You Used Me!!

The Sorting Hat's sorting had not gone well. I thought such a sorting was reckless... Dumbledore left.

Only Snape remained, covering his face.

The scene shifted again.

Snape was in Dumbledore's Office, and Dumbledore looked at him with a smile.

"I'm preparing to set up a plan... I'm preparing to welcome death."

"Are you sick?!"

Snape glared at Dumbledore furiously.

Dumbledore laughed.

"No. Haven't you noticed? I've grown completely old."

"You do seem to have aged. I've noticed that your magical power seems to have diminished somewhat?"

"Yes, I've grown old. I've realized that I can no longer kill the next Dark Lord, so I intend to use my death to make Voldemort even more arrogant!"

Dumbledore's words made Snape agitated.

"You're just planning to die like that? You're leaving all the pressure to those two children?

No, you're leaving it to Darren Potter, aren't you?"

Dumbledore neither confirmed nor denied it.

He smiled.

Then he brought up another topic.

"I intend to tie my death to Voldemort's recent plans. I heard he is planning to have that child Draco kill me?"

Snape snorted.

He moved his arm and said, "The Dark Lord never intended for Draco to succeed. He merely wants to teach Lucius a lesson.

Lucius once secretly sent his belongings into Hogwarts, and Lucius's recent actions have all failed.

He wants Lucius and the others to watch Draco fail with their own eyes.

To watch Draco go to his death."

"So that means both that child and I have been sentenced to death?"

Dumbledore laughed.

A stretch of silence followed. Snape said nothing.

Dumbledore did not mind.

He waited a while before saying, "Go find out what that child intends to do lately. That child has always liked you..."

"Ever since his father fell out of favor,