As summer drew to a close, Severus Snape returned from Hogwarts to his home at 19 Spidertail Lane on an ordinary weekend.

He hadn't been back for a long time, and as soon as he entered the room, he almost coughed out of the dust raised by the furniture and the floor as he walked.

He frowned in disgust, and threw a dozen cleaning charms around the room to barely get the situation under control.

As he did so, he suddenly remembered the last time he had been throwing cleansing charms around the room - it was in the darkest days before the battle, when one night, after another fierce battle between the Death Eaters and the Order of the Phoenix, he picked up Lily on a dark alley corner who was dressed as Bigonia and was weakened by the combined attack of the body's deactivation and high fever after the battle.

He stood behind the couch and threw two cleansing charms at the couch in quick succession before he felt he could almost sit down without stirring up dust. But as he was about to go around the backrest and sit down on the couch, he suddenly remembered the last time she had sat here—leaning back against the backrest, resting the back of her head on the back of the couch, those bright eyes looking up, just in mid-air to catch his downward gaze, and she hummed the Christmas song which he had now remembered almost the whole melody and knew by heart, and bent her brow at him, and said, "I knew from the beginning what kind of man you were, Severus.

He suddenly got up from the couch in frustration, feeling as unbearable as thorns growing on the old couch, which was not comfortable in the first place.

In the same way, it suddenly became unbearable to stay in this old house, because the last time she visited it had turned into a fragment of auspicious memories, which kept flying out of his mind and taking over his mind, frustrating, lost, and angry, and the room was so full of such memories that he finally felt that he could not stay longer.

Severus Snape walked to the gate of 19 Spider's Tail Alley, paused for a moment, and then pulled the old mottled wooden door open with all his might.

He decided to take a casual walk around the neighborhood on this afternoon when he had nothing to do—and since his home didn't want to go back for a while, it might be a good idea to take a walk around the neighborhood to ease the nerves he had been strained during his time at Hogwarts.

Before he stepped out of the door, he took off his long black wizarding robes, for the post-war Ministry of Magic had set far more onerous rules than they had before the war—such as having to disguise himself as a Muggle when going to the Muggle world—and he felt that the black suit he wore with buttons down to his chin was enough to make him look like a Muggle, only as a cold, lonely and unsociable Muggle, just as he had been many years ago.

He walked along the sidewalk. The neighborhood hadn't changed much, and the paving stones on the sidewalks were old, but he had only come here to spend time anyway, because the old Headmaster who was sitting in the largest picture frame on the wall of the Headmaster's room at Hogwarts was cunning and kept disturbing his peaceful life with things that upset him, so he had the idea of hiding for a while today.

Let's go back in the evening and face Dumbledore's unsuccessful soul magic conference. Snape thought.

He walked along the sidewalk for what seemed like a long time, until he came to an abrupt stop.

He was stunned to find that across the street, where he was now standing, was the Muggle shopping mall where he and the fake Lily had been together so many years ago.

He still remembers that, by a very fortuitous coincidence, they walked up the steps together and stood in front of the gate. Then the Muggles erupted in cheers from do-gooders, demanding that they must, according to Muggle folly custom, standing together under a wreath of mistletoe at Christmas—

His face seemed to be a little paler. The hands were clenched into fists under the cover of the hem of the long placket.

He didn't know why he was here again.

He didn't know why he had crossed the road and pushed open the door of the Muggle shopping mall.

It's late summer, and there is no mistletoe wreath hanging from the top of the gate. Through the large panes of glass embedded in the door, he could see the shopping mall behind the door—the shops lining the corridors, and the Muggles who seemed to be chatting and chatting as they shopped in the corridors.

There weren't too many Muggles in the mall. The numbers were still within Snape's endurance. He felt that he must have fallen under some Imperius spell to sneak into the mall, and in this subtle self-loathing, he continued to wander down the hallway in the middle.

The radio in the mall is playing soothing and relaxing songs.

【I will remember you

Will you remember me

Don’t let your life pass you by

Weep not for the memories】

The lyrics of that song also make people feel upset. Snape stopped impatiently and looked around.

There are two women's clothing stores, a café, and a bookstore next door. Snape had no interest in these Muggle shops, and felt that he had come to the wrong place today.

As he was about to turn away from the mall, he stopped again for some reason and looked at the nearby Muggle bookstore. After standing there for a few seconds, he turned and pushed the door open and walked inside—perhaps because he had suddenly developed a slight interest in Muggle poetry.

Because the bookstore was in a shopping mall, the glass used was much thinner than the one on the street — so that even when he walked into the bookstore, the songs playing in the hallway outside would still get into his ears intermittently.

【Remember the good times that we had

I let them slip away from us when things got bad

How clearly I first saw you □□iling in the sun

Wanna feel your warmth upon me

I wanna be the one】

Snape secretly thought that the lyrics of this part of the song were a little more poetic—although he was not interested in poetry at all, that did not prevent him from making a correct assessment.

He walked through the rows of shelves, his eyes wandering over the names of the books on the shelves. He remembered the name of the Muggle playwright that Hermione Granger had said, and perhaps subconsciously he suddenly became a little interested in the Muggle playwright, and wanted to see what that man had written—

However, before he could find the book of the great Muggle playwright, his footsteps suddenly stopped.

Because, suddenly, he saw a young Muggle woman standing in the middle of the aisle formed by the row of bookshelves he was passing by, flipping through a book.

He looked to the entrance of the aisle formed by the row of bookshelves, and saw that there was a classification sign that read "Poetry".

It didn't seem like there were many Muggles interested in poetry, and she was the only one standing there in that aisle right now.

The young woman's appearance was completely unfamiliar to him, with long black hair slightly curled over her shoulders, and the long hair outlined a beautiful curve of the face. She looked extremely young, only in her early twenties, and stared at the page of the book of poems in her hand for a long time without turning it.

Outside the bookstore, the song continues to sing:

【I’m so tired but I can’t sleep

Standing on the edge of something much too deep

It’s funny how we feel so much

But we cannot say a word

We are screaming inside

But we can’t be heard】

As if sensing his gaze, she looked up and turned her face to catch exactly where the gaze was coming from, and then seemed a little surprised—as if she had no idea that someone would stand at the entrance of the bookshelf aisle, and that she was reading a book unscrupulously in the bookstore.

She looked a little confused at first, then quickly adjusted her expression, smiled politely at him, and then quickly put down the book of poems and walked briskly off the other side of the aisle.

It was a complete episode for Snape - but for some reason, the polite smile that seemed to be thrown at a stranger left an impression on him. So after watching her figure disappear at the other end of the aisle, he suddenly walked into the aisle until he reached where she had stood, and then, after a moment's pause, not knowing what force was at work, led him to reach over and pick up the book of poems she had been flipping through.

The cover of the book doesn't have the name Hermione Granger once mentioned.

For some reason, at that moment, he felt a subtle disappointment rise in his chest.

But the strange, knee-jerk urge didn't go away, prompting him to open the book of poems. Perhaps it was because of the relationship that the young woman had just flipped through for a long time, and as soon as he flipped to the page she had read.

The book was like a hodgepodge of excerpts, each page with a different author, and the one she turned to was a few simple lines of poetry—or rather, beautiful sentences.

I went into the jungle because I wanted life to be meaningful

I want to live deeply and absorb all the best in life

Defeat everything that is not alive

lest my life end

I found out that I had never lived]

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July 6:

I'm almost tired of catching a cold these days...... Sore throat.

Sure enough, GE is getting longer and longer...... So I had to divide it into two days to update

After the GE update,There's a short extra.,Explain the girl's situation w

After all, it's not very common for heroines who have only appeared in everyone's legends for more than 20 chapters, right, hhh

Next update: 0:00 tomorrow.

The soundtrack to this chapter: "I Will Remember You". Of course, I chose it because of the lyrics "Hey!

The lyrics are translated on Netease Cloud's song page

I've added the playlist related to this article, so you can go and listen to hhh

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