[HP] turns in your hand

Snape lost his composure.

He looked into Chiara's eyes, and she didn't fight back.She frankly exposed all her thoughts and memories to him, but all Snape saw were two small figures reflected in those amber eyes.

It was him, Severus Snape, and she had eyes only for him.

Snape repeated the question in vain: "What do you mean? What do you mean I'm your...?"

It's not that he didn't understand, it's just that he couldn't accept Chiara's answer, and he had never heard such an answer.

for him?

Why should he, Severus Snape, be worth the exchange of someone else's life, and how could he be worthy of the "happiness" like a fantasy in her mouth?

Seeing Snape's expression, Chiara knew he must not believe it.But at this time, she has enough patience and enough courage to reveal everything about herself.

"I'm a person of little value, but I want to at least create some value for you while I'm alive, Professor Snape." She said softly, "You can think of it like this, I'm just a gray rat living in the sewer , admiring your personality in the dark corners, talking to yourself and using you as an excuse to keep yourself alive, sneaking around and doing things that you think are good for you."

Chiara's hand exerted a little force, but Snape didn't resist, and she just pressed down on his wand.She staggered and wanted to stand up, but she fell back down again because of dizziness, Snape didn't stop him, he just looked at her like this, as if he had just met Ziara Lowe for the first time, as if she was a long-haired bird monster with three heads.

Chiara finally stood still, leaning on the back of the chair, sweating profusely from her weakness.But she straightened her back and took a step forward facing Snape who was still silent.

Snape subconsciously took a step back.

Ziara stopped immediately, Snape's lips quivered slightly, and she already had a "sure enough" expression.

"I'm sorry." Chiara backed away slowly, as if Snape were a frightened child needing reassurance, "I know, I know...I know my actions and emotions are disgusting, I'm sorry."

She retreated to the office door and pressed the doorknob behind her back.Half the office apart, both Ziara and Snape gasped in silence, one struggling to accept the truth while the other thought he had accepted the truth.

Chiara had known this day would come, she had been subconsciously waiting for this moment to reveal her feelings to Snape.And she knew, clearly understood how sick, how distorted, and how unbearable she was.Her Boggart had shown her early on how the day would end - that Snape would turn her off completely.

Her worst fears inevitably happened.

Chiara wasn't afraid of death, but she was still afraid of Snape's incredible gaze.She pressed the doorknob lightly, trying to make Snape feel better one last time before fleeing.

"My actions are all spontaneous, and I will be responsible for what I do. Whether it is my feelings or behavior, I will do it quietly in places where you can't see or feel. So you You can ignore me and continue to treat me like a rat in the sewer."

"If you really think my feelings and behaviors are too disgusting to accept, as long as you open your mouth, I can stop all of this immediately, and die immediately after taking care of everything. My will has been updated in time and things have been packed. Orderly, so the end-of-life process will be clean and uncluttered, and you won't be bothered by it."

Chiara bowed slightly and smiled apologetically: "No, I'm not threatening my life."

"Just because I can't stop loving you as long as I'm alive."

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Snape pushed open the door of the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher's office without saying a word, and Dumbledore was still standing in front of the big box that had rescued the real Moody.

"Have you dealt with everything on your side, Severus?" Dumbledore didn't look up, "How is Chiara Lowe?"

"..."

Snape's silence was quite abnormal, Dumbledore turned his head, he took a few glances at the Potions professor who was clearly out of his mind, and asked rather inappropriately, "Why, did you find out that your most sensible and well-behaved student can actually kill you Is the shock too big? Don’t be too nervous, I’m actually quite experienced in this, after all, including Voldemort, basically all the Death Eaters were enrolled and graduated by me.”

When he had finished speaking, Dumbledore paused deliberately, allowing time for Snape to stare at him.

But Snape didn't, he remained silent, his face expressionless, his eyes glazed over.

Dumbledore felt something was wrong: "It seems that you have been hit too much... Did something unexpected happen to me, Severus? Something unexpected happened to Chiara Law ?”

Snape's eyeballs moved at last, which made his face look less woodcarved.He glanced at Dumbledore, and said dryly: "It's not a very important matter. You first tell me what happened to Barty Crouch Jr."

No, it doesn't look like "it doesn't matter".

Dumbledore didn't expose it immediately, after all, Barty Crouch Jr.'s information was indeed very important.He pointed to the chest that dug out an extremely deep underground cavity, and told Snape what he had found: "I just rescued Alastor from here, and he was locked here for a year. And this year The Mad-Eye we were working with was Barty Crouch Jr. pretending to be drinking Polyjuice Potion and lurking around Hogwarts for a purpose."

Snape glanced around the office filled with all kinds of detection and anti-reconnaissance magic props, he couldn't even fake a smile, he just felt that the news he received today was extremely absurd.

"As for how Barty Crouch Jr. escaped from Azkaban, and how he was considered dead, I'm afraid we have to ask his father. But we may never get his father's answer " Dumbledore shook his head slightly, "This case is full of fog from the beginning to the end, as if a play has already been performed, and we have only glimpsed a corner of the ending."

Snape asked hoarsely, "What's his purpose in pretending to be Moody?"

"Undoubtedly, it is obviously to prepare for his master's comeback." Dumbledore's expression became stern, "I have reason to suspect that Harry was selected as the No.4 contestant by the Goblet of Fire is Barty Crouch Jr. As a masterpiece, his purpose naturally revolves around Harry... then the scope of speculation is actually very small, and it is quite obvious. Voldemort needs Harry to be resurrected, and he also wants Harry to die."

Snape found himself numb to the word "death" today.He has seen too many things related to "death" today. Little Barty is actually dead, and there is another girl who doesn't take her life seriously and thinks about dying day and night just left his office.

"But none of them succeeded," Snape stated.

Dumbledore nodded: "Yes, because... before Barty Crouch Jr. went to the maze to secretly add a little variable to the final, someone stopped him."

"Then it's your turn to provide information, Severus. Did you get anything from Chiara Lowe?"

Snape looked away.

"She's been babbling since I managed to get her back," he said. "I don't think there's any credibility to what she's saying."

Dumbledore crossed his arms and tapped his elbow with his index finger: "Did she say something that you couldn't accept?"

Snape couldn't lie to Dumbledore, even if he wanted desperately to hide a conversation he'd never forget in his life.Chiara's words echoed in his ears like thunder, and he found out extremely passively that no one except Dumbledore would believe what he said next, not a single word—if not Hearing it with his own ears, he himself was the least likely to believe it.

He can only start with the most easily spoken dialogue.

"She said she had been plotting the murder of 'Moody' for a year."

Dumbledore lowered his eyes and thought: "Do you know the reason why she planned the murder so hard?"

Snape said flatly, "I don't know, she didn't say."

"I hope you can help me find this answer. Only you can do this. After all, she must be very wary of me." Dumbledore looked at Snape, "And everyone knows that her favorite professor It's you."

This statement backfired.Instead of accepting the description of the facts as calmly as usual, Snape turned even paler.

"She said she always wanted to die."

Dumbledore was also taken aback: "Did she say that herself?"

Snape pursed his thin lips, and after a few seconds of silence, he continued: "She feels worthless, has a very low opinion of herself, and has always had thoughts of committing suicide."

"Ah...so that's how it is, it's so pitiful." Dumbledore understood immediately, and he sighed softly, "It seems that Chiara Luo has some mental disorders, extremely low self-esteem and depression... It's just that she is pretending in front of others." It's just fine."

Snape clenched his fists tightly under his robe, and after hearing Dumbledore's comments, he pulled up the corners of his lips in a mocking, wry smile, but it was as funny and ugly as crying: "I think she does have Mental illness."

Dumbledore looked at him: "Is that all she said to you? Is that what shocked you, Severus Snape?"

Dumbledore's clairvoyance had always been so damn sharp at the right time and at the wrong time, Snape trusted his clairvoyance and always hated it.

After another long silence, which did not exceed the limits of Dumbledore's patience, Snape was defeated.He opened his mouth in vain, and the ridiculous words stuck in his throat, even his brain refused to think about it, refused to let it stay in the mind of the calm potions professor for even a second.

"She said she loved me."

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After a thought gap equivalent to dropping three sugar cubes into a coffee cup, the greatest Hogwarts headmaster in history suddenly laughed heartily.

"I think we need to have a drink for this sentence." He clapped his hands, "Then how did you reply to her?"

Snape's masseter muscles were shaking as he grinded his back molars down hard.Dumbledore guessed the ending when he saw his reaction: "You didn't reprimand her cruelly, did you? Oh...no, don't tell me you're scared like a young boy, Severer S."

"Can you maintain a sense of normalcy under the circumstances? She just killed someone in exchange for her life!" Snape's forehead burst out with veins, "She told me that she wanted to die every day! She couldn't even stand I can't stand steadily, maybe she will die at her own will within two steps in the corridor, but she actually told me so nonchalantly, telling me that she can go for me at any time, go--"

Dumbledore asked with great interest: "To what?"

Snape shut his mouth abruptly, and he stared at the empty box on the ground that had nothing to do with him in hatred, as if the empty box deserved to be locked up in Azkaban for the rest of its life.

"She's definitely mentally ill."

He repeated, as if this conclusion could answer all previous doubts: "Chiara Lowe is not mentally normal."

"Yes, I think she should have quite serious depressive disorder, but depressive disorder will not affect the patient to love." Dumbledore said softly, "We should be thankful, thankful that the only one in Chiara's gray spiritual world The support is love, not something else that leads to a more horrific ending."

"And what makes me even happier is that she's been a bright and discerning child from beginning to end. Severus, the one she chooses to love is you."

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The author has something to say:

Lao Deng: I thought I was going to give birth to another orphan student of the Dark Lord, but I didn’t expect that she was just a poisonous girl, so it’s okay

Snape: I'm fucking busy!

Xiaoqi is basically the emoji "I'm so sorry for letting you see the aggressive single pusher, I'll leave right away"

The low self-evaluation made her feel that she was not worthy to love Snape, although Snape was simply scared and stupid, bat-bat was sluggish.jpg

Snape: Could you please stop emphasizing this?

BGM: It's Consuming Me

I believe some of you may have seen all kinds of sickly clips of this BGM at station B (overturned)