[HP] Illusion

This is a room that will make people feel comfortable and relaxed. It is arranged like a living room with a feeling of home. There are light patterns printed on the beige wallpaper, thick cashmere carpets on the floor, and warm furniture. It's mostly casual and doesn't look like an examination room at all.

I don't know if the room was originally like this, or if it was arranged like this because they came.

"Potter, Mr. Potter?" The therapist who checked him looked familiar, but the other party looked quite stunned when he saw him, as if he was not sure that the person in front of him was the legendary Haribo. special.

"I am. Hello, therapist." Harry greeted the therapist politely.

"Merlin," the therapist Hunter stood up excitedly, but it wasn't because he was a fan of the Savior, "Why are you so thin? When I treated you three years ago, you looked healthier than you are now!" As a therapist, what he dislikes the most is someone ruining his body.

Harry: "... Let's hurry up and check the body?"

Then, the youth is forced to enter the world of "Merlin".Every time an examination is done, the therapist Hunter will say "Merlin" to express his respect for Merlin and contempt for Harry's health.Even Harry's careful remark, "It doesn't sound so bad," would be overwhelmed by "Merlin."

"Merlin, what's all this? Why, Mr. Potter, your physiology has declined so badly? It can't be for no reason. There must be some reason," the therapist waved his wand in disbelief, and he murmured while checking Said, "Impossible...impossible."

Physiological decline?

"What does this mean?" Although Harry understood the term Hunter said in the air, he still wanted to make sure that what the other party said meant what he understood.

"It's just..." Hunter didn't stop his hand. In order to explain the seriousness of the matter, he gave an example, "Let's put it this way, the older we get, the faster people will age. Decline," wait—"couldn't it be progeria? Isn't that a Muggle symptom? But..."

Generally speaking, at Harry's age, all the states and functions of the body are in an unprecedented golden period, and such a situation is absolutely impossible.

Harry understood this time, and he asked cautiously: "But I just feel very tired, and my diet and everything are normal."

Hunter looked at Harry worriedly: "I have never seen such symptoms before, but I have seen such cases in the Muggle world, but it was very rare at that time, but your symptoms are different from theirs. , Muggle's progeria mostly occurs in their children, and even adults will have different degrees of aging on the outside, but you don't have it at all, only the physical function of the body declines. No, let me make sure, The results of the test vary from person to person, so don't worry too much."

"What will happen after that?" Harry's expression was calm.

"Forgive me," the therapist, who was already immersed in his own emotions, looked sad, "If you don't find a way to stop it, if this continues, all the functions in your body may fail until—"

He spoke halfway, but paused when he saw Harry's extremely calm expression, and then managed to say the last words:

"—your death comes."

"Is that so? Can you find a way to stop it?"

"This, if you don't give up, it should be possible..." Hunter said hesitantly, but if the young man's body can no longer bear the speed of decline before he finds a way to stop it, it also means that the young man's life is dying. Goes on and on until it dies.

"I see." Harry smiled slightly, and took out a sleek, barely patterned wand.It wasn't his famous holly wand.

"Mr. Potter? You, what do you want to do?"

"Sorry, therapist, I won't hurt you."

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It was a case that had never been seen before. Only the Muggle world had heard of it and it was a different symptom. It was said that the Muggle world hadn't found a cure. Maybe the wizarding world had it, but obviously almost no one knew about it.

Potions that increase physiology?Physiological decline of the elderly——

Wait, Philosopher's Stone?That is something that can make people immortal. Nick Lemay used the Philosopher's Stone to live to over 600 years old, but the only piece was destroyed by Dumbledore ten years ago.

In fact, immortality is definitely not Harry's pursuit.

Right now...he's just living as long as he can.

Will he get better?Youth do not know.

However, if this situation is caused by crossing two worlds, then obviously, there will be no way to completely stop this trend.

So even if he said that to Hermione, he was already mentally prepared.

It is impossible for him not to go to that world, and he can't control his own thoughts.

All he can do now is take care of himself outside of that.

Didn't the reason be found out?Maybe it's not because of the back and forth between the two worlds, so this situation may also be temporary, and he will get better soon.

Their conversation that day ended amidst Hermione's suspicions. After Harry swore that he would eat regularly and resume his usual routine, Ron took the dubious Hermione away.

After that, Hermione and Ron almost took turns owling Harry, and were in cahoots with Kreacher.

Because Harry's daily work and rest are under the supervision of Kreacher, and after a period of cultivation, Harry's spirit looks much better, and his face doesn't seem to be as thin as it was at the beginning, so Hermione and Ron still believe Harry will absolutely take care of himself.

Christmas is coming soon, but because Christmas itself is an accident-prone holiday, Ron is even busier. As for Hermione, her parents are planning to travel to the Mediterranean this year. In recent years, she has been less accompanied by her busy work Hermione's parents decided to go with them.

In this way, the engagement party that Harry and Ron had discussed before, which had not yet been written off, of course fell through.

Although Ron is very busy this time, he strongly invites Harry to come to the Burrow on Christmas Day.

And Harry, of course, refused.

The young man's reason was as valid as ever. After the Christmas holiday, he had to start giving lectures to Auror Division. Before that, he had to make final preparations. He would not stay in England this holiday either.

The two met on the weekend before Christmas. Compared to Hermione, Ron was easily fooled by him.

After Harry took Kreacher back to the old house, he jumped into the next memory without hesitation.

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Only three months have passed in Harry's world, but in the world in that memory, more than a year has passed "swish".Harry didn't know how the people over there lived for more than a year, but during these three months, Harry, who had never entered that world once, only relied on other memories and seemed to be living quite actively.

It was still a sunny day, because it was officially midsummer, and the degree of sweltering heat was beyond the imagination of a young man whose world was in the Christmas winter season. Harry had worn thinner clothes before he came, but because of the contrast , So the moment he landed, he felt the steaming heat rushing towards his face, and a thin layer of sweat quickly appeared on his back.

This time, Harry's refresh point was not the Nine and Three Quarters Railway Station.

Is this place the rooftop of his house—No. 11 Mujinhua Road?

what's the situation? !

Before he could react, a brown owl sprinted towards him, landed on his shoulder, and stood still.

Harry: "..."

The owl proudly stretched out his leg tied with the letter, and kicked it in the air, beckoning Harry to take it off quickly.

With keen eyes, Harry saw that it was the invitation letter from Hogwarts that once flooded the house in Dursley, the light yellow envelope, and the handwriting written in emerald green ink on it.

Wait, even if he's a wizard, he's too old, right?

——This one simply thinks too much.

The tan owl pecked impatiently at his hair before Harry realized it.

After receiving the letter, the giant owl only left him with a haughty back and a naked ass, and then flew away and disappeared without a trace, leaving Harry standing there in a daze.

Wait, Juju, are you waiting for a reply?Just flew away, how will the little wizards reply?

Whose is this?Looking at the familiar wax seal on the invitation letter, Harry felt a little emotional. Maybe he sent it by mistake because he was so close to Lily's home?

But this letter can tell him where he is now, which should be a certain day in late July. It seems that he can catch up with Lily and Snape's enrollment!

Harry turned him over, but found that it clearly had another name written on it - Cokeworth, 11 Hibiscus Drive, guest room on the first floor, for Mr. Severus Snape.

——Why since he came here, things don't seem to be right?

——That's why he said, as long as he comes to this world, it seems that he will have an indissoluble bond with the boy... Either the boy catches him, or he takes the initiative to send him to the door.

Generally speaking, the address written by Hogwarts can't be wrong, but Snape obviously lived in Spider's End, so how could this letter write his home address?

Harry took out the key, and directly apparated under a certain big tree in his backyard. This place can block the sight of neighbors, and his sudden appearance will not scare others.

But someone was still scared by him--

The boy with black eyes seemed to have grown taller again. Due to the hot weather, his half-length black hair was tangled into strands of sweat, and the beads of sweat covered the tip of his nose. His expressionless face There was a layer of surprise on the face because of the sudden appearance of the person.

"You, you..." The boy's eyes widened. His hands were not gloved, they were all dirty with dirt, and he was holding a pair of scissors for pruning plants—the thing was facing straight at Ha Fortunately, there is still a few feet between the two of them.

"Put down the scissors first." Realizing that the boy was about to charge towards him, Harry sweated and reminded quickly.

Then he said, "I'm back."

Little Snape hadn't spoken, but the disbelief in his eyes made Harry's heart palpitate.

"Severus?"

The scissors hit the ground with a bang.

Little Snape desperately wiped his oversized clothes with both hands, looking a bit embarrassed.

"Didn't I tell you that you can use the Cleansing Charm?" He remembered that before he left, little Snape had used Clean Up to clean up the messy potion table well - even without a wand. Next, "Have you forgotten?"

Harry walked over step by step.

Then, he was hugged tightly around the waist.

The boy's head was buried in his chest.

Sure enough, it was higher than when he left.

Harry was a little out of breath, but he still couldn't help it, and slowly, he hugged the boy in his arms back.

……

The two who returned to the house went to change their bodies respectively.For some reason, the boy took especially long to change his clothes this time.

When the boy went to change clothes, Harry, who had already changed into short sleeves, looked at the house he hadn't seen for three months, and then he found that there was no change at all inside.

At some point, little Snape stood silently behind him, and when Harry turned around, there was a smile on the corner of his mouth.

"I didn't expect that I haven't been back for more than a year. This place is much cleaner than I imagined." Harry sighed seemingly unintentionally.

Little Snape muttered twice, but still couldn't speak smoothly.

"Don't stand there," Harry waved to the little Snape, who was pursing his lips firmly, "were you planting herbs just now?"

Little Snape nodded stiffly, but still refused to go over.

"By the way," Harry took out the invitation letter he had just received, "Look, it was sent to me by an owl just now, with your name written on it."

Little Snape's eyes widened a little. He looked at the pale yellow envelope, then at Harry, and pursed his lips again.

"You don't want it, Severus?" Harry shook the envelope.

Little Snape walked over slowly.

Harry saw the eagerness in his eyes, and he stopped teasing him, and handed the letter to him.

"You have to reply to the letter before July 31," Harry recited the content with his eyes closed. "You have to take this back and discuss it with your mother."

"I..." Little Snape managed to squeeze out a word.

You won't be really scared by him, will you?Harry waved his hand in front of the boy's eyes, but he grabbed it when he didn't want to.

The feeling of high heat and slight humidity instantly made Harry's fingertips tingle like an electric shock. He wanted to pull his hand back, but was held firmly.

"You're back." Little Snape murmured dreamily.

Harry: "..."

Sure enough, he was frightened stupid.

"I'm back." However, "I have to leave soon—"

Little Snape's body trembled, but he still held his hand tightly, as if he ignored the invitation he had been waiting for for a long time.

"Look at the invitation letter first," Harry said, "If you have any questions you don't understand, you can ask me."

Only then did Snape seem to react.

"By the way, you received the invitation letter, so Lily should have received it too. She should be on summer vacation by now." Harry rubbed his chin, "I'll go and see if she's at home. "

"She went to harp class this morning," said little Snape, still in a low voice, "she won't be back until noon."

"Then let's go find her after lunch." Harry didn't go to the kitchen, he had been away for more than a year, even if he left some food in the first place, it should have been finished by now.

"Shall we go get some food now?"

"I..." Little Snape's expression was obviously hesitant to speak.

"What do you want to say?" Harry looked at the boy puzzled.

What answered him was the silence of little Snape again.

"If you still don't want to go, then I will go by myself, and you will wait for me at home."

"...together." Little Snape's voice seemed to be squeezed out of his throat, dry, but sounding a little eager.

"I'm not leaving so soon for now, you don't have to worry about me disappearing," Harry said jokingly.

But soon, he realized that he shouldn't have made such a joke on young Snape, because the boy's expression quickly turned cold.

Sometimes, Harry really couldn't figure out the man's mind. The boy was too sensitive, and he felt a little bit at a loss.

"Let's go, what do you want to eat? Or should we think about it as we walk?"

Along the way, little Snape didn't talk much, but it wasn't like seeing him at the beginning, he couldn't utter a word for a long time, and he basically answered every question.

Harry knew, for example, that he was pruning the blood vine they bought from the potions seed shop in Diagon Alley more than a year ago.

It was a relatively mild perennial magic plant, and it looked no different from ordinary plants, but even if it was bought back, Harry thought that little Snape would never succeed in planting it, so he didn't pay much attention to it.When Harry was in the yard just now, he didn’t recognize any of them—the blood vine is more resistant to cold and frost. It grows in the ice and snow, and it blooms and bears fruit in the late winter and early spring. Tree vines like dead branches.What Snape did in the yard at that time was the necessary steps to take care of the blood vine in summer. In order to prevent it from withering, the branches must be trimmed as much as possible in summer to reduce the loss of nutrients and water. , the blood vine will pull out its branches again.

After buying lunch and returning home, Harry found that little Snape was really nervous, because his hands still seemed to be shaking while he was eating.

Were you so excited to see him?

Is this a good thing or a bad thing?

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In the afternoon, Harry went to No. 16 Hibiscus Drive alone—Snape refused to go with him anyway. Sure enough, Lily also received an invitation letter from Hogwarts.

She was also very excited when she saw Harry, but her performance was more outgoing. If you didn't think about it carefully, most people would think that she was actually more excited than little Snape.

Harry stayed at the Evans' house for a while, and after Lily's emotions calmed down, he took the girl back to his home. During this period, he also explained to the Evans couple about the Hogwarts invitation letter, Because more than a year ago, the Evans couple had already accepted the fact that there would be a little wizard in the family, so this time Harry easily persuaded the two of them.

——I must also thank McGonagall for letting him go to the Muggle-born freshman mission every year for the past four years.

Walking on the road, Lily held her invitation letter excitedly, "So did Severus also receive it? We will definitely go to Hogwarts together?"

"Of course, didn't you already know?" Harry said patiently, "You can ask me if you don't understand anything, and I will stay here for about a month this time."

"So we have to go after that?" Lily quickly responded.

"You guys have to go to Hogwarts too." Harry spread his hands.

"But..." Before Lily finished speaking, the two had already arrived at Harry's house, and when she saw little Snape, she also forgot what she wanted to say just now.

Well – these two are the poster child for half-talking.

The two half-grown children began to chat with each other, but most of the time it was Lily who was talking, and the red-haired girl was obviously excited and couldn't help herself.

Lily and Snape exchanged invitation letters and exchanged them after finding that they were identical except for the address and name.

"Well, it says to buy things used in the school, where is it going?" Lily asked while holding another piece of stationery, "Is it the Diagon Alley you took us to more than a year ago?"

"Yeah." Harry nodded, he thought for a while and said, "Why don't you tell them that you don't need the professor to take you when you reply, and I will take you there in a few days?"

"That couldn't be better!" Lily clapped her hands happily, obviously trusting Harry's decision immensely.

Little Snape nodded silently.

"By the way, Severus, you have to show your mother about this, and about me taking you to Diagon Alley—"

"She will agree." Little Snape said without thinking.

"Then when shall we go, tomorrow?" Lily asked eagerly, "We should reply to Hogwarts now? But how do we send it back? Mom said she took the letter from the owl's feet, and it left .This is the first time in her life that she has seen an owl that can deliver letters!"

Harry was considering whether to buy an owl for the two of them.He remembered that little Snape didn't have pets, so Lily... Could it really be the toad egg that Aunt Petunia said?

"Don't be so anxious, you can send it back together, isn't it above that you can send it back before July 31?"

"Oh, oh, yes. The last day of this month is still a few days away. I'm not in a hurry." Although Lily said so, she still couldn't calm down.

When Harry saw this, the evil factor of the professor in his bones suddenly emerged. He grinned and asked with a smile: "Do you have any questions now?"

Little Snape shook his head first, and Lily shook his head after reading the invitation letter and the letter paper with the purchase list many times.

"That's good." Harry's smile continued to widen, "Then let me check some of you this year to see if you have studied the tasks I left you well."

Lily: "..."

But for the good student Lily, she was only stunned for a second.

And for a boy who was a top student in a certain sense, he didn't respond at all, and even had some expectation in his expression.

"Then... where do we start?"

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Aw, I finally sent Daha over there.Regarding Daha's physical condition, it is clearly written, but... don't worry so much.

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