Chapter 276 Anger and Helplessness

Hogsmeade, hut.

Snape walked into the room seemingly indifferently, but no one knew the panic in his heart.

Last night, or rather before dawn, he met his childhood friend, although he was disgusted by the other person's jealousy.

However, after Penny's description, he knew that things would not be that simple.

Guarded by the magic of sacrifice and love, theoretically no curse should be able to harm Harry easily, but with his scarlet eyes and crazy expression...

Snape immediately remembered the figure in his memory, so after writing a letter to Dumbledore, he hurried over.

A blue ice and snow room, emerald clear eyes.

For some reason, when he saw Harry sitting helplessly and pitifully in a small frozen room, Snape always felt a rising fire and inexplicable anger in his heart.

Looking around, Harry was eliminated first. Then he saw the young man drinking butterbeer in the distance. Although the expression on his face was not too obvious, he was also his student.

finally……

Snape locked his eyes with the old man opposite.

"I thought he would be safe. Even I stupidly believed those ridiculous words, believed that Hogwarts was the safest place, and believed that someone was the greatest white wizard..."

In the past, words were cherished like gold, but now they are full of words.

Harry was a little surprised by Snape's transformation.

Although he had heard the stories between his fathers on the train last year, he did not expect Snape's immediate reaction.

During his cautious childhood, Harry developed a keen awareness of emotions. He knew who was kind to him and who truly disliked him.

But precisely because of this, he felt that Snape's reaction was a bit too much.

Not far away, Ino took a sip of butterbeer. He saw the change in Harry, but was not surprised by it.

As the storyteller on the train last year and the initiator of the whole thing, he only told Harry the grudges of the previous generation, but not the love history of the previous generation. After all, Snape was not the protagonist in the story.

Ino could detect Harry's change, and the other two people present could also clearly see it.

"Close your ears and listen!"

Snape waved his hand and cast a smooth wandless spell, while also blocking Harry's ears.

In order to prevent the other party from pricking up their ears and eavesdropping on the professor's speech.

After doing all this, Snape turned his head subconsciously because there was another student over there who was eavesdropping on the professor's speech.

Sensing the gaze directed at her, Ino put down the drink in her hand and consciously raised her hands to clasp her ears, as if you were telling me what you were saying and I wasn't going to eavesdrop.

Seeing this, Snape also gave up the idea of ​​continuing to cast spells.

It wasn't because he put his hands in his ears at first glance, but after this meeting, Ino gave him a very different feeling. Even just standing there made him feel a little bit of pressure.

Because of this, after Ino made a move to cover his ears, Snape also moved forward smoothly, as long as there was a step between each other.

All this is done in just a few seconds.

Dumbledore did not pay attention to the interaction between teachers and students. He now needed to organize his words and tell Snape the truth.

He knew Snape, the former student. Now the other party seems to be angry, but in fact it is something harmless and controllable.

But what he was going to say next, Dumbledore wasn't sure whether the other party could control his anger.

"Sev, there is something you may need to know! Although this is the last thing I want to see, in fact it happened..."

Understanding is always mutual. Dumbledore understands Snape, but at the same time, Snape doesn't understand Dumbledore.

Hearing such a tone and expression, the anger on Snape's face disappeared and was replaced by a look of caution.

"Here is the secret that Tom cannot be killed..."

Starting from Wu's Orphanage more than half a century ago, to the tragedy in Myrtle, and then the familiar job search for a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor...

Dumbledore seemed to have something on his mind and told many things in detail.

Among the four people present, Harry seemed a little pitiful. Sitting in the igloo, he could clearly see several people's mouths moving, but could not hear any sounds.

Hearing is blocked, but vision is unaffected.

Through the translucent ice, Harry could clearly see the changes in the expressions of several people.

Professor Dumbledore's guilt, Ino's thoughtfulness, Snape's extreme indifference...

The current scene, which he had been observing since childhood, made Harry feel uncomfortable for no reason.

He felt that he might not live much longer, because the expressions on several people's faces were too obvious, especially Professor Dumbledore's guilt and helplessness.

The standard Gryffindor is not afraid of death, but Harry feels that he has not lived enough, and his wonderful life has just begun...

If possible, he hoped to die after graduation. Life in the castle had given him too much joy. The eleven years at Privet Drive combined could not compare to every minute and every second at Hogwarts.

It seems that human nature always cherishes things when they are lost.

At this moment, Harry always felt that the previous time was wasted and had too many regrets...

He wanted to say goodbye to his friends, want to play Quidditch with Ravenclaw's beautiful Seeker again, and even wanted to tell Professor McGonagall that he copied all the Transfiguration homework...

As he thought about it, Harry felt as if dust had flown into his eyes, and he felt a little bitter for no reason.

At this moment, he saw a line of words suddenly appear on the ice wall in front of him:

'Don't think too much! It's just a whisper between two professors, afraid that the students will hear it! '

It was obviously a joke, but Harry felt a little warm.

There are still people who care about him in the room.

...

As the words on the ice wall disappeared.

At the same time.

Dumbledore finally gave the final answer, and Harry unexpectedly became Voldemort's living Horcrux.

Snape closed his eyes, and now he had no mood to be angry.

A moment.

Snape opened his eyes again, and his calm eyes were like a pool of dead water.

"Is there no way?"

The extremely indifferent and emotionless voice sounded, and it seemed that the temperature of the room was lowered a lot because of it.

Seeing Snape in this state, Dumbledore sighed a little tiredly.

In fact, whether it was Harry or Severus, they were the same in his eyes, or everyone was the same.

"I can only think of one possibility..."

In order to prevent Snape from falling into darkness again, and also to save Harry's life as much as possible, Dumbledore spoke out his inner thoughts.

A seemingly unreliable, but it is the only feasible way.

"The Horcrux cannot be reversed. At the moment of successful production, Harry and Tom were already tied together, and their lives were connected. There is only one possibility to remove this connection, but it must be done by Tom himself..."

As Dumbledore told the story, Ino suddenly discovered the hidden details in the original story.

Perhaps, in the story of the Goblet of Fire, all the changes were carried out under the eyes of the headmaster, including Voldemort's resurrection.

And the only variable in the story may be Cedric.

No one expected that a Hufflepuff would suddenly have the courage of Gryffindor.

Cedric's courage, Pettigrew's killing curse in a flash...

This series of accidents caused an irreversible tragedy.

Even in the end, Dumbledore chose to jump from the tower and die in the castle he loved deeply.

No one knows whether there is any element of atonement in this.

But one thing is certain, Dumbledore's feelings for Hogwarts and for all the young wizards living in the castle are perhaps no worse than anyone else's.