Harry Potter and the Way of Reason

Answer, and Draco really couldn't bear any other stimulation today.He really can't take it anymore.One more surprise, and his head would fall off his shoulders and hop, flop, flop, down the corridors of Hogwarts.

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Instead of walking all the way back to the classroom, as Draco had requested, they hid in a small corner; he was too nervous to wait any longer.

Draco cast a silent barrier, then looked at Harry with a silent questioning expression.

"I've thought about it," said Harry, "I accept, but on five conditions—"

"Five?"

"Yeah, five. You see, Draco, it's so easy for such a vow to go terribly wrong out of nowhere, and you know, if it's a play, something's going to go wrong here—"

"No, it wasn't!" said Draco. "Dumbledore killed Mother. He was evil. You said some things don't have to be complicated, and that was one of them."

"Draco," said Harry carefully, "the only thing I know is that you said Lucius said that Dumbledore said he killed Narcissa. In order to believe it with certainty, I have to trust you And Lucius and Dumbledore. So like I said before, this oath is conditional. The first condition is that at any time you can unbind this oath from me as long as you no longer think It's a good idea. Of course, it has to be a deliberate decision you made after careful consideration, not a verbal loophole or something like that."

"Okay," Draco said.This one doesn't sound dangerous.

"The second condition is that I swear to make the enemy who actually killed Narcissa, whether it was Dumbledore or anyone else. I will try my best as a rationalist to judge who the murderer is. I Assure you, I will take it as a simple matter of fact, and make an honest judgment, to the best of my ability as a rationalist. Do you agree?"

"I don't like it," Draco said.He really didn't like it, the whole thing was to make sure Harry never fell for Dumbledore.However, if Harry is really honest, he will soon recognize Dumbledore's face; if he is lying, then he has broken his oath... "But I agree."

"The third condition is that Narcissa must be burned alive. If the story is exaggerated, I can decide for myself whether to keep this oath. Sometimes good people have to kill, but they never will Torture people to death. The reason I know the murderer was an evil person is because Narcissa was burned alive."

Draco barely held back his anger.

"The fourth condition is that if Narcissa herself is guilty, for example, if she tortured someone's child insane with Cruciatus, and that person burned Narcissa to death in revenge, then this oath may also be invalidated. In that case it's still wrong to burn her, they should still kill her in a way that doesn't cause pain; but it's the same as you say she's just Lucius' lover and never did anything The nature of wrong is different, not so evil. The fifth condition is, if the person who killed Narcissa committed this crime while being deceived, then my enemy is the deceiver, not the deceived person .”

"It doesn't sound like you're going to prevaricate—"

"Draco, I can't make enemies of good people, whether for you or for anyone else. I have to actually believe they are evil. But I thought about it, and I feel that if Narcissa never did bad things, Just falling in love with Lucius and choosing to be his wife is unlikely to be a good person who burns her alive in her own bedroom. I would swear anyone who does Enemy, whether this person is Dumbledore or not, unless you deliberate and release this oath from me. I hope that in this way, the troubles in the play will not appear."

"I'm not satisfied," Draco said, "but I can accept it. You swear to make my mother's murderer your enemy, and I—"

Harry waited, with a patient expression on his face, waiting for Draco to regain his voice.

"I'll help you with Slytherin's hatred of Muggle-borns," Draco whispered, "and admit that Lily Potter's death is a sad thing."

"Deal," said Harry.

So the contract is complete.

Draco knew that the rift had widened a little more.No, not just a little, a lot.He felt that he was drifting far away, lost, farther and farther away from the shore, farther and farther away from home...

"Sorry," Draco said.He turned his back on Harry, trying to calm himself down. He had to do this experiment, and he didn't want it to fail because of nervousness or shame.

Draco raised his wand and placed it in the starting position for the Patronus Charm.

Think back to the feeling of falling off the broom, the pain, the fear, and imagine it coming from a tall, cloaked figure that looks like a dead body in the water.

Then Draco closed his eyes to better recall his father holding his cold little hand in his warm, strong one.

Fear not, my son, I am here...

The wand lifted upwards, and with a sweeping wave, driving away the fear, Draco was taken aback by its power; then it occurred to him that his father hadn't been lost and never would, no matter what happened to Draco. What, my father will always be there, always so strong, he shouted, "Call God to protect you!"

Draco opened his eyes.

A glowing snake was looking at him, as bright as before.

Behind him, he heard Harry breathe a sigh of relief, seemingly relieved.

Draco stared at the white light.It seemed that he wasn't completely lost after all.

"That reminds me," said Harry after a while, "shall we test my theory about using a Patronus?"

"Will that surprise me?" Draco asked, "I don't want to be surprised anymore today."

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Harry claimed that the theory wasn't weird at all, and he couldn't think of anything that would surprise Draco, which made Draco even more nervous for some reason; but Draco could understand sending a message in an emergency importance.

The trick is - at least that's what Harry surmises - in hoping to spread the good news, in the hope that the recipient knows the truth about the idea of ​​happiness you used to cast the Patronus Charm.But instead of telling the recipient with words, the patron saint itself is the message.If you want them to know, the Patronus will come to them.

"Tell Harry," Draco said to the glowing snake, even though Harry was just a stone's throw across the room, "uh, watch out for the green monkeys.[6]" It was a movie Draco had seen The cipher in the play.

Then, as at King's Cross, Draco wanted Harry to know that his father had always cared for him; but this time he did not express it in words, but in the very thought of happiness itself.

The glowing snake snaked across the room, appearing to swim in the air rather than crawl on the stone slabs; after a short distance it came to Harry—

—said to Harry in a strange voice that Draco recognized as his usual voice, "Beware of the green monkeys."

"Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh," said Harry.

The snake snaked its way across the floor, back to Draco.

"Harry said he received and confirmed the message," said the glowing krait in Draco's voice.

"Huh," said Harry, "it's kind of weird talking to a Patronus."

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"Why are you looking at me like that?" asked the Heir of Slytherin.

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aftermath:

Harry glared at Draco.

"You're talking about magic snakes, aren't you?"

"No - no," Draco said.His face was pale, and he was still stuttering when he spoke, but at least he was no longer incoherent. "You are a Parseltongue, and you speak Parseltongue, the language spoken by all snakes in the world. You can understand any snake, and when you speak to them, they understand you too...Harry , you can't believe that you were assigned to Ravenclaw! You are the heir of Slytherin!"

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"Snakes are intelligent creatures?"

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