He blocked the owner Aberforth at the door of the pig's head bar. The old man seemed startled when he saw that he was knocking on the door, and glared at him with a very unkind face, and his eyes were full of hatred.

He grabbed Aberforth as fast as he could, and dodged into the Hog's Head Bar. Then he hurriedly told the old man, who seemed to want to kill him with his eyes, that he still had Albus on his mission and that he must return to Hogwarts immediately.

Aberforth didn't seem to believe him. He noticed the old man's right hand slowly moving in his sleeve.

He immediately grabbed Aberforth's right hand, took his wand from his hand, and said urgently, "Listen, I know there's a secret passage behind Miss Ariana Dumbledore's portrait that leads to Hogwarts. It's dangerous right now, and I have to go right away!"

Aberforth's white beard was so angry that the old man asked him stiffly, "How can I trust you? You Death Eater who killed Albus! I should have ...... You should have ...... before you even did it."

Snape had a terrible headache. If he hadn't known that there was only one secret passage leading directly to the interior of Hogwarts Castle, he would have preferred to use the secret passage under the Screaming Shack to beg this old stubborn! But the Beater Willow was so far away from the castle that it was not easy for him to sneak back to the castle secretly, quickly and safely - why the always nerve-wracking, stupid Gryffindors didn't understand that if it weren't for his men showing mercy and covering for them, this secret passage would have been discovered and sealed by the Death Eaters! As the Headmaster of Hogwarts, he could have resigned automatically if he didn't know anything about what was going on in the school!

In a fit of rage, he dragged Aberforth to the fourth floor of the Pig's Head Bar, quickly thinking of a way to convince the old man, who was dozens of times more stubborn than his brother.

Unfortunately, he didn't come up with any way up the dusty stairs to the fourth floor.

He never needed – nor did he bother – to prove that he was a good guy before. In fact, he wished that everyone thought he was a bad person and stayed away from him, so as not to disturb him in his business. So now he racked his brains, but he couldn't think of anything he could use to prove that he was telling the truth, and he was really trying to fulfill his promise to the former Headmaster of Hogwarts, and the "current" Muggle Studies professor, if she came back alive, he thought bitterly, to infiltrate Hogwarts before the Great War, determined to protect the school in which he had lived for almost most of his life.

Aberforth cursed aloud all the way, first as a "vile and obscene Death Eater, liar, and scoundrel," and then then as his brother for "being so stupidly pretending to be good all his life, never knowing who to believe"—until he was dragged by Snape into the room where Ariana's portrait was hung.

In the portrait, Ariana watched the two of them pull and pull from the frame in surprise, and the atmosphere was very unpleasant to confront each other.

When he arrived at his sister's portrait, Aberforth didn't have the slightest intention of restraint, and continued to scold: "Damn Death Eater! Albus believes in you, but that doesn't mean I have to believe in you, so I won't be as stupid and visionary as him! Do you want to go back to Hogwarts? Dream......

Snape interrupted him irritably, "I told you that Albus and Lily asked me to do this! I don't care what you think, I must fulfill my promise......"

Ariana, who was in the frame, watched curiously as they argued, but when she heard this, she suddenly interjected and asked, "You want to go to Hogwarts?"

The two people in the room didn't expect her to speak, and they were both stunned for a moment. Aberforth was the first to react, anxious to stop his sister. "Ariana, leave this alone! this man is a vile and vicious Death Eater......"

Snape immediately cut off Aberforth's personal attacks on him. "I have to defend Hogwarts. This is the promise I made to Albus and Lily. Listen, Miss Dumbledore," he turned to the portrait, realizing that Ariana might be his only chance to get Aberforth out quickly. "I promised Albus that I would defend Hogwarts and rebuild it after the war and restore it to its glory, no matter what happened and how much misunderstanding it suffered......"

He rarely said such a large amount of things in one sitting. But in order to convince Ariana, he also had to do so. He thought it was probably the old bee and the impostor who had used their lives to awaken his determination to continue to die for Hogwarts, without which he had nothing left, and he didn't know what else could have allowed him to continue to live and fight for.

In the frame, Ariana listened intently to Snape's explanation, completely ignoring her white-bearded and grumpy second brother jumping to her feet. Hearing this, she nodded her head, and then said slowly, "I believe in you, sir." ”

Snape and Aberforth were stunned for a moment. Aberforth soon came to his senses and burst into a rage.

"What did you say?!Did you forget that this man killed ......?"

Ariana had a sad look on her face, but she still said very calmly, "I haven't forgotten. But I know there's a reason for that. ”

Aberforth couldn't believe his ears.

Ariana cautiously turned around in the frame, facing Snape, and asked, "I suppose you are Mr. Severus Snape?"

Snape nodded.

A smile tugged at the corner of Ariana's mouth.

"You're exactly what Lily described. ”

This sentence was like dropping a big bomb in the room, and Snape was stunned again.

"Lily?!"

She couldn't be referring to the impostor?!

Ariana smiled softly, "Of course, Lily comes sometimes, and Aberforth and I know her. ”

Snape glanced at the stubborn old man and saw that when Ariana mentioned Lily's name, the old man just snorted and glared at him contemptuously, as if he couldn't stand the fact that Lily knew a vile and vicious Death Eater.

Ariana didn't seem to see her second brother like this, and she continued to say to Snape, "Lily explained to me that you didn't really want to kill Albus. I believe in her. And Lily said that if one day the situation is very critical, in case you will come here and ask for our help, please we must agree to you. ”

Snape counted the first time he had been stunned since he entered the Hog's Head Bar tonight. In fact, the dusty dilapidated pub had been giving him all sorts of surprises—for Ariana went on to ask, "To make sure you're not being tricked by someone else with Polyjuice Potions, could you please answer a question that only the real Mr. Snape would know about—do you know who Miss Ginny Weasley actually is?"

Her question fell to the head, and Snape's heart was shocked, and he couldn't help but take two steps back!

Lily actually told Ariana this secret as a way to verify her identity!

It's good, it's great. Even Ginny—or the real Lily herself—wouldn't have thought of using this method as a means of verification! How could he be glad that Miss Ginny Weasley would never tell this little secret to a Death Eater, so that the imposter's whimsical design would ensure that nothing would go wrong at such a time?

His countenance chilled uncontrollably. He replied stiffly, "Of course." …… She's the real Lily. ”

Aberforth looked incredulous, his expression as if he had swallowed a whole bucket of slugs. Ariana nodded in satisfaction, and the frame creaked to the side, revealing a swarthy secret passage behind it.

"You are indeed Mr. Snape. Go ahead and fulfill your promises, no matter who it is for. ”

Aberforth was dumbfounded. It wasn't until Snape nodded his head to Ariana in thanks, and stooped down into the secret passage without saying a word, that he realized how things had turned, and hurriedly stepped forward, trying to catch Snape.

"Ariana......! You put a villain in Hogwarts......! Even if Lily still admits that he is her friend, at such a moment, it cannot be ......"

Ariana stared at her brother from the frame, and finally sighed decently.

"Brother, Albus and Lily both trust him, which means that he is not a villain. She taught the white-bearded elder Aberforth like an adult.

Snape ignored the argument between the stubborn old man and his eternally young little sister who lived in a frame.

Behind him, Aberforth still blew his beard and glared. And Ariana in the frame is still preaching to her old brother.

“…… You said earlier that the girl who believed in this scoundrel was not Lily!" Aberforth argued in vain, trying to grasp any possible reason to convince his little sister in the frame in time. “…… By the way, didn't he just say that Ginny Weasley was the real Lily?! You agree with that! It's hard to believe, but ......"

"Ginny will agree with my decision, brother. Unmoved, as if she had made up her mind to do justice to the fake Lily, Ariana said mercilessly to her white-bearded second brother, "Whether Lily's identity is true or not, you can't deny that she has been trying to do the right thing to help Albus and Harry...... Now that she had entrusted her last wish to me, I don't see any reason for me to live up to her trust. You can't ignore the efforts she's made to become Lily Evans just because her soul isn't called Lily Evans—"

Snape had walked some distance, but since the portrait of Ariana at the entrance to the passage had not yet turned back to block the entrance, he could still hear the faint sound of Ariana and Aberforth Dumbledore's argument.

At first, he had made up his mind not to listen to the pointless quarrels, and that getting to Hogwarts Castle as soon as possible was his first priority, but the little girl, who looked a little yellowed in the frame, dressed in an old-fashioned fashion, had a timid expression that unexpectedly defended the fake Lily, and seemed to be very loyal to her friendship with the fake Lily, especially when she was against the stubborn Aberforth who was as difficult as his brother. Dumbledore's last words made Snape's heart move slightly, and he involuntarily stopped.

But he regretted his decision almost immediately. Because he heard Aberforth Dumbledore ask his framed sister in a somewhat unreasonable, somewhat incredulous tone, "You say Ginny Weasley is the real Lily?! Are you really sure?...... So who is Lily now?"

Snape didn't see it, and Ariana, who was in the frame, stared sadly at her brother with a look of gloom on her face. She was silent for a few seconds before answering.

"She's Lily, too. Snape heard Ariana whisper to her brother, "Lily of the best." ”

Snape felt as if someone had struck him in the heart with a hammer.

There was a thud in his chest, loud, dull, not too loud, but it took his breath away for a few seconds. Almost at the same time, his temples began to throb and throb, and it felt like some great secret had hit him on the head, recalling the moment when Dumbledore told him in the Headmaster's office that Harry Potter was going to die willingly.

It's a terrible feeling. But he didn't have time to adjust to the discomfort of being attacked by unexpected words from others. Hogwarts was crumbling, and the Dark Lord and his minions were still eyeing the Forbidden Forest. He had to rush to the castle where he had lived almost all his life, and do everything in his power to save it and defend it, as the Gryffindors he had once despised had done.

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June 13:

Well, I think today I said what I wanted to express through the mouth of Ariana!

So the professor will be shocked.

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