Study Days at Hogwarts

Listening to the latest news reported by the wizard in the portrait, the principal's office once again fell into a deathly silence.

The portraits all looked at Snape, feeling a little sympathetic to the new headmaster and curious about how he would handle this matter.

They did not forget that Snape had promised Dumbledore that he would do everything in his power to protect the safety of Hogwarts students.

Now it's time for him to fulfill his promise.

Snape ignored the strange looks from the portraits and turned to stare at the sleeping old man in the portrait hanging behind his desk.

“Things often come unexpectedly.”

Dumbledore seemed to feel Snape's compelling gaze and opened his eyes to wake up from his slumber.

"It's indeed unexpected." Snape said gloomily, "I think it won't be long before Hogwarts is turned upside down by them."

"The situation is not as bad as you think." Dumbledore said comfortingly.

"No, the situation is very bad." The muscles on Snape's face twitched twice, "If they really set up Dumbledore's Army, with the level of secrecy of those brats, it won't take long for the entire Hogwart to be covered. If everyone knows about this, don’t expect it to end smoothly.”

"Neither Carlo nor Parkinson is a good person. Especially Carlo. Ever since Amycus Carlo was killed by Anderson through Scrimgeour, she has extremely hated Anderson and his Defense Association. What do you think she will do when she finds out that those students formed Dumbledore's Army?"

No wonder Snape was so angry, these are a bunch of careless guys.

Whether it was Rubeus Hagrid, the rude and stupid big guy, or the group of brainless students headed by Longbottom, everyone was doing stupid things that they thought were right, and they all needed his help to wipe their butts.

Sometimes Snape even felt like a fool, being fooled by the old guy in the frame in front of him.

Especially a while ago, after Dumbledore handed the Sword of Gryffindor to Potter, he realized that Hogwarts was already riddled with holes and had become someone's back garden.

"By the way, you need to be careful lately, Harry seems to be targeting you." Dumbledore changed the subject.

"Target me?"

Snape narrowed his eyes and stared at Dumbledore's portrait, and said in a slightly sarcastic tone: "What do you want to do when Potter targets me? Kill me to avenge you?"

"Probably not."

"Then tell me why," Snape said coldly.

"The last time they came to Hogwarts, you happened to be away..."

"I should be qualified to know, right?" Snape's tone was cold, and Dumbledore didn't seem to want to tell him the reason.

"...Otherwise, I might have been tricked. Harry even dragged Albert along." Dumbledore seemed to have not heard Snape's words and said to himself, "You are no match for Anderson. That child is now …”

"So, I can't know the truth?" Snape stared at Dumbledore, his eyes burning with anger.

"They want to make sure of one thing."

"What's up?"

"It has something to do with defeating the mysterious man."

"Defeat the Dark Lord. What do you want from me?"

Snape was even more annoyed. He hated bastards who only half-talked, and even more hated the terrible feeling of being kept in the dark.

"They want to control you, use Veritaserum on you, and dig out some useful information from your mouth." Dumbledore reminded.

"Then why don't you remind Potter that he can't get any useful information from me."

"I can't do that," Dumbledore said softly.

"What about Anderson? Don't tell me, he doesn't know anything." Snape glared at Dumbledore.

"He once promised me that he would not take the initiative to cause trouble for you."

"I don't think such a guarantee has any credibility."

"Are you afraid of him?" Dumbledore was a little surprised.

"There is no Death Eater who is not afraid of him." Snape said evilly, "You probably don't know that more than half of the Death Eaters were indirectly killed by your good student."

"I think your evaluation is biased." Dumbledore said with a slight frown, "You can't blame everything on him."

"The Dark Lord regards him as his great enemy." Snape sneered, "I don't think many people have such qualifications. For this reason, he even gave up the idea of ​​killing Harry with his own hands, which shows how powerful he is. Be afraid of that guy.”

Dumbledore just opened his mouth, but heard Snape continue, "After Potter dies, that guy will probably kill the Dark Lord as you expected, and then you will be able to get your wish."

"Really?" Dumbledore asked.

"of course it's true."

"No, I mean Voldemort is no longer obsessed with killing Harry with his own hands." Dumbledore's expression was extremely serious, and he knew exactly what this meant.

If Tom Riddle no longer struggles with killing Harry himself, but is prepared to let others do it for him, Harry's situation will be worse than before. In Dumbledore's view, Voldemort's threat to Harry is Not even as good as other Death Eaters.

"Is there any problem?" Snape also felt that something was wrong in the atmosphere.

"Harry must be killed by the mysterious man himself." Dumbledore said seriously, "This is very important."

"Even if you tell me this, there's nothing I can do about it."

Snape also frowned. Although he didn't know why Dumbledore insisted on letting Voldemort kill Harry himself, there must be some reason.

However, after the Dark Lord no longer planned to kill Harry himself, he had no choice.

"It's not my order. I don't think I can change the Dark Lord's mind." Snape reminded, "You should know better than anyone else. Both Carlo and Parkinson were sent by the Dark Lord. Keep an eye on me."

Although he is also the Dark Lord's right-hand man, Snape is far inferior to Yaxley. Otherwise, when Thickness sends a bunch of Aurors to Hogwarts to arrest people, someone would have to tell him first. Down.

As a Death Eater, Snape could care less about this, but Hogwarts was ultimately under his control.

Ran rashly to the school to arrest someone,

What's going on?

Even if the order to arrest Hagrid was to be issued, he should have communicated with Yaxley in advance, but this was not the case.

Speaking of which, the big guy was too stupid. He heard from other professors that Anderson had reminded him to leave Hogwarts a long time ago, but not only did the guy not leave, he was arrested not long after the school started. Who can blame him, even if he wanted to Even letting Hagrid escape was impossible.

"Perhaps, you should go to Anderson. He is a master of prophecy. Maybe there is a way to make your plan go forward." Snape did not feel that he could persuade others to give up the honor of killing Potter.

"Albert is actually very dissatisfied with me." Dumbledore shook his head. "Although we all want to defeat Voldemort, he actually doesn't agree with my plan."

"That's really regrettable." Snape was very decisive and threw all the problems to the other party. "Now I need your help. I think you don't want your supporters to be imprisoned. Just now, I agreed to Filch's request to reinstate the old methods of punishment and approved the Caning Approval Order."

"Then try to stop them. Albert, I will contact him and ask him to restrain those children." Dumbledore said something that stunned Snape, "When the time comes, just turn a blind eye. That’s it.”

"You..." Snape was speechless. He took several deep breaths. "In that case, please tell me how to solve these damn problems."

"Severus, I am dead." Dumbledore reminded.

"Don't forget, you asked me to protect the students of Hogwarts."

"Yes, you have not forgotten, which makes me very happy." Dumbledore was very satisfied that Snape continued to abide by the agreement between the two parties.

"I am the Headmaster of Hogwarts now, and I think you have the responsibility to help me manage Hogwarts." Snape had decided to leave all those damn problems to Dumbledore, and his original bad mood was gone. Things got a lot better all of a sudden.

"Dumbledore, we have an obligation to serve the current Headmaster of Hogwarts!" Phineas reminded slyly.