HP's Lost and the Lighthouse

Snape stood at the door of the principal's office with a complicated expression on his face.In these days when Dumbledore was not heard from, he had become accustomed to occasionally stopping on his night watch to gaze at the unchanging statue of the gatekeeper.In this way, tonight is no different from before.

But Snape knew that Dumbledore was inside the door at this moment.

The sudden knock on the door by Dumbledore around this afternoon was the most surprising thing for a man in this period of time.

After all, in his vision, Dumbledore probably wouldn't appear again until the day he was ready to do it—the old man's avoidance of him was so obvious that Snape could only guess that Dumbledore was I want to avoid the situation of facing my own regrets.

But Dumbledore knocked on his door just like this—the old man stood outside the cellar door, his face illuminated by the candlelight in the corridor, he seemed to have been in deep thought for a long time, with a little worry on his brow, but the clear expression There was still an optimistic smile in the blue eyes.This looks like a scene that only appears in fairy tales or myths.And Dumbledore was so natural, as if he had never hidden his whereabouts from him, and said, "Severus, why don't you go out with me?"

The Drizzling Stone Beast looked no different from what he had seen in the past, but it seemed that everything was different.Some kind of nervousness that came from nowhere made him take a deep breath, and then he stepped forward and read out the password at the door of the principal's office.

"Come in."

Snape pushed open the door to the headmaster's office, Dumbledore had already stood up.

"You're here, Severus?" said Dumbledore, not much of a smile on his face.This made Snape realize that the old man really wanted to tell him something more important, maybe even related to the other party's layout.

Compared to Dumbledore, Snape's face looked even more serious.He spent most of the night thinking over every word Dumbledore had said to him that evening, trying to get to the hidden meaning of the old man's words.But he knew too little information, not enough for him to guess what the old man wanted to do from just a few words.

He closed the door behind his back: "Yes, I'm here."

"Sit down, Severus," said the Headmaster, conjuring him a chair with a wave of his wand.At this time, facing Snape's black eyes quietly looking at him, the old man seemed to hesitate a little instead.

He walked up and down in the headmaster's office, which was considered spacious, hesitating whether he really wanted to tell Snape the truth.

Snape saw the old man's hesitation: "Since you haven't decided whether to tell me these things..."

"No, Severus," Dumbledore subconsciously denied, "it's just that this matter is too important, directly related to whether we can really kill Voldemort in the end—" He took a deep breath.

Snape looked at him.

"About Potter?"

"About Harry." Dumbledore confirmed his guess. He walked around a little anxiously, as if talking to himself:

"Don't let Harry know until the last moment, unless absolutely necessary, otherwise how will he have the strength to do what he has to do?"

"What must he do?"

"That's between Harry and me," said Dumbledore, pausing to remember what he had to tell Snape about his plans for the day, "Now, Severus, please listen carefully." There is. At some point - after I'm dead - don't argue, don't interrupt! At some point Voldemort will seem to fear for the life of his serpent."

"Worried about Nagini?" Snape repeated, startled.In his impression, the big snake can be said to be the second biggest killer around Voldemort besides Bellatrix, and it is extremely deterrent even to Death Eaters.

"True. If at some point Voldemort stops sending the serpent to do his bidding, and keeps it around, magically protecting it, then I think I can tell Harry."

"Tell him what?"

Dumbledore took a deep breath and closed his eyes.

"Tell him that on the night Voldemort tried to kill him, when Lily put her life between them, the Killing Curse rebounded on Voldemort, and a fragment of Voldemort's soul was blown away, attached to the collapsed house The only living soul in the world. A part of Voldemort lives in Harry, giving Harry the ability to talk to snakes and connect to Voldemort's mind. This has always puzzled him. As long as that is not discovered by Voldemort The soul fragments are still attached to Harry, and under Harry's protection, Voldemort cannot die."

There was a long silence, as if the headmaster's room was suddenly stretched, and Dumbledore's voice echoed in the room somewhat empty.

"Then the boy..." Snape kept himself as calm as he could, and he heard his own voice say coldly, "The boy must die?"

The old man was silent for a moment, then added: "And it must be done by Voldemort himself, Severus. That is very important."

Another long silence.

Snape almost thought the old man was joking. For so many years—even though he didn't like Potter, he had always seen Dumbledore's protection of Harry.What's more, from the very beginning, what Dumbledore told him was to protect the child...

"I thought...all these years...I thought we were protecting him," he said softly, "for her, for Lily."

"We protect him because we must kill him, train him, let him hone his abilities," said Dumbledore, closing his eyes tightly so as not to look at the young man.He couldn't imagine how he would feel if he met Snape's accusing gaze, "At the same time, the connection between them became stronger and stronger, like a parasitic life. Sometimes I feel like he I've noticed it myself. If I really knew him, I think he'd arrange everything so that when he did die, it would mean the real end of Voldemort."

Dumbledore opened his eyes.

Snape stared at him, with disbelief in his black eyes, and even a little panic.

It never occurred to him that... it never occurred to him that everything Dumbledore did—protecting Potter, raising him—was designed in the first place to get the boy to die before the Dark Lord at his disposal one day.

Could it be that all the feelings this person is showing are fake?

"You let him live only so that he could die in due time?" he asked.

Dumbledore looked very calm, as if this was a matter of course: "Don't be shocked, Severus. How many men and women have you witnessed die?"

"Lately, only those I've been powerless to save," said Snape, looking at Dumbledore complicatedly with his lips pursed.

He couldn't believe it... He followed Dumbledore's guidance, thinking that the old man's goal was noble and for justice—he agreed with Dumbledore and changed his opinion that power was everything.However, the old man told him at this time that he would send an innocent boy to die... for the sake of more lives.

He stood up, "You used me."

Dumbledore looked a little surprised.For a moment Snape couldn't even tell whether the surprise was the old man's play - since he could show such love for a boy who was doomed to sacrifice in his heart, why was it strange to be playing at this moment?

His blue eyes flickered with emotion Snape couldn't understand.

"What do you mean?"

"I spied for you, told lies for you, risked death for you. All this supposedly to keep Lily Potter's son safe. And now you tell me you keep him like a pig A pig waiting to be slaughtered—”

"How touching, Severus," Dumbledore stared at him, and he could easily understand Snape's thoughts-this is also the result of his efforts...Dumbledore can find out for himself A thousand reasons for doing it - to make Snape hate him...to prepare him for the worst...

But he believed that when that time really came—when Snape watched innocent people being involved in the war...he would make the best choice...Dumbledore faced the man's suspicious gaze, pursed his lips.Of course he didn't want to cheat if he could...

"Are you really starting to like that boy?"

"Like him?" Snape exclaimed, "Call God to protect you!"

From the tip of his staff sprang the silver doe.It landed on the floor, jumped across the office, and flew out the window.Dumbledore stared at it, and the light and slender patron saint moved away with his limbs, and the bright silver light gradually disappeared into the night outside the window.He watched it all with mixed feelings, wondering if he should be glad that Snape's feelings never seemed to waver.

When Dumbledore turned to look at Snape, his eyes filled with tears.

"It's been like this for so long?" he asked softly.

Snape stared into Dumbledore's eyes, feeling like never before that he had never seen beyond the old man's mind.

"It's always been like this."

The author has something to say:

Xiaojun, the commentator of the relationship line, is now online!

After arriving here, everyone probably can see that the professor, this little fool, hasn't found out that he likes Dumbledore, why?

Because this little fool thought he was a straight man [kind face] [Dumbledore shook his head]

Mr. Principal found that he liked a certain professor, and in the first few chapters, he began to suspect that a certain professor also liked him [but this big fool doesn’t say it, he doesn’t say it, he doesn’t say it, and he doesn’t say it], but he dismissed it in this chapter Doubt, why?

Because a certain idiot thinks that Snape’s Patronus became a doe because of Lily, if he fell in love with him, it would be a big blow/a huge change in his relationship [yes, a certain idiot is so confident hhhh ] (quote the original text:

"Tonks' Patronus changed, Snape said. I didn't know there was such a thing. Why did the Patronus change?"

Lupine chewed the turkey without haste, and said slowly after swallowing: "Sometimes... big shocks... emotional upheavals...")

Deng felt that at least a certain professor's patron saint should be changed back to the professor's own....

However, as a little fool's only friend, Lily's status is so high. Under the dual effects of Lily's unshakable status and the little fool's unawareness of her emotional changes, this (silly) female (roe deer) deer (Zi) It is the same, it is the same, it is the same [What are you doing to me? 】

The above [I feel a little owed hhhh]

As for the death of the big fool, why is the patron saint of the little fool still unchanged?

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Hahahaha, do you think that I will finally add a private setting?I won't add it, I won't add it, I just want the original work to deduct sugar hhhhh