[HP] turns in your hand

After stepping out of the Pensieve with Dumbledore, Snape turned to Dumbledore before he could stand still: "I don't want to discuss her third Boggart."

Before Dumbledore could speak, he blinked, his heavy heart was instantly swept away, and he felt a little funny instead: "What is the third Boggart? Oh...Thanks for reminding me, I remembered.'You Do you think your plan is really foolproof', 'Do you really think I'll like you'?"

Snape's expression was so terrifying that it looked like Dumbledore had asked him to swallow a salamander just now: "I can understand English - I can understand what I'm talking about! This paragraph is not important, the important thing is the previous What did the pair of men and women say, and their identities!"

"No, no, this paragraph is equally important, equally important." Dumbledore shook his head, "Sit down, Severus, let's sit down and talk."

Snape sat down in the chair he used to sit at Dumbledore's desk, his face was still very bad, but Dumbledore didn't care, after all, he was always like this.

"Before discussing the strange pair of Boggarts, I really want to talk to you about the last paragraph. The Boggarts revealed a very important piece of information."

Snape said in a nasty tone, "If you have to point it out, I've heard that sentence from Chiara herself, and I know exactly how she treats me now."

Dumbledore put away his smile: "It's not just this...Of course, it's equally important that she loves you."

Snape glared at him: "You don't have to repeat that sentence, what exactly are you trying to say?"

"Plan, Severus, she has a plan."

Dumbledore repeated: "'Do you think your efforts will be of any use? Do you think your plans are infallible?'"

"Yes, I heard that, but what does that mean?" Snape asked. "Chiara has a plan for everything. It's a well-known fact in Slytherin. No fewer than five students have told me At the end of the term, they will refer to Chiara's review plan, and she will even plan the seats in advance to watch the Quidditch match-"

"Really? So you think this is what she saw in her worst fears? The plan for the final review was not completed, and the efforts to prepare for the exam were wasted?" Dumbledore asked back.

Snape was dumbfounded.

"I thought we had a consensus, Severus," said Dumbledore. "We must not judge Chiara Lowe by the standards of ordinary teenagers."

"Then what do you think her efforts and plans refer to?" Snape asked following the meaning of the opposite party, as if returning to the classroom in a trance.

Of course Dumbledore replied as if patiently teaching students: "This plan is related to you, Severus, and she must have worked hard for a long time since she met Boggart in the third year."

Snape was silent, he didn't deny it, not even the reaction he had when he saw Chiara's third Boggart memory today.He stared blankly at a beautiful piece of silverware on Dumbledore's desk, watching it "buzzing" and spraying mist. After a long while, he finally looked away and looked directly at Dumbledore. .

"I remembered." He said dryly. "She did say something similar that day."

Dumbledore raised his eyebrows: "Memory is a good thing, so do you know what her plan is?"

It's not much better than "I can't stop loving you as long as I live," and it's equally unspeakable.Chiara said too many golden sentences that day, Snape was shocked one after another, and his brain automatically threw the less shocking things into the trash heap of oblivion.Fortunately, Occlumency masters also have their own set of skills for organizing memories, and they can slowly recall them while thinking.

What had Chiara said that day?

"The only value of her life is..."

Snape closed his eyes, and every time he recalled it, he felt as if he was not awake in the normal world at all.

"...Let me live happily."

Dumbledore's expression is a bit weird now, as if he wants to laugh but feels that the occasion is not right.After Snape opened his eyes, he adjusted his expression in time and nodded solemnly: "This should be the purpose of her plan."

"But why?" Snape asked, "Why? Why me? And why is it such a strange target? Is it possible that I will suddenly die suddenly in her eyes for no reason?"

"Ask me what? I thought you, as the person involved, would know better than me." Dumbledore finally couldn't help laughing, "Maybe you did something that made her decide 'it's you'? "

Snape angrily denied, "No! Do you think I haven't thought about it? I've been thinking about it a lot lately - no! I treat her no differently than any other Slytherin!"

Dumbledore shrugged: "Well, then the answer may lie in her first two Boggarts."

Dumbledore waved his wand, and a piece of parchment flew from the bookshelf in his office, and then hovered squarely and vertically in front of him.Dumbledore caught the paper effortlessly, scanned the contents of the paper at a glance, and then handed it to Snape: "You should have seen this four years ago."

Snape took the parchment with one hand, and at a glance he recognized what it was.

"Chiara's student file, which records her origin, I read before I went to pick her up from the orphanage. I was also given the key to Gringotts Bank left by her mother." He said.

Dumbledore nodded slightly: "Yes, your memory is much better than mine."

"Her student file is not a secret, you must have investigated it before." Snape looked again, "Why, is there something wrong with it? What does this have to do with her first two Boggarts relation?"

"There is no problem."

Snape looked up at Dumbledore, and knowing Dumbledore, he knew there must be a "but" behind it.

"There is nothing wrong with Chiara Lowe's life experience, which is exactly the same as that on the student file." Dumbledore said calmly, "Her mother is an ordinary witch, and her father is an ordinary Muggle. They are normal. They fell in love and got married, and then they both died unexpectedly when Chiara was a child. You and I know what happened after that, Chiara went to the orphanage, and her mother's savings were handed over to her after several twists and turns."

Snape waited for his next words.

"She didn't have any enemies inherited from her parents, and she didn't encounter bullying in the orphanage." Dumbledore tapped his index finger on the table slowly, "She doesn't bully other children, kill animals, or steal things. , normal intelligence, normal communication skills... It seems that she is no different from other orphan students Hogwarts has accepted."

Snape repeated the word slowly: "It seems."

Dumbledore smiled briefly: "Yes, even if the most experienced people in the Auror Office come, it is absolutely impossible for them to dig out anything from Chiara Law."

"But this memory provided by Remus opens up another very odd possibility."

Snape adjusted his sitting posture, straightened his back, and waited for Dumbledore's follow-up explanation.

Dumbledore didn't explain immediately, he put his hands in a tower shape and supported his head, just as Snape did just now, he was stunned.Snape didn't bother him either, and waited patiently.

"...Quite eccentric, yes, but we have to accept this fact, and only this hypothesis can explain it." Dumbledore said to himself.

Snape raised an eyebrow.

Dumbledore didn't keep the joke for too long. Although watching Snape get angry because of impatience was also a kind of entertainment, he didn't have the idea of ​​adjusting his mood at this time.The principal's blue eyes looked straight at Snape, and his attitude suddenly became serious: "You may not accept what I say next, but please don't question it, Severus, and listen to me first."

Snape sneered: "I've heard too many unacceptable things this month."

"Indeed, I hope you can get used to it as soon as possible." Dumbledore also smiled, "Then let's start by translating Chiara's first two Boggarts."

Dumbledore stirred the bright silver memory in the Pensieve with his wand, the memory spun, and a faceless shadow rose from the basin, speaking again in a language that Snape could not understand at all.Only this time, Dumbledore began to translate for him sentence by sentence.

But the first sentence Dumbledore translated made Snape's face change.

"……mom?"

The Boggart began to respond angrily, and Dumbledore repeated softly in the exact opposite tone: "Don't call me mother, I don't have a daughter like you."

"What do you think, how dare you commit suicide?"

"You really embarrass us. How could such a decent family of ours have such a mental illness?"

"Do you know that everyone is pointing at us after you die?"

"Who doesn't have a lot of study pressure? Why are your other classmates okay?"

"Shame, do you deserve the money we spent on you?"

"White-eyed wolf, something without a conscience really makes us sad. If I knew it earlier, I shouldn't have given birth to you..."

Snape's temples throbbed and he gritted his molars, trying not to speak until at last the voice of the last Boggart - his own - came from the Pensieve. He asked, "Can I stop?"

Dumbledore waved his wand, and the memory figure slowly sank back into the Pensieve.Snape looked very pale, but Dumbledore didn't seem to be affected. He picked up the memory in the Pensieve and took back the small glass bottle, asking casually, "What do you think, Severus?"

Snape opened his mouth, then closed it again.

He has a lot of ideas and guesses, but each one is quite absurd, so absurd that he even thinks that the golden sentences of Chiara before are nothing.

There was quite a long period of silence, and after a period of silence that was enough for Snape to review his life thoroughly, he finally spoke.

"Are these her adoptive parents?"

Dumbledore vetoed quietly: "She doesn't have any adoption records."

Snape didn't understand, he didn't understand at all.

"But her biological parents can't be—"

"Yes, Boggart speaks Chinese, but Chiara Lowe's biological parents are both British, and her mother has never even been abroad in her life."

"study-induced stress--"

"Obviously she didn't experience any study pressure. I don't think her parents' education was enough to make a smart child like her have enough study pressure to make people want to commit suicide."

Snape remembered the most incomprehensible sentence in the chaos.

"'When you died, everyone was pointing fingers at us,'" he repeated. "Why would Chiara imagine that her parents would say such things to her? She wasn't dead, she was dead. It's her parents."

Snape and Dumbledore looked at each other, and neither of them spoke for a while.In the unbearable silence, a terrifying thought rose from Snape's mind, which was hard to erase.

"No," he said.

Dumbledore shook his head lightly: "Don't be in a hurry to deny it."

"No." The veins popped out on Snape's forehead. "Impossible."

Dumbledore asked, "Why not?"

Snape stood up, almost knocking the chair over.He looked up at the dark midsummer night sky outside the window of the principal's office, and the breathing in his chest gradually became more and more intense, as if the current oxygen intake was not enough to support his brain.

Dumbledore looked up at him, and the old man's expression was so peaceful and composed that Snape wanted to be angry.

"Don't you have anything to say?" He clenched his back molars and hissed, "You just let this one... you just let her... her kind—don't you want to take measures after you know it? "

Dumbledore spread his hands: "What measures are taken? Lock her up? Give her Desperation to understand? Give her Veritaserum - just like what the so far unknown guy did to Peter Pettigrew That? Or should we simply let her drop out of school and exclude this unstable factor from Hogwarts?"

Snape's hand moved slightly.

Dumbledore shook his head: "To me, Chiara Lowe is irrelevant, because what she did would not infringe...my interests at all. On the contrary, she also helped me invisibly, if not She, maybe Barty Crouch Jr. is going to do something big right under our noses."

"It doesn't matter what I want to do, Severus. No matter what Chiara Lowe has been through, no matter how many times she has died, no matter whether she still wants to die now, whether she is Chinese or British or Aliens—as long as she continues to be a good student, I have no reason to touch her."

The old man stretched out his hand, pointing at Snape's chest with his thin and slender index finger:

"What matters is you, what you want to do."

"What do you think of her? What kind of attitude do you want to face her?"

Severus Snape clenched his fists under the cover of his robes.His lips quivered, then pressed together tightly.

Dumbledore knew that he might not get an answer today, and the old headmaster was not going to continue to persecute him.He adjusted his glasses, breathed a sigh of relief, and wanted to change the subject.

"About the new Defense Against the Dark Arts—"

"We have to treat her like an adult."

Dumbledore looked up, "Severus?"

"There are too many mysteries about her, and she is very dangerous, not only to others, but also to herself." Snape's face was as expressionless as a wax figure, "Therefore, someone must watch her, and we cannot let She acted like a lunatic who disregarded her own life and killed people like before. We need to find more clues from her and figure out where she got the information about Barty Crouch Jr."

Dumbledore looked at him, neither approving nor denying.

"I can……"

He can……

Snape struggled to complete the second half of the sentence: "...Look at her."

"Do you think she is your responsibility?" Dumbledore asked softly.

Snape closed his eyes, "Yes."

"Because of what?"

"Because she is my student, I brought her out of the orphanage."

Dumbledore gently denied: "But she is not a 'child' who needs you to take responsibility for her."

Snape suddenly opened his eyes again: "She's in Slytherin, she's in Hogwarts, she said she's going to kill someone for me, can I just pretend nothing happened and let her go? Do you think she What is the difference between these behaviors so far and the dark wizard? Who knows if she said she loves me is just an excuse?"

"You didn't ask her to do this for you, and you can't be responsible for every student." Dumbledore said, "It's like I can't control whether Hogwarts will have Death Eaters."

Snape said coldly: "What exactly do you want to talk about?"

Dumbledore put his hands on his chest and said calmly, "I just hope you can take a good look at your own heart, Severus. Is she just a responsibility to you?"

Snape leaned forward and asked each word with a pause: "Otherwise?"

"You know it yourself, but you don't want to admit it." Dumbledore met his gaze, "You care about her, you sympathize with her, and you don't want this person who loves you to die or make more mistakes. You're not passively taking responsibility, Severus, you're trying to respond to her kindness and love."

The door of the principal's office was quickly slammed shut five seconds later, accompanied by Head Slytherin's unbearable roar from behind the door:

"Unintelligible!!!"

Shocked by the loud door slam, Dumbledore couldn't help pinching his earlobe.

"One or two, psychological problems are really difficult to deal with." He muttered.

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The author has something to say:

Snape was really different to Qi.Let’s replace it, one day you witnessed a school girl kill a classmate you didn’t like usually, and then your school girl told you that I did it because I liked you so much——everyone would leave this school girl more and more The farther the better.

But our teacher Snape said after a month of painful hesitation: Oh, let me watch her more in the future

Dumbledore: After Thanos snapped his fingers, the whole world will turn into ashes, and your mouth will not turn into ashes, too hard

Xiao Qi doesn't know that his vest is being picked off, and the rich woman is still trading in stocks

BGM.

The next chapter, fifth grade, emotional change comeon!