Snape crawled out of the passage, and was not surprised to find that the exit to the passage was the Room of Requirement, where the so-called DA Army's trolls hid and gathered. Although he had known that there was a secret passage to Hogsmeade in Hogwarts, he didn't wonder why the fake Lily had known about such a place in advance, and kept her mouth shut the whole time, and didn't even tell him.

The room was empty at this point, and the little trolls who had planned to fight the Dark Lord with only bravery and rudeness were long gone. He guessed they must be scattered throughout the castle, intending to fight the mighty Dark Lord to the end.

He was about to walk out, and he realized that walking around Hogwarts with such a swagger was too eye-catching. Although the fake Lily had already hinted to him that his reputation should have been cleared by now, he didn't know how many people knew about it. In order to avoid some unnecessary and time-wasting trouble, he added a phantasmagoric charm to himself, and then pushed the door open.

There was chaos in the hallway outside the door. The students were running around in a disorderly manner, with abnormal expressions of nervousness, panic, and excitement on their faces. The stone statues in the hallway had all vanished, and Snape's eyebrows furrowed slightly.

He walked cautiously along the corner, always careful to avoid the oncoming crowd. He guessed that after he left Hogwarts, the leader would have been Minerva McGonagall. That fake Lily must have persuaded her in some way, so he had better find her first.

After all, it was not so convenient to walk under the illusion spell, he thought about it, and went to the principal's office first.

Minerva McGonagall must have used the "Stone Pier Sortie" spell. He thought. Because even the huge dripping stone monster that was guarding the door of the principal's office was gone.

Well, that might be a little more convenient for him.

Snape looked around, and quickly pushed open the door to the headmaster's office, and was not surprised to see the meditation basin in the middle of the table, and the silvery white memory swirling in the basin, reflecting a beautiful light.

He hesitated for a moment to take a look, but he didn't have that much time to waste. He resisted the temptation of the meditation basin, walked over to the table, bent down and opened a drawer, took one out of the jars and jars, opened the cap, and groped for a gray hair from his pocket and threw it into the crystal bottle.

He had considered the possibility of using a polyjuice potion when he dragged Aberforth Dumbledore upstairs when he was back at school, so he quietly touched a hair from his gray-looking robe while Aberforth was not looking. He drank the potion from the bottle, and sure enough, he immediately took on the appearance of Aberforth Dumbledore.

He walked out and closed the door to the headmaster's office again.

Aberforth's face was unobstructed in Hogwarts, and some Gryffindor trolls greeted him warmly. He really couldn't figure out when this old stubborn hooked up with these trouble-loving little trolls.

He impatiently played the little trolls all the way, but fortunately Aberforth's temper was no better than his, just as obedient, eccentric, and unsociable, so he didn't show any of his feet, and found Minerva McGonagall, who was busy directing everyone to go to the castle outside the Great Hall.

He stepped forward to greet her. Professor McGonagall looked back and was overjoyed to see his Aberforth face, and was about to assign him a task.

He couldn't decide if the fake Lily had really been clarified for him by Professor McGonagall, so he cautiously said tentatively, "Well, I've heard something...... Snape...... Uh, the villain - did he really run?"

Knave. That's what the old stubborn said about him. After he stepped into the secret passage to Hogwarts. He snorted coldly in his heart, all the people with the surname Dumbledore were just as difficult! Except for Miss Dumbledore in the frame that seemed to be very talkative! Merlin knew that if it weren't for her, he didn't know how much time he would have wasted at the Hog's Head Bar tonight!

He expected to see the same look of anger and contempt on Professor McGonagall's face as he had seen earlier when he confronted her in the Great Hall. However, he guessed wrong.

Professor McGonagall had a look of sadness and guilt on her face, and her blue eyes were full of apology, and she whispered, "Aberforth, don't say that about Severus. We all blamed him for ......"

Snape couldn't help but let out a breath through his nose.

Oh? So that fake Lily actually helped him clear his reputation in front of Professor McGonagall? How did she do it? With that meditation basin in the Headmaster's office? What did she tell Professor McGonagall that made the Gryffindor dean, who had always been impartial, talk about him so sadly?

He replied quietly, "...... I don't know anything else a Death Eater could be wrong for us. He killed Albus, and he allowed the thugs to abuse the children! Now he ran away like a coward to his master...... Maybe we'll see him here again in a little while, and follow those crazy people to do bad things......"

Professor McGonagall interrupted his abusive words loudly. "Aberforth, I don't know how you came to such a conclusion, but it's not fair to rebuke Severus like that before he knows the truth......!

Snape interrupted her with a hint of malice, "Yes, the Order of the Phoenix who killed Albus. I wonder how many people here are still going to believe he's not a bad guy. ”

Professor McGonagall blushed and exclaimed, "We all already know!" the people of the Order of the Phoenix...... And the professors! I had told them everything I had seen in the meditation basin, about the secret mission that Albus had given him...... Aberforth, Albus did let Severus kill him voluntarily in order to gain Voldemort's trust! Severus was reluctant at first, but Albus forced him to make a promise...... He didn't leave Hogwarts of his own free will, it was Voldemort who summoned him, and he wanted to continue lurking among the Death Eaters to find out for us...... Lily told me all of this! Albus hid herself several times when she had secret conversations with Severus, and she saw everything! I believed Lily! I believed in Albus, and I believed in Albus! Since they both trusted Severus, I thought ...... We suspect he's wrong—"

Snape suddenly felt like he couldn't listen anymore.

The fake Lily had really wove a long story for these people, he thought with a slight irony and self-deprecation.

She's always been a master storyteller. But he never thought that sometimes when the old bee was trying to blackmail him into doing something, she would actually hide in the headmaster's office and peep! He didn't even notice it once! It must have been designed by the old bee in advance!

Look, what did she say? She weaved a tall and righteous heroic phantom, willing to sacrifice and sacrifice in the face of the world's misunderstanding, so noble that he himself was disgusted.

He frowned and decided not to disguise any more. He didn't want to survive the entire battle on Polyjuice Potion, especially when he only had one Aberforth hair here, which he had already used up.

He waved his wand and cast a mute spell around him before he said in a quick tone, "...... Listen, I'm Snape. I used a polyjuice decoction. ”

Professor McGonagall looked so surprised that her eyebrows were about to dig into her hair. She let out a cry of surprise, staring incredulously at his Aberforth face.

"Severus?!...... Are you really Severus?!Why did you come back all of a sudden?!Is it because of your commitment to Albus?"

Snape's brow furrowed even tighter. "Promise?"

Professor McGonagall nodded, "Lily showed me that memory. Albus makes you swear to maintain and rebuild Hogwarts in the Headmaster's Office...... Oh, Severus, why didn't Albus tell me this? I'm sorry I misunderstood you......"

Snappe stopped her and apologized, "No, it's okay...... I asked Albus not to say it, and I thought the less people knew about it, the better, because I needed to gain the trust of ...... 'people'. He paused, thinking of the night in Spider's End Alley, where the fake Lily forced him to repeat the oath he had made to Dumbledore. A lot of things happened that night, and he still remembers it vividly—

Professor McGonagall looked at him apologetically, "Oh, Severus......" She didn't seem to know what to say, but she quickly remembered the name of a man and hurriedly asked, "What about Lily? She was captured by the Death Eaters......!" She didn't come back with you?"

Snape choked. The whereabouts of that fake Lily were his hidden worries, a thorn in his heart that always stood in his heart. Just because he chose to return to Hogwarts to defend the school doesn't mean he forgets that the woman is now in the dark about her life. But he couldn't explain how it all happened or how it got to this point, and he could only answer simply, "Lily...... The Dark Lord was going to let his snake kill her, and he locked her in a room with the snake...... I...... I can't save her...... But when I went in and looked, she and the snake were gone, and I don't know where she and the snake had gone...... The Dark Lord ordered me to find them, but I had no clue......"

Professor McGonagall let out a soft snort. She looked very distressed, and the eyes that looked at him were sad and pitiful. She asked softly, "...... So, is she dead?"

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June 14:

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