Chapter 8: Exposed!

She was bowing her head down, and not knowing what she was thinking of. They got out of the carriage and walked until they reached the end of the station, which there was a big lake, and some people had already begun to ride the boats.

Students, who took the Hogwarts Express train, need to take a boat to reach Hogwarts.

But before Wilkes reached the lake, he suddenly stopped, so that Luna behind him slammed into Wilkes's back.

"Sorry, I..." Luna murmured subconsciously, but she looked up and saw Wilkes in front of her, he was frowned and looking forward.

Luna also looked in that direction and found that almost all the new students had already boarded the boats, and a person was standing by the lake.

A wizard wearing a black robe, a pair of black indifferent and hollow eyes, are looking in this direction.

"Severus Snape? Why not Hagrid? It's not like that in the original plot?" Wilkes knew the man in front of him well.

It was Snape who had a life of tragedy in the original book.

But Wilkes clearly remembered that in the original book Hagrid was who led the new students and took the boats to Hogwarts.

"Well, is it possible that I affected the events before entering Hogwarts?" Wilkes was stunned, but he reacted quickly.

Wilkes turned his head and looked at Luna behind him with a smile on his face: "Let's go, and take a boat."

"Hmm...well, it seems that we are the only ones left," Luna responded with her head down instead of her usual behavior.

But as soon as he walked close to the lake, before getting on the boat, Snape, who was standing by the lake, walked quickly to Wilkes' side and grabbed his shoulder.

"Wil...Kes, isn't it?" Snape's low voice, mixed with strange frequency, said blankly:

"I thought it was an illusion, how could there be people here, people who shouldn't appear in the list of new students."

Wilkes turned his head to look at Snape, who was expressionless, Wilkes was full of stress in his heart, but on the surface, he looked cold.

"Who are they? I don't understand what are you saying, please let me know if I have done anything wrong, my friend and I will be late."

Wilkes took Luna's hand and stood with her, side by side.

"A Friend?" Snape looked arrogantly and left Wilkes' shoulders lightly, his tone still was indifferent: "You are better than your father on this point, you know, your father has been at Hogwarts for seven years, and he had only a handful of friends."

Suddenly, Snape grabbed Wilkes by the collar without warning, and the light of danger flashed in his dark eyes.

"Although I don't know how did you... impressed some people and made your name appear on the list of the new students..." Snape seemed he did know what Wilkes had done and looked at Wilkes' eyes.

The place fell in silence before Snape said calmly with a mocking tone: "I don't know why Dumbledore would turn a blind eye on you, saying, "Anyone who comes to Hogwarts to study will be welcomed." Silly."

"Teacher, I came here to study."

Wilkes said with a determined eye.

"Hehe, as expected, as sly as a fox."

Snape snorted arrogantly, then let go of Wilkes again.

He can be sure that Wilkes had done everything possible to enter Hogwarts,

and he had a secret!

However, he couldn't reject him. He had discussed with Dumbledore before, but Dumbledore disagreed and warned him that as long as Wilkes didn't do anything that would endanger Hogwarts, he will be welcomed in Hogwarts.

recalling Dumbledore's words, Snape looked at Wilkes, who was pretending to be innocent, and he was furious at Wilkes.

"Huh!" Snape restrained his emotions slightly, made a "cold face" again, flicked his sleeves, turned and left, and said a warning before leaving:

"Don't let me find out you doing a mistake, I will watch you!"

After that, Snape left.

Wilkes froze for a moment.

that's all? Is it over?

But he frowned immediately and thought in many things.

It seems that some people have tried their best to get into Hogwarts. Dumbledore and Snape, and even all the professors may know it.

"It was Dumbledore who made Snape watching him?" Wilkes spoke in his heart.

"Dumbledore..."

But after thinking about it for a while, Wilkes was a little surprised. With Dumbledore's character, it was indeed possible.

After all, he didn't do anything bad either.

But as soon as he heard Snape's last words, Wilkes got chills all over his body.

"I hope Snape won't watch me like he watched Harry Potter. No, did I come here to learn magic!?"

After Snape asked him, Wilkes was thinking whether he had any purpose.

Is triggering the system his only purpose?