Chapter 430 428. Questions and Answers
"Snape has always reserved a way out for himself in the UK. When he was the vice-principal in the UK, he had contact with this potion shop in Knockturn Alley, using an alias called Prince, Supplying illegal potions to the shop full-time. At the same time, after the long-term cooperation between the two parties has gained trust, he deposited a sum of money in the potion shop, and agreed that as long as he came to his shop and said Prince's name, Then no matter who the name is, you must give him the money."
Lily knew all the memories of the owner of this potion shop, and could easily distinguish those related to Snape from it.
Jon was not surprised by this. It is normal for Snape to have a way out in England. If he has been in a high position for so many years and has not prepared for himself, it will make Jon feel wrong.
"Then our current clue is broken?" Jon said while pinching his chin.
Lily said calmly while clearing the memory of the frightened shopkeeper.
"It's not broken. After getting the money from this store, he left by using the fireplace in the store. Just ten minutes ago, we can still find out his whereabouts."
Jon couldn't help but feel a little weird. He couldn't help but think of the private conversation Dumbledore had with him before he set off, telling him that he didn't need to worry too much about Snape as long as he protected Lily.
In such a situation, they can still leave clues, no matter how you look at it, there is a feeling of deliberately attracting people.
He blinked his eyes, didn't Lily notice such a problem at all?
"Professor Potter, wouldn't Snape guess that one of us has been tracking him?"
The expression on Lily's face was very calm, and her feet kept moving, leading Jon towards the room behind the store.
"Even if this is a trap he deliberately set, as long as he doesn't dare to go to the master who abandoned him, we will be able to catch him sooner or later even if we follow the trap."
Her words were like stagnant water without any emotion, but Jon could hear the determination in it.
"Reopen the store door, and the owner will regain consciousness in two or three minutes. Don't let him have any unnecessary suspicion."
Jon turned around and opened the door of the potion shop again. There were few customers in Knockturn Alley, and few people could be seen walking on the street, and there were even fewer people who could enter the shop for consumption, so unless you were unlucky Extremely, otherwise Jon and the others don't have to worry that other people will come into the store and find something wrong in these few minutes.
Then, he followed Lily's pace and came to the room behind the potion shop. There was a fireplace here. Although there were only a few ashes left in the fireplace, through the temperature around the edge of the fireplace, he could still clearly feel that it was just a short time ago. Someone set it on fire.
After confirming that this fireplace was the one that had been used by someone, Lily reached out and took out a handful of ashes from the furnace, rubbed it lightly on her hand, and at the same time raised her magic wand and waved it at the dust.
The next moment, the dust suddenly gathered again in the fireplace, and then a cluster of weak small flames actually rekindled!
"Squeeze some Floo powder, and then watch how I do it. When you walk into the fire, don't mutter any place names in your heart. It's best not to think about anything, just let your mind go."
As she spoke, she sprinkled the Floo powder in her hand into the fireplace. The originally weak flame suddenly seemed to be doused with a bucket of oil. At that time, she walked into the fire.
Flames enveloped her and disappeared into the fireplace.
Leaving Jon alone in front of the fireplace, he looked at the remaining green flames in the fire, silently put the Floo powder back, but snapped his fingers lightly, and in the next second, a burst of golden flames Light up right in front of him!
Jon walked into the golden flames, and his figure also disappeared into the fireplace. Afterwards, the whole fireplace seemed to have been cleaned by a cleaning spell. It must be clean, and no one will find anything from the remaining traces here.
When Jon felt his feet step on the solid ground again, he felt a choking musty smell permeating around him, constantly drilling into his nose.
He pinched his nose, frowned, and waved his hand holding the wand to surround him. He didn't know how long he hadn't cleaned the ashes that were probably moldy, and he also saw the situation in front of him clearly.
Lily was holding the wand, looking at the front without expression and saying a word. At the point where her gaze was focused, there was a fireplace, and at this time the fireplace was shining with green fire, and the flames formed a A human face with greasy hair.
I don’t know if it was because Snape’s original paleness could not be seen under the green flames, but Jon actually felt that he had become very energetic now, and even the expression on his face was radiant.
"I knew it was you, and knew that I had escaped. You would definitely come and catch me yourself, and you would never give such an excellent opportunity to others."
He looked at Lily without blinking, his voice didn't sound very smug, but it seemed to hide a different kind of sarcasm.
Lily didn't seem to want to look at the image that Snape sent over with the Floo powder at all. She held the wand and went straight to Snape, who was composed of flames, and stretched her hand into the fireplace, trying to get out Trying to find the remaining ashes here, so as to determine Snape's current location.
In the end, she actually caught a handful of ashes.
Lily wanted to do the same thing again. Although the fireplace in front of her was occupied by Snape, the one when they came was still empty, but when she threw the ashes into the fireplace, this time it didn't. Light the fire again as before.
"Do you think I would be so stupid? Here is a backhand that I prepared five years ago. I have always kept a Portkey here. As long as I have to disappear from this world one day, then I'll use it for the rest of my life."
She caught Snape's gaze, and those eyes without any emotional fluctuations finally burst into a fire, called the fire of hatred.
"Do you want to live the rest of your life in peace?" She said in a flat but clenched voice, "Why do you think you shouldn't pay for everything you have committed? Sif Les Snape! Do you think it's all over?"
Snape in the flames looked at Lily quietly, as if he was seriously looking at the expression on her face now, then he leaned forward as if, the face made of green flames was filled with fireplace.
"You also think that the hatred in the past should not be forgotten, right? As an intelligent, fair and righteous witch, you also tell me, Lily Evans, what James and the others did to me in school back then It must not just pass like this, right? So my revenge is just, and I never take such anger on others, just like you, even if you choose him and become his other half , I also begged my master not to let him hurt you, I have done my best, what's wrong with that!"
Jon quietly found a small bench by the fireplace and sat down. Of course, he couldn't intervene in the middle of the conversation, and he could just be a melon-eating crowd quietly.
Well, even with the eyes of the people who eat melons, Jon can actually see how involuntary Snape's ridicule and sarcasm are. He obviously said this deliberately, and what is the purpose of doing so, Jon I don't know yet.
But of course Lily, who was the person involved, couldn't see so many things. Snape obviously knew her far better than anyone else, and a few words stirred up her already silent heart like stagnant water. He stretched out his hand towards the fireplace, as if he wanted to grab the Snape made of flames.
"Then why did you kill my son! What did he do wrong! Why did you kill Harry! Tell me! When did my son offend you again!"
Her hand passed through the flames, and there was no way to catch the phantom made of floo powder. The green flame lingered around her hand, like something she had always wanted to catch but could never catch. .
Snape still looked at her with his head up, not showing any sign of being moved by her mood swings at the moment.
"I didn't kill your son, Mrs. Potter. If you want to blame me for James' death, of course I will accept it, but not Harry Potter. My great The master went to your house like that, it can’t be just to help me avenge, isn’t it? Harry is his purpose, and it’s also the reward I gave him in exchange for your safety, otherwise you think why you are still alive now, can you Talk to me here? So, remember what I say to you every time I see you? I am your benefactor, and you should thank me."
Lily turned cold, as if she had suppressed her outburst, and looked at Snape coldly.
"Then why don't you meet me in person? Only when we are face to face can I thank you properly!"
Snape shook his head, he seemed to enjoy the way of communicating with Lily now.
"It's rare. It's rare to hear you talk to me like this. Don't you really want to find me? Then we can make a deal now. I'll ask you three questions. You have to make sure what you are telling the truth. At the same time, I will also come to tell you my location information, and I also guarantee that this information is absolutely valid and there is no falsehood, how about it?"
Jon, who was sitting on the sidelines watching the play, raised his eyebrows. He really didn't expect that when Snape was in Hogwarts Castle, he looked like a dull gourd, and he couldn't make a sound for a long time. Can come up with such a deal.
Lily has completely calmed down, and she has returned to her original expressionless face. She has lived through it for so many years, and now even if Snape's words provoked the still suppressed hatred, it is not so easy to let go. irrational.
"What do you want to know?"
Snape just looked at her like this. From the moment Lily appeared in this room, his gaze never shifted once, even if he noticed Jon was there from the very beginning.
"If that time, that time I didn't call you a 'Mudblood', would you still break up with me?"
Hearing this question, Lily's face didn't change at all, and even a sneer appeared on the corner of her mouth.
"What do you think, Snape? It's been up to now, can't you really imagine why I broke up with you so resolutely? Just because of that insult? In those days between you and your Slytherin Do you remember what I told you when the purebloods came together and started to explore the dark arts, when they became interested in Voldemort's theories, when they had connections with the already notorious Death Eaters outside the school?"
Snape fell silent.
Of course he will never forget what Lily said to him at that time, when they were still friends, best friends, she persuaded him to stay away from the classmates who had had an affair with Voldemort, and told him not to delve into those forbidden drugs and black magic .
But at that time, he didn't pay attention to these suggestions at all, or he was completely obsessed with it. He couldn't extricate himself from his achievements in black magic and the sense of identity he got from intersecting with purebloods. The key to parting ways.
Did Snape really fail to figure out these answers?
Jon, who was sitting on the side, had this question in his mind, and soon he came up with the answer himself.
It's not that Snape can't figure it out, he just wants to give himself a major excuse for all the mistakes he made in the past, and all his previous actions were actually putting gunpowder in the powder keg, and that sentence Mudblood is this The fuse of everything.
So he has been deceiving himself all the time, making himself think that the only thing that is wrong with him is that sentence Mudblood, as long as he didn't curse this sentence at the beginning, everything after that would not have happened.
However, this is only his self-deception after all, and now Lily has picked up the lie he used to deceive herself.
It's just that Snape's silence made Lily feel no emotion or any emotional fluctuations. She had long since lost any other feelings for Snape. After the night that ruined her family, all that remained was blood feud!
"I answered the first question." She said coldly.
Snape also came back to his senses, and he made his promise in an indifferent tone.
"Don't worry, I won't leave England, I will always be here. Neither Dumbledore nor my former master can drive me away from this place. If you want, it's in Great Britain Find me on this island."
(end of this chapter)