[HP] Elephant of Time

A town seems to be coming to the end of its life.

until he saw the clock...

A couple holds a beautiful clock in both hands. The hollow base is made into a few winding green vines, and the young sprouts are so vivid that it seems that life is blooming in the clock at a glance.However, the face of the clock has a completely opposite color to that of ordinary clocks. The pitch-black chassis is like a deep and endless midnight, with star-like silver scales shining brightly on it, and the hands made into gold are just a ray of light that was born on that day.

Most importantly, even though everything was signaling the birth of life, Harry still smelled a familiar smell... the smell of slowly decaying in the dark underground.

What kind of person, with the icy breath of rotting death, made a beautiful clock that symbolized new life?

The first time he tried to speak to a stranger, he got a gentle response from the woman-it was a clock for her unborn child, from the best clock maker in England.Although people are getting used to electronic products nowadays, they want to give their children the most beautiful traditional art.

Then he knew about the little shop called The Elephant of Time, and about the watchmaker called Theo Leif Carls.

——Is there really someone who can condense time into an image?

He has a short-term goal in his travels, but he still walks carelessly. The store will not escape, and life is too long to be squandered.So when he arrived in that small town, he had just caught up with the reunion of Demeter and her daughter, and nothing was born. 【Note】

——Placing herself and the world at the two ends of the scale, this goddess only got a quarter of the time.

As long as he inquired a little from the people in the town, he would immediately get a warm response. This feeling reminded him of the flame-like warm Weasley family, and the familiar atmosphere gave him a long-lost smile.

But the smile froze at that moment... The black figure moved from far to near, with rigid face, thin lips tightly pressed, indifferent eyes, striding posture... Finally... you also appeared in my dream Did you win?

Hold your breath and wait for him to approach gradually, the faint scent of medicine still seems to linger on the tip of your nose, and the sharp words are still from yesterday.What will he say this time?

——Nothing, the Potions Master, who hated Potter almost as an instinct, walked past him intently, like a phantom.

Ahh... that person should be dead...

The unexplained gap suddenly made him feel suffocated... At this moment——

"Mr. Carls is still imposing..."

Kar... ers... sir?

What are they talking about?

"It was already like this when I came here five years ago."

Five years ago... when the war ended...

"If it's not like this one day, we really can't get used to it, hahaha."

Really, could it be him?

The drowning man grabs the last driftwood, but if that driftwood is also the straw that breaks the camel's back...

To catch, or not to catch?

Harry didn't think about it...he tried to find out everything about Mr. Kars as fast as he could—

Gently pushed open the door...

The familiar impatient eyes, the familiar harsh words, and the tenderness hidden under the viciousness...Although he didn't know why the other party had no memory and had another identity...but Harry was sure it was him.

For the first time, he felt that "tomorrow" still had a little hope.

If there was one more thing he could do—

Only about Severus Snape.

The author has something to say: [Note] The goddess of fertility, agriculture and forestry, winter is the day when she accompanies her daughter in Hades.

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The fact that the house is rented out has no effect on Kars. He still goes to the Elephant of Time to open a store every morning at dawn, eats at noon, and goes home from the store to rest at night.There are still not many customers in the store, but every business is enough to make him live for a while, not to mention the considerable and huge inheritance left by old Kars, in fact, even if he sits and eats his property, it is enough for him Eat until the next life.

It wasn't until a week later that he opened the door of his house and saw a young man with messy hair standing uninvited and smiling at himself at the door, that Kars remembered that such a strange guy seemed to have appeared in his recent life.

The little ghost named Potter stopped at his door with a sunny aura that was completely different from that snowy night. Although he was calm on the surface, for some reason, Kars knew that the person in front of him was nervous—the one who was obviously frightened should be When he was about to go out, he saw a person outside the door.

Although there seems to be something incongruous besides nervousness...

Keeping silent all the time, Kars stared blankly at the guy blocking the way, until the guy gradually blushed and uncomfortably lowered his head and pulled his clothes, almost took out a mirror to take a look, and then said indifferently: "What's the matter?" Is something wrong, Mr Potter?"

When this kid paid the rent for one year in one lump sum, Kars wondered if the other party was a wealthy young man from a poor family—his adoptive father had taken in such a guy until the damn troublesome stinky guy after his death The kid also persisted in coming to this small town every spring.

But Kars quickly put the question out of his mind - the tenant was willing to pay, he was willing to rent out the house... hell!Curse the gods, he must have been kicked in the brain by that mad bull from the Evanson family to want to rent to such a "malicious" brat.Look, look, what did this no-brainer do?After spending a few days inquiring about him in the town, now he came directly to him.

"Uh, I..." Harry didn't know where to go from the start, but the person he was talking to solved the problem for him - in a way that was the exact opposite of what he'd hoped to achieve.

"Winter is indeed easy to make people tired, Mr. Potter." Kars said in a tone he thought he "understood", and then when Harry showed a shocked expression, he changed the subject suddenly, and his eyes became sharp , "So if you really have something to tell me, please clear your mind that is still wandering in a dream, and after organizing your clumsy words, come to the phenomenon of time to find me." After finishing speaking severely He raised his eyebrows nervously, and looked at Harry who was still blocking the door, "Now, please get out of my way immediately."

Then close the door and walk towards the image of time in the other party's instinctive response to obey the order.

Harry watched the figure leave with a wry smile.He wandered around the town for a week, inquiring about everything he could find out about the man Theo Leif Karls, and wandered around this door for a long time, always preparing himself.

But when the man suddenly opened the door and appeared in front of him, he could only maintain a smiling expression and froze there, becoming at a loss because of the man's gaze.Just like the old Potions class, the old Hogwarts, Snape could arouse his anger with a simple sentence.

He would become at a loss when facing Severus Snape, although this was not only because of the power of the potions professor, nor because he protected himself with his life.It was mixed together, fear, respect, horror, guilt, gratitude, joy, so many emotions raced forward in the narrow nerves, making him unable to spit out complete words.

Do you want him to walk up to the amnesiac Snape and say - Hey, I am the son of the person you love the most and the person you hate the most, you were bitten to death by a snake to protect me, and the body disappeared, I After five years, I saw you in real life again.

Not to mention whether Snape would believe such absurd remarks, Harry believed that even if he did, this amnesiac Snape would definitely teach him a lesson!

What's more, what he wants to say is not only these... not only these...

The young and powerful savior suddenly had the urge to owl a letter to that wise and wise witch—not to mention that there were no owls here, and even if there were, he couldn't expose Snape without knowing everything. location.

Taking a deep breath, he pressed his heart...

The moment he walked to the door of Snape's room with a burst of momentum in the morning, he thought the old self had returned.

What would Snape say?Reckless and impulsive Gryffindor with pitifully few sulci?

Harry gave an odd-looking but also bitter smile.No matter what, he can't go back... no more, no go back.

The figure standing at the gate of Kars's house looked a little hunchbacked, as pale as a weathered stone statue riddled with holes, which would disappear with the wind in the blink of an eye.

Kars sat in the image of time and frowned, but the weird young man did not appear.

Thinking of this, the watchmaker snorted self-deprecatingly, and there was a day when he said that others were weird.Regarding his temper, even if the people in the town didn't say anything, Kars still had the most basic self-knowledge.Generations of Cals have been as famous for their eccentricities as their timepieces, but this generation is particularly evident.

But these things are like summer male mosquitoes to Kars, with no effect other than being unattractive on the surface.

Instead of recalling those evaluations about himself, Kars was thinking more about the young man's reason for coming.But when he found out he hadn't done anything all morning just thinking about that guy called Harry Potter