Chapter 249

"What?"

Even though he already felt Murphy was a bit crazy just now, this sentence still gave Snape a big fright.

"Why?" Murphy looked at him, "Do you like Hogwarts very much?"

"Are you serious?" Snape was almost scared sober; Quirrell just wanted to steal the Magic Stone; this guy wants to blow up the school?

Is this guy the most dangerous Dark Wizard?

"To be honest, Hogwarts, is there still a need for it to exist?" Murphy said.

"After leaving for a few years, I almost forgot what Hogwarts was like, but now I remember it again."

"This school……" Murphy's voice lowered, "is a dead cage, a testing ground, a puppet theater stage……"

"All professors pull long faces, hoping students will become fools who only know how to recite a few spells. No questioning, no doubt; spells must have the exact tone, and potions must have unchangeable steps."

"Curiosity? That's poison."

"Exploration? That's the road to seeking death."

"Invention, that's a prank."

"Innovation? Oh, that's a damn joke!"

"If you ask, why is it like this? Why should this spell be recited like this? Why should this potion use these steps?" Murphy sneered, "You will only get one answer: because it has always been like this."

"But, because it has always been like this, is it right?"

"If it is right, why is it right?"

"Professors will say: this is magic."

"But, what the hell is magic?"

"Someone told me that belief is the essence of magic."

"But what the hell is called belief?"

"You can believe in a person, believe in an emotion, believe in a belief, but how the hell can you believe in an objective reality? Who do you think you are?"

"Belief should be after doubt."

"First you must question, question magic, question science, question all truths, and also question questioning itself, analyze, analyze again, purify, purify again, find that only true thing, and then you can completely believe in it."

"Isn't the so-called belief before this just self-deception?"

"However…… guess what, the people who say they want to believe are precisely the ones who doubt human nature the most."

"You mean, the Headmaster?" Snape still had a bit of sobriety left.

Murphy was stunned for a moment, then suddenly exhaled, "That's right, I'm talking about Dumbledore."

He and Dumbledore are completely different; Dumbledore believes in magic but doubts human nature, while he questions magic but believes in the power of the human heart more than Dumbledore.

Before, before entering Hogwarts, he felt that besides the Magic Stone, there might not be an inevitable conflict between himself and Dumbledore, so he always had the idea of coexistence and cooperation.

But now that he thinks about it, perhaps, the idea of wanting to coexist with Dumbledore was impossible to realize in the first place.

As long as Dumbledore is there, Hogwarts can never become the appearance he wants.

The future of the wizarding world he wants is reformist, progressive, and developmental, while Dumbledore only wants to maintain the status quo and maintain tradition; their two philosophies are so different.

He is like a dark cloud, always pressing on Murphy's heart, making him feel suffocated.

"Snape, do you want to be Headmaster?" Murphy suddenly asked.

"What?"

"I am a School Governor, and I have some friends on the school board; if you want to be Headmaster, I can help you." Murphy said.

"……" Snape was shocked, "Why me?"

Murphy thought for a while, raised a finger, and pointed to the empty wine bottle on the table, "Sectumsempra!"

With a soft sound, the neck of the wine bottle suddenly slid off.

"When I was in school, I was relatively poor, so I often needed to use old textbooks; I was lucky enough to have obtained a few old books from a senior and learned a lot of useful things from them." Murphy said, "I was shocked by that senior's talent; to be honest, when I was in school, I was far from reaching his level."

"If it is said, among the students of Hogwarts, who once possessed both a smart brain and a spirit of exploration, I think that senior should be among the best."

Wanting Snape to be Headmaster wasn't purely a lie to trick him into drinking.

Compared to Dumbledore who couldn't be controlled at all, Snape was much easier to manipulate, and he was indeed a talent.

"You……" Snape was a bit surprised, "You obtained my textbook?"

Then he shook his head, slightly drunk, "No, I wasn't the most outstanding; you haven't seen her. Lily, she was the one who had the most ideas."

"Lily Evans?" Murphy said, "Before I came, I did background checks on all the professors. I asked some of your acquaintances."

"I have heard a little about Lily Evans. However, that was already nearly ten or twenty years ago, right? Lily married and had children long ago, and even, she passed away more than ten years ago……"

"You, you don't understand……" Snape said.

"OK." Murphy raised his eyebrows and didn't say anything more; he picked up his glass and clinked it with Snape's, and then the two of them gulped down a few more big mouthfuls.

"Duang!" When he slammed the glass on the table again, Snape had already started to daze.

Drinking like this, even ordinary wine would make one drunk, not to mention Murphy had added ingredients.

As for Murphy himself, since he dared to bring Snape, he naturally had preparations; when his fingers touched the glass, he had already turned the things inside into water.

He wasn't as honest as Snape.

"So, you haven't forgotten, have you?" Murphy deliberately continued the previous topic, "You love her? You love Lily Evans?"

"Clang," something heavy seemed to fall outside the compartment door; Murphy's keen hearing heard the whispering of several people.

You should have used a Silencing Charm on yourselves, Harry.

However, Snape didn't notice the sound outside at all.

His gaze was a bit unfocused; hearing Murphy's words, he was silent for a long time without denying it.

Under the dual attack of alcohol and Veritaserum, that he didn't burst into tears on the spot was already beyond Murphy's expectations.

"Even if, she was already married? Even if she had children? Even if, she has already passed away?"

"Death…… cannot, make people forget, instead…… makes people miss……" Snape said with slurred speech.

"Death is…… a pause," this biggest romantic in Hogwarts said, "is an anchor, is time standing still. After she…… left, my time stopped moving……"

"My shell, wanders in this world……"

"But my…… heart, my soul, has always stayed in that period of time……"

"What I possess, is only the past……"

Snape said, suddenly picking up the glass again and pouring all the remaining wine into his stomach.

If you look at it from another angle, Snape is a super simp, the kind that is hopeless.

But listening to a middle-aged man's confession so heavily at this moment, Murphy found it very difficult to give birth to any mocking thoughts; call it lovesickness or stupidity, but this person's deep feelings are truly moving.

However, being obsessed with the past is not a good thing; it is so for him, and it is so for himself.

What use can a walking corpse trapped in the past have?

"But time will still roll forward, Professor Snape; no one can really stay in the past."

"If you say, letting go is something you can't do." Murphy looked at him, "Then have you ever thought about creating a future where Lily exists?"

(End of chapter)