Chapter 103: Inner Ghosts and Werewolves
The hall fell silent, the twinkling stars on the ceiling cast a faint mist of light, countless dotted stars dotted the curtain of the vast sky, the door of the hall rang and opened, and more footsteps were heard. "Headmaster?" This is Snape. "The entire fourth floor has been checked, and he is not there. Filch checked the main castle building, and there was no one there. "What about the Astronomical Tower? Professor Trelawney's room? Where do owls roost?"" "Very well, Severus, I didn't really think Blake was going to stay. ”
In this way, Blake must have left the castle by taking advantage of the chaos, but what was the purpose of his entry? Augustus was completely unconvinced that he had gone to great lengths to break into the castle just to get his hands on a portrait.
If there is anything in the school that is very important to him, then this thing should be in Gryffindor, his real purpose is naturally to sneak into Gryffindor to get this thing, but the Gryffindor common room should not have any important objects except for the daily necessities of the students, think about it from another angle, if his purpose is a person, then it can only be Harry Potter, revenge on Harry for the sake of the Dark Lord? It seemed far-fetched, after all, it was not a realistic thing to find Harry in a Norau academy without alarming anyone.
"How did he get in, do you have any insight on that, Headmaster?" Snape asked.
"Many, Severus, each one is as impossible as the one below."
"Do you remember our conversation, Headmaster, right in?? Oh?? Before the semester starts, right?" Snape said, barely opening his lips as he spoke, as if he didn't want Percy to be part of their conversation. "Remember, Severus." Dumbledore said, his voice with something like a warning.
"Like?? Almost impossible?? Blake couldn't have gotten into this school without help from within, and I did express my concern that you were appointed??"
Kindness? Listening to Snape's tone, could it be that Hogwarts has an inner ghost, and in the word appointed, this inner ghost is still a teacher? With Dumbledore's eyes, it is hard to imagine that anyone could have deceived Dumbledore into infiltrating the teaching team, and finally plotted Sirius internally to accomplish their ulterior motives.
"I don't believe there's a single person in this castle who would help Blake in." Dumbledore said, his tone making it clear that the matter was over here, so Snape did not answer. "I have to go to the Dementors," Dumbledore said, "I said we'd let them know when we searched them." ”
The mole is a matter of great importance, even if as a headmaster, a subordinate has raised a question, it should be discussed, and Dumbledore is so resolute that he responds to Snape with complete conviction, obviously this person has a lot of importance in his heart, could it be Professor McGonagall? Probably not, she has been in school longer than Snape, and Snape is absolutely not qualified to doubt him, if it is ruled out by time, it is Professor Lupin who is the most suspicious, even Hagrid, who is more trusted than Lupin.
"Are they going to help, sir?" Snape said.
"Oh, yes," said Dumbledore coldly, "but I'm afraid that as long as I'm the headmaster, they won't be allowed to cross the threshold of the school." ”
For the next few days, everyone at school was talking about Blake. Rumors of how he got into the castle grew as the word grew: a Hufflepuff student named Hannah Abbott had heard that Black could transform into a flowering bush, and spent much of the time in their next Potions class telling everyone who would listen to her.
But I don't know who spread the word about Augustus's Animagus, the rumor has been affirmed by the majority of students as soon as it circulated, most of the students think that this statement is the most reliable, even the school, the rumor is also quite important, for the school's pets, have begun to carry out a batch of investigations, any ownerless foreign pets, have been taken to Dumbledore's office for inspection, for a while, for the strange animals wandering around the school, Filch has mastered the power of life and death.
Today's Defence Against the Dark Arts is quite weird, when Augustus and his party walked into the classroom, it was actually Professor Snape standing on the podium, Malfoy, who had never been used to seeing Lupin, let out a cheer and saluted Snape, "Professor, have you taken Lupin's place?" That's a great thing to do. A twinkle flickered across Snape's cold face, "Professor Lupin is ill, and I'm just here to take my place." Malfoy nodded regretfully, and the three of them turned and sat in the middle.
Snape's progress was rather strange, skipping many of the things that should be learned in order, and going straight to the second half of the book, ten minutes into the class, when the classroom door suddenly opened.
"I'm sorry I'm late, Professor Lupin, I??" Harry's embarrassed face peeked out the door.
"This class started ten minutes ago, Potter, and I think Gryffindor should be deducted ten points. Sit down. Snape's cold voice came.
"Yo, did the savior get the inside information, and wait for ten minutes before he came in to make trouble, it's really boring." With a strange smile in his eyes, Malfoy looked at Harry, who couldn't get in and out of the doorway.
"Where's Professor Lupin?"
"He said he was too sick to go to class today." Snape said, grinning with bared teeth, "Didn't I already tell you to sit down?"
"Tsk, lawlessness, ignorance of humility, complete disdain for the professor's words, such a bold student should be severely punished." Malfoy fiddled with a Chinese idiom he had learned somewhere, and his voice reached Snape's ears.
Snape's dark eyes were even more bottomless, "Deduct five more Gryffindors, and if I tell you to sit down again and you don't, then fifty points." Harry slowly walked over to his seat and sat down.
"You are easily satisfied. Lupin barely made any high demands on you?? I think I should be able to deal with Red Hat and Grindy Low in first grade. Today we're going to discuss??"
Harry watched him quickly flip through the textbook until he reached the last chapter, and he must have known that they hadn't learned yet.
“?? Werewolf. Snape said.
For a moment, the classroom fell silent, and a strange light flashed in Augustus's eyes, at the critical moment when Black invaded the school, Snape directly skipped many unlearned chapters until the werewolf section, what was the deep meaning? Whether the werewolf connection is intrinsically related to the traitor in his mouth, Augustus believes that Snape will never let go of it, and there is definitely some kind of inextricable connection between these things.