"I don't understand." Harry still looked confused.
Leon was about to say something when he noticed a scrawny cat with scarlet eyes crawling over."Filch's cat's here, come with me, we'll talk somewhere.”
After saying that, Leon turned around and left. Harry put on the Invisibility Cloak and followed him. After a while, the two of them went around the small forest behind the Academy. Although it was strange for two men to come to the small forest, Leon's main reason for coming here was that the place could block the wind, and there were finished wooden stakes for people to sit on.
"Do you often come out for night walks?" Seeing how familiar Leon was, Harry asked expectantly. He was quite excited about the current situation. After all, he had wanted to make friends with Leon for a long time. Now that he had this opportunity, he naturally wanted to find some common topics.
"No, I don't think it's necessary. With our current physical condition, we need to sleep early to recover our energy and let ourselves grow faster and taller.”Leon sat on the wooden stake and looked at the crescent moon and the starry sky. He felt that it was quite novel. It had been a long time since he had looked at the sky so calmly and leisurely.
In the past, even if he wanted to see it, all kinds of smog and light pollution would cover the sky tightly. At most, he could see the moon. However, at this time in 1991, although heavy industries were developing all over the world, the situation was not that serious.
"Oh." Harry was a little embarrassed. Although Leon had used the word 'we', he still felt that Leon was talking about him.
"Let's continue our conversation. I'll tell you a story.”Leon was not here to give Harry a lesson. There were some things that needed to be made clear to prevent uncontrollable situations in the future. Now was the perfect opportunity.
Harry nodded. He didn't know what to say, but as a good listener, he could do it.
"Did you know that your mother and Snape were childhood sweethearts?”Without any hesitation, Leon threw out a bombshell, and Harry acted as if he was shocked.
"But I heard my mother was a Muggle-born wizard, and Snape-" Leon interrupted Harry before he could finish.
"Snape's a Slytherin, so you think he's a pureblood? But I'm Slytherin too." Leon replied with a smile. Although he didn't say it explicitly, Harry could still understand the meaning behind his words.
"I have to slow down." Harry sighed with a strange expression. He still hadn't digested the news that Snape and his mother were childhood sweethearts.
Leon did not wait for Harry to calm down and continued,"Professor Snape went to school with your mother, but like Hermione and I, one went to Gryffindor and the other to Slytherin.”
Hearing this, Harry felt a little strange, but he still nodded and did not speak, indicating that Leon should continue.
" In the beginning, the two of them maintained a very close relationship. However, on the train that started school, your father, James, fell in love with your mother at first glance. However, because children at that age did not know how to express their love, they could only think of ways to attract a girl's attention by bullying her.”
Leon looked at Harry, who smiled helplessly and expectantly. It was the first time he had heard someone talk about his parents 'past.
"Lily, your mother, was bullied by Snape, so Snape started to help. James also knew about Snape's close relationship with Lily, so he was jealous of Snape and turned his attention to Snape.”
"This…" Hearing this, Harry was confused again. So the former Professor Snape was actually bullied by his father? Because of his mother.
"They were evenly matched at first, but Snape was studious and talented, so he had the upper hand in the first year.”Leon continued and looked at the sky.""But then James got to know Sirius, your godfather, who was wrongly accused of framing Lily and James, who's been locked up in Azkaban for eleven years now, and Lupin, a werewolf wizard, and his meanest friend, Pettigrew, a sewer rat who usurped the hero's place.”
"I have a godfather? He was locked up in Azkaban? You said he was framed? Why?" Harry was completely shocked by the series of names and information. He subconsciously stood up and questioned Leon.
"Don't be anxious. I haven't told you anything about him yet. If you want to know more, then sit down.”Leon didn't care about Harry's reaction. He could understand Harry's mentality, but now that he was in control of the home ground, he had to solve the problem of Snape.
Harry clenched his fists unwillingly, but he still forced himself to sit down quietly. However, his trembling body still betrayed the excitement in his heart.
"So, the four of them gathered together and helped James attack Snape. One against four, Snape was unable to resist at all. He could only be pressed to the ground again and again. You should have experienced that feeling, that anger and despair.”
Leon looked at Harry. After all, Harry had attended elementary school before coming to Hogwarts. He had been bullied by the gang of bullies led by Dali.
Harry nodded with a complicated expression. He now understood why Snape hated him so much, but he no longer hated Snape. Because of the same experience, he felt more sympathy and empathy for Snape.
" But Lily would protect Snape every time, but this did not make James restrain himself. Instead, because of jealousy, he suffered such grievances in front of the girl he liked. Snape began to go crazy. He blindly pursued the power to defeat James, so he began to study black magic.”
The story continued, and Harry was completely immersed in it. Unknowingly, he had actually entered Snape's character.
" Not only did he learn black magic, but the talented Snape even invented some black magic with weak aftereffects. This made people sigh at Snape's talent, so Snape, who had mastered black magic, began to seek revenge on James. This time, James suffered a big loss, but this also let Lily know that Snape had stepped into the vortex of black magic.”
Leon paused for a moment and said disdainfully,"" But Lily didn't understand what Snape was doing. Instead, she questioned Snape about why he was learning black magic. Snape stubbornly didn't explain. He only said that he was Slytherin and scolded Lily. After that, the two of them completely parted ways.”
"Can you understand, Harry, the grievance and confusion of not being understood?”
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