"What on earth is going on?"
Snape opened his hazy eyes and woke up from his slumber. Looking at the familiar room layout in front of him, he closed his eyes again to recall some fragmented memory fragments.
"I seemed to have a nightmare last night?" Snape covered his eyes with the back of his hand, trying to recall what happened last night. He remembered that he vaguely heard a strange cry, and then... he couldn't remember anything.
Those things were not memories at all. Snape only vaguely remembered crying, and then he lost consciousness. What on earth was going on
While Snape was still thinking about the reason, he suddenly glanced at the clock in the corner and jumped up from the bed. He found that he had slept until half past nine in the morning.
This is an unforgivable sin for a potion master who is very strict with himself.
Snape hurriedly got up, changed into his robes, patted his twitching face, and immediately rushed to the Potions classroom.
The Potions Master was, unsurprisingly, late.
The news that Snape had stood up his students soon spread throughout Hogwarts Castle.
This is really a rare big news. It is hard to imagine that someone like Snape would be late for class
It's something new that is rarely seen in ten years.
It took less than half an hour for the news to spread throughout Hogwarts, causing even more sensation than the stupid Slytherin student who was caught out at night in the morning.
There's no way, it's hard for everyone to imagine something like that happening.
Of course, no one dared to discuss this matter openly. No one wanted to be caught by Snape and become the chicken to be killed to scare the monkeys. Moreover, everyone noticed Snape's gloomy expression as if someone owed him 10,000 Galleons, so they naturally would not commit suicide.
"What a lively day!" Albert covered his yawn, ate some bread, and listened to the gossip-loving girls next to him talking about interesting things.
The story of the haunted underground in the castle last night was widely talked about. Some people said that the strange crying sound was actually Moaning Myrtle in the bathroom on the second floor, some people said that it might be Peeves playing a prank, of course, there were also people... Anyway, there were many different opinions, and Albert was very happy to see this scene.
As for the Slytherin students caught by Filch, everyone was more there to watch the fun. Anyway, seeing Slytherin house being deducted points, the students from the other three houses were all in a good mood, as if they had drunk a large glass of butterbeer.
Fred and the others who knew the truth tried hard not to laugh. They all knew that the unlucky Slytherin student had undoubtedly become Albert's scapegoat.
However, they were happy to see this scene. There was nothing more gratifying than seeing a nasty guy get into trouble.
"When do you think Snape will realize that he has lost something?" Fred and a few others were gathered in the Room of Requirement to look at the pot of mandrake that Albert had obtained. George next to him couldn't help laughing while holding his stomach.
"Not so fast. Snape should be suspicious unless they find that a pot of mandrake is missing from the greenhouse. But I don't think Professor Sprout will find out so quickly. After all, she has too many magical plants to take care of, and she has to teach students every day. How can she have time to remember how many pots there are?" Albert explained casually.
"That makes sense." George wiped the tears from his eyes and nodded. "If Professor Sprout had only planted those mandrakes, she would definitely have discovered the problem, but there are too many things she needs to take care of. It's impossible for her to remember them all clearly."
"Are you going to return this pot of mandrake?" Lee Jordan suddenly asked. With Albert's ability, there was naturally a way to return the mandrake quietly. As long as the mandrake was returned, the matter would basically be flawless. Even if Snape suspected that the crying sound came from the mandrake, he had no evidence.
"No, I still have a use for this thing." Albert was already prepared to make it into a black magic prop. As for the salt problem, he believed that he could definitely solve it.
It’s not like before when table salt was not expensive.
"What if Snape guesses it?" George asked. He believed that Snape was not stupid. As long as he connected it with the rumors in the castle and went to Professor Sprout to confirm it, he would soon connect these things together. Maybe he wouldn't be able to do it in the first two days, but he would definitely be discovered.
"What can they do even if they find out? He can't torture all the students. Besides, ordinary students don't have the ability to quietly get a pot of mandrake from the greenhouse and knock Snape unconscious. Snape has a spell to protect his office. Do you think a second-year student can break through those protective spells and break into his office
"Besides, it rained yesterday. There weren't any footprints on the ground." Albert winked at the three of them and smiled. "Besides, the Fat Lady was not here last night. Even if Snape suspected that it was done by a Gryffindor student, he couldn't have learned from the Fat Lady that a Gryffindor student left the dormitory in the middle of the night to go out for a night outing."
"Unless Snape uses Veritaserum on every student, but the Ministry of Magic restricts the use of Veritaserum, and the herbs needed for Veritaserum are also very precious. Even if he wants to prepare more, it will be difficult."
"Oh my God, have you taken all this into consideration?" Fred couldn't help but scream.
"Of course." Albert continued: "Now, you are the only flaw. I don't think Snape will easily suspect you, but you have to pretend that you know nothing and don't discuss it specifically. In a word, don't attract Snape's attention. This is very important."
"We know what to do." The three looked at each other and grinned.
"Snape will definitely go crazy if the murderer is not found." The four of them couldn't help but burst into laughter.
"By the way, when are we going out to look for jumping toadstools?"
"This week, if it rains, we'll go out and look for jumping toadstools." Albert thought for a moment and said, "After the potion class in the afternoon, I'll go to the library to look for information about jumping toadstools."
The book "One Thousand Magical Herbs and Mushrooms" actually also has an introduction to the jumping agaric, but it is not complete. They need to find a book called "The Complete Book of Poisonous Fungi" in the library to find relatively safe picking and storage methods.
"Remember, pretend you know nothing and don't let Snape notice you." Albert reminded again before leaving the Room of Requirement.
There's no way, they have Potions class later.
"We know." The three said seriously, and then they all laughed.
"Okay, okay, I think you'd better laugh enough here before you go out." Albert covered his face helplessly, with a faint smile at the corner of his mouth.