Listening to the latest news reported by the wizard in the portrait, the principal's office fell into deathly silence again.
The portraits all looked at Snape, and couldn't help feeling a little sympathy for the new headmaster. They were also curious about how he would handle this matter.
They did not forget that Snape had promised Dumbledore that he would do his best to protect the safety of Hogwarts students.
Now it is time for him to fulfill his promise.
Snape ignored the strange looks from the portraits and turned his head to stare at the sleeping old man in the portrait hanging behind his desk.
“Things often turn out to be unexpected.”
Dumbledore seemed to feel Snape's pressing gaze and opened his eyes, waking up from his doze.
"It's really unexpected." Snape said grimly, "I think it won't be long before Hogwarts is turned upside down by them."
"The situation is not as bad as you think." Dumbledore said comfortingly.
"No, the situation is very bad." The muscles on Snape's face twitched twice. "If they really set up the Dumbledore Army, with the level of confidentiality of those kids, it won't be long before the whole Hogwarts will know about it. By then, don't expect this matter to end smoothly."
"Both Carrow and Parkinson are not good people. Especially Carrow. Ever since Amycus Carrow was killed by Anderson through Scrimgeour, she has been extremely hostile to Anderson and his Defense Association. How do you think she will deal with this matter after she knows that those students have formed Dumbledore's Army?"
No wonder Snape was so angry, these were just a bunch of troublesome guys.
Whether it was Rubeus Hagrid, the rough and stupid big guy, or the group of brainless students led by Longbottom, everyone was doing stupid things that they thought were right, and they all needed him to help clean up their messes.
Sometimes Snape even felt like a fool, being fooled by the old man in the frame in front of him.
Especially a while ago, after Dumbledore handed the Sword of Gryffindor to Potter, he realized that Hogwarts had already been in ruins and had become someone's backyard.
"By the way, you need to be careful recently. Harry seems to have set his sights on you." Dumbledore changed the subject.
"Targeting me?"
Snape narrowed his eyes and stared at Dumbledore's portrait, and said in a slightly sarcastic tone: "What do you want Potter to do by targeting me? Kill me to avenge you?"
"Probably not."
"Then tell me why." Snape said coldly.
"The last time they came to Hogwarts, you were not there..."
"I should be qualified to know, right?" Snape's tone was cold, and Dumbledore didn't seem to intend to tell him the reason.
"...Otherwise you might have been caught, Harry even dragged Albert into it." Dumbledore seemed not to have heard Snape's words, and continued to talk to himself, "You are no match for Anderson. That child is now..."
"So, I can't know the truth?" Snape stared at Dumbledore, with flames of anger flashing in his eyes.
“They want to be sure of one thing.”
"What's up?"
"It has something to do with defeating You-Know-Who."
"Defeat the Dark Lord, what do you want from me?"
Snape became even more annoyed, he hated bastards who only spoke half the truth, and he hated the awful feeling of being kept in the dark even more.
"They want to control you, use truth serum on you, and dig some useful information out of you," Dumbledore reminded.
"Then why don't you remind Potter that he can't get any useful information from me."
"I can't do that," Dumbledore said quietly.
"What about Anderson? Don't tell me he knows nothing." Snape glared at Dumbledore.
"He promised me that he would not cause trouble for you."
"I don't think such a guarantee can be trusted."
"Are you afraid of him?" Dumbledore was a little surprised.
"There is no Death Eater who is not afraid of him." Snape said sarcastically, "You probably don't know that more than half of the Death Eaters were indirectly killed by your good student."
"I think your assessment is biased." Dumbledore raised his eyebrows slightly and said, "You can't put the blame on him for everything."
"The Dark Lord considers him a great enemy." Snape sneered, "I don't think many people are qualified to do so. For this reason, he even gave up the idea of killing Harry himself, which shows how much he fears that guy."
Dumbledore opened his mouth, but heard Snape continue, "After Potter's death, that fellow will probably kill the Dark Lord as you expect, and then you will get what you want."
"Really?" asked Dumbledore.
"Of course it's true."
"No, I mean that Voldemort is no longer concerned about killing Harry himself." Dumbledore's expression was extremely serious, and he knew very well what this meant.
If Tom Riddle no longer wanted to kill Harry himself, but was prepared to let someone else do it, Harry's situation would be worse than ever. In Dumbledore's view, Voldemort's threat to Harry was not even as great as that of other Death Eaters.
"Is there any problem?" Snape also felt that the atmosphere was not right.
"Harry must be killed by You-Know-Who himself," Dumbledore said seriously. "This is very important."
"Even if you tell me this, there's nothing I can do."
Snape also frowned. Although he didn't know why Dumbledore insisted on letting Voldemort kill Harry himself, there must be a reason.
However, after the Dark Lord no longer intended to kill Harry himself, he had no other options.
"It's not my order. I don't think I can change the Dark Lord's mind." Snape reminded, "You should know better than anyone that both Carlo and Parkinson were sent by the Dark Lord to monitor me."
Although both were the Dark Lord's right-hand men, Snape was far inferior to Yaxley. Otherwise, when Thicknesse sent a bunch of Aurors to Hogwarts to arrest people, they would have to tell him first.
As a Death Eater, Snape could have cared less about it, but Hogwarts was still his domain.
Rashly ran to the school to catch people,
What is going on
Even if an order was to be issued to arrest Hagrid, he should have communicated with Yaxley in advance, but this was not the case.
To be honest, it was also because the big guy was too stupid. He heard from other professors that Anderson had reminded him to leave Hogwarts a long time ago, but that guy not only did not leave, but was caught not long after the start of school. Who can be blamed for this? Even if he wanted to let Hagrid escape, he couldn't do it.
"Maybe you should go to Anderson. He is a master of prophecy and maybe he can find a way to let your plan go forward." Snape didn't think he could convince others to give up the honor of killing Potter.
"Albert is actually very dissatisfied with me." Dumbledore shook his head. "Although we all want to defeat Voldemort, he actually doesn't agree with my plan."
"That's really a pity." Snape was decisive and threw all the questions directly to the other party. "Now I need your help. I don't think you want your supporters to be put in detention. Just now, I agreed to Filch's request to restore the old-fashioned punishment method and approved the Whipping Approval Order."
"Then try to stop them. I will contact Albert and ask him to restrain those children." Dumbledore said something that stunned Snape. "Then you just need to turn a blind eye."
"You..." Snape was speechless. He took several deep breaths. "In that case, please tell me how to solve these damn problems."
"Severus, I am already dead," Dumbledore reminded.
"Don't forget, it was you who asked me to protect the students of Hogwarts."
"Yes, you haven't forgotten, which makes me very relieved." Dumbledore was very satisfied that Snape continued to abide by the agreement between the two parties.
"Now that I am the headmaster of Hogwarts, I think it is your responsibility to help me manage Hogwarts." Snape has decided to throw all those damn problems to Dumbledore, and his originally bad mood has suddenly improved a lot.
"Dumbledore, we have an obligation to serve the current headmaster of Hogwarts!" Phineas reminded sarcastically.