Chapter 16: Dark Magic
The third year came much calmer than expected, the confrontation between Voldemort and the Order of the Phoenix in the wizarding world became more and more obvious, there have been several conflicts that were not big or small, but at Hogwarts, it seemed to be a pure land, perhaps not so thorough, Slytherin needless to say was simply a natural Death Eater reserve, and the conflict between Gryffindor and Slytherin was becoming more and more obvious.
This semester, due to the addition of many electives, Gloria and Snape were more together on their homework than any additional communication, and Lily would occasionally say hello to them when the others weren't looking, after all, it was not good for the three of them to be close to each other at this sensitive time.
Gloria is very busy, while being familiar with the elven language, the development of her body seems to have stopped, the third grade, fourteen-year-old girls basically have a small bulge on their chests, and their height begins to twitch, and Gloria, who was originally taller than others, seems to have become less prominent, and the small protrusions on her chest no longer change, and there is not even a feeling of swelling pain in other girls, fortunately, she still had a period when she was fourteen years old.
Dumbledore also thought about the reason for this, and finally came to the conclusion that the blood of the elves is slowly waking up, and the life span of the elves is very long, fourteen years old is still a small baby for purebred elves, and the elf blood in Gloria's body is not pure, and it is slowly waking up, so it has led to some changes but is not complete, and there is no harm.
Gloria is not worried about this, there will always be changes in the future, she is more worried about this semester that Snape seems to have changed from being addicted to potions to becoming addicted to dark magic, and his talent for dark magic simply frightened Gloria, Gloria's body cannot touch all dark magic, so she is committed to learning ordinary magic and some elven magic, she does not think that dark magic is evil or there is a gap between her and Snape, what she is worried about is Snape's fanatical pursuit of power and his lack of obvious admiration for Voldemort.
"Gloria, you have to be strong to protect what you want to protect, I don't know if Voldemort was right to be pure-blooded, but he's a true genius, he's calm, strong, sensible, intelligent, he's probably the most powerful Slytherin in hundreds of years. โ
When Snape said this, Gloria did not ignore the desire and ambition that could not be concealed from his face, his desire to be stronger, to be able to obtain or hold on to something, such as his mother, such as ...... Lily.
Lily didn't know that Snape was obsessed with dark arts because she didn't come and go this semester, but Gloria could see that Lily had a natural Gryffindor aversion to dark arts, and if she knew Snape's thoughts, she would have stopped it, but I don't know if Snape would listen to her.
Although Gloria was worried about this and changed her mind a lot, she still didn't say anything to Lily in the end, Snape wanted to be strong, he admired Voldemort's strength, but he didn't have any idea about his pureblood, admiring his power doesn't mean that he will definitely follow him, and even if Snape is talented, he is still a half-blood after all, according to the current standard of pure-bloods of Death Eaters, Snape doesn't seem to be qualified, he is interested, so he let him study it, this is not much different from potions, but it is a magic system, Dumbledore will not know any dark magicใ