novelraw Chapter 968 [Chapter 5] 53
Chapter 968 [Chapter 5] 53
Snape was about to leave, but stopped when he heard the sound, stared at Sirius sarcastically, and said in a tactful tone: "Stupid dog, I didn't know that you and Lily have such a deep friendship-you act very sad, This makes me gratified, because I have always been worried that Lily saved you by mistake..."
"No! I'm serious, it's really impossible!" Sirius ignored Snape's taunt, and shouted hastily: "I was here three hours ago, and I used that The spell turned into something else, here to fight! Listen, I didn't feel anything strange at the time! That weird intuition was sudden, just popped up... I bet it's been up until just now Before the feeling came, Lily must have been alive somewhere! That bastard Voldemort was just trying to scare us! …”
Snape raised his eyebrows, habitually showing contempt for all the big black dog's words; but he had already listened to what Sirius said word by word in his mind, repeating I thought about it several times.He quickly came to a conclusion, strode forward and grabbed Sirius by the collar.
"When did you get that damn intuition? Tell me! I want a specific, exact time!"
Sirius was taken aback, this sentence somehow reminded him, his face darkened, and he whispered: "Is this useful, Snape? Even if she was alive three hours ago, what about now? That intuition is in the It has been bothering me since it appeared, so I boldly removed the Confusion Curse... Then I found that what I felt was right, the Unbreakable Curse really—"
"Time." Snape squeezed the word through his teeth.
Sirius opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but nothing came out.
Ginny stood beside them, but her eyes were looking into the distance in the Great Hall.In front of them, a bit of order seemed to have finally been restored in the auditorium, and the long table of the academy was relocated to its original position, but none of the children followed the intention of being seated by the academy, and they all crowded together in a mess.The vast majority of those children came from the other three houses, with very few Slytherin students left behind.Occasionally, one or two people leaned against each other with defensive and fearful eyes.Voldemort was gone, but the little snakes seemed far less happy than the students in the other three houses.
She—or rather, the owner of this body, Ginny Weasley—mother, Mrs. Weasley, sat beside Fred, who was badly injured, and on the other sat Perry, who had rushed back from the Ministry of Magic to join the battle. West; no one could take Mrs. Weasley away from these two nearly lost sons.
Not far from them, Neville was wolfing down food, the Gryffindor sword beside his plate.Harry sat on a bench further away, looking exhausted.Sitting next to him was Luna Lovegood, pale blond and dreamy-eyed.
Harry and Luna, what an unexpected and logical combination, Ginny thought.That girl is very good, even if she examines and looks at it with the double eyes of a mother and a peer, she can't find any faults.
She looked back and saw Sirius still standing sadly and awkwardly, looking at a loss in front of Snape with a stern expression, like a student who has done something wrong.
She couldn't help interjecting, "Severus, what's the use of knowing the time?"
Sirius didn't know that the real Lily's soul lived under her skin, and when she heard her talking to Snape like this, her expression was horrified, as if the world was going to be turned upside down.
Ginny ignored him for the time being, and continued to say to Snape: "Also, even if you know the exact time, where should we find her?"
Snape was silent.
Ginny pointed at the crowd in the auditorium, and said, "I don't know if you've noticed, but there are hardly any Slytherins here... Maybe there are one or two, but at this time, in this kind of battle, Slytherin is absent...Professor Dumbledore has a reason for keeping you, Severus. You still have a lot to do, probably much more than you could have imagined...and, some Things, maybe only you can come to complete..."
At this moment, Snape turned his gaze to the direction of her finger, glanced briefly, and lowered his eyes again, as if thinking.
Finally, a light smile appeared on the corner of his lips.
"I guess, you are enlightening me... Lily." He paused, and finally called out the name he had not seen for a long time.Sirius and Ginny shook almost simultaneously.
"That's right, my mission hasn't been completed yet...Dumbledore forced me to do the same mission countless times before." He smiled self-deprecatingly, "I know what you want to express."
Ginny looked relieved, and Sirius' eyes were about to sparkle.It seemed that the inexplicable conversation between Snape and Ginny was driving him crazy.
Snape glanced at him lightly, and said to Ginny, "You can explain the rest to this stupid dog." He was about to walk away after speaking.
Ginny grabbed Sirius who was about to rush up and grab Snape's clothes in time to let him speak clearly, and shouted to Snape's back, "Can I ask you one more question?" , Severus?"
Snape stopped in his tracks and turned around in a manner that probably signaled that Ginny could ask.
Ginny took a deep breath, her tone suddenly became a little hesitant.She hesitated and asked: "Sev, I want to know... That 'Lily' used to prevent me from telling you the truth... At that time, I asked her whether her rumors were true or false in order to force her to admit the truth... Foo, at that time, everyone said that you were about to get engaged... Is this true? Also, did you know she was fake at that time?"
There was too much information in these words, and Sirius seemed to be too barren to process the clues, as if he was about to faint.Snape's eyes flickered.He didn't show any expression, but Ginny felt as though a cloud was gathering over his head again.
For a moment, he seemed to want to leave in a hurry, and at the same time, he seemed to want to explain all the complicated things clearly, so as to clear up the misunderstanding of his only good friend in this life.But in the end he chose the easiest way to answer her question.
He uttered only two short sentences with short pauses between them. "Yes...Yes, Ido."
But these three short words were like dropping a big bomb on Ginny and Sirius who also heard the question.Sirius' eyeballs were about to protrude, while Ginny had an expression of disbelief, and asked out of breath, "Sev, is this true? ... And, you know ?”
Snape glanced at her, turned away without answering her.
……
Snape thought for a while, and returned to the headmaster's office.
The potions office in the basement still belonged to Slughorn, and it was inconvenient for him to go back.Besides, although the old Slytherin was somewhat evasive, his stand was still firm from beginning to end.He wasn't going to take away the old professor's continued use of the Potions Office.
Then I have to go back to the principal's office.Although he has always wanted to resign from this damn position, and it is clear that everyone in this school - except for the little snakes in Slytherin House - is as willing as Dumbledore's old bee. Minerva McGonagall, head of Gryffindor, took over the headmaster's office, which was full of portraits of old stubborn people.
He walked on the deserted and rubble-strewn promenade after the war, and suddenly felt a sense of absurdity in his heart.
He recalled that more than 20 years ago, the pale boy with a school robe that didn't fit well, also walked in this corridor, with a bouncing red-haired girl beside him.He always had to be wary of a guy with messy hair like a vixen who would jump out of a corner, and his followers—now one was lying silently in the auditorium downstairs, the other Probably showing a stupid and bewildered expression, standing in the same hall waiting for Lily, who turned into a little girl, to explain the cause and effect to him—at that time, he would never have thought that he would succeed the great, The always correct and awesome white wizard, standing on the highest ground, became the headmaster of this school.
He has been barren all his life, and now, he seems to have the highest position he can imagine. Standing on the highest point of this sacred castle, he can look down at all the people in the castle—including those who were as stupid as he was back then And the naive little trolls - but he is still as barren as he was 20 years ago, with nothing.
He walked to the door of the principal's office, and was a little surprised to find that the stone beasts guarding the gate had returned to their old positions.He thought that this stone beast was really lucky that it wasn't blown into pieces in the big battle just now.
It's just that somehow it's enchanted - maybe it's just Snape's delusion - it looks even uglier.It hummed, "Harry Potter and his friends are inside...do you want to go in?"
Snape raised his eyebrows, watching the stone beast slowly turn away, tilting to one side, revealing the spiral staircase behind it.
Snape walked up the stairs and stopped outside the headmaster's room without opening the door.
There was clearly a little party going on inside.He recognized the voices of Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger, and Dumbledore, Phineas Nigellus, Daisy Devonte, Dexter Fusco ...oh, those old folks who've hung on the walls for years and still won't let up!It's almost like they're having a little carnival!
But he was obviously late.Because he heard Harry Potter's voice, as if he was summing up this day full of madness, gunpowder smoke, resentment, sadness, confusion, and joy.
"I was going to break it off and throw it away... but I hesitated. Now I am the master of the Elder Wand; do I have the right to do with it? . . I can also put the Elder Wand back where it came from and just let it stay there, can't it? If I die normally like Ignotus, its power will be destroyed, can't it? The previous owner Never be defeated again. It's over."
He heard Dumbledore laugh happily and lovingly in the frame.
He may have been out of his mind for a while, because when he realized it, he noticed that the new Gryffindor group that had tortured him for seven years had already walked towards the door of the principal's office.
He stepped aside quickly, and cast a disillusionment spell on himself.
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February 6:
Speaking of which, everyone must know when the phrase "Yes, Ido" can still be used hahhhh
Of course, in this chapter, the professor's previous "yes" answered Lily's first question, asking if it was true that he was engaged to a fake Lily.
The second sentence "Yes, Ido" answered Lily's second question, that is to say, he knew that Lily was a fake at that time, but he still agreed to the engagement【.
I love the subtle dislocation and misunderstanding that this situation creates hhhh
Next update: tomorrow at midnight.