Harry Potter and the Attack of the Squibs

Lu Ke and Snape stood in his office together.

Although Snape would normally have left school and returned to his residence in Spider-End Lane by this time, this summer vacation was under special circumstances.

They are making a potion.

This is an unprecedented potion that Snape needs to use to relieve Dumbledore's injury.

In fact, the curse Voldemort left on the Resurrection Stone is far from simple as Dumbledore said. In addition to the curse that can make people age and almost certainly kill anyone, there is also a more sinister one. curse.

This curse and the aging curse took effect at the same time and ended at the same time, leaving only a scorched blackness.

Hufflepuff's potion had no effect on this spell, and Lu Ke still doesn't even know why.

In the previous time, Lu Ke and Snape were trying to figure out what happened.

"If this potion works..."

Snape's face darkened.

Lu Ke was also silent.

All the potions they had tried before had failed, and this potion was the last option to give up treatment.

If this potion is really effective, it means that the damage suffered by Dumbledore cannot be reversed and cannot be cured. He will die soon. The length of time only depends on whether his will is firm or not, and even if Lu Ke's level of will is If you don't have the strength, you can only persist for no more than one year.

"From the beginning, I was the only one who could prevent this from happening..."

Lu Ke smiled helplessly.

If he had sensed Dumbledore's mental state and stopped him before he put on the ring, all these problems would have ceased to exist.

Snape shook his head silently.

At this time, his mood was even more chaotic than Lu Ke's, and he couldn't say any words of comfort at all.

The two of them walked into the principal's office with the potion.

Dumbledore was sitting behind his desk writing a letter, and he seemed to be in a good mood.

"Severus, Luke."

He saw the two of them looking up and smiling, and then smiled bitterly: "I don't like this potion. The smell smells terrible."

Snape put the potion on the table expressionlessly: "Drink it, maybe this one will have no effect as well."

Dumbledore shook his head, then simply raised the potion and drank it in one gulp.

Snape looked at Dumbledore nervously. He was in a very complicated mood now, and he didn't know whether he should hope that the potion would work or not.

But nothing would change because of Snape's thoughts.

Not long after Dumbledore finished drinking the potion, he raised his right hand in surprise.

Centered on the place where the ring was once worn, the burnt black color spread all the way to the arm, but now, the black marks began to slowly recede, all the way from the arm to the wrist.

Dumbledore smiled: "This potion works, Severus, I can feel it..."

Snape took a deep breath: "That means... you are hopeless."

Dumbledore nodded: "I have told you before, there is no need to waste time."

Snape shook his head and fell into silence.

Lu Ke stood aside in silence with a gloomy face.

Dumbledore glanced down at the empty cup: "So, what happened to me?"

Lu Ke explained: "Similar to the magic spell that takes effect at the same time, one uses your own magic to damage the body. When the spell ends, only the wound is left. However, Hufflepuff's magic potion uses the human body's own vitality to treat wounds. , a wizard who has reached the end of his life simply does not have enough vitality to heal his wounds, unless there is... an elixir made from the magic stone. "

Lu Ke shook his head: "It's not close. This potion is far different. It provides a false vitality. You must keep drinking the potion to suppress the injury, and it cannot delay the inevitable result of aging."

Dumbledore smiled nonchalantly: "It's enough. At least it will allow me to move normally in the next time. You have done an amazing thing."

Snape, who had been silent, couldn't help but say: "But this means that you will definitely die, and within a year, Dumbledore."

Dumbledore nodded: "I have lived for more than a hundred years, Snape. For this age, this is simply a normal thing."

Snape said in a low voice: "You promised me!"

Dumbledore still nodded: "Do you think I will leave Harry alone?"

He seemed to have made a decision and looked at Snape: "It just so happens that during this time I have been thinking about how to arrange the next things."

Dumbledore turned and looked at Lu Ke: "Protect Hogwarts, Lu Ke, you are the chosen guardian. I think you know what to do."

Lu Ke nodded helplessly: "I know."

Dumbledore shook his head: "You are about to graduate, Lu Ke. I know you will not stay at Hogwarts, but Lu Ke, if you are outside, you are leaving the protection of Hogwarts."

"You can stay and be a professor if you want."

Lu Ke shook his head: "I won't stay."

Dumbledore nodded, not surprised at all.

"Then continue to maintain the Order of the Phoenix when I am away. I know you don't agree with many of my arrangements, but you are willing to protect them, right?"

Lu Ke could only nod.

This means that he has to protect Aurors such as Sirius Black, Lupin, Moody and Kingsley Tonks who are with him, Harry, Ron, Hermione Malfoy, Neville and other Hogwarts students, and With the Weasley family, this was what Lu Ke was planning to do.

Dumbledore glanced at Snape: "And among these people, Severus is also included."

Snape suddenly sneered: "I'm not at the point where I need a student to protect me."

Dumbledore shook his head: "I am indeed using you, but that doesn't mean I use you as a tool, Severus."

He turned around and looked into Lu Ke's eyes: "Severus is loyal to me. No matter what happens, this will not change."

Lu Ke noticed something strange.

"You're talking about what's going to happen in the future, right?"

Dumbledore smiled helplessly: "Promise me to protect Severus."

Lu Ke glanced at Snape, then nodded.

Of course he knew what Snape would do next.

"You have another plan that you're not going to tell me, and you just want me to do as you say, right?"

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