[HP] If youth has an ageless face

"I'm going on a long trip tomorrow."

Edwina saw his strange emotions: "Why?"

Haydn walked to the edge of the bed and sat down. He bent down and covered his face with his hands.After waiting for a long time, Edwina heard a long sigh. He raised his head and answered, "The Death Eaters are looking for me."

It seemed to take all her strength to understand that brief sentence.Although she had never fought on either side, Edwinra knew how dangerous the Death Eaters were: "Are they looking for you?"

"The Aurors didn't catch all the Death Eaters, and some of them are still fleeing." Haydn's voice revealed a hollow fear, "They know that I betrayed them, and now they want me to pay for it."

"You betrayed them..." Edwin repeated his words in a low voice, and then she suddenly realized, "You made a deal with the Ministry, didn't you? So you're not implicated in anything—"

"Someone leaked the news, or they wouldn't have found out it was me." Haydon interrupted her. "The former captain of the Davis family—that is, the one who brought you from Brazil—has been murdered in the At home, this is their demonstration against me."

"Do they want your life?"

"—Of course not!" Haydn suddenly raised his voice, "I'm going to negotiate with them tomorrow to see if there is any room for maneuver in this matter."

"Then what will Blaise and I do?"

"You are not their target, at least not for the time being." Haydn got up and walked in front of her, putting his hand on her shoulder, "Stay here, Edwina, and wait for me to come back."

"What will happen if the negotiation fails?" Edwinla asked.

Haydn uttered a hoarse syllable, and then replied very softly and quickly: "I will die."

"Oh," she said, that's all.

He might never come back from this trip, it might be their last night together, and she just said "oh" lightly.

Haydn closed his eyes.After a long time without waiting for her inquiry or touch, he opened his eyes and found that she was continuing to comb her long hair full of brilliance, her face was calm, even cold.

He couldn't bear her indifference to face the crisis in front of him, Haydn restrained the emotions in his heart, gritted his teeth and said, "I will not let the negotiation fail."

She nodded. "I don't think it can fail."

He froze for a moment.

"If the Death Eaters wanted your life, they wouldn't be so devious. Now that they're being hunted by Aurors, they must be looking for something you can offer that they need...for example, Let them hide abroad."

"Do you wish it were that simple?"

"I hope things can be solved with money."

"Why can you be so rational? Even if we are discussing a matter of life and death." Haydn held her face and forced her to look at him: "Do you love me, Edwin?"

—Do you want me to never come back?

It was a question he dared not ask.

"Why are you asking such an innocent question?" She laughed, charming as always, "You'll be fine." She gently pushed him away, "Now I want to sleep, okay?"

he's gone.

Haydn's absence did not disturb Edwin's rhythm, and she held another dance as planned, as if the threat from the Death Eaters had never daunted her.

This time, she excluded the newly married "Zabinis" and invited Gilderoy Lockhart instead.

"You seem to be very nervous every time you see me, sir." Edwina stared at him. This writer who is said to be very popular among women doesn't know why every time he sees her, he looks like a mouse seeing a cat. .

Under her steadfast gaze, Lockhart's smile gradually froze and disappeared.

"I read your book many years ago. It's a very wonderful adventure story." Edwin slowly turned the wine glass in his hand, "Which one do you think I like best?"

Lockhart tried to smile: "I don't understand what you're thinking, Mrs. Zabini."

"The one about Romanian vampires." Her eyes fell on the glass, but she didn't let go of every change in Lockhart's expression. "My sister is a graduate of Ravenclaw. , she went to Romania for a long journey, the purpose is to explore the mystery of the legendary vampire—”

"Sorry ma'am, I have to go say hello to my friend..."

"Are you sure you don't want to finish this story, Mr. Lockhart?" She pinned him in place with just one sentence, "She has fallen in love with an unknown man with whom she has been in touch since returning from Romania. "

"A romantic love story," Lockhart commented, slowly recovering his composure, "Maybe she's taking it too seriously?"

"My mother thought so too, especially after she found out about the nasty correspondence. Worse they soon found out that my sister had embezzled a sum of money to sponsor the other party's follow-up trip. From parents My sister's self-esteem was demolished by his scolding, and at the same time, her lover urged her to elope with him. You may have guessed what happened later." Edwin stared closely at Lockhart's face, "She swept away The property in the family left without saying goodbye, and there has been no news since then."

"A very good story, Mrs. Zabini," said Lockhart briskly. "Perhaps you should write it. It will be a hit."

"Don't pretend you don't understand, Mr. Lockhart." Edwin put away the last trace of his fake smile, "I didn't suspect you at first, it was your abnormal behavior that reminded me... Ravenclaw, Romania, a few grades above Constance, I should have thought of that."

"Your groundless accusation is a false accusation, Mrs. Zabini. I can report to the Ministry of Magic—"

She reached out her hand and pulled out something from the breast pocket of Lockhart's robe dress: "A beautiful, delicate and magnificent pocket watch." She stroked it, repeatedly looking at its simple design, "Many years ago, my father also liked it very much. It. Mr Lockhart, I'm not exactly clever, but you're too arrogant to even try to cover it up."

"Framed!"

Lockhart stretched out his hand to snatch it away, but Edwin pulled away lightly: "If you want to go to court, go ahead, you must be the one who loses your reputation in the end." She read his fear from Lockhart's eyes , "You spent so many years painstakingly establishing your status as a best-selling author, you don't want to become a notorious scum overnight?" Edwin didn't give Lockhart a chance to continue talking nonsense, "Tell me what you and Kang All about Stance, tell me where she is, or you'll be a street rat before sunrise tomorrow."

"I have separated from her long ago, and I don't know her whereabouts." Lockhart's face flushed purple, "I can't tell you what you want to know!"

"Oh? You abandoned her after deceiving our family's property?" Edwin gripped the pocket watch that once belonged to Mr. Davis, "Tell me where, when, and how you separated. I."

“I asked her to meet me straight away from the hotel we shared in Romania after she left home, and we stayed there for another week, during which time I convinced her to deposit money into an account I had in Europe. I didn’t touch all the jewelry, just I took one or two things she gave me." Lockhart's face turned pale again under Edwin's sarcasm, "A week later, I left while she was still awake."

"Aren't you afraid that she will come back to us and reveal everything?" Lockhart's eyes dodged, and Edwin took a step closer, "Tell me the truth."

"I cast a Forgetting Curse on her..." Lockhart sighed, hesitated to speak, "cast a forgetting spell."