HP: Embrace the Darkness

Even Susanna, who had caused this situation with her own hands, was stunned. She just indulged in her addiction and did not think about sending this student to Azkaban.

She looked back at Artes blankly, only to find that Artes and Snape were also speechless.

Susanna was the only one who saw this matter, and she was saying nothing. As long as she refused to admit it and pushed the matter to Peter, no one could do anything to the three Harrys. Dumbledore and Artes had reached an agreement just now.

But no one expected that Harry could admit his crime to himself.

The scene fell silent for a moment.

"Al, why don't you find another savior?" Grindelwald was heartbroken.

Look at what kind of life his Al lives every day. He has to face such a stupid savior and push others over others. Grindelwald himself doesn't like stupid people, so his Al must have a hard time enduring it.

"...Maybe I should change to a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor?" Dumbledore thought thoughtfully.

Grindelwald froze and made a gesture to indicate that he would stop talking nonsense.

"I'm still old, and I can't hear things clearly lately. Can Severus help me make some medicine?" After stabilizing Grindelwald, Dumbledore shifted his focus and looked at Snape.

Snape gave him a sneer.

"No, I don't have time."

"In this case, I can only hold on for two days." Dumbledore sighed, his eyes wandering around to find his next target.

Aces spoke before him.

"I was a little sleepy just now."

Okay, this one is too self-conscious, so let’s move on to the next one.

Dumbledore's amiable smile fell into Susanna's eyes, making her feel a little intimidated for no reason.

What the hell is this old man planning? Sure enough, he should have been beaten with a sack before.

"Ahem." Asseth coughed twice.

Susanna seemed to understand something and quickly started to learn to cough, "Ahem... I haven't been feeling well lately, and I can't even hear clearly."

At this point, the adults' evil deal was concluded. As for the remaining group of children, I believe no one will care about what they say.

Harry's self-destruction this time is over.

Similarly, the matter of Sirius and Peter was also decided by Dumbledore, and it was Sirius and Peter who both ran away and disappeared.

When Dumbledore finalized the decision, Harry looked at Grindelwald for a long time despite Grindelwald's dissatisfaction, and finally said nothing.

Hermione had just whispered some information to him, and then he understood the seriousness of the matter.

If there were no outsiders in the principal's office and no one wanted to target him, he might have been imprisoned in the Astronomy Tower instead of Peter, or else he would have been expelled.

He couldn't afford either of these two consequences.

Because of his recklessness, the fact that he personally released the criminal who could prove his godfather's innocence had a somewhat positive impact on Harry.

At least he learned to shut up when appropriate.

Back in the dungeons, Artes no longer hid anything from Snape except the prophecy.

Ever since he was sure that Snape had learned the improved Occlumency, he had been thinking about how to tell Snape that he came to Hogwarts because of Dumbledore. He really didn't want to keep Snape in the dark anymore.

Now I just take this opportunity to confess.

On the sofa in the cellar, two figures sat opposite each other.

The fireplace was burning brightly, and the falsely warm flames cast mottled shadows, falling between the two of them. The atmosphere was eerie with a hint of warmth.

Snape closed his eyes and tried to digest the news told by Artes. After a while, he opened his eyes.

"So you're here for Dumbledore?"

"Yes, but it's not because of him that I stayed."

"That Gale..."

"He is the Gellert Grindelwald I mentioned just now. The dark wizard who once swept Europe. He was defeated by Dumbledore in 1945 and imprisoned in Nurmengard. He is also Dumbledore's old lover. Now he comes to Ho... Gwartz is here to pursue Dumbledore again.”

Artes told Snape everything he knew without any secret.

Snape: "..."

Old lover?

Grindelwald pursues Dumbledore?

The world is somewhat divorced from reality.

The pair of mortal enemies that everyone knew were actually a pair, and Grindelwald even came all the way to Hogwarts to chase them.

"Is there anything else you want to know?"

Aces leaned back on the sofa relaxedly, playing with Snape's black robes with his fingers.

"One more thing, I remember when I was in first grade, I said you had an opponent. The opponent you were talking about was the Dark... Demon King?"

Arthur's hand paused, and he thought it would be safer to give Snape a thorough explanation now.

Anyway, now that there is improved Occlumency, there is no need to worry about Snape being discovered by Voldemort.

"It was him. He cut his soul into pieces and made it into Horcruxes. One of them... was Ravenclaw's diadem in Hogwarts. I happened to bump into it, so I could only accept this gift. .”

"What did you say! Horcrux?"

Snape's voice was serious and a little disbelieving, as if he didn't want to believe that Voldemort could be so crazy, but he knew that Artes would not lie to him.

So Voldemort is really crazy to this extent.

Snape also had complicated feelings about the person who had given him a chance to climb up. Now that he heard the news about the Horcrux, his mood was even more complicated.

After all, Voldemort was also the target of his pursuit, but now...

"Don't think too much, Sev." Asseth gently stroked the black robe, "You are you, he is him."

With such a simple sentence, Snape felt that his world suddenly became quiet, and the emotions and entanglements that had been troubling him for so long quietly disappeared.

"Of course I'm not him."

"Well, it's not him."

The man's voice was gentle and solemn, as if answering this sentence was an extremely important matter, and he couldn't be careless at all.

"Clap-"

The fire in the fireplace swayed, and suddenly there was a sound, and sparks flew out, and they happily agreed with the man's statement.

"Does Dumbledore know about this?"

This is a good question.

Aces loosened his black robe and said seriously: "I think he knows, but it's hard to say how much he knows. Voldemort in the secret room must have leaked a little bit about it at that time."

"If I'm not wrong, he should have asked for verification by now."

Otherwise, it would be impossible to hold on to Snape, the undercover agent, and refuse to let him go. He said it so clearly at the time, and Dumbledore still tried to test his bottom line.

It shows that Dumbledore urgently needs someone to find out something about Voldemort, and he even doesn't hesitate to step on his bottom line.

Apart from Horcruxes, Artes could not think of anything else that could make Dumbledore like this.

"He didn't tell me."

Snape's face was really not pretty right now. Artes was hiding it from him, but Artes had just told him the reason why he was hiding it from him.

What about Dumbledore?

Or maybe Dumbledore didn't believe him at all.