[HP] Butterfly Effect

Salazar was right, it can be difficult not to look someone in the eye, especially if that person is your Potions Master.

Potions for Hufflepuff and Slytherin third years were scheduled for the last two lessons on Friday, and there was only Potions on that day.In Aurora's view, this is simply the darkness before dawn.As a result, she has further confirmed her title of "the nail in the corner of potions class". Her seat and Snape's podium are always measuring the diagonal distance of the classroom.

After the love letter incident last time, Aurora once again felt that Hogwarts had no secrets.And just as she imagined, the news first spread from among the students, and then among the professors.

When Professor Sprout first mentioned this to Aurora, Aurora had a sad feeling that she would soon be called to the principal's office for tea.She was almost imitating the bleak scene of herself clutching School Deng's wizard robe, crying bitterly and begging him to let her finish school.The worst thing is that if facing Dumbledore, Aurora has no chance of lying, only to bite the bullet and say that she really doesn't know anything.

After all, coming to another strange world for no reason, and then turning into another person by mistake, sounds like a lunatic.She didn't want to be locked up in the upper echelons of St. Mungo's like a madman, with wizards who had been enchanted to cause permanent mental damage.

However, Professor Sprout said that Principal Dumbledore went out due to some things some time ago, so he is not in the school for the time being.

However, this did not relieve Aurora's mood. She is now nervous when Friday arrives, and she can only breathe a sigh of relief when she sits at the Friday dinner table.

Salazar tried to plant some false memories into Aurora's mind to cover it up, so that even after being instigmatized, she would not immediately find out that she was unusual.It's a pity that this method was very unsuccessful. Her mental power was like a barrier, which couldn't be pushed in or taken out.

And she didn't know if it was her own illusion, Aurora always felt that just like what Salazar said, Snape had vaguely noticed something.Except when she was in class, she was always lying on the table and writing, and suddenly found that the black figure stood next to her at some point, and the number of times she ran into Snape in the castle recently was a bit weird many.

If this continued, Aurora felt that she was going to have a myocardial infarction.

Another Friday afternoon, after Potions class was over, Aurora was the first to rush out of the classroom with her books in her arms and came to the dining room.Tonks, who also just finished class, walked in, and naturally sat next to Aurora and chatted with her.

Halfway through the meal, Tonks suddenly looked in the direction of the teacher's seat, and said in a very strange tone: "Professor Snape seems to be looking at you all the time."

Aurora's hand trembled, and the noodles that had just been forked fell down again.She paused, then continued to fork the noodles without looking up: "Really? I think he might be looking at you. I heard that your Potions class is better than many Slytherins in the same grade, It's up to you to give us Hufflepuff faces."

"I haven't watched it now." Tonks bit a bagel and said vaguely, "I heard from them that you have become a talking point in school recently. Everyone's assumption was that maybe from now on, Professor Spinney would be special. Pay attention to you, but it seems that this is not the case now."

Aurora rolled her eyes and looked at her: "It's good to pay special attention to it. I promise I don't mind whoever comes to change it with me."

Tonks smiled, and digging the creme brulee in front of him with a small spoon, he said, "By the way, have you asked Professor Spinney why your Boggart is blank?"

Aurora lied, she found herself doing this kind of thing more and more smoothly now.Like every time she was asked about the blank Boggart before, she also blamed this phenomenon on her own talent this time, so the Boggart didn't conjure something that frightened her, not that she couldn't conjure it.

You must know that although the results are all blank, the difference between not being changed and not being changed is quite different.

I hope that a more impactful topic will come out soon to weaken my sense of existence. Aurora grabbed the mashed potatoes in front of him and made a wish devoutly.

……

The early morning of Saturday began with a thick pale fog. When I sat in the garden on the first floor at 07:30, I couldn't even look up the Gryffindor tower that was clearly visible in the past.

Today was the first time that the students who had just entered the third grade went to Hogsmeade collectively, and everyone basically woke up early to wait for the departure together.

Snape returned all the books he had borrowed from the library. Just as he thought, there was no written record in the books that if he had the talent to easily tame magical creatures, he would be unaffected by Boggarts. .

At least not in the books written by Newt and Helga Hufflepuff.And they were the only two people with this talent before Aurora.

He thought of the notebook that Aurora always carried around, although there was only a vague fluctuation of black magic when he saw it for the first time, but Snape never thought it was his own illusion.And the last time in the forest, when Aurora was surrounded by the group of red snakes, he did hear something, a very soft voice, it was a person talking, but he couldn't make out whether it was a man or a woman and what he was talking about .

These things should be related.

Thinking of this, Snape walked back to the cellar and opened the door, preparing to process and brew the potion ingredients he had found from the Argert Forest last time.

A crisp and gentle cry came from outside the window, Snape pointed the wand in his hand at the window, and opened it from the air.The flaming phoenix was standing on the window sill with its wings folded, holding a letter in its mouth, and staring at the Potions Master in front of it with jewel-like eyes.

Dumbledore didn't use Fox to deliver letters. The last time he asked him to deliver letters was when Dumbledore formally wrote a letter and decided to start trusting himself.What is it for again this time?

Snape took the letter and opened it, and on the parchment there was only a short sentence written in peacock blue ink - "I hope receiving this letter has not changed your plans for the weekend".

Looks like Dumbledore's investigation has come to fruition.He returned two words to Fox - "Of course not".

Not long after Phoenix flew away with the card, there was a knock on the door.Snape lifted the lid of the glass jar in front of him with the Mangulas whistle, looked at the door and said, "Please come in."

Beverly came in from the door holding two pots of lush Mandrakes: "When I went to the greenhouse just now, Professor Sprout said that you asked if there were any mature Mandrakes, so she asked I'll send it to you."

"Put it there." Snape raised his chin towards the corner of the potions cabinet.Beverly did as she did, and turned to leave, but was suddenly stopped by Snape: "I heard you've been going to that empty bathroom lately?"

"Yes." Beverly froze for a moment, and then replied honestly, "I will go there when Aurora and I brew potions together, because no one will disturb you."

"Didn't it implicate you because the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor is too popular?" Snape said coldly, the tail whistle in his hand was crushed into a powder and thrown into the side, and thick white water just emerged In the crucible of steam.He didn't understand what Dumbledore was thinking. He would rather have an amnesiac who couldn't even figure out what happened to him as a professor than agree to his application.

He still remembered that in the other party's reply letter to him, the reason for the refusal given was "It is difficult to find another excellent Potions professor like you".A cunning way to confuse audiovisuals, a typical smile hides a knife.

Beverly opened her mouth and admitted, "I'm for this reason. Aurora is for something else."

"What else?"

"Since Professor Keitel said that she has the same talent as Newt, many people think that she can get their lost pet cat back by just standing still and shouting. And many people believe it. Beverly said a little helplessly, "but it's obviously not the case."

The corners of Snape's eyes twitched, and he skillfully handled the half-cleaned wood hemlock, squeezed out the juice and mixed it with the petals of the dragon's claw flower: "It seems that I was wrong. I thought it was because Bo Gert's reason."

"Yes. After all, she has been chased and asked such questions too many times recently."

"Is she afraid of being asked why it's blank?"

"Is it because I'm not used to it? Aurora herself doesn't know the reason."

"Then why did she tell others that it was because of her talent?"

"This..." Beverly thought for a while, "Maybe she just doesn't want to be questioned anymore, she doesn't like being discussed by too many people."

Snape poured the final concocted herbal juice into the cauldron, and a large hazel mist covered his face: "You can go back."

"Goodbye, Professor." After Beverly finished speaking, she turned and left.

Snape slowly stirred the potion in the cauldron, feeling that what Beverly just said was right, Aurora really didn't want to be questioned any more, but it wasn't because she didn't know.On the contrary, Snape felt that she knew the reason all too well, so she didn't want to be asked.

He stared at the potion with viscous bubbles in front of him, and his breath was full of a special bitter taste from the potion in front of him.The young unicorn horn was still in his potion cabinet. Looking at the brilliant gold, Snape thought of the dreamy color of the other's long hair in the sun for no reason.

And the scene where she defends herself in front of the entire Ministry of Magic in a seemingly neutral manner.

In fact, Snape had been thinking about a problem since then.

What the hell is she thinking?

……

It's a disaster.

Aurora followed Vox and Bill, and ran quickly on the streets of Hogsmeade. The dark night sky above her head was dotted with colorful magic fireworks, like a black forbidden land in full bloom in an instant.

The chaotic sparks fell down, and when they touched objects, they turned into clusters of colored foam and stuck to their bodies.The prank-making firework foam is hard to clean up, and Aurora is careful to avoid it all the way.

Today is Hogsmeade's holiday.

It was past eleven o'clock in the evening, and Hogwarts' curfew had passed long ago.Aurora and the others, like many other students, came to Hogsmeade for the first time, so they got carried away with fun. Even though Remus reminded them repeatedly that they had to go back to school on time, they still perfectly missed the deadline for returning to school. time.

Fortunately, the train hadn't left yet, and Aurora and the others finally caught up with the last bus back to school.

"We are dead. I heard that Filch is waiting for us late students at the school gate at this time." Vox covered his face. "He probably even thought about where to send us to be punished."

Bill agreed, and made his own speculation by the way: "Maybe it's to clean up the entire Quidditch arena, and magic is not allowed." "It may also be to clean up his office, which is similar to a prison cell, for him." Vaux added.

"It is said that he also likes to drive students into the Forbidden Forest." Bill nodded.

Aurora didn't have much feeling for the Forbidden Forest, she had been there too many times, if she went there, she thought it would be a good punishment.

"I heard from Sur Garcia that he has a good relationship with Professor Snape, or we will be sent to Professor Snape." Vox's tone sounded more sad.Every Gryffindor has a psychological shadow on the head of Slytherin, which is too normal.

Aurora let out an ah when she heard this, feeling that she was going to panic and the problem was serious.

"Does our school have a back door?" Aurora joined their conversation, "Or can we go in through the back door?" That's the question to ask Salazar in her backpack, and I hope Hogwarts hasn't had it for more than 1000 years. Any big changes would be nice.

"I heard that some parts of the school are connected to Hogsmeade, and there are many secret passages." Bill said, "But we have all left Hogsmeade now, and we don't know where those secret passages are. "

"Or we should really find some other way to get in." Vox rubbed his chin and stared at the roof of the car above his head.

Bill said with a headache: "There are too many protective magics around Hogwarts. In my father's words, our school is safer than Gringotts, and it is difficult to get in."

"We can't go through the gate, nor can we go through the underground tunnel. Are we really going to be caught by Filch and punished?" Vaux sighed.

"It would be great if we had a broomstick. We can go in from the air and go directly to our dormitory, as long as we are fast enough." Bill said, lying on the back of the seat.

"I don't like brooms," Vox muttered.

"Although we don't have a broom." Aurora smiled suddenly, her warm brown eyes curved, "but we have coffee beans. Let's go in from the air, directly to your Gryffindor tower."

"Coffee beans?!"

After getting off the train, the three children slipped all the way into the Forbidden Forest.Aurora blew a crisp whistle, and the coffee beans quickly ran out from the depths of the Forbidden Forest with flapping wings, and rubbed the girl's face affectionately.

"Let's go, the coffee beans will take us around the back of the castle to the Gryffindor tower." Aurora turned around after speaking, and saw the two companions behind her looking at him with very strange eyes.

Bill's eyes widened: "Why didn't I see anything?"

Vox is better than him because of an experience: "Are we really going to go back in a creature that can't be seen at all?"

"There is no other way, Xuankong or Filch, what do you think?"

The two little lions looked at each other and immediately chose the former.How could such a trivial thing as flying in the air stump the brave and fearless Gryffindor.

Thestrals are natural stalkers, making almost no sound when flying through the air, and they are extremely fast.The three children climbed in through Vox's bedroom window on the backs of thestrals, and escaped the fate of being caught by Filch.

Aurora patted the coffee bean's head and let it go back to the forbidden forest.

"Merlin! We're finally here!" Vox breathed a sigh of relief, and then looked at Aurora again, "But what should you do, Hufflepuff is quite far from us, and you might meet a night-watching professor along the way."

"So you better wish me luck." Aurora replied softly, putting on the hood of the cheese yellow hoodie she was wearing.

"Let's take you home." Vox was a little worried that she was alone. "Then you are not afraid to come back and meet the professor who watches the night?" Aurora shook her head, "I'll just go back by myself."

Bill looked back at his sleeping roommate, and said in a low voice, "Let's take you out of the lounge, those stairs outside the door are really annoying."

"No, I'm fine, you guys rest first. I'm leaving." After speaking, Aurora waved to them, and quickly flashed out of the room.

In the end, Vox and Bill sent Aurora out of the Gryffindor lounge, and then told her to run back quickly. The interval between the stairs was very short, and then they went back under Aurora's assurance and urging.After walking out, the front was suddenly dark.Aurora touched forward tentatively, and finally cast a fluorescent flash with her wand to illuminate it.She saw that she was standing on the highest flight of stairs, looking down because of the limited light source, she could hardly see the bottom, like a black hole.

Some portraits around who were disturbed by the light woke up in a daze, and said to Aurora angrily: "Hey! Put down your wand, how can you sleep when it's too bright?"

"Sorry, I'll be leaving soon." Aurora apologized in a low voice, pulled her collar higher, only her eyes were exposed, and walked quickly down the stairs.

The hard soles made a muffled sound as they knocked against the old stone steps. Aurora paused for a while, then simply took off the shoes and tied them together with the laces, then held them in her hands, and ran downstairs silently in her socks. .

At this time, a hoarse old sharp man's voice came from the wooden door connected by one of the stairs: "Hey, stop! I knew there must be many students in Gryffindor who didn't know how to abide by their duties, stop for me !"

It's Filch.

Aurora was startled, and quickly ran forward without looking back.As soon as she turned to another direction along the stairs, the stairs behind her began to separate and turn. In just ten seconds or so, the structure of the stairs in the entire space changed, and Filch was driven by the stairs to another place in a panic.He glared at Aurora angrily, but couldn't come over and grab her.

Filch warned her sinisterly, with a fierce look on his face: "I will wait for you here, unless you want to spend the night in the corridor tonight, otherwise I will definitely catch you!"

Then you might actually spend the night here tonight.Aurora thought sympathetically, she wasn't a Gryffindor at all to come back.

The re-transformed staircase opened a path leading directly to the castle corridor in front of Aurora, and she ran down happily, not intending to answer Filch's curses at all.

I'm really lucky tonight...

No wonder! ! !

Aurora was halfway down the stairs when she suddenly saw in horror that Snape was coming out of the darkness around the corner of the corridor. The pale light from the wand tore through the shadows in the castle and pierced her vision like a sharp knife. .

She nearly tumbled down the stairs without a trace, falling straight in front of Snape and surrendering herself.

It's like a midnight horror movie.

Aurora hurriedly took back the fluorescent spell, ran back stumblingly, and hid in the corner of the fence of the stairs and curled up into a ball.The whole space fell into a thick darkness again, only the lantern in Filch's hand was still lit with a hazy yellow light.

"Professor Snape!" Filch raised the lantern in his hand, and shouted the other person's name, regardless of the awakened portraits around him telling him to shut up angrily, "here is a guy who ran out in the middle of the night. Lanffindor student!"

Aurora pressed her forehead against the fence made of rough stone, thinking in her heart that if she jumped down from here with her eyes closed, would she be smashed into a pancake? , why jump off a building, is it not good to live?Anyway, it's not the first time I've been deducted points.

It seemed that the scene where she had imagined pulling Principal Dumbledore's robe countless times and begging the other party not to fire her hadn't come true. She had to pull Snape's robe and confess her mistake tearfully.

The problem was, Aurora didn't think Snape would buy into it.Let her impress the potions master with tears and showing weakness, it is better to let her pry the earth with a toothpick.

Merlin, who can come and save her.

After listening to Filch's words, Snape raised his eyebrows, illuminated his surroundings with his wand, and then walked up the stairs in front of him, the bright fluorescent lights gradually squeezed away the shadows entrenched in front of him.

Aurora crouched in the corner and bit the back of her hand, feeling as if a knife was hanging around her neck, she was almost out of breath.She tightly grasped the cloth bag in her bosom, buried her head on it, and stuck the cover of the diary through the cloth, her voice was as soft as a weightless silk thread floating in the air: "Please..."

Please help her, it doesn't matter whether it makes this staircase explode suddenly on the spot or it rains snakes overhead, as long as you can get out of here as soon as possible.

"Tsk."

Aurora heard a soft and ethereal voice ringing in her ears impatiently, it was very pleasant and very light, as if she didn't use much effort.

Before she could react, a large piece of bright light enveloped her head like a tide, and the black soft robe fell to Aurora's feet——Snape had already stood beside her at some point.

Was... discovered!

She looked up and met a pair of dark eyes without warmth.