Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2630 Wind and Flowers (9)

Pomona switched to a cream-colored chiffon dress, the kind suitable for a guest, and as she walked around the store, the dress kept rustling and the hem bloomed like a flower Come.

   "How do I look?" she asked Severus happily.

   He smiled, as if satisfied with what he saw, then looked at the clerk, "Wrap it up too."

   "Okay, Professor." The clerk said happily, but Pomona was a little hesitant. This was the sixth outfit she tried on, and it was the sixth outfit that was packaged without asking the price.

   "How much." Pomona asked quickly.

   "Let me worry about the money." He said in a tone that was obviously proud, but pretended to be calm.

"I can not…"

   "You want to wear this to Boginbok?" he said suddenly.

  Pomona looked at the dress she wanted to wear to the Smith family gathering, but not to Boginbok, grey and dirty inside.

   "Go and change again," Severus said.

   She was very hesitant. She didn't have many opportunities to become like she is now. Why did she buy so many clothes?

   Snape, who was at the counter to pay, probably observed her hesitation and led her to a corner.

   "What's wrong?" he asked softly.

   "What a waste," she muttered.

   "You've worn all these clothes," he said eloquently.

   "Just trying it on." She argued, "It doesn't mean it's second-hand after wearing it once."

   He looked unhappy.

  Irene didn't let Severus wear a second-hand school gown, she just let him wear the floral shirt she wore...

   "Have you brought enough money? I haven't bought it for you yet." She whispered.

   Now his face looks better.

   "Which one would you pick for me?" Severus asked.

   "This one!" She hurriedly took off a long dark blue coat from the hanger. "Try it on."

   He threw it to the clerk without even looking at it.

   "Why didn't you try it on?" Pomona asked.

   "You can change it if it doesn't fit." He said calmly.

   "What's the point of buying ready-to-wear?" she asked angrily. "Why don't you go to Mrs. Birkin's robe shop?"

   "Just this one?" Severus asked.

   She felt that she was communicating with Dobat.

   She walked to the next door in a huff and took off a dark green academic gown.

   "This one." She shoved it to him.

   He held it and looked at it for a moment. "This is not proper Slytherin green."

   "You're arguing with me on this topic now?" Pomona asked.

   "You want to go back to the party?"

   "No!" she screamed.

   "Then what else are you doing, in such a hurry?" he asked again.

   "What is orthodoxy!" Pomona said word by word, "Do you know how many kinds of green there are?"

   "I thought I was the head of Slytherin."

   She rolled her eyes, and then she felt dark in front of her eyes, and Snape had taken off the cloak from his body and placed it on her.

   "That's it." He said with satisfaction, "Wait for me here."

  Pomona looked at his back, without that coat, he looked a lot fresher, like he was in summer.

   But the robe on her body was unbearably hot.

   At this moment, out of the corner of her eye, she saw the moonlight-colored dress, which she forgot when she tried it on just now.

   Now that they are leaving, it seems too late to try them on.

   She glanced at Snape's back, who was putting Galleon on the counter.

  It wasn't her thing, she still preferred him and Lily to wait at the table with three brooms as a child, waiting for her to put butterbeer in front of them.

"Let's go."

   Just when she was stunned for a moment, he had already settled the bill and left the clothing store with his arms around her shoulders.

   "Welcome next time." The clerk smiled happily, and waited until the door closed by herself before blocking her exploration.

   There is still some distance from the clothing store to Knockturn Alley, but Snape did not intend to walk on the street, but shuttled in the alley behind the store, as if he was already familiar with this complicated terrain.

"Give way."

While walking through a very narrow alley, a handyman came over with a large box of kitchen waste, and Severus asked her to stand against the wall, standing between Pomona and the handyman, as if he didn't care about his own. The back is soiled with kitchen waste.

The    handyman left quickly, leaving a smell of food just beginning to rot, it was summer after all.

  The smell didn't make people feel happy, but she didn't dare to move, because she could feel the thumping heartbeat against her chest.

   "You're beautiful," he whispered, his eardrums hurting.

   She looked at the wall tiles in the alley, and even her breath was tense.

   Then his hand, like a test, slid past her face, along the line of the neck, down the folds of the robe, and then tugged gently.

   "This place is not well dressed." He said meticulously, then took her hand and walked forward.

   The place they were going to next, even the midsummer sun never touched, she subconsciously hid behind him.

   As the doorbell on the shop door rang softly, they entered the blog Bogin, which smelled of stale dust.

   "Professor Snape." An old man said from behind the counter, "What wind brought you here today?"

   "I have a question," Severus said.

   Boginbok, with his snow-white hair, smiled.

   "I already answered you last time, and I even gave you the list of guests that Riddle has served..." Boginbok paused here, his eyes happened to meet Pomona.

   "This is not for sale." Severus hid Pomona behind him.

   "I only take things." Boginbok said "How can I help you?"

   "I have a question, have you received or sold necklaces?"

   "I have one." Boginbok said. "It's in the back, want to see it?"

   "Not that one," Severus said, pointing his wand at a Galleon. "That's it."

   Soon Jin Galleon transformed himself into a Slytherin locket.

"Oh, that's what you mean," Boginbok said calmly. "Yeah, we got it under a strange circumstance. It was brought by a young witch, and it happened to be Christmas. She said she desperately needed the gold, well, that's obvious. Wearing ragged clothes, coming from far away...and having a baby. She said the locket was a Slytherin thing, well, we always It was people who said, 'Oh, this is Merlin's stuff, this is his favorite teapot', but after we checked it, we found out that it really had the Slytherin mark on it, just use a few simple A spell can tell the truth, of course, it's almost priceless, and she doesn't seem to know how much it's worth. Happy to exchange ten Galleons, the best deal we've ever made."

   "Who did you sell that necklace to?" Severus continued.

  Borgin Bock shook his head, "You know the rules, this shop will not provide the name of the customer casually."

  Severus counted a stack of Galleons from his wallet and placed them on the counter.

  Pomona counted them carefully, and there were exactly 10.

  Borgimbok immediately changed his face and whispered in Snape's ear.

   "Do you remember what that witch looked like?" Snape asked.

   "She's quite memorable." Boginbok looked at Pomona.

  Snape stood in front of Pomona.

   "Can you provide that memory?"

  Borginbok hesitated for a moment, then pointed a wand with a twisted handle at his forehead, and silver threads always appeared at the tip of the wand.

   "I can give it to you." Boginbok looked at the silver mass, and then at Snape. "But what will you give in exchange?"

   "How much do you want?" Snape asked.

   "Not Galleon."

   "Then what do you want?"

   "Maybe one day I'll be in trouble, serious trouble," Boginbok said. "I'll need you to do me a little favor then."

   "I'll help you," Snape said, reaching for the memory, but Borginbock avoided it.

   "I need the memory, too." Boginbok stared at Snape like a viper. "And this memory will help me escape the 'trouble' I just said."

   A gust of wind blew in from out of nowhere. Pomona looked over and found that the door of a cabinet was open.

   She took a closer look and found that it was a complete vanishing cabinet. Just as she walked over and was about to close the cabinet door, a fox flew out of the cabinet and flew around the Boginbok store until it was caught by a dry hand.

   "Deal," said Snape.

   Then Borgin Bock put the memory on the wand into a test tube.

   "Let's go." After the stopper of the test tube was plugged, Snape reached out to her.

   She immediately took his hand and left.

   She looked back at Boginbok before going out, and he was looking at Pomona until the door closed to block his view. Of course, he didn't say "Welcome next time".

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   Later, with the memory provided by Boginbock, Albus obtained Merope's picture, and with that picture, Bob Alden, a former employee of the Ministry of Magic's Executive Division, recognized her. Merope is as memorable as Borgin Bock said, not to mention having a father and brother like that.

Through Alden, Albus found Little Hangleton, the ancestral home of the Riddle family, and through this place, learned about Marvolo Gaunt's house, and the Horcruxes that Voldemort hid there—with the Resurrection Stone The ring, Albus carefully avoided the resurrection stone on the face of the ring when he slashed it with the sword of Gryffindor.

He could have hidden the Resurrection Stone himself in the Snitch that Harry had touched once, but let Pomona do it because he was weak and he was afraid that if Harry couldn't figure it out on his own, Pomona could Guide him so Harry can enter Hufflepuff's lounge.

   While Hufflepuff loves food, he loves Quidditch as well, and there are many Quidditch pictures on the walls of the lounge, as well as a portrait of Cedric.

   But Harry seemed to figure it out himself, so Hufflepuff's lounge was the only one he hadn't been to during his school days.

In fact, Voldemort probably wanted his mother's bones to be resurrected more than his father's bones, but Merope was probably sent to the mass grave for burial at the time, and no one knew where she was buried, and no one knew her name. She died only before she could give her son the same name as his father, and used her grandfather's middle name as a middle name.

  It is not easy to find a place based on photos, unless it is a famous place like the Eiffel Tower, which is why Albus will take the Thestral to look for the cave everywhere.

And it's not as easy as a camera to turn a memory into a photo that can be washed out by a developing potion. Pomona doesn't know what Severus and Albus are doing behind their backs. After the disaster, the door was still open, and it was not sealed.

   In Lita Lestrange's description, a woman is just a flower in the French Lestrange family tree, fragile and lonely.

But it was such a flower that completely disrupted Grindelwald's plan. He didn't plan to burn Paris, because Rita destroyed the skeleton "shisha" in Venda Rozier's hand, making the fire uncontrollable. .

   Equally uncontrollable is Grindelwald's temper. He killed Rita, the last direct family member of the French Lestrange family, and then all the wealth of the French branch was owned by the British Lestrange family.

   Not everyone is happy to display their treasures, or there are too many things, there is really no place to put them, and some of the treasures are placed in the family vault of Gringotts.

   with Hufflepuff's Gold Cup.

After all, except for Hogwarts, Gringotts is the safest place in the world. Of course Bella will take good care of what the "Master" gives her, instead of rushing to get rid of it like Malfoy, or sneaking like Severus. Own it.

   When Pomona saw Bella again, she had just come out of the vanishing cabinet, and Azkaban's career had ruined her health, making her look like a Boggart from the closet.

She wanted to hide behind Severus, but she soon saw the scene, after a green light, Albus fell from the Astronomy Tower, the most important man in her life, the man she could rely on at the same time all disappeared.

   If someone asked her what she was thinking at the time, she felt that there was nothing to think about.

   She was like a ghost who lost her body, and she didn't feel her vitality come back until the moment of the decisive battle.

   Later all the truth came out, she had to live in realization and regret at the same time, while others were celebrating victory or dressing up wounds.

When she saw the person who was said to be dead appear in front of her, it was like a dream, even if he poured the compound decoction into the mouth of a Death Eater in front of her, and faked death, she did not say what.

   Like Bella, maybe she didn't feel anything when she saw the murder happening right before her eyes.

   She just wants to run away, get out of this place, and live the ideal life she wants.

   With many questions, she was "happy" for six years until that day came.

  Hokey, the house-elf, died much earlier than Alden, and if it weren't for that client list, Albus wouldn't have thought of retrieving the memories of a house-elf so confused that he confuses sugar with poison.

   But she's the only "witness" to prove that Herbarts Smith did once possess both Hufflepuff's Gold Goblet and Slytherin's Locket.

   And Alden didn't give up his memory until he died.

   Even if Alden himself died, he still has family, friends, and God knows how much trouble this memory will cause them.

   But Albus still "convinced" him, or maybe he got this memory.

   After all, there is a potion made from ayahuasca, which is enough to disintegrate Occlumency, but the man's brain is ruined, but Alden is not far from death, how many people will attend his funeral for a small person like him?

   (end of this chapter)