HP Midnight Light

- June 1980, 6 - Selwyn House

"I mean no harm," Cornelia said, "I just want to see the bride."

Signus stared at her for a few seconds: "You really dare not make trouble today."

Cornelia and his gaze clashed silently in the air, and after a fleeting confrontation she sprinted up the stairs, bypassing Signus.

"Olivia!" Cornelia pushed open the white door roughly and walked into the bride's dressing room. Antares Selwyn Gore, who was doing Olivia's hair, saw her coming. , hastily put down the comb in his hand and greeted her.Cornelia came to the mirror and called her friend's name again: "Ollie."

She wanted to say something, but couldn't.She can neither take Olivia out of here, nor persuade her to marry that bad old man with peace of mind.The anger in Cornelia's heart burned to the extreme when she saw the bride's wedding dress. She asked Antares coldly:

"Where did this wedding dress come from?"

"It was prepared by the Burst family."

Sure enough.

Cornelia looked coldly at the unusually gorgeous but similar wedding dress.If she hadn't lost her memory, this wedding dress should have belonged to Margaret Watson. Although it has been newly added with various cumbersome decorations, it cannot conceal its "second-hand" status.Should she praise the Bulstrode family for their thriftiness, or should she ridicule Signus for his eagerness for quick success? ——Who would use his ex-wife's wedding dress as his sister's wedding dress?It's just Signus!

"Give me the things, and I'll help her with the rest," Cornelia demanded.

With her help, the old girl Antares successfully married Goyle before her 25th birthday.Antares had good reason to be grateful to Cornelia, given Goyle's rapport with her.Hearing her words, Antares immediately handed the white box to Cornelia: "This is my mother's. We replaced the original crystal with sapphire."

"Sad stuff." Cornelia grumbled, and inserted the hair comb studded with sapphires on both sides of Olivia's bun. "You should go out first."

When Antares turned to leave, Cornelia noticed her gown like quicksilver. Anyway, at least on the surface, it seemed that the Selwyn family took this marriage seriously. Should be a good thing.

"Who are the bridesmaids and best man?"

Antares stopped closing the door, and she hesitated for a while before answering softly: "Time is short, Mr. Burst said everything should be kept simple."

"Very good." Cornelia said coldly.She unscrewed the perfume bottle placed on the dressing table and sprinkled a few drops on the back of Olivia's neck, the familiar scent made her movements pause——

"I like this taste." Olivia who had been silent all this time said suddenly.

"Citrus, lilies..."

"And freesias and roses."

Cornelia used to be familiar with this intoxicating but not overpowering scent: a perfect balance of spices and a unique fragrance.Regulus gave Olivia the bottle of perfume as a Christmas gift in third grade, and their friendship took a turn for the worse after that.Olivia cherished it, and Cornelia knew she would only use it on the big days—anything important involving Regulus, to be exact.

"This is the last bit left," said Olivia. "Use it all."

"Are you sure?" Cornelia asked with difficulty.

"Regu said before that he would give me a second bottle at our wedding. If the new one doesn't come, it's useless to keep the old one."

Cornelia poured the last few drops of perfume on Olivia's hair in silence.There was a little ceremony and music outside the window, which meant that the bride would go downstairs to meet her future husband in fifteen minutes.

"You have an opal necklace, don't you, Leah?" Olivia asked suddenly, "You planned to make it into a murder weapon, but encountered some difficulties?"

Cornelia opened her eyes.This is the secret between her and Regulus——

"When I was 'temporary' at Black's house last year, Regu told me the story of this necklace as gossip. There are almost no secrets between me and him, except the reason for his disappearance." Olivia raised her bitterness. "It's the first, last, and only time he's been hiding something from me."

"Why would he tell you..." Cornelia muttered to herself, "He never told you these...dark things."

"Yes, except for this one. Maybe he's already figured everything out? I don't know. I'd rather know why he refused to say goodbye to me before he left, but I'll never get an answer." Livia looked at Cornelia in the mirror, "You don't bother to take the 'Companion's Tooth' from Hyacinth, I can give it to you - my only request is, Leah, someday please You send the Bulstrode family to hell."

What she doesn't know is that she looks a lot like Signus when she says it.Cornelia was stunned.Just as she had seen similar paranoia in the Black brothers in the past, now she read the same coldness in the eyes of the Birstead brothers and sisters.

"Please don't kill them, Leah, especially Signus - death is too easy for him." Olivia said in a word, "take away the power and status they have always been keen on There is also a prominent family background, which makes this surname ashes, and becomes one of those pure-blood families that are gradually fading... They are all innocent. My parents are not kind, and Signus can be said to be devoid of conscience, but Catherine is nothing more than a slut who can be a wife. There is no need for that child to be born. He or she will be reduced to a tool with a price tag like me, and become another one in the hands of Signus. A pawn..."

Olivia finished speaking the truth in one breath, which she had never spoken frankly in the past 20 years, and she suddenly felt so relieved.

"I understand you, Ollie..." Cornelia said eagerly.

"You don't understand! I'm not a good person, otherwise Leigu wouldn't have died."

"That's Signus' fault, not yours."

"My parents have always taught me to be a good girl. Now that I think about it, they should have decided to let me be the stepping stone of Signus many years ago. Unfortunately, I understand too late." Oliver Ya sighed, "If possible, try to get Hyacinth to leave Parkinson's as well. She is more pitiful than me. I'm just a fool who was kept in the dark. Anyway, at least there are still ten years without her. Carefree time, but Hyacinth has had too little happiness. I used to wonder why she would abandon us and part ways with Slytherin because of a Blake, and now I gradually understand The reason... there is no one who doesn't like light."

Cornelia smelled a sense of farewell from her words, and her heart beat rapidly. In Cornelia's life, she never wished so much that she was a Legilimency master: "Olivia, you listen to me--"

"You're not one to talk nonsense, Leah."

"Signus used the potion to control you, didn't he?" Cornelia yelled uncontrollably, "You shouldn't...you shouldn't be able to say this to me! Ollie, you were always sober, right huh? His potion didn't work! Then why did you agree to—"

"Yes, I'm just a puppet controlled by a stunner. Everyone knows this, including you." Olivia smiled at her in the mirror, "Can I take what I tell you seriously? ? Can my request to you count? It's all due to the confusion potion."

Cornelia's breath caught.

"Take what you want, Leah." Olivia turned her head and looked at her. "I have a wisdom tooth that has grown for many years. Not only is it useless, but it also hurts from time to time. I think many things are also related to it. The same, in fact, there is no need to exist.”

Urged by her gaze, Cornelia drew her wand obsessively and whispered a spell.Olivia lowered her head and spat out a tooth from her mouth. She looked at it for a while, then took the handkerchief on the dressing table, wrapped it up and handed it to Cornelia.

"Ollie," Cornelia touched the cold silk gloves, her eyelids suddenly jumped violently, "what are you thinking—"

"It's getting late." The last piece of ritual and music floated in the air, and Olivia buttoned the pearl buttons on her back with her backhand. There was neither sadness nor anger on her face, "Help me cover the veil, Li Ya."

This is undoubtedly a luxurious wedding.White roses flooded the Selwyn courtyard.

When Cornelia saw the beautiful bride led by her brother step by step towards the master of ceremonies and the pale-haired old man standing beside the master of ceremonies, her stomach suddenly turned upside down.Cornelia hurriedly covered her mouth to prevent herself from screaming or vomiting. Little Barty noticed her abnormality, and he secretly held her hand, but Cornelia did not respond to his warmth.

She tried her best to open her eyes wide, and her tears made her look down on the protagonist of this wedding.She vaguely saw Signus handing Olivia's hand into the old groom's, and old Selwyn caressing the young girl's hand contentedly.The master of ceremonies asked loudly:

"Miss Olivia Burst, would you marry—"

"I don't want to." A clear and flat voice interrupted the master of ceremonies.

Tears fell, and Cornelia saw the faces of stunned and secretly delighted, they whispered quietly, and stretched their necks to look at the bride who was still veiled.Cornelia looked at the faces that made her disgusted and palpitated. They were waiting to finish watching this once-in-a-century show, but they didn't care about the joys and sorrows of the people in the play.

She is desperately looking for Olivia's eyes, she is willing to help her get rid of this disgusting marriage, it is not difficult-but Batty and Evan's hands are holding her wrist tightly at the same time-"Oli Via!" Cornelia yelled desperately.

But no, no one responded to her, and there was only a silence more terrifying than death at this moment.

Signus turned slightly sideways: "Olivia?"

The next moment, the body of the old man in front of the altar had collapsed to the ground.Blood sprayed high from his neck, staining clusters of white roses, white lilies in the hands of the bride, and staining the bride's veil red.

That's the answer Signus got.

The blood spattered on Olivia's face, it was scarlet and hot, and she felt the flames burning on her cheeks, scalding from the skin to the tip of her heart.It turns out that the feeling of killing is so good, it turns out that killing is so simple.She stood where she was, knife in hand, neither fear nor joy, neither screaming nor laughing.

Selwyn jumped up and roared loudly, Antares fainted in Goyle's arms with her eyes wide open, Signus could no longer hide the panic on her face, and the guests screamed—

At that moment, the sky suddenly brightened, and the vacancy in her heart was not filled, but she heard her heartbeat slowly stop.

She didn't die, but she won't be moved again for the rest of her life.

-June 6th - Parkinson Manor

"I want to see Olivia," demanded Hyacins, throwing the newspaper on the table. "It's Cygnus's business, isn't it?—what are you doing?" Finding that Edmund was constantly throwing torn letter papers into the fireplace, and the raging flames were licking the pieces of paper one after another, Edmund stared at the stove with burning eyes:

"If you have something you want to take away, you'd better bring it here quickly."

Several open suitcases were scattered on the ground, and a lot of things had been stuffed inside.Hyacinth understood it without thinking too much: "This matter has something to do with you." She even stared at Edmund with interest, "What did you do?"

"Yes, it has something to do with me, too. It has a lot to do with it," Edmund said suddenly. He stood up from the fireplace and turned to look at her. Decisively, "We have to get out of here, the sooner the better."

"I'm not included in the scope of 'us'." Hyacinth declared, "No matter what you do or where you are going, I will not go with you. I will go back to London." Edmund's expression proves that The realization that he got into trouble he couldn't clean up made Hyacins happy, "Did you throw in our marriage agreement?"

"You don't understand what happened, Hyacinth." Edmund didn't get angry, his face turned slightly pale, "They will find us, including you, and they won't listen to your excuses—don't forget, now You're also tied to Parkinson's."

"I've escaped Death Eaters more than once."

Edmund was unusually patient and peaceful: "This time it's not just Death Eaters."

Hyacinth smelled something ominous in his words: "What the hell did you do? What happened to Olivia? Also, you—"

"My plan with Signus has been reversed. He has been exposed, and others know that the proposal for this plan came from me." Edmund threw the last stack of shredded papers into the fireplace and looked at her again. "You're nowhere safer than me."

"What the hell did you do?"

Edmund continued in a desperate tone: "I suggested that Signus marry Black to return to the power center of the Death Eaters, so he asked Rodolphus Lestrange to help him get rid of Walburga Black got the ring, but Bellatrix found out about Rodolphus's plan before he could act. Fortunately, the people from Rozier recommended the old Cygnus to Signus With the choice of Irwyn, the matter was temporarily suppressed, and Bella and Malfoy had nothing to do... However, as you know, there was an accident at the wedding. Now Selwyn has decided to make Burster pay with his blood, and Bella also intends to Get rid of Signus completely..."

"'Marry with Black'?" Hyacinth raised her eyebrows, and soon the dangerous idea in her heart was confirmed:

"That's what you think." Edmund simply admitted, "I think this is also a way to settle the relationship between the two of you."

"You're more naive than I thought." After the vicious words lingered on her lips, Hyacinth finally put down her cold statement, "I'm going where I want to go."

"The Death Eaters wouldn't mind removing you, and some from the Ministry and the Order of the Phoenix are looking for you."

Hyacinth couldn't help smiling: "Of course they are looking for me! Don't forget that I was kidnapped here by you!"

"The wind outside has changed, Hyacinth." Edmund finally left from the fireplace, "In their eyes, you are no longer a victim."

The author has something to say:

Note:

1. Why did Regulus tell Olivia about the opal necklace, and whether Signus's confusion potion has failed? These two questions will not be answered in the article, and you are welcome to make up your own mind.

2. Cornelia is still a pure-blood after all, she will regard Ollie and Regu as friends who are matched and "well-matched", but in her opinion, Hyacinth will never belong to her world.Olivia's thoughts on this matter are different from hers.

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