Harry Potter: Man at Hogwarts but no wand

The two walked in silence until they arrived at Dumbledore's office.

"Sit down, Severus." Dumbledore placed the Invisibility Cloak on the table, walked around to the other side and sat down facing his colleagues.

Snape sat slumped in his chair, leaning back with his eyes closed.

Dumbledore, on the other hand, did not make any fuss. He began to talk at length from behind the desk: "The Ministry of Magic has been in chaos recently. The last incident in Azkaban has caused diplomatic problems. The heads of various Ministry of Magic have communicated with Bomer. Na and the other principals also need to cooperate...Ah, yes, Harry is fine, but he already knows part of the prophecy."

"You actually told him the prophecy." The Potions Master was not interested: "This surprises me. The savior of the Potter family is very worried about his brother."

"Harry has always been a kind-hearted child. He regrets not standing up for himself in time and not caring enough about his brothers. He hopes to become stronger."

"Yes, I understand." Snape didn't want to hear any more. He just wanted to change the subject: "Maybe you should tell me what's wrong with this invisibility cloak."

"The Tales of Beedle the Bard, this is the book I gave Lawrence. Maybe you have read The Legend of the Three Brothers, or not, but now is not a good time to tell you, Severus." Dumbledore took out He bought his own wand and a small eight-sided crystal: "Only two of the three brothers survived, and now they are reunited."

"This is nothing more than a legend."

"It's indeed a legend, it's of no use."

"He said you desired this stone."

"Yes, it seems like a ridiculous thing now." Dumbledore seemed to have thought of something, and seemed more like he wanted to end the topic. Snape felt that he was hiding something, and it was not as Andy said. She said she had told him everything, but he remained silent.

After a long silence, he finally told Dumbledore what he had been accused of.

"Since last year, I knew that one day this would happen. You don't have to worry about it. Lawrence has reported you, right?" Dumbledore did not make a fuss, but looked like he had expected it.

"Perhaps I am no longer of use to you, Dumbledore." After a moment, Snape opened his eyes and sat upright. A very peaceful doubt about Dumbledore flashed across his face, and then It turned into a self-deprecating smile: "Perhaps this is the last time I am conveying news to you. Voldemort does not seem to be struggling with how to kill the savior of the Potter family. He has begun to infiltrate various ministries of magic."

Snape recounted the details of the meeting in a voice that seemed unreal to him, even the change that Andy and Voldemort could communicate in a special way.

"Are you worried that I will send you to Azkaban?" Dumbledore stood up and walked in front of him. He did not comment on the content of Snape's meeting, but chose to appease him first. : "Severus, I don't see your doubts about me, but I feel very guilty. Why are you feeling guilty?"

Snape's breathing became weak.

"It's because of Lily, you feel guilty, am I right, Severus?" Dumbledore said gently, but Snape's heart seemed to be stabbed hard: "You are even afraid of yourself and Cardiff." Karloff was summarily killed, and nothing more can be done for her," Dumbledore said.

Snape shook his head violently, as if to shoo away a nasty fly. He began to hate Dumbledore's eyes that could see through human nature.

"He has this ability." Dumbledore's voice came from his ears again, and he knew that the old wizard was talking about Lawrence: "Ever since the incident in London, he has been obsessed with protecting the people around him, just like The Order of the Phoenix is ​​right next door to his house, but he has never spoken about this information. Even in front of Voldemort, he has never revealed it. Can you imagine that he does not know Occlumency? How powerful is this? will."

"Oh, for Lupine." Of course Snape knew the reason.

"The same goes for you, I've thought of this for a long time." Dumbledore looked at him: "This is his good side Severus, but also his weakness. He will pay a lot of unequal prices."

"I don't need it, and I don't need his price." Snape frowned: "I protect him just for her, for Lily."

"You're lying to yourself, Severus." Dumbledore: "You've done more than that."

"I don't feel like I've done anything to deserve my enemy's raising of my son." Snape said it dryly, but he immediately felt that this sentence made him uncomfortable.

"What about Harry? He is also Lily's son. His eyes are exactly the same as his mother's. His personality is even more similar to Lily's than to Lawrence's. I think you don't treat them the same way. You just said a few words when you passed by the hospital wing. I didn’t ask him.”

"He doesn't need my protection, it's enough for him to have your protection -" Snape interrupted him: "Andy is also Lily's child, that's all."

"Okay, Severus." Dumbledore was surprised that he would refute him in this situation: "But I hope you can often appear at 13 Grimmauld Place to continue your research. He won't I will refuse your approach, and this will also be a way for us to know the information. I said I still trust you."

"Why? Dumbledore."

"You swore to me, Severus, don't you think this is also an opportunity to save him." Dumbledore advised again.

Another voice appeared in his mind: "Just let it go, you don't have to feel guilty anymore."

It was the boy's voice again, and he persuaded himself to put down his guilty voice - and Dumbledore always mentioned Lily in front of him. "It's too ridiculous, fate is too ridiculous." Snape was indignant in his heart. The boy had advised him not to spend his whole life with him, even if he simply became a Death Eater, he would be able to fight three hundred bloody battles with him. Today their situation is exactly the opposite.

"Severus," Dumbledore interrupted his thoughts seriously: "I know you like that child. I didn't even think that you would have such a side, but I believe you will agree."

"Yes, I will promise you, but - do you like him?" Snape shouted: "Call the gods to protect you!"

The silver deer popped out of the tip of his staff.It landed on the floor, jumped to the other end of the office, and flew out of the window.Dumbledore watched it go away, watched its silvery light disappear.

"Is this still the case after all this time?"

"always."

Neither of them knew that when the silver light of the patron saint was about to disappear, the doe turned into a thestral.

ps: Andy's patron saint is Thestral (this is what I tested on pottermore, many people have known it for a long time), although he does not know the patron saint spell now.

When I was writing this chapter, it was very difficult to deal with the part about the lottery and Snape. I was afraid that many readers would think wrongly (the reason for the change of the official Patronus is not only love) or not accept it, but I still insisted on writing it.When I write about Snape’s Patronus transformation here, I want to set it up like this: this time is not a change in feelings for Lily, but a hope to pass on this sad love to Lily’s son (Snape and Ann Di himself has feelings - even the feelings of confidants and elders towards juniors, as everyone knows in the previous article), it has become a kind of love of hope (although he himself does not admit it, and is even very entangled with this feeling), after all, he will survive. In need of sustenance, the author hopes that he can have the faith to choose his future life instead of death as the best ending.

If the readers really can't accept it, the author can only say sorry. He felt uncomfortable and backed out. I'm really sorry.

I hope I can draw Snape’s survival lottery and wish everyone a Happy New Year in advance!