After moving the last stone, Severus was finally able to see the passage from which the Basilisk crawled out earlier. It was small, but could easily accommodate three crawling people at a time.
"Maybe I should go and check first?" Nagini said.
"It's not worth it, we shall go together." Jumping into the tunnel, on his haunches, he slowly began to deepen forward.
After a couple of minutes, having passed a rather winding path, he finally came to an open space, wh...
Severus was looking around the gloomy but rather spacious room with slight interest. It was a dull swamp green, with a huge number of snake statues standing on the sides of the stone path that the wizard was currently walking along.
The Archmage's hand tightly gripped the hilt of the sword. After all, even with the help of a spell that enhances perception, he could not find the exact place where the Basilisk was hiding, and the feeling that someone was watching him caused him sligh...
[September 4, 1976 Saturday. 6 a.m.]
In a dimly lit room, a young man was lying on a bed, his gaze fixed on the small window beyond which dawn was beginning, while his hand was stroking the top of a greenish-brown snake. He made no further movements, as if waiting for something. And now, after a few minutes, his eyes lit up, because he finally heard what he had been waiting for a long time:
“Sir, the Headmaster has left the castle…”
But Snape did...
Myrtle continued to pirouette around Severus, looking at him in amazement. "I can't believe my eyes... you've changed too much!" Finally stopping right in front of him, the girl nodded gloomily.
And the Archmage, oddly enough, was even a little amused by this reaction. "All people change over time ...It's pretty normal."
"No one changes this much in such a short time." Myrtle denied his point.
“It's magic, Myrtle. By the way, where did you go? Usually ...
Holding a sheet of paper in his hand, Slughorn looked at Severus thoughtfully.
"I don’t even know what to say, I can’t say for sure whether it is true or not, first you need research, which will take a lot of time, as well as Galleons, and this is not a couple of thousand, but tens, not to mention that you also need permission from the Ministry of Magic for this, and three more unknown ingredients …" stroking his temples, the man shook his head. “Better give it up: it’s s...
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After the end of the festive dinner, all the upperclassmen left the Great Hall almost immediately in order to quickly return to their rooms and begin preparations for tomorrow's class.
The head boys and Prefect stayed to see the new students to the faculties, as well as to conduct a short tour of the castle, because getting lost in it, especially without knowing its structure, is a matter of minutes.
Severus also left the hall, but did not immediately return to his room,...
Eight Hours Later.
Closer to seven o'clock in the evening, the train finally began to approach the station in Hogsmeade, a small village located not far from Hogwarts.
“Thank you for the very useful information,” Severus said with a smile, throwing a small notebook into his wallet, looking, oddly enough, at Regulus smiling back at him, no longer looking as frightened as at the beginning of the trip.
Still, Snape was able to find common ground with him with...
The day before the start of training, having collected all his small belongings and setting up the defensive and signal charms that he managed to cast on the building during the holidays, in the late afternoon the Wizard returned to the training room and took out the parchment taken from the marauders.
"What is it…?" Nagaina crawled up to him and stared in bewilderment at the thing in his hand.
"Umm, I took it from a group of four annoying students." pointing his wand ...
As soon as Lucius left, Severus cut his finger with a smile and drew a diamond-shaped pattern on his palm… “And I thought it would be harder to do,” licking the blood from his finger, he looked at Nagini, whose head was lying on his knees. “Thank you for your help, without you I would hardly have been able to achieve such a result,” in response, she hissed something and closed her eyes. "To be honest, I didn’t understand you, well, okay …"
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After closing the door, Severus thoughtfully looked towards the Galleons.
“I could only read his superficial thoughts, although it’s not surprising: Lucius is quite an experienced Occlumens, and I wouldn’t be surprised if a couple more Legilimency-blocking artifacts are hidden on his body…” Taking a deep breath, Severus moved the coins into a pouch and headed up the stairs .
“But still, you think too narrowly, Lucius …"
At that moment, when...
“My lord, let me take care of this business! I will definitely find that bastard and bring him to you!" Bella said, standing up and looking confidently at the noseless man, and Snape breathed a sigh of relief. 'Apparently, at that time she didn’t notice it ... sigh! And I forgot that this cube, when activated, immediately goes into invisibility until it is hit or the magic ends, and this function does not work for me as the owner, and how can I forget this this ... if I only saw how this ...
2023-01-17 14:05:50 +0000 UTC View PostLeaving the bank accompanied by William, Snape directly felt the goblins’ burning eyes on his back, because another client had just left them, taking all the contents of the vault.
"Why are they staring at you so much? Have you stolen their gold?" the house owner asked him, deciding to play a little joke.
“Let’s just say that we didn’t get along right away, and now, most likely, they think that it was me who persuaded you to take everything from the v...
London. Charing Cross Road. Leaky Cauldron.
As soon as Snape entered the rather busy bar, he immediately went to the counter, behind which stood a stooped man in a dark outfit, wiping a glass glass with a white cloth.
"How much does it cost to rent a room for two days?"
"A Galleon, and for for breakfast, lunch and dinner you will have to pay an additional four sickles,” he replied calmly, but when he saw seven gold coins appeared on the table, the owne...
After saying goodbye to the Macmillan family, Snape wandered around Diagon Alley for a while and, after purchasing some more potion ingredients, returned home.
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Two days later.
Slowly opening his eyes from the pleasant smell that hovered in the air, the Archmage thoughtfully looked at the tray lying on the table, with a cup of coffee and some pastries.
“These elves are strange creatures, although it’...
The next day, closer to dinner, Snape was already standing in front of a small shop in Diagon Alley with a rather simple name: “Artifacts for Everyone”.
As soon as the young magician entered the building, he immediately saw cupboards and tables with various things and trinkets from which magic emanated, and behind the counter stood a middle-aged man, outwardly very reminiscent of the former headboy of Slytherin.
"Good afternoon, I take it, that you're Mr. Snape...
As soon as Snape returned Lily home, before that slightly tweaking her memories, he began to work on the potion.
He started a conversation with the girl for only one purpose: to understand what kind of person she really was, and this disappointed him a little.
After all, instead of the cunning fox, which the Archmage considered her to be, she turned out to be an ordinary fool, who was too afraid to dirty her hands. And Snape knew one thing for sure, that people like her ...
From an unexpected attack, Grid did not panic, but rather quickly used Protego, creating a transparent dome that stopped the casting spell, and at the same moment pointing his palm in her direction, released a disarming spell, but the woman completely repeated the actions of the Archmage himself, blocking the spell and abruptly leaving side, with an anticipatory grin, she was about to attack again, but already Regulus managed to intervene, standing in front of Snape. "Cousin, stop it! He help...
2023-01-11 09:17:11 +0000 UTC View PostAfter saying goodbye to Lucius, Grid didn’t immediately leave Diagon Alley, but headed towards a small two-story building with a dark wooden sign that said “Mulpepper’s Pharmacy.”
As soon as the young man entered the store, a lot of smells of a wide variety of herbs and potions immediately hit his nose.
The walls were lined with cabinets filled with glass flasks containing dried plants and roots, various powders, and a variety of other ingredients.
<...
London. Charing Cross Road.
Right in front of the most ordinary bar on a rather crowded street, a three-story bus appeared out of the void, accompanied by a powerful gust of wind, almost crashing into a lamppost, having managed to stop in time.
"We've arrived, young man!" The bus driver happily informed the pale-faced Grid as he opened the door.
“Don’t worry, you will be released quickly, with everyone who uses the Night Knight for the firs...
Ten minutes later.
Raising his fist, Grid punched Tobias with all his might, knocking him into the brick wall on the left. “Get up, you damn bastard, it’s time to work,” he said indifferently, looking into the dumbfounded man’s face. “Clean up for a start and sit back in the same place until you receive your next order."
" What?! How are you… WHAT?! Why can't I control my body?! What the hell did you do…” the already sober man, thanks to Snape, shouted fu...
Snorting, the Gryffindor student looked for a moment towards the head table, where a scowling McGonagall was watching him. “Damn snake… just get caught by me in the future, I’ll beat all the nonsense out of you,” he had no choice but to sit back at the table, gritting his teeth and looking at Snape with displeasure.
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Every second more students entered the hall, and after a while the bell rang, followed by the voice of Albus Dumbledore:
“I ask ever...
Only in the evening, an hour before the start of the banquet, he finally finished with the transcript.
"*Hidden in the snake's mouth* - hmm ... nothing is clear ... " The magician concluded sullenly, exhaling and closing the book.
“What could this mean? On the surface, the heritage should be in the snake's mouth, and if you think logically, "snake" can mean something else, because "snakes" are called all Slytherins ... it could also be a statue or a picture, or maybe t...
As soon as they left the stairs, McGonagall immediately stood next to Lily. “Headmaster, I brought him."
“Thank you, Minerva,” he nodded, and then looked at the “nervous” Grid with a good-natured smile, lowering his glasses slightly. “Don't worry, I just want to ask you a few questions about the incident that happened a few days ago between you and Miss Evans and some friends."
"Of course, Headmaster Dumbledore, ask."
“Okay, tell me what happened...
Half an hour later.
After finishing with the memories of the three marauders, Grid returned to the Whomping Willow through the same hole.
“Here he is…” - he pointed his wand towards a large branch, a blue flash escaped from the tip, and in a moment a rather large rat fell from the tree. The magician did not chat with him, but simply used Obliviate, erasing the last seven hours from his memory, and then, taking a piece of wood with him, after turning it into a...
Holding a sheet of paper folded in half in his hand, Grid stared at the huge tree in front of him with mild interest.
“It even became interesting what these kids were up to ...” There was a message on the sheet that “accidentally” appeared on his desk, or rather, by rat mail, when he was “enthusiastically” reading the book in the library.
The message, no matter how surprising, was from Lily with a request in the evening to go to a huge tree locate...
Later in the evening, Grid finally "came" to his senses and after getting examined by Madam Pomfrey, he left the medical wing, heading towards the Hogwarts dungeon, where the Slytherin common room was located. And after he went down the stairs and reached the wall decorated with skulls, the young man said - "pure blood", which is the very password, thanks to which the wall moved aside.
As soon as the wizard was in the living room, the previously chatting students immediately ...
A middle-aged woman, dressed in a black robe and with a pointed hat on her head, "flew" into the toilet. Seeing the trio lying on the ground, she immediately rushed to them to check the condition, and after quickly examining them, the sorceress breathed a sigh of relief, and after directing her gaze full of anger at Grid, she was about to yell at the young man, but as soon as the woman saw his terribly pale face, she froze, and the words just stuck in her throat.
"Professor McGonag...
After leaving the office, Grid immediately headed towards the Slytherin common room.
As soon as he reached his room and slammed the door behind him, a smile appeared on his previously saddened face.
“I still haven’t forgotten my acting skills yet, damn it! Even I myself almost believed my words," Grid touched his temple with his wand, the young man's face twisted for a moment and he thought 'I didn't think that your memories would have so much use for me.' ...
“Well, it’s not bad, in order to get rid of the lack of magic, they decided to create spells that consume it in minimal amounts, but are quite effective in battle…” – flipping through the book with interest, Grid thought, “Yet, I can’t openly conjure, still don’t want to be substituted yet, and I doubt that there are no tracking spells in such a place, eh ... How inconvenient it is to read such simple books ... ” sighing heavily, he took another book.
"Histo...