[HP] Alchemy and Love

"It's just an Oblivion Charm, I guess he wants me to forget he's been here," said Lorenthia.After a pause, she tried to comfort Sirius again: "Actually, I don't think he really intended to hurt me. Except for the Oblivion Curse, he was just shopping normally, and even paid too much. The money...Maybe, he has some unspeakable secrets..."

Sirius sneered, and Lorenthia swallowed the rest of the words. "Hidden?" he said sarcastically. "My good brother regards joining the Death Eaters as the highest honor in life. What can he hide? Want to be a good man?"

"But he really didn't hurt Loren," Lily said, "and, Loren said earlier, he was even polite when he spoke to her... I thought maybe Regulus was a little different from the other Death Eaters... ..."

"That's because he was too cowardly, he only dared to be a good boy and a good student, but he didn't even dare to kill people when he joined the Death Eaters." Sirius said coldly.

"Hey, we're trying to comfort you." James spoke for Lily.

"I don't need consolation," said Sirius. "We need to figure out now why he's in such a hurry to get a fake Slytherin locket."

"If he's already a Death Eater, maybe it's Voldemort who wants to collect Slytherin's relics?" Lorenthia asked, "Voldemort has always been a blood theory, didn't he claim to be a descendant of Slytherin— —”

"If Voldemort really wanted it, he wouldn't dare to buy it knowing it was a fake." Sirius said, "Although Regulus is stupid, he is not so stupid."

"Sirius." Remus said mildly, but there was a force in his tone, "Calm down first."

Sirius glared at him. "I'm calm."

"No, you didn't." Remus said calmly, "If you were really calm, you wouldn't blame Lily and Loren."

The two looked at each other for a while, and Sirius fell back slumped, lying on the back of the sofa, looking up at the ceiling. "Okay, okay." He admitted a little unwillingly, "I don't understand Regulus at all now. I have no idea what he is thinking at all. Ever since we had that quarrel, I have never heard of Regulus again." Didn't speak to him."

Lorenthia noticed Remus and James exchange a look. "All we know is that you haven't spoken to Regulus since the summer of fifth grade," Remus said, "and you've been refusing to explain what happened."

"Have you ever wondered why I couldn't bear it when I was in the fifth grade after so many years?" Sirius asked, still not looking at anyone in the room, "I went back that summer vacation and found Regulus The walls of his room were covered with newspaper clippings of Voldemort. I told him I couldn't stay any longer, and he told me he wanted to join the Death Eaters with a passion." He sneered, "So We had a fight, and I left before the crazy woman came and jinxed me, and that was it."

Lorenthia realized uncomfortably that she herself should not have been there at all—her relationship with Sirius was not close enough to share such a personal affair.But the other people present didn't seem to care. It can even be said that they basically ignored her existence.She also found that even James and Remus didn't seem to know what to say for a moment—Lorenthia didn't know what happened between Sirius and Regulus, but even the two of them didn't know what to say. At a loss, things must have been serious back then.

"Loren, what are you going to do next?" Lily asked suddenly, Lorencia was taken aback by her sudden question, but quickly realized: "Ah, I think... I won't be going back today for the time being No matter what Regulus thinks, the appearance of James and Sirius may have exposed my connection with the Order of the Phoenix. Just in case, I will not go home for the time being, and the store will be closed for a few days Out of business. I have notified Newt and Tina, and their family will also temporarily avoid it."

"Have you already planned where to stay?" Lily asked, "If you haven't decided yet, why not stay at our house for a few days? In addition, Dumbledore needs to be informed of this matter—"

"Yes, I should have informed him too," Lorenthia said, "Do any of you..."

"I haven't." Lily said, looking at James and Sirius, "they probably haven't either. Let me do it." She took out her summons card, took out her wand and clicked a little: "Oh... Wormtail messaged back that he couldn't make it, he had to take care of his mother."

"For anything important, he never comes." Sirius said. "We have been in the Order of the Phoenix for a year, and I suspect he has never met a Death Eater."

"It's true that his mother is not well," James said.Lily has already written the message quickly and passed it to Dumbledore.She put the summons card back in her pocket: "I told Dumbledore. Maybe this matter is Regulus's decision alone, but if it really involves Voldemort's order..."

"In that case, we will investigate soon, and the magic item shops in the whole of England are also very limited." James said, obviously trying to appease Sirius, "and, actually..."

Before he could finish his sentence, with a bang, an ugly little thing suddenly appeared in front of everyone.Nowadays, everyone's house will be cast with many protection spells, and ordinary people will never be able to enter easily. Everyone jumped up for a while, and James, Lily, Sirius and Remus all pulled out their wands and pointed at the new house very quickly. The thing that appeared, Remus took a step forward, blocking Lorenthia.

Lorenthia had never been trained in combat, and she was the only one who didn't react. She was still sitting on the sofa and was immediately blocked by Remus.But the glimpse in front of her was enough for her to see the thing that popped up out of nowhere.She and Sirius yelled almost in unison: "Kreacher!"

Over Remus' side, she and Sirius exchanged surprised glances.But Sirius immediately turned his attention back to Kreacher: "Why did you come here?!" He asked sternly, "What is your purpose?"

Lorenthia stood up from the sofa.She took a step to the side and stood behind Remus, watching Kreacher huddled on the carpet.The elf rocked back and forth, and suddenly let out a piercing scream.

"Kreacher failed to protect the young master, Kreacher made a mistake, and Kreacher left Master Regulus behind!"

He fell to the ground and slammed his forehead hard on the floor, making a loud bang.Everyone except Sirius put down their wands hesitantly, but Sirius still pointed at Kreacher firmly. "What do you mean?" he asked. "Where did you leave Regulus?"

"Stayed in the black-black-dark lord's cave." Kreacher replied, sobbing.

"Voldemort's cave? Where is it?" Remus asked immediately.Kreacher looked up at him and let out a yelp of disgust.

"Werewolves! Mudbloods! Kreacher can't talk to them, the mistress doesn't allow it, what will the mistress think of Kreacher, and such dirty, despicable—"

"Shut up!" Sirius and James yelled in unison.Kreacher fell to the ground again, punching himself so hard that he hit the floor.

"Kreacher, if you want to help you, Master Regulus," Lorenthia saw that the conversation was about to continue in a vicious circle, so she mustered up the courage to interrupt them, "Can you please tell me the whole story?" Pass? Is your Master Regulus in danger now?"

"Yes, young - young - the young master ordered Kreacher to leave, the young master told Kreacher to leave him alone, and he couldn't tell the family - the rest of the family, Kreacher could only take the locket away..."

"What locket? What the hell are you babbling about?" Sirius demanded aloud irritably.

"Sirius, calm down, please don't interrupt," Remus whispered.Lorenthia glanced at him gratefully, and slowly walked out from behind Remus, "Kreacher, can you explain the whole thing? Why did Regulus go to Voldemort's cave? Where are you trapped again?"

Surprisingly, Kreacher seemed to listen to her. It slowly sat up on the ground, clamped its face covered with tears and snot between its knees, and began to talk sullenly: "Master Regulus is 16 years old. When he joined the Dark Lord's organization, he was so proud, so proud, so happy, to be able to serve in..."

"Get to the point!" cried Sirius impatiently.

"A month ago, Master Regulus came to see Kreacher in the kitchen. Master Regulus had always liked Kreacher. Master Regulus said...he said...he said Voldemort wanted an elf. An honor, said Master Regulus, an honor for himself and for Kreacher. Kreacher must do everything the Dark Lord asks him to do...and go - go home."

Everyone in the room exchanged puzzled glances, "Go on, Kreacher." Lorenthia slowly approached it, and finally squatted beside it, "What does the Dark Lord want you to do?"

"Why does it listen to you?" James whispered in surprise, but was immediately stopped by Sirius and Lily together, the room fell silent, everyone was listening to Kreacher, only Remus seemed a little anxious to Dragging Lorenthia away from Kreacher's side, but in the end it still didn't do so.In the end, he too was drawn to what Kreacher had told about the Dark Lord, the stone basin, and the locket.

"Kreacher needed water, and he climbed to the edge of the island to drink the water from the Black Lake...Many hands, the hands of dead men, stretched out from the water and dragged Kreacher down..."

"Inferi," Remus said.

"No wonder he asked me to buy items to fight against Inferi." Lorenthia nodded, "So, did Regulus learn about the cave from you? Then he went there by himself?"

"But it doesn't make sense," James said. "How could Voldemort keep this guy alive? He should have been silenced long ago!"

"Maybe Voldemort didn't want to keep him alive. He thought Kreacher couldn't get out of the cave." Lily said, "House-elf magic is different from ordinary wizards, have you forgotten? Maybe the Dark Lord overlooked this."

"Master ordered Kreacher to go home, so Kreacher went home." Kreacher sobbed, "Master told Kreacher to hide, and then...tonight, Master Regulus came to the cupboard and found Kreacher... ...The young master asked Kreacher to take him to the cave, the cave where Kreacher and the Dark Lord went..."

Lily took a deep breath and frowned. "So, Regulus bought that fake locket to replace Voldemort's?" Lorenthia asked in shock, "What about him now? Where is he?!"

Kreacher burst into high-pitched tears. "Master ordered - Kreacher to leave - leave him alone. He told Kreacher - to go home - not to tell the family - what he did - but to destroy - the first locket. Then He drank it - drank the potion dry - Klee cut off and replaced the locket - but Kreacher couldn't bring the Master back - the Master wouldn't allow it -"

"But I'm not part of the family anymore! I've been kicked out of Black's house!" Sirius jumped up and shouted, "So you came to me, didn't you? Where's Regulus? Leave him alone—where is he?!"

The author has something to say: According to time, Sirius has been expelled from the Black family at this moment.So the strict wording tells him that it is not against Regulus' order...

This chapter excerpts or rewrites a few passages from the original book out of necessity.