[HP] Raven

Episode 26

Alex dripped salamander blood into armadillo bile and heated it over an alcohol lamp. After the liquid boiled, she added acromantula venom.

A strange purple flame burned out on the surface of the liquid, and she was coughing continuously due to a strong acrimony, but she still suppressed the discomfort and recorded the experimental reaction in a notebook, and added a puffer fish's eye to the liquid, stirred it for ten Two clicks.

She extinguished the flame to let the liquid cool, and she would not need to take care of the potion for the next three hours. In the spare time, she turned to take care of the second console.Last night the billywig sting and peppermint had been dissolved in the motla rat juice, and the hellebore, chopped up, did indeed have a catalytic effect. The reaction time, conditions and ingredients are all written down.

"Good morning, Everly." A brown-haired French man opened the door of the laboratory and began tending to his potions.He was about 30 years old and spoke a little French accent.

"Morning, Odea." Alex nodded at him.

Besides her, there are several other members in the potion laboratory, some are students of Professor Slughorn, and some are from other places, such as the Frenchman in front of him, Sebastian Odia , Beauxbaton's former assistant teacher of potions, was hired by Professor Slughorn to the UK with a high salary.With him and Alex, Professor Slughorn can understand most of the European potion literature. In addition to English, German and French are the mainstream in European potion literature.

The other assistant is from Hogwarts like Alex, also from Slytherin, seven years older than Alex, just staggered, a wizard from a pure-blood family, Antonio Shafik, Alex didn't see him very often in the laboratory. He heard that he and Professor Slughorn had a bit of a fight for some reason, so he didn't appear often, but Alex didn't know the specifics. Clearly, she only cared about her own experiments.

It is an undeniable fact that the war is intensifying, and the expansion speed of the Death Eaters is beyond the imagination of most people, including her.Alex heard that a few days ago a Muggle astronomer was taken away by Death Eaters and never came back.Times are chaotic and each day is never better than the day before.

As long as there are wizards, there are traces of Death Eaters. Every day, Aurors are found dead on the streets, and the streets are not safe. When I woke up, more than half of the shops in Diagon Alley were closed, and the streets were deserted.Alex wrote letters to both the Parker siblings and Helen Claude, who were hiding in the Muggle world and stayed with their families. Alex was relieved, and they all advised her in the letters Going back to Austria and making plans after the war is over, but Alex has no intention of going back. Her grandmother has a laissez-faire attitude towards her staying in England, and she doesn't want to go back to that eerie place.

"Evely, do you know? When I just walked over this morning, I saw a corpse at the intersection. It is said that it is an Auror who is about to retire." Odia said while fiddling with the experimental equipment in his hand .

"Merlin." Alex frowned.

"It looks like he was thrown from an upstairs window... but I guess he died before he touched the ground, and he has several wounds from curses on his body," Odea said here, looking a little disturbed , He raised his eyes and looked at Alex, "Very cruel black magic. When the Aurors carried his body away, I saw his wounds, which were all charred and rotten traces."

Professor Slughorn suddenly broke into the potions laboratory in a panic, his face was flushed with anxiety, his head was covered with sweat, and his chubby belly heaved and heaved.

"Professor Slughorn?" Sebastian Odia stopped what he was doing.

He didn't bother to wipe his sweat, and said to them out of breath. "Evely, Odea, we're moving this place!"

Alex put the solvent in his hand on the table. "Why? May I ask what happened?"

"Shafik, he has joined the Death Eaters!" Professor Slughorn quickly called two elves to help him. Wiping his sweat with a handkerchief, "I should know, he won't listen to his earnest persuasion. In his bones, he still... Sigh! It's only causing me trouble!"

"So what about Shafik's experiment?" Alex looked at the potion equipment.

"Clear it all, as if he didn't exist," Professor Slughorn said firmly, because of anxiety, he unconsciously grasped the very expensive handkerchief in his hand, and he kept fanning himself with the palm of his hand. With the wind, as if he was going to be out of breath in the next second, "I already fired him, I fired him before he joined the Death Eaters, if the Aurors and the Order of the Phoenix come to ask, it has nothing to do with us .”

"Let's go, Everly." Odea handed the instrument to the house elf.

Professor Slughorn impatiently urged the house elf to hurry up and pile up all the raw materials in the material room by category on a huge flying magic carpet, and then put them all into infinitely extendable pockets.

Professor Slughorn moved the Potions Laboratory to another more secluded place, an unremarkable second-hand magic antique shop on Richardson Street. Professor Slughorn didn't know what kind of discount he gave the boss. conditions, let him directly rent all the second and third floors of the antique shop to him as a potion laboratory. On the left of the potion laboratory is a flower shop that has been closed for a long time, and on the right is a simple flower shop that only opens for two hours during meal times. There are many kinds of delicacies written on the menu, but in fact only a few simple sandwiches, coffee and tea are sold.

Aurors from the Ministry of Magic have come to ask questions several times, mainly to Professor Slughorn. Although she and Odia have also been called to interrogate them, they can't ask anything. Antonio Shafik is mainly questioned. Family influence only joined the Death Eaters, and he was a member of the pure-blood family.As soon as the day and night interrogation was over, Odia handed over his resignation letter, ignored Professor Slughorn's retention, and didn't even ask for a salary, so he fled back to France with his luggage involuntarily.

Alex was alone in the lab.

Professor Slughorn assured her, sweating profusely. "Don't stand in line, Alex, I can't keep him when Odia is gone, I know, he always has to go. But I can tell you for sure, as long as you don't stand in line, any trouble is impossible .”

Alex smiled gently at Professor Slughorn's "life experience". "I have nowhere to go, Professor Slughorn, you are worrying too much."

Professor Slughorn was obviously too worried that she would flee to Austria for asylum - it was really too messy recently, and in order to let her work hard in the potions laboratory, he did not hesitate to agree to carry out a project she had always liked. Interested research, and agreed to take her to the annual academic seminar of the potions world, in Zurich.

That night, she returned to her rented apartment at 367 Catherine Avenue and began looking for the right attire.She found a suitable place here before and after graduation. It was a small, low house with two floors. After opening the wooden door, there was a brass door.Very simple furnishings, a small kitchen, a washroom, and a reception room with sofas, two bookshelves and floor lamps. It is not a problem to say that it is a study, because she has no guests. There is a row of stairs behind the reception room. bedrooms.

She went to the bedroom and opened the closet. There were only a few black plain wizard robes in it. Most of her elegant wizard robes were stored in her hometown in Austria. In order to appear decently in the academic seminar, she should buy a more decent one. clothes.

There was a small brass photo frame on the bedside table. In the photo, the girl was wearing a white Muggle dress, holding a large bouquet of bright wild flowers, turning her head a thousand times, looking at the camera tenderly and shyly.She stared at the photo for a while, then put it away and locked it at the bottom of the cabinet.

She went to Diagon Alley early the next morning, and Professor Slughorn gave her a very generous vacation. In fact, Professor Slughorn might be willing to give her everything so that she would not flee to Austria for asylum. cost.

She looked around the bleak street scene in Diagon Alley. Madam Malkin's gown shop had entered endless closure, and the only one still open was the most high-end Tribute clothing store.

"What do you need?" The clerk was a pale wizard. He looked at the plain wizard robe on Alex and asked indifferently.

She pretended not to see his cold eyes. "A wizard robe that can be worn on formal occasions."

"Please let me recommend this to you," the wizard lazily pointed to a wizard robe in front of him. The lavender-purple velvet fabric was covered with silver-white stars and moons.Alex frowned, this wizard robe reminded her of Dumbledore very easily.

"Do you have any other recommendations?"

The wizard raised his eyebrows.

"And this one?" He directed her to another pale pink wizard robe, gorgeous, with countless deep-sea pearls embroidered on the shimmering fabric.

Alex declined this one too.Only Dahlia Greengrass seems to be the one who would be suitable for this kind of intricate clothing.At this moment, she saw a silver-gray robe. The high-grade silk fabric exuded a soft moon-like luster. There were no patterns on the fabric, and the buttons made of obsidian had blue and white natural lines.

she said to the wizard. "I want this."

The wizard looked at her. "300 Galleons."

She nodded and handed him the money without hesitation.Since she worked under Professor Slughorn, she has a considerable savings.

The wizard was a little surprised, he was probably prepared that she would counter the price or pay on credit.In the end, he bowed his head humbly to accept her money, handed her the wizard robe, and said in a low voice, "Thank you for your patronage."

And just as she was about to leave with the well-packed wizard robes, several familiar figures suddenly appeared at the door. The first thing she saw was Regulus Black, and then she recognized the one standing at the front. The man with platinum blonde hair is Lucius Malfoy.

She secretly thought it was bad, and just wanted to turn around and leave quickly, but it was too late, his arrogant voice had already stopped her. "Good morning, I think you are Everly, Professor Slughorn's beloved student?"

She had to turn around. "Hello."

Lucius Malfoy smiled falsely at her, eyes haughtily never actually falling on her. "Evely, we might need a little favor from you."

Alex took a step back calmly. "Sorry, Mr. Malfoy, I barely deal with other people, so I probably can't be of much help."

"I have no reason to embarrass you, Miss Everly, what we lack is a stable potions master." Malfoy waved his hand, and the two Death Eaters behind him immediately walked to her side.

"You can't just take me away like this, Malfoy," Alex hissed, suppressing the panic in her heart, and gave the two Death Eaters a hard look, "Don't touch me!"

However, looking at the current situation, she knew that she could not win.

Lucius eyed her haughtily. "This is not a direct take away, Miss Everly, we just want to invite you to help a little."

"Lucius." Regulus said suddenly.

The platinum-haired Death Eater turned his head, slightly annoyed at being interrupted, but didn't show it.

Regulus looked at him, and then at Alex who looked wary. "Lucius, let me convince Everly that we know each other."

Lucius frowned, hesitated for a while, then waved his hands, and the two Death Eaters returned behind Lucius.

"Then I look forward to your performance." They seemed to have something to do, and soon left together, leaving only Regulus standing in front of her.

Alex spoke coldly first. "I don't want to join you, Blake."

Regulus looked at her silently, and after a while, he nodded slightly. "okay, I get it."

Alex quietly reached into the pocket of the wizard's robe and took hold of the wand.She could see over his shoulder that Malfoy had gone completely away.Only Regulus was present, and Alex didn't know if she could beat him.She was reluctant to pull out her wand at him because of some former classmates, but if he really wanted to "convince" her, then she had no choice but to—

"Evely, let's go."

Alex was startled, staring at Regulus for no reason.She had thought that there would be a vicious battle to be fought, in various senses, who knew that she had punched cotton.

Regulus raised his chin slightly. "I tried to convince you, but it didn't work. So, you go."

She knew that this time he let her go, maybe it was because of his old love. "Thank you."

"No need."

She turned around and was about to leave when she heard Regulus' voice behind her.

"Alex."

She turned around and found that Regulus was looking at her with complicated eyes, with dark currents in his gray eyes.But Alex left without hesitation and never looked back.

The author has something to say: The second half of this story will be very slow. In fact, Episode 40 is officially over, and the main text stops on the dramatic October 1981, 10. There will still be extra episodes (Wang Tian

And it’s really hard to write, cry and cry, I won’t update it when I go out tomorrow, and I will go to help my boss look at the data on the eighth day of the lunar new year, and the most daily updates will be until the seventh day of the new year (x

btw regulus will have a chance to kill his brother