HP Midnight Light

- January 1979, 4 - Order of the Phoenix headquarters

"Where's Marlene?"

"She wants to be alone for a while. I asked Emmeline to watch at the door." Dorcas came down the stairs with almost untouched food. "Would you like to contact Mary or Lily? Let Marlene go to them How many days are you staying at home?"

"Don't." Alice Longbottom shook her head, "Dumbledore is worried that Marlene will go to the Death Eaters for revenge on the spur of the moment, it's best to let her stay where we can intervene in time... according to him Meaning, we'd better wait for her to calm down before making further plans."

"I understand her," said Dorcas softly, "it's not something ordinary people can bear."

No one spoke.They may never forget the horror they saw when they stepped into McKinnon's house.

"She needs time." Frank squeezed his wife's hand and looked around at the people in the restaurant. "We can't relax. What happened to the McKinnons has proved that a moment of carelessness can be fatal. So I suggest——Everyone Strengthen the protective magic at home, carry wands with you..."

Moody yelled, "Stay alert!"

"Yes." Frank nodded.

"But how did the news get out?" asked Fenwick. "I'm not suggesting anything, but we always have to think of the worst."

"Yes, the worst-case scenario is that we have an insider among us!" cried Diggle. "Someone sold the news to the Death Eaters, and what could be worse?"

"Calm down, Diggle!" Dorcas shushed, pointing to the ceiling.Di Ge calmed down, still looking around the long table angrily:

"I believe that no one here will betray their teammates. But I still want to say: If anyone, under any circumstances, leaks the slightest information to the Dark Lord and his minions, then the Order of the Phoenix will never forgive this. people--"

"Maybe the situation is not that bad." Sturgis Podmore reassured, "I think this is a purposeful attack. If someone leaks the news, they should send more people to catch us."

"The Death Eaters have solved their own civil strife, and now they must be bent on counterattacking." Caradoc said, and several people's eyes fell on the two newspapers placed on the dining table.On one was the obituary of old Mr. Bulstrode, on the other Margaret and Signus' divorce declaration.

"When will Dumbledore come back?" Sirius asked, "I want to know further clues."

Accompanied by the sound of the voice falling to the ground, a golden-red light flashed across the room, and Dumbledore appeared in the dining room out of thin air, while Fox, the phoenix, landed directly on the back of a chair, singing softly.

"how's the progress?"

"Today Dolohov, Yaxley, and McNeil walked into the Pig's Head Bar, bragging to the people drinking there that they had slaughtered the McKinnon couple." Dumbledore looked at everyone, "Auror Command The search of McKinnon's house is over, they can't determine exactly what the Death Eaters took, because the house is a mess... I also went to the scene to check it out, so far I can confirm that, a few months ago, we The group photo that was taken is missing."

Several people in the room gasped.

"Everyone must step up their guard. This is not an ordinary threat." Dumbledore said calmly, but his blue eyes were burning with anger, "Notify your family and close friends, and ask them to be on alert too. McKinnon What happened to the couple was an out-and-out tragedy, and I don't want more of us to die."

"We were ready to fight those Death Eaters when we joined the Order of the Phoenix," James said loudly.His words were echoed by many people.

"Thank you, James." Dumbledore replied calmly, "but if possible, I hope that we can all live safe and sound."

"What if my parents want to do something for the Order?" Dorcas said suddenly, her eyes sparkling. "They're tired of letting other people fight while they're hiding out of the country. My parents plan to come back. Fought the Death Eaters."

"The Order of the Phoenix is ​​a secret organization, Dorcas." Edgar reminded in a low voice, "If everyone knew about it, the Order of the Phoenix would be no different from Aurors."

Dorcas broke off defiantly, and Caradoc gave her a look, then went on abruptly, "You're both right. People can fight the Death Eaters, or at least protect themselves, without joining an organization. I think The Ministry of Magic should write a guidebook to teach those inexperienced in combat how to defend, resist, fight back and escape, and perhaps St. Mungo's could add some tutorials on healing basic wounds." He looked at the Longbottoms. "Even Auror Command could send someone in to teach us the basics of fighting too - what do you think, Dumbledore?" He finally caught Dumbledore's eye.

"In my original concept, I didn't want the Order of the Phoenix to have too close a connection with the Ministry of Magic." Dumbledore said unhurriedly, he carefully looked at everyone present, they were all selected by him Carefully selected members of the Order of the Phoenix, everyone is ready to fight to the end against the Death Eaters, "but it's different now, Voldemort's ravages have exceeded my expectations, and so far we have not found any possibility The way to defeat him completely. Edgar is right, the Order of the Phoenix should not be fully exposed, but there are members of the Ministry of Magic among us, and people should unite when danger comes. The Order of the Phoenix will still be a secret organization, I I will personally talk to the Minister of Magic about Caradoc's vision. If your family and friends here also want to rush to the front line, my personal advice is: take it easy. Never be impulsive Get ready to face a horde of vicious Death Eaters."

"Has there been any Dark wizards in the history of magic who have stood up to the Dark Lord before this?" asked Benji Fenwick.

"Grindelwald," Podmore reminded him, "they're just as bad as each other."

Dumbledore blinked: "His name is 'Voldemort', Benji, and you should call him that, anyway, he will try to kill you anyway."

- 4 August - 13 Grimmauld Place

Walburga walked to the door of the study, she raised her hand and knocked symbolically to attract Regulus' attention: "Bella is here, she wants to see you."

Regulus' gaze was still glued to the book: "I'll come down right away."

Walburga simply walked in the door: "It's not like you to stay at home almost all day after you come back. Is it something that happened at school?"

"It's nothing, Mom." Regulus closed the book and carefully arranged the bookmarks, "Let's go."

Walburga was keenly aware of the subtle changes in Regulus. He became reticent and obsessed with books about ancient magic.Orion attributed this to Regulus finally getting enlightened, but Walburga didn't think so.She still clearly remembered how out of control Regulus had been that night.

"I told you what," Bella raised her eyebrows and took a sip of the whiskey, "Signus is off."

"Do you think he will never recover after this?" Kreacher immediately rushed over to offer Regulus' favorite black tea.

Bella pointed to the newspaper on the coffee table: "You haven't read today's newspaper, have you?"

"I spent the whole morning in the study." Regulus grumbled, and then read the inconspicuous news under Bella's guidance, "Margaret divorced him?"

"There is no publicity. But...the news always spreads quickly in private." Bella giggled triumphantly, "It is said that Signus has a mistress outside; the gossip is that it is because of the serious injury of Bestrode, Francis wanted to protect himself."

Regulus understood: "Then what is the real reason?"

"You and I don't need to know, Regu, smart people will pretend to be stupid at the right time." Bella gently folded the page of the newspaper, "Signus will not completely fall, but he has no chance of making a comeback ,Do you get me?"

"I have already clearly realized what kind of person Signus is." Regulus' face was slightly gloomy, and Bella looked at him and smiled:

"Now you can have your cake and eat it too. Signus will do everything he can to tie you—"

"He can't keep using Black."

Bella hooked her lips: "Oh?"

"He has neither the confidence nor the ability to come and compete with me again."

"Then what about your Olivia?"

"I love her, but that doesn't mean I have to feel pity for Signus as well." Regulus folded his fingers, "It's fine for him to be a pawn, and he doesn't need to worry about strategizing. .If Signus is conscious enough, he knows his time is over and it's time to step back."

"Your thoughts are the same as the Dark Lord's. He thinks that Signus is still useful, but only useful." Bella became serious, "Regu, the Dark Lord has ordered me to take you with me after you graduate , to teach you something..."

"I will not disappoint his expectations." Regulus replied.

Bella gave a satisfied smile.

"I just have a question I want to ask you: it's about a kind of magic that I'm curious about, but it's not recorded in books." Regulus said, "I'm thinking, since we can store memories and use portraits to preserve part of the mind, is it possible that we can separate part of the soul as well? Wouldn't we never 'die'?"

Living up to expectations, Bella answered happily: "Ah... I have heard of this kind of magic before, and it may not be exactly what you imagined. This kind of magic can split part of the soul, place it or attach it to the In terms of one thing, the principle is similar to pulling out memory and putting it in a glass bottle-yes, in theory, this is indeed a kind of 'immortality'."

"I've searched so many materials but haven't found this kind of magic."

"Because it is too advanced and dangerous, Regu." Bella giggled, "It will make your soul extremely unstable, and it is very likely that before you get eternal life, you will die because of your own mistakes or A side effect of magic and blown away."

"That's why people don't bring it up anymore?"

"That's right. If you look up the information, you will know how many wizards and witches have risked their lives in vain for the so-called immortality." Bella snorted at this, "You can just ask, Regu, don't Obsessed with immortality. Since ancient times, people who want to live forever have never met well."

"I know, I'm just curious." Regulus quickly replied, "But what is this kind of magic called?"

Bella frowned: "I don't know either. It must have been crossed off from various books for at least 20 years, and I heard it from hearsay."

"It doesn't matter anyway," Regulus said. "Eternal life doesn't sound like a good idea."

"That's right." Bella glanced at him approvingly, "It's better to focus on the real and useful magic. Here are a few books. You'd better start self-study in advance, after all, you will start to face magic in June." To the Aurors and the Order of the Phoenix."

- 4 April - The Mead Hotel, Central London

"Why did you choose this meeting place?"

"That way it won't be noticeable." Margaret pushed the thick stack of letters on the table over, "This is almost all I found."

"So much?" Sirius picked up the top parchment and scanned it roughly.

"The last period of time when the Borsted family was in chaos, it was the best time to steal secrets." Margaret said, "Unfortunately, there may not be many useful things, and Signus destroyed most of them. Letters, only a few words are left."

"It's better than nothing." Sirius put the letter back. "I haven't congratulated you on your new life."

"I can't thank you enough."

"Come on. Anyway, at least you don't have to stay there any longer."

Margaret sneered: "Look, this seems to be another common point between us—you and I both ended up escaping from a place we didn't want to be in."

"So what are you going to do next?"

"You should know this is the last time we'll see each other, right?"

"That's not necessarily true, maybe we'll have a chance to sit down and have a cup of tea together in the future." Sirius revealed a gentle smile, "And maybe we will invite you to our wedding, in a sense, you can be regarded as Our matchmaker."

"Married? I never thought that this kind of thing would happen to you!"

"Everyone says that, but people will always change. Maybe one day you will meet the right person, and then all previous declarations will become nonsense."

"You're pretty self-aware. Well, then I'll be more than happy to speak at your wedding and give the bride the best beauty potions."

"I would also like to thank you for the lovely little gift you gave Hyacinth..." Sirius realized that it was too late when he slipped his mouth, and he had to continue awkwardly, "... Slug Horn is right, you are indeed a master of potions."

Margaret was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly burst out laughing disregarding her image: "Did she use it? Did she really use it? My Merlin! How do you feel about using it? My God! When I gave it to her, no matter what I never thought that one day it would actually come in handy! Seriously, do you like it from a male point of view—”

"You really want me to describe the details to you?"

"Ha! Save those details that you didn't hear for yourself. If you have more needs, please feel free to contact me." Margaret patted the table, "Sirius, Sirius——"

"All right, all right," Sirius interrupted Margaret with a cough, "Let's talk about your next plan."

"No plan." Margaret restrained her smile a little, "My life is not as changeable as yours. The matter of Signus has exhausted me physically and mentally. It will take me a while to adjust, and then... Maybe in the future, I will study potions like my father did."

"You know what I'm referring to, Margaret." Sirius said sternly, "Voldemort will not let you father and daughter go easily, especially after what happened with Signus."

Margaret was silent, and it was a moment before she replied: "I haven't spoken to my father formally, but I think he will have a way."

"If possible, you'd better flee abroad," Sirius said. "Your father can't keep playing around with Voldemort."

"My father used to insist on neutrality, but the incident with Signus may have changed his mind." Margaret's tone was a little dignified, "If nothing else happens, this will indeed be the last time we meet. My father So much pressure has been put on me and now I have to take responsibility for myself."

"I understand. And you've never been easy to deal with." Sirius gave a short laugh, "But if you don't mind, I'm a little curious why you don't support the Death Eaters?"

Margaret frowned: "The reason is simple: they are too cruel. I realized this as early as my student days."

"You are friends with Narcissa, and you know Lucius very well."

"That's not a conflict. Unless Lucius becomes as mad as Signus."

"Then are you a pure-blood?"

"No," Margaret replied. "I think we should keep muggles out, but I don't think we're going to oppress mumpy wizards—well, I admit I have a bit of a gutsy disdain for mumps."

Sirius shrugged: "It's normal." He paused for a moment, "You've helped me a lot, I don't know how to—"

Margaret corrected him: "I'm not helping you, I'm helping myself."

"This is so strange." Sirius said suddenly without thinking, "I hate Slytherin, I hate Death Eaters, I hate the Black family, but I can never get rid of them."

"People's love and hatred are never pure. And what you hate is not them, but the blood and cruelty behind them." Margaret raised her eyes, "Narcissa had a miscarriage, did you know that?"

Sirius' body trembled: "That has nothing to do with me."

"I'm just telling you." Margaret smiled and was about to leave. "By the way, I found that your crazy cousin is not really bad at all."

"Let's reserve our opinions with each other." Sirius shook hands with Margaret, "I wish you all the best in the future."

Hyacinth felt that Sirius was very quiet today.

It wasn't until before going to bed that he suddenly asked her, "Does the Cruciatus hurt?"

"What?" Hyacinth thought she had heard wrong.

In the darkness, Sirius leaned closer to her: "The two Cruciatus Curses that Bella used on you must have been very painful, keeping you in the hospital for so long."

"It's been gone for a long time." Hyacinth asked worriedly, "What's the matter?"

Sirius reached out and stroked her spine slowly: "Black...I hate a lot of them."

Hyacinth stroked his cheek lightly.

"When I was very young, my mother would tell Regulus and me bedtime stories like Beedle the Bard and give us each a goodnight kiss. Later, when Bella went to bed for four Years, things were different...she came back from summer vacation with Voldemort clippings, poison-potions and dark magic bric-a-brac stuffed in her pockets...my parents, uncles and aunts were overjoyed, proud of her— —”

"Sirius, you're shaking!"

"Listen to me—then my mother's story turned to muggles being slaughtered and weeds being expelled. One day I asked her a question, and I forgot what I asked, but she was angry. She suddenly dragged me out of bed, then hit me hard with my father's belt in front of Regulus..."

"Shh! Stop it, stop it." Hyacinth hugged Sirius tightly, patting him on the back like a child.Sirius took her hand:

"Regulus cried and called my father, and I took the opportunity to run out of the room. She chased after her waving her belt like crazy, I was terrified, and then I missed the stairs and fell down the stairs..." He exhaled "When I woke up, my mother came in with a brand new whip with nails embedded in it and told me that if I didn't obey me again I would be punished... Later Andromeda told me secretly that it was Bella who treated me Mother said to nip the signs of rebellion in the bud."

Hyacinth shuddered, and now Sirius was patting her.After some time, he continued:

"Then I went to Gryffindor and became more and more against my parents and their position. I started to become what they called a 'rebellious son'. You know, I probably wouldn't have left home at 16 Running away, Margaret and my marriage contract was just a s***... During an argument during the summer vacation of fourth grade, I told my parents that I would not let them play like a puppet. My mother suddenly drew her wand and gave me the Cruciatus Curse—"

"How could she be like that!" Hyacinth cried out in disbelief, "You are her son! Son!"

"As I said, they were all mad," Sirius said calmly. "As soon as I got home the next year they took away my wand and put spells on the windows that I couldn't break. Trying to resist my mother cast the Cruciatus Curse on me again, and as I fell to the floor I heard her say she shouldn't have born me... A few days later, Regulus suddenly said something strange at dinner , that reminded me. That night, a note was slipped under my door saying where my mother hid my wand. I decided to take the risk. At midnight that night, I managed to find the key and took myself It's better for me to go anywhere than to stay here. When I walked into the attic, I found Narcissa standing there. She didn't say anything, just handed me a bag of galleons and a broomstick ..."

"It's all over, Sirius, you are free, no one here will use the Cruciatus Curse to punish you." Hyacinth coaxed softly, she buried her head in Sirius' arms, "I will accompany you You, you don't have to go back to Black's old house."

"Hyatings," Sirius whispered, "I used to think I would be driven mad by them in Grimmauld Place. If it weren't for James and the others accompanying me in those years, I might have..."

"Hush. It doesn't matter what you were like before, what matters is that you won't go crazy now, and you won't be hurt by them." Hyacinth combed his hair again and again.

"They say that the Black family is evil." Sirius said with indistinct fear in his tone, "Sometimes I feel like I'm trying to suppress my other self, a dark, evil Sirius with ulterior motives... I will Had some horrible thoughts - when I was at Hogwarts, I wanted to laugh at the cowards and weaklings, I looked down on a lot of them... I don't know why, maybe I'm still a Bellatrix inside Slytherin as evil as Slytherin? I could still take it out on Snape, but I was afraid that one day I would lose control of myself..."

"You won't." Hyacinth interrupted him, she shook Sirius gently, "Everyone has good and evil in their hearts, there are no pure good and bad people in this world, just like you Gryffindor from Slytherin, I am a Slytherin from Gryffindor. The key is how we choose, we can choose to be good, let the bad side slowly become a section that can be taken out Joking past."

"I teased Snape once, and I told him how to go to the Screaming Shack—" Sirius suddenly made a choked sound, "If James hadn't come in time, he should have died, and Remus Things have been depressed for a long time. Hyacinth, I wonder if my subconscious really wants to take the opportunity to kill him..."

"But later you saved me and saved Remus from taking a life." Hyacinth sighed from the bottom of her heart, "Whatever wrong you did before, there is no chance to make up for it in the future—"

"—I will never apologize to the snotlings!" Sirius yelled very childishly.

"You know what I mean..." Hyacinth rubbed his hair, "Well, you may be reckless, reckless, mischievous, irresponsible, but since we can't change the past, we have to Adjust the future. You will never be a bad person, Sirius."

"Will you be with me forever?" Sirius asked cautiously after a long silence.

Hyacinth crossed his fingers with him: "What silly things are you talking about, I will always be with you."

The author has something to say:

Note:

1. Caradoc's proposal: refer to the defense manual issued by the Ministry of Magic in the original book.

2. [His name is...Kill you]: McGonagall's line in the movie "Death Hallows".

3. In the original book, no one seems to be interested in immortality except Voldemort, so I think Bella's plot here should make sense.

4. Signus never found out about Margaret's betrayal.

5. Sirius was about seven or eight years old when he was beaten by Walburga

6. In the Screaming Shack incident, I tend to think that Sirius just deliberately played with Snape when he had nothing to do, and it almost caused a catastrophe.something like this -

7. Hyacinth's line [There are no pure good guys and bad guys... how do we choose] is adapted from the lines of Sirius in the movie "Order of the Phoenix".

Sirius: Hey Fork, the snotty snot actually went to the Screaming Shack 233

James: ...! (rushes out of the break room

Snape: Fuckfuckfuck! ! !

Remus: Whoa whoa whoa~

7. [There are no purely good and bad people in this world...]: Based on the lines of Sirius in the movie "Order of the Phoenix", with some changes.Whether it's movies or books, Sirius said a lot of golden lines, but he never did it himself...

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The 15 chapters of this volume probably cannot be finished.

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