[HP] Shh, it's a secret

After curfew, when the other five four-poster beds in the dormitory began to breathe evenly, Harry.Potter lifted the covers and slipped on his Invisibility Cloak lightly.Bypassing Filch and his cat, and avoiding the professor who was watching the night, Harry pushed open the door at the top of the Astronomy Tower.

The night sky is full of stars.

Harry tore off the invisibility cloak that bound him and stood in the center of the open observatory platform.The castle's jagged walls towered all around, and directly in front of it was the dark blue night far above the horizon.He thought of the night two weeks ago when Dumbledore flew high and fell from here.

Harry didn't understand why he was here today, at this hour.This may be his last night at Hogwarts, and the Order of the Phoenix says that after Dumbledore's funeral, the Ministry of Magic is falling fast on Voldemort and his Death Eaters, and that he will no longer be able to ride the express this fall. Train back here.And he'd be seventeen at the end of July, and his mother's spell of love was about to wear off.

Sirius was gone, Dumbledore was gone, then his mother's magic, and finally he was alone.Immediately, what he is about to face...

Harry gripped his wand tightly.

It was an elder wand, 15 inches long, brown, with two black and red burn marks on the body.It wasn't Harry's holly phoenix tail feather, it belonged to Albus.Dumbledore.Harry found it in Dumbledore's hands, along with the incinerated diadem.

For two weeks, Harry tried to convince Ron and Hermione that it was Draco.Malfoy killed Dumbledore.He saw it with his own eyes, and he was unmistakable.But there is another thing that he has never told anyone, the same thing he saw with his own eyes that even puzzled him——

Draco.Malfoy returned Dumbledore's wand to Dumbledore just as everyone's attention was drawn to Snape's presence.Only he saw it, because he was still imprisoned at that time, and his eyes could only fall on one point——

"I don't need you, this old lunatic is mine, mine! Malfoy roared, and pushed Dumbledore hard, and the brown wand went into Dumbledore's sleeve.

He saw it with his own eyes, and he was unmistakable.

but!

It is puzzling enough that Malfoy would give the Horcrux to Dumbledore, why would he give back the wand to Dumbledore too?He's here to kill Dumbledore, isn't he?This is the task Voldemort gave him, isn't it?Wouldn't he and his parents lose their lives if it wasn't done?

So why, would he return the wand to Dumbledore?

Why is Dumbledore still dead?

Why……

It was Dumbledore who wanted to die himself.

Such a guess suddenly flashed through his mind, and Harry couldn't help trembling all over.

He suddenly thought of Hermione and Ron. When he told them that Dumbledore had destroyed two Horcruxes at the same time when he died, they had a vague look on Dumbledore's death for a moment.

With Dumbledore dead and taking Voldemort's two Horcruxes with him, there are only three left for him to find and destroy.Isn't that good news.

Professor McGonagall told him that Dumbledore in the portrait had been in a coma because his soul was burned by the devil's fire before his death.Regarding the murderer and the truth, we can only wait.

What are you waiting for?

Wait for the old man in the portrait to wake up?

But why can't he wake up?He is so powerful...

Don't be kidding, if he doesn't want to "wake up", who can make him wake up?

Not even him.

Harry thought of his begging in the principal's office with the remains of the Horcrux on the evening of the funeral... the old man who he had given all his trust and expectations to... was indifferent.

Dumbledore himself is going to die.

Once the seeds of doubt are planted...

The night wind poured in through the open neckline of his shirt, and Harry clenched his hands tighter. On the contrary, a certain belief in his heart began to collapse.He thought he must be crazy, that he was starting to think that it wasn't a stupid decision he hadn't identified the killer to anyone other than Ron and Hermione.But even if he testifies, what can it prove?Not even Ron and Hermione believed... Draco.Malfoy killed Albus.Dumbledore?ha!

Harry just stood there numbly, as if under the Imprisonment Charm again.The midsummer dawn always came earlier than expected, and the red light gradually dyed the mountain tops and soaked the eastern sky.Red and blue overlap each other, and the moment is breathtaking.

There were soft footsteps under the door behind him, and Harry pulled his invisibility cloak on for the first time.Someone pushed the door and came over, brushed past him and stood at the front of the platform close to the wall.

Thin figure, pale and thin face, is Draco.Malfoy.

Harry didn't make a sound or move away, thinking it was the only time in six years that he and Malfoy had been at peace in such close proximity.Little by little the sun peeked out from the horizon, turning red to crimson and falling on Malfoy's flaxen hair in an eerie, golden-red halo that made him look almost like a Gryffindor many.

A Gryffindor in a Slytherin uniform, Gryffindor - Draco.Malfoy!

Harry thought he was indeed crazy.

He wanted to leave, otherwise he couldn't help but pull out his wand.

But I didn't expect Malfoy to leave first——

"If I were you, I'd throw that goddamn wand back in the old man's grave and hide myself in a dog hole in the first place instead of strutting around with a nuisance, Potter. ' Malfoy whispered in his ear.

Harry looked down as the door behind him closed again, and part of Dumbledore's wand came out of the cloak, giving him away.No more white sneakers at last, the young Gryffindor thought to himself mockingly.

……

When the sun was fully up, Draco returned to the cold cellar belonging to Slytherin. Apart from the stone door of the lounge inlaid with poisonous snakes, Draco was greeted by the newly appointed headmaster of Hogwarts.

Draco's shoulders tensed suddenly.

"Dumbledore wants to see you." After a long silence, Snape said.

Draco didn't know what expression to use at all, as if he had punched hard and only hit a ball of cotton.It was the first time he had seen Snape since the forced outburst at Malfoy Manor two weeks earlier.He has guessed thousands of times... Haruka thought about it...but...but it will definitely not be "Dumbledore wants to see you"

"Dumbledore wants to see me, is that what you're going to say?" Draco unconsciously turned up the volume.He stared intently at Snape's face, his lips trembling slightly.The sound of vipers snaking across the stone door woke him - he was expecting, expecting Snape to say something he had rehearsed in his head -

Do not!

Draco's pupils constricted violently.

He was expecting...

He was terrified.

He closed his eyes and looked at Snape again, the man stood there straight without saying anything, not even his expression changed.Heh - the corners of Draco's mouth curled up slightly.

This is Severus.Snape was his godfather.

"Dumbledore wants to see me." Draco had a sneer on his face and then quickly returned to indifference, "If that's what you're going to say, then please tell him that he's no longer at Hogwarts The headmaster is only a dead man, and I don't have to obey a dead man's orders. Now, please, you are blocking the door, Mr. Acting Headmaster."

Snape still didn't speak, his gaze flicked over Draco's shoulder to a point on the wall.

Silence spread like a plague, and for a while in the narrow space of the aisle, only the sound of stone snakes winding and swimming could be heard.The two confronted each other within two yards, and the confrontation could not last forever.Time was passing, and inexplicable and unfamiliar feelings - anger, unwillingness, expectation and other things mixed together were gnawing at Draco's reason little by little.At a certain moment, Draco met Snape's eyes again—

Hollow.

Card crash!

The string called reason in my brain finally broke.

Anger finally overcame everything and spewed out uncontrollably, Draco smiled.He took two steps forward and walked in front of Snape, "Apresent, mygodfather. I have wanted to give it to you for a long time." He suppressed his voice to the extreme.

The sudden change of subject finally managed to put a puzzled look on Snape's face, which gave Draco a sudden sense of indescribable accomplishment.The young boy smiled and took out a box with the J&J logo from his uniform pocket and stuffed it into Snape's robe pocket, his lips almost touching Snape's side ear——

"Muggle contact lenses, black ones, to cover your eyes that will always look like dead dogs," he said.

Snape still didn't move, didn't even blink his eyes.

"Empty - godless - those eyes that obviously use brain defense... Do you really think everyone is a fool? Huh?"

Draco walked past him with a sneer, the password had been spoken, the poisonous snakes twisted and slowly opened the stone door of the lounge, "Maybe I should send Potter a pair," Draco paused Footsteps, "so that covering his toad green eyes may make you less troubled."

Snape's expression finally changed, but Draco didn't see it, and the stone door closed.

At a quarter past nine in the morning, the Hogwarts Express on the other side of the Black Lake sounded its departure whistle, and Snapa closed the curtains on the round French windows of the office.

Dumbledore wants to see you...

No, Dumbledore never said it.