[HP] Mrs. Snape

The conversation with Dumbledore took place two days after Arya returned home. Andrew had already gone to Hogwarts to continue his studies, where he was protected by Professor Dumbledore and Severus. Although she was still worried, However, at least temporarily safe and sound.

The plan to leave the UK was temporarily stranded because of Alia's injury. After returning from the old house, Alia was locked up at home by Severus, and she was not allowed to leave the house. The house was cast with a secrecy spell, and Severus Ruth is the house's secret keeper...

"Professor, good evening." After the doorbell rang, Arya wore an apron and opened the door with a warm smile on her face.

"Good evening, Arya." Dumbledore smiled and winked at Arya. "Oh, I smell honey cake. Can you expect it to be lemon?"

"Of course, Professor." Arya's smile became happier. She liked Dumbledore as a friend. Even though he regarded Severus and himself as pawns, he kept trying to protect Andrew. Even Arya felt that he She is also trying to protect their family. Thinking differently, if Arya is in the same situation as Dumbledore, she may not be able to be so comprehensive and perfect...

"Principal, sit here." Guided Dumbledore to the living room, after opening the window here, you can see the fiery roses in the lawn, neatly trimmed hedges and sporadic flowers dotted in the lawn, you can even Overlooks the entire community.

After dinner, the two stood by the window and watched a few children coming home from school not far away happily riding bicycles, and the Cook family was playing in the swimming pool in the backyard.Aaliyah held a glass of wine and looked at several children the same age as Andrew in the community park who were playing skateboards...

For the neighbors, no one came in or out of this house for nearly a year. The family explained to everyone that she was going to live in the north—near the school where Severus worked for a while, and even prepaid for a gardener. Annual salary, let me help mow the lawn, take care of flowers and plants...

"Oh, Arya, thank you," Dumbledore said with a smile after taking the wine glass, "not too much, just a little, I have something to talk to Rufus later."

Rufus?Arya realized that it was the new Minister for Magic, succeeding Fudge.

Arya followed suit, filled her glass, smiled and waited for him to get down to business.

After a few sips of wine, Dumbledore didn't tact, and said directly: "Aaliyah, I'm sorry, I want to talk to you about what happened two months ago."

two months ago?Arya's mind was focused, the murder two months ago?Hill's cry before death seemed to ring in her ears again!

Arya closed her eyes and raised her head to drink the wine in the glass quickly. The impact of alcohol made her head a little dizzy, and it seemed that she felt better this way, so she whispered: "Albus, I, I'm sorry, you what you want to say?"

Dumbledore looked at Arya quietly, and he sighed and said softly, "Sorry, kid, I know it's hard for you to recall this, but I have to figure out something."

Arya smiled and shook her head to express that it was okay, only to hear Dumbledore continue to say: "Alastor told me that you had already killed Dolohov when they arrived that day."

"Yes," Arya said with her arms tightly wrapped around her face, "Sev told me that Voldemort had begun to rampage, and Andrew and I would become very dangerous because of his identity, so we Carry a gun with you, you know, I'm not very good at magic, I can only resort to some Muggle weapons."

And then, what happened after that day?Arya clutched her forehead and didn't want to recall it. She was afraid, she was afraid of hearing Hill, Edward, and Peckman's heartbreaking begging for mercy again, and their eyes that could not rest in peace...

It was she who killed them, it was her!It was she who delivered the message to the Order, it was her!She even took advantage of Hill!Arya thought of the young girl who always pouted at her boss, Burns, who was unkind, and who was always lying in front of the mirror worrying about the excessive freckles on her face...

Such a young girl, only 23 years old!And Peckman, his daughter was only 11 years old this year, and before she died, she happily told everyone in the office that his daughter had received a notice from Hogwarts...

Arya raised her head for a while, sniffed, let go of the hand covering her eyes, and said softly, "I'm sorry, Principal, at the end of the day, I was in so much pain that I didn't even know what I did."

Dumbledore looked at Arya's red eyes, didn't say anything, just poured her a glass of wine, and said slowly in a very soothing tone, "I know it's painful to remind you of this, but Arya, it's not your fault, it's not your fault, child."

After a while, Arya calmed down, and sat face to face with Dumbledore on the sofa in front of the fireplace, asking in a hoarse voice, "Professor, do you want to ask?"

"Alastor told me that Bellatrix was casting a death curse on you when they arrived that day, and they didn't have time to stop it, Arya, no one escaped from Avada, but you did , can you tell me what happened at that time?"

"No, Albus." Arya twitched the corners of her mouth, looked at Dumbledore with a serious face and said softly, "You are wrong, someone, someone survived Avada before me, right? ? when he was a one-year-old."

Dumbledore nodded without changing his expression: "Yes, Harry, if you're talking about him."

Arya ignored the instantly tense atmosphere, lowered her head and slowly refilled the wine for herself, raised her neck and poured it down her throat like drinking medicine, her eyes instantly turned red, and under the light, Arya's face was like Jade is generally cold.

After a while, she said quietly: "What you want to ask is why I survived under Avada, yes, I know why." Looking up at Dumbledore's blue eyes, she said calmly: "That Woman, Bellatrix's death curse didn't miss, after I killed her companion with a gun, she was so angry that she was going crazy, and the death curse hit here," Arya pointed to her heart said quietly.

After staring closely at Dumbledore for a while, his expression was still calm, as if there was no surprise at all, and Arya calmed down inexplicably.

"Professor, can you listen to me tell a story?" Arya leaned back on the sofa, lowered her eyes, and said slowly like a mosquito before Dumbledore could answer.

"I was five years old that year, and my mother had sent me to a boarding school for a year because of my magical powers. Professor, can you imagine what the so-called aristocratic church boarding school is like? It's so cold, so cold, there Make no mistake, especially a monster like me. Close the dark room, kneel on the cold floor and pray to the gods! No matter whether it is spring, summer, autumn or winter; 'It's a monster! It's from hell!' This is what the teachers and nuns say to me .

I was too young to control my magic, something always happened, I was locked in that dark confessional almost all the time except for class, no one wanted to be my friend, I slept alone In a big dormitory that's almost half full of professors, professor, can you imagine?I was only four years old! "

Thinking of those unbearable memories of her childhood, Arya felt a deep hatred in her heart!

Dumbledore's expression was also very bad, his eyes were full of sadness, and Arya continued to say with red eyes: "Actually, that's all right, I have learned to talk to myself and play with myself, the most terrifying thing is The environment there is full of girls. In school, it is common for girls in the upper grades to bully the lower grades. Even the teachers don’t care about it! Especially for me, who is not liked by the teachers and nuns, I was also the object of being bullied and bullied. That year, I remember that it was a winter, I was pushed into the lake by a girl in the third grade without any reason. Fortunately, I was saved by a passerby. That night, I had a fever. "

Thinking of this memory, Arya was a little happy, "I live alone, there is no one around, I remember when my whole body was burning hot, my eyes were full of stars, and I felt so uncomfortable that I was about to die. Then, professor, do you know?" Alia burst into a big smile, "Then I found a figure appeared beside me, as if appearing out of thin air, she touched my head, and softly sang an incomprehensible song in her ear, I, I thought it was my mother, and in a daze, I kept calling 'Mom, Mom.' I called, and she said yes."

However, that was not her mother. After waking up in the hospital ward a week later, she realized that it was not her mother, but a milky white ghost.

That fever, Alia later found out that she almost died. When she was found by the teacher and sent to the hospital the next day, she was unconscious and her heart stopped beating.

But at the age of five, she escaped abruptly from the hands of death. She survived. When her own parents gave up on her, she survived. Even the doctor said it was a miracle.

Maybe it's a miracle?Arya has been thinking this way, maybe it's a miracle God gave her.

After waking up, Alia found that there were more ghosts around her that only she could see, gentle like her mother's ghost, who would wake herself up with a gentle voice every day; would take her by the hand and send her to the to the classroom; when she was in class, the ghost would stand outside the classroom and wait for her, and when she saw Arya looking over, she would smile and wave to Arya through the window; the ghost would tell itself stories and teach How she defends herself from bullying...

The ghost said her name was Yuan Lin, and Arya called her Yuan at first, but she said that her first name was Shi Lin, and her surname was Yuan, so Arya called her Lin.

This call has lasted more than ten years. In Alia's mind, Lin is her mother!

When she was lazy and didn't want to do homework, Lin Yichang gently and severely reprimanded her; when she was in middle school, other girls were dating, making boyfriends, and attending parties, but it was Lin who watched her focus on the piano and let her gnaw on those words that were almost as thick as a dictionary. financial books, let her listen to the news every day and pay attention to current affairs, taught her how to analyze a person...

After she finished middle school, she wanted to go out early to find a job to escape the school that suffocated her. Lin forced her to go to university. On the day of the acceptance letter, Lin still smiled happily...

She originally thought that Lin would be by her side for the rest of her life, but as she grew up, Alia found that Lin's body became weaker and weaker. When Alia was 16 years old, Lin hinted that, To say goodbye to her, that her time has come, that Arya has grown up, that it is time for her to rest in peace...

At that time, facing Lin who suddenly disappeared, Alia thought of various methods. In those years, she indulged in spiritualism of various religions. She tried all the methods she could think of. The students in the university thought that She has a nervous problem!But it's useless, she can only watch Lin gradually disappear, like an old man who is dying, gradually disappearing until she disappears without a trace...

During the period when Lin just disappeared, Alia had a very bad time. She almost collapsed all of a sudden, in a trance, and didn't know what to do every day, but she couldn't tell anyone about these things, and she could only bear them by herself. , Susan, who was worried at the time, took her to see a doctor...

"Then the doctor told me that Lin was imagined by me in desperation to protect myself, and even said that I have a dual personality," Arya snorted, "Dual personality? I didn't believe it at first, how could it be possible? It's so real, I can clearly see her voice, her appearance, and even the few white hairs in her bun, how could it be imagined by me?"

"But, but she really disappeared like that, and she disappeared when I was old enough to protect myself," Arya said with a choked voice, covering her tearful eyes, "One month, one year, three months. Years, five years, ten years... I waited, hoped that Lin would pat me on the shoulder and talk to me again, I waited and waited, waited and waited, and finally, I have waited."

Arya stared blankly at the shiny pattern on Dumbledore's robe, and said calmly: "That day, when the green light was about to hit me, I saw her, Lin, she was very flustered , I have never seen Lin lose her composure like this, she hugged me, before the green light hit me, hugged me, and stood in front of me... Then, then I passed out..."

Arya's words made Dumbledore silent for a long time, only looking at Arya with a sad face, with an inexplicable light shining in his eyes.

After a while, Arya calmed down and said softly: "Professor, does Lin really exist? Sev said that there are ghosts in Hogwarts, and they have lived for hundreds of years. Does Lin also live?" Somewhere in this world? I saw her when I was in a coma, she said, she was always by my side..."

Dumbledore looked at Arya with pity in his eyes, he shook his head slightly and said in a low voice: "Yes, Lin must exist, it is impossible for an Avada to kill two souls at the same time, only when one soul The first person can only survive when he is willingly protected by another soul, which is the consensus reached by me and Andrew over the past two years of research."

"Then..." Arya asked hesitantly, she seemed a little afraid to speak.

"Whether a soul can die twice, I don't know about Arya. The soul is a mystery that we have never solved." Dumbledore seemed to know what Arya wanted to ask, and he said: " Lin became a ghost to watch over you, but as you grew older, she got weaker and weaker, which doesn't apply to any ghost I've seen. I can only guess, Arya, Lynn's soul was killed You were attracted by the magic riot, but she may be just a memory or a soul that stays temporarily in the world with an unfulfilled wish. After fulfilling the wish, she will disappear, but because of your love, she or a part of her soul Stay by your side until..."

"Until you bear the death curse for me, will you?"

"Yes, love for you made her stronger in an instant, child, she has never left you." Dumbledore's voice was extremely gentle at the moment, and he looked at Arya as if he was looking at a junior, Loving and gentle.

starry night

"Professor," Arya asked in a low voice with trembling hand holding the doorknob as she sent Professor Dumbledore away, "Will I see Lin again?"

"Yes, child. One day we will all walk that road, and there, on the blue shore, we will meet them again."

Under the starlight, Dumbledore whispered, the ethereal voice dissipated in the night sky, Arya smiled contentedly, and gently hugged Dumbledore, together with his withered right hand, yes, one day they Will reunite with the departed relatives, at the end of the blue sky...