Chapter 238 Lily and Snape

Potions laboratory.

This is a room located underground.

There is indeed a small cabinet above this potion laboratory, which is filled with densely packed potion bottles and crucibles, and even some experimental notes.

"I didn't expect these things are still there..."

Lily's ghost floated up the stairs. She looked at these scattered things, and a smile appeared on her face unconsciously: "It seems that few students come here..."

"Um."

Snape nodded indifferently.

This small attic was their secret base when they were in school.

Because the Potions teacher at the time, Professor Slughorn, was very fond of those students with outstanding talents, and even liked to hold a slug club and invite these students to parties, and Lily was naturally one of the guests.

Both Snape and Lily were qualified to enter and exit this potions laboratory at any time, but the two little guys, who were only in their teens at the time, liked secret bases. They used the small cabinet they discovered as a place to store potions and records. Base for notes. .

later…

Two people had a falling out...

It was completely deserted.

After Snape became the Potions teacher, students were not allowed to enter here at will. This secret base in the small cabinet has never been discovered by other students.

Lily looked around here and said softly: "If there is a chance, it seems that I can continue to study potions at Hogwarts..."

"This is your place."

Snape lowered his eyes calmly.

This sentence seemed to be an answer to Lily, but it also seemed to be a wrong answer, and it seemed to indicate what he meant. Snape could always make his thoughts obscure.

Snape glanced at her ghost, and then slowly lowered his head: "If nothing happens, I still have a potion experiment to do..."

"Um…"

Lily nodded casually.

However, just when Snape was about to go downstairs, Lily suddenly turned to look at his back and called him softly: "Severus..."

"..."

Snape paused and turned around slowly.

The woman held her fingers nervously and looked at him gently and politely: "Severus...can I...go help?"

"..."

Snape was stunned for a moment.

"certainly…"

After the man nodded almost in disbelief, he quickly lowered his head again, as if he was afraid that Lily would notice that something was wrong with his expression.

Lily slowly floated to his side and said with a smile: "I hope my knowledge of potions is still of some use..."

"There is value in any knowledge."

Snape raised his head and answered seriously.

Just as he had been in his boyhood, and just as much as he had loved and believed in the knowledge of potions, he had never been serious about these things.

In a dark potion laboratory.

The kerosene lamps lit up quietly.

While sorting out the medicinal materials, Snape lit the alcohol lamp under the crucible. He no longer cared about the results of tonight's experiment. He enjoyed the process of doing the experiment more than ever.

"The flames are a little higher."

Lily looked at this scene with a smile, and stood beside him and reminded him softly: "If you organize the medicinal materials a few seconds slower than before, the crucible will boil faster..."

When we brew the potion, do not let the crucible enter the boiling state before placing the medicinal ingredients in the crucible, so that the perfect ratio of any ingredients can be ensured. "

"..."

Snape wordlessly lowered the flame of the alcohol lamp.

The laboratory was always quiet late at night, with the experimental bench illuminated by warm lights. Snape was skillfully brewing the potion and recording notes with a quill.

Lily stood nearby and raised her doubts from time to time, occasionally reminding Snape that there was something wrong with any of the data, as if she was doing potion experiments as she did when she was a child.

Listen to the gentle voices around you...

Snape's mood gradually calmed down.

Just as the quill in his hand was recording the last number, Lily, who had been smiling beside her, suddenly said: "Severus, I'm sorry..."

"..."

The quill in Snape's hand froze.

Lily's voice was a little calm, and she whispered about their past: "I always thought that our friendship was broken for a long time..."

This is the most sincere apology.

Because she always thought that she and Snape had parted ways long ago.

It wasn't until she died under Voldemort's wand that she discovered that Snape, a friend, still cared about her, which made her especially guilty of her past. They should not have broken off their friendship.

"..."

Snape's fingers tightened around the quill.

This man's heart was extremely uneasy. He still remembered what Peter Pettigrew said when he humiliated him. He seemed to have never formally apologized to Lily...

What he didn't expect was...

Lily returned to this world but took the initiative to apologize to him.

However, just when Snape was about to apologize and tell everything, he suddenly hesitated...

Snape put the quill on the table calmly, as if he was talking about someone else's business. He was extremely calm: "I was the one who said the wrong thing at the time, but I thought that sooner or later we would go different paths, so I never went to see you again..."

This man…

Talking about these things that are obviously related to me...

His attitude was as cold and calm as during class.

Even when Lily saw Snape like this, she couldn't help but feel that Snape, her friend, now seemed to care nothing about everything. Even Lily felt that Snape was a bit unfathomable...

middle…

What happened again?

Lily glanced at Snape in a daze and sighed softly: "Sorry, I always thought you had surrendered to Voldemort..."

"I did take refuge in the Dark Lord."

Snape frowned and interrupted Lily. He was not very willing to let her take the blame for her mistakes...

After finishing speaking, Snape slowly turned his head to look at Lily, his eyes narrowed slightly to hide his thoughts.

However, this expression...

Makes him look like a proud professor.

When Snape spoke, he still had Slytherin-like arrogance: "I like to learn dark magic. I always think that the Dark Lord is a unique dark wizard who can make wizards more powerful, but..."

When he said this, Snape's voice suddenly paused. He took a deep look at Lily and turned his head sharply, as if he didn't want to talk about what happened next.

"but what?"

Lily asked curiously.

"but…"

Snape took a deep breath, lowered his head to collect his notes, and as if with some contempt and disdain, he rarely cursed: "He is a cold-blooded idiot who doesn't understand emotions!"

This sentence…

Maybe he was scolding Voldemort...

Maybe he was scolding himself for not living up to expectations.