Ning An was not afraid of the punishment of confinement, not to mention that he had long known that nine times out of ten he would go to the Forbidden Forest to inspect.

What really gave him a headache was that after lunch, he was called into the office by Snape.

Snape was still wearing his black robe, standing coldly in front of the table like a big bat, and Ning An couldn't help but think that if he could hang upside down from the ceiling, he might really be taken for a bat.

"What have you been up to lately? Ning'an?. ”

This was Snape's opening remarks, and his gloomy tone showed that at the moment, his mood was not very beautiful,

"I heard you hang out with Harry Potter at night?"

Ning An felt a terrible headache, and dealing with Snape became the most difficult thing for him now. Snape seemed to regard him as his protégé, and indeed taught Ning An a lot of knowledge very carefully, and Ning An now dared to confidently say that the potions he had prepared would not be worse than any student in the academy.

And not only in terms of potions, but even in the defense and countermeasures of many evil spells, Ning An also consulted Snape many times, and he also told Snape in private

"Professor Quirrell's Defense Against the Dark Arts class is hard to learn, and it would be nice if you were to teach it."

This made Snape very useful, and it was better for Ning An from now on. Ning An was also grateful to Snape for teaching him a lot, and he understood that maybe Snape's temper was a little weird and annoying, but he was not a bad person.

But because of his strange feelings for Harry, Snape didn't like Ning An and Harry getting too close, so that now, Ning An standing in front of Snape looked very embarrassed.

"Professor...... Not with Potter, in fact - I was there to help Hermione? Granger is a busy ...... She helped me review the history of magic—"

"You like her? I know you've been with Granger some time ago. Snape suddenly said something that surprised Ning An:

"Or - you're in love with her?"

Ning An was a little dumbfounded, how could Snape think that? Well, he admits that Hermione is cute, whether it's messy hair or bunny-like front teeth, but that doesn't mean Ning An will fall in love with her!

"She's just a 12-year-old." Ning An thought in his heart, but he forgot that he was only 11 years old at this time.

But Snape didn't wait for Ning An to answer, he lowered his voice with a gloomy face, and said, "You really disappointed me, Ning An! You're just- so stupid! His voice grew louder and higher, and his face was already flushed with excitement as he said the last words.

"You think you're one of the same kind?!" Snape's emotions suddenly became agitated for some reason

"She's from Gryffindor! And you- it's Slytherin! His roar erupted, shaking Ning An speechless for a while.

However, the next moment, he changed his tone again, lowered his tone, and put his face in front of Ning An in a dark way, his black pupils looked directly at Ning An's eyes of the same color as him, and said slowly:

"Don't think I don't know anything...... Ning'an—your curiosity about those—the dark arts, the questions you asked me...... Do you think I can't see it? ”

Ning An didn't know how to argue, he had a feeling that Snape had now completely substituted for his own emotions, and he suddenly remembered the plot of the book, and secretly speculated that maybe it was this incident that reminded him of the story of himself and Lily Evans, which caused this excitement.

But Ning An understands that it is useless to say anything now, so he can only let him vent.

"Admit it, Ning'an, you're like so many Slytherins - you love dark magic, you crave powerful sorcery!"

Snape slowly straightened up, turned away from Ning An with his hands behind his back, and walked back to his desk, as if the short distance of two steps had calmed him down a little.

"Think about it, when your Miss Granger knows that Ning An is an evil wizard obsessed with black magic! What will she do to you? Snape looked at Ning An with a mocking smile on his face, but Ning An heard a trace of sadness in his voice.

"I don't think I like Miss Granger, Professor." After a moment, Ning An saw that Snape had regained his composure, so he broke the awkward silence and said:

"We're just normal friends."

"I hope so, Ning'an, and remember my advice." Snape stopped standing, and sat back in the wooden chair behind his desk, looking a little tired, with a rare look of exhaustion between his brows.

"You can go." Finally, he said coldly.

"Can I come back to you later, Professor?" Ning An asked with some uneasiness, Snape still helped him a lot in the school, whether it was magic guidance, or rare potions teaching materials, and even the people in the whole academy knew that he was the dean's protégé, which was also the aspect that increased his invisible prestige.

"Thank you for your talents, while I still want to nurture them." Snape squinted.

Relieved by an affirmative answer, he bowed and left Snape's office.

He thought he would be reprimanded severely, but now it seemed to be fine, and despite the inexplicable criticism, Snape finally agreed to let him continue to ask for advice in private, which was already satisfying him.

As for what Snape said, Ning An didn't think about it at all in his mind at this time, he had never thought about the possibility of who he would fall in love with, he thought that from the moment he came to this world, there was only one thing he was obsessed with, and that was "magic".

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Leaving Snape's office, Ning waited in the break room until eleven o'clock, said goodbye to Daphne and them, and walked alone to the foyer on the first floor.

When he arrived, he realized that he was the last to arrive, Harry, Neville, Hermione, and Malfoy, all waiting here.

Filch held his dilapidated lantern that emitted a dim light in his hand, and shouted viciously at Ning An:

"You should be quick! It's not so big to make everyone wait for you. ”

Ning An ignored him, walked straight to the crowd, and greeted Harry and Hermione respectively.

When Filch saw that everyone had arrived, his expression became very happy, and he could not suppress his joy and said:

"Come with me, and I'm sure you'll enjoy the night—until tomorrow morning, when I'll collect the bodies for a few of you."

Hermione walked beside Ning An, she had always been brave, her teeth chattered, and when she heard Filch's words, she twisted her body uncomfortably, leaned over a little towards Ning An, and asked in a low voice:

"Where do you think he's taking us? He also said to collect the corpse—"At this point, she stopped in time, and those two words made her feel uncomfortable."

Ning An turned his head, glanced at Filch, who was still scaring them, funny, and then comforted:

"I think we're heading to the hunting grounds, and as for Filch, I think he's just scaring people, and he's always hated students, hasn't he? Hogwarts doesn't let students die. This is a very serious matter. ”

Hearing this, Hermione also calmed down and calmed down a little.

When they walked a path to the lawn of the hunting ground in the bright moonlight, a tall figure was standing not far away and beckoning to them:

"Hey! Here, Harry, Hermione! ”

"It's Hagrid!"

Harry exclaimed excitedly, it would have been better for him if Closed had been with Hagrid.

"Don't get too excited! Do you think you're going to play a game with this stupid big guy all night? Filch led the group towards Hagrid, turning his head as he went, sneering and whispering:

"Don't dream - you're going to the Forbidden Forest!"

When Filch revealed the location of Ning'an's closed quarters, Harry and the others, who were unprepared, were indeed frightened, and Malfoy even shouted that his dad would not allow the school to do this, and that his dad was a member of the board of directors and so on.

However, all of this was useless, and in the end, the group was led into the Forbidden Forest by Hagrid.

Hagrid led them around a puddle of silver liquid on the ground, he slowly squatted down to get closer to Ning An and the others who were standing, he looked at the liquid on the ground, and said solemnly:

"See, it's unicorn blood, a poor unicorn in the Forbidden Forest was wounded, this is the second time, I found one dead last Wednesday. This time we're going to try to save that poor guy. ”

"The guy who hurt the unicorn!" Malfoy screamed, his frightened voice trembling and shouting:

"What if we run into it! We're going to die! Ning An noticed that Neville's face was also frightened, and Harry and Hermione were equally unsightly.

"As long as you're with me or Toothtooth, the other creatures in the Forbidden Forest won't hurt you." Hagrid said, Tooth was a vicious-looking hound that had been following him all along.

"Okay, now we're divided into two ways, all the way with me, all the way with Yaya." The group came to a fork in the road, and Hagrid turned around and split up the group.

Malfoy rushed to team up with Toothtooth, who he thought was formidable, so Hagrid asked Ning'an, Neville teamed up with Malfoy, and Harry and Hermione teamed up with Hagrid.

"If you find a unicorn, put a green spark, and if you're in danger, put a red one." Hagrid commanded, and the group began to walk deeper into the Forbidden Forest.

In the Forbidden Forest at night, there was no light except for the little spots of light sprinkled by the stars and the soft moonlight, and there was no light from the birds, and they only heard the strange chirping of night owls.

"Fluorescent flickering."

Ning An took out his wand and recited the incantation, and the head of the wand lit up with a white light. Neville showed a look of envy, and Malfoy pursed his lips disdainfully, wanting to taunt a few words, but opened his mouth, and finally did not speak, and forced himself to go back.

Ning An followed Yaya and walked in front of several people, he still wanted to find the injured unicorn first, or Quirrell who was drinking the pure blood of the unicorn.

However, before he could go far, an accident happened, Ning An had been lighting the road in front of him, not paying attention to behind him, when suddenly there was a scream from Neville

"Ahhh——!h

Immediately after, a red spark shot into the sky, Ning An looked back, the spark was undoubtedly fired by Neville, he was holding his wand and screaming, and it was nothing else behind him that caused him to panic so much, it was Malfoy with a wicked smile on his face, it seemed that he took advantage of Neville's inattention and suddenly hugged him.