Chapter 552: The Past
At this moment in Hogwarts, Harry Potter was walking down the steps leading to Snape's dungeon with a dejected expression on his face. Based on his own experience, he knew very well that if he was still in such a mood when he got there, Snape It would be easier for Nep to see through his thoughts, but he couldn't control his own. D.A., who has spent so much time training, behaved so badly in front of Allen's exchange students... I, who was pinned on hope, was brought down by Zabini like a joke...
"You're late again, Potter," said Snape icily as Harry closed the door behind him, casting Legilimency with his wand before Harry could reply.
After a while of confrontation, Snape stared mockingly at Harry, who was panting and slumped on the chair, "Look, what did I see? The savior wants to correct the wrong ideas of his good friend Alan Harris, and protect Students, don't let them get in touch with black magic? Ha, it's really arrogant to use your little brain that can't even remember the preparation process of the vitality tonic to correct the decisions of people like them." Snape He dragged his voice and said slowly.
Harry pursed his lips. He stared at Snape and retorted, "That's my privacy."
"Not for me," Snape said grimly, "not for You-Know-Who, if you don't try harder."
"Any memory you have, he can use as a weapon against you." Snape suddenly threw himself in front of Harry, put his hand on the arm of the chair Harry was sitting on, lowered his body and stared into his eyes and said , "If he wants to invade your heart, you can't hold on for even two seconds."
Seeing that Harry didn't answer, Snape straightened up and said contemptuously, "You're like your father, lazy and conceited."
"Don't speak ill of my father." Harry stood up excitedly from his seat.
"Weakness," Snape said coldly.
"I'm not weak," Harry retorted passionately.
"Then prove yourself, control your emotions, and restrain your mind." Snape cast his insanity again, and when he saw the picture of Harry and his godfather Sirius embracing when they got together, he said with contempt, " I want to throw up."
Harry stepped aside angrily, glaring at Snape, "I'm tired, I need to rest."
"The Dark Lord doesn't rest," Snape said, frowning at Harry in distaste. "You and the Dark Lord, your two consciousnesses are mixed together, you disappointing sentimental boy, you will only be bitter." Complaining about how unfair life is. You may not have noticed, but life is unfair. Your father knew it, and in fact he often made it unfair.”
"My father was a great man," Harry growled.
"Your father is a pig." Snape grabbed Harry by the shoulder and threw him back in the chair. His wand had just been aimed at Harry, intending to perform insanity, but unexpectedly he laughed angrily. Li was the first to use the instigating mind.
And Snape's anger at the memory made him relax his Occlumency while teaching Harry.
The scenes of Snape being bullied by James Potter and the others when he was studying at Hogwarts were presented in front of Harry. At first, he didn't know why his father kept getting along with Snape, and treated him for no reason at all. He engaged in all kinds of brutal bullying, until Harry was surprised to find that his mother, Lily Evans, had a very good relationship with Snape, and obviously beyond the normal friendship. Mother Lily not only stood up to defend her father when he bullied Snape, but even pulled out her wand and asked her father to lift the spell on Snape—until Snape cursed at her that mudblood for some reason. .
Harry looked at his father, James Potter, with the obnoxious look he remembered from Draco Malfoy as he hung Snape upside down in the air, leaving him struggling helplessly , and then casually asked the companions around him: "Who wants to see me take off the snot-nosed panties?"
James' behavior successfully earned a burst of applause from the surrounding Gryffindor wizards and wizards.
But Harry would never know if James had actually taken off Snape's underpants. A hand gripped his neck as tightly as a pincer. Harry exited Snape's memory in an instant, and found that Snape had turned pale with anger.
Snape grabbed Harry by the neck and pulled him closer, and Harry noticed that Snape's angry expression revealed a sadness he had never seen before: "Your lessons are over forever, get out of here Potter. "
"I..." When Harry tried to say something, Snape let go of his neck and pushed him away.
Harry, who was in a complicated mood, returned to the dormitory in a daze. It was not until the newspaper delivered by the owl when he went to have breakfast the next day that he stopped thinking about the memories he saw. However, he had another problem.
The Daily Prophet featured a picture of Dumbledore as a teenager with his handsome companion, laughing at some long-forgotten joke.
The Life and Lies of Dumbledore
Our special correspondent Rita Skeeter reported that Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and the greatest white wizard, was with his friend Gellert Grindelwald shortly after his mother died .
Harry stared at the name for a long time—wasn't Grindelwald the European Dark Lord who was defeated by Dumbledore? Dumbledore's friend Grindelwald? He unfolded the newspaper and read it greedily.
According to the confession of Bathilda Bagshot, a well-known expert in the history of magic, Dumbledore imprisoned his sister because she was a Squib; he had an unusually close relationship with the most dangerous dark wizard of all time, Gellert Grindelwald ; for the greater good he had fantasized about overturning the Statute of Secrecy and, with Grindelwald, establishing wizarding rule over Muggles. When he should be mourning his dead mother and taking care of his younger sister, he is busy plotting his own struggle for power! Even the article suggests that his own sister, Ariana, may have been the first person to die "for the greater good."
Harry shook his head desperately. He had always believed in Dumbledore, believing that he was the embodiment of virtue and wisdom. This must be Rita Skeeter making up again, but the newspaper attached with Dumbledore's handwritten letter and some photos made him have to believe the authenticity of these stories.
Harry's heart is dark, this year has been miserable! First, the resurrection of Voldemort on the Goblet of Fire, and then most people refused to believe what he saw with his own eyes; later Dumbledore was forced to leave Hogwarts in order to take the blame for them, and the culprit of all this was to see The participation of Fudge, Urimchi, and his good friend Allen was removed from the Internet; then he wanted to correct Allen's wrong ideas and stop him from teaching black magic, but he failed. Chung didn't last; then in Snape's memory, he found that his father was indeed an arrogant man, exactly the same as Snape had always told him...
Now, Harry has doubts about everything he believed in Dumbledore. The fact that Dumbledore was once obsessed with black magic and is very good at it makes him feel that everything is collapsing, thinking about Dumbledore in the newspaper Regarding his attitude towards his Squib sister and the relationship with the European Dark Lord, it is said that the other party never came to England to make trouble when he was at his strongest!
The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, and the more he thought about it, the sadder he became. Hearing the discussion of the little wizards around him after reading the contents of the newspaper, Harry pushed away the dishes in front of him, ignoring Ron's shout behind him, and rushed towards the castle door In the past, he slammed open the gate of the castle, and ran along the paved covered bridge, until the castle was thrown far away by him, he bent down panting and leaned on his knees, and stopped in his tracks.
He lowered his head, the newspaper was still held in his hand, it was crumpled, Harry desperately crumpled the newspaper into a big ball, threw it into the black lake in front of him, roaring loudly, Vent my anger and sorrow...
The big octopus in the Black Lake surfaced and splashed countless water droplets onto Harry's body, hair, and face. Harry felt his face was wet. He didn't know whether it was the lake water or his own tears. He sat helplessly on the ground.