Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 451 The Story of Quirina Schiro (5)

  In the morning, the sun has just risen from the horizon, the sky has begun to turn white, and a new day is about to begin.

  On the hill, the ancient castle has regained its new vitality. Beside the Forbidden Forest, Hagrid opened the door and walked out of his hut, starting a busy day.

  The administrator, Filch, had finished inspecting the boys' and girls' bathrooms, and was about to open the castle's oak gate.

  At this moment, the sunlight has already reflected a golden color on the west side of the castle, and it is reflected on the wooden table beside the bed through the window. The owner of the room got up from the bed, he was standing by the mirror, looking at the pale face in the mirror, his lips trembled slightly twice, Quirrell felt that his life might be coming to an end.

   Voldemort once told Quirrell that if he couldn't hold on, he could only go hunting unicorns in the Forbidden Forest. Fresh unicorn blood could extend his life and restore Voldemort's physical strength.

Of course, Quirrell knows that fresh unicorn blood can extend his life, but unicorns live in groups, and these beasts have strong magic power, so they are very difficult to deal with. Quirrell is not sure whether he can succeed with his current strength. Hunt a unicorn.

  Even if one can successfully hunt unicorns and use the blood of unicorns to extend one's own life, doing so requires a heavy price.

   Using fresh unicorn blood to continue life means that Quirrell will be completely cursed by the unicorn and have a half-dead life.

  In the history of magic, there are very few wizards who do this, and the limited records cannot provide Quirrell with much useful information.

   Cursed, half-dead life refers to what exactly, Quirrell is actually not very clear, but that situation is definitely bad, and he doesn't want to go to that step.

   Otherwise, when Voldemort leaves his body, Quirrell's life will still be cursed by the unicorn, which must be very bad.

  However, the worst is not this. Judging from the current situation, Quirrell himself may not be able to persist until then. Voldemort also warned him more than once that he must get the Sorcerer's Stone as soon as possible, but Quirrell can't even handle Hagrid's **** pet dog at present.

Sometimes, Quirrell really wanted to use magic to kill the three-headed dog directly, but he finally held back. He must be cautious. The plan to steal the Philosopher's Stone must not allow failure, let alone cause Dumbledore's death. Note that there is only one chance.

   A matter of life and death, Quirrell will never tolerate his own failure, nor can he tolerate his own failure.

As for Snape, who had become wary of himself, Quirrell was not sure whether the other party would go to Dumbledore to inform him, but Voldemort told him that Snape was once a Death Eater, and as Voldemort's loyal servant, Would Dumbledore trust such a man?

  Although Voldemort said that Snape was his man and he didn't have to worry too much about Snape going to Dumbledore to inform him, Quirrell still doubted it.

   Quirrell also thought about asking Snape to help steal the Sorcerer's Stone together, but this proposal was rejected by Voldemort. The Dark Lord didn't want his situation to be known by others.

   After all, the less people know, the more private and secure you are.

   Quirrell naturally believed Voldemort's words, but he still believed that Voldemort still didn't trust his former servant very much, especially after he became like that, and maybe he didn't want others to know!

   Voldemort would be scared too.

   This made Quirrell feel very interesting. Maybe Voldemort was worried that after seeing his embarrassing appearance, Snape would turn his head and betray him.

   After all, Snape protected the savior when Quirrell murdered Harry. It is difficult to determine his position now, and he might tell Dumbledore about Voldemort's situation.

   After all, he is a wizard from Slytherin House, so it is quite normal for him to use any means for his own purpose.

  Of course, Quirrell actually doesn’t want other people to dilute his impression in Voldemort’s mind. He is gambling, winning everything and losing nothing. Quirrell doesn’t think he will lose.

  Although Snape had doubts about him, his presence still helped Quirrell a lot.

  No way, Snape is so unlikable, flying around like a giant bat all day long, he is a real villain.

  Who would doubt poor, stuttering Professor Quirrell when he's there to grab everyone's attention?

   "Cheer up, you must get the Philosopher's Stone as soon as possible." Quirrell wrapped the freshly washed scarf around his head, patted his cheek and muttered.

  Recently, Quirrell has tried his best not to wander outside the restricted corridor on the fourth floor. Because he found that Harry Potter seemed to be paying attention to the Philosopher's Stone, he thought it was not a good sign, the savior was really meddling.

  On the eve of Halloween, Potter seemed to see himself checking the mechanism of the Philosopher's Stone. Snape also rushed to the restricted area on the fourth floor at that time. It was really difficult for Quirrell to determine who Potter saw and who he suspected.

  Besides, when Potter met him, he would always show him a strange smile. Does that have any special meaning?

  With various thoughts, Quirrell came to the hall to eat.

  The owl in the morning finally brought him good news. The dragon egg he wanted was finally found.

  The smuggler has helped him get the dragon eggs, and they need to agree on a place to complete the final deal.

   Great, now I can finally get the three-headed dog done.

   When Quirrell got up and was about to write a reply to the smuggler, he suddenly felt an inexplicable discomfort in his stomach. The excitement in Quirrell's mind disappeared all of a sudden, his face became ugly, could it be...

   Quirrell immediately thought of what happened a few days ago. Several Slytherin students had inexplicable stomach upsets. It was said that Peeves had added a small amount of soybean powder to the food.

   Could it be that even the professor... Quirrell felt that he might have accidentally fallen for Peeves' prank.

  He clutched his stomach, and under the surprised gazes of other professors, he rushed to the boys' bathroom closest to the hall.

   Not long after, Quirrell came out of the toilet cubicle, his face even paler. He dragged his weak body to the school hospital on the second floor to seek help from Madam Pomfrey.

   Quirrell just asked Madam Pomfrey for a small cup of antidiarrheal. He didn't dare to ask Madam Pomfrey to see him. God knows if the head nurse will see anything.

  In the school hospital, Quirrell saw two unlucky guys on the hospital bed. Slytherin's Flint and Monty had been lying on the hospital bed for two days due to severe diarrhea, and now they barely recovered.

  (end of this chapter)