Mysterious Walker at Hogwarts

"Mr. Thomas, I noticed a problem. It seems that you have not registered your wand yet, so I brought you here alone to complete this procedure." Snape took out a piece of parchment and a quill, He said without raising his head.

"Well, no one ever informed me that I needed to register my wand." Being alone with Snape still made Dean a little nervous.

"Mundungus was supposed to take you to complete this work, but unfortunately, he forgot." Snape said impatiently.

"Professor, before I had time to thank you, I asked Mr. Mundungus to take me to Diagon Alley to purchase necessary items for the start of school, and he also generously paid a lot of Galleons for me." Dean quickly took the time to express his gratitude.

"Speaking of this-" Snape raised his head and stared at Dean with deep black eyes.

Dean suddenly felt a little uneasy. For a moment, he thought Snape was going to use Legilimency on him again.

But Snape did not do that, but asked with a bit of teasing: "I heard that you used my reputation to intimidate Mundungus."

"I, I'm sorry." Dean stammered. He didn't expect to face Snape's questioning so soon.

"No need to apologize, do you think I care about this?" Snape waved his hand irritably, "I heard you got a Prokos robe?"

"This...how do you know?" Dean asked doubtfully.

"Of course Mundungus told me!" Snape snorted coldly: "Do you think he spent so many Galleons on me and didn't give me any explanation?"

"But I have returned the Prokos robe to Mrs. Graves." Dean swallowed and repeated what he said to deceive Mundungus.

"Put away your clumsy lies!" Snape roared angrily: "What a stupid guy! Returning a Prokos robe that has been claimed by the owner? To put it lightly!"

Dean suddenly became speechless. Did Mundungus already see through him at that time?

His lack of knowledge in the magical world exposed him from the start.

But what puzzled Dean was why Snape was so angry?

Realizing that he had lost his composure, Snape calmed his tone before continuing: "But you can rest assured that Mundungus did not think of this at the time. It was only after reflection that he discovered a flaw, and then there was a flaw." Speculation that Procus's robe is still in your possession."

"Flaw?" Dean asked doubtfully.

"I think you should already know that when you were brought back to Borgin Burke's shop by the portkey, Mundungus and Bork foolishly attacked you with the Confusion Curse and the Oblivion Curse..." Snape said in a low voice. said.

Dean didn't know if he heard it wrong. He actually felt that Snape was a little bit uncontrollably angry when he talked about this matter.

"No, Professor, I didn't know I was attacked by them." Dean denied.

He still hasn't figured out why the Confusion Curse and the Forgetting Curse didn't work on him. He can only attribute it to the protection of the system, but the system is his biggest trump card and he doesn't dare to expose it to anyone.

The corners of Snape's mouth turned up sarcastically: "You don't know? Then how do you explain that since that day, you have been living in seclusion and almost never leave the house?"

Dean swallowed in embarrassment. He didn't expect that something went wrong here.

"There is only one explanation. The Prokos robe helped you block the attacks of those two idiots and made you aware of the danger, so you made such a choice." Snape continued.

After hearing this, Dean suddenly realized that it was the Prokos robe that had helped him a lot.

There is no doubt that Mrs. Graves must know the defensive effect of Prokos robe, so she suggested Dean to wear it in advance.

"I have to praise you. Putting aside this flaw, your approach is very wise." A complicated look of unknown meaning flashed in Snape's black eyes. "Your behavior of staying at home has minimized the It's possible that word of your possession of a Prokos robe will spread - even Mundungus will only have his suspicions."

"Mr. Mundungus shouldn't spread this news everywhere, right?" Dean laughed dryly.

Dean knew better than to pin his hopes on Mundungus' character.

"You're lucky." Snape stared into Dean's eyes, "After you came home that day, Mundungus came to find me immediately..."

Dean looked at Snape's frosty expression and guessed that Snape must have been keenly aware of Mundungus's wrongdoing at that time, so he forced Mundungus to tell what happened that day, and then discovered Prokos The robe was still in his hand - combined with the fact that he had been staying at home and refused to go out, this suspicion was confirmed.

"Professor Snape, you must have helped me hide this news completely, right?" Dean asked expectantly.

"Mr. Thomas, I think you owe me two favors so far," Snape reminded.

Dean was completely relieved when he heard that - as for how Snape managed to get Mundungus, Dean didn't need to worry about it.

He felt that Snape, as an excellent soul master and an outstanding potion master, had many ways to silence Mundungus.

"I will definitely find an opportunity to repay you!" Dean said excitedly, and at the same time he had to sigh in his heart. Snape's trust was simply too powerful. Maybe it had something to do with his being too withdrawn and having few friends in his childhood?

"Repay?" Snape smiled sarcastically, "I just hope you don't cause me any trouble when you go to school here."

"I assure you, it shouldn't be..." Dean became less and less confident as he spoke.

Hogwarts is in a troubled time, and if nothing happens, Dean will be in the same dormitory with Harry, the "source of trouble". Even if Dean has made up his mind to keep a low profile, he may not be able to stay alone.

Snape didn't seem to take Dean's assurance to heart, but took the parchment and quill in his hand again and gestured to Dean: "Now, take out your wand."

Dean hesitated and pulled out the second-hand blackthorn wand as originally planned.

Snape's eyes narrowed dangerously when he saw this: Thomas, "Mr. Dean, I think you should be more honest. As far as I know, the wand you bought from Ollivander's is not this wand."

"Are you talking about the Thunderbird Wand? I'm afraid I can't control such a powerful wand." Dean knew that he couldn't hide it from Snape, so he simply "told the truth."

"You are self-aware." Snape's lips curled up slightly, "But I thought you would register the wand you snatched from Mundungus. After all, you used that wand to practice spells during the holidays. "

"You know this?" Dean's eyes widened in surprise. It seemed that Snape was paying more attention to him than he thought.

Dean had a hard time deciding whether this was a good thing or not.