[Comprehensive HP colleagues] That year

In today's turbulent situation, Sirius' proposal brought everyone a lot of joy and conversation, and the good things didn't stop there.Shortly after Sirius's birthday, Lily and Alice were both diagnosed as pregnant, which caused an explosion in the Order of the Phoenix.Knowing that he was going to be a father, Frank happily hugged Alice several times, and James was even more exaggerated, running eight full laps around his house in excitement.

Under the cloud of war, the coming of new life always means new hope.Everyone agreed that Lily and Alice's pregnancy was definitely a good omen. They gathered together excitedly to discuss whether the child would look more like a father or a mother in the future, and competed to name the child.The only one who is not so excited is Moody, because it means that the two expectant mothers will temporarily withdraw from the devilish Auror training.

However, just when Lynn thought everything was going in a good direction, an old classmate who hadn't contacted him for a long time suddenly appeared and told Lynn the bad news.

On Christmas Eve in 1979, Lin Enben was writing an article at home when he suddenly heard the doorbell ring.

Lynn found it very strange. Since a Muggle man who liked to pay attention to Lynn moved in next door half a year ago, Sirius had placed a Muggle expulsion spell on the door, and no Muggle would knock on their house. The door, and wizard friends, visit with Floo powder, so the doorbell has been on display for a long time.

And when Lin En approached Maoyan, he was even more surprised. Standing outside the door was Xia Kelin who hadn't contacted for a long time.

Lynn invited Xia Kelin into the house.

"Sirius isn't there?" Shaklin asked depressingly as she looked at the room full of Muggle electrical appliances.

"Yeah, he's not here. He's on duty in the Auror Department, but the time should be back soon. Can you wait a little longer?"

Xia Kelin gave a wry smile: "I thought, before I go back to Germany, I would tell him the news in person and see how he would react, but I didn't expect that he wasn't here..."

"Are you going back to Germany?" Lynn was surprised for a moment, but immediately felt that there was nothing surprising about it.Shaklin has never been optimistic about Voldemort, and has been looking for a way to take the third-party route.Although it has not been successful so far, she must be unwilling to participate in this war in the British wizarding world. After all, her roots are actually in Germany.

"Yeah, this time, I don't think I'll be back in ten or eight years. I'm in a hurry to go back to Germany to attend the handover ceremony of the Patriarch, and I can't wait for Sirius. Please help me tell him, his brother , Regulus, is dead."

"What?" Lynn felt that he probably heard wrong.

"I said, Sirius' younger brother, Regulus, is dead." Shaklin repeated word by word.

"What nonsense are you talking about?!" Sirius' voice came suddenly. He had just apparated home and heard Shaklin's words.

When Xia Kelin saw Sirius, she showed a sneering smile: "I'm not talking nonsense, Regulus is dead, he was killed by you! If it wasn't for your irresponsibility, in the war-torn era, the people who supported a family The heavy responsibility was all pushed on his shoulders. If it wasn't for your unequivocal opposition to Voldemort, which made the Black family have to express their position and attitude in the most straightforward and unambiguous way, how could Regulus become a Death Eater? To die...to die so horribly?!"

Lynn felt furious when he heard these words: "Xia Kelin, can you explain something, becoming a Death Eater is Regulus' own choice, and it is the life goal he set for himself since the first grade. What does this have to do with Sirius leaving the Black family? Besides, don't forget, it was the Black family who removed Sirius, you didn't even know Sirius persuaded him..."

"Lyn." Sirius interrupted Lynn, "You don't need to explain it to me, even if you explain, Shaklin probably won't believe it." Then he turned to Xia Kelin: "I don't believe that Regulus is dead , What evidence do you have that he is dead?"

"Of course I have evidence, and the evidence is the family tree of the Black family!!"

Sirius immediately used his wand to cast an ancestral blood magic of the Black family, and then his face turned pale.

"No, no, how is it possible, how is it possible. How did he die? Tell me how he died?!" Sirius grabbed Shaklin by the collar and asked violently.

"Don't worry, of course I'll tell you, I'm here to tell you, Regulus is here to..." Suddenly, Xia Kelin's voice froze, and she held her neck with her hands in horror, but kept speechless.

"What's wrong with you, Xia Kelin?" Sirius and Lynn shouted anxiously.

After a long time, Xia Kelin finally let go of her hand holding her neck, but she began to laugh hysterically, with grief and indignation at the end of her life—it was like this again, always like this, when it came to a critical moment, she couldn't speak. It was like this when I wanted to persuade Regulus not to risk himself, and now it's...

"What's wrong with you!?" Sirius yelled, unable to bear it any longer.

"What's wrong? You ask me what's wrong? I also want to know what's wrong with me! Maybe, it's really a secret that cannot be leaked, it's really God's will, I know the cause of Regulus' death, and even know the cause of your future death , but I can’t say it, I can’t say anything! Now that I think about it, my efforts to change the fate of the Black family over the years are all a bunch of jokes! I can’t change anything! Hahahaha... nothing It can’t be changed! Don’t ask me again, and I won’t care about you anymore!” Saying that, Xia Kelin rushed out of the door, and disapparated with a snap outside the door.

The room became quiet again. Sirius put his head in his hands and squatted down slowly, just like that.And Lynn, like many times in the past, hugged Sirius' trembling body tightly, and sat with him quietly until dawn.

Three days later, Sirius received a long-lost letter from home. The letter said that Sirius' father, Orion, suddenly fell ill, and Sirius must go home to visit his father.

Sirius thought about it all night after receiving the letter, and finally decided to go home the next day.There are some things that should be settled.

Lynn originally wanted to go with Sirius, but considering Lynn's Muggle-born status, Sirius was afraid that his parents would say something unpleasant to Lynn, and he was also afraid that Lynn would irritate his parents even more, so he refused Lin En. Grace's request.

Standing in front of the door of No. 12 Grimmauld Place, Sirius was filled with infinite sorrow in the cold wind.Since being expelled from the family, he has not set foot here for more than three years.If he set foot again, he would be separated from his younger brother forever.

He stepped on the old bluestone slab in front of the door and knocked on the door.

It was Walburga who opened the door. Sirius was surprised to find that his mother, who had black hair three years ago, now had gray temples.

It's because of Regulus' death, Sirius thought, feeling sour.He never thought that his younger brother would die before him.

"Your father is waiting for you in the master bedroom, go by yourself." Walburga's voice was unusually old.

Sirius walked up the stairs step by step that he had traveled thousands of times, and arrived at his parents' bedroom.Pushing open the door, he saw his father lying on the bed, his face was older than his mother's.

"Father." He walked to the bed and said softly.

Orion opened his eyes and saw Sirius, with a look in his eyes that he hadn't seen for a long time.

"You're here, I'm still worried, you won't come." Orion said, reaching out his hand to hold Sirius' hand, but he was too weak, and before touching Sirius, he let his hand hang down feebly.

Sirius also felt a lump in his throat, he stretched out his hand, and the young and strong hand held the old and feeble hand.At that moment, he suddenly thought of his Uncle Alphard for no reason.

"Sirius, cast an anti-eavesdropping spell first, I have something to say to you alone, I don't want your mother to hear it."

Sirius did as he was told, doubts floating in his heart.

"Sirius, I know, I don't have a few days to live, that's why I was in a hurry to call you back. You are gone, Regulus is dead, and this family will also be broken up."

"Father..." Sirius knew that his father was not as obsessed with pure blood and using violence to solve problems as his mother was. Because of this, he could not understand why his father participated in the bombing of the hospital back then.

"Sirius, listen to me, I didn't tell you to come back, but I didn't want you to come back to this house, listen to your mother, and become Voldemort's lackey."

"Father?! How did you..." Sirius looked at his father in shock, what did he hear just now?Voldemort's lackey?

"Yes, Sirius, I regret it. I shouldn't have been encouraged by your mother to associate with the Death Eaters, and I shouldn't have encouraged Regulus to join the Death Eaters. I thought Voldemort would lead the Black family to glory, but for him The Black family brought only destruction. I have been unwilling to admit that you, my son, are right. But now that I have lost Rael, I have to admit that in this family back then, only you were the right one. Sober. But I bought my sobriety with my son's life." After saying these words, Orion suddenly coughed heart-piercingly.

In a panic, Sirius found cough medicine in the bedside table and gave it to Orion, and Orion stopped his cough.Orion, who stopped coughing, grabbed Sirius' hand and said with all his strength, "I don't have much time left. For the sake of the Black family, I have one thing to do. Sirius, I will give this to you."

As he said that, he closed his eyes, and a purple light suddenly flashed in his right hand, and then, on his thumb, a silver-green ring appeared out of thin air, with the family crest of the Black family on the ring.

"Father?!" Sirius guessed what Orion was going to do, but it really shocked him, "I... I have been expelled from the family..."

"Because of this, I will personally put the ring representing the inheritance of the Black family on your hand, instead of just leaving a will. Sirius, my son, if you do not take over the position of Patriarch, this The house belongs to Bellatrix, I think you should know how much Bella admires Voldemort, she will sell the whole Black family to that devil! I can't watch Bella destroy the Black family!"

Sirius felt uncomfortable.Seeing that he didn't speak, Orion held his hand tightly, not as strong as a seriously ill patient. The word "Back to the Light" suddenly appeared in Sirius' mind.

He couldn't refuse his father who regretted it in the last days of his life.

He held out his hand and put the ring on.The purple light flashed, and the ring disappeared from his hand, leaving only a shallow thin mark.Sirius knew that it represented the position of Patriarch, which had fallen on him.

After finishing this matter, Orion was extremely weak.But he still reluctantly directed Sirius and said, "Go, there is a silver-green diary in the third drawer on the left, bring it."

Sirius did as he was told, and put the diary into his father's hands.

Orion stroked the diary sadly, and stuffed it back into Sirius' hands: "This...is your brother's, your mother and I tried... tried many methods, but they still can't be opened, you guys ...The two brothers...the relationship was so good when they were young...you take it...as a souvenir...and...I don't...don't need you to make the Black family flourish, you...don't need to talk to your mother. I just ...As long as you live, and only if you live, there is hope..."

Only by living can there be hope.This became Orion's last words in this world.

Orion Black was born in 1929 and died in 1979 at the age of 50.He died in the arms of his eldest son, who had long been expelled from the Black family.

Kreacher, as the house elf of the Black family, has already sensed the change of the head of the house and told Walburga about it, but when Walburga rushed into the house and wanted to ask Sirius what he had done, Her husband has closed his eyes forever.

"You freak! You bastard! Crazy! What did you do to your father?!" Walburga shouted loudly.

Sirius looked at his dead father and mad mother, and suddenly became disheartened.

"Mother," he said, "up to now, whether you want to admit it or not, I have become the head of the Black family. But I will never follow your suggestion and lead the Black family on a road of no return. I will accept The position of head of the family is only to fulfill the last wish of my father. As for you, I don’t think I can convince you now anyway, I hope that when we defeat Voldemort, you can wake up like your father.”

Regardless of his mother's curses behind him, Sirius walked out of the door of Black's house and disapparated.

Back in the small apartment, he hugged Lynn.

Here, this cozy nest, this place with Lynn, is his home.

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