[HP] Butterfly Effect

When the last silvery star was hung on the top of the castle hall, the topic that ruled Hogwarts for a whole early summer finally settled.The graduation season prom and all kinds of flowers in summer bloom together at the end of June.

The entire auditorium was magically decorated to host this ball. From the dome to the ground, it was a flawless white like ice and snow.Numerous pendants hang below the uniquely shaped candles, and the pearly white frosted texture is illuminated almost translucently.

There are ice chips falling from the magic cloud at the top, forming layers of curtains.The surrounding windows were opened, and the mellow yellow sunlight in the evening streamed in gently and romantically, reflecting blue shadows above the auditorium, scattering iridescent light spots, and setting off the specially made ice cracks on the ground. More pronounced and deep, bursting with a velvety golden tinge.

The warmth of the light and the cold tone of the whole environment are combined together, like a giant snow scene oil painting rendered by a large area of ​​coating, contrasting each other with a delicate and strange beauty, as amazing as a dream.

If it wasn't because Aurora had been going to school here, even if someone told her that this auditorium was dug out of the Antarctic ice cave by Hogwarts and brought back to London, she would have believed it.

"It's so beautiful." Aurora hugged her acoustic guitar, stood in the middle of the auditorium in a daze, looked at it for a while, and finally commented.

Vox pointed to the corner next to the steps of the auditorium, where there were large clusters of white hydrangeas and carefully decorated dwarf cedar trees. The dark green cone-shaped crowns appeared so condensed and deep in this crystal clear snow-white."We'll be playing there," he said. "The good thing is, if you want to slip out, it's easy to go through the windows."

Looks like he must have had a lot of experience with this.

Each band member found his position in the auditorium for a while. After a brief rehearsal, Professor Flitwick, who was the conductor, quickly announced the disbandment and asked everyone to go back to change clothes and prepare.

At eight o'clock in the evening, clusters of candles bloomed in the air of the Ice and Snow Palace, and the light and smoke intertwined into satin, and the dance officially began.Senior wizards from various colleges walked into the auditorium arm in arm with their dance partners. The gentle and soothing music was heard next to their ears, and bright candle flames and snow lights were overhead. The atmosphere quickly became lively.Everyone was smiling and saying hello to those around them, and the younger children were secretly practicing their dance steps under the windows of the auditorium.

Unsurprisingly, Slytherin's Sur Garcia was the absolute center of attention at the ball.She was wearing a deep purple long gauze dress with gradient colors. The rich and heavy color and the ivory white skin on the chest formed a strong visual impact, and then all the way down, starting from the waist, the color gradually became clear and soft.

In fact, Aurora thinks that with her beautiful face inherited from Veela, even if she wears a tablecloth like a house elf, she will be more attractive than others, and maybe she can become a new dress that wizards compete to imitate trend.

The performance entered an intermission period, and the graduates made their grand finale appearance together with the deans of each college and Dumbledore.Dumbledore didn't say much, just a brisk "The dance party begins" mobilized the atmosphere of the scene.

Aurora sat in the corner, crossed her legs and plucked the strings of the acoustic guitar in her hand, and looked at Vaux in a decent black suit with a good mood: "How about it, when are you going to invite Beverly to dance? "

The other party gave her a strange look, and found the brown-haired girl who always looked indifferent and calm from the crowd without any effort.Beverly wore a black sleeveless dress today. The round neckline was simply decorated with a circle of white pearls, which looked very elegant and retro.She put on some light makeup as a modification, her hair was also loosely tied, and a few strands were picked out to hang casually on her temples. There were a few broken diamond hairpins in the shape of laurel leaves pinned between the thick and slightly curly hair. Glittering in the light.

At this time, Bill also saw the place where the band was from the crowd, and pointed to Beverly at Vaux, the meaning was self-evident.Aurora grabbed Vox's sleeve with his hands, and said in a provocative tone: "Have you seen the two Ravenclaws over there? If you don't go, they will be the first to invite Beverly." After finishing speaking, she He straightened his back and narrowed his eyes to look at the two boys carefully for a while, then said half-jokingly, "I think they are quite handsome."

The young man froze for a long while, took a deep breath, put down the violin, and walked towards the girl in the black dress, his golden brown eyes blinked unnaturally, and the movement of reaching out was a little stiff: "Ms. Greenberg, hello, I wonder if I will be lucky enough to be your partner at this ball?"

After hearing this, some people around couldn't help but stop and look at them, with unconcealed surprise on their faces - it's unbelievable that a Gryffindor boy would take the initiative to invite a Slytherin girl.One must know that people from these two academies would be fine if they met without taunting each other and fighting, let alone dancing together.

Beverly looked at him for a while, then reached out to take his hand, her voice was cold and her posture was calm: "Of course."

The two then slid onto the dance floor together, dancing in time to the music.

Professor Sprout on the side looked at their harmonious cooperation, and couldn't help saying to Snape and McGonagall: "Such a combination is really rare."

Professor McGonagall smiled and nodded, the surprise in his eyes flashed: "Miss Greenberg is a very good child, and she has a good personality. I remember, she seems to be a student you like very much, Severus, right?" ?" Snape agreed, "Yes."

While several deans were talking, Aurora ran over from across the ballroom holding a camera borrowed from a Hufflepuff graduate, and was dutifully taking pictures of her two friends, her face The smile is warm and bright.

The girl was wearing a red dress with lapels and shoulders that just reached her knees, revealing her smooth and beautiful collarbone and arms, and her complexion was soft, white and moist.Except for the cut highlights on the shoulders, this red dress itself does not have any other patterns to decorate. The simple and almost monotonous design is surprisingly eye-catching when worn on her body, and it also weakens the excessive enthusiasm brought by the red itself. .

There is very little makeup on her face, except for the depiction of the eyebrows, only her lips can be clearly seen that she has applied red to match the color of the dress, and her hair is not tied, her waist-length pale golden hair is still loose as usual When she was running, she reflected with the rippling bright red skirt under the slender waist, like a handful of gilt roses in full bloom in the flames.

Although Snape had never been sensitive to matters of dress and grooming, he hardly paid too much attention to someone's appearance and clothing.But when Aurora came into sight in a red dress, he immediately noticed her for no reason.

In my impression, it seemed that it was the first time for her to wear such a bright and intense color, but I had to admit that it was not ugly.

Soon, the ball and the music entered a climax/climax, and the combination of Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall also joined in, and Professor Hudson invited Sprout to join him.Flitwick looked at Snape, who was also left behind, and could only sigh and applaud the two pairs of teachers.

After Aurora finished taking pictures of Vaux and Beverly, she inadvertently turned her head and saw the principal and Professor McGonagall. She froze for a moment, then quickly adjusted the angle and frantically pressed the shutter.

There is no time to be surprised, shoot first and talk later.

However, while filming, Aurora suddenly found that there was a very familiar person in the camera, and the red hair of the other party was particularly eye-catching in the crowd.

"Charlie?" Aurora murmured out the other person's name, and hurriedly ran towards the figure.After Charlie saw her, before he had time to be happy, he was dragged by Aurora to the corner with the thickest shadow, hiding behind a curtain made of rows of white lily-of-the-valley flowers.

Aurora made a silent gesture at him, and after making sure that no one else noticed, she lowered her voice and asked in surprise: "Why are you here? Didn't you say that students under the third grade are not allowed to come?"

The red-haired boy scratched his head, and replied with some dodge in his clear eyes: "Uh... I just want to take a look." As he spoke, he comforted the girl in front of him awkwardly, "Don't worry, there are other juniors too. The professors won't find out if I'm one more. By the way, where is my brother?"

"Your brother is dancing with his partner, and I don't have time to accompany you for now. But you, there are not many second-year students here, and they are all invited." Aurora stretched out his finger and poked His forehead, "You are too conspicuous."

After hearing what she said, as if he was afraid that she would get angry, Charlie explained in a panic: "I don't plan to participate, I just want to take a look."

"What do you want to see here?" Aurora asked a little funny.

"That's right..." The boy hesitated for a while, his cheeks flushed slightly.Aurora looked at him and basically understood: "Is the girl you like here?"

Charlie froze instantly and quickly denied it.Aurora wanted to tease him even more when she saw his blushing and nervous cuteness, she tilted her head to look at his eyes staring at the ground, and smiled brightly: "Can you tell me who it is, if I happen to know, I can help Check it out."

Seeing that Charlie was still blushing and silent, Aurora put his hand on his shoulder and said comfortingly: "Don't mind, I'll just ask. No matter who it is, I wish you success as soon as possible. Of course, if you spend a few days I figured it out, I want to help you charge forward, I will wait for your news at any time."

"I……"

Charlie held Aurora's wrist, and just as he said a word, the lily-of-the-valley curtain in front of him was suddenly lifted by an external force, bringing in a bitter potion scent mixed with the scent of flowers.This smell was so familiar to Aurora, she didn't even need to turn her head to know who it was.

"Teach...teach..." The Weasley boy stared dumbfounded at the man in black in front of him, unable to speak a complete sentence as if his tongue was tied.

The air seemed to condense together with the ice crystals and snow foam on the top of the head, forming an unbearable pressure and sealing it off. Even the people nearby were affected, and they all stopped their dancing steps, looked towards this side in unanimous agreement, and retreated. Go, move to another place.You can't imagine what kind of aura it is that can make those boys and girls suddenly become quiet and submissive from the beautiful atmosphere of the ball in such a uniform way.

Aurora tilted her head sluggishly, and even the slight touch of the tail of her hair brushing against her shoulder was so clear.She saw that the head of Slytherin was standing not far from the two of them, from the shadow to the whole body was filled with the oppressive darkness that made people breathless.The expression on his face against the light is elusive, and it looks the same as usual, but the gloom brewing in those cold black eyes is as thick as the sky that is close to the limit of darkness before the storm is about to collapse.

Snape's eyes fell on the hands of the two who were joined together, and they ran over as sharp as a knife, which made Aurora quickly withdraw her hand, feeling a piercing chill running down the two people just now. Contacted skin rushed up the top of the head.

"If I remember correctly, this dance does not seem to be open to students below the third year. Am I right, Mr. Weasley." Snape deliberately dragged himself, his voice soaked in glacier water The cold and slippery silk was twisted tightly around the neck of the red-haired boy in front of him, and it tightened every time he said a word.

"Yes...that's right, sir."

"Then can I think that you sneaked in knowingly?" Snape pressed on step by step.

"I……"

"Professor, actually..." Aurora said after deliberating for a while, "Actually, Charlie is the dance partner I invited." She knew Snape's character, and if Charlie violated the rules and still fell into his hands, at least one month of confinement and Deduct ten points to start.

"Dance, partner?" Snape frowned, looked at her expressionlessly, and repeated each word in a sharp tone, as if he wanted to chop the word into pieces before throwing it in front of Aurora.

"I'm curious how the two of you dance in this corner." He sneered sinisterly.

"..." Aurora could clearly see that he was angry, that was for sure.But she didn't expect the other party's anger to be much more serious than she imagined, although he seemed to have been restraining it from showing.So she said, as softly as possible, "We didn't intend to dance, but Charlie wanted to come and see, so I invited him. Anyway, as long as the younger students are invited, they can come to participate, and they don't have to dance... ..."

As she said that, she and Charlie looked at each other, and quickly exchanged glances, intending to bite to death together to insist on this statement.

Snape noticed the tacit subtle movements of the two people, and his face became even more ugly, and the words he said became more sarcastic: "So you just huddled in a corner together and happily created the world of two people, and you can enjoy it by the way." Can you play these beautiful music to mobilize the atmosphere, and can you avoid the disturbance of those outsiders?"

Therefore, the deans of Slytherin have obvious commonalities. Every time Salazar is angered by Aurora, he also likes to use a series of gorgeous and lengthy words like this so that people can't keep up with the rhythm. The acrimonious words, do not derogate the other party to nothing and execute him.

Relying on her experience in getting along with this snake ancestor in the past few years, Aurora can't talk about being a god, but she still has the ability to immediately grasp the opponent's core point of ridicule.Therefore, after listening to Snape's words, she realized almost reflexively that the other party's breaking point was that she and Charlie were together.

This cognition made her a little confused, because no matter how she understood it, it seemed to be very strange, and the reason was a bit different from what she had imagined at the beginning.

Is there something wrong with her understanding or Snape's focus?

"It's not like this……"

The girl's hesitation was hastily classified as lying by Snape. He interrupted impatiently, and the air pressure around him became colder and lower: "What is that? Does Miss Field have a more fascinating explanation for this? I I thought you didn't like being discussed as a condiment by the people around you, but because of your behavior, it seems that I misunderstood."

The sarcasm in this sentence is too stinging.Although Aurora knew that many people were talking about her and Charlie when she was in the third grade, it was someone else, and Aurora never cared what they thought.

But the person in front of him was Snape, which was different.

"I don't have any other explanation, Professor." Aurora raised her head and looked directly at the other party, rubbing her red dress with her hands, "But the truth is, we are really just talking here, not what you think."

"I know the reason why you see me like this is because you have seen other people like this before, and in your eyes, I may not be any different from them."

Aurora's words were not loud, and only the three people in the corner could hear them under the cover of the high-pitched music at the dance and the dense conversations of other students, but Snape couldn't help being stunned for a moment, even the red color on her body It also suddenly became dazzling.

I am no different from them in your eyes.

How long ago was this sentence heard?

The red-haired girl came out from behind the portrait at the door of the Gryffindor lounge in a nightgown, with her arms folded. There was no trace of soft sympathy in her emerald-sea-like eyes, just like her voice: "Didn't mean to call I'm a Mudblood, right? But you call every one of my friends a Mudblood, Severus, and I'm no different than them in your eyes."

A soft suffocation stirred in Snape's chest, the sharp sullenness in his eyes and the overwhelming coercion suddenly shrank to nothing, his face showed the most vacant expression, His eyes stared at Aurora emotionlessly, as if looking at a speck of dust.It was a dead silence like exhaustion, all the strength was used to cover up the surging waves in the bottom of my heart, and only a pale shape was left on the outside to support it.

He stood there, solidified like a sculpture, but it felt like it would shatter if touched.

This feeling of overlapping time was so vivid and terrifying that Snape couldn't even tell for a moment whether it was the words of the person in front of him that had such a big impact on him, or the memories evoked by these words.

They were intertwined, indistinguishable, like those dreams he had inexplicably.

"but I……"

"Not maybe, Field. It's you who are 'indeed' no different from them." Snape's expression finally changed, he frowned and raised his chin, looking condescendingly at the blond girl in front of him, "Actually, you It almost makes me admire that you have the courage to think so. Hasn't the Hufflepuff atmosphere taught you to position yourself?"

Aurora's heart suddenly sank to the bottom of the abyss, the ice flowers at the ball, the candles on the top of the auditorium, and the music flowing in her ears all lost their meaning to her.They are abstracted into a whitish background and noise, grandly and loudly shattered.

"Then continue to enjoy the atmosphere here with your dance partner."

After speaking, he turned around and strode out of the auditorium.

Charlie looked at Aurora's dim eyes, and tentatively touched her hand: "I'm sorry, but you were scolded in the end. But, you know that Professor Snape treats everyone like this, don't take it to heart .”

Yes, he treats everyone like this, let alone himself.

"Sorry, I'm going out first." After Aurora finished speaking, she didn't even take her acoustic guitar, and rushed out with her canvas bag.

She didn't have any exact ideas, just that she didn't want him to really feel like he had anything to do with Charlie, even though she was like everyone else to him.

Maybe Snape didn't care, but she did.

She wanted to explain clearly, so that when she had to give up one day in the future, she would not have any regrets, and would not think that today's misunderstanding caused the ending that she had to give up.

Maybe in this way, she will give up her heart more thoroughly in the future.

The girl in the red dress quickly shuttled through the dimly lit corridor, and finally saw the tall and thin figure at the corner of the stairs in front of her.

"Professor, please wait a moment." Aurora shouted, trying her best to catch up, and stood in front of the other party panting, "I...I know you may not want to hear it, but please only give me half a minute."

Snape looked at her displeasedly, with a kind of dark forbearance on his expression.

"I'm sorry for talking to you like that just now, but please believe that I really haven't forgotten where I should be, nor have I lost the self-knowledge I should have." Aurora spoke quickly, as if afraid of being hit by the other party As if broken, the hands were clasped together, and the slender phalanges were crushing each other, causing pain, "I want to explain to you, I was really just talking to a friend of mine at the time, no... no, In that way..."

"Didn't you say you have nothing to explain?" he asked indifferently.

"But I don't want you to misunderstand." Aurora blurted out, "From my own heart, I don't want this to happen."

There was wind, and the candlelight fluttered with Aurora's skirt.

She continued: "And as you said, I really don't like being talked about by people around me. But before, I just thought that I don't care what others think of me, so I didn't pay attention to it. This is indeed me. question. I know you were kind enough to remind me, and I appreciate that."

"And as a reward, you just come here to delay my time?" Snape asked coldly.

"It's not like that." Aurora shook her head, looked up at the other person, her warm brown eyes were clear, "You are my most respected professor, and you have helped me many times, including my eye treatment and coffee beans. .Your opinion ... is important to me, so I have to explain."

The word eye pricked Snape like a needle as it came out of the girl's mouth.With a tense expression, he didn't touch the other person's eyes, and said, "I've finished listening to your explanation, you can go."

Aurora stood still for a while, and replied: "Good night, Professor."

After she finished speaking, she walked back in the direction she came from, a little distracted.When approaching the entrance of the auditorium, Aurora looked at the lights inside and suddenly lost interest in going back to join the band.

There are empty corridors all around, and it looks like every road is the same.Aurora picked one of them casually and walked until the music from the auditorium could no longer be heard.

This is near the back of the library. Few students would come here, because Peeves and Bloody Barrow always like to wander in this area, and everyone avoids it.

Sitting on the rough and cold corridor seat, Aurora took out the wand from the canvas bag and hesitated for a while, finally raised it up, and softly called: "Call God to protect you."

The silver black king snake cruised out from the brilliance at the tip of the wand, with a slender and gorgeous figure, and its clear vertical pupils gently stared at the master in front of it.

Aurora was still a little afraid of such a huge snake appearing in front of her, but the light on it made her feel warm, and she couldn't help but want to touch it.

As soon as she raised her hand, the Black King Snake rarely avoided it. Instead, it slid in the air towards the wooden door behind her and disappeared.Aurora turned her head in doubt, and saw a silver light seeping from behind the door, so she walked over and opened the door with an unlocking spell.

A deeper darkness hits the face, with a chill rarely seen in summer.

The brilliance of the black king snake illuminated the space behind the door, and Aurora saw that the architectural style here seemed to be older than the outside.The gothic carving style is everywhere, complicated and gorgeous, covered with thick dust and mottled old marks, presenting a weird and incomprehensible beauty.

And at the end of the colonnades and stairs, under the dimly lit windows, was a towering and exquisite mirror, very imposing, as high as the ceiling, supported by two claw-like things at the bottom.

"Why is there a mirror here?" Aurora asked strangely, a little hesitant to move on.Hogwarts has a lot of strange legends, and she just came to a strange room again, and there was a mirror that was incompatible with this place in terms of decoration and newness, and she was a little scared for a while.

The Black King Snake lowered its head and approached her, nuzzling her in a void, as if knowing that its master was actually afraid of snakes.

At this time, Salazar's diary suddenly broke free from the canvas bag and floated out, and said with a sigh: "This is the Mirror of Erised. How did you come here?"

"Mirror of Erised?" repeated Aurora. "What is that, sir?"

"This is a mirror with powerful magic power. Anyone standing in front of it will see what they desire most. The soul will not lie." Salazar explained.After speaking, he suddenly coaxed Aurora in a strange soft tone, "Go over there and try? This mirror won't hurt you."

Aurora did so, and after waiting for a while, she still only saw her own reflection in the mirror, a girl with blond hair in a red dress.

"Uh...it doesn't seem to work for me, sir." Aurora finally said after trying a few moves.

"Well... I guess so. After all, Legilimency and Boggarts don't work on you either." Salazar didn't sound surprised at all.

Aurora rolled her eyes: "Are you making fun of me?"

"Just give it a try, and there will be no loss." Salazar smiled.

The quality is extremely poor.

Immediately afterwards, the patron saint at the side suddenly and silently swam to Aurora's side, wrapping her flexible body round and round, spitting out a message and gently resting his head on Aurora's shoulder.

"Wait...don't..." Aurora subconsciously tried to break free, but suddenly found that her patron saint was actually Snape's appearance after being projected on the mirror.

She was suddenly speechless.

The professor in black stood behind her, reaching out to hug her, with a gentle expression on his face that he had never seen before.

Aurora turned her head, and there was no one in the room except Salazar's diary and her patron saint.

She looked at the black king snake on her shoulder, and felt an indescribable soreness, from her eyes to her heart.Without the maintenance of magic power, the patron saint gradually disappeared, and scattered into stardust-like light spots that covered Aurora's body, surrounded by light and mist.

In the mirror, Snape kissed her long hair and disappeared behind her.

For no reason, Aurora thought of a sentence she had seen once - "If you want, you can turn off the light, and I will understand your darkness and love it."

"Don't pay too much attention to what you see in the mirror," Salazar began. "It's all fake. It won't do you any good."

"I know it's fake." Aurora's fingers caught the last silver light particle that disappeared, "I've always known it."

……

Midnight, Hogwarts.

The door that locked the Mirror of Erised was pushed open by an invisible external force, and the old diary with a dark green cover passed through the dusty and stale air alone, floating in front of the mirror.

The diary opened, and a large group of green light diffused from it, and then fell to the ground.

A person slowly came out from the place where the shadows were gathered the deepest in the room, and the bleak moonlight shone on him dimly.

He was wearing a large cloak that was dark green to almost black, with intricate patterns embroidered with icy silver silk threads on the edges. His long jet black hair hung down from the edge of the hood, blending dimly with the color of the cloak.A shadow fell over him, making it impossible to see his face.

He stretched out his hand in front of the mirror, his complexion was frighteningly pale, as if he had never seen sunlight before.

A girl stood in the mirror.

The long pale golden curly hair is as beautiful as transparent, clustered around her slender waist like flowers, and the blue eyes are clear and pure.

She smiled softly and beautifully at the person in front of the mirror, and silently called out a name.

sal.

He stretched out his hand to touch the mirror, facing the girl's palm, his fingers touching each other, as if holding each other intimately.The flimsy mirror expands into countless mountains, rivers and time that can never be crossed.

One day, there will be someone, something, that will make you understand where your limits and deepest powerlessness lie.

He saw it.

Right in this mirror.

The author has something to say:

Today's BGM is my favorite piece of pure music.

One hundred chapters.This is the first time I write such a long article, so let’s celebrate with a knife.

The explosive word count glass slag update from Chapter [-].

Everyone should be able to tell that the last person is the original snake ancestor.Ah, think of Da Tang also jumping out in the Chamber of Secrets to have a passionate fight with Harry [not], and even snatching someone's wand and performing the Voldemort code live.So, let the Snake Ancestor cheat the corpse out to celebrate the [-]-chapter mark.

[Daily Scratching Head] Why is it that the professor can be with the heroine in sixty or seventy chapters, but I have dragged it to one hundred chapters...

[Self-reviewing]

By the way, the words that Aurora thought of in front of the magic mirror-"If you want, turn off the light..." That is from Tagore's "Flying Birds"