295 Holiday, Traitor, Helper

295 Holiday, Traitor, Helper

Hogsmeade village.

The second floor of Gobstone Club Store.

"So, after we finally drove out the Heir of Slytherin, you became a traitor to Slytherin, right?"

Karan lowered his head and read a book on transfiguration. Nuts flew out one after another from his pocket, teasing Weier who was released from the cage.

Snape rested his arms on the window sill, supporting his head.

His face was downcast and silent.

Karan continued without raising his head and said: "Then what are you going to do next? I have never heard of students who can change the college. Or will you leave campus and live in the future, just like the placement last semester? Like Domida?"

"If you insist on such a request, Professor Slughorn may really agree to it. He always appreciates talented students, and your grades in Potions class are not bad..."

At this moment, Snape suddenly interrupted Kahlan's words.

"Is this the only thing you care about?"

He said slightly irritably: "The mysterious man first framed Regulus, and then wanted to kill me..."

Snape tried his best to lower his voice, his tone full of fear, uneasiness, and rare anger.

"I almost died, just that little bit..."

"Regulus and I are both Slytherins!"

The ideals we once aspired to were challenged in the face of horrific facts.

After the anger, Snape seemed to let out a sigh of relief suddenly, his body slumped down, and his face turned pale again.

"I don't know..." he muttered.

"I don't know anything."

Snape stared at the falling snow outside the window and became silent again.

The only sounds left in the bedroom were Weier's cheerful flopping and the sound of Karan turning the pages of a book.

"Aren't you scared?" Snape suddenly asked Callan.

"You were the one who saved us, and you were the one who was awake for the longest time. You should have seen the scene of Professor Meadows fighting the mysterious man, right? I heard that all the secret rooms were destroyed, and there were many others. The basilisk."

"Aren't you... afraid?"

"What are you afraid of?" Karan continued to flip through the book and asked: "Besides, what's the use of being afraid? Can't you see that I am taking the time to read now?"

"It's easy to conjure a rooster, but it's difficult to conjure a powerful magical animal."

Karan murmured in a low voice: "I am a wizard. I will not be afraid, and I have no time to be afraid. There are still many things to do, and I must seize the time..."

Snape was stunned. He looked at Karan's serious look and suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.

"What are you going to do with your time?" He asked in fear, "Isn't it to declare war on the mysterious man?"

Kahlan glanced at Snape with a strange look on his face.

"Of course I should seize the time to learn magic!" He said matter-of-factly: "I just said that I am a wizard, but I am not a fool. As you said, I witnessed the battle scenes at that time, and I knew it very well in my heart. The gap between me and those powerful wizards.”

"The fierce fire, and the flames produced by the phoenix...are really terrifying powers."

At this time, another nut floated out, and Weier grabbed it at once, flying left and right on Karan's head happily.

Karan looked at Weier and said slowly: "It is not easy to deal with them just by relying on the floating spell of wandless magic."

Snape became increasingly frightened.

"After all, you still want to declare war on Voldemort!"

Karan glared at him angrily: "What else? Knowing that you are being targeted by the evil Dark Lord, why don't you hurry up and make preparations? Do you have to wait until I am caught next time to learn spells? ?”

"Before that, you must at least have some ability to protect yourself. The more, the better."

When saying this, Karan laughed twice maliciously.

"I just need to protect myself, but many people know that Mrs. Prince opened a Gobstone shop in Hogsmeade, and Lily..."

He deliberately put it off, and Snape pursed his lips tightly, and finally couldn't help but ask: "What's wrong with Lily?"

"Hehe." Karan laughed sinisterly again, and then said: "Lily's parents are Muggles with little ability, and her sister Petunia is also like this. No matter how powerful Lily is, she can't do it alone. , but can’t protect three people.”

"What does this have to do with me?" Snape curled his lips disdainfully: "They are just Muggles after all, and this is not something I can change."

"I know this has nothing to do with you." Karan raised his eyebrows and said, "But do you think Lily also thinks it doesn't matter? That's her family."

"I remember clearly after taking the poison. What Lily was most afraid of was that Petunia would no longer care about her. Her family's status in her heart is no lower than Mrs. Prince's status in your heart."

"Once they encounter any danger..."

Karan did not continue speaking, but smiled maliciously at Snape.

Snape stared at Karan. At this moment, he suddenly felt that Karan was even more terrifying than some mysterious person, and more gloomy and terrifying.

After being silent for a long time, Snape suddenly realized that his previous worries were meaningless.

He also needs to seize the time in the face of possible threats.

So, Snape asked: "What are you going to do?"

After resolving Snape's depression with a few words, Karan smiled mysteriously, and the witch robe that had been set aside floated up out of thin air and automatically fell on him.

"Come with me."

He said.

"hurry up."

Amid Mrs. Prince's concerned instructions, the two left the Gobstone shop.

They held their collars tightly and walked through the biting cold wind. Snape exhaled a large cloud of white mist. He couldn't help but ask: "You are not taking me to see Lily, are you? She is here again." Go to Germod Village?"

Karan shook his head and said: "Of course not. Didn't she just write us a letter at home two days ago? Although she didn't say it out loud, no one can endure the terrible experience in the secret room silently. In this case, At this time, what she needs most is the company of her family, not..."

He turned his head and glanced at Snape, then suddenly smiled and said: "Same as you are now, come with me to mess around."

This is exactly what Lily wrote in the letter, and her worried words unconsciously turned into instructions, asking Snape to keep an eye on Karan and not to act suddenly or do anything irrational.

Just like Snape, Lily also knew that among the few people, Callan was the one who suffered the most. He was not in a coma and experienced everything personally, even facing Voldemort in a sober state.

Snape lowered his head and said nothing, but he was thinking about whether to write a letter to Lily about today's events.

After all, Karan is different from himself and Lily.

Karan has no living family and no one to talk to. This is what the two of them are most worried about. Otherwise, Snape would not have called Karan to his home for several days in a row after the holiday.

"I wonder how Professor Kettleburn is doing now?"

Snape was startled by the sudden voice. He tried his best to hide his inner thoughts, lest Callan see the strange expression on his face.

Fortunately, Karan didn't look at him, but looked at a house in the distance through the falling snow.

After calming down, Snape looked over together.

That was Professor Kettleburn's house.

He also returned to Hogsmeade after the Christmas vacation, but in the past few days, the two of them could only see people coming in and out occasionally, including Principal Dumbledore, but never Professor Kettleburn was seen leaving the house.

"The coma that lasted for several months, coupled with the sudden bad news of Qiqi's death..." Snape whispered: "It is difficult for anyone to accept this fact."

Karan nodded silently.

After walking for a while, Snape suddenly discovered that the path the two took was leading to Callan's house.

Although Karan would go to Snape's house these days, he never stayed overnight in the guest room, which made Mrs. Prince think she had done something wrong, causing Snape to explain for a long time.

"What on earth are you bringing me here for?"

Snape frowned and asked, "Are you planning to make some new potion?"

During the holidays last semester, the three of them prepared the polyjuice potion in Karan's house.

After a pause, Snape whispered again: "It's not impossible. I believe Lily won't object this time. After all, the shrinking potion has helped us a lot, and you actually let you kill a basilisk... ....trampled to death."

He couldn't help but sigh: "That's Slytherin's basilisk. Counting the time, it has lived for almost a thousand years."

"It's just good luck." Karan said without looking back: "The space inside the statue is small enough for the basilisk to move left and right, and I also actively showed weakness. It looked like I was about to fall down. The same, lowering the basilisk's vigilance. In addition, the glass bottle containing the shrinking potion was successfully smashed into the basilisk's mouth instead of its nostrils, which allowed the potion to exert its full effect."

"If any step here fails, we won't be standing here alive. At least we will have to lie in the school hospital for several months..."

After a pause, he added softly: "Only if you are lucky enough."

The thrilling sight was spoken by Karan in an understatement, and Snape couldn't help but recall the fear of being dominated by the basilisk again.

"If you had failed..." He couldn't help but ask in the end.

"Then we can only let ourselves take the shrinking potion." Karan said calmly: "Then we can find a way to hide so that the basilisk cannot find us."

"But maybe I will take the initiative to throw you out before that." Karan suddenly said in a sinister tone: "You know, it's like a bait, attracting the basilisk's attention in advance. In this way, I Not only is it less of a burden, but I can also take the opportunity to hide quickly with Lily, making it less likely to be discovered by the basilisk."

"As for the specific method, maybe we can use the Traceless Stretching Charm. By then, our bodies will be small enough and we won't need to open up too much extra space..."

Seeing that Kahlan continued to speak, and even said it in a decent way, Snape's face couldn't help but become ugly.

But at this moment Karan suddenly stopped talking.

He turned to look into Snape's eyes and said to him, "So don't be a burden to anyone."

"None of us can."

After turning his head, Karan continued to speak softly: "You said that the guys in Slytherin House all regarded you as a traitor, even after Regulus was killed. Only one female student expressed My only kindness..."

"We cannot expect bad people to become good, but let us focus on making ourselves stronger."

"At least, this will make you more calm in the upcoming pranks, so that you won't be like Andromeda, who has to leave school and stay in the dormitory."

It seemed that due to the cold wind blowing, Snape's thin cheeks became paler and his expression became slightly distorted.

"mischief......"

Snape tightened his grip on the cypress wand in his pocket, and the figures of his four roommates first appeared in front of his eyes.

They all considered themselves traitors to Slytherin.

Even in occasional conversations, Snape could hear that they all wanted to be future Death Eaters.

"I won't necessarily lose!"

Snape clenched the wand tightly with his fingers and said in a cold tone.

Karan shook his head slightly.

"This is not enough, this is far from enough..."

He whispered: "It's not enough not to lose, it's not enough just to be able to prepare high-level magic potions."

"We need more strength."

"And...your other talents."

Snape silently thought about the meaning of Kahlan's words.

After a while, he suddenly froze, his eyes widening.

"You mean...dark magic?" he asked quietly, as if someone heard him.

This is a topic that is rarely mentioned. The busy first half of the semester is full of their lives, and even Lily rarely asks about it.

Karan stopped in front of the door of his house.

He smiled and said: "Not only that, it is even an extremely powerful one that has existed for thousands of years."

With a click, Karan reached out to open the door and made a gesture of invitation to Snape.

Snape frowned and walked into the warm house.

After Karan, who had entered together, closed the door, Snape discovered a figure already sitting on the sofa in the living room on the first floor.

The burning fireplace filled the whole house with warm air. The figure took off the heavy witch robe, and the edges of the rolled up cuffs revealed dim curse marks. There was a blue baby bird sleeping peacefully next to it.

Meadows looked away from Antioch and focused on the stunned Snape, then frowned and looked at Kahlan who was walking towards him.

she finally asked.

"Is this what you call a helper?"