The Snake Wife of the HP Professor

Ch.15: Stand

"Since you can't explain anything, why should I treat and take in a... potentially dangerous Death Eater?" Snape asked sarcastically.

"Maybe you are the only one who can help me now, Severus." Malfoy smiled wearily, "I believe in your position. And your home is very well protected. Nobody can find and get in here."

Snape smirked. "So, should I thank you for the compliment?"

Malfoy smiled wryly: "Me too, there is no other way. Now it is Malfoy Manor, unless it is closed, it will never be safe."

After another period of silence, the two of them were startled back to their senses by the sudden rapid breathing of the person on the bed.Malfoy stood up in surprise, stared at the young man whose eyes were not moving very flexibly, and said to the people on the side: "Oh, Severus, your potion is really powerful."

Snape was noncommittal, but said indifferently: "I'm only temporarily relieving his condition. You should understand that there are several kinds of very complicated toxins in his body. In addition to unknown poisons, Infertoxin is spreading rapidly... And the Yin corpse poison can only be temporarily suppressed forcibly."

For a while, Malfoy's joy also faded, and his expression was solemn: "Is there really no other way?"

Hearing this, the young man lying on the bed didn't panic. He tried his best to twitch the corner of his mouth, and thanked him with difficulty: "Please, Mr. Snape... Lucius, thank you too. I... look like this, I'm afraid... I can only trouble you, the Black family..."

Malfoy looked cold and serious: "Regulus, Slytherin will only rely on his own strength to protect his own treasures." It's not that he is unreasonable, but that Slytherin should never give up easily until the end.What's more, without Black who can unite, Malfoy will have to deal with Dumbledore and the Dark Lord at the same time, and I am afraid that he will not be able to protect himself.

Silently watching the interaction between the two Slytherins, Snape lowered his eyes and asked Malfoy in a low voice: "Lucius, do you still insist on your choice?"

Malfoy sighed: "Severus, you've always been so perceptive... At this point, Malfoy seems to have no choice."

Snape asked indifferently: "Even if the whole Slytherin, including the ancient and noble Malfoy, was dragged into a situation beyond redemption by that man?"

Malfoy was shocked: "You... Severus, do you know something?"

"I don't know," Snape replied sarcastically, "but I have a thinking brain and eyes that can see."

"You must know something." Malfoy smiled, "Don't worry, my friend, I won't go to the bottom of it. But, since you asked about Malfoy's position... At least, I can be sure that you didn't like As they said, they joined the Order of the Phoenix, right?"

The Potion Master snorted coldly, "Order of the Phoenix?" Then he stopped pursuing Malfoy's position and decision. Right now, the most urgent thing to solve is Little Black's problem. He looked a little unwilling because of Lucius' words but had to accept his fate The young man said, "Actually, Mr. Braque's problem is not that there is no solution..."

Malfoy was overjoyed: "Really?"

Little Blake's eyes lit up.

Snape folded his arms, and said in an aristocratic tone: "But I am not the one who can save him... I think you should know that some people's secrets cannot be known. I need a safe guarantee."

Malfoy's expression froze: "Maybe, we need an unbreakable oath? It's just..."

Snape shook his head and smiled faintly: "No, what I want is a magic contract." He had studied all the magic contracts that Zenobia knew about beforehand.The contract of loyalty and confidentiality is similar in essence to the unbreakable oath, but it witnesses the law.The absolute irreversibility of the law completely eliminates the possibility of secret leakage.But there are very few such contract scrolls. Fortunately, there are still some scrolls in the collection passed down from generation to generation by King Snake Yinlian.

Malfoy was not dissatisfied with Snape's extreme caution, he understood his friend's vigilance very well, but when Snape took out the contract scroll, he had never seen such a huge and majestic magic scroll , He couldn't help but stare blankly, as if a monkey was scratching in his heart: this friend of his has really become more and more mysterious in the past two years.

After confirming the contents of the secrecy scroll, Malfoy signed his name; Little Black, who was lying immobile, agreed to the contract with blood on the suggestion of Snape.Finally, the contract scroll came into effect, burning in the golden flames flying with magic patterns.

After thoroughly ensuring Zenobia's safety, Snape carefully released the little silver snake from his pocket, and said, "Hayes, become a human."

Malfoy was first confused, then surprised. When he saw the silver snake's body grow rapidly and then turned into a person - a girl with a snake tail -, he was so surprised that he couldn't care about his appearance, and his eyes almost went straight.Due to the toxin, Little Black's expression didn't change, but his eyes clearly showed disbelief.

Seeing Malfoy's gaffe, Snape suddenly felt uncomfortable. He turned his body sideways, blocking part of the other party's view, and said coldly, "She is Zenobia Hayes, the blood of an ancient magical creature who escaped from the world." Introduce little Black to the girl, "Regulus Black, the current head of the Black family, is my junior."

"Hello." Zenobia smiled and waved to the young man on the bed, "Mr. Black, I observed just now, and the poison on your body is not insoluble, but... your condition is too serious, and your body has also been damaged. The erosion is serious, I am afraid that when I treat you, you will feel extremely painful. Moreover, your current condition cannot withstand too much of my magic power at once, so you need to be treated in stages. I am afraid that within two or three months, you It's impossible to get up."

"It's...it's okay, thank you...you, Miss Hayes." Little Blake was very emotional, his body twitched unnaturally, and his eyes stared at her eagerly.

Snape on the side felt a little unhappy for no reason, and said coldly: "I think Mr. Black's current state is not suitable for being too emotional."

Zenobia began to check Little Blake's body in person, holding the natal staff, chanting words, and after a while, the magic crystal on the top of the staff burst out a burst of pale golden brilliance, and the light seemed to surround the young man consciously. Turning around, and after a while, the golden color gradually faded.

At this time, Malfoy finally came back to his senses, and the abnormal situation in front of him made him secretly startled. While speculating about the girl's identity, he couldn't help guessing about the relationship between his friend and the girl.He felt that the changes in his old friend in the past two years must have a lot to do with this Miss Snake in front of him... The slightly relaxed spirit gave him some beautiful conjectures in his heart, his face had returned to his usual dignity and arrogance, and his eyes unconsciously carried With a hint of ambiguity, he looked at Snape: "Oh, Severus, why don't you introduce me to this beautiful and lovely lady snake?"

Zenobia just finished examining Black's body and initially confirmed the situation, then she heard Malfoy's words and smiled at him—she thought to herself, this is a friend that Mr. Before Snape could speak, he said quickly, "I know you, Mr. Malfoy, haven't you been here before, I've seen you before..."

Snape frowned even tighter: "I'm assuming that Miss Hayes has more important things to do right now than wasting time chatting with people."

Malfoy was startled by Silver Snake's words at first, but after Snape spoke, he showed a clear smile: "That's right, Miss Hayes should look at Regulus's situation first. I think it's okay to say something later .”

"Well, I have grasped Mr. Black's situation." Zenobia turned her gaze to Snape and said, "As I said before, it needs to be done slowly. Although I can forcibly expel the yin in his body Corpse toxin, but he can't bear the excessive magical impact at all. I can only use magic to instill some vitality into Mr. Black, restore those destroyed bodily functions first, and then I have to prepare some antidotes first, so that other poisons can be given to Mr. Black. Get rid of it. After he recovers a bit, he will dispel the necromancy poison step by step. It will take at least one or two years for him to fully recover."

Snape did not comment on this, but glanced at little Black who was forced to sleep by Zenobia's magic power, and said to Malfoy: "Lucius, I think his situation needs special attention." Black completely Unable to get up, neither he nor Zenobia will be able to wait on the sidelines at any time.

Malfoy nodded: "I'll send a house elf."

Speaking of house elves, Snape couldn't help but frowned, remembering the strange elf in the Malfoy family, and said coldly: "I assume that house elves won't cause any trouble."

"Oh, of course not." Malfoy clearly dismissed Snape's doubts. "A house-elf would never do something rebellious. I'll send Kreacher here. It's the Black elf, this time Thanks to it, otherwise, Regulus would have been dragged to the bottom of the corpse lake."

Snape snorted disdainfully, but didn't object any more.In the current situation, it would be safest for Regulus' elf to take care of him.

Seeing that the two had finished their conversation, Zenobia asked Snape slightly distressed: "Sir, there is no other room at home, where can Mr. Black live?" You can't just put people in the living room, right? "How about letting him live in my room?" Anyway, she is a snake, as long as she changes back to her real body when she sleeps, she can easily solve the problem by fragranting the devil tree in the living room or in the backyard.

Snape immediately gave her a dissatisfied look: "Black lives in my room."

"What about yourself, sir?" Zenobia disapproved.

"Study." Snape didn't give Silver Snake a chance to hesitate, and sent him directly to his bedroom with a levitating spell.

Malfoy, who was temporarily forgotten by his master, sat on the sofa, watching with great interest the interaction between his friend and that strange girl.After Snape sent little Blake upstairs, he suppressed his impatience, and Aria tentatively asked the innocent girl: "Beautiful lady, although you already know me, please allow me to formally introduce myself For a moment, I'm Lucius Malfoy, Severus' good friend, the current head of the Malfoy family..."

"Uh," Zenobia was not used to dealing with such a noble patriarch, and replied somewhat uncomfortably, "Nice to meet you, Mr. Malfoy."

"Oh, Miss Hayes, I think you can call me by my Christian name if you like."

"Oh...then you can also call me by my first name." Well, Zenobia didn't have any special feelings about calling her surname or Christian name.

"My honor, Zenobia." Malfoy smiled gracefully, "Just now you said that you met me before, did you mean the time when I came to see Severus during the summer vacation two years ago?"

"um, yes."

"But I didn't see you that time." Malfoy said casually, but he remembered Snape's strangeness at that time. He could remember clearly that something was still burning in the kitchen. There is also a plate of fresh fruit salad on the low table in the living room.

"Well, Patriarch Malfoy is so bored, running to other people's houses in the middle of the night, just like those old ladies, curious about some unknown news." Snape walked down the stairs and said sarcastically, "And you, Hai Miss Si, since you are so energetic that you don’t need to sleep, and you have time to chat, why don’t you hurry up and finish the dissertation you’ve been procrastinating for a few days!”

Zenobia, who was very unaccustomed to talking to people other than Snape, immediately breathed a sigh of relief, hurriedly wagged her snake's tail, climbed up the stairs, and said to Snape: "Sir, I'll go to the study and make your bed. "He walked away quickly.

"Lovely girl, isn't she, Severus?" Malfoy quipped.

Snape sat opposite Malfoy, folded his arms and snorted, "Lucius, are you waiting here on purpose to discuss with me whether Miss Hayes is cute?"