Snape was about to leave, but he stopped hearing this, stared at Siris sarcastically, and said in a sleek tone, "Stupid dog, I didn't know you had such a strong friendship with Lily—and it comforts me that you were grieving, because I was worried that Lily had saved you by mistake in the first place......"

"No! I'm telling you really, it really can't be!" Cialis shouted sharply, ignoring Snape's taunts, "I was here three hours ago, and I used that spell to change into something else, and to fight here! Listen, I didn't feel anything unusual at that time! That strange instinct came out of nowhere, it had just come out of nowhere...... I bet Lily must have been alive somewhere until before that feeling even dawned! That bastard Voldemort was just alarmist and scaring us......"

Snape raised his eyebrows, and habitually scornful of all the big black dog's remarks, but his mind had listened to every word of what Siris had said, and thought about it several times. He quickly came to a conclusion, and stepped forward and grabbed Siris by the collar.

"When the hell did that damn instinct come to you? Tell me clearly! I want specific, precise timing!"

Siris was stunned for a moment, and this reminded him of this, and his face darkened, and he whispered, "Does this work, Snape? Even though she was alive three hours ago, what about now? That intuition has been bothering me since it appeared, and I had the audacity to lift the Confusion Charm...... And then I realized that I was not wrong, that the unbreakable spell was really—"

"Time. Snape squeezed a word out between his teeth.

Siris opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't say anything.

Ginny stood beside them, her eyes looking into the distance in the Great Hall. In front of them, there seemed to be a little order finally restored in the Great Hall, and the House Head's Table was back in its place, but none of the children were huddled together in a mess, as the House intended. Most of those children came from the other three houses, and very few Slytherin students remained. Occasionally, one or two, with a defensive and fearful light in their eyes, leaned against each other. Voldemort was gone, but the little snakes seemed far less happy than the students of the other three houses.

Lady Weasley, the mother of the body's owner, Ginny Weasley, to be exact, sat next to the mortally wounded Fred, and on the other side sat Percy, who had returned from the Ministry of Magic to fight, and no one could take Mrs. Weasley away from the two sons who were almost lost.

Not far from them, Neville was gobbling up his food, the Gryffindor sword resting on his plate. Harry sat on a bench a little farther away, looking exhausted. Sitting next to him was Luna Lovegood, with pale blonde hair and hazy eyes.

Ginny thought, Harry and Luna, what an unexpected and logical combination. The girl was so good that she couldn't fault anything with the eyes of a mother and a peer.

She withdrew her gaze to see Siris still standing sadly and embarrassed, helpless in front of a stern-looking Snape, like a student who had done something wrong.

She couldn't help but interject, "Severus, you know the time, what's the use?"

Regardless of the fact that the real Lily's soul lived beneath her skin, Siris was horrified to hear her speak to Snape, as if the world was about to be turned upside down.

Ginny ignored him for a moment, and continued to say to Snape, "And, even if you know the exact time, where are we supposed to find her?"

Snape was silent.

Ginny pointed to the crowd in the Great Hall and said, "I don't know if you've noticed, but Slytherin is barely visible here...... There may be one or two, but at times like these, in this kind of big battle, Slytherin is absent...... There's a reason why Professor Dumbledore kept you, Severus. There's a lot more you need to do, probably more than you could have imagined...... Moreover, there are some things that may only be done by you......"

Snape then turned his gaze in the direction of her finger, glanced briefly at it, and then lowered his eyes again, as if in thought.

Finally, a light smile appeared on his lips.

"I'm guessing you're enlightening me...... Lily. He paused, and finally called out the name he hadn't seen in a long time. Cyris and Ginny shook almost simultaneously.

"That's right, my mission isn't done yet...... Dumbledore shoehorned into my mission as he had done countless times before. He smiled self-deprecatingly, "I know what you're trying to express." ”

Ginny looked relieved, and Siris's eyes were about to burst with sparks. It seemed that the inexplicable conversation between Snape and Ginny had made him almost crazy with bewilderment.

Snape glanced at him lightly and said to Ginny, "You can explain the rest to this stupid dog." With that, he was about to walk away.

Ginny grabbed Syris, who was about to rush up and grab Snape's clothes so that he could speak clearly, confused and impulsive, and shouted at Snape's back, "May I ask you one more question, Severus?"

Snape stopped and looked back, as if signaling Ginny to ask.

Ginny took a deep breath, her tone suddenly becoming a little hesitant. She asked, "Seaver, I want to know...... That 'Lily' had prevented me from telling you the truth...... At that time, in order to force her to admit the truth, I asked her whether the rumors were true or false...... Seaver, at that time, everyone said you were going to get engaged...... Is it true? And did you know at the time that she was fake?"

The amount of information in this remark was so great that Siris looked so poor that he couldn't process it, as if he was about to faint. Snape's eyes flickered. He didn't show any expression, but Ginny felt as if a cloud was gathering over his head again.

For a moment, he seemed to want to walk away, and for a moment he seemed to want to explain all the complicated things so that he could clear up the misunderstanding of his only best friend in life. But in the end, he chose the easiest way to answer her questions.

He said only two short sentences, with a brief pause in between. “Yes....... Yes， I do.”

But those three words were like dropping a big bomb on the heads of Ginny and Cialis, who also heard the question. Siris's eyes were about to bulge, and Ginny looked incredulous, and asked as if out of breath, "Seaver, is this true?...... And, you know?"

Snape glanced at her, didn't answer her again, and turned away.

......

Snape thought about it, but went back to the headmaster's office.

The Potions office in the basement was still owned by Slughorn, and it was inconvenient for him to go back. Besides, the old Slytherin, though evasive, was firm throughout. He wasn't going to take away the old professor's right to continue using the Potions Office.

Then the only way to go back to the principal's office is to go back to the principal's office. He'd been tempted to quit the hellish position, though, and it was clear that everyone in the school—except probably the little snakes from Slytherin—was just as much in favor of Gryffindor Headmaster Minerva McGonagall taking over the headmaster's office with portraits of the old diehards, just like Dumbledore's old bee.

As he walked along the deserted, rubble-strewn corridor after the war, a sense of absurdity suddenly floated in his heart.

He remembered the pale-faced boy who always didn't fit well in his school robe more than twenty years ago, and he was also walking down the hallway, next to a bouncing red-haired girl. He always had to be on the lookout for a guy with a messy hair like a fox making a nest in it, and his henchmen—now one lying silently in the great hall downstairs, and the other probably standing in the same hall with a stupid and dazed expression, waiting for Lily, who had taken the form of a little girl, to explain to him the cause and effect—at that time, he could never have imagined that he would in the future succeed the great, always right, The awesome White Wizard, standing at the highest point, becomes the headmaster of this school.

He had been barren all his life, and now, he seemed to have the highest position he could imagine, standing at the top of this sacred castle, looking down on all the people in the castle - including the little trolls who were as stupid and naïve as he was back then - but he was still as barren and detached as he was more than twenty years ago.

He walked to the door of the headmaster's office, and was somewhat surprised to find that the stone beast guarding the door had returned to its old place. He thought that this stone beast was really lucky, and it was not blown to pieces in the battle just now.

I just don't know what spell it has fallen into—maybe it's just Snape's delusion—it looks even uglier. It snorted and said, "Harry Potter and his friends are inside...... Are you going to go in?"

Snape raised an eyebrow, watching the stone beast slowly turn away, tilted to the side, revealing the spiral staircase behind it.

Snape walked up the stairs and stopped outside the headmaster's office without pushing it open.

There's obviously a little party going on inside. He heard the voices of Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger, as well as Dumbledore, Phineas Nigelles, Dalyse Derwent, and Dexter Fosco...... Oh, the old people who have been hanging on the wall for years, but still won't stop!

But he was clearly late. Because he heard Harry Potter's voice, it seemed to be summing up a day full of madness, smoke, resentment, sadness, confusion, and joy.

"I was going to break it off and throw it away...... But I felt a little hesitant. Now that I am the owner of the Elder Wand, I have the right to dispose of it as I please?...... If you think it's too hasty and too rude, then I can put the Elder Wand back in its original place and let it stay there, right? If I die a normal death like Ignotus, its power will be destroyed, won't it? And it ended. ”

He heard Dumbledore laughing merryly and lovingly in the frame.

He may have been in a state of mind for a moment, for as he reacted, he sensed that the new Gryffindor mischief who had been tormenting him for seven years had come to the door of the Headmaster's Office.

He quickly flashed to the side, and added a disillusionment charm to himself.

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June 21:

Speaking of which, you must know when the phrase "Yes, I do" can still be usedhhhhhh

Of course, in this chapter, the professor's previous "yes" answers Lily's first question, asking if it's true that he's engaged to fake Lily.

The second sentence "Yes, I do" answers Lily's second question, which is that he knew that Lily was fake at the time, but still agreed to the engagement.

I love the subtle dislocation and misunderstanding that this situation creates

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