HP Midnight Light

- 1980th February 2 - Unnamed Castle, Cumbria

"We've already investigated," Fenwick pointed to the empty hilltop opposite. "The only way to enter the castle is to go up the hillside."

"Is there an ambush?" Sirius asked.

"Not sure." Di Ge replied, "None of us know what will be in there."

"I like exciting things like this."

"You're too young, boy," said Moody grimly. "There's probably a hundred Death Eaters in there."

"I can't ask for it."

Fenwick interrupted their back and forth: "We've been observing for a while and think the only way to break through the barrier might be to get in with the Death Eaters."

"So we're going to lie in wait for some unlucky guy to arrive?"

"Yes."

Merlin took care of them, and within half an hour, a blond man appeared on the hillside out of thin air.Before he could stand still, Moody's silent spell hit him.

"I know him," said Sirius, "my oily cousin-in-law. He's only a little better than Rodolphus."

"Now is not the time to recognize relatives." Moody roughly dragged the unconscious Lucius Malfoy to his feet. "Everyone is coming forward to grab him. If we are lucky enough, the barrier will let us pass."

The Order of the Phoenix's guess was right.The Dark Lord used a self-confident method when setting up defenses. He stipulated that non-Death Eaters could only step into his domain if they were led by Death Eaters, but the Dark Lord ignored one point: if the white wizards If even one Death Eater is caught, then his barrier will be tantamount to non-existent.

The feeling of crossing the barrier was uncomfortable, and the five of them felt a viscous, stagnant, suffocating feeling at the moment they passed through it, and they had to struggle to get rid of the play of the barrier.As soon as they broke free from its shackles, the majestic black castle appeared in front of them. It was made of pitch-black stones, much smaller than Hogwarts castle, but had uncomfortable spires.There is not a blade of grass growing around the castle, not even a dead tree, and what is even more frightening is that the whole castle does not even have a single window except for the gate.Even the battle-hardened Moody couldn't help but be struck by the oppressive, dark feeling the castle brings.Now Sirius has become the calmest person here, he is familiar with this eerie and dangerous feeling, and No. 12 Grimmauld Place is like this style.

Peter hid behind the other four, looking at the castle with redoubled terror in his eyes.

"There must be patrolling Death Eaters in the hall." Sirius observed the surrounding scene. "It's impossible for them to see us, but they may already know that someone has passed through the barrier."

"From what we know of the Dark Lord, he's sure to keep his captives locked up in the basement. So we have to split up," said Moody. "Diggle, Fenwick, Black, you three go to the dungeon, Pedillo." Be with me--"

"I can stay with Peter," Sirius said, and under his reminder Moody noticed that Peter's condition was obviously not good:

"Can you continue?"

"I...can..." Peter squeezed out an affirmative answer through his teeth.

"If you can't do it, you don't need to force yourself to participate. You can stay outside and let the air go." Di Ge said empathetically, "Many people will retreat on the spot, and it's no big deal."

"Don't be a coward, Peter!" Sirius felt an inexplicable anger in his heart. He suddenly hated Peter's powerless appearance so much. If he couldn't do it, why didn't he just refuse when assigning tasks?He resisted the urge to continue to reprimand, "You go to the dungeon with me, Peter."

"Then I'll stay upstairs with Moody." Digger offered, "Our target is the Meadows couple, not the Death Eaters. However, the premise of all this is to ensure the safety of each of you. In addition , although the hope is slim, but if possible, the three of you should also search to see if Caradoc is still there...you understand what I mean."

"If anyone escapes, don't wait for anyone else, just apparate away." Moody threw Lucius to the ground, turned out a medicine bottle, and he poured five pills out of it for them to take each One, "Extremely poisonous. I hate to say it, but if anyone is unfortunate enough to be captured... please use this."

The atmosphere was a little dignified.

"Are you ready, three, two, one—"

A red light hit the wall.

"Don't be so nervous!" Moody snapped angrily. The hall was empty, but Peter nervously cast a Stunning Charm. "Diggle, you and I part ways."

The patrolling Death Eaters probably hadn't reached the foyer yet, so Diggle and Moody ran around the foyer toward the two corridors on either side.After the remaining three looked around, they found an unobtrusive staircase in the corner.

"Always be ready." Fenwick asked in a low voice, and he walked down the stairs cautiously at the head. The candlelight on the wall made their shadows look like ghosts.Peter let out a sob, and Fenwick shushed, pausing to listen carefully.Sirius' passionate mood was completely spoiled by Peter, he impatiently dragged Peter from the end of the team to the middle: "Don't expose yourself!"

"I'm sorry—" Peter tried to apologize, but Sirius gave him a push to keep up with Fenwick.

"The human figure stands out," Fenwick murmured. "There's no one around the corner."

After the three hurried down, they realized that the basement had been built in the shape of a maze. Just looking at the end of the stairs was enough to make people feel dizzy.

"Damn it!" Sirius cursed.Fenwick glanced at him: "What's the matter with you today?" Sirius realized that he always felt irritable again and again today. There was a time when he was out of control too, but it was because of the stress at home and the annoying girls at school... well, it looks like he's having a relapse now.

"I'll take control," he promised.

"Let's spread out." Fenwick pointed to the fork in front of him. "There, I will go to the right, and you and Peter will go to the left. You will part ways at the next fork. Don't care about your companions after we part, understand ?”

They moved on in silence, each with their wands raised vigilantly.

At the first fork, Fenwick said goodbye to them both.

After a few steps they came to the second fork.

"Peter." Sirius said suddenly, "I apologize to you for my behavior just now."

"No no—" Peter hurriedly shook his head.

Sirius continued, "Don't be so scared, at worst, you can slip away as a mouse."

Peter's eyes lit up suddenly.

Sirius nodded at him, then walked into the new passage on the right.As expected, what presented before him was an endless maze.

"Show me the way." He said softly, holding his wand in his palm, and the wand obediently turned around to show him the way.Sirius panicked for no reason, remembering that Hyacinth kept getting new wands.He had gone with her to buy her last wand, but where was it now?

Desperately trying to get the clutter out of his mind, he trotted along the maze.

"Thunderbolt explosion!" There was a shout from far away, and Sirius glanced back, but his footsteps did not stop.

The place where the explosion sounded just now was followed by a messy sound.

"The human figure is immediately visible." Every time he turned a corner, he had to carefully check whether there was anyone coming from the opposite side.

Finally, a black door appeared in front of Sirius, on which two snakes connected head to tail were drawn, and there were no other exits besides this.

He hesitated.

"Araho Cave is open."

Sirius walked through the door with his wand held high.

What appeared before his eyes was a huge square room.Aside from a huge chandelier on the ceiling and a whole row of torches lining the walls, there was nothing but eerie things left in the room.

Sirius glanced at the black utensils one by one, and the room was filled with an unpleasant smell, like the smell of stinking blood and rotting meat mixed together.He carefully looked at the unknown thing closest to him, it was densely covered with thorns, each with some pieces of meat, and there were some wet and sticky things on the ground.Sirius leaned over to look, he straightened up quickly, almost vomiting - it was a mixture of blood and excrement that had accumulated for a long time.Obviously, this is the Shura field where the Dark Lord and the Death Eaters tortured the captives. The captives were tortured by these Muggle torture tools so that they could not live or die. Only at the last moment of their tragic death would they suddenly lose their control due to death.

It turned out that the rumor was true.

Sirius held his breath and continued to walk forward. He no longer looked at the instruments of torture, but searched for clothes and sundries randomly thrown by the wall, trying to find something that could help identify the identity of the dead...

He saw something familiar in the tangle of cloth.

Sirius walked over and pulled it out.

"Karadoc..." He trembled and called out the name of his former companion.In his hand was a piece of navy blue wool torn from the cloak, which Sirius, for some reason, stubbornly believed belonged to Caradoc.Caradoc had worn the cloak on their first mission to Scotland.He unwound it as a blanket for camping, and wrapped it around wounded Dorcas, and the tail of the cloak was missing, for Caradoc had cut it to bind his own wound—

A flash of light flashed across, and Sirius felt a pain in his shoulder, and he pulled out his wand and turned around quickly.Cornelia had already waved her wand for the second time, and Sirius reluctantly stuffed the incomplete cloth into his pocket:

"Except your weapons!"

Cornelia raised her hand to block it: "Do you like it here?"

"You did it."

Cornelia smiled happily, and quickly swung her wand to conjure one dangerous spell after another.

"You learned a lot, Cousin Leia." Sirius' anger was completely ignited by Caradoc's relic, and he laughed heartily at her, "Did you learn it from Cousin Bella?"

Cornelia's smile twisted for a moment, she swung her wand fiercely, another flash of white light flashed, Sirius' dodge was a bit slower, Cornelia's spell almost hit his hand, but After the cufflinks saved his life, a cufflink slammed down, Sirius finally became serious, and he unceremoniously accelerated the speed of casting the spell, Cornelia kept resisting.The smile completely disappeared from her face. They frantically waved their magic wands, one light after another illuminated the terrifying Shura field again and again, and those black instruments of torture cast terrible shadows on the wall.

"You still have a lot to learn, Rozier!" Sirius let his wand dazzle in the air one last time, and a golden flame crossed Cornelia's Iron Armor Charm with incredible force, from her Cornelia's eyes widened angrily, but she had already fallen limply to the ground, Sirius didn't bother to capture her, he heard the noise from outside.

"See you later." He rushed towards the other end of the Shura field - there must be an exit there.

-June 2th - Parkinson Manor

Edmund pushed open the door of Hyacinth's room with an inconceivable mood. Just now Tata interrupted his study time to say something that surprised him.

"You made some demands on the house-elf just now?"

"Yeah." Hyacinth glanced at him lazily, she seemed to be in a good mood, "but it doesn't listen to me." The house-elf only obeyed the master's orders.

"What do you want?" Edmund approached her cautiously, Hyacinth did not show resistance or disgust, her tone was even gentle:

"I want to eat steak."

"What?" Edmund really thought he heard it wrong. This was the first time in five months that Hyacinth made a completely harmless request.

"I want to eat steak." Hyacinth repeated patiently, "fully cooked, slightly charred on both sides, is that okay?"

"Of course, of course." She actually asked him if he could!Edmund was so overjoyed that he immediately turned back to summon the house-elf, "Did you hear that?" The latter nodded and rushed towards the kitchen quickly.

"there's one more thing."

Edmund couldn't wait for it: "You say it."

"I'm so bored," said Hyacons. "I want to read."

"Of course, no problem, you can read any book you want, whatever you like—"

"I want to read Muggle books," interrupted Hyacins.Edmund was taken aback for a moment. To him, Muggles have always been as humble and unworthy of mentioning as ants, but he wanted to take the opportunity to please Hyacinth:

"Okay. What do you want?"

"García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude," Hyacinth replied quickly, adding one more request, "I want to see it before dinner."

Tata is summoned from the kitchen for a new assignment.It might be more efficient if Edmund went to find it by himself, but he didn't want to leave Hyacons, and maybe when he came back again, she would become the same cold look before.

"It moves." Hyacinth said suddenly after a moment of silence, "Last night."

"It?" Edmund didn't respond.

Hyacinth lifted the quilt: "It kicked me last night."

Edmund's heart trembled suddenly, and he looked longingly at Hyacinth's swollen belly, and of course she noticed:

"You can touch it."

"I can?"

Hyacinth was silent.

Edmund found that their child was growing rapidly.At the end of December, Hyacinth wasn't pregnant at all, but now her belly has a nice curve.And unlike before, the atmosphere of their conversation this time was very good, and Edmund felt that it could even be called warm.

"Do you think it's going to be a boy or a girl?"

"I do not know."

"It must be a young man," Edmund whispered softly.

"What month will he be born?" Hyacinth asked. She knew nothing about a woman's pregnancy cycle, and she still hasn't figured out where the child came from. She has completely believed that its father is Edmund, but there are still too many puzzles she doesn't know.

Edmund was startled when he heard her question, and finally he chose to be honest: "It should be summer, June or July."

Hyacinth calculated the time, and under Edmund's gaze, she did not show any abnormal expressions: "You should start preparing the baby room."

Edmund smiled openly. "I will. He'll like blue."

"I'm tired and want to sleep for a while." After listening to him, Hyacinth closed her eyes, "Just let the elf leave the book and steak in the room."

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Note:

1. [Show me the way]: The spell that Harry used in "Goblet of Fire" is similar to a compass.

2. The spell Cornelia used for the first time was not God's Shadow.

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