[HP] Raven

Episode 29

The wind picked up again in the middle of the night, and the patter of rain hit the bay window. The cream-colored stone pillars of Malfoy Manor were cold, without a ray of sunlight.Alex often suffers from headaches or stomach pains, or other pains in a certain corner of the body, unable to fall asleep, and wilting rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.Maybe it was something wrong with the potion itself, she was groggy all day, either sleeping or fighting with the idea of ​​dozing off.

Sometimes she could hear the quarrel, and sometimes she could hear the screams from the next room, and she didn't know which ones were real and which ones were her nightmares.She couldn't tell the difference.Or maybe she refuses to tell the difference.

Regulus seemed to have visited her, her consciousness had been unclear, but she remembered hearing his voice.

Finally, on an unknown day, like peeling off a layer of fuzzy shell, she came to her senses, only to find that there were many things piled up beside her bed, a large bouquet of flowers in a crystal vase, white and pale Pink petals stretched and bloomed gracefully in the air; a quill with peacock feathers hanging down; a stack of ivory handkerchiefs with delicate lace, which felt like the smoothest silk, with a soft light on the surface of the fabric. , feels a little cold like silk, but is much stronger than silk; a book on ancient runes, if Alex wants to pass the time, it is indeed a good choice; a piece of dark green Small stones, when held firmly in the palm, will emit a touch of warmth.

She finally couldn't help asking as Dobby piled a box of chocolates on the bedside table. "May I ask who sent these things?"

Dobby opened those oversized eyes. "It was from Mr. Regulus Black."

"why?"

"Dobby doesn't know either, and Dobby can't answer Miss Everly's question. But Dobby must take good care of Miss Everly. Don't let Miss Everly get sick again. Otherwise, no one will make the potion for the master, and the master will Get angry. Dobby is not a good elf. Dobby is always making the master angry." The elf named Dobby began to pound his head on the floor without pain.

"Oh, please stop, Dobby," Alex said feebly as she felt a sudden headache again, "Please don't do this again so I don't get sick."

It didn't take long before she could start walking around on the ground.Regulus Black would sometimes come to see her and take her around the rest of the estate.Let the wind go.Alex defined his behavior in this way in his heart, maybe they discovered the disadvantages of keeping free labor in the room for 24 hours.She often feels that she will die soon, maybe that day is very near, this kind of short-lived activity will briefly dispel her thoughts, but soon the dark clouds will return to her head.

So when she and Regulus were walking along the flower paths at Malfoy Manor - "Letting the Wind" - she was almost a little surprised to see the sun shining on the large expanses of tender, tender petals.She originally thought this was a corner abandoned by the sun, but at this moment, her eyes that could not be fully opened told her that the bright light was real.

There are countless daffodils in Malfoy Manor. The white petals keep blooming all year round. Different kinds of precious roses are planted in the soil-based flower gardens outside. Large areas of dark red flowers lie on the ground. On the dark green leaves, so deep that they are almost black, they move silently in the wind, like a magnificent sea.

Alex stood in front of Regulus, and they faced each other in silence, as if an invisible wizard's chessboard was floating in front of them, and they were fighting to the death on the chessboard that no one could see.

"So," Regulus paused, and became the one who surrendered first, "Are you not going to talk to me in your life?"

"I thought, I'm talking to you, Blake," Alex said.

Silence again.

She couldn't help reaching out and touching the roses standing silently beside them. They were so charming, and her lifeless eyebrows came alive.However, at this moment, another hand stretched out, picked the rose and handed it to her.

"Thank you." She said to Regulus, reaching out to take the rose, but she cast a very simple wandless spell, and the rose withered instantly as soon as it passed her fingertips, and the dry petals lost their moisture. Rolled up, glowing dying burnt gray.

Regulus stared at Alex in surprise, with an expression on Alex's face that Alex couldn't tell whether it was anger or sadness. "Is that your answer?"

Alex stared at him blankly, neither saying yes nor no.She shook the withered rose in her hand. "This is its answer."

What separated them was just ordinary air, but it also seemed like a fog that couldn't see through each other.

"I thought you already understood what I was thinking. Although it may not make any sense to say this now. But I think I should have told you earlier," Regulus stood at the boundary between sunlight and shadow, Grabbly took the flower in her hand and destroyed it easily, he still looked a little haughty, but there was an emotional crack in his gray eyes, "The rumors in Slytherin, those holidays Letter after letter, those weekends where I pestered you to study potions... maybe I should have told you sooner."

Alex closed her eyes. "Stop talking, Blake."

silence.

Long stretches of silence surrounded them like rivers and air.When the breeze blows, the fragrance of roses is brought. They don't know what kind of spell the house elves use to make the roses bloom in the garden outdoors in winter, but roses blooming in the cold wind are always unreasonable.

"What if," Regulus was silent for a moment, then raised his eyes to her, "what if I can find a way to get you out?"

Alex froze.She looked at him. "Really?"

Regulus did not answer her directly.He touched a rose with his wand, then plucked it gently, and handed it to her again.

"Give me some time, I will find a way, but... it may not be successful."

Alex took the rose and nodded. "Thank you."

The next day, Dobby brought a caged raven. The house elf said it was sent by Regulus, and Alex could only keep it in her room.She didn't like the cage, so she just let it out, but the raven didn't flap its wings and fly away, but landed obediently on her shoulder.

She guessed maybe it was because her Animagus was a raven, an animal with which she had a natural affinity.

But time passed day by day, and there was no good news from Regulus. In fact, he never mentioned this matter in front of her again. He always looked very busy, and occasionally came to her to "release "It also came and went in a hurry, and became taciturn.

After three months had passed, she couldn't wait.

She wanted to get out on her own, but it wasn't easy to escape Malfoy Manor.She needs a careful plan and a surefire escape route.She secretly took a piece of parchment and began to draw the topographic map of Malfoy Manor, sketching out a simple layout of Malfoy Manor based on the places where Regulus took her to "release".If there's a lot of spells around - and Alex can't believe she's the only one trying to get out - then the only normal way to get in and out is the gate.She understood that she was now on the west side of the manor, and she also knew where the gate of Malfoy Manor was.But the places she passes along the way are guarded by house elves. They hardly eat or sleep. If there is any abnormal trouble, they will report to Lucius, and Bellatrix will often know about it and run excitedly Came over and threw the Avada Kedavra at the escaped prisoner, bursting into manic laughter as the escapee fell to the ground.

How can you fool the house elf?

Although house elves have a different magic system from human wizards, they have the same senses.If she brewed a potion, the house-elf would become drowsy and oblivious to everything around her if she had inhaled enough of the potion's vapors.

Fortunately, the ingredients of the drug are not too rare, and she found a small loophole in the process of making the potion.If she broke a potion once, the house-elf would dispose of the contents of the cauldron, but the remaining ingredients would remain with her.The next time you make a potion, the house elf will send you a whole set of ingredients.

She recalled what materials were needed for Mongolian sweat medicine, and accumulated bit by bit.Saffron powder, cockroach wings, mouse tails, gorse pistils...

Body bags piled up one after another, and when the house elf dragged the corpse away, the rustle of the body bags rubbing against the floor was endless. Under the torture of the Death Eaters, blood soaked every corner on the west side of the building.

Bad luck fell on Mr. Jules-Marshall, and Alex didn't know that he was also planning to escape secretly. One day, Bellatrix's voice sounded in the corridor again, followed by a dull heavy object falling to the ground Voice.She boiled the potion tiredly, and in order not to make the Death Eaters suspicious, she could only do it once or twice at a time.

Since that day, there was no sound in the room next to Alex. It took her several days to discover this creepy fact. When she knocked on the door, there was no response at all. No one was there.Looking at the empty room, she recalled it for a long time before she remembered, maybe it was that night without warning, or maybe it wasn't.The only thing she could know was that Mr. Jules-Marshall was dead.

One day when she came out of the room, she found Regulus standing in the corridor. The raven flew to Regulus' side from the room at some point, and it landed on his fingertips obediently. Appeared, the raven immediately flapped its wings and flew back to her shoulder.Regulus Black looked at her with folded arms.

"You take good care of him. He likes you."

She finally couldn't help but asked cryptically, "Is there a chance?"

Regulus shook his head slightly, a little ashamed, and motioned to go in.As soon as he stepped into the door, he restrained himself and stood not too far from the door, and whispered to her. "Recently, many people tried to escape, but they were all executed immediately. It's better not to act rashly...There will always be opportunities."

Alex understood instantly.He can't do it.It is true that only she can do it by herself, and it is better to ask for others than for herself.She has been here for almost half a year.

"I will find a way. Alex, I can assure you." Regulus said.

She nodded very slightly and did not bring up the subject again.

Maybe Regulus is indeed a trustworthy person, but that doesn't mean she can't do it herself.He was always biding his time, but she couldn't wait any longer.Alex felt that she had never been a gambler, but if, just saying, if there was a one in ten thousand chance of her escaping from Malfoy Manor, then she would not give up.

The door of the room suddenly moved, and someone came in.Alex's old acquaintance, Dahlia Greengrass.Having not seen her in a few years, she has become very beautiful and refined, at first glance she looks a bit like the mistress of Malfoy Manor, Narcissa Black Malfoy.Pure-blooded ladies always like to dress up like this, with high-rolled golden hair, well-pressed wizard robes and carefully selected jewelry, which look elegant and eye-catching.

She frowned slightly when she saw Alex, then turned to the other person in the room. "Why do you stay with her, Regulus?"

Dahlia Greengrass finally stopped faking her fling with Alex.She is a pure-blooded person in her bones. Even if the friendship in the same dormitory before existed, she would naturally make a stand without hesitation when it was time to draw a line with the mixed-blood.What's more, she still doesn't like Alex. If Louise Goyle still has some gratitude and true feelings for her because she copied Alex's homework for seven years, the relationship between Dalia Greengrass and her The room is just a stranger who lives in the same room, the kind of stranger who is not pleasing at first glance, but who will secretly frown in his heart if he glances at it while walking on the road.

Regulus looked at her calmly. "I thought I'd be able to set foot here."

"Come on, Regulus, we all know, it's not a matter of setting foot in this room," Dalia Greengrass glanced at the expressionless Alex, and stretched out his hand to hold Regulus , "Would your family be happy to know that you are with a mixed race?"

The poisonous snake finally spit out the red letter that had been hidden for many years.Relieved, Alex smiled quietly.She should have guessed.The Greengrass family and the Black family are indeed very well-matched.

"I didn't even know you had such a positive attitude," Regulus brushed her off nonchalantly, "After all, you don't even have a Dark Mark on your arm, Miss Greengrass."

The light fell on Alex's face, and she calmly lowered her eyes, not even wanting to look at them.That familiar feeling is back.She never fit in with the most orthodox Slytherin groups.Because of blood, but also because of ideas.She stared at the piece of wallpaper that seemed to be peeling off again in the corner at a loss, thinking about when Dobby would bring tools to repair it diligently, and when she shifted her gaze, she realized that the bedside A large bouquet of white and pale pink flowers was still in good condition, and she suspected that some kind of spell had been cast, but the pile of things she hadn't touched at the head of the bed was dusty and covered with a faint layer of dust. White as autumn frost.

The raven, perched on her shoulder, had been benign except for the occasional wink almost like a stuffed animal.Fortunately, not long after, Alex saw Dobby shrinking behind the door panel, looking at her begging for help. It was time for her to make potions.

She laughed very lightly.The unsmiling, even ironic laugh that Regulus was familiar with.

"I think visiting hours are over, Blake, I'm sorry, but I'm going to go downstairs and brew the potion."

The author has something to say: Let Alex get back the Shawshank script (bushi

I actually like Regulus's line "Maybe I should have told you earlier" x

In addition, let me talk a little more about the issue of escaping... (Why do I talk so much, I feel disgusted

Whether Regulus will help her escape, I really want to blur this question, just like I blurted whether Sirius's love potion has a taste.Alex was suffering at Malfoy Manor. She didn't support them, but she didn't join the Order of the Phoenix. She was a real civilian in the war.Regulus is indeed Voldemort's fanboy, but he has the innocence and kindness of a noble boy. He believes that war and change should not involve civilians. There will be bloodshed, but innocent people should be protected.He'd think Alex shouldn't have been involved, that it was Lucius' fault that he was forced to work for the Death Eaters x so he really wanted to help her escape in the first place

However, once Alex escaped, where would she go, who would she go to, could he really not guess?In war, people's positions will be forced out.She finally reappeared in his life, is he really not selfish and possessive in the face of love?Everyone is not perfect in relationships.

I think he might be a little shaken.This question is so complicated that I don't know what he will think, so I think it's better to blur it here.

His attitude at this time can be understood as that it is difficult to escape. After all, those who want to escape have been discovered. There are so many people in Malfoy Manor, it is really not that easy to escape successfully. Although he has a very high status among the Death Eaters Gao, but he can't take her out; it can be considered that he knows that her stay is painful but he doesn't want her to leave him, and he will find a way to make her stay in a better way.Or maybe he was thinking both ways.Anyway, judging from the results, he failed to help her.

Forewarning, the next chapter will probably be quite tense...but I don't know when I can write it, your Black family is too difficult to write, you are all ruthless people x

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