HP's Lost and the Lighthouse

The news that the Dark Lord had attacked the Potters hit Snape hard a year later, sending the young man into a trance.

The news, of course, came from Dumbledore.

The young potions professor listened to the sad news brought by the silver-white Patronus in a daze, hardly knowing how he should react.

But the moment the patron saint disappeared, he moved.

The little Death Eater returned to Spinner's End through the fireplace in his office, and then apparated to Godric's Hollow - fortunately, in such a trance state, he didn't lack any limbs, or had, and he didn't feel it , but Snape didn't have the heart to think about it at the moment - he saw the Potter's house at a glance.The house that should have disappeared now appeared under the hideous Dark Mark, and the unbreakable curse had been broken.

Staring blankly at the green mark in the sky for a while, Snape's body swayed, and his brain roared with dizziness—no matter what the situation in the room is now, it is certain that the Dark Lord has been here things.

Still, maybe there is a chance, maybe the Dark Lord has failed—the Dark Lord is always self-defeating, he likes to let his marks go before the kill, not after—he pulls himself together and staggers—maybe he doesn't He didn't stagger, but the spinning in his brain gave him some illusions.

Relying on the strength of the wall to support his body, he stepped past the young corpse of his former mortal enemy who had lost his life on the steps. With the sound of his heart sinking bit by bit, Snape pushed away the only room that had a sound .

Not as he expected, his childhood friend and beloved woman lay quietly on the ground, lifeless.

As if his soul had left his body, Snape looked at himself with an uncontrollable sadness on his face, leaning on the wall and crumbling, like a drowning man embracing the woman's body like the only driftwood, fell to the ground and cried bitterly.

Some wizards had already gathered outside the door, Snape turned his head and listened to these people pointing at the Dark Mark in the sky, but he dared not go forward due to the might of the Death Eaters.

A person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, his wandering soul sneers, surprised that he still has the energy to think wildly.Snape knew that these people would never dare to go forward, unless they saw the news in the Daily Prophet after dawn that the Godric's Hollow Potter family had died and that the murderer had fled. .

It was daylight—strange how the sun didn't seem to be cut a lick of light after such a dark night.

Dumbledore's patron saint of the phoenix appeared in front of Snape again, which made the young man frowned in disgust—at present, he had no affection for this phoenix at all.

"Severus," Dumbledore's slightly tired voice came out of Phoenix's mouth, still seemingly irresistible, "please return to Hogwarts as soon as possible, and wait for me in my office."

The man's confused mind finally slowly regained the ability to think, his pupils trembled extremely slowly, and finally took a deep look at the girl in his dream, then turned and left amidst the sound of hurried footsteps.

He didn't actually have any purpose, yet after such a sudden loss of the only remaining pillar of his soul, Dumbledore's order clearly gave him a purpose, which made the almost wandering man subconsciously obey. that order.

Go back to the headmaster's office at Hogwarts.Snape sat down in the headmaster's office, once again feeling helpless without a goal—the only goal has been accomplished, so what should he do now?

Dumbledore was in a state of desperation. Although it had been several hours since he learned of the attack on the Potters, it did not reduce his workload in the slightest.

In fact, Dumbledore may have been the first to learn of the attack on the Potters' house - though it was because a protective spell he had put around his home had been broken.

According to common sense, the Loyalty Curse would be enough to ensure the safety of the Potters—if the Secret Keeper hadn't betrayed the Potters.However, before returning to Godric's Hollow, the news from Bathilda Basket, who was the closest, disappointed him—the Potter's house was in ruins, and the loyalty curse was broken.

——Could it really be Sirius Black?Dumbledore didn't think about it carefully. For now, solving the follow-up troubles is the most important thing.Instead of rushing to Godric's Hollow, he returned to the secret base of the Order of the Phoenix. On the way, he sent Snape a message telling him to go back to Hogwarts—he was killed at the scene of the Potter family's death. Getting caught would not be a good thing for this little Death Eater who was already leaning toward the Order of the Phoenix.

Dumbledore hadn't thought about going to that house to take a look by himself - this was mostly out of subconscious resistance to seeing the corpses of familiar people, he didn't want to see them being killed, even if the whole magic The world will know the fact of the death of the Potter family.

He arranged for the members of the Order of the Phoenix who were woken up in the middle of the night - there are many things to do this night - to investigate the traces of Voldemort, to find Sirius Black who is hiding, and to contact the Ministry of Magic... The old man tried to paralyze himself with busyness brain, so as to ease the grief of losing a proud disciple.

"Severus, I suppose you've been to Godric's Hollow?" Dumbledore asked.

It was dark in the headmaster's office at Hogwarts.The old man closed the office door softly, not mentioning his behavior of rushing back to Hogwarts after finishing everything in a hurry.

Snape was originally sitting in the chair numbly. Hearing this, he twitched as if he had received a strong blow. He lowered his head and buried his face in his hands.

"Lily..." he said, and his rationality, which barely blocked the turbulent emotions, collapsed in an instant, "Lily is dead..."

"Lily..."

A whimper and a low howl of pain escaped his throat, like some kind of wounded animal.

Dumbledore stood quietly in front of him, his expression stern, and for a moment it seemed that he could not bear the young wizard's grief and wanted to comfort him.

The hand that the old man intended to comfort did not fall in the end.

"I thought...you would...keep her...safe..."

Dumbledore remained silent. He never expected that Sirius Black, who has always been very loyal to friendship, would betray without warning and inform Snape, purely to make this outstanding potion genius completely fall for the Order of the Phoenix.

Just imagine, if Voldemort found out that he had just arrived in Godric's Hollow, Snape followed him...

"She and James trusted others wrongly," he said in the end, knowing that he had to bear some responsibility for the result—if he had insisted on being the secret keeper of the Potter family...but at this moment he would try his best to win James Nepe's help - the role a potions master can play in a war is immeasurable, "Just like you, Severus. Didn't you also expect Voldemort to spare her life?"

Snape closed his eyes, breathing weakly.

"Her son survived." Dumbledore stared closely at Snape's haggard face almost overnight.

The man shook his head violently, as if trying to drive away an annoying fly.

"Her son is still alive, and his eyes are exactly the same as his mother." Dumbledore paused, suppressing the guilt in his heart, "I think, you must remember Lily Evans' eyes, its shape and color, Is it right?"

"No!" Snape yelled, "It's gone... dead..."

The author has something to say:

I personally think that it is impossible for Albus to completely trust Snape from the beginning, after all, it is a hostile camp, and Slytherin is known for his cunning. . . . . .Therefore, the two people must have their own selfishness in getting along, and it is unrealistic for Voldemort to come to the stage to ask Dumbledore to trust the professor—even if he promised to pay any price to protect Lily, Dumbledore would at most call the professor the Order of the Phoenix. Provide potions.

so. . . . .I personally think that there is no OOC problem. In the future, I will inevitably encounter OOC when writing in places that are difficult to grasp, but that is not now :)

What's more, although Dumbledore will have difficulty trusting others because of his early experience (this is evident in the attitude towards Harry in the original book: even if he said 'I never thought I would treat Harry like this in the palm of one's hand' and still doesn't reveal anything about his private life to Harry), but Dumbledore should never be called a politician - he is actually willing to trust others, and he does not take profit as his own. The first pursuit, but his leadership position makes it difficult for him not to weigh the pros and cons—if Dumbledore was really a politician, there would be no such thing as him being kicked out of Hogwarts several times (Deng Don’t go to my article to post such views, Buli Duohei will definitely delete the comment if you see it)