The Snake Wife of the HP Professor

Ch.49: Petrochemical

The aftermath of petrification subsided slowly under Dumbledore's resolution, and the arrival of the Quidditch match made the little wizards temporarily forget about the unpleasant things, and everyone devoted themselves to this grand event.It's just that the lively atmosphere hasn't dissipated yet, and another attack completely aroused the fear of the little wizards: Colin Creevey of Gryffindor was petrified.

There was silence in the cellar office. Zenobia flipped through the Marauder's Map, trying to find suspicious persons, but the densely moving names on it made her work very difficult: "Ginny Weasley is normal , who did it?"

Snape kept a straight face and said nothing.

Staring at the map for too long, my eyes are a little sore.Silver Snake reassured the map, and asked the man, "Did the Malfoy elf do anything wrong?" The savior seems to be unable to get rid of all kinds of disasters, but Longbottom's situation is always better than Potter's, at least not. Falling off the broomstick, Lockhart had his hand bone removed.

"No, I reminded Lucius."

"Oh," Zenobia didn't ask any more questions, picked up the map again, and muttered in distress, "There are so many people, it's really hard to find. Who could it be? And that thing, how did it get brought there?" Into Hogwarts?"

Snape took the map from the girl's hand, stroked her soft long hair gently with his big palm, and said in a low voice, "Don't worry too much, with me here, besides, Dumbledore can't let the situation worsen. Now, You have to be careful."

The silver snake responded with a smile: "The basilisk, it won't pose any threat to me...or," her eyes suddenly lit up, "Why don't you and I go catch the basilisk together? You can force it into a If you become your pet, you can study it to your heart’s content, don’t you speculate that the poison of the basilisk can destroy the Horcrux?” Although it is not sure whether the basilisk will be subject to the “coercion” of the king snake, but based on their The strength of the two of them is not a problem to solve each other: if the basilisk is controlled by her, she is not good at hurting the other party, but she can restrain it with restrictions; if the basilisk is not controlled by her, even if she kills it, it is not against her nature.

Snape glared at her viciously: "Be quiet for me."

Zenobia choked on her words, and suddenly froze: "I have studied a lot of information, and the basilisk is not very strong except for those eyes." At least, a few little wizards could solve it last time, of course, There must be Dumbledore's secret assistance behind it, but the power of the basilisk can be roughly judged.

"I assume, you should understand, that the basilisk is being manipulated."

The basilisk itself may not be very threatening—at least if it wasn’t for the Dark Lord, there really haven’t been any incidents of basilisk hurting people in so many years—the people behind it are worthy of vigilance.

Zenobia said angrily: "But the saviors will definitely get involved, maybe Draco will be involved."

"There's Dumbledore," Snape said nonchalantly.

The girl pursed her lips, secretly thinking that Snape would not just sit passively and wait. He must have some plans, but he just didn't want to risk himself.The man's thoughts are a bit domineering, but she is not a stubborn person, so she accepted his kindness and just said: "Anyway, when you need my help, don't hide it from me."

Snape nodded slightly.

The Christmas holiday was approaching in such a tense atmosphere, and both Zenobia and Draco signed on the retention list.Thursday afternoon, Potions class for second-year Gryffindors and Slytherins.Zenobia, who had no class, was nestled in the cellar office, continuing to study the Marauder's Map, her lips couldn't help but a relaxed smile: she was almost sure of the culprit of the petrification incident.

——Although Snape didn't let her worry about these things, she couldn't let the danger around her and let the man face it by himself. After all, he was a professor and couldn't stay out of it.

but……

The silver snake evoked a weird smile, and his eyes turned to the empty cellar corridor on the map. A black dot with "Hermione Granger" was quickly approaching here: it is now the second-year Gryffindor's potion Class, why did this know-it-all lady come here?

Sensing the magic fluctuation at the door, Zenobia quietly walked to the corner, cast a disillusionment spell on herself, and soon the cellar door was pushed open.She raised her eyebrows: Of course, a little wizard can't break in here, she deliberately canceled the restriction, just for the purpose of looking at people.

The little witch walked in lightly, and after a short pause, she quickly closed the door, turned her head and looked around, with a tense expression, as if she felt a little guilty.Apparently there was no room for hesitation due to the urgency of time, she hurried into the potion room.

The invisible silver snake immediately followed: it would be a disaster if any precious potion was taken away by this reckless little witch.Fortunately, Granger's goal was only the not-too-precious potion ingredients.

Granger, who successfully obtained the bicorn horn and the African tree snake skin, took a heavy breath, with a relaxed smile on his face, unlike the previous rush, he walked briskly out of the potion room.Before her, Zenobia sat back on the sofa and revoked the Disillusionment Charm.

So Miss Pass, who had just let go of her mind, froze completely, with her feet still in a tandem posture, dumbfounded: "Hay, Hayes-senpai..."

"Good day, Miss Granger," Zenobia said with a gentle smile, "Why are you here?"

"I, I..." Granger's face turned red and white, white and blue, but he couldn't tell why.

Silver Snake didn't open her mouth either: just like Harry Potter, she had a subconscious affection for the protagonist of the "Original Book". She reserved goodwill towards this know-it-all lady. arrogant.But now, this person actually sneaked into Snape's room and stole things... She was not a moral guard, but she couldn't help being angry when Snape was involved.

"Professor Snape asked me to fetch things." After a while, the clever Miss Know-it-All suddenly thought of an excuse, and explained with some stumbles.

Zenobia's smile deepened: "Well, maybe it's bicorn horn and African tree snake skin?"

"Ah, um... yes." Granger felt very guilty.

"To make a compound decoction?" Silver Snake asked again, "The one that needs these two ingredients at the same time is most likely to be a compound decoction."

"..." The little witch didn't know what to say for a moment.

Zenobia sighed secretly, she would never intentionally make things difficult for others, after thinking about it just now, she vaguely deduced the other party's purpose of stealing potion ingredients.The smile faded, and she whispered softly: "I thought that Professor Snape would not teach second-year wizards to make Polyjuice Potion. Miss Granger, you sneaked out of the professor's class, right? "

Granger's face suddenly turned pale. At this moment, the figure of the smiling senior sister in front of her seemed to overlap with Professor Snape, intimidating and frightening, and she, who has always been excellent in character and learning, was caught by the other party stealing the professor's things, almost It is conceivable how she will be dealt with by the school. All kinds of terrible conjectures made her feel anxious immediately, and her eyes almost overflowed with tears: "Senior Hayes, I..."

"Granger, I won't ask you why you made the Polyjuice Potion." Silver Snake guessed that it was probably related to the "secret investigation" of the secret room and the basilisk by the four saviors. Even if she pursued it, she couldn't interfere. Anyway, Dumbledore will definitely use various excuses to calm down the incident, "But I hope what happened today will not happen again."

Granger froze.

"Harry is my friend." Zenobia saw the other party's doubts, and casually made a perfunctory excuse, "With your knowledge, you should know what respecting teachers is." Her words made the other party blush She frowned, "I can imagine that you probably sneaked out of the classroom while the professor was not aware of the chaos, maybe the chaos was caused by you... I am not qualified to comment on your behavior, but you make trouble , will definitely bring him trouble, waste his precious potion, and make him feel bad. The professor is my most important person, and I can't tolerate anyone hurting him. If there is another time..." She didn't Go on.

The plain words did not seem to be threatening, but they clearly deterred the little witch.Granger replied nervously: "Yes, I'm sorry, we have something really important to make Polyjuice Potion..."

Zenobia smiled and said indifferently, "Your business has nothing to do with me, just take your things and go." She didn't need to have anything to do with Dumbledore's future capable officers, if she didn't want to use them to If she finds out the mastermind behind the petrochemical incident, she will definitely not make her own claim and let the other party take away the things.

The little witch was a little embarrassed, opened and closed her mouth a few times, and finally just thanked solemnly: "Thank you, senior sister."

Watching Granger leave the cellar, Zenobia waved her hands to check the time, and raised her lips slightly: After being delayed for so long by her, Snape would definitely find out that Granger slipped out of the classroom.Even if he couldn't do anything excessive, Granger would have to pay a price for stealing something and causing trouble, and Snape's terrifying rage and a large chunk of the Academy's gems were appropriate punishments.

Lying comfortably on the sofa, Silver Snake murmured to himself: "Oops, how did I become as bad-hearted as Mr.?"

In the evening, Zenobia described the afternoon's events to Snape in detail, but the other party just frowned, snorted coldly and didn't say anything more - anyway, Granger was deducted a full fifty points for skipping class.

"The person who opened the secret room should be Lockhart." Silver Snake talked about the most important thing in front of him. "The map shows that he has entered and exited several times...an abandoned girls' bathroom." She couldn't help laughing as she spoke. , and then adjusted his expression again, "He is very suspicious, that girl's bathroom must be the entrance to the secret room."

Snape's mouth twitched.Although he knew in his previous life that Malfoy's diary and the basilisk caused the petrification incident, he learned about it when Dumbledore confronted Malfoy afterwards.He didn't participate in the specific actions of the Saviors, and he didn't know the specific location and entrance of the secret room.

"Dumbledore should have noticed it too." Snape said thoughtfully, "After that, it's up to the Savior." That old bee was very sensitive, and it was impossible for him to be unaware of what was wrong with Lockhart.

"What should we do next?" Zenobia asked, "Don't we really need to deal with the basilisk first?"

Snape immediately glared at her: "If you don't want to be targeted by both the Dark Lord and Dumbledore at the same time, you'd better put away the thoughts in your little head. We just need to pay attention to the movements of the great savior."

In fact, the basilisk is very attractive to him, but it is only limited to research, pets are not necessary, he has not forgotten what the essence of a lover is, hmph... Anyway, the basilisk is dead, and it is not too late to get the venom and fangs, not to mention With the hands of Dumbledore and the Savior, he doesn't have to worry about Zenobia causing any trouble if she hurts her kind.