HP One More Chance.

The carcass, at this moment, was torn into pieces with the ups and downs of the lake water, and turned into a smashed crimson rose in the foam, rolled up snow-like petals and flew towards the water surface, melting into the deep and cold lake water , leaving only a pool of blood red spreading in the water.

The author has something to say: I am so sleepy, I really want to sleep. (←Recently I can’t hold on without taking a nap...)

This section is the longest section since I wrote "OMC" for two years. I sat in front of the computer without moving for three days and three nights, and kept repeating the singles "Super Life and Cultivation of Desire" and "Weak Water Three" "Thousands", looking at the amazing lyrics written by Lin Xi, working hard on the verge of collapse... I coded this scene again and again intermittently. (Mr. Author: Don’t write those strange things in it... T_T)

Regarding the emotional issues in this chapter, in fact, it took a long time to find a balance.

On the night of Valentine’s Day, I chatted with my old friend about this scene, and then my friend’s words made me suddenly think of how the word “heart-piercing” should be visualized, so this scene appeared after that.

It is not easy to write, and it is not easy to love.Especially in fact, love is a thing, before you really meet it, you often have to take many detours and cross many wrong crossroads before you get to the person you want to meet.

☆, 14.2

No matter how long the journey is, even if it is only a hundred years of life, it is just a journey.There will always be a beginning, and there will always be a time to stop, a time to run, and a time to walk slowly, but it will always end.

He thought about it for a long time, from the moment this dream journey started to the end now, but he still didn't find the real answer.

Everything, like flying flowers in an empty dream or dream bubbles, suddenly appeared and then disappeared quietly, without leaving even a trace.

No one ever looks back, and no one walks while watching along the way.

"……Where are you……"

The only thing I can still feel is that my bleeding heart is beating chaotically due to inexplicable guilt and pain.

—Alice, Alice.

"..."

— It's time to wake up.

"……Well…"

The sequelae of walking through the fantasy dream, accompanied by a burst of severe pain all over his body, tormented his brain.The brain, which couldn't remember anything at first, was really unable to function normally due to the severe pain from the muscles all over the body.

It was undeniable that Severus was awakened by the pain.

When he suddenly woke up from the dream, he managed to open his eyes that had been closed for a long time. With the only portable oil lamp beside him in the Nuoda space, he began to look around and vaguely identify according to the environment you are in.

— benches, white curtains, hospital wing, Hogwarts.

The blanket that had been covering him all the time slipped from his hand and fell to the floor because of the movement of getting up.Originally, this shouldn't make any surprising noises, but he found that another person in this space was startled by his inadvertent actions.

"woke up?"

The falling blanket affected the strange woman who had been sitting in the dark corner behind the white curtain, and a weary female voice sounded from the haze.

Seeing that Snape finally woke up, she lazily closed the book she was flipping a moment ago, then raised her head, stretched out her hand and unconsciously rubbed her sleepy eyes, blinked, Then look at him intently.

Her expression was gentle, with the tenderness of a mature person between her brows and eyes, but she also had a naughty feeling like a child, and even the tone of her question just now was as clear as a copper bell, without any sense of burden.

Although it can't be said that she was full of joy, at least, he could hear that she was relieved that she woke up.

"...Welcome back, Mr. Snape."

The woman in a snow-white dress was arranging her waist-length platinum-blonde curly hair a little, and said to him with a smile.

"you……"

--who is it?

His intuition forced him to look at her sensitively with his own doubts, and he couldn't help showing a look of vigilance in his eyes.

However, the other party didn't mind how strange his reaction was, just shook his head and continued to smile.

She knew that he would be surprised by all this suddenness.

"I know you must find all this strange, but please allow me to explain it to you first, Mr. Snape," she said, she stood up slowly, walked up to him calmly, and said to him Stretched out his hand.

"I am a descendant of the Hebrew family. If you don't mind, you can call me Eve just like Alice... As you can see, I am a doctor... Well, of course, I can also be regarded as a wizard. Although I've been in the Muggle world for a long time before this,'

She held out her hand, perhaps intending to shake his, but Snape ignored her.After a pause, seeing that his brows were still tense with distrust, she decided to add another sentence:

"Well, you actually...don't have to guess my intentions. The reason I'm here is just because...I'm Alice's friend, a friend I haven't seen for many years..."

After finishing speaking, she stretched out her hand to him with the palm facing up, and then, she suddenly muttered something—although Snape's mind was in a mess, he still recognized that it was an object space transfer spell.

In a moment, in the blink of an eye, she had conjured his wand again and solemnly handed it back to him.

"It's okay, but I'm not a bad person... Also, at the end of the dream you just experienced, at the bottom of the lake, you lost something that was very important to you."

Eve said that with a smile, but Snape was surprised by her little change, and blurted out:

"Why would you know?!"

——That should only be known to him and... Alice.

How would she know?

"Why... in the dream..."

"I know."

Eve seemed to take his doubts seriously, "You just woke up, so it's not surprising that you don't know anything. You've been asleep for a long time, from the time you brought Alice back to Hogwarts until now, it's been three days and three nights ,"

She turned her head, nodded slightly, and motioned him to look in the direction behind her:

"Look... Although, it's a bit offensive to watch your dreams without first saying hello to you, but,"

She paused again, "Maybe you didn't realize that when you met Alice again, the soul-hunting spell she cast on herself recognized you, so you were trapped in the dream by her dream technique." In a dream."

"Dream?"

"Well, a dream."

While explaining, she turned around and walked away from Snape's line of sight until she reached the darkness behind her—relying on the not-so-bright moonlight shining into the medical wing outside the window, he He saw her stop in front of a hospital bed, silently looking down at a person who was also in a coma.

He didn't want to find out, but he couldn't help but understand, got it.

——The person lying there is Alice.

"she……"

"You may have already guessed something... Yes, Alice, she used the Miku family's illusion technique on you... You don't know, it is actually a magic that consumes one's mental power, and anyone who stays In the fantasy dream, you need to consume your own memory in reality, otherwise the dream cannot be established."

Her tone suddenly became low, as if there was frost in it, completely missing the gentleness that she greeted him just now:

"But, in the final analysis, the dreams you experienced were all bad... You don't know, once you fall into it, and choose not to come out, then...you will have to sleep with her in the end In nothingness."

What does it mean to sleep forever in nothingness.

"It is death... yes, you will be like her."

After finishing speaking, she herself gradually realized that her tone might indeed be a bit harsh, so she quickly changed back to her original calm tone, and repeated to Snape who was looking at her in a daze:

"Whether you believe it or not, what I said is serious. Although... I know you want to save her, but... you still don't know how stubborn the curse on Alice is. You don't know that she is Go through what you'll never understand..."

"What the hell are you trying to tell me?"

Snape suddenly stopped her, "What's going on with her now? Don't you know all about it? Since you said you knew all about it, you must have saved her, didn't you?"

is not it.

is not it?

is not it!

The more he talked about it, the more he couldn't hold back his tone, he was in a hurry without leaving any room for others to refute.

"..."

However, what Eve responded was only a wry smile that lasted only half a second.

"...If I tell you, she...Alice, she lost a lot of blood, and her breath was very weak when she was sent here, and...because of her own physical problems...Although, I have a way to make her There is no danger of death for the time being, but I still can't make her wake up."

In this way, she tried to speak in a natural tone, then turned around and lowered her head, and repeated the routine inspection a few hours ago to check her recovery from the injury.

The horrific wound on Alice's back has healed under the action of the medicine, but the skin of the tentacles is still cold, as if no blood flowed at all.Because she hasn't woken up yet—in fact, she doesn't know whether she will be able to wake up. Under such circumstances, Eve has no way to confirm her specific situation, and whether there is no serious danger to her life.

A body that has been cursed with death is like a poison that cannot be understood.With ordinary magic, there is no way to see clearly how this deadly spell tortured her until she lost consciousness.

The only thing she knew was that she was still alive, so she wouldn't just vanish into thin air.

"Maybe, let her live a little longer."

For a long time, she sighed, and covered Alice's quilt again, and for a long time, she focused her gaze on the intertwined darkness and silver scene outside the window, as if she could see it instantly.

—— For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.

She suddenly remembered that more than ten years ago, that silent girl who was imprisoned in the family cage looked at her with her clear water blue eyes and asked:

"What else can I do? I... am just myself."

However, I am still alive.

Perhaps, after experiencing ups and downs and inner struggles alone for more than ten years, she has already quietly chosen to bury the sorrow and grief of her 20 years of life with a silent death.

She knew, she had already figured it out, it all happened.

It's just that we were fortunate to participate in the final ending of that scene in the drama she wrote and directed.

"sorry."

"Just...for a while?"

With a hoarse voice, Snape tried to ask that sentence completely with a feeling that he had never felt before, which was called despair, but in the end he still couldn't say every single word.

"...why...just for a while...why...why..."

--why!

He wanted to shout like this for a quarter of an hour, but after all, he was still unable to resist the exhaustion of his body and the despair in his heart.

Everything is fine, nothing is useless.

That's too late.

"……why……"

But Eve, who heard him ask such words, never looked back at him, as if she already knew how bitter and miserable his expression should be at the moment.

She sighed, but she was still saying the same uninspiring words to him as before:

"Everyone knows that she has already died once. No one has immortality, not even the Dark Lord. The prophecy that befalls her has been fulfilled. I have no way to stop her death, not even Dumbledore, There's nothing you can do, Mr Snape."

She said regretfully, stretched her right hand to her bun, pulled out the bronze-colored snow plum hairpin, and held it tightly in her hand.

She knew that the magic was still there.

"...I can only say that if she still wants to live, I will do my best to at least let her live for a while longer."

Life has always been a luxury, especially if you want to let a dying person continue to live for a long time.You can never wake up a person who is pretending to be asleep, and you can never save a person who has lost hope of living.

"You woke up, walked out of the dream, and chose the cruel and bloody reality. However, she is still in a coma because she wants to choose to stay in the dream that will never wake up."

When Snape fell into a daze again because of her words, Eve quietly walked to his side who bowed his head in silence, and sat down quietly beside him.

"...I'm sorry, if I could have met you earlier, perhaps these things would not have happened."

Her warm hand slowly caressed his pale and cold face in the darkness, and brushed away his eyes that froze his absent-minded expression like ice:

"Sorry, I can't bring back Alice's departure."

However, she did not expect that the other party only responded to her sadly, or just plainly:

"You are right, it was me who was wrong..."

——Everything, it was me who was wrong.

The reality of the dream still remained in his mind, which made him still unable to recover clearly to confirm what happened to himself.

He killed Alice.

Again and again.

"Do not."

Eve smiled wryly and shook her head, "I know it's hard for you to accept all of this now, and it's hard for anyone else to believe that all of this is true, let alone see clearly how it all happened." After finishing speaking, Her hand took Snape's,

"...Your mind must be blank right now, and you can't think of anything."

Snape opened his eyes wide for a moment, looking at her in astonishment.

"……how do you……"

— how could she know.

"As I said, I know. Whether as her friend or as a competent physician."

Once again, she turned her head to look at her old friend on the hospital bed behind her, and said:

"...Don't worry, since you have forgotten, no one will hold you accountable, not to mention...the Death Eaters left behind are looking for you all over the world. Instead of dying outside, you might as well stay in Huo Gewarz, at least relatively speaking, it's relatively safe... Big deal, I'll think of a way to get you and Alice out of here after the limelight has passed."

"...The Death Eaters are all looking for me now? Why, and," he frowned, and asked her with puzzlement, "this is Hogwarts, isn't Dumbledore already..."

"He agreed to take you here temporarily. Of course, Alice has to stay as well."

She smiled at him against the light, but quickly recovered her rare serious look, "I still have to say sorry to you, at this stage, in my capacity, I really can't explain too much to you, but, I I still think that I should try my best to reproduce what I know—at least your lost memory... In that way, maybe you will understand a little bit.”

After all, she gently caressed his eyes with her own warm hand, and then began to close her eyes and concentrate, reciting some spells that he had never heard before.

He could feel that she was working her magic.

"..."

"Close your eyes and get a good night's sleep. After you wake up, you will understand what you have done in the past three days."

At the moment before losing consciousness again, he heard her say this to him.

The author has something to say: 14.2 has been changed for two weeks. ==The results of writing, modifying and modifying are extracted separately and written as a subsection.

During this period of time, the writing speed was very slow, perhaps because the manuscript had already been written, and I was not in a hurry to change it.

then.

Also because of the preparation for the oral exam.Fortunately, the speaking test has ended successfully today.

Next, is a model test.

Thank you all for your support during this time.

I also hope that everyone will continue to support us (Dive dears, please float up! Miss author misses you very much!)

☆, 14.3

--you are wrong.

"More than a year ago, she came to me and told me about you."

Dumbledore sighed, took out his wand from his robe, and cast some healing magic on the unconscious person in Snape's arms, but vaguely realized that these ordinary magics seemed to be of little use to her effect.

"...she came to you...to talk about me?"

Snape looked at him suspiciously, and held her tighter in his arms, "Why would she do this..."

"For you." Dumbledore smiled, raised his hand to straighten his glasses, "She has her wish, and we just... reached some agreement."

"...You promised to save her?"

"I didn't promise to save her, and it wasn't my promise to save her that she wished, do you understand, Severus?"

The indifferent answer immediately froze all his hopes and expectations.

"There's something, maybe you don't know?" The old man slowly walked back to his chair, sat on it, took a sip of the glass of honey water in front of him:

"Alice Miku, she has mastered the ancient magic passed down from the Miku family... That's why she is absolutely sure that she can kill that person by herself. This can also explain why she didn't die, even if you did it yourself kill her..."

"Why did you know that I...killed her..." Snape looked at him with wide eyes in surprise and bewilderment, "You can't possibly know..."

"As long as you have done many things, there is no need for bystanders, and the facts will prove that you have done that thing before." Dumbledore knocked on the huge bookshelf behind him, and a small reflective mirror was on the wall of the books. surfaced, and began to show some moving images.

She looked at the image in the mirror, smiled slightly, and shook her head helplessly.

"...the so-called immortality is not really 'immortality'," he sighed quietly to Snape again, "it's just that she knew a way that none of us knew to keep herself from dying, so she did it. Everyone must carry their own mission to live, and so is she. Her family has a grievance with that person that needs to be settled, and her own destiny also forces her to complete the task left by her family, so, in this matter ...to kill Tom... I mean Voldemort, you know...to kill him, it takes a life for a life, that's for sure."

"So..." Snape's voice cracked.

"So, in the written fate, Alice Miku must die. Although everyone has this day, she will inevitably go to today, especially...now, she may have launched the killing Voldemort's magic? If, as the caster, she does not die, then Voldemort cannot be eliminated in the true sense, and everything will suffer endlessly."

At the beginning, when Alice told him the truth behind these things, Dumbledore also lamented that the reason why the Miku family can support until now is that everything is not just rumors.

All of this will be true.

--In this case.

Snape suddenly sneered with some disdain, but his tone became angry, and he shouted to the other party desperately and unwillingly:

"Since you know this, since you... know that she will die at that bastard Potter's house, not only did you not stop her, but you also encouraged her to be the savior of the great future savior? She has already died once, Although I don't know why she still appears here now, but... But, she is about to die for the second time, and I don't think she has many lives to make her work so hard for you! Dumbledore, For a so-called 'savior', you took advantage of her trust in you. She is not someone who can only be manipulated by you. Since she is still alive, she should have her own way to go. You can't use her like that... ... Even, I admit that I have used her before, but since she is still alive, she should..."

"Very good, very good."

Dumbledore actually clapped his hands, interrupting him to continue to scold himself, instead of being angry at him for his anger at himself, he let out a heartfelt admiration.

——Maybe, he, Severus Snape, is not a completely lost person.

"...Severus, if you haven't forgotten a few months ago... no, I don't think you will forget that I told you the time we met, and the result now is your own It was caused by one hand, it is a fact that you killed someone, and it is also a fact that someone is willing to die for you again. Even if it is magic, it is impossible to come back from the dead and reincarnate your own destiny."

What's more, Alice's death was her own choice, and it was inevitable.

Everyone knows that magic is not omnipotent, and similarly, there is no so-called omnipotent person in this world.To change your destiny, you have to pay a heavy price.

"...I know," Snape replied absently, "but you can obviously stop him why..."

"No, I am not the one who can stop her in this world, Severus." Dumbledore smiled wryly and shook his head, "Who is that person, you know better than me... the one who could have stopped all of this people."

—He has always been very clear about this.

"You know better than anyone else what can be done again and what can't be done, for example, a dead person, or a dying person, and things you have done and achieved... Oh, wait, no, no," as if suddenly thinking of something, the old man stopped talking, but knocked himself on the head, complaining about his poor memory, "Wait a minute..."

His eyes suddenly fell on the person who was carefully and tightly held by Snape in his arms - that face, like a Sleeping Beauty, was Lily Ewan, who had already lost her breath and was covered in horrific bloodstains. s.

It is so.

"Severus, since you have recognized that the person here at the moment is Alice Miku, then... I mean, you should have seen the real Lily? Did you see the two of them?" Among them, who holds a necklace set with sapphire crystal?"

Dumbledore walked slowly in front of Alice, squinting at her from a distance of more than one meter.Even for a wizard like him, if he hadn't known the truth early on, maybe he wouldn't have been able to see at a glance that she had used a trick to disguise others—is this the power of Miku's ancient magic?

"See, but... what does it matter?"

"Of course it does."

What answered him was another crisp female voice.

—Okay, joke time is over.

Another clear applause rang out. Dumbledore, who had been calmly observing something through the mirror on the book wall before, clapped his hands again, smiled, and said slowly:

"Come out, boys, I know you've been hiding hard enough—behind the statues, but now you can come out."

"Sorry, I'm late."

The girl in white, Eve Hebrew, who slowly came out from the shadow behind the stone statue, squatted down and bowed to him with a peaceful smile, "Long time no see, Principal Dumbledore."

"Long time no see...Principal Dumbledore." A rather pleasant male voice was followed by a sweet female voice.

Behind her was Regulus who had also been hiding here for a long time.

"Need I introduce you?" Dumbledore returned the same kind smile to the two young men who came over, "Or, do you actually know each other?"

"No, this is the first time I've seen Mr. Snape," Eve said with a half-smile and turned her eyes to the boy who was a head taller than herself, "However, I think Regulus and him are already close friends." Old friend, right?"

I saw that Regulus blushed suddenly because of his words, and hurriedly turned his face away somewhat unnaturally.

She had no choice but to turn her face, and looked at the person who was as silent as a black shadow and permeated with deep defenses with her back facing her.

—Is he the one who killed you?

"Hi, it's the first time I've met you. I'm Eve Hebrew, um... and an old friend from Hogwarts."

When she said this, an out-of-the-box breeze blew her long platinum-blond hair, making her face as beautiful as a porcelain doll.

"We just talked about the key points, and you appeared at the right time." Dumbledore waved his wand, and two cups of freshly brewed black tea appeared out of thin air on the coffee table, "As Alice's best friend, you Maybe we can send her one last ride."

He said with a little regret, pointing to the coffee table, and wanted to invite the two of them to sit down, but unexpectedly, the next second, Eve smiled and shook her head, waving his hand and rejecting him:

"Perhaps, it's unnecessary, Headmaster Dumbledore."

She subconsciously held Regulus behind her, whose eyes had drifted away, and she used a little force to pull him to stand in front of her, which made the other party almost trip over her in front of her without paying attention:

"He has already found the Horcruxes, you know? He has found those 'toys' carefully prepared by Voldemort, and...has successfully destroyed one...So, we still have a chance .”

"The Horcrux?"

Hearing this unfamiliar but familiar noun being spoken by her, Snape suddenly came back to his senses and looked at the strange woman next to Regulus in disbelief, "Why do you know this?"

But Eve didn't understand his doubts too much, and continued to speak to Dumbledore unhurriedly:

"Unfortunately, it seems that I have come back after many years. As soon as we meet, I will ask you to borrow the medical wing. As my first 'job' here, I think I have found it The method can achieve the 'purpose' you want without Alice's death."

She smiled confidently, "Surprise, isn't it?" Then she turned and walked in Snape's direction, smiling at him, "That's good news for anyone."

"You'll save her, won't you?" Snape asked blankly, "...you'll save her, won't you?"

"Of course, but..."

Eve grabbed the hand of Regulus who was following her, and refused to let go, then raised her head and looked at Dumbledore with meaningful eyes, "I think you probably have something to say .”

There were some other unknown meanings hidden in her tone, and Dumbledore's expression suddenly became serious after hearing it.

for a long time.

"Eve, I know you have a lot of fantastic ideas, but this matter concerns the entire magic world. If you prevent this reincarnation from happening, the consequences will be unimaginable."

"I know, of course I know," Eve said with a wider smile, "but I... don't want to repeat the tragedy of my mother."

Her smile is a bit stubborn, which makes people more curious about what the unknown past is.

"Forgive me for knowing what you want, Dumbledore, but I don't want that."

"You think you can do it?"

Dumbledore looked at the girl with platinum-blond hair with some rare displeasure, and slightly regretted, "Your mother couldn't do it back then."

"But I don't think you are right to want to trade 'one life for another'." She answered him without compromise.In the past, very few people dared to speak like this to the current greatest white wizard recognized by the wizarding world, but she dared.

——What an impressive goodbye.

Dumbledore suddenly became silent, and just looked at her quietly without saying a word—that child, who was three or four years old the last time we met, has grown from an ignorant person to this in a blink of an eye. Adults in their 20s.

"very nice."

He let out a soft sigh, and no one knew whether he was angry or felt uneasy, but, after a long time, he suddenly put away his serious expression, and showed the usual kind smile of an old man, and took it down casually. He took off his half-moon glasses and wiped the robe on his body:

"You're right. Apart from your lives, your intelligence and talents are also valuable to me, even more important than your lives. But, of course... I'll tell you, if we give up our lives so easily, all this There will be no more admirable intellect and talent."

—Young man, that's great.

Dumbledore smiled, turned and walked towards his phoenix, and said to them behind him:

"Take Alice away first, her condition is really bad, but Fox should be able to help you bring Alice to the medical wing." After that, he raised his hand and let the Phoenix fly to Snape From the side of him, it seemed that these actions and these words were all in the hope that Snape would put the person in his arms down.

But Snape was still unmoved, never let go of her in his arms.

"Why not take her to St. Mungo's?" he asked, looking down at her with her eyes closed. "You can take her there..."

"no,"

Eve immediately stopped his thoughts, "Alice can't go to St. Mungo's, including you..."

She couldn't tell him yet, or rather, she didn't dare to tell him, what kind of chaos the world outside Hogwarts was like.

"You don't even know outside now..." Before she could finish speaking, Eve was suddenly stopped by Regulus who stepped forward.He stretched out his hand to stop her, and didn't let her continue speaking, but turned around again, and whispered to her ear in his usual gentle tone, "Let me do it."

"...Don't worry, she'll be fine."

He has never said anything here, it seems that he has been waiting for this time for a long time.He slowly walked to Snape's side, knelt down, looked at him with a downcast face, and then at her with a bloody red body. He paused for a long time before he spoke to him for the first time after a long absence. sentence.

"I'm worried about Alice too, maybe... more than you worry about her, but what she needs now... you know, what she needs is treatment, not you here... just holding her. Now this time , you should also trust us, we are friends of Alice just like you."

God knows how difficult it is to let go of the prejudices between each other and the grievances accumulated in the past,

——But he knew that she wanted him to do this.

"Oh, you... have never trusted me." Snape sneered suddenly, and his tone of refusal made people feel chilling, "I am a Death Eater, but you have decided to leave Death Eater The disciples took refuge in..."

--Snapped.

Unexpectedly, the sound of a slap resounded in the principal's office, which was extremely strange.

"Please don't say that, Mr Snape."

With a bit of pain, Regulus rejected his words, and there was still a pain in his hand, "Alice...she has trusted you from the beginning to the end, please don't... deny her so easily. It's just that you can't see your feelings, she is obviously working so hard, and wants you to live well in this world."

——But you, you are humiliating yourself.

Snape froze for a moment.

Everyone could tell how difficult it was for Regulus to say such words in a normal tone.But he did it anyway, especially, putting the