Chapter 719 Snape's Scar

As expected, after the last potion class on Friday, the bottle of Felix Felix ended up in Connor's pocket.

The polyjuice potion she brewed was almost perfect, and even Slughorn couldn't find any fault with it.

Although Kyle's was almost the same, the potion in his crucible was darker than Connor's.

This was because he put the African bush snake skin a little later, which had no effect on the potion itself. If it weren't for Connor, the first place would definitely be his.

But to be honest, neither Kyle nor Connor was particularly concerned about the Felix Felix that Slughorn rewarded.

Both of them had Felix Felix and had channels to get it.

Needless to say, Connor, as long as she asked, Snape would definitely not mind getting her a few bottles.

As for Kyle, he had a good relationship with Dean Sassia of St. Mungo's, and with the basilisk materials he had sent before, it was naturally not difficult to get some Felix Felix.

So this reward is naturally not that attractive to them. It would be best if they can get it, but it doesn't matter if they can't get it.

And more importantly, since he wore the crown of Ravenclaw last time, Kyle has kept his distance from things like the Felixir.

The feeling of being able to control everything is really a bit intoxicating. Kyle is afraid that he will not be able to resist the temptation...

Unless it is necessary, it's fine now.

...

On the first weekend of the new school year, it suddenly started to drizzle and it was chilly, but this day was also the day for the Quidditch team to select new players, and there were many people on the court.

In addition to those who really want to join the team, more people are here to watch the fun. If possible, maybe they can spy on the enemy for their own college team, killing two birds with one stone.

Because it was Gryffindor time in the morning, Kyle did not go to the court, but walked through the field with Connor and went to Hagrid's hut.

He was a little off these two days, always with a stern face, and recently he didn't even go to the hall to eat.

Kyle wanted to take advantage of the weekend to see what happened.

When they came to the Forbidden Forest, Hagrid was absent-mindedly watering the pumpkin field at the door.

There were pumpkins about the size of wheels inside. When Halloween comes, they will appear in every corner of the castle as decorations.

But Hagrid seemed to be thinking about something else. He poured all the water in his bucket on the same pumpkin and gathered into a small puddle on the ground.

"Hagrid, if you don't take it seriously, we will have to go out to buy pumpkins for Halloween."

Kyle shouted, and Hagrid came back to his senses.

"Oh, it's Kyle, and Connor." He greeted with a bucket of water: "Hello."

"Hello." Kyle walked to his side and asked directly: "What's wrong with you recently?"

"I'm fine..." Hagrid's eyes were erratic, and he took two steps forward, ready to water other pumpkins.

"Come on, don't you know that you are not good at lying?" Kyle said, "Besides, if you have nothing on your mind, why would you come out to water pumpkins on a rainy day."

Raining?

Hagrid then noticed that his hair was already wet.

"Oh, why didn't you tell me earlier." He quickly put down the bucket and tried to scoop up the puddles with his hands.

"Does it need anyone to tell me about the rain?" Kyle couldn't help muttering.

But seeing Hagrid in a flustered state, he still took out his wand and helped clean up the excess water in the pumpkin patch.

Although he felt that this was also unnecessary, Hagrid must have his reasons for doing so, so he just helped.

...

"Tell me, what's going on."

When they returned to the cabin, Kyle asked again: "What's wrong with you recently?"

"I don't know..." Hagrid said softly: "Maybe Dumbledore's choice of me as the professor of Care of Magical Creatures was a mistake."

"Why do you think so?" Connor asked.

"Because only five people chose my advanced class this year." Hagrid seemed to have made a great determination and said.

"How much, five?" Connor was a little unbelievable. This meant that only one person from each college chose Hagrid's class, and the number of people was a bit too small.

After all, there are more than a dozen people even in the Divination class.

"Hagrid, did you set the standard too high?"

"If 'A' is considered high." Hagrid sighed.

Kyle stopped talking. A is just passing, and it is also the minimum standard for the advanced class. There is really no way to lower it.

"Among these five people, are Harry and his friends?" Kyle asked tentatively.

"Harry, Hermione, Ron, all three of them chose my class." Hagrid seemed to be comforted, but he couldn't laugh.

This means that apart from the three friendship tickets, only two people chose his class. Thinking of this, Hagrid was even more sad.

"Dumbledore must have made a mistake to let me be a professor!" His voice trembled a little.

"Uh... that's not the way to say it..." Kyle stammered.

He didn't know how to comfort Hagrid, and even the current result was due to his help.

If he hadn't insisted on Hagrid giving up moving the blasting-tailed skrewt into the classroom, I'm afraid there wouldn't even be these five people. After all, that thing is really unpleasant.

Kyle turned his head and signaled Kanna with his eyes for help, but Kanna spread her hands and silently looked away.

"Well, um... don't be discouraged, Hagrid." Kyle said bravely: "I think it's just because most people don't know about magical animals."

"But when Professor Kettleburn was here, many people chose his advanced class."

Hagrid took out a dirty handkerchief and wiped his eyes, "Thank you Kyle, thank you for still coming to comfort me at this time, but no, I understand."

"No." Kyle shook his head. Another thing suddenly occurred to him. "Hagrid, do you know what's different about this year?"

"Different? What do you mean?" Hagrid was a little confused.

"Mysterious Man." Kyle said, "This year the Ministry of Magic announced the comeback of Mysterious Man. Therefore, when choosing courses, most students will subconsciously prefer subjects that can improve their strength, so they will ignore the Care of Magical Creatures course. ”

"Is that so?" Hagrid raised his head.

Thank God, there was finally no cry in his voice. Kyle was really not good at comforting a half-giant.

"Of course." Kyle said seriously: "Think about it, many people chose you last year. How could it be that you lack the ability?"

"But..." Hagrid was still a little confused, "Obviously magical animals are very useful. Dumbledore used Lu Wei to guard the Sorcerer's Stone. How could he not be able to help them?"

"Because you can't bring a three-headed dog to class." Kyle said, "Just think about what they learn, Bowtruckles, fairies, Nifflers, and even better, unicorns and fire Lizard, they can't hope to ride a unicorn to deal with Death Eaters."

Hagrid was a little impressed, and even Kyle and Kangna believed this argument, because there were really many people who chose Hagrid's class last year, almost more than twenty.

The only change during this period was that the Ministry of Magic publicly announced that Voldemort had been resurrected. Maybe this was the reason.

The divination class can also predict the future. Although it is not necessarily accurate, it is at least a comfort. Only the Care of Magical Creatures class.

Before fifth grade, you are only allowed to learn magical animals of XXX level or below. It is normal for them to despise them.

What's more, most wizards don't carry magical animals with them, and they still rely more on wands.

"It's their loss, Hagrid." Connor also said.

"That's right." Kyle nodded, "One day they will regret this decision."

"yes."

Hagrid was convinced and cheered up again, "Give up the Care of Magical Creatures class? They will never know what they are missing. I decided to let these five people see something different."

"Something different?" Kyle thought for a moment, "Wait Hagrid, you don't want to bring Lu Wei into class, do you?"

Not to mention, with Hagrid’s character, it is really possible for him to do such a thing.

What's more troublesome is that Kyle brought Lu Wei out secretly, and he hasn't had time to return it to the Forbidden Forest yet.

If Hagrid discovered this, it would be a bit difficult to explain.

"No, of course not."

Fortunately, Hagrid had no intention of doing this. He shook his head and said, "I haven't seen Lu Wei for a long time since he became familiar with the environment of the Forbidden Forest, and Dumbledore would not allow students to face it." Too dangerous magical beasts.

"So I plan to show them the Thestrals in the first class."

"Thestrals?"

Kyle was stunned for a moment. If he remembered correctly, they seemed to be learning Thestrals at this time last year, and Umbridge was still attending the class at that time... Is there any difference?

Seemingly seeing Kyle's doubts, Hagrid explained: "This year, instead of watching from a distance, I decided to let them touch and understand the Thestrals up close. I will also teach these five students how to control them. they.

"This way, when they encounter danger at school, they can come to the Forbidden Forest to get help as soon as possible!" Hagrid clenched his fists, looking confident.

…

"Kyle, do you think Hagrid will succeed?" Connor couldn't help but ask on the way back to the castle.

"It's hard to say." Kyle shrugged, "To be honest, Hagrid's idea is good, but he doesn't seem to be good at using his brain."

Kangna couldn't help laughing, "Hagrid will definitely be angry if he hears this."

"That's why I didn't say anything just now." Kyle glanced behind him, "This is Hogwarts. If students need to come to the Forbidden Forest for help, it means that the Death Eaters have completely captured the school.

"Instead of running across the field to the Forbidden Forest, why not hurry up and go to the broom room to get a broomstick."

"And one more thing, not everyone can see Thestrals."

Kangna thought about it and found that it was indeed the case. Hagrid's decision could only be said to be better than nothing.

"Forget it, as long as Hagrid can cheer up again." Kyle waved his hand and didn't care.

He had no intention of making the Care of Magical Creatures class more meaningful. It was unrealistic, as long as it gave Hagrid something to do and stop thinking about only five people attending his advanced class.

…

By the time they arrived at the castle gate, the Gryffindor Quidditch team had just returned from the pitch.

"Hey, Kyle." Harry waved and came to Kyle's side. "By the way, I haven't thanked you yet."

"Why are you thanking me?" Kyle asked confused.

"Of course you asked us to buy the potion book." Harry said, "Professor Slughorn insisted that I go to his class. If I didn't have the book, I didn't know what to do.

"By the way, did you know that Slughorn would teach the potion class?"

"That's nothing." Kyle said as a matter of course: "Slughorn is one of the few famous potion masters, and he is best at keeping himself safe. In any case, he can't be the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor."

"You should have told me earlier." Harry muttered in a low voice: "If I had known, I wouldn't have chosen the Defense Against the Dark Arts course."

Kyle smiled and said nothing.

The two returned to the castle.

"Kyle, hey, Kyle!"

Kyle turned his head and saw Susan Bones, who was running towards him hurriedly with a roll of parchment in her hand.

"For you." She stuffed the parchment to Kyle and asked breathlessly: "Have you heard about Hannah's matter?"

"Yes, I heard about it. "Kyle nodded.

On the third day after the start of school, the Death Eaters launched several attacks, killing many people, including Hannah's family. She had not appeared for many days.

"I hope she can hold on." Susan said worriedly: "And I don't think it's the right choice for her to go home. At this time, there is no place safer than Hogwarts."

"Yes." Kyle nodded.

After Susan left, he opened the parchment, which contained a line of thin, slightly crooked words.

Dear Kyle:

Please come to my office after lunch. I hope you have a smooth start to the school year.

Yours faithfully

Albus Dumbledore

By the way, the password is sour pop candy.

...

"Principal Dumbledore is looking for you?" Connor read the letter over Kyle's shoulder, "It won't be anything dangerous."

"Who knows. "Kyle said, walking towards the hall.

The letter said it was after lunch, so there was no rush.

...

At the same time, in the headmaster's office on the eighth floor.

The atmosphere here was a little strange. Dumbledore was sitting there, and Snape was standing in front of him, his face gloomy as water.

"So this is your purpose, right?" He said indifferently, "Let Harry or Kyle find out the secret in Slughorn's head."

"We must know how many Horcruxes Tom has made." Dumbledore knocked on the table, "You know, Severus, this is actually not very dangerous."

"Not dangerous?" Snape raised his voice unconsciously, "Slughorn has been hiding for this secret for many years.

As far as I know, since the Dark Lord was resurrected, he dared not stay in one place for more than three months, and could only live in an empty house of Muggles... Is this what you said, not dangerous?"

Dumbledore was silent for a moment, "I can't believe, Severus, you actually care about Kyle. "

"Don't be stupid." Snape glared at him, "You know who I'm talking about."

"Yes, I know." Dumbledore said softly, "This guilt has tormented you for sixteen years, ever since Lily..."

"Don't mention that name!" Snape roared, so loud that even Fawkes woke up, and it flapped its wings hard to express its dissatisfaction.

In the portrait, Phineas Black also opened his eyes a little, and then continued to pretend to sleep.

But Dumbledore didn't seem to care. He rubbed the ring on his hand and asked softly:

"Do you want to see her again? Maybe you can get her forgiveness. "

"Are you making fun of me?" Snape looked at Dumbledore indifferently, trying to suppress his anger, "She's dead, how can I see her again...wait..."

At this time, he suddenly noticed the ring on Dumbledore's hand.

"That's..."

"Yes, it's the thing we found from the old house of Gaunt. "Dumbledore stretched out his hand and showed the ring to Snape.

"But...isn't there a curse on it..."

"It's been lifted," Dumbledore said, taking the ring off and placing it on the table, "Perhaps you didn't notice, I was wearing it at the opening banquet."

Resurrection Stone...

Snape's mind was filled with only one thought.

The Resurrection Stone, which brings back the souls of the dead, was right in front of him. He could use this thing to see Lily again, talk to her, and apologize to her...

Subconsciously, Snape walked over quickly.

But for some reason, the closer he got to the Resurrection Stone, the heavier his steps became.

When he finally came to Dumbledore and could touch the Resurrection Stone with just his hand, he couldn't move a finger no matter what.

He was afraid.

He was afraid to see Lily, afraid that the other party would use disappointment... or even hatred 's eyes.

What if she doesn't forgive me?

It was because he told Voldemort half of the prophecy he heard in the Hog's Head that the Potters were killed. It was normal for Lily to not forgive me.

Snape didn't want to recall this incident. For more than ten years, he had been thinking about how to atone for his sins.

If the Resurrection Stone was used, it meant that he had to open this scar again.

Looking at the Resurrection Stone close at hand, Snape's face kept changing, and finally he struggled to take two steps back.

He bumped into a table and knocked over a lot of silverware.

"Take it away!" Snape shouted hysterically, "Take him away."

Dumbledore was not too surprised by this scene, or he had thought of it a long time ago.

"Severus..." Dumbledore picked up the ring and put it on his hand again, "Sometimes we all need a little extra courage. Although it will hurt to reopen the scar, it also means that it has the possibility of healing."

"Shut up, Dumbledore, shut up!" Snape gasped and couldn't hear what he said at all.

Just at this time, there was a knock on the door.

"Sorry, I have something else to do." Snape walked towards the door. He walked very quickly and didn't even look at Kyle who had just come in.