[HP] Aunt of the Savior

For a while, everyone was silent, and Dumbledore's office became extremely quiet, and even the sound of breathing seemed to be inaudible.

"He...is he really back?" Professor McGonagall asked first, her fists clenched tightly.

"If that's the case, it's too dangerous for the students." Professor Sprout said worriedly. "What should we do, Albus?"

Professor Flitwick said comfortingly: "Don't worry, Pomona, even if that man does come back, he must be very weak, so he needs unicorn blood to restore his strength. If his current mana is like it used to be If he is so powerful, he would have already attacked Hogwarts."

The little head of Ravenclaw, known for his wisdom, was obviously much calmer and more rational than he usually appeared.

Only Snape kept silent, his thin lips were tightly pressed, the corners of his mouth drooping down, and he stared at Dumbledore without blinking, waiting for him to say what he planned to do next.

"Until we are not sure about the current situation, we can only wait." Dumbledore said calmly. "But we all have to be more vigilant. The recent night patrols are very important. Be careful not to let the students sneak into the Forbidden Forest. I have already reminded Hagrid of this. If it is really Voldemort hiding in the Forbidden Forest... ..." His voice gradually became firm and powerful. "Then maybe this is an opportunity for us to weaken his strength. If we can keep defeating him, he will be wiped out by us sooner or later."

Dumbledore's words were undoubtedly convincing, but Snape stayed after the others had left, and he had other questions.

"The Dark Lord's goal is the Sorcerer's Stone? Did Quirrell steal the Sorcerer's Stone for him?"

"That's very likely," Dumbledore replied.

"Did you already know this?" Snape's voice was angry. "You know that if Harry might face the Dark Lord, Jody would never agree to the test for Harry."

"Severus, I didn't know that Voldemort might have crept back to Hogwarts before the unicorn was murdered." Dumbledore replied calmly in the face of Snape's anger, "but I do think This is a good opportunity. No one knows better than us that Harry will face Voldemort sooner or later. If there is any training that Harry needs most, it is the habit of facing him without fear."

"...I won't agree." Snape stared into Dumbledore's blue eyes. "You don't want me to help you convince Jody to agree to such a dangerous plan."

"Don't you understand, Severus?" Dumbledore shook his head slowly, "With that prophecy, no matter how hard we try to protect Harry, it is impossible to sever the special connection between Harry and Voldemort , to isolate him from all danger. Harry will not be truly safe until Voldemort's complete and permanent defeat."

Snape's face livid, "What are you going to do?"

"We're not going to do anything," Dumbledore said, looking towards the window, where the evening sun dyed the golden red that is typical of Gryffindor in the sky. "Just watch Harry in the dark, that's enough."

"I hope that kid knows what to do and what not to do!" Remembering Harry Potter's restlessness, Snape suddenly understood what Dumbledore meant.He stood up abruptly and left Dumbledore's office in stride.

Dumbledore looked thoughtfully at the back of Snape leaving angrily.He knew that Snape would never hide what happened to Jody today.

Phoenix Fawkes hummed softly and spread its wings from the perch to Dumbledore's lap. Dumbledore stretched out his hand and gently stroked the golden-red feathers of the phoenix.

"Harry, you will be safe until the day you can take your share of responsibility..." Dumbledore whispered to himself. "Because there are so many people who love and protect you..."

Snape, who was holding back his anger in Dumbledore's office, happened to meet Harry, Ron and Hermione in the foyer, who had just returned from Hagrid's cabin.He stopped, looked at the three children with nervous eyes, and his tone seemed to be dripping with poison: "If I were you, I wouldn't hang around in school or pay attention to those who are more serious than others. They're powerful people. You know, nosy people are always less...lucky."

It wasn't until Snape's back disappeared into the underground passage that Ron couldn't help complaining to Harry: "I don't understand, don't you still think that Snape can't steal the Philosopher's Stone? Listen to what he just said, he Must know we're watching him, he's warning us! If only we could find some evidence..."

"Ron," Harry said, annoyed as hell. "Unless Professor Snape really stole the Philosopher's Stone, I wouldn't doubt him."

He said so bravely, but his mind became more and more unclear about what Professor Snape was thinking.

At first, Harry thought that the students of Hogwarts were prejudiced against Professor Snape, but as time went by, he had to admit that with Professor Snape's performance, many people's opinions were justified , even the statement that Snape was interested in the Dark Arts is not a rumor—Harry had seen Professor Snape poring over books on the Dark Arts with a fascinated expression, even though those books Harry had never read in Laurel. Saw it in the study of the cottage.

What if, Professor Snape really wanted to use that Philosopher's Stone to make the elixir of life... He is very interested in making all kinds of potions, isn't he?

Harry's answer undoubtedly made the atmosphere a little awkward.Ron curled his lips and fell silent.He didn't want to argue with Harry about the Philosopher's Stone or Snape, but he just couldn't understand why Harry was so insistent on defending their Potions Master.

"Ron, I think Hagrid's affairs are more troublesome than Professor Snape's." Hermione winked at Ron and changed the subject.

"Yeah, think about it..." Speaking of this, Ron was a little excited. "We can see the little dragon breaking its shell..."

Harry glanced at Hermione with some embarrassment and gratitude, and stopped talking about the Philosopher's Stone.He decided not to bother about the Philosopher's Stone any more.Like Hagrid said, it's well protected anyway, and it doesn't have anything to do with them, does it?

While chatting about the dragon eggs, they walked towards the auditorium until they reached the long Gryffindor table, only to realize that Malfoy had just walked not far behind them.

"Oh, hell, didn't that guy hear what we were talking about?" Ron said worriedly.

Harry was also a little uneasy, because he saw Malfoy smiling smugly in their direction, as if he had caught them. "Probably not, who would have thought that Hagrid would raise a dragon?" He said with some uncertainty.

"We've got to talk Hagrid out of his dragon plan before anyone else finds out," said Hermione, "or he'll be fired."

But until the Norwegian Ridgeback broke out of its shell, Hagrid didn't agree to send the little dragon away, and he even named the dragon Norbert.

"It's still so small...it's just been born..." On Norbert's question, Hagrid was as stubborn as a child who doesn't want to part with toys.

"But it'll grow as big as your house in a few weeks, Hagrid, I've read the books, and it's written about it. And it breathes fire! You can't put it in the Forbidden Forest either! ’ Hermione tried her best to convince Hagrid. "That would set the whole Forbidden Forest on fire."

"But..." Hagrid looked at Norbert, who had almost burned his beard just now, with loving eyes like looking at a child. Just about to speak, his face suddenly changed: "There is a boy peeping outside the window!"

"Oh! It's Malfoy!" Ron hurriedly looked out the window, and immediately recognized the running away figure. "He found out about Norbert!"

Harry had a look of annoyance on his face.They were so careless that they didn't even notice that Malfoy had been surreptitiously watching their every move since he got Hagrid's note.

Hagrid looked at his baby dragon in a panic.He was not willing to part with Norbert, but he also knew that Malfoy would definitely not keep a secret for him like Harry and the others.

"We can't let him speak out, otherwise Hagrid will be unlucky, it's against the law!" Hermione said anxiously.

"We have to figure out a proper way before he says it." Harry stared at the dragon, then at Ron, suddenly his eyes lit up, "Ron, we can ask Charlie for help, you said he studies dragons , he will definitely find a way!"

In the next few days, Harry and the others felt that life was like a year, and Malfoy smiled maliciously all day long, as if he might expose them at any time.Luckily Charlie wrote back quickly, and his friends would go up to the Tower to take Norbert on Saturday night.This finally made Harry and the others breathe a sigh of relief.As long as this Saturday is over, Malfoy and Norbert won't bother them so much anymore.

But of course Malfoy didn't intend to let Harry and the others pass the test so easily.In fact, as soon as he was sure that Hagrid had a dragon, he told his favorite professor the "good news".

"I can't believe it." Snape walked up and down Jody's office angrily.He just got the news about dragons from Draco Malfoy, and as soon as he knew it, he came here to tell Jody, and he felt that he desperately needed that warm sweet scent to appease his anger .But obviously this effect is not ideal, especially when the owner of this room is in a bad mood.

Just now, Draco recounted what he eavesdropped and eavesdropped on.And he used a skillful description to imply to his professor that if Harry Potter was deducted points because of the dragon, Slytherin would have another chance to win the Academy Cup this year.In Draco's opinion, for such a serious mistake, the deducted points cannot be made up by winning two Quidditches.Especially after he found out that Harry and the others had no intention of betraying Hagrid and telling them about Hagrid's private raising of dragons.Perhaps their fate is even more serious, such as being fired?He thought happily.

"A dragon! Hagrid's big, tall man! I knew it!"

Uncharacteristically, Jody didn't comfort the angry Snape.Her complexion was not good at this time.She thought Harry should have the common sense to know how dangerous dragons were.Especially now, with Hogwarts not being that safe right now.She had been in a bad mood since Snape had told her that the Dark Lord might be at Hogwarts.Now this news undoubtedly made her bad mood worse.

As Dumbledore hadn't said, even if he didn't do anything, Harry would always get himself in trouble.

"The question now is, what are they going to do with the dragon?" Finally, she couldn't help saying, the sarcasm in her tone was no better than Snape's usual attitude. "Hagrid doesn't think he can keep a dragon at Hogwarts without telling everyone, does he? I want to see what Harry Potter is going to do!"