[HP] Spring Mountain is Sleeping

Late at night, Harry, who had been in the library all day, walked into an empty room in the cellar again.

Others knew he was here—he was here almost every night.There is an empty portrait in this room for communication, but there is no one in it right now.A few magical candles were suspended in the air, illuminating a gray sarcophagus, but the room was otherwise empty.Harry was not surprised to see Lucius Malfoy standing there, sad-eyed, placing sprigs of parsley lilies with curly petals into the sarcophagus.When this was done, he reached out, as usual, to caress Severus' icy cheek.

Severus' body was as cold as the stone around him, unchanged for days.

"Mr. Malfoy."

"Oh, Saint Potter."

Lucius took his hand back from the sarcophagus and turned around. Harry believed that what he said just now was not meant to be ironic, but just a habit of former Death Eaters.

"I guess you and your friends have some new developments?" Lucius waved his wand, conjured up two chairs, and made them sit down.

"I don't think...not yet." Harry lowered his head wearily, "We just think that this kind of magic will have a certain deadline, and we have to deal with this matter before the deadline, otherwise there will be no more."

The portrait of Albus Dumbledore has confirmed that Severus did not enter the white and foggy station where the soul went, and the portrait of Severus has never appeared in the principal's office or the cellar, which makes They all had hope.

However, several days had passed—they had searched extensively in the libraries of Hogwarts and Malfoy Manor in the past few days, and almost searched all kinds of banned books, but there was still little progress.

It is impossible to maintain this state for too long, if the soul leaves the body for too long, the body will really die, even though they used the strongest protective magic on Severus, and even added body control potions , as well as a large number of parrot lilies—the kind of precious magic plant with dark red petals sprinkled with light green or golden stripes, an extremely antiseptic medicinal material.But these are useless, as long as Severus is not willing to return to the body, all this can keep him what he is now in 300 years-if a fanatic opens the sarcophagus in 300 years, he can still Hugging or kissing the genius who made the ingredient chelating potion a reality doesn't do anything for resurrection.

And no one had ever seen Severus' ghost anywhere in the school, they assumed he was still hiding in the Forbidden Forest.In fact, they searched the edge of the Forbidden Forest and the Shrieking Lodge to some extent, but the Forest was too big for them to find him, and it would take them a long time to even get to the spring again.

"No progress, I think so too." Lucius replied simply, he also spent a day in the library of the manor, no easier than Harry.

"Mr. Malfoy." Harry leaned forward, there were only the two of them here anyway, since the last encounter in the Forbidden Forest, he felt that the distance between them seemed to have been drawn closer, "I want to ask you I don't understand why Severus would do such a thing. He could..."

"He could have left England within a minute, but he chose to commit suicide unnecessarily, didn't he?" Lucius shook his head slightly, "In fact, Mr. Don't hold out much hope."

"Why?" Harry heard other meanings from it, it seemed that it was not just that the magic period could not be found.

"Why did he do that? Mr. Potter, he told you where Tom was in that letter, didn't he?"

"No, but he told me that Tom has become Miss Lelandy, and that I can use the Snitch to go after the Resurrection Stone."

"It's the same. Tom won't give up the resurrection stone, although it seems that it doesn't work for him." Lucius smiled wryly, his long platinum hair shaking slightly in the candlelight, "Think about it , Mr. Potter, it is impossible for Tom to single-handedly deal with the entire Ministry of Magic, even the entire Order of the Phoenix. Kingsley has already captured all the Death Eaters who supported him into Azkaban, even if Tom's magic Powerful, as long as there is no helper, he can't deal with the siege of a hundred Aurors."

"So……"

"He will definitely be caught, or be shot by Avada in the melee. Then, he will be taken to Azkaban to receive the kiss of the dementor. No one will consider forgiving him." Lu Hughes twisted the robes on his legs, "Severus hasn't reported Tom's existence to the Ministry of Magic for so long, he just doesn't want to see this scene."

Harry froze on the chair, it seemed that it took him a long time to understand, his lips were trembling.

"Does he really love Tom? To this extent?"

"Of course, Mr. Potter, you and your companions have guessed this too, but you don't want to admit it. Draco's reaction is similar to yours."

Harry nodded, acquiescing to the statement.

"Actually, it started with Tom. Tom had a different view of Severus a long time ago. If you go to Azkaban and ask, many Death Eaters think the same, but the two of them didn't realize it. "Lucius put his hands around his stomach, raised his eyes to look at the wall, avoiding the person in front of him - this is what Severus often does - "But... to what extent, I don't know, I even have reason to suspect that Severus did use a love potion."

"Did he use a love potion on himself?"

"Based on what I know about him, it doesn't seem like he should be like this." Lucius turned his head and looked at the sarcophagus. The strong fragrance of parrot lilies filled the room, but Severus was not awakened and could not answer their questions question.

"No matter what happened before, now that things have come to this point, if you want him to live, you need to guarantee Tom's life, otherwise he will choose to lie in this sarcophagus again."

"That's unlikely, Mr. Malfoy, unless Tom leaves England forever." Harry held his head, "And...to be honest, I can't tolerate this kind of thing happening."

"That's what Severus was thinking, Mr Potter. He's been trying to get Tom to leave England with him, he's using himself as bait, thinking maybe Tom will listen to him, and he's cornered himself for it You can go, and even give up your academic reputation, you can't imagine the blow to him being deprived of his potions master qualification, Mr. Potter." Lucius didn't look at Harry, he looked confused, and continued, "But I think they must have had an argument the day it happened, and Tom abandoned him and took the baby. Severus knew it couldn't go on, he was out of control, and if he didn't report it to the Ministry, Tom would go on Doing evil.” Lucius paused again, spitting out the final verdict with some difficulty, “But he still didn’t want to see Tom’s end with his own eyes, so he avoided the end in his own way.”

"I can't stand it," Harry whispered.He wanted to say something more, but he couldn't go on, and sat trembling in his chair.

"So, I really don't have much hope for this operation, Mr. Potter."

"Harry!" came a sudden cry from the corridor, breaking the mournful silence of the cellar.

The two looked at the door together, and Hermione rushed in holding a thick book: "We found it, the magic cycle of the Deathly Hallows runs according to the phase of the moon, so we have to solve this matter before the next dark day! As long as Professor Snape's soul agrees to return to his body, then..."

"Then how many days are left?" Harry seemed to have forgotten the conversation just now, and immediately stood up from the chair.

"There are still ten days."