HP's Lost and the Lighthouse

With Dumbledore's departure, the dementors without the threat of the Patronus slowly gathered again, bringing a chill that penetrated deep into the bone marrow.

Snape sat curled up against the corner, just like he used to do when he was a child, his eyes downcast in a daze.

He is not the type of food that dementors like-Snape knew in his heart that the happy moments in his short life can be said to be pitifully few, and from that night-the night of Lily's death, I am afraid that even dementors It is difficult for the monsters to find any food for them from him.

However, Dumbledore's words somehow had the effect the old man hoped to see, and Snape slowly began to think.

In any case, the result of getting rid of the crime of Death Eater as a spy is basically doomed. No matter whether Snape thinks that Azkaban is the most suitable destination for him, he cannot and dare not ignore it. Dumbledore's words—what if the Dark Lord really isn't dead?After all, it was the child Lily protected with her life, and he had promised to protect him.

Snape didn't think he was a good person, and he really thought about giving up when he was captured in Azkaban—you see, it wasn't that he didn't want to protect that Potter, but that he was captured and powerless That's all.He had to admit that Dumbledore could indeed read people's hearts. The old man easily erased all his reasons for escaping, so he had to fulfill his promise.

Snape still couldn't do the act of intentionally sabotaging the old man's arrangement after Dumbledore had already made all the arrangements for him, and he was thinking about it secretly in his heart.

Dumbledore didn't tell him too much about his arrangements, but the word "spy" is obviously enough to explain everything - no matter what he did, as long as Dumbledore insisted that he was the Dark Lord, he would join the righteous side With the current prestige of the White Wizard, it is easy to take him away from the Ministry of Magic.And all he needed to make up was a reason for him to betray the Dark Lord - he was unwilling to say what really made him a spy, even though it was a good ready-made reason.

Snape didn't feel that he had betrayed the Dark Lord by asking Dumbledore to protect Lily, even if he replied 'anything' to Dumbledore, both of them knew that it was not that he would betray the Dark Lord, but that he He promised to help the old man without violating the interests of the Dark Lord, otherwise he would not have felt the great irony when he heard Dumbledore's reason for his acquittal—

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The Ministry of Magic's trial came earlier than Snape expected, and it was unclear whether the officials were eager to put all the Death Eaters in prison or Dumbledore deliberately brought forward his trial-in short, Snape Nep saw the old man again when he was escorted into the Inquisition by two dementors.

They looked at each other briefly, and Snape was the first to look away, noticing the calm eruption that the wizards on the jury - mainly Ministry of Magic officials - seemed unaffected by much dementors for him There was a brief whisper.

"Severus Snape, the Ministry of Magic has received sufficient evidence to accuse you of being that man's subordinate. Do you have any excuses for this?" Crouch, who was sitting in the middle of the bench, stood up and looked He stared sternly at Snape - he was completely fixed in the seat by the chain protruding from the chair handle, passively receiving not many kind glances from all directions.

The young man glanced at Dumbledore.

"Yes," he said, "I was once a servant of the Dark Lord—"

"Wait a minute," Dumbledore stood up suddenly, turned his head and smiled at Crouch, "I have to apologize to everyone—for I just realized that I was sitting in the wrong seat— Forgive the carelessness of an elderly man." He got down from his original seat and stood on the witness stand under everyone's gaze.

"Are you going to testify for Severus Snape, Mr. Dumbledore?" Bagman frowned, "If it's because he used to work for you—we all know that this gentleman once served as Hogg Watts' Potions Master, but I must say that's not why you can acquit him."

The old man glanced at Snape, and the corners of his mouth covered by his beard twitched: "As you said - Severus Snape worked for me - not just once, on the contrary, he served Voldemort this time The thing should be 'was'."

He obviously noticed that many people shuddered subconsciously because of that name, and frowned slightly.

"Severus Snape secretly joined the Order of the Phoenix long before Voldemort's downfall—he has been providing potions for the Order of the Phoenix during his tenure at Hogwarts. I brought the potions he provided Checklist, and potion samples—I think that's enough to keep the kid out of jail."

Dumbledore's eyes slowly slid across the jury box, pausing for a moment on his friend Moody, who was unwilling to let any of the Death Eaters go.

Crouch frowned in dissatisfaction: "I think your testimony is indeed in favor of Mr. Severus Snape, but to release him, someone is willing to use his reputation as a guarantee for him—he must Strong enough to police Snape and ensure that innocent wizards are not harmed by our decision to release him today."

"Oh," the old man laughed, "I thought I'd made it obvious enough—vouching for Mr. Snape with my reputation, I think I still have the ability to make sure an ex-Death Eater doesn't do the same thing again .” He blinked.

Crouch was obviously a little unwilling, and his tone became cold: "Then let's vote, and agree to release the pre-cookie under the guarantee of Albus Percival Wulfric Orion Dumbledore Those of Severus Tobias Snape, Dead Apostle, please raise your hands."

There was another buzz of whispering all around, and slowly, Snape saw most of the people raised their hands - including the old Auror Allah who was notoriously unwilling to let a Death Eater go. Stowe Moody - such was Dumbledore's influence.He lowered his eyes, knowing that he would be released today.

Dumbledore was obviously not surprised by this. He watched the unwilling Crouch announce the end of the trial with displeasure, and laughed happily.

"I hope you don't mind me leaving first - obviously, I need to settle down with my poor employees who have been suffering from dementors for the past few days. Have a nice day."

The old man tapped Snape's chair with the wand in his hand, and the two chains wrapped around him were slowly withdrawn. His thin arms held Snape's arm very strongly, and the blue Eyes lowered and he blinked happily: "Come on, Severus."

Snape used Dumbledore's strength to support him and stood up as usual, unwilling to show the slightest weakness from the Dementor's captivity.

Dumbledore helped him into the hall of the Ministry of Magic, held Snape's arm firmly and led him to Apparate away.

——The old man can swear that when he was leading the young man around, he heard a low voice: "Thank you."

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I'm going to speed up the update frequency. . . .Who said the nose is always Carvin orz