Chapter 334: Happy Birthday, Harry!
"Professor, have you ever heard the name Lily Evans?"
Harry's voice echoed through the empty Potions classroom, and the sound slammed against the cold walls, causing a faint echo that clenched Snape's heart like a Dementor's arm.
Snape's expression froze instantly.
His greasy black hair drooped like a curtain around his thin face, a helpless look appeared in his indifferent black eyes, and his bloodless lips smacked twice, but he couldn't make any sound.
"Professor? Professor Snape?"
Harry swallowed nervously, forcing himself to stare directly into Professor Snape's cold eyes, and Elena had said that it was far better to have the courage to look at Professor Snape than to cowardly look away.
"Lily your mother"
Snape was silent for a few seconds, then repeated Harry's words with some difficulty, as if it was a very difficult thing to say these words, closed his eyes and took a deep breath, looked into Harry's eyes and replied calmly.
"Of course, your mother and I entered school in the same year...... It's just that she's in Gryffindor and I'm in Slytherin. ”
It has to be said that time changes more than just the page numbers of the calendar.
Eleven years have passed, Severus Snape is no longer the young and immature young man he was at the beginning, after so many things and so many years of teaching, he is much more mature and stable than back then, so although there is some surprise, it is not to show some ugly panic when facing Lily's child's problems.
"Really?!, Professor, can you tell me more about my mother?"
With a look of surprise on his face, Harry couldn't help but take a step forward and said with an excited expression.
"I've been living at Uncle Vernon's house for as long as I can remember, and they never take the initiative to talk about my parents. It wasn't until Hagrid came to pick me up that I realized that they didn't die in a car accident, but were killed by Voldemort to protect me......"
"Don't, say it, that name!"
Snape shuddered involuntarily, gritted his teeth with a gloomy face, and growled under his breath.
Neither Harry nor Elena had ever seen Professor Snape look like this.
Normally, he seemed ruthless, but at least he was as stern as Professor McGonagall, not as he was now...... Like a wounded beast, gasping slightly, staring into Harry's eyes.
"I'm sorry, Professor, I just ......"
Faced with the terrifying look on Snape's face, Harry was so frightened that he subconsciously took a step back, slammed into the edge of the desk behind him, and slammed the chairs behind him into each other with a dull thud.
"After dinner today, come to my office and look for me, alone. ”
Snape interrupted Harry's next words with a rough wave of his hand, pointed to the door of the basement classroom, and gave the eviction order in a tone of incompromising indifference.
"Now, you can leave the classroom. I still have some things to do. ”
The last sentence was obviously said to the two little girls behind him who were sitting side by side and were curiously watching the excitement.
All the memories of Lily Evans, if it weren't for Harry's request, would have been buried in Snape's mind forever, according to Snape's original thoughts.
And now in this emotionally unstable situation, Snape couldn't be completely sure that he would say something, so he had to calm his emotions alone and think about what he could tell Lily's son, and what stories she would want her child to know if Lily was still around.
Before that, though...... Snape had one more very important thing to do.
"Albus Dumbledore......"
Looking at the backs of the three little wizards disappearing into the doorway, Snape narrowed his eyes dangerously and whispered.
"What did you old man say to this kid?"
There was no doubt that Harry Potter, who had just come into contact with the wizarding world, would not have been able to ask him about Lily after the first Potions lesson.
Since eleven years ago, Severus Snape had been well aware that Albus Dumbledore's credibility was not as reliable as it had been rumored. Dumbledore was also a human being, and he made mistakes, and he made good fortunes.
Snape had every reason to believe that in order to ensure that he could keep his promise to take care of Harry, with Dumbledore's character, it was entirely possible to inadvertently reveal and give Harry some maze without even speaking himself, Hagrid, McGonagall...... can help him do all this.
"The crux of the matter at the moment is...... What the hell does Harry know?"
Snape furrowed his eyebrows in exasperation and walked out of the Potions classroom in a rage, heading straight for the Great Hall.
If Professor Dumbledore can't explain this matter clearly and give a reasonable explanation at noon today, then Dumbledore probably won't want to eat this meal at noon today.
......
However, compared to the annoyed Professor Snape and the spicy old radish who was about to face a black pot that couldn't be explained at all, on the other hand, Elena was obviously in a pretty good mood when she left the underground classroom.
This is an important plot turning point that she has been planning since the first moment she met Harry, and judging from what is happening in the classroom today, it should be difficult for both Harry Potter and Severus Snape to become the hostile and hateful state of each other in the original books in their previous lives.
Not to mention that after the Q&A of this Potions class, Elena could feel that Harry's attitude towards Potions class had gradually changed from a "find mom" task to a direction that he was really interested in and liked.
To be honest, in fact, even without Elena's leakage, Harry's own potions talent is not bad at all, after all, he is a true genius who can still get good grades in the .ls exam in a completely resistant state of study.
Elena had no doubt that with a good start to this life, Harry, who had tasted the sweetness once, would definitely not give up Potions so easily. It's not hard to understand, after all, people tend to prefer to do things that they're good at and have achieved results, just as Harry loves Quidditch so much.
And most importantly, Professor Snape's attitude towards Harry is obviously very different.
Harry Potter, who showed a talent for potions, has gradually changed from "Potter's child" to "Lily's child" in Snape's eyes, and the worst is also "Lily and Potter's child" Elena noticed that in just two lessons, Snape's name for Harry has become the original "broken" to "Harry".
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Hogwarts kitchens.
"Alright, that's it, it's your birthday present!
Elena carefully outlined the word hp in black pepper sauce in the steak plating, turned around happily, and brought it to Harry, who was standing near the doorway at a loss, looking curiously at the busy kitchen.
"This morning was pretty good. Due to time constraints and the lack of preparation of ingredients, I will try this handmade Wellington steak as a reward for you, and it should be a new dish in the kitchen for next week's school dinner. ”
"But...... Big sister, it's not my birthday. ”
Harry subconsciously crossed the plate, looked at the steaming, golden and crispy mysterious steak in front of him, couldn't help but swallow hard, and said with some hesitation, "Are you misremembering......
"Your birthday is July 31st, right? I looked at the calendar, yes, it's today!"
"Today is a special day when you've finally been able to find your mother's footprints, and that's something to celebrate and remember, not to mention that you've earned five points for Gryffindor in the Potions class for the first time. ”
Elena glanced at Hermione, who was about to stop talking, crossed her waist, raised her eyebrows and said in an unjustifiable tone.
"Anyway, I said it's your birthday, it's your birthday!"
"Happy birthday, Harry!"