[HP]Dark Night Lone Star

On the last day of the Christmas holiday, the Hogwarts Express took the returning students back to the ancient castle, but there was one missing student who should have appeared here.

Severus Snape saw Neville Longbottom of Gryffindor rushing into the Great Hall with Ginny Weasley and heading straight for the teacher's bench - Minerva McGregor, who came beside him In front of Grid, the latter looked surprised for no reason, but seemed to realize that the situation was not good, and then Ginny Weasley's shout caused an uproar in the entire auditorium-"Professor McGonagall, they took Luna!"

Shocked inhalation sounded like rolling wheat waves in the auditorium, and most of the students turned their puzzled, frightened or malicious eyes on the teacher's seat.

The one who reacted faster than McGonagall was the head of Ravenclaw, Professor Flitwick, his thin and wrinkled face lost all color in an instant, even if he stood up, he was still not as tall as McGonagall who was sitting.

"Miss Luna Lovegood was captured by the Death Eaters?" His voice was shrill as if something had strangled his throat. Seeing Ginny and Neville nodding desperately, he sat back in shock, □Get up, "Merlin!"

An unpleasantly cloying voice cut into their conversation.Alecto Caro said to Flitwick and the two students in a vicious tone: "Professor Flitwick, I have to remind you that your inappropriate wording makes me very unhappy. We just have urgent matters to discuss with Miss Lovegood." A friendly discussion—" She giggled, but the Muggle Studies professor's face immediately darkened when no one agreed and just looked back at her with disgust, and there was a tinge in her voice. With a threatening meaning: "I advise you not to easily question the decision of that adult, or you will easily get burned. As for you, Longbottom and Weasley, I advise you to go back to your table as soon as possible, Unless you want to be imprisoned by me."

"Professor Carroll, you can't confine my students in front of me, let alone they are here to talk to me." Professor McGonagall, who had been silent all this time, spoke suddenly, and Snape noticed that she was trying to stop himself Two students from the academy uttered radical rebuttals and took the initiative to attract Carlo's attention.

"Oh, really? I think I can." Carlo sneered, her laugh extremely shrill.

Severus Snape watched the quarrel before him as if from the sidelines, his mind preoccupied with Luna.He can roughly guess the reason why the Death Eaters arrested her—the Quibbler, edited by Luna's father, had publicly supported Harry Potter against Voldemort. The hidden dangers had already been laid, and he could do nothing about it.

Where is she now?Is she safe?Snape suddenly felt chills all over at the thought of what they might have done to her.When she was at Hogwarts, at least the Death Eaters didn't dare to really do anything about it, and he could have arranged for this new triangle to be locked up in the Forbidden Forest - in Hagrid's care, but now - —

"Headmaster?" The voice next to him pulled his thoughts back to the Hogwarts Great Hall, and he noticed that all the students had already taken their seats and looked straight at him, and the quarrel had long since ended.

He completely forgot about the opening address.

Severus Snape stood up, and in just a second he was perfectly reinstated as the lifeless old Bat, Hogwarts' obnoxious current Headmaster, and the Dark Lord's spokesman.

In his usual slow and uninflected annoying voice, he began his speech for the new term.

"welcome--"

When Severus Snape heard the name of Luna Lovegood from his "favorite" student Draco Malfoy, his heart quickly sank into a cold abyss.Snape deeply realized that Luna had become his weakness, and there was no argument to refute it, this was an indisputable fact.

Because of this, he—now that he is so eager to see that girl—absolutely cannot act rashly, let alone meet her on a whim.This is so stupid.

At least he knew she was still alive, but he couldn't be happier.When Draco told him that Bellatrix practiced the Unforgivable Curse on Luna and said "she thinks it finally makes her useful", he clenched his fists so hard that he could Resisting from jumping up and attacking the boy in front of him he had sworn an unbreakable oath to protect.

He chased Draco away and went back to his headmaster's office, where the portrait of Albus Dumbledore was looking at him thoughtfully.But Snape didn't want to talk to him, he didn't want to talk to anyone, he sat dejectedly in the armchair, buried his face deep in his hands.

The only consolation is that she has been imprisoned for so long, which means that at least those people have not planned to take her life. There will probably be no worse news about Luna for the time being.

He was wrong.

Xenophilius Lovegood's obituary took up only a small page in the new issue of the Daily Prophet, perhaps because he was a minor player to them, but to For Luna Lovegood, it was half the world.

Severus Snape didn't know how to mention his father's death to Luna the next time he saw her - no, he didn't even know if he'd ever get a chance to see the girl again.

In recent times, when despair and stress overwhelmed him, he would return to his old office alone.Even after such a long time, the magic of Luna's window still hasn't expired. When he stood in front of the window and basked in the false sunshine, he could always recall those afternoons spent with Luna, and those trivial but beautiful things .

After Lily's death, he thought it was impossible for anyone to occupy such an important part of his heart, or become his greatest weakness and strongest pillar, but Luna Lovegood did it.

He prayed for Luna's safety just like he prayed for Lily to survive back then, and at the same time, for the first time, he had a strong desire to live.

Instead of seeing death as what he deserved after the war, he wanted to live, to get back the time he spent with Luna, to have a future with her in his life.

This is not a simple liking, and he can confirm this by now.

—Severus Snape in love with Luna Lovegood.

☆、Chapter 16