[HP] Shh, it's a secret

In the early hours of the morning, Snape was in the subterranean potions room in what was now his Malfoy Manor.In front of him, a pot of hemostatic agent was churning and emitting white smoke.

He had told his godson the night before that there was no Legilimency, but the truth was that he used it.

lie.

In the past 16 years, he has been trying his best to fulfill the order of the old man who has been nailed to the wall-disclose the seemingly important information, but keep the most important information in his heart.

Lies had become his daily routine, and Occlumency and Legilimency were but a small leap of consciousness.

How many people can see their own death in their lifetime?

Snape stared absently at the potion boiling in the cauldron.He used to think that he was not afraid of death, and that living like a walking corpse like this was the most painful thing.However--

There are some images that can be remembered for a lifetime with just one glance, such as the lightning on Midsummer Night, or the hole like a fist in the neck.

The Grim Reaper has put the countdown on his life.

"Severus, at some point, when Voldemort starts to fear for the life of his serpent... at that point, I think it's time to tell Harry..."

tell him what?

Tell him he lives only so that he may die in due time.

The Grim Reaper has set a countdown for everyone.

Snape was meticulously working on the final bottling of the potion, his thoughts spinning.

People who know more have a harder life. He thought he was the best of them, and now Draco must be added.Malfoy, and what's more, the kid knew and endured far more than he could have imagined.What can be more insane than seeing the people around you will fall one by one, but you can't do anything?Snape still couldn't imagine what kind of mood Draco had in killing Dumbledore, just to win the trust of the Dark Lord?Obviously there is an easier way, such as confessing him.

Perhaps it is out of the protection of the elders.elder?maintain?hell!Snape inexplicably felt a tingling pain coming from his cheek, obviously there was nothing there.

Then he should leave a retreat for himself and Malfoy.retreat.

"He trusts you and guides him to the right path. 』

Trust, the right path...

There was no time for Snape to think any more, and a second later someone pushed open the door to his studio at Malfoy Manor.

"A wedding, the eldest son of the Weasley family and a veela. There is news that Harry Potter will appear there. The Dark Lord asked me to ask if you have received the invitation." The person who came was Draco.Malfoy, at this moment, he was leaning against the door frame, his face was indifferent, and he could not see the embarrassment of the previous day at all.

"No." Snape put the filled potion into the medicine box, and then took off the dragon leather gloves.

"That's right. The Dark Lord asked you to take the werewolf and Carlo brothers and sisters to guard the former lair of the Order of the Phoenix. Maybe it won't be long before Potter and his accomplices will flee there for their lives." After finishing speaking, Draco did not hesitate Nostalgia turned and left.

Italian leather shoes clacked on the marble floor, and only Draco knew that he was far less indifferent than he seemed.He had been in a converted storage room in the basement of the manor before delivering orders to Snape's workshop.Rufus was locked up there.Skjelling, the current Minister of Magic, no, should be the former Minister.He died because he couldn't bear the Cruciatus Curse, and just a few minutes ago, he moved his hand.

"Draco, let our Minister of Magic feel our displeasure again...quick..."

Draco closed his eyes, the scene just now, the horror of Skjeline's death, and the role the Dark Lord had put him in - torturer, executioner - made him sick.Now, he sat by the fireplace in the living room, among a large crowd of Death Eaters, awaiting the next order from the Enemy, to torture one and kill another, or a group of them.

Everything seemed slow and blurry.The logs fell into the fire, and the flames rose.His hands began to tremble again, and the firelight reflected his face without a trace of blood.

"In the Weasleys' orchard!" Shinkness opened the door and strode in.

I don't know who took the lead, but everyone jumped up.Draco also put on the hood and drew out his wand immediately, and at the same time a magic coin appeared in his left palm.

Minutes later, when the Death Eaters stormed the wedding's crowded dance floor, the guests were already in disarray.The defenses of the Weasley Burrow were completely destroyed, apparitions could be heard everywhere, and of course Potter was nowhere to be found.The spies placed among the guests reported seeing Mudblood Granger and the Weasley's youngest son apparating with a red-haired little man, most likely Harry.Potter, there are already Death Eaters chasing after the trail of the Tracking Curse.In addition, of course, the Burrow cannot be let go, and there are all places connected with the Order of the Phoenix and Potter.

The next day, former Minister of Magic Rufus.Skidgelin "resigned due to illness", Pierce, one of the Death Eaters hiding in the dark.Thinknes officially took the stage.With the support of the Ministry of Magic, when the behavior of the Death Eaters is put on a seemingly legal cloak...torture anyone who can be tortured, break through all defensive magic that can be pierced, and monitor all suspicious elements who are suspicious of surveillance...only Nothing could be worse than the present, except that no one has died in these brutal acts.

On the third day, the front page of the Daily Prophet was covered with a picture of the former savior Harry.Porter's full-length photo is fully occupied.A few large characters stand out on the photo——

Wanted to track down Albus.Dumbledore's cause of death

The second edition, female reporter Rita.Skeeter's special issue cryptically tells people that Harry was seen shortly after Dumbledore's fall.Potter fled the scene.

Finally, Lian captures Harry.Potter had a valid reason, too, and the suggestion that Potter had something to do with Dumbledore's death also sowed doubt and fear among many ordinary wizards who might have defended Potter.

The Dark Lord always counts.

Luckily despite this, the Death Eaters, and the Ministry as a whole, didn't have a single iota of Harry involved.Potter's news, Voldemort was very angry.He personally punished every Death Eater involved in the direct pursuit of Potter, and Draco received a Cruciatus Curse.

"Potter didn't go there. We guarded 12 Grimmauld Place for three days, but no one showed up." Snape brought the werewolf Fenrir and the Carlo brothers and sisters to kneel at Voldemort's feet.

"No, no, no nothing... Merlin, he disappeared, Potter disappeared... You called me back to tell me this, to tell me Harry. Potter disappeared? Draco— —” Voldemort swept away everything that could be swept away, chandeliers, tea sets, chairs, and finally he stopped, and turned his cruel eyes on the youngest among the Death Eaters.

Draco knew it was time for him to play the role of executioner again, for the four kneeling on the ground.

……

August passed day by day, and the lawn of Malfoy Manor withered little by little in the sun, turning brittle yellow.The hooded and black Death Eaters were still coming in and out as before, and their numbers were increasing, but still no one succeeded in bringing Harry.Porter's news.

Only Draco (and perhaps Snape), through the intermittently hot coin lying in the deepest pocket of his robes, knew that Potter was still alive, lingering in some corner.For the past two weeks, he has been sending them information as much as possible, anonymously, and he has failed to allow the message to be passed back.He had seen the Dark Lord in Potter's mind, and he was terrified that the Dark Lord would know him through Potter's mind, and it would be over.

At this time, Harry.where is potter

His godfather Sirius, 12 Grimmauld Place.In Blake's room, the young savior knelt beside a half-worn cupboard, reading and rereading a crumpled and reopened note.His mother's, his mother's letter to Padfoot.Joy and sadness rushed into his heart at the same time, and his body began to shake so that he had to lean on the cabinet so as not to fall.

He had been hiding here every day since his successful escape from the wedding scene, with Hermione and Ron.They huddled under the bed of Sirius' younger brother Regulus before, and covered themselves with the Invisibility Cloak for three whole days before they finally escaped Snape and the three filthy Death Eaters. Until his mysterious friend told him that Voldemort had finally abandoned the house.This magic note is the second piece of good news in as many days.

There was a sound of hurried footsteps outside the door, and Hermione and Ron rushed in.

"We didn't know where you were when we woke up, you bastard." Ron punched him on the shoulder viciously.

"I'm fine, no one will come here again." Harry replied briskly.

"Malfoy told you again? I said you shouldn't trust Malfoy so easily, think about his dad, what he did for the past six years. Think about Snape, he rebelled." Ron disagreed say.

"It may also be because of his father," Hermione analyzed rationally, "his father was killed by a dementor, and the dementor was under the command of You-Know-Who."

"I think we can trust him, if not for him, I don't know how many times I have been caught." Harry said, "Let's not talk about this, just look at my mother's letter, she wrote to Sirius ..."

The sun had risen, and it was shining on Harry through the stained glass of Black's bedroom.Potter had tears streaming down his face.

September, school starts.

All the young wizards who held the certificate of magical heritage issued by the Ministry of Magic were collectively sent on the red express train to Hogwarts.Among them was Draco.Malfoy, no Harry.Porter.

The great dining room on the first floor of Hogwarts was still brightly lit, and the new professors of Defense Against the Dark Arts and Muggle Studies (the Carroll brothers and sisters) laughed unabashedly.The Dark Lord controls half of Hogwarts.

"Draco, come to the headmaster's office after the sorting ceremony." The man who replaced Dumbledore in the middle of the chair told him.

At a quarter past eight, Draco knocked on the door of the Headmaster's office.

"Good evening, Draco," someone said to him.