novelraw Chapter 941 [Chapter 5] 26
Chapter 941 [Chapter 5] 26
"Merlin's fattest briefs, what the hell is going on?" Ron temporarily forgot about the whereabouts of Professor Lily Evans, and stared at Hermione's series of actions.
"Phineas Nigellus," Hermione explained, dropping the packet on the kitchen table with her usual loud, heavy thud. "His portrait can come and go between the headmaster's room at Hogwarts and the two frames at 12 Grimmauld Place. Snape can send Phineas Nigellus into the house Inquiry." Hermione explained to Ron, sitting down, "Let him inquire now, Phineas Nigellus can only see what's in my handbag."
"Tall!" said Ron admiringly.
"Thank you." Hermione smiled slightly, and pulled the soup bowl to her face, "Harry, what else is going on today?"
Harry grimaced, and pushed the newspaper back in front of Hermione. "We've just found out that something is wrong - that female Death Eater, Alecto Caro, is taking over as Muggle Studies teacher, and the papers say 'the original Muggle Studies teacher has resigned'. But none of us Believe this resignation was a voluntary decision by Professor Evans - so what has happened to her in the time since we last saw her at Bill and Fleur's wedding? She's gone again where?"
Hermione's complexion suddenly became heavy, she grabbed the newspaper, turned it over carefully, and read all the pages, but unfortunately she found nothing.
"Snape...he shouldn't do anything bad to Professor Evans, right...?" She said uncertainly, "you know...you know they used to...almost...I was Said, would someone...have a murderous hand on a woman he almost married?"
Ron choked, then snorted contemptuously; Harry swallowed, not quite believing her reasoning, and he was clearly hesitant to remind Hermione that Professor Evans might have been The fiancée of Nepe's villain, but now she has accepted Sirius's proposal and inherited the old house of the Black family as Sirius' fiancée - even from the most common love-hate reason, Snape also had enough reasons to take revenge on Professor Evans——
They glanced at each other, and finally Harry reluctantly replied: "...you know Dumbledore once trusted Snape so much, but in the end...we all know what Snape did to him. What's more, he now But his devotion to the Dark Lord is fully expressed, and Professor Evans is a Muggleborn..."
He stopped talking.A sense of foreboding rose among them.A spruce wizard who teaches Muggle studies - should be at the top of the list of Death Eaters and now the Ministry of Magic to be purged!
Hermione suddenly blurted out: "...and Professor Evans broke up with him! She agreed to Sirius' proposal! That's why she owns the house now! Can Snape forget such a thing?"
Seeing that Hermione remembered the reason himself, Harry grinned with relief, and immediately echoed: "I think it makes sense too—I think...we have to do something. Otherwise, things will only get worse—" —”
Harry paused for a moment to think, and finally said, "I think we should go tomorrow."
Hermione was dumbfounded.Ron choked on soup.
"Tomorrow? You said to the Ministry of Magic?!" Hermione asked incredulously, "You're not serious, are you, Harry?"
"I am," said Harry, "I don't think we'd be any better prepared than we are now for another month of scouting at the mouth of the Ministry of Magic. The longer we wait, the farther away we'll be from the locket..."
After some debate, they finally reached an agreement: go to the Ministry of Magic tomorrow and get the real locket Horcrux.
Almost at the same time, Severus Snape sat at the long table in the Great Hall of Hogwarts, presiding over the opening and sorting ceremonies for the first time as headmaster.
The annoying Carroll siblings sat on either side of him.Professors McGonagall, Professor Flitwick, and Professor Sprout sat sternly, far away from them.
The song sung by the Sorting Hat this year is extremely short, and the lyrics are very simple. It sounds like it just recited the history of Hogwarts school in a sharp and unpleasant tone, and then stopped the tortured singing.When sorting, it no longer stayed on top of a little wizard for a long time.Its sorting decisions are made extremely quickly.Unfortunately, because of the pedigree certificate and registration policy introduced this year, it seems that more students are being sorted into Slytherin.
Snape's speech as the headmaster was also extremely short. It was nothing more than repeating the words Voldemort called him before the school started, asking him to faithfully deliver word for word to this group of young wizards at the opening ceremony. None added.
It took almost two or three minutes for his speech to end.When he left the podium that had turned into a snake-shaped sign in front of him, his eyes subtly glanced at a certain position in the teacher's seat.
That slot is vacant.
Right next to Sybil Trelawney.
Although Muggle studies must exist in the Hogwarts schedule, it is not that important, so she always sits with Professor Trelawney who also teaches elective courses, in a corner of the teacher's bench, so it is not easy to attract others. A place to pay attention to, leisurely enjoying the delicious food cooked by the house elves of Hogwarts——
Now her teaching position has been taken by a female Death Eater.And her seat was still vacant because the female Death Eater thought she deserved something more prominent and important - but where had she gone?
According to various sources, when she left Hogwarts Castle for the wedding of Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour, she appeared to be as usual; but after that wedding, she disappeared. up.Although there was an attack by Death Eaters at the wedding, she was neither killed nor injured, and she escaped so successfully; after that, no one knew her whereabouts, and she was nowhere to be seen.This drove the Dark Lord, who wanted to capture the Muggle Studies professor at Hogwarts to slowly torture and then kill him, mad. He didn't know that the death eaters who had been sent to find Lily Evans but failed to return How much Cruciatus was used on the disciple.
The Dark Lord even suspected that he was hiding Lily Evans.But he managed to prove that he had nothing to do with it - and he wasn't lying on this point.He's also looking for her, and he's been looking for a few days since he cast the Avada Kedavra on Albus Dumbledore on the Astronomy Tower and got into a fight with her near Hagrid's hut outside the Forbidden Forest. I haven't seen her or heard from her for months.
The last image of her that he had in his mind was of her standing a few paces in front of him, the beautiful face of the real Lily lit up brightly by the burning flames of Hagrid's hut behind them Dazzling; she pointed her wand at his chest, and said that sentence again after 20 years-【I can't pretend anymore, you chose your way, I chose mine. 】
Looking back now, he had to admit that those words and her expression had caused him some real pain.He doesn't care how many people don't understand what he gave, what he chose, what he sacrificed and gave for what Dumbledore said was the greatest good - because it was his own choice It is also the price he should pay to make up for his sins many years ago, it doesn't matter whether it is good or bad; but when she stared at him full of anger and strangeness, and no longer desperately stopped him or tried to defend him, he But unexpectedly, he felt a blank emptiness in his heart.
It turns out that he has been used to hating her for so many years, and at the same time regards her maintenance or other attempts to express friendship as a natural atonement; when he finally loses all this, he will also feel uncomfortable, maybe There is still a little bit of reconciliation--
He has to find her.But he also hoped that she would never be found out, until the day when the Dark Lord was completely finished.
He stood up, and the opening ceremony was over.He planned to go back to the principal's office on the eighth floor.When he passed the armor that could open the Room of Requirement, his steps faltered for a moment.Then he walked over there as if nothing had happened, walked straight in as if he hadn't seen the ugly stone beast at the door of the principal's office, climbed up the spiral staircase, opened the oak door, and walked in almost covered with The room of the headmaster's portrait.
Dumbledore was still sleeping inside the portrait.Snape wasn't sure if he didn't want to wake up on purpose.Sometimes he wanted to shake Dumbledore's picture frame vigorously, so that this righteous and cunning old wizard would wake up and give him some useful advice.But he also knew it was dangerous to do so.So he didn't try that.
He collapsed into the huge and comfortable chair under Dumbledore's portrait, pinching the space between his brows with his right hand wearily.
How long will it take for the days when there is no hope, the days when you are dormant underground, before you can see the last light?
His eyes fell on the empty shelf beside him.It was originally the place where Dumbledore's ostentatious phoenix Fawkes was entrenched every day, but since Dumbledore fell from the tower that night, Fawkes also disappeared.
Same as that fake Lily.
Time passed day by day.Dementors and Death Eaters are almost turning the entire Hogwarts castle into another eerie Azkaban.
But Snape never had to worry that those brave and brainless Gryffindors would never recover.
He caught a few little trolls in the headmaster's office—probably the backbone of the so-called "Dumbledore's Army" that the students spontaneously formed when the pink toad Umbridge ran rampant at Hogwarts. —they had the audacity to try to steal the fake Gryffindor sword he had been hiding.
He was very troubled for a while, and then put on the most ferocious expression, and threw them all to the Forbidden Forest to be coolies. That expression seemed to be that he was looking forward to these little monsters dying in the Forbidden Forest. .
Then he took the fake Gryffindor sword, made a quick trip to Gringotts, and, with an air of extreme caution, hid the fake in the vault.
The portrait of Phineas Nigellus Black on the wall of the headmaster's office seemed to have disappeared for a while, and immediately after returning, he grumbled and complained that the little trolls now have no respect for the old headmaster, How dare you kidnap him.Dumbledore was still asleep, and the other old headmasters often stayed out of the headmaster's office since he took charge of Hogwarts and the Death Eaters entered the school, so Phineas Nigellus was the only audience left. one.
Snape had to endure Phineas Nigellus' babble while he attended to other things in the Headmaster's office.At last he was distracted a little, and because of this distraction he picked up a little bit of Phineas Nigellus' resentment and whining.
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February 5:
I!Feel!Next chapter!I have an old brain hole again!what to do! 【Hello!
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In these few chapters, I try to run through the plot as soon as possible, and then add an old-fashioned brain hole, and then we will come to Hogwarts for a decisive battle. How about w
Then, because the final battle at Hogwarts is the highlight of the main event, it will last for many chapters, so if you feel that there are too many glass shards, I can also consider adding a special episode, how about everyone’s favorite Sirius? :)
Next update: tomorrow at midnight.