How Are You Any Different From That Cao Thief?!

Standing in the hallway, Harry felt that awful feeling return... His head, which had been calm for months, began to throb with pain!

But this time it wasn't Voldemort's influence, nor was it related to the scar; it was simply a headache.

It looks like there's a Dancing Zombie eating his brain.

The culprit behind all this was that he learned the whole truth:

That Potions book did indeed belong to Eileen Prince, but she gave it to her son... Snape!

In other words, the Half-Blood Prince is indeed Snape.

Harry couldn't help but wail.

His ideal woman, his Half-Blood Prince, the teacher he communicated with every night in spirit, turned out to be that greasy old bat.

Harry felt a little nauseous.

It's like having an online "girlfriend" for half a year, only to find out in person that she's the man he hates the most...

My idol is shattered! Harry is so disillusioned he's contemplating suicide!

But then again...

At the start of the term, William had already told Harry that the Half-Blood Prince was Snape.

At that time, however, he didn't believe it at all and insisted on finding the truth for himself.

If that were all, it wouldn't be so bad. What Harry found most unacceptable was Slughorn's words:

"They are best friends, they've known each other since childhood..."

Snape,

The man he hates the most

James's mortal enemy

It was actually Lily's best friend?!

What kind of melodramatic plot is this?

It was as if one day, someone suddenly told him:

The first Dark Lord, Grindelwald, was not a mortal enemy of Dumbledore, but rather a soulmate.

That's so unbelievable! Harry would bet with anyone, and if he lost, he'd go to the bathroom and eat three big bowls of food!

Returning to Snape's relationship with his mother, Harry also finds it hard to believe.

But then he suddenly remembered what he had seen in the Pensieve last year:

After the O.W.L. Exam, Snape's father, James, attacked him and hung him up.

No one stepped forward to stop them; everyone was just watching and laughing at them. Only Lily, the mother, intervened.

Harry initially thought that it was Lily's sense of justice that prompted her to stand up for her.

Now it seems that she was friends with Snape, which is why she stood up for him. Thinking about it this way makes much more sense!

"Harry, are you alright?" Ron looked at Harry was pale with worry.

"I'm fine, just a little..." Harry couldn't help but rub his forehead and say, "A little..."

I'm a little unsure who my biological father is!

"Maybe Slughorn is talking nonsense; he's drunk," Ron reassured him.

He and Harry often badmouthed Snape behind his back, but who knew this guy was Harry's mother's close friend?

But that's not right.

If they were truly friends, given that relationship, even if we don't expect extra points in every class, we should at least be friendly and approachable, right?

Snape looked at Harry with a gaze that seemed to want to gouge out his eyes... as if he harbored a deep-seated hatred.

The two of them definitely can't be good friends.

After listening to Ron's analysis, Harry calmed down.

"There's another way to prove Slughorn isn't talking nonsense," Harry said slowly, unusually quick-witted.

"I'll go back home for Christmas and ask Aunt Petunia if she knows Snape!"

If Snape and his mother Lily were truly neighbors and good friends, Aunt Petunia would definitely know him too.

In fact, Harry suddenly remembered something else.

Last summer, Dementor attacked him.

Aunt Petunia unexpectedly mentioned Dementor, saying they were Azkaban's guards.

She said she overheard it:

The dark-haired boy and his mother Lily talked about Dementor when they were swinging on the swing together.

Harry initially thought the dark-haired boy referred to James.

Now that I think about it, how could it possibly be James!

James is Pure-blood families, and he had absolutely no connection with Lily when they were children.

And the dark-haired boy... isn't that Snape?

Harry broke down instantly again.

We used to swing together when we were kids. This isn't just friendship, it's clearly childhood sweethearts!

This is the version featuring William and Hermione, okay?

Add to that the scene where her father, James, pesters Lily, trying to ask her out on a date, only to be rejected...

The thought of James using Amortentia to force himself on his mother resurfaced in Harry's mind.

This terrible thought, once it appeared, wouldn't go away.

Harry felt he had discovered the truth, and he continued to let his imagination run wild:

Snape and Lily were childhood sweethearts, but James fell in love with Lily and used underhanded means to steal her away...

Isn't this the script that Dumbledore explained to him during his recent class— Voldemort's mother's script?

Voldemort's mother used Amortentia to seduce Old Tom, resulting in the birth of Little Tom.

Harry felt like he couldn't breathe.

Just then, Ron suddenly stared at a certain spot.

Harry looked up too, and for a moment, he felt not just breathless, but almost suffocating.

In a corner of the corridor, Dean and Ginny were embracing and passionately kissing.

"..."

Harry felt as if he had been fatally stabbed in the chest, then was kicked away by another flying kick.

Seeing Dean not only talking but also fidgeting with his hands, a surge of heat rushed to his head.

All reason was suppressed, replaced by a strong impulse.

Harry just wanted to use a terrible curse to turn Dean into a pile of jelly and then stomp on him.

However, he had no reason to be angry, because they were a couple and were just doing something that couples enjoy doing.

But only one thought remained in Harry's mind:

"Break them apart, hurry... break them apart, get Ginny..."

If William were here and knew what Harry was thinking, he would definitely say:

"How are you any different from that Cao Thief?!"

Harry certainly didn't know who Cao Thief was, but that didn't stop him from calming down after his emotional outburst tonight.

Harry recalled the story he had just imagined: James poaching Lily and Snape, childhood sweethearts...

Harry really wanted to slap himself.

Ginny is Dean's girlfriend, and he wants to break them up...

How am I any different from James Potter?!

Harry's face contorted in agony; in the midst of this emotional turmoil, he even began to understand Professor Snape somewhat.

He really wanted to walk up to Snape, pat him on the shoulder, stroke his greasy, balding hair, and comfort him:

"Professor, we understand you."

Because if Ginny and Dean get married, he probably won't stop not washing his hair and will still come to teach at Hogwarts with dead fish eyes.

More than a decade later, when he saw Ginny and Dean's son starting school, he would also challenge him to answer a whole bunch of difficult questions in the very first class.

One last thing:

"Because your left foot stepped into the classroom first, you've lost 5... ten thousand points in Gryffindor!"

Of course, if it were a beautiful daughter with bright red hair like Ginny's, Harry would definitely...

I won't be soft-hearted!

He was even more ruthless.

He wants his daughter to pay for her father's debts!

Hmm... Harry feels a chill. Could Snape have those same bad intentions towards him?