[HP] Blast! Word Small Universe

"Well, we were arguing about that just now. She came out of the Three Broomsticks toilet with it in her hand, saying it was a present for someone at Hogwarts, and she was passing it on. She spoke She had a strange expression at the time... Oh, no, oh, no, she must have been under the Imperius Curse, I didn't realize it at the time!" Lini cried again and trembled all over.Hermione patted her shoulder lightly.

"Didn't she say who gave it to her, Lini?" Jane demanded.

"No...she refused to tell me...I said she was in a daze and she must never take this thing to school, but she just wouldn't listen, and then...then I wanted to snatch it from her... And then—later—" Lini let out a desperate scream.

"We'd better go back to school," said Hermione, still holding Lini in her arms, "so we can find out how she is doing. Let's go..."

A group of them hurried back to school, and happened to meet Professor McGonagall who came to see them.

Professor McGonagall hurried down the stone steps to meet them in the whirling rain and snow. As soon as they met, she saw something in Harry's hand: "Hagrid said that the four of you saw what happened to Katie Bell - please immediately Come upstairs to my office! What are you holding, Potter?"

"That's what Katie touched," said Harry.

"My God," said Professor McGonagall, taking the necklace from Harry, looking very nervous, "No, no, I have to take this necklace to Professor Snape immediately!" Professor McGonagall said She was going to walk in another direction, but soon she stopped, turned around and said to them, "Go to my office and wait for me first!"

"Professor, let me deliver the necklace." Jane said suddenly, "Harry and the others know all about it, you can ask them. I think Professor Snape may need this now, and he can see something."

Professor McGonagall looked at Jane, and then she handed the scarf and necklace to Jane worriedly: "Don't touch it, just keep it wrapped in the scarf!"

Jane took the scarf and necklace to find Snape. She guessed that he might not know about Katie yet, and he should be in the cellar under normal circumstances.

When she came to the cellar, she looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar black wooden door, and she froze there for a moment and forgot to knock on the door.She has stood in front of this door countless times waiting for the people inside to open the door for her, and she has also been shut out of this door many times—whenever she thought she was approaching him, he always seemed to surprise him again. She turned it down.

At this time, Snape was brewing potions for Lupine in the office, he felt someone standing outside the door, and he could also feel who that person was.For a moment Snape hesitated whether to open the door and drive her away, or to pretend that no one was huddled in the office as before—in fact, he had had enough of Jane standing outside the door waiting for him to open it again and again, Snape thought he was a coward from the bottom of his heart every time she stood outside his door!And he, hated the word.

—He, Severus Snape, was never a coward!

Never!

He can face the Dark Lord whom everyone fears without fear, and play him in the palm of his hand.He can also freely deal with the difficult tasks that Dumbledore gives him every time.He can even walk between the Death Eaters and the Order of the Phoenix with ease, playing a dangerous double agent.

So, he's not a coward.

He was braver than anyone, more fearless than anyone, and more alone.

But...he didn't even have the courage to face Jane, so he could only hide in the cold office like the most incompetent man in the world!

Every time, it is like this.

"Tuktuk..." There was a knock on the door outside.

Snape stopped the stirring rod in his hand and stood staring at the door - he was sure that Jane could not break into his office, and he was sure that she would stand at his door many times without knocking .Since saying something like that that day, Jane would hang around his door many times, but never knock.He knew, but never opened the door.

But today, she knocked on the door.Snape felt that Jane's knock on the door was not only knocking on his door, but also on his heart, pinching his blood vessels, making him feel that his whole heart had been hit, and his whole being It was as if they were holding their breath.

"Professor, I know you're inside." Jane stood at the door, holding a necklace wrapped in a scarf in her hand.Her hands were red with cold, and she was so cold that she almost lost consciousness.But her voice was still calm and unhurried, "Professor McGonagall asked me to bring you something, because some students were attacked by black magic, and she thought maybe you could help. The injured girl is five graders, Katie—”

Before Jane finished speaking, the door of the office was opened.

Snape stood there with a gloomy face, wearing a black robe that looked colder than a winter night.Those dark eyes quickly scanned Jane's body. When he noticed the abnormal flushing of her cheeks, he immediately dragged her into the office, quickly closed the door, and turned up the fireplace in the flames.A series of movements flowed smoothly, as if they had been trained countless times. Before Jane had time to react, Snape said viciously: "No matter what Minerva asked you to do, I think I just It can be seen that you have a purpose - you want to kill yourself at the door of my office, so that I can be responsible for you, right?"

Jane opened her mouth to deny it, but Snape obviously wouldn't give her the chance.

"Okay, shut your mouth, stupid girl! I won't be responsible if you freeze yourself to death at the door, and I think your blood still has a little sense, it should inform your brain, make you dull and rigid Your brain knocked on the door earlier, instead of standing there stupidly!" Snape snatched the familiar scarf from her hand - someone else's was Potter's.Then he stuffed a cup of hot cocoa into her hand.

Jane stared at Snape, looking almost greedily into his cheek.She noticed that he had lost a lot of weight and looked worse than he usually did in class.He must not have taken good care of himself, Jane was almost sure.

She felt sorry for his condition, but she couldn't say a word of concern, she could only stand there stupidly with a cup of hot cocoa he gave her, not knowing what to say.

Snape felt something wrapped in the scarf, he remembered what Jane said when he knocked on the door, pulled out his wand and put the scarf on his desk, and then carefully picked the scarf away with his wand.

Inside was a string of necklaces, glowing blue.

Snape had almost quickly concluded that it was a forbidden artifact of dark magic, so powerfully cursed that it would kill anyone who touched it.

"What happened?" Snape looked up at Jane who was still standing there, she looked a bit bad, but Snape couldn't show his concern, which made him more irritable and annoyed growled, "Miss Jean, have you always been planning to stand there and do nothing! I think even a stupid troll just wants to tell me the consequences of everything now, or do you think I should be right now?" You use your Legilimency to rummage through your useless brain to find everything I want to know? Oh, of course, I hope your brain is filled with brains and not scraps!"

Faced with Snape's harsh words, Jane's blushing face turned pale in an instant—now she regretted a little, she shouldn't have come here—she lacked the courage to face him.

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