Volume 6: Summer at Spider's End Alley Chapter 450 Pure People
As Snape finished his words, something that Rufus and the other two had not noticed before, moved on the ground like a snake, and the hemp rope that was wrapped around them suddenly tightened!
Such an attack would not trigger the defense of the Shield Charm at all, and Rufus and the other three were all focused on Snape at this time, and they didn't pay attention to if there were any other people hiding around.
As expected, the hemp rope, which was as thick as a baby's arm, tightly trapped the legs of Rufis and the other two, and then suddenly dragged them towards the door, causing them to lose their balance. Even though they had reacted at this moment, they could not wave their wands to use magic, and they all fell to the ground!
Just as they fell, a young-looking hand stretched out from the corner and snapped its fingers lightly.
The next second, the magic wands that had already left their hands flew out of the control of Rufis and the other two and floated in the air!
And at this time, they finally saw the person who had been waiting in the dark while they were stalking the cicada.
Jon took off his invisibility cloak and revealed his true face.
"Jon Green!"
Now every Death Eater would no longer feel unfamiliar with his face. Rufus gritted his teeth and spoke with an extremely unsightly expression.
John also looked at them with interest, and asked Snape without turning his head.
"Is this the elite among the Death Eaters? Why are they so unguarded? They seem much easier to deal with than Bella and the others ."
Faced with John's undisguised disgust, Rufus and the others blushed, not knowing whether it was out of anger or humiliation, but Snape's voice remained as calm.
"Compared to those other losers, they can already be called elites. Do you think the strength of us is really important in this war? No matter which side they are on, they have always relied on one person."
Jon shrugged and didn't express any opinion on this.
"So you actually knew I was following you all along?"
"With such a loud noise, there's no way you couldn't have heard it. If you heard it, you would have followed us."
As Snape spoke, he threw the bottle of golden gravel in his hand to John. Of course, Rufus also saw this scene. He stared with his eyes wide open, as if he wanted to pop his eye sockets out!
"How dare you! Snape! Do you know what you are doing? You have sided with Dumbledore!"
He roared and struggled to stand up from the ground. After seeing this, Jon just raised the wand in his hand slightly, and the hemp rope that had already controlled their lower body began to extend further, tightly wrapping all parts of their bodies below the neck.
Snape acted calmly in the face of his accusations. He sat in the high-backed chair, and the indifference on his face had not changed at all since the beginning, as if everything was under his control.
"I have never taken refuge with anyone since that night. Do you know why the master has always treated me with such high courtesy? It is because the relationship between us is different from yours. He and I are cooperating and we each get what we need. Now, I just want to terminate this cooperation."
"Betrayal! You shameless betrayer! Do you think you have succeeded by joining Dumbledore? You know how the master treats betrayers! He will make you wish you were dead!"
Snape didn't look at him, but waved his wand calmly.
"Avada Kedavra."
A green light flickered, and Rufus' face was frozen in a hideous and furious expression. The two Death Eaters trapped with him were not frightened by the death of their companion. They also cursed at Snape until two green lights lit up one after another, and the shed finally became quiet.
Jon was holding a glass bottle filled with golden sand in his hand, looking at Snape with a strange expression. It wasn't that he had any objection to Snape's casual treatment of his prisoners, but Snape's current look really seemed like he had completely surrendered to Dumbledore.
He murdered Voldemort's first Death Eater and killed Voldemort's second Death Eater with his own hands. What was he thinking?
"The opportunity you've been waiting for is now?" Jon shook the bottle of sand. "Didn't you say there weren't enough people? So the third wave of people you're waiting for are them?"
After hearing what John said, Snape finally sneered with disdain.
"Do you really know how many deals I have made with them? What I just said to Rufus also applies to you. I have never joined forces with anyone, and the same goes for Dumbledore. There is only cooperation between us."
Jon stared at Snape, and his behavior in the original book was actually traceable. He felt guilty about Lily's death, so he always protected Harry, and he was full of hatred for James, and he never treated Harry well when Harry was safe.
But now, his actions are somewhat hard to understand.
"Well, I suddenly realized that we haven't had a good communication yet. Just out of my personal curiosity, can you tell me what you want to do after doing all this, Mr. Snape?"
John no longer used the sarcastic tone he had used when communicating with Snape before, but instead used honorifics, which was rare.
Snape did not say anything immediately. He just looked silently at the door in front of him which was always open.
The sunlight shone through the doorway, and he was right at the edge of the area where the light reached. He only needed to move forward a little to get out of the shadow.
But he just stayed there, just like when Lily wanted to help him get out of the shadow during their school days, but he remained unmoved and stood there.
"If Harry Potter were still alive, you would be his classmate."
Snape's voice was not loud, and there was no discernible emotion in it. It was as if he was just talking about something that had nothing to do with him.
"So I can understand Lily's attitude towards you. She personally brought you to that carriage, and it was the year when her own child should have been enrolled in school. She actually placed some of her feelings for Harry Potter on you, otherwise the invisibility cloak would not have fallen into your hands so easily."
Jon glanced down at the invisibility cloak in his hand.
He understood what Snape said, but John didn't mind. If Lily really made it clear that he should recognize this witch whose scar in her heart would never heal as his godmother, John would have no objection at all.
They were willing to risk their lives to take him away from little Barty, so it wouldn't be wrong to say that they were Jon's second parents.
"Then what?"
"Then, there are actually some things I can tell you, Jon Green." Snape looked at him and met Jon's eyes. "I have completed three deals with two people in the past few days. Now I can do another one with you. I will give you an answer, and you promise me that no matter what happens in the future, you must protect Lily's life!"
Jon's answer to this was completely unthinking.
"This is no deal at all, and I'll always do this."
"This is certainly the best." Snape raised the wand in his hand and broke it with his own hands in front of John!
The birch bark broke, revealing the snake nerves inside that were glowing faintly!
Then Snape reconnected the broken parts of the wand, took out a bottle of glue-like potion from his arms, gently dropped a drop on it, and then the surface of the wand became intact again.
After doing all this, he stood up with difficulty, holding the armrest of the chair. He held the wand in one hand and walked to the stove in the shed with the other hand, and took out a handful of green powder from his pocket.
"My purpose is really simple. It's really, really simple. After that night, I will join whoever can keep Lily alive. I will work hard for whoever can guarantee Lily's safety. So can you say this is a kind of loyalty? Of course not. This is just a transaction."
Jon watched in silence as he sprinkled the powder in his hand on the stove. The fireplace, which had not been lit for who knows how many years, suddenly lit up with green flames.
Snape walked towards the fire.
"Finally, I'll give you a piece of advice, Jon. I don't know whether Dumbledore knows about this or not, but the man who has been entrenched in Northern Europe is crazier than any of you have guessed. What does the theory of bloodline mean in front of his plan? If he really succeeds, the whole world will change because of this."
Finally, his body disappeared in the flames, and he also revealed his final destination on this trip.
"Spider's End Alley."
Jon watched him leave, with no intention of stopping him.
The task Dumbledore gave him was just to protect Lily, and he never asked him to really capture Snape, so John actually always knew what he should do.
Besides, Snape's departure had obviously ensured that they would never have the chance to meet again.
Jon understood what he said about his purpose, and finally understood what Dumbledore meant when he always said that Snape was an extremely pure person.
More than ten years ago, he found Dumbledore and begged him to save Lily, and was willing to give everything he had for it.
Dumbledore agreed to the deal, but he didn't follow through with it.
Voldemort still found the Potter family and took the lives of Potter and his son, but he actually kept his promise to Snape and let Lily survive.
John didn't know what kind of mental journey Snape went through afterwards, but when he saw Voldemort, who had disappeared for a month and had completed his split soul and returned to England, Snape should have determined that the only one who could truly control Lily's life and death was the man in front of him.
Even with Dumbledore's protection, Lily, whose entire family was killed, would certainly want revenge at all costs. She would always put herself in danger and put her own life at risk.
If he really wanted her to live, what Snape should not have done was to continue to complete the deal he had begged Dumbledore for before, but to serve the returned Voldemort wholeheartedly and let him continue the promise he made to him at the beginning not to harm Lily. Only in this way could Lily's safety be truly guaranteed.
It was because of this that Voldemort agreed to his almost rude request and ordered all his subordinates not to endanger Lily's life under any circumstances. At the same time, he made full use of Snape, making him the leader and role model of the half-bloods, and also a thorn in the eyes of the pure-bloods. He also attracted the hatred of most of Dumbledore's side, and had been sitting in Hogwarts Castle for him, secretly letting Snape help him refine some unknown potion.
Snape was completely exploited, and there was no waste at all.
So there was indeed an equal exchange between him and Voldemort.
And after the Triwizard Tournament, why did he turn to the Wizarding World and be willing to return to England to help Dumbledore get the things that are now in John's hands? John guessed that Snape must have guessed the inside story of how Voldemort No. 2 was defeated by him.
After the day he was abandoned and cut off by Voldemort No. 1, Snape may have begun to believe that the trend of bloodline theory was over.
It would be meaningless for him to continue working for Voldemort, because the one who controlled Britain now was the crazy Voldemort No. 1. After abandoning Snape, there was an obvious answer as to whether he would order his men to spare Lily in the subsequent war on the wizarding horizon.
Even if the rational Voldemort No. 2 could make a comeback, if John could defeat him once, then he would definitely be able to defeat him a second time.
So Snape made a deal with Dumbledore at this time. In fact, Dumbledore had always seen Snape better than anyone else, so he knew what Snape was thinking and did not doubt his intentions.
Now the result of the transaction between the two is the bottle of golden sand .
Jon held the glass bottle in the air, the sunlight shone into the bottle, and the tiny golden particles reflected a faint light.
John didn't know what was in the bottle, but he knew that Snape's willingness to complete the deal with Dumbledore meant that he hoped more than anyone else that the Wizarding World could defeat Voldemort in the end. In other words, the thing in the bottle was what he believed would pose a real threat to Voldemort himself if it fell into Dumbledore's hands.
As for Snape's final piece of advice about Grindelwald...
In fact, Jon will discover some things much earlier than anyone else.
