Hogwarts Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor Peter

Chapter 214
"Your task is to kill me. To complete this task, you personally set a black magic trap in the basement corridor, but why did you save my life in the end?" Peter asked.

Snape gently touched the wound on his cheekbone with his fingers, and seemed to be thinking hard. After a while, he finally spoke.

"I do not remember."

"What?" Peter raised his eyebrows in surprise.

"I forgot," said Snape slowly, "as if by a trifle."

"However, you must serve Voldemort's interests. Logically speaking, even if you wanted to save me, you couldn't."

"That night, I became—" Snape paused, glancing at Harry.

"It's all right, Severus," said Dumbledore, "Harry's Defense Against the Dark Arts is very good, he already guessed it."

Harry nodded obediently, blinking his bright green eyes.

After a long time, Snape looked away from Harry's face and turned back to Peter, "When I became... a werewolf, my mind became different from usual, and the Dark Lord's orders lessened the constraints on me. "

"So it is," said Dumbledore lightly, "that the Dark Arts used by Voldemort were clearly designed to control human corpses."

"Maybe," Snape said in a low voice, "I cast a spell in the basement to block out the sound, so that no matter how loud the fight was, the students in the Slytherin common room couldn't hear it, and then I hid Listening to the fighting outside in the office, to be honest, I listened to it for a long time before deciding whether to save you or not."

"Then I'm really sad," Peter teased, "I thought you were the first to save me."

"I just didn't want to kill people at the time," Snape curled his lips. "The order the Dark Lord gave me was very general, and I can misinterpret it to a certain extent."

"But I heard a different version of the story from Voldemort's mouth," said Peter. "He said that you were defeated by me, and he was seriously injured."

Snape sneered, "Of course I wouldn't tell him that I was intentionally misinterpreting his orders. I made up a set of lies for him—by the way, he had already lived at my house at that time, and communicated with him in a cryptic way." I'll keep in touch."

"He was very disappointed in me. His original plan was to kill Peddie Road and bring Potter to him. Since then, his plan has become to bring him Peddie Road and Potter together—he Believe that the failure on Peddylu is some kind of 'fate', and he can only break the curse by killing Peddylo himself."

"So, Severus, what did you do to Harry?" Dumbledore asked.

"I put Potter's name into the Goblet of Fire."

"I roughly guessed that," said Dumbledore mildly. "I think it was you who turned the Triwizard Cup into a Portkey."

"Yeah, I did it the day before the game under the pretense of seeing the field."

"That's why you helped Harry pass the competition this school year?"

Snape nodded stiffly.

"First of all I spent a lot of time gaining trust. I disguised myself and pretended to protect Potter, but I actually eavesdropped on the news about the first game at the Three Broomsticks."

"When I was struggling with how to tell Porter the content of the first game, I happened to be seriously injured. Taking advantage of Porter's visit, I directly said about the fire dragon at the meeting, probably because of the injury. Naturally trusted, no one suspects my motives."

"Before the game, I suggested that I teach Potter some convenient black magic, but Dumbledore did not agree. In the end, Potter almost lost to the fire dragon. Fortunately, Peddie came to help in time."

"During the second match, I learned the secret of the golden egg directly from Crouch, and I told Potter the answer under the pretext of confinement, and also provided water breathing potion, but Potter's performance—— It was disappointing, so I sent another Malfoy house-elf to tell Potter directly where the Room of Requirement is."

Hearing this, Harry opened his mouth wide. It turned out that Dobby suddenly appeared in Ravenclaw Tower and told him that the tapestry of "the troll beat the fool with a stick" was actually ordered by Snape.

"No! What did I do!" Dobby screamed, banging his head on Snape's desk, and Peter grabbed him hastily, telling him repeatedly that it wasn't his fault.

"I kind of regret involving this house-elf," Snape twitched the corner of his mouth, "this elf is as good at gaming orders as I am, and he is desperate to prevent Potter He won the game and almost drowned Porter, fortunately, the judges did not reduce Porter's score because of this, and he got the full score as he wished."

"On the night after the second game, this house elf was caught by Peddie Road. I put a spell on the Malfoy family, and if they told the truth, they would die, but this elf pointed at me face, and kept yelling, so I made a show with the veritaserum in my hand, pretending to pour veritaserum into the mouth of this elf."

"I admit that I have some elements of luck. I believe that Pedilu will not let Draco and his family die. Sure enough, he tried his best to dissuade me. After I pretended to persist for a while, I naturally found a way for myself down."

"That was a well-acted show, Severus," Peter said. "No wonder you were so cruel to Dobby that day. I still remember the scars you pinched Dobby's face with your fingers."

"It was a terrible accident," Snape shifted in his chair again. "I quickly imprisoned the house-elf - I should have killed him, in fact."

Dobby got into Peter's arms in fright, sobbing non-stop, his nose and tears wiped on Peter's robe, and Peter reluctantly conjured up a lot of tissues to wipe his face.

Snape continued: "In the third game, I actually did nothing. Potter learned a lot in the Defense Against the Dark Arts club. The only one who can compete with him among the four warriors is Digory. I'm not worried, because Potter's scores in the first two items are much higher than Digory's, and he entered the maze much earlier."

Snape finished his narration, paused, and took another gulp of the potion.

Dumbledore nodded, "Thank you for your frankness, Severus, I noticed you mentioned Mr. Crouch and the Malfoy family, can you tell me what you did to them?"

"Mr. Crouch," Snape frowned, "he is the most difficult one to deal with, he is very strong, he got rid of my Imperius Curse several times, but he is also the one who helped me the most."

"When did you cast the Imperius Curse on Mr. Crouch?" asked Dumbledore.

"The night the Triwizard Tournament was selected," Snape replied, "I just ordered him to work normally, and I didn't interfere too much except to reduce his willpower, but then, the Dark Lord ordered me to start from Lucius. I want to get his diary from Stanley, and give it to Crouch."

Hearing this, Peter and Dumbledore suddenly realized.

(End of this chapter)