It's just a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.

Chapter 386 Snape's Credibility

The truth is exactly what Dumbledore said.

The Ministry of Magic did not suppress the news that Azkaban had fallen at all, or they couldn't suppress it if they wanted to.

On the second day, almost all wizards in the British wizarding world were at the breakfast table and saw the news from the Daily Prophet.

And at the same time when the news spread, the Death Eaters who had been blatantly walking in the sun also had their first violent conflict with the Aurors since Voldemort's resurrection.

According to Scrimgeour's plan, the Aurors detected the escape location of the death eaters who had escaped from the prison through the apparition detection magic set up by the Ministry of Magic in England. However, Voldemort led the Death Eaters not to move their positions immediately, but Ambush in that manor in Wales.

Although the Aurors were careful enough, a large-scale battle of more than a hundred people took place near the manor.

The injury caused by Sherlock to Voldemort two months ago seems to have completely healed. Under the leadership of a dark wizard who is the ceiling level of the magic world like him, the Aurors can only be forced to retreat after a bitter battle.

There is no way to hide the result of this battle. Even though the name Voldemort displeases most wizards in the wizarding world, there is still no shortage of his followers in this land.

Even before the news from the Daily Prophet came out, the news of the Death Eaters' victory had already spread.

This caused the Ministry of Magic to try its best to stabilize the situation and public opinion for more than two months. It was easily destroyed, and the British wizarding people once again fell into a state of panic.

Such sentiments even affected the students in Hogwarts.

During the first week of the semester, the Castle was full of talk of the Death Eater-Auror conflict, and even some professors were talking about it in private.

Dumbledore spent even less time in the castle.

Not only did he continue to search for clues about the Horcrux, but he also had to coordinate operations in the Order of the Phoenix.

Fortunately, even without him, there will be no major disturbances in Hogwarts under the management of Professor McGonagall, who is the vice-principal.

The only hidden dangers were those students from pure blood families in Slytherin College. The whole Snake House became quiet under such an environment.

This is obviously a change from their usual habit of confronting Gryffindor. After all, among these people, many of their families are followers of Voldemort. They have been educated in the theory of pure blood since they were young. It seems out of place.

Even Sherlock, who is a professor, has noticed this situation.

In his class, the students of the Snake Academy have become taciturn, and compared with Zhiqi, their enthusiasm has dropped a lot.

Some students even showed hatred when they looked at him.

This naturally includes Draco Malfoy, who has also become a prefect this year.

Although Sherlock didn't care about their attitude, such a change still made him more vigilant.

With Voldemort's bottomless character, he might use these students to make some small moves in Hogwarts.

Hogwarts in September had a few days of light rain.

And in such bad weather, Harry and the others finished their first potions class after entering the fifth grade.

Originally seeing Snape come to attend the Order of the Phoenix meeting during the summer vacation, Harry thought that his Potions class would be easier this semester, but the reality was exactly the opposite.

When configuring the potion, he made a small mistake in operation, and was caught by Snape as a model.

The lesson was closed with Slytherin, and Draco's piercing laughter and Snape's indifferent humiliation rang in Harry's ears.

"I know you forgot the hellebore, Potter, which means this cauldron is useless. Disappears."

Harry's potion disappeared in an instant, and he could only stand stupidly beside an empty cauldron, then Snape didn't even bother to look at him, turned around and walked towards the podium, saying in that indifferent tone .

"All students who have read the operating instructions carefully, put your drug samples into a short-necked bottle, carefully label your name, and take it to my podium for inspection."

"Homework—twelve-inch paper on parchment on the properties of moonstones and their use in medicine. Due Thursday."

Students around Harry were filling flasks with potions, and he was furious as he put everything away.

His potion is no worse than Ron's, Ron's crucible smells like rotten eggs; it's not worse than Neville's potion, Neville's potion has become hard, like freshly stirred cement, he Now I had to dig it out of the cauldron.

But it happened to be him, Harry, who got zero marks for today's homework.

After Hermione and Ron handed in the potion, they followed him with doubts about Snape.

"I thought he'd be more lenient with you this year." Hermione said in a cryptic way, surrounded by other students, but it was just so Harry and Ron could understand.

Ron complained, "Anyway, I always thought Dumbledore was crazy enough to trust Snape. Is there any evidence that he really doesn't work for You-Know-Who anymore?"

Just as they were talking and walking out of the classroom, in the corridor outside the door, they suddenly saw Sherlock who seemed to have been waiting here for a while.

After Sherlock saw the three of them, his expression was obviously a little surprised.

"I originally wanted to find a student to help deliver the message, asking you to come to my office after today's class, Harry, I didn't expect that Severus' class was for you, and it happened to save me looking for Someone helped. Come after dinner in the evening, don't forget."

Harry was a little puzzled when he heard Sherlock's words, but this was not a good place to ask questions, so he could only agree first, and then bid farewell to Sherlock with Ron Hermione and the others.

Just before they walked up the stairs, the three of Harry saw Sherlock greet Snape who had just finished class.

Apparently he wasn't here specifically to wait for Harry, but to find Snape.

"I really don't understand why Professor Forrest and they trust Snape so much." Ron said again, "Is it rare that they really don't care what Snape has done? I'm sure he There is also that person's mark on the arm!"

"I think Dumbledore and Professor Forrest probably got enough evidence, although he didn't show it to you, Ron," said Hermione curtly.

(End of this chapter)