A certain Hogwarts rune professor

Chapter 581 Potion and Sugar
In the principal's office, the conversation continued.

Dumbledore paused, and said to Snape: "Voldemort restrained his temper, he still needs you now. I knew this from the time I discovered that Umbridge's mind was messed up...then How do you say it? Anyone who asks for help is respectful. Obviously, Voldemort is no exception."

"I'm not interested in hearing you share some corny proverb."

"Oh, Severus, these exquisite phrases are thought-provoking and worth savoring... You know, I've been trying to make you fall in love with life again," said Dumbledore kindly.

Snape shook his head violently, as if it had been stained with something dirty.

"Since Voldemort wants you to poison me while healing me, he will definitely wait for a while, I think, maybe the duel time will be decided according to my physical condition?" Dumbledore thoughtfully Said: "That way I can influence his judgment. Just a few interviews at the right time, a few pale pictures... Well, I figured it out. The Wizengamot, the Witch Trials... I need to speak to Ms Burns."

"Severus, your role is so special that even if Voldemort has doubts about you, as long as you are still valuable, he will not act rashly. Besides Umbridge, there is another loophole, that is, Fortunately, his Occlumency is well practiced, and Voldemort seems to have taken the initiative to cut off the connection, but there are no absolutes, so don't take it lightly." He finally warned.

"Speaking of Potter," said Snape suddenly, "Dumbledore, you lied to me. Harry Potter...he's one of them, one of the Horcruxes."

A moment of silence.

"When did you find out?"

"Is that true?" growled Snape, standing up and staring at Dumbledore across the table, "I spied for you, invented lies for you, risked mortal danger for you. All this It is said that it is all to ensure the safety of Lily’s son. Now you are telling me that his end was doomed from the very beginning? Like a pig waiting to be slaughtered—”

"How touching, Severus," said Dumbledore, "are you really beginning to like that boy?"

"Like him?" Snape exclaimed, "Call God to protect you!"

From the tip of his staff sprang the silver doe.It landed on the floor, jumped across the office, and flew out the window.Dumbledore watched it go away, watched its silver light disappear, then turned to Snape, his eyes filled with tears.

"It's been like this for so long?" he asked softly.

"It's always been that way," Snape said.

Dumbledore sighed, closed his eyes, only the sound of Snape's panting was left in the room, and he repeated, "You lied to me, Dumbledore." After a while, Dumbledore opened his eyes , his eyes had regained their composure, staring at Snape from above the half-moon lenses.

"I don't want to excuse myself, Severus. But I did prepare for the worst - when it came to the last resort, the boy had to die once, so I nurtured him, tempered him, observed him, like a A craftsman who carefully carves his own work."

"Die once?" Snape looked up, "Dumbledore, speak clearly."

"On the night Voldemort tried to kill Harry, the Killing Curse bounced back on himself, and a fragment of his soul was blown away and attached to the only living soul in the collapsed house, Harry Potter..."

"A part of the Dark Lord lived in that baby? A Horcrux?" Snape asked eagerly. "So Parseltongue, connected to the Dark Lord's mind, is all because of the soul fragments?"

Dumbledore nodded slightly, "To be precise, Harry is not a complete Horcrux."

Snape was a little unclear, so his understanding of Horcruxes was still very superficial, he only knew the most basic information, and some content was even deduced by himself based on multiple pieces of information.He didn't know how to make Horcruxes, let alone many taboos, so he could easily connect Harry with Horcruxes and uncover the truth by accident.

Now, he pricked up his ears and listened carefully.

"...The steps to make a real Horcrux are extremely cumbersome, and the difficulty is beyond imagination. Maybe this is why Voldemort has not been able to connect Harry and the Horcrux so far-Harry is not even comparable to the snake in terms of integrity. But he did function as a Horcrux: as long as that fragment remained in Harry, Voldemort would never truly die."

"Well, is it possible to separate the pieces?" Snape racked his brains. "It just stuck on by accident, didn't it? Like a piece of dirt on the wall, just find some way to remove the stain—" He held his breath and looked at the old man in front of him, "Did you find it?"

Dumbledore shook his head slowly.

Snape's body swayed a bit, and he propped his hands on the table, staring blankly at Dumbledore.

"Any issue involving the soul must be extra cautious," Dumbledore said softly: "We cannot learn wisdom from the books of our predecessors, we must rely on ourselves. And Harry's situation is even more dangerous: Voldemort's soul fragment Without any processing, it is directly stuck to Harry's soul. After so many years, the connection between them may be far beyond your imagination. And this connection will become more and more as Harry gets older The stronger it is, it's like a parasitic life."

"You're supposed to have heard about Harry's exaggerated pace of progress this year?" he asked.

Snape looked at Dumbledore expressionlessly, and Dumbledore looked back at Snape.

"I thought—it was the result of his hard training."

"I don't deny that there is a reason for that. But—except for the gap in knowledge and experience, Harry is not much weaker than you now. This is by no means normal, Severus."

"Is there no other way?"

"Felix and I - both of us are trying to find a solution. In the books about Horcruxes, he found a thread: confession can reunite the divided soul. Felix's achievements in the field of memory magic Amazing," Dumbledore said: "He wanted to capture Voldemort and soak it in a jar full of 'confession' emotions, for a day, two days, maybe a year, two years."

Snape was struck by the audacity of Felix's ideas.

"...But I don't have much hope for this method, the conditions are too harsh: you must first catch Voldemort alive-compared with other steps, this step is even easy. You have to make Voldemort sincere Confession for what he's done, frankly, I don't think he has a shred of remorse in his heart, and I wouldn't be surprised if he suddenly showed me his Patronus... Other than that, even if Voldemort was forced to repent, draw out his soul What did the fragments do to Harry?"

"Nobody knows."

Snape froze in place.

After a while, he asked with difficulty: "You only talked about Felix's efforts, what about you? What did you do?"

"Oh, I can't reveal it to you yet." Dumbledore said apologetically, "That method may be more illusory and inconceivable than asking Voldemort to confess sincerely... And I can't verify it for the time being, and it will only add value if I say it." trouble."

He stuffed the black gemstone ring into the drawer and fiddled with the delicate silverware on the table. The conversation seemed to have come to an end. Snape stood up and walked towards the door. "Oh, by the way, Severus?" Snape turned his head to meet the blue eyes beneath the half-moon lenses.

"Add more sugar to the potion, will you?"

　The author has always tried to avoid directly quoting the original text, but the passage where Snape uses the Patronus is too classic, and the effect of my forced changes is not good.Probably quote more than 200 words.

　　
　
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