Harry Potter: The Dragon That Sleeps

The Dursleys, who live at No. 4 Privet Drive, always say proudly that they are a very well-behaved family. Ha! Come on, they have never been involved in mysterious and weird things.

Once they hear someone nagging, they will hold their necks high and loudly tell the other person to be realistic! They will find an unparalleled sense of superiority from the sermon that is about to begin.

Mrs. Dursley is a thin blond woman, with a tall head that highlights her slender neck, which she always likes to decorate with some red crystal necklaces.

Her golden curly hair is spread over her shoulders. Today, Mrs. Dursley is wearing a pair of pink high heels. Vernon Dursley often boasts about her youthfulness and is always willing to dress her up beautifully.

Mr. Dursley loved his wife very much. As the director of the Granning Company, he was obviously a very independent man, but he would always obey his wife's wishes.

Oh~ how many years have passed, their child is already eleven years old, and their relationship is still as good as that.

Just like their vows when they got married, no matter what happens, they will bear it together...

If that thing hadn't happened, my life would be happier.

Although it’s not too bad now?

Penny walked across the street with her shopping bags and high heels. As she approached the residential area, there were fewer and fewer pedestrians around her.

The dark shadow flashing in the corner of her eyes made her heart skip a beat. She quickly turned around, but she didn't see anyone at the fork in the road behind her.

Did she see it wrong? If it were in the past, maybe Penny wouldn't be so serious.

But that black robe and those nightmares that haunted her urged her.

Penny turned back and walked a few steps until she reached a fork in the road.

Then she saw the guy standing in the corner.

He was wearing a black robe without any decorations, and his hair and beard were all meticulously groomed. The man he met again was completely different from the one he remembered wearing.

What remained unchanged was his arrogant temperament and the corners of his mouth that turned down even more.

"No, that's not true." Penny seemed to want to pretend that she didn't see him. She regretted so much why she had to come over and take a troublesome look.

She had already had a hunch that this guy would appear again sooner or later.

For the child who portends doom.

"you you……"

"Evans..." He first didn't expect that he would hide, and then he didn't expect that the woman would chase her back and take another look.

But at least Snape knew what he should say.

But in the end, all he tried to do was say a name that was no longer in use.

"My last name is Dursley now, or have you forgotten my name? Severus?" Petunia shook her head slowly, while continuously backing away to widen the distance between the two.

The tears on her face were broken.

The warm wind in early summer rustled the leaves, and the chirping of cicadas made people even more irritable. There had been no rain for a long time, and the smell of dust was in the air.

The dust will fall on the floor and stick to the TV, and it will have to be cleaned every few days... just like those old memories, which are as annoying as the past.

"Penny, I heard their kids are staying at your house?"

"Whose child?" Penny didn't know how hard she used to squeeze the shopping bag in her arms. She could vaguely feel the slight pain from the can pressing against her bones.

But she couldn't care about that anymore.

The suppressed emotions were tumbling, "Whose child? Severus, do you dare to tell who she is?"

The panic that Snape showed at this moment was something no one had ever seen before, "You, your sister..."

"I don't have a sister! Since you guys appeared, she is no longer my sister. She and I are people from two worlds... But since we are already people from two worlds, why do you want to appear in front of me again and disrupt my life?

?”

Petunia didn't know that Snape had set a silencing curse and a small-scale dispelling curse, but this did not prevent her from hysterically yelling out the words she had always wanted to question.

"Won't you protect her? Severus? You said so before the letter from Hogwarts, so why? Why can you still come to me after she is dead?"

Snape stood there blankly, looking closely at the corners of his mouth that seemed to have curled deeper. His eyes that seemed to be always alert were rarely focused anymore, and his slightly trembling left hand was hidden behind his robe.

He couldn't answer Penny's question.

"Harry...Harry Potter is almost old enough to enter school. You know, Hogwarts will send letters." Snape tried hard not to be affected by his emotions. At this moment, he could no longer mention it.

Courage to play the role of introducing Harry to school.

"How dare you say such a thing?"

After recovering a little from the exhaustion after venting, Petunia's eyes widened, as if what Snape said was something unreasonable.

"The letter left for us said that this child must stay in my home to be safe!

I kept him as you wished. No matter how much I hated that freak named Potter, I kept him! Even if doing so might expose me and my family to danger, I kept him.

He's staying! Give him food and clothing, keep him out of the wind and out of the rain.

Ha~ Let me put it in your words, you are all noble wizards, so why are the orphans among wizards pushed to a Muggle like me?

Now that it has been pushed to me, what else do you want to do?

Hogwarts? Stop being ridiculous!

There's no way I'm going to let that guy named Potter go to some magic school. And sooner or later that kid will be grateful to me for saving his life, even though I don't really care."

"Hogwarts is a very safe place, much more reliable than any ancient curse. After all, he is Lily's child..."

"That's enough! You don't deserve to mention that name." Penny's scream interrupted Snape's voice, and the woman wiped her tears, "That's enough, I don't want to see you. Let that child go... I really can't do that.

If so, just let me go..."

Snape did not stop Petunia from leaving. In fact, just staying standing at this moment had exhausted all his strength.

When she got home, Penny almost threw the high heels off her feet.

The shopping bag was thrown on the floor, and things were scattered all over the floor.

Harry, who was cleaning the oven in the kitchen, ran out quickly.

"are you OK?"

Penny raised her head and met those familiar green eyes.

She has the same green eyes as Lily, and she always looks so pitiful when facing adults. No matter how much he bullies her, she always smiles and refuses to walk away from him.

"Don't ask questions about things that have nothing to do with you. All you have to worry about is finishing painting the oven and watering the yard."

…

Later that night, Snape returned to Spider End without lighting the lamp.

The dim room only relied on the brilliance brought by the last sunlight. Snape sat on the only sofa in the room, staring at the letter in his hand that was already difficult to read.

The letter is from the Malfoy family.

Regarding his only son, Mr. Lucius seemed to have some thoughts that he wanted to discuss with himself.

As time passed, the room was eventually completely engulfed in darkness.