It's just a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.

Chapter 199
Harry could clearly feel that something was wrong with Sherlock and Snape today.

Professor Forrest is still the same professor, and Snape is still the same Snape, but there seems to be a tacit understanding between them that has never existed before, as if they have been together for a long time.

This made Harry a little confused, and what made him even more puzzled was the question Sherlock had just asked him.

Sherlock no longer kept secrets to Harry, but said it seriously.

"Actually, the voice you heard may not be your auditory hallucination, but a real existence."

Harry was no fool, he could hear what that meant.

"You, you mean my mother, she's still alive!"

His breathing became very heavy, and he asked without blinking his eyes.

He was so cautious, as if he was afraid that if he spoke a little louder, he would scare away Sherlock's affirmative answer.

However, Sherlock didn't nod as Harry expected, but said solemnly.

"It is still there, but it cannot be said to be alive, but to accompany you in another way."

Harry didn't know anything about his relationship with Snape, so he didn't understand the meaning of this sentence at all.

But Sherlock didn't need him to understand, but pulled out his wand and warned.

"Relax Harry, don't be too nervous, close your eyes, keep breathing evenly, let your mind go and don't think about anything."

Of course, Harry wasn't wary of Sherlock at all, he just followed what he said, closed his eyes, and tried to adjust his breathing.

Snape next to him looked impatient, but he still tactfully did not disturb them.

Sherlock held his wand and waited quietly. After about 5 minutes, Harry's breathing gradually became even.

He finally stretched his wand forward, pointed it at the lightning-shaped scar on Harry's forehead that everyone in the wizarding world knew, and tapped lightly, while whispering an inaudible spell in his mouth.

A pale blue light glowed from where the tip of Sherlock's wand met the scar on Harry's forehead.

The blue light looked very cold, a bit like the ghostly light at night, but Harry, the person involved, didn't feel the slightest bit of coldness.

Instead, a warmth that seemed to come from the soul rose from the deepest part of his body, and went up until it emerged from his forehead, and was pulled out by Sherlock's wand!

And Snape, who was watching from the sidelines, clearly saw that after the cool blue light lit up on Harry's forehead, it quickly emerged from his body, and then gathered and condensed in front of him.

In the end, he formed a figure that haunted him forever, and he would never forget it in this life!
"Lilily" Snape saw that it was as transparent as a ghost, floating in front of Harry, looking blankly at the surrounding witches, and murmured the name.

Harry also trembled his eyelids slightly at this time, and then slowly opened them.

The next moment, he saw that face that usually only appeared in photos and dreams!

Although Sherlock had vaccinated him in advance, at this time Harry was still in a daze as if he had been petrified by the basilisk. He could only yell subconsciously in a trembling voice, which he had never yelled to a real person. out of the title.

"Mother."

After being silent in Harry's body for more than ten years, Lily, who suddenly reappeared in the world, looked at all this in shock.

"Harry!"

Harry's body was trembling, staring at that face, his eyes became moist at some point, he slowly moved his arm, trying to touch Lily's body, but now Lily is obviously not real.

His fingers passed through the illusory body, and he could only feel a burst of coldness.

Sherlock looked at this scene with a smile, showing a look of relief, then he walked quietly to the door with light steps, grabbed Snape's arm by the way, and forcibly led him out of the door.

"You just met Lily in the past, let's leave this time to Harry now, after they finish chatting, you will have a chance to see her again in the future."

Snape looked a little upset, but didn't say anything more.

Sherlock leaned against the wall and stared at him for a long time, then suddenly asked.

"Have you told Dumbledore everything?"

Snape didn't speak, just nodded with a flat face.

Sherlock was not surprised by this. Although Snape was not a member of the Order of the Phoenix, he was also one of Dumbledore's hard-core confidants.As long as Dumbledore asked about such a thing, he would not hide it.

Staring up at the ceiling of the corridor for a moment, Sherlock stood up and warned Snape.

"If you don't want the current Lily to further dislike you, it's best not to go in and disturb them."

Snape didn't speak, but Sherlock knew he knew more about it than he did.

Then he left from his office, walked straight along the corridor on the third floor, and finally came to the stone monster stationed in front of the principal's office.

"I want to see Professor Dumbledore."

Before Sherlock had just explained why he came, the stone monster automatically gave way to him, as if someone had said hello and knew he was coming back in advance.

Going up the spiral staircase, he opened the door and walked into the principal's office.

The old man with a white beard who was highly respected in the magic world was not busy with complicated work at this time, but leaned back in his chair with his eyes closed, and tasted the sizzling honey candy with a happy expression.

Compared to the possibility that Dumbledore was being lazy, Sherlock felt that he was deliberately waiting for him to come to the door.

"Professor, Snape should have told you everything."

There were no courtesies or temptations beating around the bush, Sherlock said straight to the point.

Dumbledore watched as Sherlock opened his eyes, the blue pupils were extremely bright under the crescent-shaped glasses.

He didn't hide the admiration in his eyes at all, nodded and said.

"He told about your experience, and you handled it very well, Sherlock. From what Severus recounted about your experience, I don't think anyone could have done a better job than you."

Sherlock was not humble either, and sat down across from Dumbledore carelessly.

"I just went with what I felt was the right choice and did make some small changes to the situation."

Dumbledore blinked, a curious look on his face.

"This Severus didn't tell me."

"It's not that he doesn't want to tell you, he just found out." Sherlock said flatly, "Harry is in my office now, meeting his mother."

Dumbledore was obviously stunned by Sherlock's words, and even the previous headmasters who were dozing off on the wall opened their eyes in surprise and started whispering to each other.

After two or three seconds, Dumbledore came back to his senses, and he looked deeply at Sherlock.

"You rescued Lily?"

"It can't be regarded as being rescued. In essence, she is still dead."

Here, Sherlock repeated to Dumbledore what he had explained to Snape before.

After Dumbledore listened to his complete experimental hypothesis and steps, his face became more surprised, until he finished listening completely, he looked deeply at Sherlock.

"Since the incident with the basilisk last year, your changes have made you more and more attractive, Sherlock. When you were a student, I knew you were very talented, but I didn't expect you to achieve such an achievement .”

Hearing his generous praise, Sherlock waved his hand and said without any complacency.

"I feel that there is still a big gap between me and a really brilliant wizard." He looked at Dumbledore solemnly. "Before I came back, I still met Riddle of that period."

Dumbledore's eyes widened.

"He shot at you?"

"It was too late when he shot, but I can still feel the gap between me and him."

Sherlock said with lingering fear that when Voldemort finally came, he really thought he had accidentally collapsed.

"It's not the same, Sherlock." Dumbledore shook his head, "I know he was very strong at that time, even if I was not old, I can't guarantee that I can beat him, but you are only 23 years old , there is still a lot of time in the future.”

Having said that, a smile appeared on his face.

"At least, Tom didn't have the ability to intercept the advantages of Horcrux magic and fuse it into another magic when you were your age."

"Perhaps. I can change some of my original plans."

He said the last sentence as if he was talking to himself, his voice was so small that Sherlock couldn't hear it clearly.

"What did you say? Professor."

Dumbledore shook his head.

"Nothing. Can you tell me more about what you've been through in the past? I'd like more details."

Sherlock didn't refuse, he removed the small part related to Silk about what he had experienced, and told Dumbledore most of the others truthfully.

The matter about Silk is not because there is nothing to say, he just thinks that this is his own private matter, and he still has the right to keep such relatively private matters confidential.

After listening to everything, Dumbledore let out a long sigh.

"The traitor who remained hidden in the Ministry of Magic until the very end was Barty Crouch Jr."

Sherlock looked surprised.

"It's actually him!"

"It wasn't until Tom completely lost his powers that he was exposed, everyone couldn't believe it, but Tom's disappearance made him hysterical, and finally his father Barty Crouch caught him with his own hands. And sentenced him to life in Azkaban."

Dumbledore folded his hands on the desk, his face calm.

"It is precisely because of such a scandal that Batty, who had a high probability of taking the position of Minister of Magic, lost the election. Fudge, who has always been underestimated, was able to take office."

Hearing what Dumbledore said, Sherlock had a look of remorse on his face.

"I should have found out from Snape who the Death Eaters who were caught later were. He must have known about it."

Snape knew for sure that if Sherlock had brought it up, he would have remembered it.

But at that time, all his thoughts were involved in how to save Lily, Sherlock didn't mention it, and he didn't think about it.

"This ending is good enough." Dumbledore said softly, "There is no need to pursue perfection too much."

"Eddie Butler is a wizard worthy of admiration. I had contact with him and wanted to absorb him into the Order of the Phoenix, but before I officially said it, he was gone." Dumbledore Lido said with some regret.

"That's why I agreed to bury him in the Forbidden Forest at Hogwarts later."

Speaking of this topic, Sherlock's mood was a little depressed, and the scene was silent for a long time before he took out the small iron box in the shape of the family crest from his pocket.

"Besides Lily, my other biggest achievement is this."

He opened the iron box in front of Dumbledore, revealing the brass key inside.

"Riddle put something very important XZ into the family treasury of the Lestrange family. I heard the news from Rodolphs and Rabasta."

"And this key in the badge box, Professor, doesn't it look a lot like the key in the Gringotts vault?"

Dumbledore stared at the key in Sherlock's hand, it was indeed exactly the same as the key of Gringotts' treasury!
"Where did you get it?"

"On Rabastan, he was killed by my explosive curse, and I found this from him."

Dumbledore lowered his head slightly, his glasses seemed to reflect a dim white light.

"You can try it, but you just want to open the treasure house of Gringotts, not just the key."

Sherlock naturally thought of this long ago, which is why he and Dumbledore confessed about the treasure house key.

"So Professor, I need your help."

Dumbledore looked at him.

"how do you want to do it?"

Sherlock narrowed his eyes.

"The Lestrange family is Riddle's loyalists, and almost all family members have been arrested in Azkaban. But it is an ancient family after all, and outsiders must know whether there are illegitimate children or not." You don't know, do you?"

Without too much explanation, just relying on these words, Dumbledore has already heard what Sherlock wants to do.

He was silent for a moment, then nodded lightly, expressing his attitude.

And when Sherlock and Dumbledore were plotting with each other, Snape was still leaning against the door of Sherlock's office, silently listening to the dialogue between mother and child.

Both Harry and Lily were very excited at the beginning. After crying with joy, Harry told her about his experiences over the years with great excitement.

All things naturally only pick the good and say nothing bad.

Although Lily has always been by Harry's side in a special way, she cannot perceive what is happening outside.

Under Snape's seemingly calm exterior, he was actually very nervous inside.

He was afraid that Harry would sue Lily about how he had made things difficult for him during the years at Hogwarts.

But fortunately, Harry only reported the good news but not the bad news, and he didn't mention half a word about the various injustices and sufferings he had experienced.

(End of this chapter)