"I'll get my book myself." Hyacinth's nerves tensed.

"Okay, whatever you want." Sirius agreed tolerantly, and he handed the note to Remus, "Go to Mrs. Pince."

"Why me?" Remus tried to evade, "You just go—"

"Mrs. Pince likes you, and she knows you're a very good prefect." James chimed in with a smirk, "Go Moonface, we'll help you."

A reluctant Remus was forcibly wheeled into the library, and the moment he handed the note to Mrs Pince Hyacins heard Sirius whisper something she couldn't understand.

"What's that?" She couldn't help asking.

"Confusion Curse." James said habitually, "Aren't you from Slytherin?" The implication was obviously that you Slytherins should play bigger.

"The way Slytherin stole the forbidden book is actually a fake note with confusion agent." Sirius took a breath, "Couldn't this be Cornelia Rozier's bad idea? ?”

Did you know that this book is actually what your brother wanted?Hyacins thought.And it was recommended to your brother by your cousin.

James had some doubts: "Is Rozier's IQ that low?"

"It's not high anyway." Sirius replied, "Okay, we're done." Remus was already waving at them.

It was only then that Hyacinth discovered the effect of the Confusion Charm—Mrs. Pince didn't pick up the book herself, but scribbled a circle on the fake note and let them move freely in the library.According to the original plan that Cornelia told her, the confusion potion would interfere with Mrs. Pince's thinking. At this time, if Hyacinth asked for the book herself, there was a certain probability that she would agree.

Comparing the two, Hyacinth realized with some heartache that Cornelia seemed to have really come up with a bad idea.

"Next is your task." Remus angrily threw the schoolbag on the table near the restricted-book area, "I'm here to cover."

"Peter," James said habitually, "you go."

"I'll go." Before James could agree, Sirius had walked around the bookshelf and entered the restricted area.

"Did he take the wrong medicine?" James asked Peter in surprise, before turning to Hyacinth, "What are you still doing here?"

Hyacinth gave him a blank look and then walked into the restricted-book area.

This place was as scary as she had imagined: dimly lit, densely packed books stretched from the floor to extremely high positions, casting terrifying shadows between the bookshelves.

"No. 18, the second book from the bottom on the bottom shelf from the left." Hyacinth silently read the location Regulus told her, while moving as fast as possible.Despite the Marauders' "reputation", she still dare not 100% trust their level of enchantment.

Sure enough, she found the thick and astonishing tome of the history of magic that Regulus had said there.From the outside, it looks plain, even covered with dust, but when it is opened in the middle, it reveals a hidden mystery: someone cut out the second half of the book from the middle, and hidden a book wrapped in black kraft paper, tied up. Rubber band booklet.

This is the book that the Dark Lord read in the legend.

Hyacinth's heart was pounding, and she rolled it up a little and stuffed it into the inside pocket of her robe.The moment she stood up, Hyacinth suddenly found a shadow much taller than her cast on the wall next to her——

"what!"

The second half of Hyacinth's scream was choked out in her throat, and after she struggled a bit, she heard Sirius' voice:

"Hush! If you promise not to make a sound, I will let go."

Hyacinth nodded repeatedly, and then he kept his promise and let her go.Hyacinth found him holding up the lit wand, so he must have seen her every move just now.

"Are you following me?" Hyacinth asked in shock.

"What book did you take?" Sirius asked back, "Worth being hidden in such a safe place?"

"None of your business!" Hyacinth provocatively said, "What book do you think Slytherin will come to steal in District X? Hmm?"

Sirius laughed instead: "You can't even use the Confusion Charm and the Confusion Potion, and you can learn black magic?"

"What about you?" Hyacinth felt that her personality had been insulted, "Don't tell me that you came to the forbidden-book area to find magic to save the common people."

"In a sense it does."

Hyacinth felt what it was like to be cornered by Cornelia on the train: "Get out of the way!"

Sirius made way obediently, and Hyacinth walked quickly towards the safe area in three steps and two steps at a time.

"Lupine!" she darted straight at the mildest-looking Remus as soon as she was in the bright light. "Give me back my note!"

Remus looked innocent: "What note?"

"Stop pretending," Hyacinth sneered, "it's the one you took from me."

"Oh, that!" James interjected, "You know, we'd like to keep it as a small souvenir... Besides, we didn't say how long the 'borrow' is for!"

Hyacinth was silent for a moment.James and Remus exchanged quick, silent glances.

"Very well." She finally realized why the rest of Slytherin said that the Marauder was mentally ill, "I kind of know!"

She threw her schoolbag over her shoulder and strode towards the information desk: "Mrs. Pince!" The dazed librarian was startled by her, "You know, I have a good suggestion." Hire "Maybe you should consider giving some people a safe zone and not letting them out of your sight for half a second," Sins said.

She ran out the door before Mrs. Pince had time to reply.

"I said," James looked at Sirius who appeared next to Remus at some point, "We might be in trouble."

"She didn't make that note," Sirius replied, "I guess Rozier, or maybe more—"

"No." James shook his head weakly, pointing ahead of them.

"Gentlemen," asked Mrs. Pince gravely, "can any of you explain to me what just happened?"

"us--"

"Also, Mr. Lupine, as a prefect, you should know that sitting near the restricted-book area is actually a bad thing." The librarian looked at them one by one unkindly, "Maybe that table will It's more suitable for you."

She pointed to the one in the middle of the library.

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Note:

In 1975, the Marauders were in fifth grade, the year they became Agmanis, according to Lupine's recollection in "The Prisoner."

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