HP Midnight Light

-April 1980, 4, at night - outside the Woods Orphanage, London

It has been a long time since anyone knocked on the door of Wu's Orphanage after sunset.

And the sudden knock on the door tonight alarmed Mrs. Hopps, the hostess, and all the staff in the orphanage.As the law and order in London become more and more turbulent, it is not necessarily just homeless women or children who come here.

"Who is it?" asked Mrs. Hopps boldly. "Don't try to mess around. We have shot-guns!"

"Please open the door, Mrs. Hopps. I mean no harm. I'm here for help."

The stranger outside the door uttered Mrs. Hopps's name.

After a moment's hesitation Mrs. Hopps ventured forward and opened the front door of the orphanage.Warm light leaked from the hall to the steps outside, and the visitor slowly took off his hood, revealing a pale face.

"My name is Hyacinth White."

The name called no memories of Mrs. Hopps.

She gazes at the orange light above the foyer, a strange emotion in her eyes: "I used to live here until August 1977."

She seemed to smile faintly, but before Mrs. Hopps had time to react, she staggered suddenly and stumbled towards the door. Mrs. Hopps instinctively reached out to hold her.

"I never thought I would come back here again," she murmured as if dreaming, "Life is like a play."

Mrs. Hopps frowned and looked at the strange face in bewilderment.

"Mrs. Hopps!" one of the employees could not help but whisper, "Blood..."

The female supervisor lowered her head belatedly, a small pool of blood had gathered at an alarming speed where they were standing.Mrs. Hopps didn't care too much, and leaned over to lift up Hyacinth's robe, a red mark snaked up and down the bottom of the skirt, and blood beads were rolling down her white calf.

The female supervisor's gaze slowly moved behind her—the dozen or so steps were intermittently stained with blood.

"Bring her into the room, quickly!" she cried out.

"I know her." While the other administrators were busy taking Hyacinth to the medical room, another person stepped forward. "She used to live in the same room as Miss Smith."

Mrs. Hopps knew Ann Smith, that pretty legendary girl.Hearing this, she couldn't help frowning: "How old is she?"

"It should be 19 years old."

"It's really not going the right way..." Mrs. Hopps withdrew her panic expression and curled her lips contemptuously.

"We should contact the doctor." The administrator suggested, "This kind of thing will kill people if it is not handled properly."

"That's what she deserves." Mrs. Hopps said coldly, "Since she doesn't love herself, there is no reason for the orphanage to worry about her." She refused to continue the conversation, turned around behind the reception desk and bowed her head to help her thing.

"You have to use force, Miss White." The administrator's distant voice came indistinctly, the harsh light shone straight down, and there was another sharp pain in the depths of her body. Hyacinth screamed, and she felt The bed sheet was slowly wet with fresh blood, "The child is about to suffocate, Miss White, if you don't try harder, you will all be in danger!" the administrator shouted, and an anxious face came into Hyacinth's eyes, Her tears overflowed uncontrollably:

"No... no..." Hyacinth struggled and panted like a fish out of water.

"You can do it, my dear." The administrator brushed her sweaty hair up, and comforted her with gentle words, her cold hand touched Hyacinth's equally cold hand, "Listen to my rhythm, Push hard, okay—"

The administrator's words were interrupted by Hyacinth's screams. The new pain caused her back to arch suddenly and fell back heavily. At that moment, Hyacinth saw her bleeding clearly, she knew Like so many women who stumbled and knocked on the orphanage's front door, she would probably die here and leave an orphan behind.But so what?

She was tired of the games of life, she was trapped in this cage and made unnecessary struggles again and again, and she got nothing but bruises all over her body and increasingly dim hopes.She became weaker, more timid, and less aware of why, how, and where to flee.

"I can't do it..." She didn't want to try, "Kill me... Please..." She squeezed the administrator's hand.

"What happened, Miss White?" the administrator asked, holding her hand back. "Where did you go after you left the orphanage?"

Tears blurred Hyacinth's vision: "Please..."

"Tell me, child." The administrator's voice suddenly became severe. "If necessary, we can call the police. Don't be afraid, the orphanage will protect you."

Hyacinth shook her head: "It's useless..."

A few seconds of silence.

"I can give you some morphine." The administrator conceded, and she didn't care what Mrs. Hopps thought. "Then I can go and inform the hospital—"

"Avada Kedavra!"

Her words were interrupted by an unfamiliar voice, followed by an explosion and commotion from ahead.

"How is this..."

"Hush!" Hyacinth suddenly gained strength, and she firmly grasped the administrator who wanted to go out to check the situation, "They are here, let's go!"

"Who?" The administrator's face has turned pale. Children's screams, noises, and the sound of chanting spells are constantly coming from outside. She doesn't understand what's going on, but people have a natural sense of danger. .

"It's them...go, through the back door, don't care about the others...they're all dead..."

"Go and see where else people are hiding!" A rough voice ordered.

"You can't stay here!"

"Give me the morphine!" Hyacinth snatched the needle from the administrator's hand, "They will torture you and kill you, just like all the murders that have appeared in the newspapers before, do you understand! Go away, everything Never mind, nothing can stop them!"

"Miss White!"

"You don't have time!" Hyacinth slowly pushed the needle to inject morphine into the blood, "Help me turn off the light... It doesn't matter if I live or not, you are a good person, ma'am..."

Her eyes intertwined with the administrator's in the air, and Hyacinth wondered if she understood what she meant, but the administrator complied.

The room fell back into darkness, and Hyacinth closed her eyes as she waited for the morphine to take effect.She suddenly remembered that when Sirius drove her through the busy streets in the past, all the phenomena of the world would flash before her eyes, as if tearing a long fleeting poem into pieces and throwing them all the way to the place of exile.

time flies.

That's what I said, but it doesn't seem to be that fast.

"There's a room here!" Cornelia helped Evan stumbling open the door, and Evan crawled into the corner with support.The Death Eaters who had started killing just now were fleeing in all directions. There were constant battles and screams outside the door, and Cornelia heard her heart pounding.

"How did they find it..."

"I don't know...there seems to be someone here! Fluorescence." She raised her wand, and the blue shimmer illuminated the small and empty medical room. When she saw the unconscious person on the hospital bed, Connie Leah- couldn't help but let out a short cry.

Evan screamed through his teeth: "Leah!"

"Hush!" Cornelia approached the hospital bed step by step, "Why is she here..."

"Who?"

"Resuscitate quickly!" Cornelia whispered the spell, "Father, I have found a way to escape, take out your wand." She waved her wand again to light up the lights in the ward, then walked over to lock it closed the door.

"Who is she?" Evan asked, "What idea did you think of?"

Cornelia ignored him, and waved her wand again before Hyacinth came to her senses: "Silence!"

This stopped Hyacinth from shouting almost blurted out in time.

"You can't talk." Cornelia's wand was trembling, this was the most critical situation she had ever encountered, "I will use a spell to help you give birth, if you dare to act rashly, my father will make sure you pay enough Big price."

Cornelia had already waved her wand before Hyacins understood what she was saying.Following her movements, the effect of the morphine quickly faded, and double the severe pain continued to surge. Hyacinth let out a scream that no one could hear. She clutched the bed sheet tightly, and cold sweat continued to break out from her forehead.She didn't know why Cornelia appeared here, and she didn't know why she said those strange words, but she soon understood——

"There is someone inside." A very familiar voice came from outside, and Hyacinth was shocked, and the bed sheet she was holding tightly was torn suddenly, "Who is it?"

Evan propped up his body and pointed his wand at the door, while Cornelia pointed her wand at Hyacinth, and she replied in a tone-changing voice: "Please don't attack us! There is a pregnant woman in critical condition here... ... Please let us go, at least this child has never offended you!" She imitated the voice of a flustered middle-aged woman perfectly, and at the same time, she waved her wand twice in rapid succession.

Hyacins screamed again in pain, and she gasped for breath—she couldn't speak a word but screamed, the pain blocked part of her speech, and the damned child was Deprive her of the chance to escape from clutches.

"We are not bad people." James said outside the door. The members of the Order of the Phoenix could clearly hear the woman screaming from inside. Edgar, the only one present who had experience as a father, nodded to them, indicating that the voice Not easy to fake, James continued to ask, "Do you need help?" Although they couldn't easily break through the door, if the people inside were Death Eaters, they couldn't escape either.

"I don't think so, the situation has improved now." Cornelia replied calmly.

Intermittent groans and screams overflowed from Hyacinth's mouth. She really wanted to say a word, even if it was just the simplest word.That way at least people outside could recognize her voice instead of just hearing a distorted scream.She was going to let herself go just now, but now a new opportunity came before her, and Hyacinth couldn't let go of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to escape from hell.

While Cornelia was not paying attention, she tried her best to reach for the medical tray on the side. Hyacinth held back the pain and raised her hand, the tray tipped over on the ground, and everything shattered and shattered.Cornelia pointed her wand at her, paler than Hyacinth's in the light.

"What's going on?" Emmeline asked outside the door.

"It's nothing, don't worry, this is the last critical moment." Cornelia trembled, "Hold on, it will be fine soon..." She seemed to want to persuade herself.

"What are you all doing standing here?"

Hyacinth would never miss that voice in her lifetime.

"Waiting for a newborn," James told him with lips: it could be a Death Eater.

Sirius nodded.He drew his wand—even though he didn't know who was in the room—but didn't make a move like everyone else.

It is enough for her that he and she exist in this moment.As if a lost person finally stepped out of the forest to bathe in the bright starlight, the dusty string in the deepest part of Hyacinth's heart was plucked again, the passage of time was suddenly stopped, and the eternity was stuck in this space. in the house.

But a door stood between Hyacons and Sirius.She knew of his existence, but she couldn't speak; he seemed to feel it, but she just watched the flowers through the fog.

Maybe we should open this door.An unusual thought flashed through Sirius' mind.

I must call him.Hyacinth thought, the moment she opened her mouth a hot stream ran from between her legs, and she smelled blood.

Instinctively, Hyacinth let out a short cry, and then, a tingling, relieved feeling shot up from her tailbone. She felt something leave her body, and the confirmation of this idea was a baby cry. ——

There is also a red light.

Cornelia covered her mouth tightly to keep herself from screaming, and Evan closed his eyes, his wand trembling and hanging down.Under her father's signal, Cornelia reluctantly stepped forward to pick up the crying baby from the blood.

"It's really a child." Edgar said softly.

The crying of the baby relieved the members of the Order of the Phoenix outside the door, which proved that the people inside were not lying just now.Their status as wizards prevented them from communicating with Muggles. They turned and left one after another to go to the Aurors, but Sirius was a step behind. He approached the door and asked a question:

"Is it a boy or a girl?"

Cornelia frowned and tried to coax the baby strangely: "Girl."

"Bless her." He whispered, and the strange feeling that haunted his heart was gone. Sirius shook his head and turned to look for his companions.

The most regrettable thing in life is to easily give up what you dare not give up, and stubbornly insist on what you should not insist on.

The author has something to say:

Note:

1. Mrs. Hopps does not remember Hyacins: they have only been together for less than a month.

2. This administrator is the one who took care of Ann who was ill.

3. Hyacinth injected morphine to commit suicide.

4. Voldemort ordered the Death Eaters to wipe out Wu's Orphanage to cover up his past, but the Death Eaters thought it was just an ordinary massacre of Muggles.

5. The door here is to correspond to the curtain in the original book, the latter separates life and death, and the former separates Sirius and Hyacinth.

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