Chapter 396: Hogwarts in a dream
Tragedy seems to be the sublimation of a story.
In this regard, Aristotle gave a definition in "Poetics", and pointed out that tragedy can arouse people's pity, and then achieve emotional purification and moral improvement.
Just like some people in the story, they are praised as the bravest cowards, repenting all their lives and never changing.
However, for a person who weaves beautiful dreams, tragedy is not within his consideration.
Knowing that the umbrella has covered a large area, Ino also took a short rest on the moon.
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A familiar park scene.
The green grass spreads like a velvet carpet, dotted with gentle lilies.
Each lily exudes the warmth of the years, and even the air is filled with a reassuring atmosphere.
On this Rhine meadow, there is a camphor tree that can be hugged by two people standing quietly in the middle, as if gently telling the story of the past.
The tree trunk is intertwined with traces of light and shadow and years, and the leaves swaying in the wind are like good friends who have been away for many years.
It was a peaceful and harmonious scene, but Snape had a deep fear.
He was so familiar with the place in front of him that he wanted to turn around and run away. But his subconscious reluctance and nostalgia slowed him down, and his gentle steps seemed to be afraid of hurting the grass on the ground.
Spend 29 years loving someone, spend nine years waiting for someone, and spend a lifetime repenting...
Looking at the camphor tree close at hand, Snape finally stopped.
Neither choose to move forward nor leave, just stand there quietly.
He didn't know how to face it.
In the year Harry entered school, he was happier than anyone else, but with the questions in the potion class, he was extremely disappointed... It seemed that the potion talent did not continue.
However, in the second half of the first year, the encounter in the corridor on the fourth floor made him see a different scenery.
Three Gryffindors, one with bright red hair, one with emerald green eyes, and the other girl with a smart and alert mind.
What you think in your heart will be answered.
Gradually, the three people merged together, and a gentle girl emerged in front of Snape.
Lilies bloomed in the sun.
This time, Snape did not choose to run away, but at the same time he did not speak first.
The empty eyes that used to be full of guilt and regret.
The four looked at each other, and time passed quietly in this look.
...
For a long time.
"Don't you want to say something? Severus!"
The crisp voice broke the long silence.
"Lily..." With a call, Snape seemed to have exhausted all his strength.
"Go on!" Hearing the call, the young Lily raised her eyebrows, folded her hands on her chest and looked like she was listening.
Familiar figure, familiar expression, Snape seemed to have returned to that summer.
At this moment, he could no longer hide his inner feelings.
"I'm sorry...really! I know I can't make up for the past mistakes, but I have been doing my best to protect your son...my whole life..."
Snape collapsed on the soft grass. He didn't know what was going on. Although the scene in front of him made him feel weird, he couldn't think too much.
Young Lily looked at her old friend quietly. She was also curious about her sudden appearance here, but she also felt a kind of joy.
Because in her memory, the moment the green killing curse hit her, time seemed to freeze, and the whole world turned gray, as if covered by a curtain.
However, Lily's brief silence made Snape feel that he was really living a year.
It seemed that every second was an extreme torture, but just when he was about to collapse, a crisp voice came to his ears again:
"Hey! Forget it! Talk about Harry, how is he..."
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At the same time.
Dumbledore also came to Fertile Soil Source.
Everyone thinks that his former residence is in Godric's Hollow, but in fact Fertile Soil Source is where he was born and where he spent a carefree childhood.
It was only when his sister Ariana met with misfortune at the age of six that the family moved to Godric's Hollow.
The smiles of his parents in his memory, the tranquility of his sister, the childhood house that he dreamed of, and of course his weird-looking but equally old brother Aberforth.
Dumbledore looked at the scene in front of him, and tears in his blue eyes inadvertently appeared.
"It's true... I even encountered a fly in my dream!" Aberforth, who witnessed everything, expressed his dissatisfaction with a lot of complaints.
But it was just emotional dissatisfaction. Looking at an old man in tears, he did not choose to drive him away or do anything else.
After a long time, Dumbledore gradually came to his senses and walked straight to his relatives.
"Stand there! That's your position, don't move forward."
On the side, Aberforth saw his cheap brother trying to step forward, and hurriedly stopped him loudly.
"Aberforth! He is your brother." A gentle but firm voice sounded.
The speaker was Kendra Dumbledore, the mother of the three siblings, a powerful witch who enjoyed a certain reputation when she was alive.
Facing his mother's rebuke, even though his hair was already silver, Aberforth still quietly hid aside like he did when he was a child.
This scene also caused Ariana to cover her mouth and laugh.
Seeing his mother waving at him, Dumbledore, who was standing in the distance, walked forward without thinking.
He now has too many things to confirm, whether it is a dream or a person in memory, or something else.
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The night caresses the earth, giving all things a peaceful sleep.
However, time is never frozen.
When the first ray of morning light shyly appears on the horizon, like a warrior swinging a sword to cut off the shackles of the night, the magnificence of dawn quietly unfolds.
The sky also gradually changes from dark blue to light purple, and then turns into gorgeous orange-red, like a miracle on a palette, every stroke is full of vibrant brilliance.
All things wake up in the morning light, the forbidden forest in the distance, the vast black lake, and the silent and majestic castle.
One morning in early October, the whole Hogwarts became a little different.
To be precise, the castle has not changed, only the people in the castle have changed.
In the morning, including professors and faculty, everyone in the castle seemed to have untied the heavy shackles they had been carrying for a long time, and everyone had a light in their eyes.
Of course, their expressions were different.
Or relaxed, or satisfied, or a sense of loss after putting down a heavy burden.
And Pansy belongs to the latter. In her dream yesterday, she met the person she wanted to see, but did not get the answer she wanted.
Facing the expected rejection, she was not as sad as she imagined.
Perhaps as the other party said, the best ending for the good feelings in school days is to let it end in school days.
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When the morning light shines into the tower, the students are also washing and walking into the auditorium one after another.
Although the dream is beautiful, life still has to go on, and breakfast cannot be missed.
As the initiator of the whole thing, Ino is lying lazily on the bed at this moment, and he doesn't want to sit up no matter what.
He was too tired last night. Not only did he politely reject Pansy, but he also entered Dumbledore's dream.
Especially Dumbledore's dream, the conversation with the old headmaster's family made him discover many different places.
It seems that dreams are not only connected to living people.
"When everything is done, go to the Hall of Death..."
Lying on the soft bed, Ino added another future itinerary.
What he saw and heard last night made him realize that some dead people can appear in dreams.
Meow...
I wish you all good eyesight, good sleep, and breakfast on time~
