[HP] This deer is not a deer

"No." He moved his lips and answered bluntly.

"Don't deny it so firmly, it's not a bad thing, Severus." Dumbledore said softly.

Snape stood in front of Dumbledore with his head bowed, his hair somewhat covering his cheeks, but under Dumbledore's gaze, his expression was still gradually becoming ugly.

He stared coldly at Dumbledore, nervous.

"Come on, what's your problem?—I have nothing to do with Potter."

"Why are you so eager to deny it?" Dumbledore stared at Snape until Snape looked away before he looked at the closed door.

Snape sneered, "Not everyone is like you, don't expect me to like those troll offspring who only know how to put on farce all day long."

"But you care about Harry," Dumbledore said softly.

"You know why I care," Snape asked, pursing his lips. "What makes you think... I have feelings for him?"

"From the moment you come in."

"No, I don't think I will give you this kind of illusion. Maybe you are old and dizzy enough to have hallucinations. I don't think this is a good thing for us. Or you should ask me to check you..."

"This matter has nothing to do with me." Dumbledore didn't mind his offense too much, and seemed a little sad, "I'm looking at you, and you're looking at him.—"

"—he's suspicious, holding the potion you gave him, and I don't know anything about it."

"You care about him."

"No." Snape was indifferent.

"Severus," Dumbledore said with a bit of melancholy in his blue eyes, he seemed to be delighted at the same time, looking at Snape with complicated eyes, "I have always said that he is a good boy, if you are willing to Get close to him and look at him, you'll always like him, he's not a bad boy, and his personality doesn't quite resemble his father's..."

Snape was a little irritated, "If it's to talk about Potter, then stop here. What the hell did you call me here for?!"

Dumbledore sighed softly, and he looked at Snape without blinking, "For Harry. It's rumors about you and Harry, you know, nothing can be hidden from me at Hogwarts. But I think I'm really starting to worry."

"—so you did it on purpose." Snape growled angrily.

"Yes, that's right." Dumbledore did not deny it.

He purposely let Snape see Harry here, in order to be probing them.

"So what." Snape tried his best to calm down the distorted expression.

"I'm just not sure..." Dumbledore whispered.

"So you're sure now?" Snape sneered.

"Are you in love with Harry, Severus," he repeated earnestly. "Are you in love with him? He's a good boy…"

"Falling in love?" Snape asked back, staring coldly at Dumbledore.Dumbledore's question made him suddenly angry, and hurried forward, he looked Dumbledore straight in the eyes, and rushed in front of Dumbledore recklessly, almost hitting the silverware on the table.He drew his wand, and growled angrily, "—Call the Guard!"

From the tip of the stick sprang the silver doe.It landed on the floor, jumped across the office, and flew out the window... Dumbledore watched it go away, watched its silver light disappear, and then he turned to Snape, eyes It was full of tears.

"It's been this long?"

"It's always been like this."

Dumbledore didn't say a word in silence, Fox stood quietly on the paulownia perch beside him, biting its cuttlefish bone.

Snape's body cooled slowly, he went cold from his anger.

"Severus..." Dumbledore sighed.

"Enough, I have nothing to do with Harry, just for Lily, because I - she died - it was - it was my fault." He growled in pain, "- don't look at me like that !"

It was as if all his skin had been peeled off from the beginning to the end, and everything was exposed to the air again. Snape trembled a little, and he gradually became cold and hollow. Occlumency blocked all his emotions, but the desolate coldness Feeling crept up his cheeks, emotionless and terrifying.

Darkness without light.

Dumbledore said with a complicated expression, "...Severus, you know how important you are to my plan." He restrained his complicated emotions, and in the end, only one piece of blue eyes remained. calm.

"I don't want you to get too close to him," he said.

"I know," Snape said.

"Are you sure? Severus, if it's true that you and Harry develop feelings beyond friendship..."

"I have no friendship with Potter!—no affection, ever!"

The room suddenly fell into silence.

a long time.

Dumbledore sighed involuntarily.

Snape froze and said, "Me and Potter, never will."

After a while, the old man's low voice slowly sounded, "I hope so."

There was only calmness in Dumbledore's words, and only calmness in his icy blue eyes. The emotions revealed were no longer gentle, as if covered with a layer of emotionless frost.

Snape's whole body was shaken, the cold, rational and ruthless words made him feel a little sluggish suddenly, as if his whole body shrank.

"You know, Severus," Dumbledore completely faded his gentleness, revealing the most calm, rational, and cold side, he told Snape, "You have no way out."

"I know," he said.

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the next day.

Hogwarts is in panic again.

Snape, who had been wandering around Hogwarts for a long time, suddenly appeared again, and became extremely violent and terrifying.

Some people suspect that he may have been bullied by Moody. Recently, he has been hearing that Professor Moody is watching him and suspects that he is hiding some evil things.

But no one knows what the real reason is. It seems that something happened to make Snape fall into extreme vengeance. As long as he dislikes and unfortunately gets caught, no matter which college it is, all of them have suffered terrible injuries. punish.

Except, of course, that Slytherin was not penalized.But he actually punished a Slytherin confinement for the first time!

It wasn't until Harry met Snape on Friday that Harry experienced it firsthand, which exposed them to terrible rants and harsh points deductions at any time, and even the Slytherins collectively fell into a dead silence.

But Snape didn't mean to 'take special care' of him.He only looked at Harry once, but there was something scary about that look.

Harry could only try to tell himself that the gloomy coldness was just his imagination.

The entire class was made even more difficult, with Snape constantly hovering among the crowd.

"I didn't say that I sliced ​​the Sunshine Rangen into pieces. How could my words be incomprehensible, or did you not listen carefully to what I said? Thomas, fifteen points will be deducted from Gryffindor!"

Snape fell into a terrible vengeance again. He turned around and gave a cold glance, and said sharply, "—Longbottom! Put down the bubble root in your hand, I'm curious how you did it of?"

"When did I tell you that it's okay to just throw these things in the cauldron? It would be unfortunate if you came into my classroom with that poor brain, I've never seen a wizard as stupid as you— —and, what made you make a potion other than pink? Twenty points from Gryffindor!"

Neville was really about to cry, he was about to tremble all over, this was the second time he had been deducted points in this class, he was gasping for breath, and looked like he was about to faint.

The whole classroom fell into an oppressive silence, everyone dared not speak out, Harry turned his head to look at Snape in surprise and anger, and Ron was also annoyed and angry, but Snape was still around Neville hovering.

"Okay, let's see, what's this? I've never seen anything like this—"

Ron angrily cut the silver knife on the puff root with heavy hands, Harry clenched his fists tightly, and finally couldn't help but stood up again abruptly.

"Potter - what? What are you trying to do? Stand up for your poor stupid classmate?" Snape finally turned to notice him.

"No," Harry gritted his teeth to shut himself up, "it's nothing, I just dropped something and needed to pick it up."

"That's right." Snape walked in front of him, Harry pretended to be squatting down to look for something, Snape narrowed his eyes, and said emotionlessly, "But I think you're lying, Potter, Greg Ten points from Lanffindo."

Harry stood up suddenly angrily, "Don't you think you are too much!"

"Don't question my decision, what made you talk to your professor in such an attitude?" Snape said coldly, "Gryffindor lost ten points because of you again."

"You just want to take your displeasure out on us!" Harry said angrily.

"Potter, that's just your wild speculation, slander." Snape's indifferent gaze fell on Harry along the hooked nose, so cold that it made people chill, without any mercy, "I must say, as a Poor Potions Master, what makes you think I'm putting that little protest on you."

"Oh... After all, being the savior doesn't need to bear too much grievance. I think you take it for granted, Potter, Gryffindor lost ten points again because of your arrogance, and I will give you another A week of confinement isn't much, is it, and Filch would welcome having his showroom wiped down."

Harry's eyes were wide open, and Snape's punishment, which can make people angry, was not particularly strange to Harry, not even unexpected - except that Harry looked into Snape's black eyes without the slightest waves.

It's like... something is completely different.

He didn't understand what was going on, Harry stared at Snape until he walked away from him, Harry felt an uneasy feeling in his heart...why this horrible feeling?