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Also stable, isn't it? ’ Lucius weakly suggested a possibility.

Severus certainly hoped so.In fact, he once did a special study on it.But, that's impossible: "Lucius, last time the high-magic creatures left, an ancient dragon voluntarily sacrificed to maintain the stability of the two worlds. We can't find such powerful magical creatures. As far as wizards In other words, our voluntary sacrifice of ten Dark Lords together is not enough to stabilize any world."

Lucius curled up his body protectively: "Severus, don't abort, don't abort. Let the baby live in me for a while, just for a while..."

Severus' heart softened: if the child was destined to disappear, a few more days would not be a big deal.

The platinum-haired wizard cast a desperate look at the black-haired wizard, then turned and turned into a Wyvern.The gigantic reptile curled its body into a ball and covered most of its body with its wings to hide the whimpering beneath.

Severus sat beside Lucius, sincerely hoping for some way to stabilize the three worlds at the same time.

The phoenix Fawks appeared on the balcony at the mid-heaven of the moon.It patted its Wyvern friend with its wings curiously, not understanding why the other party kept crying.The Wyvern made a "hissing" sound, then turned his head and began to cry again.

When Fenghuang listened, there were crystal tears in his eyes.When the phoenix tears fell on Lucius, Severus suddenly had a crazy idea: "Fawks, can you help us?"

Fawks stared at Severus viciously, then pecked his right hand sharply, and with a bang the Apparation disappeared.

—Oh, well, Fawks doesn't agree to voluntary sacrifices.

Severus rubbed his numb legs, patted Lucius in mourning, and said hoarsely, "Lucius, come in. We still have things to do."

The wyvern hissed in protest, refusing to move a step.

Severus also couldn't bear to let Lucius continue to participate in the murder of their children.However, he couldn't let Lucius go on like this forever: if Lucius' mental state remained like this, Lucius would probably go crazy within ten days.

Somehow, what Severus said was: "Lucius, go inside, the child will catch a cold if you stay any longer."

This time, the Wyvern stood up obediently, walked into the principal's office step by step, and then curled up in front of the fireplace in the principal's office, staring at the fire and weeping.

Severus sat beside the wyvern, patting his mourning husband over and over again, not knowing how he should kill his own child.

After a sleepless night, Severus finally mustered up the courage to start today's work.He staggered to his feet when Fawks reappeared in the headmaster's office.The fiery red bird didn't have a good impression of Severus.It pecked Severus viciously again, and then wept again at Lucius.

Lucius crouched a few times, becoming human again.The platinum-blonde wizard with disheveled hair and disheveled clothes was holding a large golden-red bird like a baby, staring blankly at the fire in the fireplace with red, swollen eyes.After a while, he said hoarsely: "Fawks, don't cry for me, it's useless. I have to choose a child and kill the other one. Phoenix tears can't heal heartbreak."

Fawks rubbed his head against Lucius' cheek, then put his head on Lucius' stomach, as if to listen to the child.

Lucius patted Fawks and sang an old Celtic lullaby in a broken voice: "Sleep, sleep, my young dragon. In dreams, spread your wings, and fly far away to the mountains of Wicklow Go to sleep, to sleep, my young snake. In my dreams, swim to my heart's content, to the sweet Liffey, to our old home...[①]"

Severus listened to the ballad he had heard Lucius sing to Draco more than ten years ago, wishing desperately that he could become a sacrifice to stabilize several worlds.Unfortunately, he doesn't even have that qualification.

Lucius buried his head in Fawks' feathers and murmured, "Fawks, you'll go to the Muggle world with us too, won't you? I know you can travel through different worlds - in another magical world, you're right The familiarity of Gaunt's basement can't fool me. When you come to the Muggle world, you will be my baby, okay?"

Fawks pecked Lucius lightly on the ear and sang a comforting song in his ear.

As he listened, Lucius gradually relaxed his body, falling asleep with Fawks in his arms.

Seeing this, Severus wanted to carry Lucius into the bedroom to sleep, but was pecked by the phoenix again.

The platinum-haired wizard tightly hugged the phoenix that was about to chase Severus, and begged softly, "Fawks, don't leave me. Stay with me, okay?"

Severus somehow felt an untimely sourness: it wasn't me that Lucius begged "don't leave", it was a flat-haired beast!Yes, I was the one who offered to kill his child, and I was the one who impregnated him...

Severus had seen the rift between himself and Lucius without ever going to the Muggle world.Sadly, Severus knew the role he needed to play: he, Severus Snape, needed to be the cool, sane executioner so his Lucius could mourn their dying child to his heart's content.

Severus regretted that he had prayed for a child: it was impossible for two wizards to conceive without both of them sincerely wanting a child.And of course, my husband thought that he, who always hated students, would not want children, but he who wanted children did not take contraceptive measures.

——If Lucius wasn't pregnant, he must be happily preparing for the merger of the three worlds right now?

Severus watched as Fawks pecked at Lucius' ear lovingly, said something in Phoenix, and Lucius froze.The portrait of Dumbledore on the wall exclaimed, "Fawks, what did you say?"

Fawks jumped out of Lucius' arms, screaming proudly and firmly.

Lucius looked at the big golden-red bird stupidly, and said in disbelief: "Fawks, don't embarrass yourself.—I mean, did you really sacrifice yourself voluntarily?"

Phoenix proudly cocked his tail at his wyvern friend.

With the sacrifice of voluntary sacrifice, the next thing is much simpler.However, they still have the question of which world Lucius and Harry will voluntarily choose.If they kept switching worlds between sleeping and waking like they do now, whoever they were would end up going insane.The best way is for them to choose a world they want to go to, and let themselves fall asleep in the other two worlds.

After hearing what had just happened, Harry reluctantly congratulated Lucius and Severus, then wept while holding Fawks who was about to sacrifice himself. Fawks yelled twice indifferently, then disappeared on his own.

After not thinking for a long time, Harry chose to let his consciousness stay in the Muggle world.

But for Lucius, the choice is not so simple: here, he has unborn children to support; in another magical world, Draco is not ready to face the cruelty of the world; Disabled and unemployed, Severus was in dire need of care.After some hesitation, Lucius decided to let his consciousness continue to shuttle between several worlds as it is now.

Severus jumped in anger at Lucius' decision: "Lucius, you just bought yourself a one-way ticket to St. Munger's psychiatric ward!"

"If I'm lucky!" Lucius yelled at him. "Do you think the Ministry of Magic would miss the chance to throw me and Draco into Azkaban after I suddenly lost consciousness together with the Savior? I have to stay in another wizarding world after Harry loses consciousness, With our current one, clean up the mess!"

The green-eyed savior now discovers what it means to be unconscious in any magical world.Scratching the messy hair on his head, Harry said in embarrassment: "Otherwise, I'll leave a letter to Hermione, Ron and the others, explaining what happened?"

Lucius objected: "No way! If more people know about the existence of parallel worlds, we will wait for the successive Dark Lords to come to Hogwarts or some other ancient magical building to try to seal the gods!"

Headmaster Hogwarts had to admit that Lucius' deduction was very reasonable: once he learned how to use powerful magic artifacts to divide the world, no one could stop more ambitious people.Or even, you don't need a careerist, just a powerful wizard who has lost his lover and hopes that the world is different from the reality. Merlin knew that even he, Severus Snape, had the possibility to reach the height of the Dark Lord in his lifetime if given a hundred years.At that point, Severus wasn't even sure if he, without Lucius, would split the world.

Harry was completely depressed: "Then what should I do? Even if I stay in one magical world, there is another magical world! Besides, I don't want my mother to be sad... Oh my God!"

In the end, it was Dumbledore on the wall who came up with the solution: Harry left a note saying "I'm going after the dark wizard", then Lucius hid Harry's unconscious body, and Lucius or Severus used the compound from time to time Potion appears in every corner of the world pretending to be Harry.

Severus said that he could play Harry from time to time in this wizarding world. Lucius didn't know how long he would be awake in another magical world.But obviously, this is already the best way.

After making up their minds, the three of them got busy with different things. Severus was in charge of preparing the magic circle, Harry had pre-taped his testimony about all the Death Eater trials, and Lucius had done his best to speed up the trials of the Malfoys in both wizarding worlds, while doing everything for Severus there in the Muggle world. things you can do.

On the morning before the full moon, Severus noticed that Lucius woke up with a ghostly face.

"Lucius, what's wrong with you? Is your stomach upset?" Severus asked anxiously.

Lucius shook his head and said sleepwalkingly, "My body is fine. I divorced you."

"What?!" Severus said, never having heard of it.

Lucius glanced at Severus, buried his head in Severus' shoulder, and said sullenly: "In the Muggle world, you divorced me at my request. I know, you must hate me now But that's fine too, after I... you won't be sad."

Only then did Severus realize that Lucius was talking about something from another world.He could imagine his own despair and helplessness in another world: a few days ago, the person next to his pillow who swore to each other suddenly proposed a divorce, what a terrible thing that was.He couldn't help but sympathize with himself in another world.

Lucius sighed, picked up his wand silently, checked the magic circle that Severus had laid, and made repairs in a few small places.

When the moon was about to rise, Harry appeared in the principal's office dawdly.He said in a muffled voice, "I hinted to Hermione and Ron that I was leaving."

Severus also sighed, and made a final check on the magic circle.

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When the full moon was almost at its zenith, everything was ready in the headmaster's office at Hogwarts.A circle drawn with mithril powder and cinnabar encloses a triangular magic circle, faintly flowing with magic. Severus waved his wand, and the ceiling of the headmaster's room suddenly became transparent, and the bright moonlight poured generously into the magic circle.

The big golden-red bird touched the belly of Animagus with its beak, and was about to fly into the center of the magic circle. Lucius said suddenly, "Fawks, my child's middle name will be Fawks, male or female."

The proud phoenix glared at Animagus, and yelled a few times in dissatisfaction.

Dumbledore's portrait chuckled: "Lucius, I've let you down, Fawks doesn't want to be remembered. His wish was to eat lots and lots of cuttlefish and eight-eyed spiders. -By the way, you two share eight The spider-eyed look is just too cute. Oh, Lucius, don't look at me like that. It's just another great trip for Fawks, isn't it?"

Fawks gave a cry of approval.

Severus, who had been silent all this time, said, "Thank you, Fawks."

Fawks pecked hard at Severus' right hand without hesitation.After seeing the bleeding from the wound, Phoenix flew into the center of the magic circle contentedly, and sang a heavenly song.

Lucius, Harry, and Severus stepped into the three top corners of the magic circle one after another, raised their wands respectively, and said a prayer together: "Everything in the world arose from chaos. God of nature, give me clarity. Boy, do what you want, and you will be free." Split the world. Now I use the phoenix as a sacrifice, and pray for God's mercy."

Saying that, three purple lights flew out from the tips of their staffs and flew towards Fawks.The phoenix chirped and sang the same ballad.

The cold moonlight seemed to turn white all of a sudden.It took a tentative photo of the phoenix, as if weighing the quality of the sacrifice, and then it became hot all of a sudden.Flames blazed from the body of the big golden-red bird, and soon it turned into a mass of ashes and fell to the ground.From the center of the ashes, a crumpled newborn chick suddenly appeared.The moonlight continued to shroud the chick.The phoenix that had just nirvana was once again burning.This time, after a long time, a weak bird's head appeared again from the ashes.Before the poor bird could react, it started to burn again.

Severus had started out watching how Fawks had been reborn over and over again.But soon, he felt that the magic circle was about to drain his magic power. The wound he had just been pecked by the phoenix hurt as if he had just received the Cruciatus Curse, and his consciousness began to blur.However, he knew that he couldn't lose consciousness, otherwise he might never wake up again.He forced a distracted glance at Lucius and Harry, and found that the situation of those two people was not much better than his own.

After an unknown amount of time, the moonlight shining on the center of the magic circle disappeared, and Harry and Lucius fell to the ground one after another. Severus also fell to the ground, but he persisted and poured himself a bottle of strong refreshment before crawling over to Lucius. Lucius forced a smile into Severus' arms and passed out.

Severus poured himself two more bottles of refreshment potion, and then cleaned up the battlefield without complaint: Harry, as they had expected, had completely lost his mind and needed to be sent to the secret room of Malfoy Manor.

Just as Severus was crawling towards Harry, his right hand accidentally slipped in the middle of the ashes where the Phoenix had vanished.He looked under his palm, and found that there was a golden-red ellipsoid with a diameter of about two inches.He touched the warm egg, his heart pounding: Merlin, this is Fawks? !

That night was the happiest for Severus in years to come.Because, on that day, his life was full of hope.It just didn't occur to him that there were many other things in Pandora's box besides hope.

[①] Here is the ballad I made up in "Half the Truth".In my setting, the Malfoys are descendants of the UiMail clan. UiMail is the name of a small Irish kingdom/clan in the Rheinster region, whose ancestors were MaineMal.The man, who probably lived sometime between the late 7st and early [-]nd centuries AD, was also known as Main Mal. The general meaning of Maine/Main is "chief", and the general meaning of Mal is "land". The kingdom of UiMail had competed for the throne of the Leinster Dynasty (a dynasty in southeastern Ireland) before the [-]th century AD, and ascended to the throne several times before being defeated by other clans.This kingdom/clan once settled at the foot of the Wicklow Mountains, on the banks of the Liffey River, and the ruling center was GlenofImaal. (I think, according to the standards of the Chinese dynasty, UiMail is probably a village-level or township-level administrative unit...)

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After Lucius woke up from his coma, he threw himself into the arms of Severus who was waiting beside him with great joy: "Severus, I should have known you would not leave me!" He kissed his black-haired husband hard After that, the platinum blonde continued to feign anger and said: "In the Muggle world, you old bastard didn't sign the divorce agreement at all, you still lied to me! You have to wait until I have a stroke to admit it, what a villain!"

"Have you had a stroke?" Severus caught on.

Lucius' face tightened slightly, and he quickly covered it up: "Well, don't worry too much, I will try my best to recover. By the way, didn't Harry voluntarily go to the Muggle world? Why is he still in another magical world? Who is alive and kicking in the secret room of Malfoy Manor in the world? He himself was very surprised, and couldn't wait to go to sleep to verify. Let's go to Malfoy Manor to see that kid now."

Severus didn't let go of the original topic, "Lucius, you had such a stroke in the Muggle world that you couldn't even meet Potter."

Lucius laughed again: "Okay, dear, I will be taken care of by you over there, just like here, right?"

The black-haired wizard pushed away the coquettish old wyvern in his arms: This old bastard, give him some sunshine and he will shine!

Lucius pouted disapprovingly.

Years later, when Severus recalled the situation at that time, he kept regretting why he didn't hold Lucius tightly, stared into those gray-blue eyes, promised that he would take good care of him, but let Lucius guess Disappointed.If he had really done that at the time, maybe Lucius wouldn't feel so insecure afterwards.

However, no matter how regretful he was, the later Severus couldn't change the selfish idiot who used to ask Lucius for a sense of security at that time, and couldn't change the damned self who always used rejection methods to get more attention. habit.

—Merlin, how much you spoiled me when Lucius was still awake!He was always aware of how insecure I was, so he just stalked me like that, almost shamelessly, making me feel like he was going to be there forever.So much so that I almost thought he would always be waiting for me where I could see him as soon as I turned around.Now……

Severus hardly dared to think about Lucius now, he forced himself to recall Lucius who was still sober over and over again.

After Lucius slept and woke up several times, they confirmed an unfortunate fact: due to the changes Lucius made quietly in order to exchange his own health in the Muggle world for Severus' health in the Muggle world, and the unknowing Severus changed some of these places back, and Harry Potter's consciousness was unfortunately left in the original wizarding world.

Lucius had to apologize to Harry in the other wizarding world, and promised that he and Severus would do their best to help Harry return to the Muggle world.However, that is easier said than done.In the end, Lucius sighed weakly, and admitted that Harry Potter might really want to search the world for other remnants of ancient magic civilization, to see if he could find more records.

So far, Severus has not figured out how Lucius temporarily freed the two of them from the "righteous people" who asked about Harry Potter's whereabouts. Means of a First Class Medal.

Then, Lucius said "you should leave a mark that everyone can remember", encouraging KingsleyShacklebolt to exterminate the eight-eyed spider in the Forbidden Forest of Hogwarts.

At that time, Lucius was responsible for driving the eight-eyed spiders into the encirclement of humans by virtue of the natural enemy effect of his bipedal dragon Animagus on the eight-eyed spiders.Huge Animagus flapped their wings and flew over the Forbidden Forest, casting shadows.The light golden scales on his body reflected the sun's rays, making one almost think that there was a second sun.

Severus will always remember Lucius happily and contently eating an eight-eyed spider: the Wyvern at that time, so powerful, confident and proud, as if the shadow of the future did not exist at all.

Severus at the time was almost bewildered by Lucius' appearance.Even though he clearly knew that Lucius' current behavior was to a large extent trying to hold on, but he still couldn't help but sneered at the Animagus who was smiling shamelessly, and reluctantly agreed to the other party. , will appear on time as the groom at the extravagant wedding of the two of them.

The current Severus would sometimes take advantage of Lucius' sleep to take out his own wedding photos from the frames that Lucius guarded like gold coins every day, and look at them endlessly.He could hardly believe that the person in the photo who was trying to hide his happiness and contentment was himself.Looking over carefully, Severus just wanted to beat himself up: Lucius in the photo was in a trance, and he couldn't hide it anymore. Why was he still learning from Lucius to manage the property and get along with others? When I was doing that set, I only thought about boiling potions all day long!

—God, when I was thinking about potions, I thought I was doing Lucius and our two boys a favor!I thought that the potion that would make Lucius sleep more peacefully was far more important than the "conflict between Diggory and Macmillan", but...

Severus hardly wanted to recall how Lucius spent the days that followed trying to help rebuild Hogwarts, get on good terms with Minerva, Pomona, and Poppy, and bring Minerva and Horace Slughorn together.All he knew was that Lucius' efforts to change the ladies' impression of the two of them at that time would be rewarded ten times and a hundred times in the future.

As his belly got bigger day by day, Lucius' lack of energy became more and more obvious.The platinum-blonde wizard often turns into a wyvern without realizing it, and then spends the day lying in front of the fireplace.

At that time, Severus had to admit the reality he had been trying to escape: his husband had serious mental problems.In Minerva's weeping retention (and the secret celebrations of many faculty members), the youngest headmaster in Hogwarts history submitted his resignation letter and returned to Malfoy Manor to concentrate on taking care of his husband.

Munger's therapists, of course, can't do anything about the wyvern's Animagus condition, they only know to doubt the relationship between Lucius' mental state and his pregnancy.

Of course Severus knew how people talked about his relationship with Lucius behind his back: he, Severus Snape, a lowly half-breed, blackmailed Lucius Malfoy into giving birth to him with that kind of potion that hurts the body - the curse, by helping the other party get rid of the crime She couldn't conceive (and she was pregnant with two!), so she got the biggest spoils after the war - the gorgeous Malfoy Manor, and the lineage of the thousand-year-old pure-blood Malfoy family.

Even though he knew that wasn't the case, Severus couldn't argue that he was to blame for Lucius' deteriorating mental state.

Lucius spent most of his day curled up in the garden in the form of a wyvern.When the weather gradually turned cold, Lucius didn't know whether to enter the house to keep warm.Persuasion was ineffective, so Severus had no choice but to ask someone to build a greenhouse with transparent sides and ceiling at Lucius' favorite place to lie on his stomach. At the same time, the walls and ceiling were enchanted, so that when Lucius walked over, they would automatically disappear.When Wyvern was pleasantly surprised to find that it was much warmer than the rest of the garden, he lingered even more.

Occasionally when he was sober, Lucius would return to his previous shameless appearance, wanting to hug and make love.Even if Severus excused himself on the grounds that he was not good to the child, Lucius would not let Severus go easily.At the same time, Lucius took pains to mediate the conflict between Severus and the portraits of the Malfoy family, hoping that the relationship between Severus and the portraits could be eased while he was away.

Severus understood Lucius' good intentions at the time, but he also really hated those purebloods who looked at people with their nostrils.Now that I think about it, what's the big deal about pretending to have a good relationship with those portraits to make Lucius happy?

Before long, the wyverns were gathering sticks and building nests in the conservatory.As a result, the house-elves' carefully tended gardens and Severus' new potions garden had suffered.

Severus had a headache, but he couldn't use force on Lucius, who was almost an animal.He had no choice but to carefully check the nest for any potion ingredients that might cause damage to Lucius and the child while Lucius was looking around for nesting materials.Whenever the wyvern came back and found something missing from his lair, he would look at Severus suspiciously.At this time, Severus had no choice but to take out the prepared potion ingredients for soothing the nerves and nourishing the fetus, and put them into the nest in front of Lucius, expressing that he was here to help Lucius.The wyvern sniffed at the potion ingredients, then looked at the shiny gold coins and jewelry in Severus' hands, before forgiving the other party's offense. Severus found out, dumbfounded, that Lucius' favorite gift was Fawks' eggs.He seemed to regard the golden egg as if he had laid it himself, and pressed the egg under his belly to hatch every day.

Lucius would be in a good mood while hatching Fawks.He rested his huge head in Severus' arms, contentedly enjoying the magic that Severus had poured in, wagging his tail.Occasionally, a slightly sober wyvern would make a request confidently: "I want to eat the roasted whole lamb you made yourself."

Inspired by the story of "Severus of the Muggle world is a great chef", the potions master, who had hardly ever cooked seriously before, reluctantly competed with the house-elf for the kitchen.Amidst the howling of the house-elves, after several failed experiments, Severus finally roasted mutton that he thought was acceptable.As a result, when Lucius ate it, he responded that it was "too baked".After many experiments, Severus finally mastered Lucius' current taste: the meat should be fresh and tender enough.

A few months later, Severus, who went to take care of her husband every morning as usual, found him straightening up in pain, using the claws on his wings to grab the branches by the nest, and let out a low growl.Seeing Severus approaching, Lucius put his head in her husband's arms, begging for magic.

Shocked, Severus hastily imported his mana as Lucius requested.

A moment later, a translucent egg appeared behind Lucius, and the embryo inside was faintly visible.

Severus was about to observe his own child when Lucius straightened up again: another egg had been laid.

The wyvern curled up, enclosing Severus and the two eggs in it.

Severus looked at the two basketball-sized eggs, and was at a loss for a while: This is our child?what do I do?Do they need hatching?

Lucius gently licked the somewhat soft eggshell, and the translucent eggshell gradually became cloudy and hard under the action of saliva.

The wyvern nuzzled her husband, pushing the other side's two eggs towards her.

Severus gently stroked the two platinum eggs that were covered in Lucius' saliva, wondering if he should be happy that his child was born from eggs.

As if sensing Severus' hesitation, Lucius swept her husband out of his nest with his tail, and angrily hatched the eggs himself.

Severus stared blankly from outside the conservatory