Harry Potter: From Muggle Cousin to Conceptual Wizard

Chapter 473 The Emptiness After Fulfilling a Long-cherished Wish! An Analysis of Snape's Curren

Snape was now gentler, more aloof, and more innocent than when Dudley first met him.

The gentle and natural approach is a result of Hogwarts' educational reforms and the specialized training provided by Muggle talents to their professors.

Snape is now much gentler with his students.

He will no longer tap students on the head with textbooks from behind, nor will he use his sharp tongue to embarrass them to the point of making them lose face.

Even when his students made numerous basic mistakes while brewing potions, even when facing Gryffindor students whom he had previously treated differently because of the Marauders' Quartet, it was still the same.

Of course, the deterrent effect of the Hogwarts disciplinary whip may also have played a part in this.

Snape didn't want to be the first Hogwarts professor to be chased and whipped with a long whip; that would be a huge loss of face.

Snape's growing isolation and detachment were due to personal reasons.

Previously, Snape had secretly witnessed Lily and James's resurrection in the wizarding graveyard in Godric's Hollow.

It can be said that he got rid of a heartache that had troubled him for more than ten years, and perhaps even for the rest of his life.

He was overwhelmed with emotion, his eyes filled with tears, and he even shed tears.

He was incredibly excited, incredibly joyful, and incredibly relieved.

But these emotions were only those Lily felt at the moment of her resurrection.

After that moment, an endless sense of loneliness once again invaded Snape's heart.

Lily has been resurrected; his long-cherished wish has been fulfilled.

This is good.

What about later?

Even if Lily hadn't been resurrected along with James, or even if only Lily had been resurrected, it would have been impossible for them to end up together.

Therefore, Snape felt extremely empty inside, and from this emptiness arose endless loneliness.

My long-cherished wish has been fulfilled, and my obsession has been resolved.

To become a bystander in the happiness of one's beloved.

This was acceptable to Snape, but certainly not pleasant.

After that, Snape secretly spied on Lily, James, and Harry's daily life near the Potters' house for a while. Watching the happy family of three, he felt increasingly lonely.

However, some people also felt happy for Lily.

Gradually, Snape realized that he couldn't continue like this.

He could no longer let loneliness fill the emptiness in his heart; he needed something else to fill it.

He quickly found a replacement.

The reason he is so efficient is that this is his second biggest pursuit in recent years, and it used to be his number one pursuit.

This thing is not a person, nor is it love; it is power.

Snape rediscovered a part of his mindset from before he learned Lily's life was in danger: he wanted to pursue power, immense power, whether it came from black magic or white magic.

Of course, he is different from his past self.

He could no longer pursue power without regard for good or evil, joining an evil organization like the Death Eaters and becoming a lackey of Voldemort or someone like Voldemort.

While teaching and nurturing students at Hogwarts, he will continuously study the mysteries of magic to gain higher magical skills, stronger magical foundation, and greater power.

In this situation, Dudley's expansion and continuous addition of magical knowledge in various fields of Hogwarts Library became Snape's greatest asset.

He immersed himself in the vast ocean of magical knowledge, intermittently forgetting his loneliness and occasionally escaping his emotional pain, becoming a reclusive and pure scholar of magical research, while his strength steadily improved.

Snape was extremely talented, and by his thirties he had become one of the most outstanding professors at Hogwarts.

If this trend continues, becoming an elite professor will not be Snape's final goal. His wizarding bloodline is enough to support his magical skills in breaking through the threshold of becoming a legendary wizard.

Dudley doesn't consider Snape a friend, nor does he have much private contact with him, but this doesn't prevent Dudley from acknowledging Snape's talent and ability.

Snape is undoubtedly the current backbone of the White Wizards and a future top force.

At the same time, Dudley also believed that Snape's current choice was reasonable, and he also thought of Snape's tragic life in the original story.

Snape was a contradictory and twisted person.

Furthermore, this contradiction and distortion did not stem from the bullying he suffered at the hands of the four raiders during his school days, but rather from his family of origin.

A cold, irritable Muggle father who often lashes out at his family.

A witch mother who is eccentric, melancholic, and repressive, yet insists on compromising to maintain her messy family.

Snape grew up in a loveless family and desperately wanted to receive love, but he didn't know how to love others or how to deal with the love others showed him.

At the same time, because of his father, Snape despised Muggle blood.

Because of his mother, Snape was proud of his wizarding blood, but he couldn't understand why his mother, who had magic and power, didn't use it.

This resulted in Snape, despite being of mixed blood, having an ideology very close to that of the corrupt purebloods who adhered to the idea of ​​pureblood supremacy. Furthermore, he never hesitated to show off his uniqueness, nor did he hesitate to use magic or force.

Despite his personality, Snape met Lily Evans, the woman who would illuminate his entire life, in his childhood near the home he so despised.

Childhood sweethearts, innocent and carefree.

If Snape had been born into a loving family and hadn't developed that twisted and contradictory personality, he and Lily could have had a wonderful future.

But there is no if in reality.

Snape couldn't escape that contradiction and distortion; Lily's appearance was just an irreplaceable exception in his life.

Snape still looked down on Muggles, still looked down on Muggle blood, and still considered the pursuit of powerful magic as his most important life goal.

This is why Snape, knowing that Petunia was Lily's sister, could still secretly use magical tricks to tease Petunia, a Muggle, without any scruples, until Lily appeared and stopped him.

This is why Snape was determined to join Slytherin before even enrolling, determined to gravitate towards the corrupt pure-bloods.

Even if Lily didn't understand, even if he disagreed and clashed with James and Sirius on the train to school because of this idea, he didn't change his mind at all.

This is why Lily forbade him to study dark magic, but Snape insisted on doing so.

This is why Snape temporarily disregarded his relationship with Lily, and ignored the fact that Lily had defended him in front of her friends for six years from first to sixth grade. In a fit of shame and anger, he blurted out "Mudblood," attacking Lily's bloodline.

This is why Snape was filled with remorse after calling Lily a "Mudblood," and chased after her to apologize, but failed to mend their relationship.

At that time, Lily declared to him:

The fundamental reason for the breakdown in their relationship was not the term "Mudblood," but that Snape had completely colluded with the corrupt purebloods and could stand by and watch the corrupt pureblood students of Slytherin bully the Muggle students other than her.

Even knowing this, Snape still didn't make any changes.