[HP] Butterfly Effect

As the prefect said, after nearly two weeks of continuous rain, the sky finally showed some signs of clearing up.After Kreacher returned to Hogwarts with Regulus, he went to work in the kitchen. It is said that he had a lot of friction with Adara, the elf in charge of Stove No. [-].

Students who sneak into the kitchen to eat often see the two of them waving pans at each other, competing among a group of elves.Although Aidara is a girl, she does not lose her momentum at all. I heard that she is older than many Hogwarts professors.It's just that her sense of direction is not very good. If the distance is a little farther, Aidara's apparition will not work very well. Nine times out of ten, she gets lost, and one time she just circles in place.

Time slipped into October when the temperature was gradually cooling down, and Aurora's life after returning from that trip to Hogsmeade began to become extremely ordinary and regular.The good news is that she has now moved away from the center of the topic, and more interesting things have grabbed the attention of the students.The bad news is that Salazar's diary has been taken away by Dumbledore for a while, and Aurora has never known the follow-up result.

During this period of time, she never met Dumbledore, but she saw Snape almost every day, but she didn't have the courage to ask their Potions Master directly.

Habits are terrible things, especially when things related to this habit cannot be avoided.Many times when Aurora opened the Potions textbook, she would reach for the familiar old diary in her satchel very naturally, only then would she remember that it was no longer there, and an inexplicable sense of loss always lingered in her heart.

This feeling is like suddenly losing contact with a very familiar friend, and when I think of it, clear regret and nostalgia will spread.

But every time Aurora thought of Salazar this way, she also thought of what Snape had said to her.Recently, because he would even think about his mind in Potions class, he has been caught and sent to detention several times. Fortunately, he has not deducted Hufflepuff points every time. This is the most recent time. Most thankfully.

But to be honest, Snape's face became uglier every time.

On weekends, Aurora stayed in the library to write a dissertation on Potions. She searched for information and wrote carefully as usual, instead of trying to find a way to fill up her level to what it was when Salazar instructed her.However, the effect of his remedial lessons is still there, which can save Aurora from spending too much energy on constantly flipping through the secretary's notes when writing a thesis.

But what was unexpected was that after the Potions thesis was handed in this time, all the other students received the corrected and completed thesis and their grades very quickly, only Aurora did not.As for this phenomenon, Snape didn't seem to notice it, he neither ignored Aurora's question nor pretended not to see her raised hand.

Then Aurora tactfully stopped asking him. When he wanted to find him, he would naturally come, and she was the one who couldn't find him.The idea was a bit subtle, and it made Aurora a little uncomfortable every time she thought about it.She felt as if she had developed a similar but completely different feeling for her professor to Remus and Sirius.

She's been trying not to think about it lately.

It must have been a horrible experience in the Gryffindor lounge last time, so I had such hallucinations, it must be so.

Thinking of this, Aurora cut off her thoughts indiscriminately, threw the prepared potion ingredients into the crucible in front of her, and began to prepare to add the freshly ground herbal powder.

"I'm assuming you're planning to throw in powdered fang geranium roots instead of sour chestnut pods?" Snape's cold, low voice suddenly slipped into his ears.He had just finished instructing a Slytherin on making potions, and then turned his head to see Aurora. After she looked up, Snape continued: "I have to admit that this method was quite useful hundreds of years ago, but Since the fang geranium entered the period of artificial grafting, the drastic change in the living environment has made them no longer have the medicinal properties to replace the sour chestnut pod."

Aurora looked at the other party. Although she knew that Snape's Legilimency would not be useful to her, the pressure in his eyes still made it difficult to look at him calmly.At least Aurora couldn't do it, she would feel panicked.

"I'm curious how you came up with this long-outdated method, your new invention?" He asked, but in all fairness, there was no doubt about asking questions, but a certainty of grabbing the bag.

There was a burst of low laughter in the classroom, and Aurora put down the potion in her hand: "I think I misremembered the steps, Professor, I'm sorry."

"Should I praise you for being able to connect with hundreds of years ago even though your memory is chaotic?" Snape finished speaking, turned and walked to the podium.

get out of class was over soon, and Aurora packed her things and was about to leave, but Snape stopped her: "Aren't you going to see your paper grades, Field?"

Aurora had already reached the last step of the classroom. After hearing this, she turned her head and looked at Snape across the classroom, "Of course, Professor."

Following the other party all the way to his office, Aurora found that it was as dark as ever, even though it was sunny outside.It seemed that Snape really hated everything related to warmth and cheerfulness. Every window in his office was closed tightly, dutifully blocking out the overheated light.The house smelled strongly of bitter potions, as well as the smell of rotting wood from aging furniture.

Aurora was even a little out of breath when she first came in, and after holding back for a long time, she opened her mouth and coughed when Snape asked her about the last Potions paper.So embarrassing, she thought.

Snape looked at her, and with a wave of his wand, he half-opened one of the windows.The sunlight was like shining thorns tearing through the darkness of the abyss, squeezing in with a gesture that could not be ignored, and the end of the light just reached Aurora's ankle.

She stood on the dividing line between light and shadow, half brilliant and half dark.

"You mentioned the properties of some ancient potion plants in several places in this paper. I think Mr. Slytherin told you?" Snape sat on the chair with his hands They held each other across the void, their eyes were indescribably sharp in such a gray environment, "After all, in the era when the founder Mr., those potion materials still kept what you wrote. characteristic."

"Yes." Aurora confessed, it is really not wise to cover up this kind of matter with a lie, and it is even more wrong to lie to this person in front of her.

Snape raised his eyebrows, and pushed the revised thesis forward: "Then I think, let you take it back now and rewrite it according to my opinion and your own era and environment, It shouldn't be a problem? If you really listened to my class when you were in class."

"Okay." Aurora took the paper in her hand and turned it over a little bit. Indeed, several places were marked by the other party with bright red dragon's blood ink. As if still flowing, "Then when will I give it to you?"

Snape pointed to the empty potions classroom next door with his wand, and Aurora knew that he probably had to revise there until he was qualified before leaving.Hopefully Adara the elf will keep some pudding and bread for herself after she misses dinner - every Hufflepuff should know that maintaining good relations with house elves in the kitchen is very necessary.

She kept revising in the classroom until dark night, while Snape was grading homework and brewing potions next door. After Aurora repeatedly confirmed that there were basically no problems with her thesis, Snape finally agreed with her to leave.Of course, this still included the result of her courageously knocking on Snape's office door a dozen times to ask for advice.

When Snape said "yes", Aurora subconsciously looked at her pocket watch - 08:30, sooner than she thought.

She breathed a sigh of relief.

“Hopefully next time you learn to sift through the information you get and identify what you should know, rather than just accepting it all,” he said.The dark pupils were behind the light green smoke floating from the potion brewing, and the eyes could not be seen clearly, only a kind of cold sharpness could be felt.

Aurora heard that this was a warning with a hint, and it seemed that the other party felt that her behavior of cheating in private meant that she could recklessly attend class and not listen.But she really didn't dare to swear by the Hogwarts school badge.

"I understand Professor, thank you." After Aurora finished speaking, she left the office with the paper.

The potion took shape, Snape extinguished the flame under the cauldron, pulled out a paper from a drawer, and walked towards the headmaster's office.

Dumbledore met him on the open-air balcony outside the headmaster, and the two of them just stood and chatted.

After a quick look at the paper in his hand, Dumbledore raised his glasses habitually: "Do you think this paper on black magic creatures written by Aurora is related to the legend of the Chamber of Secrets?"

"Otherwise I can't understand why she chose a theoretically extinct creature for her thesis," Snape replied, "and she went to the library to look up this creature before I assigned this thesis."

It doesn't make sense for a girl who can be scared like that by a few red Mangulas whistle snakes to choose the basilisk as the topic of the paper for no special reason, right?

"Maybe she did notice something." Dumbledore closed the paper in his hand, turned slightly to face Snape, "My conversation with Mr. Slytherin hasn't progressed much these days, neither of us is the kind Let the other side take the talker. Unfortunately, I was not able to get any useful information from him."

Snape watched him for a while, and found that even though the situation was completely out of his control, the emotional color displayed by Dumbledore was still very weak, and he was as incomprehensible as his legendary experience.

Sensing that the other party was waiting for him to continue, Snape quickly suppressed other thoughts in his mind, and replied: "Field looks the same as usual."

In addition to sometimes being distracted in class.Also, no matter what Salazar had taught her, Snape hadn't managed to Legilimency her once.This phenomenon annoyed him, and he instinctively felt that this matter might not be as simple as it seemed.

Dumbledore sighed: "This is what worries me the most. Without the influence of the Horcrux, the more she behaves the same as before, the more worried I am."

"Are you afraid that she hasn't got rid of the influence of the Horcrux at all?"

"I'm afraid that she has never been affected by Horcruxes at all."

Snape looked at him rather surprised, and then heard Dumbledore say in a very illusory tone: "Don't you think so? I never thought that Slytherin's Horcrux was brought back to Huo by Aurora. Gewartz is a strange thing, and as long as it exists, it will be someone else if not Aurora. Let's just say the kid is unlucky."

"But the situation looks more like it now." Snape understood, "Why her."

"At first I thought that Aurora was a chosen medium, and she didn't meet the conditions for opening the Chamber of Secrets in the legend. Of course, if it was Slytherin himself, it didn't matter whether the sign met the conditions. But for more than a year, The school is so peaceful, I don’t know what he is waiting for. Or, why he stays in Aurora’s hands, it’s clear that there are enough conditions to open the secret room.”

"You think his goal is not the Chamber of Secrets, but Field?" Snape frowned.

"I can't say that. I just feel that there must be something about this child that we have overlooked, but it is valued by the founder."

After saying this, Dumbledore suddenly turned his head and asked Snape with a half-joking smile: "If it were you, what would you notice about her first?"

Snape's face twisted in the other party's kind smile, and then replied with a cold face and voice: "From the perspective of her professor, I think there is nothing more worthy of people than her ability to step on the line." Pay attention."

After hearing this, Dumbledore smiled slightly: "I thought you always lacked a sense of humor, Severus. It seems I was wrong."

That's no sense of humor!Snape nearly rolled his eyes, but held back.

After a while, he replied: "Her talent."

"Indeed. I thought about it too, but it's not a good reason. And I don't have a clue what this ability is for him." Dumbledore said, shaking the paper in his hand , "But there is one thing, that is, what you showed me is enough to prove that Aurora has never been affected by Horcruxes from the beginning to the end."

"If she was really the one chosen by Salazar Slytherin to open the Chamber of Secrets, she wouldn't have handed in this paper. If I remember correctly, the Horcrux was still in her hands at that time, yes ?"

"Yes."

Dumbledore nodded, and then said: "I think she realized something herself, so she went to inquire about the information, and finally gave it to you. Maybe...she knew something, but she was just not sure if it was Really. She looks like she's testing something like this, doesn't she?"

It seems that the last Ministry of Magic incident changed the old headmaster's view of Aurora a lot, Snape thought to himself.Although he didn't think that Aurora would really think of the complexity and profoundness that Dumbledore thought, he also felt that this girl should have discovered something.

"You think she knows nothing about the purpose of the Chamber of Secrets and Horcruxes?"

"It's not just her, Severus, we are too. But since the Horcrux didn't affect her, it's impossible for her to know too much. It's not safe for him, and he will never let it go." A man who knows too much of himself doesn't care. It's almost impossible for us to get answers from Aurora."

So the question goes back to the beginning, why this girl, and why didn't Salazar Slytherin's Horcrux harm or control her?

Of course, it seemed that Aurora knew nothing about the secret of this Horcrux, but this phenomenon itself was very strange.There must be some reason why she wasn't treated like everyone else by the Horcruxes.

But in Hogwarts, there are too few records about Salazar Slytherin.

Snape was still thinking about it, but was interrupted by Dumbledore's words: "I may have to go out soon, and Aurora's child will be left to you."

"Yeah." He agreed, then realized he seemed to have agreed a little too soon.

On an autumn night in October, the sky was as black and low as cast iron, and there was not a single star shining on the thick clouds.

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An update from sitting like a dog in an airport...

I am so comfortable that I can’t fall asleep in the hotel, I am so happy all night! !

After landing, I slept and got up to reply to comments, and the bubbling cuties kissed one by one.

In the end, all the snake ancestors and egg tarts climbed down for me! ! !This is impossible, Snake Zu hates egg tarts so much! ! !hum! ! !