Hogwarts Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor Peter

Chapter 236 Lupine and Penny

Ten minutes later, the brash middle-aged wizard finally handed Christine the badge, and Snape was already impatient.

"Mr. Evan, the Ministry of Magic wishes you a pleasant day." Mr. Reckless said to Christine politely.

After taking the badge, Christine followed Snape and walked into the elevator of the Ministry of Magic. There were five or six other people who walked into the elevator with them. They were obviously aborigines in the wizarding world. Familiar with the road.

At first, people were preoccupied with their own affairs, and their eyes were distracted, staring anxiously at the elevator floor, and no one paid attention to the passengers who entered the elevator with them.It took a few seconds for these people to notice Snape's presence.They dodged sideways in fear, leaving a wide space in the middle of the elevator.

Snape was unmoved by this, his eyes fixed on the crack in the gate, his high hooked nose giving him the profile of a staring eagle.Calmly, he slipped the good hand into his pocket, and Christine knew he must be holding his own wand handle.It was a wise move - who knew if there were any grieving family members among those who came to the Ministry for business?
However, there was a man in the elevator who didn't back up, nor did he show the slightest expression of fear.

Even though the man just stood there without saying a word, and was even wearing a patched robe, Christine could feel a refined and peaceful temperament from him.

He has a gentle face, not very handsome, but his facial features look very harmonious when put together.He was very young, but his haggard face had premature wrinkles. It was difficult for Christine to judge whether he was in his 30s or 50s.

The golden grille door closed, and the elevator rattled into motion.The mild-faced man seemed to be keeping an eye on Snape, but Snape's face was still facing forward, ignoring him.

Soon, a very mechanical female voice said: "Fourth floor, Department of Management and Control of Magical Beasts: Beast Office, Human Magical Creature Management Office, Ghost Office, Goblin Liaison Office, Centaur Liaison Office, and Pest Advisory Office."

Snape grabbed Christine and walked out of the elevator. Coincidentally, that gentle strange man was also going to get off the elevator on this floor. The two of them moved halfway forward almost at the same time. Stuck at the door.

The man smiled amiably, and took a step back, but Snape showed no sign of giving in. He unceremoniously pulled Christine in front of the man, without even looking at the man, let alone showing any signs, It was as if the man was just a cloud of air.

But the man was not angry, he still had a pleasant face, and walked out of the elevator behind the two, keeping a close distance from them.

Christine became very interested in this man. He felt that such a poor and cultivated man would not be an ordinary person.

"Sir, are you also here to take part in the magic test?" He asked politely.

"Oh, no," the man waved his hand gently, but Christine could feel a bit of embarrassment from his eyebrows, "I still have...uh...other things to do."

"Oh, Lupine," to Christine's surprise, Snape actually spoke up, "I'm—ah—delighted to see you again, I heard you won the Order of Merlin, Third Class, for your bravery in battle ?congratulations……"

The man named Lupine still had a smile on his face, but his smile was mixed with a bit of wariness, as if he had been waiting for a weird turn, and it seemed that he and Snape knew each other.

"Well," he said simply, "it's nothing..."

"Oh, indeed... It seems that some people in the Ministry of Magic really think so," Snape's eyes flashed maliciously, "You are already a battle hero, and you still have to go to the Ministry of Magic to control magical animals every month." Transformation... tsk tsk tsk, what a shame... is this because you killed someone before? They all know you can't control yourself, right?"

The moment he heard the word "werewolf", the smile on Lupine's face became stiff, and Christine noticed that there were a few faint scars on Lupine's face, which looked like marks left by wolf claws .

Christine immediately understood the relationship between Snape and Lupine, and why Snape was so cold to Lupine.

The "Daily Prophet" mentioned more than once that Snape was killed by a werewolf 19 years ago, and it turned out that the murderer was the elegant and easy-going man in front of him.The werewolf disease is really terrible, it can turn a modest gentleman into a murderous beast.

"Do you remember what happened that night at the Screaming Shack?" Snape insisted. "As far as I know, a werewolf can clearly remember what he did when he transformed—" He paused, "Have you eaten anything?"

Lupine didn't speak, but the muscles around his mouth tightened, his Adam's apple moved up and down, his face became uglier, he looked very disturbed, but he happened to share the same destination with Christine and Snape, so The three could only continue to walk together in embarrassment.

After a long time, he glanced cautiously at Snape's left hand, and said in a low voice, "Severus, I didn't expect that you would issue a letter of forgiveness for me."

"Blake told me you didn't take part in that funny prank, and I'll just trust him."

Lupine's lips twitched a few times, as if he was about to say something, and by this time they had reached the door of the Beast's office.

Next to an older plaque bearing the name of the Office of the Beast and the current director, a new notice has been hung, which reads: "Turn left, Werewolf Transfiguration; turn right, Awakened Magic Muggle Temporary Containment Control Committee."

"God, Muggles were actually put into the Office of Beasts..." Christine couldn't help complaining.

"You're overthinking, Christine," Snape explained, "that's just because there are too many Muggles to fit in other offices. Of course, it doesn't rule out that some people think that Muggles are no different from beasts... "

Christine's attention turned to the place where the werewolf transformed. The passage to the left of the notice board was blocked by eerie barbed wire and iron fences. There was only an extremely low door connected to the outside world, but it was blocked by thick and heavy chains. Deadlocked.

Standing outside the small door, Lupine took out a crumpled card from his tattered robe, and knocked on the iron door. Three Ministry of Magic employees came out, dressed in the same clothes as the Auror guards of Azkaban. Similar robes, with long whips pinned to the waist for subduing prisoners.

Through the iron gate, Christine found that the so-called "Werewolf Transfiguration Office" was actually a prison. There were many pale people locked in the cage, and some of them cried like crazy and shook the railings with their hands. , the others bared their teeth, revealing crooked rotten teeth.

The corners of Lupine's mouth sank, he was ashamed of his indecency.Snape deliberately stopped to watch, not only did not show the slightest sympathy, but instead had a sneer on his face.

"Go in, Lupine," Snape said in a long voice, "you should be content with at least a place to live here."

Lupine seemed about to smile self-mockingly, but he didn't, and handed the card to one of the tall jailers, who took it and glanced at it contemptuously.

"Remus John Lupine, isn't he?" asked the jailer gruffly.

"Yes." Lupine replied.

With a creak, two other guards opened the cell door and brought out a crucifix on wheels. They shackled Lupine's hands and half hung him from the cross.

The tall jailer roughly lifted Lupine's trousers, exposing his ankles, and there was a rusty shackle on it. The flesh under the shackles was worn and dented, which looked shocking.

The jailer checked the shackles. "Skull marks," he told his companions, "Danger level: xxxxxxx, personal danger: extremely high, recommended alert level: highest, note: Cannibalism."

Lupine lowered his head slightly, his face was as white as a sheet of paper.

Snape watched the scene contentedly, when suddenly he strode past the jailers to Lupin's side, putting his hand in his pocket again.

Christine thought he was going to torture Lupine, but instead he produced a vial of potion and held it up to Lupine.

Lupine saw the potion clearly, and the corner of his mouth twitched, "Severus, Wolfsbane potion is too expensive...I...I have no money."

Snape snorted, "Ah - thank you for the candor, but I can see that myself." He shoved the potion bottle viciously into Lupin's patched robes, so hard that the cross creaked.

Then, Snape dragged Christine to the corridor on the right, and before he left, he threw a last sentence to Lupin: "Dumbledore has paid the bill for you, and you won't have to be in prison for the next full moon." pass."

On the way through the corridor, Christine wondered what the pardon Lupine was talking about... He knew that Lupine killed Snape, and Snape might be the only victim who could issue a pardon after death By.

However, even if there is a letter of understanding, Lupine still has to suffer this humiliation. What is the point of the so-called letter of understanding?

Finally, they came to the end of the corridor, pushed open an iron door shutting the beast, and the scene in front of them suddenly opened up.

This room is very large, and Christine guessed that it was used to raise some extremely large magical creatures.

The whole room is simulated to be similar to the effect of the outdoors, with sunlight, trees, lawns and rivers all available.

Beside the small river, hundreds of people gathered in two groups, one group with more people and one group with few people.Only a few of these people wore wizard robes and wizard hats, and most of them wore Muggle clothes.

In the center of the much smaller group, Christine saw Professor Flitwick, standing on a wooden table, making sure he was visible to all.Behind the wooden desk stood a sign that read: "Spell test."

"Everyone!" shouted Professor Flitwick, "Everyone be quiet. Let's learn the Levitation Charm! Wingardim Leviosa!"

The Muggles repeated, "Wingardim Leviosa!"

"Well, very good! It seems that you are very concerned about the spell practice. Now, there is a magic wand on the table, please try to use the levitation spell to float a hair."

The Muggles are eager to try, and all the people in line are chanting nervously, "Wingardim Leviosa, Yugardium Leviosa..."

The first Muggle stepped forward, waving his wand: "Wingardim Leviosa!"

Christine admitted that his spell was admirable, but the hair did not respond in the slightest.

The Muggle retreated to the end of the line in disappointment. Then, three or four Muggles in a row failed, and no one succeeded.Christine knew that it was the system's credit for her ability to release the spell, and perhaps Muggles simply couldn't use spells.

The queue ahead was still very long, and it might take more than an hour to line up, so Snape dragged Christine through the crowd and walked to Professor Flitwick's side.

"Professor Flitwick, can Christine Evan not take the charm test?" Snape said in a humble tone. Beside Professor Freewick, he became as humble as a student, "I want him to take the magic test sooner." test."

"Of course, of course, Severus," Professor Flitwick signed Christine's report readily, "I taught Christine, and this kid is doing very well."

At this time, several people walked in through the gate, including the middle-aged obese man Christine had seen before, and the horse-faced woman who was walking with him.

The fat man saw at a glance that Snape had pulled Christine to the front of the line, so he also ran over wheezing and roughly pushing the others away.

"Let it go! Let it go!" the fat man roared, "Let me do this test first, I have a party with my relatives tonight!"

"No!" The examiner sent by the Ministry of Magic said angrily, "Go to the back and line up!"

"Why can this young man jump in line, but I can't?" the fat man pointed at Snape's nose and shouted.

This time, Snape really heard the man's words, he turned his face and stared at him blankly.

"Maybe, this is the Hogwarts entrance test, and I'm a teacher at Hogwarts." Snape said flatly.

"Ha! Open your eyes and see, this is called a teacher? I don't know why you guys are so stupid to rack your brains for the admission qualifications of this kind of school! If you can't be the first to let me take the test, let me go home!"

The horse-faced woman next to the man recognized Snape, her face paled instantly, and Snape's dark eyes narrowed.

The man was still spitting and saying: "...I don't care about your little magic, it's all dirty tricks, you should have been burned to death a long time ago!"

"Stop it, Vernon..." the woman pushed him.

"Petunia, why don't you write to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry?" Snape said angrily.

"You... you're the one..." Petunia stammered, "I thought... I thought you were dead!"

Snape pushed away the Ministry of Magic employee, and sat on the examiner's seat, next to Professor Flitwick, "Since—" he glanced down at Vernon's personal information, "Mr. Vernon Dursley There is something urgent tonight, so I'll let the couple test first." He sneered.

　I tried voice typing, because I was quarantined at home today, and I didn't finish my tossing until 8 o'clock, which made my bad writing worse...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)