[HP] Raven

Episode 40

Alex told Regulus more than once that No. 12 Grimmauld Place reminded her of her ancestral home in Austria.If the fireplace is not turned on, the room is always cold and dark, and the house elves are busy in every corner. Except for people and occasional owls, everything is very quiet.Even the concealment is similar. Ordinary wizards cannot find No. 12 Grimaud Square, and the ancestral home in Austria is located on a high cliff in the mountains of Salzburg. If you don’t use a specific spell, you will only see a large area. The dense black forest that blocks the sun is surrounded by ravens all the year round.The family crest of the Everly family is even a raven with edelweiss in its mouth, surrounded by a family motto in curly script at the bottom, SansUnRegret, never regret it.

Two days ago, a dark brown owl delivered a letter with the family crest to Alex, and she knew that her grandmother had passed away.Her aunt had been married to Eastern Europe for more than thirty years and, like her father, refused to return.According to the regulations, everything in the Everly family can only be passed on to blood relatives, so Alex and Regulus became the heirs of the Everly family.But they didn't go back directly. Alex wrote a letter and entrusted the wizard lawyer contacted by Mrs. Everly to keep the ancestral home and property as they were.

They still have work to do.

The task of assassinating the Son of Prophecy has been assigned, and it will be carried out tomorrow night, October 1981, 10.Peter did not know what tricks he used to become the secret keeper of the Potter family. The secret keeper of the Longbottom family was an Auror who was brutally killed by Dolohov. Neville Longbottom's hiding place also fell into the Voldemort's hands.At first Alex and Regulus wanted to write to Dumbledore, telling them where Voldemort was going that night, but Voldemort was very cautious and didn't tell anyone where Neville was hiding. Going alone, the address of the Potter family was only issued to the four of them on the night of the mission.

Regulus walked through the dark corridor with the candlestick, and walked into the storage room alone. The pillars inside were as cold as if they had been frozen. He found a small glass bottle in the gap between the rows of shelves. It contained a knuckle-high transparent colorless liquid.

The venom of the serpent.

The night outside the window was as thick as oil paint that couldn't be pushed away. In the room, candles were lit and old-fashioned gas lamps were turned on.Alex put the cauldron on the desk in the bedroom, and piled up the ingredients needed for the potion on the table one by one.

Regulus came in and put the serpent's venom in her hand.

"Thank you very much." Alex flipped a page of the potion tome in her hand, raised her eyes and took a look, "Excuse me, close the door for me."

"Yes, Mrs. Black." He waved his wand, and the door closed automatically.

An hour later, Alex poured the contents of the cauldron into a small glass bottle, which was colorless, odorless and highly poisonous.

"All right."

"Before the mission, they will come to 12 Grimmauld Place." Regulus took out a set of wine glasses from the low cabinet, four exquisitely carved crystal glasses, two with gold wires around them, and two with gold wires around them. Silver Thread, "We open a bottle of wine for an eminent reason."

Alex thought about it. "The four of us have to drink. The poison cannot be poured into the wine...and painted on the rim of the cup."

"Alright," Regulus took out two golden cups, "These two are theirs, and the remaining two cups are ours."

Alex glanced at the colorless and odorless potion and nodded. "In less than 2 minutes, the potion will take effect."

"They will die suddenly on the way," Regulus said after pondering for a moment, "then the four of them will disappear together... No one will know what happened on October 1981, 10."

She raised her eyes. "Have you talked to your parents?"

He had a vaguely worried look on his face. "I told them it was a very dangerous mission, but we had to go or everyone would die."

"... what else?"

He shook his head. "The less they know, the better."

It's a bit of an exaggeration, but Alex never once saw Mrs. Black's face, only heard her hysterical voice.Mrs. Black hated her so much that she even asked Kreacher to wipe the doorknobs and floors she touched every day, otherwise she would not go to the restaurant to eat.

He was silent for a while, then spoke. "To protect my parents' reputation...Alex, we may always be Death Eaters on file. If other people find out about our rebellion, they will definitely not let my parents go."

She shook her head, her heart like a mirror. "I don't care about posthumous names."

Regulus took the candle holder to the bedside table.

He was very afraid of the dark when he was a child, and he liked to keep the candle holder very close to him, and he would not extinguish it when he went to bed at night.Sirius laughed at him for being timid, and his parents also hoped that he would extinguish the candle before going to bed, because it would not burn the bedding on the bed.But he didn't get rid of this habit until before entering school.

He suddenly remembered that when he was seven years old, it was also the night before Halloween, just like now, when everyone in the Black family gathered at 12 Grimmauld Place, including his uncle's family and three cousins.At that time, Kreacher could not be considered old, and his movements of serving plates were even more deft than now. The grown-ups sat in the dining room downstairs, and the long table covered with crisp white tablecloths was filled with meat smeared with honey and seasonings. There are all kinds of exquisite side dishes piled up on silver plates, the bamboo basket is filled with freshly baked bread, desserts and fruits are neatly placed in small crystal carved bowls, and his mother allows him to eat a little more than usual, pouring chocolate Vanilla Buttercream Ice Cream with Sauce and Shredded Coconut.The elders found various reasons to clink glasses again and again to celebrate this wonderful night with fine wine.After dinner, Sirius and him sat on the carpet on the top floor and played wizard chess. He was not very good at playing wizard chess, and always lost. Every time Sirius won, he went to his cousins ​​in shame, crying, Bella Trix sat chatting with the adults and didn't want to talk to them children at all. Narcissa stood up from her seat and asked Kreacher to get a new chessboard to play wizard chess with him. She deliberately put water and lost a lot Here it is, Sirius yelled that it was unfair, why did everyone let him go, and was persuaded by the gentle Andromeda to go to another room to read adventure comics together.

They've all left here, and now it's finally his turn.

Regulus sighed. "After we left, the Black family disappeared."

He knew there was no avoiding it - that allegiance to the Dark Lord was bound by death.They wanted to kill Bellatrix and Rookwood, and it was impossible for them to be active among the Death Eaters after this mission, and it was even more impossible for them to retreat unscathed.

Alex pondered for a moment and said. "The Black family will not disappear, Regulus, it will continue in Austria. Besides, there is Sirius. Everything in the past is just passed on in another way."

He was silent for a moment, sighed, and nodded.

"I feel the same now as I did before I went to destroy the locket." He tapped the teapot on the table with his wand, and the deep red tea liquid poured into two delicate white china lamps.

Alex drew the thick dark green curtains, and the tassels fluttered, casting faint shadows on the teak floor.She washed her hands, took the teacup in her hand, took a sip, and looked at him.

"At that time... how did you feel?" She asked in a low voice.

"Fear, regret, reluctance... but no regrets," Regulus paused, and continued, "At that time, I thought of my parents, and I also thought of you. I love them, and I know they will never understand me, I won't really accept you..."

He was silent for a while, and Alex joined him in the silence.

After a while, he embraced her with open arms and whispered in her ear. "But I have no regrets, and I have no regrets."

She hugged him back, patted his back like coaxing a child, and tiptoed to kiss his forehead.

The next evening, Alex went downstairs early, smeared the venom on two cups wrapped with gold thread, and then turned the four cups upside down on the carved tray.Regulus was also sitting in the living room, and they waited quietly.

When the time came, Bellatrix and Rook Wood entered the door, led by Kreacher.

"Let's say it first, when the time comes, I will personally kill Harry Potter for my master," Bellatrix's hoarse voice echoed in the empty living room, and she pointed at them one by one with her wand, " None of you are allowed to rob me, do you hear me?"

Rookwood frowned in disgust. He had long been dissatisfied with the domineering Bellatrix. "When the time comes, everyone will play by ear, and it's your turn to dictate, Lestrange, pay attention to your identity."

Bellatrix raised an eyebrow. "Me? I am the most loyal servant of the Dark Lord, and this is who I am."

Luke Wood said coldly. "Yet your husband is a traitor to his master."

Bellatrix jumped up as if caught by the tail. "He's not my husband anymore! I killed him the moment I found out he had betrayed his master!"

"Okay, Bellatrix," Regulus said, "do you want everyone to quarrel before the mission begins?"

Bellatrix glared at Regulus. "Where is your turn to express your opinion? You traitor of blood!"

Rookwood looked at her mockingly. "So it's up to you to boss me around?"

"You!" Bellatrix pointed at him, drawing out her wand.

"Okay, everyone, don't say a word." Regulus persuaded.

Alex asked Kreacher to bring a bottle of very expensive wine, opened it in front of them, poured it into four glasses on the tray, not much, each glass contained only a knuckle so high. "Drink some wine to calm down and strengthen your courage. If you meet someone from the Order of the Phoenix today, you won't be so easy to deal with."

"It's time for us to go after drinking." In order to let everyone drink together, Regulus first took a silver wine glass and pointed the golden two at Bellatrix and Rookwood. "What's the matter?" What is more important than the task assigned to us by the Dark Lord?"

Bellatrix took a golden goblet, while Rookwood picked up the silver goblet.

Alex was taken aback, and Regulus frowned slightly.For a moment, the air seemed to freeze, and everyone looked at Alex and the only wine glass left on the tray.

"Mrs. Black, don't you drink?" Rookwood asked.

Alex picked up the glass hesitantly.

Regulus spoke up. "She can't drink."

"Why not?" Bellatrix asked.

Regulus put the wine glass back in Alex's hand calmly, stretched out his arms to wrap her around her, and paused for a few seconds.

"I'm going to be a father, we just found out this morning," he bowed his head and kissed her hair, "Alex has been worried that today's task will not be completed, right?"

"...Yes," Alex took a deep breath in his heart, lowered his head and touched his stomach, "I don't think there is any problem. This is a very considerate child, and I won't drag everyone down."

Bellatrix, flushed with anger, glared at them both. "Reculus Black, if you let her have the bastard—"

"Let me remind you that the master has affirmed Alex, she has noble blood flowing from her body. Soon, we will welcome the first child named Black in the next generation," Regulus told Berat Ricks raised his chin, "The Dark Lord will also have one more loyal follower, I don't know why you are still dissatisfied."

Bellatrix dared not speak out.

Rookwood knew that Alex was a half-breed, and that the way she rose to power was disgraceful—these were all familiar gossips among the Death Eaters that were long gone.He didn't want to care about their parents, frowned, and simply picked up the wine glass to end this troublesome topic.

"For the Dark Lord."

Seeing this, Bellatrix and Regulus also picked up their wine glasses.

"For the Dark Lord."

The three wine glasses collided with each other, and there was a clear and crisp sound. Regulus drank the wine in the glass, lowered his head and kissed Alex's hair.

Bellatrix snorted when she saw them flirting with each other, rolled her huge eyes, raised her head and poured all the wine in the glass wrapped with gold thread into her mouth and drank it.

Rookwood put the empty glass back on the tray.

"Set off."

The four of them apparated to Godric's Hollow. The dense trees in the night showed a strange gray-green color, and the jagged images of trees on the ground were ghosts.They took a few steps in that direction, with Bellatrix rushing ahead, Rookwood next, and Regulus and Alexis last.

Feeling that time was running out, Alex swung his wand towards the depths of the woods, and there was a rustling sound in the woods.

"Who is it?" Bellatrix turned her head vigilantly, and threw an Avada Kedavra backhand.

The bushes are empty, nothing is there.

"It turned out to be the wind," Bellatrix said disdainfully, "I thought it was an ambush from the Order of the Phoenix."

"You're too nervous, Bellatrix." Regulus looked around pretending to be wary, the woods began to thin out, and a three-story villa with lights and shadows was already within sight, he guessed That's the Potters.

"This task is so important, is it wrong to be nervous?" She asked sharply, "Anyway, I must kill it for the master myself..."

She suddenly became speechless as if she was dumb, and suddenly her whole body twitched as if she had touched a switch, and fell to the ground, motionless.

Alex and Regulus looked at each other.

Rookwood walked up to Bellatrix. "She's not breathing."

Before he could raise his head, two Avada Kedavra flew straight at him.Before he could utter a scream, he died.Rookwood fell to the ground like a sack of potatoes with a muffled thud.

The fireplace in Potter's house was burning brightly, Lily hummed softly, and carried Harry into the baby's room on the second floor.It was time for the child to go to bed, another day of fear and peace.However, she glanced out the window and found a green light flashing not far from home and then quickly disappeared.

James and Lily took their wands and put on guard at home for a long time, but there was nothing. James couldn't help but ran out to find out, but found that the surroundings were quiet and deserted. Several strings of messy footprints.

"What's the matter, James?" Lily greeted him worriedly when she saw him coming back. She didn't dare to leave Harry alone in the baby room on the second floor, so she could only hold him in her arms.The one-year-old baby was leaning against its mother's arms, head nodding, and had already dozed off.

James frowned suspiciously. "Someone has come and gone."

Lily hugged Harry tightly in her arms and asked in a low voice. "...is it Voldemort?"

James shook his head. "No idea. But our hiding address must have been exposed."

"Let's run away quickly...Take Harry, and let's go to the Order of the Phoenix headquarters," Lily said, "Go now."

Just as they walked out the door with Harry in their hoods, a raven flew over with flapping wings and landed on the fence of Potter's house.It gently put the lily in its mouth on the ground in front of them, looked at them reluctantly, then turned around and hurriedly flew into the dense night.

When they hurried to the Order of the Phoenix an hour later, Dumbledore, who had taken the locket from Kreacher, would tell them that Voldemort had gone to Neville Longbottom himself, and that his grandmother had died protecting him, Neville bounced back the Avada Kedavra curse that Voldemort threw at him, leaving a lightning-shaped scar on his forehead, Voldemort was hit by his own spell, and a generation of Dark Lords disappeared.

The author has something to say: end of text

Fanwai is on the road (ww

The ending was written a long time ago, and the ending was given when Episode 32 was written.

This is probably the best ending.

The darkness disappeared, and Alex and Regulus disappeared with them.

(They will not join the Order of the Phoenix, the two brothers will fight before the gate of the Order of the Phoenix is ​​found x

(Someday I will write out the original be ending of all members, "Why the raven fell in love with the black dog"... I really planned to use that ending, and then I told my friend, she used The pillow beat me up