Su Shuang's world is collapsing [Comprehensive]

When Snape stepped out of the fireplace in the headmaster's office holding the crystal bottle containing the brilliant golden potion he had just made, he saw the weak crooked at the first sight In the throne-like chair behind the desk, Albus Dumbledore looks delirious.

His right hand was drooping, charred and black.The fake Lily stood beside him anxiously, holding his shoulders.

Snape's face became very scary in an instant.He strode to Dumbledore's side, lowered his head to check the other party's situation carefully, and carefully held up Dumbledore's withered right hand with his ten fingers, and checked repeatedly, the frown between his brows became tighter and tighter, and his face was pale stand up.

"What's going on?!" he asked.

Then he heard the fake Lily's voice, a little hoarse, but she spoke quickly and clearly, recounting what had happened in his absence.

"He was already like this when he got out of the fireplace - stumbling, as soon as he got to the chair, he fell into the chair as if he fell in, asked me 'where is Severus', and put This right hand rested heavily on the table. I just realized that he was holding the ring in his right hand—" She gestured her chin towards the cracked ring on the table, and continued: "He pulled out the ring. took the Gryffindor sword, chopped off the ring, told me not to touch it, and then asked me how long it would be before you could come back."

She paused, and continued: "I told him that you went back to your office to make the necessary potions, and you will probably be back soon. But he didn't answer me—he has remained like this until now. I Guess his right hand must have been hurt by some powerful and evil black magic..."

Snape huffed out his big nose angrily, as if that would vent some of his anger.

"A powerful spell," he said, "I can't quite break it, I can only hope it doesn't deteriorate too quickly—"

With that said, he sat down on another chair beside the table, pulled out his wand, focused on Dumbledore's scorched wrist, and whispered a spell while watching Without looking at the ground, he handed out a cup of thick golden medicinal liquid with his left hand.

The fake Lily immediately understood what he was doing, took over immediately, and carefully poured the liquid medicine into Dumbledore's mouth.After a while, Dumbledore's eyelids fluttered a few times and opened.

"Why," said Snape, "why did you wear that ring? It has a charm on it, you must know. Why do you even touch it?"

The ring of Marvolo Gunter lay cracked on the table in front of Dumbledore, next to Gryffindor's sword.

Dumbledore smiled wryly.

"I... I did something stupid. The temptation is too great..."

"What temptation?"

Dumbledore didn't answer.

"It's a miracle you're back here!" said Snape angrily. "There's a particularly powerful enchantment on that ring, and the best we can hope to contain is that. I've temporarily imprisoned the enchantment in a hand-"

Dumbledore raised the blackened, useless hand and examined it carefully, as if facing a very interesting antique.

"You've done a great job, Severus. How much time do you think I have?"

Dumbledore's tone was relaxed and casual, as if he was asking about the weather forecast.Snape hesitated, then said, "I can't say, maybe a year. There is no way to stop such a curse forever. It will always spread eventually, and the curse will only grow stronger with time."

Dumbledore smiled.He had less than a year left, and the news seemed insignificant to him.

"I'm lucky, very lucky, to have you by my side, Severus."

"If you'd called me earlier, or told me a little more about your plans, I might have been able to do something about it and buy you more time!" Snape said angrily, looking down at the broken The ring and the sword, "You think destroying the ring will break the spell?"

"Almost... I must have lost my head..." said Dumbledore.

Then Snape's anger seemed to shift. He glared angrily at the fake Lily who had been silent beside Dumbledore, and said sarcastically, "You've been here all this time? Why didn't you stop him? Don't you see?" Is it a trap if you don’t come out? You can only watch him go to die? Don’t you know that letting him wear that ring is equivalent to watching him put his own neck in a noose?..."

Before the fake Lily could speak, Dumbledore stopped Snape from swearing. "Severus, don't criticize Lily. There's nothing she can do about it. I had that ring on my finger when I got back..." he said wearily, "I went to Gaunt's house alone... ...Maybe I should just take you with me..."

"Then one of you will always come back like this with one hand in the dark, and sit here planning how to amend your wills for the next year." Fake Lily, who had been silent since then, suddenly interrupted Dumbledore.

Her face was stern, and her complexion was unprecedentedly dignified and ugly, as if she was very angry, but she didn't know who to be angry with.

She pursed her lips angrily, glared at Dumbledore and Snape, and said, "...the Resurrection Stone Ring! I can almost imagine who you two are planning to resurrect!..."

However, before she could name the two people - the two people who Albus Dumbledore or Severus Snape would risk their lives to resurrect - she stopped abruptly. He came down and glared angrily at the two men in front of him.

"People, if you disappear, you disappear... Even if you don't want to face it, this is the cruel fact." There was still sadness and anger in her beautiful green eyes, but her tone sounded a little ethereal, just like Like being trapped in a thick fog.

"Besides, it's the Horcrux of 'that man'! Would he be so kind as to put such a wonderful ring there for human use without adding ten or eight harmful traps to it?! Could he He’s not some kind-hearted person who runs a charity—”

Although she was particularly silent in the face of Snape's anger at the beginning; however, once she spoke, her anger seemed to sweep the entire principal's office.

There was a moment of silence in the room.Then, with difficulty, Dumbledore sat up straight in his chair and forced a change of subject unnaturally. "...But that's good too, it makes things easier."

Snape looked completely bewildered.Dumbledore smiled.

"I mean Voldemort's plan around me. His plan to have that poor Malfoy boy kill me."

Snape suddenly looked shocked.Like a poisonous snake, he straightened his upper body and raised his head at the same time!

"It's just absurd, you should know it's almost impossible to imagine—" he said, but Dumbledore cut him off by pressing his uninhibited left hand down before he could go on. .

"We've got a lot of important things to talk about, Severus. — it's going to take a long time. Why don't you sit down and let us have a long talk in peace?" he asked.

Snape glared at him, but finally sat down on a chair in front of the table, facing Dumbledore across the table.

He seemed to want to talk about Dumbledore's cursed hand again, but the other party raised his scorched hand, politely expressing his reluctance to continue the topic.

Liu Quan was still standing beside Dumbledore, facing Snape, but both of them looked in different directions as if they were trying to avoid eye contact with each other; Unnatural atmosphere.

Snape frowned and said, "The Dark Lord didn't expect Draco to succeed. This was just to punish Lucius for his latest failure. It's not right for Draco's parents to see their son fail and then pay the price." It's a blunt knife that cuts flesh."

"Anyway, the boy was as definitely condemned to death as I was," said Dumbledore. "I suppose it would be you who would take over the job should Draco fail?"

A brief silence.

Snape seemed to cast a quick glance in her direction, and Liu Quan's keen five senses certainly caught this glance in time - but she didn't quite understand what he meant by paying attention to her reaction when this topic was being discussed.

"I think the Dark Lord designed it that way," Snape replied quickly, in a deadpan, emotionless tone.

"Did Voldemort foresee that in the near future he would no longer need spies at Hogwarts?"

"He believes the school will soon be under his control, yes."

"If the school does fall into his hands," said Dumbledore, interjecting as if on the spur of the moment, "I want you to swear that you will do everything in your power to protect the students at Hogwarts, will you?"

Snape froze for a moment, then nodded stiffly.

Liu Quan's eyes stayed on his face for a moment, but soon, she maintained the previous state of not squinting, looking very quiet, without any sense of existence, completely maintaining a posture of listening in, just living like a statue.

"Very well. Well, you first need to figure out what Draco is up to. A panicked teenager is not only dangerous to himself, but also to others. Offer him help and guidance and he should accept, he likes you— —" said Dumbledore.

"—after his father fell out of favor, he didn't like me that much. Draco blamed me for taking Lucius' place." Snape replied bitterly.

Dumbledore smiled.

"Never mind, try it. I'm more concerned about the accidental victim of any of the boy's plans than I am about myself. Of course, ultimately there's only one way to save him from Voldemort's wrath."

Snape raised his eyebrows and asked sarcastically, "You're going to let him kill you?"

"Of course not. You must kill me." Dumbledore said very flatly.

There was a long silence, and there was only a strange rattling sound in the room.Phoenix Fox gnawing on a small cuttlefish bone.

"Do you want me to do it now?" Snape asked, his tone thick with sarcasm, "or do you need a little time to conceive a tombstone?"

"Oh, not yet," Dumbledore said with a smile, "I think that moment will come when it should come. Judging from what happened tonight," he raised his withered hand, "we It will happen within a year for sure."

"Since you don't care about dying," Snape said gruffly, "why don't you let Draco do it?"

"The boy's soul hasn't been completely ruined," said Dumbledore, "and I don't want to tear it apart for my sake."

There was a very strange, very pained look on Snape's face.His voice sounded like it was forced out of his throat, a painful hiss.

"And my soul, Dumbledore? Where's mine?"

At this time, Liu Quan, who had avoided meeting Snape's eyes since the beginning of this scene, finally turned to look at Snape.

If Snape raised his eyes to pay attention to her at this time, he would find that there seemed to be a mist of sadness in the green eyes of this fake Lily, as if he felt helpless and angry when he asked this question. Pain feels the same.

But she didn't say anything, and Snape didn't look up at her.

And before Snape really raised his eyes to pay attention to her, she looked away very deliberately, as if she wanted to pretend that she had never paid attention to his question just now.

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February 5:

Let me explain first.

There are about two to three hundred words in this chapter that have appeared in the previous episodes. Of course, I have rewritten the entire chapter and added words, but these words must appear in the main text, and because JJ now stipulates that The text cannot appear in the text, so I can't simply and rudely compensate everyone for the number of words in the essay [to finger

So I will make a count of who you want to watch, and then within two weeks I will write up the episode and attach it to you as compensation in the commentary. I hope you understand.

I looked at both the deputy head and the head of the department, but because the deputy head will only appear after the line, then I will write a small episode of the head of the department w

One day within two weeks, I will have more stories in the story, please wait patiently hhh

Next update: tomorrow at midnight.