HP's return to innocence

Whether he's still a Tom Marvolo Riddle past, or a Tom Malfoy Gaunt present, Coronet doesn't like summer vacations.It used to be because of the damned environment of the orphanage, but now it's because it's harder to see someone during the holidays - every year at the beginning of the school holidays, it's also the beginning of a social season for Slytherin pure-blood nobles.

The Slytherin who has graduated as an adult is led by his father and brother, and truly enters the social world as an adult, and they will no longer allow mistakes.The minors also follow the elders to watch, learn, and imitate, and they can make mistakes.

But this year, the 13-year-old Draco Malfoy is obviously a special case. Now he is considered an adult except that he cannot drink alcohol and disappear with a beautiful lady or handsome man for a while. Even a grown-up who needs to be defensive, or flattered - in a different way depending on everyone's status - to deal with.

As a result, Draco was always running around with his father, and often got into his room and fell asleep as soon as he got home.Even if he stayed at home occasionally, it was because the social ball was held at Malfoy's house, but that didn't mean that Diorama paid him more attention, because before the ball, he was usually in the study with his father studying something.

Fortunately, Coronet still has some things to do.For example, how to make yourself grow up safely.Regarding this point, the diary is actually more anxious than him, and that guy is even a little hysterical-"I have been the 17-year-old student union president for decades! Do I have to do it for decades, no, hundreds of years?" Year-old toddler?!"

Ring is the one who is most content with the status quo, or he is enjoying himself.But when the diary and the crown ask him for help, he will not refuse - even if they are both Horcruxes and part of Voldemort, Crown thinks this guy is too weird.

In addition, I heard that Jin Bei has already "made" it, and it happens to be 31 years old, but Guan Guan has not seen him.He didn't want to see him either, after all, that guy's luck was really good!It was so good that he was so jealous that he was not sure if he would not be able to control himself and do something bad...

Lucius did not stop them from researching, and even opened part of the Malfoy family's library to them.After all, the Horcruxes have grown up, and it is convenient for him to arrange them.

Now, a month has passed since the holiday, and the Horcruxes can't say that there is no progress, but the clues they got are really too vague...

The existence of semi-magical creatures did not start from the three horcruxes. The oldest semi-magical creatures were the ancestors of wizards. They were hybrids of magical creatures and humans.

The clues found by the Horcruxes are about these ancient ancestors, but it seems a bit too ancient. Probably only an ancient family like Malfoy with a terrifyingly long history and has always maintained the inheritance can find this point. trace.

Those were some old leathers, still soft and smooth even after a long time, and the leather itself exuded a kind of soft magic.It was the magic they radiated that drew the ring's attention.And the text on it is extremely old, even earlier than the rune that was displayed in front of everyone at Hogwarts that day.

Ring, who had made no progress, ignored the other two's blank eyes, put aside the things that helped them, and began to study these few leathers.But in the end, they found traces of ancient semi-magical creatures...

What is recorded on the leather is not a spell or formula, but a narrative poem about love.

The protagonist is a half-elf. Because he fell in love with a human girl, he would rather give up his identity as an elf and become a short-lived human being.

"Is this a fairy tale?" Diary said while holding his chin.

'I studied the hides a bit. ' the ring wrote green text in mid-air, 'guess what skin this is? '

The other two horcruxes didn't look at this thing carefully. When the ring asked, they stood up, looked at it carefully, and gently stroked these pieces of leather.As a result, the complexions of both of them became unattractive, because apart from having lost their temperature, these pieces of leather looked too... human skin...

'Even if it's not human skin, it's the skin of some kind of humanoid high-level magical creature, which was a high-end product even in that era. '

When Muggles hunted werewolves and wizards in the Middle Ages, one of the punishments was to cut off the skins of those "evil ones", make a book, and stamp the sacred mark on the pages.In fact, this is what they learned from wizards. In the era when wizards were most powerful, that is, the era of human slavery, some powerful wizards liked to use slave skins when writing.They'll even use the skins of fellow wizards' enemies, because they think that will preserve the writing longer.

But whether it belonged to slaves or enemies, these skins were obviously not simple.

"The ancients liked to guess riddles, and they also liked to build puzzles." Guan Mian said something that seemed to have nothing to do with the current situation.

"But that's a puzzle. Do you think it could really have anything to do with our condition?"

"Even if it's irrelevant, we don't have the slightest clue now anyway."

The Malfoy family has a large number of books, and there are many kinds of books - including scattered scrolls, ancient notes, notes of unknown type, etc. The book has been turned over for several years.As for those black magic books that are protected by the powerful Dark Lord and must be deciphered, but cannot damage the books, I don't know when they will be turned.

Now that they have a target, although they are not sure, it is better than they are running around like headless chickens.

Crown plunged into the decryption, and Drake plunged into the seemingly endless social activities. Seeing that the two people's vacation was going to be so "rich", and at the same time tired and boring.

Almost in a blink of an eye, the owl sent the book list for the new semester.

"Father, you haven't told me what's going on at Hogwarts." Drake walked towards Lucius while looking at the things on the book list.Although they had been on strike last year, they still chose elective courses in the third grade normally.Drake chose ancient runes and arithmetic divination.

"Secret." Lucius raised his head from the pile of documents and gave his son a mysterious smile.

Drake shrugged. "Yeah yeah, like no one would ever tell their kids, 'Just put on an old hat for Commencement'."

"It's no use complaining, you know it's a tradition, my little dragon."

"But it was just reformed this year, so how come there is a tradition?"

"Then take it as a prank from your old father." The platinum nobleman shrugged, not loosening his shoulders at all.

"But father, I also fought for the reform, right? I think I should be qualified to know what my victory is like in advance."

"Really?" It would be embarrassing for someone else to pretend to be naive at the age of a platinum nobleman, but Lucius' doing so would really give people a naive and innocent feeling, "Then Think of it as us guys with little credit trying to surprise a great hero—with all the good intentions."

"..." So Draco knew that everything had to wait for them to go back to school.

Just when the "defeated" Platinum Prince was about to return to his room, he suddenly heard an owl knocking on the window of Lucius' study room - this is a very normal thing.

"Draco, help me." Lucius, who had started to fight against the report again, said casually without even raising his head.

Draco, who had a tight face, immediately smiled, and he no longer avoided the correspondence, and even let him dismantle it naturally. This is also his father's affirmation of him...

"Father, it's a letter from Fudge. Sirius Black has escaped from prison. He hopes you can rush to the Ministry of Magic as soon as possible. Who is Sirius Black?" There was doubt and curiosity on his face, but in fact, from Draco seeing "Prophecy" After reading the award-winning family in the Daily News, I knew that this incident did not disappear because of his butterfly effect.

"He should be your mother's cousin." Lucius replied subconsciously while frowning and thinking, "I'm going to the Ministry of Magic, tell your mother for me."

"Yes, father."

Standing up from behind the desk, Lucius hurriedly put on his coat and left the manor.

Although he left in a hurry, Lucius actually came back very early that day.And because Narcissa temporarily postponed the evening entertainment on the grounds that Lucius suddenly had a business, so the family rarely sat at the dining table to have dinner together on this day.

"Draco, from tomorrow onwards, you must find time to let your mother teach you the Patronus Charm."

"Aside from being used to send messages, the spell is only useful when facing dementors, right?" Draco asked seemingly puzzled.

"And you're very likely to face the Dementors next school year."

"Because the Hogwarts reforms didn't reap the benefits, is Fudge crazy?" Crown asked strangely.

"Siris Black escaped from prison, and Fudge felt that the guy was going for the savior. So he thought that as long as he guarded Hogwarts, he would be caught."

"So send the dementors to Hogwarts?" Narcissa wiped her mouth with a napkin, "he can be sure that the hungry monsters can manage well in the face of a house full of happy children." Shut your mouth?"

"Next year is the Quidditch World Cup. Fudge obviously wants to resolve this matter quickly so as not to affect the World Cup."

"But... Father, is Sirius Black really a Death Eater?"

Drake's question made the Malfoys feel unnatural for a moment. Although they now have horcruxes and there is still a main soul in the secret room, they are talking about "Death Eaters" clearly, and it was brought up by their son. It is indeed the first time.

"Actually, I don't know." Although it sounds perfunctory, it is actually true, so the three members of the Malfoy family turned their heads to the three "Voldemorts".

"I'm only 17 years old." The diary shrugged and said it had nothing to do with him.

"I don't know, you were all just kids at that time." Guan Mian said that he was actually not that old.

'I wasn't when he was. 'The ring put down the knife and fork, and wrote the words in green.

"I don't believe Sirius would betray his friend." Narcissa said suddenly, "Although I hate to say it, he is still a Black even if he enters Gryffindor, and Black...is stubborn and loyal , once you decide something, you will never look back.” She glanced at Lucius—Bella chose the Dark Lord, Sirius chose his so-called friendship, and she chose Lucius Marr blessing.

Noticing his wife's gaze, Lucius smiled slightly at her: "Actually, I don't think he's a Death Eater either. That guy is an arrogant idiot. He can't be a spy."

From two aspects, the Malfoys showed that Sirius Black would not be a traitor—this is really a bit sad, but the family members who were abandoned by him and the Slytherin who looked down on him understood him best.

As for why the Malfoys didn't help Sirius, there are various reasons: firstly, the Malfoy family themselves were in danger of being in danger; secondly, Sirius had been deleted from the family tree, and he was not a member of the Black family at all. In the end...why do you want to save?Especially to save such a man who has insulted, disgusted, and even cursed them.

Everyone here understands these reasons, so no one is idiotic to ask why Lucius and Narcissa didn't help.

"Then Sirius didn't break out of prison to kill the Savior, which means that it's useless for Fudge to arrange all this."

"But that's kind of weird." Lucius frowned. "Then why did he escape? And how did he escape? Regardless of that idiot, everything we've said is impossible to explain to others , then the dementors will still appear at Hogwarts. You will still have to learn the Patronus Charm, my little dragon."

"Okay." Draco nodded. Anyway, he didn't mean he didn't want to learn the Patronus Charm, but he wanted to remind his father.

From that day on, Draco was squeezed out of his already full daily time for an hour a day to practice the Patronus Charm. Perhaps it was Narcissa's whim, and the crown was also pulled in to study together.

At first, everyone didn't think that the crown could use the Patronus Charm normally, after all, this is the white magic of white magic.But unexpectedly, the progress of the crown was very fast. On the first day, silver flocs gushed out from the tip of his wand, and after a few more days, he was able to summon a cloud of hazy silver smoke.

On the contrary, Draco's wand seemed to suddenly become an ordinary piece of wood, and not even a little silver spark could emerge from his wand.

Narcissa and Lucius used to tease their wonderful son about it at first, but as the days went by, the Malfoys stopped laughing - who couldn't use the Patronus Charm?

Some people say that black wizards cannot use the Patronus Charm, which is obviously wrong, because according to that classification, even Dumbledore cannot use the Patronus Charm. The real dark wizard bowed down.

Those who cannot use the Patronus Charm, unless they are like Voldemort, have no trace of joy and happiness belonging to normal people in their hearts, only black desires.Or... a person who is desperate and loveless...

Of course their son would not be the former, but how could Draco be the latter?

Narcissa no longer taught Drake the Patronus Charm, and Drake had learned the pronunciation of the spell extremely accurately.Narcissa has said all the tricks of spelling, and even Lucius has said it many times—thinking about happy things, happy things, it's that simple, but...

Looking at the frowns of his parents, Draco felt extremely guilty. Of course he knew what to do, but since the last time his mother and father were imprisoned in Azkaban one after another, he could no longer use the Patronus Charm.

At this moment, even if those things haven’t happened, even if everything is developing for the better, as long as you deliberately think about something happy and happy, the picture in your mind will become a miserable past in the next second. His chest will be filled with hatred, anger and sorrow.

he can't...

During this time, Draco also received a letter from Harry Potter, who appears to be in the Leaky Cauldron, having run away from home because he inflated his aunt.Perhaps Draco had misunderstood, but that letter made him feel that the Savior wanted him to visit him in Diagon Alley, or even take him to Malfoy's house as a guest.

But even if he wasn't so upset now, Draco wouldn't bring "that" Harry Potter close to his home!So he pretended to be a fool.And after that day, the savior never wrote again.The two just met each other while shopping in Diagon Alley, nodded and passed by.

In a blink of an eye, Drake and Crown, who still couldn't let the Patronus appear, boarded the Hogwarts Express again—because of the Patronus, Drake's expectations for the reformed Hogwarts were much weaker, after all , no matter how good Hogwarts is, it's only outside, family is the most important...

"Don't worry, I will protect you under the mouth of the dementor." In the carriage, Guan Guan jokingly said that he was also very curious about being able to use the Patronus—what is his Patronus, or Say what would Draco be if he had an Animagus?

"Thank you so much, brave knight."