Paper cranes fly away, lilies bloom

Paper Cranes-Chapter 15

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A black figure flashed across the street, he stopped for a while, walked into the Pig's Head Bar, and went up to the second floor.

In the dilapidated Pig's Head Bar, there were only two customers, both on the second floor.One has a long silver beard and wears half-moon glasses.The other is a witch holding a transparent crystal ball in her hand. She touched the crystal ball with her left hand and closed her eyes for a while.Trembling and speaking:

"The one who has the power to destroy the Dark Lord is approaching... Born into a family that has resisted him three times, will be born at the end of July..."

At this time, the door on the second floor was suddenly pushed open, and a pair of sharp blue eyes fixed on the person at the door, who was putting his ears on the door to eavesdrop.The blue eyes stared at him for a moment, then said coldly, "Snape. You're eavesdropping."

However, before he could finish his sentence, Snape had already Apparated away.

A few seconds later, he reappeared.A few meters in front of him, was Voldemort.

"Huh? Severus? Is there anything?" Voldemort said as he threw away a piece of chocolate frog box that he had eaten, and then flipped through the pictures of Salazar Slytherin.

"Well...I was in the Hog's Head....heard a Sybil's prophecy...that the one who has the power to destroy the Dark Lord...would be born in July....Parents who rebelled against the Dark Lord three times Demon King..."

Voldemort said: "Really? Let's see who it is?" Then he shook his wand lightly: "This record, three times resisted me... There are Longbottom, Potter, and... He stood there chugging, completely oblivious to the involuntary shudder that Snape gave when he said "Potter".Voldemort said again: "It's mid-July, let's see, which one is it..."

August

Standing in the middle of the same wasteland, Voldemort said to the surrounding Death Eaters: "So...the result came out...I think it's Potter. Isn't it..." Then he smiled coldly, and the people around him Bellatrix whispered something.

Five minutes later, the Death Eaters had all withdrawn, leaving only Voldemort, Snape and Lucius on the grass.

Snape tugged on his robe and said in a low voice, "Master...at that time...can you not kill Lily?"

Voldemort sneered: "Why didn't you kill that mudblood?"

Snape hurriedly used Occlumency, and just as he was about to find an excuse, Lucius said, "Because he loves that Mudblood."

Snape felt his heart stop

Voldemort stared at him for a while: "No." Then he sneered and left.

Snape froze for a moment, making a mental decision, and then he Apparated again.

The top of a hill, surrounded by a cold night.The night wind whistled and blew through the branches that had almost lost their leaves.Snape stood there panting, wand clutched tightly in his hand, waiting for someone...

Then a sharp blinding white light flew through the air, and Snape's wand also flew out of his hand.Apparently, someone cast a weapon on you.

"Do not kill me!"

"That was not my intention."

The sound of Dumbledore's Disapparation was lost in the sound of the wind blowing through the branches.He stood before Snape, the hem of his robes fluttering, his face glowing in the light from his wand.

"So, Severus, has Lord Voldemort any message for me?"

"No... no message - I came by myself!"

Snape wrung his hands uneasily, his black hair fluttering in the wind, making him look a little deranged.

"I—I bring a warning, no, a request—please—"

Dumbledore waved his wand lightly. Although the leaves and branches kept rustling in the night wind, the place where they stood facing each other was very quiet.

"What would a Death Eater ask me to do?"

"That, that prophecy...that prophecy of Trelawney..."

"Ah, yes," said Dumbledore, "how much did you tell Voldemort about that prophecy?"

"Everything - everything I heard!" said Snape. "That's why - that's why - he thought it was Lily Evans!"

"The prophecy said no woman," said Dumbledore, "only a boy born at the end of July—"

"You know what I mean! He thinks that's her son, and he's going to get her and kill them all—"

"If she is so important to you," said Dumbledore, "then Voldemort will surely spare her. Can you not plead for her, in exchange for her son?"

"I did—I begged him to—"

"You disgust me," said Dumbledore, and Snape seemed to shudder. "You don't care about the lives of her husband and son, do you? If they die, you get what you want?"

Snape said nothing, just looked straight at Dumbledore.

"Then hide them all!" he said hoarsely. "Keep her—they safe, please!"

"So what can you do for me in return, Severus?"

"In return for...?" Snape looked at Dumbledore, but after a long while he said, "Anything

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