Snape Exposed by the Film

"Hermione Granger?" Professor McGonagall called out.

Ron, who was about to mock Draco, quickly looked at the image in the Pensieve. "They've already started sorting houses? This movie is moving really fast."

"In the novel, the Sorting Houses are sorted alphabetically by last name, but in the movie," Rupert pondered, Neville interjected, "There's no pattern."

Dumbledore interested in Snape's attire. "Severus will be very pleased to see this. He's quite handsome in this other world, but isn't it uncomfortable to have such a tight collar and cuffs?"

("Handsome?" Snape glanced quickly at Lily beside him; this was the first time he had heard anyone describe him that way.)

(However, he didn't quite understand why his clothes were so tight; such a close-fitting outfit would be more comfortable and give him a feeling of being embraced.)

Draco was relieved that Basil's affair was left unresolved, and that they hadn't noticed the awkward moment before the Sorting Ceremony when he extended a hand of friendship to Harry only to be rejected.

"My turn!" Ron stared intently at his tiny reflection in the basin.

Then it was Harry's turn, and the Sorting Ceremony was over.

(Hannah and other students who were omitted from the screen asked, "What about us? Don't we deserve to be on camera?")

(Hermione counted on her fingers, "Me, Malfoy, Susan, Ron, Harry, that's only five students appearing on screen.")

"If I'm not mistaken, the Sorting Hat will directly state its assessment of the young wizard?" Dumbledore realized something was amiss after his attention shifted from Snape.

If that's the case, wouldn't the entire school hear the Sorting Hat's assessment that Slytherin would lead Harry to great things?

"Also, Filius from your world that old?"

(Flitwick nods; he looks like he's about to pass out in the footage.)

Neville shook his head. "Professor Flitwick looks like he's only middle-aged, with black hair and a little tuxedo."

Rupert explained, "This is because of the change of director. Since Professor Flitwick didn't have any scenes in the third movie, Mr. Davis, who played Flitwick, played the role of a choir conductor in the third movie. Director Neville liked his look in the fourth movie, so he used it for the role of Flitwick."

"As for the Sorting Hat, part of it is actually a whisper, which only the wearer can hear."

Ron shook his head. "That's not right. I remember it would give its evaluations verbally."

Draco quipped, "That's because you didn't have any comments worth whispering about, so you just ended it there."

The scene shifts to Potions Class.

(Snape suddenly remembered something, his face flushed red, and without saying goodbye to Lily, he hurriedly left his seat.)

"Tell me, what would I get if I added Asphodel Root Powder to Infusion of Wormwood?" Snape challenged Harry.

("Severus." Lily began to avoid eye contact.)

(Asphodel is a type of lily that resembles a daffodil, and its name is Lily.)

(The flower language of daffodils: regret taken to the grave. Mugwort: bitter sorrow.)

(The second question concerns Bezoar, which is for detoxification.)

(How can I relieve my pain?)

(Lily hoped she was overthinking it.)

(But)

"Potter, then tell me, what's the difference between Aconitum carmichaelii and Wolfsbane?" Snape asked his next question.

(The flower language of wolfsbane is living for love, tenacity, and heroism; the flower language of aconite is malice.)

(And they are actually a type of plant.)

(No matter what kind of malice you face, keep loving.)

(Or is this a veiled reference to Snape's double agent status?)

(Lily looked confused.)

Harry still couldn't answer.

Perhaps Snape was simply using the problem to vent his frustrations.

After mocking Harry, he went straight to Harry, sat down, leaned slightly forward, and looked intently into Harry's eyes. "For your information, Potter. Asphodel Root powder and wormwood can be mixed together to make a very potent sleeping potion, which is essentially a Draught of Living Death. Bezoar is a type of stone taken from the stomach of a goat and can neutralize most poisons. As for aconite and Wolfsbane, they are the same plant, collectively known as aconite."

("Severus." In Lily's view, this was already a completely open secret.)

(The Bezoar that is the antidote for the Draught of Living Death. The aconite, whose flower language is completely opposite yet the same, comes to Harry without regard for his dignity and stares intently into his eyes.)

(She was right.)

"That"

He seemed to choke up for a moment.

"Why don't we write all of this down?"

(Snape leans against the wall, taking a deep breath. He looks both happy and sad, and his ears have turned red.)

"How audacious!" Dumbledore exclaimed.

Although Snape in their world said the same thing, he never stood this close to Harry in front of the entire office of students.

There was absolutely no attempt to cover it up.

Hmm. Maybe it's because of Basil's existence?

His pairing with Hermione reminded Snape of himself and Lily.

Rupert didn't understand Dumbledore's exclamation; he perfectly played the role of the introducer, "By the way, Bezoar. That's why Harry remembered Bezoar. And then he saved Ron when he drank the poison, using Bezoar."

"I've been poisoned?" Ron exclaimed in surprise. "Who did it?"

(Mrs. Weasley, Percy, Charlie, Ginny's hearts jumped into their throats.)

(He also mentioned his gratitude towards Harry.)

(Harry saved Ginny once, and now he's saved Ron.)

Rupert looked at Draco.

Draco pointed to himself, "Me?"

A thought flashed through Neville's mind, "Draco Malfoy became Death Eater and was ordered by Voldemort to assassinate Albus Dumbledore."

Rupert nodded. "That's right. Ron accidentally drank the wine meant for Dumbledore and nearly died. But you guys..."

"It's Starry World. The Behind-the-Scenes God all led us to see three different parallel universes." Ron realized what was going on and quickly added, "I've always been curious about this. Didn't Dumbledore know that Malfoy was Death Eater?"

Rupert looked at Dumbledore.

Dumbledore instantly realized that he had probably played a bad role, but he nodded nonetheless.

Rupert said, "Dumbledore knew. But he did it on purpose, deliberately letting Draco go so that he wouldn't be killed by Voldemort. Harry suspected Draco had become Death Eater from the beginning, but nobody believed him, including you and Hermione?"

"Me?" Ron pointed to himself. "Would I not believe you? No, even if we deliberately let him do it, we shouldn't have let him poison me so easily! Doesn't my life matter?"

(The Mr. and Mrs. Weasley began to show some dissatisfaction with Dumbledore.)

Rupert explains, "The wine was actually intended by Slughorn for Dumbledore, as was the cursed opal. They were both directly aimed at Dumbledore himself. Dumbledore was confident in handling these harms, which he considered mere pranks, and had the standing to forgive them."

"But what he didn't expect was that Slughorn couldn't wait at all. Tempted by his cravings, he prepared to change the gift and share it with Harry and Ron."

(Slughorn awkwardly scratched his burning cheek.)

"The opal was given to Dumbledore Katy, who was under the Killing Curse. It was a perfect thing, but Katy ran into her friend Lini. Lini felt something was wrong and tried to snatch the opal away. And just then, there was a small hole in Katy's glove. During the struggle, her skin touched the opal."

(Katy Bell: "What? I'm involved too?")

"Fortunately, only this small part was in contact, otherwise she would have died immediately."

(A large portion of the audience began to feel dissatisfied with Dumbledore, who nearly caused the deaths of two other students for the sake of one student who became Death Eater.)

(Most importantly, these are two separate incidents; they haven't learned their lesson after experiencing it once.)

Dumbledore looked down at the ground. "I'm afraid I'm going a little mad."

Rupert said, "But there's nothing we can do about it. The whereabouts of the Horcrux are still unknown, I'm cursed and won't live for more than a year, and the Death Eater are rampaging everywhere. It's already pretty good that the school hasn't had any problems other than these two things."

"In the end Dumbledore even sacrificed himself to make Voldemort believe Snape."

"Is that so?" Dumbledore sighed.

(Some viewers immediately felt relieved.)

(It turns out this is different from Dumbledore in their world; this is the Dumbledore in the Starry World who was harassed and ostracized by the Ministry of Magic, but who didn't target Basil and risk his life to plot Voldemort's downfall.)

(Dumbledore touched the plaque that read "Minister of British Ministry of Magic." Fortunately, he didn't hesitate and ruin what was originally a great opportunity, ultimately winning by the skin of his teeth.)

The scene has now shifted to Harry, Ron, Hermione accidentally entering the restricted area on the fourth floor.

Sensing something was off, Rupert quickly said, "You know, in the novel, Draco challenged Harry to a late-night duel, but then stood him up. Harry, Ron as his assistant, Hermione overheard the conversation and worried about losing points in Gryffindor, and Neville and his friends, who had forgotten the password and were sleeping at the entrance to the common room, rushed in in a panic."

"Me? Break my promise?" Draco's face was full of disbelief; this was undoubtedly a disgrace to the family academy's honor.

Ron recalled the short Draco he had met not long ago, "This kid is so cunning? No wonder he's the son of the villain who dared to send Werewolf to murder Basil."

"Forgot the password?" Neville smiled wryly. "That's something I could do."

The movie moves at a fast pace; after a few words of conversation, the three of them arrive at the Charms.

(Looking at his disheveled appearance and messy hair, Seamus was no longer ashamed. After his time in the Starry World, he learned that he was a descendant of Alberta Tusell, a gift, not a flaw.)

Ron said Hermione was annoying.

The scene then shifts to the Great Hall decorated for Halloween.

Harry asked Hermione where she was.

Neville replied that Hermione refused to come out of the bathroom and cried all afternoon.

Ron felt guilty.

Quirrell stumbled in through the front door, saying there was Troll in the basement.

Then he fell down.

"I've almost forgotten what Quirrell looks like," Ron said, glancing again at the quiet Dumbledore. "This Professor Dumbledore is completely different, isn't he, Neville?"

Neville nodded; in his memory, he was more frightened by Professor Dumbledore's roar.

Pensieve, Snape, looking panicked, fled haphazardly through the back door of the High Table.

"No wonder we suspect he's a bad guy," Ron said. "Anyone who didn't know better would think he was the one who released the Troll."

Harry pulled Ron away from the group, saying they were going to find Hermione didn't know yet.

Hermione, who was walking out of the cubicle, bumped into the Troll.

Harry and Ron arrived just in time.

It attracted the Troll's attention.

Harry grabbed the club and landed it on the Troll's neck. After the Troll shook him violently a few times, Harry realized he couldn't just sit there and wait to die. He stuck his Troll into the troll's nostril. The Troll was enraged and grabbed Harry's leg, trying to smash Harry's head with the club.

Harry dodged several crunches in a row, showcasing the perfect Mental Power he had developed while doing chores for the Dursleys and being Dudley and beaten by Dursley.

(Snape trembled with rage, casting aside his previous shyness and tangled emotions, "Fool! Don't you know you're a wizard!")

(Dumbledore, feeling he would be cyberbullied if he didn't intervene. "In fact, it's all under my control. I'll intervene at any time if there's real danger.")

With Hermione's guidance, Ron used the Levitation Charm to control the stick and hit the Troll on the head.

Ron, watching from a third-person perspective, frowned. "Why didn't Hermione do it herself? What if I failed? Harry would—"

"To give Emma, I mean Hermione's actress, a highlight scene," Rupert shrugged. "Actually, she was frozen in fear. You were the one who came up with the Levitation Charm and managed to use it."

"Actually, it wasn't that Hermione bumped into the Troll as soon as she stepped out of the cubicle. You guys found the Troll, locked it in the bathroom, and then heard Hermione screaming from inside, which is when you remembered that Hermione was in there too."

(Basil asks, "Hermione, what were you thinking back then?")

(He was curious about the real world; why would Hermione do that?)

(Hermione says awkwardly, "I left my wand in the cubicle, and I'm so scared I can't stand up.")

Draco looked disgusted. "Isn't the most important thing that Harry pulled out his wand, which still had Troll snot on it, wiped it with his robes, and was about to put it in his pocket? Ugh, that's disgusting."

Neville shook his head, somewhat puzzled. "The most important thing isn't why Hermione lied. It's the school's fault. It's a fact that Harry and the other guy left the group, but Hermione didn't cover that up in her lie."

"And," he pointed to the Pensieve, which was now playing footage of Harry playing Quidditch and the curse on the broom, "How could Quirrell have thought that would kill Harry? Fall from a great height, kill a young wizard, in front of the entire school?"

(Seeing Snape's robes set ablaze, forcing him to interrupt the dispelling of the spell, and then getting up to knock Quirrell down over someone, Sirius accidentally swung his fist, then looked disgusted, "I actually cheered for Snivellus?")

Dumbledore sighed, "This is all a deliberate slip-up by that boy Quirinus. He's pleading for help, but he doesn't understand that Tom has gone too deep into him, that he's beyond redemption."

"Huh?" Ron had never considered this possibility.

The next second, he said worriedly, "Harry."

This may mean that Harry killed an 'innocent' life.

(Ginny belatedly glanced at Harry after noticing Ron's reaction; Harry's expression darkened.)

(She lost; as his girlfriend, she lost to her own brother.)

The next scene changed Ron's excitement; the images were no longer the enjoyable spiritual nourishment he had been savoring, but rather tasteless clay.

He ignored everything reflected in the Pensieve until...

Harry stood before the Mirror of Erised, gazing at his parents in the mirror with mesmerized eyes.