Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 214 Autumn of Trouble

   "What the **** is...how?"

  Snape opened his hazy eyes and woke up from his lethargy. What he saw was a familiar room. He closed his eyes again, recalling some fragmented memory fragments.

   "Last night...like... had a nightmare?" Snape frowned, trying to recall what happened last night. He remembered vaguely hearing a strange cry, and then...then he couldn't remember anything.

  That wasn't a memory at all, Snape only vaguely remembered crying, and then he lost consciousness, what happened?

   While Snape was still thinking about the reason, he suddenly caught a glimpse of the mechanical wall clock in the corner, and jumped up from the bed.

  I actually slept until 9:30 in the morning?

   As a potion master who strictly demands himself, this is simply an unforgivable sin.

  Snape hurriedly got up and changed into his robes, and immediately rushed to the Potions classroom.

   Without a doubt, the Potions Professor was late.

  The story of Snape letting the students pigeons spread quickly in Hogwarts.

   This can be regarded as a rare big news. It is hard for everyone to imagine that a person like Snape would be late for class?

   It's a rare new thing in ten years.

   It took less than half an hour for this incident to almost spread throughout Hogwarts, and it was even more sensational than the news that the stupid Slytherin student was arrested on the night tour in the morning.

  No way, who made it hard for everyone to imagine that such a thing would happen.

  Of course, no one dared to discuss this matter openly.

   No one wants to be caught by Snape and become the chicken to make an example of others. Moreover, everyone noticed Snape's gloomy expression as if someone owed him 10,000 Galleons, so naturally no one would commit suicide.

   "What a lively day!" Albert suppressed his yawn, ate a slice of bread with jam, and listened to the gossip-loving girls beside him talking about interesting things.

  Last night, people were talking about the underground haunting of the castle. Some people said that the eerie crying sound was actually made by the crying Myrtle in the bathroom on the second floor, and some people said that it might be a prank by Peeves. By this point, there's nothing wrong with a bunch of smoke bombs.

As for the Slytherin students who were caught by Filch, everyone was more watching the excitement. Anyway, they all saw that Slytherin House was unhappy. Slytherin House was deducted a lot of points, and students from the other three houses naturally It feels good all over, like drinking a big bottle of butter beer.

  As Fred who knew the truth, several people tried not to let themselves laugh. They all knew that the unlucky Slytherin student had undoubtedly become Albert's scapegoat.

   However, they are happy to see this scene, there is nothing more gratifying than seeing a nasty guy have bad luck.

   "You say, when will Snape find out that he lost something?"

  At this moment, Fred and the others are gathering in the Room of Response, looking at the pot of Mandrake that Albert got from Greenhouse No. 3.

  Beside George couldn't help laughing while holding his stomach.

"Not so fast." Albert explained casually, "However, Snape should become suspicious after a while. Unless they find that there is a pot of Mandrake missing in the greenhouse, but I don't think Professor Sprout is so You will find out soon, after all, there are too many magical plants that she needs to take care of, and she has to teach students every day, how can she have time to remember how many pots there are."

"That makes sense." George wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, nodded and said, "If Professor Sprout only planted those mandrakes, he would definitely find the problem, but she has too many things to care about. Said that Professor Sprout can't remember everything clearly."

   "Are you going to return this pot of Mandrake?" Lee Jordan asked suddenly. With Albert's ability, there is naturally a way to return the Mandrake back quietly.

  As long as the mandrake is returned, the matter is basically flawless, even if Snape suspected that the cry came from the mandrake, he didn't have any evidence.

   "No, I still use this thing." Albert was already preparing to turn this pot of Mandrake into a black magic item. As for the problem of salt, he believed that he would be able to solve it.

   It is not ancient times, edible salt is not expensive.

   "What if Snape guesses?" George couldn't help asking. He believed that Snape was not stupid, as long as he contacted the castle rumors and went to Professor Sprout to make sure, these things would be connected soon, maybe not in the first two days, but definitely It will still be found.

"It's impossible for him to perform Legilimency on all the students. Moreover, ordinary students simply don't have the ability to quietly get a pot of Mandrakes from the greenhouse and knock Snape unconscious. Snape Pu has a spell protecting his office, do you think a second year student can break through those protection spells and break into his office?

"Besides, it rained yesterday? There are no footprints left on the ground." Albert blinked at the three of them, and said with a smile, "What's more, the fat lady was not there last night, even if Snape suspected It was done by Gryffindor students, and it is impossible for him to know from the mouth of the fat lady that there is evidence that Gryffindor students left the dormitory in the middle of the night to go out at night."

   "Unless Snape uses Veritaserum on every student, but the Ministry of Magic restricts the use of Veritaserum, and the medicinal materials needed for Veritaserum are also very precious, even if he wants to make more."

   "My God, have you taken all this into account?" Fred couldn't help screaming.

"Of course." Albert thought for a while and continued: "Now, the three of you are the only flaw, you have to pretend you don't know anything, and don't discuss it. In a word, don't attract Snape's attention power, that's important."

   "We know what to do." The three looked at each other and grinned.

   "If the murderer is not found, Snape will be mad." The four couldn't help laughing.

   "By the way, when are we going out to find jumping toadstools?"

   "This week, if it rains, go out and look for jumping toadstools." Albert thought for a while and said, "After potions class in the afternoon, go to the library to find information about jumping toadstools."

The book "Thousands of Miraculous Herbs and Mushrooms" actually has an introduction to the jumping toadstool, but it is not complete. They need to find a book called "Compendium of Toadstools" in the library to get relatively safe information. harvesting and storage methods.

  Before leaving the Room of Requirement, Albert reminded again: "Remember, you don't know anything, don't let Snape notice you."

  No way, they will have Potions class later.

   "We know." The three said with serious expressions, and then all laughed again.

   "Okay, okay, I think you'd better laugh here before you go out." Albert helplessly raised his hand to cover his cheek, and there was a faint smile on the corner of his mouth.

   The Ministry of Magic forbids the abuse of Veritaserum, and it is rarely even used in interrogation of prisoners.

   If Legilimency is not directly chanted on people, the information that can be obtained is very limited, especially when the two sides stagger their sight. A clever minder can judge whether the other party is lying through dialogue habits.

  (end of this chapter)