"...No, it's nothing."
Hearing Professor McGonagall's inquiry, Snape's eyes that seemed to have glimpsed something flashed with an imperceptible concealment. And obviously, when a true master of Occlumency makes up his mind to hide some of his thoughts, it will be difficult for others to find out.
After all, even Voldemort couldn't read his mind back then. Even if someone could do it, it would probably be Dumbledore... At least Minerva McGonagall was definitely not that good at Legilimency.
It's just that this little move of his was a bit too eye-catching after all.
"Yeah?"
Mag looked at him again with some confusion, and then put aside this small matter for the time being - the people from the editorial department of "Arena News" haven't left yet! If you have anything to do, you have to wait until the outsiders leave before talking about it.
However, just when McGonagall once again stopped Lavender Brown, who was still trying to retain Ms. Rich, and took two steps forward to send the group of "Italian magical media people" to apparate away, she said expressionlessly Snape, who was thinking about something to himself, suddenly raised his eyebrows slightly, and once again moved his gaze to the entrance of an alley across the street.
A moment later, after Professor McGonagall sent Ms. Rich and others away and warned Lavender and Romilda again with a straight face, Snape followed suit.
"Go back to your room to complete a paper on how to deal with Freiburg witchcraft. The length must not be less than 3 feet. You are not allowed to step out of the door until lunch time tomorrow!"
It should have been Professor McGonagall who punished Lavender and Romilda. After all, these two girls were both Gryffindor students, and Minerva McGonagall is still a part-time student. Head of Gryffindor House.
Only this time, seeing that Snape wanted to end the matter quickly and send the two girls back to the temporary dormitory as quickly as possible, Minerva, who realized something from it, did not stop him from doing so.
Although this punishment seems a bit too harsh to her who is hard-faced and soft-hearted...
Watching Lavender and Romilda go to their temporary dormitory with sad faces, Minerva, who felt quite helpless, couldn't help but shake her head, then turned to look at Snape and said:
"Severus...what happened?"
Of course she could see that Snape had clearly deliberately sent away the two students. And then thinking about the other party's tiny movements that seemed to have discovered something, it was necessary for her to ask the question again.
However, Snape just curled his lips, then raised his hand and waved randomly towards the alley across the street.
"Professor McGonagall... I think you'd better ask the rightful owner directly about this question."
"Um?"
Seeing Snape say this, Minerva couldn't help but be startled again, and then quickly turned her head to look in the direction indicated by the former's raised hand. Immediately after, she saw that there was indeed a black shadow coming out of an alley diagonally across the corner.
It was a large, ominous-looking black dog—the kind that would be hard to forget after just one glance.
"Sirius?"
And at the same time that Minerva subconsciously said the name, she saw the black dog crossing the street lightly leapt up and quickly changed back to its human form in mid-air.
"Snot, it seems that your nose has finally become clear recently! Can you actually 'smell' my presence?"
Snape and Sirius, who have been in conflict since they were students, naturally wouldn't have anything nice to say when they met. Snape, who has always been unforgiving, is like this, not to mention being arrogant and arrogant since he was a child. It was Sirius who took second place.
Look! Even the nickname given to Snape when he was a child was brought out, which shows that Sirius, who has been rushing all the way from Germany in the past few days, is probably not in a good mood.
"I'm not a dog, and I don't have the ability to sniffle and look for things like you!" Snape retorted angrily with a sullen face.
"Hey, when will you learn-"
"okay!"
Minerva on the side saw that the two of them seemed to be quarreling as soon as they met, so she could only stop her with a straight face:
"Sirius, I remember last time Bill wrote and said that you were at the coastal camp in Cherbourg... Then you came all the way here to argue with Severus, right? Severus, you should stop talking. Anyway, let’s hear what important information Sirius brought this time.”
"snort!"
Snape pursed his lips and snorted slightly, turning his head to the side slightly, but in the end he stopped arguing with Sirius.
On the other side, Sirius glanced at him sideways, then pursed his lips and said:
"Honestly, the most important thing about coming here this time is to come here for everyone and see with my own eyes how you are doing. Maxim... How should I put it? Recently, we all feel that she is too impatient, although she still takes the time to help. You have settled the students here, but you have to confirm it on the spot before you can rest assured!"
"Remus asked you to say that, right?" After hearing this, Minerva chuckled and said, "What you said... is smart, but it's good that you didn't rush to the front line to fight for your life. I can't I don’t believe you would be interested in thinking so much!”
During this period of time, Professor McGonagall has been worrying about the safety of the young wizards all day and night, and the smile on her face has naturally become even less. However, after hearing Sirius's heart-warming words, he couldn't help but show a kind smile, and even temporarily had the intention to make fun of the other person.
"No way, I know very well how capable I am. Even if I want to go again... I can't cause trouble to Harry and the others, right?"
Talking about the disaster in Britain at this time, no matter how worried Sirius was about his godchildren, before at Camp Granger, he could only look at the ocean across the English Channel every day and sigh. I discussed with Lu Ping and others several times about going to the other side to explore, but in the end I still failed to make the trip.
Until the end, I still had to completely transfer that impulse to the second battlefield.
At least in the current Germany, they can still exert some power with their abilities, unlike the British land that is now completely shrouded in the shadow of the devil... isn't it
"That's right!" The moment of sadness in his heart flashed away, and Sirius suddenly regained his composure and spoke again, "Professor McGonagall, there is something I need to discuss with you—"
But when Sirius and Minerva began to formally talk about the purpose of their visit, Snape's eyes, which had closed his mouth and stopped interjecting casually, began to wander again.
His attention didn't seem to be focused on the certainly important conversation between the two in front of him.