The years of welding at Hogwarts

The ground rang behind Snape.

The moment this familiar voice that had haunted him for more than a decade rang out, Snape was thrown up from his chair as if he had been electrocuted, and the armchair under him was knocked backwards by his calves.

The figure behind her stretched out her hand to help hold a chair, but her hands grabbed nothing and the chair passed through her hands without any hindrance, as if the chair was just an illusory projection.

No, to be precise, she is the illusory projection.

Lily's current appearance is neither like the ghosts floating in Hogwarts Castle, nor a living person with flesh and blood.

She was just a memory that was almost becoming a substance, not as solid as a living person's body, but much more real than a ghost.

Looking at the very familiar figure in front of him, Snape used great willpower to hold back the tears in his eyes and prevent them from falling out.

Lily's appearance remained the same as that night more than ten years ago, even the clothes she was wearing were the same. Her long dark red hair was draped behind her head, and her green eyes, which were exactly the same as Shirley's, revealed a bit of doubt.

"Severus, haven't I already..."

Snape took a deep breath, his voice trembling involuntarily, "Voldemort killed you."

"Annie and Harry..."

"They are all doing well now. I adopted Anne, and Harry was adopted by his aunt and her family."

When he said "They are all doing well", even with Snape's level of brain occlumency, he could hardly keep his face from blushing. As smart as Lily was, she saw through Snape's lie at a glance.

Given her sister's mean temper, she should be thankful if Harry's life could be at least adequate after being adopted by them.

Lily did not choose to expose it.

She tucked a few strands of hair behind her ears, "You adopted Annie? Can I meet her?"

Hearing Lily's request, Snape nodded without hesitation, "Of course."

But then he realized a very serious problem, that is, in the more than ten years since he adopted the Porter couple's daughter Anne, also known as Shirley, he had never told Shirley the truth about her life experience.

He even changed his daughter's name and her last name to Snape.

Shirley Snape.

"Oh no, I can't."

Snape regretted his words as soon as they came out of his mouth. He hurriedly tried to make amends, "No, that's not what I meant. I meant the snow... uh, Annie is out playing with her friends now."

The hurried exit seemed to reveal something terrible. A trace of cold sweat broke out on Snape's forehead. The old face, which had become expressionless due to the brain occlusion technique, also showed an abnormal red color at this moment because of lying, as if he had something to hide.

"is it?"

Lily's eyes fell on the inconspicuous black stone in Snape's hand.

There are several shallow lines on the simple-shaped stone, which are connected to each other to form a strange pattern composed of triangles, circles and vertical lines.

Any wizard who knows something about the Three Deathly Hallows will not be unfamiliar with this pattern, especially since the Potter family is the descendant of the three Peverell brothers who originally possessed the Three Hallows.

"That's the Resurrection Stone, right?"

Staring closely at Snape, Lily said in an almost pleading tone, "Please, Severus, I just want to see if my children are doing well, even if it's just from a distance."

Snape was completely unable to say anything to refuse Lily's request, not even a simple "no".

He lowered his head and remained silent for a long time, and finally nodded slowly.

"I can arrange a meeting between you and Annie, but..."

Snape's heart was in a tangled mess. He didn't know how to tell Shirley about her true life experience.

Lily said it lightly, but the actual situation was not as simple as she said - if Snape only needed to reveal her true life experience to Shirley, then he wouldn't have to worry about it.

Just imagine, when Shirley, who has never felt the love of a mother, finds out that her biological parents are the Potters, what is the most likely thing she will do?

That means one must want to understand what kind of people their biological parents, whom they have never met, are through various channels and means, such as the descriptions of their parents' relatives and friends.

She would want to know everything about her parents, their lives, how they died...

This was also the most difficult thing for Snape to tell Shirley.

In the eleven years since Lily was killed by Voldemort, Snape has never spent a single day without regret. Even adopting Lily's daughter could not alleviate the guilt in his heart.

Because the death of the Potters was largely related to him.

Eleven years ago, it was he who eavesdropped on Sybill Trelawney's prophecy in the Hog's Head Inn regarding the savior of the British wizarding world and the Dark Lord Voldemort.

It was precisely because he informed the master he was loyal to at the time of part of the prophecy he had overheard that

Leading to Voldemort marking Harry as his nemesis.

Of course, if Sirius Black had not been so smart as to replace the secret-keeper of the Potters' hiding place with Peter Pettigrew, who had already secretly defected to Voldemort, the Potters would not have been found by Voldemort.

But Snape didn't know about this.

Even if he knew, given Snape's character, he would not put the blame on Sirius who acted on his own.

In his opinion, Lily's death was entirely his fault.

Although only a very few people knew about this, Snape had already made a mistake once eleven years ago, and he could not and was unwilling to continue on the wrong path.

He must tell Shirley the truth.

However, when Shirley finds out that the adoptive father who has adopted her for eleven years is actually one of the culprits who killed her biological parents, will she still accept herself?

Although this was a selfish act, he had already lost Lily, and he could no longer accept Shirley leaving him.

Snape slowly closed his eyes.

After a long time, he opened his black eyes again.

Under the state of brain occlumency, Snape's pair of black eyes no longer revealed any complicated emotions, but were replaced by a calmness like a stagnant well.

"I will arrange a meeting between you and Annie, but you have to give her some time to accept it."

Lily just smiled and nodded.

As Snape put down the Resurrection Stone in his hand, Lily's figure suddenly disappeared into the air, as if she had never appeared. All this was just an illusion of Snape.

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After leaving Snape's study, the first thing Noah did when he returned to his room was to tear the time converter that Snape gave him into pieces.

On that day's standard Gringotts errand, Shirley was just a sightseer.

Gwen, the daughter of the New York Police Commissioner, said that she would not go along with Noah and his gang of lawless criminals, so she just stood there and was responsible for protecting Shirley's safety. She was idle the whole time and did not participate in the robbery of Gringotts.

The only three remaining main forces involved in the robbery were Noah, Bucky and Fox.

As for Snape, under Noah's commission, when all the power of the Ministry of Magic was almost exhausted, he quietly went to another place with the help of the underground tunnels that extended in all directions -

The Department of Mysteries in the deepest part of the Ministry of Magic headquarters.

The Time Hall of the Department of Mysteries stores an item that Noah has been longing to get since he discovered he had traveled to the wizarding world.

It is also an ability that the Supreme Sorcerer of Kamar-Taj must master, and that is time.

Time has always been a supreme rule in the universe, at least in the three-dimensional universe where Noah lives.

Even the Sorcerer Supreme of Kamar-Taj, here it refers to the real Sorcerer Supreme, such as the first Sorcerer Supreme Agamotto who created a magical artifact like the Eye of Agamotto, not a fake one like Noah.

But even as strong as Agamotto was, he could only use the one related to time among the six Infinity Stones to peek into the mystery of time, and thereby control time to a certain extent and gain insight into the mysteries of the universe.

However, the wizards in this world are quite extraordinary.

In the absence of the Time Stone, with such a backward magical civilization, they actually relied on the idealism of magic to glimpse some of the mysteries of time?

Whether it is a magic like the Hour Reversal Spell that can reverse time and space, or a time converter created by introducing alchemy on the basis of the Hour Reversal Spell.

Even if placed in the Marvel Cinematic Universe next door, this kind of magic and props involving time are a kind of heaven-defying existence.

So, when Noah realized that he had traveled to the magical world created by Aunt Rowling, the time converter stored in the Ministry of Magic became one of his targets.

Obviously, Noah and his companions' actions in Gringotts created a perfect opportunity for Snape to act.

If time was not limited and some large time-turners were difficult to move, Snape would have emptied out all the time-turners stored in the entire Time Hall.

In the short year or so that he had been with Noah, Snape had also learned what shamelessness meant.

He even did not let go of the semi-finished time converters placed in the time hall.

In the Time Hall now, apart from those super-large time converters, there are only a few ultra-small time converters that can only reverse two or three hours that were not packed up and taken away by Snape.

The reason why they can continue to stay safely in their original positions is that one day in the future, a top student from Hogwarts may need them.

The courses in Hogwarts are divided into compulsory and elective courses starting from the third grade. Students can freely choose from several elective courses provided by the school according to their future plans and interests.

You can sign up for a minimum of two courses, but if you are interested in all of them, you can sign up for all of them, even if some of them conflict with your schedule.

Students who have registered for all courses,

After evaluation and approval by the professors, the school can apply to the Ministry of Magic for a time-turner.

This is the origin of the time turner that Hermione used in her third grade in the original time and space.

If it weren't for this reason, Snape would have packed up all the time-turners in the Department of Mysteries and taken them away.

Snape now has a bit of the shameless style of Noah when he was a special forces soldier in the battlefield of PUBG in his previous life, who would not let go of any bullets or supplies even if it meant scraping the ground three feet deep.

In the room whose space was expanded by the Traceless Extension Charm, Noah took out all the time converters that Snape had looted.

The entire room was suddenly filled with clocks of various sizes and shapes.

There are huge floor-standing clocks, small travel clocks, wall-mounted clocks that hang on bookshelves or walls, and wristwatches or pocket watches that can be carried with you.

There were even quite a few hourglasses with ancient shapes. These most primitive timers were all placed by Noah on the bookshelf that was originally filled with magic books.

The sunlight outside shines into the room through the huge floor-to-ceiling glass windows, falling on the glass dials of the clocks, reflecting the sparkling and jumping light like diamonds.

But the most eye-catching thing is the bell-shaped crystal glass cover standing tall in the middle of the house.

Noah raised his eyebrows. He didn't expect that Snape would even move this thing out of the Time Hall. He really deserved to be the partner that Shafulin was optimistic about.

Just based on this shameless spirit, it is obvious that he is a rare talent.

The crystal bell was nearly as tall as Noah and filled with a roiling, glittering current.

A small bright object was rolling in the air flow inside the glass cover. It looked like a small bird's egg, but it was as shiny and bright as a gem.

This tiny bird's egg doesn't always retain its egg shape.

It constantly makes dazzling "8"-shaped movements in the airflow.

When at the bottom of the loop, it is in the shape of an egg.

But as it rose up under the air flow in the glass cover, the egg cracked at an extremely fast speed, and a hummingbird broke out of the eggshell and flew straight to the top of the glass cover.

During this process, this tiny hummingbird passes through its fledgling stage at a speed visible to the naked eye, grows gorgeous feathers and ages rapidly.

When it flew to the top, it already looked very old and frail, and it seemed that it no longer had the strength to flap its wings.

But as it fell with the air flow, the feathers of this old hummingbird became dirty and wet again. Until it was halfway down, it still looked like a wet chick that had just hatched from its egg.

And at the very bottom of the glass cover, it was locked in the egg again.

From birth to maturity, from maturity to aging, and from aging back to birth...

This complete cycle is repeated endlessly inside the glass cover.

In this glass cover, Noah clearly felt a familiar force, and he would never mistake that familiar feeling -

That is infinite raw power.

Although Noah was only fit to be a cannon fodder in Kamar-Taj, even though the Ancient One died at the speed of light in a rather outrageous way, leaving a huge mess to his junior brother Doctor Strange.

During the most turbulent and chaotic times of Kamar-Taj, Noah had no access to artifacts like the Eye of Agamotto.

But he had come into contact with it on the battlefield of the final battle.

Not only did he take a space gem directly from Iron Man's hand, he also slapped Tony Big Shit in the face in front of everyone on the battlefield.

Although this slap felt great, the price he paid was that he exploded.

However, Noah was also able to get close to the Infinity Stones at that time.

Although the aura of the Time Stone emanating from the glass cover seemed very weak, its source was indeed from the Time Stone among the six Infinity Stones.

Noah firmly believed that his judgment would never be wrong.

He rubbed his chin, where a little stubble was beginning to emerge, with interest, "Inquisition."

Chapter 260: Fragments of the Time Stone?

The Department of Mysteries existed long before the British Ministry of Magic and even before the establishment of Hogwarts.