Su Yidan was sitting in the cinema, feeling unusually nervous.
This is indeed a bit inappropriate. After all, the box office performance of the film is something that the producers themselves need to care about, and the audience only needs to enjoy the plot. However, facing the ending of this film that can be said to have run through her entire youth and is about to usher in the final scene, Su Yidan could not calm down.
This is Harry Potter, after all.
Reason told her that as a magical world that has accompanied the audience for so many years, the ending of "Harry Potter" must be that the Dark Lord is defeated and the magical world has long peace. However, emotionally, the intuition and premonition from the previous movies made her uneasy about the upcoming war.
Cedric died.
Sirius died.
There are too many people who died in this war. Some, like Regulus, no one knew until his death that he was proud and brave when facing the Dark Lord. For example, Dumbledore, who enjoyed all the praise in the world, died before the war began.
So what next
In this doomed war, how many more people will be killed by the Dark Lord
The movie began under the audience's nervous gaze.
The first to appear is Severus Snape, the Potions Professor who is hated by most Harry Potter fans. As the war begins, the once bustling and beautiful Hogwarts Castle now appears indescribably quiet and desolate.
Snape just stood on the tower, staring silently at Hogwarts under the cold moonlight.
Is he thinking about where to capture this place? Su Yidan thought with some irony.
Harry Potter fans are divided into two camps regarding their interpretation of Severus Snape. One camp believes that Dumbledore's trust in Snape is not unreasonable, and believes that Snape has other reasons. The other camp has never had any good feelings towards this man from the beginning to the end.
Su Yidan was originally the former.
But from the moment Dumbledore died under Snape's wand, she became the latter.
Maybe Dumbledore had really reached some agreement with Snape, but that was no longer important. What was happening before their eyes was that Dumbledore had trusted the wrong Snape. Maybe Snape was indeed a spy, but he eventually chose the Dark Lord.
From the moment Dumbledore fell under Snape's spell, Su Yidan could never forgive Snape.
As much as she liked the kind and lovely old man, she hated the murderer who betrayed his trust and ruthlessly cast the cruelest spell on him.
The opening about Snape was just a small episode after all, and the plot of the movie soon returned to the right track.
The pace of the story did not slow down because of this slightly literary opening, but instead quickly increased as the plot progressed.
Harry Potter returned to Hogwarts and successfully drove Snape out of Hogwarts.
The Dark Lord led the Death Eaters to approach Hogwarts, and a war was imminent. This should have been the beginning of a disaster, but no one in the entire Hogwarts chose to retreat. It had nothing to do with age or the school. If there must be a reason, then it must be -
"I'm from Dumbledore's Army!"
When the younger student shouted this sentence stubbornly, Su Yidan couldn't hold back her tears. It seemed that not long had passed since they separated, and she began to miss the old man who had given everything for Hogwarts.
This is the final battle.
This is a night destined to go down in the history of the wizarding world.
On this day, Professor McGonagall released the powerful magic that she "wanted to use once in her life"; on this day, Hermione Granger used "Oblivion" on her parents and then turned around and rushed to the battlefield; on this day, Neville, who was ridiculed for not being like a Gryffindor, drew out the sword of Gryffindor to best prove his will.
On this day, in a huge explosion, Fred Weasley closed his eyes forever.
Percy actually never got along well with his naughty brother, and as the older brother, he was often teased by the twins. However, when more spells flew from the night sky, he remained unmoved, and just stubbornly lay on the cold body to prevent his brother from getting hurt.
"Percy, go—"
Ron, with tears on his face, tried to grab his brother, but Percy didn't move.
On this day, Severus Snape, who also ran through the childhood of all the audiences and represented the image of the "most hated teacher" in almost everyone's mind, finally died under the curse of the Dark Lord.
Su Yidan thought she should be happy.
Yes, she hated Snape so much. This man killed her beloved Headmaster Dumbledore. He deserved to die. However, when Harry carefully crawled into the room where Snape was, and Snape used his last bit of strength to put something into Harry's hands, Su Yidan couldn't help but shed tears.
This was perhaps the most embarrassing moment in the professor's life.
Countless blood gushed out from his wounds, but he was just stubborn Harry, and whispered in a low and intermittent voice, he said the last request of his life.
"Look me."
Su Yidan bit her lips, trying to stop herself from crying. The cinema should have been quiet, but now she could not suppress her sobs. However, she was unwilling to compromise. This guy was a real villain, even if he changed his ways in the end.
Even if he finally turns back...
Su Yidan almost held it back.
Until Harry rushed into Dumbledore's office and entered Snape's memory through the Pensieve in the cabinet. It might not be a bad thing to immerse yourself in other people's memories, Harry thought, although he clearly understood that such escape could not alleviate his inner pain.
Then, for the next moment, all the audience watched that man's life with Harry.
That was a life that had nothing to do with the word happiness.
Meeting Lily, getting to know Lily, breaking up with Lily. These are just scattered fragments, but even the most obtuse person can see how important this girl is in his life, so everyone follows Snape in the past and watches the girl they like walk away from him.
Watched her get married and have children.
Watch her die.
He decided to protect the child that Lily left behind, and for this he had only one request - never let anyone, especially Harry Potter himself, know what he had done to protect him.
Dumbledore agreed.
The story soon came to the origin that the audience is familiar with—
Harry arrived at Hogwarts.
Across the crowded Gryffindor table, the gloomy and unpleasant professor stared at the pair of emerald eyes in silence.
He hated Harry Potter so much that he never concealed it, whether facing Harry himself or Dumbledore who knew everything. He said that Harry Potter was a mediocre, presumptuous, rude fool like his father. But the pain in his eyes was known only to him.
He questioned Dumbledore why he wore the cursed ring and made himself look so terrible.
Dumbledore wanted him to be the one who killed him, not Draco Malfoy, because "the boy's soul has not been completely ruined, and I don't want to tear it apart because of me." Because he understood that the crime of killing Dumbledore was too heavy for a child to bear.
"And what about my soul, Dumbledore?" Snape asked. "What about my soul?"
The truth came to light at this moment.
So that's how it is.
So that's how it is.
Of course Snape would kill Dumbledore himself, because that was Dumbledore's request. When everyone was furious and desperate for him to kill Dumbledore, no one knew that as the executioner, he also carried the numbness and pain of his soul being torn apart.
He knew the connection between Voldemort and Harry Potter.
He knew that Harry Potter, as a container, must face the inevitable fate of death.
Facing the furious Snape, Dumbledore almost really thought that he had feelings for Harry, but the man being questioned just raised his hand and waved his wand. Then, a silver doe jumped out from it and flew out of the window until the silver light disappeared.
Dumbledore moved his lips: "It's been so long and still like this?"
"Always."
The truth is out.
Harry lay quietly on the floor of the office, and the camera of the movie flashed back from here to the dilapidated hut. The boy carefully crawled to the man, took off his invisibility cloak, and stared at him silently. The latter was neither sad nor happy, letting the blood flow out of his body, and stubbornly said to him:
"Look at me."
So, in that brief moment, perhaps not even a second, the green eyes looked at the black eyes. Soon, the color representing life disappeared from the deep black eyes like the ebb tide, and the hand holding Harry fell down weakly, motionless.
Snape is dead.
This is a fact that happened just a few minutes earlier in the movie.
However, when this scene appeared in front of the audience again, Su Yidan could no longer restrain herself, and tears flowed out of her eyes unrestrainedly. She tried not to look too embarrassed, but when "Look at me" sounded again, she couldn't help but tremble slightly, and then cried out loud without caring about her image.
Seven years of resentment disappeared at this moment.
For a moment, she even began to blame Dumbledore for his ruthlessness. He couldn't bear to see a child's heart torn apart, but he did not hesitate to give the task of killing him to Snape. But soon, this thought sank silently. She loved Dumbledore so much that she understood better than anyone else -
Dumbledore, who was still planning to dedicate everything he had to the magical world even after his death, was the most miserable one.
It's not even about pain.
Because in those endless years, the old man had long been accustomed to burying all the responsibilities and pains in his heart, not telling others. The wound was left there for a long time, not scarring, but being ignored for a long time with a bloody posture. And the ending that everyone can see is the best ending that the principal could strive for after trying his best.
She couldn't unreasonably pin the blame on Dumbledore, nor could she ignore the misunderstandings and abuses she had received over the years.
It's so painful.
But if even they, as bystanders, are so heartbroken, then how would they, the parties involved, who have gone through the past seven years without changing their expressions, feel
She doesn't know.
She could only sit in her seat like all the other audience members in the cinema, crying uncontrollably like a young child.