Master Druid at Hogwarts

Chapter 154 The Clown
"S... Snape!"

Hermione looked at Snape who suddenly appeared in front of her, her whole head was buzzing.

Her guess turned out to be true!Snape has been following behind them!

And the familiar invisibility cloak in Snape's hand made Hermione even more sad.

It seems that Ron is already in danger...

So Hermione broke away from Snape's palm, gritted her teeth and took out her wand and wand, intending to fight him desperately.

Snape narrowed his eyes, the corners of his mouth raised a slight icy arc, and with a flick of his wrist, the wand popped out of his cuff and jumped into his palm.

"Don't always scare my students!"

Professor McGonagall lifted the Disillusionment Charm on his body, and led Fish over.

She gave Snape a dissatisfied look, and then slapped his hand holding his wand off.

"Professor McGonagall? Fish?"

Hermione blinked her eyes, and started to be confused like Ron before.

Things were changing so fast that even Miss Know-it-all couldn't figure out what was going on right now.

"Hmph," Snape snorted coldly, and put away his wand, "Ten points from Gryffindor, reason, set the professor's robe on fire."

Professor McGonagall gave him a sideways glance indifferently. Anyway, since the first day of school, their house points have been at the bottom of Fisher's efforts, and it doesn't matter how Snape deducted them.

Like other Gryffindor students, Professor McGonagall, the dean, also chose to lie flat under the huge score difference.

"Don't worry, Professor Snape is not a bad person," Professor McGonagall patted Hermione on the shoulder lightly, and comforted him: "I have already reminded Potter not to be blinded by prejudice. Listen...but you've done a good job, especially you, Hermione, with your Levitation spell and your logic."

"The only thing I want to correct you is," Dumbledore also lifted the Disillusionment Curse, and appeared in front of Hermione with Ron, "To become a great wizard, their logical reasoning ability is generally quite good, For example, I personally like puzzle games.”

Dumbledore said to Hermione with a smile, which immediately made her feel at a loss.

"Hold, I'm sorry, Professor Dumbledore, I'm not...I didn't..."

Hermione, who was in a panic, didn't know how to explain it at all.

Fortunately, Dumbledore quickly waved to her, "Okay, okay, I don't mean to blame you, but just to remind you, don't underestimate any wizard. In addition, this level of magic flame is very harmful to mana. For powerful wizards, they can easily pass without any potions."

"I, I see, Professor Dumbledore."

Hermione nodded hastily.

Then Dumbledore waved his wand and conjured up a round table with teapots and cups. Beside the round table were five gorgeous armchairs with blue upholstery. He beckoned to Hermione and Ron.

"You must have a lot of doubts in your mind? Come on, if you have any questions, let's sit down and have a good chat."

So the three of them, plus Professor McGonagall and Fish, sat down at the round table in a circle.

"Professor, Snape... taught him?"

Ron turned his head and looked at Snape, who was not seated, not even a seat, and asked suspiciously.

"Oh... since you all agreed that Severus wanted to snatch the Philosopher's Stone, wouldn't it disappoint Harry if he didn't play in the end?"

Dumbledore winked at Ron and gave him a smile he knew so well--the same expression his twin brothers wore when their pranks succeeded.

"Hum..."

Snape sneered, and put the invisibility cloak back on himself, and then Ron and Hermione saw the black flame shake, and a phantom could be vaguely seen flashing past.

Silently praying in their hearts that Harry would be blessed, Ron and Hermione looked at Dumbledore and asked the biggest doubt in their hearts.

"What the hell is going on here, Professor?"

"It started when Nicole Flamel gave me the Philosopher's Stone..."

Dumbledore served everyone a cup of tea before telling what happened.

While Hermione and Ron were listening intently to the truth of the matter, Harry was rummaging anxiously in the last room.

But no matter how he searched, there was only one Mirror of Erised in the last room, which he had seen a long time ago, and there was nothing else in the room.

However, Harry searched the whole mirror carefully, up and down, and couldn't find any place in the mirror where a stone could be hidden.

Thinking that Snape might come at any time, Harry was so anxious that he didn't even have time to watch the family members who appeared in the mirror.

"Don't panic, don't panic, calm down, Harry..."

Harry forced himself to calm down and analyze it in Hermione's way.

"Obviously, this mirror is the magic prepared by Dumbledore. He did say that he would put the mirror somewhere else... So, the Philosopher's Stone must be hidden in this mirror!"

He turned back to the Mirror of Erised, staring intently at the image in the mirror.

The way wizards keep things is definitely not that simple, and it is definitely meaningless to continue looking for things in the mirror, so Harry tries to see if the mirror itself can give him a hint.

Then he saw himself in the mirror with the same anxious expression, and this time there was no family around him.

After a while, Harry in the mirror suddenly smiled. He reached into his pocket, took out a bright red stone, winked playfully at Harry outside the mirror, and put the stone back... …

Harry only felt that his pocket sank, and something heavy really fell into his pocket.

"It's incredible..."

He reached into his pocket and pulled out a bright red stone, just as his reflection in the mirror had done earlier.

Just when Harry marveled at how easy it was to obtain the Sorcerer's Stone, several ropes suddenly appeared out of thin air, binding him tightly, and the Sorcerer's Stone in his hand fell to the ground and rolled aside .

Harry, who fell on the ground and couldn't move, watched in horror as Snape lifted off the invisibility cloak, then walked slowly to the Sorcerer's Stone, bent down and picked it up.

"It's really... thank you, Potter."

Snape lightly tossed the Philosopher's Stone in his hand, the corners of his mouth slightly curled up, looked at Harry who was lying on the ground with a sneer, and praised rarely: "You guys did a good job, saving me a lot of effort. "

But Harry wasn't happy at all, and Snape's compliment hurt more than all his previous taunts.

Harry was full of remorse, he didn't expect Hermione's previous analysis to be true, Snape just wanted them to get the Philosopher's Stone for him!
But why?

Like Hermione said, there was absolutely no need for Snape to do anything extra.

Then Snape quickly gave the answer.

"I have to say that Dumbledore's magic is indeed wonderful. Only those who want the Philosopher's Stone but don't intend to use it can take it out of the Mirror of Erised. This makes me have to deliberately lure you here ..."

Snape looked at Harry smugly, and explained his plan to him in detail.

"It's also thanks to your arrogance, otherwise I would have to work harder to get the Philosopher's Stone."

After finishing speaking, he ignored Harry who was lying on the ground glaring at him, and turned his head to look in the direction of the Mirror of Erised on the other side.

Snape slowly came to the front of the Mirror of Erised, silently looking into the mirror.

Harry lying on the ground could only see Snape's back and the mirror that was blocked by him, but from an angle he couldn't see, Snape's face, which was staring at the magic mirror, revealed a Complicated expressions of nostalgia, pain, tenderness, remorse, love and hate.

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　The title in the original book is Double-Faced Man, but "Double-Faced Man" has already hiccupped, so I had to use "Joker" from DC as the title... ┑(￣Д￣)┍

　　In addition, the clown here refers not only to the trio played by Dumbledore and Snape, but also to Snape who had to cooperate with Dumbledore against his will in order to teach Harry a lesson.

　　……

　　Thank you for your big rewards from the sudden-faced reckless man, Jiang Lizi, and Qi Ya.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)