[HP] Illusion

`P`*WXC`P``P`*WXC`P`After little Snape ran away angrily, James, who had been hiding not far away and secretly watching the two quarrel, was also a little confused——

Is that Harry really back?Obviously, it was just Sirius talking nonsense with him... It's not right, it should be Lupine who said that he "dreamed" a person who looked like himself that night.

So Lupine didn't "dream" it, but the man actually appeared that night, and he even screamed at the shack... subduing a werewolf in his teenage years?How can it be?James was taken aback by his own associations.That's a werewolf. Just one person can subdue a werewolf known for its cruelty?

But... James' brain was spinning very fast.What if Lupine had really seen Harry that night?After all, Snape Jr. said that Harry was back, and even gave evidence.

——Don't mess up.

James slowly closed his eyes, sorting out his thoughts - first of all, assuming that Lupine saw Harry that day, that means Harry appeared in the Shrieking Shack, but how did little Snape know? Leigh would come back, it wouldn't be... James found his heart pounding.

If Harry really had contact with Lupine, would Lupine's secret be exposed?And then the guy said that to the snot, so that's why the snot told Lily to stay away from them?But that's not right, even if Harry found out that it was a werewolf, he wouldn't know that it was Lupine, would he?

Wait, he and Lily didn't find any trace of Snotluck in Hogsmeade that day, and he was lucky to be alone with Lily for most of the day.

So could he sort out a line that Harry had subdued Lupine from the Shrieking Shack that night, then entered the school from the Shrieking Shack, and met little Snape?

Yes yes, that would make sense why little Snape knew Harry was back.thought James.

—Probably even James didn't know that he had been so close to the truth.

However, even if he came up with this conclusion himself, he still finds it impossible—how could that person know that there is such a secret passage between Hogwarts and Hogsmeade? After Lupine visits the Scream Shack every month, he finds out that there is a secret passage there, and the strangest thing is that when everyone is keeping away from the "haunted" Scream Shack, how can anyone think about it? How close is it?And... If that person sneaked in from outside the school, what was it for?

It won't be related to this owl incident, right?But the time is not right?

James felt that his brain was about to explode, and too many thoughts were integrated into his brain, and many thoughts of possibility, impossibility, high probability and extremely small possibility were constantly impacting his mind. Nervous, without more evidence, he really can't figure out the twists and turns in it just by guessing.

But one thing he had to admit was that for fabricating Harry's return, Sirius and him were purely blind.

The sky was getting dark, and Lily was still standing there motionless.

Of course, James knew that he must not go out now. After all, Lily and Snotluck had just finished arguing, and the two even revealed that part of the reason was because of what they had said. At this time, if Lily took her anger out on him, Then the little image he had managed to build up in front of Lily would be completely destroyed again.

Although James really wanted to go back and discuss this matter with Sirius and the others immediately, but after thinking about it, he decided to stay where he was and wait and see. He didn't dare to let Lily stay here alone.

When the sky was completely dark, Lily finally moved. James escorted her all the way back to the castle, and then hurried back to the Gryffindor common room by another shortcut.

Pulling the other three back to the dormitory, James couldn't help but "share" his brain hole with his friends, "Lupine, can you think about what happened that night again?"

"You guys kept laughing at me for dreaming that day..." Lupine looked at the anxious James speechlessly.

"Don't be ridiculous," James said angrily, "I'm worried about you now, even if he doesn't know that you are the werewolf, then he also knows that there is a werewolf in Hogwarts?"

Peter's mouse-like eyes widened, and he gasped in surprise.

Lupine was silent for a while, "It's been more than a month. When the moon was full a few days ago, I didn't feel that person came. In fact, this feeling is very obvious," he said honestly, "What happened that night It was really like a dream, I felt someone gently caressing my back, and I didn’t feel like there was a wild beast hidden in my body like usual, it seemed like it was the first time I felt it in that form Rest assured, and a few days ago, the previous mania seemed to be back."

"It's really suspicious," Sirius rubbed his chin, "but Lupine is also right. It's been more than a month and you haven't exposed this matter. Maybe it's just you thinking too much."

"But that Harry is close with the snot in case he warns the snot that there are werewolves in Slytherin" and Lily too.In fact, even if he only met twice, he still felt that he wanted to get close to that person unconsciously. If that person hadn't been missing for such a long time, maybe he would have been very good with that person, right? "Don't forget, I heard him tell Lily that we have problems and keep her away from us."

Sirius sneered: "He always thought there was something wrong with us, didn't we always see him that way?" He patted James, the corners of his mouth curled up in disdain, as if to say that James was thinking too much.

"That's not the case..." James was angry, that's not what he wanted to say, okay? !

"To be honest, are you worried that Lily will ignore you because of this? After all, she wronged the snotling this time... Oh, no, we still can't rule out that Harry has nothing to do with this owl incident," Sirius analyzed, "If she is shaken by this incident, then your friendship with her has returned to freezing point, so do you want us to give you some advice on how to get through this crisis?"

"Are you not worried at all?" James said depressedly, so did he really think so much just now?Why couldn't even Sirius understand him?

"Don't be like this, buddy," Sirius patted James's bird's nest-like mess of hair, "I really understand your worry, but I still want to say that caring is messy, because you have to consider Lily, and we don't need to..."

Sirius put his arms around Lupine's shoulders like two brothers, "So isn't the biggest problem now that our worries are useless at all? Even if that Harry knows, if something really goes wrong, it should be the Is it our principal?"

Lupine looked helplessly at Sirius, then at James, and had to agree with the former: "I think, at this stage, we should not think about things so complicated. Instead of worrying about my little secret being exposed, why not?" Think about it, what Lily will think of us is better."

James: "..."

In fact, he was really a little worried.

"Also," Sirius settled the score, "you said you heard that snot-nosed man arrange us in front of Evans?"

"Don't we do that too?" Peter whispered.

Sirius glared at Peter as if, "Shut up. We are different from him. He is a Slytherin who specializes in black magic and a reserve army of Death Eaters! We are not making him up, we are just telling the truth."

Peter flinched, and immediately shut his mouth obediently.

"He said a few words."

"Who knows what he told Evans when we didn't know it," Sirius said, "This man is indeed a Slytherin. Think about it, why did Evans still pay attention to him at the beginning?" You, she has been getting farther and farther away from you in recent years, and she almost showed a look of being unable to dodge? It must be because of the snot, okay?"

"I don't seem to have a good word for the snot, do I?" James squinted at Sirius. "I never changed my position on the point of hating him."

"That's good." Sirius exaggeratedly breathed a sigh of relief, "You know, Gryffindor has always been at odds with Slytherin, even if you treat them better, they won't appreciate it, what we have to do, It is to win Lily to our territory..." He made a gesture of closing his palms, "We really have an advantage in this, just because we are Gryffindors, there is no reason why we can't do it..."

Lupine didn't say anything, his expression was neither approval nor disapproval.

"I don't like him either." Peter echoed in a low voice.

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Little Snape regretted throwing the letter out that day, in fact, in his opinion, it was not worth exposing such a secret in order to prove his innocence, especially when troubles were likely to follow— And the biggest reason, of course, was because he didn't want Lily to know that Harry was back.

—even at first, Harry didn't want him and Lily to know he was back.

Young Snape knew early on that he was reluctant to share information about Harry with Lily, and he was even happy to have such a little secret with Harry.

For the next few days, little Snape kept avoiding meeting with Lily. It was not known whether it was because the red-haired girl didn't want to meet him for the time being or for other reasons. The two never met face to face until Slytherin In the Potions class with Gryffindor, the two "had to" be in the same room.

However, the two are still relatively far apart, one is on the far left of the classroom and the other is on the far right, with the Gryffindor group of four in between. It seems that there will be no intersection after class.

But that's how it happened, and when Snape and Lily turned in their classwork, Slughorn stayed behind, "I need you two to do me a little favor, and you all stay after class."

It has been several days since the owl incident, most of the owls have recovered a lot of health, but on the surface it is true, just when they were preparing to remove the last toxins in the owl's body, they found that the potion was not enough -Lily and Snape were the two most valued students of Slughorn.So from the beginning, he wanted to ask these two to help him make this potion together.

Everyone else left, and Slughorn nagged a lot, and finally made his purpose clear. After all, the two of them actually had no room for rejection.

"Since you have agreed, come to the classroom on time at seven o'clock tonight, and I will prepare everything else. As a reward for you, I will reduce the potion papers for both of you this time." Slughorn "Now you can leave," promised.

Lily left with little Snape, and the two walked to the door of the classroom. There was no one in the corridor.

Just when little Snape was about to part ways with Lily with a cold face, Lily looked at the cold air exuding from the boy who was thousands of miles away, and finally plucked up the courage to call out to little Snape: "Severus , can you give me some time?"

"There's nothing to talk about between us, right?" Little Snape clearly showed displeasure on his face.

"I want to say sorry to you." The red-haired girl whispered, a trace of sadness was also stained on that beautiful face.

In the end, Snape or Lily went to a hidden corner.

The two stood facing each other, but little Snape's eyes were turned aside, and Lily lowered her eyes and sincerely apologized: "I'm sorry, Severus. I just wanted to clarify that matter that day, I didn't know that you went to the owl shed because you wanted to borrow my owls, and then I wrote to Harry..."

"You wrote him a letter?" Little Snape turned his head sharply, it was the first time he looked directly at Lily today.

"Well," Lily said anxiously, "I did write to him, and he wrote back to me, telling me to go back to Cokeworth for the Easter break."

Little Snape tried his best to pretend to be indifferent. Lily took a look at little Snape, and of course understood that this man's heart was not as indifferent as he appeared on the surface.

"He's finally back, isn't that a good thing?" Lily said briskly. "I haven't seen him for a long time, and I don't know if his appearance has changed."

— became thinner.

In fact, even little Snape, who had met Harry himself, didn't know whether this was a good thing or a bad thing. Even if the man said he was about to resign, he would stay until he found a new job.

"However, I'm still very curious. How did you know that you didn't go to Hogsmeade that day?" Lily paused after speaking, as if she realized that she had slipped her tongue. She carefully looked at little Snape. same, found that his expression had little to do with what she imagined

Little Snape pursed his lips and said nothing.

Because little Snape was willing to talk to her just now, so even if the boy didn't want to talk, she didn't dare to continue asking.

So maybe little Snape really heard her conversation with James that day and went to Hogsmeade by himself, and then met Harry there who she and James hadn't seen after looking around.

——Lily also thought she had discovered the truth.

Of course, the red-haired girl was actually a little upset that little Snape even kept the news of Harry's return from her.Forget it, how to reconcile with the boy is the most important thing now.

At this time, because of her question just now, there was another cold scene between the two of them.

Lily thought for a while, and tried to find a topic that she thought was safe, "It doesn't matter if you can use my owl casually from now on..."

"No need." Little Snape said coldly.

Lily was taken aback, and a look of embarrassment quickly appeared on her face, "I'm sorry, I just mean well..."

"He's busy, let me not bother him." Little Snape said angrily.

—It's not like that at all.And little Snape knew it himself.

Lily: "..."

"That……"

"I accept your apology," said young Snape sternly. "I also apologize for borrowing your owl without asking you."

"It's okay," Lily waved her hand, "You can borrow it casually in the future, I don't mind."

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After that, Lily and Snape resumed their relationship with the underground party. It cannot be said that they were as close as before, but in Lily's heart, Snape was still a very special friend.

They helped Slughorn prepare the potion that day. After a day, the owls at Hogwarts resumed normal order and services. None of the owls died, and some needed to rest for a few more days, but the problem Not so big.

But things are just like what I said before, if someone wants to attack the owls, there are too many opportunities. In the thousands of years of Hogwarts history, there has never been an accident in the owl shed. You have to be suspicious, everyone who comes in and out these days is suspicious, there are no portraits on the crooked corridor of the owl shed - because no one wants to be placed in this place where only owls can be heard, this also leads to them not even being a suspect. unconfirmed.And the medicine for the owl's sink is actually not a rare medicine, so they haven't been able to start in this regard.

To be honest, it was more like a prank, or... a temptation?

But then, Hogwarts also took a series of measures for the owl shed, which was not very supervised before. For example, portraits were placed in the corridor outside the owl shed, and portraits of two people were also placed inside - Dumbledore also A death order was given to the portraits of the two guards. The two can switch to watch the owl shed, but it must be ensured that one of them must be there.

In the end, the truth of this matter was not found out and it was left alone, but everyone is still guessing who is the real murderer behind the scenes, and it is really hard to guess what his purpose is.Of course, in this matter, more people suspected that the mastermind must be a Slytherin, because only they would do such a cruel thing to an owl.In the end, there is no result, so everything can only be guessed, but even if it is just a guess, this matter will also lead to deeper and deeper grievances between Slytherin and the other three houses. Several parties provoke each other, and there are frictions from time to time. happens very often.

However, because of this incident, the school and the Ministry of Magic raised the Hogwarts security system to another level.

Of course, portraits are their best surveillance system, so whenever there are students fighting in the corridor, the professors will rush to stop them immediately.

In fact, some things seem to have not changed much on the surface, but in fact, a lot of changes have begun to take place inside.It's just that you won't notice such a change before you can clearly feel it.

Days are always going by day by day, no matter how fierce the open and secret fights among the several houses in Hogwarts are, no matter what Harry has done outside.

The situation became more and more tense with each passing day.

The Death Eaters also began to be arrogant, provoking the Ministry of Magic often happened after the incident at the Gaunt's old house.

Of course, the people in the magic world will not feel any changes at first, because the Ministry of Magic has always adopted the method of suppressing important matters first, and not telling everyone until the matter is really unstoppable.

But at this time, it is obviously too late.

When one day, when the wizarding world distributed pamphlets on anti-black magic and protecting oneself to everyone's hands, most people began to panic.

However, these things have not yet reached the ears of the students who are well protected by Hogwarts, until quite a few students received the news when they went home during the Easter holiday.

A week before the Easter holiday, Harry sent an owl to Lily and Snape respectively, formally inviting them to return to Cokeworth to meet during the Easter holiday.

In fact, Lily and little Snape knew about this several months ago. To be honest, it wasn't just little Snape who couldn't wait. Lily also found that she missed Harry so much.So one can imagine how excited Lily was when she received Harry's formal confirmation letter.

"Lily, what's so happy about it?" Just when Lily couldn't hold back and was about to go to find Snape, she heard a hearty and concerned voice.

James obviously just came back from the outside, the two almost collided with the door, Lily patted her chest in shock, her cheeks were a little red.

"No," Lily denied subconsciously, "I'm sorry, I have to go out for a while, can you get out of the way..."

Of course James didn't want to get out of the way, but if he did, Lily might get mad at him again.So he turned sideways gracefully.

When Lily left, Sirius immediately came up to him, and said with taunts, "She must have dated that snot-nosed man, why did you let her out."

"What are you talking about?" James said angrily.

"Am I not right?" Sirius said bitterly, "By the way, I just saw a group of Slytherins muttering something."

"What?" James opened his eyes wide, "I don't know when you saw it."

"You were looking for Lily, of course you didn't find it. If you don't believe me, you can ask Remus and Peter..." Sirius said.

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The author has something to say: →_→ Do you feel that the whole world is about to rush...

Let’s have a warm Easter vacation [Hello]

And then... um... and then... Mommy 11 started to prepare big things, you definitely can't guess~(≧▽≦)/~

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