[HP] Illusion

Harry finally wiped away all the superficial scars on the little boy's body. Looking at the little Snape who seemed to have never been hurt, Harry didn't feel very good.

——The wounds in the heart are always heavier than those suffered by the body. The wounds on the body can be healed with scars, but how can the wounds on the soul be healed?Those were still his parents, they were bound by blood, and it could only be a lifetime relationship.

Even after being hurt like this, what Harry didn't expect was that little Snape mustered up the courage to say that to him when he didn't know he was already in tears—he actually got Snape consolation?Harry didn't know what his expression was at that time. The little boy's expression looked very unaccustomed to saying such words. He seemed not very good at comforting others, but Harry felt the awkward concern——

There is always such a moment in life that touches you, so that you will always remember it in your heart.

"Does it still hurt?" Harry gently pressed the little boy's body where there was originally a bruise. Although it was thin, the little boy's skin also had the soft, smooth and delicate texture unique to children, so Harry again Secretly changed the place and clicked.

Although the little Snape who was poked around by a strange man still had a small face paralyzed, there was a hint of red on the tips of his ears. He pursed his lips tightly, as if he was still very satisfied with his clumsy comfort just now. upset.

I don't know if it's because I didn't answer his question, and the person who was holding me pressed his arm several times. Little Snape couldn't bear it anymore, and suddenly struggled. Such a sudden action made the person who had been squatting on the ground Harry sat down on the ground, if it wasn't for the small space, maybe both of them would fall into a ball.

At the moment of weightlessness, Harry subconsciously protected the little bean in his chest, but his body was tilted to one side.Taking advantage of Harry's stupefied effort, the little boy climbed up from the young man's body, then quickly climbed onto the bed, and wrapped himself in the quilt.

Harry: "..."

Harry sat on the floor in a daze, and there was still a trace of pain in his tailbone caused by hitting the ground. Because he had been squatting for a long time, his legs were numb all the time.

After a while, Harry slowly knelt up and got close to the little boy who had almost covered his forehead with the quilt, lifted the quilt slightly, and said in a low voice, "You can't cover the quilt like this. Suffocating."

Little Snape tugged on his quilt so tightly that he barely pointed his butt at the young man who was talking.

"I'm sorry..." Harry stretched out his paw, but hesitated for a long time on the little head with its soft hair exposed, and finally retracted it, "I lied to you."

The little boy still didn't speak. If you listen carefully, you will find that he is not even breathing very much, but of course Harry is not so careful at this time.

In fact, he didn't know what he wanted at this time.

People are always very contradictory. When the development of things requires you to give up something, especially when this choice goes against your own wishes, things become more difficult to choose, even if you know that things can only be done in this way. is the best answer.

When Harry sorted out Snape's memory last time, there were only a few short memories of Snape's childhood. If his time travel was really limited by the length of his memory, then he was pretty sure that even if he came here The world, it was impossible to save Snape completely from this place.

In addition, Snape's family situation is also somewhat complicated. His father is an alcoholic and even domestically violent. His mother is cowardly but only intends to be an ordinary person. Irene Snape, who doesn't use magic, is simply an ordinary woman who can only endure humbleness. Harry guessed that even if he showed up again, he would just end up being kicked out again, because at this time she didn't want to hear anything about the wizarding world at all.

From Harry's point of view, the parents couldn't make sense at all.

In a way, the current Irene is a bit like the Dursleys, but compared to Snape, Harry felt that his childhood situation was much better-although the Dursleys were extremely mean to him, they always They were not his biological parents. When he separated from the family at the age of 17, he found that they had their own reasons for being mean at the beginning, because of the misunderstanding and hurt caused by the different choices. Although there is no way to go back to the time, but When you think about it differently, you may be able to appreciate their well-intentioned efforts at that time.

What Harry is most afraid of now is that his choice will hurt Snape again.

yes again.

Maybe if he can stay, he can make some changes.But the cruelest thing now is that he can't.Every time the memory ends, he will return from this world to his own world.

At no point did Harry want to stay in this world so much.

What if he can find relevant information?If he can find this, even if there is only a one-in-a-million chance... If he can find a way to travel to this world and take root——

Harry understood that such thoughts were too Gryffindor, but once some thoughts appeared, they couldn't stop them.

When he can really find a way to travel to this world, he will arrange everything before coming back.

In fact, Harry also knows how remote this matter is. When he was looking for relevant information before, no matter whether it was the Pensieve or the memory, he failed. It comes from the time-turner, but the time-turner just set its own time back a few hours, but it is impossible for the time-turner to bring you back 40 years ago in one fell swoop.

But it's also a hope, isn't it?

——At that time, he can tell Snape, I will always be by your side, right?

Little Snape listened quietly to Harry's voice, only to find that Harry said nothing but said those two sentences.

Humph--

Harry actually had a jack-o-lantern in his pocket, and he thought...

Forget it, I still don't take it out.

"Sleep well, I'm leaving first." After another period of silence, Harry suddenly said. "Happy Halloween, good night."

What he didn't expect was that the little boy suddenly lifted the quilt, but this movement quickly disappeared——

Young Snape wrapped himself up again.

In fact, Harry's heart couldn't harden at all, and the little boy's actions made him not want to leave at all.

Harry sat there silently, just looking at the little boy with only his hair exposed.

Sudden--

"Harry," the little Snape's voice came out of the quilt muffled, but he just opened his head and there was no sound. After an unknown amount of time, the little boy seemed to have made up his mind: "You will come back ?"

--uncertain.

He remembered bits and pieces of Snape, and he knew he should be back a few more times in the near future, but he couldn't promise anymore.

Harry didn't speak after all, he slowly stroked the soft fur on the little boy's head.

For a moment, Harry even wanted to give Snape a shot and forget it.

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When he returned to reality this time, Harry felt that he was very awake, and the memory gap that appeared after he fell asleep immediately after returning last time made him vigilant.

He slept against the wall of little Snape's room all night, and Snape hadn't woken up at seven o'clock in the morning, and he woke up and found himself slowly starting to rise back here——

Well, he can remember every detail.

Harry touched his pocket subconsciously, and his hands stopped suddenly.

The contents of the pockets are gone!

He didn't have the jack-o'-lantern that he sent out, and there was still half a bottle of trauma potion left for Snape's potion.He can bring everything there, such as Gold Gallon, such as the things in his space bag, such as last time he brought a potato - of course he did not reach the destination that time, so the potato was taken by him Came back, don't know if it made a difference.

Harry flipped through it vigorously, only to find that the things that belonged to that world were gone.

When he poured everything out and double-checked, Harry was disappointed.

It seemed to be true, he didn't check the last few times, so he didn't find it at all.

In fact, Harry is not regretful that these things cannot be brought back. Before, he just wanted to take the potion back and analyze the ingredients in it, but the problems that could be explained made him very depressed—even if he wanted to take little Snape Brought here (provided he is willing), he can't bring people back.

Well, the road is blocked.

So the other way—what if he could stay there?

Harry sat in front of his office, imagining what would happen to his stuff if he could find a way to stay there?His job can be resigned, and his belongings can be bad, but what about others?After Sirius died, he had no family here, only Hermione, Ron, the Weasleys, and his godson who now lived with his grandmother, he was so young-speaking of his godfather really Not very competent.

Can he really be willing to part with them?This made Harry hesitate. Before when he was thinking about problems, he didn't think too much, he just did what he wanted, but now he thinks more.

Maybe even if he leaves, his friends will live well here, or maybe Teddy will grow up healthy and healthy with his grandmother, although he is not willing to part with the people here, but other than that, there is no other Nothing could stop him from leaving, people are always selfish, and he knew he couldn't let Snape go.

So if he could stay there, he would choose to stay.Now Harry made up his mind.

But at the same time, he felt faintly uneasy.

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There was no one in the library early in the morning. The Christmas holiday had just begun. Most of the teachers and students who stayed at school would choose to sleep in on the first day. This gave Harry a lot of convenience. He could ask Mrs. Pince himself in a relatively normal voice. The book he wanted, Mrs. Pince only serves him now.

"The last time it was a Pensieve, this time it's time travel, Professor Potter, what exactly do you want to check?"

Mrs. Pince was not a talkative person, but she made an exception this time.

Harry, who was immersed in the book, heard her words, raised his head, and said nonchalantly: "Next time I might want to look up the history of space spells, time-turners, Floo powder, and port keys. I need your help," he smiled, "These things are commonplace but not taught in textbooks, I'm just curious."

"I thought these were things that Miss Granger would do." Mrs. Pince looked at Harry suspiciously. In her memory, young people in school days would never do these things. The one who appeared here most of the time was Hermione Gregory. Ranger.

"But you can't deny that since I became a member of the teaching staff here, I have worked harder than before." Harry shook the book in his hand, "Being a competent Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, I need to learn There are many more."

After hearing Harry's plausible explanation, Mrs. Pince was noncommittal and did not speak again.

Harry glanced at her, lost in the world of books again, he missed lunch, and was ruthlessly kicked out by Mrs Pince just before 04:30.

Under Mrs. Pince's stare, Harry returned to his office with his large and small bags of books.

After dinner, he stood before the Pensieve.

Harry needs to make sure of one thing, which has been vaguely felt since he crossed into that world, Harry pulled out all Snape's memories, and alone he was able to touch Stoudemire for the first time Nepe's memory was pulled out and put into the Pensieve.

Harry went in and out again.

Harry pulled out this memory, and pulled out a second memory of Snape when he was three years old.

Go in again, come out again.

In order to confirm his experimental results, he entered these two memories twice in a row.

The result he got was the same as before. This result was what he expected, but it was also his most disappointing——

Harry knew there were certain rules for entering that world, and he might have found one of them now.

He could enter that world, but it had to be in the order Snape remembered - of course he couldn't be sure about this, but the current situation seemed to be the case.If he wanted to enter that world, he had to go through Snape's 1964 memory, and he couldn't go back to the time and space where the two 1963 memories were.

In fact, it was true. At this time, he had already met Snape in 1964, and Snape remembered him, so if he could go back to 1963, the world's track might be messed up.This also indirectly confirms Harry's guess, the time he can stay there is not long, which directly limits him to appearing there only occasionally.

Good, Harry slammed his fist on the floor hard.

Obviously he can touch the real Snape and see what happened to him, and he wants to save Snape from this situation all the time.And worst of all, he couldn't.

Every time the memory ends, he will return from this world to his own world.

Objective conditions do not allow him to do so.Harry had never hated so-called objective conditions so much.

—Wait, he has one last chance.It's not time to give up yet.

Harry silently got up from the floor, and once again entered the ocean of books to fight for knowledge.