HP's Lost and the Lighthouse

Snape had foreseen this situation on the way to send Draco to the hospital wing - it was inevitable, the professors could not turn a blind eye to yet another student's accident.Especially Professor McGonagall, as the vice-principal, she has to bear much heavier responsibilities than other professors during the semester when Dumbledore is often not on campus.

Snape had no intention of hiding anything from Potter.Regardless of the motive, whether Malfoy had the same intention to attack before that, the final result was that Draco was lying in the school hospital as the target of the attack, and Potter must be punished for this.

Personally, Snape felt that his punishment of Potter was a little too light.But tracing back to the source, he himself was the chief culprit for all this, which prevented Snape from giving the other party a more severe punishment.What's more, the boy...

—although not being able to attend the last Quidditch match was enough to irritate Harry.

In this way, the time gradually entered May, and the weather became warmer and warmer, and Dumbledore almost disappeared without a trace like those snowflakes melting in the warm sun.Snape didn't even hear any more about Dumbledore from the other professors (especially Professor McGonagall).

During such a long period of time, everything in Hogwarts seemed to be back on track, with no injuries or accidents... Even Voldemort, who made wizards panic outside the school, was just a student in Hogwarts It's just a few words of small talk while we read the newspaper.

Hogwarts, a wizarding school that has been passed down for thousands of years, is as safe as ever under the protection of everyone.

But something always changed silently in the dark.

The conversation that night was thought over and over by Snape, trying to find some flaws in it, to prove that Dumbledore was lying to him, to prove that the old man had ulterior motives in saying those words, to prove that... Dumbledore still He is the old man in his heart who is worthy of everyone's respect and follow.

It wasn't that Snape couldn't accept that Dumbledore had a dark side - he wasn't a kid, and naturally understood that everyone had a less than perfect side... even if that person was the well-known Dumbledore.

After all... who's to say it was fair that Dumbledore, through Lily, asked him to serve the Order of the Phoenix all those years ago?

In fact, he had already seen Dumbledore's selfishness, but he couldn't accept the cold-bloodedness shown by the old man.If the old man could put so much effort into cultivating a young man who was already destined to die in his heart, everyone would even think that Dumbledore had a special preference for Harry Potter.So how much of the feelings Dumbledore showed is real... Is the love and justice preached by Dumbledore really love and justice?

Over the years, under a little influence from Dumbledore, Snape believed he was doing the right thing.While the man never expressed it the way the Gryffindors did, he did agree with Dumbledore's insistence that it was 'things worth dying for'.

But this cognition seemed to be overthrown overnight by Dumbledore himself, and the impact it brought was almost no less than the collapse of belief.

Did Dumbledore know all this?Snape couldn't help wondering, would he know the damage his simple words could do?

Sometimes, he couldn't help thinking instead, if in the old man's heart, everything he did was to protect Potter, then what kind of thinking did he have in telling himself that Potter was going to die eventually?

Was Dumbledore so confident that he would never hide this news from Potter?

For weeks, the idea swirled in Snape's mind, but he never came to any conclusion.As you can see, the end of the semester is getting closer.

The urgency of the passing of time came over Snape again.Although he still hasn't sorted out what happened that night, he won't forget what he promised Dumbledore...

The old man's life is not long.

Even though Snape never saw Dumbledore, he was well aware of it.

Neither the curse brought by the ring nor the task assigned to Draco Malfoy by the Dark Lord would not allow the old man to live any longer.

And Dumbledore was equally aware of this.

The old man didn't hang out all the time like some people at Hogwarts.In these last days, more than ever, he misses the school as if it was his second home.

Dumbledore often returns to Hogwarts and doesn't tell others about his existence-enough mana is strong enough to support him to do this.

He would sit and listen to his old friends in their classes as a final farewell to them.Naturally, he would not miss a very special class given by a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, but Dumbledore privately thought that it would be better not to appear in front of Snape again until the final day.

What's more, he still kept a secret from his young friend, a secret that could lead to his death - the Elder Wand... When Voldemort was defeated by Harry's twin wands, Dumbledore expected that the other party might want to Find more powerful weapons.Of course, he couldn't be sure that Voldemort would find clues about the Elder Wand.

But once he finds... Severus who killed Dumbledore with his own hands will definitely become a target that must be removed.

However, if Snape was able to realize the resemblance between the Elder Wand and the wand used by Dumbledore before Voldemort found him, it is not impossible for the would-be Headmaster of Hogwarts to borrow the power of the Elder Wand protect yourself.

He also sometimes went to see Harry - this boy who was destined to experience a death in the future didn't know anything yet, but he would grow up sooner or later.

In Dumbledore's vision, Harry had a very slim chance of life-this was realized when he visited the Dursleys-for Muggles, their adulthood was a year later than wizards, and Lily is from a Muggle family.

If—if, when the witch died for her child, the age of adulthood she believed in was calculated according to the Muggle method, then the protective magic in Harry's blood would most likely last until Harry's birthday— As long as Harry accepts this inevitable death before then, that magic may protect the boy from another successful escape from death.

But this hope was too slim, and no one could be sure what Lily Potter was thinking when she died.Therefore, Dumbledore did not intend to tell Snape this possibility from the beginning-sometimes, it is more unacceptable to have unrealistic hopes than despair-if because of this possibility, Harry Was it pushed into battle before that might not have turned out?

The author has something to say:

I want to cut Dumbledore's main point of view, but the principal (a certain) grows up (grown up) and Mr. (stupid) son (children) refuses to open his brain to me orz

[Dumbledore: My thoughts cannot be easily shared with you mortals] [Well, actually I don’t know why I switched back to the perspective of a certain professor while writing]