[HP] Flower of Eternal Life

When the time passed to six o'clock in the afternoon, footsteps came outside Esther's room again.

Severus Snape had brought her dinner - slices of toast, a sausage, a fruit salad and a clear glass jug filled with water.Merlin, they finally remembered the important common sense that human beings need to drink water, and she no longer wanted to drink the yellowish tap water that flowed from the bathroom tap.

The scene in the morning was repeated. Although Esther couldn't understand what to see outside the dark window, she still settled her dinner peacefully.

When Snape picked up the tray and was about to leave, Esther repeated what she had said in the morning, but before she could finish saying "standard balance", Snape suddenly dropped the tray in his hand, like Like a giant bat, he rushed over and pressed her to the bed, the drawn wand pressed against her throat.

"What special significance do you have to the Dark Lord? Why did he choose you?" There was a chill in his narrowed black eyes that made her feel cold. If someone she didn't know threatened her like this Esther may not feel that there is anything to make a fuss about, but the man in front of her is her biological father.

Even though the same person in the parallel world is not strictly the same individual, Esther was disappointed to find that she couldn't fully distinguish the young and fierce Snape from her taciturn but loving and guiding hand. Her potion-making father cut it off.

"Maybe you should ask Tom yourself why he punished you like this?" Even though her heart was stirred by the vortex of pain, her tone was still so calm that even she felt terrible.

These words seemed to hit the other person's sore spot, he got up and moved away from her, his sleeves fluttered and quickly disappeared outside the door.

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"I think that's all we know, right?" The three children gathered together head to head, carefully reading what Rose wrote by hand, which they summed up in an afternoon, and what they knew about Voldemort full information.The parchment is full of numerous entries in beautiful fonts, and it seems that nothing has been missed.

"It's a pity I can't go with you, but give my regards to Mr and Mrs Weasley, Mrs Weasley is the best female elder to me besides my mother and my grandmother, I really like the sweater she knits and made Easter eggs."

After saying goodbye to the grinning Will, Albus and Rose left the school doctor's room filled with the smell of disinfectant, and rushed to the principal's office.

They knocked on the door politely, and soon got the principal's permission to enter.Albus Dumbledore was sitting behind his desk, flipping through some books, and beside him, the beautiful big bird named Fawkes, whom the children hadn't seen the last time they entered the headmaster's office, was squatting quietly On its shelf, it sleeps peacefully with its head thrown back into its back feathers.

As the headmaster's blue wise eyes looked at Albus through the mirror, he suddenly felt a heavy heartache. Even if they told the Order what they knew, it didn't mean that the Order could To win this war, not to mention that they will help these people - relatives in another world against their closest friends in that era of isolation.

Why did you start to hesitate until this time?But they have no better choice.

Albus stared back into those calm eyes blankly, and said, "Professor Dumbledore, hello, actually we have some information that we would like to inform you and the members of the Order of the Phoenix—information about Voldemort."

Twenty minutes later, all members of the Order of the Phoenix in the castle were summoned to the principal's office. The two children were very surprised that this seemingly small room could accommodate so many people.

After the big fight between Sirius Black and Phoenix Black, the room finally fell silent, and all the adults sat in a circle watching the two children sitting side by side by the wall, waiting for them to speak.

Rose gave Albus a "you come first" look, and Albus sighed, trying to calm his nervous heart beating, staring at the floor and began his speech.

"I think it would be better to start with self-introduction first, eh." He thought about his words, but then realized that he was not as good at written words as Rose, so he gave up the idea and continued: "My name is Albus Potter, she's Rose Weasley." He pointed to Rose beside him.

"Potter?"

"Weasley?"

Obviously, these two surnames surprised the adults very much. The young Molly Weasley looked at the young witch with the bright red hair unique to the Weasley family in bewilderment, and softly asked her husband sitting beside her : "Arthur, is there this girl among our relatives?" And her husband also returned her puzzled eyes.

Albus shrugged and replied: "I don't think you will know us, but we know you. In fact, we both come from the parallel world in 2020. My grandparents are James Potter and Lily Potter. , and Rose's grandparents were Arthur and Molly Weasley."

The whole office boiled like a pot exploded, so that Dumbledore had to raise his hand and cast magic power to suppress everyone and let them sit back in their seats peacefully.

Albus looked up at Lily Potter, who sat across from him, with beautiful green eyes almost identical to those of his own he'd seen in mirrors countless times.

"That is to say, you are our descendants?" Lily Potter asked softly, she was still in extreme shock and could not hide the suspicion in her eyes.

Rose answered instead of Albus: "Yes, but not exactly the same." She repeated to everyone the concept of parallel worlds that Will had told her friends before, almost verbatim, and the youngest in this grade The clever little witch has an amazing memory.

"Merlin!" Molly clutched her chest as if she couldn't breathe, her husband hurriedly held his wife's hand to comfort her, but Molly recovered quickly, stared at Rose excitedly and asked : "How many children will Arthur and I have? My dear Rose, whose daughter are you?"

"Actually, seven. My dad is the sixth son in the family. His name is Ronald, and his nickname is Ron." Rose's ear tips turned red with shyness, and this particular reaction seemed to make her laugh. Arthur and Molly were convinced that the girl in front of them was in their blood.The couple looked at Rose with soft and loving eyes, and Molly said softly, "Little Rose, you are so cute... Arthur, we have such a beautiful granddaughter." Her eyes overflowed. Leaning in her husband's arms with tears, she couldn't speak anymore.

"And us?" James Potter asked eagerly, with a slightly excited expression, looking intently at Albus, waiting for his answer.

Albus didn't dare to look at his grandfather, whom he had never met in his own world, and fixed his eyes on the floor, and said in a voice that was not loud enough for everyone to hear: "I have never seen you, because You were killed in our world by Lord Voldemort on Halloween 1981."

An eerie silence fell, no one asked questions, they just stared at each other blankly, and finally locked their eyes on Albus, waiting for him to give a reasonable explanation.

Albus took a deep breath and worked up the courage to continue: "But my dad Harry survived Voldemort's Killing Curse. Voldemort treated him as a baby after killing James and Lily Potter." A Killing Curse was sent, but that spell failed to kill my dad, but bounced back to kill Voldemort's physical body. Professor Albus Dumbledore believed that Lily Potter made a The powerful protection spell allowed Harry Potter to survive from Voldemort's hands, and he was almost unharmed, except for a lightning-shaped scar on his forehead." He raised his head and looked at the Potters cautiously. They hugged each other and looked at him with teary soft eyes.Albus suddenly had the urge to cry, the grandparents he had never seen, really existed here, in this world at this moment.

"But what died was only his body?" Remus Lupine picked up Albus's speech, and he was keenly aware of the key point in Albus's speech.

Albus turned to look into Lupine's calm gray eyes, nodded and answered, "Yes, his soul was not completely wiped out, but lurking in the shadows waiting for his servants to find him and help him rise again." .That is, in 1995, he regained his physical body with the help of Pettigrew—”

He was interrupted by a sudden loud noise in the office, and Sirius Black stood up abruptly and flipped over his chair.

"That coward! How could he live that long! How could Remus and I let him live until then?!" He growled, with undisguised hatred on his young face, and the people beside him Remus Lupine stretched out his wand and raised his chair, pressing his shoulders to let him sit back in his place.

Albus chose his words carefully so as not to further anger Sirius, and then said softly, "It actually turned into a mouse, and it was hidden in the Weasleys' house for a full 12 years before it was discovered."

"It's conceivable." Sirius seemed to accept the statement, and spat on the ground with a gloomy face, and Alice Longbottom, who was sitting on the other side of him, gave him a reproachful look.

Albus had to rearrange his thoughts, and Sirius' impulsiveness made him forget half of his previously thought-out lines.He settled down, and finally picked up the previous words: "After that, he controlled the dementors in Azkaban and released those crazy and loyal followers, but the then Minister of Magic refused to admit The return of Voldemort told the wizarding world that this was a conspiracy theory with ulterior motives. When Voldemort really reappeared in people's vision, no one could stop him, and the entire wizarding world was controlled by him, even Hogwarts Voldemort was not spared, but in the end my father, Uncle Ron, Aunt Hermione - Rose's mother defeated him with the help of many people, and Voldemort was finally completely defeated."

After his words fell, there was a moment of silence in the office, until Edgar Bones, a young wizard with sunken eyes asked softly: "Why did Hogwarts fall too, could it be—" He was uneasy He glanced at the old wizard sitting behind his desk crossing his fingers and lost in thought.

Rose answered in place of Albus, which is a disturbing fact, but one that inevitably needs to be brought up for the sake of the subject: "Professor Dumbledore was taken by Stanley at the end of Uncle Harry's sixth year." Professor Nepe killed."

"Snape, do you mean Severus?" Lily Potter asked softly, her deep green eyes sparkling again, and the faces of James Potter and Sirius Black A similar look of disgust emerges.

Noticing the misunderstanding of the adults, Rose hastily raised the volume and explained: "Professor Snape is a double agent! In fact, he was the second most heroic figure in the Second World War after Uncle Harry! He killed Dumbledore Professor Dumbledore asked him to!" The tips of her ears turned red along with her cheeks.

"Double agent?" Even the normally placid Lupine couldn't hide his shock, repeating the word with a hint of disbelief on his face.

Albus nodded solemnly, and answered with unprecedented seriousness: "Yes, Esther's father—that is, our Potions professor, Professor Snape, has been a double agent for nearly 20 years. A person trusted by Dumbledore. He helped my dad countless times, and in the end he almost died under the fangs of Voldemort's pet giant snake. And he accepted Dumbledore's request to kill him in order to gain Voldemort's trust, so that by Unassailable status among the Death Eaters helps the Order of the Phoenix."

The office was quiet for a while, except for Lily Potter's low sobs and words similar to "I know he is like this", only the sound of people's tiny breathing remained.But immediately, Kados Meadows, a young witch with smooth gray hair, who was sitting next to Arthur Weasley, raised his own question to Albus: "But why did Professor Dumbledore ask that Did Nep kill him? I mean Professor Dumbledore is the most powerful wizard we know? As long as he's around people can see hope..."

"Thank you, Kados." Dumbledore, who had been silent all this time, said softly to the witch, then turned his gaze to Albus, and asked softly, "Actually, this is what I want to know too."

Albus nodded slightly, and said the answer he had prepared: "At that time, Professor Dumbledore was severely cursed for destroying one of Voldemort's Horcruxes, and he was about to die soon, so he— I mean that you in the future made this choice, so that the fact of your own death has its own use value."

There were one after another gasps in the office, everyone's face was full of shock, they looked at each other frantically, and finally turned their eyes to Dumbledore - the latter was leaning in his armchair, Staring straight at the ceiling, the expression on his face was a mixture of surprise and thought.

Obviously what surprised him was not his own decision, but the more important fact - "A Horcrux." The old wizard murmured, "It seems that he has more than one Horcrux."

Rose answered his question softly: "Seven, actually." She looked away, as if trying to free herself from the horrible fact that even if she had no real sense of Voldemort's evil and terror, she deeply felt it. Know how terrifying the Horcrux is.

The adults on the side seemed disturbed and ashamed that the old man and the children knew the term but they didn't know the term. They whispered for a while, and then Arthur Weasley asked them on behalf of everyone. The question that wants to know the answer - "Professor Dumbledore, excuse me, what is a Horcrux?"

The old wizard was silent for a moment, lowered his head and looked at everyone in the room with his pair of blue eyes through the small lens on the bridge of his nose, and finally he spoke softly: "You don't have to worry about not knowing this thing Shame, in fact I wish no one ever mentioned the term to me in my lifetime - a Horcrux is a very powerful and very scary dark magic implement where a dark wizard can split his soul and attach it to an object Above, even if the wizard's body dies, he can still gain new life with the help of the soul fragments stored in the horcruxes, unless all the horcruxes are destroyed and his last piece of soul is also destroyed, otherwise the wizard can gain eternal life."

All the adults in the office except the old wizard himself fell into extreme fear. They looked at each other helplessly, but no one dared to make a sound.Fox, who perched on his sycamore tree, seemed to feel the heavy atmosphere in the room. He woke up from his sleep, tilted his head, and let out a soft low cry.

"A horcrux is a very evil thing, and it must be created through an act of murder. Generally speaking, a powerful wizard creates at most one or two horcruxes, and the soul will stop dividing because it cannot bear the excessive load. , but it is clear that Voldemort is more powerful and terrifying than any evil wizard we know." Dumbledore made the final addition to the knowledge of Horcruxes, his eyes swept over the pale faces of all the people in the office, and finally It stopped on Rose's face.

"Miss Rose Weasley, do you know what Voldemort's Horcruxes are?" He stared at Rose with probing eyes. Answer: "Yes, sir, as far as we know, Voldemort's horcruxes include his school diary, his pet snake, Ravenclaw's diadem, Hufflepuff's cup, and Slytherin's pendant. The locket, the Gaunt rings, and Uncle Harry himself."

The witches in the room let out horrified screams that were close to suffocation, and the wizards were all pale, as if they would faint at any moment.

"How did he get these things?" cried Edgar Burns.

"Harry is a Horcrux too?" Lily Potter squeezed her husband's arm, and the latter let out a painful moan.

Albus nodded, and answered Lily's question: "Even Voldemort himself didn't know this. My father was a Horcrux he created unintentionally, and it was by virtue of this that he defeated Voldemort."

Rose interrupted the conversation, staring straight at Dumbledore, with an uncontrollable tremor in her voice: "Actually, we don't know how many Horcruxes he has created at this point in time. ...Besides, there is another important term involved, I think you should know about the Deathly Hallows? When Voldemort found out that his own wand and Uncle Harry's wand had the same core from the same phoenix , so after being unable to kill Uncle Harry, he shifted his target to the Elder Wand in the Deathly Hallows—that is, the wand you have now?"

Dumbledore looked back at her in silence, and after a long time, like a century, the old man closed his eyes and nodded lightly, and said in front of everyone: "I think we are facing a very It's such a dire situation that even I can't be sure that I can defeat Voldemort as he is now."

Undoubtedly, for all members of the Order of the Phoenix, these are the most terrifying and desperate words they have heard today, and in the years since they started fighting Voldemort.

☆、Chapter 12