The Hogwarts Emerald

Chapter 677 The Crisis of the Half-Blood Prince

A sneer appeared on Voldemort's face, which seemed to be mocking Snape's deep love for Lily, and also seemed to be mocking Snape's weakness and incompetence.

It was Snape who leaked the prophecy to Voldemort, and it was also Snape who knelt down and begged Voldemort to spare Lily's life.

Snape's affection was useless. He was unable to protect Lily. He hoped that his master could spare Lily's life. He placed his hopes on Dumbledore to protect Lily.

As a result, everyone knows that Lily and James, who had wrongly trusted others, eventually died at the hands of Voldemort, leaving behind only the one-year-old Harry Potter, the boy who survived.

"How touching, Severus." Voldemort was not angry because Snape pointed his wand at him. He completely ignored Snape's behavior.

In Voldemort's view, Snape could not pose a threat to him, and he could decide his life or death at the flick of a finger.

"When did it all begin, your betrayal of me?" Voldemort continued. "I thought the child of the prophecy, the mudblood child...was it then, Severus?"

Snape's right hand gripped the wand more tightly, and he said, "Yes. As long as someone can protect her, I am willing to repay everything I have."

"For a Mudblood, you betrayed the great Lord Voldemort!" Voldemort continued, "For a Mudblood, you protected Harry Potter!"

"Lily is not a Mudblood!" Snape hissed.

His wand trembled slightly, and the invisible blade slashed at Voldemort. However, Snape's sneak attack did not work, and Voldemort's body did not open any wounds, nor did blood gush out.

With just a simple wave of his robe sleeves, Snape's signature spell was broken.

Voldemort did not wave his wand, as if Snape had never betrayed him or attacked him. For a moment, Snape had an illusion that he could walk out of the cabin and continue to live.

Then, Voldemort's intentions became clear.

The snake Nagini rolled over and suddenly shot out, its bloody mouth opened wide, and its sharp fangs continued to grow larger in the field of vision. Nagini attacked Snape like lightning.

Snape waved his wand quickly, and the air in front of him was condensed into a solid wall. However, the air wall could stop the rushing Nagini, but it could not stop Voldemort.

Voldemort simply waved the yew wand in his hand, and the solid wall of air was easily broken like tofu, and the giant snake Nagini attacked again.

Just as the smelly snake mouth was about to bite his neck, and the sharp fangs were about to pierce the skin and inject venom, Snape felt a huge force coming from the back of his neck -

Snape's body flew backwards stiffly, broke through the wall of the wooden house, and fell into the open space outside the house.

When his body touched the hard ground, waves of pain spread throughout his body. Snape didn't have time to feel the pain in his body. He raised his wand again and fired several spells at the wooden house.

The simple wooden house collapsed and fell down in an instant.

Voldemort was unharmed. A transparent sphere with glittering stars formed by magic was floating beside him, and the giant snake Nagini was safely placed inside.

"Esmeralda Drizzt!" Voldemort said coldly. The Dark Lord's hatred for Ada rose sharply, approaching that of Harry Potter.

Anyone who has his good deeds ruined time and again by a person would want to cut that damn bastard into pieces.

"You were a little too harsh on my professor, Tom," Ada said in a normal tone, as if she was chatting with an acquaintance.

Snape's behavior of leaving the battle and sneaking away was not discovered by anyone. Even if Voldemort had sharp eyes, he could not do it while fighting with Ada and observing whether Snape escaped.

Snape should never, ever, have rashly tried to kill Nagini.

Indeed, because Voldemort had too many Horcruxes, the connection between him and each Horcrux was very weak. Even when his Horcruxes were destroyed one after another, Voldemort was unaware of it.

But Nagini is different from other Horcruxes.

Before becoming Voldemort's Horcrux, Nagini was a snake, a snake completely controlled by Voldemort, which is extremely rare in Parseltongue. Nagini is also closely related to Voldemort's survival - before Voldemort restored his body, he ordered Foley to continuously extract venom from the snake and use Nagini's venom to make potions to obtain a basically usable form.

On Christmas Eve 1995, Nagini broke into the Ministry of Magic at night and attacked Mr. Weasley who was on duty.

At that time, Harry witnessed the entire process of the attack from Nagini's perspective, which allowed him to issue an early warning and save Mr. Weasley, whose life was hanging by a thread.

Before this, Harry could only establish a mental link with Voldemort and could only see what Voldemort saw.

There are too many examples to prove that Nagini is different.

It was precisely because of Nagini's unusualness that it was able to immediately pass on the situation in the cabin to Voldemort at the front line after sensing Snape's murderous intent.

At that time, Voldemort and Ada were fighting fiercely. The black and blue flames were entangled with each other, and the sparks were enough to take the lives of people around them.

But when he learned that Nagini was in danger, Voldemort withdrew without hesitation and returned to the cabin to rescue Nagini, allowing the fire to spread in Hogsmeade and even threaten to destroy his coalition forces.

For Voldemort, Nagini is his last Horcrux and the final guarantee of his immortality, and no accidents can happen.

If the Death Eaters are killed and exhausted, they can be recruited and trained again. But if Nagini is gone, she is really gone, and Voldemort cannot bear such consequences.

Making a Horcrux is a very difficult thing in itself, and it is beyond belief. And Voldemort has already made six Horcruxes (he didn't know that Harry was also a Horcrux), which is something that no one has ever done before.

Voldemort himself was not sure whether his soul could be split successfully again.

So for Voldemort, Nagini is the most important and has the highest priority at this stage, and even Harry Potter has to take a back seat.

On the premise of ensuring the safety of Nagini and his own immortality, Voldemort killed the prophesied enemy Harry Potter. Voldemort could not tolerate the tragedy of 1981 to happen to him again.

This is why Voldemort left the front line and returned to the cabin desperately to stop Snape.

And why did Ada come along and save Snape in time?

The answer is actually very simple. When Voldemort came, Ada naturally followed.

Although it was unclear why Voldemort suddenly chose to run away, driven by curiosity, Ada followed Voldemort all the way and left Hogsmeade with him.

Although there was some delay in the pursuit, Ada arrived at the cabin at the perfect time.

"He is a professor to you, but a dirty traitor to me." Voldemort said coldly, "A traitor who can betray a great and noble cause for the sake of a mudblood."

"Great? Sublime?" Ida asked back, "You seem to have some misunderstanding about these two words, Tom."

Ada stepped forward with the Elder Wand in hand, blocking Snape behind her.

She continued, "Your mother, Merope Gaunt, is a pure-blood, and your father, Tom Riddle, is a Muggle. No matter how hard you try to hide it, you can't change the fact that you are a half-blood wizard. According to the pure-blood doctrine you promote... what, you kill yourself?"

This is a fact that Voldemort is unwilling to admit, but has to admit. Even though Voldemort killed his Muggle father, the blood of old Tom Riddle still flows in his veins.

"I have already purified my bloodline, starting from when I abandoned the name Tom Marvolo Riddle," said Voldemort.

"If purifying your bloodline means splitting your soul, and then performing a few dangerous black magic transformations to turn yourself into a monster... then I have nothing to say." Ada teased.

Voldemort was furious, but he did not take action.

He said, "Albus Dumbledore is dead, easily defeated by my plan. You are next, Drizzt."

(End of this chapter)