Magical Studies at Hogwarts

Hermione returned to the common room with Harry and Ron, chatting and relaxing for a while after putting their books away.

Of course, they didn't even have a few words to talk before Harry was grabbed by someone from the previous Quidditch team.After talking about player selection several times, it was time to have dinner.

The dinner cannot be compared with the opening dinner, but it still maintains the standard of Hogwarts, so there is nothing to fault.

Just after eating and chatting, another person from the previous team came over with a roll of parchment. It was the hitter who joined the Twins after they were suspended-Jack Slaub.

"It's for you, Harry." He panted and sat directly next to Harry. He picked up a cup and poured himself a full cup of drink and drank it before saying, "I'm so exhausted... By the way, I forgot to ask you, when is the selection?"

"It's not decided yet, Jack." Harry repeated what he had repeated countless times before. "I will let you know when the date is confirmed and post it in the common room."

"Well, I thought it was this weekend..."

Jack Slab was still talking, but Harry's attention fell on the open parchment. Before Jack could finish speaking, he pulled Hermione and Ron away.

When he reached a hidden corner, he opened the parchment again.Just see it says:

"Dear Harry:

I plan to start giving you private lessons this Saturday. Please come to my office at eight o'clock in the evening.I hope you had a great first day of school.

your faithful

Dumbledore

ps: I like sour popping candy”

"Sour lollipop?" Ron asked in confusion.

"The password for his office." Harry explained in a low voice, "It seems that I don't have to go to Snape's place, which is great!"

"Yeah, he must be furious." Ron agreed.

Inherent ideas are not easy to change, not to mention that they may have forgotten what Hermione said.

Hermione didn't care about the attitudes of the two of them. She just looked at the time and said, "Okay, I'm going to go to Snape now, who may be in a bad mood. Wish me good luck..."

Harry and Ron looked at each other, realizing this.Hermione hit the muzzle of the gun!

"Well, Hermione, good luck to you..."

With their sincere wishes, Hermione went to the basement of the castle alone and knocked on the door of Snape's office.

"dong dong dong"

After knocking three times, the door opened automatically.Hermione walked in and saw Snape sitting peacefully at his desk.Seeing her come in, a chair flew up with a wave of his magic wand, pointed at the chair and said, "Sit down."

After Hermione sat down, Snape waved his wand again, and two thick notebooks flew out of the storage room and landed on the table with a heavy thud.

Pushing the note in front of Hermione, Snape said calmly: "He gave this to you."

Hermione froze and looked at Snape in shock.Snape looked disgusted and said coldly: "What? Did you stay with those two stupid guys for too long and you infected their stupidity?"

"Take them, look aside, don't make any noise, wait until 09:30 and you can go back."

After saying that, he turned around, picked up a stack of parchment on the table and read it.

Hermione subconsciously picked up the two thick notebooks and opened a page at random. The familiar handwriting on them made her feel trance-like.

After taking a deep breath and closing her eyes to calm down for a long time, Hermione suddenly asked: "Professor, how is he...?"

"How do I know?" Snape said angrily, "He gave it to me a month ago. Who knows what his condition is now?"

He looked at Hermione's firm and stubborn eyes, and after a while, he slowly said: "It doesn't matter if it's okay, or if it's not, it should be like this..."

"Professor, is this good or bad?"

Snape's face showed a trace of impatience, but he did not show any signs of it.The wand was waved, and a spell fell on the office door.

"How are you doing with Occlumency?" he asked.

"That should be fine," Hermione replied.

Hearing this, Snape did not reply, but directly put the wand against Hermione's forehead and used Legilimency.

He looked at Hermione calmly, and Hermione looked at him calmly.After a while, he withdrew his wand and folded his hands naturally in front of him.

"If that stupid Potter could do a third of what you do, many things would be much easier." Snape said, "But even so, I still have to remind you of everything I said to you today. You can't tell anyone, especially Potter and Weasley!"

"Of course Professor, this is not the first time." Hermione nodded and agreed directly.

Hearing this, Snape still looked at Hermione quietly for a long time, and then said softly: "In general, he has passed the Dark Lord's test this time."

"What's going on! Shouldn't he have..."

"You should learn to listen politely, Miss Granger." Snape interrupted Hermione coldly, and after Hermione said that he would not interrupt at will, he continued, "I should have talked to you a few times before. You said it before, the Dark Lord will not trust anyone easily, especially a young wizard like Strider."

"To win the Dark Lord's trust, you must pay a certain price. And for Strider, completely cutting off the possibility of coming back is the price he has to pay."

"But Professor, he has done so much! Werewolves, giants, Azkaban, and the Department of Mysteries. He even brought him things that he didn't even find!" Hermione looked a little excited. Nap calmed down a lot.

"It seems that he told you a lot of things, using the gadgets he made?" Snape glanced at the pendant on Hermione's chest and said, "I'll give you a piece of advice, don't try to use these gadgets again. Something has contacted him, which is a very dangerous thing, especially now that he has been under the eyes of the Dark Lord."

"Yes, he did do many things for the Dark Lord, but he did even more behind the Dark Lord's back!"

"Don't underestimate the Dark Lord, like that arrogant guy Potter! Do you really think the Dark Lord doesn't notice at all?"

"Ha!" Snape sneered, "You have the same problem as him. You always think that others are fools. A wizard who has not yet graduated can actually fight again and again with a wizard who can break through the defenses of Azkaban on his own. A close fight?"

"Do you think the Dark Lord is a fool?"

Hermione shook her head.

"Hmph!" Snape snorted coldly, remained silent for a moment, and then sighed, "Strider paid a heavy price this time. As I said, he personally cut off the possibility of coming back, allowing The Dark Lord saw his determination."

"However, he still relented..."

"But he killed Mundungus Fletcher!"

"But he can do better!" Snape said sharply, "Tonks, Mad-Eye, and Scrimgeour, he could do better! If Dumbledore hadn't cooperated with him, you would be here now Can read the news of his death in the Daily Prophet!"

Hermione was silent. Although she also thought about how difficult it would be for Ike, she never thought it would be so rough.

Snape looked at Hermione's dejected look, but did not give her time to digest it, and then said: "For the final victory, necessary sacrifices are inevitable..."

"If one day, my life allows us to defeat the Dark Lord, I will let him kill me without hesitation!"

"There must be such awareness, Granger!"