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After the two of them arrived at the headmaster's office on the eighth floor of Hogwarts, the first thing Snape did was grab a blank piece of parchment on his desk, and with a wave of his wand, seven or eight lines of writing appeared on it. He threw the parchment to Liu Quan again, and impatiently ordered, "Go to my office at once, find out everything written on it, and bring it here." β
Liu Quan also knew that now was not the time to argue with him or ask questions, so he nodded and immediately turned back and went into the fireplace.
It's really not easy to rummage through the Potions office, and be careful not to mess with the original arrangement. By the time Liu Quan returned to the principal's office with all the bottles and cans listed on the paper, it was almost twenty minutes later.
As soon as she stepped out of the fireplace, she saw Snape immediately turn from the large desk in the headmaster's office. When he saw that it was her, a trace of dissatisfaction quickly crossed his dark eyes. He criticized her mercilessly, saying, "I'm assuming you can't find everything, so I had to improvise a few potions in my office that I needβ"
"You need a better taxonomic index on your shelf, Severus. Liu Quan argued quietly, "Finding these bottles and cans you want without messing with them at all is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack." β
Snape's face darkened, as if her reciprocal sneer had hit his invulnerable underbelly. He glared at her viciously, stabbing her back mercilessly with his gaze during the brief distance she had walked from the front of the fireplace to the huge desk in the headmaster's room, but Willow Spring was already immune to it.
She stopped calmly at the table, pulled open the small dragon skin bag in her hand, and arranged the bottles of the potions he listed on the table neatly.
Snape frowned at her silent defiance with action, and didn't reproach her anymore. His face was tense, and the lines of his lips were solemn and serious. There was silence for a few minutes, and then he seemed to think of something and asked, "What else did you talk about?...... Tell me everything you talked about. It's important, and I've got to make sure we're not missing any hints in the details......"
Liu Quan's hand paused slightly. She remembered her rash speculation and bold temptation, as well as Dumbledore's calm response and deliberate smile. And the anger that the system bacteria showed in that moment, which was as burning as a flame...... If she repeats all this, what will she get? Will the system scold and stop her again? Or will the damn so-called "inertia of the plot" or "balance of the world" be alarmed by her recklessness?
In the books, without her involvement and prior warning, Snape could still control the vicious dark magic curse in Dumbledore in one hand and keep him alive for another year. And now, if she speaks out, can she change everything and stop Dumbledore from wearing the Resurrection Stone ring set with one of the Deathly Hallows, thus changing the course of the plot forever?
She had no confidence, and she didn't dare to take risks.
So she was silent and didn't speak. She still steadily arranged the large pile of crystal bottles on the table in order and sort, carefully leaving enough space for the two Headmasters of Hogwarts who were going to use the table to heal the curse of the dark arts.
Snape waited for a moment, but couldn't wait for the imposter's answer. He began to have some kind of bad premonition - if there was anything else that this impostor was very similar to impersonating Lily, it was the Gryffindor traits in her, the same obedience to any of Dumbledore's orders, the same belief in all of Dumbledore's decisions, the same passion and impulsiveness, and willingness to take risks for what he believed inβ
Suddenly, for no apparent reason, he was alarmed. His face sank, and he raised his voice an octave behind her, and asked sharply, "Why don't you speak?!"
Liu Quan's hand trembled, but he remained stubbornly silent, as if he was going to confront him silently in this way.
Snape's limited patience ran out almost immediately. He took a step from behind her and grabbed her left wrist from the already empty dragonskin pouch.
"Tell you all of your conversation right now, word for word!...... damn it," he shouted angrily, anger almost covering his eyes. But the moment he mercilessly addressed her by the contemptuous name he had always had, he swallowed back in the most unnatural way, and instead clenched her thin wrist tightly, as if to vent all his frustration with her in this hand.
"Can you not hold on to your stupid Gryffindor loyalty at such a moment!You should know that Dumbledore is not wrong, he is damn going on an adventure!And he asked me to stay here like a stupid dog and wait for him, probably not so that I could listen to his adventures here and then write an article in praise of his merits?!" He couldn't control the anxiety that slowly welled up in his heart as time passed. Confused and angry, it is even more difficult to control the more and more mean and merciless words of their words.
She was right, Dumbledore had never done such a thing, leaving an ambiguous half-joking, half-serious, and leaving without looking back in such a hurry that he didn't have time to find him in person, or maybe Dumbledore deliberately didn't go to find him in order to avoid the barrage of suspicions and questioning in his face? The old fox knew that it would be more appropriate for her to do such a task, because he harbored some kind of long-hidden grudge against her, so he had always been too lazy to talk to her unnecessarily, and he trusted her position enough that she could bring him to the Headmaster's office without him asking a word, waiting like a fool in the dark for the old Headmaster of Hogwarts to send him back from his madness?!
The thought of this made Snape even more irritated.
"Are you Gryffindors always like this?!, going to death in a rage without telling anyone, and thinking it was some kind of heroic adventure?!" he asked unceremoniously.
"What if...... If you need help from others, at least speak clearly while you are alive!, not one foot in the graveβ" he said angrily.
However, the next moment, the imposter Lily interrupted him softly.
"yes, Severus. She looked up, looked at him with a strange look, and said, "You're right. β
Snape: "......"
She agreed with him with rare relief, without resistance or rebuttal. But his instincts told him that it must not be so simple-
Sure enough, the next moment she continued:
I hope you will always remember this sentence in the future. β
"I don't need help!" Snape blurted out in exasperation.
But she looked at him with a very peculiar look. There was pity, sympathy, pleading, sadness in the green eyes that belonged to Lily, and a sadness that wanted to say nothing. Snape was not good at reading people's subtle body language and facial expressions, so he now felt that the imposter was deliberately working against him.
"We're talking about Dumbledore right now!don't get the conversation on me!" he raised his voice an octave in exasperation, "Before you can conceive an epitaph for him, tell me the hell about your conversation!!At least I need to know what potions I should have prepared to rip him out when he walks into the coffin with one foot!"
This rude and straightforward remark seemed to have finally touched the imposter Lily. Snape shook slightly when he saw her, and finally spoke:
"He won't say anything...... But I asked him," she said word for word, "and I asked him if the Principal's Office password for tonight was a 'Horcrux'. β
Snape:!?
A cold, dark sensation suddenly crept up his spine, and he felt like he was falling into an ice cellar for a moment.
Although this impostor graduated from Gryffindor, and has the boldness, enthusiasm and aggressiveness of Gryffindor, in general, there is also a cautious side to her character, and if it were not for some degree of certainty, she would not have thrown out the word "Horcrux" so rashly.
His voice involuntarily darkened. "So, what about his answer?"
Then he saw her smile wryly.
"'Peppermint Toad'. She said.
Snape was stunned.
β...... What?!"
The impostor gave a wry smile that seemed to be worse than crying.
"Professor Dumbledore said that the password for tonight's Headmaster's Office was 'Peppermint Toad'. She replied.
Snape: "......"
The impostor seemed to hesitate, as if thinking about something, as if he were making difficult trade-offs and choices, and finally she added.
β...... So I think you should be prepared. She said, pausing before continuing.
β...... Preparation for the worst. β
Snape froze for a moment, his eyes involuntarily coldening as he stared at her. After a moment, he seemed to pick up something from her expression and attitude, and he nodded sloppily, turned and sped into the fireplace, his voice filled with anger.
"Stay here until I'm back, don't move! damn stubborn Gryffindor!"
He cursed without regard for his own demeanor, and roared upwards as he lifted the Floo powder he had grabbed in his hand.
"Potions Office!"
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May 5:
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