novelraw Chapter 960 [Chapter 5] 45
Chapter 960 [Chapter 5] 45
He blocked Aberforth, the owner, at the door of the Hog's Head.Seeing that it was him knocking on the door, the old man seemed to be taken aback, and stared at him unkindly, his eyes full of hatred.
He quickly grabbed Aberforth and dodged into the Hog's Head.Then he hurriedly told the old man, who seemed to be trying to kill him with his eyes, that he still had a mission for Albus and had to get back to Hogwarts right away.
Aberforth didn't seem to believe him.He noticed that the old man's right hand moved slowly in his sleeve.
He immediately grabbed Aberforth's right hand, withdrew his wand from his hand, and said urgently: "Listen, I know there is a secret passage behind Miss Ariana Dumbledore's portrait leading directly to Huo Gwartz. It's dangerous there now, I must go at once!"
Aberforth's white beard was bristling with anger; the old man asked him stiffly, "How can I trust you? You Death Eater who killed Albus! I should have... You should have done this before you..."
Snape just had a headache.If he didn't know that the only secret passage here can directly lead to the inside of Hogwarts Castle, he would rather use the secret passage under the Whomping Willow in the Shrieking Shack than beg this old stubborn!But the Whomping Willow is so far away from the castle that it's not easy for him to sneak back to the castle secretly, quickly and safely-why these always nerve-wracking, stupid Gryffindors don't understand, if it wasn't for him If you had shown mercy and covered them, this secret passage would have been discovered and sealed by those Death Eaters long ago!As the headmaster of Hogwarts, if he has no knowledge of what happened in the school, he can also resign automatically!
Angrily, he dragged Aberforth to the fourth floor of the Pig's Head Bar, thinking of a good way to convince this old man who was dozens of times more stubborn than his brother.
It's a pity that he still didn't think of any way to go all the way up the dusty stairs to the fourth floor.
He'd never needed—nor bothered—to prove he was a good guy before.In fact, he wished that everyone would think he was not easy to mess with and stay away from him so as not to disturb his serious business.So now that he's racking his brains, he can't think of anything he can use to prove that he's telling the truth, and that he's really trying to finish his interview with the former headmaster of Hogwarts -- and the "current" Muggle Studies professor, If she ever made it back alive; he thought bitterly—a promise to infiltrate Hogwarts before the Great War, determined to protect the school he'd spent almost half his life in.
Aberforth cursed loudly all the way, first at him as a "vile and wretched Death Eater, liar and scoundrel" and then at his brother for "being so stupidly good-hearted all his life" , never know who to trust" - until he was forcibly dragged into the room with Ariana's portrait by Snape.
Arianna in the portrait watched the two of them chattering from the frame in amazement, and the atmosphere was very unpleasant.
When he came to his sister's portrait, Aberforth didn't show any restraint, and continued to yell: "Damn Death Eater! Albus believes you, but it doesn't mean I have to believe you, so I won't be as stupid as him, right?" Eyes! Do you want to go back to Hogwarts? Dreaming!..."
Snape cut him off petulantly, "I told you Albus and Lily asked me to do this! I don't care what you think, I have to keep my promise! …"
Arianna in the picture frame watched them quarreling curiously. When she heard this, she suddenly interrupted and asked, "You want to go to Hogwarts? Why?"
The two people in the room didn't expect her to speak, and were stunned for a moment.Aberforth was the first to react, eager to stop his sister. "Arianna, don't worry about this! This man is a despicable and vicious Death Eater..."
Snape immediately cut off Aberforth's personal attacks on him. "I have to go and defend Hogwarts. That's my promise to Albus and Lily. Listen, Miss Dumbledore," he turned to the portrait, realizing that Ariana might be his quick fix. Forth's only chance. "I promise Albus that I will defend Hogwarts, and I will rebuild it after the war, and restore it to its glory, no matter what happens, how many misunderstandings..."
He seldom talks so much in one breath.But in order to convince Ariana, he had to.He thought that maybe the old bee and the impostor had awakened his ray of determination to continue sacrificing for Hogwarts with their lives; without that ray of determination, he had nothing left, and he didn't know what else could keep him alive Go down and fight for it.
Ariana in the frame was listening to Snape's explanation very seriously, completely ignoring her grumpy second brother with a big white beard jumping around.Hearing this, she actually nodded, and then slowly said: "I believe in you, sir."
Snape and Aberforth froze for a moment.Aberforth quickly came to his senses and flew into a rage.
"Arianna! What are you talking about?! Have you forgotten that this person killed..."
Arianna showed a sad look on her face, but she still said very calmly: "I haven't forgotten. But I know there is a reason for that."
Aberforth couldn't believe his ears.
Arianna carefully turned an angle in the frame, faced Snape, and asked, "I think you are Mr. Severus Snape?"
Snape nodded.
Arianna smiled slightly.
"You are exactly as Lily described."
This sentence was like dropping a big bomb in the room, and Snape was stunned again.
"Lily?!"
Couldn't she be referring to the counterfeit? !
Ariana smiled softly, "Of course, Lily comes sometimes, and Aberforth and I know her."
Snape quickly glanced at the stubborn old man on the side, and found that when Ariana mentioned Lily's name, the old man just snorted and gave him a contemptuous look, as if he couldn't stand Lily knowing a despicable and vicious person. Like the Death Eater thing.
Ariana didn't seem to see her second brother like this, and she continued to Snape: "Lily explained to me that you didn't really want to kill Albus. I believed her. And Lily said, if there is When the situation is very critical one day, in case you come here to seek our help, please let us promise you."
Snape couldn't count the number of times he'd froze since entering the Hog's Head tonight.In fact, this dusty, dilapidated bar has been giving him all kinds of surprises—because Ariana actually continued to ask: "To make sure you are not someone else cheating us with Polyjuice Potion, please answer me The question only the real Mr Snape would know - do you know who Miss Ginny Weasley actually is?"
When her question came to the fore, Snape was shocked, and couldn't help but take two steps backwards!
Lily actually told Arianna this secret as a way to verify her identity!
Very good, really good.Even Ginny—or rather, the real Lily herself—would never think of using this method as a verification method!It's incredible!Should he be thankful that Miss Ginny Weasley would never tell this little secret to a Death Eater, so that the impostor's whimsical design could make sure nothing went wrong at a time like this?
His face turned cold uncontrollably.He replied bluntly: "Of course. . . . She is the real Lily."
Aberforth looked disbelieving, as if he'd swallowed a whole bucket of slugs.Arianna nodded in satisfaction, and the picture frame creaked and unscrewed to the side, revealing a dark secret passage behind.
"You are indeed Mr. Snape. Go ahead and fulfill your promise, to whomever it is."
Aberforth was dumbfounded.It wasn't until Snape nodded to Ariana to express his gratitude, and bent down into the secret passage without saying a word, that he realized how the whole thing turned around, and hurriedly took a step forward, trying to grab Snape.
"Arianna! You...you actually put a villain in Hogwarts! Even...even if Lily admits that he is her friend, at this moment, you can't..."
Arianna stared at her brother from the frame, and finally sighed in a dignified way.
"Brother, both Albus and Lily trust him, which means he is not a villain." She taught Aberforth with a white beard like an adult.
Snape ignored the argument between the recalcitrant old man and his forever young and lovely little sister who lived in the picture frame.
Behind him, Aberforth was still bearded and staring.And Arianna in the picture frame is still preaching to her old elder brother.
"...you also said just now that the girl who believed the villain wasn't Lily!" Aberforth argued in vain, trying to grab at any possible reason to convince his little sister in the frame in time. "...By the way, didn't he just say that Ginny Weasley is the real Lily?! You agree with that too! It's hard to believe, but..."
"Ginny will also agree with my decision, brother." Arianna was unmoved in the slightest, as if determined to uphold justice for that fake Lily, and mercilessly directed at her second brother with a big white beard Said: "Whether Lily's identity is true or false, you can't deny that she has been trying to do the right thing and help Albus and Harry... Now that she entrusted her final wish to me, I can't see that I There's no reason to betray her trust. You can't ignore the efforts she's made to be Lily Evans just because her soul isn't called Lily Evans—"
Snape had already walked a certain distance, but since Ariana's portrait at the entrance of the secret passage hadn't turned back to block the hole, he could still hear Ariana's argument with Aberforth Dumbledore faintly. come over.
He made up his mind at the beginning not to listen to those meaningless quarrels, and getting to Hogwarts Castle as soon as possible was his first priority at the moment; but the little girl who looked a little yellow in the frame, dressed in old clothes, and had a timid expression unexpectedly loudly defending the False Lily, and soundingly loyal to her friendship with the False Lily, especially when she takes on the unrepentant Aberforth Dumbledore who is as difficult as his brother. The last words Lido yelled made Snape's heart tremble slightly, and he stopped involuntarily.
But he regretted his decision almost immediately.Because he heard Aberforth Dumbledore questioning his sister in the frame in a somewhat unreasonable and unbelievable tone: "You said, Ginny Weasley is the real Lily?! Are you really sure?...Then who is Lily now?"
Snape didn't see Ariana in the frame watching her brother sadly, with a hint of sadness on her face.She was silent for a few seconds before answering.
"She's Lily too." Snape heard Ariana whisper back to her brother, "Best Lily."
Snape felt for a split second as if someone had hit him hard in the heart with a hammer.
There was a thud in his chest, loud, muffled, not too loud, but it held his breath for a few seconds.Almost at the same time, his temples began to throb and throb, and the feeling was as if some great secret had hit him on the head, and he couldn't help but recall Dumbledore's blunt words in the headmaster's office Tell him that the final end of Harry Potter is the moment of voluntary death.
This feeling really sucks.But he doesn't have time now to adjust to the discomfort of being successfully sneaked by an unexpected rhetoric from someone else.Hogwarts is on the verge of collapse, and the Dark Lord and his minions are still watching around the Forbidden Forest.He had to go right away to the castle he had lived in almost all his life, and do everything in his power to save it, defend it, just like those Gryffindors he despised once did.