Slytherin's salvation is nothingness

Since Cyrus left Malfoy Manor, there have been countless news stories of Death Eaters brazenly attacking the Muggle world. Only Hogwarts is still in a pure land of war. Quidditch trials were held as usual on campus, and Harry also came to talk to Slughorn from time to time because of Dumbledore's instructions.

Every time Cyrus would inadvertently reveal what he was going to do in the next Potions lesson, and Harry no longer had time to go to the Room of Requirement for training, but instead grabbed Hermione to teach him about potions. Knowledge. Draco hasn't been seen much recently, and sometimes he even misses school. The whole person looks pale and is often nervous.

One Hodmod day, a female student named Katie was injured by an alchemical necklace full of curses. When she regained consciousness, she no longer remembered anything about the necklace. Cyrus, who was still under the transformation spell, sighed. Although he also used his brain a little, it wasn't much. The next one is almost here.

Draco walked into his office holding the parchment, "Professor Slughorn, this is my thesis." Draco walked in with a straight face, his eyes lingering on the beautifully packaged mead in the cabinet. .

"That's the gift I'm going to give to Principal Dumbledore. Haha, the quality is very good." He stood up and said, "Put it here. I'm going to have dinner first. As a punishment for submitting the paper late, can you help me?" Let me tidy up the potion cabinet."

"Well, okay Professor." Draco was not ready to leave. He wanted to poison the mead after Slughorn left. I was going to cast the Imperius Curse on other students first and let them poison them. But such a good opportunity is not as good as now.

Slughorn's footsteps stopped in front of the door. He did not look back, but waved his hand, "Mr. Malfoy, relax. It's just a late submission of the paper. I will not be disappointed with you."

Slughorn, who came to the auditorium to eat, looked at an empty seat in the teacher's chair. It had been a week... He turned around and left, heading towards the Slytherin cellar.

There were very few students hanging around the cellar during dinner time.

Bang!

Slughorn originally just wanted to take a look at the entrance to the cellar, but a sudden explosion made his whole body tense instantly. The source of the explosion is sir's office!

Cyrus rushed in directly, and in a puff of smoke, a black figure sat down on the ground. Snape kept coughing, and when he saw a blurry figure in the smoke, he shouted, "Cover your nose, this is poison! The crucible is about to explode again, get out of here!"

The explosion sounded again, and a hand broke through the smoke, covering his mouth tightly, his body was completely blocked, and a bubble spell was cast on Snape's face. Slughorn, who was standing in front of Snape, raised his wand, and the mist that should have been cleared away by the spell still continued to emerge from the broken cauldron.

Cyrus looked at Snape below him. Blood was already flowing from his ears and nose, and his eyes became trance-like. And her eyes were stinging like hell. Why was the light released by the mist more than ten times brighter than ordinary magic spells? The magic medicine being sucked into the chest seemed to be swallowing her internal organs. Severe pain was felt everywhere in her body. A lot of magic is suppressed. Could it be that Voldemort also gave him an assassination mission?

Seeing that Snape was close to fainting, smoke was flowing into the corridor with the open door. "Medusa! What are you doing to eat? Close the door!"

After the slamming of the door, the golden protection spell and blocking spell were applied to the stone door, and a room collapsed on the ground beneath the two of them. The magic spell penetrated the ground, and the two of them fell downwards along with the bricks. Then a restoration process repaired the big hole as before, and the deadly fog was isolated in the office.

The two fell into a sewer. Cyrus looked at Snape, who was protecting him in his arms, and blood dripped from the tip of his nose. Snape had fainted, his face was weak and ugly, and his body was twitching involuntarily.

Feeling that the magic power in his body was no longer active, Cyrus' original appearance gradually emerged. He couldn't waste the magic power now and took him out first. The little remaining magic power was transmitted to Snape, and seeing that his face looked better, Cyrus carried Snape behind her back. Due to the height difference, Snape's head hung on her chest and swayed from side to side. .

"If you haven't lost consciousness, use all your magic power to protect your internal organs. Reduce your breathing rate. Even if it's my figure, focus on the pictures that appear in your mind. Don't let your thinking slow down."

If Dumbledore hadn't completely sealed the Chamber of Secrets, this sewer would have led there. I hope the medicinal materials and crucible I left there are still there. The effect of the poison gradually took effect in her body, her vision became increasingly blurred, and her steps became frivolous. Every step he took would feel excruciating pain, and Cyrus could only drag himself forward while leaning against the wall of the sewer pipe.

The blood that overflowed from Snape's mouth had stained her loose wizard robes red. Cyrus spoke indistinctly while dragging his body forward.

"Snape... is your current hobby studying poisons? It really hurts me... You can't die so easily. You haven't killed me yet... Ah, like this Ah, that's the poison you researched specifically to deal with me... It's so exciting... You spent all night studying it, forgetting food and sleep, just to kill me... You can't die, you can't die... Sir... ..."

The water pipe walls along the way were stained with blood, and the traces gradually lowered and dragged all the way to the secret room.

Blurred vision swept across the empty secret room, and the original exit was sealed. Cyrus seemed to have fallen into an ice cellar. She yelled around frantically, "Helbo! Fangs! Salazar! Father, are you there! Deng?" Bledo! Why haven't you shown up now, you peeping tom, Fox! Damn it..."

She was panting on the ground, holding Snape tightly with her hand. She raised her other hand tremblingly and pointed it at the exit of the secret room. "Blow up this place and I will get you out." The magic power was running in the palm of her hand again, and the depleted energy in her body Cyrus used all his magic power, and a spell hit the wall, blasting a small hole. The magic power was simply not enough to cast another spell. She no longer had any strength and fell straight down.

Fire suddenly appeared in front of her eyes, and Fox flew towards her quickly. Fox landed on Cyrus's chest, and when he was about to drop tears into her mouth, Cyrus grabbed her by the neck. Tears fell into Snape's slightly opened mouth, and the hand clasping Fawkes' neck dropped.

I don't regret dying, but he doesn't.

The students and professors who were eating in the auditorium were suddenly startled by an explosion, and the entire auditorium shook due to the explosion downstairs. Professor McGonagall pursed her lips and quickly directed all the teachers to evacuate the students. She gripped her wand tightly and ran towards the source of the explosion.

Go all the way down the stairs to the cellar and see the closed stone door. A powerful spell was cast on the stone door, Professor McGonagall frowned, and several hissing sounds were heard. The Medusa on the door shook her head, seeming very anxious. She shook her head even more violently when she saw Professor McGonagall trying to lift the spell.

A portrait on the side said, "There's an explosion inside. Something very dangerous has exploded! There are two professors inside, don't let the smoke come out!"

Professor McGonagall was thinking anxiously about how to enter the office. Professor Flitwick and others also chased after him. "The students have all been evacuated outside the castle. Severus and Horace are not in the auditorium. They are not found anywhere!"

"They are inside, we must rescue them quickly!" Professor McGonagall waved her wand, and two armors standing at the entrance of the cellar came over as if they were alive. She and the professors looked at each other, and after a few of them stepped away, they all cast bubble spells on each other's heads. The moment the two armored men broke through the door, a large number of flowers and plants with thick branches and leaves poured in. The smoke floating in the house was quickly absorbed by the flowers and plants.

A big hole appeared in front of them.

"They can block the fog from being exposed, go and save them!" Sprout held the wand nervously, and branches and leaves continued to grow along her wand.

McGonagall and Flitwick immediately jumped down from the hole, and the cold sewer pipes were filled with the smell of blood. They ran quickly along the blood stains on the wall of the pipe, and the space gradually widened. The two people who entered the secret room saw Dumbledore's figure.

Dumbledore was currently reaching out to explore Snape who was lying on the ground.

"Minerva, you are here. Can you help me take him to the school doctor's office? Severus' potion accidentally exploded."

"Albus, where is Professor Slughorn? He should be with Severus." Professor McGonagall stepped forward and took one of Snape's arms, and Dumbledore carried Snape on his back. "He should be there first." He was sent to the school doctor's office by Fox, his condition is a bit dangerous."

"Then go to St. Mungo's. Why are you going to the school doctor's office..."

"Let's go first."

Several people walked into the school doctor's room. Dumbledore put Snape on a bed. He said to the hospital bed hidden by curtains: "Miss Foley, if you need anything, I'll be waiting here."

No answer came, and the three of them waited beside Snape's bed. During this period, Professor McGonagall checked Snape's injuries many times, and was relieved when he saw the color gradually returning to his cheeks. Professor Flitwick wanted to check in the back room but was stopped by Dumbledore, "Leave it to Miss Foley. When I got there, Horace had already fed Fawkes' tears to Severus. He was lying seriously injured. Beside him."

Professor McGonagall and Flitwick went back to settle the students and entered the school doctor's office again. Dumbledore was still sitting and waiting.

"Albus, who are you talking about Miss Foley?"

"Ah, she will be the school nurse at Hogwarts. I happened to pick her up today."

A voice interrupted them, "The patients need to rest, please get out." Kate walked out of the back room. She came to Snape's bed, put down two bottles of palliatives, and left again.

The eyes under the half-moon glasses overflowed with smiles, "Even though she is so young, she is still very good. Horace will be fine, let's go back."

At night, Snape gradually woke up from a coma. He looked at his intact hands and felt them carefully. There was no physical discomfort. Recalling the scene after the crucible exploded, Slughorn? He saved me. He blocked the second explosion for me, and then led himself into the secret room... No, it was her! It must be her!

He rolled over and looked around, heading towards a hospital bed with the dim light of a candle. The hand that was about to open the curtain suddenly stopped, and Kate stood in front of him, "He needs to rest, and leave as soon as he wakes up!"

Kate Foley, the former Slytherin prefect, has been working with Cyrus ever since. The suspicion in his heart was confirmed, "Get away!" Snape wanted to grab the wand, but found that the wand on his waist was missing. Regardless of the obstruction, he pulled hard and the figure lying on the bed appeared.

"Slughorn...how is it possible..."

Slughorn lay on the bed with his eyes closed, still unconscious. The bandage on his back was removed, a few bottles of herbal medicine were placed beside him, and Kate had just been changing his dressing. His back was full of wounds and pits, left by countless glass fragments that had penetrated his body during the explosion. There was no color on his face, and he couldn't feel any magic on his body, just like a Muggle.

Kate pushed away Snape who was standing aside, "In order to save you, he really almost died. Professor Snape, get out of here now."

"The poison inhaled into the body will accumulate in the body and be difficult to remove...I will brew the antidote..."

Snape left the school doctor's office as if fleeing.

Kate breathed a sigh of relief. It was really a test of her psychological quality to attack her dean. However, fortunately, Principal Dumbledore applied the Transfiguration spell to his boss before he left.

Slughorn lay in bed for half a month, and Kate would not let anyone into the school doctor's office except Dumbledore who came to visit him every day. Snape just left the brewed potion at the door of the school doctor's office and never went in again.

Cyrus, who was wearing a hospital gown, was lying on the hospital bed. He rolled left and right towards the helpless Kate, "I'm fine, just let me out. Really, look, I'm fine." !”

A bottle of potion was placed in front of her. Kate resisted the urge to rush up and knock her out and said, "Drink it. What is this? If you can tell me, I will let you go back to class."

Cyrus took the potion and observed it for a while. After drinking it, he said without thinking: "It is pink-purple in color, has a moderate taste, and has a magical effect of relaxing the mind. This is a demulcent."

"Really?" A smile suddenly appeared on Kate's serious face, "Boss, this is grape juice mixed with water."

The smile froze on Cyrus's face, and she lay back on the hospital bed helplessly, looking very funny as she let others deal with her.

"It takes longer and longer for you to recover your five senses. Is it because the state of your soul has become worse?"

"Kate, why are you here to be the school nurse?"

"Is it because the poison prepared by Professor Snape has the effect of destroying the soul? I think with his ability, if he can develop a potion that heals the soul, it will not be difficult to destroy it."

"How is the situation over there with the Order of the Phoenix?"

"They don't trust me and rarely give me tasks... No, boss, can you not avoid my questions?"

Cyrus retracted his traditional skills and said in a serious tone, "Your appearance will make him more suspicious of me. But with you here, I can feel more at ease."

Kate pointed to the white coat she was wearing, "Oh, I forgot to introduce myself. I am the new medical staff at St. Mungo's Hospital of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Due to Dumbledore's request, I came to Hogwarts to temporarily serve as the school nurse. Please tell me. Attention, Professor Slughorn."

"Well, when did you become a doctor..."

"It's just my way of helping the boss."