Chapter 868 The Boundary Between Life and Death

Hearing Dumbledore's words, Harry was stunned. The green eyes under his glasses widened, and a chill ran down his spine.

"You mean...Snape brought me to Voldemort to follow your instructions, Professor...you want Voldemort to kill me?" Harry couldn't help but take a few steps back and stammered. With a bit of anger and fear.

"No, no one would want you to die, Harry." Dumbledore said comfortingly. "In fact all the planning is to avoid this as much as possible!"

"But I'm dead now, aren't I?" Harry glared at Dumbledore angrily, but the latter blinked at him and said in a brisk tone. "That's not necessarily the case..."

Harry was completely confused. He couldn't quite understand what Dumbledore meant. He clearly remembered that he was hit by Voldemort's killing curse. Since he didn't have a wand, he couldn't even resist quickly...

"I remember, I should have explained to you the reason why Voldemort couldn't hurt you." Dumbledore said with a smile.

"Is it the protection charm?" Harry thought of this immediately, but the doubts in his heart did not diminish at all. According to his understanding, when Voldemort was resurrected last year, the protection charm should have completely expired.

In order to confirm this, Voldemort once tried to touch his body, but no harm was caused.

Harry looked at Dumbledore in surprise, waiting for his answer.

"Ah, what should I tell you? Voldemort was smart enough to add your blood when he was resurrected, thinking that he could break the curse. But he didn't know that doing so strengthened the power of the protective curse and deepened it. The connection between you." Dumbledore said in a brisk tone.

"Then why did you ask Snape to hand me over to Voldemort?" Harry was still a little confused and kept asking.

Dumbledore was silent for a long time, seeming to hesitate on how to answer this question.

Harry did not urge him, but waited quietly. After an unknown amount of time, Dumbledore finally came to his senses.

"No wonder you don't wonder why you can enter Voldemort's brain?" Dumbledore asked slowly, and then while Harry was thinking, he pointed at the dark red skin in front of him, which looked like Wrinkled child. "Looking at him, what did you think of?"

"He looks a bit like...Voldemort?" Harry looked at it carefully for a while, and couldn't help but recall the baby-like Dark Lord he had seen last year. The two looked extremely similar.

"That is part of Voldemort's soul." Dumbledore looked at Harry and said bluntly.

"Shortly after you were born, on the night when Voldemort planned to kill you, due to the protection spell, the killing curse Voldemort released on you was rebounded. At the same time, his soul was severely damaged, and part of it separated from the main body. The soul is attached to the only living person in the room."

"His Horcrux is attached to my body...so I am also Voldemort's Horcrux?" Harry's brain seemed to be short-circuited. He simply couldn't believe this was true, but his reason told him that Dumbledore That's right. Only in this way can he explain why he can communicate with Voldemort.

"To be precise, it was once! But now your soul is complete, Harry, it is completely your own!" Dumbledore said happily.

"Voldemort couldn't kill me, so that part of my soul was affected by the Killing Curse?" Harry guessed.

"Yes!" Dumbledore nodded.

"Then am I still alive now?" Harry asked quickly.

"Of course!" Dumbledore said firmly. "However, if you have no nostalgia for that world, you can also choose to move forward..."

As he spoke, Dumbledore looked further away.

Harry followed Dumbledore's gaze and looked over, but it was shrouded in white mist and couldn't see anything.

Although he was a little curious, Harry held back in the end because he didn't have much interest in death, and he didn't intend to throw himself into the arms of death now.

In comparison, he wanted to know even more why Snape was willing to take such a big risk to help him get rid of the Horcrux.

At this time, Dumbledore had no intention of hiding anything and directly told the ins and outs of the matter, including the grudges between Snape, Lily, and James more than ten years ago, and how Snape overheard the prophecy and told him about it. The Voldemort thing.

"I think the reason why he was willing to protect you was partly out of love for your mother, and the other half out of guilt... It was Snape who relayed the overheard prophecy to Voldemort, which led to the tragedy. But this result was not what he wanted - he killed the person he loved most."

Dumbledore said with emotion that he could understand Snape's guilty mentality to some extent. After all, he had done some wrong things in his early years and ignored the deaths of too many people. This was why he was willing to trust Snape. one.

Harry was silent for a long time, feeling very complicated. Logically speaking, he should hate Snape very much. Without him snitching, he might be able to cling to his parents and enjoy a wonderful childhood.

But considering that Snape had taken great risks to lurk next to Voldemort over the years, and had tried his best to keep him alive, even daring to scheme against Voldemort, the hatred that surged in Harry's heart became much lighter.

Moreover, the deaths of James and Lily were not the responsibility of Snape alone. The era of terror created by Voldemort was the root cause of everything. As members of the Order of the Phoenix, they were always in danger.

And Peter Pettigrew, without his betrayal, Voldemort would not have been able to find the location of the safe house.

"I'm sorry, I have to keep these things from you, Harry." Dumbledore said apologetically.

"You are right, Professor..." Harry shook his head. Since he is Voldemort's Horcrux, it means that the information he knows has a high probability of being known to Voldemort.

Once the news leaks out, Snape, as a double agent, will be in danger...

So although he was very angry that he had been fooled all over this period of time, Harry finally chose to forgive.

Seeing that Harry could understand his good intentions, Dumbledore also had a slight smile on his face, but the next moment, as if he sensed something, he looked behind Harry and spoke.

"It seems that you must go back soon, Harry. Severus is in some trouble. I'm afraid he needs your help."