HP: Embrace the Darkness

The sound of the door opening was heard.

Snape reflexively put away all expressions and turned back into the gloomy and harsh Potions Professor.

"Severus, you're here."

Dumbledore walked in from the outside with a smile, noticed Snape standing next to the pensieve, his eyes flashed, and he raised his hand to ask Snape to sit down at the desk.

Snape didn't want to waste time with Dumbledore, he also wanted to...

What else is he going to do?

Snape laughed silently at himself.

He drove the person away and scolded him for being disgusting. Not seeing the person for a week was enough to show that person's attitude, so what reason did he have to look for him.

Snape's face turned pale, his hand under his black robe clenched tightly on his wand, and he opened his mouth to leave.

Dumbledore's voice came out quickly.

"I have to tell you something. The Alchemy Professor who will replace Professor Cavendish is coming soon. Please see if the office can be placed in Slytherin."

"What did you say!"

Snape felt that he had heard wrongly.

Otherwise, why would I hear words from Dumbledore that have nothing to do with Artes.

"What to replace? Why to replace?"

Dumbledore gave Snape a strange look.

"Professor Cavendish asked me for a long leave and provided an alchemist to replace him at Hogwarts. Didn't he tell you about this?"

Snape's lips moved, but he couldn't say a word. It wasn't that Artes didn't tell him, it was because he didn't give Artes a chance to tell him.

No, maybe I won’t tell him even if I meet him.

After all, he was the one who drove Asseth out of the cellar with his own hands. Different from the previous pranks, this time he really kicked him out and banned all entry for him.

Snape lowered his head, his expression covered by his hanging hair. Dumbledore opposite him was used to his low pressure and didn't notice anything unusual.

"Severus, are you free this afternoon? I might need you to accompany me somewhere."

"Why should I accompany you?" Snape sneered, his smile sarcastic and sharp. "It's the holidays now. I'm just the Potions Professor at Hogwarts. I don't have so much time to waste on you."

Dumbledore didn't pay attention to his tone and scratched his beard in distress.

"Okay, let's not go then. I have another question, Severus, do you have a way to contact Professor Cavendish? His letter is vague, and I'm not sure if I can find the location. "

"Letter?" Snape suddenly raised his head, his voice was stiff and dry, "What letter?"

At this point, Dumbledore also saw some clues, "You don't know? Are you... quarreling?"

Hearing this, Snape turned pale and said nothing. He lowered his head and let the hair on both sides cover him.

"Uh……"

Dumbledore narrowed his eyes in embarrassment and gritted his teeth to answer the question. He thought for a moment and made a decent suggestion.

"I think you should probably talk to him. You can't refuse communication. Why don't you reply?"

"Reply?" Snape mocked harshly, "Do you want to use me as a person who calls him disgusting and disgusts him to get in his way and force him to leave Hogwarts forever and stop hindering your plans?"

"When did I say something like this? Didn't I ask you to reply? As for -"

Dumbledore was confused and looked at Snape with a headache. He suddenly realized something and his eyes were stunned.

"Wait! You said you called him disgusting?"

Snape sneered and glared at Dumbledore: "What? Didn't you write that on that letter of yours? Then what do you want me to reply to? How stupid would it be to reply to me?"

The Potions Master, whose attack power was at an explosive state, could not tell the difference between friend and foe. He scolded himself and others, which made Dumbledore feel uncomfortable all over. He had to take out another letter, unfold it and hand it to him.

"It's not that I asked you to reply. It's that you didn't reply to his letter. He asked me to ask when I see you."

Snape was still thinking about the venom that continued to erupt and got stuck in his throat when Dumbledore said that he had not replied to Artes' letter.

After receiving the letter from Dumbledore, he swallowed all the venom.

He held the letter tightly and found what Dumbledore said at a glance:

Principal Dumbledore, in addition to these things, there is one more thing I need to trouble you with. If you see Sif, can you help me ask why he didn't reply?

It is such a long letter, but only the last paragraph is particularly heavy in handwriting, and there are signs of pauses from time to time.

Snape's fingertips landed on the two words with the most pauses, his name.

The name seemed to start with another character, and then someone forcibly changed it back using pen and ink.

Snape carefully read the original words.

is his last name.

Snape seemed to have been punched hard and froze in place, his mind filled with the scolding that told Artes not to call his name that day.

He asked him not to call him by his name, so he used another name at first, and finally changed it back to his name after hesitating for a long time?

"Severus?" Dumbledore interrupted Snape's thoughts and said with difficulty, "You are crushing the letter, why don't you put it down first?"

Snape woke up from a dream and found that the letter in his hand had been crushed into shape.

"I...I didn't receive the letter."

"Go and ask, maybe there is some misunderstanding."

Misunderstand?

Oh, he is the biggest misunderstanding.

Snape pinched his hand to prevent himself from losing control of his emotions again, "Where do you want me to accompany you?"

"I can't explain this clearly. How about you read it yourself? You know him better than I do. Maybe you can find another answer in the letter."

Dumbledore handed over another letter.

Snape took the letter.

The handwriting on this letter was much more sloppy than the previous one, and the white paper was somehow stained with dirty dust, with some faint traces of brown.

The marks were of different shades, some were bright red, and it was shocking to see them fall on the letter paper.

This is...blood?

Snape frowned suddenly.

"How could it be? Asseth...he doesn't like dust. How come the letter he sent was stained with so much dust and blood?"

"Oh, this, it's not his blood. It's strange. He mentioned this issue in his previous letters. He said that the next few letters might be dirty and might be stained with other people's blood. He told me not to mind. "

"Other people's blood...why is it stained with other people's blood? What is he doing?"

Snape frowned and quickly scanned the font on the letter, trying to find a word that could describe the location.

But no.

The letter simply asked Dumbledore to go to a certain orphanage to see if there was anything unusual. The location of the orphanage was vague, and then it stopped abruptly with a scratch.