[HP] Flower of Eternal Life

When the light entering the room gradually dimmed, and the pointer of Esther's pocket watch pointed to six in the afternoon, the sound of footsteps came to her door as promised.

But the footsteps this time were different from the footsteps she was used to hearing before, Severus Snape usually came and left with hurried steps, but this time the footsteps were soft and regular, Esther realizes that the person who should be here finally has time to meet her.

"Good evening, Tom." She sat upright by the bed and smiled slightly, and said to the young man who appeared in her room.

The pair of dark eyes that the young man stared at her seemed to flash a red light at a certain moment, but Esther soon realized that it was probably her illusion, and Tom Riddle's eyes were still the same as her memory. The exact same deep black.

He spoke, and said in an adult's low and soft voice: "I hope you can call me Voldemort, which is a more formal name."

"Is this a request or a request?" Esther tilted her head and said briskly, "I think in our relationship, I should call you Tommy."

The next moment, she felt a dull and sharp pain bursting inside her body, the pain swept through her internal organs, numb her limbs and fingertips, when she finally regained her consciousness from the pain At that moment, Esther found himself falling on the floor in a very unseemly posture, curled up into a small ball.

But at least one thing she was sure of, she didn't make a sound.

The aftermath of pain still echoed in her mind, and when she fixed her eyes on the face of Tom Riddle approaching her, she noticed the indifferent displeasure on the young man's face.

The young man approached her on one knee, and for a moment Esther thought Tom would lift her up, but he just supported her jaw with his wand, and said in a sweet voice: "Don't try to provoke me, And don't think that I will be merciful to you, your arrogance will bring misfortune."

So Esther narrowed her eyes and raised the corners of her mouth to show a shallow smile: "I never thought you would be kind to me, you hate me and us very much, don't you? Your behavior just now proves that you can't get over This hurdle."

Another pain hit, and Esther felt that all the organs in his body were shrunk into a small ball, being pulled and twisted brutally by a pair of invisible hands, and kneaded together like a rag.This time the pain lasted shorter than the last time, even so she was already sweating profusely, the torture was over, but the aftermath of the pain still remained on her body.

"Esther Snape, you seem to think you know me very well." Tom Riddle's eyes turned scarlet, and this time she was sure that she was right. For reasons he didn't understand, he let out a short nasal laugh.

"I never said that." Esther stared at the pair of red pupils in a trance, and whispered in a dreamlike voice, "The one lying in front of you is the 14-year-old Esther Snell Pu, Hogwarts fourth year student, what do you think you're up against, Tom Riddle?"

The young man's face gradually blurred as she uttered the words word by word, and the darkness overflowed from the edge of her narrow field of vision, quickly engulfing everything.

-

"Is this the Horcrux?"

When they gathered again in the headmaster's office at Hogwarts at night, the legendary locket belonging to Salazar Slytherin had been brought by Sirius from 12 Grimmauld Place to members of the Order of the Phoenix.

They stared nervously at the small box with ornate snake-like letters carved on the lid, and seemed helpless about it.

Arthur Weasley, who just asked the question, looked around his colleagues uneasily, and finally turned his eyes to Professor Dumbledore sitting behind the desk for help, and asked cautiously: "I mean we can do it. What? We can't open it, and we can't seem to destroy it."

Professor Dumbledore nodded slightly, and then said: "Actually, I found a way to destroy it, but I can't tell you yet, it is a powerful magic that I dare not try lightly—" He stopped After finishing the conversation, he turned to say: "In any case, we have made good progress, and I have summoned you here to tell you, members of the Order of the Phoenix, that we will make finding Voldemort's Horcrux an important priority next. Goals are on the agenda. From now on, I will leave school frequently, and I hope that when I am not here, you can obey Minerva's instructions." When he said the last sentence, he obviously looked at the students standing side by side. Albus and Rose together, which made the two children wince.

The adults looked at each other and finally nodded and agreed to the arrangement. After that, Dumbledore left behind Remus Lupine, Kados Meadows, Arthur Weasley, Alice Longbottom and Mickey Mouse. Leva McGonagall dismissed the others, and the two children obediently left the principal's office.

On the way back to the Gryffindor common room, Albus had a flash of light in his mind and grabbed Rose, who was walking ahead, who turned around and gave him a bewildered look.

"□□! Do you still remember the □□ topic we mentioned before?" Albus's face was bright with excitement, he turned his head and checked to make sure there was no one around, and then moved to Rose's ear, lowering his voice. Said the voice, "House of Requirement! That hiding room is full of gunpowder. Maybe we can find something useful?"

Rose obviously remembered after his reminder, opened her eyes wide, and murmured: "Indeed!" But then she sighed and said: "It's a big project, but it's better than waiting. Much better, let's start tomorrow, at least the grown-ups won't find out what we're doing." At the end, she raised her head and smiled.

Looking at Rose's face, Albus felt that his heart was filled with some kind of warm power, and he felt that at this moment he finally gained the motivation to continue to act.

-

When Esther woke up, it was already ten o'clock in the morning of the next day. She found that she had returned to the bed at some point, and a certain young man in black was standing silently by the window just like the previous two days.

She got up from the bed, dragged her sore body like a puppet whose joints were broken by being beaten back and forth, and limped to the desk, and finished the cold breakfast.

Snape brought the large suitcase as promised, as well as the bird and snake eggshell she wanted.She twitched the corners of her mouth and smiled, and began to prepare the potion.

She added various materials to the crucible according to the recipe in memory, and watched the potion ingredients in the crucible seep out with the heat provided by the flame, and gradually turned into a lovely light golden color, and then every ten seconds Just stir it clockwise three times and counterclockwise three times, and then add various prepared potion ingredients one after another. If there is a mistake in one link, it will lead to dire consequences.

She suddenly recalled the first time she watched Abby make the Felicity Potion, the mother sat next to her with a smile on her face, watching the boys who were engrossed in making the potion, while their father kept a straight face , seemingly calm but actually staring at Abby's movements with extreme nervousness. From time to time, he would startle as if he was going to guide Abby's operations, but he endured it every time——

Tears blurred her vision, and Esther sat there helplessly, looking down at the transparent water droplets falling on the palm of her hand.She had seldom cried as long as she could remember, and the last time she cried was probably when Abby was going to Hogwarts - that was six - no - seven years ago.

A shadow fell to cover her field of vision, Esther looked up and found that the young Snape had come to her side, stretched out his hand and threw the thyme leaves that had been cut into thin strips along the leaf lines with a silver dagger in front of her in the crucible.

"Are you going to blow up this house?" said the young Snape with a stiff expression. He fixed his eyes on the solution in the cauldron and stretched out his wand - this wand was used like Esther's wand Made of birch wood—began to attract the potion. Turn three times clockwise and three times counterclockwise.

"Thank you." Esther wiped away her tears with the cuff of her robe, picked up the glass rod she threw on the ground, wiped it clean with a damp towel, and took over Snape's work.

The young man turned around and walked back to his fixed position as if he had lost interest in her and her potion.

-

At Will's strong request, Madam Pomfrey removed his plaster cast ahead of time, and Frank Longbottom finally woke up from his coma on the day he was discharged from the hospital.

The three partners rushed non-stop from the school infirmary to the storage room of the Room of Requirement, and immediately started their rummaging work, trying to find more information related to the Horcrux, but to their disappointment was the giant hidden here. Most of the books are either bloody R-rated novels or outright porn.

"Wow." Will stared straight at the reader in his hand, with a weird smile on his face. Rose noticed this and hurriedly leaned over to look at the text Will was reading, and immediately I blushed.

"William Dursley!" she yelled angrily, hitting him on the head with a book as thick as a History of Magic textbook in her hand, who let out a contrived scream, jumped up and fled away into the distance , and Rose Weasley did not intend to let him go so easily, and then entered the unfathomable center of the city.

After a while, Albus, who was arranging his books, suddenly heard a scream in the distance. He jumped up, pulled out his wand and rushed towards the direction of the sound, and then found his own body in the depths of the alley. The two friends were standing intact, staring at something at the same time.

"What's going on?" Albus stepped forward in bewilderment, casting his eyes on what they were looking at obsessively, and realized that what his companions were looking at was a golden light placed over the head of a statue The incomparably gorgeous glittering crown made him speechless.

Finally, Rose's trembling voice broke the silence in the huge city—"I think this should be Ravenclaw's crown?"

☆、Chapter 14