Magical Studies at Hogwarts

Dumbledore watched Harry leave the principal's office and walk towards the Gryffindor Tower. After confirming through the portrait that he was back in the dormitory, he turned back to his desk.

With two taps of the wand, two cups appeared on the table.I clicked again and the butterbeer automatically filled the cup.

"I thought you would be later, Severus." Dumbledore pushed one of the cups of butterbeer forward, raised his head, and looked at Snape who appeared in front of him with a smile.

"That's all, Dumbledore." Snape's tone was cold, and he ignored the glass of butterbeer.He lifted up his clothes and sat directly opposite Dumbledore, looking at his intact right hand.

"Strade did it?" he asked.

"Yes." Dumbledore nodded, picked up the cup in front of him and took a sip, accidentally getting some foam on his white beard.

"Hmph!" Snape snorted disdainfully, "He just likes to do some flashy things, just like his flashy magic!"

"Severus, you have to admit that sometimes these flashy things are very useful." Dumbledore put down the cup and said indifferently.

"Besides, those are not flashy. Ajinbad was made extremely embarrassed and almost lost his life."

"I don't want to get hit." Dumbledore shook his head, looking very scared.

Snape quietly watched Dumbledore perform in front of him, and suddenly his eyes glanced at the ring on his left hand, and his expression couldn't help but become a little colder.

"Don't you think it's too early to tell Potter those things? His impulsive character cannot keep secrets at all," Snape said, "Same as his stupid father."

"Harry is no longer a child, Severus. I believe he can distinguish what can be said and what cannot be said." Dumbledore pushed up his glasses.

"You still believe he can defeat the Dark Lord?"

"Only him?" Snape said disdainfully, "You're stupid, Dumbledore."

"Maybe." Dumbledore shook his head slightly. He was not prepared to continue this topic with Snape.

He took a sip of butterbeer and asked, "How are you thinking about the matter I asked you to ask you before, Severus?"

Snape did not answer, but looked away unnaturally and lowered his head slightly.After a while, he asked in a low voice: "Have you decided?"

"You know, I only have one year left." Dumbledore sighed and said, "The curse that Tom left on Gaunt's ring cannot be removed, and my time may be even less. maybe."

He was silent for a while longer before slowly uttering a sentence.

"Draco is a good boy, he still has a conscience in his heart."

"Do you mean that I no longer have a conscience?"

"You know that's not what I meant, Severus." Dumbledore shook his head, "The child has not completely fallen into darkness, and we can still save his soul... Besides, Narcissa is not asking for help from you. ?"

"Humph!" Snape stared at Dumbledore coldly and said, "You can also find other people. Don't you have a tacit understanding?"

"Strider is not suitable," Dumbledore said. "He has more important things to do."

"What? Continue to kill those followers of yours?"

"I would be very happy if he killed that stupid dog." Snape's tone was full of disgust.

"But he won't, he will keep that stupid dog alive! Just because you don't allow that stupid dog to die!"

"None of us can escape death, Severus. The only difference is whether our death is valuable." Dumbledore said calmly.

"You mean, that smuggler Fletcher died with great value?"

Dumbledore was silent, but Snape sneered sarcastically.He picked up the cup in front of him and drank half of it.

"It's really ugly, Dumbledore." He said coldly, "The person who believes in you will never believe it until his death. His fate has long been used as a bargaining chip by you..."

"It's all about final victory, Severus. For it, no one is sacrificed."

"Like Lily?"

"It was an accident..."

The office fell into silence. Both Dumbledore and Snape just stared at each other and said nothing.

"Hey……"

After a long while, Dumbledore sighed and said, "Severus, you didn't come here today to quarrel with me and talk about the past, right?"

Snape raised his head, his eyes filled with bright red bloodshot eyes.He closed it slightly, and when he opened it again, he had regained his composure.

"Following your instructions, I told Granger something and stabilized her temporarily."

"Very good." Dumbledore nodded, "We are a little more certain."

"You don't really think she will keep helping that idiot Potter, do you? We all know that sooner or later she will leave to pursue Stride." Snape said, "Besides, I think that with Stride's gloomy With his character, the probability of the Dark Lord dying in his hands is far greater than that idiot defeating him."

"Strade's pursuit is different from ours." Dumbledore shook his head slightly. "His obsession with magic has a very strong purpose. For that goal, he can clear away anyone who stands in front of him. .”

"Yes, we can indeed place our hope on him, hoping that Tom will be the one who blocks his way, hoping that he will kill Tom completely before us... But Severus, we No one can guarantee that things will happen as we expect."

"So in the end, we still have to go with the original plan?"

"I'm afraid that's the case, because we have no choice." Dumbledore said, "Besides, we have to be prepared for more dangerous things to happen..."

"You think Strider will stop us?"

"We can't rule out this possibility... I know that he made an unbreakable oath to never hurt anyone who truly regarded him as a friend, and never to hurt Hogwarts, but at some point, he doesn't need to If you do something that violates your oath, just blocking it is enough..."

"As long as doing something like this can bring him closer to his goal..."

Snape looked directly into Dumbledore's calm eyes, and the seriousness in them made his heart palpitate.Inexplicably, he felt a sense of fear.

"Granger..."

"I'm afraid, Miss Granger is the last guarantee, Severus..."

Hearing this, Snape was silent for a while.He stood up suddenly, lifted up his robe and turned around to leave, leaving only one sentence that echoed in the principal's office.

"You are wrong, Dumbledore, I won't let that happen..."

Watching Snape's figure disappear through the door, Dumbledore's eyes remained calm.After looking at the butterbeer in the cup, I clicked the wand and it turned into honey water.

After drinking it in one gulp, the sweet taste made him narrow his eyes unconsciously.Looking at the bottom of the empty cup, he murmured:

"Forgive me, Severus..."

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