Hogwarts in the shadows

"Hephis, thank you for what you did just now." Hermione looked at Hephis with guilt.

"Hermione, isn't it my job to protect you?"

Hephis looked at Hermione lovingly, and his hand unconsciously rubbed Hermione's head again.

Hermione hugged Hephis.

"I was in the bathroom just now and found out that you were fighting the troll. I was really worried about you."

Hermione said regretfully, "But I don't know why. The more I worried, the more I couldn't move. I was really scared at the time."

"Hermione, as long as you're okay." Hephis continued to rub Hermione's little head.

"Yeah." Hermione buried herself tightly in Hephis' broad chest.

Theodore was not surprised at all and looked at them calmly.

Harry and Ron looked a little awkward.

"Hermione, you haven't eaten yet! Why don't we go get something to eat together?"

"It's better not to. You just got deducted points by the professor. What if you get caught again?"

"It's okay, just deduct it, I don't care anyway."

"But you will be put in solitary confinement, and we don't get to see each other often anyway."

"That's a problem...Okay! Then you should hurry back to the lounge! I'll ask An An to bring you something to eat."

"Yeah." Hermione mustered up her courage and gently kissed Hephis on the cheek.

Then he fled with a red face and ran towards the Gryffindor common room.

"This little girl." Hephis gently stroked the place where Hermione had just kissed, and looked at her running back affectionately.

"Ahem...Hefeth, it's time for us to go too." Harry said somewhat awkwardly.

After exchanging a few pleasantries, they each went home to look for their own mothers.

Beside the giant monster's corpse——

After Professor McGonagall carefully examined the troll's body, she sent Professor Quirrell away.

"Severus, Hephesus is a good boy." Professor McGonagall looked at Snape solemnly.

"Indeed, he is braver than me." An unknown emotion flashed in Snape's eyes.

"Severus, it's been so long." Professor McGonagall sighed softly, her eyes full of complexity.

"I'm fine, I'll keep an eye on him," Snape said quickly.

"So, Severus, is it you who comes or me?" Professor McGonagall stared at Snape, pointing her wand at the troll's chest.

"Let me do it!" Snape understood immediately.

After saying that, he walked over to the troll.

"The Divine Edge is Shadowless!"

He used multiple Divine Edge Shadowless Spells on the giant monster's chest, and finally blasted open the skin on its chest.

After seeing the condition of the troll's heart, Snape's body trembled involuntarily, although he had already expected it.

"Shattered to pieces!"

Snape finally breathed a sigh of relief after completely faking the troll's cause of death.

He turned to Professor McGonagall, "The troll's body is in your hands, Minerva. I will go and explain the situation to Albus."

Professor McGonagall nodded, "Don't forget to have Albus place a gag order on the portrait."

Snape didn't say anything else, turned around and ran quickly towards the headmaster's office.

His figure disappeared quickly in the night, with one step deep and one step shallow.

Principal's Office——

Dumbledore listened quietly to Snape's detailed report, which also included the details about the forgery of the troll's corpse.

There was no sign of surprise on his face.

After all, he had already learned about the entire battle from the portraits, and he had also imposed a gag order on those portraits in advance.

Under Snape's watchful eyes, Dumbledore personally composed a letter to the Ministry of Magic and mailed it.

The battle process in the letter has become unrecognizable.

Hephaestus merely used the Swamp Curse to restrict the troll's movements, and all subsequent battles, including the killing of the troll, were attributed to Snape.

Snape left the headmaster's office satisfied, leaving Dumbledore alone in his thoughts.

The two generations of Dark Lords have a close relationship with him. If Hephess...

Dumbledore's brows furrowed.

The days were still as peaceful as water, and the study life at Hogwarts seemed to have not changed at all.

It seems to have not changed, but it has become different.

After the giant monster incident.

Hefeth's trust in Theodore deepened.

He planned to implement his second plan after further testing Theodore.

Theodore's obsession with magic grew stronger, and he practiced magic madly.

He often stayed in the Room of Requirement all night, waving his wand tirelessly.

As expected, Hermione, Harry, and Ron got together again, and the iron triangle returned.

All of Hephis's rest time was occupied by Snape.

Every time they ate, he couldn't help but complain to Hermione.

Hermione was very jealous of this. She was jealous that Snape could give Hermione special treatment.

If Hephis hadn't given her the notes he summarized after confinement every time, this girl would probably have collapsed by now.

I don’t know if Snape took any private work, but Hephis has endless potions to brew every day.

Now, he can control six crucibles to brew potions at the same time, and the potion in each crucible is different.

The Memory Stripping Charm had also made great progress, and Hephis was now able to cast the spell under Snape's protection.

He felt as if his brain had been unloaded, as if it had lost several pounds.

As for Occlumency, he was now able to completely empty his mind, but he just couldn't keep it up for long enough.

According to Snape, it would take another month before we could proceed to the next step of practice.

weekend.

Hephis was alone in Snape's office, busying himself around six crucibles.

This was the task Snape assigned to him today, and Snape himself went to watch the Quidditch match between Slytherin and Gryffindor.

There were bursts of laughter and joy coming from outside, but Hephis could only walk around the crucible miserably.

However, on this matter, Hermione finally stood on the same side with him.

He wasn't even allowed to watch Quidditch games, which made Hermione very angry.

However, he is not very interested in Quidditch.

He likes the feeling of flying freely in the sky, but he doesn't like riding on a broom, which is not cool at all.

The Shadow Flying Sword and Shadow Cloak projects have been put on his agenda, and Shadow is now practicing them in the dormitory.

It probably won’t be long before he can fly freely in the sky, and he will definitely look handsome.

Not long after, Snape returned to the office with a gloomy face.

Hephis knew at a glance that Slytherin had definitely lost.

It seems that Harry Potter is quite capable, as he won the competition for the first time.

The rules of Quidditch are so fucked up that the decision of winning a game basically lies with the seeker.

"Hephis, stay away from Quirrell." Snape's gloomy voice sounded.

Hephis looked at Snape in confusion. What did this have to do with Professor Quirrell?