Lupin frowned and examined carefully, Fang noticed Catherine's abnormality, and at this time, he didn't care about questioning Lucius's behavior, and hurriedly walked over to support the red-haired girl.

"What's going on?" Lupin condensed the magic into his eyes, and soon understood Catherine's general situation, "How did you consume so much mana?" Did you destroy those Yin Corpses? Speaking of this, he couldn't help but raise his head and stare at Lucius, not understanding why the other party's mana consumption was so small.

"Nope! We didn't get rid of those corpses, it was the tide that suddenly rose. Catherine closed her eyes in an attempt to regain her balance, "I found a magic circle at the bottom of the lake that transforms the Yin Corps, and I took some time to destroy it. ”

Since the cave was near the mouth of an underground river, Catherine could use it to make the tide rise, and if it was in the real sea, she would not be able to do what she wanted, but even so, the mana consumed was too great for her to expect, otherwise Voldemort would have had a hard time figuring out her strength, otherwise she would not have done such a laborious thing.

"So?" Lupin was still suspicious, but Lucius didn't bother to pay attention to him, and Catherine still closed her eyes, so he had to bury his doubts in the bottom of his heart and find out the reason later when he had a chance.

"What do you think of Regulus's funeral?" Lupin quite simply changed the subject.

Because of Voldemort's involvement, Regulus's funeral could not be handled publicly, but it was also impossible not to notify the family, fortunately, the people who should know were basically present, only his second cousin Andomeda needed to be informed, because Lucius's identity was not suitable, so he had to go to Tonks's house from Lupin, and Dobby was sent to purchase items to decorate the mourning hall.

Catherine used the excuse of attending the funeral to dismiss Harry and Draco's doubts about her late return, but when the two teenagers' attention was once again focused on their elders, she was invited by Lucius to the ballroom to talk.

"You're tenth?" After arranging the unusually cumbersome magic to prevent eavesdropping and prying eyes, Lucius asked the suspicion in his heart. After all, Catherine had been fiddling with him in front of him for so long, and asking him to swear, how could he not have guessed the best possibility.

"Of course not." Catherine smiled and raised her left hand, the rose from the ring on her index finger was still eight petals, but the color had turned black, which made her frown.

"One year and three months, you're one step away from the ninth order!" Lucius' face was full of disbelief, "Presumably you have already obtained the key to the tenth order!" His tone was filled with jealousy that was hard to hide.

"Don't worry, I can't flood this place, I can't even get some water out of thin air." Catherine smiled again. In his heart, he immediately decided that he must find Salazar after the holiday to find out why his magic power suddenly increased.

"It seems that the tenth order is more complicated than I thought." Lucius frowned in thought, Catherine smiled and didn't answer, just bowed slightly and turned away.

Although she and Lucius have the intention of cooperating, Voldemort's biggest variable is still beyond the control of both parties, so it is impossible for Catherine to expose her biggest hole card at this time and reach a true alliance with the patriarch of the Malfoy family.

In order to avoid the instinct of magic to control the corpse, Regulus's funeral was held in a hurry, and even the location was chosen in the foyer. Because Walburga had cast a permanent sticking spell on the back of her portrait, and she had no other portraits, she had to move the portraits of the other family elders to the foyer, but the most troublesome thing was the portrait of Regulus. In the end, it was Catherine who drew a sketch based on his photographs to solve the problem.

Not long after Lupin left, he hurried back with the Tonks family of three, and then chaos ensued, and Andomeda fell on the coffin and wept loudly. Narcissa couldn't help but go over to comfort Andomida, startled by her sister's behavior, and saw that she seemed to forgive herself. couldn't help crying even more sadly, seeing this, Narcissa also cried, after all, they were sisters who grew up together, and that affection was as deep as the sea, how could it be broken by saying that it could be broken.

Sirius realized how wrong he had been and how deeply he had hurt his family, and he couldn't help but put his arms around his two cousins, solemnly promising that he would revitalize the Black family, but it made the two women cry even more miserably.

Lucius and Ted, the husband of Andomeda. Tonks was eager to rush up and punch their foolish cousin twice on behalf of his wife, but given that it was Regulus's funeral, he kept his demeanor, but he didn't plan to let Lupin go, and he had to endure the cynicism of his two cousins instead of Sirius.

While crying profusely, while fighting with words, how far away is it is to be a child.

"Hello! I'm Nymphadora. Tonks, I prefer to be called Tonks. The 22-year-old black-haired woman whispered hello to the three underage wizards with an unusually friendly smile.

"Hello! Tonks! I'm—" The brunette hesitated for a moment before he said his full name, "Harry. Porter. ”

Tonks lived up to his wide-eyed eyes, but fortunately she remembered the occasion and covered her mouth in time to avoid attracting the adults' side eyes.

"I heard that you are the godson of Uncle Sirius, but I didn't expect it to be true." Tonks blinked vigorously at Harry, then looked at the platinum boy curiously, "I know you, you're Aunt Narcissa's son, Draco. Malfoy. ”

"Yes, Miss Tonks." Draco politely shook hands, only to sneak his hand against the wall after shaking hands.

"Hypocrisy!" Harry cursed in a low voice, but Tonks didn't notice it, for she was looking at Catherine so seriously that she even reached out to cover the red-haired girl's eyes.

"Sure enough, I've seen you!" Tonks put down his hand and chuckled, "At my grandfather's funeral, you first helped Aunt Narcissa, went to find Mrs. Weasley, and then stayed with Professor Snape. ”

"Miss Tonks' Auror training is good!" Catherine smiled and shook her hand.

"No, my grades aren't good." Tonks said dejectedly, "I remember you because your smile is special, I've tried to imitate it, but I can't learn anything." Her lips slowly grew smaller until they were the same as Catherine's, but the smile looked awkward.

"You're a happy person, why bother to learn from me?" Catherine reluctantly persuaded.

"I've always had a perfect score on my disguise test, so how can there be someone who doesn't look like it?" Tonks grumbled, and then the black hair of her shawl turned burgundy, and her face became the same as that of Catherine, but no matter how you look at it, you can see that it is not the same person.

"Are you—Disguised Maggus?" Harry asked in a low voice, and Tonks-Catherine nodded quickly.

"Although you can make your face exactly the same, but Catherine's temperament you can't learn, just like the action of nodding, Catherine will only bow her head slightly, about 30 degrees lower, and she will retract, so that it is in line with aristocratic etiquette." Draco explained earnestly to her.

"Is there such a big difference?" Tonks-Catherine asked with a wink, and Lupin, who happened to skim over, couldn't help but be stunned.

"Catherine never blinks like that." Harry couldn't help but say that there was a knock on the door before he could finish speaking.

"Who's out there?" Lucius shouted, holding down his wand.

"It's me! Severus. Snape! ”

Hearing the familiar voice, the nervous crowd couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and Ted, who was closest to the door, naturally went over to open the door, and it was too late for Lupin, who had just come back to his senses, to stop him.

As soon as the door opened, Snape immediately swept his gaze to his target, only to find a dead man appearing here, still looking at him with curiosity.

"Lily?" Snape exclaimed, and the others immediately looked over, and then they were all dumbfounded, and Tonks realized that he was in trouble, and quickly restored his original appearance.

"Nymphadora. Tonks! Is it fun to tease a professor? Hufflepuff dunks 10 points! Snape glared at Tonks fiercely before looking at his target, "Catherine! Come out with me! With that, he turned and left.

Catherine didn't ask or explain to anyone else, but quickly followed Snape away and closed the door with her hand.

The sound of the door woke everyone up, and Tonks rubbed his face and said, "Looks like I've graduated, can Professor Snape still deduct my points?" ”

"He's holding Hufflepuff!" Draco reminded.

Harry immediately took out his address book and questioned the SG team members who were still on campus, and soon received the news that Hufflepuff had been detained.

"Younger brother, younger sister! Senior sister, I'm sorry for you! Tonks hugged his head and wanted to cry without tears.

"Whose eyes are you sending me?" Immediately after setting up the magic to prevent eavesdropping and prying eyes, Snape immediately questioned Catherine.

"Tom. Riddle. ”

Hearing this, Snape staggered back two steps.

"Professor!" Catherine hurriedly supported him, "Did you do blood magic?" ”

"How did you guess?" Snape would do blood magic, purely on the spur of the moment, and he couldn't understand why Catherine could guess.

"That snake-language version of the Slytherin precept in the secret room of the Hunting Society is exactly what you taught me."

"Impossible! That's my mother—" Snape didn't continue, and he suddenly remembered that his mother was only three years younger than Riddle, and that they had spent four years in the same house.

"As a child, you can never choose your own parents." Catherine smiled wryly and looked at 12 Creman Square.

"He's not my father!" Snape suddenly said in a calm voice, "It's just that there's a blood relationship." ”

"Could it be that House Prince and House Slytherin intermarried?" Catherine looked at Snape in surprise. (To be continued......)