[HP] Aunt of the Savior

The night wind in Godric's Hollow was suffocatingly humid, and the Death Eaters, led by their small new companions, cautiously approached the small white house.Lucius Malfoy and Antonin Dohorov each led a team and surrounded it, and the werewolves hid in the surrounding woods and waited for an opportunity.

Snape, who was walking in the ranks of Death Eaters, felt ashamed that his hand holding the wand was trembling.Voldemort's strength always made him inevitably have some weak thoughts. He could not deny that he still longed for such a powerful power, but now he had something more important than the pursuit of power, and he could not escape or compromise. Must have the courage to--

Snape reached for the two-way mirror in his pocket, which had been silent.Jody didn't contact him, which made him feel less relieved, but that may be good news, at least it will prove that their previous speculations about today's situation have been correct so far.

As early as three days ago when they got the list of potions, Snape, Jody and Dumbledore had already discussed what kind of large-scale attack Voldemort might plan to take today.There are two most likely targets for him to choose: Hogwarts or the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix.Considering that there was an agent within the Order of the Phoenix, the address of the Order of the Phoenix was certainly no secret to Voldemort.And Hogwarts has always been Voldemort's goal.

"In contrast, the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix can be given up." When Dumbledore learned of this information, he chose to stay at Hogwarts without hesitation. "I must stay at Hogwarts, where I am needed more. I believe that Voldemort is likely to send more people to attack the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix, and choose to lead people to attack Hogwarts himself."

"Then your home..."

"Jody, my home is Hogwarts." Dumbledore smiled. "It's just a house in Godric's Hollow. I'll hand over the Order of the Phoenix to Alastor, and he'll know what to do. I'm more worried about the one you're going to attend than my house. A birthday party. I guess it's not going to be that simple."

Snape grimly agreed. He had objected to Jody going to the appointment since he knew about the invitation.

"No, if I don't go, it will arouse Voldemort's suspicion even more." However, Jody insisted on his own thoughts, "I have no reason to refuse. This will make him believe that I am harmless to him."

In the end, the compromise Jody made was that she carried one of the two-way mirrors left by Irene to Snape to ensure that she could get in touch with Snape in time if something unexpected happened.

Jody's judgment may indeed be correct.Seeing that Voldemort was in a happy mood today and did not show the anger of being betrayed, Snape finally became a little optimistic.Moreover, when he saw the little Death Eater who was leading the way ahead, Snape finally knew who the spies in the Order of the Phoenix were.

That was an unexpected person, Snape really didn't expect him to have such guts.However, it was too late for him to send a Patronus to inform Dumbledore about it, and there seemed to be no point in rushing to do it now.What he has to do next is to act out a scene of fighting the Order of the Phoenix with all his strength, while doing his best not to hurt the other party.

This was the first time Snape had done this.But he knew very well that Jody had done this in almost every battle with the Order of the Phoenix in the past two years.Starting today, he will be closer to Jody both in terms of position and behavior.

Snape's hand gripping his wand finally regained its usual composure.

Since Dumbledore had already made arrangements, the members of the Order of the Phoenix were not unprepared for today's attack, but the severity of this battle was beyond their imagination.

This attack of the Death Eaters gave people the feeling of a group of ants staring at the target. They and some terrible magical creatures brought by them kept coming up from all directions, and the poor little building The house is tightly surrounded.

"How do these guys know this place?!" Frank Longbottom couldn't help shouting while strengthening the defensive spell, "There must be a traitor in the Order of the Phoenix!"

The small man hiding behind the Death Eaters visibly flinched at the roar.He was not rushing forward like others, but now he took a big step back.

Snape, who had been paying attention to him, immediately strode forward, pointing his wand at him: "The Dark Lord never allows running away, Pedillo."

Amid the banging and explosions caused by the spell, Snape's voice did not attract the attention of the surrounding Death Eaters who were excited by the battle, but the fact that his name was called still made the little man—Peter Pediru fell into a state of great panic.He didn't seem to have expected his identity to be recognized at all.But when Snape spoke, he also recognized the identity of the other party.

"S-Snape!"

"Look, here's the brave Gryffindor!" Snape's voice was pleasantly malicious. "What a brave robber!"

Peter, who was ridiculed by Snape, had to give up his plan to escape, and was forced to start participating in the battle like other Death Eaters, but the fear in his eyes deepened.He flinched around to the other side, and Snape noticed that the ones he avoided were Moody and Sirius, who were standing in front of the door and dueling Death Eaters at close quarters.

damn it! Moody swung his wand quickly, and the spell almost never failed, he cursed furiously. "There are werewolves?"Hell, these cowards!Did they think they were attacking a castle like Hogwarts? "

"I'm afraid Remus didn't hear that damn Greyback will bring a few werewolves to join the Death Eaters' operation." Sirius always had a smile on his handsome face, but his eyes were rather cold.Together with Moody, he fired a Stunning Spell, which finally caused a Death Eater who jumped on him to collapse to the ground.The Death Eaters' fighting power was astonishing, they were not even afraid of common spells, and they could quickly recover from flesh wounds and continue to fight. This reminded Sirius of the scene they first saw in Diagon Alley.

"It must be the mysterious man's evil things that helped them again." Moody muttered, using the cover of the fence to avoid a death curse. "The situation is against us, we have few people, and they all use black magic."

The Order of the Phoenix is ​​completely at a disadvantage now. Not only are they fewer in number, but they also have to cast spells randomly without considering their own magic power. The situation is very unfavorable to them.Seeing that the Order of the Phoenix's counterattack had weakened, the Death Eaters became even more excited. They waved their wands and shot fireballs, which ignited the plants in the garden. The flames had already started to spread along the ivy growing around the house.

Everything was as Dumbledore estimated, and Moody, who stayed at the headquarters, would not drag the battle meaninglessly, putting the members of the Order of the Phoenix into crisis.After the house was finally set on fire, Moody began to gather the wizards who were scattered all over the house to fight the Death Eaters, and prepared to abandon the house and evacuate.But they had only just begun to prepare for the evacuation, and suddenly it was obvious that the spell of the Death Eaters' attack had weakened.

"What's going on here?" Moody didn't stop his plan to evacuate, but he quickly jumped to the window, aimed at the front Death Eater and shot a spell.

The spell that was completely ineffective before seemed to have changed suddenly. The Death Eater was caught off guard and was sent flying a long way, and fell to the ground, his limbs twitched and then stopped moving.

"It's not quite right." Sirius, who had been fighting persistently, also noticed something was wrong. He excitedly rushed to the front and started to fight back.

But those Death Eaters who were very arrogant just now seemed to be a different person at this time, they almost panicked and started to run away and disapparate.

Their escape was as sudden as when they launched an attack. Except for a few Death Eaters who stubbornly insisted on fighting the Order of the Phoenix, the others had already dispersed.However, the level of the remaining few people is undoubtedly very advanced. Almost every spell emitted by their wands has an ominous light, but their aura is also different from before.

The Death Eaters exchanged glances behind their masks, only they knew the horrifying sensation emanating from the Dark Mark on their arms.It was a pain as if the skin had been peeled off, and for a moment the power they had received from the great Dark Lord seemed to disappear along with the Dark Mark, which had never happened before.Among them, more than one person tried to contact the Dark Lord with his wand pointing at the Dark Mark, but the Dark Mark seemed to have lost its life, and there was no response.

Without the protection of the Dark Lord, not many people have the courage to continue to attack Albus Dumbledore's house.

Peter Pedillo's escape made Snape extremely annoyed, he did not choose to escape like most Death Eaters, but cast a disillusionment spell on himself, and walked slowly towards Potter's house in fear .He had a bad feeling that Voldemort's sudden failure might be related to the boy mentioned in the prophecy.

Damn it, Snape cursed himself, why didn't it occur to him that Voldemort's real reason for keeping Jody out of this plan might involve Harry?Why are they so blind to believe that with the Fidelity Curse Voldemort can never find Harry?

In a daze, Snape walked down the path towards the town, through a dark alley, and finally came to the house where he had spent one of the best summer holidays.He should not have been able to see the house because it was under the Fidelity Charm, yes, he shouldn't have been able to see it, as long as he couldn't see it, things weren't so bad...

However, the reality was not what Snape expected in his heart.The scene in front of him almost made it impossible for him to stand firmly on the ground: a room on the second floor of the house was almost destroyed by a bomb, and the broken window lattices and bricks looked shocking.This kind of scene made him feel that even if he had just swallowed a ball of porcupine quills, it would be better than now.

He shivered and pushed open the wooden door, and even hoped that James Potter, who hated him, would jump out and wave his wand at him. Anything would be fine, even if it was to experience "Fujill" again.But as he walked through the hall, he saw the messy-haired man lying on his back on the floor.He didn't move at all.

"No...no..." Snape rushed forward in panic, feeling as if his heart would stop beating for an instant.The similarity in appearance between James and Jody gave him the illusion of seeing Jody die in front of him.But even though he tried his best to keep himself calm so as to get rid of this illusion, he still couldn't sense any vitality from the man he hated so much.

Snape squatted in the hallway for two seconds, then suddenly rushed towards the stairs. "Lily!"

There was a faint hope in his heart, the Dark Lord once said that he would take Lily as a reward for him, maybe he would let Lily go and not kill her... But that little hope came when he heard the cry of the baby It has completely disappeared since then, and no mother would let her child cry by her side, especially that mother is Lily who is naturally gentle.

Snape felt his knees go weak, and he had to lean on the wall that had been slanted by the explosion, and scrambled to the door step by step.

Lily and her husband fell on the floor in the same posture. The room was surrounded by pieces of furniture that had been blown out of shape. Only one piece of furniture remained unscathed, and that was the small crib behind Lily.The little baby was probably tired from crying, sobbing pitifully.

"Lily..." Snape couldn't support his body any longer, and knelt down beside Lily, calling her name incessantly like a dream. "Lily..."

Snape knelt beside Lily in a daze, maintaining a motionless posture like a statue, and didn't even feel the tears overflowing his eyes.It wasn't until he realized that there was a realization staring at him that he raised his head.

The line of sight came from Harry Potter in the crib. The boy was still hiccupping, but he tilted his head and looked at Snape through the railing of the crib with a pair of green eyes exactly like Lily's. There are still tears on his face, and there is an extra scar on his forehead, which is a surprising lightning-shaped scar.

Snape stood up and went to the crib to look at Harry.After all, their predictions were wrong. Voldemort's attack on Hogwarts and the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix was all a cover, and his real target was Harry Potter.But now, the Dark Lord is gone, and the baby's parents died under the Avada Kedavra curse, but the little thing, who was only a few months old, survived, leaving only a scar on his forehead ?

Did that prophecy come true?

Little Harry looked at him not at all shy, and stretched out his fleshy little hand towards him, as if hoping to get the same gentle comfort as before.Snape could almost overflow with guilt, did this simple-minded little thing understand that he had lost his parents forever since then?

There was a dead silence save for Harry's babbling, and Snape could feel another person entering the house.He knew who it was, he could feel it.

"Joe..." Snape staggered down the stairs, not surprised to see Jody gently put James' body into a peaceful sleeping position.James folded his hands across his chest, the ring on his ring finger gleaming dimly.

"Is Lily dead too?" Hearing Snape's voice, Jody looked up at him.She didn't cry, the expression on her face was blank.

Snape felt his heart be pulled hard, and he thought of Jody when the Potters had just passed away.He struggled to say the cruel answer: "... yes."

"Severus." Jody's eyes were empty and drifting, and she laughed at herself and said as if she was talking to herself: "I really want to know, what's the point of everything I do?"

"Listen, Jody Potter." Snape stared at Jody, who looked like a walking dead, with a stiff expression, his arms grabbed her shoulders, and a low and hoarse voice that was different from usual flowed from his lips: "You know I'm not good at comforting others, but it's not your fault at all, you've given all your strength..."

Snape's lips twitched, and he didn't have the courage to continue.

Joe, it's not your fault, it's all because of me, and it's me who caused the consequences.If I could have thought it through earlier and made up my mind earlier to choose to stand with you, then nothing would have happened today.I was the one who killed my first friend, and the one who bereaved the woman I loved.

"Yeah, I know." Jody seemed to smile. "Severus, of course I do. You see, we studied at the same academy, we joined the Death Eaters together, and I know your family, everything about you, and I don't think there's anyone else in the world like me." Know you so well, like you know me."

... We don't necessarily know each other really well... Snape thought to himself, he didn't even know if Jody would immediately raise his wand and give him a Avada Kedavra.

"Everything I do is to protect, but until now, I find that everything is my own cleverness." Jody said, "I thought I was so smart, I always thought so. I even took pride in it, Feeling great because I sacrificed so much and took so many risks to be a double agent. But now it turns out that all I did was self-satisfaction, I failed to save anyone, I lost All my family. Merlin has dealt the cruelest punishment for my arrogance."

"No, that's not the case." Snape held onto Jody's shoulders tightly, "Listen, Joe, you still have... and Harry, Harry is not dead, he is still alive!"

"Harry..." Jody followed Snape up the stairs in disbelief.

When she saw Lily's body in front of the crib, Jody squatted down, adjusted Lily's posture gently with the same attitude, and then waved her wand, allowing Lily and James to lie comfortably in their bedroom .Finally, she picked up the boy in the crib tremblingly, as if she couldn't believe that the baby in her arms was really alive and still breathing. "It's Harry! Harry's alive!"

Yes, no one could have mistaken the boy, for he had the Potter disheveled black hair and Lily's beautiful green eyes, just as Dumbledore had described it to Jody.He is as small and fragile as Doris once said, so fragile that if you hold him with more strength, he will die.

Jody hugged him lovingly, looking at him as if seeing the last hope left in the whole world.Snape found that for the first time, he didn't feel unhappy when Jody's eyes were focused on someone else, and he was even grateful to the child, because his presence made Jody feel alive again.

"How is it possible?" Jody looked at little Harry in his arms in disbelief. "How could Voldemort have failed in killing such a baby?"

Before Snape could speak, a man's terrified voice suddenly came from downstairs: "Prongs? Lily? Answer me!"

Jody's face suddenly changed. She put little Harry back in the crib, pulled out her wand and rushed out: "Siris Black! How dare you show up?!"