novelraw Chapter 974 [Chapter 5] 59
Chapter 974 [Chapter 5] 59
For the next few days, Severus Snape was in a kind of frantic busyness.
He temporarily handed over all the school affairs of Hogwarts to Minerva McGonagall, while he spent all day in the library, especially the restricted area——
Dumbledore was not idle in the frame either.His portrait was originally furnished very simply, with only a coffee table and a velvet seat; but now there are all kinds of magic books piled up on the coffee table and under the chairs, and he even keeps talking to the couple in the principal's office. They communicated with the portraits of an old headmaster, discussing various ancient spells they knew.
...However, soul magic is something too profound.Otherwise, Voldemort would not need to cut his soul into so many pieces and attach it to different horcruxes-the point is, he was not considered successful in the end; Whether he changed from a handsome young man to a snake-faced bald villain after his resurrection is not a positive proof.This casts a shadow even further on everyone's efforts to explore soul magic.For the past few days, the atmosphere in the headmaster's office at Hogwarts has been extremely oppressive and gloomy.
In the end, Dumbledore managed to find a way to temporarily preserve Lily's body from decay.Although there is no way to figure out the profound law of soul exchange, Lily is now placed in a separate ward in St. Mungo's, where she lies quietly as if she has fallen into an eternal sleep.
However, this method is not permanent.The body that lost its soul will gradually rot, and all they can do now is to delay this process as much as possible; if they don't find a way—either find the interesting soul that replaced Lily, or take the real Lily's soul from Ginny It would be nice if Weasley's body was put back into the shell that belonged to her from the beginning - if all this is achieved, they will soon have to officially announce the former Muggle Studies professor at Hogwarts, the Phoenix The death of Lily Evans, a prominent member of the Society, and her name is included in the list of heroes who died in the final battle of Hogwarts for people to admire.
Faced with this reality, the current headmaster of Hogwarts seems to be more gloomy, cold, unapproachable and grumpy.
He stayed in the restricted area for longer and longer, and even during the period when those little monsters also frequently used the library to search for information and write papers, he no longer concealed his whereabouts.
... As a result, those little monsters were frightened to reduce the frequency and number of times they came to the library.The lounges of the colleges were overcrowded.
There were also belated trolls who at first seemed unaware that the current headmaster of Hogwarts had been haunting the library map; After walking through the middle of the bookshelves, he was so frightened that he threw the books he was reading on the table, and fled in despair.
That night, when Snape was angrily holding a book that was useless, the "unknown spells" recorded in it were all of no great use, just to spice up life He strode across the two rows of desks and chairs in the middle of the library, intending to return the book to its original position on the bookshelf, when he suddenly noticed that on a certain table, there was an open Book.
There was no one at the table.Maybe the little troll who was going to borrow the book saw him coming and ran away in fright.
This is also normal.In the past few days, Snape also knew that he seemed to have scared away these little trolls who were as timid as a nest of molted chicks countless times.
But this time, the rules and upbringing of this timid little troll obviously need to be improved.He actually left the books on the table and ran away.He should have returned the book anyway, instead of just leaving it open on the table - such inappropriate behavior could only be forgiven if the Dark Lord struck again.
Snape frowned at this, and after thinking about it, he decided to return the book for the impolite little troll.However, when he walked to the table and glanced down casually, the hand that was originally stretched towards the book paused slightly.
Because it is a plant illustrated book.The open page of the book happened to have a word he was familiar with.
【Columbine】(Aquilegia).
This pronunciation is... Columbang?
His fingertips stopped on that page, looking at the pattern of beautiful small flowers painted on that page, and the information about this kind of flower densely written under the picture, such as the distribution range of flower type and flowering period and the range of uses. Class—until he saw the last line of fine print.
"In Muggle lore, the flower language of columbine is 'the oath of victory'."
Snape was slightly taken aback.
He paused for a moment, and suddenly remembered something. Suddenly, he lowered his upper body, put one hand on the table, and quickly flipped through the catalog of the plant illustration.
After a while, he seemed to have found the part he wanted, and quickly turned to that page again.When his eyes slid over the lines of explanations and landed directly on the last line of small words on that page, his face suddenly became gloomy and uncertain.
He slammed the thick book shut, and the sound made even the little monsters who were already far away trembled, and then they all hid further away.
He gritted his teeth, stood up abruptly, and with the botanical illustrated book under his arm, he hurried out of the library and rushed all the way to the principal's office on the eighth floor.
He pushed open the door roughly, and slapped the plant illustration on the principal's desk.The loud noise woke up almost all the dozing headmasters in the picture frame - only the old wizard in the shining blue star robe in the picture frame facing him was still pretending to doze off.
"Professor Dumbledore—" Snape said through his teeth, "tell me everything you know, at once, at once!"
The old bee opened its eyes, only glanced at the illustrated book of plants that Snape had thrown on the table, and a knowing - and embarrassed - expression crossed its face.He told Snape in the frame with a sullen face that he didn't know what the flower represented either.
He said: "Lily once told me that choosing the surname 'Collumbone' was a symbol of the day she swore to fight until victory. But what does 'Bigonia' mean? ... Ah, I am not Said I didn't try to look it up, but maybe I'm forgetful..."
Snape gave him a sharp gouging look, and without a word, he reached straight over to pick up the Botanical Book from the table again, opened the page, and held it up in front of Dumbledore's frame.
Dumbledore coughed.
"It's really just a wonderful coincidence..." he explained slowly, reluctantly. "When Lily was looking for an alias, she happened to have this illustrated book of plants on hand—you know, she said, 'It just so happens that the name Lily is also a flower, so I'll find another flower from here'—and She just flipped through it and found this... Severus, you know, she is not the kind of person who would use this kind of question to cause you psychological pressure..."
Snape sneered, closed the illustrated book of plants with a snap, and casually tossed it onto the huge desk beside him.
"That's really surprising," he said, as if he didn't believe Dumbledore's words at all.
"There are endless aliases, and endless identities! And I don't even know which sentence she said is false and which sentence is true! I don't know whether to believe her! When you think you have unlocked her lock When you are trying to solve the mystery, you realize that what you have solved is just the fog wrapped in the outermost layer of the mystery... What kind of person is she? Where did she come from? What is her real purpose? Why is she so Desperate to book a spot on the Death Express?!—hard to believe that you, as a prudent person, decided to trust her, work with her, and follow her crazy audacity without knowing the answers broken plan-"
"Severus." Dumbledore just sighed in the face of his fierce anger, and called him in a low voice.
He read a bit of bitterness in Dumbledore's tone, which was unprecedented for that old sweet-toothed bee, and he was a little surprised. He looked at the old wizard in the frame.
Surprisingly, Dumbledore didn't have the usual kind and harmless smile on his face.He just stared at Snape for a long time before saying: "...Sometimes, a person's name and origin may not be that important... The important thing is, never underestimate a sincere heart."
Then he coughed and said with an unnatural expression: "I guess you didn't destroy my crystal bottles of memories?"
Snape sneered.
He really should have thrown out the old bee's shelf full of memory crystal bottles on the first day he took over the principal's office.Only then did Merlin know why he didn't do this at the time!
Now for the protracted and lengthy investigation and trial after the Great War, those stupid people from the Ministry of Magic kept coming here to rummage through the huge pile of bottles related to the content of their investigation, and it was a mess every time. Out of shape!Whether those people were guilty or innocent, what did it matter to him? !If you can't prove your innocence, then you can only admit that you are unlucky-a truly smart person can use the most effective means to get rid of the crime no matter what the situation is, such as Lucius-he once again Escaped Death Eater charges against him.It's just that his idea of taking control of the Ministry of Magic is probably going to be greatly delayed.No one wants to see a man who has escaped Death Eater charges twice holding any important post in the wizarding world, like Minister of Magic, like... Hogwarts Headmaster.
He thought sarcastically that if that Lily was still here, she would probably make that stupid proposal again, trying to exonerate him.Although she is not the real Lily, she has to admit that she lived up to the name Lily Evans.She made the name still a symbol of bravery and justice, like a true Gryffindor would.
The author has something to say:
February 6:
I didn’t make it clear in this chapter, in fact, what the professor was looking for in the plant illustrated book was the source of the name “Bigonia”.
The name "Begonia" comes from the name of the begonia, Begonia evansiana.The language of flowers is "bitter love".
In fact, I just wanted to find a flower name with the combination of evans in the name at first, hhh
In the end, I saw that the name was really suitable.
Next update: tomorrow at midnight.
I have 18 bottles of medicine;