Harry Potter: From Muggle Cousin to Conceptual Wizard

Chapter 474 The grudges and future developments of Snape, Lily, and James!

Snape remained with the corrupt purebloods, watching Lily fall into James's arms, and even after graduation, watching Lily marry James, he still refused to change.

Even after graduation, he joined the Death Eaters alongside the corrupt purebloods, becoming their henchmen.

Even after overhearing the first two prophecies of the Savior, he told Voldemort about this news, which would obviously affect a large number of wizards.

It wasn't until Voldemort and the Death Eaters conducted a bloody investigation that they determined Lily and James's child met the first two of the prophecies of the Savior.

It wasn't until the boomerang, thrown by Snape himself, spun around and struck the person he loved most, the only exception in his life, that he finally realized his mistake, made a change, and turned away from darkness for light.

Objectively speaking, putting aside personal grudges, Dudley believes that Snape's background and experiences are pitiable, and Snape's thoughts and actions are completely understandable from his own perspective.

However, it's also understandable that Snape didn't end up with Aunt Lily and had a tragic ending.

In contrast, it seemed inevitable that Uncle James and Aunt Lily would get together.

Uncle James had a happy family and loving parents, but after starting school, he became someone who formed a gang of bullies and ganged up on his classmates. This was wrong of him and was an unlikable aspect of him.

However, despite coming from a pure-blood family, Uncle James was able to scoff at the idea of ​​pure-blood supremacy and stand on the opposite side of the corrupt pure-blood ideology even before he started school.

Together with Sirius, who shared the same background and attitude, they launched a heavy attack on Snape, who was eager to get close to the corrupt purebloods.

Isn't that a commendable performance?

It's important to know that at that time, Uncle James had not yet met Aunt Lily, so there was no factor of him being jealous of Snape.

Uncle James was able to empathize with Aunt Lily's background and position, and unlike Snape, he was not stingy with changing for love.

For Aunt Lily's sake, Uncle James could transform from a troublesome troublemaker on campus who gave professors headaches into a gentle and loving student council president.

After graduation, he joined forces with his Aunt Lily to fight for justice, always caring for her and acting in unison.

Dudley didn't have much affection for his Uncle James, but that didn't stop him from acknowledging his good qualities or from believing that Aunt Lily's decision to choose Uncle James as her life partner was the right one.

To put it bluntly, Snape loved Aunt Lily, but before Aunt Lily was in mortal danger, Snape was unsure of the weight of his love for her and whether he would change himself for her sake.

Snape had long been a person without a clear sense of good and evil. If it weren't for Aunt Lily's sacrifice, the misfortune brought about by his family of origin might have made Snape a selfish and indifferent person who disregarded the lives and interests of others for the rest of his life.

Now, Dudley has overturned the original plot, resurrecting Aunt Lily and Uncle James, which objectively makes up for Snape's regret.

But at the same time, Dudley also brought Snape a new and deeper level of pain.

Snape realized Lily's importance in his heart and deeply understood just how deep his love for her truly was.

But... for the rest of his long life, he could only watch Lily and James being loving and affectionate, and try to numb himself by studying magic, reading books, and working hard, temporarily escaping that boundless loneliness and emptiness.

This can be seen as Dudley taking revenge on Snape for himself, for his mother Petunia, for Harry's family, and for those wizarding families who were destroyed because Snape leaked the prophecy.

However, this complicated feud not only affected Snape, but also Aunt Lily and Uncle James.

On a personal emotional level, Aunt Lily, and even Uncle James, are now willing to forgive and forget with Snape and become friends again.

Leaving aside the fact that Snape and Aunt Lily had a childhood friendship, and that Uncle James, like Sirius and Lupin, felt guilty about bullying Snape in the past, let's just talk about Snape's defection to the light, his role as a double agent to betray Voldemort, and his role in helping to develop the Soul-Soothing Potion.

In the minds of Aunt Lily and Uncle James, there was a sense that Snape's merits and demerits canceled each other out.

However, there is no possibility that the two sides will take the initiative to meet and reconcile.

Snape would not allow himself to appear before Aunt Lily and Uncle James. He did not want to deal with that situation; he was afraid he would be heartbroken and lose his composure in front of Uncle James, and he did not believe he could be forgiven.

Aunt Lily and Uncle James wouldn't rush to find Snape, since they were indirectly killed by him. They couldn't very well go to the enemy who killed them and say, "We forgive you," could they?

Moreover, this is not just a matter between the couple; they also need to consider Harry and Dudley's thoughts and attitudes.

They, as a couple, only deserve to forgive Snape for indirectly causing their deaths.

Harry was an orphan for over ten years because of this, growing up without parental love, and they have no right to forgive him on his behalf.

At the same time, Dudley was the key to their resurrection.

Dudley's stance was to avoid discussing forgiveness and not to befriend Snape. If he and his wife were to bypass Dudley and approach Snape to discuss forgiveness, it would be a clear betrayal of their savior.

Therefore, Lily and James will likely never speak to Snape again.

Therefore, Dudley did not recruit these two relatives who were capable of becoming Hogwarts professors to teach at Hogwarts.

Instead, Aunt Lily and Uncle James, like other members of the Order of the Phoenix, trained the average adult wizards in the wizarding community of Godric's Hollow.

Meanwhile, Aunt Lily and Uncle James would also help Dudley's parents, the Dursleys, who had only recently entered the wizarding world, to adapt to wizarding life.

And helped Vernon develop his business in the wizarding world.

Putting aside their past grievances with Snape, Lily and James's life after their resurrection was incredibly happy and wonderful.

The couple is loving and harmonious, and the parents and children are loving and harmonious.

Although it wasn't their intention, they have now truly obtained a near-perfect child without experiencing the worries, hardships, and trivialities of raising a child.

Moreover, the child did not blame them at all; on the contrary, he cherished their love very much.

During his time with them, Harry would often mention Dudley, frequently saying things like, "My cousin told me..." or "My cousin did this and that..." which made them a little jealous.

But they could understand the situation and felt even more sorry for Harry, wanting to make up for what they had missed in Harry's upbringing.

……

The episode stemming from Snape's victory in the first Hogwarts Professors' Duel quickly flashed through Dudley's mind.

Then, Dali's thoughts returned to reality.

It was now mid-December 1992, and Voldemort's feigned death had been successfully completed according to Grindelwald's plan.

But the process of completing it left Voldemort feeling deeply frustrated.