After school started again, all the students gathered in the auditorium to perform the sorting ceremony that is held every year at the beginning of school.

There are very few students assigned to Slytherin this year, and they can be counted on one hand. There are not many Gryffindors and Ravenclaws, and the largest number is Hufflepuff. The number of students in Hufflepuff College has exceeded Almost reaching the sum of the other three colleges.

Someone around was mocking Hufflepuff, talking about commonplace topics - Hufflepuffs are all idiots, with so many people entering Hufflepuff, it seems that the wizarding world is going to die.

Helena glanced at the other party. The person speaking was Barty Crouch Jr. Seeing this person reminded people of Evelyn, this poor girl whose parents asked her to get in touch with her more.

"It's really disgusting." Evelyn put down the knife and fork, and also found it difficult to accept Barty Crouch Jr.'s argument, "It is because there are many people like them that everyone misunderstands our college. "

Maggie whispered, "Actually, it's not completely misunderstood...but it's not as bad as they say."

Evelyn smiled forcedly, couldn't eat, and didn't speak.

Helena withdrew her gaze from Barty Crouch Jr., and turned to Regulus, who was not far away from him. He was talking to someone. It was Mulciber who caused Potter to fall last semester, etc. people.

Mulciber was grateful for his help last term, and although Regulus was cold, Mulciber was very enthusiastic.

Helena knew what had happened in the headmaster's office, and that had led to Regulus' brother Sirius Black coming to him to question him.

In fact, Helena didn't want people like Mulciber to be proud, but Potter really needed to be taught a lesson.

Speaking of Potter, Helena raised her eyes and looked across the long table, and saw James Potter sitting on a chair and eating quietly.I heard that he is the male student chairman of Gryffindor this year. Looking at his calm and introverted appearance, he has lived up to the professor's trust in him.

After dinner, Helena left with her friends, preparing to go back to her bedroom to rest.

Walking in the castle, the three girls discussed each other's test scores and their first employment consultation. Maggie said that she wanted to be a writer and married Chesak after graduation. Take risks and write down your adventures.

After hearing this, Helena smiled and said, "You can definitely do it. I guarantee that I will be the first to buy your book after it is published. You must sign it for me."

Maggie blushed: "That's for sure, Helena! In fact, you don't need to spend money to buy it at all, and I will definitely give you a unique autograph book!"

Evelyn held Helena's shoulders and said, "How can that be done? Helena and I have to spend our own money to buy it. This is a support for your writing ideals. You can't even buy one book. We have to buy a dozen or so. , everyone in the family has a copy, let them all know that the great writer Maggie is our good friend."

Helena nodded approvingly: "That's right, Evelyn is right, that's what I have to do."

Maggie blushed even more when she was told by her friend, and when she was about to speak again, she suddenly saw Helena frowning and holding her breath, covering her lips with her fingers, and slowly shaking her head.

Evelyn and Maggie shut their mouths knowingly, and the three of them stepped aside quietly, and soon discovered why Helena kept them quiet.

Someone was talking, not far from here, around the corner in front, it was a boy's voice, very familiar...

"It's Potter!" Maggie whispered, "There seems to be Black! Oh, Black from Gryffindor." Maggie added later, as if she was afraid that everyone might misunderstand.

Evelyn glanced at her and said softly, "What are they talking about? I wish I heard the names of Snape and Regulus."

Not only Evelyn heard it, but Helena heard it too.She motioned them to follow her, and the three of them walked carefully to the corner, leaning against the wall and listening to the conversation between the two.

"James, I sincerely apologize to you. I'm sorry that Regulus is helping others. You know that he has always thought differently from me. I hope that what he did will not cause a gap between us."

It was Sirius Black talking, and no one else would dare say that about Regulus at school but him.

Helena gritted her teeth, always feeling itchy at the root of her teeth, she really wanted to rush up and teach Sirius a lesson, but she held back.

It was Potter who was talking to Sirius, and he said after a while: "It's normal for him to think differently from you, Sirius, our college is different, and you have left the Black family, which in itself means You are very different." Potter paused, "No matter what he does, it will not affect my opinion of you, and your worrying about this is simply an insult to our friendship."

Sirius hesitated and said, "But you have changed a lot recently, and I can clearly feel your depression."

"I'm not depressed, Sirius, I just want to open up and see a lot of things." Potter said slowly, "We are already in the seventh grade, and everyone will be adults soon or have already grown up, which means our current What I did not only represent myself. I did do some wrong things before, so don’t mention the incident last semester, just treat it as compensation for the mistakes I made.”

Sirius wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Potter: "But whoever does this again from now on, I won't let them go easily."

Sirius seemed to be glad that he said this: "This is decent, brother, this is the you I know, but are you really going to let Mulciber go this time? Although Headmaster Dumbledore can't do justice for us , but we can play a little mischief, you know, the Marauder's Map will help us..."

"When I said I wouldn't let them go easily, I meant telling the professor everything. Also, I'm the head of the male students now, so I might still be able to deduct points for them." Potter said, disappointing Sirius.

"Brother..." Sirius said regretfully, indistinctly, probably because they were far away, and Helena and the others couldn't hear them.

Standing up straight, Helena looked at Evelyn and Maggie, and Evelyn said in amazement: "I never thought that Potter would say such a thing one day, so it seems that he is still worthy of Prince Gryffindor name."

"Shouldn't the Prince of Gryffindor be Sirius Black?" Marge asked curiously.

Evelyn rolled her eyes: "Sirius Black is not bad with that face. I really can't stand his bad personality. He's graduating in one year. Until then, we'd better not have anything to do with him." Speaking of which she looked at Helena and asked her, "What do you think Helena?"

Helena recovered and said, "I think you're right."

Evelyn patted her on the shoulder: "You didn't listen to me at all, am I right?"

Helena touched her face and smiled softly.

She wasn't really listening to the conversation between Evelyn and Marge, she was thinking about Potter's words.

As Evelyn said at the beginning, it was a surprise that Potter could say such a thing.

But in fact, all of this is foreshadowed. Before the holiday last semester, they had a few chats alone, didn't they?

That's when Helena saw the difference in Potter.

But she didn't expect that he would be so different.

When leaving here, Helena took one last look at the place where Potter and Black were talking, and walked away thoughtfully.

Potter's transformation was not a good sign for Severus, Helena thought to herself.

She was right.

This is indeed not a good sign.

On the first Hogsmeade day after school started, Snape was stopped walking with Lily Evans.

The four-person group of robbers stood in front of them. This scene was so familiar, but at this time they lacked the tense atmosphere in the past.

Helena and Regulus were not far away. The two originally planned to visit Honeydukes. Helena's mind was full of sweet images of feeding candy to each other, but seeing this scene, she dragged Lei Gulles' arm went over.

"We're right here."

When he was about to participate in the "battle situation", Regulus held Helena's hand, bowed his head and whispered something in her ear.

His voice wafted into Helena's ears with light breaths, and Helena shrank her neck and said, "Aren't we going to help Severus?"

Regulus shook his head and said, "No need." His voice was low and clear, "They won't quarrel anymore."

Helena thought of Potter's transformation, and stopped her steps obediently as Regulus said, observing the situation over there from a subtle angle.

Among the hijackers, Potter was always the jumpiest, but today he was the calmest.

Sirius Black stood beside him, with his hands in his pockets, looking around boredly.

The familiar figure that flashed by from the corner of his eye made him slightly frowned. Helena noticed that he had found himself, but he probably didn't find Regulus inside, but finding her was tantamount to discovering Regulus. After all, today It's Hogsmeade Day, a date for lovers.

Frowning, Sirius Black moved behind Potter, as if not wanting to be seen.

Helena glanced at Regulus, seeing that he didn't even blink, she was a little relieved.

"No offense, I just want to have a few words with Mr. Snape." Potter said calmly, "Lily, is that okay?"

His request for instructions seemed to affirm that Lily could be Snape's master, and that they really had such a close relationship.

According to him in the past, it was impossible to do even if he was killed.

Evans was stunned and looked at him in astonishment. Snape saw her reaction and said in time: "You don't need to ask Lily if you want to talk to me." go.

Potter nodded towards Lily, with some complicated and sour feelings in his eyes, but he didn't take the opportunity to express it.

He gave Lily one last look with that look, and followed Snape away.

Sirius Black said coolly after he left: "Miss Evans will be surprised to see James like this? It shouldn't be, isn't it all because of you that he is today?"

Lily frowned and said, "It's none of my business. I'm glad Mr. Potter can change, but I don't dare to take credit for it."

Sirius sneered: "You really take this as credit? You think it's good for him to change like this?"

Lily asked him back: "Do you feel bad?"

Sirius said indifferently: "What's the good? Do you think he will be happy if he suppresses his nature like this now?"

Lily said calmly: "Then do you think it will benefit his future if he continues to be unreasonable and annoying at this age?"

Sirius was choked by her, and he said after a while: "You hurt him, anyway, I won't forgive you."

"It doesn't matter." Lily clenched her fists and said, "It's enough for me to know that I didn't want to hurt him. Even if I hurt him, there will be back and forth. He failed my trust first."

Sirius was speechless, and couldn't help but pull out Lupine: "Remus, say something."

Lupine was silent for a while and said, "I think Miss Evans is right."

Sirius held back, and pulled out Pediru again: "Wormtail!"

Peter blinked and pretended to be stupid: "Ah? What? What are you talking about?"

Sirius: "..." Forget it!

Helena couldn't see Potter and Snape from this angle, she took a few steps outside to see what was going on there, these few steps completely exposed her to the sight of the few remaining people.

Regulus noticed Remus Lupine's gaze, walked out from one side without haste, and stood beside Helena.

He gently took Helena's hand, and Helena turned her head in doubt. He raised his hand and stroked the red hair beside her ear, and said softly, "Your hair is messed up."

Helena stroked her hair and said, "Thank you, are you all right now?"

Regulus looked into her emerald green eyes, was silent for a while, then suddenly lowered his head and kissed her eyes lightly. Helena had to close her eyes after being kissed like this, and when she opened them again, she Without changing his face, he said, "Why did you kiss me all of a sudden?"

"I just thought the way you looked at me was very touching, so I couldn't help it." He took Helena's hand and led her towards Honeydukes.

Helena hesitated: "I still want to see Severus..."

"It has nothing to do with us." Regulus was so calm that he was almost heartless, "If you want to know, you can ask Severus afterwards, if he is willing to tell you, then you will know, if he is not willing to tell you, eavesdropping is Disrespectful behaviour."

Suddenly, Helena took his arm, rubbed her face on his arm and said, "What would I do without you? I didn't even think of this."

Regulus stared ahead, looking extremely calm, but the lightly held hands revealed his restraint.

It is a very disturbing impulse to want to possess her and get her all the time.

"You won't be without me." His tone was low and magnetic, "So don't make such assumptions."

Helena noticed that there were more and more people around, and wanted to let go of his arm, not wanting to draw too much attention from everyone, but Regulus held her tightly, not allowing her to back down.

Helena looked at him, and he looked over, his voice was soft but convincing: "There's no need to worry about that, my mother won't be any problem anymore."

This seems to be the case. In this year's Potions class, Professor Slughorn looked at them with guarded and weird eyes. It was completely looking at a pair of Biren.

It seems that a lot of things that she didn't know about really happened this summer vacation. Regulus' "lost contact" should be very valuable.

"Will everything end well?" Helena asked uncertainly.

Regulus gave her a very decisive reassurance: "Yes." He said without the slightest hesitation, "Everything will come to a successful conclusion."

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