Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 59 Snape's Office
Severus Snape's office is located in the basement of Hogwarts Castle, at both ends of the same corridor as the Potions classroom.

The entire office is made of long strips of gray-black stones.

The ceiling is arc-shaped, and the only entrance and exit—a magic crystal lamp that is not very bright is above the archway of the stone gate.

The inside of the room is shaped like three huge hemispheres buckled together, and the shelves along the wall are full of glass jars, with three floors up and down.

The tank is full of brown, red, and amber solutions, which are soaked with snakes, scorpions, toads, and even the eyeballs and organs of certain types of creatures.

There is a large rectangular table in the middle, about 1 meter wide and 3 meters long.

On it are scales, glassware for measuring solutions, dried herbal ingredients in beakers.There are three copper crucibles supported by the iron frame in the middle, all of which are odd and small utensils, tools or materials that are commonly used to make potions.

McGuffin was standing in the corridor outside Snape's office, drawing an equilateral triangle of about twenty inches in front of the wall with his wand.

As the figure was drawn, a pattern of light appeared on the blue-black stone wall—an identical triangle, and then this pattern continued to rotate, turning into a bright circular pattern.

Gradually expanding, until finally the light disappeared——revealing a cold and damp circular stone-walled corridor, which was completely dark inside.

After hesitating for a moment, McGuffin finally walked in, and finally came to this dark office.

As soon as he entered, he saw that Snape was lying on the innermost side.

Under him was a small brown oval table, holding a long white quill in his right hand, writing something on the yellowed parchment.

There are two magic lamps with green shades on the table folded back to back.

There was a long-extinguished fireplace in the wall behind Snape, and it was filled with glass jars, even extending out, and lined up in rows and rows to fill the corner.

"Professor Snape!" McGuffin whispered.

After getting no response, McGuffin knew that this guy might be embarrassing himself again.

McGuffin rolled his eyes carefully, looked around, and saw a familiar big purple scarf at once.

The corner of his mouth twitched, why is this guy here?

Somewhere near the wall in the room, Professor Quirrell was sitting in a tattered armchair, holding a huge bronze book that could almost kill people, and was watching carefully in the corner.

Sensing the MacGuffin's gaze, he looked up and smiled at him.

Hemp egg!

At this time, he was extremely fortunate to have an old bat by his side!

The room fell into silence, except for the breathing of a few people, the only sound was the flipping of the book and the rustling of the pen tip across the parchment.

The long silence was interrupted by the sound of footsteps, Malfoy finally arrived.

"Professor Snape!" he greeted.

McGuffin never imagined that one day he would be so happy to hear Malfoy's voice.

But then he saw Malfoy looking at Quirrell's big purple scarf with disgust →_→, pinching his nose with his left hand undisguisedly.

The rotten smell gradually permeated the air.

In this regard, McGuffin can only express - brother, you are really 'brave'!
He can understand why in the original plot - Malfoy was able to be arranged to assassinate Dumbledore when he was in the sixth grade!

(The BOSS is wearing small shoes!)

"Albert! Why didn't you call me!"

"2 points deducted from Gryffindor!" Snape raised his head, pursed his thin lips and glanced at several people, and deducted points directly for a nonsense reason.

McGuffin remained silent.

——Talk too much, Voldemort is not far behind his head, he doesn't even dare to turn his head around now.

Quirrell put down the bronze book and wanted to say something, after all, he is still the leader of this duel contest!
After listening to a few words, Snape put the quill in his hand aside, put away the parchment, stood up and interrupted Quirrell's words impatiently.

After he finished discussing with Quirrell in two or three sentences, he seemed to have snatched the dominance of this competition.

Snape then walked over the timid Quirrell and came to the two of them, staring at them coldly and said.

"Now I will explain to you two the rules of the Wizarding World Duel Competition, and popularize some well-known duels."

He walked over and took out his wand from the black robe, waved it in the air, and the candles on the iron shelves scattered in the corner of the room lit up with a 'poof' out of thin air.

"I'll only say it once! I won't repeat it!"

First, Snape described some common duel contests, and then began to tell the two about the usual procedure and etiquette of wizard duels.

"Wizard duels usually refer to a contest between two wizards or multiple wizards. Only magic can be used. Remember, you are not low-level beasts fighting with limbs. If I see any physical contact between the two of you on the day of the duel, I will let you know in the next seven years. This is the stupidest thing I have ever done."

Snape made the cold wind blow freely in the room, and the two nodded hastily.

"Adult wizards most often use silent spells to speed up their casting speed, but as long as you can read the spells correctly and out loud now, it proves that you are not hopelessly stupid."

"Some of the destructive spells, black witchcraft, jinxes, such as the Explosive Curse... have now been banned by the Ministry of Magic from being used in duels! Of course, they may be allowed to be used upon application, but these are usually used by adult wizards with profound mana for formal duels, and various complicated magic agreements must be signed."

"In addition, the most commonly used spells in duel competitions are stun spells, impediment spells, and body-binding spells. These spells can bind and control others...or a dance spell, which brings a funny effect and greatly laughs at the opponent, making them lose their will to win. For example, Professor Flitwick, the dean of Ravenclaw, once relied on a dance spell created by himself to make his opponent automatically admit defeat and win the British dueling championship."

"In 1379, who won the title of best duelist in the duel contest held in Dartmoor? MacGuffin!" Snape asked suddenly.

Seeing no answer from the McGuffin, Snape asked Malfoy.

"Come on, Malfoy!"

"It's Elizabeth Smudgelin."

"That's right, it seems that some people still know some common sense, so you also know about the famous wizard duel!"

"In the All-England Wizarding Duel in 1430, Alberta Tussel won the battle with the Explosion Curse,..."

"Great answer, 5 points for Slytherin!"

"Because of McGuffin, you didn't answer the question and disrespected the professor. Gryffindor will deduct 2 points!"

Test!This guy is getting more and more blatant!

"When I upgrade and develop, you are finished! Snape!"

--I will endure!
After all, McGuffin just wants to cherish life now and stay away from Quirrell/Voldemort.

(End of this chapter)