[HP]Dark Night Lone Star

Severus Snape felt that he was on the verge of collapse, everything was weighing on him like a heavy stone and he couldn't breathe.

Dumbledore's "request", the quarrel with Draco, the "Shen Feng Wu Ying" spell, and Harry Potter...

He buried his face in his hands, but it didn't make him feel any better, maybe crying would relieve the stress, but he had no more tears.

"Professor?" The soft and peaceful call with slight hesitation made him suddenly raise his head. Luna Lovegood was poking her head out of her production room - this girl came here today to complete the preparation of white meat The finishing touches and he forgot - looked at him with some concern.

Snape was stung by this look, he didn't need pity, he could do anything but pity, never.

"Go back." He said succinctly, then got up and walked towards his bedroom, but before opening the door, a voice from behind stopped him again.

"No." The voice was calm, but with irresistible majesty, and it overlapped with the voice of the headmaster of Hogwarts that he feared, hated, and respected for a moment.

He turned back to meet Luna Lovegood's gaze, those pale, wise eyes seemed to have flames burning in them under the dim light of the lamp.At that moment, he felt that he was like a child who made a mistake and had nowhere to hide under the gaze of this gaze, and then he was at a loss.

"Wait here."

Luna came back soon, she pushed a cup of warm black tea into Snape's hand without refusal, and at the same time said: "Mediate, drink it, sleep, no matter what happens, wait until tomorrow. "

Snape hesitated for a moment, and finally chose to follow her arrangement.He really needed to rest, especially after his fight with Dumbledore, he was exhausted physically and mentally.

He sincerely looks forward to a peaceful sleep without dreams, even if forever, forever——

The next morning, Professor Snape did not wake up.

When Luna Lovegood knocked on the door of Snape's bedroom, she got no response, so she used the Unlocking Charm to pry open the professor's door, only to find the professor lying in his armchair In the middle, he fell asleep peacefully, and there was an empty crystal bottle on the table next to him.

Her attempts to use spells or awakening potions failed to wake Professor Snape from his dream.At first, Luna thought that there was something wrong with the preparation of her palliative, but she recalled all the steps of making it, including adding sap grass and daisy petals to eliminate the possible side effects of the palliative, all steps were done by the former potions professor It was completed under the guidance of Professor Snape, and there is no possibility of omissions, and she has tried her own method to use it with black tea, and she dared to use it for Professor Snape after confirming that there are no side effects. In the crystal bottle in my hand.

She sniffed the mouth of the bottle carefully, and smelled the smell of life and death water, but it was different from ordinary life and death water, it seemed that several ingredients were added that were not mentioned in the textbook.The remaining liquid at the bottom of the bottle is silvery blue, which is different from the color of the water of life and death.

In the end, she decided to inform Madam Pomfrey to take care of the sleeping Professor DA. Madam Pomfrey came to check and regretfully told her that there was nothing she could do, because "he was really just asleep, maybe he should Wait until he wakes up naturally?"

So Luna informed Madam Pomfrey of her plan after a little thought, and it took a lot of talking to persuade her to agree to the plan.

She turned around and went to her potion making room to start preparing the potion. She needed to make a potion that was exactly the same as the potion the professor drank in order to be able to determine what happened to him.

Luna Lovegood stayed in front of the crucible for a whole day, and finally got a silver-blue potion with the smell of water of life and death until evening, and then prepared a corresponding antidote according to the corresponding materials.With these two potions, she ran down the corridors of Hogwarts regardless of her appearance, ignoring the surprised looks from the students on the way, and quickly rushed to the school infirmary.

To her dismay, however, the antidote had no effect at all, and the professor was still in a deep sleep.Anyway, she decided to wait until dawn the next day, and if Professor Snape hadn't woken up by then, she planned to drink the same potion to see if she could find any solution.

At dawn, Luna, who was accompanying the professor's bedside, welcomed an unexpected guest—the headmaster of Hogwarts.

"Hello, Miss Lovegood." Albus Dumbledore didn't seem surprised at Luna's appearance here. He sat down on the chair that suddenly appeared beside him with a smile, and greeted her in a soft tone .

Luna blinked, this was the first time she had seen the headmaster in private, which made her a little fidgety.

"Hello, Headmaster." She said and glanced at Professor Snape beside her.The black-haired man was still in a deep sleep, unaware of what was happening outside.

Of course, Dumbledore did not miss this detail. He folded his fingertips on his chest and said, "Then you may be wondering why our Defense Against the Dark Arts professor didn't wake up?"

Luna nodded in agreement without thinking, this was indeed the question she wanted to know the most this day.

"I think he may be trapped in his own dream. Ah, did you bring the potion that Severus drank?" Dumbledore took the silver bottle that Luna obediently handed over. The crystal bottle of the blue potion, and then laughed lightly, "Aha, dream potion, this is really an amazing thing, I drank it once, it's really..." He paused, as if recalling that A memory, and then said again: "It seems to have lived a long life again."

"Tell me once," Luna keenly grasped the point of Dumbledore's words, and asked eagerly, "Does it mean that you can wake up after spending one time? How long will it take? The length of dreams and reality Should it be different?"

Dumbledore returned the crystal bottle to Luna, and patiently answered her barrage of questions: "Mine was one night, but Severus' situation seems to be different. Apart from the dream potion, he is Didn't you drink something else?"

"The palliative. Maybe it's the combination of the two that's prolonging his time?"

Dumbledore did not deny this possibility, but raised another possibility, with his eyebrows slightly frowned, and said, "I'm afraid so, but in the worst case, he may repeat it many times."

Many times, is there an upper limit?How long will the effect of the medicine last?All this is unknown.Professor Snape is too powerful a wizard, so the potion he made is probably much more effective than the potion made by ordinary people.

"Can you wake him up, Professor Dumbledore?" Luna felt a little sad. She couldn't hide her worry about the sleeping former Potions professor. He was her best teacher and a friend she considered. .

A regretful expression appeared on Dumbledore's face, and he shook his head slightly: "I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't—but you might be able to." He looked at Luna with an inquiring look in his eyes.

"Me?" Luna's eyes widened in surprise, which made her look a little silly, "But Professor, what can I do? Since even a wizard like you can't do anything..."

"No, I think this may be something that only you can do." Dumbledore smiled encouragingly at Luna, full of the teacher's ardent expectations for the students, "I can cast a spell on you and Severus Si's dream, so you might be able to find him in the dream."

Luna quickly understood what he meant.Both the caster and the castee are essential. Such a spell cannot be done when she is as young as she is, but Dumbledore can, and the potion she made is not that powerful. , If you don’t take it together with a palliative, you don’t have to worry about it.

"I see." Luna nodded, opened the cork of the crystal bottle in her hand, raised it and smiled nervously at Dumbledore, and then brought it to her lips and drank it down.

Accompanied by the melodious voice of reciting the spell, Luna Lovegood fell into the abyss of dreams.

☆、Chapter 10