Villagers in Little Hangleton still refer to the house as "Riddle House," even though the Riddles have not lived here for many years.The house is situated on a hillside from which the whole village can be seen.Several windows of the house were sealed, the tiles on the roof were incomplete, and ivy crawled all over the house with its teeth and claws.The Riddle Hall, which had been a large and handsome house, the largest and most imposing building for miles around, was now damp, desolate, and perennially unoccupied.

Villagers in Little Hangleton agreed that the old house was "scary".Half a century ago, a strange and terrible thing happened here, until now, when the elders in the village have nothing else to talk about, they still like to talk about it.This story has been told over and over again, and it has been embellished in many places, so no one can say for sure what the truth is.Every version of the story, though, begins the same way: 50 years ago, when the Riddles were well-governed and magnificent, a maid came into the drawing-room at dawn on a bright summer day to find the Riddles All three died.

The police were called, and the whole village of Little Hangleton was in amazement and curiosity, and the villagers tried to hide their excitement, but failed.No one wasted any effort in pretending to grieve for the Drills, who were not very popular in the village.The old couple are rich, but they are snobbish and rude. Their grown son Tom, you may not believe it, is actually worse than his parents.What the villagers are concerned about is who the murderer is - obviously, it is impossible for three seemingly healthy people to die naturally at the same night at the same time.

The rich man who had recently owned Riddle neither lived here nor used the house for anything.People in the village said he kept it for "tax reasons," but no one knew exactly how.However, the wealthy homeowner continued to pay the original servant Frank as a gardener.Now approaching his seventy-seventh birthday, Frank is deaf and his bad leg is stiffer than ever, but he can still be seen dawdling about in the flower beds in fine weather, though The weeds were creeping towards him, and he couldn't stop them even if he wanted to.One day later, Frank ushered in a new employer, a rich man in Derbyshire. Frank got a retirement annuity and left the place where he had worked all his life. Although he strongly demanded to stay, but Rejected, Frank went back to live in her mother's hometown.

One night in August, the villagers saw the upper windows of the Riddle House flickering and dimming, as if someone had gone in and lit a fire inside.Then, at the darkest hour before dawn, a raging fire broke out in the Riddle Mansion. In less than an hour, the entire decayed house was burned to the ground. The villagers wondered how the house burned so quickly. , the firefighters who arrived early in the morning resolved the doubt. Someone set off flammable materials, such as gasoline and gas, inside. Everyone thought it was a prank played by the naughty boys in the village. Fortunately, the owner of the house did not pursue the behavior of those boys. , and replanted a large area of ​​trees on the ruins, the Riddle Mansion has since disappeared from the memory of the villagers.

When you enter the house by the back door, through the cavernous gloom of the large kitchen, it is dark all around, and through the door of the corridor, a smell of decay rises in your nostrils, which, because of the large mullioned windows on either side of the front door, How much show let in a little light.Going upstairs, there is a thick layer of dust on the stairs.

There was a fire in the fireplace.The firelight came out from the crack in the door, casting an orange-yellow light shadow on the rotten floor covered with thick dust, only a man's voice could be heard from the room, the voice was very low

"Master, do you still need a soul stabilizer?"

"Stay a while," said another voice.It was a man too—but with a voice that was strangely high-pitched, and as cold as the wind. "Move me over to the fire, Severus."

There was a soft thud in the room, like someone lifting that chair up and down.Looking through the door was a tall, lean man wielding a wooden stick to levitate the chair into place, wearing a long black cloak, before disappearing again.

"Where's Nagini?" the cold voice asked.

"Master." The man in the cloak said, "It went to eat. It just slaughtered a lamb."

"I need another dose of soul stabilizer tonight," said the voice. "Nagini needs another milk feed."

There was a moment of silence in the room, and then the man in the cloak spoke again.

"Master, I don't have enough medicinal materials. I need to go to the alley to buy some medicinal materials."

"A week later," said the chilling voice, "maybe longer. This place is comfortable enough to stay in, and it's not wise to go out too closely, my faithful friend."

"So the master's determination remains the same," the man asked softly, "that I should bring the boy."

"Of course it hasn't changed, my servant." There was now a threatening tone in that cold voice.

There was a moment of silence - and then the man spoke, so deep and smooth that one had to listen carefully to pick out the syllables he uttered.

"As you wish, master. But I need a longer time. I can't break Dumbledore's protection spell. I can only do it when he is on the Hogwarts Express train."

There was another silence, longer than before, and then—

"Longer time" the second voice asked softly. "I see……"

"My friend, if you complete this task," said the cold voice softly, "I will give you more trust..."

"Master, this is my honor." The man said with a much more relaxed tone, "—it is also my honor."

At this time, the air began to stagnate, and a large amount of magic power was compressed in this Riddle mansion. The magic power factor began to scurry, expanding and colliding continuously, forming black lightning as thin as a hair and wandering in the space. Because of the suppressing effect of the magic circle, any People cannot move at will.

"My servant," the voice hissed, "looks like you're a traitor, let me think about when it started, oh..., it was the beginning," and the armchair was lit with a blue flame

"Perhaps you should learn to fail, Dark Lord." The man held a cautious wand in his left hand and held a goblin sword in his left hand.

"That word has never been in my dictionary, Snape," said the voice coldly, and flames spread across the room. "I am immortal, but I can give you a chance, my servant."

The man said calmly, "I don't think I need to, Dark Lord." A green light glowed from his wand. "Go ahead, my lord."

A girl a few hundred miles away was awakened. She waved her wand and saw that it was already six o'clock. She still felt palpitations when she thought of the nightmare just now, and hoped that Severus would succeed, Lily said silently.

At this moment, Pippi appeared with a bang, his whole body was trembling, his big blue eyes were filled with fear, his two hands were clenched together, and he shouted loudly: "Miss, Mr. Snape is back." Then Big big tears fell on the floor' he looked very bad.He is dying! ! " Lily jumped up from the bed and rushed downstairs quickly, and then she saw Snape lying on the living room floor, Lily was shocked when she saw him, and almost fainted at the stairs, she bit He bit his tongue to keep himself calm. Half of Snape's body was charred, the other arm had only bones left, yellow tissue fluid and blood flowed all over the floor below him, muscles and skin mixed into one It's a meatball, but it's better and you can roughly see the outline.

"Flower uses Plan No. [-]." Lily said, Huahua conjured up a huge vertical glass jar next to Snape, Lily put Snape on a ventilator, and worked together with Huahua to put Snape into the jar In the tank of blue transparent viscous liquid, Snape smoothly slid into the tank and floated in the water. Lily pressed the control, the lid on it was closed, and the whole machine started to maintain the operation of Snape's body functions. Lily looked up at the unconscious Snape in the glass jar, "Flower, I don't think I should listen to my grandfather so much, you say, right?".Huahua wiped away her tears and continued its work, continuously pumping various potion preparations into the machine, transporting them in tanks through pipelines to treat Snape's injuries.

Lily returned to the laboratory and began to prepare potions for treating burns caused by magic flames, as well as healing scrolls for reversing various black magic marks. In order not to make mistakes in this race against time, Lily took Felicia and Refreshing Potion, and they worked quickly Appeared, Lily continued to make various healing potions and injected them into Snape's body.

A few hours later, Snape's facial features gradually healed, he was no longer a bloody mess, he could still see the skull and brain, and his consciousness began to wake up. There were signs of movement in the joints in the water, but the other side of his body was still It was scorched black without any improvement.

Lily took out a tube of blood from a gold box carved with snakes, inserted it into the machine, and then the tube of blood was sent into Snape's body through the intravenous syringe, and Snape's scorched flesh was slowly peeling off, Like layers of meringue being torn off, that side of the body soon became a complete skeleton, and even the necrotic organs fell off, and were then decomposed and discharged by the cleaning system of the machine.At this time, an incredible thing happened. Those tissues, blood vessels, organs, and muscles quickly grew back layer by layer, just like reproducing an anatomy course with a high-speed lens, and an intact body appeared.

Then Lily stitched together various healing scrolls to form a large magic circle. Lily placed the magic crystals in each energy center and began to heal Snape who was comatose in the crystal jar.In this way, every day, Lily kept changing the magic crystal, adjusting the magic circle, recording Snape's recovery status, and waiting for him to wake up.

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☆、Chapter 22

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