“…… You are not allowed to speak ill of my father-" Harry glared at Snape in front of him, his wand stretched straight forward and jerked upward, "Upside down the Admiralty!" ”

However, although Harry had practiced quite hard, it was clear that he was far from being able to match a wizard like Snape when it came to it. Not to mention......

"How dare you?"

Snape reacted faster than Harry and Ron had imagined.

He suddenly drew his wand and waved it at random, and a particle of light generated by the magic stirring suddenly exploded in front of him, easily blocking Harry's spell.

"Tell me! Why did you use this spell? I don't remember teaching this spell in your Charms course! ”

Snape stared at Harry with his terrifying eyes, the tip of his wand trembling slightly, revealing his uneasy heart.

"Where did you learn it? I don't have to tell you! Harry glared at each other in the same irritation, word for word.

"You-" Snape looked at Harry coldly, gritting his teeth for a moment, but finally snorted coldly, "I can guess that it must have been taught to you by that McLean guy...... Potter boy, you're going to hide behind him forever and be a wretched creature who only screams! ”

"I won't!" The more Harry listened, the more angry he became, and he yelled, "You wait! Someday I'll beat you in a duel! Soon will! ”

"Whew-"

Snape glanced at him contemptuously, as if he had heard some big joke. He didn't wait for Harry to continue talking, he just gently pushed Hermione beside him to his side.

"Stay with your friends! Miss Jack-of-all-trades......" Snape said impatiently, "by the way, take care of them for me, if you don't want them to lose their lives for some reason." ”

After that, he didn't even look at Harry again, and Shi Shiran walked past Harry. Look in the direction he's traveling, but it's still Hogwarts Castle.

"Fainted—" "Bang! ”

Harry was probably overdone by Snape's contempt and sarcasm, and after Snape had walked a few steps around him, he turned back with a shaky spell.

To be honest, his blow can already be regarded as a super-level performance, coupled with his own good talent, the speed of this unconscious spell is indeed quite fast. Aside from the skill of forgetting to use the silent spell, everything else is pretty good.

But he was quick, and Snape reacted faster!

Harry, who had recited the incantation first, hadn't even had time to finish the incantation before Snape gave it to him with a backhand. It was probably a silent disarming spell, as Harry's wand had flown into the air and he himself had fallen heavily in the snow.

Because this time it could be described as a sneak attack, Snape clearly showed strong anger. But I saw that after he cast the disarming spell just now, the second swing of the staff was about to fall.

"Professor Snape!"

Hermione finally spoke, and she immediately stood in front of the fallen Harry with her arms outstretched, as if she was trying to block Snape's next spell with her body.

Ron, who was a blank spectator next to him, finally came back to his senses at this time. He also hurriedly stood beside Hermione, and protected Harry behind him with her.

Snape didn't look at Ron at all, he just frowned and stared at Hermione for a while. Unexpectedly, after a short while, he really put away his wand, turned around and left.

"This ......," Ron said in confusion, "and he's gone?" ”

He had asked Hermione about this, but Hermione didn't answer him. It can be seen that from the beginning of today, Hermione seems to have something hidden in her heart, which makes her face always have a touch of solemnity.

"Hermione?" Ron hesitated, and called out to her again.

It wasn't until Snape had crossed the snowy slope ahead of them and disappeared from their view that Hermione shook her head slightly at Ron.

"I'll talk about the details in a moment," she said, and walked straight to Harry's side, "Harry, are you alright?" Are there any injuries? ”

By this time, Harry had already gotten up from the ground, and after retrieving his wand, he was patting the snow on his body without saying a word. After hearing Hermione's concern, he just turned his head away and shook his head silently.

His body may be fine, but the anger in his heart burns him faintly.

He also knew that he had been too reckless just now, but even then he didn't regret it at all. Because almost every one of Snape's words was his heart.

In a way, Snape was harsh, but not wrong. But isn't he not trying? He's been working hard!

So the more Snape poked him in the sore spot, the more angry he felt. This anger was not directed at Snape alone, but probably also at himself to a large extent.

"Harry, if I were you, don't take Snape's words too seriously." Seeing that Harry was still angry, Hermione couldn't help but persuade, "We can't be in too much of a hurry, we have to come step by step." And...... You were too impulsive just now! ”

Harry didn't refute it, because he understood that Hermione was completely right.

After taking a few deep breaths of cold air, he forced himself to calm down. After all, now that Hermione had been found, it was more reassuring than anything else.

After componing himself for a moment, Harry returned his gaze to Hermione's.

"What the hell is going on? Why are you with Snape? "You don't know, Ron and I went to your house to look for you, only to find your mom and dad fainting in the bedroom, and you're missing—we're all in a hurry!" ”

"yes!" Ron hurriedly nodded, "I asked you just now, but why didn't you say it...... Did the old bat do it? ”

When Hermione heard this, she didn't start babbling on and on as she usually would. She just somehow turned her gaze back in the direction Snape had left, looking at it in a daze.

"Say? What's going on? Ron said hurriedly, "Is there anything you can't say since just now?" Oops—"

"It's not that I can't say it," Hermione said with some annoyance, "Actually, I don't know what to say......"

She paused again, as if organizing the words. In front of her, both Harry and Ron waited patiently, even Maca in the distance.

But who knows, the first sentence she said made the hearts of the three listeners skip a beat.

"First of all...... Yes, Snape broke into my house last night, and when he opened the door and woke me up, I saw that his wand was already aimed at me. ”

"What?" "Really?"

Harry and Ron exclaimed in surprise almost at the same time, and then their faces were full of incomprehension. As for Maca's side, although he didn't shout, he also had a lot of doubts in his heart.

"And then?" Harry urged.

“…… He sat in a chair in my bedroom all night, and though he didn't spell me, the tip of his staff never left my direction. Hermione said, shaking her head in confusion, "I don't know what the point of him doing this, anyway...... It's like they're watching over me, or they're guarding against me...... I do not know. ”

"All night, when I asked him, he didn't say much, at most he was sarcastic to me. As for what he said, I don't need to say that you should be able to guess—"

Harry and Ron looked at each other, then both nodded at Hermione.

"Of course, there are certainly no good words." Harry grinned.

"Actually, it's not that ......" Hermione didn't seem to hate Snape as much as Harry, "Well, it's hard to hear good words from him-"

"It's not at all!" Ron interjected, "Even if it's Maca, I guess I haven't heard of it." ”

"Don't talk about that yet!" Harry waved his hand at Ron, "Hermione, what about after that?" ”

Harry seemed very concerned about what happened to Hermione that night. Because he had always only thought Snape was a bad guy, and now that he had finally caught Snape doing bad things, he was even a little excited.

If he could take this opportunity to get a grip, then the next time there was any conflict, he could use it to threaten Snape.

Of course, this is mainly because Hermione looks fine now, otherwise he probably wouldn't have had the heart to do so.

But when Harry asked about the situation, Hermione was stunned again, as if she was thinking about something complicated. After another moment, she looked at Harry with a hesitant look.

In the distance, Maca was listening to their conversation, but his eyes were fixed on Snape's whereabouts. In the moments of Hermione's hesitation, Snape had already reached the outer edge of the mysterious mirror's sphere of influence.

At present, there are no souls in that area, not only the souls of wizards, but even the souls of owls and other small animals have been swallowed up by the round mirror, and they have become a place of terrible silence.

And in this situation where there is no soul to suck, the suction may still exist, but the spatial ripples that oscillate again and again do not continue to appear. If someone who doesn't know passes by, you can't find anything out of the ordinary.

But Snape, however, stopped just a few steps away from the area of effect.

Maca looked at the impenetrable figure from afar, but her heart was quite heavy. He didn't understand what Snape was trying to do, or why.

At that moment, Snape suddenly took several steps forward in succession, and was about to step into that terrible land. Maca suddenly rushed forward, the staff in his hand was already raised, and a spell was ready to be unleashed.

But suddenly, Hermione's words stopped him on the way.