Purebloods with loud surnames always plan a marriage for their children early.
This is normal. On the one hand, in modern society where the wizard population is declining sharply, the birth rate of pure-blood wizards is already declining. Getting married and having children early is a very important thing; and if the cooperation between families can be maintained by a marriage contract, then It couldn't be better. Whether in Europe or Asia, two forces that form alliances and share interests always love to use marriage as a "deposit."
On the other hand, purebloods always believe that only families with a long history can produce good children. Children with rich heritage and pure blood cannot be compared with a few smart Muggle wizards. Only noble blood can produce outstanding children, this is the principle they have always believed in. Of course, this excellence is also measured by their vision.
Therefore, r knew from an early age that he would meet several pure-blood girls with loud surnames and generous dowries, preferably Slytherin, at the age of thirteen, and then he would obey his father's words and hold an engagement ceremony with one of them. Cultivate a relationship with her in life, take her as a companion at the dance, and finally, when they graduate, they will prepare for marriage and formally get married a year later to form a young family.
This was like a procedure, a natural arrangement for him, so he never thought about whether he would love that fiancée, nor did he think that he would find a lover, and then that person would make a vow and get lucky. Generally, they become soul mates and get married with the blessing of everyone. To him at the time, as long as his fiancée was beautiful, behaved elegantly, was as good at handling housework as his mother, and was not as noisy as Pansy, then she would be a qualified Mrs. Malfoy.
And from the moment he received the admission notice and met someone, this idea was like pencil writing on paper, which became clean as soon as it was erased by an eraser. His outlook, ideas, and vision for the future have all undergone earth-shaking changes. He even dared to run away from home. Before leaving, he yelled at his father:
"What's wrong with wanting to marry the person you like!"
——This is very much like his uncle. It seems that there is no shortage of the crazy factor of the K family in his blood.
The point is, how could he - how could he bear to marry and have children with a woman he could only say he "knew"? Like a reproductive tool? Then he will lose the qualification to spend his life with the person he has chosen?
What a joke!
He should hold a grand wedding with someone with everyone's blessing and make a vow never to betray him! He should be with someone who can bring him love, just like Harry's father!
Or is he not worthy of this?
To this question, r’s answer is that he thinks he is absolutely worthy of it.
Therefore, when he asked the Department of Mysteries why he had a dream with Harry, he got the answer "You are a pair of soul mates with a magical link", although his first reaction was that this was not the case. Maybe - even if he drank a whole bottle of Felixir, such a good thing would not fall from the sky - but after he repeatedly confirmed that the Department of Mysteries was not trying to trick him, his first reaction became:
marvelous! But Harry must never know about this! Even if Harry's brothers and sisters wanted to hold him down and beat him to death when they found out, he couldn't let go!
——Who would let go of a pie falling from the sky? Who would let go of an undercooked duck?
He needs to plan long term.
…………
Boom, boom, boom. Boom, boom, boom.
Lily was about to stand up from the TV and pour herself a glass of water when she heard someone knocking on the door. And just by hearing the sound, Lily knew who was knocking on the door.
She straightened her clothes and hurriedly ran to open the door.
"Mrs. Snape, good evening!"
As soon as the door opened, Lily hurriedly said hello and asked with concern: "What happened?"
Opposite her stood a dark-haired woman with slightly disheveled buns. She wears old clothes with collars that reach to her neck
She was wearing that kind of long dress, holding the wand tightly in her hand, and her face didn't look very good, a little pale. Lily took a closer look and found that the lady was biting her lips and seemed to be very nervous.
This lady is her good friend, Severus Snape's mother. According to what he said, even though she doesn't make potions very much and doesn't like to go out, she is indeed a witch with very high potion skills.
Lily recalled Snape's comments about his mother's character and the few times she had met her, and she suddenly had a bad feeling, because it was not difficult to guess.
——Mrs. Snape is not someone who likes to ask for help. Even though she was beaten and scolded by her husband, ostracized by the surrounding families, and people bullied her even when she was shopping, she never asked others for help. And such a lady took the initiative to go out at a late hour and knocked on the door of Evans' house. This was not a good sign.
"Good evening, Miss Evans." Mrs. Snape greeted her hurriedly, then asked directly, "Did Severus come to see you today? Is he still here?"
Lily's heart immediately lifted.
"He didn't come to see me today!" She said in surprise. "Severus hasn't come home yet? Merlin, it's almost twelve o'clock now!"
Lily knew that Snape didn't like staying at home. During the day, he usually goes out to find something to do for himself, or finds an unknown corner to study. Sometimes he also goes to Diagon Alley to sell potions and purchase materials.
However, generally speaking, Snape will still go home at this time. He has no place to live outside and does not want to live on the streets.
"He didn't come home." After Mrs. Snape finished speaking, she nodded hurriedly to her, "Excuse me."
After saying that, she turned and left.
"Wait a minute!" Lily hurriedly took a few steps, "Madam, madam! What's going on? Where did Severus go today? Is there anything I can do to help? And, madam, your wand..." "The wand," she lowered her voice, "cannot be seen."
Mrs. Snape stopped, turned around, and looked at the girl seriously.
"Rather than caring about my wand, the most important thing you should do now is to go back home, lock the doors and windows, and remind your parents to be wary of approaching strangers." Her voice was cold and neutral, as if it didn't matter. However, these harsh words were for Lily's sake, "My son is missing. I can use magic to find him. If you are not careful, can your parents do this?"
Lily froze on the spot, a pair of green eyes looking at her helplessly.
Mrs. Snape sighed inwardly and pushed her towards the house.
"Go home, Miss Evans, mark my words," Mrs. Snape said, "This place hasn't been safe lately."
"But Severus -" Lily said anxiously, "Madam, he is my friend, and I want to help him too!"
"I will find my son alone," Mrs. Snape said quietly. But her chest rising and falling violently showed that she was in a different mood than before, "You are still a child, and now you just need to return to the protection of your parents."
After saying these words, she pushed Lily towards the house again, then she clenched her wand tightly and disappeared into the night like a black mist.
…………
"——This is a warning. You don't know why it works like this. Logically speaking, it's a bit of an invasion of privacy, but now it's useful. You remember that it prevented Riddle's curse, right?"
"It's this kind of link that allows me to talk to you in my dreams, otherwise I would really go crazy. I have no idea where you are and how I could get there..."
"When you took my place on the mission, the Department of Mysteries, an organization that should be banned, refused to let me exchange you back, nor let me use their methods to get through. It was only because of this link that I was able to survive in the torrent of time. Find the right direction, find you - this is related to another magical institution, we will talk about it in a moment,
You are definitely interested - and in other situations, of course, we can also use this relationship to find each other to prevent us from getting separated. It connects us magically and spiritually, and it can definitely explore more functions... …”
Ji Li Gua La. Ji Li Gua La.
Bala, bala, bala...
As he spoke, he actually felt a little sad. Becoming a soul mate with someone you have always wanted to choose should be a surprise, a romantic thing, or no matter what, it should be a heart-pounding thing, but look at his current tone, He is like a salesman stationed in a store, wasting his saliva so that customers can buy goods without returning them.
It makes people angry just thinking about it.
Harry rubbed his ears in confusion, listening with mixed emotions as R stood in front of him and praised the benefits of this link endlessly.
R had been speaking for almost half an hour, and Harry had never found him to be such an eloquent person.
"...So, we should leave this link."
Finally, r concluded: "This is to prevent various emergencies. Who knows if after completing this task and returning to the future, there will be other messes to clean up. The effect it can cause has far exceeded that of many high-level It’s magic, and magic comparable to it has been lost! Your ability doesn’t have this type either—if I remember correctly.”
"...Indeed not," Harry said.
"Then that's what we've decided." R said quickly, "It's better to keep this link."
Harry slapped himself in the face.
"I think what you said makes sense," he expressed his opinion as implicitly and tactfully as possible, "but there seems to be something wrong with the focus of your statement."
"What did I say that was wrong?" R retorted.
"No, no, no, R, you said it very well, and the whole paragraph sounds fine," Harry immediately shook his head, "But looking at the whole thing, its point is wrong. Even if you follow your way of thinking, this The link works great, I agree - if it wasn't a magical link that said "if one party dies, both parties die together", I wouldn't ask for it to be unlocked. No matter how much you talk about the advantages, the dangers still exist. ".
And there are some embarrassing questions that you didn’t mention. Harry said in his mind.
"This is - the advantages outweigh the disadvantages!" r retorted.
"I don't see anything more valuable than life," Harry insisted. "Nothing is more important than life."
"No," R said, raising his life, "Some things are more important than life. I think you should know this better than me. There are many people in your family who risk their lives on the battlefield. Have you forgotten?"
Harry blinked, slightly surprised that he was right - r was right. And this speech has a bit of a superhero flavor.
He lowered his head and thought for a moment before finishing his speech.
"You're right. Sometimes, some things are more important than your own life." Harry raised his head, looked directly at r, and said very seriously, "So you can, um, understand what I mean - for me ," he pointed to himself, "If there is a critical moment, ensuring that you are alive is more important than my life, so I hope to unlock this link. Can you understand what I mean, r?"
"...!!"
r was as stiff as a large ice sculpture for a moment. A kind of coldness came out of his descendants. He even had the illusion that he was shuddering.
"What I want to make clear is," Harry looked at his best friend and softened his tone, "This is not to say that I am afraid that you will hate me, or that I feel guilty - okay, maybe It’s still a little bit. The main reason is that I don’t want to see my best friend suffer misfortune with me even though he can survive.”
Harry imagined what that would feel like - it would be worse than death.
"You should have told me earlier," Harry said. "I didn't even know about this. What if it happened?"
r twitched his mouth
Horn, said nothing.
"I originally planned to find a suitable opportunity to tell you," he said with a dead expression, "There are a lot of things we should do - and it is very useful -"
Harry stared at him with an expression that made r feel panicked. He was extremely calm, and his eyes seemed to be able to see through all people's thoughts, even though he knew that Harry would never do this unless necessary.
"It's very useful." Harry tried to reason in a calm tone, "But even if you say so, I still have to find a way to unlock it. It doesn't matter, you are right, this is not our first priority right now. , maybe when we go back, we will have time to untie it."
Thinking of Riddle's "poisonous hand", Harry had to pay attention to the protective effect brought by the link.
"After all - why do you have to untie it?!" r couldn't help but shout at Harry, "It's such a convenient link, why don't you just keep it! It's - it doesn't get in the way!"
"I said, I don't want to take risks and pay the price for myself one day," Harry gave him a succinct answer, "and you have to bear it with me. You are as important to me as my father. "
The second half of his words made R feel the blood rush to his brain, giving rise to an impulse.
"But I am willing to share the responsibility with you! We are soul mates, our fates are connected!" r blurted out, loudly, "What's wrong with this?! If you live, I will live. If something goes wrong, Let’s solve it together. If we can’t solve it, we’ll die together——”
When he heard r say "die together", Harry's heart felt as if someone had stabbed him with a compass, making his presence felt with a stinging pain.
He can honestly say "if I die", but he doesn't like r saying that.
"——I don't want to." Harry stood up and stared at R's eyes so bright that they were about to burst into flames. "If one day, I die, I would rather you live. Listen, I absolutely don't want to. If you have to worry about this even after you die, you must listen to my point - I hope you live well!"
Before he finished speaking, he was punched in the face, and R rushed over and grabbed his collar.
"If you insist on saying that," he shouted with a ferocious face, "just - don't - tell me that you are dead - such nonsense! Can't you live well?! If you If I can guarantee that you will always be alive, what does it matter if you keep the link?!"
"If you don't want to see me die because of you," he said, glaring at Harry, "then try to live for me! What the hell are we talking about, are you suicidal?"
Harry was silent for a few seconds.
"I promise you," Harry said slowly, taking R's hand and taking it off his collar, "I'm not suicidal. But it can't be in this way - I mean , it’s like kidnapping.”
r was so angry that his breath got stuck in his throat.
"This is the most mysterious magic in history," he said, "but you say it's like kidnapping? Aren't you Raven? Can you respect it?"
"No, I didn't mean to ridicule this...magic." Harry sighed, and at the same time he was a little confused. "Even if you don't want to mention it, I have to say it. I said it feels like kidnapping because the creation of soul mates is supposed to come from The oath is made based on personal wishes. But what is our situation? Why do you act like "this is a good thing"? "
"Isn't this?!" r said it without thinking.
Harry stared at him for a few seconds before shaking his head.
"No, that's not a good thing," he said. "If you and I had agreed that we were going to perform some magic that would work on two people, then that would be fine. But what is this link? I dare say it's establishing I didn’t ask for anyone’s opinion - it was not a choice I made, and I couldn’t resist it, r, this is kidnapping and coercion.”
It was not a choice I made!
This is kidnapping and force!
r seems to listen
Hearing the sound of a basin of ice water being poured down, he felt cold all over.
No no no no. rMalfoy, calm down, he's just saying this. He didn't...he didn't reject you. It's not like he's saying no to that kind of thing...
But in the next second, he still heard the sound of his sanity breaking. He breathed in, breathed out, in and out.
Harry was still expressing his opinion: "Even if we want to try this magic with others in the future, it is our own choice——"
Try it with someone else? after? !
"——But the result now is the choice I want to make! I am willing! You can't ignore my opinion, this is a link between the two of us!" R couldn't bear it anymore and exploded. He yelled at Harry, "Listen , The devil wants to hear your rationale - the reality is, unless you want to form a soul mate with someone else, you can't even think about breaking this link!"
After saying that, R jumped over the table and ran out of the room with boundless anger, leaving Harry standing there dumbly with his eyes open and his eyelids twitching wildly, having no idea what R was angry about.
what's the situation? ! Where did we go wrong? !
…………
Tobias Snape was awakened by an explosion.
It was supposed to be a wonderful night - he came to his lover's house, they had a cozy dinner, did a few things together, and then snuggled up and fell asleep. He should sleep until dawn, then have breakfast, and then go out to find some wine to drink - he has been relatively well-off recently.
Before he could shake off his drowsiness and think about why the explosion was so close, the woman's scream had already frightened him.
He rolled up from the bed, opened his eyes, and found that his lover was dragged from the bed to the bottom of the bed by an invisible force. She screamed and struggled, but it didn't help.
The house is not big. The bed is on the far west side and the door is on the east side. Tobias Snape glanced across the small living room, and immediately saw a black shadow standing on the door panel, like a tree, standing upright without being shaken by any screams.
Mr. Tobias Snape came to his senses completely when he saw the small stick in the black shadow's hand. He was shocked at first, then angry, deeply fearful, and finally turned to anger again.
——Standing at the door is his wife Eileen.
"What are you doing?!" He jumped off the bed, without putting on his shoes, and without even looking at his crying lover, he strode towards his wife, "Break into a private house! Use your Vicious trick, beating up a lady! Ah ha, I'm going to send you to the police station tomorrow!"
He said it with great confidence, as if by saying this, the police station would ignore the fact that he was having an affair here and only punish his wife.
Eileen let out a slight sneer, but did not retort.
However, the sneer was extremely irritating to Tobias because it clearly represented her contempt. Contempt! How dare a wife, a woman, even an invisible witch, show contempt for her husband! Or in front of his lover, the little woman who relies on him!
Tobias raised his arm angrily and slapped Eileen with a big slap. The latter did not waver in her stance. She sent the tip of the wand forward, and Tobias withdrew his hand as if he had been stung by a bee.
"How dare you point this thing at me and cast your curse on me!" he shouted, "ungrateful bitch! I told you a long time ago that you are not allowed to play your little tricks in front of me!"
Eileen waved her wand - this wand was the second wand she kept at the bottom of the box. Because it had some flaws, the price was low, but it was enough for her to cast a binding spell after she hadn't used magic in a long time. Tobias was hit by the red light emitted by the wand, and he immediately looked like a pig, with all his limbs stuck together, and he fell to the ground with his navel pointing up.
Tobias was about to curse, but Eileen waved her wand again, and his mouth
It just closed on its own, as if it was stuck by something. Without Eileen's permission, he would never be able to open his mouth.
It was only now that he finally realized that Eileen, who had not used magic in quarrels or fights for more than ten years, was being serious with him.
In front of a wizard, his voice, size, and slaps are all meaningless.
"Where is Severus?"
Eileen is still calm. She was not angry, arrogant, or anxious, but she asked questions very clearly. At the same time, as her hand flicked the wand, Tobias' mouth was able to open again.
"You fucking bitch who deserves to go to hell——"
Without saying a word, Eileen stepped on his stomach. She glanced to the side and saw that the woman she had dragged out of bed was huddled in a corner, too frightened to speak. She looked at Eileen as if she were looking at a ghost, feeling that she could kill her in the blink of an eye.
Eileen put a stun spell on her and let her faint. Then, she asked her husband again:
"Where is Severus?!"
"How do I know where a freak like that has gone?!" Tobias said angrily when his mouth was unsealed again, "Who knows where he might be hiding, wanting to curse or poison me to death! He's been there all day long. I only do those..." He trembled his lips and said, "...poison!"
Eileen grabbed his collar and pressed the tip of her wand to his temple.
"He didn't come home," Eileen said. "He never fails to come home. And I heard that in this neighborhood, there are secret channels for buying and selling children - they only want special children, and the more special they are, the higher the price. .”
"Tell me, Tobias," her voice was not pleasant, and her face was not distinctive, but at this moment, she was staring at her husband, and her whole face looked cold and sharp, like a knife, "with me Swear, you didn’t get the money through that channel.”
"It doesn't matter to me where that little brat dies!" Tobias roared, "I don't know what you're talking about! If you want to find that ***, you should search in the ditches and trash cans! "
At the same time, he was trembling inside, and some scenes while drinking were replayed in his mind. Children, children, special children. It seems that someone did ask about his family, focusing on his wife and son.
Eileen looked at him coldly, as if she wanted to see a lie on his face.
Tobias discovered that he didn't recognize his wife at all now. His wife, the old witch, had always been... silent. In the early years, he would quarrel with her, but in recent years, her emotions have become more restrained, and she would not show a special expression when he beat her. As a person responsible for beatings, Tobias's evaluation was that even if she was beaten, The objects are all boring, which is why he wants to date women outside.
He gets no feedback from this woman.
She will not plead, nor will she give in. She just took it like a piece of wood.
But now, this piece of wood came to life and came menacingly, as if it wanted his life! This - this is ridiculous!
"Well," she said, "I need your blood."
Her tone was so calm and flat, as if she wasn't making any terrifying request. Then Tobias saw her put her wand into her pocket and pull out a silver knife that he had seen in his son's hand.
"What?" Tobias was horrified. For a moment, many horrific legends flashed in his mind. Looking at the dark wand, he, who was used to beating his wife, trembled. "How dare you? You can't— ——Ah, ah!!!!!!”
Screams echoed in the house - facing her husband's questioning, Eileen proved how "dare" she was with her actions.
