[HP] The Dark Duke's Candy

It was drizzling in Godric's Valley in September. Looking out of the window, you could see endless dark clouds covering the entire valley. The weather was as bad as Candice's mood.

The nine-year-old blond girl looked out of the window for a while, then looked away resignedly and continued to pack her luggage.

She carefully stuffed all her clothes and daily necessities into the suitcase, and then she found that the suitcase did not seem to be enough, and if she wanted to take all the things she needed, she might need another suitcase.

When she was in distress, her father's voice sounded downstairs.

"Candy, are you okay?" Mr. Bell's voice approached a little bit, he should have come upstairs.

Candice put down the things in her hand, stood up to open the door, stood at the door and said, "Dad, I can't put down my things."

Mr. Bell is in his forties this year, with a serious expression and a pale complexion. He stared at his daughter with a pair of blue eyes, and said in a low voice, "Let me do it."

Candice stepped aside, and Mr. Bell walked in and shrunk down part of her luggage so that her other things could be put down.

"Okay." Mr. Bell stood up, adjusted his top hat and said, "Hurry up, we don't have much time, I'll wait for you downstairs."

Candice nodded in response, and watched her father leave. During this time, her father had lost a lot of weight, and the clothes she wore before were a bit baggy.

It seems that the death of his mother three months ago really hit him hard.

Candice started to pack her luggage again, and she couldn't help but ask herself, compared to her father, did she seem too cold to get out of the haze of her mother's departure so quickly?

In fact, she is sad too, but she knows she can't show it, because someone is sadder than her.

That's why she's packing things today.

Three months after Mrs. Bell's death, Mr. Bell decided to temporarily move out from their home in Godric's Hollow on the grounds that the old environment might cause Candice to think of her mother often and feel depressed. Move back when you die.

Candice stuffed the last book into the suitcase, zipped it up vigorously, took a last look at the place where she had lived for more than nine years and was about to turn ten, took a deep breath, and went downstairs.

Mr. Bell was getting impatient with the wait. He kept looking at the pocket watch in his hand, and he breathed a sigh of relief when he saw his daughter finally come down with the big box.

"I'm fine, Dad."

Candice walked to her father pushing the big suitcase. Mr. Bell pulled out his magic wand to help her shrink the suitcase. Candice put the shrunken suitcase into his pocket, held his father's bent arm, and raised his head with a pair of hands with his father. The same blue eyes looked at him, indicating that he was ready to Apparate.

Mr. Bell hesitated subtly.

He slowly gazed at the room, as if caught in some painful memory, his eyes were red.

Candice pursed her lips. In fact, although she would often think of her dead mother when she lived here, she never thought of moving away.This is her home, no matter where she moves to, luxurious or not, there is no way to compare with this place.

Living here, she can always feel that her mother is still with her, which will make her not so lonely.

She could accept the fact that her mother passed away due to illness, but it was her father who really couldn't accept it and needed a change of environment.

"Let's go, Dad." Candice said softly, pulling her father out of her memories. Mr. Bell nodded haggardly, and was about to lead her to Apparate when a boy's voice came in from the window.

"Candice!" The energetic voice was very familiar, and Candice knew who it was.

She cast a beseeching look at her father, and Mr. Bell frowned, pursed his lips and said, "Hurry up."

Candice nodded, let go of her father's arm and quickly ran to the window, opened the window to look out, and shouted with a smile: "Fremont!"

Fremont Potter was drenched to the ground. He ran here in the rain as soon as he heard the news from his parents that the Candice family was moving out. He was still a child and couldn't use the rain charm, so now he was covered Embarrassed, it looks funny.

"I heard from my mother that you are moving away?" Freemont's brown hair was messy, and he looked at Candice through the window reluctantly, "Where are you going to move?"

Candice whispered: "We are moving to London, don't worry about Fremont, I will write to you."

Freemont breathed out and said, "Can I find you? Will you turn on the fireplace? How about turning on my fireplace?"

It is not a big deal to open the fireplace in Potter's house, but the key is: "My father may not want to see the neighbors he is familiar with now. Still keeps thinking of my mom... so he's probably going to turn on the fireplace for a while."

Freemont was disappointed, and stood in the rain stupidly. Candice couldn't help but said: "Don't worry, Freemont, I will try to persuade him to turn on the fireplace as soon as possible. It's raining so hard, you should go home quickly. Otherwise, Uncle Potter and Aunt Potter will be in a hurry."

Fremont looked at her reluctantly: "Are we still good friends?"

The young children were very sincere when they said goodbye. Candice held Fremont's hand and said with a smile: "Of course, we have always been good friends. Come back, we can still write letters, can't we? In two weeks We can go to Hogwarts to study in [-], and we will have plenty of time to play together."

That's right, Fremont nodded, and finally withdrew half of his body that had almost climbed on the window sill, waved to Candice, and rushed into the rain again.

The rain was getting heavier at this time, and the big raindrops hit Fremont. Candice felt pain when she looked at it. Fortunately, Aunt Potter had chased him not far away, waving her wand to avoid Fremont. When the rain started, she breathed a sigh of relief.

After closing the window and returning to her father, Candice felt her body contorted, as if being pulled around, extremely uncomfortable before she could speak, and she soon realized that she was apparating.

The apparition didn't last very long, and the discomfort usually didn't last too long, which was within her tolerable range.

When she stood still again, Candice found that they were standing outside an old house that looked dusty. The house had two floors and was not too big or small. The inside was much better than the outside. Mr. Bell should have I just came to tidy up. The space extension spell was used in the house, and the daily necessities that are usually needed are all complete. Candice's room was also tidied up, which is next to the window.

"That's your room." Mr. Bell restored her luggage to its original size, told her the location of the room, and locked himself in his bedroom.

Candice stood there for a few seconds, endured the worries in her heart, and pushed her luggage back to her room.

She spent the whole day tidying up the house and putting away her things.

At this time, she began to miss Carrie, the house elf who had been liberated-Carrie's existence always reminded her father of how she and the elf were doing housework when her mother was still alive. Mr. Bell couldn't stand it and directly set it free.

If only Carrie was still around, so that she could pack her luggage quickly instead of having to do it herself... When will she grow up?When she grows up, she can use magic at will, and then she can take care of herself and her father.

Thinking of her father, who has been immersed in sadness all the time, and only supported her calmly when facing her, Candice felt very distressed.

At night, after she finally finished packing, she went to her father to see if he wanted something to eat, but the door of her father's room was still tightly closed, and she knocked a few times, but no one responded.

"……"forget it.Candice returned to her room in disappointment. She started to do nothing when she was free, and there were no peers to play with in a strange place. She sat on a chair for a while, and finally stood up and walked to the window.

It didn't rain in London, but it was cloudy. Looking out of the window, I could vaguely see a large yard opposite.

Candice breathed a sigh of relief, wiped the glass clean, and tried her best to identify the situation on the other side.

The yard looked dilapidated than his house from the outside. Behind the yard was a boxy, gloomy and old-fashioned building surrounded by high railings.To enter that courtyard, you first need to pass through a large iron gate, which is tightly closed at the moment. Above the iron gate, there are a few dilapidated and ancient words - Wool's Orphanage.

Orphanage?

Candice stared at the orphanage in the night in surprise, and could vaguely see a few children coming out of the yard. They lined up neatly and walked towards another door with their things in their arms.

An orphan is a child that no one wants. Candice knew this. She was already in a bad mood, but after seeing the orphanage, she became even more sad.She thought, luckily her father was still alive, if he left like her mother, wouldn't she be an orphan?Will we have to live in a place like that across the street?

Thinking of this, Candice trembled all over. She was suddenly worried that her father would leave her. In order to calm her inner worries, she ran to her desk, sat down solemnly and began to write a letter.

She wanted to write a letter to her father, reminding him not to forget that she was with him, and hoped that he would cheer up soon, but don't let her get overwhelmed and leave her alone.

I don’t know if it’s because he received a sincere but clumsy letter from his daughter. Apart from being a little depressed on the first day after moving here, Mr. Bell became more energetic in the next few days.

Candice was very happy and relieved to see her father's change, and she also thought about going out for a walk.

Although her father strictly forbids her to run around before going to work, she has been bored at home for several days. She loves to play by nature. She was the king of children when she was in Godric's Hollow. Let her hide at home when she gets here. If you don't do it, you might as well kill her.

So, on a sunny day, after watching her father Apparate to work at the Ministry of Magic, Candice happily went out to play with her children's broomstick.

She didn't dare to fly around, because she knew that apart from the range of her own home where the Muggle repelling spell had been cast, once she flew out on a broom, she would probably be spotted by Muggles.

If it is discovered and it is not dealt with properly, maybe it will be published in the Daily Prophet, which will definitely bring trouble to my father.

Candice planned, she would fly around the house, exercise a little bit, and never mess around, but... the ideal is always beautiful, and the reality is always different from the ideal.

She didn't expect that she would encounter an accident when she went out to "release the wind" for the first time.

The accident did not happen to her, but to the orphanage opposite.

Candice was in the sky at the time, planning to take a dive and go home to rest, but before she descended, she saw a scene happening in the corner of the orphanage yard.

It was very remote, surrounded by thick but bare trees, if Candice hadn't happened to be able to see it, she probably wouldn't have noticed that unfair scene.

Yes, very unfair, very unfair.Candice was absolutely pissed off when she saw five children surrounding a tall, thin boy, terrifying him horribly.

And the boy who was surrounded, he was completely different from the group of children who bullied the less. Although he was at a disadvantage, he did not flinch at all. He stood there bravely, watching the other five people vigilantly, Candy Ruth was their age, and she knew all too well what the boys were trying to do to the boy—they were going to beat him up.

Candice got angry in an instant, one fight was fine, and it was a duel between young gentlemen, but what kind of skill was five people beating one?Candice was so anxious that she really wanted to help, but she also knew that she couldn't go. If she rode in on a broom, wouldn't she be telling the group of kids who looked like Muggles that she was a "monster"?Then her father will definitely find out what she secretly came out to play today, and it will be troublesome if she thinks about it later.

But when Candice was hesitating, a surprising scene happened—behind the group of children, countless small stones were suspended, as if they were ready to attack the five children who surrounded the boy at any time.

Candice was stunned. She subconsciously flew forward a little bit. After she confirmed that the reason why those small stones could be suspended was because of the boy who was surrounded, she couldn't bear it anymore.

The one being bullied was a little wizard!

You must know that little wizards are very, very precious in the wizarding world, and Candice has been loved since she was a child. She couldn't tolerate being bullied like that by her own kind, so she went all out, risking being discovered, and riding straight She rushed into the corner of the orphanage with the broom, and she felt like Merlin reborn, standing in front of the boy very handsomely.

"Stop, stop your bullying!" Candice said loudly.

The five children around were stunned. They were four boys and one girl, and five pairs of eyes were fixed on Candice—the girl who fell from the sky and wore a strange robe.Candice stared back with wide sapphire eyes, and the group of children suddenly screamed strangely, pushing and running away, and one of them seemed to be yelling, "Go tell Mrs. Cole."

"I knew it would be this kind of reaction." Candice snorted softly, ignored the scared Muggle kid, turned her head to look at the same kind behind her, and said with the brightest smile, "Hello! Are you okay?" ?”

Candice is very confident in her smile. Every time she shows such a smile, no matter what request she has, no matter which elder she is facing, her request can be met.

She thought her smile was so lethal that she could easily win a boy's friendship, but...

When she saw the expression on the boy looking at her clearly, she knew that her smile was about to fail.

The boy is very very handsome.

He has black jade-like hair, with bangs that are a little longer, covering his equally black eyes a little.

His skin was pale, his cheeks were thin, and there was a hint of inquiry in his cold eyes looking at her.

For a moment, Candice thought she was dealing with an adult, not a child.

"...Hello?" Candice greeted him again with hesitation, and whispered, "Don't be afraid, I'm not a bad person... I mean, we are the same kind, and I am a wizard just like you. I I just came down to help you because I couldn’t see how they bully the few.”

The word "similar" seemed to have moved the boy a little bit, he slowly raised his slender eyebrows, and showed her a strange but pretty gloomy smile, and said not very politely: "You can fly?"

His voice is also nice, with a slightly cool husky, better than any boy's voice Candice has ever heard.

She blushed for no reason, and stammered to explain: "You mean this?" She raised the broomstick in her hand and said, "I can fly... wizards can fly, but they need to use a broomstick, that's it. "She handed the broom in front of him, "This is a children's broom, it was a birthday present from my father last year, do you want to try it?" Loughton, she said hesitantly, "But you probably haven't touched it before." , it may be dangerous to try it directly, maybe I can take you to fly together?"

Perhaps it was her sincere words and the beautiful smile that always hung on the handsome boy, his expression was finally no longer so defensive and indifferent, he swept the broom lightly, and asked Candice: "Wizard... ...meaning people like you and me with special abilities?"

Candice froze for a moment, then nodded.It suddenly occurred to her that he lived in an orphanage, that is, he was an abandoned child, so it meant that he was probably born in a Muggle family, maybe it was because of his wizard blood that he was abandoned by his family, so he must not know Regarding the things in the wizarding world, he probably didn't have a clue what she said to him.

Candice came back to her senses, and immediately raised a smile and said, "Look at me, I've said so much without thinking, and I don't care if you understand it or not. I'm sorry." She pointed to the big big man not far away. Shudao, "Maybe we can go there and have a chat? My family just moved here a few days ago, and you are the first one of my kind I met. I am very happy to meet you."

The boy did not refuse her.Or maybe there are no peers who can really reject this beautiful, doll-like blond and blue-eyed girl in front of her.

He followed her to the back of the tree trunk, and the two sat down side by side. The girl's soft and sweet voice whispered in his ear: "My name is Candice Bell, you can call me Candice directly. Just like you said Well, wizards refer to people who know magic like me and you, we are different from Muggles—Muggles refer to people who can’t use magic.”

The man's black eyes drooped thoughtfully. The clothes on his body were very old, but they were washed very clean. Candice could occasionally see some blue and black marks under his sleeves, which seemed to be wounds?

It seems that he is always being bullied.

It's okay to be abandoned by his parents, and he is often bullied. He is so pitiful.

Candice pursed her lips, and couldn't control her hand when she got excited, and directly held the cold and pale hand of the boy beside her.

The boy froze and looked at her sharply, almost hurting her because of the inertial reaction, but when he thought of the crisp and pleasant word "similar", he held back subtly.

Candice didn't know what kind of crisis she had escaped. She blushed and said with a smile: "...I, I just want to comfort you. Do they always bully you? Actually, this is not uncommon, you don't have to think It's hard to say. In Godric's Hollow - that's my old home, it's a settlement of half-wizards, and there are also some Muggles living there. Muggle children sometimes bully us." Speaking of which, Candy Silk slowly let go of the boy's cold hand, and some complained, "But because we have the Secrecy Act, we cannot show our abilities in front of Muggles, so it is easy to suffer. But I have never suffered a disadvantage. Every time I put They tidied up submissively!"

Realizing that she seemed to have said too much, Candice scratched her head and asked the boy who listened carefully: "Can you understand what I said?"

The boy looked sideways at her, and the girl's blue eyes stared at him intently. There was no contempt, no fear, no contempt and disgust in it, and there was just a blue ocean that seemed to be able to contain everything.

Even if he was indifferent, hard and repressed, he couldn't say too harsh and harsh words under such a gaze.

What's more, he didn't want to treat her that way - she was his kind, the "compatriot" he met for the first time when he grew up.

They all had that power—the power she called magic.

"I've known for a long time that I'm different." The boy lowered his voice, clenched the hand held by the girl just now, and even trembled a little.

He said a little tensely, "I've known I'm special. I've known there's something here."

Candice smiled and encouraged: "Of course, you are different, you are a wizard!"

Her approval made the boy's dark eyes flash with a hint of fanaticism, and the flush of excitement quickly spread from his neck to his slightly sunken cheeks. He seemed a little excited and said: "I can make things move without touching them. I I can make animals obey my orders without training. I can make bad luck for whoever makes me angry. As long as I want, I can make anyone hurt." At this point, he paused and looked at Candice , asked her, "What about you? What can you do?"

Candice was taken aback. She was still young and had no experience. Her mind was full of happy and beautiful memories. The biggest twist in her life was the death of her mother. She didn't notice something wrong with the boy's words, so she stammered after a while. : "I, I'm still young, I can only ride a broomstick..." After thinking hard for a while, she said hard, "I can also use the Levitation Charm, very lightly——Dad taught me a little bit, I can make the quill Float up a little bit." She covered her face in annoyance, "Sorry, I seem to be too stupid, that's all I know."

The boy also seemed disappointed by Candice's tiny abilities, but Candice quickly put down her hands and cheered up: "But it's okay, when I get to Hogwarts, I can learn all the magic bit by bit! By then I will become as powerful as you." She said very firmly.

The boy was startled: "Hogwarts?" There were cracks in the mature mask he had been wearing all along, and he looked a little dazed.

Candice stared at him curiously for a while, before changing into the same excited tone as he just said: "Yes, Hogwarts! That's a magic school! It's where all wizards and wizards in the UK go to at the age of 11. The place to go to school! It's so, so, so, so, so, so good!"

Candice used four special words to describe Hogwarts, which inevitably made the young boy curious and longing for Hogwarts in her mouth.

He wanted to say something, but there was a conversation not far away. He frowned when he heard the voices of those people, and his expression became very cold again.

Candice heard it too, and she was also a master of pranks, and she had a knack for dealing with these Muggle children.

"I have to go." She patted her skirt and stood up, and said to the boy, "About Hogwarts, I can introduce it to you tomorrow. I have a book at home that introduces the history of Hogwarts. I I'll bring it to you tomorrow." She quickly looked behind the big tree, "As for now, according to my experience, you'd better go back to your residence quickly, and then I will fly away directly, so that those who brought adults want The guys who come to complain will rush to nothing, so no one will believe their nonsense."

Candice blinked, got on the broom very spookily and flew up a little bit, and asked the boy one last question before those people were about to arrive.

"I don't know your name yet?" She looked down at him from top to bottom, her blond hair covered her shoulders and fell slowly.Sunshine showered her all over, and she was suspended in the air, smiling like an angel rather than a witch.

The boy looked up at her for a long time, clenched his hand hanging by his side little by little, even though he hated his popular and uncharacteristic name very much, he still replied in his nice but hoarse voice: " Tom. Tom Riddle."

Candice smiled even brighter when she heard this, her blue eyes were crystal clear, crescent like crescents because of laughing, and she said softly, "Okay Tom, see you tomorrow."

Little by little, she rose into the air, and the boy on the ground gradually moved away. Time was running out, and she didn't stay long. Anyway, they can see each other tomorrow, and it's okay if they don't wait for his farewell today.

However, the boy on the ground did not leave as soon as she said.

He hid behind the tree and kept watching the direction in which the girl disappeared on the broom until he could no longer see a single star.

He said softly and softly in a voice that only he could hear: "See you tomorrow...?" He seemed to ponder over the phrase, then raised the corners of his mouth, showing a slightly hazy smile, "Then, see you tomorrow. "

When Billy Stubbs arrived here with Mrs. Cole, there was no one here. There was a girl in a strange robe who could fly on a broom, and Tom Riddle. They were all ghosts. There are no shadows.

Mrs. Cole frowned. She was skinny and looked tired. She grabbed Billy by the collar and said, "Where is the person you are talking about?"

Billy was stunned, looking at the open space in surprise, hesitating: "It's right here! It should be right here! They must have run away!" He looked anxiously at the others behind him, "I'm really Met a girl who can fly on a broom, Mrs. Cole! Ask them if you don't believe me!"

Mrs. Cole frowned, thinking that one of the parties involved in this matter was Tom Riddle, and felt that Billy's nonsensical words had a little credibility.

She looked behind sullenly, and all four children said that Billy hadn't lied, so her expression became even uglier.

"Damn it, it's only getting me into trouble."

Mrs. Cole cursed, shook the rag in her hand, and quickly walked in the opposite direction.

Looking at her back, Billy knew that she was going to deal with his deadly enemy, and he smiled complacently and happily for a while.

But at this moment, Tom Riddle, who had disappeared just now, suddenly appeared in front of him and the four children.

The five of them stared at Riddle who suddenly appeared, all with timid expressions.

Billy thought of the rabbit he hanged last year, and when he saw Riddle's dangerous and sinister smile, he trembled instantly.

"Do you want to continue what we were interrupted just now?" Riddle swept the sky meaningfully, "No one will disturb us this time." He said this, as if telling them——this time Someone will come to your rescue.