It's just a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.

Chapter 158

"cough cough"

Snape choked on the glass because he drank too quickly.

He didn't seem to drink much, and Sherlock had never seen him touch a glass of wine, not even cider, at any Hogwarts dinner or teachers' gathering.

After drinking this glass of whiskey, an abnormal blush appeared on his extremely pale face.

Sherlock didn't drink as fast as he did, but took small sips.

Snape now needed to numb himself with alcohol, so he had to stay awake.

"It's what I deserve," Snape said in a low voice, sniffling.

"She is such a smart person, of course she knows that I don't deserve to be forgiven. Later things also proved her right. I became that person's subordinate right after graduation, was given the Dark Demon Mark, and became his hard-core believer. .”

Sherlock didn't speak. He knew that what Snape needed now was not someone who could communicate with him, but only a listener.

Snape picked up the wine bottle, poured wine into his glass with trembling hands, and sprinkled a lot on the table.

"She was right, she should have seen me clearly. I tried to pull her into the same person as me in the fourth grade. I was not depraved enough by myself, and I wanted to jump into it with her." That abyss."

"Knowing that when Lily and Potter got married, I really hated him, and a little bit of her. She knew exactly what Black and those people did to me at school. It's not generous to hate her, and it's not at all to hate her I didn't miss our previous relationship, even if I didn't choose to hate her, I shouldn't choose such a bastard."

"When I was under that person's hands, I told them that I had forgotten about Lily a long time ago. I said that there are many women who are better than her in the world. But I have always been thinking about how to catch Potter , arrest him, and torture him a thousand times the way he tortured me. A kind person like Lily will definitely open his mouth to intercede for him. As long as she speaks, as long as she speaks, I can let him go generously"

After drinking twice the amount of strong alcohol, Snape was already drunk. Alcohol paralyzed his nerves, but made the feelings he had been hiding in his heart even stronger.

The facial features on his face were distorted, and he had never shown such a sad expression in Hogwarts. Tears flowed down from his eyes again, and he cried bitterly while holding his head.

"Because... because I still love her! I can never forget her, I love her"

Sherlock stared at Snape, thinking that when he first came to Hogwarts, he was recalling the movie commentary in his previous life for the first time, whether he judged whether he was a good person or a bad person.

Now he might be able to see a little more clearly.

If Lily hadn't been there in the first place, and even if Lily hadn't died in the end, Snape would have been a complete villain.

Since he entered Slytherin, he has been hanging out with students who are inclined to pure blood theory, studied black magic in the fourth grade, and with bastards like Lucius Malfoy who are going to be Death Eaters after graduation , have been in touch.

Lily saw him clearly, and finally because of the trigger of the phrase "Mudblood", she completely gave up on Snape, knowing that if she continued to be with someone like Snape, there would be absolutely no good results.

Afterwards, Snape was indeed depraved to the extreme. He joined the Death Eaters immediately after graduation, was branded with the Dark Lord's mark, became a hard-core believer of that person, and entered the inner circle of Death Eaters within a year.

Can be quickly accepted in such an organization, so that extreme terrorists like Voldemort can be regarded as one of their own, what he has done during the period of becoming a Death Eater can be imagined.

If things went on like this, Snape might become someone like Lucius Malfoy in the future, and maybe he would be more loyal to Voldemort than Malfoy.

But people are complicated. With the appearance of the prophecy of the savior, Lily's death became an important node in the change of Snape's fate.

Snape's love for Lily has never changed, but Sherlock still can't understand why he loves Lily so much. After falling to Dumbledore and becoming a professor at Hogwarts, he will treat the son of the person he loves the most. Such a nasty attitude.

Really just because Harry's surname is Potter?
Really just because he's a Gryffindor?
Seeing how drunk Snape was now, Sherlock tried to see if he could get any answers.

"If you love her so much, why are you so hard on Harry? Just because he's James' son?"

Snape held the wine bottle, buried his face in his elbows, he said with a choked voice.

"Dumbledore and I had an agreement. He said that the man just lost his power, and he will definitely make a comeback. The day he comes back, Harry is his main target. I have to show that I hate Harry, that's the only way , after that person comes back... I can continue to gain his trust and lurk by his side"

"He is Lily's child. I don't want him to be in danger. Lily died for him. So I have to protect him. Protect him so that Lily can't let me down again"

His voice became deeper and deeper, until finally he stopped talking at all and fell asleep lying on the table.

Snape's drinking capacity was very poor, after two drinks, he was already so drunk that he passed out.

After listening to his narration, Sherlock drank the wine in his glass silently. Now he finally understood why Snape treated Harry so badly. Get involved.

It turned out that they had already arranged that when Voldemort came back, Snape would become a senior spy within the Death Eaters to steal information for Dumbledore.

Looking at Snape lying on the table, Sherlock's eyes were a bit complicated, because Snape's behavior was very complicated, but his purpose was very pure.

In the end he let out a long sigh and called the bar owner over to help him carry Snape to a guest room on the second floor.

Sherlock himself stayed alone on the first floor for a while, as if he was planning something, and he returned to his room to rest at around three o'clock in the morning.

One night passed, and at ten o'clock the next morning, when Snape came down from the second floor of the bar, Sherlock was sitting by the window on the first floor, eating bread.

"Do you want some too? Let's order another cup of hot milk. You drank a lot last night."

Snape met him, and Sherlock bought him a breakfast too.

"What did I tell you last night?"

Snape's face became the same gloomy and numb as when he was in Hogwarts, his eyes were empty, like a body without emotion.

Sherlock said calmly.

"It's just talking about some things in your past, and I didn't say anything. Let's eat something first."

The two ate breakfast silently, and neither of them took the initiative to speak.

It wasn't until the food was finished that Sherlock looked at Snape and asked with a serious expression.

"So what else do you think now?"

Snape looked deeply at the big chimney that was emitting black smoke into the sky outside the window, and he spoke softly.

"She won't forgive me, but I want to save her."

Sherlock seemed to have expected that he would say such a thing a long time ago, there was no accident, and he just continued to ask.

"And then? Do you have a plan? How do you want to save it? In what way?"

Snape was silent. The meeting between him and Lily last night was enough to prove that Lily would not believe anything he said, nor would he listen to anything he did.

He can take her away by force, then what?Then what to do?
In order to keep her by his side, give her a love potion?
Snape couldn't do such a disgusting thing, he loved Lily as a person, not her body, if he really wanted to, he could have done it when he was a Hogwarts school matter.

What if you don't?
Defeat Voldemort in this world?

This will also make Lily's life no longer in danger, but if Voldemort is really so easy to defeat, can he still be called the Dark Lord of the wizarding world?
Sherlock also saw Snape's bewilderment, knowing that he had no idea about saving Lily, so he tapped his knuckles on the table lightly to draw Snape's attention.

"Can I help you?"

Snape stared at Sherlock.

"What do you mean?"

"Let's make a simple agreement." Sherlock and Snape looked at each other. "It's 77 years now, and there are still three years before the prophecy of the savior will appear. I only need two years. If within two years we If you haven't found a way to return to the correct timeline, then I will do my best to help you change the original history and let Lily survive."

Snape looked at the locket still around Sherlock's neck and knew that was what had brought them back here.

"Time can only be reversed, and there has never been a converter that can go to the future."

Sherlock looked out of the window, this gray city was depressing just looking at it.

"I know that the possibility of being able to go back is very low, basically equal to zero. But there are some things that have to be tried, just like you know that the possibility of trying to save Lily is basically equal to zero, but you also Wouldn't it be the same if you want to try it?"

Snape fell silent, he seemed to be thinking about Sherlock's words, and didn't know what else he could do except agree to him.

Sherlock didn't urge him, but just quietly looked at the gloomy sky, waiting for Snape's reply.

After a long time, Snape spoke slowly.

"What are you going to do in the past two years?"

Sherlock knew that he had actually agreed to come down, and he stood up from his chair.

"There are no other plans yet, but we should find a place to settle down now."

(End of this chapter)