harry potter book of crimes

"...You are not allowed to speak ill of my father -" Harry glared at Snape in front of him, stretched the wand in his hand straight forward, and jerked it upward, "The upside down golden clock!"

However, even though Harry had practiced very hard, he was clearly far from comparable when facing a wizard like Snape. Let alone...

"how dare you?"

Snape's reaction was faster than Harry and Ron expected.

He suddenly pulled out his wand and waved it casually, and a burst of light particles generated by the surge of magic suddenly exploded in front of him, easily blocking Harry's spell.

"Tell me! Why did you use this spell? I don't remember this spell being taught in your Charms course!"

Snape stared at Harry closely with his terrifying eyes, and the tip of his wand trembled slightly, showing that he was not at peace in his heart.

"Where did you learn it? I don't need to tell you!" Harry glared at the other person with the same annoyance and said every word.

"You -" Snape stared at Harry coldly, gritting his teeth for a while, but finally snorted coldly, "I can guess without telling you, it must have been taught to you by that guy MacLean...

Boy Potter, just hide behind him forever and be a pathetic bastard who can only yell!"

"I won't!" Harry became more and more angry and yelled, "Just wait! One day I will defeat you in a duel! Very soon!"

"laugh--"

Snape glanced at him contemptuously, as if he had heard some big joke. He didn't wait for Harry to continue his nonsense, and just gently pushed Hermione next to him towards him.

"Stay with your friends! Miss Know-It-All..." Snape said impatiently, "By the way, keep an eye on them for me, if you don't want them to lose their lives inexplicably."

After that, without even looking at Harry, Shi Shiran walked around Harry. Looking at the direction he was heading, it was still towards Hogwarts Castle.

"Fainted—" "Bang!"

Harry was probably overly angry at Snape's contempt and sarcasm. After Snape walked around him for a few steps, he turned around tremblingly and cast a curse.

To be honest, his attack can be regarded as a super performance. In addition, he has a good talent, and the speed of reciting this coma spell is indeed very fast. Except for forgetting to use the silent spell technique, other

It is quite outstanding in all aspects.

But he was fast, but Snape's reaction was even faster!

Harry, who recited the spell first, didn't even have time to finish the incantation when Snape backhanded him. It was probably a silent disarming spell, because Harry's wand had already flown into the air, and he himself

He fell heavily into the snow.

Because this time it could be said to be a sneak attack, Snape clearly showed strong anger. However, he saw that after casting the disarming spell just now, he swung his staff for the second time and was about to drop it.

"Professor Snape!"

Hermione finally spoke, and she immediately stood in front of Harry who fell to the ground with her arms spread out, as if she wanted to use her body to block Snape's next curse.

Ron, who was watching blankly as a spectator, finally came to his senses at this moment. He also quickly stood beside Hermione, and together with her, he protected Harry behind him.

Snape didn't look at Ron at all. He just frowned and stared at Hermione for a while. Unexpectedly, after a short while, he actually put away his wand, turned around and left.

"This..." Ron suddenly said in confusion, "He just left like that?"

He originally asked Hermione this question, but Hermione didn't answer him. It could be seen that from the beginning of today, Hermione seemed to be hiding something in her heart, which made her face always look solemn.

.

"Hermione?" Ron hesitated and called her again.

It wasn't until Snape crossed the snowy slope ahead and disappeared from their sight that Hermione shook her head slightly towards Ron.

"We'll talk about the details later." After she said this, she walked directly to Harry, "Harry, are you okay? Are you injured?"

At this time, Harry had already climbed up from the ground. After picking up his wand, he was patting the snow on himself without saying a word. After hearing Hermione's concern, he just turned his head and shook it silently.

Lower your head.

His body may be fine, but the anger in his heart makes him feel a dull pain.

He also knew that he was too reckless just now, but even so, he did not regret it at all. Because almost every word of Snape's words pierced his heart.

From a certain point of view, although Snape's words were harsh, it cannot be said to be wrong. But it's not like he didn't work hard? He has been working hard!

So the more Snape poked at his sore spots, the angrier he felt. This anger was not just directed at Snape, but probably also directed at himself to a large extent.

"Harry, if I were you, don't take Snape's words too seriously." Seeing that Harry was still angry, Hermione couldn't help but persuade him, "We can't be too anxious, we have to do it step by step. And... you

I was too impulsive just now!"

Harry didn't refute, because he understood that Hermione was absolutely right.

After taking a few deep breaths of the cold air, he forced himself to calm down. After all, Hermione had been found now, which was more reassuring than anything else.

After calming down for a moment, Harry returned his gaze to Hermione.

"What happened? Why are you with Snape?" He finally asked, "You don't know, Ron and I went to your house to look for you, but we found your parents fainted in the bedroom.

, and you are missing - we are all very anxious!"

"Yes!" Ron nodded quickly, "I asked you just now, but why didn't you tell me... was that old bat doing it?"

After hearing this, Hermione did not start to explain endlessly as usual. She just inexplicably turned her eyes to the direction Snape left, looking there in a daze.

"Tell me? What happened?" Ron asked anxiously, "It's been like this since just now. Is there anything that can't be said? Oops——"

"It's not that I can't say it," Hermione said with some trouble, "Actually, I don't know how to say it..."

She paused again, as if she was organizing her words. In front of her, Harry and Ron were waiting patiently, and even Maka in the distance was doing the same.

But who knew that the first words she spoke would make the three listeners' hearts skip a beat.

"First of all... yes, last night Snape broke into my house. When he opened the door and woke me up, I saw his wand was already pointed at me."

"What?" "Really?"

Harry and Ron exclaimed almost at the same time, and then their faces were full of puzzled expressions. As for Maka, although she didn't scream, she was still confused in her heart.

"What happened next?" Harry urged.

"...He sat on the chair in my bedroom all night. Although he didn't use any spells on me, the tip of his wand never left my direction." Hermione said, shaking her head in confusion.

"I don't know what the meaning of his doing this is. Anyway... it's like he's guarding me, or he's guarding me... I don't know."

"For the whole night, he didn't say much when I asked him, and at most he said a few sarcastic words to me. As for what he said, I don't need to tell you, you should be able to guess-"

Harry and Ron looked at each other, then nodded towards Hermione.

"Of course, there's definitely nothing nice to say." Harry grinned.

"Actually, it's not that..." Hermione didn't seem to hate Snape as much as Harry did, "Well, it's really hard to hear good things from him -"

"It's never happened before!" Ron interrupted, "Even Maka has probably never heard of it."

"Don't talk about this yet!" Harry waved his hand towards Ron, "Hermione, what happens next?"

Harry seemed very concerned about what happened to Hermione that night. Because he had always thought Snape was a bad guy, and now that he finally caught Snape doing something bad, he was even a little excited.

If he could take this opportunity to catch something, he could use this matter to threaten Snape if there was another conflict next time.

Of course, this is mainly because Hermione seems to be fine now, otherwise he probably wouldn't have the intention.

But after hearing what happened after Harry asked, Hermione was startled again, as if she was thinking about something complicated and difficult to understand. After a while, she looked at Harry with hesitant eyes.

Maka in the distance was listening to their conversation, but his eyes were always locked on Snape's whereabouts. During Hermione's moment of hesitation, Snape had already walked to the mysterious round mirror.

The outer edge of the sphere of influence.

At present, there are no souls within that range. Not only the souls of wizards, but also the souls of owls and other small animals have been swallowed up by the round mirror, turning it into a terrifyingly silent place of death.

And in this situation where there is no soul to suck, the suction force may still exist, but the space ripples that vibrate out again and again do not continue to appear. If there are uninformed people passing by, they will definitely not be able to find anything.

abnormal.

But Snape accurately stopped just a few steps away from the area of ​​influence.

Maka looked at the invisible figure from a distance, but her heart felt a little heavy. He didn't understand what Snape wanted to do and why he did it.

At this moment, Snape suddenly took several steps forward, and was about to step into that terrible land. Maka suddenly rushed forward, with the staff in her hand already raised, and a wave

The spell is ready to strike.

But suddenly, Hermione's words stopped him in his tracks.