HP: Embrace the Darkness

After Eileen's series of performances, Snape felt calm and even had the mood to pick out the mistakes Eileen had made during her performance.

He shouldn't be looked at in the first place.

Eyes can reveal too many things. If you are not absolutely sure that the other person cannot tell, don't look into each other's eyes easily.

Secondly, you should not look at him.

If you want to act, act well. Suddenly looking over, the intention of deliberately testing is too obvious.

There are many other bits and pieces of problems.

After some comparison, Snape had to admit that Aces was also very talented in acting.

A self-taught person knows how to pretend to be the most likeable, without being annoying, and with just the right amount of control.

"Severus?"

Looking at Snape, whose pupils were slightly erratic and obviously distracted, Erin felt frustrated inside.

She has said kind words and apologized so many times, why is this person so stubborn?

Snape was brought back to his senses by her and sneered: "I don't understand, what makes you think that I will be fooled by your poor performance and be fooled by such a simple and stupid thing?"

clumsy?

Simple and stupid?

Erin:?

This script is wrong. Wasn’t that the same thing with the man before? He was even more clumsy and stared at her from behind. Why was the result different?

The confusion in Eileen's eyes was very clear. Snape saw it, but had no intention of explaining. Instead, he picked up the red cloth from the ground and put it on his hand.

This action succeeded in making Erin frown.

Snape ignored her displeasure and made it clear that he wanted to thwart her plan.

"You can't represent her, so don't waste your time on me. I don't want this manor. Its owner is someone else. Prince... is gone."

Eileen was unwilling to give in.

The surname Prince trapped her in the past ten years of her life. How could she just say no to it?

"You know he's acting."

Erin said this with absolute certainty.

Previously, Snape had his back turned to him and his attitude towards Artes was very nervous, so she naturally thought that Snape didn't know what Artes was doing.

Now it seems that I don't know where this is, I am just willing to accompany that person to continue acting.

Snape did know, but so what if he knew, this was a matter between him and Artes, and it was not the turn of an outsider's portrait to make irresponsible remarks.

"Do you know that it has nothing to do with your portrait? If all you want to say is this nonsense, then I'm sorry, you should go back."

As he spoke, he impatiently changed the position of the red cloth and prepared to cover Irene.

The bright red cloth was raised high and slowly fell down, blocking the mother and son from looking at each other.

Eileen was deep in thought, indifferent to Snape's actions on her, and her eyes, which were much lighter than those of ordinary people, were calm and surly.

Snape was keenly aware of Eileen's silence.

Then he thought about it, except for him, the only other living person in the manor was Asseth, and he instantly understood that Irene wanted to target Asseth.

The Potion Master's long-calm face became turbulent again, and his expression suddenly condensed. He pulled the cloth back, suppressed his anger, took two steps forward, and gave a stern warning.

"Don't set your mind on him, or I will...burn you with my own hands."

He could not care about the various calculations in front of Irene, or even pretend that nothing happened, but when it came to Asseth, he could not ignore it.

Irene, who just had a prototype of a plan in her mind but hadn't implemented it yet, was stunned.

She somewhat believed that Snape was her son.

"you like him?"

"Nothing to do with you."

Snape answered quickly and in a low voice, but Erin didn't miss the nervousness in his eyes.

"You don't believe me so much? Do you think I will harm you? How can I say that Erin Prince is also your mother, and I am the inheritance and continuation of your mother's thoughts. If you don't believe me, you must also believe in your mother. "

"My mother is dead. You are just a poor fake. Stop challenging my bottom line."

After Snape warned him, he threw up the red cloth to cover Eileen's portrait, leaving magic on the four corners of the red cloth, and firmly fixed the red cloth to the wall.

All thoughts from his mother were cut off, and Snape left the portrait storage room without any regrets and headed for Hogwarts.

Today is the first day of school. As the Potions Professor and Head of Slytherin at Hogwarts, he is going to attend the little wizard's opening party.

……

After Snape left, the portrait storage room was quiet for more than ten minutes before welcoming its second guest.

Aces pushed open the door of the portrait storage room and was immediately attracted by the magic on Irene's portrait.

He knew it was Snape's magic.

Having lived together for so long and having received magic checks from each other countless times, he was very familiar with each other's magic.

I just don’t know what Irene did to make her so popular, and she even used magic power to stabilize the red cloth, preventing Irene from even seeing the outside world.

Of course, Asseth, who was so partial to the ends of the earth, didn't think there was anything wrong with this move.

Instead, he was confused about whether to see Irene or not.

Seeing Irene means opening the seal of magic, and not seeing her means not getting the answers you want.

hard to decide.

Aces hesitated for a few seconds, then gently opened a corner of the red cloth with his slender fingers.

The magic power carefully followed the fingertips, pulled out a gap in the seal, and then formed a circle around the gap, blocking Snape's magic power from outside the circle.

This way, you can communicate with Irene without destroying the seal. After the communication, you can seal it back again. The blocked magic power will flow over by itself, and the seal will still be intact.

Perfect.

Aces thinks he is so talented.

"It's you?"

There was a sudden light in front of her eyes. Erin looked up in surprise and saw Ass's face through the narrow gap. Her expression was not very natural.

"Are you surprised?"

Aces looked at her with a smile.

If she hadn't already known what kind of person Asses was, she would have had a better attitude because of these eyes that smiled passionately and lingeringly.

Then he was sold without even a hair on his head.

Irene sneered and added in her heart, but a kind smile appeared on her face.

"Mr. Cavendish? What brings you here?"

Artes asked in a strange answer: "After Sif goes to Hogwarts, this manor will be closed for a long time. Your status... is quite special. I came here to inform you."

What he said was very reasonable. As for the truth, only he himself knows.

Being able to stand out in Slytherin and become Captain Gobstone, Eileen naturally wouldn't believe the lies in Ass's scene.

Her smile faded a little, and her eyes looked at Asseth with some scrutiny.

"What is your relationship with Severus?"

what relationship?

Aces subconsciously wanted to raise his hand to hold the joy necklace on his chest, but then thought of Irene's existence, stopped abruptly, and turned to pull the collar, smoothing out the wrinkles.

"We are friends. No matter how much we are, it has nothing to do with you."

Although Irene at this time has not yet met Tobias and has not experienced love, she does not have friends who are in love. She is skeptical about Asseth as a friend.