[HP] Butterfly Effect

In the evening, Hogsmeade began to snow sporadically. Small and light snowflakes fell from the sky, dyeing the dark blue of the sky.Aurora declined Remus' offer to take her to the station, walked alone to the station and took the train back to Hogwarts.

Because it is the weekend, the school is very lively everywhere.Aurora stayed at the door for a while, then turned around and walked towards the dark and damp Forbidden Forest.The magical creatures in the satchel were very happy to be able to return to the real and full of life in the forest, and jumped out the moment Aurora opened the bag.

The Bird Snake Grape Crisp has just emerged from its shell and is still very dependent on its feeder. Its slender and flexible body is wrapped around Aurora's waist, its small head rests on her shoulder, and its clear olive green eyes are staring curiously at the Forbidden Forest in front of it. .Blueberry Jam flew out to hunt, while Coffee Bean and Buckbeak obediently followed Aurora, waiting tacitly to pick up the headless animal carcasses left by the blueberry jam.

Aurora walked forward aimlessly, replaying what Remus said about Snape in her mind.

"Back then the whole school knew that he and James were rivals."

"They grew up together, no wonder."

"At that time, he was also deducted a lot of points by Professor McGonagall for violating the regulations. You know, he and James are deadly enemies."

It turned out that he would like someone so much.

Too bad it was someone else.

Although Remus said that Snape hadn't been in touch with Lily Evans since he had a falling out with Lily Evans, but Aurora instinctively felt that he should still love Lily, as if he had never shown it to anyone else until now. Had the same feeling.

lily.lily.What a beautiful name.That girl must be just as pretty.

Aurora thought blankly, remembering not to take off her shoes, just stepped into the river water that had become bone-chillingly cold under the low temperature of autumn, letting the water flood her knees, and white waves bloomed on the stones.

She climbed up a thick tree trunk slanting parallel to the river and sat there, with wet and sticky fluffy moss under her palms, her shoed feet soaked in the river, dark wet lumps along her pant legs Start to climb up gradually.

Grape Crisp rubbed against Aurora's face from time to time, but found that she didn't respond at all. She slid around her waist and arms angrily, and gently pecked the girl's cheek with her golden beak, looking pitifully at her. looking at her.

Aurora was not in the mood to deal with grape crisps, she didn't even realize the coldness of her feet and the shaking of herself.She felt like things were getting a little out of hand and getting worse.

She knew that her feelings for Snape were a little special, but she kept vaguely deluding herself that it was just the adoration and hallucination that every adolescent girl would have.She just didn't want to disappoint Snape, she just wanted to be recognized in front of him as a good student.

But it wasn't until Remus said those words that Aurora realized that her feelings for the master of potions were not simply admiration.

It should be love.

Students will not be sad because the teacher likes someone.

Only people who also like him can be so sad.

This discovery is really too bad.

Grape Crisp called out softly, wiped away all the warm tears that flowed down from Aurora unconsciously, and shrugged its little wings against her head.

Aurora didn't know why she was so sad, was it because she fell in love with her professor, or he had truly loved another person before, or...

Regardless of whether he has loved someone else or not, they cannot be together, no matter how you look at it, they cannot be together.

You've reached a dead end, Aurora.

She heard a voice in her heart say so.

Something hot fell on the back of her hand, Aurora lowered her head, and the things in her vision became blurred and clear.She touched her face and found that she was crying.The fluttering teardrops jumped and fell into the dark green river, and disappeared in an instant.The Forbidden Forest began to gradually fog up, bringing a familiar smell, which meant that a new round of heavy rain was approaching.

She didn't remember how long she had been sitting here until big drops of rain fell from the gaps in the dense tree crowns above her head, and Aurora finally stood up and stepped in the river full of transparent water, looking up to catch the gray and green sky. Rain, let the tears flow out wantonly.

It's not crying, it's just raining.

But the eye sockets were still very red.

Heavy rain hugged her.

……

After four or five days of continuous cloudy and rainy days, the sky finally became clear again, but the temperature never rose, and it was always icy and bright. After all, it was autumn.

In the new month, Aurora was deliberately avoiding eye contact and encounters with Snape.Except for necessary classes, she rarely even went to the Forbidden Forest.Even in the Potions class, she tried her best not to raise her head, and huddled in a corner of the classroom to minimize her presence.

She didn't know if Snape had noticed her abnormality too, but she felt that he should have.Because every time Aurora lowered her head to pick up her thesis, Snape would always "take extra care" and ask her to stand where she was for a while to dry.

She tried her best not to be caught in confinement, but this was not something she could decide with her own efforts.Sometimes Aurora could not help but wonder, if the girl named Lily was like that, would Snape put her in the same confinement as she was quickly packing up the potion ingredients in the cellar office?

Then she was taken aback by her own thoughts.Because there is obviously no comparison between the two of them, and according to Remus, Lily is a perfect student, and it is impossible for her to be imprisoned as clumsily as herself.

Similar thoughts always pop up involuntarily, making Aurora more and more irritable and disgusted with such a self.She hates being compared with others, especially those who are obviously inferior, but the one who is doing this is herself.

Then it was Salazar who realized that something was wrong with Aurora. Aurora didn't want to tell him about it, but unfortunately, as long as Salazar wanted to play tricks, it was not unsuccessful, not to mention doubled Aurora's IQ Can't beat him either.

Snake Ancestor, who knew the truth, had a weird expression on his face. Before he could write anything in his diary, Aurora burst into tears.She was a little irritable and broke down, why did she always cry so uselessly, what was there to cry about, and nothing happened, why did she cry.

Sara looked at the blurred tears on the page, waited quietly for her to finish crying, and suddenly asked, "Why do you think it's impossible for the two of you?"

"Isn't that obvious enough?"

"You didn't answer my question. What made you feel this way? Because of your identity gap? Age gap? Or the past? If it's the last one, you have to know that it's already in the past, and no one knows what the future will look like. "

"...It's just impossible."

"Can you speak human language?" Salazar looked at her sharply.

"As you said, it's impossible from any point of view, isn't it?"

"I don't understand." Salazar looked at her contemptuously.

"...I'm afraid you'll hit me if I tell you."

"If you don't tell me, I will beat you."

Aurora choked on this sentence, and she kept her tears back: "Can you Slytherins be reasonable?!"

"We Slytherins don't make sense." Salazar spat out the letter and replied bluntly, "Because reason is made by people in high positions, isn't it?"

Although he knew that with Salazar's personality, being able to talk nonsense like this was the greatest tolerance he had for himself, but Aurora still felt that he wanted to jump into the Black Lake.

So she wrote down everything she thought of:

"Because he is a typical Slytherin. You said before that my world is completely different from his. And just like the current Slytherin house and Hufflepuff house, the two houses Let alone other things, people rarely even talk to each other, and when they see each other, they just go around. It is possible for people from any other two colleges to be together, but it is impossible for our two colleges. This is common sense..."

Maybe it was after holding back for too long that she finally found an outlet. Aurora didn't think about whether she should say these words to Salazar like she did when she was sober and calm, but just poured them all out.She felt like a vexatious child, disgusting and out of control.She remembered the quarrel between the freshmen of the Snake Badger Academy just a few days ago about "Are the Hufflepuff students worthless or not?" For the basement level, it was simply huge news.

Normally, Aurora doesn't care much about such things, and although she feels uncomfortable, it's not a day or two that the Badger House is looked down upon by people—especially Slytherin, and it's useless to argue.What's more, Hufflepuffs hate arguments the most, and it is the best policy to hide when they can.But for some reason, the last time she saw such an ordinary thing, she suddenly felt very sad.So, she went on to write: "Besides, Slytherin has always looked down on us... In short... it was impossible."

After finishing writing, Aurora suddenly felt much better.In fact, she is very glad that she can still realize the impossibility of her absurd feelings, and she may still be saved. If she just plans to go all the way to the dark regardless, it will be really miserable.

She should be fine now, although she is reluctant to turn back, she is still struggling not to continue walking.Maybe one day she can figure it out, as free and easy as the characters in those movies, I like you but it has nothing to do with you, you live your life, I love mine.

If one day, she finds that she really has no way to turn back, then she will only have to work hard to learn this mentality.I really don't know if she can do it, Aurora thinks she is not so free and easy.

When she was still distracted, Salazar read what she wrote several times, and then rolled it into a ball: "Is the relationship between your two colleges so bad?"

Aurora belatedly realized that she had said something she shouldn't have said, but she couldn't take back what she had written, so she had to think about it and then wrote: "That's not so bad, if you really want to talk about the relationship The worst ones are Gryffindor and Slytherin, that's really bad."

Except for these two houses, there will be no other houses that can rise to the house battle because of a Quidditch.Of course, it is also possible that every time the Quidditch finals are played against each other by the two houses, a subtle atmosphere of confrontation has formed over time.

"You are often looked down upon?"

"...Maybe it's because we have so many people?"

"Have you always walked around when you saw each other?"

"...It depends on how you define the word 'always'..."

"Don't give me vague topics!"

"...Anyway, it was like this when I was in school."

Seeing that Salazar didn't speak, Aurora suddenly regretted that she wrote those things without speaking, so she added: "In short, the relationship between these two colleges is not bad."

Of course it can't be good.

"As far as I know, there hasn't been much conflict."

Of course there is no intersection.

"In short, it's very balanced."

To be honest, this state is really the best. It is possible to get worse, but it is absolutely impossible to be better.Anyway, Aurora couldn't think of a scene where a group of little snakes and little badgers were sitting side by side, sharing fruits and laughing happily... That's a Hogwarts ghost story!

"Understood, let's go to class." Salazar finished writing and closed the diary.Aurora suddenly felt that maybe her definition of "good" was very different from Salazar's definition of "good".

……

Defense Against the Dark Arts class on Thursday afternoon was the only class of the day, but it was the most difficult day.Professor Hudson, who is in charge of teaching, is different from the previous Defense Against the Dark Arts professors. Rather than simply chanting spells and waving wands, he prefers to let students learn from actual combat exercises.This is undoubtedly a huge nightmare for the students of Hufflepuff House, because they are studying with Slytherins, which means they have to practice with Slytherins.

In the first class after hearing the news, a weak student almost fainted.As a result, Hufflepuff has rarely seen a gloomy cloud, and its depression is not even as good as the Dark Lord's heyday.

The good news is that there aren't that many students in Slytherin who can do one-on-one practice, so some Hufflepuffs still practice with their housemates.

As for those who were selected to fight Slytherin, it was more difficult, because the general level of Slytherin students was much higher than that of Hufflepuff.

Hudson obviously realized this soon, but he was more interested in the reaction of the little badgers.Because according to his vision, the Snake Badger Yard, which also lived on the basement floor and lived in harmony with each other and had little friction, should have the most relaxed atmosphere in the battle.But in fact, only Slytherin felt relaxed, even with obvious mockery and disdain.

In the second class of the term, no Hufflepuff was willing to stand up, unless Hudson personally called the name.

"It's just an ordinary test. Don't be nervous. No one will be hurt." Aurora couldn't remember how many times Hudson said this, but none of the little badgers were willing to stand up. They in the college know how to be neat and tidy.

"Well, it seems that I have to find an assistant." Hudson said with a headache, tapping the hat on the top of his head with the slender wand in his hand, "Fortunately, one of your professors is very generous to provide help."

As he spoke, he waved his wand towards the door and announced loudly: "Welcome our Head Slytherin, Professor Snape."

Aurora was taken aback, and lowered her head a second before the black figure could be cleared by the cold sunshine pouring in from the window, and took two steps back tacitly with the other little badgers.

"Is there anyone willing to switch seats with me? I'm in the first row..." Cecilia said weakly.

"No, no, don't move, hold on to Sissy!" Caroline grabbed her sleeve to prevent her from leaving, "What will I do if you leave?"

As Snape got closer, all the Hufflepuff children spontaneously huddled in a corner, discussing in low voices why Snape would agree to be Professor Hudson's assistant.

"This is a disaster, I think our dean..."

"Tell me that get out of class is about to end."

"Hey, will the two of them demonstrate, and then we won't have to play?"

"..."

"Do you think if Professor Snape and Professor Hudson fight, Professor Hudson will win?" Lorna in the next bedroom secretly said to Aurora.

Aurora shook her head with an ugly face.

"You also think Professor Hudson will lose?" Lorna said wrinkling her facial features.

Aurora sighed, "I mean I don't know."

"Okay kids, we're getting started."

The author has something to say:

There was an accident at home, there was also an accident at school, and there is still half a month of mid-term inspection... There is no code word for a long time.This article said that there will be a Snake Badger ancestor episode, so it is really long after calculation, if there are still friends who can wait, thank you.I plan to write the full text of the next Spider-Man fanfic before digging in, so as not to interrupt the update due to various things.

How dare an article with no exposure rate break into this... I am indeed a warrior.Now I am waiting for the release of Fantastic Beasts 2 in November, giving me new motivation to finish writing this book [laughing and crying]

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