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Despite all these doubts, Snape did not have time to find out the whereabouts of Miss Bigonia Curlenbon, or to determine her life or death.
He sent Siris and Ginny to St. Mungo, but they couldn't find the fake Lily in St. Mungo, which was overcrowded after the war. He even had the two of them look at her appearance and clothes when he last saw her in the meditation basin, and reminded them to be mindful of her appearance when she turned into Bigonia with a spell, for they weren't sure what had happened to her after she had disappeared into Malfoy Manor with the serpent Nagini, and what she had appeared in, but they still found nothing.
Snape had an incredible amount of things to do at Hogwarts. Although the memory bottle left by the fake Lily and the words Harry Potter shouted in front of Voldemort completely cleared his reputation and rebuilt his image, so that almost everyone now faces him with an attitude of admiration, admiration, guilt, and fear - yes, he was still there, and now he is more stern, but it also means that as the Headmaster of Hogwarts and the war hero who has been fighting Voldemort face to face, he has so much more to do.
The rebuilding of Hogwarts, the Ministries of Magic (this time he was present as a hero and a glorious witness, of course), the hunt and capture of the remnants of the Death Eaters, and dealing with the relationship between the four houses that had been severed by Voldemort's pure-bloods, all made him so tired that he returned to his bedroom every day and just wanted to sleep. Not even the most potent pick-me-ups and nourishing potions could give him a temporary relief from that deepest level of mental exhaustion.
Ciris and Ginny volunteered to help find the whereabouts of the fake Lily. When they had returned from St. Mungo's futile, and Snape had only met with them in the Headmaster's room (yes, the Room of Requirement had been burned down by Crabbe's idiot during the Great War, and had not yet been rebuilt and could not be used for a while) to be secretive enough - if not counting the portraits on the walls, Dumbledore in the frame had been in the middle of their conversation. Eventually, he joined in and provided a very important clue.
Originally, when he made a quid pro to the fake Lily, and he was to tell Harry the key rules about the change of ownership of the Elder Wand, and the fake Lily made sure that the true owner of the Elder Wand was Harry in the final battle, the fake Lily asked him for something.
A portkey that he and Nicolame had made in their early years with advanced alchemy, capable of breaking through the magical defenses that almost all ancient magical families had imposed on their residences. And the landing place set by the portkey is Godric's Hollow.
This explains why that fake Lily suddenly disappeared with the big snake Nagini. She must have used the portkey to escape to Godric's Hollow.
Hearing this, Sirius swished to his feet, and impulsively shouted, "Albus, why didn't you say it earlier?!", Ginny was also full of excitement, and looked as if she was going to rush into the fireplace of the headmaster's office to Godric's Hollow immediately, and only Snape's eyes suddenly brightened up strangely, but soon fell silent. He was still sitting in the headmaster's chair, his hands clasped in front of his face on the armrests on either side of the chair, and even the groaning expression on his face as he had been listening to Siris and Ginny report on their trip to St. Mungo.
After noticing Snape's silence, the others quickly calmed down from their momentary agitation, and they all showed puzzled expressions.
"What's wrong with you, Seaver? aren't you happy with the news?" asked Ginny first.
Snape glanced up at her, and said slowly, "...... I remember when I walked into the execution room at Malfoy Manor, I saw blood on the floor. There wasn't a lot of blood, but it was enough for me to be sure......"
"Lily was bitten by a snake?!" Cyris yelled in surprise, and then suddenly realized that it was the real Lily sitting next to him, and scratched her hair a little embarrassed.
Snape glanced at him again, and continued slowly, "I don't think there's anyone in Godric's Valley who could have healed Nagini's bite...... In particular, it's not just an ordinary venomous snake, it's also the Dark Lord's Horcrux. ”
There was a sudden silence in the room for a moment, and the silence was terrifying.
This reasoning sounds very plausible, and considering that Bigonia, who was already injured at Malfoy Manor, had to drag the serpent to Godric's Hollow, and then deal with the Horcrux on her own in Godric's Hollow - although I don't know how she solved it, and finally have to leave time for others to find her or go somewhere to help herself, and successfully be healed and survived, this extravagant hope is too difficult to achieve.
Thinking about this, the silence in the headmaster's room was so silent that even a pin dropped on the table—a thick wool carpet on the floor—could probably be heard.
In the end, it was Ginny who broke the ominous silence.
She swooped to her feet from her chair and looked a little rejuvenated. "Anyway, I'm going to go to Godric's Hollow first and see if there's any new clue I can leave us—"
Snape spoke suddenly.
“...... No, I'll go. ”
Ginny turned her head to look at him in surprise, as if she hadn't expected him to suddenly volunteer, and asked, "But...... Severus, don't you have anything else to do? Wizengamot's court appearance—"
Snape replied with a blank face, "Everything that has been arranged for the near future has been completed. ”
Ginny: "So, Hogwarts—"
Snape replied with a blank face, "I think Minerva would be happy to take care of some of the Hogwarts affairs for me for the time being—after all, she will always be the headmaster here." ”
Ginny looked surprised.
"But...... And what about you?Seaver?Aren't you going to continue to be the headmaster here?So what are you going to do?!"
Snape replied with a blank face, "I think teaching a Defence Against the Dark Arts is enough of a headache for me. ”
Ginny seemed to be relieved for a moment, but she seemed to be a little worried.
Snape glanced at her, still expressionless, and said, "...... So I should have plenty of time to go to Godric's Hollow – maybe it's a little hard for you to revisit it?"
Ginny seemed to be stunned for a moment, with a slight hesitation on her face, as if Snape had suddenly spoken to her heart, but she also thought that this reason was not enough to make her hold back, and she was about to speak, when someone suddenly opened her mouth in the picture frame on the wall behind them.
"Well, Severus, so decide. The former Headmaster of Hogwarts gave a smile by pushing the crumbling half-moon glasses on the bridge of his nose. "Lily, although you used to be a very good student...... However, Miss Weasley's academic problems have to be taken seriously. As a Hogwarts student, it's not a long-term solution to take time off work to help find someone...... I'm guessing the paper you're going to rewrite is already a dozen feet long, right?"
Ginny paused, lowered her gaze, lowered her voice, and argued, "I think I could have spent more time in the evening—"
"Oh no. The old headmaster said kindly, "Let Severus go by himself." As the current Headmaster of Hogwarts, it can be said that even if there are any powerful traps in Godric's Hollow, he will not be recruited...... As for you, you should hurry up and finish that ten-foot-long paper for Miss Weasley. Think of poor Arthur and Molly ......"
Ginny lowered her head, perhaps feeling a little guilty about the current mess, and she stopped talking.
And just like that, Severus Snape came to Godric's Hollow alone.
After many years, he was once again standing in front of the house.
Unlike then, the house is now in a dilapidated state. In the past ten years, the hedges have grown in a mess, and the rubble is buried waist-deep in the barren grass. Most of the house still stands, completely covered in dark ivy, but from the outside, you can see that the right side of the top room has been blown up.
He stood in front of the house for a long time. At first he seemed a little unsure whether to go in and have a look, but then, an impulse rising from within him took over, and he stepped forward and put his hand on the rusty iron door.
A wooden sign rose abruptly from the ground in front of him, emerging from a jumble of nettles and weeds, like some kind of bizarre, fast-growing flower. The gold letters on the sign read:
[On October 31, 1981, Brill and James Porter died here.] Their son, Harry, was the only wizard to survive the Killing Curse.
The Muggle Invisible House was left untouched as a way to commemorate the Potters and to warn them of the violence that caused their family. 】
Next to these neat handwritings, there are various inscriptions, written by the sorcerer who came to pay homage to the place where the "boy who survived the great disaster" escaped death.
Snape frowned, looking at the jumbled mess of messages as if he were weary. The messages were filled with words like "Good luck, Harry, wherever you are" or "Long live Harry Potter". For some reason, for a moment, he remembered the badge that Draco Malfoy had made that year, which read "Potter stinking".
...... He remembered that then, Lily, the fake Lily, had made excuses for slytherin fifty points in one go, and Draco's face was crooked in anger.
Of course, he also reciprocated Gryffindor at the time - the battle for points that broke out between the two of them was like a barbaric contest, full of labor services and deductions for all kinds of purposes: he had just deducted Gryffindor twenty points for not making a good potion of potions, and she followed up with twenty points for insulting his classmates, and he had just captured Potter for a night trip, and she immediately caught Draco for a night trip......
In short, in the end, Dumbledore came forward to stop the white-hot wrestling. The reason he used was simple -
Snape still remembered that in the Headmaster's room, he and the fake Lily were at odds with each other, and the atmosphere was sinister, except for the old wizard who was sitting in the middle chair smiled slightly, pushed a plate of chocolate frogs in front of them, and said, "Oh, Lily, Severus, why don't you have a little chocolate frog to celebrate Ravenclaw's temporary lead in the House Cup?......
He felt as if his heart had suddenly lightened at the thought of this interesting incident, and the heavy heart he had felt when he had just come to this ruin seemed to have diminished a little, whether it was because he remembered a rare and somewhat interesting thing in his barren past, or because he now knew that Lily, who had died in this house, had been reborn in someone else's shell.
Although there were other houses, other locations, even churches and cemeteries in Godric's Hollow—for some reason, his instincts cried out, as if subconsciously reminding him that this was the only possible location.
Snape took a deep breath and pushed open the rusted iron door.
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June 24:
Sorry for being a little late today...... The next feeling is a bit subtle, and it's not easy to write.
I also don't want to write the professor OOC, so the codeword is a lot slower [right fingers.]
Next update: 0:00 tomorrow.
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Bug change at noon on June 24:
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