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"Believe me, I don't want this to happen either, but I just don't know what they are thinking..."
Snape turned and came to Gryffindor, and took Fred and George away without saying anything.
Charlie wanted to step forward to stop him, but he was deducted ten points as soon as he opened his mouth.
"You are talking back to the professor, Weasley. Gryffindor will deduct ten points." Snape said coldly, "If you don't get out of the way, I will deduct twenty points from you next time."
Charlie's face turned red with anger. He clenched his fists tightly, veins popping out on his arms. Then he took a deep breath, raised his legs and... moved to the side.
"Professor Snape, take care."
Snape's hand holding the wand relaxed a little, and after a cold snort, he took Fred and George away from the Quidditch field.
But as soon as he left, Charlie rushed to Professor McGonagall's office cursing.
Slytherin has no martial ethics. Not only did he frame them, but he even called for help. How shameless.
Isn't it just a thigh? Everyone has the same.
The big shot of Gryffindor is the vice-headmaster... In terms of official position, he is much higher than Snape.
On the other side, after returning to the castle, Snape took Fred and George all the way to the Potions Office.
However, the twins were not nervous at all. Instead, they looked at the furnishings in the office with great interest.
Just very average.
Not to mention it's narrow, the tables and chairs are also very old, and the floor creaks when you step on it.
If they ignored the potion ingredients, they would have even thought they had entered a second-hand furniture store.
It's far inferior to Professor McGonagall's.
"Professor Snape, what do you want to talk to us about?" Fred asked first.
Snape said slowly, "What happened to the package you received this morning?"
"We don't know either, Professor." George said calmly, and took out a piece of paper from his pocket and placed it on the table beside him.
"It wasn't signed, so we thought it was sent by the wrong owl."
"Yes." Fred nodded and said, "We searched for a long time but couldn't find the owner of the package. Just when we were about to hand it over to Professor McGonagall, the package disappeared."
George continued, "Professor, do you know who stole...the package?"
I don’t know if it was intentional, but George pronounced the word “steal” with extra emphasis and paused.
But Snape pretended not to hear and continued, "So, you didn't buy the package?
Don't try to fool me, I know it came from Zonko, I'll go to Hogsmeade and ask about it later."
"Of course, it's your freedom, professor." Fred's expression did not change at all.
"But if you know who stole the package, please tell us. After all, it was lost from us, and we won't be able to explain ourselves if the owner comes looking for us."
Snape's eye twitched and he pretended not to hear again.
"Weasley, you..."
"Bang bang bang~"
At this time, there was a sudden knock on the door.
Professor McGonagall walked in from outside.
"Severus, I heard that you took Fred and George away." Professor McGonagall pursed her lips and said seriously, "Did they do anything wrong?"
"We didn't, Professor McGonagall," Fred complained.
George followed up, "Professor Snape came to us to ask about the package."
Professor McGonagall thought for a moment and said, "Is that the unsigned package you told me about before?"
"Yes, that's it," said Fred. "But it's missing, and we suspect someone may have stolen it."
"Stealing? In Hogwarts?" Professor McGonagall pursed her lips even tighter. "If I find out who it is, I will definitely deduct one hundred points from him. No, two hundred points."
"Ahem..." At this time, Snape suddenly coughed twice and said, "In fact, it belonged to one of our Slytherin students. He saw it and took it away."
Professor McGonagall was slightly startled, "From your college?"
"Yes, from our college." Snape's face turned a little blue, and he gritted his teeth and said, "I called Weasley this time just to confirm the situation with them."
"That's it..."
Professor McGonagall's expression softened a lot, and she glanced at Snape with some displeasure. "It's fine to talk about this on the court, why do you have to interrupt the game?"
Snape didn't say anything, but he cursed Rosier as a fool in his heart.
After that, Professor McGonagall went back, and she took Fred and George with her.
Snape did not stop him.
In fact, he never doubted the two Weasleys from the beginning.
The styles are so different.
The reason I called them over this time was just to get some words out of them and deduct another 30 or 50 points to ease the mood.
As a result, he did not expect that Professor McGonagall would come so quickly, and the two men seemed to have been prepared and directly characterized the incident as "stealing" in front of Professor McGonagall.
He couldn't even find any fault with it.
Because this is the fact. If the Slytherins had not stolen the package, the subsequent events would not have happened.
"Rosier, this idiot, is simply a close relative of a troll!" Snape cursed in his heart again.
However, after what happened just now, he became even more certain that this matter had nothing to do with Weasley, or at least they were not the masterminds.
Weasley's brain wasn't working that well yet.
Snape pondered for a moment. Somehow, an honest and loyal (crossed out) and cunning and hypocritical face suddenly flashed through his mind.
"Kyle Chopper..." Snape muttered to himself.
Although no matter how you look at it, Kyle has nothing to do with this incident, not even close to it, but Snape's intuition tells him that Kyle is definitely not innocent.
That’s right, it was just intuition, and it had nothing to do with him leading Kanna astray.
(End of this chapter)
Chapter 69 What Would You Do?
"Mr. Chopper, why don't you follow the instructions in the book and grind the lionfish spines into powder before adding them to the crucible?"
In the Potions class, Snape stared at Kyle and said sarcastically, "Do you think you are a Potions genius? How dare you tamper with the textbook?"
"Five points from Hufflepuff for your arrogance."
Kyle looked up at the blackboard.
It clearly says on it: The lionfish bones do not need to be ground, just boil them in boiling water for five minutes and cut them into pieces.
The words were so big and were written by Snape himself, how could it be considered that he tampered with the textbook?
"Professor..." Kyle took a deep breath and said in his most normal voice, "This is what you wrote on the blackboard."
“Oh, I wrote that wrong.”
Snape waved his wand calmly and erased the words on the blackboard.
"Does what I write have to be correct? What about your judgment? If I tell you to add your own thoughts, will you do the same?
Three points off Hufflepuff for being so opinionless."
……
Until the end of the get out of class, Kyle's hand was tightly holding the rock cake in his pocket, hesitating whether to throw it at the back of Snape's head.
Although Snape had been deducting points from himself for no reason since a long time ago, he was particularly excessive today. He did everything he could to deduct points, even without caring about his face.
Can you erase what you wrote with your own hands?
This kind of waist-breaking operation really opened Kyle's eyes.
Of course, the effect was immediate. In just one class, Kyle lost more than 30 points.
From the time he entered school until now, the points he lost in all other courses combined are not as many as the points he lost in today's class.
The other little badgers came over to comfort him, and even Kanna kindly handed him a licorice candy.
Kyle took one look and chose to ignore it.
During the meal, Fred and George also heard about what happened in the Potions class. They ran over and patted Kyle on the shoulder, comforting him, "It's okay. Snape has been deducting points from us. It's nothing."
"Yeah, pfft... I mean, you have to take it easy."
The two spoke words of comfort, but with undisguised smiles on their faces.
It was obvious that they were here just to laugh at the joke.
Just when Kyle was about to chase the two away, Fred leaned over and said in a low voice, "Okay, stop thinking about those unhappy things. I'll show you something good."
He looked around and carefully took out a square piece of parchment from his pocket.
"Remember I wanted to tell you something a few days ago? It's this." George came over and whispered, "A magical item. I bet you'll never guess what it is."
"Could it be..." Kyle raised his eyebrows and said with a puzzled expression: "Is this parchment that can automatically write homework?"
"..."
The twins, who had been so smug before, suddenly looked a little stiff.
"If it's possible..." Fred said with a look of longing, "I really hope it is."
"But its real function is also great." George said: "This is a map of Hogwarts. Of course, it is not the ordinary stuff you sell."
"We call it the Marauder's Map."
Fred said as he took out his wand and tapped it lightly on the parchment.
"I solemnly swear..."
In an instant, thin lines of ink spread out like spider webs from where the tip of the wand touched, connecting with each other and extending to every corner of the parchment.
Then large green cursive characters appeared on top.