HP Midnight Light

- 1981th February 7 - Unnamed Castle, Cumbria

"Snape!" Cornelia called to Snape, hurrying down the corridor before Snape left for the cellar, staring into those black eyes, "Take a step."

"I don't like to cause trouble." Snape turned to leave, but Cornelia had already blocked his way:

"You used to love trouble."

"I'm not interested in what you say." Snape had already guessed what she was coming for.

"I know." Cornelia said with a smirk, "But this doesn't prevent me from asking you some questions as a colleague?"

"You know a lot more than I do." Snape realized that Cornelia would never let him go easily, "What do you want?"

"How much do you like Lily Evans?"

Snape's lips were drawn into a straight line.

"You and I both know that the Dark Lord is now looking for the Potters, and I think you have already persuaded him to agree to save Lily's life." Cornelia raised her eyelashes and stared at Snape, "But I think you should still Want something more?"

A deep furrow appeared between Snape's brows, and he was almost gritting his teeth: "No!"

"Although you deserve better women with purer blood, I don't think you are interested in them." Cornelia's eyes were firmly locked on Snape's face, and she lowered her voice, "You are very Clever, Snape, then you should know what I mean—”

"I know how to make a Love Potion!" snapped Snape, "but I don't need it!"

Cornelia laughed out loud: "Love potion? No, no, why would I come here to talk to you about such a superficial issue... Besides, you don't like the love made by using the potion, right? I understand, you must want to melt the heart of Evans that has long been away from you, don't you?"

Snape couldn't suppress his anger at all, he almost walked away, but Cornelia simply stepped across to the stairs leading to the cellar.This time there was no smile on her face:

"You should know what happened to Edmund Parkinson as well as I do," she said clearly and calmly. "If the Potters died and Evans lived, Edmund's life would be different now." It is the situation you will face. And the problem is not only that Evans is more difficult to deal with than Hyacinth, the key is that you are much more 'soft-hearted' than Edmund. Can you be cruel to Ivan Threats? Or something dirtier...Admit it, Snape, how could you do what Edmund did when you didn't even dare to use a love potion?"

After speaking, Cornelia watched every subtle expression change on Snape's face without blinking.She had already carefully understood Snape's family background and his relationship with Evans.For Snape, Evans was a ray of sunshine in his gloomy life. He had already deified Evans unknowingly, so how could he blaspheme a god who can only be seen from a distance?

"Speak straight."

Cornelia hides her snicker well: "Join my side. In exchange I'll help you win Evans' heart."

"That was just a blank promise." Snape was clearly unimpressed.

"You want me to show my cards?" Cornelia had expected this, she knew very well that Snape was by no means a fool like Peter or Signus, "That's good. When a woman is in despair At that time, her psychological defense is always easy to collapse. And as time goes by, she will gradually accept the reality. At this time, just a little catalyst, she will be willing to let go of the past and switch to your arms."

"You're talking nonsense," said Snape relentlessly, "then Order of the Phoenix, Vengeance—"

"Hyacings is a living example. Have you heard any news that she wants to kill Edmund for revenge or escape from Parkinson Manor?" Cornelia said, "I might as well tell you: in half a year Edmund took a cufflink from me many years ago that belonged to Blake, and he used it to convince Hyacinth that Blake was dead, and she agreed to sign their marriage agreement shortly after that. ..." She noticed that Snape's eyeballs rolled slightly, and Cornelia continued, "And your posture is much lower than Edmund's, and you are more sincere than him. There is also a relationship between you and Evans." A certain emotional foundation, then, how long do you think Evans can last?"

Snape laughed sarcastically, "So you're going to give me Potter's cufflinks, too?"

"Of course not." Cornelia replied calmly, "I'll let Hyacinth convince Evans—it's partly Evans' fault that she was taken away by Edmund, you know what I mean ?”

Snape remained silent, he walked around in a small area involuntarily for a while, as if he was considering the credibility of Cornelia's words.After a moment he stopped. "You think White will listen to you?"

"I know you won't allow me to hurt Evans," Cornelia said, "but I have a hundred ways to make Hyacons listen to me, and the easiest one is the Imperius Curse."

"Parkinson Manor is now surrounded by Aurors."

"You don't have to worry about it, I have my own way."

She knew Snape could figure out the joints easily.Sure enough, he quickly asked: "Except for the Parkinson Manor problem, you seem to have made things too easy."

"It's not that easy to do. First, you have to wait patiently for Evans' attitude to soften; second, in exchange, you must swear an unbreakable oath of allegiance to Rozier and Rozier's heirs. "

Snape narrowed his eyes: "Rozier and Rozier's heir..."

"Yes." Cornelia said affirmatively, "Anyone with Rozier's blood."

"I think," Snape's lips became a line again, "I don't need your help—"

"There is a second item of help I provide, Snape." Cornelia said confidently, "When Evans fell into the hands of the Death Eaters, her identity--Mumpkin, Gryffindor, Member of the Order of the Phoenix - would make her a thorn in the side of everyone. Even if you have the Dark Lord's promise, do you think he would punish any Death Eater for Evans' 'accidental death'?"

"You'll protect her?" Snape asked quickly.

"I'll protect you and her family," Cornelia said.

After ten seconds of extreme silence, Cornelia got Snape's answer.

"Let me think about it for a while," he demanded.

"Of course." Cornelia's smile faded, and she lightly reminded, "Not too long."

When Cornelia and Snape were talking, Evan was reading a copy of the "Death Eaters Code" in the conference room, to be precise, a code about the descendants of Death Eaters.

"First: They will take our banner and serve the Dark Lord to the last.

Second: They must keep their heads above water and never repeat the mistakes we made.

Third: They are all created equal, and we will treat those 'waste' children equally.

Fourth: They must remember who their opponent is and not kill each other, but they will not tolerate betrayal.

Fifth: They need to know who they are and be proud of it.

Sixth: They must keep the bloodline pure and pass it on.

Seventh: They must not be weak, timid, or cold-blooded, because they are true fighters.

Eighth: They must act decisively and never relent, so that the reputation of Death Eaters will be known to the world.

Ninth: They must be good at killing people, but also good at coercion and temptation, they must be omnipotent.

Tenth: They will not go to Hogwarts, we will educate our children to be real wizards and distinguish them from other people from the moment they are born. "

With a flick of his wand, Evan suspended the parchment above the long table.

"When I say 'descendants of the Death Eaters,' I don't just mean the children or grandchildren of everyone here, but more." He glanced at the awed faces, "including' The children born in the Source of Life Project, including the children of those who wandered on the fringes. Their parents tried to distance themselves from us, so the debt must be repaid by their children—" He once again Waving the wand, names appeared in the air:

Pansy, Draco, Vincent, Daphne, Gregory, Millicent, Theodore, Leto.

After they lingered for a while, some of the names faded away.All that was left was Pansy, Daphne, and Millicent.

"Bostrode's incompetence sent himself into Azkaban, but we will accept his daughter and raise her with grace." Evan's voice echoed in the room, "while Edmund and Sean wanted to play some tricks with us, so there were only two choices before them: first, willingly join us and serve the Dark Lord for generations; second, we will put the parents under house arrest and take away the babies. They must To make a choice is the price they pay for trying to play us. Not just them, but every other pure-blood wizard who manages to avoid us must face such a choice."

"Cruel, isn't it?" the Dark Lord said suddenly hoarsely, and he even chuckled creepily, "but I like it."

"They will all be descendants of Death Eaters," Evan declared grimly, "without exception."

- 8 August - 18 Grimmauld Place

"Bella, Bella—"

"Shut up!" snapped Bellatrix, and she opened a small window in the cellar door and said viciously inside, "Did you hear me, I told you to shut up!"

"So can you be quiet for a while?"

"Drill the heart and gouge out the bone!"

"Are you crazy!" Rodolphus screamed, and a wall lamp behind him was blown to pieces in an instant.

"Don't forget why we are so careful!" Bella growled at Rodolphs, "If it wasn't for you, we wouldn't be ordered around by Rozier at all!" With deep hatred, which made her look extremely hideous, Rodolphus hurriedly took a step back:

"Yes yes yes... I am not saying that you are wrong..."

"Are you satisfied with what your good niece has done?" Bella ignored Rodolphs, she turned her head and approached the small window and said to Druela inside, "She forced me like this, are you happy now? !"

"I didn't!" Deruella pleaded, "Bella, I didn't, I haven't been in touch with Evan for a long time—"

"Shut up!" Bella yelled, she took a step back and closed the small window forcefully, "Stop acting, you've been in collusion with your good brother and niece for a long time! Kreacher—"

"Miss Bella." The faithful elf appeared at her feet.

"Halve her food." Bella ordered ruthlessly. She quickly passed Kreacher and rushed up the stairs to the living room. He vented his anger on the sofa, and shouted a series of threatening words from his mouth, "I will kill you! I will kill you sooner or later, Rozier! I will tear open your abdominal cavity and wipe my wand with your liver and gall!"

Rodolphs huddled in the corner and stared at the irrational Bella in horror.The sofa was slowly broken under the whipping, but Bella was still not satisfied. She kicked over the coffee table, stepped on the messy ground, rushed over and tore off a tapestry and tore it into strips.Then she nervously grabbed the whip and continued to torment the damaged sofa.After a while, she finally calmed down, and Rodolphus took the opportunity to muster up the courage to remind:

"Didn't we come to find something today?"

"Thank you for reminding me." Bella taunted, she straightened up slowly and let go of her hand, letting the whip fall to the ground, "Kreacher, come and clean this place up—then you stay here and look for it, I'll go to the bedroom to see .”

Rodolphus couldn't help looking at what Bella had just destroyed with pity. He knew that everything in Grimmauld Place was priceless: "Don't destroy anything else, okay?"

"This is my home!" Bella glared at him sharply, and Rodolphus hurriedly raised his hand:

"I did not mean anything else!"

"You'd better not try to be a monster again." Bella glanced at him in disgust.

Rodolphus muttered under his breath, "We'll find a way to deal with Rozier."

"Tell me what can be done!" Bella raised her voice suddenly, and she quickly stepped forward to approach Rodolphus, "What do you think can be done?—Now the Dark Lord has no intention of changing his mind, he still favors Rozier Father and daughter plus a Crouch, in his opinion, the weight of the three of them has far surpassed the others! What's more, Lucius—that treacherous villain—will not stand up to help us at all! You Do you think you can come up with a good solution, Rodolphus? If you really have a way to save us from the fire and water, then I'm all ears!"

"Maybe...maybe..." stammered Rodolphus, "maybe Rozier will kill himself, like Bulstrode..."

"Idiot." Bella spat out a comment wearily, "You underestimated Rozier, and overestimated Burst." She said hoarsely, as if she had suddenly lost her vitality, "Hurry up and find what we are looking for stuff, stop talking nonsense!"

——The unprecedented cold reception in front of the Dark Lord caused Bella to fall into extreme panic, and she only wanted to find something that could help her turn the tables.The purpose of their return to Grimmauld Place today is to find the truth about Regulus' disappearance. Bella firmly believes that there will be an explosive answer to the mystery of Regulus' disappearance, and this answer can help her regain her master's identity. focus on.

Rodolphus rummaged through the living room while Bella walked slowly up the stairs.

"...he greeted Death like an old friend, and happily walked away with Death." Walburga's story came to an end, but the children listening to the story were no longer there.

"Don't be silly, Aunt Walburga." Bella sneered, "That's just a story."

At this time, as if there was some kind of inspiration in the dark, Bella unconsciously looked back at the deep corridor. Due to the long time of no activity, Grimmauld Square gradually gave birth to a decadent and decadent atmosphere, as if Like the dying Black family—Suddenly, Bella felt a palpitation in her heart, and she stepped back hurriedly and raised her wand.

But there was nothing at the end of the corridor.

It's just an illusion.

- July 9st - Potter's Old House in Godric's Hollow

"Does my godson like the birthday present I gave him?" Sirius held Harry high, he stared at Sirius with green eyes, it took him a while to make out the godfather's face, Harry grinned With a smile, he mumbled out a name:

"Board...board..."

"It's Padfoot, the little prong," Sirius corrected.Harry flapped his limbs excitedly, struggling to get back to the ground.

"You haven't been here for so long that Harry almost forgot about you," Lily scolded. "By the way, 'slab' is the third word he'll say."

"You see, Harry still cares about me." Sirius put Harry back on the ground.Immediately, he quickly crawled towards the toy broom placed at the foot of the sofa.

"Hey, stop, little guy!" James jumped out of nowhere, he deftly cast a series of spells on the room, and then carefully stood beside Harry and watched him climb up the broom quite deftly, "You must He can't just play with the broom by himself and honestly we'd love to have all the furniture in the room put away if possible."

"The storage room upstairs is full." Lily pointed to the living room.Sirius found that almost all the decorations in Potter's house had been put away as she said in her letter. "The kitten was moved upstairs, too," Lily explained. "James doesn't think a cat should die in a 'car accident'—by the way, 'car accident' isn't the right word here."

"Looks like Prongs' Muggle English vocabulary needs to be improved - wow, look at that turn!"

"Don't get excited like a nympho, board." James chased after Harry, laughing at every corner, "This is a relatively low-level trick Harry can play, and he performed it last time." A 180-degree side somersault, that's amazing!"

"It's a good thing Harry is flying well." Lily complained softly, "otherwise James would have said I was holding him back."

Sirius tried not to laugh out loud.

Within 5 minutes, several high-risk actions had been staged in the living room of Potter's house. The three adults all chased after Harry and escorted him, ignoring chatting.

"The kid is so fussy!" James complained loudly.

"Hey, is it okay to stop the game of the future Quidditch star for a moment? I'm here today to discuss something with you." Sirius stopped and begged. He came to visit today, so he had to make a long story short.James managed to catch Harry who still wanted to continue playing, and Sirius continued after the room gradually quieted down, "I want to finalize my proposal last time with you."

"what?"

"Change the secret keeper?" Lily asked quickly.

"Yes," Sirius said, "I think it's something to seriously consider. In fact, I'm thinking maybe we could change the Secret Keeper privately."

"What do you mean?" James became serious. "Privately?"

"Dumbledore asked us to keep in touch with him."

"I think we can replace the Secret Keeper without telling anyone, so people will still believe that I am your Secret Keeper, and the Death Eaters will still come to me." Sirius hissed and was about to protest The couple were quiet, "In this way, your safety can be guaranteed."

"No no, Padfoot, if that's the case, you're too dangerous!"

"I'm not dangerous. In fact, I was inspired by the rumors in the Order of the Phoenix." Sirius insisted. "The Death Eaters are very interested in me, so even if they catch me, they won't kill me. Then I can survive until someone comes to save me. Besides, I'm so confident in my magic level, I don't even think they can track my whereabouts."

"This is no joke, Sirius, you are putting yourself in a more dangerous situation." Lily said.

James shook his head: "You can stay here and take refuge with us, that would be a perfect solution."

"You know I can't stay, James."

James smiled wryly: "But——"

"Promise me that you'll think about it carefully, okay?" Sirius glanced at his watch, "I'll come back as soon as possible. I hope you've already moved all the furniture when I come next time!"

The author has something to say:

Note:

1. Of course Cornelia wanted to win over Snape, a potion talent, so she did not hesitate to tell a bunch of lies that could not withstand scrutiny.

2. ["You don't have to worry about it, I have my own way"]: Cornelia can infiltrate power into the Parkinson Manor through the influence of Peter or Barty Jr.'s father in the Ministry of Magic.

3. Snape didn't say yes because he saw Cornelia was lying.First, he must think carefully; second, Cornelia did make things too easy, especially the part where she bypassed the Aurors to control Hyacinth.

4. ["Anyone with the blood of Rosier"]: It means that if Evan or Cornelia dies accidentally, Snape will listen to Leto. In this scope, Cornelia has no Covers Barty Jr.Besides, this sentence is also a loophole for her-here is a strange foreshadowing.

5. "Death Eater Code" is just a tool for Evan to further control the power and please the Dark Lord.

6. Bella's hallucinations refer to the demise of the Black family.

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