Hogwarts Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor Peter

Chapter 163

The Defense Against the Dark Arts class was over, Peter packed his things as usual and prepared to leave.

The students filed out from the door talking and laughing, and several boys fought with each other with shields, but Harry and Ron squatted in the last row, showing no intention of going out.

"Don't you want to go back and do your potions homework?" Peter asked gently.

"Sorry, Professor. We're - sorting out the pieces of the statue." Harry's eyes flicked unnaturally to Hermione, who was also winking at him.

"What's the matter, what's the matter?" Peter stacked up the collected homework, opened a chair for the students in the back row, and sat down facing the three of them.

"Go and ask!" Harry said angrily to Hermione.

Ron also urged: "Yes, ask, we can't stand your buzzing in our ears anymore!"

Hermione sat awkwardly across from Peter, with a table between them. Peter lowered his body with an encouraging expression, so that his eyes were level with Hermione's.

"Professor Peddie...uh..." Hermione hesitated, whispering next to Peter's ear, "Is there a possibility that Professor Snape is a werewolf?"

Peter couldn't help laughing, seeing Hermione's mysterious look, he thought she was going to say something top-secret.

Harry and Ron glanced at each other, and Hermione also looked at Peter's smiling face with disbelief. They thought they had made an extremely explosive speculation, but they didn't expect Peter's reaction to be so relaxed and happy.

In the wizarding world, werewolves are considered "soulless" and "worthy only to die". They are separated from the mainstream society and live in a very primitive way, almost drinking blood.

They deliberately attack wizards in order to expand their power. The notorious werewolf leader Fenrir Greyback even stole babies from their parents to cultivate their hatred of wizarding society from an early age.

In the first war, the werewolves fell to Voldemort one after another. Although Voldemort did not allow them to be branded with the Dark Mark like the real Death Eaters, Voldemort's cruel anti-humanity ideas were very appetizing to them. They did all kinds of evil and vented themselves. Hatred of mainstream society.

For Harry and Ron, who have lived in a pure-blood wizarding society since childhood, saying that a person "may be a werewolf" is almost the same level of insult as a "mudblood". They don't believe that Professor Dumbledore would call a murderous The werewolf led to teach in the school.

"Look, I told you," Ron said to Hermione a little smugly, "Professor Peddiell thought your speculation was funny—"

Before Hermione could strike back at Ron, Peter put up a hand with a smile, stopping their argument.

Peter said, "Hermione, you are really sharp. When did you deduce it?"

Ron and Harry were startled by Peter's jaws, and Hermione was also taken aback, and then she whispered, "I was first inspired by the rumors of Lovegood's classmate, and then the Defense Against the Dark Arts seminar when the basilisk was a guest. At the club meeting, you talked about werewolves..."

Peter raised his eyebrows slightly, "I remember that I didn't talk about the specific identification method."

"Yes, Professor, but after that club meeting, I read a lot of materials about Inferi, Werewolves and Dementors in the library. The class was brought forward, and I found out that next week's Potions class happens to be on the night of the full moon."

"In addition, there are many phenomena that can support my idea, such as Professor Snape's two-week suspension of classes due to illness, and the scars on his face, I think he may have been bitten by a werewolf, and Has his somewhat... er... moody personality."

Peter patted Hermione on the shoulder approvingly: "You are the best and smartest student I have ever taught. I should add twenty points to Gryffindor. However, Professor Snape's character and his being a werewolf It doesn't matter, as I said before, becoming a werewolf does not necessarily change a person's character, what really pushes them to depravity is the hostility and prejudice of others."

"But……"

"I can guarantee that none of the students in Severus have taken it this school year." Peter joked, "He is a potion master, and it is not difficult for him to prepare Wolfsbane potion."

Harry's question blurted out: "So, how did he become a werewolf?"

"Well..." Peter hesitated whether to tell Harry about the past, but Harry looked up at him eagerly.

Harry continued: "Before the second match of the Triwizard Cup, I mentioned Professor Snape's help in the letter I wrote to my parents, but I found that my parents seemed to avoid mentioning him when they wrote back to me. Peddie Road Professor, tell us about the past."

Peter looked helplessly at Harry's little eyes that were thirsty for knowledge, and said the same sentence: Harry is a good kid, but he is a little inquisitive.

"Hmm..." Peter chose his words carefully, "A few of our good friends used to be classmates with Severus, we are from Gryffindor, and he is from Slytherin...Harry, your parents should tell But you, 20 years ago Voldemort's power was unprecedentedly strong, and Slytherin students were almost equivalent to preparing Death Eaters."

Harry nodded, and all three children listened to the story with interest.

"The Gryffindor-Slytherin struggle was heating up, and in that context, Severus and we were old enemies, ten times worse than the one between you and Mr. Malfoy. "

"Ten times!" Ron exclaimed, he couldn't imagine anything worse than Malfoy in this world.

"When we were young, we loved pranks the most, especially James and Sirius. They are two lawless bullies, and the disciplinary list left by Filch is thicker than cracking and exploding cards."

Harry smiled, still proud of his lovely father and godfather, but he could also hear Peter's voice deepening as he told stories.

"I have no intention of concealing or beautifying it. We took advantage of the number of people and made some nasty jokes on Severus. The Marauder's Map was made by us to catch him better."

Harry frowned: "Then my father and him..."

"The two of them have been at odds since the first meeting. James is the man of the school, and Severus is unkempt, fond of dark magic, and always pestering Lily. This leads to conflicts between the two It accumulated deeper and deeper, and finally reached the point where we can't share the sky."

"Lily!" Harry yelled, "Snape and Lily—"

"Harry, it's Professor Snape." Peter corrected calmly, "In fact, Severus and Lily were best friends before entering school, but you can't expect teenagers to look at things rationally, From James' point of view, Severus is stalking Lily."

"What?" In shock, Harry finally understood why the adults refused to tell him the truth.

(End of this chapter)