Su Shuang's world is collapsing [Comprehensive]

This is... soul magic? !

He stood there for a moment, with an uncertain expression on his face.A few seconds later, as if he had made up his mind, he turned around and strode back to the house, slamming the door behind him.Then, without wasting a second, he rushed into the fireplace.

When he returned to the Hogwarts headmaster's room, Dumbledore was dozing in his frame.

Snape strode to the picture frame and unfolded the letter, only to find that the part where he was holding the letter was soaked with sweat dripping from his palm.He raised the letter over the frame, waking Dumbledore up.

"Look at this," he said simply.

Dumbledore opened his eyes and yawned. He pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, and moved his face as close as possible. After a few seconds of staring, the lazy expression on his face disappeared, and he looked abnormal. serious.

"Where did this come from, Severus?" he asked.

Snape snorted irritably.

"I went for a walk...and came back to find it lying in the mailbox at 19 Spinner's End," he explained succinctly. "Someone sent it directly on purpose, because there was no Muggle stamp on the envelope."

Dumbledore snorted, his expression still grim.He frowned and fell into deep thought, before saying after a long time: "Where did it come from? It's impossible for many people to know about this profound magic..."

"So you also think this spell is feasible?" Snape seemed to extract some key points from his words, and asked sharply.

Dumbledore nodded.

"It's clearly stated above, the method of use, the necessary conditions... To be more specific, this curse is prepared for Lily." He replied sharply, and then added another sentence.

"...I mean, the Lily who is now living in Miss Ginny Weasley's body."

Snape's face flickered for a moment, becoming more gloomy and uncertain.He didn't speak right away.

Dumbledore seemed to be watching the change in his expression; he waited patiently for a few seconds, until he seemed sure that if he didn't speak today, the deadlock would not be broken - he continued aloud: "Then ...Severus, are you going to use this soul magic?"

The moment he heard that question, a very strange expression appeared on Snape's face.He seemed a little distracted, and a little distracted; as if this question was so difficult to answer, he even turned his eyes away, lowered his hands, and his eyes fell on the shelf beside him.

On that shelf, there are quite a few crystal bottles filled with memory filaments.The silver-white memory thread floats gently in the bottle, shining beautifully.

Dumbledore seemed to realize that this question would not be answered for the time being, and he slowly narrowed his eyes.

"...So, Severus, you could always tell me who you think sent this letter?" he asked resignedly, as if he just wanted to change the subject casually.

However, this question was exchanged for a longer silence.Finally, Snape let out a rare -- sigh.

Although the sigh was very light, it was obvious that Dumbledore immediately pricked up his ears in the frame, showing a gesture of interest.

"What? Do you really have a guess?" he asked.

Snape's face twitched indistinctly.He simply turned around, greasy and long black hair fell down from both sides of his cheeks, covering his side face.

The moment the old headmaster asked that question, for some reason, he suddenly remembered the song floating in that Muggle shopping mall.

【I will remember you

Will you memberme

Don't let your life pass you by

Weep not for thememories】

...and the strange-looking dark-haired young girl flipping through a book of Muggle poetry in a bookstore.

The look of her last glance at him before she left - across the crowd beside the sculpture - suddenly came to his mind.

For some reason, now that he was sure, the last thing that appeared on her face was a faint smile.

What did the poems she read at that time say?

... "in case I die and find that I never lived".

"...No, no," he finally replied.

She has disappeared.There is no longer any way to find her.In the end, it turned out that the two of them were still strangers, and he didn't know what she really looked like, nor her real name.Where is she from?Where will it go?What happened that day in that room at Malfoy Manor, at Potter's house in Godric's Hollow?Why did she appear in Lily's body?Why did she stubbornly resist his indifference for so many years, and persistently pay him long-term care, friendliness and warmth? ...

In the end, all these questions will have no answers.Or even why she was suddenly legally betrothed to Sirius Blake's stupid dog, and why she smugly set herself up as a mistress and wrecked the old house at 12 Grimmauld Place; These questions will no longer have real answers.

He stared at the crystal vial on the shelf in front of him.In one of the bottles, there was only a thin layer of silver-white memory filament, which could barely cover the bottom of the bottle.

It was about her memory.Just a little bit--

Snape hesitated for a moment, and finally stepped up to the shelf.Taking an empty crystal vial from the shelf, he took out his wand, pointed the tip at his temple, and began to withdraw the memory strands from the brain.

He filled bottle after bottle.Until he began to feel that the capacity of these crystal bottles was a little too small, before he could recall anything, another bottle was already filled——

Dumbledore called him from the frame behind him.

"Severus, what are you doing?"

His action only paused for a moment, and then continued.

When he filled a whole bottle of memory again, he turned his head and looked at the old headmaster in the picture frame on the wall.

"Is there a slight deviation in my memory...how come there are so many memories." He asked irrelevantly.

Dumbledore stared at him, and after a long time, a trace of understanding and pity gradually appeared on his old face.

"No, your health is very good, Severus," he replied.

"There's nothing wrong with your brain either... indeed it can hold so many important memories."

Snape groaned, and continued with his previous actions until he put down the last crystal bottle on the shelf.

"...the bottle has run out," he said.

Dumbledore nodded understandingly in the frame.

"Oh, yes, it will be used up...let's order some more tomorrow." He replied in a good-tempered manner.

Snape complained: "This room will cause a lot of associations, and some memories that I think shouldn't be there are all coming back... For example, standing here, I will think of the way you came back with half a blackened hand that night... ...which took more crystal phials than I expected to contain..."

"Oh, yes, yes." Dumbledore nodded and said, "I also remember that day. On that day, I was bewitched and put on the resurrection stone ring..."

Snape murmured, "The Resurrection Stone Ring... yes."

The smile on Dumbledore's face slowly faded.He looks very serious now.

"There is no Resurrection Stone ring anymore, Severus," he reminded.

Snape's hand holding the wand suddenly paused slightly.

He had looked as if he had intended to temporarily put away his wand, but when he heard the meaningful words from the old Hogwarts headmaster, he interrupted the movement, lowered his eyes, and, I didn't raise my head for a long time.

Then, without a word, he turned and strode into the bedroom, slamming the door behind him without even saying good night to the framed Dumbledore.

There was no surprise on Dumbledore's face.His old but wise eyes stared at the door that had been slammed shut, and after a while, his eyes moved to the shelf in the corner of the room that was already full of memory bottles; then, he shook his head silently , sighed.

And Snape, who was in the bedroom, didn't go to change or wash, but went straight to the window.As if the depression in his heart could not be resolved, he suddenly pushed open the two windows.

The night air rushed into the room, filling his lungs in an instant.

The weather is good tonight, the sky in autumn night looks very high and clear, the plants in the courtyard exude the fresh breath of night, and the moonlight is like a silver-white silk falling straight down from the high sky.He wandered around and found that the surroundings were quiet except for the occasional chirping of insects.After everything was over, Hogwarts regained its former peace and beauty—as if nothing had ever happened.

all.

Everything.

He propped his hands on the window sill, staring sternly—oh, rather than “gazing”, it would be more appropriate to say “staring”—the night view of Hogwarts outside the window.

At this moment, he thought of the scene when he said the word "Everything" to her.I thought of the scene where she walked briskly in the corridor of the castle, snapped her fingers handsomely, and sang Christmas carols along with the enchanted armor.Thinking of the first time they met Lupine transforming in the Screaming Shack when they were young, and then she grabbed him by the hem and pushed him into the tunnel, and she faced the dangerous werewolf alone.I remembered that when I was furious at the Black Lake because of being teased maliciously by James Potter, and shouted "Mudblood" at her, she threw a white glove in front of me, and vowed to protect my reputation. The scene of the duel with him——

His mind was flooded with all kinds of memories.In the end, even some irrelevant memories emerged—he remembered that in the outer office, Dumbledore had a strange look on his face and asked him to pay attention to Quirrell, because "Quirrell is Approaching Lily without a trace, what's even more strange is that Lily didn't refuse"——

At that time, what did he want to do?

...Oh, yes, he was about to say no.He was not at all interested in that sneaky Quirrell.Especially that guy also took away the teaching position of Defense Against the Dark Arts, which he had wanted for a long time.

However, why did he agree after Dumbledore said this to him?Is he delusional?At that time, there were obviously as many things to do as mountains!He didn't have time to monitor that waste that smelled of garlic! ...

He wondered why his brain was filled with so many useless memories.However, even with so many memories, even with so many crystal bottles filled, when it came time to look back, he still felt that there were too few memories.

Not enough to find out the answers to the barrage of questions about her, not enough to sketch out her true image, character and face, not enough to remind him that he really didn't know her very well .

The gradually cooling night wind blew on his face.He felt that his cheeks seemed to be blown stiff, unable to make any expression.

...Just like the day of the final battle, when he turned around in the Room of Requirement, intending to leave the illusory and overjoyed illusion behind him and go to the battlefield with a bad reputation, she rushed up and hugged him from behind Same as him.

At that time, he felt that not only his facial expression, but his whole body became stiff in an instant.As if he had suddenly fallen into an ice cave, he felt hot and cold all over his body, only the range of temperature brought to him by the ironing of her body behind him gradually became hot.

It was as if his entire body was out of his control. If it wasn't for the fact that his self-control was still there, he would have suspected that he was going to tremble weakly as if he had been drained of all his strength by some mysterious force; No way, but at the same time, an unspeakable longing steamed up in the depths of his brain, almost prompting him to reach out and touch the two gentle hands that belonged to her around his waist.

And high above their heads hung garlands of mistletoe.Those Muggles used to say that as long as two people stand under a mistletoe garland in the Christmas season, they should kiss for happiness in the coming year.

...But now, where is there any happiness for the coming year?

There will never be a moment like that again.It's like never meeting someone like her again.

Snape suddenly remembered that there seemed to be a magic mirror in the Room of Requirement.Just look into that magic mirror, and you'll be able to see in it your soul and the people you really want to see most in your heart.

Snape once heard Dumbledore say that Harry Potter went to look in the magic mirror and saw his parents in it.Dumbledore must have looked into the mirror himself, but he never told Snape who he saw in it.

Thinking about it now, Dumbledore must have seen his sister in it—Arianna who lived in the picture frame of the Pig's Head Bar and finally became friends with that Lily.

The night was windy.His half-long hair, which had become a little greasy, was also blown by the evening wind, and the ends of the hair fell on his face.

He had to close his eyes temporarily.Then, for some reason, he subconsciously uttered the first sentence that came to his mind.

"...I show not your face but your heart's desire."

These were the words engraved on the Mirror of Erised that Dumbledore had told him once.

Snape thought he would never want to look into that magic mirror.Because he couldn't imagine how he should react when he saw the figure inside.

He thought he hadn't lost his mind yet.However, not losing his mind means that he can understand the current situation more clearly——

As he had said to the Lily who stayed behind on Halloween night in [-], after all the tragedies had happened at the Potters in Godric's Hollow.

It's all over.

Everything about that person.

is everything, everything.

Everything.

The author has something to say:

February 7:

Sorry because the ending was so hard to write... so I spent an hour thinking about the ending ==

By the way, the black-haired girl who appeared in the last chapter is the girl herself.

She showed up with her true colors.As for why she came here, of course it was to deliver the letter.

For other reasons, I will explain at the end of the next chapter.

The next chapter is the epilogue, basically explaining what the girl went through after Malfoy Manor

In addition, the professor extracted his own memories about the girl, because he was afraid that some details would be forgotten after a long time [.

Next update: tomorrow at midnight.