Chapter 054 Professors' Gossip

"There are some magical creatures that you can't sell in the store." Mrs. Apace lowered her voice suddenly.

"Where do you sell it?" Catherine asked curiously.

"There are some magical creatures that are too large or too dangerous to be seen until you have them in the place where they are raised." Mrs. Apace said mysteriously.

"Large, ......dangerous," Catherine thought of a magical creature, "and do you sell three-headed dogs too?" ”

"Yes," Mrs. Apace nodded, "what, do you want to buy something to guard it?" ”

"No," Catherine quickly shook her head, "I just want to know what the weakness of the three-headed dog is?" ”

"The weakness of the three-headed dog," Mrs. Apert narrowed her eyes, "I can't sue you for this, just as I can't sue anyone else for the weakness of the bluebird, and the three-headed dog is generally trained to be guarded." ”

"I'm sorry," Catherine immediately realized her mistake, "I was reckless. ”

After eating, Mrs. Apace sent Catherine out, but before parting, she suddenly said, "Regular voice is the weakness of the three-headed dog." ”

"Didn't you say—" Catherine looked at her in surprise.

"You're not going to steal what it's guarding, are you?" Mrs. Apace winked at her.

Catherine nodded firmly.

After leaving the Magical Creature Shop, Catherine began to shop, after all, this year's Christmas was different, she needed to give many gifts, and since many of them, especially the Slytherin House, she still couldn't know what they liked, so Catherine decided to give all the food she had made herself, so by the time she bought all the ingredients, it was already dinner time.

Because it's Christmas in two days, there are people who come to Diagon Alley to buy holiday goods, and most of them rush home as soon as they finish shopping, which makes the usually lively Leaky Cauldron Bar deserted, and when Catherine comes to dinner and checks out, the owner is the only one left in the entire Leaky Cauldron Bar.

When the boss saw that a guest had come to the door, and he didn't seem to be ready to leave so soon, he naturally struck up a conversation with Catherine very enthusiastically. As they chatted, the two talked about Catherine's first visit to Diagon Alley.

"You don't know how surprised everyone was when they saw the two of you that day!" The boss's expression was very exaggerated, "You know, I've seen Snape a lot of times, but he's always been alone, and that day he actually had a child with him, and he still held hands, which is something that has never happened." So we all wondered," he lowered his voice suddenly, "if you're his illegitimate daughter!" ”

Fortunately, Catherine didn't have anything in her mouth, otherwise she would have choked, she didn't expect the origin of this rumor to be here.

"I'm not supposed to be his daughter," Catherine smiled and shook her head, "and someone asked him about it, but he didn't say it." ”

"That's weird," the boss's expression was even more surprised, "I've never seen him treat a child so well, not even his godson, the Malfoy boy, you know?" ”

Catherine nodded.

"With his relationship with Lucius Malfoy, I've never seen him take the boy's hand and eat with him, you know—" The boss looked around, and though there was no one else in the shop, he kept his voice very low, "they're all the men's men—the Death Eaters." ”

Catherine's eyes widened. "Didn't you say that the Death Eaters were all caught?" Her voice quivered.

"It's just that most of them, and some of them haven't been caught, like Malfoy and Snape, Lucius bribed some officials of the Ministry of Magic, and claimed to have been accused by a mysterious person, so he was released, and in my opinion, as soon as that person comes back, he will definitely be the first to go back."

"What about Professor Snape?" Catherine asked hurriedly.

"He," the boss gave a strange expression, "I don't understand, everyone doesn't understand, that Snape was acquitted because Dumbledore vouched for him. ”

"Headmaster Dumbledore?"

"Yes, Dumbledore said he took refuge in Mysterio before he fell and became a spy for the Order of the Phoenix."

"Before the fall of the mystery man......" Catherine muttered to herself, feeling her mind in a mess, and she sat there, eating bite by bite, as she carefully sorted out what she knew.

Catherine had always thought that Snape was on Dumbledore's side, but suddenly someone told her that Snape was a Death Eater.

Catherine hadn't seen Snape's left hand and didn't know if there was a Dark Mark there, but since he needed Dumbledore's vouch to be found innocent, there was a very good chance that he would be a Death Eater.

Since there is a very high chance that Snape will be a Death Eater, then Catherine's previous guesses will be overturned, because with his character, since he has chosen to side with Voldemort, he will not betray lightly.

As far as she knew, both Snape and Harry's parents had joined Hogwarts in September 1971, and that Voldemort's power had expanded shortly thereafter, and Slytherin House had even become a training base for Death Eaters, and he should have joined it at that time.

This means that Snape's relationship with Lily Evans broke down before they graduated, and after that, she began to be with James Potter and married shortly after graduating in 1978. On July 31, 1980, their children were born, and on October 31, 1981, they were attacked by Lord Voldemort and both died.

However, Snape had been Professor of Potions at Hogwarts since September 1981, and he had taken over the Slytherin Headmaster from Professor Slarkhorn. You must know that the entire Hogwarts Castle has Dumbledore's "eyes" except for Slytherin's territory, and if he didn't gain the trust of the Headmaster, then he would not be able to become the Headmaster of Slytherin House at all.

If this was the case, then what prompted Snape to betray Voldemort? He is a stoic man, and unless Voldemort has pushed his bottom line, he will not betray. And with his attitude towards herself, Catherine speculates that his bottom line is Lily Evans.

However, when Lily Evans joined the Order of the Phoenix, Snape should have expected that she would die in battle with Voldemort at any time, but he waited until 1981 to defect to Dumbledore, which means that something must have happened for Voldemort to hunt down Lily Evans.

No, Lily Evans was not the target, but Harry, and Harry's parents died protecting him, because after they died, Voldemort wanted to kill Harry, but it was his own accident.

Catherine's mind became even more confused at the thought of this.

"Actually, you don't have to worry about Snape at all." The boss's voice interrupted Catherine's train of thought.

"Why?"

"Remember the day you went to Diagon Alley alone after you and Snape finished eating here!" The boss pointed to the box they were sitting in that day and said, "After you left, he was in a daze." ”

"Daze?" Catherine didn't think Snape was a man who would be in a daze.

"Yes," said the boss, pointing in the direction of the little patio, "he kept staring at it and didn't move, and I looked at him several times, and kept that position all the time." ”

"He's always been like that?" Catherine asked.

"It always was, until before the Gringotts alarm went off, about a moment later, that he checked out and left to look for you." The boss smiled and said, "I can tell he cares about you." ”

Catherine's face flushed suddenly, and she hurriedly lowered her head to eat.

"Are you in a hurry to leave?" The boss asked.

Catherine shook her head.

"Since you're not in a hurry, let's talk with me a little longer," the boss sat across from Catherine, "and it's the most lonely time of year, and I can't stand it." ”

The two continued to talk, but most of the time it was the boss who was talking, and Catherine was listening, and then the topic somehow came to the Hogwarts professors.

"Speaking of which, most of the professors at Hogwarts are single," the boss said, putting down his glass and starting to wrench his fingers.

"Professor Binns doesn't need to talk about it, he's a ghost; Philius has goblin blood, so he has never been able to find a suitable match; Pomona was married, but unfortunately she loved her career more than her husband, and the other party couldn't stand it and divorced; Minerva is said to have fallen in love with a junior, but then it is unclear what happened; Snape had heard that he was an ascetic, which is why we were so surprised when he pulled you out. ”

Catherine lowered her head and sipped the drink from her boss and resolutely did not speak, although the ghosts and portraits of Hogwarts are also very gossipy, but the idle content rarely involves the professors who are working, so she is also very curious about the professors.

"Hagrid also has a problem with his size, and I'm afraid it's hard to find a match; Sybil Trelawney is too neurotic, and it is said that none of the blind dates are willing to meet a second person; Mrs. Pince was also married, but unfortunately her husband died young; Argus is a Squib, and Squibs are hard to find a job in the wizarding world, let alone a wife; Mr. and Mrs. Pomfrey heard that they had dedicated their lives to medical care, so the couple often did not see each other a few times a year; As for Dumbledore-"

The boss suddenly looked left and right again, and only after making sure that there was really no one else in the store did he say mysteriously.

"It is said that he fell in love with someone he shouldn't love, so he has not married yet."

Catherine almost spat out the drink in her mouth and hurriedly covered her mouth with her hand.

"It's exciting, isn't it?" The boss shook his head and said.

Catherine secretly rolled her eyes, the reason why she almost squirted just now was because the boss actually said "still not married".

"The remaining six are married, but Hogwarts is a full-time school, and they only go home on weekends, so naturally they always seem thin." The boss sighed and drank his wine.

"You seem to be talking about one less person."

"You mean the Defence Against the Dark Arts professors." The boss held his glass, shook his fingers, and said, "Since Galadia Meleth, we don't count them among professors anymore, this position changes every year, last year which one of them resigned after not even doing it for a year, Dumbledore had to pull Quirrell to fill the number, he was only a few years out of school, although there was a precedent for Snape, but he- he! The boss shook his head and sighed.