[HP] Butterfly Effect

Chapter 17 Diary

As always, the password for the principal's room is another candy name.Dumbledore looked up from a pile of ancient books just as Snape walked in, holding a plate of half-eaten lemon butterscotch by his side.The flaming phoenix took a nap standing on the golden perch, and when it sensed someone coming in, it opened its jewel-like clear and beautiful eyes and swiped lightly, flapped its wings twice, and then dozed off.

The headmaster put down the quill, put aside the book and parchment in front of him, and casually hooked his slender fingers on the ebony table aside, and the clean tea set fell firmly in his hand.

Dumbledore habitually smiled kindly, shook the teacup, and the slightly astringent tea aroma spread in the room, entangled with the strong smell of old books: "I found out that the sugar was gone when I was making tea in the morning, I wanted to ask the house elves to send some over, but I forgot about it now. But now it seems that the sugar is just right."

After finishing speaking, a mahogany chair with the same honey color as the black tea in the cup under the light slid silently behind Snape.

Dumbledore didn't forget how much Snape hated unnecessary communication. He usually contacted him through owls even if he had anything to do. The number of times he came by himself like this was really rare.So, what he was going to say must be something very serious.

Snape sat down, the thick black flowing from his hair to his toes, only his face was terribly pale and haggard, and his voice was low: "Regulus is not dead."

Rumors that he was killed by the Dark Lord for trying to defect were false.

Dumbledore's blue eyes flickered behind half-moon crystal glasses, and his hands were folded: "Have you seen him?"

"Diagon Alley," Snape replied, "with one of my pupils, as her guardian."

"Guardian? Who is that student?"

"Beverly Greenberg. She said that Regulus was rescued because the teacher who raised her up gave her life for his life, so he will be the guardian of this child." Snape's expression looked There was no emotion, but his purely mechanical repeating tone made Dumbledore feel that he had a mind of his own.

"It looks like you disagree."

"At least judging from Regulus' performance, my disagreement has every reason to be taken seriously."

Dumbledore nodded: "You found something wrong with him?"

Snape recalled Regulus's dazed, gentle and almost innocent attitude at that time, and frowned again, his tone became more serious: "I suspect that although the Dark Lord didn't kill him, he made him pay the price. Of course..." Having said that, he changed the subject, his already deep voice was deliberately dragged longer, and the words he spit out were mixed with rather sharp sarcasm, "It is not ruled out that his acting talent is beyond ordinary people's excellence." possible."

Dumbledore picked out a lemon butterscotch and popped it into his mouth. He could almost imitate Snape throwing an insanity shot at Regulus, or those stuffed in his office. Veritaserum in a corner of the cabinet.

Snape didn't like the Blacks, there was no doubt about that.

Thinking of this, Dumbledore turned his attention to Snape again.He still remembered that when he was a freshman in school, Regulus was a year younger than him, and now this kid has become his colleague.

Sometimes the marks left by time on the surroundings and on oneself are so inadvertently noticed.Just like having dinner with Professor Sprout two days ago, she was still talking about how nervous she was when she went to class as a professor for the first time. In a blink of an eye, all the students she had taught became the dean just like herself.

"Then I'll take my leave first." Snape got up and left, the black tea in front of him remained untouched.

Fox had already woken up at this moment, and uttered a soft and melodious chirp.Dumbledore walked to his old friend, stretched out his fingers to stroke the feathers of the phoenix, and slid his fingertips down Fox's flaming and graceful neck, and the other party touched his hand friendly with his beak.

Maybe, it's time to find a suitable time to meet that child.

Dumbledore walked to the Pensieve and took out his memory with the Elder Wand.A thin thread of shining silver was picked up on the tip of the staff and melted into the water of the Pensieve.

Soon, Regulus' appearance when he first entered the school clearly emerged.The Sorting Hat announced the boy's house, Slytherin, loudly and sharply.In the next scene, he had a gentle smile on his face that didn't match the green tie on his chest. When he treated girls, he was always polite and restrained as a gentleman. He was completely different from his brother Sirius, although they The appearance is somewhat similar.

Snape returned to the cellar, and the cauldron that had just been put on the flame before going out was now bubbling with sticky green bubbles.He stirred it, checked the color and texture, and extinguished the fire with a wave.

The time is not bad, and the cooking is not bad.

He sat down and began to flip through the newly bought books. The faint sunshine after the rain, as the evening approached, showed a weak fading vanity, sprinkled finely on the edge of the window sills, and shone gray. .

……

After seven o'clock in the evening, Aurora prepared dinner as usual and went to Beverly.She was not in a good mood this afternoon, because Regulus had been here.Aurora can probably understand that Beverly can't feel at ease when facing this person whom her master abandons herself to protect.

She didn't say much about Regulus, because she knew very little, too.I only remember that in a stormy and dark night, her master dragged back the half-human young man. Beverly saw Regulus clearly through the light of the lightning. zombie.

Then, my master weakened day by day, and the other party returned to a normal person day by day.In the end, the master died, but Regulus woke up with completely fragmented memories.

He doesn't remember who he is, nor why he became the way he was when he was rescued.

Aurora looked at Beverly and hugged her gently.

Afterwards, she returned to her temporary residence.Mrs. Brent had kindly lent one of her rooms to Aurora, which would save her a considerable sum in rent.In return, Aurora served as the cleaner of the house.

It was almost 10:30 in the evening when I returned to the room. After washing, Aurora was going to hang the raincoat to the balcony and go to bed.

At this time, she suddenly discovered a strange place——in the rain hat of her raincoat, she didn't know when there was a thick and old dark green soft leather book, and the four corners were decorated with silver metal.

The book looked old, and the pages on the sides were different shades, as if they had been oxidized over time.On the cover, a large silver "S" lies quietly on the dark green cover, like a snake winding deep in the forest.

Aurora froze for a moment, took it in her hand to confirm that it wasn't her hallucination.If I remember correctly, I didn't have this thing in my rain hat when I had tea with Professor Snape in the afternoon, and the rain coat has been put here since I brought it back. No one has touched it at all, why is it inexplicable? One more book coming out?

Could it be... someone came in? !

Thinking of this, Aurora suddenly felt sleepless, and a sharp chill rushed from her spine to the top of her head.She quickly took out the cypress wand from under the pillow and put on her coat again. After confirming that there was no one else in her room, she locked the window and walked out of the room quietly.

But the whole house was silent, and there was no other movement except Mrs. Brent's regular breathing from the next door.

Aurora walked around the living room, then returned to her room.She was hesitant to check everything out by herself, especially since she had been banned from using magic since she left school.

Everything in the room remains the same, the inexplicably extra book is still lying on the table, the sharp silver "S" glows coldly under the light, reminiscent of the ax held by the executioner wearing a ghost mask in some stage plays .

She carefully recalled today's experience, and suddenly remembered that at a shop in Knockturn Alley—thanks to Snape for the reminder—when she was hiding in a panic, she was hit hard by something and returned it. into his hat.Later, because he was too afraid to run away, he met Professor Snape before being saved and came back all the way...

Wait, I met so many people along the way, why has no one reminded me that there is a book in the hat?Wasn't this book accidentally brought out of that store?

Thinking about this, Aurora walked slowly towards the book, gently lifted the corner of the cover of the book with her slender wand, and slowly opened it to reveal the title page.

The arc of the dark green cover is getting bigger and bigger, the light is covering the ancient pages inside, tearing through the darkness covered in dust, Aurora bit her lip, and looked into the book restrainedly, with sweat dripping on her face White nose.She almost felt as if she was cutting open her chest with a scalpel.

Finally, when the edge of the book cover touched the table, the contents inside were completely revealed.

Aurora stood not far and looked at it, only one sentence:

It's really not easy to wait for you to fully open this diary.

Unlike the aggressive "S" on the cover, the font of this sentence has a kind of loose elegance and gorgeousness, which can reach the neat and pleasing level of a textbook. The outline of the letters is flexible and slender, which is a kind of vitality more than branches And the handwriting of tension, like some kind of small and gorgeous snakes winding up.

It's so beautiful that it makes the scalp tingle and the air is cold.

Slowly, the letters began to twist and connect, turning into a snake and swimming lazily around on the parchment, and the narrow vertical pupils looked at Aurora, who was completely dead, from time to time.

Then, just before Aurora wanted to take the risk of being invited to tea by the Ministry of Magic and cast the Burning Curse at this weird book, the snake raised its tail and swung its head downwards, and its flexible and slender body once again Split it apart, and it became a sentence again - "Give up, it's useless. You can't destroy me. It's a pity that I met you in that boring shop that made people want to kill something." When I was young, I thought you were a talented wizard, but I didn't expect you to be a child who didn't understand anything."

Immediately afterwards, the letters changed chaotically again: "Put down your threatening small rolling pin, come, sit in front of me."

The last letter "e" ends with a slender snake's tail, which is swinging carelessly, as if beckoning to Aurora - or waving its tail.

Aurora didn't want to go there at all, the cold sweat from the summer night had almost soaked her pajamas, and it was cold and sticky on her back.She wanted to grab the book and throw it out the window, preferably right in the rubbish pile downstairs, where the mice would eat it up.

But the truth is that she can't even move a finger.She was too afraid of snakes, she was really afraid that the snake inside would jump out and swallow her alive before she had time to throw the other person out.

I heard that pythons entangle their prey until they suffocate and then swallow them whole without chewing. Should she thank snakes for their eating habits?The scene of watching yourself being swallowed is simply a horror movie.But the process of suffocating to death is also uncomfortable...

"Tsk." The letters contracted into an impatient tone, spread out again, and the handwriting became a little more ruthless, "Sit down!"

Aurora sat in front of the diary trembling, her hands were covered in cold sweat, her lips were pale and squirmed, unable to utter a single syllable, and her light brown eyes stared blankly at the page.

Black entangled on the page, and writing emerged: "Tell me what you saw?"

Aurora was stunned for a while, not understanding what the other party meant.The quill in the pen holder automatically floated out and fell between the spines of the book, and Aurora understood that the other party asked her to write.

Trembling, she picked up the pen, and chose a place far away from the snake that had been transformed into a letter again. The immature and vain handwriting formed a sharp contrast between beauty and ugliness against the other side.

She wrote, what do you want me to see?

The snake hissed and spat out the letter at her in dissatisfaction, swam over and devoured her handwriting one by one, and then conjured up a sentence: "You can't see anything except this book and the words I wrote?"

Aurora stared blankly, looked up from the ceiling to the corner of the wall, and then returned to the book, the snake was staring at her intently.

She writes again, nothing.

The snake looked at her strangely for a while, then dragged Aurora's handwriting over with its tail again, and swallowed it whole without chewing: "What now?"

I don't know if it's an illusion, but Aurora feels that the handwriting is different this time, and it looks much more formal than before.

She stared at the book intently, and finally wrote honestly: "There is nothing, what do you want me to read?"

The snake narrowed its eyes and looked at the girl, raised its pointed tail and scratched its chin, and then showed a creepy smile in Aurora's eyes: "You are more interesting than anyone who met me before, really Fresh, you are still the first person who can't see anything, it seems that I saw the right person before. That's it for today, good night."

It elongated its body and swam around the paper, got into a door of lines that appeared on the paper out of thin air, and disappeared.The diary also automatically closed again, leaving only the silver S staring straight at her.

Aurora stared at the book in a daze, then opened the window tremblingly, closed her eyes, grabbed it, swung it with all her strength and threw it out, and soon heard a heavy slap from outside. The sound of things falling.

Trembling, she re-locked the window, closed the curtains, pushed the chair behind the door, hugged the lantern and got into bed on the ground. A thin quilt covered her head, and she curled up into a ball.

Throughout the whole night, Aurora didn't know if she fell asleep, and the vivid paper snake swimming around in the paper always appeared in front of her eyes.Aurora barely fell asleep until a hazy white belly appeared in the sky, but she still woke up after a while.

She got out of the quilt exhaustedly, her hands were sore from clutching the quilt so tightly yesterday, and she felt as if she was broken when she raised her hand.

Aurora adjusted her breathing, then slowly opened her eyes.The light sunlight in the morning is passing through the thick curtains, dimly smearing on the ceiling above the head, leaving a pale yellow shiny mark.

There are no murderous and weird diaries, no snakes, and no S.

She got up, tidied herself up slowly, flattened her light blonde hair that was frizzed due to bad sleeping position, put the magic wand in her sleeve, and turned to collect the raincoat that was hanging outside to dry yesterday.

However, the moment she opened the window, a black figure suddenly hit her face like an out-of-control cannon/bullet.Aurora was hit staggeringly, and fell to the ground with a bang. The double impact made her almost stare.

She cried out in pain and touched the thing covering her face, and what she got was the cold and delicate soft leather material.Aurora screamed instinctively and threw it sideways.

The diary hit the wall and fell, the dark green cover opened with a whirr, the snake inside looked terribly angry, wishing it could rush out and bite the little golden-haired bastard right now.

This time the handwriting looks sharper than ever before, the hook is as sharp as a knife, and the ink is so thick that it almost drips down: "You dare to throw me out of the window?!"

Aurora clutched her wand tightly, countless spells popped up in her mind and were rejected one by one, she decided that even being thrown into Azkaban would not stop her from burning the diary with magic.Maybe I can still see Sirius who I haven't seen for several years, although this kind of reunion is not very pleasant.

The diary sensed her intentions, and swiftly flew himself over to hit Aurora's wrist, and handed over her wand.The snake squirmed restlessly on the page, and finally turned into a sentence: "Just because you want to destroy me? Risking being caught in prison when you don't even know what I am? Stupid as hell !"

This sentence made Aurora calm down. It was right. He had only one chance to cast a spell at it, and then he would be thrown into prison by the Ministry of Magic.But just relying on the spells he has mastered, no matter how you look at it, it is difficult to destroy this weird thing.

It's not scary to go to prison, but what's scary is that you might encounter this elusive thing after you go to prison.If so, she'd rather face Potions.

Aurora took several deep breaths, then got up, picked up the quill, and wrote on the page: "Who are you? What do you want from me?"

The snake tilted its head and glanced at the sentence, opened its mouth to let the words happily line up and eat them one by one, and then responded—"Tsk tsk, didn't I say it last night? You're not the first to have me, but the first to be immune to the magic I've left on this."

"so?"

The snake ate the words and continued to wag its tail: "That's it, you won't be controlled by magic, and you can still chat with me."

Aurora shook her hand, and the tip of the pen almost stuck into the parchment, "Are you bored?"

"You try being locked in this book for more than 1000 years?"

"More than 1000 years? Who are you?"

"Pay attention to your wording, little guy. Generally speaking, after living for such a long time, you should no longer expect the other party to be a creature of the same race as you."

"You... aren't human?" This question is stupid but scary.

"It used to be, a long, long time ago." The snake swam lazily, "But it doesn't matter, I finally got someone who won't be controlled by my magic. Tell me, little one, who is your Occlumency taught?"

Aurora was stunned, and after reading it for a while, wrote, "I haven't learned this thing, what kind of magic did you cast on this diary?"

"Don't try to lie to me!" Snake suddenly lost the lazy look just now, erected his upper body and stared at her, and after a while, he conjured up a string of words as if he was in a panic, "I haven't learned Occlumency before." It is absolutely impossible not to be affected by my magic, who taught you?"

"I really haven't learned what you said. I have only studied magic for a year. You have found the wrong person." After Aurora finished writing, the snake spat at her threateningly, swam over and used a An extremely brutal way to tear up and swallow all those black words.

"Wait a minute, you said you saw me in the store yesterday. Are you really from that store? But why didn't anyone see you afterwards?"

Maybe this is a warning, Aurora silently slandered, warning her not to take other people's things casually.But she didn't mean it... Maybe she should send the book back and apologize to the boss.

"I can make myself invisible, invisible and intangible." The snake shook the tip of its tail triumphantly, "The owner of that store can't do anything to me at all, he is too easily confused by my magic." Then, it stared at Aurora again, "You said you haven't learned anything, how can you not be influenced by me?"

"How do I know that..."

The snake baji baji finished eating this sentence, and then conjured up a sentence: "You are very special, your mental power is different from other people. I can't think of why for the time being, but this is good, I finally found an interesting person to chat with. .1000 years..."

Aurora suddenly felt a chill, she never thought of chatting with this snake, it was eerie.But it just said that its spiritual power is different from others... Could it be because it does not belong to this world, and its soul comes from another time and space?

She wrote, "I can't chat with you, I have to go to school soon, or can I find you a real Occlumency person to accompany you?"

The snake stretched out its tail impatiently and smashed the words, "What are you afraid of? Didn't the professor who brought you out of Knockturn Alley last time didn't notice me? Which school do you study in?"

"Hogwarts."

The snake stopped talking, and stared at her for a long time, "Which college are you from? A student of that Gryffindor guy?"

That rascal?Aurora frowned, feeling that the other party's words were strange, but she still answered, "No. But since you know so much, the professor who knows me is from Hogwarts. Are you a student there too?"

"Didn't you call him a professor when you saw someone yesterday?" The snake hooked its tail and threw out new words while eating the vocabulary. "When I was a student, there was no Hogwarts. Tell me, what is it like there now?" of?"

"There is no Hogwarts?" Aurora murmured these words, and then remembered the dark green and silver S of the cover, and suddenly felt an extreme chill on her head, "You are..."

The snake raised its chin high, and flung out a domineering name from its slender and thin tail:

Salazar Slytherin.

Aurora immediately petrified.

In the next second, she tremblingly wrote three words on the page: "You liar!"

Then he snapped the diary shut.

The author has something to say:

Ah, Salazar's diary, of course, is the prototype of Lao Fu's diary, and the working principle is the same, that is to say, it is a Horcrux.As for the reasons and reasons, I don't need to write them later after I say them.

In my article, Salazar is basically a setting of God's perspective NPC.

about character.There is no particularly obvious description of Salazar's character in the original book, so I just let it go.In addition, according to the second part, Lao Fu's 16-year-old character is very different from that of the later fully evolved version of Lao Fu. That is to say, I personally think that once the soul of any age group is put into the Horcrux, then that The main tone and cognition of the soul's character will not change again.

Considering that Lucius got the old Voldemort's diary into Ginny's hands, it cannot be ruled out that Voldemort failed to kill Harry but failed himself. Lucius told the 16-year-old version of the young and beautiful old Voldemort.

Therefore, in my setting, Salazar at this time has not yet made the Hogwarts Chamber of Secrets as it is in the original book.So it is impossible to trigger the secret room line through the diary.

In short, you can regard him as a... omniscient and the worst... God's perspective bystander.

Also, because of Aurora's soul wear, the magic left by Salazar in the diary does not work on her [the biggest cheat in the full text is online], and this cheat will trigger a series of plots in the later stage.

Of course, based on this alone, Salazar will not stay in Aurora's hands forever, and there are other reasons.Slowly decompose later.

Finally, a warm welcome - Sa Dangdao is online.

This article is also called "How to Survive from the Snake Ancestor Snake King".You can make comments, but refuse to swear.thanks.Also, no climbing walls.

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