[HP]Dark Night Lone Star

When a Ravenclaw female student stumbled into the headmaster's office, Severus Snape was sitting behind his desk reviewing the reports of the new teachers for this school year on students who violated discipline.

"What happened, Miss Electer?" He looked at the terrified girl with a little displeasure, and asked slowly.

The little girl who was questioned fell down on the ground and passed out after yelling a word due to excessive fright, so that Snape couldn't confirm to her what she meant.

He got up from his armchair, feeling slightly dizzy, and the disturbing sound of a clock in his head, thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump what.

No—it wasn't a complicated sentence, subject plus predicate, very, very simple, and then, his frozen brain finally recovered and understood that sentence at the same time.

—Luna Lovegood is dead.

That's it.

"My God, I can't help it, she really doesn't have any trauma, she just can't wake up again." Madam Pomfrey couldn't continue, she covered her eyes with her thick, wrinkled palms and turned away Severus Snape was left alone by the bed where Luna Lovegood lay.

He stared blankly at the girl who seemed to be sleeping peacefully, but this time the girl's chest no longer rose and fell.

He stretched out his slightly trembling hand and gently stroked the girl's hair. The messy long light blonde hair mixed with silver brown was softer than he expected, making him feel like he was stroking a roll of fine silk, but this roll The satin was unusually cold.

The girl's face was already pale, but at this moment it turned gray and dull white due to the loss of blood. He didn't like this, because originally, she was such a vibrant girl.

He can no longer listen to her talking about the Bubble Beast, the Snoring Beast, or the Harassing Gadfly; he can't taste the sweet but not greasy coffee and black tea she made; Her hazy but sweet smile broke.

Years after he lost Lily Evans, he lost the girl he liked again.

Luna Lovegood, he had never been able to tell her his heart, just as he had never been able to tell Lily, and even, he had never called her by her name.

He knelt beside the bed, held the girl's petite and thin palm with his left hand, and caressed her face with his trembling right hand. The cold touch reminded him deeply that Severus Snape had lost Luna forever. Lovegood.

"... Luna." He whispered the girl's name, but there was no response, so he called again, as if to make up for the lost time in the past few years, but then he realized what he had lost. Everything you do is in vain.

——Even though we have been treated cruelly, I still hope that you will stand firm and not be exposed.

He recalled what Luna said when they met for the last time. Obviously, he had no choice. Even for Luna, the girl who still thought about him until the last moment, he had to complete his task.

If the Death Eaters in the school saw Severus Snape kneeling in pain in front of the girl's body at this time, he might have been exposed, but at this moment, he couldn't let go girl's hand.

In the end, he took the girl's hand, left an affectionate kiss on the back of the pale and cold hand, and then called the girl's name for the last time - "Luna."

Then, the hand he was holding suddenly trembled.

Severus Snape looked up, facing Luna Lovegood's light silver eyes full of confusion and surprise.

He felt that Merlin had played a big joke on him.

"Actually—considering that in the battle at the end of the last school year, the Felicia that Harry gave us was of great help, and fortunately all of us underage wizards who had no combat effectiveness were not injured, so I think it is necessary to Make some Felicia just in case."

After Snape cast the banishing spell and the listening spell on the curtained compartment, Luna began to explain the reason for all this.

She still looked a little weak, but she was in good spirits, but she seemed to be aware of the anger in Snape's heart, and she spoke in a very cautious tone: "After the production of Felix Elixir is finished today, in order to confirm whether it can really work The medicine worked, so I drank a little. The medicine took effect almost immediately, and I heard a voice in the back of my heart telling me that I should try to make a demulcent, which would be helpful, so I did. Then follow the The sudden inspiration added unicorn horn powder, phoenix tears and evening primrose leaves to make an improved potion—"

Snape frowned and interrupted Luna's words: "Where did you get these medicinal ingredients? You can't get them." Even he—he who has been a Potions professor for more than ten years, had a hard time Get enough unicorn horn powder and phoenix tears to use in experiments, after all, there is no way he can say to Dumbledore "I need some Fawkes' tears" or something like that.

Luna showed a faint smile with a bit of pride, and replied: "The Room of Requirement has everything, except for food, which can satisfy almost all our wishes. Neville has really mastered how to use it. method."

The topic returned to the answer to the original question, Luna continued to explain: "I drank it after that, but nothing happened, but Felicia told me to wait, so I went back to the dormitory and kept staring at me Looking at my watch, I suddenly felt groggy when it was almost an hour, and this is where I regained consciousness.” After she finished speaking, she took out an old but small silver pocket watch from the pocket of her robe to confirm the time, Then he raised his head and said to Snape: "It took about an hour to take effect, and the effect lasted for another hour. If, as you described, this sip of the medicine kept me in a state of suspended animation for an hour, without breathing or heartbeat, Perfectly approaching real death." She tilted her head and thought for a moment, then took out two crystal bottles from her pocket, one filled with a golden liquid as bright as the sun, and the other contained a silvery liquid as cold as moonlight, and put them together Handing it to Snape, he said at the same time, "Please take them, Felicia told me it was right."

Snape didn't refuse, and took the two bottles of exquisite potions made by the students.Compared with the potion, he cares more about the little girl in front of him now.Even if it was a false alarm, he was still very happy, at least he didn't really lose her, and that was enough for him.

enough.

☆、Chapter 15