[HP] Raven

Episode 30

Alex used to think that she lived a clear and simple life, studying, graduating, working, and planning every step of her life in an orderly manner, and other people were confused.

If not war, yes, if not war.

But there are no "ifs" in life.She suddenly thought of Sirius, and Merlin could testify to her that she hadn't thought of him for a long time.He had disappeared from her life long ago, but when she was brought into Malfoy Manor, she still thought of him for a moment.Occasionally she would still wonder if everything would have been different if she had joined the Order of the Phoenix without hesitation at that time, would Sirius have understood her, would he have understood that although she studied black magic, she and the Death Eaters Still very different.

However, the fact is that Sirius did not understand that Alex Everly who had been secretly studying black magic, she did not join the Order of the Phoenix, and was brought into the lair of Death Eaters to serve them, even though she is forced.It's just that the idea of ​​"if I joined the Order of the Phoenix from the beginning" popped up from time to time, stabbing her unexpectedly, like a hidden arrow flying out of the darkness.It was the kind of thought that wanted to make her suffer and also set her free, as if just thinking about it made her not a Death Eater's vassal, and she could prove her innocence that didn't exist.

At least, don't stay here anymore, she can't stay here for a minute.For Merlin's sake, make plans after escaping.She is ready for anything.

That was the original plan.Alex eavesdropped on the conversations of the elves every day, and she learned that there would be a small gathering of Death Eaters tonight in the reception room of Malfoy Manor.This kind of small gathering is not uncommon, nor is it a grand celebration, just a group of purebloods who want to enjoy themselves and find a reason to gather together.The restless house-elves were still standing guard in their usual places, but the Death Eaters were all gathered in another corner of Malfoy Manor, and, if nothing else, drank quite a bit.

It made Alex feel like her time was up.Win or lose in one fell swoop.This opportunity is very rare and not guaranteed, but at least it can be called an opportunity.

If she is found.Alex thought pessimistically.If you die, bury it here.She has no regrets or any regrets.

The clock struck seven o'clock at night.She mixed saffron powder and cockroach wings into water and heated it. After the liquid was stratified, she added mouse tail and gorse pistil. After stirring continuously for 24 times, she added salamander blood.

The layered liquid in the crucible gradually merged into one again, and the original purple color faded, showing a strange water-red color, like water dripping with fresh blood.

She did not extinguish the fire under the crucible, and continued to heat it at a low temperature, and white smoke emerged from the liquid surface bit by bit like sprouting.She gently opened the door, put the crucible on the air inlet, and the white smoke immediately floated into the corridor, followed by the tiny airflow and dispersed into the air.Soon, Dobby, who was standing at the foot of the stairs, closed his eyes and even let out a slight snoring sound.

After waiting for another 10 minutes, she pushed open her door and walked gently to the door.

Everything went very smoothly, like a round stone rolling from the top of the mountain to the foot of the mountain.She found the door without any difficulty. As soon as she put her hand on the doorknob, she heard a familiar, gentle and nervous female voice.

"Honey, where do you want to go?"

The stone did not fall to the foot of the mountain, but slipped lightly and fell into the abyss on the other side.

Alex froze.She turned her head tremblingly, and saw Bellatrix Lestrange standing three steps away from her, with a crazy and cold smile in her eyes.

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Alex was dragged into the room next to the potion room. In fact, it was not the execution room full of torture instruments or bloodstained as she imagined, but a huge empty hall.

Bellatrix pulled her by the hair and dropped her on the floor.Alex only felt a piece of her forehead was broken, but it happened so fast that she couldn't feel the pain at all.

"Damn half-breed!" Bellatrix's angry voice echoed in the room, "Do you want to betray your master? Do you want to taste the Cruciatus Curse?"

Owner?Alex smiled contemptuously.She had never accepted his faith, and had never been his servant.She knew that she would die today, but she was not afraid anymore, she stood up and asked back while covering her forehead. "Did I really obey him?"

"He is the greatest leader!" Bellatrix's forehead burst out with veins.

"Really," Alex looked at her indifferently, her tone became more decisive, "I never thought he was so great."

What is inferior is not blood, only thought and behavior can distinguish the superiority of a person.

Bellatrix's face contorted. "You should have gone to hell long ago."

Then the crazy woman pointed her wand at Alex. "Cruciate! Cruciatus! Cruciatus!"

The bone-piercing pain infiltrated through the surface of the skin bit by bit, Alex slid to the ground, the pain flooded her head like sea water, she began to scream, and the layers of stings made her lose her mind.

Bellatrix let out a high-pitched laugh, overjoyed. "Are you feeling all right now, dear Everly?"

Alex was lying on the ground, her voice was hoarse as if it had been stuffed with dry cotton. "Kill me. Kill me, Bellatrix Lestrange, as you kill every wizard of Muggle blood."

Bellatrix patted her face with the tip of her wand, then pressed it directly to her chin. "What's the fun in killing you directly? There are so many painful things in the world. If you are killed so soon, will you be reunited with your parents who don't know what to do? It's too cheap for you."

Then the crazy woman waved her wand.

"Cruciate."

Alex didn't know how many times Bellatrix used the Cruciatus Curse on her afterwards, and when she regained consciousness, she was almost unable to move, her limbs were numb, and her voice was hoarse.

Suddenly, she heard the cry of a raven.She gets it.It's the last moment.

Bellatrix raised her wand, shaking her head wearily. "Well, there's no more fun. You're tired. It's bedtime. Good night, dear Everly."

"Wait," Alex said tremblingly, leaning on the wall, "I'm going to die standing up."

"Hmm, okay," Bellatrix raised her chin, as if looking at an ant, "then are you ready now?"

Alex straightened up, took a deep breath, and looked at Bellatrix in front of her without moving, but she didn't really look at her, it was more like seeing a distant place through her and the wall behind her. future.She believed that one day, Voldemort, the Dark Lord who claimed to be immortal, would die, and Bellatrix would die too, although she might not have the chance to see it.

Bellatrix flicked her wand sharply. "Avada Kedavra!"

Alex stood motionless, holding her breath.

However, death did not come. When the gloomy green light flew towards her, the raven that Regulus sent her flew in through the window and spread its wings to block her. After the green light hit it , it lost its strength and fell in front of Alex.

"Where did this beast come from, how dare you interrupt me?" Bellatrix yelled, she was extremely irritable, and slammed the wall next to her with a big crater, "Damn it."

Alex stood there, she had nothing, her wand had been taken away long ago, she had no possibility of resistance at all, and could only wait for Bellatrix's second Avada Kedavra.

Bellatrix's wand was quickly pointed at her again, a weird smile formed on the corner of her mouth. "You were lucky the first time, but now it's gone. Are you happy, Everly? It's your bedtime!"

However, at this time the door suddenly opened.

Regulus heard their voices, he rushed in, pushed Bellatrix aside forcefully, and asked aggressively. "Are you going to kill Alex?"

"Otherwise?" Bellatrix was caught off guard and staggered violently, glaring at him angrily, "This dirty half-blood betrayed the Dark Lord, she should have died long ago."

Regulus stared back at Bellatrix and questioned. "She didn't do anything, how could she betray?"

Bellatrix blushed with anger. "She wants to escape from here. What are you messing around here? Where did you come from and where do you go back to?"

Regulus stood in front of Bellatrix angrily. "She was arrested. Is it wrong to want to escape?"

Bellatrix lost patience and pointed her wand at Regulus. "Blood traitors deserve to die. Now, get out of the way and don't waste my energy here."

"I won't let it."

"Then I will kill you together."

Regulus took out his wand and pointed it at Bella, standing still, his gray eyes fixed on her. "Bellatrix, you are a lunatic without emotion. If you are determined to kill her today, you will kill me first."

Alex, who was standing behind him, was startled.

Bellatrix sneered. "As you wish, my dear cousin."

Narcissa had heard their voices before, and had been hiding outside the door to eavesdrop. Originally, she didn't intend to intervene, but when she saw that Bellatrix seemed to be really going to attack Regulus, she ran over in a hurry , holding down Bella's wand.

"No, Bella."

"Sissy! What are you doing!" Bellatrix frowned and stared at her disapprovingly.

Narcissa glanced at the unwavering Regulus, her eyes flickered, she turned to Bella and whispered, "Bella, are you really going to kill Regulus? He is our cousin."

Bellatrix snorted. "He allows the bastard to escape, and is a traitor to his master."

Regulus hastily opened his mouth to contradict. "Alex is not a bastard!"

Narcissa turned her head and gave him a nervous look. "Shut up! Is it your turn to talk?"

Then she turned to Bellatrix, who still had an angry face, and persuaded her kindly. "Bella, once you kill Regulus, this matter will become a big mess. Do you want the master to know? If the master knows, will he be satisfied?"

Bellatrix froze and said nothing.

Narcissa looked at Bellatrix's calm expression, thought for a while, and continued: "Also, Everly may still be useful, and it's not appropriate to kill her now."

Bellatrix snorted forcefully: "You guys are lucky." He reluctantly lowered his hand, gave them a resentful look, and walked away.

Narcissa secretly breathed a sigh of relief, she gave a meaningful look at the pale Alex, walked over to help her up, and glanced at her forehead that was still bleeding. "I'll ask Dobby to bring you some medicine."

"No, Narcissa," Regulus interrupted suddenly. He pulled Alex away and said, "I'll take her back to No. 12, Grimmauld Place."

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Alex was taken by Regulus to No. 12, Grimmauld Square, where the legendary Black family lived.When she walked out of Malfoy Manor, a ray of sunlight hit her body, so warm and bright that it was unreal.

Regulus felt Alex shake uncontrollably, and he guessed it was fear.She was so close to death just now, if he was one step late, she would die, and if she died, she would have nothing.

So he stretched out his arm, wrapped it lightly around her shoulder, patted her, but let go quickly.

"It won't happen again in the future, I promise."

Alex watched helplessly as a huge and gorgeous house appeared between No.11 and No.13 of Grimmauld Place, and Regulus led her into it without hesitation.

"You can stay here, and you can ask Kreacher if you have any questions," he led her to a guest room on the second floor. A house elf knocked on the door and entered, and Regulus said to her, "This It's Kreacher."

Regulus didn't know what to whisper to Kreacher, and the house elf nodded to her respectfully.Then, it said to Regulus. "The mistress told you to go upstairs, Master Regulus."

Kreacher glanced at Alex, turned around and went back to work in the kitchen.

Regulus went upstairs quickly, and Alex stood where he was, hearing a violent argument erupt upstairs.

A high-pitched female voice shouted: "Why did you bring a half-breed back? Their lowly blood will pollute our home. We are Black, Rael, have you forgotten!"

Regulus lowered his voice and said. "Alex isn't mean, Mom, she's half blood, but she..."

"How can a half-breed not be low? She's half Muggle blood, so she's a lowly bastard. What the hell are you thinking? Get her out of here, and let Kreacher clean all the floors she stepped on." .”

"No, Mom, Alex is my guest and I won't turn her away."

"How can you be disobedient? You were not like this before, dear, why did you do such inappropriate things?"

"I'm sorry, Mom...but I don't think I did anything wrong."

This unpleasant conversation ended in suffocating silence.Alex stood on the stairs without saying a word, listening to everything.

Regulus went downstairs and saw her standing there expressionless, obviously listening to every word, and quickly explained. "Don't take mom's words to heart, she's just talking, there's no problem...I'll convince her."

Then he asked Kreacher to bring the medicine and treat the wound on her forehead.His experience playing Quidditch made him far better at dealing with the bumps than Alex.Sitting in the chair, Alex felt a slight coolness on her forehead, and the smell of white moss came to her nostrils, and soon noticed that the abrasions on her forehead were healing at a perceivable speed.

"Keep out of the water, it will heal quickly."

Alex turned away from his eyes and said softly. "Thanks."

Both Regulus and Alex were silent for a while.Her thoughts wandered here and there like her eyes.Her face was pale, she seemed to have been killed by Bellatrix just now, and now this walking and breathing thing is just a shell.

"Are you tired?" Regulus looked at her face and asked seriously, "If you are tired, you can go to bed earlier."

She nodded, it was too quiet between them, she raised her eyes to look at him, observing his eye sockets, nose bridge and lips as if seeing him for the first time, she never thought that she would be so close to him.Another Black boy.

Regulus was also looking at her, his gray eyes were dim, he seemed to be cherishing the moment when they were alone, but he was trying his best to suppress the sourness rising in his heart.I don't know how long it took, he tentatively stroked the hair hanging on her cheeks behind her ears, his fingertips were warm, she felt his touch, and blinked quickly, but before she could When she realized it, he turned around and left quickly.

It felt strange, and kind of familiar.It was nothing at first, and it’s fine to be alone. In fact, I don’t feel lonely at all. Someone suddenly broke in with enthusiasm and set a torch to burn the original defenses. The flames burned everything vigorously, making the night the brightest But she left without hesitation in the blink of an eye. She had nothing but loneliness, despair, longing and pain.

The thought made her feel a little weird.

Perhaps she should have been disgusted with Regulus, Alex thought belatedly as she stood there, indeed, she should have been disgusted.But she didn't.She hated herself for being greedy for warmth and love, but her conscience did not allow her to respond.He is a Death Eater who supports pure-bloodism.

She stood alone, staring blankly at the gorgeous, stale and ancient wallpaper in the corridor of No. 12, Grimmauld Place, recalling everything just now, wondering whether it was the good luck Merlin bestowed on her, or Pandora's box ——Fate will never give her too good things.

She walked back to the guest room, took a shower in the attached bathroom, and sat on the bed with wet hair in a daze.Thinking to no avail, she covered her face and hid herself under the quilt. She was too tired today, and soon lost consciousness and fell asleep.

The author has something to say: Narcissa can probably get a tenth level certificate in persuading Bella (x, this chapter is really enjoyable to write, your Black family is really wonderful, everyone is ruthless x

This chapter is one of the highlights of RA, and the opportunity to fight back has not yet come... The emotional line is very slow, but I want to finish this story quickly ah ah ah I still want to write "Burning Heart" qwq

In fact, there was a foreshadowing of a relationship line in the previous chapter x but I think I buried it too deep x to make it meaningless

looking forward to comments w