harry potter book of crimes

"Clang."

The bottom of the glass test tube hit the distilling bottle holder, making a crisp sound that made Snape pause and couldn't help but frown slightly.

As a potions master who has always been extremely rigorous when conducting experiments, such bumps and bruises are obviously very rare for him. And if it were normal, he would not allow himself to be so rough.

But today is an exception after all.

After a slight pause, Snape glanced at the unlit fire plate under the fully enclosed crucible, hesitated for a few seconds, and finally re-corked the test tube in his hand and put it back.

Arriving at the old test tube rack nearby.

Since he hasn't started yet, he might as well not do it yet! There is no doubt that he is not suitable for any potion experiments today - because his heart has not calmed down yet.

But even though he had decided to postpone the experiment for a day...or a few more days, and set aside time to think about other things, he was still cleaning all the experimental equipment and materials.

After sorting and storing them, he turned around and walked out of the room that served as a temporary laboratory.

Snape also lived in this old apartment building with other professors. It was on the first floor. The room was adjacent to the makeshift potions laboratory. After leaving the laboratory, he did not return to his room except for the bed and cupboard.

There was almost no furniture outside the room. He turned around and walked out of the apartment door.

Speaking of which, the weather today is actually quite good. Generally speaking, it is quite suitable for taking a walk or something. At least it is a day that can relieve the depression in the heart. Unfortunately, Snape's current complex mood seems far away.

It's not something that can be diluted and straightened out just by good weather.

For no other reason than because he had quietly appeared before and sent a hint from a distance when he and Mag were at the door of the apartment, and then he just went to meet the group of "infiltrators" in person.

"What a ghost."

Snape was walking casually in the abandoned small park on the side of the apartment. Suddenly, he couldn't help but muttered something in a low voice, with a hint of unknown annoyance in his tone.

In fact, Snape has not been in a state like this for a long time. After the Voldemort incident ended, he has been relieved of many burdens, and he has become much more relaxed. Especially

After continuing to serve as the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts, it can be said that he has embarked on a path that he had dreamed of several times when he was a boy.

Even in the current huge disaster sweeping Europe, since he and his sister Tia are both fine, there is actually nothing for him to worry about or worry about.

This is Severus Snape's current... well, or more accurately, the true mentality he held before today - many things may seem complicated, disturbing, and scary to others, but now

How could he care?

However, for this former number one "double agent" in the modern magic world who has gone through a lot and seems to have finally settled down, something seems to have finally broken his calm state of mind.

.

Snape, who was walking casually with some thoughts in his mind, finally stopped after cursing in a low voice. Because he had already discovered that just walking a few steps like this obviously could not really relieve him.

To relieve some of the frustrations in my heart.

But fortunately, he had been burdened with more secrets that could not be told to others, so...how should I put it? He has long been used to these. Since there are some things that he cannot turn a blind eye to, it seems that he can only

Now that he can face it - at least today, he probably has to bear the responsibility.

Thinking of this, Snape finally turned his head and took a distant look to the north.

"That guy...should have called Professor McGonagall by now, right?"

While he was thinking this, he suddenly heard the sound of footsteps coming from the street not far away, and then he saw a small figure running hurriedly around the corner.

"Professor Snape, why are you here? Come on, Sirius has found the infiltrator. Professor McGonagall asked me... Oh, Professor Snape, you don't know about the unknown infiltrator in the community, right?"

"

Naturally, the little Professor Flitwick appeared at this time. He usually spoke in a high-pitched voice. He was obviously a little anxious now, and his tone suddenly became a little higher.

"Yeah... I know." Snape had returned to his usual state at this time. Looking at Flitwick who was trotting all the way to the front, he nodded calmly, "I will go... you also need to inform the others.

Professor? Don’t worry about me, you go ahead!”

"Ah...oh, okay!" Flitwick was a little stunned when he heard this, but the matter was urgent, so he quickly responded, "Okay! By the way, the place where the person was found is in the north of the community. I'll go first.

Let's go, see you somewhere later... remember! It's on the outer edge of the northern community, be careful not to disturb them when you pass by!"

It seemed that he was really anxious, because since those infiltrators could quietly enter their community, which was not defenseless, they obviously had some tricks. He was worried that during the period when he was recruiting people,

Here, what happened to Professor McGonagall and Sirius?

Watching Flitvina, who was actually a little old but still nimble, hurried away towards the students' temporary dormitory, Snape's feet did not move.

He had just told Flitwick that he would go, but in fact he didn't want to go there - he didn't want to see those people again. Today's matter should be left directly to Professor McGonagall and others!

He wanted to be alone again.

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When Snape was thinking about some so-called "private matters" alone in the abandoned park, Minerva and Sirius happened to be thinking about it on the other side.

Of course, they and Snape were definitely not thinking the same thing.

"Professor McGonagall, let me go in first later! You can wait outside - the less they can see other people, the less they will dare to act rashly, but they will definitely realize it immediately after seeing me appear.

There must be others secretly watching them, ready to take action at any time. In that case, I think it would be easier to get some words out of them."

But after hearing this, Minerva just shook her head slightly.

"Let's wait until everyone arrives! And in short, there are many things that we must first find out the identity of the other party before we can consider what you said."