[HP] Butterfly Effect

The knock on the door rang right on time, Snape sat on the sofa flipping through a book, waved his wand, and the door of the room opened automatically.The house elf Gigi held the breakfast and bowed to the potion master inside: "Good morning, sir, Gigi has brought your breakfast. Here is a letter for you."

Snape looked up, and nodded his wand at the letter, and the letter immediately broke away from Gigi's hand and flew into his hand.He glanced at it, and the sleek and classic navy blue English font on the cover clearly indicated the identity of the sender.

"Put it there." He opened the letter, raised his chin in the direction of the table, and said to Gigi.After Giji did so, as soon as she exited the room, the door in front of her was suddenly closed.He touched his big nose that was almost pinched, and knocked on the door of the room next to Snape with another breakfast: "Good morning miss, Gigi has brought you breakfast."

He waited for a while, but no one opened the door, so he had to knock on the door again and shout louder: "Miss, are you up? Jiji brought you breakfast."

"Miss, Jiji brought you your breakfast." There was a knock on the door.

"Miss, can you open the door, Gigi..." There was a louder knock on the door.

The door of Snape's room opened again, and he was still holding the letter in his hand, frowning and looking expressionlessly at the elf standing at the door, scratching its big ear in distress.

Seeing Snape's expression, Gigi was startled, her thin hands nervously grabbed the small tea towel on it, and looked at him innocently with big eyes: "Gigi didn't mean to disturb sir, Gigi I want to deliver breakfast to the lady in the room next to you, but there is no response to knocking on the door, and Gigi doesn't know what to do. I'm sorry sir, I'm really sorry."

That's Field's room.

Snape glanced at the closed door, "Continue."

Jiji knocked on the door tremblingly, but there was still no movement.At this time, Keitel and Adriana were also disturbed by the continuous knocking on the door.Adriana asked Gigi to stop, and knocked on the door of Aurora's room by herself: "Aurora? Are you there?"

She waited for a while, then turned to the other two people and said, "Aurora doesn't seem to be in the room, and there is no response to knocking." Just after she finished speaking, the door suddenly opened, and Aurora's pet cat Brett squatted on the ground.The little guy jumped out and bit Adriana's trousers and pulled it hard into the room, making a whining sound in his throat.

"Is something wrong?" Keitel asked worriedly.Adrienne walked in and saw Aurora motionless, wrapped tightly in the light blanket around her body, curled up on the bed like a chrysalis.The floor-to-ceiling windows of the room's balcony were not closed, and a large piece of golden clear sunlight shone in, winding around her pillow and shining brightly, which was exactly the same color as her long hair scattered outside the quilt.

"Aurora, what's wrong with you?" She stretched out her hand and pulled the quilt covering the girl, and saw Aurora's brows were tightly closed and her eyes were tightly closed, with messy golden hair and sick flushes on her cheeks , pale lips.

Adriana touched her forehead, and the tentacles were frighteningly hot.

She hurriedly yelled to Snape who was standing in the corridor by the door: "Sir, Aurora seems to have a fever, please come and have a look."

Snape walked in to have a look, tested the temperature of the palm of Aurora's forehead, and replied, "It's a fever." As he spoke, he reached out and touched the place covered by long hair on Aurora's pillow, there were some small particles, It is white and finely divided, like salt crystallized after seawater evaporates.

He thought he knew why Aurora had suddenly developed a high fever.Yesterday she soaked in the sea for so long, and then came back soaked, probably she fell down and fell asleep without even drying her hair.

Aurora frowned, feeling something cool on her forehead, and immediately shrank into the quilt in fear of the cold.She vaguely heard a human voice, and then she seemed to be picked up from the bed by someone, and the strong dizziness made her spit out all the cold liquid that had just been poured into her mouth so bitter that her tongue was numb.

so bitter.Aurora was crying, struggling to open her eyes, but in front of her eyes was a blur of human-shaped colored blobs moving around.Before she could fully see who the person in front of her was, that person pinched her chin impatiently to force her to open her mouth, and then forced her into a mouthful of cold bitter water from a bottle.Then the hand pinching her face was forcefully forceful, and the sharp pain forced Aurora to swallow what was in her mouth, coughing violently.

Snape got up and stood aside, watching Adrienne put the girl in her arms back on the bed, pulled the potion-stained quilt over her and covered her with a cleaning spell, and said, "It's all right .”

"People from the Romanian Ministry of Magic will come to pick us up in a while, I'm afraid Aurora won't be able to go in this state." Keitel scratched at the thin silver-white hair on top of his head, sighed, and then said, "Severus , please stay and take care of her."

It just so happened that he didn't bother to go to the Ministry of Magic in Romania anyway, and Dumbledore hadn't read his letter yet.

"Yes." He answered briefly.Then after Keitel and Adrienne left, go to the balcony and take out the letter again.Dumbledore traveled to the birthplace of Helga Hufflepuff, the Hebrides in northern England, in early July.

He had an intuition that as long as he returned to Helga's hometown, he would be able to find the answer he wanted.

Because Helga erased all traces of herself in Hogwarts, obviously she didn't want people who came after her to know what happened here.Maybe it's because of disappointment, maybe it's because of discouragement, in short, no matter what happens, a person will always tend to return to the place where she feels warm and safe when she is most vulnerable, or the place where she has the most cherished memories .

The Hebrides is her home, where she and Salazar Slytherin met for the first time and have known each other ever since.

If Hogwarts is where it all is, the Hebrides are where it all begins and ends.

"I hope I can find out before you come back.

Give my regards to Aurora, and hope her fever recovers soon.

Albus Dumbledore. "

The fever-reducing potion took effect quickly, and Aurora's thoughts drifted in a muddy chaos for more than half an hour, and finally gradually became clear again.She got up from the bed, the sunlight on the floor splashed into her sight, dissolving into golden light.She scratched her long hair, which was messy like a ball of wool, and looked at the black-haired man walking in from the balcony in surprise.

Isn't she still dreaming?

"If you're looking like you're wondering why I'm here, first let me remind you that I'm not the only one in the morning, almost the whole floor is being delivered to you by the elf and you can't get a knock on the door The sound of the door woke me up." Snape said quickly, and it was no surprise that the abnormal redness had faded from the other's face.

"Excuse me, Professor." Aurora's voice was still a little fluffy, but she seemed to be in a good state of mind. "What about the others?" "The Romanian Ministry of Magic." He replied, "You'd better eat something, and then Pack your clothes and go to Siberia, Russia tomorrow."

After speaking, Snape left, and Aurora soon heard the sound of the door opening and closing from the next door.She threw herself back on the bed again, letting the sea breeze with the temperature of the sun blow in from the window to caress her face.

She turned her head, and suddenly saw a plate of sandwiches on the table, which was full of gentle sunlight.

……

The melody of the acoustic guitar is clear and cheerful, like a silk ribbon glowing in the night, forming and intertwining from under Aurora's fingertips, all the way to the bottom of the low gray clouds, entangled in the dense and verdant sub-arctic needles In the forest, beautiful notes are sprinkled along the way.

This is the Far East in Russia, Siberia, the Far North.Only two or three months of the year are above fifty degrees Fahrenheit (ten degrees Celsius), and the rest of the year is a long, dry, extremely cold winter.

It was late July when they arrived, and the temperature was still very cold, so Aurora put on all the thick clothes she had brought.But for this land ruled by frost, such weather is already rare.

Wizards in the high-latitude sub-frigid zone used to travel with magic sled dogs and wooden sled carts. This kind of sled dogs would not leave any traces in the snow when they ran, and they were very fast, coming and going without a trace.

Aurora leaned against the window of the sleigh car, slowly plucking the strings of the guitar, matching the cheerful singing of Keitel and Adrienne, watching the forest quickly recede beside her.There was a thick, cold vapor in the air.

They finally stopped in front of a wizard hotel built in the middle of the canyon, and after a simple dinner, they each went to their own rooms to rest.

Lying on the bed at night, Aurora finally understood why the name of this place means "Valley of the Wind" in Russian, listening to the howling ghosts and wolves outside.She was almost weakened by the sound of the pause button being broken, and she couldn't sleep for a long time.

In a daze, she didn't know whether she had fallen asleep or not, and the thirst in her mouth forced her to get up to find water to drink.Aurora remembered what Snape said in class that the only downside of the fever-reducing potion was the need to drink a lot of water after drinking it. She couldn't remember it before, but now she swore she was impressed.

There is no way to use fluorescent flashes outside the school, and Aurora doesn't plan to test Zongsi's long-distance monitoring limit. After all, Anna who is traveling with them is a staff member of the Ministry of Magic.She moved out of bed, with a miniature flashlight in her mouth, and searched for water as if she was sleepwalking.

However, when she turned around, she suddenly saw a small black figure squatting on her bed, with its paws raised on the silver pocket watch that Edmond gave her that she had taken down.

Aurora was stunned for a moment, and the flashlight in her mouth suddenly fell, and it landed on the ground with a crisp sound.The black shadow was frightened, and he grabbed the pocket watch and stuffed it into a bag-like thing in front of him, revealing half of the shiny silver chain dangling outside, then jumped out of the window and disappeared.

Aurora,...

Wait a minute... the pocket watch that I have always cherished... was just... stolen? !

What the hell is that? !

The dull shock and anger buried by the low temperature and sleepiness gradually rose. Aurora didn't even have time to change her shoes. She grabbed her wand and rushed out the door in her pajamas.

When she came to the landing of this floor, the dark figure quickly crawled across the window, and the fat body nimbly went into another room.Soon there was a rustling sound of turning things over inside, rushing into Aurora's ears together with the sound of the wind and the even and heavy breathing of the occupants in the room.

Before she could figure out where the sound was coming from, she saw the black shadow pass by the window in the corridor again and slipped towards the upper floor.

Is that thing going to steal layer by layer?In other words, the layer he was on had already been stolen by it?

Thinking of this, Aurora immediately turned around to wake up the others, but she didn't expect to bump into Snape who just opened the door and was almost blinded by the pale bright fluorescent light in his hand.The other party was wearing the black coat he usually wore, his shoulder-length black hair was a little messy, his eyes were sharp and almost sinister, and the obvious black anger was the basic background.

"Professor?" Aurora quickly realized, "Did something of yours be stolen?"

"What do you know?" Snape asked, looking at her. "I got up to drink water in the middle of the night, and the pocket watch my father gave me was stolen. I also saw that thing, but I didn't see it clearly. It looked like some kind of animal." Aurora tried hard to recall the appearance of the thief, and replied, "I saw it running upstairs and it was stealing from other rooms."

Snape pulled out his black and simple birch wand from his sleeve and walked in the direction Aurora pointed. The fluorescent flashes illuminated the entire corridor and stairs, and woke up the portraits on the wall. understand Russian.But judging from the tone, Aurora felt that they should be swearing.

There were some things on the stairs, shining under the fluorescent light. Snape picked them up and looked at them. They were some crystal hairpins or rings, rings inlaid with gemstones, and various Russian wizard currency.

"Could it be..." Aurora said with some difficulty seeing all these shiny things, "Could it be Xixiu?"

Snape knew this kind of magical creature, who had an infinite desire for all shiny things, and was especially sensitive to the smell of gold. In Gringotts, the goblins specially bred Nifflers to dig for gold.

"But Nixie is not a creature in this area, who brought it?" Aurora said confused.Snape looked at her, frowned, and said coolly: "I think this question of yours is as inappropriate as your current dress, Miss Field. What do you think? I have to remind you that I don't have any extra fever left The potion can be given to you, after you drink a bottle and throw it up and waste it."

Siberia is as cold as ice even in July, not to mention it is midnight and there is no sunlight.Aurora came out in pajamas only, without shoes, and Snape didn't say it was fine, but when she said it, she felt so cold that even her bones were shaking, and she could hear the sound of blood freezing and breaking in her veins when she moved.

Snape deftly threw a few warming spells at Aurora, barely dispelling the chill.She hurried back to jump and get dressed, and when she came back, she found that Snape was no longer there.Aurora followed along the clear floating fluorescent light all the way in the dark night, but a line of poetry that I don’t know where it came from popped up in her mind out of time:

"I follow you, the light of darkness.

I lose myself near you, I cannot live without you.

But I can't help it, I'm imprisoned by desire/desire. "

She almost tripped over the steps and staggered and rolled directly down, the cold sweat and low temperature frightened her completely woke her up.

What kind of messed up books did I usually read? !

She continued to run up to the common room on the upper floor, and saw Snape standing by the window looking out.Before Aurora could say anything, there was a slight explosion in the air around her, and an elder with short silver-white curly hair who looked younger than Professor Dumbledore suddenly appeared beside her.

He was wearing a charcoal black overcoat and was carrying a very old ginger suitcase in his hand. The clothes and hiking boots were covered with ice and snow particles.Aurora later discovered that he also had it on his hair, but he didn't see it at the first time because it was too consistent with the hair color.

"Sorry." He said so lightly and quickly, and then ran forward following all kinds of jewelry scattered on the ground.By the way, he glanced out through the window that Snape opened, and let out a very slight sigh of helplessness.

Although he looked quite old, his movements were brisk and neat without any muddy water, and his footsteps were also very light. He looked like a floating slender ghost.

He ran past Aurora, and the cold wind lifted his clothes, revealing the scarf under the high-necked coat.

Yellow-black, Hufflepuff.

"He's from Hogwarts, from our academy." Aurora suddenly pointed at the man's back and said to Snape.

After hearing her words, the person in front stood at the other end of the dark corridor and turned his head, the fluorescent light in his hand dimmed just enough for Aurora and Snape to see his appearance clearly.

He saw that the blonde girl in front of him was also wearing a scarf that was exactly the same as his own.

The darkness spread among them, there was no sound, and the strong wind outside the window never stopped.

The author has something to say:

A long-lost update...Because Calvin has been adding a new idea of ​​Western Roman's fantasy and speaking recently, I can't stop thinking about it... Cough, let us warmly welcome the debut of Newt! ! !

By the way, today's BGM is a very old Soviet song, the one played by Aurora