[HP] Butterfly Effect

She touched the handrail of the stairs, and the dry and weird feeling under her palm made her almost feel like she was grabbing a bony human rib, and the cold feeling rushed from the palm of her hand to the top of her head.

It's getting colder.

Aurora shrunk unconsciously, the raincoat and thin sweater on her body were useless in this environment, the cold wind eroded the remaining heat left on her body, wrapping her tightly in the center of the low temperature.The tea roll slowly climbed up the handrail without making a sound, and the small leaves on the top of the head stood up vigilantly.

When she reached the central platform of the stairs, Aurora could basically see the structure of the whole house clearly.There are stairs and corridors here and there, intricately intertwined, like a heap of unorganized spider webs.They have no head or tail, as if they grew out of thin air and then entangled together. Only the torso can be seen, like a twisted monster.

Standing on the landing of the stairs and looking up, Aurora endured the increasingly acute feeling of uneasiness and oppression and continued to walk forward.Overcast clouds weakened the window outside the house, but the wind wrapped in rain did not stop for a moment, spreading fine waves of water on the face.She reached into her collar with her cold water-stained hand and took out the silver pocket watch. She checked the time and found that it was almost evening.

Blueberry jam was suspended in the dark air, guiding Aurora to a certain place on the second floor.She leaned closer to the wall, and the faint fluorescent flicker illuminated the huge scratch on it, and the shadows were pierced by the light, retreating into the depths of the crack.

Fortunately, there was no trace of blood stains for the time being.Aurora tried to look on the bright side, which at least meant that Remus should be safe.

The floor on the second floor made a brittle and soft creaking sound when stepped on, and through some small gaps, the downstairs could even be seen directly.Aurora wiped the rain off her face, and cautiously followed the blueberry jam into a darker place.

She remembered that werewolves could only appear on the night of the full moon, and would disguise themselves as ordinary people at other times.It was approaching evening now, and the werewolf should not be able to appear yet, as long as he found Remus now and took him away, there would be no danger.

Thinking of this, Aurora gritted her teeth, and called out softly, "Remus? Remus, are you here? Remus?" The girl's voice was clear and gentle, slightly trembling with obvious obscure tension. Shaking, when she landed in this haunted house, the echo was as lonely as a ghost whispering, so that Aurora herself was startled by the voice she made.

There was no response, only the whimpering of the wind, and a pitch-black crow landed on the wooden beams under the eaves at some point to shelter from the rain, combed its wet feathers, and made weird calls.

Just a crow, no big deal.She comforted herself and continued to walk upwards. The poor light transmission conditions and the increasingly narrow space made Aurora feel a little out of breath, and a damp musty smell emanated from everything around her, as well as dust.A huge spider fell from the loft above her head and quickly climbed into the debris pile in the corner. Aurora was startled by it before she noticed that the footprints on the stairs continued.

Aurora followed it to the corridor on the third floor, which was narrower and quieter.At this time, she finally heard the voice of someone talking in a low voice.

After carefully identifying it for a while, she found out that it was the voice of Remus Lupine, and hurriedly let the tea roll jump into her hand, and then ran to follow the voice.However, before she reached out and touched the door in front of her, it suddenly opened automatically from the inside.Aurora looked up, and saw the potions professor in black standing in front of her, and she was completely buried in his shadow.There were still traces of wetness from the rain on Snape's shoulders and pitch-black hair, and the bitter smell of potions on his body seemed so clean and cold in the damp and rotten air.

"Miss Field, I guess you came here to take shelter from the rain? Then the floor you chose seems to be too high." He didn't lower his head, but looked down at the girl who had grown a lot in front of him without giving way at all. the meaning of.

"I... I'm here to find Remus." Aurora said, out of the corner of her eye, she saw Remus squatting on the ground behind Snape, clutching an empty potion bottle tightly in his hand, shadowed Gone is his expression.His posture was strange, but it was not comfortable in any way, as if he was enduring some pain.

"Remus?!" Aurora hurriedly wanted to go in to check how he was doing, but was stopped by Snape.He glanced at Aurora, his tone a bit cold: "He's fine, it would be even better if you weren't here."

"But, sir..."

"Do you have any other questions?"

"I..." Aurora sensed something was wrong, but couldn't figure out where it was for a while, so she could only reply, "I want to go in and see him, just for a while."

"I'm afraid not. At this time, you should go back to school." Snape looked at her expressionlessly, his brows furrowed, as if impatient. "Just for a while..." Aurora was a little anxious, even though the other party's face had obviously collapsed.

At this time, Remus raised his head in the shadows and said: "I'm fine, Aurora, you and Snape go back together." Aurora was stunned for a moment, and then said with some doubts: "Are you sure? Are you sure?" Looks bad."

"I'm fine, let's go, I promise you. Are you coming back tomorrow? I'll pick you up at the station."

"But……"

"If you stay here, I think everyone here will be very bad. Do you want to try it? Miss Field." Snape's tone was dangerously drawn out, and the tail of his low and gloomy voice seemed to be slowly unsheathed Like a dagger, the trembling that cuts through hearing.

Aurora looked at him, but no emotion could be read in the other's dull eyes.She backed away, watching as the narrow strip of light on the floor was cut off by the wooden door, and it fell back into darkness.

When she walked out of the Shrieking Shack, Aurora didn't pull up the hood of her raincoat, but let the rain fall on her long hair and face.She walked into the rain, and the words she said were a little faint under the masking and weakening of the rain, but they were extremely clear: "I went to Remus's house, and then I found it all the way here."

Snape locked the door of the Screaming Shack and raised his eyebrows slightly: "So?"

"I saw some... not very good things. For example, destroyed books and walls." Aurora said, looking directly at Snape with warm brown eyes, "he'll be all right Is it?" Withered and yellow leaves drifted to the black muddy water under their feet and gradually sank.The raindrops fell on her, and transparent flowers bloomed.

Snape realized she might know something, he knew early on that Aurora was far more perceptive than the average Hufflepuff.It's just because of the prejudice of the academy she was in and her too gentle personality, it was difficult for people to notice this.

"What are you trying to say?" Snape asked.

Aurora didn't answer, but just repeated her question stubbornly: "Will he be fine after today, sir? At least this month, will he be fine?"

"Talking to your professor in circles is not student behavior, Miss Field, especially a Hufflepuff student." Snape saw that her hair was almost soaked, and that dense beads of water ran down it. The cuffs of her raincoat slipped from her hands and slipped into her pockets, but her eyes were very bright, under this dull sky.

Aurora pursed her lips and tasted the thin rainwater: "At first I always thought that Remus was captured by a werewolf, so I wanted to come to him, but in fact he is a werewolf, right? I knew before that every time he Months will disappear for a day or two, and with those things in his house, am I right?"

Snape looked at her for a while, and answered directly, "Yes."

Aurora nodded, and her vision became a little blurred behind the rain curtain for a moment.After a short silence, she raised her shoulders and said briskly: "Then I think I'd better come to him tomorrow, he may prefer the moon tonight."

"Is this how you feel about your status as a guardian?" She seemed neither surprised nor rejected by this result, she accepted it with ease, and didn't even feel that there was anything abnormal about it.

"Yeah." She replied, "That can't change anything. He's always been a werewolf, and it's not that I know he's later, so what does it matter?"

Snape looked at her expressionlessly, wondering whether her state of mind should be classified as stupid or big-hearted.But for some reason, Aurora's attitude made him slightly displeased.He actually pretty much knew Aurora's reaction, he'd guessed it since she'd been able to say who Remus was so calmly.After all, that's how she'd always thought of him, so it was only natural that she would feel the same way about Remus.

"You should go back," he said finally.

"Then, goodbye, professor."

Before leaving, Aurora looked back at the screaming hut that looked infinitely desolate in the rain, and just pulled up the rain hat full of rainwater and buckled it on top of her head, shivering from the cold of the flowing water.She wrapped her half-soaked clothes tightly and ran all the way to the station, cast a Drying Charm and a Warming Charm on herself, and boarded the train with the roar of the train.

Before driving out of Hogsmeade, she heard a sharp wolf-like growl in the distance.

……

Early the next morning, as soon as Aurora got off the train, she saw Remus waiting on the platform.He was wearing an old charcoal black overcoat with the buttons off, and the hair on his forehead that was sticky from the rain was a little messy. He looked very tired, as if he had just recovered from a serious illness.

But after seeing Aurora walking down, he came over and hugged her with a smile: "Are you okay?" Aurora shook the basket with handmade biscuits in his hand: "Nothing makes me bad. It's you , looks tired. Are you going to work today?"

"Yeah, let's come together, I think I can treat you to a cup of your favorite fruit tea."

"Then I did the right thing with these biscuits."

The Three Broomsticks Bar was full of seats as always, and the warm lighting and thick wooden walls kept the damp and cold above the snow line out.They chose a table by the window to sit down, the cool and fresh air dilutes the strong smell of alcohol in the room, and the viewing angle is not bad.

Remus originally thought that Aurora would ask about what happened yesterday, and he was ready to confess everything to her, and he also wanted to tell her that choosing to be her guardian in the first place was a decision that Dumbledore made in a hurry— To attend Snape's criminal trial.He guessed that Snape personally delivered wolfsbane/potion yesterday because of this, Snape always hated being indebted - but there is no doubt that having a werewolf as a guardian is bound to bring great benefits to Aurora's future work and future. Lots of obstacles.It's perfectly normal if she doesn't want to.

But unexpectedly, Aurora was only talking about what she had seen in school recently, such as the way the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor taught many Hufflepuff students.Professor Dumbledore has been away frequently recently, and Myrtle's bathroom has been completely sealed off by magic, and I can't even find it.The students were saying that maybe the descendants of Slytherin came back to school and wanted to open the Chamber of Secrets, so the professors hid the bathroom.

Remus was a little surprised when he heard this: "So that legend is true? I heard it when I was in school, but I always thought it was a rumor to scare people."

"It looks real." Aurora shook the warm fruit tea in her hand, and the finely minced raspberry pulp floated in the ruby-like water, exuding a sweet aroma, "But so far, no one has Found the Chamber of Secrets. I think maybe we haven't found it either."

"If the original Salazar Slytherin deliberately didn't want to be found, then it can't be found," Remus agreed.Then, looking at the blond girl who was drinking her juice intently, he said, "I thought you were going to ask me about what happened yesterday, Aurora."

"But I guess you don't want to. Because if you wanted to, you would have said it in the first place, not after I happened to run into you at the Shrieking Shack yesterday." Aurora cupped her cup in her hands to keep warm, Shrugged, pulled the corners of his mouth and smiled slightly, "You must have your reasons, everyone has things they don't want to say, I don't need to ask. I can guess a little bit about some things, but that's not important, it won't change what."

Just as she had never told Remus that she was not Aurora Field at all, she had always been hiding something, so naturally she would not ask others to be completely honest with her.What's more, Remus has always taken good care of her, like a relative, she trusts him very much.

Remus looked at her for a while, and finally said, "You're really like your father. Sometimes when I talk to you, it feels like I'm talking to him. I remember me and Sirius and Jen Before they graduated, your father came to us as a representative of the Order of the Phoenix. He helped us a lot and taught us a lot. We followed him for a long time after graduation. The Order of the Phoenix works."

"Then I guess you are the one who makes him worry the most." Aurora tilted her head.He smiled, as if thinking of the past made him very happy: "It's true. Did you know that Sirius had a fight with your father back then, and he was the worst of us Disciplinary. It was your father Emond who won, and he was reluctant to listen to Emond. But, Aurora, seriously. Sirius misses your father more than any of us, he just doesn't like to express come out."

"What about the other one? The one named James? Are you two in charge of breaking up the fight?" Aurora asked curiously.

Remus shook his head, and lightly tapped the glass with some rough and scarred fingers, causing the wine in the glass to ripple round and round: "He and Sirius have very similar personalities. We have four friends Personally, Sirius has the best relationship with him. When he later left the Blacks because he hated the family's pure-blood concept, he lived with the Potters."

"Potter?" Aurora was stunned for a moment, "James Potter? The father of the boy who survived the catastrophe?" The child's name has now spread throughout the wizarding world, and no wizard knows him, even many innocents. Muggle-born children have heard his name too.

"Yeah." Remus' eyes suddenly became erratic, "He was the same as Sirius at the beginning, and he didn't quite accept Edmond's words. But Lily believed in your father and respected him very much. So James also Nothing out of the ordinary has been done."

"Lily?" Aurora blinked, "Mr. Potter's wife, right? It sounds like they have a very good relationship." "Very good." Remus nodded, with a subtle feeling in his smile that Aurora couldn't describe, "Jane Tom had liked and pursued her since first grade, when the whole school knew he liked Lily Evans, and didn't have her first official date until near graduation. He valued Lily more than anything else. "

"It seems that Mrs. Potter must be a very good beauty." Aurora said with a smile, "She must have many other suitors, right?"

"Yes, I have."

Finding that Remus seemed a little more relaxed and happy when he mentioned the time with his friends at school, Aurora simply followed the topic: "Then when Mr. Potter pursued her, he met What competitors have you been to?"

"This... there is probably one." When Remus said this, the expression on his face was a little unclear, as if covered with a layer of veil, "Well, there is one."

"Only one?" Although Aurora has never met this Miss Lily Evans, judging from what Remus said, and imagining it with the appearance of Sur Garcia's Veela blood, she thinks she is the only one. It seems somewhat unreasonable to have only one competitor.

"Because only this one is the most competitive. At that time, almost the whole school knew that he and James were competitors." Remus smiled.

"Who is it?" Aurora asked, "Have I heard of it?"

"You probably know him quite well."

"..."

Aurora swallowed a mouthful of fruit tea cautiously, "Don't tell me it's you." That would be really miserable, and it wouldn't be enough to write a novel and publish it.

Remus couldn't laugh or cry: "Of course not. It's your Potions professor."

This sentence was like a spell, blocking all the sounds in Aurora's ears, leaving only silence and the sound of the heartbeat falling into the valley.She suddenly felt that the fruit tea she just drank was a bit too much, and she felt sore in her stomach: "What did you say?"

"I said it was your Potions professor, Head Slytherin," Remus replied. "I'm really surprised he's going back to school as a professor. What's wrong with you?"

Aurora wasn't sure what her face looked like now, she just prayed that she would look normal.The wind blowing in from the window pressed heavily and coldly on her body, and Aurora felt as if she could hardly breathe.

"Nothing, just a surprise," she said. "I thought he wouldn't like anyone."

"It's hard to imagine, but they've known each other since childhood, so it's no wonder."

"Really? Then why isn't Miss Evans with him?"

Remus was silent for a moment, the brilliant indoor light hanging over him almost blindingly.After a while, he said, "That's not important. They haven't seen each other since he broke up with Lily. After all, they are not from the same place."

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