HP's Lost and the Lighthouse

In the months that followed Black's intrusion, Snape's life was pretty good.

Of course, the famous Potter will inevitably have some minor troubles, such as being frightened by a dementor and falling from a high altitude - but Snape is not worried about Potter - since the dementor Stationed outside the school, Dumbledore never missed a Quidditch match, and the old man would naturally protect his precious boy.

However, the fact that Black broke into Hogwarts again, and even broke into Gryffindor's dormitory, seemed to have stabbed Snape hard in the heart - he almost exploded with anger.Anger and hatred welled up in his heart at the same time, making him twist his cheeks in front of all the professors for the first time, showing a gaffe.

Dumbledore, who was arranging for the professors to inspect the castle, noticed Snape's anomaly almost immediately.He frowned severely, put his hand on Snape's shoulder, and pressed it down suggestively.

"You go to inspect first, I have something I want to talk to Severus." He looked at the professors calmly, as if Snape hadn't shown any scary expressions at all.

Professor McGonagall glanced at Snape, nodded and led the professors out the door.

Snape realized he was getting a little too emotional when Dumbledore put his hand on his shoulder.This is probably because for more than ten years, whenever his emotions fluctuated greatly, there would be such a steady hand on his shoulder.

Under Dumbledore's calm gaze, the Potions Professor closed his eyes and took a few deep breaths, and soon calmed down.

Only then did Dumbledore speak: "Severus, you are a little too excited."

Snape took a deep breath and didn't answer. "Let the past go, Severus, don't trap yourself firmly in the tail of time." The old man said calmly, and patted the young man's shoulder lightly with his strong palm, like It's comforting, and it's like admonishing.

The man is silent.

Dumbledore didn't spend any more time waiting for Snape to adjust his mood.Seeing that the other party had almost calmed down, he walked out of the small classroom where the professors gathered urgently—Black hadn't been caught yet, and he didn't have much time to spend talking with Snape.

Watching Dumbledore's sky-blue robe disappear at the end of the corridor, Snape stood alone in the small classroom for a while.After a while, he exhaled lightly and left the room.

Sirius Black had still not been found.

This made all the professors a little more worried, not to mention anything else, just Harry Potter.The boy who was probably Voldemort's most wanted boy was studying at Hogwarts at the moment.

Although luck was good this time, Blake found the wrong person and did not hurt other students, but who can guarantee that he will have such good luck next time?

For a moment, the professors who gathered again looked at each other in blank dismay.

In any case, even if you can't think of a way for a while, life still has to go on.The security facilities at Hogwarts have become tighter, and even the secret passages that have existed in the castle for centuries have been blocked and filled with the efforts of the professors.

Snape had suggested that Harry Potter be disqualified from Quidditch - just as on Halloween, Potter was also particularly prone to accidents on the Quidditch pitch.However, this proposal was refuted by Professor McGonagall and Dumbledore at the same time. They believed that the freedom of choice of the students should not be restricted because the professors' previous security measures were not in place, even though the professors also felt that Potter seemed to be doing well on the Quidditch pitch. It's easy to go wrong.

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If the other professors were devoted to protecting the students, Snape's goal was entirely to catch Black.

If it was true, as Dumbledore said, that Black had no internal support, then he must know a secret passage that the professors did not know.Even if Snape really suspected that Lupine was helping Black, he could only prioritize another possibility after Dumbledore rejected this possibility.

For this reason, Snape, who had a strange enthusiasm for catching Black, quietly increased the frequency of his inspections in the castle without anyone noticing, even after the heavy teaching tasks were completed. According to the memory of the places where the hijackers used to like to gather together, they checked one by one.

On that day, Snape was about to check the corridor on the east side - it was quite difficult to find a place with a secret passage in all the secret meeting places of the four of Potter and the others, after all, these people always like to be in some strange Meet at the same place, and the secret passages of Hogwarts are often built extremely secretively.

He was walking through the quiet corridors of the castle when he heard a familiar voice—it was Potter!

The originally smooth footsteps paused, and the Potions Professor frowned suspiciously and walked along the sound.

—What was Potter doing on the fourth floor?

Potter was standing next to a statue of a one-eyed witch talking to Neville Longbottom.Snape, who was just about to come over to have a casual glance, glanced at the statue and stopped in his tracks.

If he remembered correctly, Old Potter and the others liked to meet here too—is there... any connection?

All kinds of thoughts swirled in his mind for a moment, and Snape put on an embarrassing expression on Potter's face, and glanced suspiciously at the two boys: "What are you doing here?" His eyes meant something The finger landed on Potter's face for a moment.

"It's strange to meet here—" he said, casting his eyes on the statue of the one-eyed witch that aroused his suspicion.

Out of the corner of his eye, Potter frowned suddenly, looking a little annoyed: "We didn't—meet here, we just... just happened to meet."

"Really?" Snape said noncommittally, who had a panoramic view of the expressions of the two children, "You are used to appearing in unexpected places, Potter, and there are very few valid reasons... I suggest you two Go back to Gryffindor Tower, that's where you should be."

The boys immediately left the corridor as if they were being pardoned.

The man watched Potter's back disappear at the end of the corridor, and then turned around to check the statue that aroused his suspicion.

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"Severus?" Dumbledore stopped by the stairs, looked at the Potions Professor who was bending over to carefully look at a statue in the corridor, with a puzzled expression, "What's wrong with that statue?"

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