[HP] Butterfly Effect

On the second day back in London, it rained as expected.Deep smoky gray clouds shrouded the top of the head, and the rain was clear and bright, dense like an endless jig beating on the umbrella surface, cheerful and noisy.

After Aurora got up, she rode to a supermarket in London wearing a raincoat and bought some bonbons.She remembered that this kind of chocolate was very popular with the Weasley children, and she could bring some when she visited them this time.

After finishing work in the magical pet shop in Diagon Alley in the afternoon, she came to the Weasleys' house by the fireplace in the shop.As soon as he stepped out of the fireplace, he saw Charlie sitting on the sofa boredly playing with the ball of yarn that Molly used to knit a sweater.After seeing Aurora coming, Charlie threw the ball of yarn happily, and immediately jumped up and hugged her: "Bill said you would come after work today, and it was true. Mom is cooking dinner in the kitchen, you must To stay and eat."

"Otherwise, where else can I go?" Aurora replied with a smile, and then handed him the gift box that was prepared before, "I only kept a few photos for this trip, and the rest are here. And Some other things, see if you like it."

Charlie took the gift box and opened it to have a look. The Swedish Brachysaurus in the first photo was wagging its tail lazily at him.The boy's hazel eyes sparkled, and a healthy and lovely blush appeared on his cheeks: "This gift is really wonderful, thank you Aurora! I really like it so much!"

"nice! You love it."

At this moment, the twin stars Weasley, who heard the voice, slid down from the railing on the second floor one after the other, and landed firmly on the floor of the living room.Aurora couldn't tell which was George and which was Fred, but they all sang together, "Guess how long Charlie waited here after Bill said you were coming?"

"He never left the sofa except to go to the toilet."

"Mom asked him to help but he refused."

Bill, who came out of the kitchen, quietly came behind the two of them, put his hands on their heads one by one, and smiled at Aurora: "It's good if you come, Mom has been talking about it for a while."

"It's obviously Charlie." As soon as Fred finished speaking, Charlie gave him a hard look.He was not afraid at all, instead he made a grimace and went back.

Aurora just smiled gently and watched them make a mess, and then said to the helpless Bill: "Are they always like this? It's so lively."

"Yeah, but if you ask me, it's a bit too lively." Bill spread his hands.

During the meal, Aurora distributed the liqueur chocolates and other things she bought to everyone one by one.Molly liked the new shawl and tiara that Aurora had given her, but blamed her for spending so much money.Aurora said while drinking the soup, anyway, she also bought it in a London supermarket, and it was not much converted into wizard currency.

After the meal, Aurora told her experience of the past half month.When he heard that Snape was with them, Charlie almost let out a scream, his face contorted as if his stomach was convulsing: "Why is he here, then your trip must have been extremely painful."

Bill also seemed to agree with Charlie, although he didn't say it outright.You must know that even staying in the same classroom with Snape for two classes is so suffocating, not to mention getting along with Snape every day for half a month and having to eat at the same table.Just thinking about Charlie felt like a nightmare.

George and Fred were not old enough to go to Hogwarts, so they didn't feel much about it, but they got an affirmative answer from Bill, and they all gave Aurora sympathetic looks.

Molly hugged Ginny and yelled at the children: "He will be the professor of all of you in the future, you have to respect him." Charlie's face twisted to become more painful.

"Actually, it's okay. I mean, it's not a class, so you won't be penalized for making mistakes." Aurora thought for a while, and then said, "He took good care of me. Really."

Seeing the eyes of Charlie and Bill as if seeing a ghost, Aurora quickly changed the subject, "By the way! This time we met Newt Scamander in Siberia, Russia, where he was investigating. Unfortunately, he still has to go I can't stay in other places for long. But I exchanged correspondence addresses with him, and I will show you the next time he writes."

"This is the meeting of the century. The two natural animal trainers finally met each other." Bill couldn't help joking.

While they were discussing the Horntail crisis in Romania, Dumbledore's phoenix Fawkes suddenly flew in from the window, handed the envelope in its mouth to Aurora's hand, and pecked it friendly. her fingers.

"Merlin, this bird is so cool!" Fred marveled and wanted to reach out to touch it.Fox moved away nimbly, leaving the window gracefully and lightly.

"Whose letter?" George asked curiously. "Professor Dumbledore." Aurora opened the envelope, took out the letter paper inside and looked at it, "He said he had something very important to ask me, and asked me to go to the Leaky Cauldron immediately."

Then Severus will take you to where I am - Aurora saw Dumbledore write so.The letter was very short, and after reading it, almost her first reaction was that it had something to do with Salazar.But what is "where he is", isn't Dumbledore at Hogwarts now?

Molly nodded after hearing this: "Then go quickly. If Principal Dumbledore wants to find you, it must be very urgent. You can go directly to the Leaky Cauldron by using the fireplace."

"Then I'll go first, see you at the beginning of school."

"See you at the beginning of school."

……

Aurora saw Snape at the most conspicuous place in the Leaky Cauldron, and before she could say anything, the other party had already dragged her into the vortex of Apparition.

When Aurora's feet touched the ground again, they realized that they were stepping on thick and soft meadow and moist soil. Countless light-colored and bright flowers were clustered on the dark green grass, dotted and spread out, which was too beautiful to behold. .A hare was frightened by the sudden appearance of two people, and quickly jumped into the depths of the forest filled with faint blue mist.

The air here has a faint smell of sea water, and the faint sound of waves comes from the open place, roaring with incomparable regularity.The dissipated sunset still left a faint golden orange color on the top of the mountain in the distance, and the entire forest looked extremely quiet under the thick and dark blue night.

The blue color accumulated deeper and deeper as they walked forward, and finally became dark and oppressed by the lightless night, swallowing up the outlines of everything around them.There are luminous flowers that bloom at night everywhere, reflecting the warm and cool water mist here.

Aurora followed Snape not long before they came to an open place where a beautiful old house stood.It looks very old and old, but it is still very strong and strong, and it can withstand every stormy night.

Dumbledore greeted them at the door, Aurora looked inside the room with warm yellow lights, and looked at the old headmaster in confusion: "Sir, what is this place?"

"The Hebrides, the hometown of Helga Hufflepuff." Dumbledore pushed the door completely open, "Come in, this place is about you."

"It's related to me?" Aurora said in surprise, walking in.Dumbledore behind him shut out all the night.

The living room in the house is spacious and warm, and the whole is dominated by warm and low-key colors such as brown and cheese yellow.This style reminded Aurora of that room in Hogwarts, and it was also the feeling of tenderness even at the ends of the twigs.

There are many things here that are very old, but unlike ordinary antiques, they don't have that inhuman exquisiteness and coldness.And very similar to the style of the Hufflepuff lounge, there are many things in the living room that use plants as raw materials and then make them by hand.It looks like the owner here loves handicrafts.

Coco the house elf came out of the kitchen with refreshments and put them on the table one by one.Turning around, Ke Ke suddenly saw the girl in black dress standing in front of various ornaments in the living room, admiring carefully, and was taken aback for a moment.She has long pale golden hair, the signature of the Hufflepuff family, as light and beautiful as the thin sunlight at dawn.

Her profile was almost the same as the previous portrait of Helga that hung in the attic top room.

The plate in Ke Ke's hand suddenly fell off, her big brown eyes widened, and she stammered, "You...you are?"

Aurora turned her head and saw a strange elf staring blankly at her, holding the small tea towel on her body with both hands, her thin body trembling slightly due to emotional excitement.

"Hello." Aurora nodded to her.

At this time, many ghosts floated in from the walls, from the attic, and from outside the house.The thick walls are nothing to them, they gather around the living room, the low temperature on their bodies gathers together, driving away all the warmth of the August summer night.Standing among them, Aurora felt her body start to freeze from the cracks in her bones, shivering from the cold.

The clothes on them have a sense of age, ranging from exaggerated medieval styles to country gentleman dress styles more than 100 years ago.It's almost like attending a masquerade ball on the theme of the dress changes in the history of Britain, if you ignore the translucent pearly white of their bodies.

Aurora was surrounded by them, and perhaps the intense and focused gaze made her feel uncomfortable.She looked up in Snape's direction blankly: "Professor? This is, I... who are they?"

Before Snape could answer, a tall woman in front of Aurora raised the hem of her skirt and twirled it slightly, her voice soft and light: "We are Hufflepuffs, or ghosts. Welcome, please sit down, everyone , I hope you like these refreshments." The two strands of curly hair hanging from the bottom of her bun followed her movements and fell on her collarbone.

"This is the girl I told you about." Dumbledore sat down and said to the ghost closest to him, "I told you, they are very similar, aren't they?"

"It's very similar." Said the ghost - Melanie Tracy Hufflepuff, looking at Aurora frozen on the sofa.As she approached, the other ghosts respectfully stepped aside.Aurora noticed that the style of clothing on her was the oldest of all the ghosts here. She must be the oldest ghost here, probably from centuries ago.

Melanie walked in front of her and reached out to touch Aurora's long hair. The biting cold immediately spread to her skin, freezing her even more.Melanie continued to stroke her face lightly, finally stopping around her eyes.

Stimulated by the sudden drop in temperature on Aurora's body, Blueberry Jam flew out of her cuff and screamed at the ghosts in the room.Aurora didn't have time to grab it, her heart sank suddenly.This is bad, she thought.

Then Aurora realized that, in fact, the two professors here knew about the curled-winged demon she raised.Should she be grateful?

Following Aurora's gesture of waving, Blueberry Jam finally threw herself back into her arms, her black eyes staring around vigilantly.

"A natural animal tamer." A ghost said in surprise, "How many years have we not seen in our family?"

our family?That word sounds so weird.Did he mean Hufflepuff House?

"Grandma, I think we should explain to her, she looks very dazed." The tall woman floated behind Aurora, put her hands empty on her shoulders, looked at Melanie and said with a smile.

"An appraisal should be done before that." An old ghost raised his crystal glasses, stared at the blond girl in front of him and said, "I'm sorry kid, but the questions your principal wants to explore are related to us. Everyone, so we had to do it."

"Coco, go and get the scroll." The elf beside Melanie said.Coco immediately disappeared into the distorted air of Apparition.

"Sorry, what's going on here? What identification, identification of what?" Aurora broke free from the encirclement of the ghosts and stood between Dumbledore and Snape.

"Identify whether you are related to us, dear." The tall slender woman, or rather, Josephine Hufflepuff winked at her happily, and her slender fingers danced deftly in the air a few times, It's like playing the piano.

"Kinship." Aurora chewed the word dreamily, and then realized that what they were talking about was actually blood.Bloodlines of the Hufflepuff family.

Aurora's eyes widened: "It's impossible." "Oh, don't you ever look in a mirror, dear?" Josefina rolled her silver-white translucent eyes, and there was a cute smile on the corner of her mouth .

"Of course I have." Aurora replied, and then said, "What does this have to do with looking in the mirror?" Josefina sang in her sweet and crisp voice: "Didn't you realize that you and your academy Do the founders look alike?"

"Huh?" Aurora couldn't understand what she said at all.

"As a matter of fact, there is no portrait of Helga in the school. Not a single one. Not even the Sorting Hat can remember what she looked like," explained Dumbledore. "She left no trace, just like a beautiful Like the distant legend of her, no one knows her past."

The faces of the ghosts changed and became a little strange.Aurora couldn't read their expressions, whether they wanted to laugh or cry.

"I know." Melanie looked at the scroll that Coco handed over, and asked her to untie the golden string on the scroll, "It was her own idea. She asked Rowena and Godric to put Everything related to her at Hogwarts was burned. There is only one house that has her name in it."

After death? !

Aurora was startled by the black word, and began to instinctively guess how old Helga was at that time.At the same time she couldn't help thinking of Helga's attitude every time she mentioned it to Salazar.

So he has been reluctant to mention Helga because... Helga died very early? !

Snape remembered that room, and suddenly said: "But it seems that Rowena and Godric didn't do this, and quite a few of them are still sealed in Helga's room."

"Maybe." Melanie said noncommittally.After Coco opened the scroll, she snapped her fingers to make it float in the air and extend continuously.Starting from Helga Hufflepuff’s great-grandmother—Have Dobrev Hufflepuff, the following names are like big trees flourishing in the spring season, with criss-cross branches and leaves, stretching to this day .At the end of every branch hung a name like a silver star.

The warm yellow light shines through the ancient parchment, and those black lines that hang names or stretch out and disappear suddenly after several generations are like blood vessels, connecting all people with the same blood.

"Come on dear, don't be afraid, just need to verify." Josephina signaled Aurora to raise her hand and touch the end of the scroll with her index finger.

Snape found that many places were missing from this genealogy-like scroll, some of which he guessed were due to accidental death or had never been heard from so far.Others are unable to know the specific situation because the time is too long, or they have left the UK and moved to other places.

A family, no matter how few people there are at the beginning, after more than 1000 years, it is very normal for the descendants of the family to be scattered outside and not to know each other.What's more, Hufflepuff is a family that doesn't value blood and pursues freedom and freedom. They have never opposed intermarriage with Muggles or half-blood wizards, and they will not interfere too much with other members' choices.Therefore, the situation of their descendants is more complicated. Unlike other famous pure-blood families, a family tree can frame all members.

Aurora's index finger touched the scroll, and there was a slight tingling at the fingertips.A star of blood seeped out and infiltrated the scroll, and was absorbed by a blank space at the end, and a clear bright red name emerged——Aurora Rose Field.

The red wave was on the parchment, going all the way up the complex and huge family tree, and finally stopped at a woman named Hilary Nicole Hufflepuff.

"It's Sheila." Melanie was stunned, "Helga's own sister."

Then, she looked down at Aurora: "You are her offspring."

While Aurora was still in a daze, Josephina gently placed a cold and empty kiss on her face:

"Welcome home, honey."

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The identity is revealed, and by the way, it is announced that the snake badger ancestor is actually a sister-brother relationship! !No surprise, no stimulation, no surprise! !

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