[HP] Butterfly Effect

Fox flapped his wings lightly and landed on the table in front of Aurora like a cloud of red. He watched her curiously with his crystal-clear eyes, and occasionally pecked at the girl's fingers with his golden beak.

Aurora touched Fox's flaming and dazzling feathers, and her eyes fell on the gray-blue sky outside the headmaster's room. A frosty and cold rain was brewing in the clouds above her head, and the wind that blew over had the unique strong woody smell of the Forbidden Forest. and low-temperature water vapor.

When Dumbledore and Snape walked in, Aurora was chatting with Regulus, and Fox was rubbing his head against the girl's fingers, looking very relaxed.The old principal raised his glasses and looked at Aurora with a smile: "It seems that you get along very well, I should have thought of it earlier."

Fox gave a quick cry and flew back to his golden perch.

"Professor, that room..."

"That room has been sealed, and no one else will be able to enter." Dumbledore said, sitting on his chair, looking at the blond girl in front of him with gentle and probing eyes, and pointed to the top of his head, " Aurora, look at them."

Aurora looked up in the direction Dumbledore pointed, and the flags of the four colleges were hanging quietly from the ceiling.Surrounding them is a circle of blooming four-winged evening primroses, and the slender and flexible flower branches stretch to cover most of the round roof of the principal's office.

She looked at it for a while, then looked down at Dumbledore again in puzzlement: "What do you want me to see, sir?"

"They, or it." Dumbledore pointed to the Hufflepuff house flag, crossed his fingers and said on the table, "In fact, they just got together. Before, no one The Headmaster has seen the Hufflepuff flag hang here to this day."

Aurora was stunned, and instinctively realized something: "Because, that room?"

He smiled and nodded.

At this time, Snape, who was sitting diagonally across from Aurora, suddenly said: "I hope you can still remember what kind of wish you made in the Room of Requirement, so that you fell into such a place hidden in Hogwarts. A room that no one has discovered for years."

Aurora ran her fingers through her long hair, messing with the curled ends and the tassels of the yellow and black scarf, and then used her fingers to pull them apart and smooth them: "We were discussing that scene, and it is said that the burning of Sarah Cham Slytherin and Helga Hufflepuff's almost complete manuscript conflagration. It just occurred to me that Mr. Slytherin hadn't told me about such a thing, and I would occasionally ask about the school, but no Listen to him talk about the fire."

"I was thinking about the question I had thought about many times before, why did that diary choose me. I thought, if the Room of Requirement can fulfill any wish of anyone, then maybe, he can answer my question too."

"Then, I was taken to that room." Aurora briefly described.

Snape looked at Aurora critically, his eyes were as sharp and precise as some kind of sharp instrument, capable of cutting through all lies and piercing the truth of the opponent's soul.He kept comparing the girl in front of him with the blond girl in that portrait, and finally had to admit that Dumbledore and his first impression were right.

They look very much alike, especially in their demeanor.

Dumbledore believes that this may explain why Salazar's Horcruxes did not attack Aurora.Because according to legend, Salazar and Helga knew each other much longer than they knew the other two founders.

It sounded reasonable, but Snape didn't accept it very smoothly. He always felt that there were many other doubts, which made him instinctively resist and doubt this conclusion.After all, he thought that some of the conjectures were too emotional and did not fit well with the Snake Ancestor that the Slytherin House had always believed in. There must be some other reason.

However, what he didn't know was that the Salazar in the diary was nothing more than a young man at the right age.

He just habitually doubts.

At this time, Dumbledore suddenly opened his mouth and brought the topic to a direction that seemed inexplicable to Aurora: "Christmas is next month, although it's a bit too early to ask, but do you plan to go home?"

Aurora didn't understand what it had to do with the topic just now, but she still replied: "I shouldn't go home, and there is no one else at home when I go back. But I heard that Bill's father, Weasley Mister and Vaux have made an appointment to go to central London for Christmas. Mr. Weasley is very interested in many things in Muggle society. His family gave us a warm reception last Christmas, so I think I'll go with them."

The old headmaster nodded, "But over the years, no relative of your parents has visited you?"

"Not a single one, sir." Otherwise it wouldn't be Remus Lupine on the guardian signature column in Hogsmeade.

"Your mother didn't have any?"

"Never met or heard from my mother that she has family."

Dumbledore nodded thoughtfully, then smiled gently: "You are always welcome at Hogwarts, this is your home."

Aurora scratched the few strands of bangs hanging down her forehead, and smiled a little embarrassedly: "Thank you, Professor. I like this place very much."

"Go, today is the weekend, it's too boring to sit here all the time, isn't it?"

"Then I'll go first, goodbye, professor."

After leaving the principal's office, it was already lunch time.Aurora followed the crowd to the restaurant, and saw Tonks who was stretching his neck to look around the door from a long distance, then smiled and waved and ran over to sit beside her.

"Today's hair color is beautiful, bubblegum pink." Aurora said, pinching a strand of curly hair.Tonks smiled brightly, and put Aurora's favorite gin-and-gin rabbit stew in front of her: "Just come back, now, look at that table in Gryffindor."

Aurora cut off a piece of meat and stuffed it into her mouth, then raised the pumpkin juice in front of her and shook it at Vaux and Charlie, indicating that she was fine.

Sitting at the long Slytherin table, Beverly was relieved to see Aurora back.

After dinner, the mates met in Hagrid's hut.Aurora drew out her wand very skillfully and cast a spell on the rock cakes that Hagrid served, and the biscuits immediately became fluffy and delicious, with flavors ranging from traditional vanilla ginger tea to tropical berries.

Blueberry Jam flew to the farm to hunt, followed by a group of magical creatures swarming up and waiting to pick up the leftovers. This has become a tacit understanding between them.

Vox took a sip of the strong tea in his cup and said, "So you don't know who owns that room now, right? Strange, why did Rowena and Godric make up a lie about this matter?"

"Maybe they don't want others to discover the manuscripts of Salazar and Helga? But it shouldn't be, what can't be discovered?" Bill frowned, and waved away those who fell from the overhead chandelier fine dust.

Beverly's mood was much calmer, and she asked: "What did Professor Dumbledore say?" Aurora shrugged and replied: "He said that no one is allowed to enter that room, and it has been sealed off. After all, they don't know whose room it is."

"That's it."

Vox sighed, propped his face with his hands, and stirred the strong tea in the cup with a spoon in the other hand, and said with infinite regret: "That's a pity, and I don't know what secrets are hidden in it. You said that you got involved because you wished to know the truth about the fire, maybe there really are these mysteries hidden in it..."

Beverly sensed his intentions, and glanced at the brown-haired boy beside her with half-lidded eyelids, her voice was clear and cold: "Do you still think your Gryffindors don't deduct enough points?"

Recalling Professor McGonagall's expression when he saw the Gryffindor scores two days ago, Vox immediately shut up and took a sip from his teacup.Bill looked at the two men, shook his head and smiled.

"Anyway, these things are out of our control now." After Aurora finished speaking, she stood up and walked to the window, reaching out to catch the blueberry jam that happily threw herself into her arms after hunting, as if hugging a Bouquet of blooming Mediterranean bluebells.

Her eyes fell on the flames in the fireplace in Hagrid's cabin, and she suddenly remembered the sparks in the fireplace in the Room of Requirement.

If there really was an answer to my wish in that room, what would it be?

Professor Dumbledore said that the Hufflepuff flag in the headmaster's room only appeared today. Does that mean... that room may have been where Helga lived before?

And the monster hiding behind the snake-carved stone door, can't wait to break in.

Salazar's diary.

None of this is a coincidence, there is a reason.

The cold wind blew in, and Aurora suddenly felt that these things entangled herself like an intricate net, and she had no clue at all.

……

It was nearly a month before Snape received another letter from Dumbledore.

"Look at this," said Dumbledore, handing the book towards Snape.

The principal's room was as bright as ever, with the sweet scent of tea floating in the air.

Opening the old cloth-bound diary in his hand, a stick of blue sage used for incense slipped into Snape's palm.The spell made the rich and deep blue-purple still bloom vigorously on the petals, unaffected by light and darkness, he saw the first page read: "Now, let's see what's here.

Fog, forest, snow, river, and a boy who suddenly appeared..."

The past and time are intertwined on the fragile brown parchment, and the story that has been dusty for thousands of years is still as flexible and gentle as the sunny Thames.

In the past half a month, Dumbledore has roughly flipped through many books in that room, and probably knew that the room that was disguised as if someone would come back at any time should belong to Helga Hufflepuff Odd.A good portion of her and Salazar's manuscripts are included there, but still not all.

At least there is no problem with the writings, but the biographical records are still a gap.No one knows exactly what happened in the first place, why Rowena and Godric lied, why the books were hidden here, why the room had been hidden all along.

The diary written by Helga himself in the early years in Snape's hand is the only clue, but it also records the end of their first meeting with Rowena and Godric.Further down, there is no trace to trace, as if Hogwarts had never appeared in Helga's world, even if she was one of the founders.

Her gentleness, introversion and low-key peace seem to have become a veil that cannot be lifted, and no one knows her story.

There is not even a formal portrait, except for the fragmentary colored drawing that was tucked into Salazar's manuscript.

And that colored painting is gone now—on the second day when it was seen again, when Dumbledore wanted to take it out of the book to have a look again, he found only grayish-yellow fine sand flowing down from the cracks in the pages , vanished.

There was no protective magic applied to the colored painting, and it had been eroded by the millennium to be extremely fragile. The large amount of fresh air and the drastic changes in the ambient temperature had destroyed it.

But the girl's appearance was very clearly imprinted in Dumbledore's mind, with blond hair and blue eyes, gentle and beautiful.

Snape looked at the beginning and the end, got a general idea of ​​the contents of the diary, and then put it back on the table, with the branch of sage on the cover.He clasped his hands together again and asked, "Do you think this is why he came to Field?"

Dumbledore picked up the sage and shook it, a look of indescribable emotion flowed from behind the crystal glasses, and nodded: "You know, I tried it several times later. I found that that Stan Mr. Leitlin's knowledge is not complete, at least the current situation of this room is not within his expectations. That means that after this Horcrux took shape, many things happened to cause today's situation."

"But..." Snape subconsciously wanted to refute, but unfortunately he couldn't do so, because he really didn't know how to say it. After all, now a lot of evidence proved that Dumbledore's conjecture was correct.

Without asking Snape's opinion, Dumbledore continued on his own: "What happened more than 1000 years ago, and after such a deliberate cover-up, we can find too few traces, Severus. So I'm thinking, I'd like to send that diary back to that kid in Aurora, maybe it would be better."

"Send it back?" Snape froze for a moment, a burst of gray conjectures and trade-offs of interests rushed through his mind like a tsunami, making him silent for a while.Then, all the astonishment was erased from his expression, and he stated in a calm and cold voice, "You plan to let her find out where the secret room is."

His voice was blackened by the low temperature outside the window and the freezing night, and every word he said slowly fell into the air very clearly, as if he was using some blunt instrument to beat the thick layer of winter night ice, hitting your heart one after another .

Dumbledore's gaze finally moved away from the sage that symbolized tenderness and family affection, and fell on Snape's expressionless pale face: "We all know this is the best way, Sev Les. Because neither of us is his trustee, it is almost impossible to get any news from him. You have tried it, haven't you?"

"Yeah." Snape didn't move. He had talked to Salazar once, and to be honest, he felt very bad. The degree of depression was similar to that of the Dark Lord in his prime, but not as strong and straightforward.It was just a diary after all.

No doubt he had no information from Salazar.

Snape went on to say: "But I don't think it has a very good chance of working."

"why?"

"As you can see, the reason why Field can talk freely with the Horcrux is only because her purpose is different from ours. He knows that Field will not and does not have the ability to destroy his affairs, and..." said Then, Snape pointed to the diary, "It's so similar. So if I were him, I would do the same."

Dumbledore looked at him and nodded for him to continue.

"But once it starts to involve the issues we care about, the whole thing is not the same innocuous chat as before. You don't think that a kid who is almost 14 years old will know better than you and me how to steal Information? Even if it is, I'm sorry, I don't think that child is Field, and her performance from the beginning made me think that she doesn't have such wisdom and potential at all." Snape said, frowning, sharply Picky but very objective, she said, "I have to admit that she is very talented in the field of magical creatures, but other things... there is really nothing that makes people stand out."

"You don't agree with me sending the diary back to her?"

"I don't agree with you entrusting such a task that is related to the safety of the entire school to someone who is obviously not capable of it." Snape replied, "It's too risky. Besides, I think you sent him to When it was returned to Field, he would already be suspicious. In this way, it will be even more difficult to rely on Field to know the truth."

"Yes, yes, Severus, you are right and objective." Dumbledore took a sip of the tea in his cup, and the sound of putting the cup back on the china saucer was crisp.He looked at the potions master in front of him again, with an incomprehensible smile on his face: "Perhaps in your opinion, Aurora is indeed not good enough or smart enough, and it's normal for you to have doubts."

For some reason, after hearing Dumbledore's words, Snape suddenly felt a lot more relaxed, but he didn't show it, and still kept looking straight into the other's eyes as before.

"But that's all we need. Only when he doesn't feel threatened will he be able to tell more, maybe unconsciously, maybe consciously, as long as he can say it," said Dumbledore, "and I think your attitude towards this child is a bit too biased, she is not as ignorant as you think, at least it can be seen in the Ministry of Magic trial and the Basilisk, don't you think?"

"Please don't tell me that the reason you insist is because of that portrait. Your attitude was not like this before."

"Honestly, yes."

"But it's a Horcrux after all."

"So, I will do my best to protect that child Aurora." Dumbledore's words were not loud, but they were very powerful, making people unconvincing.He had already figured it out, if he had to choose between the whole school and Aurora to take risks when he had no choice, then he could only choose the latter.But he will do his best to protect that child.

This method is very gray, even a bit dark, but it is also the best method, the method that can protect most people.Exchange the least risk for the greatest safety, whichever is the lesser of two evils.

Maybe in the end he still can't completely unravel the truth of the Chamber of Secrets, but at least he can't let its existence threaten the students and teachers of the school.Myrtle has already been used as a lesson, and there can be no more.

Snape opened his mouth and said nothing more.Dumbledore knew that he probably acquiesced, so he looked at him half-jokingly and said, "Seriously, Severus, if the person sitting in front of me wasn't you, I would have thought that what I just said was secretly defending Aurora's gone."

Snape frowned in disgust, not even bothering to give out his usual smirk, looking disgusted by Dumbledore's words.

The old headmaster just smiled.

Before leaving, Snape suddenly said: "Then do you think these are all coincidences?"

Dumbledore glanced at the diary in front of him, and he understood that Snape was talking about Aurora and the girl: "I think I'll find out."

He got up to say goodbye, and quickly disappeared into the principal's office.

Dumbledore flipped through the diary, and suddenly seemed to remember something, and asked the Sorting Hat who was dozing off on the bookshelf: "Do you remember the first time you met that child? You said she was completely What does it mean to be a Hufflepuff? Are they that much alike?"

The Sorting Hat raised the tip of its own hat, and replied in a hoarse tone: "The child's personality traits are indeed consistent with all the characteristics of Hufflepuff House. This is the reason. In fact, there are some other children who are the same, But she had that exact same talent, so I made a quick decision."

"And compared to Helga? Are they alike?"

The Sorting Hat was silent for a while, and replied softly: "To be honest, I have no specific memories about Helga Hufflepuff. Her habits, appearance, hobbies, details of her life, nothing at all."

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The author has something to say:

I love Dumbledore I love Dumbledore I love Dumbledore! !

The important thing is said three times.

I struggled with whether to write this chapter for a long time today, because I was afraid of being accused of black Lao Deng, but I really don’t have a conscience! !

Old Deng himself is a gray character. Since he planned to make Harry sacrifice from the very beginning, he is destined to be different from our traditional good person.His highest protection object is always Hogwarts. If there is a hidden danger that threatens the teachers and students of Hogwarts, his first reaction is to try his best to solve it. It's just...only to sacrifice someone to solve it.

I personally feel that if Dumbledore could choose, he would choose himself, but when he himself is not qualified, someone who is qualified appears, and he will do so.But that doesn't mean he's doing something wrong, after all, he's on the side of the majority.

Above, personal opinion.