HP Midnight Light

- 1979 May 5 - Oxford Street, London

"Avada Kedavra!"

"Passed out!"

The street lamps were devastated and slammed into pieces, and the street went dark.

"You picked the wrong time to do it." Dorcas quickly glanced around, "shattered to pieces!"

A huge billboard fell to the ground with a "bang", and Signus waved his wand. At the moment the billboard was torn apart, a red light came straight to his face.He was forced to dodge aside, but accidentally walked into an area with enough light.

"It's you, Bostrode." Dorcas was stunned for a moment and immediately went all out to fight, "All petrified!" At the same time, she noticed a few Muggle drunks wandering from not far away. , this sudden situation forced her to give up the idea of ​​continuing the battle, and instead cast a disarming spell and Apparated away.

"Avada—damn it!" Signus put down his wand, a glint of gloom flashed in his eyes, "Thunderbolt explodes!"

The huge explosion caught the attention of the drunkards. They watched the broken billboard being sent high into the sky like fireworks, and then fell rapidly at an astonishing speed——

boom!

The extinguished street lamp was split into two sections.

There was no one around where Signus stood.

A few seconds later, Dorcas appeared at the gate of the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix. She was still in shock, and after a quick check of the surrounding situation, she opened the door and went in.

"You came back early." She bumped into Emmeline in the hall, and she gave her a surprised look, "What happened?"

"I have met Burstrode, who was sent to kill me," Dorcas answered curtly. "Will you inform the others? Tell them to be careful."

Emmeline's expression changed slightly, she nodded and turned to walk to the fireplace, but Dorcas stopped her again: "How is Marlene today?"

"She's been alone in her room all day."

"Have you been watching her outside?"

"No, I used the fireplace to discuss tomorrow's arrangements with Edgar in the wee hours of the morning."

"Did you check on her afterwards?"

"I checked and she's still sleeping."

"Okay." Dorcas went up the stairs. "After delivering the letter, you can rest for a while."

She came to Marlene's room door and gently opened the door.The curtains were tightly drawn, and the messy quilt on the bed could barely be seen. Dorcas stepped forward to see if Marlene was sleeping soundly, but——

"Emeline!" She stared at the empty bed for a few seconds and shouted loudly, "Marlene ran away!"

There was no one on the bed, only a quilt that had been deliberately piled up.The curtain fluttered slightly, and Dorcas strode over to it and drew it aside. The windows were open, and the Muggle quarters were shrouded in darkness, and there was no one in the alley.

Ma Lin knelt on the carpet, looking at the group photo of the family of three in the photo frame, tears fell drop by drop on the photo.She was immersed in the haze of losing her father and mother, and it took her a long time to bluntly wipe away the water marks.

The Ministry of Magic had already cleaned up the scene of the tragedy, and she was not allowed to see her parents die.But that doesn't mean she can't imagine it.Marlene folded the photo and put it in the pocket of her robe, then rummaged for a while, and wrote a few short words on a piece of parchment:

"To the Order of the Phoenix:

I may be dead by the time you read this note.But I want you to know: I believe that the Order of the Phoenix is ​​not impenetrable, and that sooner or later there will be moles among us other than enemies.

I want to avenge my parents, and I hope you will not die like them. "

Ma Lin folded the note and put it on the coffee table.She took one last look around her home before grabbing her wand and stepping out the door.

-August 5st - Burstead Manor

"Mom, please!" Olivia begged, "let me out, let me go back to Hogwarts. I swear I won't mess with Signus again, I promise—"

"Mrs. Black's reply letter has arrived." Mrs. Birst was unmoved, "She invites you to stay at her house for a while."

Olivia was stunned for a moment: "No, it's not like that, Mom! Why don't you understand?" Her words stopped when she saw Mrs. Bulstrode's movements.The latter waved his wand and began to pack Olivia's luggage. "After all this, you'd rather trust him than me, mother?"

"You're so selfish, Ollie." Mrs. Burst's first words made Olivia freeze in place, "How many people are waiting outside to see our jokes now? Your brother tried his best to prevent it from happening." They get what they want, but you are not even willing to cooperate a little bit."

"You call this 'cooperation'?" Olivia couldn't help but laugh, "Is it called cooperation to live at Black's house for a while?"

"You're selfish—you were the one who said you liked Regulus, and you're the one who's having trouble with us now. What do you think? You just won't be satisfied anyway, will you?"

"How can you say that!"

"You make me tired, Ollie." Mrs. Birdsde closed the box methodically. "If you fall in love, we will arrange a wedding for you. I don't see anything wrong with that."

"There are too many things wrong!" Olivia tried to reason with her mother, "Signus used to deliberately use the marriage to hang Regulus when our family was peaceful, but now he will do his best when something big happens. Push me out, do you think people won't laugh at us because of this?"

"It's fine to bear the joke for a while—"

"Others will say you sold your daughter, do you know that!"

Mrs. Bulstrode turned around slowly, and Olivia suddenly felt a little frightened.

"This is your responsibility and obligation as a Bulstrode, Ollie." She directed the box to float downstairs, "Your wand is with Signus, and he will return it to you after you are married , before that, you'd better be safe and not cause any trouble."

Olivia could hardly believe her ears.

"Am I really your daughter?"

Mrs. Bulstrode didn't answer her question, because the door of the house was pushed open by Signus, who stumbled down on the sofa with a trace of pain in his expression.

"Signus!" Mrs. Bulstrode screamed, and before she went downstairs to help her, Bulstrode's new wife, Catherine, had already run up first:

"Dear, are you alright?"

"It's just a small punishment from the Dark Lord. It's my fault." Signus pushed Catherine away, summoned a bottle of palliative, and drank it down. "I'm fine."

"You need rest--"

"I can't." Signus distanced himself from Catherine, and he glanced at the box, "Please send Ollie to Black's house."

"Of course." Mrs. Burst looked at her son worriedly, "You still want to go out?"

They both ignored Olivia's angry look after her repeated attempts to intervene.Signus healed himself of a laceration on his arm: "Yes, I can't let up."

- same moment - watson manor

"What stupid thing did you do?" Francis yelled at Margaret in a rare way. "You told Bellatrix you wanted to join the Death Eaters? Are you crazy!"

"Father, I've thought about it for a long time, and I think this is the only way to keep us safe." Margaret argued, "And I can't always let you deal with these difficult things."

"If you join the Death Eaters, you don't want to be safe." After all, Francis couldn't get angry with Margaret. "Who told you this is the only way?"

Margaret murmured, "I myself..."

Francis became angry: "You are not a person who is good at scheming, Maggie. If Lucius hadn't told me in time, you would have almost sent yourself into the pit of fire."

"Bella hasn't told the Dark Lord yet?"

"Not yet. He's active again, and Bella is trying to figure out how to keep pushing him."

The "he" here obviously refers to the one who can't even mention the name of Signus.

"What are you going to do?"

Francis glanced at Margaret almost resentfully: "Narcisha has almost clearly pointed out a way for you, why haven't you reacted yet?"

Margaret reflected for a moment: "She advised me to take a long trip—"

"What she meant was to suggest that we hide abroad." Francis sighed. "I'm already trying to get through the people in the Ministry of Magic. We will be able to leave England by next spring at the latest."

"Father!" Margaret was frightened, "Aren't you afraid that the Dark Lord will notice?"

"Of course I'm afraid. But I'm more afraid to sit and wait to die." Francis said, "The Dark Lord has become more and more suspicious recently. If you rush to propose joining the Death Eaters, he will definitely become suspicious. So we just continue to do what we did before." Just fine."

"Are you going to spend a long time trying to make the Dark Lord temporarily put down his suspicions?"

"Yes. As far as I know, the Dark Lord is ready to start targeting the white wizards in an all-round way. He won't have a lot of energy to waste on us. So... we just need to wait patiently for a while." Francis smiled, " Here's one thing to remember, Maggie: there are few dead ends, and those who push themselves into corners are either too confident or too stupid."

- 5 July - Unnamed Castle, Cumbria

"Dark Lord—" Signus' eyes sparkled with pleasure, "I have brought you a distinguished guest."

He let go, and the unconscious Marlene was thrown to the ground.

"Hey!" Dolokhov, who was in charge of arresting Ma Lin, yelled in displeasure, "You caught her?"

"It was just a mistake." Signus said modestly. "I was tracking Dorcas's whereabouts, but I accidentally found her wandering around..."

"Our Marlene wants to avenge her parents, I'm afraid." The Dark Lord laughed loudly, "It's so stupid... She doesn't even have any information at hand, and she doesn't even know where to find us - well done, Signus."

The Dark Lord's compliment brought a smile to Signus's face: "Do you wish me to wake her up, Master?" He waved his wand after getting permission.

"Severus," the Dark Lord ordered slowly, "bring some Veritaserum to our Miss McKinnon, I wonder what she can say."

Ma Lin woke up slowly. When she opened her eyes, the first thing she saw was the cold floor tiles, then a few stone chairs, and finally, her eyes fixed on Dolokhov's face.

"It's you." Marlene's eyes showed anger, "You—" She suddenly opened her eyes wide, but was bound tightly by the rope conjured by Signus:

"See where you are, Miss MacKinnon."

But Marlene didn't even seem to care about the Dark Lord. She struggled so desperately to get close to Dolohov that Signus had to tie her to a chair.

"I am going to kill you……"

"You really look like your mother. She said she was going to send me to hell." Dolokhov chuckled secretly, and Marlene spat at him fiercely, and he raised his hand and slapped Marlene across the face.The Dark Lord laughed:

"Come on, Dolohov. We were expecting Miss MacKinnon to tell us something."

At this moment, Snape went back and forth with a vial of Veritaserum.

"Snape," Marlene showed a disgusted expression as soon as she saw him, "I knew you were not a good person. Poor Lily has put up with you for so long!"

Snape's expression remained unchanged.

"Lily?" Signus chewed on the name. "Maybe soon your Mudblood friend will come down to accompany you."

Snape looked down and uncorked the bottle.

"I'm so stupid, Snape, if I had known that you would become the ghost you are now, I should have helped other people cast curses on you back then, and it would have been better if I could have killed you at Hogwarts. "Marlene cursed viciously, "I didn't expect you to be a Death Eater and still look the same, even refusing to wash your oily hair—"

With a wave of Signus' wand, Marlene's head was thrown back, and Snape poured a small amount of Veritaserum into her mouth.

"What are you going to tell us, Miss McKinnon?" The Dark Lord stared at her with interest, "future plans, certain people's patrol times, their home addresses, or..."

"I won't tell you anything! Just dream!" Marlene spat straight at the Dark Lord.Before the Death Eaters at the side had time to stop her, she suddenly jumped forward, and the huge force of the stone chair pushed her forward. In the blink of an eye, her forehead hit the tip of the table hard.A bloodstain snaked down.

Marlene stopped breathing.

"Damn it!" the Dark Lord roared angrily, staring at the dead Marlene, "Cruciate! Cruciate! Cruciate!"

The Death Eaters scattered in panic, and one or two spells hit the dead Marlene.Her body bounced limply under the spell.

"Stop!" the Dark Lord yelled, "Drag her out and throw her at the entrance of the Ministry of Magic, and let those damned Ministry of Magic people see what happens when they oppose me!"

- May 5 - Greenwich

"Dear Hyacins:

Philip died, four days ago.The Death Eaters raided Bath, killing five Muggles besides him.I'm going to move back to the wizarding world for a while, and I'm sorry I can't continue with our agreed plans.Hope to see you again.

Arabella"

Hyacinth put the letter down with a heavy heart.

"What did Mrs. Figg say?" Sirius asked softly.

They had always communicated by Muggle mail, so when the owl landed on their window sill early this morning, both Hyacinth and Sirius had a sense of foreboding.

Hyacinth handed the letter to Sirius: "Can we continue to live here?"

"Honestly, I don't know. The problem is, no place is safe right now." Sirius drew up the blinds, and there were few pedestrians on the street. It's hard to say when they might be in a flash of green light like all the other victims. After falling down.

Hyacinth's eyes fell on the "Daily Prophet" a few days ago, on which there were large photos.Marlene became another victim after the McKinnons. The Death Eaters brutally threw her body on the street outside the Ministry of Magic, which not only frightened the Muggles who came and went, but also let the wizarding world see it again. How arrogant are these thugs.

"Don't look at it." Sirius covered up the chilling photo, "If you want, we can also move in with other wizards, such as neighbors with Prongs..."

"Sirius, will this war end?"

"The war will always end." Sirius walked behind her and hugged her, "Our life must continue."

Hyacinth closed her eyes.She wasn't a member of the Order of the Phoenix, but she knew that the number of people dying every day was increasing.

"There are some rumors in the Order of the Phoenix," Sirius said abruptly, "someone thinks there is a traitor among us."

"Someone suspects you, doesn't it?"

"Nobody said that."

"If you didn't feel something, you wouldn't tell me." Hyacinth pressed, "They still care about the Black family, right?"

Sirius was silent, running his fingers slowly through her hair.

"I know how you feel," Hyacins said, "like why I'd rather move to an orphanage than live with the Prewetts... They didn't look down on my mom because she was a Squib, but because I I'm a freak because I'm a Slytherin." She shrugged, "Just let the gossip go - no, that's what you said to comfort me?"

"I don't remember if I said it." Sirius was amused, "I have been expelled for so many years, and some people still care about my surname Blake... It's not to be angry, I just find it incredible. "

"And you're not the first to be expelled." Hyacinth was a little curious, "Could it be that every generation of the Black family has been expelled?"

"Get out at every turn—born a Squib, get out; marry a Muggle, a splinter, a pure-blood traitor, get out; run away, get out; sponsor a runaway nephew, get out. If Black ever dies , it must be that they have delisted the new generation."

"Reculus is under a lot of pressure."

"I wish him good luck." Sirius said sarcastically, "So it was the right decision for me to run away from home. Anyway, sooner or later I will be expelled, and the sooner I leave, the sooner I will be relieved."

"Those who think you're a traitor will sooner or later discover how stupid they are."

"I don't care what they think." Sirius once again showed that haughty and jaded look that was so common during his Hogwarts days. "As long as you are all by my side." He paused for a moment, " When Lily goes to pick out the wedding dress in a few days, you should go with her."

"Oh?" Hyacinth raised her eyebrows.

"Since the prongs set the date on the day when school starts, let's just wait a few days—" Sirius quickly flipped back a few pages of the calendar and circled a certain date, "The day we officially met .”

9 month 9 day.

"How fast, we have known each other for four years."

"Please, if you count from the year you entered school, it will be seven years."

"You didn't know who I was until then."

"But you know who I am. And who says I don't know who you are, you've been as famous as I've been since day one—"

Hyacinth had already picked up the book she was holding and tapped it on his head.

"It's a compliment!" Sirius hugged her by the waist, "And you are abusing me at home, my dear madam."

"This is your punishment." Hyacinth pressed his forehead against him, "Punishment for not coming to talk to me until the fifth grade."

"Is there anything I can do to show my repentance?" Sirius hinted in her ear.

Hyacinth lazily shook off the slippers on her feet: "That depends on how sincere you are."

- 5 May - Residence of the Lupine family, Cardiff, Wales

Lupine and his son sorted out Hope's belongings in silence.When Remus was young, they had to move frequently to prevent neighbors from noticing the strangeness. After he went to school, the Lupines moved back to Cardiff, where they first met.

"This is our wedding cake," Lyle pointed to the photo, "with a Boggart on top."

He couldn't help but start talking about his encounter with his wife, and Remus listened quietly.

"Dad," he said after Lyle's story came to an end, he said the plan he had thought about for a long time, "I'm going to move out."

"Why?" Lyle asked subconsciously, raising his voice.

Remus smoothed the footer of Hope's favorite book: "If I were still living with you, the Death Eaters could easily target our house."

"Then let them come," Lyle said a little excitedly, "I can't wait to practice my skills!"

"Dad—" Remus let out a voice of protest helplessly, "seriously, you are no longer old enough to face those Death Eaters."

Remus' words made Lyle irrefutable.

"And the mission of the Order of the Phoenix will require me to travel far from time to time, to ambush somewhere in the middle of the night... I don't want to disturb you, and it's safer if I live alone. The Death Eaters can only blow up my house at most. Don't use my family to blackmail me." Remus persuaded, "Everyone is very scared about the McKinnons."

"Could you have already found a house?" Lyle asked sharply.

After more than ten seconds, Remus shamelessly admitted: "Father, I actually..."

"Good boy, you have also learned to cut first and then play."

Remus quietly observed his father's expression: "You agree?"

"This is the time for you young people, I can't control you anymore." Lyle sighed, "I should have known that you were not as honest as you looked when you sneaked into the kitchen and ate scones when you were a child." .”

"Thank you!" Remus beamed with joy.

"You must go home for meals four times a week, and you are not allowed to ask for leave unless you are traveling far away." Lyle listed the requirements, "One letter per week, if I fail to do so, I will go to Dumbledore immediately, you promise ?"

"……Can."

Lyle's eyes fell on the photo in his hand again: "Your mother's death was not painful anyway, the only thing she worries about is you—" He stopped talking, but Remus knew what he was going to say:

"I'm happy with where I am, Dad, I've got some friends, I'm doing what I want to do. I'm lucky compared to other people like me."

"I really regret saying those things at the Ministry, Lemmy."

"It's not your fault, Dad." Remus patted Lyle on the shoulder, just like Lyle used to do to him when he was a child, "I'll move back in with you when the war is over, At that time, we can catch a few Boggarts and study them together."

The author has something to say:

Note:

1. Marlene's character is a person who is brave enough to be overly righteous and persistent. From the perspective of Hyacinth, she is certainly not likable, but from another perspective, she is actually a pretty good person.

2. It is set that the power of the Death Eaters has not infiltrated the Ministry of Magic for the time being.

3. Hyacinth obviously didn't play any real role in the war, otherwise she would have been famous in history.

4.9. September 9th was the day they met in the Restricted Area in 1975.

5. [Cardiff]: From the story about Lupine on the Potter cats.

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How did the Lupine family get their names... Lyle Lemmy couldn't tell the difference.

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