Professor Riddle Jr. received a letter from the Ministry of Magic one Monday morning about Mr. Severus Snape, a fourth-year student in his college.

He read it in a hurry and had to go to work during the Christmas holidays. It didn't put him in a good mood.

"What's the matter?" Pauss saw him dressed up at the breakfast table.

"I'm going to the Ministry of Magic." He said his family was not surprised at all, as he often went to the Ministry of Magic. "It's because of a student." He explained.

His father said, "Slytherin? There was no lack of curiosity in the tone, and there was also a bit of contempt. After all, to get into trouble with the Ministry of Magic, this Slytherin is either too stupid, or very shrewd.

This time Mr. Riddle Jr. thinks it's the former. He nodded with a slightly cold expression, which usually indicates that he is not in a very good mood.

He walked into the Ministry of Magic at a quarter past nine and went straight to the wizard's family law office. This office is set up as part of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, and is dedicated to the management of minor wizards.

Professor Riddle Jr. led the way into a small, warmly furnished living room, where a gentle Magic Department witch accompanied his students.

Seeing him come in, this Mr. Snape also knew to stand up and greet his professor. But little Riddle didn't look at him, turned and went out. He needed to understand what was going on.

In another office, he met the wizard couple from Snape's foster family, arguing with two Ministry of Magic members with sad faces, and it sounded as if there was a slight problem with their foster eligibility and Mr. Snape had to leave their home.

Of course they don't want to.

So Mr. Riddle Jr. was brought in, and as a professor at Severus Snape College, he had a say.

He sat down, and understood what was going on in the argument between the few people in front of him.

Severus Snape was nervous and probably a little scared the moment he saw his professor. More than the headmaster, the Slytherin had a deep affection for the professors of the house. He knew he was in trouble, and that he wasn't a Gryffindor, he was supposed to be a Slytherin.

And the Bonns, who are good old people. Ever since they had taken him to their house, they had made room for him to make potions. They treated him with all their love, but he could not repay them, and even hurt their reputation.

Since half a year ago, everything has changed. A month before the end of the summer vacation, he was taken away by the Ministry of Magic who suddenly appeared in their house, and he thought that he would just be sent to St. Mungo's for treatment, and then he would go home, but when he left St. Mungo, they told him that he couldn't go home, and that he had to go to a foster family because his home couldn't provide him with a normal upbringing.

"No, I'm going to stay at home!" But no one listened to him, and he was forcibly sent to a foster home. Although he refused to say a word to the Bonn couple at first, they still tried to take care of him.

"Where's my mother? How is she? He asked the Bonns. They looked at him in embarrassment and said, "Sever, if you can listen to us calmly." ”

Of course, he said so. He will calm down.

Mr. and Mrs. Bonn showed him the introduction of the "Law on the Protection of Underage Wizards" and the "Law on Intervention in the Wizarding Family", and there was a lot of space in the Daily Prophet explaining him, and he understood it very quickly.

It turned out that it was already a crime for his father to beat him and his mother, and although wizards could not send a Muggle to Azkaban, his custody no longer belonged to his father.

"Where's my mother?" He asked anxiously.

Mr. Bonn told him in all seriousness that his mother had also been guilty of adverse custody. She should have protected him, but she didn't. So she also lost his custody.

"It was Daddy who hit her! It's not her fault! He was furious.

"But, Sever, she's a witch, and she's got a wand." Mr. Bonn said with a frown.

"It's not her fault!!" Snape insisted on this, and instead of continuing to convince him, Mr. Bonn told him that his mother had committed two crimes under the Wizarding Family Intervention Act, first, that she should protect him, and second, that she should protect herself. And she didn't do it.

The Wizarding Family Court ruled that she could divorce her Muggle husband, even if he didn't want to, and the Wizarding Court could enforce it, allowing him to divorce 'willingly'.

His mother refused, refusing to leave her husband and hoping that the court would take care of her child.

The Wizard's Family Court had no choice but to give her a warning and ask her to protect herself next time, otherwise the court would consider her incapable of thinking normally and force her to undergo treatment.

Severus Snape wanted to go home, he didn't care what the Ministry of Magic did, or what the law said, he just wanted to be with his mother.

He was silent for a long time, and even obediently returned to Hogwarts to make everyone think that he had agreed to the matter. Then, waiting for the Christmas holidays, he returned to the Bonn couple's house and escaped at night. By the time everyone had eaten too much or drunk too much for Christmas dinner, and there was no way to get up in the morning, he was back in Spider's Tail Alley.

He returned home, and his father was furious that he didn't have enough Christmas wine. As he had done countless times before, he saw his mother holding his head at his feet and letting him beat him. He pounced on him and blocked his father's fist, and then his father flew out, and after a flash of magic, almost the next minute, the Ministry of Magic Aurors appeared, quickly arrested his father, and sent both his father and mother to St. Mungo, and he came to the Ministry of Magic after a brief check, and then the Bonn couple came, and they had to give a reasonable explanation because Snape had escaped from the house, otherwise their foster care qualifications had to be returned, and then the professor of his academy came.

How would he explain it?

He wanted to protect his mother, but he didn't want to make the Bonn couple sad, he didn't want Professor Riddle Jr. to deduct his points, and he couldn't resist the Ministry of Magic.

Fourth-year Severus Snape was so distressed that he felt he was a real mess.

At this time, Mr. Riddle Jr. felt that he admired his student very much, he was very clever, and the time to escape was very good. Of course, that doesn't mean he's not a fool.

Severus Snape, a young wizard who has been victims of domestic violence, has a protective charm and a tracking charm on their bodies, just to prevent the recurrence of violent injuries. The Protective Charm was invented by Headmaster Dumbledore and resembles the Mirror Charm Shapeshift. When someone attacks a minor wizard, the protective charm will reflect the attack back, so that the wizard's own magic will not be affected.

There is a hierarchy of tracking charms, and according to Severus Snape's domestic violence rating, his tracking charms will be transmitted directly to the Aurors' office, rather than being run by a wizard from the family law office.

Now, his father has been arrested for assaulting wizards several times, and the sentence has been increased considering that he has repeatedly injured a minor wizard and that he is the father of a young wizard. He will be thrown out as a fool and will no longer be able to use violence - he will hit himself every time he uses it.

As for his mother, since a warning was ineffective, the Ministry of Magic ruled that her marriage to Tobias Snape was invalid, and the two were forced to divorce. She was found guilty of injuring her life, found to be incapacitated, and the court placed her son, Severus Snape, in a prescribed residence until he reached adulthood, and Severus Snape inherited custody of her when he became an adult.

Professor Riddle Jr. told Severus Snape about the verdict, and he looked the same as Hefpuff's Potions class.

"Snape." He called him seriously.

"Yes, Professor."

"Your mother needs your care, and she doesn't have the ability to help herself. If you love her, then it's your responsibility. "Of course, if you have only moral affection for her, then she can always live in the house arranged for her by the Ministry of Magic, and you only need to give a little money every year." ”

"Nope." He immediately said, "I'll take my mom out, I'll take good care of her!" ”

"Then," he said, staring into the boy's eyes, "you'll have to work harder." ”

- Back then, he wanted to protect his Muggle mother from his wizarding father, and it was this one who supported him and has always supported him to this day. Let him know that there are people behind him who need his protection, his mother and sister. That's why he doesn't go down the wrong path and keeps going.

Severus Snape, he needs a goal. Let him work hard for it without losing sight of the goal. His mother herself lives in a mess, and there is no way to tell him what is right, so he can only shoulder the lives of two people and work together. He can't make a mistake, because one mistake is two people.

It's going to make him have a hard time, but at least he's going to live.

Mr. Riddle Jr. took out his pocket watch and looked at it, it was already eleven o'clock, and he had wasted his time all morning.

He snorted in displeasure and said to Severus Snape: "Go and apologize to the Bonnes for hurting them by doing something." Then, Slytherin deducted a hundred points. You're the first Slytherin I've ever seen to break into trouble at the Ministry of Magic, and if it weren't for the change of houses, I'd have shoved you to Gryffindor. ”

Severus Snape's face turned grim when he heard that his house professor wanted to send him to Gryffindor.

Professor Riddle Jr. lectured his students and prepared to leave, after which he said, "When you get back to the castle, you should think about how you can earn this hundred points back for Slytherin." ”

When he walked out of the family law office of the Ministry of Magic, he saw Mr. and Mrs. Bonn walk in. Then he heard the student in his academy say in a voice that was very dry and unaccustomed:

"I'm sorry...... Sir, ma'am, I'm sorry. ”

- This must have been a strange experience for him.

Professor Riddle Jr. smiled and walked lightly away from the Ministry of Magic. Teaching students is more fun than he thinks. He seemed to understand what Professor Dumbledore had told him.

It's great to see the difference around you, your students. It's better than being able to drink mead! ’