For Maka, Regulus's story should never end in his mouth. That story belongs to both Regulus and Voldemort.
He was not qualified to bring Regulus's story to an end without authorization.
If one day, when Voldemort returns to the cave where the fake Horcrux is hidden and takes out Regulus's suicide note, this story will quietly end in the most appropriate form.
As for what was written in Regulus's suicide note, Maka had already lost track of it.
Returning to the study along the stairs, Leni jumped up to him and held up the parchment full of words as if it were a treasure.
Maka looked at the crooked letters on it and took it easily.
"The Tales of Beedle the Bard" is a collection of fairy tales written by wizards. Most of the stories collected in it convey positive messages such as "good will be rewarded with good and evil will be punished with evil" and "magic cannot be abused."
Because they are all fairy tales, the stories in them are not very long. Even if you copy the longest one, "The Legend of Three Brothers," it won't take you long.
"Leni has copied it! Leni is out!"
When the little girl saw Maka taking it, she said happily, turned around and wanted to leave.
"etc."
"What's wrong!"
Maka waved to her, then returned and sat down behind the desk. Although Leni was full of reluctance, she had no choice but to move to the desk obediently.
"'The Wizard's Hairy Heart'..." Maka looked at the parchment copied by Leni and asked, "I asked you to pick your favorite article to copy, right?"
"Yes..." Leni opened her big watery eyes and nodded.
In fact, in "The Tales of Beedle the Bard", the story chosen by Leni is considered the darkest one. Its purpose is to warn young wizards and witches not to use black magic indiscriminately.
Because the content of this story is so bloody, wizard parents usually skip this story when they read it to their children as a bedtime story.
In this story, the protagonist, the young wizard, is handsome, wealthy and extremely intelligent. He believes that emotions are a weakness of human beings, so he uses black magic to block all his emotions and the possibility of falling in love with others. .
However, when he was immersed in his "perfect" solitary life, he found that his two servants were talking about him: one servant expressed sympathy for him, and the other servant even laughed at him for not being able to find a wife. .
As if his pride had been trampled upon, the wizard decided to find a wonderful woman to be his wife that would make them all jealous.
Soon, he was lucky enough to meet a woman who was both beautiful and wealthy, and had amazing magical talents.
Although the wizard couldn't tell whether he liked her or not, it didn't seem to matter - he just wanted an outstanding wife who would make others jealous.
He began to try every possible means to please this woman, but it didn't seem to work.
At this time, the girl spoke -
"Only when I think you have a heart will I believe the love words you say."
The wizard took her to the dungeon of the castle and showed her an enchanted crystal box containing his beating heart.
But because the heart had been isolated from the body for too long, it had shrunk. And because of the black magic, a lot of long black hair grew on it.
The girl asked the wizard to put the heart back to its original place, and the wizard agreed, and he put the hairy heart back into his chest.
However, this heart has been imprisoned by black magic for too long, and it has become reckless and savage, and its desires have become fierce and perverse.
The wizard found that he had to abandon it immediately, otherwise he would lose control of his body by this heart contaminated by black magic.
So, he took out the girl's heart and tried to replace his own hairy heart with it.
But Shaggy's heart is already so powerful that it won't allow the wizard to use magic to remove himself. Naturally, the wizard didn't want to be controlled by his heart anymore, so he struggled to pick it out of his chest with a dagger.
As a result, he fell on the girl's body, holding a completely different heart in each hand.
"Then tell me why you like this article?" Maka flicked the parchment with her fingers and then looked at Leni.
Maka thought she would say something like "because this article is the shortest" or "Leni just likes to take out the heart" - Leni usually has this character, and she never likes to think about things when thinking about problems. It's too in-depth, and Maka doesn't expect her to understand anything just by copying it once.
But what he didn't expect was that this time, Leni's reason was not as simple and straightforward as he imagined.
"If Leni tells the truth, you can't punish Leni again!" the little girl pointed at Maka's nose and shouted.
"Just say what you want to say..." Maka nodded and said, "I won't punish you."
"Because..." Leni said with a smile, "Because that wizard seemed to be talking about you! Leni was so happy to see him die in the end!"
Maka was suddenly startled when she heard this, and then frowned slightly.
There is some truth in saying that he is like the protagonist in that story - he has indeed lost his emotions. But that was before he met Leni, and few people knew for sure that he had lost his emotions.
Where did this little girl learn about this
"Then tell me, how am I similar to that wizard?" Maka thought for a while and asked suddenly.
"Both you and he have no heart!"
Leni said, and took a few steps back cautiously, as if she was worried about whether she would be punished again because she noticed the subtle change in Maka's expression.
"No heart?"
Maka subconsciously touched her chest, and suddenly realized the true meaning contained in Leni's seemingly joking "truth."
Leni probably didn't say that because she knew her past from somewhere, nor was she saying that he really had "no heart."
What she wanted to express probably refers to the fact that he has always hidden his true emotions.
"Hey! Bastard Maka..." Leni shrank her head and stared at Maka, and stretched out her hand to gently pull the hem of his wizard robe, "You said yes! You agreed not to punish Leni!"
Seeing her timid look, Maka couldn't help but smile and said, "Well, I won't punish you—just go and have fun by yourself! Remember not to cause trouble for others, do you understand?"
"I know!" Leni immediately waved her hand and ran out of the study.
Maka leaned back on the chair, looked at the parchment roll in her hand, and gradually fell into deep thought.
He had gotten used to pretending very early on, but when he really lost his emotions, he realized more and more that he couldn't live without them.
But the question is, if a person's emotions are hidden for too long, will there be some unknown mutation like what was said in "The Wizard's Hairy Heart"
If the answer is yes, what will happen? Is it a good change or a bad change
After thinking for a long time, Maka did not come to any reliable conclusion.
In this world, emotions and emotions are closely linked to magic. If Maka wants to continue to study magic in depth, she will inevitably be unable to avoid this complex and elusive subject.
"Wait! Feelings and emotions?"
As if he had thought of something, he quickly pulled out a notebook from the stack of books in front of him, leaned on the table and looked through it carefully.
…
At the same time, in the dusty old living room on the second floor.
"Sirius? What's wrong with you...are you okay?"
In the deepest part of the living room, Kreacher was no longer there, but Sirius was still standing in front of the tapestry, lost in thought.
Harry originally wanted to ask Sirius some questions, but when he spotted Sirius's back here, he saw the blank expression on the other person's face.
"Huh?" Sirius turned his head and looked at his godson, then shook his head slightly, "Oh, Harry... I'm fine!"
Harry looked towards the tapestry embroidered with the family tree, and then nodded hesitantly - he thought Sirius was remembering his childhood.
"You're not at the top!" Harry followed the tree-like family tree to the lowest point, but could not find Sirius's name.
"It was up there." Sirius said, tapping the blackened round hole on the tapestry, which looked like a cigarette burn mark.
"After I escaped from home, my dear old mother destroyed my existence - Kreacher loved to tell this story."
Speaking of Kreacher, Sirius glanced behind him subconsciously. There was only a mark made by the elf's head and a puddle of wet water mixed with dust.
"You ran away from home?" Harry asked doubtfully.
"About when I was sixteen..." Sirius said, "I really had enough."
"Where have you been?" Harry asked looking at him.
"In your father's house," Sirius said, showing some recollection, "your grandfather and grandmother are very considerate. They almost regard me as their second son..."
"Yes! During the school holidays, I stayed at your father's house temporarily; when I was seventeen, I went to find a place by myself!"
"My uncle Alphad, he left me a considerable amount of gold - he was also kicked out of here, I think it's probably because of this reason!"
"Anyway, after that, I took care of myself... However, your grandparents always welcome me to have dinner at their house every Saturday."
"But why did you..." Harry asked politely.
"You mean running away from home?" Sirius smiled bitterly and smoothed his messy long hair with his hands, "Because I hate everyone in this family - my parents are crazy about pure blood. They believe that, As a descendant of the Black family, you should be born noble..."
By chatting casually with Harry, Sirius gradually freed himself from the emotions of grief and anger. At this moment, there was a sudden shouting downstairs.
"What's wrong?" Sirius asked annoyed.