Penny is now in a grove, standing behind a tree and eavesdropping. A small river in the sun sparkled through the trees, and the shade of the trees cast a dark green coolness. The two children sat cross-legged and facing each other on the ground. Snape had already stripped off his coat, and in the half-light, the strange maternity dress looked less glaring.

If you do magic outside of school, the Ministry of Magic will punish you, and you will receive a letter. ”

"But I've done magic outside of school!"

"We don't care. We don't have a wand yet. Little children can't control themselves, they don't care. Once you're eleven," he nodded thoughtfully, "they'll start training you, and you'll have to be careful." ”

The two were silent for a moment. Lily picked up a branch from the ground and spun it quickly in the air, then she threw it away and leaned over to the boy and said, "It's true, isn't it? Not kidding? Penny said you're lying to me." Penny doesn't have any Hogwarts at all. It's true, right?"

"It's true for us," Snape said, "not for her." We'll get letters, you and me. ”

"Really?" asked Lily softly.

"It's true. Snape said that despite his ragged hair and strange clothes, he sat in front of her with a look of style and confidence in his future.

"Is the letter really from an owl?" asked Lily in a whisper.

"Generally speaking," Snape said, "but you're from a Muggle, so the school will send someone to explain it to your parents." ”

"Does it make a difference if you come from a Muggle?"

Snape hesitated, his dark eyes eagerly in the green shade as he looked at Lily's pale face and crimson hair.

"No," he said, "it won't make a difference." ”

"Great. Lily said, relieved. It seemed like she had been worried about it.

"You're going to do a lot of magic," Snape said, "and I see it." I've been peeking at you—"

His voice grew softer and softer. Lily didn't listen to him, but lay on all fours on the leafy ground, looking at the dense foliage overhead. Snape looked at her wistfully, as he did on the playing field.

"How's going on at your house?" asked Lily.

Snape frowned slightly.

"It's fine. He said.

"They're not noisy?"

"Oh, it's noisy," Snape said, grabbing a handful of leaves and tearing them apart, apparently unaware of what he's doing, "but it won't be long, I'm leaving." ”

"Your dad doesn't like magic?"

"He doesn't like anything very much. Snape said.

"Severus?"

A smile crossed Snape's lips as she called her name.

"Huh?"

"Tell me about the Dementors. ”

"What are you asking them for?"

"If I use magic outside of school—"

"I'm not going to hand you over to the Dementors for this! The Dementors are dedicated to dealing with those who actually do bad things. They guard the wizard's prison, Azkaban. You're not going to go into Azkaban, you're too-"

His face turned red again, and he tore more leaves. At this moment, Penny was lying behind a tree, not standing firm under her feet.

"Penny!" Lily said, her voice tingling with surprise and welcome, but Snape jumped.

"Who's peeking right now?" he cried, "what do you want to do?"

Penny panicked when she was found out, almost out of breath.

"Tell me what you're wearing?" she said, pointing to Snape's chest, "your mother's clothes?"

With a click, a branch on top of Petunia's head suddenly fell. Lily screamed, and the branch hit Petunia in the shoulder, and she staggered back a few steps and began to cry.

"Penny!"

But Penny ran away. Lily lashed out at Snape.

"Did you do that?" the conversation was blurred as Penny ran away.

Scene transitions. On platform nine and three-quarters, Snape stood beside him, slightly hunched over, close together

A thin woman with a gray face and a gloomy expression that looked very similar to him. Snape was staring at a family of four not far away. Two girls stood away from their parents. Lily is begging her sister.

"-I'm sad, Penny, I'm sad! You listen to me-" She grabbed her sister's hand and held it tightly, while Penny struggled desperately, "Maybe when I get there—no, listen to me, Penny!Maybe I'll be there, and I'll be able to find Professor Dumbledore and convince him to change his mind!"

"I'm just—I don't want to—to go!," said Penny, trying to pull her hand out of her sister's hand, "and you think I'd like to go to some ridiculous castle and learn to be a---"

She looked at the platform with her pale eyes, at the cats meowing in their master's arms, at the owls flapping their wings in their cages and shouting at each other, at the students, some in black robes, carrying their luggage onto the bright red steam locomotive, and cheerfully greeting their classmates after a summer vacation.

"--you think I want to be--a monster?"

Penny finally withdrew her hand, and Lily's eyes filled with tears.

"I'm not a monster," Lily said, "and that's ugly. ”

"That's where you're going," Penny said energetically, "a school for monsters." You and the boy named Snape - freaks, you are both freaks. Thankfully, you're separated from ordinary people, and that's for our safety. ”

Lily glanced over to her parents, who were watching the scene on the platform with genuine joy. Lily turned back to look at her sister and lowered her voice, her tone becoming intense.

"When you wrote to the headmaster begging him to take you, you didn't think it was a monster school. ”

Penny's face turned red.

"Please, I didn't!"

"I saw his reply, and it was written very tactfully. ”

"You shouldn't peek—" Petunia whispered, "that's my privacy—how could you—?"

Lily glanced at Snape, who was standing nearby, revealing the secret. Penny gasped.

"You and the boy snuck into our room!"

"No-not snuck in--Severus saw an envelope, he didn't believe Muggles could get in touch with Hogwarts, and that's it!

"Looks like wizards are meddling around!" said Penny, her flushed face now turning pale, "monster!" she spat at her sister, turned sharply, and ran towards her parents—

Phoenix withdraws from Penny's memories and sits on the couch at the Dursleys.

"Nothing too useful. There was a slight pause, "Although they did know each other for a long time, and Snape should like Lily, but—let's go." ”

Watson erased the memories of the three and shifted with a "snap" from Phoenix.

Azkaban is located in the North Sea, away from the crowds in a wizarding prison on an isolated island. It was guarded by a group of Dementor creatures who lived by sucking the souls of others. Most people go crazy within a few weeks of coming, which is why no one has ever been able to escape from prison, and the presence of Dementors can be that wizards lose their mana and go insane.

Watson summoned a Patronus as a cat, and the Dementors leading the way in front of them always kept a certain distance from them, which was the only thing they feared.

Most of the inmates in the cells were delirious or dying, and some even felt dead, lying there peacefully. The two of them kept their hoods low, obviously not wanting others to see them, but most of the prisoners didn't even raise their heads, didn't care, like the walking dead.

The Dementors led them to the door of their cells, quickly turned away, and disappeared into the fog.

The rusty bronze plaque reads: Bellatrix Lestrange