[Shen Xia + HP] In the name of a detective

Day after day, life goes on, but Aurora still hasn't got her owl.She became more and more desperate, and her heart sank little by little.

Until the day of September [-]st, she finally gave up waiting and accepted the reality: she was different from other family members, she was not a wizard, but a symbol of shame...

Squib.

She doesn't know magic, she doesn't get an offer, she doesn't get a chance at Hogwarts, she's going to be a disgrace the whole family won't talk about, she's a Squib worse than a Muggle.Even if Muggles don't have magic, at least they can survive in their world.And she was simply desperate.

Aurora locked herself in her room, neither eating nor drinking, and making no sound.

My mother knocked on the door persistently outside every day, persuading her that it didn't matter if she didn't know magic, and wanted to get her out of it.But Aurora couldn't listen to it at all, and she suddenly felt that her parents must have known about her being a Squib a long time ago, so they treated her differently from Aubrey.

She was jealous of Aubrey, maddened with jealousy.

On the third day of her hunger strike when she locked herself in her room, Aubrey, who was already in the fourth year at Hogwarts, used an "alahoo hole" to open Aurora's lock, and put the starving starving She carried it out.

Aurora, who had been given a few bottles of euphoria, recovered, but didn't know how to face her parents and Aubrey, so she closed her eyes tightly and pretended she hadn't woken up yet.

Aubrey, who had been staying by the bed, stared at her trembling eyelashes, sighed deeply, said "No matter what, you are our family", and walked away.

The images of memory flowed slowly like a tide, and those people and things flowed past her in a "crash" and never came back.Finally, time was frozen in father's study.

That was the final straw for Aurora.

At that time, Aurora gave up on herself and spent the whole day in her room decadent. The food was delivered to her bed by the house elf, and she slept dimly and unconsciously every day.Life is comparable to that pink and tender creature whose skin can be made into leather and whose meat can be eaten. It eats and sleeps, and sleeps to eat.

Since he turned 11 and went to Hogwarts to go to school, Aubrey, who has never been home during the Christmas holidays, suddenly came home on Christmas this year, put down all his luggage, and pulled Seeing Aurora, who was crying silently on the bed, she ran to the study that her father had never allowed them to enter.

Aurora tried several times to shake off her brother's hand, but to no avail.Because Aubrey held her hand tightly and would not let go.

Aubrey rummaged through the study, and finally picked up a scroll that was taller than Aurora, and while slowly unfolding it, he said to her seriously: "I told you, no matter what, You are all our family. Look at the genealogy..."

Aubrey glanced at the family tree on the scroll, and suddenly stopped talking.He thought he was wrong, blinked a few times, and stared closely again, only to find that...

There is no Aurora's name in the family tree of the Hopps family.

At the bottom of the family tree, there is a silver double line connecting Owen Hopps and Su Liushuang, and then there is another vertical silver line connecting their names, pointing to a man named Aubrey. Hope's name.

Beside him, there was an empty space, with no place for Aurora Hopps.

Aurora stared blankly at her family tree, unable to believe everything in front of her eyes, but she could only believe it.

She was abandoned by them, she was betrayed by them.

It's that simple.

Aubrey was also stunned, murmured and called her name: "Aurora..."

Aurora came to her senses, and finally shook off his hand forcefully, her eyes widened to keep the tears from flowing, she sneered, and said, "Not everyone is what you think."

Since then, Aurora, who was less than 12 years old, resolutely ran away from home, went to Gringotts to withdraw all her deposits, exchanged them for Muggle banknotes, and wandered in the Muggle world in London by herself.

until now.

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Lestrade stretched out his hand, waved it in front of Aurora's eyes a few times, and said, "What's wrong with you? You've been out of your mind just now at Stanovich's house."

Only then did Aurora come back to her senses, her eyes brightened again, she forcefully squeezed out a smile, and pretended to say triumphantly, "Well, my judgment is right."

Sergeant Donovan responded.

"I still think the nickname 'Sepp' is very strange. The word 'Sevel' has only two syllables, which is not very long. There is no need to shorten it in the form of a nickname." Lestrade still clung to this doubtful point and insisted on finding out.

Police Officer Donovan was also thoughtful, and echoed: "Yes, not to mention that 'Sevel' represents sapphire, which itself has a very beautiful meaning, but the word 'Sep' has the meaning of a fool. How could it be Has such a strange nickname?"

"Well, Inspector, your IQ is finally on the line." Aurora, who has always adhered to the principle of not picking up girls, only gave Lestrade a look of approval, with a vague smile on her lips.

Lestrade remained silent, saying that he had nothing to say to Aurora.

"Obviously the nickname Sepp has a deeper meaning." Aurora shrugged, with an expression that things should be like this.

Lestrade secretly complained that Aurora was really becoming more and more like Sherlock, so he had no choice but to put on a posture of listening attentively and willing to hear more.

"The first case is the story of "Cinderella", the key word is 'shoes' (shoes), which is a small size glass slipper. The second case is the fairy tale "Candy House", the key word is naturally 'candy '(candy), after all, the hut made of sugar water is there. The third case is "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", the key word is 'apple' (apple), and the green and red one in the victim's hand Half, half poisonous and half non-poisonous." Aurora got the response she wanted, and explained it to Lestrade and Officer Donovan in great detail.

"Does the key word help the breakthrough of the case?" Police Officer Donovan understood what Aurora said, but he still didn't quite understand how it was directly related to the case.

"Don't worry. Use the first letter of the first keyword mentioned just now, and add the second letter of the second keyword..." At this point, Aurora paused deliberately, waiting The other two completed the sentence.

Officer Donovan followed the routine, and then continued: "There is also the third letter of the third key word, spelled out is..."

"Sap, Sapp." Lestrade struggled silently in his heart, and then said.

"So, the murderer is Sevel Stanovich?" Officer Donovan guessed.

"Such an obvious password seems to be afraid that we will not be able to figure out the mystery hidden in it." Aurora curled her lips, shook her head slowly, and commented in this way.

"Yeah, the very paranoid perfectionist you mentioned should be a very cautious person, and he will reveal few flaws, even flawless. Why did he leave so many clues?" Reis Trade thought of Aurora's evaluation of the murderer before, and couldn't help questioning.

Police Officer Donovan, who is good at following the trend, immediately echoed: "Yes, first of all, the second case had a very special flaw, and now it has directly left clues of the name in the design of the case. It is possible that the murderer wanted to be arrested by the police. caught?"

Aurora straightened her back, her eyes were filled with an unconcealable smile, and there was an indescribable... desperation in her eyes.

"It seems that you have identified the murderer." Lestrade came to this conclusion by observing her expression.

"That's right, but it still needs to be confirmed." Aurora couldn't hide the joy in her heart, and her smile became more and more obvious.

Officer Donovan couldn't wait to ask: "How to confirm?"

"Do you still remember the seven campers representing the dwarves in the third case?" Aurora asked with a puzzled look on her face.

Police Officer Donovan, who missed the initial reasoning, didn't quite understand it. Based on the conversation between the other two people, she only speculated that "these three cases are related to fairy tales, and the specific names are "Cinderella" , "Candy House" and "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"" "The murderer is the Stanovich family, including Charlie, Philip and Sevel Stanovich" "The murderer left behind in the design of the case She found a lot of clues, pointing directly at Severn Stanovich, but she is likely to be framed." As for the "seven campers representing the dwarves", she couldn't understand.

So Officer Donovan looked at Lestrade suspiciously.

"The seven campers who found Doris Wilson's body were pre-arranged by the murderer to represent the seven dwarfs in Snow White." Lestrade enjoyed this "I understand" , She understands, but you don't", explained patiently.

"Inspector?" How could Aurora not know what Lestrade was thinking, dragging him back to the cruel reality, and let him answer his own question first.

"Of course, I still remember that there were originally eight people who came to camp, but one of the people who had already made an appointment decided to cancel the trip at the last minute." Lestrade was suddenly enlightened, his eyes widened, and he said, "You means……"

"The murderer will not allow that person to appear, or he will become eight dwarfs." Aurora said with a very firm tone.

"So it is the murderer who hindered the journey of the eighth dwarf." Lestrade's eyes gradually moved away, thoughtful.

Officer Donovan, who finally understood, interjected and added, "Maybe the murderer is himself."

"Impossible, wouldn't that expose myself easily?" Aurora disagreed with her, spread her hands, and shook her head imperceptibly.

The author has something to say:

The little Sepps don’t love me anymore, and they don’t give me comments and collections anymore, so heartbroken~~