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The professor had a regular teaching meeting at seven o'clock in the evening on the first day back to school, and Snape was not in the habit of being late, so he went early.Xiu handed over the aftermath of the dinner to the house elves at Hogwarts, and lay down on the sofa looking at the textbooks for the new semester without looking good.

Green flames suddenly rose from the fireplace, Xiu looked over and saw the noble and handsome Malfoy patriarch walking out of the flames, with an impeccable aristocratic smile on his face.

Xiu quickly got up, stood upright, and smiled at him.

The familiar aria, "Good evening, Mr. White, it was a pleasure to meet you."

Xiu used his wand to answer: "Good evening, Mr. Malfoy." Seeing that Snape, who had a strong domain awareness for so long, hadn't appeared yet, Lucius made sure that he was no longer in the cellar, and asked, "Severus Not here?"

"He's gone to a meeting, you can sit down and have a cup of tea." Xiu replied politely. "Oh, very happy." Lucius sat down on the sofa, and Xiu went to the kitchen to make a pot of tea.

Drinking rich and refreshing scented tea, the two chatted casually, and the atmosphere was quite relaxed.

After more than half an hour, the door of the cellar opened silently, and the black-haired wizard walked in with an unswerving expression, and his expression became even more gloomy when he saw the two 'talking happily'.

"Lucius, what are you doing here?" The man walked up to Xiu and sat down, wrapping his big hands around Xiu's waist possessively.Xiu meekly leaned on him, expressing his feelings of dependence, which made the man's expression lessen a lot.

Lucius raised his eyebrows upwards, with a half-smile, and looked at the two people who were in an intimate posture with ambiguous eyes.Snape snorted heavily: "Lucius, are you here just to let us watch you giggle?"

"Severus, Malfoy's smile is the most perfect." Lucius solemnly emphasized, in exchange for Snape's disdainful sneer and Xiu's uncontrollable laughter.

"Oh, well, a noble Malfoy won't bother with you about this." Lucius said a little depressed, and then said seriously: "Severus, I need your Polyjuice Potion."

Snape raised his eyebrows slightly: "I'm assuming you'll have a reason to convince me." Even Malfoy couldn't take even a bottle of the most basic scabies potion from him in vain.

"Of course." Lucius' expression was serious. "Sissy and I plan to go to Gringotts to pick up Hufflepuff's gold cup on September [-]. There will be fewer people in Diagon Alley on that day."

"Do you have Bellatrix Lestrange's hair or nails?" The Polyjuice Potion requires something from the person it wants to become, usually a hair or a small piece of nail.

"Yes, Sissy went to see her in Azkaban a few months ago and managed to get a hair." Lucius replied.Narcissa ordered the house elf to wash that hair dozens of times, and she washed it several times before she managed to overcome the psychological barrier.

"How to arrange?" Snape asked, with a wave of his hand, a transparent bottle flew out from the laboratory, and the blue-green liquid inside was shaking slightly.

Lucius took the potion and put it away, "When Bellatrix enters Azkaban, give Sissy the key to the vault for safekeeping. Sissy will become Bellatrix, Go straight to the vault at Gringotts and get the Hufflepuff cup. The goblins at Gringotts won't care if it's mine if they can get the key. I'll change my appearance with Polyjuice Potion, just in case Meet outside the Ling Pavilion."

"Be careful," Snape said flatly.It's impossible for him to go. On September [-], he still has to teach the Gryffindor fourth-year trolls, and he will ask for leave to leave Hogwarts on the first day of school, unless Dumbledore's brain is really tired of those things. Dead man's sweets are broken so he wouldn't suspect it.

At the start-of-term feast, Dumbledore introduced the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, Alastor Moody, whom most of those who knew him called Mad-Eye Moody.He had been a brilliant Auror, filling half the cells in Azkaban, but he's retired now.The Auror's experience made him suspicious.

He looked terrible, every inch of skin on his face was covered with scars, his mouth was like a big gaping hole, and his nose, which should have been raised, had collapsed.The scariest thing was his eyes, one was small and black, the other was big, bright blue, round like a coin, and kept turning.In the end, it got into his head and disappeared, leaving only a terrifying black hole.

No one welcomed such a professor, and the applause was sparse.He didn't seem to care, sitting on the professor's seat, from time to time he took out a curved wine bottle from under his black cloak to take a sip, but that weird magic eye was always staring at the professor next to him or the students below. .

Immediately afterwards, Dumbledore announced that Hogwarts would not hold a Quidditch match this year, which caused a rare unanimous protest from the young wizards of the four colleges.But then the news that the Triwizard Tournament will be held at Hogwarts made the whole school boil again.

Professor McGonagall gave a general explanation of the Triwizard Tournament to all the students, and when she finished speaking, the little wizard's cheers almost knocked off the roof of the auditorium.You must know that most of them have never met the students of the other two magic schools, let alone participating in such a large-scale event together!

Although the 17-year-old age limit makes most students miss the honor of being a warrior, this does not prevent them from being excited about it and guessing who will be a Hogwarts warrior.Of course, there are also many students under the age of 17 who are thinking about how to avoid the age limit and successfully sign up. The Weasley twins have the most ghost ideas, and they are already surrounded by several Gryffindor lion cubs, discussing enthusiastically.

The title of being a Hogwarts warrior and the temptation of a thousand gold Galleons made most of the little wizards very excited, and the hustle and bustle on the way out of the auditorium was difficult to calm down.Filch took his cat to stand guard at the intersection of several corridors, twisting his ugly face and muttering to himself, how many more little nocturnal mice could be caught tonight.

On September [-], the process of taking the gold cup went smoothly. Although Narcissa, who was wearing the shell of Bellatrix Lestrange, was watched strangely for a long time by the goblin in charge of the Black family vault, she was not questioned. .

Snape went to Malfoy Manor to destroy the Hufflepuff Cup with Lucius.After destroying the relics of the three founders of Hogwarts one after another, Lucius' heart was bleeding, and he looked at the wreckage of the golden cup with regret on his face.

Snape expressed contempt for his greed, turned around and walked away in black robe.He couldn't leave Hogwarts for too long, otherwise it would easily arouse Dumbledore's suspicion.

Xiu waited in the cellar and prepared supper for him.When Snape came back, he made sure everything was all right, had supper with him, and hurried back to Ravenclaw Tower.

At night, without the tender body of his little lover in his arms, Snape rarely suffered from insomnia.Cursing constantly in my heart, with the spirit of not wasting time, I simply got up, took out the "Life Made" from the drawer and read it seriously.

He thought, since human body alchemy can even achieve longevity, it should be easier to just let Xiu speak.But he has almost no knowledge of human body alchemy, and it is impossible to do it with this book alone.

In the bedroom, there is a bookcase with countless defensive spells and attack spells. Inside are the forbidden books collected by Snape, most of which are related to potions and black magic. About alchemy, especially human alchemy, it can be said that almost none.

Snape searched in the bookcase for a long time, only to find two books involving alchemy of the human body.Considering that Madam Pomfrey once said that Xiu's situation is probably unprecedented, it is naturally very difficult. It is really too difficult to let Xiu speak with his limited resources.

Snape couldn't help thinking of the Malfoy family's library.But he also knew that the collections of nobles were always very precious. No matter how good his relationship with Lucius and Narcissa was, it was impossible for him to read those collections at will.At that time, in order to study the purification potion, Lucius asked him to check the collection of books at will, also because of the closely related interests.

Snape hated himself for being helpless again.

Snape never showed any strange emotions about Xiu's inability to speak, but in fact he had always had a thorn in his heart.He is the youngest potion master in European history, and it can even be said that no one in this era can match him in potion achievements.But what good is that?He can't even heal his lover!

Xiu found it very strange that his lover hadn't been in the laboratory for several days, and he only saw piles of tomes brought back from the restricted section of the library every day.

He used to be curious to see it, but the covers of those books alone were terrible, not to mention that Snape didn't let him see it, he himself didn't want to take a second look.

Xiu always felt a little weird, as if Snape was busy with himself, but couldn't think of what it might be.After asking, Snape said that he didn't have any clue yet, and he would tell him later.Xiu couldn't think of a reason, so he simply put this matter behind him and continued his life as a student part-time exclusive chef.

Ever since he came up with the idea of ​​using human body alchemy to heal Xiu's throat, every time he saw the emerald green words that Xiu drew with his wand when talking to him, Snape felt a thorn in his back, and he couldn't persuade himself to give up.No matter how difficult it is, no matter how high the price is, he must let Xiu speak!

Human body alchemy is a very rare subject, and there are very few records about it in the Hogwarts books, and even if there is, it is only slightly involved and vague.For nearly two months, Snape searched almost all the books in the restricted section of the Hogwarts library, but found nothing.

This made him feel restless, and even the little animals in Hogwarts suffered even more. The gems of Gryffindor were about to bottom out, and Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff were not much better. Leitlin's confinement has been scheduled for the next term.

Of course, Xiu was the first to notice his lover's abnormality, but he couldn't find the reason, he could only worry in his heart, and in life, he tried his best to make his lover more comfortable.Snape didn't want him to worry, but he couldn't suppress the anxiety and disappointment in his heart.

Fortunately, as the Triwizard Tournament approached, the attention of the two of them was also divided, and the situation was not too bad.

Hogwarts will welcome friends from Bubaston and Durmstrang on October 10th!