[HP] His little devil

It was difficult for Helena to stare at Regulus' notes and study carefully.

She always thinks wildly unconsciously. For example, now, she thinks that Regulus is really contradictory. You can see that he usually writes greeting cards in elegant cursive style with a strong Black family style, but when he takes notes, he is very neat. Continuous font.

Write down smoothly, not a single letter is messy, all neat and clear.

Helena closed the notebook dejectedly, let go of the quill and lay down on the table.

Lying on the bed, Evelyn glanced at her, and said casually, "Have you been stumped by the potion thesis again? If you can't, you can copy mine, just modify it a little bit. Anyway, the dean will never detain me from the school for copying homework." student's score."

Helena just lay on her stomach and said, "If I don't deduct points, I will be put in confinement."

"That's not bad, maybe you can learn something by going to the dean's office for confinement." Maggie interjected.

Helena straightened her waist and pressed her forehead, hesitated for a while and finally opened the notebook again, trying to concentrate on her studies.

I don't know if the Byrd family has the prophecy blood.

She just mentioned a sentence in the dormitory to be locked up, and she will be locked up in the next potions class.

It's not because she made any mistake, she was implicated.

They were with Gryffindor in that Potions class, and Ceci Parkinson had a conflict with the Gryffindors. By the way, she was concentrating on handling potion ingredients at that time, and she didn't even notice the danger approaching. If Regulus hadn't grabbed her in time, her back would have suffered.

However, although Regulus pulled her back in time, she was still implicated.

More precisely, their group was implicated.

Gryffindor's curse was dodged by Parkinson, and it came straight to the cauldron of Helena and Regulus, only to hear a bang——

The cauldron exploded.

This was probably the first and only time Regulus blew up the cauldron in his life.

It is also very memorable for someone like him to have the opportunity to experience this feeling.

When Professor Slughorn arrived, the pot of good potion had been destroyed. He was quite sorry, and severely reprimanded Parkinson and that Gryffindor, and deducted [-] points from Gryffindor, even though he defended his shortcomings, Ten points off Slytherin this time too.

He finally set his sights on Helena and Regulus. Originally, both of them were innocent and should not be punished, but after all, their cauldron exploded, causing a mess of smoke around them, especially Regulus, in order to protect Helena, he was in such a mess.

He was always gentle and neat, and his school robes were spotless and wrinkled all the time, but now his expensive school robes were corroded by unfinished potions, and the corners were torn and tattered, so he could see that he was wrinkled raised eyebrows.

With lingering fear in her heart, Helena said "I'm sorry" with a pale face. Before Regulus could answer, Slughorn spoke.

"Miss Bird's handling of the accident is disappointing. Since you are not the main person responsible for the accident, I will not deduct points for Slytherin, but the confinement will be closed at seven o'clock every night for the next week, and the location is my office."

He frowned and spoke, and his eyes fell on Regulus who was frowning vaguely. Helena realized in an instant—this is for her to make amends to the second young master of the Black family who was dragged down in this way. .

Helena looked sideways at Regulus, he relaxed his eyebrows, his expression was calm, he seemed to have calmed down?Or was he not angry at all?

If he was really angry, he probably wouldn't help her. He hasn't even let go of his half-armed waist.

Helena realized this, and immediately took two steps forward, dodging his hand and said honestly: "Okay, professor."

Slughorn wanted to sell Regulus a favor, even though Regulus might not need it.Helena guessed it, of course she had to obey the dean, and she didn't have the power to disobey.

Evelyn looked at her worriedly the whole time, and Helena gave her a comforting look, and when she went to see Maggie, she found Maggie looking at Regulus thoughtfully.

She froze for a moment, and then looked back. Regulus was standing where he was, and the blown cauldron had already been cleaned up.Holding his wand, he said to the tattered hem of his clothes, and the hem quickly returned to its original appearance.

Magic is wonderful.

Helena sighed and left the classroom after the class ended.

She will go to the confinement on time every night for the next week.

Slughorn prepared a bunch of materials for her to handle, and they were all easy to use. She didn't think the professor was accommodating her, and she tended to believe that he did it because he was afraid that she would ruin those precious materials. of.

After all, although her grades have improved recently, the bad impression of the past two years is really deep, and it will be difficult to get rid of it for a while.

She still arrived at the potions professor's office on time that day, and when she went in, she found that she was not the only one who came to confinement today.

The foursome of Gryffindor's famous hijackers are all there.

As soon as she came in, the four of them looked at her. Compared with the materials Slughorn left her, theirs was much more disgusting.

James Potter who dealt with the slug snorted softly and whispered to Sirius Black: "The old guy is really eccentric. He threw us such a disgusting thing, but let the people in his academy handle it so easily."

Sirius Black was speechless, and looked Helena from head to toe with his eyes, and the corners of his mouth curled up like nothing.

On the other hand, Lupine said in a low voice, "If it wasn't for the serious mistakes made this time, Professor Slughorn wouldn't be like this. Didn't we always do simple jobs every time we did labor services?"

Potter choked, remained silent for a while, and finally resigned to his fate in frustration.

Not knowing what mistake they made to make someone as smooth as Slughorn so angry, Helena walked slowly to the console, her side was close to Remus Lupine, and away from Potter and Sirius Black was not close, and even farther away from the timid Peter Pedilou, but it was quiet.

She sat down slowly, put on her dragonskin gloves, and said to Lupin, "Thank you."

The two were not relatives, this was not the first time he had spoken for her, and Helena still knew it was good.

Lupine seemed to be taken aback by her "thank you", his pale face froze for a long time before a shy smile appeared, and he said softly, "You're welcome, I'm telling the truth."

Helena smiled briefly, didn't say any more, and concentrated on doing her own thing.

Due to the simple materials, she operated very quickly. When the other four were still suffering, she had already taken off her gloves and was about to leave.

When taking off the gloves, Helena caught a glimpse of the babo tuber in front of Lupin. Its pus can be used to treat stubborn acne or pimples. The pus is yellow-green and smells like gasoline. Lupine has been squeezing the pus. This process was disgusting, he frowned, squeezed a little hard, and there was still a pile left on the console.

Helena looked back at Slughorn's position. He was grading homework, with his head down and not paying attention.

Helena hesitated, put on her gloves again, and quietly helped Lupine dispose of some babo tubers.

She thought, this time at Hogsmeade, and perhaps many times in private she didn't know about, that she owed him nothing after today for everything Lupine might have said for her.

Lupine didn't expect Helena to help him, and he froze. The other three around him were whispering about tomorrow night's prank, and didn't notice what was wrong with him here.He looked at Helena with a white face, and she bowed her head and turned her profile to him. Potter said several times that she resembled Evans, but in fact they were not at all alike.

Helena's eyelashes are longer than Evans's, and she has no freckles on her face. Her skin is extremely fair, and her emerald green eyes are like Slytherin's green, with a mysterious and calm color.

He breathed quickly and slowly, and only after Helena helped him deal with most of the departure did he start again slowly.

Sirius Black noticed something was wrong with him, he swept the pus collected on the operating table, and then looked at the closed office door, trying to say something, but he didn't say anything in the end.

In the next few days, Helena could always meet the foursome in the Potions Master's office.On the last day, she was greatly relieved, telling herself that she finally didn't have to face them anymore.Being with this group of Gryffindors, even if her personality was as calm as hers, she was made a little impetuous.

Slughorn called to her before she had finished her task and was about to leave.

She walked over inexplicably, and Slughorn looked at her with a smile and said, "Miss Bird, do you have time this weekend?"

Helena thought that the professor still had something to deal with, and out of the idea that more work would benefit more, she immediately said, "Of course, professor, what do you need me to do for you?"

Slughorn stroked his round belly, and the hat on his head made him look playful. "Well, you know, I have a club..."

The Slug Club, where students who are either talented or well-born are invited.

Helena was not in the club. When Slughorn mentioned it, she thought that she had such an honor after working hard for seven days. She was a little excited, but the next second she was thrown cold water.

"I will hold the club's first meeting of the school year on the weekend night. There will be a lot of people visiting my office. You know, although the elves are thoughtful, there are some places that can't be taken care of. I wonder if Miss Bird can How about doing me a favor?"

...Is this a job for her to be a waiter?

Helena's expression was blank for a few seconds, she quickly nodded and said, "Of course, professor, I'm very willing to help you."

Receiving an affirmative answer, Slughorn smiled with satisfaction: "That would be great."

In fact, it's not that she can't refuse. If she refuses, Slughorn's character will not say anything, but he is definitely not happy.

After all, he is the head of Slytherin, her professor, and if he can't live with him, he can't live with her future school life, why bother.Isn't it just to be a waiter once, and I gritted my teeth and endured it.

Helena convinced herself like this, but when the day really came, she was still a little ashamed when she shuttled among a group of familiar classmates with a tray.

Since she came to work today and not to enjoy herself, Helena tied up her hair.The long and thick red hair was neatly tied up, and only a few strands of hair fell down during her busy work, making her already beautiful and delicate face even more attractive.

She didn't wear a school gown, only a knitted sweater and a short skirt underneath.As the weather turned cooler, it was a bit cold to wear short skirts, but she was busy going around, serving her under Parkinson's smiling instructions, and she was sweating back and forth.

She stood behind a curtain. The office that Slughorn cast a space-extending spell on was much, much larger than usual. Behind this curtain was the glass window of the office. It was the emerald green lake water, she stared at the lake water, and when she was about to leave after resting enough, she found someone standing beside her.

She looked up, and was facing Regulus' calm gray eyes.

……so awkward.

Seeing such a shameful appearance, Helena wished she could find a crack in the ground and sneak in.

That's right, Regulus is a member of the Slug Club and Slughorn's favorite student, so how could he not come to the party.She didn't see him in the crowd just now, she thought he wasn't coming, and she breathed a sigh of relief, but it turned out that he wasn't coming, it was just that he was late.

Helena frowned and turned away, suddenly regretting taking this job.