[HP] Aunt of the Savior

Jody looked nervously at the ugly man.While the man asked the question, she felt like she could speak again, but she could neither scream for help nor beg for mercy, she opened her mouth in vain, but no sound came out.

If when facing Bellatrix, she only needs to fear what kind of insult and injury she will receive at her hands, then when facing this man, she has to worry about whether she will die in the next second. in his hands.The man in front of him can give people such a terrible feeling.

The man's eyes were like a snake staring at its prey. It felt terrible to be stared at by him. Jody felt as if her whole body was soaked in ice water and couldn't move. She couldn't understand Bellatrix just now facing this ugly And the scary man can still show a look of obsession.

"Don't know?" the man asked again, urgently, looking into Jody's eyes, his fingers gracefully gripping the wand, which seemed to be one with him.His face is indeed ugly, but the way he holds the wand does have an incomprehensible charm.

Yes, from this point of view, neither father nor mother can compare to this man when they hold the wand, and those professors are probably not comparable to him, and of course the students are even more incomparable to him, Snape and Lily couldn't even... A lot of weird memories flashed in her mind in an instant, some of which she had already begun to forget or even didn't think she remembered.

Jody felt that her thoughts were in a mess, and she seemed to hear the man say the word Potter in a mocking tone.This made her bit her lip in shame, feeling that she was really too cowardly, and she simply disgraced the Potter family.She just saw the man's face and met the man's eyes, and she was so frightened that she couldn't speak.

"The Dark Lord..."

Just when Jody thought that she would be overwhelmed by this fear, Snape, who was standing beside her, suddenly said this word in a low voice.

He sensed Jody's fear and wanted to help her.He was ashamed, because what happened to Jody was entirely due to his curiosity.In fact, like Jody, he didn't know the identity of this man, but he eavesdropped more seriously than Jody.He had heard the man calling himself the Dark Lord.He was probably a dark wizard—Snape deduced a guess that was very close to the truth from this claim, and then said it out impatiently.

The mysterious man—the Dark Lord—showed what could be called a smile for an instant, and the corners of his twisted mouth turned up slightly. "Boy, do you know the Dark Lord?"

He looked away from Jody's eyes and turned to Snape.The blood-red pupils met the boy's black eyes. At that moment, the thoughts flashed in the red eyes that even his master couldn't understand.

"Yes, yes." Snape swallowed, and clearly heard a much louder than usual gurgle coming from his throat.Now he hates his excess curiosity before, they can't afford to provoke the man in front of him.Come to think of it, two first years, against a dark wizard who dared to mock its headmaster at Hogwarts, they had no chance at all.He should have had a deep-rooted vigilance, just like he has always done since he entered school, but today he was caught carelessly.

At the beginning, what stupid reason made him stubbornly insist on hiding and eavesdropping?Is it overconfidence in his own defensive spells, or is he hoping to hear some meaningful news to report to the principal, so that he can add a little real and reliable backing to his future school life?

But later, he was completely attracted by the man's words.He felt that the man said something that made him crazy, that he couldn't stop it, and no one had ever guided him to think of this possibility.

He looked at those red eyes in confusion, he no longer wanted to suffer his father's irritable temper silently with his mother... he didn't want to just look enviously at Lily who was swinging with his sister...he concocted potions and researched magic , working very hard to make myself stronger, so as to resist the contempt of the Slytherin students...

"A half-blood Slytherin, huh?" The Dark Lord's voice seemed to come from far away. "You're lying, boy, you don't know the Dark Lord at all, you don't know how great the Dark Lord is! Like that little Potter girl, you don't know the Dark Lord!"

When Bellatrix heard this, her eyebrows almost went up, and she seemed to be incoherent with anger. "Very well, the little Potter girl and the half-breed she sheltered, I can't believe it, I don't know that the Dark Lord...is in Slytherin!"

"Bella." The Dark Lord's voice stopped Bellatrix's anger. "It's not surprising, not at all. This situation only proves how important and necessary what I have just told you to do. With more followers, the name of the Dark Lord can be more widely known to those stupid The world knows it. When the time comes, not even Dumbledore will be able to prevent the students from knowing the name—"

He snorted coldly, waved his wand, and a string of shiny letters appeared in the air immediately. "This is my name, Voldemort. Of course, my servants call me the Dark Lord. Others call me the Mysterious Man. I believe that from today onwards, you will be able to remember this name, Right? Answer me."

"Yes." The two children answered in unison, tremblingly.

"Besides, you underestimated this half-breed boy." Voldemort looked down at Snape with a look that he seemed to find amused. "Brilliant, cunning, ambitious, with extraordinary talents and strengths. He's a standard Slytherin, Bella, even if he's half-blood. What does it matter if the father is a lousy Muggle? The mother is a good-for-nothing What does it matter to witches? Slytherins will raise powerful wizards, no matter what blunderers and fools their parents are."

The Dark Lord's praise made Snape's face turn red instantly.He admits that teachers have praised his talents since he entered school, and Professor Slughorn has even drawn him into the slug club.But that didn't make him happier than the man's compliment.He understood why, because he was stronger than any professor.Being recognized by a strong person undoubtedly makes a Slytherin feel happier.

"However, a smart Slytherin would actually like a Mudblood?" But what Voldemort said next made Snape fall from the cloud into the mud. "Or, crush on a little mudblood girl? That Lily?"

"Ah, that Evans of Gryffindor." For the first time today, Bellatrix showed the kind of smile she usually faces students, hooking the corner of her mouth contemptuously, with a malicious expression He looked at Snape. "A cute little Mudblood, you like her?"

"..." Snape's lips twitched, but he couldn't utter a word.Under Bellatrix's vicious ridicule, his face had turned pale from the usual sallow, and it was particularly frightening under the flickering candlelight in the underground passage.The feeling that the deepest secret in his heart was uttered without mercy brought a huge sense of shame, which made the boy almost lose his ability to think.

Jody, who was forced to hear all this, felt extremely embarrassed.Although they got along almost day and night, she never took the initiative to ask about anything about Snape.She knew nothing about the boy's background and past, and her understanding of him was completely incomparable to that of Lily.From this point of view, their friendship seems very superficial.But Jody would rather choose to wait than to get to the bottom of it, which is the respect she gives to the friends she chooses.

But now, Snape's secret—perhaps the biggest one—had been uttered so simply and in a mocking tone by Voldemort that, judging by Snape's reaction, it was likely to be true.How well he usually hides it. When he was with Lily, he never showed the fanaticism like Bellatrix just now.Normally, she would like to know more about her friends, but if she could choose, she would not want to know such things at all.

"Stupid, very stupid. That kind of obsession will never make you stronger, unless you believe Dumbledore's stupid rhetoric." Voldemort shook his head slightly, like disappointment and mockery.He suddenly said to the bloodless Snape in a soft tone: "Severus Snape, if you can learn to be smarter in the future, then I am willing to give you a chance and allow you to follow me." , Attach to me, and I will help you gain more power and more noble status, because one day, I will lead my servants to glory, gain power, until... Fly away from death. Remember my words, half-blood boy , mark my words. As for you, little Potter girl..."

Voldemort seemed to have finally remembered Jody again, stretched out his wand, and let the tip of the wand gently slide across Jody's cheek.Jody immediately thought of Bellatrix's behavior last time, and she thought she knew who Miss Black had learned her creepy mannerisms from.But Voldemort's movements were far softer than Bellatrix's, and this terrifying-looking man seemed to suddenly make himself amiable at this moment.

"Since Slytherin has accepted you, I am also willing to expect you to surprise me in the future. You are very smart and have great vision. If there is an opportunity in the future, I am also willing to give you an opportunity."

Bellatrix let out a jealous gasp at Voldemort's treatment of Jody and Snape. "Oh, master, you are too tolerant of these two little things, how do they match..."

"Bella." Voldemort's voice became icy again, "I think you should be very clear that there is a limit to my pampering and indulgence, and this limit does not include allowing you to interfere in questioning the Dark Lord's decision. .The Dark Lord only needs to obey, so..."

He paused, adding a meaningful tone to his grim voice: "If I don't get wedding invitations from you and the Lestranges this year, Bella, then I think I'll never get married." You don't need that anymore."