HP: Embrace the Darkness

Breakfast is over and it's time to go to class.

However, today the young Snape had no intention of studying at all. He hesitated to speak and stole a few glances at Snape who was teaching with full aura.

Snape was fed up with his other self's sympathetic look and stopped teaching.

"what do you want to say in the end?"

"You..." The boy said awkwardly, "Aren't you worried that what the Daily Prophet said is true?"

Snape tapped the blackboard impatiently: "He won't betray me, why should I worry?"

Not only him, but also other people in the original world would not believe such a ridiculous report.

"Continue class!"

"But the human heart is hard to predict." The young man said earnestly, "You believe him, but you are not him, how do you know what he thinks?"

How does he know?

Of course he knew.

Snape instinctively wanted to look at the ring on his finger, but he held back.

We're in class! We shouldn't be distracted.

"If you have anything to say, let's talk after class. If you interrupt me again, I'll have to double my paper today."

With the invincible weapon of the paper, the rest of the course went smoothly. The two of them listened and talked, and the get out of class was soon over.

Normally at this time of day, the two had nothing to say to each other, and would usually pack up and go back to their respective rooms. But today was different. The young Snape packed up his things and did not leave. Instead, he followed Snape's gaze, either frowning or shaking his head.

Snape felt that everything he saw was wrong, so he didn't even bother to pack up his things and went straight back to his room.

Unexpectedly, young Snape followed.

Snape's face was as gloomy as water and he sent a message to Athis: Be back soon.

Yes, Acres, who was surrounded by scandals, still did not change his schedule and ran out on time, otherwise the look in the young Snape's eyes would not be so strange.

After receiving the news, Ases returned to the farm five minutes later. After finding out what happened, he called both of them to the living room and took out a piece of parchment.

"This is indeed the deed of a certain manor, and it was indeed given by Voldemort. I refused, but he wouldn't listen. Later, I thought it was free property and could be left to you, so I accepted it. As for the nonsense about love at first sight and falling in love again, just listen to it."

Athis threw the parchment to the young Snape, and he also saw the name on it: Severus Snape.

"What else do you want to ask? Ask them all at once."

Aces said this to the young Snape, but the young man's reaction was to look at Snape.

He thought that the person who should be asked was not him.

Snape didn't look up. He was sitting next to Athis, reading an ancient book on potions that he had been obsessed with recently. He was so engrossed in reading that he didn't notice the boy was looking at him.

Aces waited for a while, then noticed the boy's eyes and took the initiative to explain: "This is also a gift from Voldemort. I have been looking for it for a long time but couldn't find it. I didn't expect to find it in Voldemort's manor."

"So... you approached Voldemort just for his gift?" The boy could not hide his shock.

Aces was silent for a moment, and then he said, "Why do you say that I'm selling my body in exchange for gifts?"

"This is a good gift. You can continue to sell your body. I don't mind." Snape took the time to reply, his tone sincere.

The boy's eyes looked even more strange.

Aces was both angry and amused: "When did I need to be reduced to selling my body for gifts? Voldemort begged me to accept this."

After explaining all this, Athis simply told the whole story - during this period, his private meetings with Voldemort were to teach Voldemort a lesson in ideology.

A very normal class.

The kind without any sincerity.

The gift was from Voldemort's dead piston.

Snape finally raised his head and asked the key question: Whose thoughts?

"It's mainly Grindelwald and Dumbledore." Aces counted on his fingers and explained, "There's actually nothing wrong with their initial ideas. It's just that Gellert became more and more paranoid in the later stages. If you remove that part, his ideas are still pretty impressive."

Snape: "Speak human language."

Aces: "Voldemort is easy to deceive."

Young Snape: "..."

Snape understood: "Keep it up. I remember he should have some good stuff, which was destroyed later. Remember to get it for me."

"Okay, I took some before I came back." Aces took out books, notes and potion materials from the alchemy ring one after another.

The young Snape clearly saw the other man's eyes light up. The two of them were leaning against each other, whispering something, completely ignoring him.

He was wrong. He was so wrong.

Given how clingy these two were, he actually suspected Ases of cheating on him.

The boy got up dejectedly and went upstairs.

The two men, who were so excited about how to destroy Voldemort, didn't even raise their heads.