novelraw Chapter 978 [Chapter 5] 63
Chapter 978 [Chapter 5] 63
After a while, I don't know how long, an old voice came from the picture frame above the fireplace.
"Severus, I think it's time for you to go back to Hogwarts. You scared Ariana from coming back, oh, that's not good."
...Arianna Dumbledore actually got her eldest brother back!Snape took a deep breath, looked up, and sure enough, he found Albus Dumbledore standing in the picture frame.He was still wearing a large and gorgeous velvet robe embroidered with patterns of stars and moons, with an old blue skirt exposed behind him—Ariana actually hid behind him and dared not come out.
Snape stared fixedly at the old wizard in the frame, and then said slowly, "I'm sorry. In fact, I'm grateful for Miss Dumbledore's generous gift - she left the only thing her friend left her. Things were given to me, and I had to be overwhelmed by her kindness."
Albus Dumbledore seemed to be having a good time.His right hand was thrown behind his back, and he seemed to pat Ariana's arm, saying, "Oh, you're welcome, Severus. We just thought you deserved to see this—"
"Oh, yes." Snape gritted his teeth, unable to hide the annoyance in his eyes anymore.He stared at Albus Dumbledore fiercely, and said through gritted teeth: "Yes, I admit that maybe Miss Columbine did die because she was trying to save me, and I owe her a lot—I remember This thing! I don't need you to remind me of this every day, everyone, in front of me! …”
Albus Dumbledore pushed the half-moon glasses that were about to slide off his crooked nose in Ariana's frame.His expression was full of surprise.
"But—Severus, the name Lily Evans has been rarely mentioned recently." He said gently, "In fact, in the past two months—since we were in the Hogwarts library After finding nothing in the Restricted Section of the Restricted Book Section, or even in the private collections of some other famous wizarding families, she has been rarely mentioned. Frankly speaking, if you were not worried that you would object, the teachers even planned to put her Portraits hung in the castle..."
Snape seemed to have planned to say something angrily, but when he heard these words, he suddenly fell silent.His facial features were distorted and ferocious, and his expression looked particularly terrifying.Ariana didn't poke her head out, but shrank her body back behind her brother, as if she wanted to hide more concealed.
"This summer is almost over, Severus." Dumbledore said, watching the expression of the current Headmaster of Hogwarts with gentleness and compassion.
"We can't lose heart, but the truth is—almost everyone else already thinks she's unlikely to survive. I'm sorry if Ariana and I hurt you by deciding to send you this paper. We just Think, she didn't leave much behind, we don't want to hide it from you, maybe you are qualified to know..."
Snape suddenly raised his head high, and said in a very impatient tone: "If you and others just want to remind me of her love, then I already know it. I will also forgive her for deceiving me once. I can even secure her a secure and long-term tenure at Hogwarts if she ever comes back. That's it - Albus, I guess as Headmaster of Hogwarts, I can't guarantee more stuff—isn't that enough?"
The blue eyes of the old wizard in the frame watched him quietly and sadly.Then Dumbledore shook his head and said, "I don't think I'm qualified to answer that question. Severus, it's not up to me to decide whether it's enough or not—it's you and Lily...and Bigonia, You two."
Snape turned his face away, his body language making it clear that he no longer intended to continue the conversation.Dumbledore saw Snape's intentions and pushed Ariana who was hiding behind him.Arianna twisted her body, and she didn't know what to do, the picture frame suddenly creaked and turned to the side again; the tunnel hole behind the picture frame was exposed.
When Snape got into the tunnel and Ariana's picture frame was screwed back to block the opening, Aberforth came up and asked Ariana in the portrait as soon as he entered the door: "The kid took that piece of paper? "
Ariana nodded.Aberforth saw the "The Magic of Baking Bread" still on the mantelpiece, and said with a sneer: "It's a good thing he wasn't so stupid as to take this book away. I still need it occasionally to make some gadgets." .”
Albus Dumbledore, who was still lingering in the picture frame, smiled when he heard this.
"Aberforth, you have been making buns for almost 100 years, do you still need to read books while cooking?" Ariana asked her second brother naively.
After Aberforth heard his sister's doubts, he seemed to have a tendency to blow his beard and stare, and Albus Dumbledore hurried out to smooth things over.
"Cough... Aberforth, what happened to the matter I asked you for help?" He winked at Aberforth in front of the fireplace, signaling him not to scare their eternally young little sister with a grim expression.
Aberforth snorted reluctantly, and complained: "Thought you could be more peaceful and not bother me after entering the frame!..."
Albus Dumbledore pretended not to hear his brother's complaints.
Aberforth coughed heavily, pulled out a chair, sat down, and shook his head.
The faint smile on Dumbledore's face disappeared.
Aberforth didn't look at his brother in the picture frame, but kept a strange, neck-slinging posture and stared at the wall opposite the picture frame, and said, "According to your instructions, I also contacted Some German and French... well, underground black market dealers... But they don't have any useful, old spell books. There are old books, but I read everything they bring After that, it didn't help at all..."
Dumbledore sighed in the frame, and stroked Ariana's hair, who was clearly depressed.
"It's also conceivable. If soul magic is something so easy to get, why did little Tom take the risk to make himself like that?" He seemed to try to respond in a soothing and relaxed tone. , as if saying that would make the frustration-filled tone of his irascible brother disappear.
Aberforth shook his head stiffly and said nothing.
Ariana looked up sadly at her brother.
"...Is it true that Lily won't come back?" She asked softly. "Even if we stay in the frame like us...isn't that okay?"
Dumbledore was silent for a moment, then stroked his sister's hair again.Because of her youth, Ariana's hair felt light and soft to the touch, like a soft flannel blanket when it fell loose.
"What we are looking for is her soul...but maybe her soul is not so easy to reach, and I don't know where it is lost..." He replied, his tone was full of regret and sigh.
Ariana responded softly.
Later, I don’t know when Dumbledore returned to the frame in the headmaster’s office at Hogwarts; but after going out for an afternoon and a whole night, he was already very tired when he returned to Hogwarts When the current headmaster, Severus Snape, arrived at the door of the headmaster's office, he was stopped by the ugly gatekeeper stone statue at the door of the headmaster's office.
He was not surprised to hear the expected answer - "Sir, Harry Potter is inside and has been in for a while."
Snape exhaled impatiently through his nose.
Has the great savior nothing else to do? !Did he forget that he hasn't passed the NEWT exam yet? !And he has a whole year of lessons to cram!Oh, maybe he misspoken - that savior boy had about seven years of lessons to cram!He should be so busy that he doesn't even have time to sleep!Then why does he still have so much free time to come to the principal's office to chat with Dumbledore every day?Did he want to ask Dumbledore to help him with his homework? ...
Snape strode up the spiral staircase holding his breath, and stopped outside the door of the headmaster's office.The door of the principal's room was ajar—it was unknown that Potter forgot to close the door when he entered for the first time. The carelessness of the Potter family seemed to be hereditary! ——There are warm lights and faint voices coming from that gap.
"...What an amazing adventure story, Harry." Snape heard Dumbledore say it in a very gentle tone, which revealed a hint of surprise and encouragement appropriately.He could almost imagine the expression on the face of the savior boy who was sitting at the table, facing Dumbledore's portrait - blushing, gasping for breath, so excited that the old headmaster's encouragement was almost praise. What—he heard Dumbledore ask again: "So how did you find the Gryffindor sword in the water under the ice?"
Ask knowingly.Snape thought angrily.
Not sure what the cunning old bee was going to do.He clearly knew that he hid the real Gryffindor sword there, and then released his Patronus to inform that Pot whose brain was stuffed with Achnatherum splendens!
Of course that Pot didn't know these reasons, he heard the excitement and - a trace of sadness in the Potter boy's voice barely suppressed? !Did he hear correctly? ! —— Said: "Someone notified me with the Patronus, and her Patronus guided me to the place where the sword of Gryffindor was hidden..."
What word did he use? ! "her"? !
Snape raised his eyebrows suddenly.
Dumbledore was obviously also a little surprised by this adjective, and he asked with interest: "Harry, what makes you think that the one who released the Patronus to guide you to find the Gryffindor sword was...a lady? "
Harry paused, and said without hesitation: "I... I guess that person is Professor Evans. Because I have seen her patron saint before, and it was the same person who guided me to find the Gryffindor sword. The same phoenix that appeared when the patron saint appeared... I think that among the people I know—well, among the people who can help me after you pass away, it is unlikely that there will be a second patron saint and her It's exactly the same..."
Snape suddenly felt that his brain seemed to be filled with Cornish elves in an instant, as if there were many harsh buzzing echoes in his mind, which made him unable to use the Proud of keeping a calm and rational mind no matter what the situation.
When at last the din of noise that had confused his mind had died away, he heard the utterly stupid Potboy in the room asking another question.
"Professor Dumbledore, do you... do you know what my mother's Patronus is?"
Dumbledore's portrait doesn't immediately answer that question.Snape seemed to hear the old wizard sigh quietly in the frame.
"A doe," he said then, and replied with a tone of terrifying calm: "As opposed to your father's Patronus . . . James' Patronus is a stag."
The author has something to say:
February 7:
First of all, let me explain that it is the episode of Chapter 852 (the chapter number of the system number is 857, and the title is 852 [2018 New Year’s Eve Celebration New Year’s Extra HP] Exchange is the farewell). I have considered it for a long time, and I think it is better to put the content of that extra In the main text, it is more in line with the development of the context, so I will remove the extra episode of chapter 852 later today and replace it with a brand new extra episode, you can go and have a look at that time
The number of words will definitely be more than the previous old episodes, so everyone will not suffer!
The newly replaced side story is a very wild idea, basically has nothing to do with the plot of the main text, the background conditions are very interesting, it should be regarded as "the magic spell of soul exchange and return must be cast by the professor himself to achieve it", this kind of condition The soul exchange process implemented under hhh
So everyone can imagine how subtle that scene is hehehe
Next update: tomorrow at midnight.