[HP] Raven

"Why does the raven fall in love with the black dog?"

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*OOC warning, newspaper warning, dog blood warning

*This is the ending I decided

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Sirius and Alex broke up in January 1979

In February 1979, Alex Everley was captured and sent to Malfoy Manor forcibly, and obtained the Dark Mark

December 1979 Regulus Black disappeared, whereabouts unknown

Voldemort disappeared at Longbottom House in October 1981

Alex Everly died in the basement of Lestrange Manor in November 1981

Sirius Black married Nina Lemon in June 1986

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That's when Harry noticed the boy.At that time, they were both first-year students at Hogwarts, and Harry was assigned to Gryffindor as he wished.It was the college his parents attended, and James had always believed that Harry would be Gryffindor, and Harry did.Everyone is happy, including Harry's godfather Sirius.

That boy wasn't a Gryffindor, he was a Slytherin.Harry held the Marauder's Map in his left hand and the Invisibility Cloak in his right. He was planning to go to the Forbidden Forest to see him.

At that time, the boy was squatting alone under a big tree wiping his tears, his body was covered with bruises.

Harry took a few steps towards him, and the boy looked up at him, before Harry realized he'd heard about him.The Slytherin boy was his own class, one of Malfoy's taunts, because Everly had grown up fatherless with his elderly great-grandmother.Everly fights Malfoy all the time because Malfoy taunts him, but can't win every time - not that Everly is weak and sick, but Malfoy has two huge and light-handed henchmen, Crabbe and Gore.

Harry walked over, took a candy from his pocket and handed it to him. "Don't be sad, I know Malfoy is not a good guy."

When the boy looked up, Harry realized that the boy had very bright blue eyes, which were now flushed from crying.He didn't take Harry's candy, stood up from under the tree, gave him an indifferent look, turned and left.

Both James and Lily were invited by Dumbledore to watch Harry's first Quidditch match in his first year, along with Harry's godfather, Sirius Black.They were all sitting in the Gryffindor gathering place, and Sirius didn't notice the Slytherin boy sitting behind him, not speaking, staring intently and cautiously at his profile.

Harry beat Slytherin to the ground in his first match, and Sirius was happier than James and Lily, laughing and lifting Harry on his shoulders.Harry was a little embarrassed. He didn't play like that with his godfather after the age of seven.The boy watched them from the corner, not even daring to breathe loudly.

Harry and Sirius murmured under their breath about the Potions Master who was always picky and the Malfoy who always got on with him.

Sirius snorted when he heard that. "Stay away from them, Harry, Slytherins always produce strange people."

When the boy hiding in the corner heard this, he seemed to have been severely whipped and ran out, wiping away his tears.He bumped into a soft embrace, and looking up, he recognized Mrs. Potter.

Lily realized who the boy was as soon as she saw him.Because she saw the shadows of two people on his face at the same time.

She thought of a winter with heavy rain many years ago.Maybe, maybe not, but instinct told her she understood why Alex had hesitated before leaving that night.

"Oh, dear, please wait a moment," Lily held the boy, her voice began to tremble uncontrollably, "son, what's your name?"

"Evely," said the boy softly, "Aspros Everly."

"Aspros," Lily chose his Christian name without thinking, "please come with me, we... let's go to Dumbledore's office, my dear, I have some questions for you, is that okay?"

Aspros Everly grew up in a manor in Salzburg. He had no father or mother, and his great-grandmother was not good at speaking. She always looked at him indifferently, and then let the house elf watch his every move.She never mentioned the boy's other family members, the only exception was her low sigh when the boy was crying occasionally, "It would be nice if she was alive, she would take good care of you...much better than me."

Aspros knew that "she" was the boy's mother, Alexandria Everly.Many years ago, she was imprisoned for some unknown reason. Before she died, she entrusted a witch named Burns to secretly send him to Austria as a baby.

"What about my father?" It's not that Aspros never asked this question when he was a child. In fact, he always pestered his great-grandmother for a while, trying to pry a little story out of her mouth.

"I don't know." The great-grandmother said indifferently, and then waved him off to read a book by himself or play in the yard.

A little older, the boy found Alex's room when he was fumbling and playing in the ancestral home alone.He was always there, looking at her pictures or touching her used furniture and books.Everything about her is preserved as it was before her death, waiting for a master who will never return.

Everything he knew about his mother came from this dusty room. He saw his mother's admission letter in the drawer, knew that she graduated from Hogwarts, found her notes on the bookshelf, and marveled at her The talent and devotion to potions back then, saw her photo on the table back then, and found that he had the same blue eyes as hers, and he also had lingering sadness when he smiled.

Alex left him a lot of things. Apart from wealth in the worldly sense, there are also many toys that she made herself. She injected all the beautiful fantasies and expectations into the toys, and she also engraved the boy's name on them. name.

The boy understands that his mother loves him very much.

Every day, Aspros lives in mourning and missing his mother. At the age of 11, he insisted on going to Hogwarts, and his great-grandmother was silent for a while and agreed.She was too old. She lost her husband in her youth, her son in her middle age, and her only granddaughter in her old age. She no longer had the strength to be stubborn.

It was only when Aspoulus was brought by Lily to meet Sirius Black that he realized that he might be the father he had never met.

Sirius looked calm and healthy, and then Aspros was surprised to find the wedding ring on his left ring finger.He is married to someone else.

The first meeting broke up because of this. The Potters, Sirius, Harry, and Headmaster Dumbledore all looked at him and kept throwing him one question after another.Who is his guardian?Where did you spend your childhood?Would you like to come back to England?

The boy stood up abruptly from his chair before he could answer any questions.Lily tried to ask the boy if he wanted to stay and have dinner with them at least, but the boy rolled up the sleeves of his wizard robe, said "Sorry, excuse me" in a panic, and ran away in a panic.

Lily froze in place.He was so much like Alex.

The boy refused to have any contact with them until the holiday when the Order was moved to 12 Grimmauld Place.

He seemed to appear suddenly, standing straight at the door, hesitating whether to go in, then Lily opened the door and nodded to him.

Before that, he secretly wrote a letter to Mrs. Potter and asked Mrs. Potter to bring him in.He wanted to see Sirius' wife and children. Nina stood in the corner with her daughter in her arms and looked at the boy a few times. She seemed a little inexplicably afraid of him, and tried to show her kindness but failed again.

Aspulos looked her darkly. "Good day, Mrs. Black."

In fact, Mrs. Black disappoints Aspros.

Before meeting Sirius' wife, Aspros once had a rough and vague idea that there must be something extraordinary about the woman who could defeat his mother in his father's world, at least—or at least like Bo Beautiful, brave, sunny, and gifted like Mrs.But in fact, Nina looks like a very ordinary wife and mother. If beauty is considered an advantage, then it can barely be regarded as a star, but Aspros thinks that Alex is more beautiful than Nina. She has a dusty temperament, and also has a kind of intelligence and aura that Nina doesn't have.In contrast, this Mrs. Black was so mediocre that he couldn't even hate her, he just felt weird.So his anger did not come from Nina, nor did it come from the soft little daughter in her arms.

When he saw Sirius walk into the room with his arms around Harry's shoulders, all the repressed dissatisfaction burst out suddenly.Anger eats away at his restraint, and he feels like he's crying with rage, but he's not.

Impulsively, he sneered, said something that he didn't realize what it was, and saw his father's indifferent eyes.

Sirius told him to go upstairs coldly and slightly angrily, and then come down calmly.Lily and Nina both spoke up for him, asking Sirius to be nice to him.

friendly.

The father actually asked others to remind him to be "friendly" to his son.

The boy looked at Mrs. Potter and Mrs. Black.Their pitying eyes did not make him feel better, on the contrary, he realized that he was different from them.Malfoy was right when he said that he was a child without a father and a mother.Even if he saw Sirius, this couldn't be changed.From the moment his mother died, he was an orphan.

He rushed to the top floor as if he was fleeing, and saw two rooms, a door with "Do not enter without permission", and he pushed open the door.

A room full of silver and green decorations reminded him easily of a Slytherin common room, and the environment made him relax.He sat on the floor of that room for a while, stood up when he felt that he could no longer calm down, looked around, found the textbooks on the bookshelf, and understood who this room belonged to, his father's brother, Ray Gurus Black.

Just as he was about to leave, he saw a small silver box lying quietly at the bottom of the bookshelf, covered with a thick layer of dust.

Everything in this house is stained with dark magic, and so is that little box.Out of curiosity, he used his wand to open the lock - he had seen how to unlock it in a book at home, it was just a very remote obfuscation spell, with a little bit of black magic .

There was nothing strange in the box, except that the different envelopes had been accumulated into a thick stack, neatly arranged inside.He didn't intend to look closely at first.He has no penchant for prying into people's privacy.

However, on the first letter, he found a familiar name written in a familiar handwriting.

Alexandria Everly

Whether it was a duplicate name or a misunderstanding, he was so curious about everything related to his mother that he couldn't help himself and opened it.

It's a letter from mother!

Aspulos sat on the ground, impatiently reading every word above, followed by the second letter, and the third letter.He carefully studied the content of each letter, and found that this thick stack was all letters from his student days, and they all came from his mother, and this Regulus, whom he also knew nothing about. black.There are a lot of letters between them, and in each letter, the neat handwriting is filled with high-quality letter paper line by line.They talked about everything, including potions, slug clubs, ancient runes, and even some personal lives. For example, Regulus once said in a letter that he and his parents went to a holiday manor. The pen mentioned the past of her and her grandmother in the ancestral house.

Before he knew it, he had read almost all of them.The only slightly larger envelope came from Gringotts. He opened it and found a very large money order inside. The remitter was Regulus Black, and the payee was him, Aspros Black.

Aspros was stunned.

He threw the money order aside, and opened the last envelope. Regulus Black's handwriting, unlike other letters, only wrote a few words on it.

"Dear Alex,

I finally understood what the right choice was, and I was ashamed of my previous ignorance and absurdity.In order to make up for the mistakes I made before, I am willing to give everything I have, including my own life.Everything on the money order already belongs to Aspros, please don't refuse it for him, let him decide how to keep the money when he grows up.I hope he can grow up happily in a safe environment, although it is impossible for me to see it.Maybe death is not to be feared, because we will meet again in a place where there is no darkness after all.At that time, Merlin will testify to the deepest love of my life.

Withallmylove.

RAB"

For some unknown reason, this letter was not sent out in the end, but was pressed at the bottom of the box.The boy took the letter back, cast a spell again to lock the box, and sat on the ground with his knees crossed in a daze.

Regulus is more like the father in his fantasy than Sirius Black, gentle, humble, polite, ambitious, and most importantly, he loves Alex so deeply that he loves him The moment of death.Aspoulos can almost imagine a full story of their divergent positions, of their unspoken love, of their disillusionment, which came too late and too tragically.Regulus loved Alex so much, and this discovery made Aspoulos so satisfied that he even cheered quietly from the bottom of his heart.

In contrast, there was no trace of anything related to his mother on Sirius' body.

But Regulus had.His room, which has been dusty for many years, is everywhere if you look carefully.One of the photos he put on the table shows Alex when he was a student, and the box is full of letters from them. If the boy has the heart, he will find Alex's student in a book of Elvish A photo of the era, with a curly "A" carefully written on it, representing his long and pure crush during his student days.

very nice.Aspros thought.He has parents who love each other very much and love him very much.What does it matter if it's a Death Eater?What could be better than having parents who love each other and love him so much?Although he had lost them...but so what?He can live happily by their love, he is the combination and continuation of love, he is the proof of their love.

There was a knock on the door.It was Mrs. Potter's soft voice. "Aspros? Are you in there? Are you hungry? Let's eat together, Mrs. Weasley has cooked a lot of delicious food."

Only then did the boy realize that he had spent the entire afternoon in this room.He responded vaguely, and Mrs. Potter gently opened the door.

He sits on the ground. "May I ask you a question? This question...well...may not be very polite, so you don't have to answer me."

"Come on, it's okay." Lily winked at him understandingly.

Aspros hesitated for a while, and couldn't help asking. "Who the hell is my father?"

"Who else do you want?" A cold voice cut in, and Sirius walked up to him with his arms folded, and saw a pile of things that Regulus had used in front of him, "Don't you think, you Is your biological father my dear brother?"

"Sirius." Lily stopped him with a worried expression.

His tone irritated the boy subtly.Sirius Black didn't love his mother for a long time, and married another woman and had a child. What qualifications does he have to stand here as his father.He doesn't deserve it.

The boy stood up from the ground and met him indifferently. They were almost the same height. "Is it impossible?"

"Why?" Sirius looked at him angrily. "Is he a good Slytherin? Or is he a Death Eater?"

The boy couldn't bear to turn up the volume. "Just because he loves my mother, isn't that enough?"

"Yeah, that's enough." A secret corner of Sirius' heart ached, and he even smiled angrily, "You got the answer you wanted, are you satisfied?"

"Siris!" Lily held him back, and Mrs. Potter, who had always been very gentle, suddenly became angry. There seemed to be flames burning in her pale green eyes. Aspros suspected that she would take out her wand and point at him in the next second. He, "How dare you say that?"

"I'm satisfied!" The boy went downstairs without looking back, slammed the door out into the heavy rain, and never came back.

Aspros returned to his manor in Austria. His great-grandmother was already sick in bed. Four or five house elves surrounded her and served her tea and water, and there was one who lit the fire in the fireplace.

"I thought you wouldn't come back," said Mrs. Everly, who was lying on the bed in a rage, her once sharp blue eyes were about to lose focus on her pale face, "just like everyone else."

"Great-grandmother, please tell me," he burst in like a hurricane of sorrow, ignoring the dripping water from his hair, "who is my father?"

Mrs. Everly blinked her eyes slowly and thought for a long time dully. "...your mother said that the truth will make you miserable."

"But I want to know, cough——" hot tears and cold rain criss-crossed his face, he was choked by his own tears and coughed, and said hoarsely, "I have to know, otherwise I... I...I can't live."

"She told me not to tell anyone," said Mrs. Everly, closing her eyes and sighing heavily. "I think maybe he let her down. She was a smart girl, but she made a stupid choice." , she bet her future on him, and then, without accident...lost everything. "

"Who is he? Great-grandmother, please, tell me, please, I really want to know, I have to know!" The boy knelt down beside her hospital bed trembling all over, his expression became ferocious because of his eagerness .

Mrs. Everly hesitated for a long time, did not say the name, she just shook her head slightly.

"I can only say...he doesn't love her enough."

A thunder flashed across the sky.Pale lightning instantly illuminated Aspros's face.He wept wildly, and laughed frantically.From the corner of Mrs. Everly's eye, a cloudy tear dripped noiselessly into the silk pillow, leaving a dull oval.There are three or four photo frames facing her beside her bed. One belongs to her husband, the other is her child, and in the other frame, Alex, who was a student, pursed her lips and blinked lightly. Blink those blue eyes.

At the end of the fifth grade, Harry led the DA in the Department of Mysteries. Bellatrix used Neville to coerce Harry to hand over the prophecy ball, but unexpectedly, it was suddenly opened by a spell.

Neville fell to the ground and was quickly pulled back by DA's classmates.

Bellatrix glared angrily at the direction the spell was coming from, and saw a gloomy and handsome boy coming out of the corner.

"Why are you here?" Harry looked at him in surprise.They hadn't even noticed before that he was also quietly following.

"New face," Bellatrix grinned and let out a hoarse laugh, "are you coming to die too?"

Aspulos raised his wand at her. "I'm here for my mother."

"Who?"

The boy glared at her and said every word. "Everly, Alex Everly."

"Ha, that lowly half-breed," Bella rolled her eyes, "she actually has a son?"

The boy's pretty face contorted with anger, and he yelled at her at a high volume. "You are not allowed to insult my mother like this!"

He suddenly waved his wand, and a black magic that no one had ever seen flew out, and he rushed forward to duel with Bellatrix directly.When the members of the Order of the Phoenix rushed in, their dueling curses had already flown everywhere, and no one else could get in their way.

"Hahahaha, come on," Bellatrix laughed loudly, "Do you know how horribly Avery screamed when she died? She couldn't stand the Cruciatus Curse and committed suicide, that self-righteous bastard A half-breed, actually trying to trick the master—"

Aspulos suddenly swung "Avada Kedavra!" directly to her heart, and Bellatrix fell down like a stone, still with a creepy smile on her face.

Aspulos stood straight on the spot, moved his lips, and finally said nothing, and everyone ran to him, but he waved his wand and released a bright light, which disappeared again in the blink of an eye.

After the fifth grade, Aspros became more gloomy than before. He stopped talking to anyone, always looked at everything around him indifferently, and was used to being alone.

During the Battle of Hogwarts, he went with Slytherin without hesitation.He didn't care at all who defeated who in the end, as if all this had nothing to do with him.After the war ended, the number of people was counted, and Aspros disappeared completely, and no one could find out where he was again.

When I heard the name again, Harry was already working. The 21-year-old young Auror has firm eyes and a strong heartbeat, and everything in the future is full of hope.

He was notified that a new Dark Lord named Aspros Everly had recently appeared in Austria.

Before waiting for the official notice from the Ministry of Magic, Harry received his invitation.Aspros told Harry to meet him at Everly's ancestral home, and Sirius followed.

The empty ancestral house was covered with ice and snow, and a few ravens were parked on the pointed tower. Aspulos was wearing a black plain robe, standing in the hall with his back to Harry.From the back, Harry discovered, Aspulos was almost identical to the young Sirius.

I don't know how long the silence lasted, but Aspros turned his head and looked at them calmly.

The 21-year-old Aspoulos is tall and thin. He has shoulder-length black hair slightly curly. Red makes his temperament sharper and weirder.

"You are the happiest person in the world," Aspros said. "My mother tried her best to protect you, Harry. Perhaps as others have rumored, there were originally two children of prophecy, and she killed Voldemort." Lie, you were brought up by James and Lily Potter. You shouldn't have these...a warm family, a smooth life, these were originally mine."

He waved his wand to conjure a picture of Alex, which hung in the air in front of him.

"My mother loves me very much. She gave me everything, including life. But she died because of you," he paused for a moment, his tone turned cold. "Ever since I know who my father is, I've been thinking Why is life unfair. You have everything...and me, I have nothing!"

He knocked off Harry's wand with great speed, putting his own against his chin. "Do you know how jealous I am of you?"

Sirius sighed. "Aspulos, maybe your mother didn't want you to do this."

Aspros exploded.

"You don't deserve to mention my mother!" He suddenly pushed Harry aside, turned suddenly to Sirius, stared at him with those familiar blue eyes, and the eyes were so angry that they were almost crazy, "You think you have How well do you know her? If she could really see—if she could really see all this, what would she think when she saw you put Harry on your shoulders and say Slytherins were weird? She saw you in No. 12, Grimmauld Place, suspects that she is going around, what will she think? When she sees your wife and children are happy and your family is happy, but she can only lie alone in the cold tomb, what will she think?"

"Sires Black!" he yelled heart-piercingly, and threw out a spell in anger, a scorched abyss instantly opened on the ground, and the ravens that had been perched on the steeple spread their wings and flew away, "if she really You can see all this, do you think she really won't hate you?"

The old scars were easily uncovered, and the festering carrion was exposed to the white sky again. Sirius smiled sadly.

"So what are you trying to do? Kill me?"

Aspros waved his hand and smiled contemptuously. "It's too easy to kill you, why should I give you a chance to confess in front of her?"

He turned his head to look at Alex in the photo, she blinked, a shy and gentle smile bloomed slightly on her lips.

"Mom, mom." Aspoulos looked at her obsessively, smiling like a ten-year-old child being praised.Although he has no impression of her at all, this does not hinder his missing and love for her.He was her only child, and the only proof that she had ever lived.He knew that he should live a good life, but he was so lonely and so painful, every day was like a new torment, his mother wanted him to enjoy life happily without any burden, but he couldn't do it at all.What exactly brought him down to where he is today?He doesn't understand and doesn't want to understand.

He is relieved.He is about to be free.

"Did you know," he said to Sirius without looking back, "my mother invented the spell before she was alive."

Sirius didn't know.All he knew was that Alex was smart, but not that she was adept at spells as well.He's always been too far away from the real Alex.

Anticipating his confusion, Aspros smiled self-deprecatingly, and continued.

"I also found out by looking through her previous notebooks. She is a very clever witch and has invented many spells. The last one was written the day before she was captured by Lestrange, in case she revealed my whereabouts while being tortured."

Aspoulus took a deep breath.

"The incantation is called——why the raven fell in love with the black dog."

He suddenly felt that all of this was extremely absurd, and he was the source of the absurdity and the result of the absurdity.So he laughed, and black blood flowed from between his teeth, his heart began to convulse sharply, tears blurred his eyes, and soon he couldn't see anything.

"Why does a raven fall in love with a black dog?" Why does one person fall in love with another?Love is unsolvable.No why. "I don't know the answer to that question, and I guess mom doesn't either."

As soon as the words fell, Aspros shook his center of gravity unsteadily, only heard a soft sound, and he fell to the ground with a smile on his mouth, his face died peacefully.

The author has something to say: the reason Regulus didn't send the letter was because he knew that Alex only loved Sirius.To her, his love was warm, grand, and useless.So he locked all his feelings in a dark box and died generously.

It's not that Sirius doesn't love Alex, on the contrary, he has been unable to moveon, otherwise he would have treated Aspros as warmly as an orphan, and it is precisely because he loves Alex and knows that his brother Loves her more than he does, so he can't keep his cool when Aspulos questions his parentage, and speaks hurtful words.

When Alex was a Death Eater, she secretly gave birth to Aspulos with the help of Regulus, and sent him out to Alice Burns.After lying to Voldemort in order to protect Harry, she was captured and fell into the hands of the Lestrange couple before she could escape.After entrusting Alice Burns to send the child to Austria against all odds, she committed suicide due to the torture.She wanted her children to live happily and not to delve into the horns related to her life experience, so she never left a word.

Aspulos' life was short, bitter and sad.He went to self-destruction in the same way as his mother, at the same age.Some people should not have been born, they will fall into their own predestined track and cannot extricate themselves.Like Aspros, like Tom Riddle.

Finally, I would like to say a little bit more. My friend and I have been discussing whether Sirius really suspected that Aspros was not his child.I said no, my friend said yes, because he didn’t believe that his own son would be a Slytherin, and subconsciously wanted to deny it, but he also knew that Alex loved him with all his strength, so he was very contradictory. But still a little shaken.I feel like this answer hurts but makes sense.As for him and Aspros, they were born to be at odds, and Sirius and his father were also at odds back then.Misfortune will be inherited, but love will not be reborn.