"Clang."
The bottom of the glass test tube hit the distilling bottle holder, making a crisp sound that made Snape pause and couldn't help but frown slightly.
As a master of potions who is always extremely rigorous when conducting experiments, such bumps and bruises are obviously very rare for him. And if it were normal times, he would not allow himself to be so rough.
But today is an exception after all.
After a slight pause, Snape glanced at the unlit fire plate under the fully enclosed crucible, hesitated for a few seconds, and finally re-plugged the test tube in his hand with the oak stopper and put it back. Arriving at the old test tube rack nearby.
Since it hasn’t started yet, let’s just not do it yet! There is no doubt that he is not suitable for any potion experiments today - because his heart has not calmed down yet.
But even though he had decided to postpone the experiment for a day...or a few more days, and set aside time to think about other things, he was still cleaning and organizing all the experimental equipment and materials. , after the storage was completed, he turned around and walked out of the room that served as a temporary laboratory.
Snape also lived in this old apartment building with other professors, on the first floor, with rooms adjacent to the makeshift potions laboratory. After leaving the laboratory, he did not go back to his room, which had almost no furniture except for a bed and a cabinet. He turned around and walked out of the apartment door.
Speaking of which, the weather today is actually quite good. Generally speaking, it is quite suitable to take a walk or something. At least it is a day that can relieve the depression in your heart. It's a pity that Snape's current complex mood seems to be far from being diluted and straightened out on a good day.
If not for anything else, it was just because of the group of "infiltrators" who had quietly appeared before and sent out hints from a distance when he and Mag were at the door of the apartment, and then he just went to meet them in person.
"What a ghost."
Snape was walking casually in the abandoned small park on the side of the apartment. Suddenly, he couldn't help but murmured something in a low voice, and his tone seemed to be mixed with some unknown annoyance.
In fact, Snape had not been in a state like this for a long time. After the Voldemort incident ended, he became much more relaxed as a lot of burdens had been lifted. Especially after he continued to serve as the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts, it can be said that he has embarked on a path that he had dreamed of several times when he was a boy.
Even in the current huge disaster sweeping Europe, since he and his sister Tia are both fine, there is actually nothing for him to worry or worry about.
This is Severus Snape's current... well, or more accurately, the true mentality he held before today - many things may seem complicated, disturbing, and scary to others, but now he Where would you care
However, for this former number one "double agent" in the modern magic world who has gone through a lot and seems to have finally settled down, something seems to have finally broken his calm state of mind. .
Snape, who was walking casually with some thoughts in his mind, finally stopped after cursing in a low voice. Because he has discovered that just walking a few steps like this obviously cannot truly relieve some of the frustrations in his heart.
But fortunately, he once carried more secrets that he could not tell others, so... what should I say? He has long been used to this. Since there are some things that he can't turn a blind eye to, it seems he can only face them - at least today, he probably has to bear them.
Thinking of this, Snape finally turned his head and took a distant look towards the north.
"That guy...should have called Professor McGonagall over by now, right?"
While he was thinking this, he suddenly heard the sound of footsteps coming from the street not far away, and then he saw a small figure running hurriedly from the corner.
"Professor Snape, why are you here? Come on, Sirius has found the infiltrator. Professor McGonagall asked me... Oh, Professor Snape, you don't know about the unknown infiltrator in the community, right?"
Naturally, the little Professor Flitwick appeared at this time. He usually spoke in a high-pitched voice. He was obviously a little anxious now, and his tone suddenly became a bit higher.
"Hmm... I know." Snape had returned to his usual state at this time. He looked at Flitwick, who was trotting all the way to the front, and nodded calmly, "I will go... You still have to inform the other professors. ?Don’t worry about me, you go ahead!”
"Ah... Oh, okay!" Flitwick was a little stunned when he heard this, but the matter was urgent, so he quickly responded, "Okay! By the way, the place where the person was found is in the north of the community. I'll leave first. Yeah, see you at the place later... Remember! It's just outside the northern community, be careful not to disturb them when you pass by!"
It seemed that he was really anxious, because since those infiltrators were able to quietly enter their community, which was not defenseless, they obviously had some tricks up their sleeves. He was worried that something would happen to Professor McGonagall and Sirius while he was recruiting people.
Watching Flitwick's short figure, who was actually a little old but still nimble, hurried away towards the students' temporary dormitory, Snape's feet did not move.
He had just told Flitwick that he would go, but in fact he didn't want to go there anymore - he didn't want to see those people again. Let’s leave this matter to Professor McGonagall and the others directly!
He wanted to be alone again.
…
When Snape was thinking about some so-called "private matters" alone in the abandoned park, Minerva and Sirius happened to be thinking about it on the other side.
Of course, they and Snape were definitely not thinking the same thing.
"Professor McGonagall, let me go in first later! You can wait outside - the less they can see other people, the less they will dare to act rashly, but they will definitely realize it immediately after seeing me appear. There must be others secretly watching them, ready to take action at any time. In that case, I think it would be easier to get something out of them."
But after hearing this, Minerva just shook her head slightly.
"Let's wait until everyone arrives! And in short, there are many things that we must first find out the identity of the other party before we can consider what you said."