novelraw Chapter 969 [Chapter 5] 54
Chapter 969 [Chapter 5] 54
The oak door of the principal's office was opened, and the three impulsive and arrogant little wizards walked past him without knowing it.Only Hermione Granger suddenly stopped after passing him a few steps, with a suspicious look on her face.
There is still a wise man among them.Snape even thought a little appreciatively.
But this idea was quickly broken by the other two boys.They also stopped, listening impatiently for Hermione to express the "strange feeling" she had, said carelessly that there could no longer be those "nasty villains" here, and then dragged her away.
Snape stood at the top of the stairs, watching the figures of the three of them disappear behind the stone beast, then turned around and walked into the door of the principal's office.
Those overly excited portraits are still chatting happily and excitedly about what happened today.But the cheerful atmosphere in the room came to an abrupt end the moment Snape walked in.
Looking at the cold and pale face that remained expressionless even though they had gone through all kinds of hardships and won the final victory, the people in the frame were silent.Only the figure in the largest portrait behind the headmaster's chair was as cheerful and at ease as ever.
"Oh, Severus!" said Dumbledore happily. "It's exciting that you've come, isn't it? We've won the last!"
Snape stopped behind the huge desk in the middle of the room, faced the huge portrait, and said expressionlessly: "Yes. This unbearable all can finally end, I am very pleased."
There was no trace of relief in his expression.Every portrait on the wall probably silently complained like this.
Dumbledore was unaffected by his stinking face.
"I'm so glad to see you keep your promise, Severus," he said cheerfully and relieved, "and I guess you're here to keep your promise? Hogwarts was eviled by 'that man' Influenced by his theories, long divided; it's not good, very bad... We still need you at this time, Severus."
Snape couldn't help snorting.
"I doubt there is anything else in this world that can make you stop oppressing me." He said resentfully, staring at the old wizard in the picture frame.
Dumbledore pretended not to see his expression, and said with a smile: "Oh, of course there will be a day—Severus, I promise, on the day of your wedding, I will promise you a long vacation— — it's time for you to enjoy the other interesting things in life too, after all those years of hard work..."
Snape's face darkened.
"Wedding?!" He squeezed out the word through his teeth, and the veins on his forehead twitched.
"How come you still haven't stopped this hobby of interfering in the private lives of employees, Professor Dumbledore." His face was livid, hissed, and his tone was extremely mean.
"But I'm not your employee anymore, sir. I'm the headmaster of Hogwarts now. And—you're dead, and the impostor is dead, where else can you find another liar and A thief to assign to me, sir?"
The words were extremely rude, but Dumbledore in the frame was not angry at all.Instead, he was stunned for a moment, and the smile faded from his face.He leaned forward, fixed his piercing blue eyes on Snape, and asked urgently, "What did you say? Lily...I mean, Bigonia, she's dead?!"
Snape pursed his lips and stared back at him, mouth tightly shut, making no attempt to answer him.
Dumbledore's face darkened quickly, and he seemed to have fallen back into the chair in the painting, with his hands on the armrests on both sides of the chair, and his fingertips unconsciously facing each other.After thinking for a while, he slowly raised his head, his blue eyes were full of doubts.
"I don't understand, Severus...I mean, she's not here, not in the frame..."
Snape's expression was very cold, he raised his eyebrows slightly, and there was a hint of sarcasm in his tone.
"Of course she's not in the frame. I've never seen a picture of her, and even if she had, there's no way that picture would react, in other words, it's just a picture that doesn't move—the real Lily is still there." Alive, I don't think you've forgotten this, have you?"
Sure enough, Dumbledore was not surprised by the news.Snape felt a surge of anger welling up in his chest.
Dumbledore knew all of this—knowing the secret that the real and the fake Lily existed in this world at the same time—although objectively speaking, even Snape himself had to admit that the fake who replaced Lily was the Order of the Phoenix, Contributed far more to the plan to destroy the Dark Lord than the real Lily - yet in the end, Dumbledore let the impostor die!
Was there some unknown tacit agreement or deal between him and that imposter?Why didn't both of them tell him the truth about this part! ?Did he think he would give up protecting that pompous Pot after learning about these things?Did he think Severus Snape's promise could be broken and discarded at will? !
Probably seeing his anger, Dumbledore moved on the chair, the doubt on his face still not disappearing.
"No, Severus, it's not about portraits... Magic portraits show a person's appearance, memory and personality. It's not that important whether there are souls of the deceased; but the most important point is—magic portraits The portrait doesn't really 'live' in a sense until after the person in the portrait actually dies... even if the real Lily - I mean Ginny - didn't die, but if Bigenia did die If so, since she occupies Lily's real body, we can still feel her coming in the frame..."
He was thinking in confusion, slowly organizing his words and thoughts.Apparently, the problem of the inconsistency between the appearance and the soul of the magic portrait is also a difficult problem for this well-informed and wise old wizard. He can only search for relevant knowledge in his limited memory, and then use reasonable assumptions and inferences to draw organized into a most likely outcome.
"Some magic portraits can inject their souls into them after their death through the will of the people in the paintings, so when the people in the paintings are still alive, the characters in these magic portraits will not move..." He scratched his stomach In the corner of his memory, he searched for some knowledge about magic portraits that he had forgotten for a long time, and slowly organized it into a deduction that sounded reasonable and not too negative. "And a magic portrait with this characteristic can sense more things than ordinary magic portraits—"
Snape couldn't help sneering, and said sarcastically, "Oh, of course, maybe that's why you've become a portrait, and you're still making me run around, exhausted."
Dumbledore pretended not to hear Snape's sarcasm.He sighed, leaned forward, looked down along the bridge of his nose which had been crooked several times, looked at Snape standing upright in front of the desk, and said earnestly: "She didn't come, Severus. My senses may be wrong, but I'd rather believe that my deduction is right this time..."
Snape gasped.
He didn't know anything about magical portraits, but he remembered that Dumbledore did complete the portrait hanging behind the headmaster's chair in his last days, but until he fell off the Astronomy Tower, that portrait Everyone in it is as motionless as an ordinary Muggle portrait.
So Dumbledore's deduction may be correct?The absence of the fake Lily in the frame meant she was still alive somewhere in the world?But how can the unbreakable spell be broken?
He briefly recounted the conversation he had with Sirius in the auditorium just now.Dumbledore's eyes shone with interest.
"Oh? Sirius really said that?" After making the conclusion just now, he seemed to be a little more relaxed, and asked with great interest while sitting in the chair.
"That's really...strange, I think I'll have to think about it before I can answer you—oh, think! Think! I thought that after Tom died, I'd be able to enjoy life in the frame without overusing myself. I've got an old brain." He complained half-heartedly, and finally tapped the armrest of the chair in the painting with his right hand, and politely gave Snape an eviction order.
"I think you need a good rest, Severus. Everyone needs a good night's sleep and something to eat after such a long day. I suppose you have a lot to do starting tomorrow?" His eyes were slightly squinted behind those half-moon glasses, and he looked very sleepy-God knows how a painting can feel tired! — looked at Snape, and said kindly: "You will succeed, my boy. Now, go and rest."
Snape stared at him fiercely, and seemed about to say something more, but Dumbledore had already reclined back in the comfortable chair in the picture frame, closed his eyes, and ignored him up.
Snape couldn't do anything, he always felt that somewhere there was a faint evil fire churning in his chest, and there was nowhere to vent it.He thought for a while, and finally waved his magic wand and chanted a spell. A row of horizontal bars suddenly jumped out from the ceiling of the principal's office, and the horizontal bars were still wrapped with dark velvet curtains. Those portraits on the Internet pretending to be busy with other things, but actually pricking up their ears to listen to his conversation with Dumbledore, are completely covered!
The portraits behind the curtain roared louder and louder and louder.But Snape ignored their complaints and dissatisfaction, turned and strode into the bedroom.
The author has something to say:
February 6:
I'm a few minutes late today, are you thinking about writing a follow-up after the final battle?Or should we just stop here?
If I write the following follow-up, it will probably be abusive. Of course, it is not the girl who is abused.Everyone understands hhhhh
So, do you want to see it?Or do you think it will be enough after the final battle?
Next update: tomorrow at midnight.
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