"Lily, don't do this!" Cried the big girl.
However, when Lily reached the highest point on the swing, she flew and burst into laughter when she rushed into the sky. Then she didn't fall badly, but glided in the air like a swing master, staying for so long and landing so lightly.
"Mom told you not to do that!"
Penny stopped swinging with the heel of her sandal and rattled. Then she jumped up and put her hand on her ass.
"Mom says you're not allowed to do this, Lily!"
"But I'm fine." Lily is still giggling. "Penny, look, look, I can do it!"
Penny glanced around. There were Snape they didn't know on the playground. Lily picked up a withered flower from the bush where Snape was hiding. Penny took two steps forward, with an air of curiosity and scrutiny. Lily opened her palm when she was close enough to see clearly. The flower opened and closed in her palm, just like a strange oyster with many openings.
"Stop it!" Petunia shouted.
"It didn't hurt you either." Lily closed her palm and threw the flowers back to the ground.
"This is not right!" Penny said, but her eyes kept following the fallen flower. "How could you do that?" She asked, and there was an obvious yearning in her voice.
"It's obvious, isn't it?" Snape couldn't help jumping out from behind the bushes. Penny gave a cry and ran back to the swing. Lily was obviously startled, but she didn't move. Snape seems a little sorry for his appearance. He looked at Lily, and a red tide gradually appeared on his pale face.
"What is obvious?" Lily asked.
Snape looked excited and nervous. He glanced at Penny wandering on the swing and whispered, "I know who you are."
"What do you mean?"
"You are ... you are a witch." Snape whispered.
She looked as if she had been offended.
"This is not a good word!"
She turned around, held her head high and strode back to her sister.
"no!" Snape said, his face was red. Harry couldn't understand why he didn't take off that funny coat outside, unless it was because he didn't want to expose the blouse inside. He caught up with him, and his wide coat fluttered up and down like the wings of a bat, just like he did when he was an adult.
The sisters thought about it and unanimously expressed their distrust of him. They clung to the post supporting the swing as if it were a safe place.
"You are!" Snape said to Lily. "You are a witch! I've been watching you for a long time, but it's nothing. My mother is a witch and I am also a wizard! "
Penny's smile froze.
"Wizard!" She cried. Now she has recovered from the shock caused by his unexpected appearance. "I know who you are!" You are the Snape boy! They live on the head of Spider Tail Lane by the river! "She told Lily. That tone showed that she thought the address was a symbol of evil. "Why do you want to spy on us? "
"I don't watch it!" Snape said he was hot and uncomfortable in the sun and his hair was dirty. "I will never spy on you again!" He said savagely, "You are a muggle!"
Even if Penny doesn't know what a muggle is, she can hear each other's meaning from her tone.
"Lily, let's go!" She screamed. Lily obediently walked away, staring at Snape as she walked. He watched them strode through the playground gate. Harry found his face full of bitter disappointment. He knew Snape had planned this moment for a long time, but everything was out of order. ...
This scene disappeared, and before Harry realized it, he reconstructed another scene. He stood in a small bush, through which he could see the golden river. The crown of the tree shed shade on the ground, and two children sat cross-legged on the ground. Snape took off his coat, and his funny coat didn't look so weird in the dark.
"... if you use magic outside school, the Ministry of Magic will punish you and you will receive an arraignment letter. "
"But I have used magic at school!"
"It doesn't matter, we don't have a magic wand! If the child has no choice, he will not pursue it. But once you are eleven, "he nodded heavily," they start to teach you magic, so you should be careful. "
There was a brief silence. Lily picked up a twig and waved it in mid-air. Harry knew she was imagining the light from the tip of the wand. Then she threw away the branch and approached Snape and said, "This must be true, right? No kidding? Penny said you were lying to me. She said there was no Hogwarts College. What you said is true, right? "
"It's true for us." Snape said. "Not for her. We will receive the admission notice, you and me! "
"Really?" Lily whispered.
"Of course!" Snape said. Despite his bad hairstyle and funny clothes, he lay in front of Lily in an unforgettable and strange posture, and his face was full of confidence in the future.
"Could that letter really have been written by an owl?" Lily whispered.
"Usually." Snape said, "But you were born in a muggle family, so someone at school will explain it to your parents."
"Is it very different to be born in a muggle home?"
Snape hesitated, and the deep melancholy in his black eyes shifted from his pale face to his crimson hair.
He said, "No, it makes no difference."
"Great." Lily is relieved. Obviously, she has been worried.
"You know a lot of magic." Snape said, "I saw it. I have been watching you ... "
His voice dropped, but she didn't listen. Instead, she lay on the ground, looking at the fallen leaves and looking up at the trees. He looked at her intently as if he were on the playground that day.
"How is your family?" Lily asked.
There seems to be a crack in his eye.
"Very good." He said.
"Didn't they quarrel again?"
"Oh, no, they have been arguing." Snape said. He grabbed a handful of leaves and tore them to pieces. Obviously, he didn't realize what he was doing. "But it won't be long. I will leave home. "
"Your father doesn't like magic, does he?"
"He has no special hobbies." Snape said.
"Severus!"
When she called his name, a small dimple appeared on Snape's mouth.
"Huh?"
"Tell me more about dementors!"
"What do you want to know?"
"If I use magic outside school ..."
"They won't throw you to dementors because of this! Dementors punish those who really do bad things. They guard Azkaban prison in the wizarding world. You won't enter Azkaban, you are too ... "
His face turned red again, tearing the leaves in his hand harder. Suddenly, Harry heard a slight rustling behind him. He turned around and saw Penny hiding behind a tree.
"Penny!" Lily said in surprise that her voice smelled of welcome, but Snape jumped up.
"Who is watching who now?" He shouted, "What do you want?"
Penny was caught red-handed and looked at him in surprise, panting and alert. Harry felt that it took her a lot of effort to say that hurtful thing.
"Look at what you're wearing?" She pointed to Snape's chest and said, "Your mother's shirt?"
Suddenly, click. A branch on Penny's head fell and Lily screamed. The branch hit Penny right on the shoulder. She staggered back a few steps and burst into tears.
"Penny!"
But Penny ran away, and Lily asked Snape, "Did you do it?"
"No." He looks arrogant and scared.
"You did it!" She falls back, "it's you! You hurt her! "
"No-I didn't!"
But this lie didn't convince Lily. She gave Snape a hard look and ran out of the bushes after her sister, leaving Snape confused and miserable.
The scene has been reorganized again. Harry looked around. He stayed on the platform for nine and three-quarters hours. Snape stood beside him, hunched slightly, surrounded by a sallow and emaciated woman like him. Snape is staring at a family not far away. The two girls in that family stood a little far from their parents. Lily seems to be begging her sister. Harry went over and listened to what they said.
"I'm sorry, Penny, I'm sorry, listen-"She held her sister's hand tightly, and Penny tried desperately to pull it out. "Maybe, as soon as I get there-no, listen, Penny, as soon as I get there, I'll go to Professor Dumbledore and persuade him to change his mind!"
"I-don't want to-want to go!" Penny said, take her hand out of her sister's. "Do you think I want to go to some stupid castles and learn to be a ..."
Her dim eyes crossed the platform, the cat barked aimlessly in the owner's arms, the owl flapped its wings in the cage, some students had changed into black robes, some were carrying luggage on motorcycles sprayed with red steam, and some greeted happily after the summer vacation.
"-Do you think I want to be a-freak?"
Lily's eyes were full of tears, and her hand was finally pulled away by Penny.
"I'm not a freak!" Lily said, "That word is terrible."
"That's where you're going." Penny said meaningfully, "This is just a freak school. You and that Snape boy ... are freaks. It's just right to separate you from normal people, and it won't make us unsafe. "
Lily glanced at her parents. They were looking around on the platform and seemed to enjoy the atmosphere here. Then she looked back at her sister and whispered heavily:
"You wrote to our headmaster and begged him to accept you as a student. You don't think this is a deformed school, do you?"
Penny blushed. "beg? I didn't ask him! "
"I saw his reply. He is very nice. "
"You shouldn't read it—"Petunia whispered. "That's my privacy ... how can you ..."
Lily glanced at Snape, which made Penny suddenly realize.
"He found it! You and he are sneaking around in my room doing bad things! "
"no! Don't sneak around-"Lily argued." Severus saw the envelope. He didn't believe Muggles could write to Hogwarts, that's all! He said that the post office must have a wizard disguised as a muggle to ensure that ... "
"Obviously, wizards have extended their tentacles to every corner!" Penny said, pale as if she had just blushed. "freak!" She slapped her sister, then jumped off the platform and went back to her parents.
This scene is blurred again. Next, Snape hurried through the carriage of the Hogwarts express train in the country. He has changed into a school uniform robe. Maybe this is his first chance to change those terrible muggle clothes. Later, he stopped at the door of a carriage where a group of noisy boys were talking. Lily sat in the corner by the window and pressed her face against the window pane.
Snape opened the car door and sat opposite Lily. She glanced at him and turned to look out of the window. She has been crying.
"I don't want to talk to you." Her voice is cold.
"Why?"
"Penny, she hates me. Because we read her letter to Dumbledore. "
"So what?"
She looked at him in disgust.
"She is my sister!"
"She's just a-"He quickly shut up, and Lily was so anxious to wipe her tears that she didn't notice what he said.
"But we're going!" He said excitedly, "that's it, we're going to Hogwarts!" " "
She nodded and wiped her eyes. Anyway, she managed to smile.
"You'd better go to Slytherin College!" Snape said she was encouraged because she was in a better mood.
"Slytherin College?"
There was a boy in the carriage. He was not interested in Snape and Lily until he heard the word. Harry had been focusing on the two people by the window before, and now he saw that his father's light black hair was a bit like Snape's, but Snape would never have that kind of spoiled expression on his face.
"Who wants to go to Slytherin College? I think I'd better leave here. Aren't you going? " Zhan Mu asked the lazy boy lying opposite him with a smile. Harry realized it was Sirius, but Sirius didn't laugh.
"My whole family is from Slytherin College," he said.
"ouch!" Zhan Mu said, "I think you are quite good!"
Sirius grinned.
"Maybe I will break this tradition. If you had a choice, which university would you like to go to? "
Zhan Mu made a sword out of thin air.
"Gryffindor, warriors piles of college! Just like my father! "
Snape snorted contemptuously. Zhan Mu turned to look at him.
"What do you think is wrong?"
"No," Snape said, although his little sneer was obviously unintentional. "As long as you are willing to be a simple guy with developed limbs ..."
"Which university do you want to go to? It seems that your limbs are underdeveloped and your mind is simple. " Sirius cut in.
Zhan Mu smiled, and Lily stood up, blushed and looked at Zhan Mu and Sirius in disgust.
"Come on, Severus, let's find another carriage."
"Oh, oh, oh, oh ..."
Zhan Mu and Sirius imitate her cold and arrogant tone, and Zhan Mu tries to trip Snape as he passes by.
"See you later, snot!" A voice shouted and the door slammed.
The scene disappeared again.
Harry stood behind Snape. In front of them was a long university table illuminated by candlelight, with rows of engrossed faces beside it. Then Professor McGonagall shouted, "Lily? Evans! "
He saw his mother walking forward with trembling legs and sitting on a stool. Professor McGonagall put sorting hat on her head. Less than a second after the hat touched the crimson hair, he shouted, "Gryffindor!" "
Harry heard Snape sigh softly. Lily took off her hat and returned it to Professor McGonagall. Then she hurried to the cheering Gryffindor students, but at the same time she looked back at Snape with a wry smile on her face. Harry saw Sirius stand up and offered her his seat. She looked at him and recognized him as the man on the train, so she held her arm tightly and turned her face away, only turning her back on him.
Queue for roll call to continue. Harry saw that Lu Bang, peter pettigrew and his father were all assigned to Gryffindor College. Finally, only a dozen students were left to be assigned, and Professor McGonagall finally called Snape's name.
Harry followed him to the stool and watched him put sorting hat on his head. Slytherin!' Sorting hat shouted.
Severus? Snape walked to the other side of the hall and left Lily. Slytherin's students cheered him desperately, and he sat in Lucius? Malfoy's side, the other side patted him on the back, and the prefect badge on his chest flashed.
Then the scene changed. ...
Lily and Snape are walking in the castle, apparently arguing. Harry hurried to catch up and listen. Only when he caught up with him did he realize that the two men had grown up a lot. It seems that several years have passed.
"... think we should be friends? "Snape is talking. "girlfriends?"
"Of course we are good friends, Seaver (Snape's nickname), but I don't like you fooling around with that group of people all day! Sorry, but I really hate Avery and Mercer! Musber. Who is he, Seaver? He is a disgusting bug! Do you know that one day he will treat Mary? What does MacDonald do? "
Lily went to a pillar, leaned against it and looked up at the thin vegetative face.
"That's nothing." Snape said, "It's just a joke, that's all ..."
"That's black magic, if you think it's funny ..."
"What did Potter and his brothers do?" Asked Snape, blushing again when he spoke. He seemed unable to control his hatred.
"What did Potter do?" Lily said.
"They sneak out at night. That lubang is very strange. He keeps going out. Where is he going? "
"He is ill." Lily said, "They said he was ill ..."
"You get sick every full moon?" Snape said.
"I know your theory." Lily's voice sounds cold. "Why are you always interested in their affairs? Why do you want to know what they are doing at night? "
"I just want you to know that they are not as good as everyone says!"
He stared at Lily and she blushed.
"At least they didn't use dark magic." She lowered her voice. "You are so ungrateful! I heard about that night. You snuck into the secret passage under whomping willow. Is it Zhan Mu? Potter saved you from there-"
Snape's whole face was twisted and he said, "Help me, help me. You think he is a hero, don't you? " He is saving his own people! You won't-I won't let you-"
"Don't let? Don't let me do anything? "
Lily's bright green eyes became long and narrow, and Snape took a step back.
"I didn't mean that-I just don't want you to be fooled-he likes you, Zhan Mu? Potter likes you! " These words seem to pour out uncontrollably. "And he ... everyone thinks so ... the great Quidditch hero-"Snape's pain and hatred made him incoherent, and Lily's eyebrows rose higher and higher.
"I know Zhan Mu? Potter is a megalomaniac. " She interrupted Snape. "I don't need you to tell me this, but Mercer Bo and Avery's humor is simply evil, evil! Seaver, I don't understand how you became friends with them. "
Harry wondered if Snape had heard her accusations against Mercer and Avery. Anyway, when Lily said Zhan Mu? When Potter was uncomfortable, he relaxed all over, and when they walked away, Snape's steps were full of energy. ...
Then the scene disappeared. ...
Harry once again saw the scene after the ordinary wizard level test and the defense against the dark arts test. He watched Snape come out, strolled out of the castle and sat under a beech tree, but didn't notice that Zhan Mu, Sirius, Lu Bang and peter pettigrew were under the tree. But Harry just watched from a distance this time, because he knew what Zhan Mu would do after Severus was hung upside down. He knows what happened and what they said. He didn't want to listen any more ... He saw Lily go to all directions and then spoke for Snape. From a distance, he heard Snape shouting unforgivable words to her in shame and anger: "Mudblood!" "
Scene change.
"I'm sorry."
"I don't want to hear it."
"I'm sorry!"
"Save it!"
At night, Lily stood in front of the portrait of a fat woman at the entrance of Gryffindor Tower, with her arms in her robe.
Mary said you threatened to sleep here, so I came out.
"Yes, I am. I really intend to do this. I didn't mean to call you a mudblood, I just ... "
"A slip of the tongue!" Lily's voice without any sympathy, "it's too late. I've been making excuses for you for years. My friend doesn't understand why I want to talk to you. You and your precious death eater friends-look, you don't deny it! You don't deny what you have to do! You can't wait to follow that man, can you? "
He opened his mouth, but closed it again without saying anything.
"I can't pretend anymore. You choose your path and I choose my path. "
"No-listen, I didn't mean to ..."
"-call me mudblood, right? But you call people who have the same life experience as me mudblood, Severus, so why should I be different? "
He was still trying to find a story, but Lily looked at him contemptuously and climbed into the portrait hole. ...
Are these things? Harry saw them from Snape's memory in the pensieve!