[HP] turns in your hand

Ten minutes before Chiara knocked on the door, Dumbledore happened to be talking to Snape about another matter that had nothing to do with Moody.

"The man who killed Peter Pedilou was inside Hogwarts."

Snape sat across from him, and after hearing this sentence, he raised his lips and showed a smirk without any surprise: "It seems that we have come to this conclusion a year ago."

"Yes, but this conclusion is still shocking, because after we ruled out all suspects, that person still hasn't been found." Dumbledore said calmly, "His purpose, his position, and his confusing identity , or even whether we should use 'he' to refer to it, the mystery is like a fishbone that makes people sleep restlessly."

Snape was silent. He recalled the memory that Dumbledore extracted from him before the trial of Sirius. The calm and cold performance of that "Ron" was chilling.

But whether it was him or Dumbledore, no one could deny that this "Ron" was by no means Voldemort's side.On the contrary, this ruthless man showed enough kindness towards Sirius and the Order of the Phoenix behind him.

"Have you got a new clue?" Snape asked, "otherwise you wouldn't have brought this up again."

"Maybe, I don't want to doubt others casually, but I seem to have grasped another somewhat disturbing clue." Dumbledore sighed slightly, "Our investigation direction has been turning around on adults before, and we have investigated All the faculty and staff at the school that day...in fact, there is another possibility."

Snape said coldly: "You don't want to say that a student did such a thing, do you?"

Dumbledore looked at him calmly: "Excluding the impossible conclusion, the remaining possibility, no matter how absurd, is closer to the truth."

"You mean, an underage student who knew before all of us that Peter Pettigrew was a mouse that had been lurking in the Weasleys' house for ten years, and that that scumbag Blake would break in to find him on Halloween? He, can also make a compound potion, successfully use the reverse Animagus to solve the curse, and use Avada Kedavra to kill people without blinking an eye?"

"Calm down, Severus. Even Voldemort could have stuck to the back of Quirrell's head. It's not surprising that a student can do this. In fact, I've seen quite a few days when I was a student. A marvelous attainment of magic—"

Snape sneered, "At least I don't find myself teaching such people at all."

Dumbledore smiled: "You can recall it again, maybe there will be?"

Snape fell silent, staring at Dumbledore when a suspicious thought flashed through his mind.

"Do you know who it is?"

"Not sure, just suspicion. The evidence has been cleaned up too cleanly, and there is no clue that can clearly reveal the identity for me to confirm." Dumbledore shook his head very slightly.

Snape leaned forward: "Really a student?"

"It seems to be." Dumbledore said ambiguously.

"Who?"

Dumbledore looked at him with a smile: "Will you not treat that child differently after you know?"

Snape said angrily, "A child is a child who can kill?"

"Of course, it's just a child who has gone astray."

"I don't think so." Snape whispered, "This kind of person should not continue to hide in the school, and the dangerous elements should be eliminated as soon as possible."

"We are teachers, Severus." Dumbledore said calmly, "In any case, that child is our student. We have an obligation to identify the child's true nature, and then try our best to plant a seedling that has not yet fully grown crooked. Correct it."

Snape stared stiffly at Dumbledore: "Is this the time to be lenient?"

"Believe me, Severus, you will soon find yourself a 'soft-hearted' person." Dumbledore shook his head with a smile.

Boom, boom.

"Oh, it seems that our conversation must come to an end. The person outside the door should be Miss Luo." Dumbledore raised his voice, "Please come in."

Chiara slipped in through the crack of the door without a sound: "Good afternoon, Professor Dumbledore, Professor Snape."

Dumbledore responded with a smile: "Good afternoon, Miss Lowe. Come on, please sit down, I just want to ask about what happened in the first Defense Against the Dark Arts class."

Chiara quickly glanced at the panorama of the principal's office. When she saw Snape, she secretly pinched her palm with her fingernails in her sleeve, and she was relieved to find that her current nervousness was completely natural. , There is no need to perform at all.

She came to Dumbledore's desk and sat down a little stiffly - Snape was only one meter away from her, and Chiara's palms were inevitably sweating.She raised her head and glanced at Dumbledore quickly, licked her lips, and asked with the usual politeness: "What do you want to know about that class, Mr. Principal?"

Dumbledore put his hands on the desk and patted them easily: "I've already heard the general situation from Severus, and there are a lot of Slytherins who helped me restore what happened that day, so I Just ask some important questions, Miss Luo."

Chiara's hands were tucked into her sleeves, she pinched the skin on the back of her hands with her nails silently, and said calmly, "Excuse me, Mr. Principal."

"Professor Moody asked you a question, what is the source of the power of black magic spells, right?"

"Yes, but not to me, he asked a question to the class, but I was the only one who raised my hand," Chiara said.

Snape said angrily, "You don't need to raise your hand to answer this kind of question."

Chiara made what seemed like a wry smile: "I thought it was just an academic question."

"This should indeed be an academic question." Dumbledore reassured, "Then how did you answer, Miss Lowe?"

Chiara raised her head and looked directly at Dumbledore's blue eyes for the first time: "I said, I think the power of black magic spells comes from willpower, and willpower does not distinguish between good and evil. But Professor Moody denied it." , he said black magic spells had to be cast with malice, and then told me to go up and show my 'power of will' and kill a spider with the Killing Curse."

Snape sat aside and adjusted his posture. He leaned slightly towards Chiara, which was a protective gesture: "I think Miss Lowe is just putting forward her ideas reasonably. She has always been like this. There are students who think independently, this is the consensus of all the teachers who have taught her. Moody's behavior is revenge with prejudice. He hates Slytherin, and then revenge on students like Miss Luo. Can you tolerate it? Do any professors at your school make students use the Unforgivable Curses, Albus?"

"This is indeed a high-tension line. I will have a good talk with Alastor." Dumbledore said calmly, "But you should calm down a little bit, Severus. I don't mean to blame Miss Lowe, she just obeyed Just followed a professor's instructions."

Ziara remained silent, but complained slowly in her heart: Thanks to you, you can also say "prejudiced revenge against the academy", Professor Snape, how much revenge has Gryffindor been given by you? year?

But Chiara was Snape's only villain, which meant that she knew all about Snape's problems, but still loved him.

"You will not be punished for this, this is a teaching accident, Miss Luo, I apologize to you on behalf of Professor Moody." Dumbledore said warmly, "Do you feel any discomfort or psychological barrier because of this? If If there is, you can say it now, Severus and I have quite a lot of experience in dealing with the aftereffects of using black magic, I think we should be able to help you."

... uncomfortable feeling?

Ziara looked down, staring at her knees, wondering how she should behave now.

It stands to reason that a 14-year-old child who was forced to use the Killing Curse in public should indeed leave a certain psychological shadow.

But she really didn't?

After all, it was just a spider, a spider that she could mercilessly trample to death by lifting her foot, could it be that changing the way of killing spiders would give her nightmares?

Several coping methods were quickly turned in Chiara's mind, and she immediately deduced the rationality of each coping method.

Immediately go along with the flow and say that she really feels scared and disgusted?

Not quite right, Chiara knew that she was usually considered calm and precocious by the people around her, crying and trembling was too much.

But it's not quite right to honestly confess that I don't feel anything at all... Dumbledore probably wouldn't be satisfied with such a cold-blooded answer.

So what should she answer?

What kind of answer is in line with her identity as a 14-year-old girl and won't make Dumbledore suspicious?

Chiara raised her head again, but she didn't just look at Dumbledore at the same level. She cleverly maintained the angle of her eyelids slightly lowered, so that Dumbledore could see her expression, but not her eyes.

"I don't think there is anything disgusting or frightening about the Killing Curse, because I know I'm just killing spiders, and spiders aren't people, and we've killed a lot of spiders in potions class, and even in the dormitory. Destroy some similar bugs." Chiara whispered, "I also understand that using the Killing Curse this time does not mean that I am a bad person, I just killed a spider."

Dumbledore waited silently for her to continue.

"But I feel very puzzled." Chiara's voice gradually tightened, "Professor Moody seems to be hinting at something all the time. He seems to think that Slytherin should be bad, and we should be interested in black magic for granted. Said something about Death Eaters killing people, and that's what disgusts me. Because I think he's hiding something, like he's trying to say..."

"..."

Chiara took a breath, and then said slightly annoyed: "He wanted to tell us that we Slytherins... and me, will also become that kind of murderous Death Eaters in the future."

Snape said coldly, "That's what I want to protest too."

"These are some deep-rooted ideas of Professor Moody. This kind of thinking is wrong, you and I both know." Dumbledore sighed, "I will go and talk to him. You and your Slytherin classmates don't have to be afraid , at least I don’t think you will all become Death Eaters in the future, you are all just children now.”

Ciara didn't say anything, but she was sneering in her heart: come on, what can you talk to a fanatic Death Eater for?

"Okay, let's talk about something light and pleasant next." Dumbledore clapped his hands, "I don't seem to have chatted with you alone, Miss Luo, but I have heard about you from many professors, and they almost They all like you very much, saying that you are a rare good boy who loves to study and is polite and sensible. Severus has mentioned it several times, saying that you are the most worry-free student in the school-of course, usually as a headache brought up by the Gryffindor control group."

Snape shot Dumbledore a gouging look out of Chiara's sight.

"I also probably heard something about your family situation." Dumbledore pretended not to see Snape's expression, "Are you going back to the orphanage during your vacation? Have you encountered anything in the Muggle world?" difficulty?"

Chiara responded politely: "Thank you for your compliment, Mr. Headmaster. Thank you too, Professor Snape. I also hope to be a student who makes you worry-free. I have a good life in the Muggle world. I will I went back to live in the orphanage, and I got along well with the teachers there, without any problems, let alone difficulties."

"That's good. After all, it's really not a reassuring thing for a little witch to be alone." Dumbledore crossed his hands, as if chatting about family affairs, "However, it seems that you didn't stay at school during the Christmas holiday last year. Have you returned to the orphanage, Miss Luo?"

Ziara clenched her fists under the table for a moment.

"I spent a few days in the orphanage, but mostly traveling."

When Chiara answered, her tone was the same as usual, but her body muscles hidden under the school robe were tense, and her feet also secretly exerted strength, concentrating all her strength to deal with this critical question.

"Travel? Alone, where did you go?"

"I took the train to the south for a stroll. It took me less than a week to see the countryside and cities further afield."

"Travel is indeed a way to keep one's mind open." Dumbledore said with a smile, "I am glad to see that you have your own hobbies and unique personal life. I hope this incident will not affect your life. mentality, Miss Luo."

Chiara raised the corner of her mouth briefly: "I don't think so, Mr. Principal."

"It's okay, thank you for your cooperation, Miss Luo, you can go."

Chiara stood up and signaled to Dumbledore and Snape one by one: "Goodbye, Mr. Headmaster, Professor Snape."

When she left the principal's office, she closed the door very lightly. When she walked down the revolving steps, she found that her shirt was soaked in cold sweat.

"Miss Luo is a very interesting child."

Snape was still thinking about Moody: "Yes, Moody should be thankful that she doesn't have any family background, if she has a father like Lucius, then the whole of Hogwarts will be in trouble. "

Dumbledore looked at him probingly: "You seem to really appreciate her?"

"Because she's the only student I've ever taught who is intelligent, sensible and respectful to her teacher over the years." Snape said deadpan.

Dumbledore asked with great interest: "Do you think this kind of maturity beyond her age is her advantage?"

Snape sneered: "The fact is that 90% of adults are not quite as 'mentally mature' as she is."

Dumbledore sighed slightly.

"That's where Chiara Lowe is most pitiful."

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The author has something to say:

Dumbledore is watching

Lao Deng: I suspect that the prisoner is among the students

Snape: Get this man out Sharkhead!

Lao Deng: Maybe Xiao Qi

Snape: I think it's better to be more cautious and not suspect the wrong person

Lao Deng:?

Snape actually had double standards for Xiao Qi, after all, he was a good student who wrote him greeting cards during the holidays

BGM: Liar, I listened to the cover version of Sunflower.