The Mysterious Return of Hogwarts

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"Shit, I can't think of any reason why I would want to attend a school like this. Of course, other magic schools didn't send me notices."

Neo lived up to Snape's expectations and ended with a curse word.

Snape opened his mouth. He originally thought that what he should hear from this arrogant and rude child was "pure-blood arguments" and "ignorant badmouthing", but he did not expect that the other party refused. The reason is so objective and fair?

"Hogwarts...is the best wizarding school in Europe."

Snape resisted the urge to pull his wand out.

He is a master of Occlumency, but he used Occlumency for the first time to suppress his anger towards a child.

If it were Harry Potter, Snape would definitely teach him how to behave with his poisonous tongue, but facing a...Slytherin, to be honest, he knew that he didn't have the capital to be arrogant, not to mention that Dumbledore was there. The note to him also said some bad things about "Slytherin".

"Severus, Slytherin can't stand another setback. Ten years is not a long time. Those guys dormant in the dark are waiting for a new flag to be erected. Don't push that child to where he shouldn't be." Standing position.”

As Snape thought about this, he heard the "child" in Dumbledore's mouth start to talk shamelessly again.

"Why, just because everyone keeps praising it, can Hogwarts put itself in a superior position?"

Neo noticed that Snape was struggling. He flicked his fingers and raised the corners of his mouth.

“Everyone thinks so, why can’t we explain the facts?”

Snape was not impatient, even if the person he was talking to was just a child. In fact, he was not willing to talk nonsense with an adult like Dumbledore. People who were obsessed with studying potions were not scheming people.

Albus was willing to believe him. Apart from the pain he was carrying, there was also the pure quality of his body.

This man's love and hate are actually very poorly hidden.

Neo continued to shake his head.

"The situation in the magic world is always changing."

"Any wise person should not confine themselves to the glory of the past and be complacent. Compared with the other two prestigious magic schools I know in Europe, Hogwarts has been closed for too long."

"Durmstrang, for example, not only has an open academic atmosphere and rigorous academic philosophy, but also attaches great importance to shaping students' ideals, and has produced many talents who have had a great influence on the magic world...such as Gettler ·Grindelwald, I have to say that in terms of being a good Dark Lord, Voldemort is far behind him..."

The corners of Snape's eyes were twitching. This example was too apt.

Neo was already talking nonsense.

"Even the less famous Beauxbatons has a lot of teaching policies that Hogwarts can learn from. I heard that Hogwarts still has backward bloodline discrimination, but as for Beauxbatons, Not to mention hybrids of wizards and Muggles, even students with the blood of Veela and other magical animals can be well cultivated. The school encourages education based on talent and character, which is more fair than treating students according to nobility and family status. "

Snape also knew about Beauxbatons. That school was keen on cultivating mixed-race wizards, but that was because its principal, Madame Maxime, was... ahem, suspected to be a half-giant.

"Times are changing. If Hogwarts still clings to its old glory and feels that its reputation is not lost because of the emergence of Voldemort, it will decline sooner or later."

What the hell... His reputation has not faded. Snape's eyes began to wander. He sat here and listened to this child's nonsense for so long. He was simply crazy.

"If the above is what little Mr. Slytherin wants to say to Professor Dumbledore, then I will definitely mean... no interruption."

Snape's expression was tangled. He felt that he had tried his best, but he knew that today's follow-up visit was meaningless.

"Walk slowly, don't send."

……

After dinner, in his office, Snape continued his potion research where he had left off during the day.

The candlelight shines on the glass bottles on the material shelf, revealing the liquids of various weird colors inside.In front of him was a boiling cauldron, and he was using his wand to adjust the temperature by pulling the magic flame.

"Severus, are you there? I want to talk to you about the child's home visit this morning."

Professor McGonagall opened the door and entered the office.

The liquid in the crucible boiled for a moment, and some of the topmost liquid splashed on the table.As a serious work of the potion master, this pot of liquid is not much cheaper than gold of equal weight. Snape looked at the potion in the crucible, a kind of discomfort that perfection was broken filled his heart, and then looked at Professor McGonagall's eyes. With dissatisfaction.

"Professor McGonagall, I have reported the entire situation to Principal Dumbledore. You can ask him to find out..."

Professor McGonagall also saw the cauldron in front of Snape, but now she is unapologetic and even a little confident. It's not all you Slytherins who are causing trouble.

"I just came out of Albus's office, but... I can't understand why Albus asked me to continue to send the admission notice, and also asked me to attach a letter about the rules and regulations and teaching content of Hogwarts. When you came back at noon, didn't you say that the child clearly refused to enroll? If you ask me, he didn't even want to come to Hogwarts, and he wasn't a great smart person..."

The vice-principal complains in front of you that the principal's work arrangements are unreasonable, and you are just the dean. How should you say this?

Snape chose to speak directly.

"Then just do what Albus said. The notice, the leaflet, all you need are two copying spells... Why, for a new student, you need the principal, vice principal, and dean of Hogwarts. Will the three of us have another meeting together?"

Professor McGonagall was familiar with Snape's rudeness over the years, and he was a man who had lost the love of his life.But among the professors at Hogwarts, there are a few who have never encountered misfortune.

Apart from that crazy woman Sybill Trelawney, who spends her days holding sherry and talking nonsense, Hogwarts wasting wages to hire her is simply a loophole in the system!

"Yes, but the other child, Mr. Harry Potter, did not reply to the admission notice. Dumbledore asked me to inform you of this incident."

"Harry?"

"Potter!"

Snape's teeth were clenched again. This time he definitely wanted to chew something, probably the bones of his love rival.

But he quickly calmed down his expression in front of Professor McGonagall and acted as if he had heard the name for the first time, just like he had secretly communicated with the Sorting Hat a few days ago and was not the one who wanted to sort Harry into Slytherin. .

He forgot that both Harry's father and mother were Gryffindors, which was a stinky idea to begin with.

"I don't have time to care about... what weird ideas are in those stupid children's goblin heads."

One or two, do all current freshmen have this quality?