Magical Studies at Hogwarts

Chapter 294 Consciousness
Hermione returned to the common room with Harry and Ron, chatting and relaxing for a while after putting away the books.

Of course, they didn't chat a few words, and Harry was stopped by the former Quidditch team.After repeating the matter about player selection several times, it was time to go to dinner.

The dinner couldn't be compared with the opening dinner, but it still maintained the previous standard of Hogwarts, so there was nothing to criticize.

While we were chatting after eating, another guy from the previous team came over with a roll of parchment. It was the hitter who joined after the twins were suspended-Jack Slobber.

"It's for you, Harry." Panting, he sat directly next to Harry, picked up a cup and poured himself a full cup of drink, and then said, "I'm exhausted... By the way, I forgot to ask you, when is the trials?"

"Not yet, Jack." Harry repeated the words he had repeated countless times before, "I'll let you know when the date is confirmed, and I'll post it in the common room."

"Well, I thought it was this weekend..."

Jack Slobber was still talking, but Harry's attention fell on the opened parchment, and before Jack could finish speaking, he pulled Hermione and Ron away.

After reaching a hidden corner, he opened the parchment again.See above it says:

"Dear Harry:

I'm going to give you private lessons this Saturday, please come to my office at eight o'clock in the evening.Hope you had a great first day of school.

your faithful
Dumbledore
PS: I like sour popping candy”

"Sour lollipop?" Ron asked puzzled.

"His office password." Harry explained in a low voice, "Looks like I don't have to go to Snape's, that's great!"

"Yeah, he must be pissed." Ron echoed.

Inherent ideas are not so easy to change, not to mention they may have already forgotten what Hermione said.

Hermione didn't care about the attitudes of the two, she just looked at the time and said, "Okay, I'm going to Snape who may be in a bad mood now, wish me luck..."

Harry and Ron looked at each other, realizing it too.Hermione hit the muzzle!

"Well, Hermione, good luck..."

With the heartfelt wishes of the two, Hermione came to the basement of the castle alone and knocked on the door of Snape's office.

"dong dong dong"

After knocking three times, the door opened automatically.Hermione walked in and saw Snape sitting comfortably at his desk.Seeing her come in, a chair flew over with a wave of the wand, pointed to the chair and said, "Sit down."

After Hermione sat down, Snape waved his wand again, and two thick notebooks flew out of the storage room and landed on the table with a heavy muffled sound.

Pushing the note towards Hermione, Snape said calmly, "He gave it to you."

Hermione froze, looking at Snape in astonishment.Snape looked disgusted, and said coldly: "What? Did you stay with those two stupid guys for too long, and you also infected their stupidity?"

"Take them, look aside, don't make a sound, wait until 09:30 and you can go back."

After finishing speaking, he turned around, picked up a stack of parchment on the table and looked at it.

Hermione subconsciously picked up the two thick notebooks and opened a page at random. The familiar writing on them made her feel dazed for a while.

Taking a deep breath, closing her eyes and calming down for a long time, Hermione suddenly asked, "Professor, how is he...?"

"How do I know." Snape said angrily, "He gave it to him a month ago, who knows what's going on with him now?"

He looked at Hermione's firm and stubborn eyes, and after a while, he said slowly: "It's okay to say yes, it's okay to say no, it should be like this..."

"Professor, is it good or bad?"

A trace of impatience appeared on Snape's face, but he didn't attack it.With a wave of the wand, a spell fell on the office door.

"How's your Occlumency going?" he asked.

"Should be fine," Hermione replied.

Hearing this, Snape didn't reply, and directly put his wand on Hermione's forehead, and used Legilimency.

He looked at Hermione calmly, and Hermione looked at him calmly.After a while, he withdrew his wand and folded his hands naturally in front of him.

"A lot of things would be a lot easier if that stupid Potter could do a third of yours," said Snape, "but even so, I'd like to remind you that everything I've said to you today Not to anyone, especially Potter and Weasley!"

"Of course, professor, this is not the first time." Hermione nodded and agreed directly.

Hearing this, Snape still looked at Hermione silently for a long while, and then said softly: "In general, he has passed the Dark Lord's test this time."

"What's going on! Shouldn't he have..."

"You should learn to listen politely, Miss Granger." Snape coldly interrupted Hermione, and after Hermione said that she would not intervene at will, she continued, "I should have talked to you a few times ago. As you said, the Dark Lord will not trust anyone easily, especially a young wizard like Stryde."

"To win the trust of the Dark Lord, there must be a certain price to pay. For Strider, completely cutting off the possibility of returning is the price he has to pay."

"But professor, he's done so much! Werewolves, giants, Azkaban, and the Department of Mysteries even brought him things he couldn't find himself!" Hermione seemed a little excited, and Si Nep was much calmer.

"It seems that he told you a lot of things, using the gadgets he made?" Snape glanced at the pendant on Hermione's chest, and said, "Give you a piece of advice, don't try to use this Something contacted him, this is a very dangerous thing, especially now that he has been under the eyes of the Dark Lord."

"Yes, he did do many things for the Dark Lord, but he did even more behind his back!"

"Don't underestimate the Dark Lord, like that arrogant fellow Potter! Do you really think the Dark Lord didn't notice?"

"Oh!" Snape sneered, "You have the same problem as him. You always think that others are fools. A wizard who has not yet graduated can actually fight a wizard who can break through the defenses of Azkaban over and over again." Evenly matched?"

"Do you think the Dark Lord is a fool?"

Hermione shook her head.

"Hmph!" Snape snorted coldly, was silent for a moment, and then sighed, "Strider paid a heavy price this time, as I said, he personally cut off the possibility of coming back, let The Dark Lord saw his determination."

"However, he is still soft-hearted..."

"But he killed Mundungus Fletcher!"

"But he could have done better!" snapped Snape. "Tonks, Mad-Eye, and Scrimgeour, he could have done better! If Dumbledore hadn't cooperated with him, you would be To be able to see his death in the Daily Prophet!"

Hermione was silent. Although she also thought of how difficult it would be for Ike, she never thought it would be this rough.

Snape looked at Hermione's dejected look, but didn't give her time to digest, and continued, "For the final victory, necessary sacrifices are inevitable..."

"If one day my life enables us to defeat the Dark Lord, I will let him kill me without hesitation!"

"There must be such awareness, Granger!"

(End of this chapter)