Chapter 51: The injured Professor Snape

Although she and Senior Rowle had only met for the second time, her desire to cast the freezing spell without a wand made her ask. Hearing this, Lynn was a little surprised.

And recalling the strong ice element magic fluctuations he felt when he sensed Irina's magic aura at Platform 9 3⁄4 that day, he understood. It seems that Irina also has a strong affinity for an element like himself.

This can be seen from the freezing spell that Irina cast silently when fighting the troll yesterday. "So, casting without a wand is not difficult, as long as you..."

Lynn told Irina his experience of casting without a wand in brief words. If it was a year ago, he might have treasured wandless spellcasting as his trump card, but now he has more and more powerful trump cards, and wandless spellcasting has become his regular means of combat. In this case, he naturally does not need to hide it from Irina.

After Lynn's guidance, Irina felt enlightened. She said gratefully again: "Thank you for your guidance, Senior Lynn! Irina is grateful!"

Lynn shook his head and said: "Practice is up to the individual. If you can practice wandless spellcasting, it is your own ability. If there is nothing else, I will go back first."

Lynn did not stay here for long but returned to Hogwarts Castle.

Before Halloween, he completed the enchantment of the Desert Eagle and its bullets, and in the next six months, it is time to refine more dampening stone magic.

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Time passed quickly, and Merlin's socks changed from black silk to white silk.

The surroundings of Hogwarts Castle are all white, and the whole land presents a white hue. The weather is getting colder, especially after entering November. Even the surface of the Black Lake is covered with a thick layer of ice as hard as tempered steel.

Every morning, Hagrid, the gamekeeper of Hogwarts, wrapped in a long moleskin coat, wearing rabbit fur gloves and huge beaver fur boots, defrosts the flying brooms on the Quidditch pitch.

These are naturally because the Quidditch season of Hogwarts has begun.

Harry, who joined the Gryffindor Quidditch team, will participate in his first Quidditch match in his life after several weeks of training, which makes him very nervous.

Harry's love for Quidditch is unquestionable. This makes him not pay much attention to his usual studies for Quidditch training. If it weren't for the two studious girls, Irina and Hermione, he would never be able to complete so many homework assignments.

It is said that Hermione also recommended a book called "Quidditch Through the Ages" to Harry, which made Harry know more about the history of Quidditch in the wizarding world.

For example, it is best to be a little obedient when being a referee in a Quidditch match, otherwise it is very likely to disappear and be found in the Sahara Desert a few months later.

Since the troll incident, Ron's attitude towards Hermione has been much better, whether because of guilt or something else, which makes the relationship between the four of them much closer than before.

The day before the Quidditch match, Irina, Hermione, Harry, and Ron took advantage of the break to come to the yard outside. Hermione used magic to conjure a handful of bright blue flames, which had almost no lethality and could bring them warmth.

Just when they were using the flames to keep warm, Professor Snape, wearing a black robe, came behind the four people like a mysterious big bat, and he saw the book in Harry's hand.

Professor Snape glanced at Harry's green eyes, his lips moved as if he wanted to say something, but when he looked down and saw Harry's signature Potter face, he looked a little disgusted: "What's that in your hand, Potter?!" Harry showed the book "Quidditch Through the Ages" in his hand. In his opinion, there was nothing wrong with the book.

When Professor Snape saw Harry took out the book, he didn't even look at it, and said without hesitation: "Library books are not allowed to be taken out of the school. Give it to me, Gryffindor will be deducted five points!" So, Professor Snape confiscated Harry's book, and Harry could only watch Professor Snape limping away with his book indignantly.

Irina on the side spread her hands helplessly, who made you look so much like your father?! If you looked more like your mother, I'm afraid Professor Snape would have prepared a whole set of books for you. "I don't know what happened to his leg," Harry suddenly said.

Ron gloated: "Who cares? Anyway, I hope he's in a lot of pain!"

Suddenly, Hermione said: "When Professor Snape lifted his robe just now, I saw a wound on his leg. The wound seemed to be bitten, but his wound was very big. Ordinary animals can't cause such a big wound. I think it's a bit like..."

"The three-headed dog we saw at the beginning of the school year!" Irina continued.

Hearing this, Harry and Ron immediately looked at the two of them.

Hermione suggested: "Why don't we go and investigate at night to see what's going on?"

After the troll incident, Hermione seemed to be less resistant to violating school rules. In the past two months, Irina has taken Hermione to sneak into the kitchens in the middle of the night to find food.

As for how she knew where the kitchens of Hogwarts were, she said that a Hufflepuff told her.

Of course, Hermione didn't know that Irina had never come into contact with the little witches and wizards of Hufflepuff House, and Hufflepuffs would never tell the secrets of the kitchens to people from other houses.

At night, the Gryffindor common room was noisy.

Irina and Hermione checked Harry and Ron's homework respectively. To be honest, Irina felt more and more like a nanny.

After checking the homework, the four of them took action immediately. Harry proposed to go to the staff room in the name of taking back the books.

As long as there were other professors around, Professor Snape would naturally not be able to trouble them without any evidence.

So, Harry quickly went downstairs and knocked on the door outside the staff room, while Irina and the other two hid behind the door and peeked.

Harry knocked on the door several times in a row, but there was no response from inside. Helplessly, Harry had to quietly push the door open a crack and observe the scene inside.

The scene in the room surprised Harry.

At this time, there were only Snape and Filch in the staff room. Snape lifted his bat-wing-like black robe, revealing a bloody leg, and Filch handed him a bandage.

"Blast it," Snape said irritably, "How can you keep an eye on three heads at the same time?!"

(End of this chapter)