[HP] Leader's Exclusive Rose

Slughorn wears a tasseled velvet hat to match his smoking suit.When Cedric led Rosalind in, he led them into the crowd without any explanation, and introduced them enthusiastically to everyone.

Rosalind never liked to be surrounded by crowds, and Cedric intertwined with her while handling the greetings and making friends with ease.

Young people always have a gentle temperament, but also a convincing ability.Rosalind responded with a smile beside him, as if a newlyweds responded to their guests.

At this moment, Draco walked towards this side by Filch's ears.

"Professor Slughorn," Filch said wheezingly, the flesh on his jaw twitching, and the goldfish's eyes flashed with that crazy light that catches students mischievous, "I found this boy hiding upstairs. In the corridor, he said he was invited to the party by you, and that he was just late—”

"Okay, I wasn't invited!" Draco broke free from Filch's hand angrily, and glanced at Filch while meeting Rosalind's eyes, "I want to barge in, are you happy?"

"Oh nothing, nothing," Slughorn waved his hand, "after all, I knew your grandfather..."

"Please allow me to take him away." Snape stepped forward to Draco's side, but his black eyes were fixed on Slughorn. "Come with me, Draco."

Cedric narrowed his eyes - he hasn't been at Hogwarts for a long time, according to what his fiancee told him, Draco is now a Death Eater, and Snape's reaction doesn't seem to be Unaware.

"Do you want to go out and have a look?" He looked down at Rosalind who was frowning, not sure what she was thinking for a while.

"You stay with me—" the girl put the wine glass back on the silver plate held by an elf, "I'm afraid alone."

After humming slightly, Cedric made an excuse to go to see Dumbledore and took Rosalind to leave the party first—following Snape and Draco to a corner to listen to their conversation at a distance .

No wonder Snape looked a little surprised just now, it turned out that Draco didn't let him intervene in this matter.

Narcissa had made an unbreakable oath with him, but why would Bellatrix teach him Occlumency?

Predictably, the two of them broke up, and Draco walked down the corridor, past the open door of Slughorn's office, and disappeared around the corner.Snape also had an unfathomable expression on his face, and went back to the party.

"Come out, Harry." Cedric suddenly said to the empty space beside him.

"Huh?" The girl looked up in doubt, and Harry also tore off the invisibility cloak on hearing this.

The eyes of the savior were obviously full of surprise: "How do you tell?"

"A small part of the stone platform was covered—" Cedric pointed with his eyes, "normally, it should be spraying water now."

"Ha~ It's really yours." Harry smiled, but then he thought of what he had just heard, "The two of them, uh...what is the unbreakable vow? Snape doesn't seem to know it."

"Come to my office," Rosalind sighed, feeling very distraught, "Come on, I haven't fed Jiujiu tonight."

Her office is right next to Snape's, and Luna made her a small pendant out of corks and roses and fixed it on her door, and the little blue bird flew towards her as soon as she stepped in. .

"Sit down," the girl pointed to the chair in front of the table, and then opened the drawer to find some bread crumbs and fine grains, "Would you like some tea?"

Jiujiu obediently stood beside the small porcelain plate, watching the girl scoop up a spoonful of food for it.

After looking around, Cedric cast a Fire Charm on the small stove to boil water, and Harry continued with the question.

He no longer trusts Snape, and Rosalind thinks it might be a family influence too—his father, James, and his godfather, Sirius, were at odds with Snape during school, and to be honest, she was also at odds with Dumbledore. There was a little bit of uncertainty in the decision.

If Dumbledore is right, it can only be said that the responsibility on Snape's shoulders is too heavy:

He has to maintain the character of living among the Death Eaters, but also to ensure that he is not discovered as a member of the Order of the Phoenix, and he has to work part-time as a professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts.

Cedric couldn't help thinking of a word - double agent.

It's just that none of the three of them knew which faction Snape was serving, and they could only silently hope that Dumbledore's choice was right.

Back at Shen's house with Cedric in the evening, the girl asked her parents about the "Half-Blood Prince", but also did not get an effective response, but the Fuchsia Curse that Yucheng Shen told her was surprisingly very good. Familiar, because his wife had cast this spell on him.

Nora spread her hands helplessly: "This spell was very popular during a certain period of time when I was in school, probably in the fourth and fifth grades—some students often used it to punish people."

"But in my impression, I can be sure that Lily and Severus are the ones with the best grades in Potions, but Lily is a woman, so she definitely wouldn't call herself 'Prince', Snape...uh... Will he give himself such a nickname?" Yucheng Shen's expression looked very complicated, as if thinking of the scene where Snape called himself a prince.

Cedric pondered for a while: "Perhaps we can find an opportunity to ask Professor Snape for advice. Logically speaking, if someone's Potions class scores are as impressive as his, he should know a little bit about it."

"Bellatrix also taught Draco Occlumency—" Rosalind poked weakly at the steak cut by her fiancé in front of her, "Dad, you taught me that before, but why did she will teach him?"

"In order to prevent Dumbledore from knowing, and at the same time, it may also be to guard against Severus." Nora gave her own opinion, and the girl frowned even more after hearing this, "What about you, Seid? What's new in the ministry?" ?"

Cedric shook his head slightly: "No, but Scrimgeour once asked me to declare that the Ministry of Magic has done a good job in dealing with some special incidents in the wizarding world."

"Normal," Yu Cheng Shen raised his brows and sized up his prospective son-in-law, "You can also be regarded as the champion of the Goblet of Fire of 'Living Catastrophe', and recently you were crowned 'Savior of the World' at the same time as that kid Harry. '? You must be careful when you are outside. Death Eaters always like to attack 'authority'. Although Scrimgeour can't find Harry effectively, he can still see you every day."

The veal steak in front of Rosalind was about to be smashed by her, so Cedric had to switch the one in front of him with hers, "I will pay attention, don't worry too much about me."

Taking advantage of the holiday, the girl went to the Borgin-Bock store again. Looking at the old iron cabinet, Rosalind couldn't help but think of the function of the disappearing cabinet that Borgin told her last time.

It's not that she didn't want to destroy it, but this also means that Bojin will bear the wrath of Voldemort and even the inhumane torture of the Death Eaters.Draco didn't intend to tell her where the Hogwarts Vanishing Cabinet was, and even if she knew, there was nothing she could do about it - as worried about Bokin, she dared not destroy either of the two Vanishing Cabinets.

After returning to Hogwarts, Harry told Rosalind that Dumbledore asked him to trick Slughorn's real memory that night. She had never heard of "Horcrux", but just looking at the name would not It's hard to guess that this thing must have something to do with souls and black magic.

As she had imagined, Slughorn gave Harry the order to evict him coldly after listening to Harry's questions—even in Potions class, he uncharacteristically ignored the potions Harry had prepared.

He seemed determined to refuse to answer all questions about Horcruxes.

The lights in Dumbledore's office were on, and the portraits of previous headmasters were snoring softly in the frame.Dumbledore was holding the rim of the Pensieve with both hands, but his right hand was still charred black, the same as the last time Rosalind saw him during the summer vacation, and it didn't seem to have improved at all.

"What's the matter, Professor Shen?" Dumbledore turned around, his warm gaze reflected from behind the half-moon-shaped glasses, "Would you like a piece of lemon sherbet?"

"Oh, thank you, but I came here to, uh, ask about something." Rosalind couldn't help frowning, she didn't know how to speak, "I, maybe you know the unbreakable oath?"

The old man nodded, as if he could see through her thoughts: "Are you trying to tell me about Severus?"

"Yes," the girl sighed, "I, I... You must know that I have learned some things by accident - but I found that I can't figure out the connection between them. Do you believe that Professor Snape ?"

"Of course - I have always trusted Severus. I hope you will trust him as well." Dumbledore's voice was slow, but the firmness in it remained undiminished.

Rosalind met his gaze and breathed a sigh of relief from the bottom of her heart. In this case, Snape would definitely not betray: "Excuse me, what happened to your hand? Did you encounter any danger?"

"I couldn't resist the temptation~" Dumbledore raised his brows, "Thank you for your concern, Rosalind. I hope you will all be firm in your faith when the time comes."

"Severus' Patronus is a very beautiful doe." Dumbledore didn't seem to want to explain too much, looking back at the girl's puzzled eyes, he smiled kindly again: "I hope your teaching Life can be more relaxed and enjoyable, Professor Shen."

Walking out of Dumbledore's office, she had an extra piece of lemon sherbet in her hand, and Rosalind still hadn't recovered from the shock: she always thought that all Death Eaters couldn't summon the Patronus, because the There is nothing good about the Dead Apostles to miss.If Snape could even summon the Patronus, then it would be too hard for him to be a double agent.

Doe?Rosalind felt that Dumbledore was not a person who liked charades, she frowned, and suddenly remembered that Harry's Patronus was a stag.

But what did it matter... Harry wasn't Snape's son.

Wait - son? !She remembered that when Sirius had escaped from prison and came to the school to find Harry, the black-haired, blue-eyed savior had said that his father James Potter's Patronus was also a stag.

... Tsk, don't think about it!Rosalind scolded the villain who was thinking wildly in her mind, she thought it was better to go to Snape first and ask about the "Half-Blood Prince".

After taking several deep breaths at the door, Rosalind knocked on Snape's office door.

The black-robed professor opened the door casually, and when he saw the person who came, he just glanced at him: "What's wrong?"

The girl had to force herself to meet Professor Bingshan's scrutiny: "Uh... I have some questions to ask you, Professor. Hmm - can we go in and talk?"

Snape pulled the door open, and Rosalind took another quick deep breath behind him.

"It's like this. I accidentally found a potions textbook. Its former owner reminded me of you, the master of potions—" the girl tried her best to look sincerely, "Perhaps, I think you might will know him."

"What's your name?" On Snape's desk were some unfinished thesis assignments.

"'Half-Blood Prince'——" Rosalind pursed her lips, and there was some expectation in her voice, "Have you heard of him?"

A strange silence suddenly broke between the two of them, and the girl felt that Snape's gaze was a little cold for an instant.

Then she heard an answer without any warmth:

"I am, the Half-Blood Prince."