Hogwarts: I'm just here to enjoy the magic

Hogwarts.

Third floor landing.

Standing on the platform, through the railing, you can see a large group of people surrounding the stairs on the second floor.

It's Lockhart and a bunch of little witches.

Snape stared at Lockhart.

He looked at Lockhart with a smile on his face, talking about nonsensical things while teasing the little witches.

After the little witches' cheeks turned red, they left a charming smile and turned around to leave.

Snape had been observing Lockhart like this for two weeks.

To be honest, he was confused.

Lockhart, who was laughing and joking and acting like a flamboyant liar, was able to suppress him with a single forgetfulness spell.

This is not reasonable.

What's even more unreasonable is that Dumbledore, knowing that there was something wrong with this man, still allowed him to roam around Hogwarts as he pleased.

This is more than just luring the wolf into the house.

Unreasonable, really unreasonable.

But even so...

He also had to communicate with the other party.

Snape took a deep breath.Then walked to Lockhart's office.

It didn't take much time to arrive at the door of the office.

He reached out and knocked lightly on the door.

After a while, there was movement from behind the door.

"Who?"

Along with the sound of footsteps, the door opened.

Lockhart's always smiling face appeared behind the door.

"Ah, it's Severus, come in." Lockhart greeted enthusiastically, "I was just imagining the plot of a new book. It's related to potion making. You came just in time to give me some suggestions. chant."

Snape was silent.

Entering the office, he stared at Lockhart.

Lockhart seemed not to notice anything strange and continued to talk non-stop.

"Speaking of which, can I also include the principal in the book? By the way, I remember there was a very troublesome elf in the school, that Peeves. I haven't seen him recently. Where did he go? As a Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, I originally wanted to teach the students how to deal with elves. Unexpectedly, Peeves disappeared, which made me wonder how to arrange the teaching content. How about teaching some How do you know about ghosts? I have a book called "Breaking with a Female Ghost", which is very popular. Have you read it? It contains the experience of me and a female ghost getting acquainted, getting to know each other, acting together, and finally becoming hostile to each other. I Later, I tried my best to deal with her. There are so many ghosts in Hogwarts, and my experience in dealing with ghosts should be very useful to students, right?"

Snape's head hurt when he heard it.

However, he also admired it.

Lockhart had shown no behavior inconsistent with his persona since he had entered the office.

If there was an award for Best Actor at Hogwarts, then this award should go to Lockhart.

This guy is really good at acting.

Even Snape, a top double agent, couldn't see any flaws.

Since you can't see through it, let's not talk about the useless stuff.

Let’s go straight to the main course.

"Lockhart, do you have any solution to Harry's problem?" Snape asked in a deep voice.

Harry is a living Horcrux.

In order to completely defeat Voldemort, all Horcruxes must be destroyed.

Including Harry.

This means killing Harry.

How is that possible...

Harry is Lily's bloodline.

Although he hated Harry's father, that bastard named James Potter.

But that didn't mean he was willing to sit back and watch Harry die.

So, is there a perfect solution?

It can remove Voldemort's soul fragments without harming Harry.

He has been studying possible solutions for a long time.

Nearly two months have passed since Harry's condition was confirmed.

After spending so much time and even delaying the search for another Horcrux in the school, I still couldn't come up with a perfect and feasible solution.

Snape couldn't bear it anymore.

Because he knew what kind of person Dumbledore was.

Dumbledore didn't mind sacrificing anything for the sake of world peace.

Whether it was his own life or Harry's.

Of course, that's not to say that Dumbledore was a bad person.

Given the choice, Dumbledore would rather sacrifice himself than let Harry die.

The premise is that there are other options.

If not, I can only say I'm sorry.

For world peace, for the stability of the wizarding world.

All sacrifices are worth it.

Either Harry or Dumbledore.

Because he understood Dumbledore's thoughts so well, Snape felt that he could not sit still and wait for death.

Now that Lockhart knows Harry is a Horcrux.

Then you must know how to solve this problem.

In order to keep Lily alive, Snape was willing to betray Voldemort and act as Dumbledore's spy.

Now, he can still seek help from Lockhart, who doesn't know the details, in order to keep Harry alive.

Even if the price is his soul.

"How should we dispose of Voldemort's soul fragments without harming Harry?" Snape stared at Lockhart.

Lockhart looked confused at his question: "What soul fragment? What Harry? Is it related to that person?"

Lockhart spoke more and more quietly, as if he was afraid of retaliation.

This kind of performance is actually very consistent with how wizards should look when discussing Voldemort.

Normal wizards, no matter how powerful they are, would not want to mention that name.

Use that person or the mysterious person to refer to.

Even though the Ministry of Magic clearly announced that Voldemort was dead.

It's still like this.

"Stop pretending." Snape was impatient.

Last time, he was subdued in front of Dumbledore.

Still acting like a coward.

Who else are you trying to deceive?

They were obviously the only two people in the office.

"I don't know what you're talking about. I'm not pretending." Lockhart looked questioning.

"Since you're not pretending, why don't you want to answer?" Snape's anger began to burn.

"Of course it's because..." Lockhart suddenly smiled, "Don't you always know the solution?"

When Snape heard this, his anger quickly subsided.

He didn't say any nonsense like you finally stopped pretending, but went straight to the point.

"What solution?" He frowned, "It wouldn't be for us to kill Harry."

"Yes, it's that simple." Lockhart nodded slightly.

"Impossible." Snape snorted, "We can't do this kind of thing. He must be alive!"

"Then you are forcing yourself to do something difficult." Lockhart spread his hands, "You should understand, right? Voldemort's soul and Harry's soul are showing signs of merging together."

Snape was silent.

Dumbledore had mentioned this situation to him.

"Harry has been a Horcrux for 11 years. Counting this year, it will be 12 years. They have been a Horcrux for 12 years, and their souls have been intertwined."

Lockhart sighed.

"How can we separate them without dying once?"