Chapter 791 Ravenclaw Blessing
Snape stopped in his tracks. It took six or seven seconds for him to come back to his senses. He slowly raised his head and looked at the statue with unprecedented complexity. The wand appeared in his hand silently.
Ravenclaw's idol turned a blind eye to his vigilant movements and demeanor: "Until death you cannot shake off your remorse for her, and your pain and regret follow her to the grave." [Author's Note: In Victorian England, people I like to use the language of flowers to communicate. In the language of flowers, each flower has its specific meaning. Different flowers have different meanings when they are combined together. Sunflower is a type of lily (Lily Evans' name Lily means lily), and wormwood is a kind of herb with a sweet and bitter taste, so it also expresses bitterness and sadness. In Harry Potter's first Philosopher's Stone, Snape asks Harry the potion question, which in combination means the above. 】
The wizard, who had been torn open the biggest wound in his life, grabbed the skirt of his chest, the hand holding the wand trembled faintly, and the sadness and regret in his eyes almost overflowed.
There was a snap of fingers, and Snape tried to look in the direction of the sound, but the extra foreign body sensation in his palm made him hesitate slightly. He stretched out his hand, spread his palm, and then suddenly opened his eyes wide. A black diamond-shaped stone with the Deathly Hallows logo appeared in his hand, and with the sound of snapping fingers from the direction of the statue, the stone spun three times in Snape's palm.
At this time, the wizard heard a slight movement behind him, he turned around, his black robe raised an arc, and stared intently at the person standing quietly behind him, the one who haunted him in his dreams and made him feel pain. A beautiful witch with long dark red hair and almond-shaped green eyes.
"Lily..." The warlock called out the other party's name in a deep trembling voice, the greasy hair hanging down because he lowered his head made him look like some kind of wounded beast moaning in pain. His body leaned forward, his hands stretched forward, and his raised face seemed to have passed through a whole hundred years of suffering. His breathing was weak and feeble, until the suffocation caused him to shake his head violently and let out a sob.
As if wanting to prove that the person in front of him is not a phantom that will disappear when he wakes up, his voice trembled and suppressed, "Lily, I wish, I wish it was me who died." Snape's usually cold eyes were separated by a layer of The painful hot fog made the whole body bend down, as if he could no longer support himself.
"Severus." Lily's pair of green eyes, exactly like her son's, met those of the Slytherin wizard. The voice seemed to give him infinite courage. His excited and painful cheeks immediately lifted, and his whole body He staggered towards Lily, wanting to hug her, but Lily flashed lightly, and he couldn't hug her.
The wizard let himself fall to the ground in a slump, and turned his head, but Lily disappeared in front of him like phantom bubbles. He scrambled forward and stretched out his hand to hold it back, but all he caught was air. He suddenly looked down at his hands, only to find that the resurrection stone he was holding in his hand had disappeared.
Professor Snape, who was always sharp and gloomy in the past, knelt on the ground at this moment, the deep-rooted regret that entangled him all his life was pierced the moment he saw Lily, and the arrogance he used to protect himself and separate others disappeared. , Lily was the only light in his life, Lily's sudden disappearance made him confused, and he completely lost his previous bearing, he crawled and turned his body to face the shrine, and knelt in front of the statue, "Ms. Ravenclaw , please, that resurrection stone, that Lily..." The wizard begged hoarsely, "give it to me, and in return, I can do anything."
But the shrine didn't answer him right away, and it looked as though Ravenclaw had left.
After a while, "The one who came out of the Resurrection Stone was not the real Lily, at least not most of them." Ravenclaw's voice broke the silence in the room that almost suffocated the wizard.
The wizard is silent, why doesn't he know that the Lily just now is not as real as a living person's body, but much more real than a ghost.
Her long hair fell back, and she was dressed in the same clothes she had died that night.
After a while, Snape's entire body shrank, "I understand what you mean, wise Ms. Ravenclaw, but please, I need that resurrection stone, and I can pay for it." everything."
"You don't need to give everything," Ravenclaw's calm voice seemed to have magical powers. At this time, it had a soothing effect, and the emotional wizard breathed a little more freely. When he began to slowly control his emotions , the statue continued to issue an order, "After the holiday, find my voter, and he will guide you."
In front of the shrine that no longer emitted blue light, Snape, who realized that the other party had left, barely restrained the desire to rush to find Alan Harris immediately. Years of experience had taught him to obey orders and endure.
But when he left St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Injuries and Injuries, he still couldn't help standing in the high corridor, looking at Alan who was being interviewed by reporters from afar.
"Someone has a cold?" Snape half-closed his eyes. In the chaotic crowd, he just caught a healer handing Alan a few bottles of potions, and then noticed that the phoenix on Alan's shoulder was using His head kept rubbing against Allen's cheek.
Snape stared at the intimate relationship between Allen and Phoenix and hesitated, but to his horror, he recalled the word voter, and he realized that he had been here for so long, but his daily prayers were not enough for Alan. A face-to-face meeting with Alan Harris, the attitude of Phoenix and Alan Harris is also far more intimate than that of Dumbledore and Fox, and it is not like the first time they met.
Alan Harris himself was sorted in Ravenclaw House, coupled with his recent unscrupulous relationship with Ravenclaw's house ghost, Ms. Gray, and since a few years ago, Ms. Gray refused to be like other Like a ghost, giving Dumbledore news about Alan...
Dumbledore and he completed the investigation when his father Owen got him to the Potter Muggle School before the other party entered the first grade. The other party was just an ordinary little wizard with some talent and intelligence, but to their surprise later, in After entering Hogwarts, Allen's rapid progress far surpassed the strength of normal little wizards or even ordinary wizards... Could it be because he has become a voter of Ravenclaw?
Snape turned his head and put his gaze on Katie Bell who was watching the interview outside the reporter circle. He no longer doubted whether Allen and the others could solve Harry's soul fragments, but what made him even more horrified Yes, this series of events made Snape, who is in the dark conspiracy, aware of the connection, "What do you guys want to do?"
Snape, who was in a dream, finally stopped thinking, and he apparated back to a suburban street in Cokeworth, a small town in central England (fictional in the original book), where the surrounding environment was very messy. The street was full of Muggles dressed as working men, but no one noticed the wizard who had suddenly appeared out of nowhere before their eyes.
The dementors and the forces of nature created an icy mist that floated over a dirty river, whose banks were overgrown with weeds and littered with garbage. A huge towering chimney left by the abandoned mill looks very eerie. Except for the murmur of the black river, there was a dead silence around, and there was no sign of life. Only a fat fox slipped down the river bank and deftly picked it up from a few leftover wrappers of fried fish and chips. Look for these high-calorie foods.
This is Cokeworth, where Petunia Evans and Lily Evans and Severus Snape grew up, and as the town's name suggests, it's an industrial town. [Author's note: "coke" in Cokeworth means "coal"]
The Dursleys came to Cokeworth with Harry trying to dodge letters from Hogwarts inviting him to enroll. Maybe Harry's Uncle Vernon, the Muggle, had a romantic idea - as an industrial town, there wasn't even a hint of magic here, and the letters wouldn't follow here. But he should know better; after all, it was here that Lily, his wife Petunia's sister, had grown into a talented witch.
The alley in front of Snape was a row of dilapidated brick houses, the windows of which looked black and lifeless in the night, and an old railing separated the river from a narrow cobbled lane. Snape quickly walked through an alley between the houses and turned into another almost identical street. Several street lights had been broken, and the wizard's figure was sometimes illuminated by lights and sometimes shrouded in darkness, just as he The mood is the same at this time.
Snape stopped in front of the last house, this was Spider's End, which was also his old home.
The Defense Against the Dark Arts professor didn't try to brew potions to pass the time when he returned from St. Mungo's as usual, but sat slumped on a frayed and fluffy sofa in the small living room, thinking about everything that had just happened, Snape made up his mind after struggling for a long time, looked up and looked around the home furnishings, the environment that he usually never felt uncomfortable felt like a dark prison cell with soft walls.
The walls were lined with books, most of them bound in old black or brown leather; a candle-lit lamp, hanging from the ceiling, cast a dim circle of light in which were crowded one another. A scuffed sofa, an old armchair and a rickety table. This place has a desolate and deserted atmosphere, and it seems that no one usually lives there.
"Lily won't like it..." Snape stood up abruptly, went to the desk, picked up a quill and dipped it in ink, he decided to renovate his old house, and put these lifeless dilapidated All the furniture has been replaced, and Mr. Handy can be ordered for daily chores and house maintenance, and the wizard TV must also be installed-he thinks it will be convenient to follow the dynamics of Alan Harris and Ravenclaw, and get Enough information, try to satisfy them, and Lily can be here with her.
"Ravenclaw bless you."