Professor, you looked at me...

There were not many people in the school hospital, except for Harry, who was originally nestled in the school hospital, only Madam Pomfrey, Professor McGonagall, and Dumbledore were there.

Snape frowned, exchanged glances with Dumbledore briefly, stepped forward and said, "What happened,"

Several people gathered around a bed, and even Harry lay prone on the head of the bed, looking at the pale person on the bed, being obedient.

The person lying on that bed was a boy with a round face, and from his school uniform, he was a Gryffindor student.

Snape thought about the man's name carefully, and asked with some surprise, "Longbottom," as someone who often messed up his classes through various potion accidents, Snape still had Very impressed.

"Yes," Professor McGonagall kept flapping his nostrils, obviously very angry, "Dumbledore, I need you to give me an explanation! What happened to my student?!"

"Minerva, calm down," Dumbledore obviously didn't have much thought to comfort Professor McGonagall, but turned to Madam Pomfrey and asked, "How is this child?"

"There's nothing wrong with him," Madam Pomfrey looked confused. "There's nothing wrong with his body. In fact, Albus, I don't understand why you and Minerva are in such a hurry. In my opinion, This kid just spent so much energy during the final review that he passed out in the common room after the exam and he completely relaxed--with all due respect, Minerva, this kid's usual grades are not very good Bar?"

"Yes," Professor McGonagall's voice was slurred as if squeezed out of his nostrils, "but I also don't think Longbottom is a kid who would risk his life just to study, Poppy, look at his face! He's in bad shape!"

"I know I know, Minerva," Madam Pomfrey reassured, "Trust me, the finals are over, there will be nothing else to weigh him down, and I guarantee he will be fine."

"Dumbledore, don't you have anything to tell me?!" Professor McGonagall pointed at Dumbledore.

"Minerva," Dumbledore glanced at Professor McGonagall, "you go to my office in a while, I'm going to have a private word with Severus now."

"You better give me a reasonable explanation!"

After dropping such a sentence, Professor McGonagall turned and left without any hesitation.

"Oh, this damn final exam... always breaks a lot of people," Madam Pomfrey muttered, fiddling with the bottles and jars next to Neville's bed, "I've seen a dozen of them this week The student came to me to get some medicine because of the exam... Fortunately, the damn exam has passed..."

"Poppy, you said that a dozen or so students have already had this condition?" Dumbledore asked, "Is Longbottom the most serious symptom?"

"Yes," Madam Pomfrey seemed to have thought of something, and suddenly straightened her waist and said aggressively to Dumbledore, "Principal, look at your students! What a torture they have been in the final exam! I strongly Request to reduce the difficulty of the final exam! Otherwise, this school will not be able to survive!"

Harry, who was lying on the bedside, couldn't help but look up at Dumbledore, his eyes full of approval.Although he hasn't taken the final exam yet, judging from the situation, he will stay here to study and take the exam sooner or later. It would be good for him if he can reduce the difficulty a little now!

——He didn't want to die here at all because of reviewing for the exam.

……

"...I'll think about it, Poppy," Dumbledore said under great pressure, "Go back and rest, I'm here, I promise I will leave quietly with Severus in a while, let Harry and Longbottom rest well."

Madam Pomfrey gave a few more nagging instructions before leaving with a few bottles that were not needed, and gave them the ward.

Dumbledore cast a few spells into the ward, making sure that even the fifth founder couldn't overhear their conversation, before saying, "Severus, is Rex here?"

"Here we come!" An energetic voice came from the pocket of Snape's robe, "Sev quickly take me out, I want to see you~"

"==..." Snape didn't move a bit, "Since you can hear us in your pocket, there's no need to be taken out."

"But Sev, I miss you..." Rex's voice was extremely aggrieved, even if he was staying in the topaz, Snape could still imagine how aggrieved he was now, "I haven't seen you for almost 15 minutes I saw you..."

"==That's enough, you can shut up now." Snape pressed his red ears, pretending not to see the eyes of Dumbledore and Harry.

"Woo~" A faint choked sound came from Snape's pocket.

……

After Rex got into the topaz, he seemed to become more and more like before, whimpering and crying at every turn, making Snape's mind always stay with a Rex with his chin up. Got Raymond.

Fortunately, the previous conversation between Snape and Dumbledore about the bait was concealed by the two very tacitly. Otherwise, if Rex knew that Snape decided to be the bait without his own knowledge... ... Then Rex will definitely use the topaz that he lives in to smash Dumbledore's head full of bags, and he won't be able to see anyone for a month.

……

"Dumbledore, what do you think?" Snape deliberately ignored Rex's crying (no way, he was so used to it that he couldn't get used to it), "That person didn't choose to attack a person this time, Instead, choose to suck the souls of multiple people?"

"It seems so," Dumbledore asked, leaning over Neville's eyelids and looking into his eyes, "Harry, do you remember how you felt when you were taken away?"

"Uh... I don't seem to feel anything special," Harry said with a distressed expression, trying to think back, "I don't even know how I was taken away, I just know that when I wake up, I will be there In that big room." For Harry, who was completely unaware, the eleventh floor was a big room," and I didn't see anyone, I just felt weaker and weaker, and then began to become transparent... ...and nothing else."

Dumbledore was silent, as if thinking about something.

"Why did that person attack this student?" Snape also looked at Neville lying on the bed, with a puzzled expression on his face, "This student is so stupid that he is almost comparable to a troll, and his cowardice is almost Smaller than the shards of the cauldron he blew up—is that man starving already?"

Dumbledore glanced at Snape, "Severus, Longbottom's parents are excellent Aurors, and I believe their children will be no worse than them."

"Hmph," Snape snorted coldly, dissatisfied, "When he doesn't blow up the cauldron in my class sometime, you're telling me that."

Dumbledore didn't say any more, after all, it was really hard for Neville to make people believe that he was a person with a powerful soul.

"Sev, what time is it?" Rex's voice came from Snape's pocket again, but this time his words were much more serious, "How long is the holiday?"

Snape and Dumbledore looked at each other and said, "Less than a week."

"If the students are on vacation, there will be no souls in the school for him to suck, right?" Rex said to the point, "So he is now stockpiling... food?" Forgive Rex and can't find anything suitable words to describe it.

Dumbledore and Snape looked at each other, and they both saw it clearly in each other's eyes.

Rex continued: "If there is no student's soul in the school... what will that person do?"

Snape woke up, "Attack those who stay at Hogwarts, or...leave Hogwarts."

"But what is his purpose?" Rex said, "Why did he appear at Hogwarts? And why did he open the space-time rift? What is his purpose in coming to Hogwarts?"

There are too many questions that Rex and the others can't answer. The fifth founder is a mystery to everyone, and there is no clue to solve him at all.

"So no matter whether he wants to leave or stay... the best way is to leave a bait in Hogwarts to attract him to stay?" Snape frowned, and all the questions went back to the far side.They had just tried the bait method, but Neville, lying on the bed, declared their failure silently.

"Yes," Rex paused, and then continued, "My body has recovered more than half, and I estimate that I will be fully recovered by the beginning of the next semester, so during this vacation..."

"Don't even think about it!" Snape interrupted Rex rudely. "All you need to do during the whole vacation is to take care of your body! The other things have nothing to do with you!"

"...I think so," Rex's voice was a little bewildered, he wanted to see Snape's expression now, but unfortunately the professor refused to take him out, so he had no choice but to say, "Otherwise I would still What can you do?"

"..."

Snape was silent for a second, looked up at Dumbledore, and suddenly felt that he might have had too much contact with Gryffindors, so that he thought that everyone had the legendary plot to save the world.

Dumbledore took a deep look into Snape's pocket and asked, "What do you think, Rex?"

"Well..." Rex paused for a second, and then said in his softest voice, "Harry, do you want to stay at Hogwarts during your vacation?"

"What?" Harry, who had been watching by the side, didn't expect that the topic would suddenly turn to himself, and he couldn't react immediately, "Uh...I'm fine, I actually don't want to go back to the Dursleys' house at all..."

"Look," Rex in the topaz smiled treacherously, "the problem has been solved satisfactorily."

Snape: "... ==" If I knew it would be released as bait, why did I go to such great lengths to rescue it back then.

Dumbledore: "... ==" If you have time, it is necessary to give Rex an ideological education class.

Harry: "???" Can someone tell him exactly what happened? (O_o)?

The author has something to say: the first update~~~

I wish you all a happy reading~

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Preview of the next chapter: About a certain issue that the Dark Lord has to talk about~=v=

It was Neville who was attacked~

I haven’t seen it so far and guessed it right~=v=

In other words, I chose him because he performed really well in the latter part of the original book, right?

I think it can be realized so well that even the person who killed Nagini cannot be a weak person, but Neville was indeed very weak in the first grade, so I chose him to be attacked~

It is very suitable for having a strong soul, but at this time it is very fragile~

O(∩_∩)O haha~