novelraw Chapter 66 The Potions Professor from England
Chapter 66 The Potions Professor from England
On the other side, England, Hogwarts, before the Christmas holidays.
Dumbledore in the principal's room, sitting behind the desk, the blue eyes behind the half-moon lenses can't see the expression.
There was a piece of parchment on the table in front of him. The text on it was very short, and it was said that with his comprehension and reading speed, he could read it in ten seconds.But a few minutes passed, and Dumbledore was still staring at the parchment, like a child with dyslexia, without saying a word.
This made Snape, who was sitting across the desk, a little annoyed, he couldn't help but cleared his throat.
The old headmaster finally raised his head, his expression still mysterious and unpredictable with a faint smile.
"Resignation letter?" He gently picked up the parchment with a gentle expression, "I never knew that you were so dissatisfied with the salary I gave you that you needed to threaten me with resignation."
No context could stop Dumbledore from shaking his wit - Snape was more irritable, and it was hard to say whether Dumbledore's inappropriate jokes were any more unbearable than the Dark Lord's moodiness.
"You know this has nothing to do with salary!" He tried his best to suppress his high voice, and said word by word, "It's true that Quirrell has a problem, but the Philosopher's Stone has been strictly protected by you. With you and The abilities of the other professors can completely subdue him and the possible Dark Lord forces behind him without any pressure."
"The fact that Batman died—or disappeared, forced me to change my strategy." Snape tried hard to explain the obvious truth to the headmaster, admiring his patience, "Now Potter has lost the greatest protection around him." .And the reports sent back from Ilvermorny by a few good journalists also let all the wizards in the whole of England know the news about the girl who lived in the United States—even to the college in detail!"
Sure enough, it was the Thunderbird. James Potter's adventurous gene penetrated into his bones and blood, and he did a lot of harm.
"Of course some Death Eaters hiding in the dark who are still loyal to the Dark Lord can also see this news. If they really attack Potter in the United States, we will have no time to stop it..."
He prepared more than a dozen reasons to convince the old principal.
"It seems that I can only agree." To Snape's surprise, Dumbledore actually agreed directly...
This made him swallow the next reason he was about to blurt out, and suddenly he didn't know what to say.
"do you agree?"
Dumbledore nodded, as if it was a matter of course.
"Staying at Hogwarts was part of our original agreement... why don't you tell the Ministry of Magic what I did in the war... to blackmail me."
"The core condition of our agreement is that you protect Harley with me, and you have done a good job so far."
"I won't report on you, don't worry, kid."
Don't call me baby!No matter how many times he protested, Snape could only slander inwardly.
"But... as a friend, not as your headmaster, I beg you to stay for half a year longer," said Dumbledore, with his hands spired on the desk, his signature gesture of starting a serious conversation, " The situation at Hogwarts this year is not clear. No matter how great my ability is, the scope is limited, and I cannot protect every student."
"Like a troll attack on Halloween, we already knew it was a diversion to divert our attention, so we checked the Philosopher's Stone in time. But we still couldn't prevent a student from being injured - Mr. Neville Longbottom Still lying in the school hospital."
"The safety of the students requires every effort we put in."
"Hmph, if it wasn't for Granger running around without authorization, where would there be such troubles?" Thinking of the chaos that night, Snape became even more irritable, "Gryffindors never know how to protect themselves, and they don't know how much they are ..."
"So they need you, at least this year." The old principal who was also included in the same category of "I don't know how much I weigh" was not angry. He opened the drawer, took out a piece of parchment, and handed it to the person across the table. Snape, "Besides, you don't have to take such a drastic way of resigning. I've already arranged everything."
"You will start next school year and will go to Ilvermorny as a visiting scholar; so, are you going to withdraw this resignation now?"
Looking at the official document with the Ilvermorny school badge in his hand, Snape suddenly didn't know what to say...Dumbledore was always so unexpected.
Well, hopefully American students are less stupid.
Of course this is not possible.
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Then, the viciousness of events exceeded his wildest imagination.
I didn't expect that there really was the power of the Dark Lord "behind" Quirrell, literally—who would have thought that an independent wizard would allow such an ugly remnant soul to attach to the back of his head?
He could only explain that some people had gone mad.
Regarding the Philosopher's Stone hidden in the campus, considering that the opponent was the Dark Lord, Snape thought that the levels set by all their other teachers were at best ostentatious. To give the Dark Lord the illusion that this is so simple, it may only be the last pass set by Dumbledore that is the real protection.
The more you want the more you can't get it?Only Dumbledore could think of this kind of trick - he even felt extremely insidious.
But on the other hand, when did he understand Dumbledore's plan, just like he let himself go to America so easily.
Although Dumbledore was tricked away by Quirrell, he still rushed back in time and subdued Quirrell in front of the Mirror of Erised, but the remnant soul of the Dark Lord escaped again.
All teachers are relieved that the Sorcerer's Stone incident did not endanger more students.But the remnant soul of the Dark Lord still exists in the world, and even still has the power to manipulate others to achieve his own goals, which made Snape break out in a cold sweat...he wanted to reach America as soon as possible even more urgently.
The three particularly troublesome imps in Gryffindor refrained a lot after failing to challenge the troll. Snape noticed that Longbottom couldn't help shaking every time he saw himself, as if he was going to eat him any second. This first-year student, Granger on one side, would then quietly stand in front of Longbottom, like a hen guarding its young.
He really didn't do anything, at most, because Longbottom was also the target of the Dark Lord, he paid more attention to the boy between the auditorium and the classroom - every time he thought of this surname, he had an unnamed evil fire that could not be suppressed popping up.
And the boy's submissive demeanor made the evil fire burn even more.
It's a vicious cycle - the more timid Longbottom is, the angrier he gets, and the more Longbottom shakes
If Dumbledore knew that he thought so, he might have to give him a long lecture.
Seriously, if he were the Dark Lord, he'd choose Potter over Potter or Longbottom, even if she was a girl.
He promised Dumbledore to stay at Hogwarts for the second half of the semester, and just spent the rest of the semester in a mess.He won the Quidditch Cup and the Academy Cup again this year, giving him more confidence in front of McGonagall.
He's not enthusiastic about Quidditch, but it's kind of fun to see McGonagall, the Quidditch madman, so angry.
Except for Slytherin, the house he led, who expressed his reluctance to leave, the students of the other three colleges felt like Christmas once again when they heard the news.
During the final days of term, the students in the other Houses in the hallway could hardly hide their smiles - they could only smother them whenever they saw him.Heard there are wild underground celebration parties?
Seeing that they were holding back quite hard, Snape decided to help them out by assigning difficult summer homework, so that they would not be able to laugh without holding back.
Hmph, are they so happy when they left?Really hopeless, unprogressive idiots, don't look at what kind of replacement Dumbledore has recruited-a yellow-haired girl who has just graduated from Beauxbatons for a few years?
This batch of students is about to finish.
And the naughty Malfoy was also very annoying. He seemed to have heard some rumors about the Philosopher's Stone during the semester, so he also pestered him in the last few days of the semester, asking him around all the time.
And asked himself the reason for going to the United States with full suspicion.
In order to maintain his still ambiguous position, Snape could only say to Malfoy: "Dumbledore wants to win some help from the United States for the future fight against the Dark Lord, and I volunteered to stop this job."
At the same time, it added another layer of chips, making Malfoy flawless.
"I heard that the Ministry of Magic is going to start a new round of searches, which are more stringent than the previous ones. I suggest you still find a way to deal with your 'baby' at home."
"Who did you listen to?" Malfoy narrowed his slender eyes, and squeezed the snake head staff tightly.
"Although you gave Fudge a lot of money, the information you got did not match the amount you paid..." Snape snorted, "There are insiders among my students—I heard Weasley complain about him Dad would work overtime during the summer, searching for dark artefacts."
"It's that Arthur Weasley again... I hope he can spend more of his time torturing pure-blood families on making money!"
"It's no use laughing at him. The Weasleys don't have much power, but enough to disgust you. I don't know when they're going to start the raid. What if it's tomorrow? So you're running out of time."
So Malfoy could only suspend his questioning of Snape, and left angrily.
Snape left a month earlier than originally planned. For a person like him who has no entertainment, it doesn't matter where he stays during the summer vacation.He thought he could go to Gotham in advance to observe the situation of the Wayne's house quietly - he didn't care about the Potter girl, but he was afraid that the Wayne's house without the head of the family would not be able to protect Dumbledore's precious golden girl Son.
The author has something to say:
*I forgot to mention just now, there is a second update today, at about 5 pm.
*Let the non-existent Lao Fu come out and make a fuss, and then it’s time to beat him up, is there a problem with the soul movie, there are many artifacts and magical skills in the DC world~ I plan to greet Lao Fu in turn~ baa haha
*The comments on Neville and Hermione are all from the perspective of Professor Snape, and do not represent the author's own opinion. Neville and Hermione are both good boys.