Professor, you looked at me...

Dumbledore was worthy of being Dumbledore. Facing such a thousand-year-old centipede, he could kill it without changing his face... and then returned to Rex and Snape's side with injuries all over his body.

"Dumbledore, you are injured," Snape said with concern as he drew out his wand and walked towards Dumbledore's side, "Let me heal you!"

"...if you hadn't pinched the wound on my arm when you said this... I would have been more touched, Severus." Dumbledore's entire face was twitching when Snape pinched it , looking at Snape with especially heartbroken eyes, "Severus, I remember I just heard you say that you are going to help me deal with that centipede?"

"You heard me wrong," Snape said without changing his expression.

"..." Dumbledore looked at Snape with an even more distressed expression, "Severus, do you feel that your skin has thickened?"

"By whom?" Snape looked up, showing a half-smile expression, "Albus, I won't talk about the source of some things and books, but there is a word called 'self-inflicted', you should heard about it."

"..."

Only then did Dumbledore realize that he seemed to have been offending his potions professor constantly, so he turned his head to Rex sensibly, hoping to get some support.

……

But obviously, he made another mistake.

"That's right," Rex accused Dumbledore righteously, "Everything my family Sif said is right!"

Dumbledore: "..." Maybe Kate's planet has another name called "Crossing the River and Destroying the Bridge".

……

Light another wax for Professor Dumbledore.

……

After expressing the joy of meeting in a mutually damaging way, Rex and Snape sat cross-legged on the ground very peacefully, waiting to hear Dumbledore's explanation of all this.

Snape spoke first, and asked, "Tell me, why are you here so late?"

"...Because there was a little accident in the school," Dumbledore said helplessly, "Severus, you should have a class at this time, but because you are not here, your students are celebrating in the potions professor After a while, I accidentally knocked over a pot of failed, highly corrosive potions. The only consequence of this incident was that the kid's headmaster rushed to my office and gave me a slap in the face. "

"That's why you're late?"

"Which college is it a student?"

Snape and Rex spoke at the same time, but asked different questions.

Rex looked directly at Dumbledore, but Snape turned his head to look at Rex in surprise, the emotion in his eyes was bottomless.

"A sweet little Hufflepuff girl," said Dumbledore, smiling, "but she has learned enough that Madam Pomfrey said she must let those terrible burns stay on her face long enough." It will take a month to get back to normal."

"You got the order wrong," Rex said. "She was the cause of the burn, but Sif was involved after she was burned, so this is not a lesson."

"Then what do you want?" Dumbledore spread his hands, "She's just a child."

"I didn't say I would do anything out of the ordinary," Rex said with a "sweet" smile at Dumbledore, "I won't kill her, don't worry."

"..."

Dumbledore silently turned his gaze to Snape, trying to find some human support.

Snape tried his best to control the expression on his face, keeping himself expressionless, put his hand on Rex's head, and said solemnly: "Don't play too much."

Dumbledore: "..." Where did his pure and kind little Severus go? ! !

"Ok!"

Rex gave Snape a wide smile, which was followed by a wet kiss.And what's rare, Snape didn't say anything, he seemed to be in a good mood and rubbed Rex's messy hair, Dumbledore was bleeding from the bottom of his heart.

……

"Come on," Snape brought the subject back. "What about that centipede? What about this floor? What do you know?"

Dumbledore sighed and said, "I've always known that Hogwarts has many secrets, but I really never knew that there are ninth and tenth floors in Hogwarts."

"Not only that, our goal is No.11 floor," Snape briefly told Dumbledore what happened to Rex, and then asked, "Those portraits in your office that can only snore Did I tell you something?"

"Not only do they snore, Sev," Dumbledore corrected, "but they don't know much about it either. The only one who knows a little...is the first headmaster of Hogwarts, but he usually sleeps There are too many, so some things can't be remembered clearly."

"The first headmaster?" Rex raised his eyebrows, "I've always wanted to ask, do you have portraits of the four great sages in your office? It stands to reason that they should be the first headmaster of Hogwarts, right? ?”

Snape was taken aback for a moment, then quickly looked at Dumbledore, obviously wanting to ask this question too.

"You're right," Dumbledore said with an appreciative glance at Rex, "The Four Great Sages were indeed the first headmasters of Hogwarts, but I don't have their portraits in my office, because By the time they die...they are incomplete.”

"It's a pity," Rex sighed heavily, "I thought I might finally meet a few people with a smaller age gap than me."

Dumbledore: "..." He shouldn't have expected the thinking of aliens.

"What did that person who knew tell you?" Snape asked bluntly. Although the light here became a little normal because of Dumbledore, it was still a bit dazzling. He didn't want to spend any more time here. Time's up, "How do we go up to the eleventh floor and get that damn broken mirror?"

"Severus, you didn't treat Harry like this before," Dumbledore smiled ambiguously, and said intentionally, "You know, how much you loved Lily back then!"

……

Snape froze strangely, opened his mouth to say something, but found himself unable to utter a word.A sense of dread and loss surged through Snape's mind so quickly that, before he knew it, he turned his head sharply to Rex, to see his reaction.

"Sev?" Rex blinked, then turned to look at Snape with a benign and harmless expression, "Do you still like Lily Potter?"

"..." Snape looked at Rex stiffly, the answer turned in his mind one after another, as long as he opened his mouth, he could say that word smoothly, but the embarrassment he had never felt made him His neck was red, not to mention talking.

Rex didn't break Snape's stiffness, just looked at him like that, as if he could wait for the answer forever.

……

The two kept looking at each other in this state for several minutes, until Dumbledore on the opposite side had lost interest in waiting, and Snape still couldn't say a word.

"Severus, you two should settle this matter alone," said Dumbledore. "The first—perhaps he should be called the second—Hogwarts headmaster told me that when Hogwarts Gewarts has eleven floors, counting the basement, the entire Hogwarts has twelve floors, but since he entered Hogwarts to study, he has never seen anyone using a classroom with more than eight floors. Something happened that made the four sages of Hogwarts jointly seal the classrooms above the eighth floor, and no one has ever found the ninth floor since then."

"Sealed?" Rex seemed to feel that it was not good to force Snape like this, so he squeezed Snape's fingers, let him go, and turned to Dumbledore, "What happened?"

"Nobody knows," said Dumbledore, shaking his head, "not even the Second Headmaster."

"Then can you let us go up to the No.11 floor?" Rex asked, "If you want to ask about the beginning of the school, you can ask the ghost of Ravenclaw after going down for a while, she A daughter of Ravenclaw."

"Ms. Grey?" Dumbledore's eyes lit up. "It's a good idea, but what we should do now is to save Harry."

Snape raised his eyebrows: "Can you get to the eleventh floor?"

"Of course," Dumbledore waved his hand, and a staircase appeared beside them, and said modestly, "As the headmaster of Hogwarts, I have great rights."

Looking at the stairs in front of him, Rex's eyes glistened, and he asked longingly, "Then can you install a door in Sev's office that leads directly to the Hogwarts kitchen? Besides, Hogg Watts' food is really delicious!"

Snape: "..." ==

Dumbledore met Rex's expectant gaze, and said tactfully: "...the headmaster's authority is not used in this way."

"Oh..." Rex replied in disappointment, "You're really useless..."

Dumbledore: "..."

"Come on," said Snape, standing up, pulling Rex off the ground as well, and watching Dumbledore use his old arms and legs indifferently, "I've had enough of this place." gone."

……

A few people walked up the stairs, this time the stairs were made by Dumbledore, so the safety was much higher than the stairs just now, at least the length of the stairs was normal, so the few people came to the legendary Eleven in a short while. layer.

……

The light on the eleventh floor was very normal, and it was no longer a corridor, but more like a huge classroom. Standing here, Rex could barely see the opposite wall.

In the middle of the eleventh floor, a tall mirror stands there——

Mirror of Erised.