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The Halloween dinner was over, and the students all returned to their dorms.As the night fell, the temperature dropped, and the fire in the fireplace was lit. The flame was not too big, and it was not yet freezing cold.The students were excitedly talking about their Halloween costumes, but in the end they couldn't resist the call of the God of Sleep and went to bed one by one.There is still class tomorrow.

Hogwarts at night is silent, with an ancient castle, thick stone walls, and portraits that have been hung for hundreds of years.

In the dark corridor, a jack lantern was hanging in the air and moving forward, but no one could see who was carrying it.It seemed to have life, floating up and down.

It has a strange and terrifying face, a pair of squinted eyes, as if snickering at night, and its huge split mouth seems to burst into terrifying laughter at any time——

"Nobody found us!"

Someone was whispering in the dark corridor, but that person was invisible.

"Oh! You stepped on me!"

"Damn—! How dare you hit me!"

The Invisible Man is fighting among himself.

James pulled off the invisibility cloak and walked out. He turned around and looked at Harry who continued to put the invisibility cloak on, "Come on, Pringle is not here!"

Harry ignored him, he retracted his head into the cloak, covering himself tightly, but forgot the jack-o-lantern he was still holding in his hand, which was shining unscrupulously.

James walked swaggeringly on the corridor in the basement, when suddenly, there was a slight noise from behind them.James stared behind him warily, trying to discover who was up to it.

But then, there were footsteps!

Harry's eyes widened, he grabbed James and ran forward!

They quickly jumped the steps, avoided the moving armor, and came to a portrait.Harry was panting heavily, the invisibility cloak had already loosened due to running, Harry's upper body seemed to be floating in mid-air, he rested against the portrait, and kept urging James.

James scratched the pear, which quivered as if laughing, and it immediately became a doorknob.James pushed the door open, and Harry fell back, falling backwards in.

Harry was startled, but he realized he wasn't falling, and a house-elf caught him.

"Thank you." Harry breathed out.

The house elf looked at Harry flattered, and suddenly burst into loud cheers, and ran happily into the depths of the kitchen...

Harry scratched his head in embarrassment. Although he was the young master of the Potter family now, he had only stayed in the Potter house for half a day, and he hadn't developed the habit of being a young master at all.

James looked at Harry embarrassingly, and then gave orders to the house elves, "I need a cake with three layers, each with a flavor, chocolate, tiramisu, and fruit cream." James rolled his eyes, "Get us another bottle of red wine. No, two...five bottles!"

Harry stared at him dumbfounded, and the house-elves, the second they received the order, were busy.The two of them were treated as VIPs and treated with great hospitality.

Students are not qualified to command house elves, this is a school, not a home.It's okay to play big cards, take the train when you go out, and please go home when you get home.

But house-elves are not born to defy wizards, not to mention they are students of Hogwarts, and they are servants of Hogwarts.Although it is impossible for them to be summoned in front of the students, the students can show up in the kitchen and order them to do anything, anything related to the kitchen.

Like Uncle James, drinking drinks and waiting for his cake and wine.In just a few minutes, a big three-layer cake was brought out by the house elf.It holds the cake and its entire face is covered.It placed the cake in front of James and Harry, and said respectfully, "What else do you want?"

James glanced at the cake and said, "Where's our wine?"

The house-elf snapped his fingers, and five bottles appeared out of nowhere on the table.James cheered, uncorked the bottle and took a sip.

"...how is this grape juice?"

"Excuse me, are you an adult?" the house elf asked sincerely.

James: "..."

"Are all your friends of age?" it continued.

James continued: "..."

The house-elf cast a shrinking spell, which shrunk the cake down to the size of a small box, and packed it in a fancy box.It bowed to James, then bowed to Harry, and made a "please" gesture like its master, "Welcome to come next time."

This is a peculiar little elf.

James and Harry were invited out with their "wine" that had been swapped.

They looked at the time, and it was almost twelve o'clock in the middle of the night. The two quickly lit the lamps and hurried back along the original road.Even James, who had the most accidents, stopped talking nonsense.

November 11st was Sirius' birthday, and they wanted to celebrate his birthday by hanging out all night on Halloween.

On November 11st, Harry recalled Sirius' life. Could it be destiny?Sirius has always been celibate and has never had a partner. Perhaps it is destiny that he was born on Singles' Day.

Well, there is no such thing as Singles' Day yet, this is a new holiday that suddenly became popular after many years.

The two gave up the invisibility cloak. One of them was carrying a jack-o-lantern, the other was holding a small box of cakes, and a few bottles of drinks. It was really not a good idea to wear an invisibility cloak.

Suddenly, footsteps sounded again!

The two of them paused and turned their heads to look at each other. Harry spit out a word: "Run!"

James grabbed the jack-o'-lantern and ran for the stairs!The basement seemed to have suddenly become a devil's cage, trying to catch the children and torture them on Halloween.The terrifying head portraits adorned on the wall looked more ferocious in the faint light, and laughed strangely in the dark.

Harry quickly put on the Invisibility Cloak, and he dodged to the base of the wall to stand quietly, watching James run farther and farther away. The jack-o'-lantern was shining faintly, as far away as twinkling stars in the sky.

He stood against the wall, held his breath, and walked back little by little.

The footsteps were always there, and the owner of the footsteps, he did not catch up with James and Harry because of the appearance.It is sometimes clear and sometimes quiet, which seems to show that the owner is not in a good mood.

Harry cautiously moved closer to the sound of footsteps that appeared and disappeared.It was the corridor leading to Slytherin, and Harry had only walked through it a few times, each time for night tours or to investigate Draco Malfoy's plot.

In the dark corridor, a person was standing against the wall. It was a man. He looked thin and tall, with half-length hair covering his face.Harry thought he looked familiar.

When he moved his feet, the boy immediately looked in his direction vigilantly.He frowned, took out his wand, and a fluorescent flash made both of them see clearly.

It's Snape!

Under the fluorescent flashes, his big nose and deep-set eye sockets gave the impression of a spooky Halloween story, but Harry couldn't laugh because Snape was already walking towards him!

Harry didn't expect him to be so alert, so he tore off the invisibility cloak and greeted him, "It's me."

Snape froze for a moment, he looked at Harry, then at the Invisibility Cloak he was holding in his hand, his expression became complicated, and he squinted at Harry Potter.

Harry was slightly taken aback, "What?"

Snape's face looked like a dry piece of wood, and he looked at Harry with a wooden face, as if examining.He stared at Harry Potter silently, motionless, without saying a word.

Harry flinched, this Snape reminded him of the old Bat Snape from the future.His face was gloomy, his black eyes were bottomless, and there was no superfluous expression on his face, but Harry could always catch hatred from his face.Snape always looked at him with an inexplicable expression, but it seemed that he was not only looking at him.

Harry looked at Snape, took a deep breath, "You like Lily?"

Snape's eyes flickered for a moment, but then he let out a sharp sneer.But that flash of weakness couldn't escape Harry's eyes.

He seemed to want to refute, but couldn't say a word.All he could do was make a mean look, as if laughing at Harry's speculation.

"You like Lily..." Harry looked at Snape intently, there was no question in his tone, it was affirmative, but hesitant.

It reminded Harry of the past, before he could go back to the past.

He had hacked into Snape's mind once, and that was the first time he had come face to face with Snape's past.This was the expression on Snape's face at the time - a flash of weakness and despair followed by a long period of numbness - and he began to use Occlumency, trying to hide all emotions, without knowing that he was And exposed his loss of control.

That was his untouchable past, full of sorrow and helplessness, he wanted to struggle, but found that it was futile.

Harry never understood why Snape would leave him with his most precious memory at the end.But now, looking at the student Snape in front of him, he seemed to suddenly understand something.

No one wants to endure 20 years of pain and loneliness.No one wants to carry a lifetime of pain to death, even after death, there is no escape.

No one does not desire to be understood.

"You should go after her."

Snape seemed to have heard the funniest joke in the world, "What did you say?"

There was some impatience in Harry's tone, and he said loudly: "I said——you should go after Lily!"

The expression on Snape's face faded quickly, his face became paler under the light, his voice became weak: "What kind of joke are you talking about, it's ridiculous..."

"I'm not joking! You like Lily, I know!" Harry's tone became more and more firm, "You have the right to pursue her, if you think James is not good enough for her, and you think you can give Lily happiness, then pursue her!"

Snape seemed taken aback by his rhetoric, his face contorted slightly.Suddenly he raised his wand and pointed it at Harry's nose: "What are you kidding! I, we are friends!"

Harry waved his hand away and gave him a hard push, "Look at yourself, you're like old wrinkled clothes!" Harry looked up and down at Snape's body which always didn't fit Clothes, "Your clothes are filthy, your hair is greasy, your face is sallow, and no girl will want to be close to you."

Snape's expression became ferocious, and he raised his wand and was about to cast a curse at Harry.

Harry slapped his hand away, and said sharply, "If you want to chase a girl, brush your teeth first!"

Snape looked like a punctured balloon, with a weak expression on his face—Harry had undoubtedly hit him in the gut, and neither man nor woman could completely ignore appearance.He faltered quickly, staring at Harry Potter in pain.

"roll--!"

He pushed Harry with all his strength, and Snape's face was completely contorted, which frightened Harry, he had never seen Snape with such a real expression.Snape was angry, or rather, annoyed - annoyed at being criticized mercilessly.

Harry's hand that had been clenched into a fist loosened, and he pressed Snape hard, putting his hand on Snape's shoulder, trying to calm him down.

"You are... a good man." Harry felt that he was at a loss for words, and he actually said that Snape was a good man.

Suddenly Harry was in a trance, and he looked at Snape, "You may be the bravest man I've ever met."

"What did you say?" Snape looked at Harry Potter in disbelief.

"...No, it's nothing. I mean—you're good at studying and capable. You're a potions genius, talented, and hardworking." Harry racked his brains to compliment him, "The most At least this shows that you are not a fool." Harry felt that what he said was getting more and more embarrassing, he looked at Snape, trying to convince him: "Actually, you are very good, not as bad as you think. "

Snape looked at him silently, and pushed him away without warning.He tried to suppress his emotions and looked at Harry with colder eyes than ever.He was the dull, aloof Snape again.

"You're not that bad, just play around with your outfit..." Harry complimented him clumsily, "You...really, you can pursue Lily."

The clock struck midnight suddenly, and the big clock of Hogwarts Castle rang. The bell was transmitted to the basement, and only a faint sound could be heard.It heralds the dawn of a new day.

Harry took a sudden step back, and smiled apologetically at Snape, who had to leave.But he hesitated, "I'm just... sorry." Harry finished the sentence quickly and ran away.

Snape stared at him blankly, suddenly, he snorted coldly, it was so clear in this dark corridor.

"Conceited Potter." His voice was low and hoarse, very small, as if it was squeezed out of his throat, "What do you not understand..." He showed a sneer, but it didn't look like a smile.