The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

Sirius walked to his brother's desk and suddenly opened the drawer, exposing all the quills, old textbooks, ink bottles and other miscellaneous items inside.

"Speaking of which, I still don't know why you came to study my younger brother's past?" he asked curiously, "and you even took a leave of absence from Hogwarts."

Tom told Sirius his "guess".

"Maybe he helped Voldemort save something important?" Sirius pondered for a moment: "I don't think the probability is high, because he has a weak temperament, and I don't think he can get someone like Lucius and Bellatrix. value."

However, although he felt that the possibility was unlikely, Sirius had no intention of being perfunctory. He began to rummage carefully among the debris left by his brother.

"If we want to explore Regulus's mental state before his death, we can try to find out if he left any diary or anything like that." He put the miscellaneous items on the desk, stirring up a large amount of dust.

"Has the diary been taken away by Mrs. Black?" Hermione asked suddenly. She thought about it from the perspective of Sirius's mother. She felt that her child was missing, and the mother probably also wanted to find the child's diary. Let’s understand his mental state.

"That's impossible. My dear mother cannot do such a thing." Sirius patted his chest and said that no one here understood his mother and brother better than him.

"That little devil's trick almost fooled me." He muttered and handed over a copy of "Advanced Potion Making".

"What do you think of this book?"

"Uh..." Hermione looked at the worn old textbook and finally choked out a sentence: "Is it a practical book?"

Sirius was amused.

Tom took the textbook and observed it carefully, but he couldn't see any problems.

"I thought you could discover the mechanism inside." Seeing that neither of them could figure out the reason, Sirius showed a disappointed expression.

"This is obviously the same kind of map as the one I made!" Sirius looked at the two of them in disgust, took out his wand, clicked on the title page of the textbook, and read: "Always pure!"

Under the gaze of Tom and Hermione, the text on the textbook's title page was erased bit by bit, and finally a line of large characters with the same font as the bedroom door number appeared on the title page.

[No reading without my permission]

Sirius snorted coldly: "I gave this magic to him..."

As if he had guessed Sirius's reaction, another line of smaller words appeared below the line of words:

[I hope my brother with a keen sense of smell will not use his sense of smell to pry into his brother's privacy]

A vein popped out on Sirius' head. He could now somewhat understand Snape's mood.

"You brat, if you don't learn from the good ones, you will learn from the bad ones." He muttered and opened Regulus's diary.

The diary started during the summer vacation of Regulus' fifth grade. Sirius skipped the diary from previous years and turned to the last few pages.

After graduation, Regulus could not guarantee to write a diary every day. The length of the diary also varied greatly. Sometimes it was just a sentence "Nothing to do today", and sometimes it was a short essay.

Sirius, Tom, Hermione, and Lupine huddled together, looking at Regulus's diary carefully, looking for clues in it that might help them.

From the lines in the diary, we can clearly see the subtle change in Regulus's attitude towards Voldemort. Before he graduated, he admired Voldemort and agreed with his pure-blood claim. In his eyes, Voldemort is the only savior of the wizarding world.

[Mr. Voldemort must be the savior of the wizarding world! 】

Four people present:...

"There is obviously a big problem with your family's education." Lupine patted Sirius on the shoulder and said.

"That's exactly what my parents believed." Sirius deadpanned. The Black family, like other pure-blood families, are loyal supporters of Voldemort. This also means that Regulus's thoughts are not due to the lack of family education, but the origin of family education.

At the age of sixteen, Regulus joined the Death Eaters and was branded with the Dark Mark. His parents considered him "a brave little hero".

After graduation, Regulus gradually lost his innocence. He realized that Voldemort was not his ideal savior. He began to waver in the path of Death Eaters, but he was still unwilling to resist other Death Eaters and Voldemort. However, he was disgusted with the behavior of many Death Eaters. He wrote:

【How can we save the magic world by following these insects? 】

In the last few pages of the diary, Sirius and Tom found something that interested them.

[…I have reservations about some of their actions, but I can’t stop them, so let’s just mess around for now! Anyway, they didn't dare to say anything else - Bella is my cousin! Today the master asked me for Kreacher. It was my honor and I lent Kreacher to him.

I wonder what he wants a house elf for? 】

…

[Kreacher suddenly came back. His condition was very bad. Merlin was on top. What happened to him? He was so thirsty he felt like he could drink up the black lake at Hogwarts. 】

The next day, the notes in the diary were scrawled a lot, and we could see that the owner of the diary was anxious.

[Kreacher became more awake, and I asked him what happened to him. Merlin! He must be crazy! It turns out that he achieved so-called "immortality" in this way, haha, Horcrux, haha! I have to hide Kreacher first and make sure no one knows...]

…

After a period of time, the contents of the diary were scrawled and disorganized, and many contents were deleted and crossed out. Only one sentence was clear:

[I made a decision, I will probably die, but I don’t regret it. 】

Those were the last words in his diary, and the pages thereafter were all blank.

"He decided to resist Voldemort and implemented a plan," Hermione frowned, "but he didn't write what he was going to do."

"There are key figures in it, aren't there?" Lupine pointed at the name on the diary.

Sirius nodded, "Indeed," he raised his voice and shouted, "Kreacher!"

With a snap, Kreacher, the house elf who was inherited by Sirius and the house, reluctantly appeared.

After seeing where he was, Kreacher had a look of irritation on his face, and then he immediately lowered his head and muttered: "Kreacher is preparing lunch for the young master and his guests. Unexpectedly, the young master Kreacher will be called to Master Regulus's bedroom. Master Regulus has passed away, and as a result, his bedroom will not be peaceful..."

"You don't have to say so much," Kreacher's words made Sirius angry again, and he interrupted Kreacher's complaint, "Just tell me what Voldemort asked you to do, and Regulus. What did you do back then?”

Hearing those two names, Kreacher's body trembled twice, and a trace of fear flashed in his eyes. Then he shook his head and stared down at his toes, not daring to look directly into Sirius's eyes.

"Master Regulus won't let Kreacher speak."

"You!" Sirius raised his eyebrows, ready to force Kreacher to speak out, but was stopped by Hermione.

She half-knelt in front of Kreacher, trying to hold his hand. However, Kreacher was very resistant to her move. He jerked back with a look of disgust on his face. If it hadn't been for Sirius's strict orders, he might have cursed.

Seeing Kreacher's violent reaction, Hermione sighed and did not insist.

"I respect your choice," she said seriously, looking at Kreacher's face, "but I guess Mr. Regulus asked you to keep the secret to protect his family, right?"

"Yes, that's what the master said." Kreacher also breathed a sigh of relief after avoiding Hermione's contact. Seeing that Hermione was willing to keep a distance from it, it began to answer Hermione's questions.

It was thanks to Sirius's order, otherwise Kreacher would never pay attention to such a Muggle-born witch - even if she had good intentions.

"But the current situation is that even if Sirius is already a thorn in the side of the Dark Lord, even if he doesn't know Mr. Regulus's secret, the Dark Lord already wants to get rid of him. The prerequisites no longer exist." Hermione didn't mind Kreacher's ungratefulness, and she carefully analyzed the house elf in front of her.

"So why don't you tell us the story of Mr. Regulus? Let us know what happened back then. I believe Mr. Regulus must be an extremely brave hero. He did things that most people would not dare to do. Isn’t it a pity that no one knows about this feat?”

Kreacher lowered his eyes and thought about it carefully, and then realized that the hemp girl in front of him was right. This is a great opportunity to publicize the heroic deeds of Master Regulus. As for the consequences of leaking the secret... Kreacher really didn't care. Master Regulus and the mistress are both dead, so even if this matter is told, it will not have any impact.

But there is one last hurdle.

"But that's Master Regulus' order..." it muttered in a low voice.

Sirius understood, and he immediately said seriously: "I am your master now, and I order you to answer truthfully."

"Yes, Master." Kreacher immediately stood at attention and replied respectfully.

Then it used its low, muffled voice to tell a chilling story to everyone present.

That day in 1979, Regulus found Kreacher and sent Kreacher to Voldemort. Voldemort took Kreacher into a cave. There, Voldemort used Kreacher to test the protective spell he had placed on the Horcruxes. According to Voldemort's assumption, Kreacher would definitely die there, but he miscalculated.

Voldemort was so arrogant that he didn't even care about beast-like magical creatures like house elves. So he overlooked one thing: house elves' magic was different from that of wizards, and house elves could apparate in places where apparation was forbidden.

Voldemort would never have imagined that these lowly creatures in his eyes could actually perform magic that he did not possess.

Kreacher said in a singing tone: "The highest law for house elves is the master's order. If the master tells Kreacher to go home, Kreacher will go home!"

Hermione asked gently, "What happens next?"

Kreacher burst into tears.

"Master Regulus took me back to the cave..."

From Klee's incision, several people knew everything.

When she heard that Regulus had chosen herself to be the victim, Hermione exclaimed, and two lines of tears fell from the corners of her eyes.

she cried.

Hermione wanted to hug the poor house elf but didn't dare. Lupine lowered his head and stared at the patterns on the carpet. As for Sirius, he seemed a little touched. Before this, he had never regarded Kreacher as a creature with emotions like humans, but today there was a crack in his concept.

"He is a hero." Tom commented from the side, winning everyone's approval.

Yes, Regulus is a brave hero. He may not have stood in the light and won the flowers and applause like the members of the Order of the Phoenix, but he was undoubtedly a brave man.

"Where is that locket?" Sirius asked in a hoarse voice, "Leave it to me and I will take care of it."

"Master Regulus hopes to destroy it..."

"I'm going to destroy it on me, I promise you."

Kreacher stopped crying, stood up unsteadily, and disappeared with a pop. After more than ten seconds, it came back again, holding a silver oval locket in its hand.

When Tom saw the locket, he became excited: this was Voldemort's last Horcrux.

The expressions of the other three people also became extremely serious. In the previous conversation, they already knew that this was the mysterious man's Horcrux.

Getting this Horcrux today is definitely a great achievement! Will deal a heavy blow to Voldemort!

The locket is valuable at first glance: its chain is made of pure gold, and the letter "S" made of emeralds is used on the surface of the box, giving it a noble and mysterious feeling. The first time they saw it, everyone believed that this was the treasure Voldemort wanted to hide.

"Very good, very good!" Sirius excitedly took the locket from Kreacher's hand, "You should give it to Dumbledore!"

"Yes, we will bring this locket with us when we go back to school." Tom took the locket from Sirius and carefully weighed the Horcrux and Slytherin's relic.

Apart from its gorgeous appearance, there seemed to be nothing special about the locket, but when he actually got it in his hand, Tom felt a gloomy emotion brewing in his chest.

He had an intuition that if he kept wearing this locket, it might have a subtle negative impact on his mood.

"Mission accomplished!" Sirius was very happy after finding the locket, "Let's have lunch here and then go back!"

He invited Tom and Hermione to stay for a meal before going back, and Tom and Hermione were free to do so.

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