【HP】Sugar Bowl

When Albert brought his family to No. 12 Grimmauld Place, many people had already gathered here.

Mrs. Weasley and Eve hugged each other affectionately, pretending not to see George who had come with them.

George and Fred winked and huddled together, talking in whispers.

Rachel looked at the gloomy house, which was completely decorated in Slytherin style.A Slytherin-style house used as the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix would be a ridiculous joke, Rachel thought.

"It's not good here, is it?" A pleasant male voice sounded behind Rachel.

Rachel looked back, and it was Sirius Black.After leaving Hogwarts, Rachel saw him several times. He came to her house in a hurry, met Albert and then left in a hurry.

His life seemed to be much easier, and his whole person looked less shabby than before, much cleaner and tidier.He shaved his beard to reveal his handsome face. Although he was still a little thin, it was enough to see his outstanding appearance when he was young.

Rachel seemed to be surprised when she saw his appearance for the first time, and then she greeted him politely.

"Hello, Mr. Black, nice to meet you, and thank you for taking me in here." She noticed the tapestry with the names of all the members of the Black family.

Sirius said nonchalantly: "You can just call me Sirius, don't be so polite, I heard from Harry that you helped him a lot during the Triwizard Tournament, what I can do is compared to what you did, It's just not worth mentioning."

Rachel knew that he was referring to the fact that she had saved Cedric, but she didn't want to mention it anymore. She changed the subject and said, "Will Harry come?"

Sirius nodded and said: "I will come, but it will take a few days, because..." He didn't continue talking, obviously realizing that this topic is not very good.

There was a bit of silence between the two, and Sirius suddenly said, "I don't like the Black family's house, but its library is okay, and you can use it if you want."

Rachel's eyes lit up, and she asked excitedly: "Really?" This kind of ancient pure-blood family always has a variety of precious books, some of which are even related to family secrets. Therefore, these pure-blood families Family libraries are generally not allowed to be used by outsiders.

Sirius obviously didn't care, he said: "Of course it's true, anyone who lives here can use this library at will, but there are some books involving black magic in it, you'd better not touch it."

Rachel nodded sharply, showing a big smile: "Thank you! Sirius, you are such a generous person!"

In the next period of time, Rachel could not extricate herself from the library of Blake's house, and she didn't even want to eat.

Not long after, Lida moved in and joined Rachel in reading.George and Fred took advantage of these few days to take the apparition test, and consciously took on the job of delivering meals to their relatives and girlfriends, and watching them finish their meals.

A few days later, Hermione also came here, and Mrs. Weasley took all the children to clean up.Rachel and Lida volunteered that they would clean the entire library and organize all the books.

Looking at the messy library, Mrs. Weasley felt that this place was indeed a *masked keyword* trouble, so she handed over the library to them.

After Mrs. Weasley left, Rachel and Lida smiled at each other. Most of the books here were released by them. They looked messy, but the arrangement was actually related.

They secretly cleaned up the entire library with their wands, and even if they cleaned it, when Mrs. Weasley came to check again, they just said they were sorting the books.

Rachel and Lida didn't even think about spending time on cleaning. They walked into this library, like travelers in the desert falling into a lake, absorbing all the knowledge hungrily.

One evening at dinner time, George and Fred took dinner to the library to feed their girlfriends as usual.

George put the dinner plate on the small table and sat down next to Rachel, with his hands on her shoulders.

Rachel was startled by his action, raised her head blankly, and looked at him with those wet eyes.George took off her black-rimmed glasses and planted a kiss on her eyelid.

"Honey, your forgotten boyfriend is here to bring you your forgotten dinner, let's eat it before watching!" George's tone was very resentful.

Rachel stroked his thigh back and forth as comfort, took the dinner, and said, "I love you, George, without you I would starve to death here!"

George snorted and passed her the cutlery without clapping her hands away.

Rachel and Lida put their own small low tables together, and the four of them gathered together to eat and chat.

Lida asked them, "How is the cleaning upstairs?"

Fred shrugged and said, "It's not that good. After all, this place used to be a snake den. It's not that easy to clean."

Rachel asked suspiciously: "I remember that Black's family has a house elf, why can't I ask him for help?"

George said in an exaggerated tone: "Old Kreacher? It's good that he didn't make trouble, and he was thinking about driving us out all day long."

Lida and Fred looked at each other, curled their lips helplessly, and said to Rachel: "Haven't you seen that house elf? Every time you see us, you swear and hate us! "

Rachel looked at her and asked, "Is it the same for you?"

Lida was stunned for a while, and then she realized that she opened her eyes wide and asked, "How do you know?" She turned her head and asked Fred, "Did you tell George?"

Fred looked at her blankly and asked, "What?" George also looked at the three of them blankly.

Rachel came to her senses and quickly said, "No, no, no, because I saw this." She handed Lida a black soft leather book with bronzing patterns, and said, "The Blake's Family tree, originally I just wanted to study the magic here, but I saw your name, sorry, I didn't mean it."

Lida took the family tree and turned to the last page, her name was indeed written at the bottom.Holding the family tree in embarrassment, she said, "It's okay, it's Sirius. He thinks it's safer not to tell me that I'm his daughter."

"What!!" George's eyes widened and his mouth opened wide. Rachel pinched him hard when he was about to speak, "Ah!"

Rachel ignored George's aggrieved eyes, and said to Lida apologetically, "I'm really sorry, I don't know..."

Lida smiled and shook her head: "It's really okay, you don't have to worry about it."

Fred took the Blake family tree, looked at it for a while, and suddenly said, "This family tree looks like the Marauder's Map."

The four looked around the Black family tree, and George said, "There should be a spell, let's try to solve it?"

He looked at Lida for her opinion, and after Lida nodded indifferently, George put his wand on the Black family tree.

Fred also watched his movements with great interest, and said, "What's the password for the Slytherin lounge? Pure blood glory? Try it!"

George chanted the spell, but Heipi's family tree didn't respond, "No."

Lida said: "It's probably not much different, try the glory of a pure-blooded family."

There was still no response, Rachel looked at the black leather book, thought for a while and said, "I remember reading in a book before that these ancient pure-blood families have their own methods of keeping secrets, and some spells belong to non-family families. Members cannot break the curse, how about Lida try?"

The three pairs of eyes looked at Lida together, and Lida raised her magic spell according to the words, pressed it against the Black family tree, and recited the spell.

I saw that the letters written in black ink had changed, and some small characters were squeezed out under the names of family members, some were long and some were short.

The four of them took a closer look, and Rachel said, "This is the story of all family members."

George lost interest in an instant. He leaned lazily on the back of the chair, playing with a lock of Rachel's hair.

Fred found Lida's name, which read "Student at Hogwarts, published research reports on magic circles in academic weekly magazines many times during school, and was invited by the British Red Nose Magic Circle Association in 1995, becoming the youngest A member of the Magic Circle Association."

Fred straightened up and asked Lida in surprise, "You joined the Red Nose Magic Circle Association? Why didn't you tell me?"

Lida looked guilty and said, "I was going to tell you, but I forgot when I came to the library."

Rachel didn't pay attention to their quarrel. She saw Sirius' name on the Black family tree. It seemed that the name on this family tree could not be burned like the Black family tapestry.

She looked at Sirius' deeds, which were basically the same as what she knew, and then looked at other names, and her eyes were attracted by one name.

Rachel interrupted Lida and Fred's argument, saying: "Stop, you see this, Regulus Black, Sirius' younger brother, joined Voldemort as a Death Eater in his early years..."

When she said this, the other three didn't look surprised. They seemed to have guessed that, except for Sirius, everyone else in this family was a follower of Voldemort.

Rachel continued: "In 1979 the Slytherin pendant was found to be Voldemort's Horcrux..."

George asked: "Is this a big event? It looks weird to write here! Also, what is a Horcrux?"

Rachel looked serious and said, "It's an evil thing. I'll explain it to you later, so keep reading."

She read again: "Then at the cost of her life, she took out the real Horcrux, exchanged the fake for the real, and ordered Black's house elf, Kreacher, to destroy it.

Epitaph: I would risk my life to fight others for you, but a mortal of flesh and blood. "After reading, the four of them were silent.

After a while, Fred suddenly said, "I suddenly don't think all Slytherins are bad people."

George agreed, "If I understand correctly, at least Regulus Black is a hero."

Rachel handed the family tree to Lida and said, "You should show Sirius this family tree, maybe he always thought his brother was a death eater through and through."

Lida nodded, and said, "I have to ask Kreacher if he really destroyed the Horcrux that Regulus asked him to destroy."

"We'd better tell Dumbledore about the Horcruxes."

Lida and Rachel finally came out of the library, and the four found Sirius first, and explained Regulus to him.

Sirius was obviously skeptical, he said: "I'm not sure, Regulus has always been a standard Death Eater, and 1979 was Voldemort's heyday, would he have the courage to deceive Voldemort?"

Lida frowned and said, "He is your younger brother. Why did your first reaction when you heard his heroic deeds be suspicion instead of relief?"

Sirius showed a rare good temper towards Lida, and he said kindly: "Because you have never been with Regulus, he is the proudest child of my parents, full of pure blood ideas, a Absolutely Slytherin!"

Lida frowned deeper, she seemed a little angry at Sirius' prejudice.

Rachel interjected appropriately: "Sorry, I want to interrupt..." Both Sirius and Lida looked at her, and Rachel continued: "If you want to know if this is true, just ask Kreacher OK?"

They were silent for a while, and Sirius called Kreacher.The old house-elf looked thin and pale. He bowed to Sirius not so respectfully, and said, "Master, what do you want?" Master Rees is a bad boy, he liked to make the mistress angry before, and now he actually brought the pure-blood traitor Weasley into the house, and even let the mudblood live in the mistress's house..."

Sirius looked angry and embarrassed as he yelled at Kreacher, "Shut up! I won't let you insult anyone who lives here!"

Kreacher didn't make a sound anymore, but his mouth was still moving, obviously still swearing those insulting words silently.

Sirius was like a big furious dog, as if he was about to rush up and bite Kreacher immediately.

Rachel quickly winked at Lida, Lida nodded knowingly, she asked Kreacher: "We want you to have a question about Regulus."

Kreacher straightened up in an instant, looking at Lida, big drops of tears welled up from under those slack eyelids.