Professor, you looked at me...

"Yes," Galby responded casually, "so the simplest plan is to wait. Hogwarts professors are not easily subdued by him, so his targets will definitely focus on the students, as long as he starts to get impatient. Attacking students indiscriminately, sucking their souls, it will be enough to just sit back and wait."

Snape frowned: "You used those students as bait?"

"Yes," Galby glanced at Snape, and said clearly, "Don't tell me what's going on in your head, Rex has already told me that."

"Then why are you still here?" Snape asked. "What are your plans?"

"We don't have any plans," Galby said deadpan. "I'm here for personal reasons."

……

Snape didn't ask further, because he knew he couldn't ask what the "personal reason" was.But Galbi's revelations clearly made things more serious.

Hogwarts used to be the safest place at all times, but now there is not only a fifth founder who knows the entire castle well, but the founder is also "food" for students in a school, this Simply turned Hogwarts into the most unsafe place in the world!

Snape felt his whole heart go cold.

……

Galby obviously guessed what Snape was thinking, he paused, and then said, "I suggest you not try to evacuate the students, otherwise it will be even more troublesome to try to catch that person."

"It's impossible for Dumbledore to do such a thing as using students as bait." Snape said without thinking.

"Whatever you want." Galbi frowned, obviously dissatisfied.But thinking about it, if someone wants to use the little Kate star as a bait, Galbi can also understand the human's approach, "But I won't care about anything about you."

Snape frowned, took a last look at the topaz in Galby's hand, said "Take care of him", and turned to leave.

Galby stood in front of the bedroom door and watched Snape's back until Snape's figure disappeared completely.

"It's really troublesome." Galbi raised the topaz in his hand and looked at it, as if he was not satisfied, he cursed "to death trouble" before turning around, opening the door and returning to the dormitory.

but……

"Are you back?" Benny kept sitting cross-legged, and smiled as he watched Galby walk in. "Are you ready to accept it with me?"

"..."

Galbi looked at the topaz in his hand, with a very tangled expression.

——If I transform into a cat at a time like this, there will be no room for this jewel.

……

On the eighth floor, the principal's office.

"What are you going to do?" Snape sat across from Dumbledore, recounted what Garby had just told him, and then silently looked at Dumbledore who lowered his eyes.

"Hogwarts is no longer safe," Dumbledore said unexpectedly.

"So?" Snape looked at Dumbledore's expression very seriously, "Are you going to close the school?"

Dumbledore pondered: "This is the last choice."

……

There was a sudden silence between the two.

One of these two people is the headmaster of Hogwarts, and the other is the person who regards Hogwarts as home, and is the person who is the last person who wants to see Hogwarts closed.

"Is there no way to catch that man?" Snape was a little annoyed, and Rex's disappearance seemed to arouse all his irritability.

"If you want to lure that person out, you need a powerful soul as bait," Dumbledore's voice sounded calm, "and you also need to make sure that person will choose that bait instead of the one from Hogwarts." student."

Snape frowned and asked, "What do you mean?"

"The time when a person is most likely to be invaded and controlled... is when that person is the most vulnerable." Dumbledore said, "The strength of the soul has a lot to do with the strength of the willpower, so a person with a strong soul has a strong willpower. When you are weak, you are most likely to be invaded."

Snape raised his eyebrows and said clearly, "Are you going to use me as bait?"

"No," Dumbledore shook his head, "I mean, Rex is the best thing for that person to smoke right now."

Snape gasped for breath, and subconsciously said, "That man said he could keep him safe."

"This doesn't change the fact that Rex is the most dangerous person in Hogwarts." Dumbledore closed his eyes, "Severus, this is our last choice."

"No," Snape's tone was very stiff, "I can also be a bait."

"Severus..."

"As a person whose partner disappears, I will be very sad," Snape said quickly, "That time was also when my willpower was weakest. Instead of finding a Rex who was protected by the Kate, I might as well use let The terms of Rex's recovery came to lure|seduce me."

"Rex won't agree," said Dumbledore.

Snape didn't flinch, "I won't agree to you using Rex as bait."

……

Small grunts sounded in the headmaster's office. Most of the previous headmasters were listening to Dumbledore and Snape attentively, but of course there were also those who really fell asleep.

"He should be wary of you." Snape said in a deep voice, "You are a person who will do whatever it takes to achieve his goal."

Although I heard the story about "Harry Potter" in his time and space from Rex, after all, I didn't experience it personally, so even if Snape heard it, he just listened to it as if he wanted to hear the story. You don't bring the people in that story into your real life.

But this incident made Snape clearly aware that Dumbledore was not a saint just as the story said.

……

"Severus, I have nothing else to do." Dumbledore covered his face with his hands, but his voice was extremely clear, "Whether it's you or Rex, I don't want you to be in danger, But other than that ... we have no choice."

Snape stood up with a "huh", and the chair rubbed against the ground harshly, "In this case, then follow what those who can express their opinions say."

Dumbledore was silent.

……

The rest of life was uneventful.

It's almost the end of the term, and the students are all reading at night for the upcoming final exam. Even those who love night tours are peacefully immersed in the ocean of knowledge—after all, there is not much in the semester. Learn, they are already drowning.

……

The number of professors patrolling at night has increased a lot, and Dumbledore even ordered the entire Hogwarts portrait to be more alert in the middle of the night.

And Snape used his superb acting skills to portray himself as a person who was severely emotionally injured and devastated. He dealt with the crowds coming and going with a gloomy face every day, eating and sleeping alone.

It’s not that he never thought about letting the black cat live in his office, but the black cat expressed that he was unwilling to leave Benny a step away, and sometimes he could even see the black cat in the corner when Benny was in class, which really made him feel uncomfortable. Snape felt short of breath—

Who is this damn cat protecting? !

……

Of course, the black cat Galbi just ignored the professor's anger.

……

I don't know if it was the conversation between Snape and Galby at the door of the dormitory that stimulated Rex. For the past two days, he stayed in the white topaz and tried his best to heal his injuries, absorbing the energy of the topaz so that he could hurry up. Recovered and returned to Snape's side.

However, within half a month, Rex was able to talk to Snape in Topaz, expressing his miss.

……

Time passed so unhurriedly, and the fifth founder never appeared again, as if he himself did not exist at all.

Harry, who was thrown into the school hospital by Dumbledore, has woken up and is observing the world curiously.

Time has entered the final exam unknowingly.

That day Snape had just released Benny who had come to him to be imprisoned (only in this way would a certain proud black cat be willing to bring Rex to the Potions Office for a stay), when he saw a silver phoenix flew in.

Phoenix opened his mouth, and Dumbledore's voice came out: "Severus, come to the school hospital, some students have been attacked."

……

Snape rushed over quickly.

— Apparently, one of the founders had a much higher IQ than they thought.