Chapter 671

"Mm." Harry nodded, then shook his head again, looking confused and at a loss.

"You don't know how to face Snape from now on?" Tierra saw through Harry's thoughts at once.

"Mm." Harry nodded.

"Then have you ever thought about how Snape had faced you over the past five or six years?" Tierra asked. "You were the child of his childhood friend and the woman he loved most, but also the son of the boy he hated most."

"He hated you, yet he cherished you."

"Wait, the woman he loved most?" Harry asked in confusion.

"Lily Evans," Tierra said. "Your mother, your father's wife, and also Snape's childhood friend—the girl he had loved since he was young—"

"But I clearly just heard—" Harry seemed eager to defend himself.

"Yes, yes, Snape called Lily Evans a Mudblood," Tierra said. "That was the one sentence—the one word—he regretted saying most."

"But we must understand that he said it after James had humiliated him. In front of the girl he liked most, his trousers were pulled off, he was hung upside down in the air, and his mouth was stuffed full of foam. Rather than having Lily Evans save him, he would have preferred Lily Evans to stay away from that conflict and forever forget the sight of him in such a humiliating state." Tierra smiled.

"So now you understand why Snape despised you so much, yet still did everything he could to protect you?"

"Mm." Harry nodded.

"How do you feel now?" Tierra asked instead.

"Mm... a little... a little angry. Mm. And... and... a little regretful. And a little... a little ashamed. And a lot of things I don't even understand myself..." Harry said, hanging his head.

"What about physically?" Tierra asked with a smile. "What reactions is your body having?"