nyslfriends Chapter 19 Part 19
Chapter 19 Part 19
"Honey, you're back." Remus dusted himself off for his wife. "Are your parents okay?"
"Not good." Tonks didn't go inside, her hair had faded a lot. "They seem to have been spotted by Death Eaters."
"Like?" Remus was a little taken aback, Ted Tonks' mansion had always been the most secretive stronghold of the Order of the Phoenix.Therefore, his and Tonks' only son, Teddy Lupine, who just turned one year old, was also fostered there.
"Yes, inexplicable people have been appearing frequently on the street in front of the house for the past two days, but the Death Eaters haven't made any specific actions yet." After saying this, Tonks finally walked into the living room. "Where's Severus?"
"He and Sirius were summoned away by Voldemort early this morning." Remus said, "I've been wondering what will happen this time, and now it seems that it may have something to do with what you said." Then, there were two explosions from the entrance, followed by Peter Pettigrew's voice: "Monny! Moony!" He rushed into the living room, shouting as he ran, "Ted Tonks' stronghold has been discovered."
"Sirius, Tonks told me just now that she just came back from there, and Ted Tonks himself noticed it. What did Voldemort say?"
"He asked us to fetch that stronghold at midnight today." After Sirius finished speaking, he drank the revealing potion in one gulp, and he gradually changed from Peter Pettigrew back to Sirius Black. "Why didn't they come back with you?"
"I thought so too, but then DiggleDedalus insisted that I come back to you to discuss countermeasures. He thought that the Death Eaters might not be sure which house it was, and taking a rash move now would help them." Tonks said.
"And it will remind DarkLord of the existence of traitors." Snape's voice came, "Last time it has been hinted that there are traitors in the Death Eater camp, so he set the time so quickly this time, and—" He Glancing at Sirius, "He specifically ordered me to stay at Malfoy Manor at the time of the operation and not allow me to be directly involved."
"Did he really suspect you?" Tonks' hair had turned gray.
"I think he's using the method of elimination. Of course," Snape raised an eyebrow, "my suspicion is the biggest."
"So we have to lose again this time?" Sirius asked.
"Black, please respect other people's IQ when you speak." Snape didn't even look at Sirius, "Compared to finding that traitor in the Death Eater camp, with all due respect, that stronghold of the Order of the Phoenix is nothing. According to the time he gave for his actions, Voldemort actually took me as a hostage of the Order of the Phoenix, of course, Black, I don't expect you to understand what I mean."
"Can't you talk properly at this time?" Sirius was extremely anxious, and the danger Snape was in and his distrust of himself bothered him deeply.
"He meant," Remus said just in time, blocking further communication between Sirius and Snape. "The reason why Voldemort announced his action plan half a day in advance is to let the traitor tell the Order of the Phoenix, and if Severus is a traitor, since he is a hostage in Malfoy Manor—that is, Voldemort's hands, the Order of the Phoenix will not dare to act rashly. Severus, I was right."
Snape exhaled lightly through his nose without responding. "You have to win this time - it's not your turn to speak yet, Black." He saw Sirius's mouth open, and immediately stopped his words. "If you have any scruples, it means that I am the traitor and you are protecting me. If you are prepared there and have no scruples, it means that you don't care about me being in Malfoy Manor at all, and you are protecting me." It means that my life and death will not pose any threat to you, and Voldemort will dispel his doubts about me."
"It's too dangerous," Sirius said. "I stay with you at Malfoy Manor."
"Ridiculous." Snape looked forward, "Are you asking to die with me?"
"That's not what I meant." Sirius explained hastily, but Snape still didn't look at him. "Perhaps you think you understand Voldemort, but in fact, he will doubt you even more if you do this? Who can be sure about this kind of game and anti-game?"
"You think your lice-ridden brain knows DarkLord better than I do?"
"You are in a very dangerous situation."
"This joke is not funny, Black, I used to think that I was in danger within a meter of you."
"You are in his hands, and you may be hurt at any time."
"What hurt? Hex? Steal? Or the mandrake's scream?" Snape finally turned his face, and upon hearing the last few words, Sirius looked nervously at Remus and saw a slight change in his friend's expression. .
"I'm really worried about you." After saying this, Sirius was taken aback by himself. Remus had told him not to say overtly emotional words with Snape's current memory loss, but he still couldn't control his emotions in the end.As soon as the words came out, the whole room fell into silence.At this point, Sirius looked fearless instead. He straightened up, lowered his head slightly, looked at Snape, and waited for his reaction.
The black eyes stared at him for a while, Sirius didn't find any condemnation in them, his hanging heart gradually let go, and then became excited again, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, his palms opened, as if he was ready to hug the person he missed all the time.
The look in Snape's eyes suddenly darkened. "Black, I always thought you were an asshole." He looked away. "Now I'm more convinced of that."
Sirius felt his heart sink a little bit, and there was a throbbing pain in his chest.These days, every word of suspicion and sarcasm that Snape said to him weighed heavily on his heart like a heavy weight, and this sentence just now shattered the last piece of weak confidence and hope he had built for himself.He knew that Snape's words were true, and his hatred for himself was already deep in his bones, and the anger born of grief immediately filled his chest. "Thank you for your comment, Snape, I will always remember it."
"Remus, let's discuss the plan first, it's almost two o'clock," Tonks said softly, breaking the deadlock between Sirius and Snape. "What are we going to do now?"
"Do as Severus says," Remus looked at Sirius, who was expressionless now, inquiringly. "Abandon the contact point at the Tonks mansion."
The darkness weighed heavily on Sirius' heart like a boulder, and he stared fixedly at the row of brightly lit houses below him, one of which was the unidentified target of the Death Eaters. Sirius was riding a broomstick in a slow circle over the Tonks mansion.The preparations for this operation were so hasty that he didn't even know if there was a Death Eater hiding in another cloud beside him.His thoughts gradually drifted to the distant Malfoy Manor, thinking of the man who never seemed to be afraid, and his hand involuntarily gradually touched the glass bottle filled with Snape's memories on his chest.
With a sound of "Boom!", the door of the house was suddenly opened, and the light in the room suddenly tilted out, like a broken paint box.Several broomsticks emerged from the door, and Sirius saw briefly on one of them sat Andromeda, Tonks' mother, hugged by her despite her bright red hair wrapped in a hood. The child on the chest makes this target extremely conspicuous.
It was Sirius' task to escort Andromeda and Teddy, and he immediately reversed the direction of the broom, accelerated extremely fast, and followed Andromeda behind.Sure enough, a few black smoke came out from all over the clouds, the Death Eaters kept appearing from the clouds, and the rays of magic spell appeared in the air one after another. Sirius flicked his wand, moving it up and down to dispel any strands of black smoke that tried to get close to Andromeda.As the star player of the Gryffindor team, Sirius has the most superb flying skills among the existing members of the Order of the Phoenix. He soon discovered that Andromeda's flight path was too straight, which made it easy for the enemy to figure out her flight patterns.
Sirius picked up his speed a bit, and finally flew alongside Andromeda. Teddy was crying earth-shatteringly in his grandmother's arms. "Give me Teddy!" Sirius yelled at Andromeda, the wind whistling past his ears. "You can fly faster yourself - Reducto!" He cast a spell at an approaching plume of black smoke, then grabbed Teddy's arm.
"Ah!" Andromeda yelled suddenly, and let go of the baby she had been holding tightly in her arms. The green light hit her back straight, and she seemed to turn her head to look at it with the last of her strength. Sirius glanced, and then she suddenly fell, passing through the clouds and gradually disappearing. Sirius struggled suddenly, gripped Teddy's arm tightly, and then took him completely into his arms.
she died. Sirius shook his head, trying not to distract himself, but there were streaks of red and green lights around him, and he heard Sturgis Podmore roaring.I don't know whether it was because of Andromeda's fall or Teddy's shrill cry, but the thick black smoke suddenly increased around him. Regardless of the crying of the baby in his arms, Sirius flew up and down in the air, but thick black smoke gradually blocked his way.Grimmauld Place was getting closer, and if he couldn't get rid of the Death Eaters, he would be leading a wolf into his house. Sirius parted his lips a slit, and the cold air poured into the chest cavity of his lips again. He clenched his teeth and clenched his broom hand.
He soared into the sky.The broom flipped, and he and Teddy were thrown headfirst.There were too many Death Eaters around, and they were less than a minute away from Grimmauld Place.Unable to land or completely route the Death Eaters, Sirius continued to raise his distance from the ground, the cries of the baby in his arms growing louder.
to the Burrow. This thought flashed across Sirius' mind, and he turned around deftly. This broomstick was the broomstick he had given Harry once, and the godson left it in Grimmauld Place before leaving.At this moment, Sirius realized the dexterity of a high-performance broom, and he drew a "Z" in the air.Then disappear into the air with the sharpest corner he can.
After a while, the surroundings became quiet, and Teddy stopped crying for some reason. Sirius slowed down, slowly lowering the height of the broom.When he was only a few meters away from the ground, suddenly, a spell shot at him, but it missed. Sirius turned his head, it was a Death Eater who had been following him silently for an unknown amount of time, and now he was almost on a par with him. "Flying skills are really good!" Sirius tried his best to clamp the broom handle tightly with his legs, and after so long in the air, the cold wind blew, Sirius felt chills all over, had a headache, and his legs gradually became numb.
The broom continued to drop in height, but the Death Eater's spell hit his broom handle.The second half of the flame instantly turned into pieces.
He knew he was going to fall, Sirius thought, he subconsciously covered Teddy with his left hand, and put his right hand in front of his chest, where Snape's memory bottle was held, and then let himself fall hard to the ground.
Mud splashed on Sirius' face, and his legs ached and he couldn't move.He saw the Death Eater getting up from the ground and walking towards him step by step. The other party looked young, with a tense expression on his face, hesitated for a moment, and still raised his wand at him and Teddy.
There was the sound of a spell firing in the air, but it wasn't him who was hit. "Sirius?!" Molly's voice came, and Sirius let out a long sigh of relief. "Oh...Teddy." Mrs. Weasley picked up the crying baby, which had become her forte judging by the way she held the baby. "Follow me into the house."
"Drink some hot water Sirius." Molly said to Sirius who was sitting on the bed. "It kept you waiting, Teddy was frightened and managed to fall asleep," she said. Sirius took the glass, and in his opinion, the speed at which Molly coaxed the child was already amazing.
"Teddy isn't hurt?" Sirius asked.
"He's fine," Molly said. "Your leg is fine. It will heal in a few hours."
"I know, thank you Molly." Sirius gulped down the water in his glass. "Is everyone in the Burrow here?"
"It's all right, everyone who should be back is back. It's just that Sturgis Podmore was seriously injured. I also told Grimmauld Place that you are here." She took Sirius' empty water glass. "Everything is fine."
"Molly, Andromeda is dead," Sirius said. "She was hit by the Killing Curse."
Mrs. Weasley's expression froze instantly, and she didn't speak for a long time. Sirius could see she was holding back, but the circles around her eyes were still red. "It's like this every day... Every day I worry about whether someone died again, and I almost have nightmares every day..." Her voice was almost inaudible in the last few words. Sirius patted Molly on the back lightly, and the movement of his hands stopped abruptly as he suddenly thought of Snape.Whether the man had returned to Grimmauld Place or was still at Malfoy Manor, had Voldemort dispelled his suspicions about him.
"Oh...Sirius..." Molly turned her head and glanced at him. She is a delicate person, and when she saw Sirius' expression, she understood his thoughts. She turned sideways and gave Sirius a firm hug. Feel something hard in Sirius' chest. "Still with it?" she asked. Sirius was silent for a moment, "I don't know if I should still be doing this job, Molly, maybe I should really stay away from him."
"You think so?" Molly smiled. "Perhaps you know that a few days ago, during the two days when you were still unconscious, I was the one who took care of you two in Grimmauld Place. When Severus was doing magic recovery training I'm right next to him." She said with the corners of her mouth curled up, winking like Sirius. "I saw his Patronus," she said, with a sudden look on her face: "I saw it with my own eyes."
"You said his patron saint..."
"It's a dog, Sirius. I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes. It looks exactly like your Animagus."
"But he is no longer..."
"Yeah, even he looked confused and angry at the time. I also know that he only has emotional memories from before the age of 16." Molly seemed determined not to let Sirius say a complete sentence. "But Sirius, you haven't really fallen in love with anyone before this, have you?"
Sirius twisted his mouth when he thought of his depraved youth. "No," he said finally, with a self-deprecating smile.
"When I saw Severus' patron saint, I was thinking that he may have truly fallen in love with you, and you have walked into his heart. Although he has lost his memory now, all his feelings for you have become Doubt and uncertainty. But he really did love you, and the changes in his heart made his patron saint not change back."
"But he still doesn't love me now, does he?" Sirius leaned forward as if grasping at straws.
Molly paused, as if thinking of something. "So far, as far as I know, Severus Snape has suffered memory loss three times. Has he ever resented or scolded you for it?"
Sirius looked away and leaned back against the head of the bed.The memories of the past few months played back and forth in his mind, and there was no lack of Snape's humiliation and ridicule towards him, but... "Molly," Sirius straightened up again: "It seems that he never really blamed me." Although All this is caused by him.
"So have you ever wondered why he lost all his memories of you?" Molly asked again.
"Tonks said it was because he hated me so much."
Molly smiled, didn't speak, she stood up, walked forward, and finally stopped in front of a photo. The Weasleys were laughing up there, Ron was sticking his tongue out at the twins, and Percy had just reached Arthur's chest. "That silly girl of Tonks." After a while, Mrs. Weasley said, "There is no such thing as pure hate." She turned around and faced Sirius again: "Love and hate are connected, you will have nothing to do with you Does the person you have a relationship with hate you?" She said: "You have neither affected the people that Severus cherished nor caused devastating harm to him, why should he hate you? I hate you every time I am 16 years old. All the relevant memories touch his emotional nerves? Since he hates you so much, why doesn't he blame you?"
Sirius was stunned, and Molly's continuous questioning made him turn around with his head covered.He just sat there motionless on the bed, staring into Molly's eyes, thinking of the skinny dark-haired boy who always scoffed at anything he did. "I'm not sure if what you said is true...Molly." Sirius was a little incoherent: "If your analysis is true, then this is simply..." Sirius stretched out his hands, he wanted to say something, but felt that nothing Not enough to express my complicated feelings now: "But his memory has been lost, he should have..."
"I don't know if he still loves you or not," Molly said, interrupting Sirius again in a temper. "I haven't experienced memory loss, so I don't know whether love is due to memory or the person you love, and whether his unprecedented rejection of you now is a real disgust or a rebellion against his own patron saint. Molly opened her eyes wide as she nodded, her signature move: "Maybe both loves are possible, and both are possible, so right now we don't know anything. But one thing, Sirius, I I don’t want you to worry when you think about him. He will remember when the war is over and he goes through memory recovery treatment. Then, everything will be fine.” Maybe it’s because of being a mother of seven children, although with Sirius was about the same age, yet Molly spoke like an elder. "Lie down for a while, and I'll get you something to eat."
"Thank you..." Sirius' eyes fell slowly, and Molly left the room with a smile.What she said did make him feel better, but he was plunged into more confused speculation about Snape's feelings and deeper worries about his current situation.
The knock on the door downstairs shattered his thoughts, and Sirius immediately sat up straight, trying to listen to the movement downstairs with his keen hearing.He seemed to recognize the voice of Remus talking to Molly, heard him calling his name.
The sound of rushing up the stairs gradually became clear - Remus Lupine almost broke into the door.
"Is Snape back?" Sirius asked hurriedly when he saw his old friend.
"He didn't come back." Remus said, "There is even worse news. You must calm down after hearing it."
"Say." Sirius subconsciously clenched his fists.
"Peter Pettigrew escaped from 12 Grimmauld Place."
The author has something to say:
I want to say that it is my habit to write a combination of warmth and hope and despair XD
Molly is someone who has truly experienced love... and she is the most vocal of all people in this regard, so let her share her opinion... Sirius will be even more confused now.
Peter Pettigrew ran back to the Death Eaters camp, Severus' survival became a problem XD