Hogwarts Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor Peter

Chapter 141 Evil and Lies Under the Legend
It is already past nine o'clock in the evening, and there is still a carnival in the Gryffindor common room. The Weasley twins stole food from the kitchen again, and Professor McGonagall, who is usually strict, keeps a close eye on the noise made by everyone. Close one eye.

The second match was on June 6th, and Harry still had four full months left. He put his arms around Ron's shoulders, poured butterbeer into his mouth, and imagined four months of rest, entertainment, and chatting , wandering, night outing...

At the same time, the Potions teacher's office was still cold and silent, the coals in the fireplace were almost extinguished, and the whole room was only illuminated by a dim oil lamp.

Peter smiled and sat opposite Snape, looking at the tea set in front of him.

"Are you still unwilling to drink what I handed you?" Snape said, picking up his teacup and taking a sip.

Peter took a sip lightly: "You misunderstood, I'm just not thirsty, I just drank at Harry's."

"You think I'll poison you?" Snape said, "Even if you're not an expert in potions, ordinary poisons probably won't fool you."

"What if you give me a drop of Veritaserum, which is colorless, odorless and has no trace of magic, what should I do?" Peter said with a smile.

Snape reached into his black robes with his right hand and took out a crystal vial filled with a colorless liquid from the inner pocket.

"Veritaserum," he said. "It takes a full moon cycle to make a vial of Veritaserum, why should I waste it on you? Your secret is already known—"

Snape put down the medicine bottle and waved his wand casually. An old book flew out from a small pile of old newspapers on the ground. Peter almost laughed when he saw the cover of the book. It's so familiar that it can't be more familiar.

""Peter Peddy Road: Crimes and Lies Under the Legend"," Snape twisted his mouth into a smile, "I only recently noticed that you have already had a single biography, the former headmaster Armand Do Dippet's popularity is inferior to yours."

"I didn't expect you to want to know my secrets from Rita Skeeter's non-fiction literature. You should know that she loves fake news the most."

"Really?" Snape opened "Sin and Lies" and read aloud sarcastically: "Among the Death Eaters, in order to ensure the loyalty of the newly joined Death Eaters, the You-Know-Who usually assigns them to The most trusted Death Eaters as subordinates."

"The female Death Eater Bellatrix Lestrange's newcomer is said to be Regulus Black, while Antonin Dolohov's newcomer is believed to be Evan Rowe Kiel. Among them, the combination of Lestrange and Black drove the Auror Longbottoms to madness - trust me, you don't want to see the poor Longbottoms now. Their brains are worse than cereal Confused."

Hearing the names of Regulus and the Longbottoms, Peter's heart twitched.

He had never carefully read Rita Skeeter's nonsense before, and thinking of Regulus who had gone astray and sacrificed his life for righteousness, and thinking of Neville's innocent, sweaty round face, he couldn't help but be filled with emotion.

Snape seemed to have noticed the change in Peter's face. He lowered the book, and fixed his black eyes on Peter's.

"You can't," Peter said quietly.

"... very clever Occlumency," said Snape, "no wonder..."

"Severus, what does your reading of this have to do with me?"

Snape said maliciously: "When you hear the surname Black, don't you feel kind? Sure enough, the whole family is murderers, so is the elder brother, and so is the younger brother..."

Peter felt that he was about to lose his temper, and he raised his voice and said, "I know Regulus better than you - it is true that he did bad things, but he was a very brave man, and finally died fighting Voldemort!"

Snape's voice became lower and lower, and his tone became more sinister: "Why don't you talk about his brother Sirius? He killed me brutally. If I had no responsibility, I would have put him... "

"I remember you telling Dumbledore that you had no intention of revenge—"

Seeing the hatred in Snape's eyes, Peter took a soothing tone.

"Listen to me, Sirius has been in prison for six years, and he deserved what he deserved. Since you have been saved, there is no need to entangle him anymore. You can curse him as much as you like, and I can curse him with you. But... the past let it go, you should turn the page, as Dumbledore said, there is never only one side of life."

Snape roared and said, "I repeat, no one ever saved me, not even James Potter, I died in the Screaming Shack!"

Peter frowned. He seemed to have heard Snape say this more than once before referring to Sirius or James. He said slowly, "Is this a metaphor, or... really?"

Snape didn't answer, looking away angrily, annoyed at his gaffe.

Peter began to retrieve the memories of Wormtail's school days in his mind...

He recalled how James and Sirius had subdued Snape two-on-one, had Snape permanently glued in the hallway, and Wormtail was applauding.Soon, Lily rushed over ferociously, and James, Sirius and Wormtail laughed and fled in all directions;
He recalled James hitting Snape on the back of the head with the Quaffle, Snape turned his head with an ouch, covered his head and yelled loudly, raised his wand and shot wildly, and James, Sirius and Wormtail were safe and sound. Hiding in the cloak of invisibility, gloating and laughing;

He recalled that "himself" wrote in "Anti-Snape Magic" on the Marauder's Map: "Wormtail said hello to Snape and advised him to wash his hair, that big ball of mud."

He recalled that in Potions class, Snape turned to discuss with Lily in a whisper, James and Sirius took the opportunity to extinguish the fire under Snape's cauldron, and Wormtail gave a thumbs up.

……

Peter often saw Lily in the memories of playing tricks on Snape. Could it be that Snape had a crush on Lily, and when he came back, he found that Lily was married to James...

"Is it because of Lily?" Peter ventured to ask.

"Wh-what?" said Snape abruptly, holding up "Beneath Evil and Lies" again. "Let's just finish the book—the next paragraph is very interesting."

"What puzzles the author is that, as one of the Dark Lord's lieutenants, Peter Pedillo has never mentioned the subordinates he 'cares for'. Could it be that his status among the Death Eaters is so low? After many investigations by the author It has been verified that Peddie's subordinate is none other than Rodolphus Lestrange's sister, Leonie Lestrange."

Hearing this dusty name, Peter's face turned pale.

(End of this chapter)