Mysterious Walker at Hogwarts

In the morning, on the eighth floor of Hogwarts Castle, opposite the tapestry where the troll beat Barnabas silly, the door to the Room of Requirement suddenly opened, and Snape, with red eyes and dark circles under his eyes, walked out.

Although his body was very tired, Snape's face was filled with excitement. After several days of research, the formula for the antidote to the Blood Curse that Dean had given him before finally made a breakthrough last night. .

If there wasn't a Potions class coming up soon, Snape would have really wanted to crack the formula in one go.

Snape glanced around and found that there was no one there, so he was ready to stretch himself secretly to relieve the fatigue from studying all night.

Just as Snape had time to stretch his arms, he heard the sound of the door opening behind him, and someone came out of the Room of Requirement.

Snape was startled. It had been less than a minute since he came out of it, and he was sure that no one had gone in again. So what was happening with the person behind him?Could it be that someone was spying on him while he was studying the formula?

Snape quickly drew his wand, a spell already brewing in his mouth.

However, when he turned around, the half-recited curse came to an abrupt end - his wand stopped just in front of Dean's pen tip, which looked astonished.

"Dean? Why are you? When did you enter the Room of Requirement?" Snape asked with a somewhat uncontrollable expression.

"Professor?" Dean didn't expect that he would be so unlucky that he would bump into Snape head-on.

Dean had just entered the Room of Requirement through the secret passage from the Hog's Head pub, and rushed out without stopping for a moment - because there was only one class this morning, which was Snape's Potions class.

Due to the characteristic that if there is someone in the Room of Requirement, other people with different purposes will be refused entry, so after Dean entered the Room of Requirement without any hindrance, he did not expect that Snape had just finished using it and bumped out. Such an embarrassing situation arises.

"What did you just experience?" Snape was always very tolerant of Dean when no one was around. Instead of pursuing the question just now, he frowned at Dean's appearance at this time.

After a whole night of continuous fighting, Dean looked extremely slovenly. His robes were stained with mud and dew, and his face was covered with sweat stains and dust.

"It's really hard to describe!" Dean showed a miserable expression, "I just came out of Master Newt's magic suitcase, and he gave me some special training."

There's nothing wrong with that.Even if Snape went to investigate, he would never find anything, because this is the truth - but Dean cunningly did not specify the time period. He is already well versed in the essence of lying.

"I didn't expect you to have such luck." Snape's lips curled up, "There is still a little time, I suggest you go back to the dormitory to wash up first - I don't want you to make my Potions classroom messy. "

"Okay, Professor."

"Do you need me to show you the way?"

Snape's words made Dean secretly roll his eyes. Even Snape knew that he was a "road fool"?It's all because of Seamus' big mouth!

"Wait a minute, what do you smell like?" Just as Dean was passing Snape, he was suddenly stopped.

"What does it smell like?" Dean raised his sleeve and smelled it. There seemed to be nothing unusual.

Without further ado, Snape grabbed Dean's arm and lifted up his sleeve.

After seeing a few scratches on Dean's arm, Snape put his nose up and smelled it, and his expression immediately changed: "Dean, how dare you lie to me?"

"Professor, I don't understand what you mean." Dean said in a panic.

Although Dean had reservations about Snape in order to keep it secret, it didn't mean that he wanted Snape to know that he had cheated on him.

"How did you get these wounds?" Snape asked sharply.

"I... I'm not sure. It may have been accidentally bruised."

In fact, it was a small injury sustained during the fight with Voldemort, who turned into fog and black smoke last night, and Dean didn't take it to heart at all.

"Lie!" Snape roared angrily, "There is no way you could have been injured like this by Master Newt!"

"Professor, Professor, are you mistaken? This is just an ordinary scratch!" Dean felt that Snape was making a fuss.

"A common scratch?" Snape snorted, "Follow me!"

After finishing speaking, he turned around and entered the Room of Requirement with Dean.

There is no doubt that this Room of Requirement was arranged according to Snape's will. It is a potions laboratory, filled with various types of dispensing tools and several overstuffed medicine cabinets - compared with this place. , the little inventory in Snape's office and Potions classroom is not worth mentioning at all.

Snape is also quite cunning. It seems that most of his collection is here, and the ones in the office and classroom are just a cover-up.

Dean groaned secretly.

At this time, Snape came to Dean with a bottle of blue potion and ordered in a stiff tone: "Apply these to your wounds!"

"Is this a healing potion?" Dean asked casually after taking it.

"No, this is an identification potion, used to identify a special 'poison'!" Snape said coldly.

"Poison? You mean I was poisoned?" Dean was startled.

"You won't know until you apply it," Snape said, but Dean could tell from his expression that he had already determined this.

Dean carefully dropped two drops on the wound on his arm. The moment the medicine touched the wound, a plume of gray smoke came out, and Dean smelled a fishy smell.

"It's true, there is wolfberry on your wound!" Snape said solemnly, "There is absolutely no such thing in Master Newt's magical zoo!"

"Wolfgrass? What is that?" Dean blurted out, and he didn't feel any discomfort.

"A very rare special herb that has a strong attraction to werewolves." Snape explained softly, "On a full moon night, even if a werewolf has taken wolfsbane potion, as soon as it comes into contact with the smell of wolfsbane, it will You'll still lose your mind. If you smell like wolfberry, you'll be attacked by werewolves - and last night happened to be a full moon night."

Dean understood as soon as he heard it. It turned out that the little gift Voldemort was talking about before he left was Wolfgrass. He must have used it secretly when the two were fighting. No wonder Voldemort would use that fighting method at the beginning—— Only when the two of them are entangled at close range can the "Secret Walker", who was severely overestimated by Voldemort, not find out that he has manipulated him.

There is no doubt that Lupine, who was waiting for the full moon night in the canyon, was attracted by the Wolfgrass and attacked him.

Fortunately, Lupine's willpower was strong enough to get rid of the temptation of wolfberry from time to time, giving Dean the opportunity to delay.

Dean even boldly guessed that the unknown canyon was where most werewolves who had no money to buy wolfsbane potion spent the night of the full moon, so Voldemort took him to apparate there.

Fortunately, it was Lupine who was attracted this time. If it had been other werewolves, Dean would have been in big trouble!

Thanks to “Ron’s Bond” for the good fortune!