Chapter 004 12 Grimmauld Place

"Excuse me! Mrs. Weasley! As she was a guest, and Snape had been nowhere to be seen, Catherine quietly left to visit Molly after Malfoy's father and son came to Narcissa to accompany her.

"Are you ......" Molly didn't understand why the girl who had been with Narcissa suddenly came over to greet her, but when she saw her face behind the veil, she couldn't help but exclaim in a low voice, "Catherine! Why are you here? ”

"Professor Snape didn't worry about me being home alone, so he brought me here." Catherine nodded politely to the people looking around, "I want to ask you something, nothing happened to Ron lately, right?" She quickly shifted the subject, avoiding the crowd's attention from focusing on herself.

"Of course not!" Arthur replied angrily, "He's so good, he's always complaining about Harry not writing back to him." ”

"That's weird." Catherine lowered her voice and muttered, just loud enough to be heard only by the Weasleys, "Harry is complaining to me that Ron didn't reply to his letters. ”

"W-" Mo Li almost exclaimed, but fortunately she remembered the situation in front of her, and quickly covered her mouth before lowering her voice and asking, "What's going on?" ”

"I don't know," Catherine replied softly, shaking her head, "because not only Ron, but Hermione couldn't communicate with Harry until I called him and realized something was wrong." ”

The Weasleys looked at each other, and Arthur immediately went to find Dumbledore, and a short time later, a little man in a top hat named Dedalo Dego next to Dumbledore ran out of the Great Hall with a short body.

Seeing this, Catherine hurriedly left Molly's side, her words just now had already exposed herself, and she would wait to be watched if she stayed any longer.

"Why are you looking for Weasley?" Catherine had just taken refuge in a corner on the second floor where she could observe the Great Hall when Snape's voice rang out.

"Someone seems to be preventing Harry from contacting the outside world." Catherine didn't look back, she was still staring at the crowd near Dumbledore, "But the Headmaster has sent someone to check." ”

Snape's heart immediately put back in place, since Dumbledore sent someone else, it means that he doesn't have to interfere in this matter, and he doesn't need to see that hateful face, which makes Snape's mood a little happy, but-

"If you really want to keep your background secret, don't go to a crowded place!" Snape walked up behind her, shielding himself from Catherine's view.

"I know." Smelling the faint scent of moonlight, Catherine couldn't help but smile, "However, don't you think now is a good opportunity for me to get to know the wizarding world?" She looked up at Snape.

Snape stared down at her for a moment before introducing Catherine in a very low voice.

The funeral was divided into two parts, the morning was to mourn the history of the Black family, and the two old men were sent to the earth in the afternoon.

Because Narcissa had anticipated the fall of the Black family when Walburga died seven years earlier, she cried almost every day from the moment her aunt stopped breathing, which frightened the Malfoys and his sons.

If it hadn't happened to be summer vacation at the time, and Snape had time to help, Lucius, who had to care for his wife and children, take care of a bunch of sick old people in the Black family, and have to maintain two properties, would definitely fall down like Narcissa.

After all, a wizard is not a god, a wizard is just a person with special powers, and it is natural for people to be tired, especially when they are surrounded by a group of desperate people.

To this day, Lucius shuddeers when he thinks back to that experience, after all, he still has hope in his heart when facing Voldemort; Draco, who was only five years old at the time, was most impressed by his mother's crying, so he was still very afraid of Narcissa crying; As for Snape, he stepped out of the shadow of Lily's death and began to lead Slytherin House to the final victory for six consecutive years.

But Andomeda is different, no one has contacted her since she was removed from the family, and even when her mother died, no one informed her, and this time she was able to get the news of her father's death because the fall of the Black family caused a great sensation in the wizarding world.

Voldemort had just risen when Andormeda left home, she had not experienced the prosperity of the family, nor had she experienced the decline of the family, let alone watched her people die in despair one by one, but suddenly found that her maiden family was gone, fortunately, Andomeda's feelings for the family were not as deep as Narcissa's, I am afraid that she would have fainted long ago.

In fact, Andomeda was able to pay tribute to her deceased father today, thanks to the fact that the funeral was held with the Puwitt family, and the Malfoys didn't want to make people laugh, otherwise Lucius would have helped his wife drive her away as soon as Andomeda entered the door.

Because the dignity of the family is inviolable, the person who has been removed does not even have the right to mourn, as a member of the family, when enjoying the benefits brought by the family, it is natural to contribute to the family, since you are unwilling, then do not expect the family to leave room for you.

If it weren't for the Black family and Sirius, a direct descendant, and if it weren't for the Ministry of Magic forcing the property to be in his name, Signus would have given a qiē directly to Narcissa, but now he can only make a will, let his youngest daughter dispose of all the property, and close the main house of the Black family.

So after the funeral, the Malfoys went to the main house of the Black family, and just in case, Lucius asked Snape to go with him, so the two children naturally had to follow.

After seeing the grandeur of Hogwarts and the grandeur of Malfoy Manor, Catherine thought that the main house of the Black family, one of the oldest families in the wizarding world, must occupy a small hill, but it was actually located in Grimmauld Square in London, and it was surrounded by dilapidated Muggle houses.

"In the 10th century, the Black family decided to settle here, but less than a hundred years after they had made their home, William the Muggles, who had just unified England, moved the capital of England from Winchester to London." Seeing Catherine's surprised and bewildered look, Draco opened his mouth to explain.

"The Black family was reluctant to spend a hundred years to furnish their home, so they made a deal with William I, but the life of a Muggle was too short, and after more than a hundred years, the original agreement became a piece of waste paper."

"For the sake of the homeland, the Black family signed agreements with Muggle rulers again and again, compromised again and again, and the homeland shrank step by step, and after the Muggle bourgeois revolution, the Black family was completely left with only one main house that was not occupied by Muggles."

"If it weren't for the fact that after a thousand years of precipitation, this main mansion has become one of the few safe places in the wizarding world, and the Black family would have moved long ago. But for the sake of the hatred of the encroachment of their homeland for thousands of years, the Black family has also become the most anti-Muggle family in the wizarding world. With that, Draco shrugged helplessly.

Catherine didn't know what to look on, Muggles' short lifespans would always make them blind to their encroachments on other people's homes, because belated revenge could not always fall on those invaders.

Because it was to close the main house of the Black family, Narcissa walked around every corner of Grimmauld Place and activated the magic circle hidden under the square before walking to Gate 12 of Grimmauld Place.

It was an ordinary brick house that looked like the Muggle houses on either side, but it was much more complete and clean, the only difference was the black-painted door, its silver doorknob was a large coiled serpent, and there was no keyhole or letterbox, but Catherine could clearly feel the magic fluctuations around the house as rich as Hogwarts and Malfoy Manor.

"This one can recognize the bloodline of the Black family." Draco whispered in Catherine's ear, and she noticed that when Narcissa grabbed the doorknob, the door opened automatically.

"Regulus!" As soon as the door opened, an old woman shouted nervously from inside the house, "Is that you?" When she didn't get an immediate response, she immediately shouted angrily, "Or Sirius—you son of a!" ”

"Auntie!" Narcissa hurriedly walked in and said behind the door, "It's me, Narcissa!" ”

"Oh! It's Sissy! The voice behind the door forced a smile on his face, "I'll let Kecheli entertain you at once, K-"

"No need, Auntie!" Narcissa interrupted, "I'm here today in accordance with my father's will---

"That's fine!" The voice behind the door was silent for a moment before replying, "So when I wake up—" The stubborn voice finally became sad, "I can see that beast at first sight!" "It's obviously scolding, but it's full of love.

"Auntie! I'm sorry! Narcissa threw herself to her knees, "It's all my fault!" I ......"

"Silly girl!" The voice behind the door cried and said, "I am the one who is really wrong, and I am the one who harms the whole family!" ”

"Not really!" Narcissa hissed and cried out, "It's me! I shouldn't! It shouldn't—" Her voice died out suddenly.

"Luce! Fast! Cissy fainted again! The voice behind the door shouted, and Lucius had already rushed through the door the moment Narcissa's voice faded away.

"Go to the living room!" Snape then ran in, and Draco rushed after the godfather to see his mother, leaving Catherine alone on the steps, looking at the half-open door, bewildered.

If it was in the Muggle world, Catherine would follow them in and close the door for them; But this is the wizarding world, and if you enter the wizard's residence at will, you will die if you are unlucky, especially since the house in front of you is nearly a thousand years old.

"Excuse me, can I go in?" Catherine walked to the door and asked cautiously.

"Of course!" The voice behind the door suspected of Walburga Black hurriedly replied, "Please come in, little girl!" ”

"Thank you!" Catherine thanked her before stepping in.