[HP] Raven

Episode 03

Most of the toys Severs grew up with were made by his parents.

What he didn't know was that long before he was born, the baby room that belonged to him was already full of toys they had prepared for him.The little wooden horse that can jump around was carved by Regulus himself, the singing mermaid in the small water tank was also reproduced by him according to the scale of the illustrated book in the book, and the little fairy living in the petals is on the wings. The gold dust was painted on by Alex sitting in the rocking chair.

"It feels like opening a toy store." Alex once summed it up.Her belly was already growing and they were both expecting their baby.

The only exception is Mr. Teddy Bear.

At that time, it was very close to winter, and Alex rubbed his stomach, nestling in the rocking chair by the fireplace in a daze.Regulus sat on the back sofa next to her, gluing hair on his new King Arthur.

"Toy store." Alex said out of nowhere.

Regulus put down the King Arthur figure. "What's wrong?"

"When I was a kid... when I was a kid, I really liked going to toy stores."

"The toy boutique in Diagon Alley?"

"No, no, no, next door to Seaweed Lane," Alex recalled, "Muggle ones."

She told Regulus that when she was a child, there was a small toy store next door to Seaweed Alley. The owners were all Muggles, and they only sold Muggle toys.Her mother took her there and bought her a teddy bear there.

"Teddy?" Regulus asked.There are no teddy bears in the wizarding world.

"Well... a kind of furry teddy bear," Alex said casually. "It's about this size, but there should be a size bigger. My mother will make clothes for it, a small skirt, or a small hat. "

When Alex was a child, he often played with it on the bed or on the carpet, taking turns playing the teddy bear's sister or mother, changing clothes or putting on a hat for it, and pretending to go to the theater or drink tea together eat cake.

"It's called a teddy bear?"

"Well," Alex nodded, went to the bookshelf to get a book, and read it with relish. When she heard the sound of the door opening, she asked without raising her head, "Are you going out?"

"I'll be right back."

There is a small toy store on Graben Street in Vienna. The black carved doorplate says Josephine & Lena, which is the name of the store and the name of the first hostess and hostess.The toy store was inherited by their grandson Hall about 40 years ago, who took over and intends to leave it to his granddaughter for years to come.

The grizzled Hall spotted the young man at the counter while making coffee.

He was very handsome and looked like a student. He was wearing a black coat that could not be identified as a windbreaker or a robe. He kept checking the toys on the shelves, as if he was looking for something.

"Hello, is there anything I can help you with?" Hall took a sip of his coffee, "It's almost closing time."

"Sorry," the young man took two steps towards him and asked politely, "Is there a 'Teddy Bear'?"

"There is no toy store without teddy bears," Hall pointed to the shelf behind him, "over there, look for it, if there is no one, I will go to the warehouse to get it."

Regulus hesitated between the two models, chose the slightly larger one, reached out and picked it up, walked to the cashier counter, pulled out a piece of Muggle currency, and handed it to Hall.

The appearance of the young man is a bit strange in Hall's eyes. He is too young, but he is eager to buy toys like the father of a newborn. He is well-educated and well-dressed, but he looks like he has never entered a toy store. .And the banknotes he took out were too valuable to buy a teddy bear.As Hall struggled to get change, he kept fiddling with the teddy bear's arm. Hadn't he played with teddy bears as a kid?

"Your change," Hall handed him several colorful bills and a small stack of coins, "welcome again."

"Thank you, thank you." The young man tucked the teddy bear under his arm, put away the change, smiled sincerely at him, and disappeared the moment Hall lowered his head to drink his coffee.

—

The night before Severus packed up for Durmstrang, he put his teddy bear in the box.

After Alex and Regulus sent him to school, Black, who was the first to enter Durmstrang, was unsurprisingly qualified to go to Hogwarts to watch the game.In the same grade, he was selected together with the only daughter of the Bernhardt family, a little girl with blond curly hair, a pair of big green eyes, as beautiful as a doll.

The little girl ran over excitedly. "Hi, my name is Crox Bernhardt, and Crox is a flower!"

Severus looked at her politely and distantly with his hands down. "Black."

"It's so boring, how about we have a fight?" Crox suggested, holding up her wand.In her opinion, fighting is a boring pastime, and she fights with her parents almost every day at home for fun.

Severus frowned slightly, looking at her like he was looking at an alien.Where is there someone who has nothing to do and fights all day, like a barbarian.

Seeing that he wasn't interested in fighting, the girl curled her lips and put down her wand. After a while, she seemed to have found something interesting again, so she moved over to talk. "I heard your mother is Everly, is that true?"

Crox had noticed him long ago, the name Blake never occurred in Durmstrang, and she had never seen the boy on other occasions.A few well-informed seniors got the news that his mother was from Everly, Austria, and his father seemed a little mysterious.

Although Everly is not a common surname, he is more familiar than Black.After all, Everly also has a branch in Stuttgart, Germany, but it is also rare and does not have much contact with outsiders.

Severus could only nod when he heard something about his mother. "Yes."

"We're all going to Hogwarts to watch the Triwizard Tournament, shall we be friends? Then we can go there to play together." The little girl asked with her head propped up, blinking her big green eyes at him, as if to What a conspiracy.

The boy seemed to have heard something terrible, stood up abruptly, held the book and notebook, said "excuse me" to her, and left in a hurry.

The night before leaving for Hogwarts, Severus wrote a long letter to his parents on the table, and handed it to the owl to send it back.

Regulus took the letter and rushed downstairs to find Alex. The two read it together under the lamp, only to see Severus nonchalantly asking at the end of the letter:

"Mom and Dad, do you know what kind of flower 'Croux' is?"

—

You can hide for a while, but you can't hide for a lifetime.After going to Hogwarts together, they will probably still act together.He remembered his father's words to stay with Durmstrang's students.Although the senior students are not exclusive to him, but there is always a generation gap if the age difference is too large, and in the end it is him and Crox who stay together.

As a result of being so close, Crox caught him knowing English, because she caught him asking the kitchen house-elf in English if he had any owl rations, which he didn't have enough.

"You can actually speak English." Crox seemed to have discovered some shocking secret.

The boy turned around with a sack of owl food. "Is that weird? Both my parents speak English."

"Are they British?"

"No way." Severus didn't think about this question, he subconsciously felt that both his parents were from Austria, just like him.

"Then why do they all speak English?"

The boy found this nothing strange. "But they also speak other languages, German, Merfolk, Elvish."

"Okay." Crox compromised.

After the start of the Goblet of Fire competition, a fourth candidate appeared, but Krum of Durmstrang was full of confidence, thinking that this extra opponent for no reason would not cause too much hindrance to his victory.

For Severus, there is obviously nothing wrong with going to school with Hogwarts students. He can understand English, and although he doesn't speak much, it is not a problem to understand, except for the first professor in Potions class. Seeing him for the first time was like seeing a ghost.

In front of Crox, however, he had to be her interpreter.She didn't know any English and asked him to paraphrase her in German.

Krum got the golden egg that day, and he roughly guessed what it was, and after explaining his idea to Krum, the smug contestant rushed out immediately.

At this time, he saw a 14-year-old boy with black hair and green eyes, who had been looking at him, as if trying to figure out who he was.

This look made Severus wary, he raised his chin and glanced at him before leaving with Crox.

"What are they talking about?" Crox asked at least fifteen times a day.

"Sorry, can't hear you." They were so far away that he really didn't hear much.

That Goblet of Fire was very uneven, the last round of finals even killed people, the children of the lower grades were shielded from the truth, and they returned to Durmstrang in a restless state, and soon arrived at the first graders. summer vacation.Alex and Regulus went to pick him up. Alex walked ahead with Cypher, and Regulus walked behind with a suitcase, and overheard "Crox, see you next year!"

He turned his head and saw a little girl with blond hair waving to the child who had just said goodbye to her.

The little girl caught Regulus' gaze, guessed that he was Severus' mysterious father, and waved to him too.

Regulus nodded to her, turned and left.That night, when he was lying in bed reading a book, he suddenly said something.

"Tell me, is Cypher in love?"

Alex was wiping her hair in front of the mirror and nearly swept the bottles and jars on the table to the floor in fright.

There was an undercurrent to the first-year summer vacation, with Alex and Regulus writing letters and watching their left arms uneasily.Severus didn't know what it was, he even guessed it was a couple tattoo, something his parents would have done.

He has been in friendly but not excessive contact with a few classmates in the school. Crox is not one of them. She has her circle. They are like two planets moving on different trajectories in Durmstrang.Severus has become what everyone calls the "proud top student", while Crox's labels are more complicated, such as "fighting master", "ever-victorious general" and the "overlord flower" taken by some desperate boy. ".

Around Christmas in the third grade, Severus suddenly began to grow taller, and the pretty boy grew handsome and deep, and was selected for the Quidditch team.At the beginning, some girls secretly put letters and chocolates into his books, and the chocolates were distributed to roommates, and the letters were often thrown away after looking at the names.After a long time, rumors about him being fussy kept coming and going among the girls. He didn't want to care about it. Quidditch training and daily study life had already filled up his time, so he didn't have time to pay attention to it.

In fourth grade, he came across a mess by accident.He went to the library that day and found a bunch of people clustered together, it must be no good.Just as he was about to go around, he stopped involuntarily when he saw the protagonist being watched.

Crox was fighting another girl.This is not surprising, because Durmstrang has a class called Magic Fighting, and everyone will practice each other with some less harmful spells after class.

The blond girl knocked off the other's wand effortlessly, the other girl flinched back slightly in a panic, and Crocker showed no signs of letting go.

Severus had a premonition that something would happen if this went on, so he took out his wand, waved it, and said a spell softly, Crox's palm went numb, and the wand fell to the ground.

"What are you doing!" She glared at him angrily through the crowd of onlookers.

Everyone moved back in small steps in an instant, giving Severus half of the aisle space, not knowing whether they wanted to watch a good show or were afraid of being accidentally injured.

Cypher, who disliked the occasion, told her, frowning. "You have already won, Bernhardt, there is no need to continue."

Crox rolled her eyes, looking at him defiantly. "Then you fight me."

He refused without thinking. "It's not dueling class now."

Crox lifted her chin, her emerald eyes burning.True to her name, Crox is as charming as a blooming crocus.

This is the umpteenth time he has rejected her, Blake with a contemptuous attitude.He was reluctant to talk to her every time, as if he looked down on him.

"That's your reason?" she asked.

"Otherwise." He looked away slightly unnaturally, holding the book and pushing away from the crowd, "Sorry, excuse me."

When the fourth grade was coming to an end, he probably still heard some rumors from England. He couldn't help but frequently wrote letters to his parents to test what they were doing. Fortunately, their replies were very timely, which made him somewhat relieved. tone.

Kreacher came to his house during the summer vacation of the fourth grade. When he saw Cypher, he burst into tears and snot and called him "Little Master".Regulus and Alex didn't want Kreacher to do any housework anymore, they just wanted him to rest with familiar people.But both of them underestimated Kreacher's enthusiasm for labor. Occasionally, Kreacher would still do his best to help organize the flower garden, loosen the soil or weed.

Both parents seemed more relaxed than they had been in the previous two years, and Cypher asked insinuatingly once or twice, but nothing came of it.All they said was "finishing a big project," and he noticed that the couple's tattoos were missing from their hands, too.

"Oh, that," Regulus was a little embarrassed, "it's just...not anymore."

"Yes, it's washed off." Alex agreed calmly and turned a page of the book in her hand. "This kind of stuff doesn't make much sense."

Severus felt chills at the thought of his parents getting couple tattoos, it was so gross.

During their holidays, they went to Nordic vacations together to watch the snow, and met a few Viking pirates who were too drunk on the road. At the Mermaid Port, they asked the Mermaid floating on the water to buy two strings of beads made of coral.

Regulus and Alex often went out for walks, from the igloo where they lived to the other side of the snow mountain, and then came back on the soft snow in the soft twilight.Once snow fell in the middle of the journey, and the mountains were full of snow. Regulus took off his cloak and covered Alex. She wiped the snow particles from his lips and kissed him.

Cypher closed the curtains with a bang, returned to the desk with a blank expression, and began to write and draw.Obviously, his worries were unnecessary.

During that time he had conjured up some spells that would seal flowers in a square ice cube that would never melt, like dice made of ice cubes.After a few days of trying, he succeeded in making an ice dice with crocus blooming inside.He stared at it for a while, stuffed it into his pocket, and put it on the bookshelf in his room after returning from Northern Europe.

In the end, he sent this gift with the reason that "it's useless to keep it", and he sent it with a very short letter. "A gift from Finland."

The reply came the next day. "Thank you, I received the gift. I didn't know you could speak Finnish."

He bit the bullet and wrote another letter back. "Sorry, I don't speak Finnish."

Stone sinks into the sea.

Both Regulus and Alex could see what their son was thinking, but they both chose to sit still and observe quietly like a puppy or cat that just learned to walk.

The fifth grade was uneventful, and Severus still ranked among the best in the exam, and his performance on the team also made him very popular.The only variable is that Crox suddenly becomes enthusiastic.

She didn't want to go out with him enthusiastically. If that was the case, he would probably wake up laughing from his dream.She wants to fight him.Severus couldn't figure it out.Why did Crox want to fight him so much.His parents never used wands to solve problems, so he... he didn't want to fight her.

He bought a slender crocus and put it in his notebook, occasionally looking at the notebook in a daze, and when he realized what he was doing, he quickly put it in the useless pages, pretending that it didn't exist.

Crox was distressed too, she felt she had done nothing wrong.She just wanted to play with him, and couldn't find a suitable excuse, so she had to tell him that she wanted to compete.Every time Blake turned her down, it must be because he didn't like her.

On the day when the final exam was about to end, they met at the door of the classroom on the second floor.

Crox stepped forward. "I'll ask you for the last time, will you fight with me?"

"Sorry." He shook his head, turned to leave with his book and notebook in his arms.

Crox snatched his notebook.

"What are you doing?" He turned around in a panic, reaching out to snatch his notebook back.

She nimbly took a step back and smiled at him triumphantly.

He didn't dare to let her know the secret in the notebook, he could only say. "Get your wand out, Bernhardt."

Crox got what she wanted, but their duel lasted for a while before it was over.Her fighting talent is too strong. Although Severus can get an "O" in fighting class every semester, he is still not as good as her.

Severus dropped his wand and nodded politely at her. "you win."

"Okay." She helped him pick up his wand before realizing what she was doing.

He said thank you when he took the wand, his ears were burning hot, but fortunately they were hidden in his temples, so no one could see them.

When she handed him the notebook, she let go of her hand, and a bookmark made of crocus fell out and fell to the ground.

Both of them froze.Severus' face was flushed, and at first glance he seemed to be suffering from some strange disease.Crox felt something stuck in her throat, something was wrong with it, but she didn't know what to do.

Severus was the first to get out of his embarrassment. He grabbed the notebook and fled.

That night he couldn't resist writing to his parents.He dipped the ink with a quill and lowered his head to write.

"Mom, I'm in love"

What is he writing about?Severus crumpled it up impatiently and replaced it with a new sheet of letter paper.

"Mom, I'm broken in love"

Tear it off and replace it with a new one.

"Mom and Dad," he continued, taking a deep breath, "I lost the duel."

When Regulus received the letter, he called Alex to read it together as usual.

"He lost the duel?" Alex was a little surprised, "I thought he was doing well at first."

"Let's talk about it when he comes back," Regulus suggested. After thinking for a while, he sighed uncertainly, "It turns out that Durmstrang's students are so powerful."

During the holidays, Severus kept silent about what the duel was all about, so Regulus and Alex had to continue to sit still.But they all saw that the child had someone he liked, and the duel was probably related to relationship issues.

"Cypher." Alex called to him after breakfast one day. "Can you get me some hydrangeas from the garden? Don't bother Kreacher all the time."

Cypher obediently went to the garden and took a large bouquet of white hydrangeas and put them back on the dining table. Regulus had already gone upstairs to read, to make room for his wife.Alex took a large vase and a pair of scissors, and was casually gesturing the suitable height of the hydrangea.

"Thank you, honey." She gestured to the chair. "Want to drink tea with me for a while?"

"Oh, good." Severus sat down, not knowing what his mother was thinking.He thinks he's been acting perfectly normal lately.

Alex felt that it was a bad idea for her to talk to her son. She was not very good at persuasion, and it was fair to say that Regulus was better at it, but she had already started, so she had to continue.

"How have you been at school?"

"Fine. Well...except we lost Quidditch."

"Oh. What about the others?" She trimmed the hydrangeas to the same length and put them in a vase. The clusters of flower balls were very full, as if there was a different world inside.

"Nothing, I suppose?" Severus frowned in disbelief.

Alex feels that if this continues, the scene will be a bit like torture.She had no choice but to cut to the chase. "Do you have any emotional confusion?"

Severus froze for a moment.

"Yes." He paused, clearly thinking "I don't know if she likes me" or "I don't know how to say it", but when he opened his mouth, it turned into "Do people only love one person in their life? "

"Of course not," Alex said firmly.

Severus was taken aback.He thought his mother was the kind of person who would firmly tell him "yes".She and his father had always been close and devoted lovers.

Alex stroked the boy's hair, was silent for a while, and said. "I had a lover before your father."

Severus was even more surprised.

"He," she sighed, trying to pull the past out of her memory, but there wasn't much left, "I loved him so much that even your father knew about him. But I wasn't right with him. We I couldn’t fulfill each other emotionally, I was very hurt at the time, and I guess he was too.”

"...and then?" Cypher had a hard time imagining what his mother's previous lover was like. He felt that his father and mother were the most suitable lovers, and the rudiment of love in his heart came entirely from them.

"I separated from him, and after a while, I was with your father." Alex was silent for a while, then continued to say word by word, "It is my life's desire to fall in love with Regulus." glory."

Although Severus had never doubted the love between his parents, he had never heard such a frank and pious confession from his mother.Alex is a very reserved person, Cypher is more like a mother in this regard.

Sensing the child's surprise, she smiled shyly and cleared her throat. "What are you talking about?"

Alex paused, pushed away the boy's forehead hair, and gently scratched the boy's thin cheeks with thin fingers, as if he was only seven years old, "In short, no. Life is long, Whether it's starting a new relationship or sticking with the one you love, there's nothing wrong with being brave in love."

Cypher nodded knowingly.

Seeing him like this, Alex secretly smiled. "Okay, go and help me get your father down, I have prepared tea."

Severus walked out of the dining room in a daze, and heard his mother whispering to herself about the hydrangeas. "After all, it's still too much like me, it would be better if it was a little more like Regulus."

Sixth grade came crashing down, and Severus started asking Crox if they wanted to fight together.Crox, in turn, found him strange. She had already understood that young men and women should go on dates together, and that fighting was outdated in her heart.But she stayed with her to the end, and Severus would lose within ten moves, not because he was not good at learning, nor because he deliberately let her, but because Crox really dominated Durmstrang.

Every time Cypher's wand was bounced off, or worse, he fell to the ground, he was not angry, he patted his clothes and said "thank you", and then came back next time.

Crox thought he was stupid, but asked him insinuatingly what kind of work he wanted to do.Severus said that he wanted to study potions, and his potions were indeed excellent, having inherited Alex's talent.Crox couldn't tell what she wanted to do, maybe she would study magic spells like her parents—by the way, she would study combat magic.She loves this.

The sixth grade was carried out in this atmosphere of constant fighting.Everyone thinks the two of them are crazy, don't date, and fight all day.It's like going to great lengths to borrow a great romance novel, only to find it has the wrong cover.

Towards the end of the school year, Severs went to the library to check out books.He was blocked by Crox on his way back.Without saying a word, she looked at him indifferently.

"Wait a minute," he shook the book he was holding towards her, "I'm not very convenient now, I'll call after the last exam tomorrow, do you think it's okay?"

"Fool."

"Sorry?" He was stunned, vaguely feeling that the atmosphere was not right.

Crox punched him on the nose. "I never knew there were people like you in the world, Blake."

All his books fell to the ground, and he took half a step back, clutching his nose.Oh, she looks like she's about to cry.he thinks.

Crox heard a soft murmur in his mouth.But she didn't catch what he said.

She sniffed, intending to give him one last chance in her heart.

He let go of his hand covering his nose, and it was very good, no bleeding, no pain.Apparently his future girlfriend/wife/kid's mother's hand-to-hand skills are far superior to his... a lot.

"Crox," Severus paused and took a deep breath, "may I kiss you, please?"

The author has something to say: that's all for the extra episodes in the plan. "It is the honor of my life to fall in love with Regulus" ← Actually, I just wanted to write this at the beginning, but ended up talking so much hhh

Here are some stalks that don't appear in the text ww

The mother that Alex had repeatedly dreamed about leaving by boat, and the raven standing on the side of the boat implied that Alex's father was also a raven, and he couldn't get over the widowhood, and eventually went with her.

Lily once erected a tomb for Regulus and Alex after 1981, and the epitaph was "forever pure".In Godric's Hollow, where James and Lily's graves are located in the original book.

In fact, the author himself can't tell whether Alex has lily love for Lily.That kind of inexplicable feeling was probably real at one time (serious face, there is an ending that Alex lied to Voldemort alone, and then died with Bella and Rookwood in Godric's Hollow, dying Before she held the locket given to her by Regulus, she said to Lily, "Lily, I did it."

Alice Burns was indeed infatuated with Alex, but Alex didn't find out and just regarded her as a school girl.Alice and Lanica eventually became a pair of lovers who stayed together for life.

James’ idea in Part 1, “After the war, Sirius will go to Everly, and then they will get married and have two children” was once one of the real endings, but this ending still lived in the imagination of the prongs because Sirius and Alex really don't fit

The only photo of Alex smiling before 1981 is the one Sirius took of her, permanently on the Potter family photo wall. After 1981, there are still many photos of her smiling, but they are all in Austria

"Raven's feathers can be dyed red, blue or green" implies that Alex may be with Sirius, but also with Regulus, blue means It was a Ravenclaw boy named Pike (if you still remember), he was a possibility at one time, but I think Alex's communication with him was too academic, and the relationship was too blunt, and finally Or let them be pure friends

In the ending of "Why Ravens Loved Black Dogs", Mrs. Everly died in the upstairs room hugging a bunch of picture frames after Aspros died.

In Slughorn's class, why Sirius's love potion has no smell.It can be understood that he has a cold and can't smell it. Another explanation is that he (at least at the time) didn't love her that much.I can explain it in any way

Finally, let me talk about a linked stalk... In "The Star That Never Falls", Regulus felt a subtle heartache when he saw Alex at the first sight, because "why the raven fell in love with the black dog" (w, but lucky The thing is, no one thinks of anything

that's all.

Thank you so much for your love.