[HP] Butterfly Effect

Experience teaches that anything odd happens for a reason.It was not too late when Aurora realized this truth.

It was almost five o'clock in the afternoon, and Aurora was busy feeding the little ones.A strange owl flew in suddenly, delivered a letter to the counter, and curiously pecked at Salazar who was dozing leisurely on the diary.

Immediately afterwards, it screamed and was mercilessly knocked unconscious to the ground by Snake Ancestor.After finally turning over and getting up, the owl seemed to be still in a state of confusion, spreading its wings and spreading its feet and running around on the ground, as if it had completely forgotten that it could fly.

Aurora quickly put down the cat food box in her hand, picked up the owl, and stroked its fur.After the little thing recovered, he pecked at Aurora's fingers and flew away with flapping wings.

At this time, the letter suddenly jumped up from the counter, and said to Aurora: "Dear Miss Field, this is the Ministry of Magic (to be honest, when I heard these last two words, Aurora Almost scared to death). It is with our deepest concern that you be sure to come and attend a criminal trial that begins tomorrow.

We believe that you may not be aware of this, so please allow me to give you a brief introduction to the content of this criminal trial.About the cause of your father's death, and a professor at your school.

Later, our staff will come to pick you up and send you to the right place. I wish you a happy life.

Amelia Burns. "

After speaking, the letter self-destructed, leaving only scraps of paper on the ground.

Aurora froze on the spot and couldn't react. The brief introduction in the letter was too brief, right?A criminal trial about his own father and a professor?

And what about "our people will come and pick you up at a later date" and she's in a bad place right now?What are these and what?

Aurora felt completely confused by a letter from the Ministry of Magic, and she couldn't catch anyone around her to ask, because she was the only one here.

She stared at the pile of shredded papers on the floor for a while, then finally turned to get a cleaning tool to sweep them all together and dump them in the trash.At the same time, someone opened the door of the magic pet shop vigorously. The moment the person who came in saw Aurora, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief: "Merlin! It's great that you are still here. I thought you It's been picked up by the Ministry of Magic, Aurora."

Aurora looked at the other party in surprise, and subconsciously called out the other party's name: "Remus? You are Remus Lupine?!"

He took off the big, shabby hat that was ridiculously old, revealing his messy dark brown hair, and smiled gently at Aurora: "It's me, Aurora. It's been a long time since I saw you, you've grown so big gone."

"Remus!" Aurora was stunned for a moment, and then happily rushed over and hugged him tightly, "Why did you come here? I thought I could only see you in Hogsmeade after school started. To you. You've got a job at Hogsmeade, haven't you?"

Remus patted her head, smiled and said, "Yes, I've actually been working there for almost two weeks, but I've been too busy, so I haven't had time to write to you yet." , The relaxed expression on his face faded again: "Aurora, I came here for a reason. People from the Ministry of Magic will come at any time, so I have to make a long story short. Have you read the Daily Prophet these days?"

"My father's matter, right?" Aurora looked at him, a little puzzled, "But didn't it end a few months ago?"

Remus shook his head, leaned down to look into Aurora's eyes, and said, "Not yet, tomorrow's trial is the final one, and it's really over when it's over this time. Listen, Aurora, in our world, there are A criminal law is like this. It stipulates that when the case cannot achieve a definite breakthrough and progress, the detention of the defendant depends on the will of the plaintiff and his family.”

"That is to say, in the case of certain credible evidence, the Ministry of Magic will choose whether to temporarily detain the defendant according to the wishes of the plaintiff or his family members, so as to ensure the uninterrupted progress of the case investigation and the safety of the plaintiff."

"And because each of our wizards is registered with the Ministry of Magic, our family members are also registered. When the Ministry of Magic was first established, the law stipulated that its rights came from the wishes of all wizards. When When we were registered, we agreed to give the Ministry of Magic the power to pursue criminals on our behalf in case of criminal cases."

"Of course at the same time, we have also transferred the power to detain the accused, which is why the Ministry of Magic has the power to directly detain wizards."

"This is a good thing, but your situation is a bit special. When your father, Edmund Field, joined the Order of the Phoenix, in order to prevent you and your mother from being implicated one day, so your information was removed from the magic According to this situation, the Ministry of Magic could have directly replaced the dead party to exercise power, but now you have appeared, which makes the Ministry of Magic have to consider your opinion. "

"The Ministry of Magic has no record of your information, so they can't make decisions for you by registering the transfer of power. But you are a student at Hogwarts, and they can't pretend they didn't see it, so they came to you .”

Remus finally concluded: "They need your agreement to suspend Severus Snape for investigation and temporarily detain him in Azkaban."

Aurora stared at him with wide eyes, opened her mouth, but couldn't say a word for a long time.The twilight in summer was still brilliant, but it no longer had any warm temperature in the daytime. When it was pressed against Aurora's face, it was so cold that it made people shiver.

Her hands were twisted together, her ten fingers and palms were covered with fine beads of sweat, sticky and uncomfortable.

"Are you okay?" Remus sighed, squatting down/body gently holding Aurora's arm, "Can you understand me, Aurora?"

After a while, Aurora finally regained her thinking, and murmured, "Is the person who wrote this law sick?"

Now it was Remus' turn to be stunned. He hadn't expected that Aurora's focus would be so biased, so he could only explain dumbfoundingly: "This is a political tactic. To put it bluntly, the Ministry of Magic is on this set." It is the same as the court in Muggle society, there is no difference in essence. The defendant is detained through evidence and law. But the Ministry of Magic has one more step to make its behavior more in line with the will of the public and democratization. This will make more wizards willing to obey it."

"Then what if there is another person like me, and she doesn't agree? Isn't the Ministry of Magic helpless?" Aurora asked.

Remus gave her a deep look: "Not yet. No one, whether Muggles or wizards, would refuse the proposal to lock up a suspect when it comes to their loved ones, especially when there are Certain evidence can prove that this person is the one to be arrested."

"The only possibility is that they reached an out-of-court settlement, and that's why the Ministry of Magic is coming to you right now."

Aurora didn't know what was going on, but suddenly remembered the Daily Prophet reporter who had been chasing her in the afternoon.She misinterpreted all her words to mean the exact opposite, and still refused to let go of the question of whether she had met Snape at all.

It seems that if he disagrees with the Ministry of Magic's proposal of imprisonment, then the Daily Prophet will probably be able to fabricate this non-existent "out-of-court settlement" as a fact.

but……

Aurora suddenly looked up at Remus, with a very perplexed look on his expression: "I thought you had a bad relationship with Professor Snape."

Remus' eyes flickered for a moment, and he didn't deny it: "That's true." "Then why..." Aurora nodded as if thinking of something in the middle of her sentence, "Professor Dumbledore asked you to come, Is it right?"

After all, it can be seen from what happened last time that Professor Dumbledore really defended Snape very much.

"Yes. You guessed it," Remus admitted, "but he just asked me to explain to you what's going on in advance, and didn't mean to put you against the Ministry of Magic. You know, maybe you When you arrive at the Ministry of Magic, you will hear a completely different explanation. The choice is still yours, Aurora."

She lowered her eyes, and then said: "I, I this afternoon..."

Before Aurora finished speaking, there was a knock on the door, and a deep and deep voice of a strange man: "Excuse me, is this Miss Aurora Field?"

"Yes." She looked up and answered.Remus stood up, and smiled slightly at the questioning eyes of the other party: "I am the guardian of this child, Remus Lupine."

"Oh, this is quite a new thing." After hearing this, the other party wrinkled his nose strangely, as if he was no stranger to Remus' name.Then he said to Aurora: "I believe you should have received the letter we sent you, so please come with us."

Aurora glanced at Remus, and walked out the door with him, stepping into the hazy yellow sunset light all over the ground.

……

This is a lonely hut located beside a forest road. Gray and white are the main color of the walls, and the roof is dark brown that is close to black.The back of the house is against the silent and lush temperate forest, and it faces a very wide asphalt road, which extends straight from the other side of the plain.

The night fell heavy and irresistible, slowly smoothing away the fine outlines of the distant peaks in the daytime, making it look like a vaguely colored mass before being swallowed up by the dense darkness.Then came the colorful blooms of the plain, the low bushes, and finally the road, and the whole view of Aurora.

The fireplace in the living room is connected to the Floo network by the Ministry of Magic, and can only go to the Ministry of Magic.

Remus came out of the kitchen with a freshly brewed pot of tea, and called the girl sitting on the balcony, "Stop sitting there, come over and have a cup of tea. I hope my tea-making skills aren't perfect yet." Throw it away."

Aurora jumped down, patted the dust off her skirt, sat on the sofa, held up her teacup: "If the Ministry of Magic still can't find any definite evidence to prove the crime, how long will this temporary detention order last? "

"A week." Remus looked at the girl whose face and eyes were blurred by the pale steam of hot tea, and replied, "After a week, the Ministry of Magic must release people until there is evidence to convict. Wizard prisons and Muggles Not the same, there is no such thing as bail.”

"That's it." Aurora nodded and said nothing, her eyes fell on the complicated carvings on the edge of the fireplace without focus.

Remus comforted her and said, "You must be under too much pressure. As long as he really didn't do anything, whether you agree with the Ministry of Magic's seizure proposal or not, it won't have any impact on the final result."

"Can I ask you a question?" Aurora suddenly turned to look at him and asked hesitantly.

"of course."

"Why do you have a bad relationship with Professor Snape?"

Remus was stunned for a moment, and put the empty teacup back on the table, then took it back and put it in his hand, looking at the patterns.

Projected in his dim eyes, those colorful lines quickly distorted into some weird patterns, making it impossible to understand what his expression was like: "That was a long time ago. At that time, I He is very cowardly and afraid of being excluded, so he did many things that he regrets. He is different, he doesn't seem to care whether he has friends at all, except..."

After saying this, his expression froze for a moment, and then quickly returned to normal.

"It's all in the past, Aurora." Remus smiled kindly at her, looking quite tired, and the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes have deepened a lot, "To be honest, I feel really sorry .There were things that I knew were wrong and I should have stood up to stop them, but I didn't because I was scared. I let a lot of things go wrong."

"So even though you have a bad relationship, you still promised Professor Dumbledore to come to me." Aurora nodded understandingly, and stopped asking about the past that the other party didn't want to talk about.

"I'm only here to explain to you the ins and outs of the whole thing objectively. No one can interfere with your choice." He tilted his head, a childish gesture.

"Then do you know why Professor Dumbledore trusts Professor Snape so much?"

After hearing this, Remus frowned slightly, sighed, shook his head, and refilled the teacup in his hand: "I really don't know about this. But I believe he has his own reasons, and I am willing to believe him Dumbledore is not a person who will take sides with others at will, he is very kind and used to put things on the bright side, which is true, but... this does not mean that he is easy to be deceived."

"On the contrary, I think almost no one can fool him. The difference is whether he exposes or not."

"I understand."

"Rest early, don't worry too much."

"You too."

……

Back in the room, Aurora opened Salazar's diary and told him all these things.Sara looked at it, but she didn't look very worried. He agreed with Remus's point of view, and felt that Aurora's opinion had almost negligible influence on this matter.

"They're just making excuses for what they did, and they're really ready to put your potions professor in prison at that time, and they won't change the ending just because of your consent." Snake Ancestor Use the tip of the tail to draw out the pleasing ER pattern, "It's useless to think too much."

"But I also met the people of the Daily Prophet this afternoon - that's a kind of newspaper in our day and age - and the process was a bit complicated, anyway, they made up some stuff. And I feel that if I don't agree with the magic Ministry’s opinion, then the Daily Prophet will report to the wizarding community in the whole of Britain, saying what..." Aurora thought about what Remus said, and then wrote, "A settlement out of court? I'm not sure if this kind of thing is against Illegal, but I feel there could be more serious consequences."

Salazar stared at her handwriting for a long time, and spat out the letter. His bright golden vertical pupils stared at the little girl with unknown meaning, and his narrow snake eyes were shining brightly: "It seems that you have already made a decision."

"What?" Aurora didn't respond, as if she had never followed the founder's thinking.

"You will not act according to the will of the Ministry of Magic." Salazar smiled slightly, and quickly wrote a series of words on the paper with the tip of his slender tail, "It seems that the trial tomorrow will be very interesting. I'll take it too."

Aurora almost vomited blood: "...he is the dean of your college." You still have the mentality that watching the excitement is not a big deal, is it really okay?

"Haven't you made up your mind?"

"Do I have it, why don't I know?"

"You might as well tell me what you're worried about first. Is it your decision that doesn't affect the final outcome at all, or is it the nonsense of the Daily Prophet that has a potentially worse impact on your professor?"

"..." Aurora read Salazar's words for a long time, and finally realized something was wrong, "Why do I think you speak strangely?"

Salazar sneered: "I think you're weird. Shouldn't normal people wonder if he was really the one who ordered to kill your father? You're fine, and you're worried about him."

"I'm just afraid that if it's not by then, I'll wrong him again. How embarrassing. I still have several years to study, and Potions is the subject I dread the most. And as you said, this matter has a lot to do with My father, I don't want any misunderstanding."

This reason sounds impeccable, but Snake Ancestor doesn't seem to buy Aurora's explanation very much. He has his own opinion: "It means that in your heart, you have tacitly agreed that this matter has nothing to do with him."

Aurora suddenly had the urge to stuff this diary into the shredder, and the firm tone of the other party made her a little inexplicably anxious, almost instinctively wanting to deny it: "Why do I feel that you said something? The way it's like you've known me for decades? Who are you seeing me as?"

Words are magical.

Don't know who ever said that.

And now, it's almost like a curse.

The moment Aurora finished writing this sentence, Salazar's demeanor changed.A dark and terrifying look shattered his previous lazy look, the golden eyes were as dazzling as the midday sun, stripped of all the warmth, leaving only the icy brilliance that hurt your eyes and nerves.

He is simply more changeable than the weather in England, and instead of continuous rain, it is stormy.

For some reason, Aurora felt that the paper snake would come out of the diary in a second, tear open her flesh and eat her alive.This feeling was more depressing than being surrounded by the group of red snakes, as if the surrounding darkness and silence had suddenly gained weight, and they all weighed on her.

"Is it difficult to know what you're thinking?" Salazar's handwriting became sharp and thick black, almost breaking free from the shackles of the page, as if cutting the pen on Aurora's skin, just looking at it Just trembling with fear, "Or do you want to say something else?"

"...No, I just think it's incredible that you know me so well."

"Believe that your tomorrow will be even more incredible, am I right?"

After closing the diary with a snap, it got into the satchel and disappeared.

Aurora tried to call out to him, but there was no response.

It seemed that he really pissed him off.What an unlucky day.

It would be the same tomorrow, she was sure.

The author has something to say:

The law is made up by me, but loving you is true.Good afternoon babes.

The disconnected professor will appear in the next chapter.

Take your time, feeling the trust and attention of your professor is like eating mustard and peeling an onion...