Harry Potter Returns from Baldur's Gate

He also said that if Harry needed him, he would be willing to help Harry beat up that bastard named Buddha something.

Harry was very touched by this and gave Dali two more sets of push-ups that night.

Unless the other party is a demon king who is ready to destroy the world, in Harry's opinion, revenge is just his own business.

However, Harry couldn't refuse Dali's kindness.

So Harry rode this bicycle every day during this period, traveling back and forth between Number 4 Privet Drive and the blacksmith shop.

Back at number 4 Privet Drive, Harry locked his bike and opened the door to hear Aunt Petunia shouting, "You're her friend! You must know something!"

When Harry reached the front of the living room, he saw Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon sitting on the sofa, glaring at a man sitting across from them.

The man had greasy black hair, a hooked nose, sallow skin, and was wearing a black robe, which made him look like a giant bat looking at you in the dark.

Harry instinctively smelled a dangerous aura from this man.

Concentrating slightly, Harry smelled a faint scent in the air mixed with drugs and the unique scent of fabrics that had been in a dark basement for a long time.

Combined with Harry's stereotypes of those wizards.

Harry asked uncertainly as he looked at the bat-like man.

"professor?"

"Ah."

The bat-like man did not take his eyes off Aunt Petunia.

He just snorted from his nose in response to Harry.

"Sorry, I'm late."

Harry glanced at the clock on the wall.

Although there were still five minutes left before the agreed time, Harry bowed to the man and apologized.

"Don't be so polite to him."

Aunt Petunia pulled Harry to sit next to her, never taking her eyes off the man.

"Snape, I didn't expect you to become a professor."

"I didn't expect that either."

Snape turned his gaze to Harry and looked him up and down.

"There are many things we can't think of. So, Potter, what do you want to know about Hogwarts?"

004 Hold that hand and never let go

There was only one thing Harry wanted to know about Hogwarts.

"professor."

Harry looked at the calm face in front of him, his eyes indifferent.

It was as if he did not exist in this world at this moment, but was looking at the world from some higher place.

Professor Snape gives people a sense of detachment.

"If you know Aunt Petunia, you should know my mother as well, right?"

"Um……"

Looking at the familiar green eyes in front of him, Snape unconsciously recalled the past.

The first thing that came to my mind was the girl with red hair and a pair of green eyes.

Then, a girl with chestnut curly hair and one eye always closed appeared in front of Snape.

After falling asleep one year ago, Snape found himself in a desperate world.

There are only walking zombies, crazy gods, and cursed and polluted land.

There, Snape couldn't even find relief through death.

After each death, you will be resurrected next to something called blessing.

Until one day, a girl wearing a black cloak, with chestnut curly hair and always with one eye closed appeared in front of Snape.

"Hello, who came through the fog."

"My name is Melina..."

"I want to negotiate a deal with you."

From that day on, Snape's life began to change.

Traveling with Melina.

Snape met another teacher, Catherine, who said, "It doesn't matter if you can't become king, there will always be a place for you by my side."

The care of Catherine and Melina seemed to bring back a little vitality to something that had long been dead in Snape's heart.

Snape had no interest in becoming king.

No matter how strong the power was, it was not as powerful as when Teacher Cerrian, wearing a pyroxene stone mask, said to him, "It's time to go to class, apprentice."

So Teacher Cerrian wanted to study the origin of magic, and Snape gave Cerrian everything related to magic that he could find during his adventure.

Melina wants to go to the royal city, so no matter how many times Snape falls, he will get up again and continue to move towards the royal city.

Snape was sure that he had not held that hand before, and this time he would never let go.

Until one day, Snape came to the magic academy and found that Teacher Cern was missing.

In the academy, there was only a huge sphere, calling itself "apprentice" in the midst of mournful cries.

After that day, the part of Snape that he thought was dead long ago began to ache again.

So Snape wanted to be king.

In the past, calling oneself a Half-Blood Prince was just for self-satisfaction.

And now, Snape wants to become king because he doesn't want to let go of Melina's hand anymore.

So Snape came to the royal city.

Although the battle was difficult, the wounded Snape still defeated the ruler of the royal city.

Just when Snape discovered that he could not enter the golden tree and become king, Melina suddenly appeared.

Tell Snape that if he wants to become king, he needs to go to the snowy mountains, and she will go with Snape again.

Snape could no longer remember what happened after that.

He only remembered the fire all over the sky and his clothes soaked with tears when he woke up in his home at Spider Alley.

"Professor? Professor?"

Snape, who was awakened from the sudden influx of memories by Harry's call, looked at the face in front of him that he once hated the most, and the pair of green eyes on this face that appeared in his dreams.

A flame suddenly appeared in Snape's originally empty heart.

With the hatred towards the old man who said to him, 'Severus, you have to let go of what you have to let go of sooner or later. Don't you want to go see Lily's child?'

Snape began to splash the poison.

"Potter, you're already thinking about building connections before you even start school?"

Looking at the resentment that suddenly appeared in Snape's originally empty eyes.

Harry was stunned for a moment, then nodded slightly to Snape.

"Sorry Professor, that's not what I meant."

Snape looked Harry in the eyes.

"So Potter, what do you mean?"

Looking at Snape's eyes flashing with resentment, Harry said calmly.

"Professor, as you can see, I am an orphan, so I would like to know if I go to Hogwarts."

Having said that, Harry stared at Snape, trying to detect what was hidden behind his resentment from even the slightest movement.

"Will I be able to gain the power to avenge my parents?"

"After all, you know my parents, don't you?"

Hearing Harry's words, the resentment in Snape's eyes disappeared.

After a certain emotion flashed in the depths of Snape's eyes, that resentment filled Snape's eyes again.

"Potter, you have to understand that Hogwarts is a school, not a military camp."

Snape tore his eyes away from Harry's.

It was as if the person Harry had just mentioned was just a name to him, and he answered indifferently.

"We offer instruction that leads to passing the Ministry of Magic's NEWT, the Ultimate Wizarding Test. If you are seeking something else..."

After a brief pause, Snape continued in his calm tone, as if it were a midnight morgue.

"Then you may not be suitable for Hogwarts. After all, Hogwarts is just a school. I hope you are intelligent enough to understand this."

Although Snape was calm throughout the whole process, he was like a piece of ice that had been frozen in Antarctica for 10,000 years.

But the moment the resentment in Snape's eyes disappeared, Harry still keenly caught something.

Maybe that thing is youth, memories, and the tangled past that cannot be cut off or sorted out.

None of this matters.

Looking at Snape, who was calm in front of him, a smile appeared on Harry's face.

"Professor, you are right. School should be a place for learning. I have no more questions except where to buy the shopping list in the letter."

Ignore the annoying smile on Harry's face.

Snape stood up from the sofa.

"This is one of the reasons why I am here this time, Mr. Potter. I will assist you in completing the purchase in Diagon Alley."

"and many more."