HP's Lost and the Lighthouse

Snape really underestimated Umbridge's ability to hold a chicken feather as an arrow.

——With what Snape said, Umbridge really approached Dumbledore with this question.

Following three knocks on the door, Umbridge's unique, high-pitched and thin voice sounded outside the door: "May I come in?"

Dumbledore, who was listening to Snape's complaint, looked at the Potions Professor, and said with a smile, "Please come in."

Snape grimaced, stood up reluctantly, and opened the door for Umbridge.

"Welcome, Ms. Umbridge," he smirked, "we're talking about the great changes you've made at Hogwarts—"

Umbridge looked at Snape suspiciously. Although he didn't believe that Snape would say anything good about him, he still puffed up his chest: "This is what I should do—as the Ministry of Magic As a member, it is my bounden duty to help Hogwarts change and improve the old, highly dangerous and inefficient teaching methods."

She spoke in her girlish voice, walked past him without looking, and sat in Snape's seat opposite Dumbledore.

Snape cast her a nonchalant glance, and instead of leaving, as Umbridge had hoped, he sat down in another chair that Dumbledore had conjured up.

"Cough, cough," Umbridge cleared his throat as usual, without looking at Snape who was sitting on the side, and started talking to Dumbledore, "I wonder if you heard from me?" What about the notice of the appointment, Mr Dumbledore?"

Dumbledore smiled, put his fingertips together, and looked at Umbridge with blue eyes through the lens, with a calm attitude as if he hadn't received repeated comments from the professors about Umbridge in the past month. Richie's opinion.

"Yes, I have," he said with a smile, "but I don't think it will prevent me from talking to Professor Snape about his problems before the appointment - oh, and if you don't mind, we may You can ask Professor Snape to listen to your suggestions on Hogwarts' educational methods, after all, he is also a member of our teaching team."

Umbridge snorted suspiciously, straightened his body, and put the notebook and quill on his knees: "Actually, I don't have any special suggestions...Of course, there are still many things that can be improved, but I With enough patience... we can take our time." She cleared her throat again and opened her notebook.

Snape didn't mind at all the way Umbridge talked as if he was a transparent person, sitting on the chair and watching the two talking with a half-smile.

"Today I mainly want to ask you some questions...about the professors," Umbridge looked a little complacent after noticing Snape's gaze, "Of course, those professors who have been teaching for decades They must be very reliable. These questions are mainly about—"

She glanced at Snape: "Professor Snape, and Professor Trelawney."

"Excuse me," Dumbledore said, and followed Snape with a glance, "I will answer you honestly without involving the privacy of the professors."

"So," she squeezed her throat, "you have rejected Professor Snape's application to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts many times, haven't you? Can you explain in detail why you refused?"

"Oh, I didn't expect you to be interested in this question." Dumbledore smiled, turned his eyes and glanced at Snape, who was not very good-looking.

"That's a simple question. I think Professor Snape has more expertise in Potions than Defense Against the Dark Arts - and of course, has to take into account that finding the right Potions teacher is more important than finding the right one. Defense Against the Dark Arts is much more difficult to teach."

"So, do you think the previous Defense Against the Dark Arts professors are all suitable professors?" Umbridge asked. "As far as I know, the parents are very dissatisfied with your hiring a werewolf to be a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor... see You don't seem to think that a werewolf professor is very dangerous to students?"

"About this," Dumbledore said, "I can only say that Professor Lupine is much safer than what the parents think subjectively, not to mention that we have an excellent Potions professor who brews wolfbane potion for him, To ensure that every full moon night can be passed safely."

"Oh, oh, yes, Potions Master," Umbridge wrote something in her notebook with a smile, "does your rejection of Snape's application have anything to do with Snape's - certain experiences ?”

She glanced pointedly at Snape's sleeve-hidden arm.

"I don't think so." Dumbledore said calmly, "If there is any reason for me to reject Severus' application to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts, the only possibility is that I think he is more suitable as the students' potion." professor."

This answer did not satisfy Umbridge.She showed a contrived expression of surprise: "So..."

Before she could finish her sentence, Snape stood up from his chair with a loud jerk.

"Obviously, our dear Headmaster has made a wrong decision this time—" he raised his eyebrows, and said impatiently under the gaze of the other two, "our current Defense Against the Dark Arts professor is obviously very interested in the History of Magic This class is more interesting." After speaking, Snape sneered coldly and strode away, shaking his robe.

Dumbledore laughed suddenly.He looked at Umbridge, who was still unaware of Snape's sarcasm, and said, "Obviously, prying into the Potions Master's privacy would not be very pleasant to the subject."

"Honestly," he said, "I'm surprised you don't seem to like Professor Snape very much, Dolores. I thought you had quite a bit of common ground in your treatment of Harry."

Umbridge narrowed her bulging eyes with drooping lids. "What does that mean?" she said softly. "I don't think I'm treating Potter any special - but he obviously isn't." He is a very obedient and good student.”

"That's what I mean," said Dumbledore calmly, "Professor Snape always thought that I gave Harry too much privilege, and that he - to use his words - always tried to treat all students equally. Naturally, he also thought that Harry was a not very obedient student.

The woman raised her eyebrows, appearing to be very skeptical of Dumbledore's words: "Really? No one has mentioned this to me—" As she spoke, she quickly wrote down in her notebook something happened.