[HP] Butterfly Effect

When they walked out of the Ministry of Magic, the snow had stopped.London as far as the eye can see is shrouded in a layer of misty gray damp mist, and the buildings further away are engulfed. The sky is as gloomy and dim as the ground, and the lights are dotted like stars, buried in a large cloud of smoke and dust.Unlike Hogwarts, which is fresh and moist with a strong natural smell once it rains, the snowflakes and rain in London are mixed with a faint metallic smell.

Wrapped in a coat, Aurora stood by the window of the Ministry of Magic building, grabbed those wind-blown hairs and stuffed them into a hat, and rubbed her hands together, the hot breath condensed into frost.

The routine questioning this time was indeed just like what Meiya Stone said in the letter, the time was very short, and only a few simple questions were asked.She also met Scrimgeour on her way out, the Auror who was always serious and meticulous.Aurora hadn't had time to say hello to the other party, but she didn't expect Scrimgeour to take the initiative to call her name.

After exchanging simple greetings, Scrimgeour left quickly, and it seemed that he still had urgent matters to attend to.

Aurora continued to wait at the window, and people came and went throughout the hall, brought and carried away by the green flame in the fireplace.After a while, she saw Snape also coming out from behind the gate, and the other party just happened to catch a glimpse of her in the crowd, as if he didn't expect her to be waiting here.

Seeing the girl running briskly in front of him from the window, Snape raised his eyebrows as a question.

Aurora grabbed the hat, with pale golden hair running through her fingers: "Well, professor, I just want to ask you, do you know of any shops that are willing to buy potion materials without referrals? "

In Diagon Alley, every potion material store has its own fixed supplier of raw materials. First, this can ensure the quality to the greatest extent, and second, it can also ensure safety and facilitate management.Generally, if there is no recommendation from a trustworthy person, these stores will not easily accept new sources of goods.After all, when it comes to potion materials, the Ministry of Magic has always been very strict in its management. If you don't pay attention to this kind of business, it can be linked to the smuggling and massacre of magical creatures.Therefore, it is not as long as the quality is good enough that the other party will buy it, but also to ensure that the source is clean and harmless.

In this regard, Aurora is really not very good at it.

"Are you short of money?" Snape guessed that she had probably contacted several shops, and all of them received rejection letters without exception.

Aurora shrugged, pursed her lower lip, and replied a little uncomfortably: "After all, I used to work in Mrs. Brent's magic pet shop every summer vacation, but this year I have to trouble Mr. Scamander to help me make extra lessons. Yes, so..."

Having said that, she added: "Anyway, these are not lacking in your office for the time being. I want to keep them or keep them. If I sell them all, I should be able to buy the books for the school year. After all, my father also told It is very difficult for the money he left me to support me until I graduate.”

In particular, the prefect once said that the cost of studying in the future will become higher and higher, and Aurora has to plan ahead for the future.

After Snape heard this, his complexion changed slightly. The girl's warm brown clear eyes drew out memories that hadn't surfaced in his mind for a long time, and it reminded him of the Order of the Phoenix almost instantly. The appearance of the members before they died.

Edmund fell to the ground covered in blood, but his hands were still trying to reach something illusory and beautiful.After Snape ingested the memory of the other party, he saw that he was holding the small cloth bag close to the chest in his hand, which was stained red with blood, as if he was holding a fresh heart.

It contained a lock of Aurora's hair.

For some reason, Snape also remembered the first time he had been instructed by the Dark Lord to go to Plymouth to kill this "half-blood descendant protected by Dumbledore".He can even remember that when he was standing behind Aurora, he hesitated for a while between Avada Kedavra and Shenfeng Wuying, and finally decided to use Shenfeng Wuying on her.

Then Dumbledore cut him off before he could strike.Snape didn't know he could remember these things so clearly.

"Professor?" Aurora saw that the other party had been blank and didn't respond. She didn't know what Snape was thinking, so she said cautiously, "Well, I'll just ask, or I'll ask other questions..."

Snape quickly came back to his senses, his eyes fell on her again, and his voice was so calm that he couldn't pick out a single problem: "I think you may already know that all the suppliers of potion material shops in Diagon Alley have obtained Licensed by the Ministry of Magic?"

"That's it."

"So if you want to sell them, you can only go to those unregistered shops."

"You mean?"

"There's a lot in Knockturn Alley."

"Uh..." Aurora hesitated, and subconsciously hugged her canvas bag tightly, which contained Salazar's diary.She got it by accident in Knockturn Alley three years ago, and the experience at that time was really bad. For this reason, she had nightmares for several days in a row, and every time she dreamed of the eerie The boss rushed to her with his talking skull, screaming that he wanted to chop her up and use it as skull bait.

"Is there no other place?"

"Would you like to try the Ministry of Magic's tracking capabilities?"

"No, I still love life." After she finished speaking, there was a tangled silence, after all, she really didn't want to go to Knockturn Alley alone, a place full of dark wizards.But she really needed to sell these potion materials, otherwise she would definitely not be able to pay for her subsequent studies.

Seeing that the other party hadn't spoken, Snape moved his interlocked fingers a little impatiently: "I think if you've thought about it, we can leave now. I don't have that much time to stand with you It's here to be seen like a statue, Miss Field."

Aurora noticed his words and couldn't help but froze for a moment: "Do you want to go with me?"

"If you're still going to stand here and waste time, no." Snape replied coldly.As he spoke, he raised his hand, as if he intended to pull out his wand right now and leave the Ministry of Magic with a single apparition.

Aurora nodded quickly, and subconsciously wanted to reach out to hold his hand, but was stimulated by Snape's sharp and cold gaze and immediately retracted: "Then let's go now."

Soon, the two of them disappeared together in the vortex of shape-changing.

Returning to Knockturn Alley did not make Aurora's impression of it much better, on the contrary it became more gloomy.The sky here is darker and colder than the sky in London, and the almost rotten black is spread in every corner that the eyes can see.That ominous tone even dipped into the snow here, decadent and paradoxical.There was still a strange smell in the air that couldn't be dispelled. Aurora frowned, and found that the source of the smell was the door of a dilapidated shop beside her, where rows of mummified poisonous sticklebacks were placed.

She withdrew her gaze, followed Snape's footsteps closely, and tried her best to stay within a range that made her feel safe and would not arouse the opponent's resentment.

Many dark wizards around looked at them in unison, with chilling smiles on their faces.Aurora caught a glimpse of a dark wizard closest to her who was leaning against the door and taking a sip from a glass that was glowing with black light. Her skinny fingers made her think of shriveled corpses, all of which were so shocking.

But what reassured her was that this time, the black wizards just stood there watching her and smiling grotesquely, without any intention of rushing up to catch her like last time.She guessed it was because of Snape.

Turning a corner, Snape stopped suddenly, and raised his chin towards a sizable shop on the left: "Here." Aurora raised her head and squinted her eyes to see the name of the shop, luckily it wasn't Bojinbok.

The light inside the store was worse than outside. When Aurora walked in, the air was cloudy and cold, and she was choked by the suspended dense dust and coughed continuously.It is hard to imagine that there are people living in such an environment, and people live there for many years.She looked up, startled by the wax-sealed viscera and limbs of various magical creatures hanging densely above her head, and quickly lowered her head, feeling her scalp tingling.

The curtain behind the counter was lifted, and a one-legged wizard jumped out from inside. He immediately laughed when he saw the person coming. In all fairness, this smile was very scary.The skin on his face was covered with tiny bluish-black lines, as if the ink had been quenched with a needle, and dyed along his blood vessels, making him smile, as if his entire face was about to split open.

"Mr. Snape." He said in a slippery tone, "Long time no see, what do you need to buy this time?"

"Actually, I'm here to sell things this time." Snape replied, "I remember that you've been buying potion ingredients here, too?"

"Of course, of course, then, what do you want to sell?" the owner Kent asked with his fingers facing each other, tilting his head.

Aurora looked at Snape, stepped forward and took out some potion ingredients from the bag and put them on the counter.After all this was done, she returned to her original position.

Kent looked at her cautious look, and his smile became even more exaggerated, which made the lines on his face more slender and split, crumbling and fragile: "What a beautiful little girl, and this hair." He said, He reached out as if to brush Aurora's long hair or touch her cheek.

Startled by his sudden movement, Aurora instinctively took a step back.Snape turned cold, quickly pushed Kent's outstretched hand away with his wand, stabbed the counter in front of him like a knife, his eyes were oppressive: "You should be curious about them." The indescribable danger and sharpness make people have no doubt that if the other party doesn't follow his will, he will really turn the wand in his hand into a knife.

Kent rubbed his hands and shrank his body. He looked like a cat with a hunched back, and he smiled: "Please forgive me, sir. I didn't mean to offend you."

Then, he began to carefully check the quality of these potion materials, and gave a pretty good price.

"Good cooperation, sir and miss. I am looking forward to your visit again." Kent handed the money bag to Aurora, but Snape quickly took it away, weighed it in his hand, and handed it behind him Aurora.

After leaving the shop, Aurora breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Thank you, Professor, I really troubled you today."

Snape ignored her, and started walking towards Diagon Alley, Aurora followed all the way, neither of them spoke.

After arriving in Diagon Alley, the tense feeling that has been tense in Knockturn Alley is immediately swept away by the joy and excitement here.A gentle and sweet aroma wafted from the pastry room, and the wizards with umbrellas held their hats and hurriedly entered and exited various shops.There are beautiful girls sitting in the refreshment shop, with their slender legs crossed and curled up, carefully applying lipstick against the glass.

Christmas is coming soon, maybe I can buy something here as a gift to take home, Aurora thought, looking at the dazzling array of objects in the shop beside her.At this time, Snape spoke suddenly, speaking very fast, his lips barely moved, and he didn't look at her: "I think you can go back by yourself."

"Ah, yes. Thanks..." Before Aurora could say anything, Snape had already moved forward, as if he was just a stranger who stopped by her side due to the crowd.Aurora looked at his back, the second part of thanking her got stuck in her throat, and then disappeared in the white mist she exhaled without a trace.

She put her hand on the carved metal handle of the gift shop's door, was silent for a while, sighed in compromise, and went into the shop.

The shop was very warm and dry because the fireplace was burning vigorously.Aurora walked aimlessly along the aisle to the special gift area, but unexpectedly saw a very familiar figure: "Beverly?"

The girl raised her head, and her delicate and beautiful face appeared extra three-dimensional under the rendering of lights and shadows: "Aurora."

"You also come to buy gifts."

"Yeah." Beverly straightened the scarf, holding the wrapped gift box in her hand, her dark brown eyes half-downcast, "Give it away."

Aurora nodded thoughtfully and said nothing.In my impression, Beverly had always said very little, let alone nonsense, but what she said just now was actually quite unnecessary.After all, buying gifts is for giving to others, so she doesn't need to explain.

"I have to go back, let's go first."

"Goodbye."

……

Snape wasn't surprised at all when Adjani Stoke called to stop him.In fact, before Ajani fully noticed him, he had already seen the other party, so he asked Aurora to go back without thinking.

If you really think about it, Adjani can be regarded as the last person Snape wanted to see in the former Death Eaters group.Not for anything else, just because it's annoying.She joined the Death Eaters with a very special ability, the charmer, although it is only effective for men, but this ability undoubtedly played a great role in helping the Dark Lord expand his power and obtain information.

Similarly, after the fall of the Dark Lord, Ajani also relied on her charmer ability to successfully convince most people in the Ministry of Magic that she was innocent.

Only an excellent Occlumency technique can resist her ability, and the more such a person, the easier it is to arouse Adjani's interest, and she will never tire of luring him until her target takes the bait.So for a long time, Adjani regarded Snape as her target, which is why Snape found her annoying.

"I knew I wouldn't admit my mistake." Adjani smiled, and slid down the steps silently like a shadow, elegant and neat, "Severus, it really is you."

Snape glanced at her, his eyes became hollow and dark under the effect of Occlumency, and no one could leave a trace of coldness: "It was a pleasant surprise and a pleasure to meet, Miss Stoke. I still Thought I only saw you when the Daily Prophet reported on Azkaban."

Adjani raised her bright red lips, looking mean and bewitching, and replied sinisterly: "You didn't go in, so it's never my turn. But speaking of it, looking at the status quo of all of us, I still I admire you the most, my dear, Mr. Head Slytherin."

After finishing speaking, she smiled coquettishly, stretched out her finger and scratched along the straight shoulder line of the other party's coat very quickly, then put it on her lips ambiguously, and let out a crisp laugh.Snape remained motionless, expressionless, as cold as a piece of solid ice standing in the far north.

"You really haven't changed at all." Adjani's tone had a gentle sigh that scratched people, "You've always been so annoying. Is this your talent, Mr. Professor?" Before Snape could answer, She took it self-consciously again, "It seems that to some extent, we are quite a match, isn't it?"

"I also think you haven't changed from before." Snape said sarcastically, the sarcasm in his voice undisguised. "Of course, I'm talking about your growth and morbid awareness of your own charm."

"You... you..." Adjani's face suddenly became very ugly.She couldn't bear the failure of her ability to be used as a joke, but Snape always enjoyed it, as if he knew that this was the way to make her lose her composure the most.

"Sorry, I still have a lot to do." Snape finished casually, ready to leave directly.Ajani suddenly reached out and grabbed his arm, her fingers were extra hard.

Snape frowned in disgust.The opponent's behavior crossed the line.

He just wanted to shake off Ajani's hand, but he heard her suddenly sweep away the resentment just now, and looked forward in a soft and happy tone and said: "Oh, look who that person is."

She turned her head and gave Snape a startlingly beautiful smile: "It seems to be the daughter of that Order of the Phoenix member."

Snape only paused for a short time, then tilted his head, his dark and dull eyes rolled to the narrow and long end of his eyes, staring straight at the other party, with a dreadful chill: "Immediately, let go."

"Why are you so fierce all of a sudden." Adjani looked at him with a smile, and said coquettishly, "Why don't you go and say hello? After all..." She delayed on purpose, "The two of us have met her father The person on the last side, I bet you haven't forgotten."

"If your brain has become so empty that it can only be filled with such boring memories, then I really feel sorry for you," Snape said bitterly.

Adjani raised her shoulders, her movements were indescribably delicate and fragile, and her fingers gently rubbed along the lines on Snape's sleeves: "This is not boring. You know, people who can resist my ability really Not much, that gentleman is just like you, I have always been impressed, how could I not remember."

"Hey, she seemed to be the one who spoke for you at the Ministry of Magic at that time, right? I was a little regretful that if you went to Azkaban, I would never see you again. I didn't expect..."

Sensing that the other party's wand had slipped from his sleeve to his palm, Adjani let go of Snape tactfully, distanced himself from him, stretched out his hand to hook his hair, and said regretfully: "Okay then, look I'll be left alone to greet the lovely lady. What's her name? Oh, remember, it's Field, isn't it?"

As soon as the words fell, Adjani suddenly felt a magic wand piercing her spine, which was still clear through the coat.She froze for a moment, followed by a glaring gnashing of teeth.

Snape's expression remained unchanged, but the shadows in his eyes had already spread: "She is someone who has been protected by Dumbledore, you'd better not be too interested."

Adjani laughed back angrily: "Are you caring about me?"

Snape looked at her in disgust.

"Do you know that you look really funny, Severus." Adjani approached him and finished speaking, before disappearing into the apparition.

He went out, turned his head and found Aurora's direction without any difficulty.Not long after Aurora came out of the gift shop, she was looking down at her pocket watch to confirm the time, then patted her own forehead in horror, and trotted all the way towards the magic pet shop.

She opened the door, greeted Mrs. Brent, grabbed the fluffy powder, stood in the fireplace, and left Diagon Alley in a bright green flame.

The sky began to snow again.

The author has something to say:

Well, this chapter is all sugar.

I'm really in a bad mood today, so I'll get up tomorrow and reply to everyone cute.

Also, if someone thinks that I have a lot of words every time, so it is annoying, in fact, you can make good use of the blocking function. After all, it is really uncomfortable for a talkative author not to say anything.

Finally, I don't know if the comment area will be so harmonious after this article is over, let's say something ahead of time.If you don't like the heroine, please scold the heroine crazily, if you don't like the plot, please scold the plot crazily, in short, don't rise to me, I will kneel down and thank you.