"...You are not allowed to speak ill of my father—" Harry glared at Snape in front of him, stretched the wand straight forward in his hand, and jerked it upward, "The Upside Down Golden Bell!"
However, even though Harry had practiced very hard, he was clearly far from comparable when facing a wizard like Snape head-on. Not to mention…
"how dare you?"
Snape's reaction was faster than Harry and Ron expected.
He suddenly took out his wand and waved it casually, and a burst of light particles generated by the surge of magic suddenly exploded in front of him, easily blocking Harry's spell.
"Tell me! Why did you use this spell? I don't remember this spell being taught in your Charms course!"
Snape stared at Harry closely with his terrifying eyes, and the tip of his wand trembled slightly, showing that he was not at peace in his heart.
"Where did you learn it? I don't need to tell you!" Harry stared at the other party angrily and said every word.
"You-" Snape stared at Harry coldly, gritting his teeth for a while, but finally snorted, "I can guess it without telling you, it must have been taught to you by that guy MacLean... Potter Boy, just hide behind him forever and be a pathetic bastard who can only yell!"
"I won't!" Harry became more and more angry and yelled, "Just wait! One day I will defeat you in a duel! Very soon!"
"laugh-"
Snape glanced at him contemptuously, as if he had heard some big joke. He didn't wait for Harry to continue to talk nonsense, and just gently pushed Hermione next to him towards him.
"Stay with your friends! Miss Know-It-All..." Snape said impatiently, "By the way, keep an eye on them for me, if you don't want them to lose their lives inexplicably."
After that, he didn't even look at Harry again, and Shi Shiran walked around Harry. Look at the direction he was traveling in, but it was still towards Hogwarts Castle.
"Passed out—" "Bang!"
Harry was probably overly angry at Snape's contempt and sarcasm. After Snape walked around him for a few steps, he turned around with a trembling look and cast a curse.
To be honest, this attack of his can be regarded as a super performance. Coupled with his considerable talent, the speed of reciting this coma spell is indeed very fast. Except for forgetting to use the silent spell technique, all other aspects are considered to be quite outstanding.
But he was fast, but Snape's reaction was even faster!
Harry, who recited the incantation first, didn't even have time to finish reciting the incantation when Snape backhanded him. It must have been a silent disarming spell, because Harry's wand flew into the air and he fell heavily into the snow.
Because this time it could be said to be a sneak attack, Snape clearly showed strong anger. But I saw that after he cast the disarming spell just now, he swung the staff for the second time and was about to fall.
"Professor Snape!"
Hermione finally spoke, and she immediately stood in front of Harry who fell to the ground with her arms spread out, as if she wanted to use her body to block Snape's next curse.
Ron, who was watching blankly as a spectator, finally came to his senses. He also quickly stood beside Hermione, and together with her, he protected Harry behind him.
Snape didn't look at Ron at all. He just stared at Hermione with a frown. Unexpectedly, after a short while, he actually put away his wand, turned around and left.
"This..." Ron suddenly said in confusion, "He just left like that?"
He originally asked Hermione this question, but Hermione didn't answer him. It could be seen that from the beginning of today, Hermione seemed to have something on her mind, which made her face always look solemn.
"Hermione?" Ron hesitated and called her again.
It wasn't until Snape crossed the snowy slope ahead and disappeared from their sight that Hermione shook her head slightly at Ron.
"We'll talk about the details later." After she said this, she walked directly to Harry, "Harry, are you okay? Are you injured?"
At this time, Harry had already climbed up from the ground. After picking up his wand, he was patting the snow on himself without saying a word. After hearing Hermione's concern, she just turned her head and shook her head silently.
His body may be fine, but the anger in his heart makes him aching.
He also knew that he had been too reckless just now, but even so, he did not regret it at all. Because almost every word of Snape's words pierced his heart.
From a certain point of view, although what Snape said was harsh, it cannot be said to be wrong. But it’s not like he hasn’t tried hard? He has been working hard!
So the more Snape poked him where it hurt, the angrier he became. This anger was not just directed at Snape, but probably also directed at himself to a large extent.
"Harry, if I were you, don't take Snape's words too seriously." Seeing that Harry was still angry, Hermione couldn't help but persuade him, "We can't be too anxious, we have to do it step by step. And... you just said It’s too impulsive!”
Harry didn't refute, because he knew that Hermione was absolutely right.
After taking a few deep breaths of cold air, he forced himself to calm down. After all, now that Hermione had been found, that was more reassuring than anything else.
After calming down for a moment, Harry returned his gaze to Hermione.
"What happened? Why are you with Snape?" He finally asked, "You don't know, Ron and I went to your house to look for you, but we found your parents fainted in the bedroom. , and you’re missing—we’re all so anxious!”
"Yes!" Ron nodded quickly, "I asked you just now, but why didn't you say... was that old bat doing it?"
After hearing this, Hermione didn't start to explain endlessly as usual. She just inexplicably turned her gaze to the direction Snape left, looking there in a daze.
"Tell me? What happened?" Ron asked anxiously, "It's been like this since just now. Is there anything that can't be said? Oops—"
"It's not that I can't say it," Hermione said with some trouble, "Actually, I don't know how to say it..."
She paused again, as if she was organizing her words. In front of her, Harry and Ron were waiting patiently, even Maka in the distance.
But who knew that the first words she spoke would make the three listeners' hearts skip a beat.
"First of all... yes, Snape broke into my house last night. When he opened the door and woke me up, I saw that his wand was already pointed at me."
"What?" "Really?"
Harry and Ron exclaimed almost at the same time, and then their faces were filled with puzzled expressions. As for Maka, although she didn't make any fuss, she was still confused for a while.
"What happened next?" Harry urged.
"... He sat on the chair in my bedroom all night. Although he didn't use magic to deal with me, the tip of the wand never left my direction." Hermione said, shaking her head in confusion, " I don’t know what the meaning of his doing this is, anyway… it’s like he’s guarding me, or he’s guarding me… I don’t know.”
"For the whole night, he didn't say much when I asked him. At most, he said a few sarcastic words to me. As for what he said, you should be able to guess it without me telling you -"
Harry and Ron looked at each other, then nodded towards Hermione.
"Of course, there's definitely nothing nice to say." Harry grinned.
"Actually, it's not that..." Hermione didn't seem to hate Snape as deeply as Harry did, "Well, it's really hard to hear good things from him -"
"It's never happened before!" Ron interrupted, "Even Maka probably hasn't heard of it."
"Don't talk about this yet!" Harry waved his hand towards Ron, "Hermione, what happens next?"
Harry seemed very concerned about what happened to Hermione that night. Because he had always thought Snape was a bad guy, and now that he had finally caught Snape doing something bad, he was even a little excited.
If he could take this opportunity to catch something, he could use this to threaten Snape if there was another conflict next time.
Of course, this is mainly because Hermione seems to be fine now, otherwise he probably wouldn't have this intention.
But after hearing what happened after Harry asked, Hermione was startled again, as if she was thinking about something complicated and obscure. After a while, she looked at Harry with hesitant eyes.
Maka in the distance was listening to their conversation, but his eyes were always fixed on Snape's whereabouts. During Hermione's moment of hesitation, Snape had already reached the outer edge of the sphere of influence of the mysterious round mirror.
At present, there are no souls within that range. Not only the souls of wizards, but also the souls of owls and other small animals have been swallowed up by the round mirror, turning it into a terrifyingly silent place of death.
In this situation where there is no soul to suck, the suction force may still exist, but the spatial ripples that vibrate out again and again do not continue to appear. If an unsuspecting person were to pass by, they would definitely not notice anything unusual.
But Snape accurately stopped just a few steps away from the area of influence.
Maka looked at the invisible figure from a distance, but her heart was quite heavy. He didn't understand what Snape wanted to do or why he did it.
At this moment, Snape suddenly took several steps forward and was about to step into that terrible land. Maka suddenly rushed forward, the staff in her hand was already raised, and a magic spell was ready to be fired.
But suddenly, Hermione's words stopped him in his tracks.