[HP] His little devil

There was nothing wrong with making a vow never to harm Helena with a picture.

Even if he didn't make an oath, Regulus would never hurt Helena.

He was wise enough to leave room in his oath, promising only what he could: "I swear hereby that I will never do Helena Bird harm by what Lady Bird is about to tell me, and I will Protect Helena Byrd with all my might, until I die." Loughton, he changed, "No, even if I die, I will let my offspring, or my soul To protect Helena Byrd."

This promise was so heavy that even Mrs. Bird, who had always been skeptical of him, was stunned. Shocked, she forgot to pursue his previous promise to leave Helena once she was persuaded.

She stared at Regulus for a long, long time before she said to herself: "Maybe this is not a bad thing... Maybe I can believe that a Black is capable of fighting against him."

Regulus keenly caught the point of Mrs. Bird's words, and said without any trace: "'He'? You mean..."

Even if Mrs. Bird turned into a portrait, her face seemed to turn pale.

She hesitated for a long time before uttering the name tremblingly: "Yes... as you think, it's that person... he... Tom Riddle, or, you are more familiar with his other name... Lord Voldemort."

really.Sure enough, it has something to do with him.

Regulus was stunned, his expression remained unchanged, and he said very calmly: "Of course I am very familiar with this name, maybe it is because I am familiar with this name, and my family respects this name very much, that you will not allow Helena and I have something to do with it."

His guess was right. Mrs. Bird seemed to be lost in memory, and her voice became very soft, as if she was afraid of disturbing anyone.

"You are very smart... Every Black is very smart, they always know how to judge the situation, maybe Xiaona can live a more stable life with your help, but it may be a better way to stay away from you. Staying away from Black is equivalent to staying away from me. The Dark Lord..." Madam Bird said in a low voice, "My husband, Helena's father, he discovered his secret and was executed by him..."

Helena's father died at the hands of the Dark Lord. Although Regulus guessed it a bit, he was still a little at a loss when he heard it was confirmed.As long as he can remember, he has always had a good impression of that adult. Even if there is a rebellious brother in the family who always disagrees with his parents and him, he still has the same feelings as his parents.

He is on the side of the family, and he has indeed seen the methods of the Dark Lord.

In the beginning, he was very intelligent, and his articles and actions were wise and reliable.I don't know when, he seems to have changed, becoming more urgent and aggressive. Regulus' state of mind probably changed at that time. After getting to know Helena, he learned from Helena her views on the Dark Lord After that, he was no longer as firm as he used to be.

But now, at this very moment, he fully realized that he had to make other choices.

No matter how you look at it, you can't really follow the loved one who kills the father and the enemy.

Regulus thought a lot, but he made a decision in an instant. He calmly looked at Mrs. Bird's portrait and said, "May I know what secret Mr. Bird discovered?"

Mrs. Bird shook her head, and said in a little confusion: "I'm not sure, I don't know, he didn't tell me everything, he only told me that that person had come into contact with extremely terrifying black magic, and he told me that that person would lose his mind sooner or later. Something terrible happened, he will rule the entire magic world indefinitely, and let the magic world go into darkness... He asked me to take Helena away, but we had no time to escape..." Mrs. Bird was immersed in the memory, her face was full of pain Pain," he paid the price with his life, and I gave everything we had to the Dark Lord in exchange for Helena's survival. I promised him to follow my husband when my daughter was independent, and he used me very much With the powerful Legilimency, he is sure that I don't know anything, and that I can't escape from his grasp, so accepting my sincerity and letting a pure-blooded little girl go is fine."

Speaking of this, Mrs. Bird looked at Regulus sadly: "I have always hoped to revitalize the Bird family, and my husband and I have been doing this. All our efforts and all the hidden wealth of the Bird family It was all taken away by that person. When I was still alive, I always hoped that Helena could find a suitable and safe object. It seemed that I really hoped that she could complete the mission that my father and I did not complete, but in fact... I just wanted to Find her a backer."

Helena has no one to rely on.

It is the best choice to find a family that is relatively far away from the Dark Lord, neither prominent nor shabby, to be her reliance.

Lady Bird cannot tell her daughter the truth because it would kill her.She could only let her do that in the name of revitalizing the family, but in fact, she didn't expect that she could really revitalize the family.

Today, when the Dark Lord is becoming more and more powerful, a poor pure-blood family is much safer than a prosperous family.

So Madam Bird forbade Helena to get close to Regulus, and forbade her to be with Regulus.The people she picked for Helena, such as the son of Barty Crouch of the Ministry of Magic, were from families that were not related to Voldemort.

Regulus thought of all this clearly, showing a very relaxed expression.

"Thank you very much for Madam Bird's frankness." Regulus said with a smile, "I have already understood everything, and I will make appropriate arrangements."

Mrs. Bird frowned and said, "Will you keep your word, leave my daughter, and find a better asylum for her?"

Regulus smiled and said, "Dear madam, didn't you mention at the beginning that with my help, maybe Helena could live a better life?"

Lady Bird stared at him with wide-eyed glasses.

"You have to keep it secret for me, ma'am, because I will give everything I have for your daughter, overturning the concepts I have established in the past ten years. Of course I will fulfill the oath I made, and use everything I have even my life and soul to protect Helena, but I also want to confess to you that I will not leave her, nor will I let her leave me."

He moved a little closer, face to face with the picture closer, he looked at the portrait, as if he saw the grown-up Helena.

"You are beautiful, ma'am. Looking at your portrait, I can imagine how charming Helena will be in the future. I can't let her go. Please believe that I will protect her well." He said softly, "Even if I fail one day We are doomed, and I will die before her. I will work hard to protect her until the last moment of my life."

As long as he was alive, he would not put Helena in danger.

If he really failed, even if they were going to die together, he would stand in front of her and contribute the last bit of strength for her.

Mrs. Bird looked at the obsessed and dark young man with a complicated expression. She wanted to say a lot in her heart, but she didn't say anything in the end.

It's not that she doesn't want to say it, it's that she can't.

Regulus gave Kreacher a look, and the tacit elf immediately restricted the portrait, even if Lady Bird wanted to object to him.

Regulus left here, the lifeless manor under the night.

He returned to his home, looked at the newspaper clippings on the bedside, and looked at the motto of "forever pure". At no moment did he understand more clearly than now that the person his family has steadfastly admired for the past ten years is How ridiculous.

Nor had he forgotten the cause of Mr Bird's death.

Black magic is no stranger to a Slytherin, and he is even good at it. What kind of black magic makes Mr. Bird feel terrible, and even makes him die because of it?

Regulus pulled out his wand, cast a Vanishing Charm on the newspaper clippings by the bed, and then destroyed all the materials he had collected about the Dark Lord. After doing all this, he didn't go to sleep, but went to the library of the Black family.

He walked lightly between the tall bookshelves, his slender figure seemed to be submerged in the darkness.

When school started again on Christmas, Helena met Regulus.

He looked different from before the holidays, but he couldn't say exactly what was different.

Helena stood still at the door of the classroom. Regulus caught her gaze and looked back. His gray eyes were fixed on her, neither opening nor turning away.

Helena felt uncomfortable being watched by him, so she could only bear the pressure and walk to the seat beside him and sit down.

As soon as she sat down like this, many people began to whisper to them. Helena habitually ignored them. What those people said and did would not hurt her. She was more concerned about Regulus' reaction.

This time, he didn't deliberately keep a distance from her as before. Before the class started, his deep and sweet voice reached her ears.

"I've been to Bird Manor."

Such declarative sentences made Helena almost stand up.

"What?" She restrained the disbelief in her heart, and tried to ask in a flat tone, "You have been to my house? When I was not around?"

Regulus looked at her: "Do you mind my trespassing?"

Helena paused and said, "No, that's not the case. I just think you should discuss it with me, or at least tell me..."

"It's not convenient for me to send you a letter, so I just passed it." Regulus gave up arguing with her and told her the result of the matter, "I met your mother and persuaded her to accept my letter. .”

Helena really stood up this time. Professor McGonagall happened to pass by and frowned at her: "Please sit down, Miss Bird, the class is about to start."

Helena forced a smile, sat down with her wand tightly gripped, and said after a while, "Did she tell you why she didn't accept you in the first place?"

Regulus seemed to be smiling, but he didn't seem to, he shook Helena's hand under the table comfortingly, and whispered to her: "It's not a big deal, it's all been resolved, you don't need to worry about it .”

Helena hesitated: "Since it has been resolved, can't I know? I don't want to be kept in the dark."

Regulus was silent for a while, then wrote a paragraph on the parchment with a quill and pushed it in front of her. Helena looked down and saw that the content on it was actually very simple, with only one sentence - because my surname is Black.

In fact, it is not difficult to understand this.

Regulus' surname is too sensitive, especially in the current severe situation in the wizarding world.

Helena herself gave up getting engaged to the Black Lord directly because of the relationship between the Black family and the Dark Lord. She knew what her mother would think, but...

"But her reaction always makes me feel that it's more than that." Helena said unconsciously, "I always feel that things are not that simple..."

It was not Regulus who answered her, but Professor McGonagall: "Maybe Miss Bird is willing to come to the podium to show us? You seem to have some disagreements with what I just said?"

Helena shuddered a bit when she heard the voice, looked at the podium in embarrassment and said, "I'm sorry, Professor, I don't have any objections to what you said."

Professor McGonagall looked at her and Regulus and said, "Then listen carefully, and next time I will directly deduct points for Slytherin."

Helena shut her mouth and said nothing.

But don't talk about it, don't talk about it, the question is always in her heart, and she will always think about it.

While she was worrying about this, Regulus told her another news - he had convinced his mother that he would not arrange any more betrothals until he graduated.

This is good news, it means that she doesn't have to worry about someone else intervening in their relationship, but...

Regulus' change troubled her even more.

Since that Transfiguration lesson ended, he changed seats again, sitting with Mulciber, away from Helena.

Not only that, but in public, he would only greet Helena like ordinary classmates, without any intimacy.

He seemed to be scrupulous about something, Helena could feel it, but his sudden change brought her not only emotional loss, but also a more distorted direction of speech.

Helena seemed to be the target of everyone's criticism. Many people were laughing at her for being played enough by Regulus and completely abandoned her. She knew in her heart that Regulus was not that kind of person, but she knew it was the same thing in her heart. is another matter.

Regulus quickly picked a suitable moment and explained his change.

Helena met him one afternoon on Hogsmeade Day in the woods behind the Three Broomsticks.

He turned around in the white sky, black robe, tall and thin, with a thin layer of snowflakes on his shoulders, it seemed that he had been waiting for a while.

He had a gentle demeanor and looked at her with unusually gentle eyes when no one was around, but Helena couldn't be happy at all.

"How do you explain it?"

Helena walked over and asked this question, but in fact she didn't need his explanation at all.

Of course she knew his intention in doing so, and she just didn't want the news that they were still inseparable to reach Mrs. Black's ears.

There may be some other reasons that she doesn't know that made him have to do that, but knowing it doesn't mean she can accept it calmly.

After all, she is still superficial and hypocritical, liking someone cannot be completely superficial, she hopes to be recognized.Many times she even wanted to say it frankly regardless of everything. She deliberately didn't think about the things she minded and the gap between them.But she was a Slytherin, not a Gryffindor, and that impulsiveness and deliberation were just impulsive and deliberate.

And now even if she is willing to ignore everything and insist on getting engaged to him, and marry him as soon as she graduates, Regulus probably won't allow it.The matter has come to this point, and she has no way out if she wants to retreat.

Regulus noticed her uneasiness and irritability, he looked around and stepped forward to hug her, but Helena avoided her.

Helena stood there with a calm expression and said, "You are too cold, you should stay away from me."

Regulus watched her quietly. He noticed that she had used the Warming Charm, and no matter how cold he was, it would not bother her too much. She said that just to make an excuse.

She is resisting him.

This realization made Regulus' eyes gradually darken.