Will certainly wanted to know whether Dumbledore had obtained the Resurrection Stone Ring.
After all, in this timeline, Dumbledore wasn't wearing it, and Will hadn't seen it with Voldemort either. That left him uncertain.
But this wasn't the right moment yet.
Snape was still discussing it with Dumbledore—he could hardly believe it.
Things from fairy tales were real? The revelation was so staggering that he couldn't process it at first.
Snape considered himself firmly established among the upper ranks of the Wizarding World, and he knew quite a few of its secrets.
Yet he had never imagined that the stories in The Tales of Beedle the Bard were true.
Of course, he could hardly be blamed. Nobody would assume that a book of fairy tales for wizarding children was true.
Snape shook his head. "Don't tell me The Fountain of Fair Fortune and The Warlock's Hairy Heart are real too."
"If you believe in them, they can be," Dumbledore said. "But now I must tell you, Severus.
"The Three Hallows truly exist, and the real Invisibility Cloak is in Harry's hands. The question is whether you want to protect Harry."
In this timeline, Will's intervention had prevented Harry from going to the Shrieking Shack in the Invisibility Cloak. Naturally, he hadn't dropped it at the foot of the Whomping Willow either, so Snape had never had the chance to discover Harry's cloak.
Snape's expression darkened. "What did you say?"
Dumbledore took a gulp of tea. "The Peverell Invisibility Cloak from the fairy tale is in Harry's hands right now. Severus, we need you and Will to mislead Tom.
"Only then can we carry out our plan and protect Harry."
Snape said nothing, merely nodding in silence.
"But don't rush. We can only begin this stage of the operation once Tom