Hogwarts Slytherin

Professor Slughorn saw with satisfaction that the children in his college had tidied up, and finally gave instructions: "Each college is responsible for guarding the entrance to the auditorium, and the male and female chairmen are responsible for management. If any situation is discovered, report it to me immediately."

Then he glanced in the direction of several senior students and then turned away, "Finally, I think tonight is not a good time to make a joke. Does everyone know?"

After it was clear that everyone had reached a consensus, Professor Slughorn waved his hand and quickly left the auditorium along with the other deans and Dumbledore.

After the professors left, the auditorium exploded.

Gryffindor had already regarded this as a wild adventure, and even though the Slytherin tent area was the farthest away from them, Regis still heard the singing there.

"Help, can't they be quiet?" Snape stared at the noise in another place with a gloomy expression.

Among them, Porter and a few silly boys were already holding hands and performing an ape mating dance.

If you look closely, there seems to be someone from Hufflepuff.

Just as Snape was wiping his wand for the fifth time, the door to the Great Hall opened again.

"boom"

The sound of magic bursting and Professor McGonagall's frown seemed like it could kill a fly.

"Twenty points from Gryffindor!" She walked in quickly, and the corners of her wizard robe began to roll up as she moved. But after deducting points from Gryffindor, she walked straight across Gryffindor. Findor's area, heading towards the innermost Slytherin area.

The Slytherin students looked at me and I looked at you, a little confused. Some students who were lying in their sleeping bags subconsciously stood up.

How could the basilisk escape?

Isn't it locked in a secret room?

Then the voice heard in the Room of Requirement was probably snake language. No wonder the other party was able to hide it so well. No wonder even Ms. Gray didn't see anyone else besides him.

Because only he could hear that voice.

But...when did he learn to speak snake language?Reggie remembered that when he was a child, when he was still in an embarrassing period similar to a squib, he saw a snake in the Lestrange Manor, which was Rabastan's pet.

He was sure he couldn't understand what the snake was saying at that time.

That was probably what happened after awakening the magic, and it should also be related to the mark of Slytherin.

"Have I been trained into a Horcrux unknowingly?" But this speculation was quickly overturned. Not to mention that he had no ideological communication with Salazar Slytherin himself. After he disappeared inexplicably, , he has never sensed the other party's existence.

However, there are no absolutes in the world. "How can I be sure that I am still myself?" In the sleeping bags distributed, Rui Ji thought of many methods in his mind.

"Mr. Duke? Mr. Duke?!" Professor McGonagall's voice revealed concern.

"Oh, what's wrong, Professor McGonagall?" After coming back to his senses, Reggie quickly climbed out of his sleeping bag. Since he was spending the night in the auditorium, he did not change into pajamas, but wore his daytime robe.

Professor McGonagall breathed a sigh of relief, "Please come with me."

Anthony and Snape also stood up. They had already learned the ins and outs of tonight from Reggie, but some of them were confused as to why Professor McGonagall had called Reggie away at this time.

"Professor, where are you taking Reggie?"

"We can help too."

Professor McGonagall glared at the two of them, "Don't worry, I just need Mr. Duke's help with some things. You two stay here."

Reggie nodded towards the two of them, tidied up a little, and quickly followed Professor McGonagall from the auditorium hall.

When they reached the Slytherin lounge, several deans and Principal Dumbledore were already waiting there, and a three-headed snake was floating in the air, but it had woken up at this moment.

As soon as Reggie appeared, several people's attention immediately focused on him.

"Oh~ kid, come here quickly, I heard something...Dumbledore wants to ask you." Professor Slughorn immediately came up to him, stopped him by the shoulders, and took him to several other professors. .

After saying hello, Reggie readily admitted: "Yes, I understand snake language."

"This is an amazing talent, Mr. Duke." Dumbledore's expression was calm, and his eyes behind the silver lenses were smiling. "Thank you very much for controlling it in time. I'm glad that Horace came to inform me that the school has appeared. I didn’t hear any news of anyone else getting hurt when I was running into the snakes.”

"This is what I should do, Principal Dumbledore." Reggie said seriously.

Dumbledore nodded happily and turned his attention to the Rune Snake. "Rigi, I think your talent should give us some clues. I wonder if you can ask it if it has other companions."

"My pleasure, Professor."

Although several professors knew in advance that Reggie was a Parseltongue, they all felt a little weird when they saw one person and one snake making "hissing" sounds.

Reggie shook his head at Dumbledore, "They said they were put in a box when they were born, and then they were suddenly put here without seeing any other companions."

This can be troublesome.

Haven't seen it, doesn't mean it hasn't.

This snake does not seem to be an accident. In order to prevent it from being done by someone with intentions, they must conduct a thorough investigation of the entire castle tonight.

Professor Kettleburn has checked in advance and found that this rune snake has no egg-laying period at present, so there should be no snake eggs left in the school.

"Could it be a pet that some student kept secretly?" Professor Sprout speculated.

Suddenly, all the professors turned to look at Professor Slughorn.

Professor Slughorn: "..."

After all, the runes were found in the Slytherin common room, and Slytherins are known to love playing with snakes.

Here, the rune snake is not an owl. It can be bought in ordinary pet stores. Obviously, it can only be ordered from places like Knockturn Alley, and it requires a lot of gold galleons.

Based on these two points alone, no matter how you look at it, Slytherin is the most likely suspect.

Professor Slughorn was just a little confused by the stare, but this reaction was an obvious message, which showed that he might also be thinking the same thing.

It was Reggie who started to speak, "I believe he is not a Slytherin student."

In fact, it is unlikely that it was a Slytherin student.

First of all, if it was a pet brought by a Slytherin student, it would have no chance of passing by the second floor.

The Slytherin common room is located at the bottom of the lake, which is a favorite place for snakes. Students who can spend money to buy runes as pets do not need to let the snakes go out to look for food.

When someone was in charge of the food, the Rune Snake had no motive to run outside, and even ran to the second floor. The stairs of Hogwarts are not that easy to deal with. Since it ran to the second floor, it was difficult to guarantee that it did not run away. Been to other places.

With such a complicated staircase structure, the probability that a snake would want to return to the underground lounge without being touched by anyone in the process was too low.

Furthermore, if a Slytherin student secretly kept the snake, he would have jumped out and admitted the snake when he discovered it, and the matter would not have been reported to Professor Slughorn at all.

At least not so soon. Someone may secretly report to their dean, but I believe Professor Slughorn will also choose to keep a low profile.

No matter what, it would not have become such a big scene now.

Therefore, Reggie was more inclined to believe that this rune snake was secretly raised by students from other colleges. Snakes like to run to cold places.

Either someone deliberately left it near the Slytherin lounge, and many people would pass by the basement during Potions class.

Dumbledore probably thought so too. He created a transparent bottle and put the rune snake into it, and then said to everyone, "Everyone is innocent until proven guilty. What's more, These kids got enough shit tonight."

The other professors also nodded.

Only representatives from three other schools were not disturbed tonight. Their residence was already heavily guarded. It could be said that not even a fly could fly in. There was a protective spell cast by Dumbledore himself, so after careful consideration, , or decided not to disturb the guests’ rest at night.

After nothing happened to Regis, he was brought back to the auditorium. Fortunately, before he passed Professor McGonagall, the Gryffindor area became much quieter.

Seeing the expression on Potter's eyes that said he had something to ask, Reggie chose to ignore it and walked intently towards the innermost Slytherin area.

In fact, he believed that if Professor McGonagall hadn't watched him at the door and warned Potter with his eyes, Potter would never have let him leave.

Returning to his sleeping bag, Reggie's tight strings relaxed and he hid the story about the basilisk in front of everyone.

However, Snape seemed to have something on his mind tonight.

When Reggie first came back, Snape glanced at him dragging his sleeping bag and motioned towards the corner of the auditorium.

"Rigi..." The two dragged their sleeping bags to a corner and stayed there, but Snape seemed to be very confused, as if he wanted to say something but had not made up his mind.

Reggie recalled it carefully. It seemed that when school first started, Snape was always hesitant to speak.

He did not urge them, but cast a few anti-interference spells next to the two of them, and then looked at each other calmly and said, "Severus, we are friends, you can trust me."

Reggie had calculated the relationship between Lily and Snape. In fact, the two had known each other for only a few years. If the relationship between man and woman was removed, he believed that his friendship with Snape was not that different.

Since Snape chose to ignore what happened at the Yule Ball, Reggie would naturally not take the initiative to mention it in the future.

The candles in the auditorium had been extinguished, leaving only the soft starlight scattered across the enchanted ceiling.

Many students looked up at the ceiling, as if they were in the wild. Thinking about it is... exciting!

Snape pursed his lips and looked at Reggie. They had known each other for three years, and he had never seen Reggie look so sad.

It seems that no matter what happens, he can take it calmly. Being expelled from the family and being betrayed by friends seems to be not worth mentioning to him.

Snape felt that all the unspeakable worries in his heart were swept away at this moment.

"My mother is dying." He began to talk about his inner feelings during this period.

For example, why does she seem undaunted when Prince is about to die?

Snape still remembered that on the day when Prince was announced to be numbered, his father Tobias did not drink for the first time, but what was the use of that?

It was useless. The girl was so thin that there was only a handful of bones left, and there were countless old and new wounds all over her body. She always looked weak and haggard. After suffering all the torture, she was finally going to die.

Was Tobia grieving for her?No, that man was probably grieving the loss of a nanny who had been a cathartic term.

Just as he thought, Tobias returned to his old days the next day, drinking drunk every day.

Why wasn't he the one who died?

That night, hearing the sound of smashing things coming from downstairs, Snape sat on the bed and thought in confusion.

The moonlight poured in through the window, and he saw the wand beside the pillow through the moonlight. Only then did he feel a hint of emotion in his eyes.

During the whole process, Reggie listened quietly without making a sound.

"...She probably won't survive this summer, Reggie. I don't understand why she would guard someone like Tobia until the end of her life."

Snape's voice was full of disgust and disdain when he spoke of Tobias.

After a moment of silence.

Reggie patted his shoulder: "Many things do not require a reason. Perhaps death is a relief for Ms. Prince."

"Severus, do you know? In the East, there is a romantic explanation of death. They believe that after death, people will turn into a planet, and they will be far away in the sky, every night, for their loved ones. People light themselves up."

"I don't know, Reggie, I don't know, I don't think anyone loves me." Snape's voice was extremely low, and there was a hint of choke at the end.

Is there anyone who doesn't love their children?

Will do.

He had seen countless bloody news, so Reggie didn't say anything big.

If the person involved can't feel it, does that still count as love?

If someone has been loved, how could he have the ability to love because of a flower in the same year.

How could one lose the ability to love forever because of the withering of a lily?

Because I have never felt warmth, when it appears, I will be like a drowning person grabbing a piece of driftwood, unwilling to let go.

"Love? It's too weak a word, Severus. We don't need to care about whether others love us. I prefer to love others than to be loved. In this way, the initiative is always in my hands. I will decide the rules of the game. Calculate."

"Only strong strength and ever-hot hearts can make our most precious wealth, we are friends, if you want, brothers for life. Believe that in the future, as long as you want, you will have countless new friends .”

"Brother?" Snape chewed the word carefully.

This word is too "Potter", and every time he hears this word from Potter, he can't control the contempt in his eyes, but now...

The haze in his eyes dissipated, and he lay in his sleeping bag looking at the ceiling. His eyes were dazzling than the stars.