章節 8: Chapter 8: Deal with Snape

Solim is unusually interested in magic.

Potions, spells, and transfigurations have been exposed to and accumulated knowledge since he was a child. But he wasn't that interested in certain courses, such as flying.

In Solim's opinion, it would be awkward to sit on it with or without a cushion charm on the broom. It has nothing to do with gender, purely because Solim himself isn't interested in flying - presumably.

The afternoon was Slytherin's first flying lesson with Gryffindor, and Solim wasn't going to go - so he needed an excuse not to go. Solim didn't have enough time right now, he had to work on Sylna's business, and he had to figure out how to get Snape to agree to help him - after all an owl had brought bad news yesterday.

He couldn't afford to leave his own magic studies behind, and he had to open a small stove for Neville and Hermione tonight, and he had to spend a lot of time flipping through those magic books. "Sigh*" Solim wanted to make a time-turner

At lunchtime, he quickly filled his stomach and headed over to the Gryffindor table. He didn't go to flying lessons in the afternoon, and he had something to explain to Neville.

Solim had just passed by and saw Neville with a ball in his hand.

"It's a Remembrall." Neville turned his back to Solim and explained to the classmates around him, "Grandma knows I always forget important things, and this memory ball will tell me if I forgot about something, hold it like this, and if it turns red, oh-" The Remembrall in Neville's hand turned red,

""That means you forgot something.""

"That is, Neville," Solim whispered from behind Neville, "you forgot what I told you, did you?"

Neville quickly turned his head at Solim's voice, and Solim dared to say that he heard Neville's cervical spine dislocated. "So..Solim, oh my god, I remember now." The orb of memory in Neville's hand turned white again.

"What are the Slytherin vipers doing in Gryffindor?"

"Since you remember, prepare well, and I'll check it in the evening. Don't let your grandma down, Neville." Solim ignored Ron, patted Neville on the shoulder, and nodded to Hermione before leaving.

He was confident that the clever little witch would be able to keep Neville accountable for the rest of the day.

Hermione frowned looking at Ron, who was still muttering, and took Neville away. Hermione and Neville have rarely returned to the Gryffindor common room recently, and through Solim Hermione knew that there were many empty classrooms and hidden rooms at Hogwarts, and Hermione, who usually did her homework and read books, preferred to find such a room instead of going back to the Gryffindor common room, after all, the Gryffindor common room was too noisy for Hermione.

With Solim as a goal to learn and catch up, Hermione's enthusiasm for learning was simply terrifying, and Solim could feel Hermione's obvious progress every time he opened a small stove.

Flying lessons are no less important for a first-year wizard than an elementary school student taking a computer lesson for the first time. The young wizards boasted to each other about their flying experiences, and those who didn't know the details would have thought it was a group of world-class Quidditch stars.

Neville was silent, for he had never touched a broomstick, and he had only flown once—the time he was thrown from the upstairs by Uncle Algie. Hermione's approach was quite "Hermione" - holding a book about flying and looking at it, hoping to master the skills of flying through the book.

"Hermione, Solim said that flying is a matter of talent. What is written in the book should not be of much help to you. " Neville has changed a lot, at least he doesn't stutter out of nervousness now—except against Solim.

"What then? I'm a Muggle born and I've never flown before." Hermione has been nervous since she knew there was a flying lesson in the afternoon.

"I guess it's nothing, Solim he told me, he hasn't flown either, and he hates broomsticks."

Neville and Hermione were following the group to the lawn where the flying lessons were taken. "That's why he didn't come to flying lessons:" Neville whispered to Hermione.

Hermione wasn't happy with Solim, who believed that only spells, potions, and Transfigurations were important, and everything else was optional. Hermione, on the other hand, believes that all Hogwarts courses should be studied seriously, rather than being biased like Solim.

Slytherin and Gryffindor had a little trouble in flying lessons. Neville was taken to the hospital wing by Mrs. Hooch after falling as in the original book, and Harry and Draco were ready to "negotiate" about the ownership of the Remembrall. But Hermione said, "If you dare to touch Neville's stuff, I'll tell Solim."

Draco was stunned hearing Solim's name, and Harry immediately picked up the orb of memory. Draco's face was a little unbearable, his dignified young master of the Malfoy family had let a "mudblood" threaten him.

"You damn 'mudblood', you dare to threaten me!" Draco, who felt like he had lost face in front of the Slytherin students, uttered a sentence that had not gone through his brain at all.

Putting Gryffindor and Slytherin together, with no professor watching next to them, has the conditions for conflict, what else can the result be?

By the time Professor McGonagall arrived, there were already quite a few people lying on either side. The result was that Gryffindor and Slytherin were each deducted 100 points. Draco was grabbed by Professor McGonagall from his ear and taken to Snape's office.

Solim looked at Professor McGonagall and Draco at the door in surprise, and he had the impression that Professor McGonagall should have taken Harry to Wood instead of Draco to Snape. The conversation with Snape was interrupted as soon as he got to the point, and Solim was a little upset.

"Professor Snape, Mr. Malfoy insulted a Gryffindor girl in flying lesson, causing the freshmen of Slytherin and Gryffindor to fight, and I haven't seen a group fight in all my years of teaching. I hope you will be able to make Mr. Malfoy realize his mistake." Professor McGonagall finished speaking before noticing another person in the office.

"Mr. Selwyn, why are you here? Didn't you go to flying lessons? Skipping class is not what a good student should do. " Professor McGonagall has a good impression of Solim, who always does a good job of both class and after-class assignments.

"I'm sorry Professor McGonagall, but I had something to do with Professor Snape. It won't be the case next time." Solim honestly admits his mistakes. When elders point out your mistakes, whether it's right or wrong, as long as you don't want to complicate things, it's best to admit your mistakes happily. Solim didn't want to force an explanation or bite the fire on himself.

Looking at Professor McGonagall as she departed, Snape slowly shifted his gaze to Draco's.

"Don't have a next time. "

After a while, Draco turned around and closed the door in one go.

Inside the office, looking at Snape back to his desk, Solim spoke, "Like I said, Professor, I need your help. "

The whole of Hogwarts knew that Snape liked to favor Slytherin students, and only because of it. Ever since he received his grandfather's second letter, Solim had been thinking about how to get a Potions Master like Snape to promise to help him research and develop potions. In order for Squibs like Filch and Syrna to be able to use magic, there must be a potion that can rejuvenate these lifeless powers.

Solim flipped through the book as well, and he couldn't find a potion that had this effect. In desperation, he had no choice but to trouble his grandfather, but his grandfather was not good at potions, so his grandfather had to go to his colleagues. Unfortunately, these so-called colleagues are so busy that they simply don't have the leisure time to help. It went back and forth, and in the end, Solim had no choice but to try his luck with Snape.

Unsurprisingly, Solim had been mentally prepared for Snape's refusal. For Snape, Solim can be said to know very well, he knows what to do with this man who is cold on the outside and warm on the inside.

"The Killing Curse is a great spell, Professor Snape." Solim saw Snape's face turn cold and continued, "I'll forget it, but Potter was directly hit, he didn't die, and the bloodline protection charm from Lily Evans protected Potter from death. But that madman," Solim pointed to Snape's arm, "the man who left you the marker, well, let's count him as a man, and why didn't he die?" " Professor Snape, do you know why?".

"Does this have anything to do with me?" Snape's eyes were hollow and numb as he looked at Solim, who knew he had activated Occlumency when he heard Harry's mother's name.

"Of course, Professor, of course. Do you know about Horcruxes?" Solim ignored Snape's reaction when he heard the Horcruxes and continued, "The wizard who made the 'Horcrux' cannot be killed until the Horcrux is destroyed. So..." Solim smiled and didn't continue.

Snape unconsciously grabbed his left arm, where Voldemort had given him the Dark Mark of the Dark Lord's Death Eater.

"That's right, he'll be back. I don't think the Headmaster told you that. "Solim looked around and couldn't find a place to sit - except Snape's thighs.

"Do you think an old Dumbledore can stop Voldemort, protect Potter, destroy that madman's Horcrux, and eventually send him to his death?"

Unfortunately, he failed to spot a chair- he had to keep standing.

"You mean you can do it? I doubt it. "

"I don't have to deal with that madman, and I can't do anything to destroy his Horcruxes. That's all the headmaster should be worried about, and I'm saying I can help you protect Potter. Potter hates you, and you hate him, as anyone who isn't blind can see it. But I didn't have a conflict with Potter, and even if I was a Slytherin, and even if that Weasley was fanning the flames, I could find plenty of reasons to approach Potter, after all, my silly cousin is a Gryffindor, so I could intervene in Neville's affairs in the open. "

"*Scoff* It's ridiculous." Snape looked at Solim, who was wandering around his office, and asked, "Why do you think I care about Potter's life?"

"Professor," Solim turned his head to Snape, "You yourself know the answer to that, I'm here with sincerity." Walking over to Snape's desk, Solim propped his hand over the table and looked into Snape's eyes. "Don't confuse me with ordinary wizards, I know more than you think, professor. "

"Scoff" Snape was unmoved.

"Well, Professor Snape, I'll make one last offer: you can help me with the potions, and I'll let you meet with someone..." Solim smiled, "...Lily Evans. "

Snape jerked to his feet, his eyes meeting Solim's eyes.

"Professor, you really have no scruples." Solim looked away. "Aren't you afraid of making me an idiot with such a rough deception?".

"She's dead." Snape's steady voice couldn't hide the trembling inside of him, and Solim could feel it.

"Oh, of course, of course, she's dead," Solim motioned for Snape to sit down, "and being alive with the Blood Curse is rarer than not dying with the Death Curse."

Motioning to Snape to calm down, Solim continued, "Potter's mother used the Blood Charm, and while I don't know how she learned it, she did. There is absolutely no chance that a wizard using a blood spell will survive. "

"Let's put aside the topic of magic and talk about life..." Looking around again, Solim said a little embarrassed, "But before that, Professor, can you get me a chair? Your office is full of bottles and cans, and I can't find a target for spellcasting."

Solim's current Transfiguration can only "transform" matter, not create anything out of thin air like a powerful Transfigurer.

Snape pulled out his wand.

"Ah, Professor, you'd better bring a backrest. " Snape was doing it anyway and Solim thinks it's not a big deal to make a few more requests. And for Snape, there was not much difference between having and not having a backrest.

"Thanks," Solim sat down in the chair Snape had just conjured, "and then let's move on, to the subject of life."

For the vast majority of wizards, the subject of life does not come into their field of vision at all. And the few wizards who study life are limited to body and soul. But through the Codex of a wizard named Ralde, Solim learns the three elements of a complete life: body, soul, and consciousness. The body wraps the soul, and the soul wraps the consciousness. Only with all three can we call life complete. The ghosts of Hogwarts are not souls, but remnants of consciousness. Although most wizards treat them as spirits.

Generally speaking, the inability of the body to continue to carry the soul means death. But the soul does not dissipate immediately, and the soul, like the body, ages. When the soul is old enough, or the will is weak enough, a person's existence will completely die out and cease to exist.

Potter's mother did lose her body in exchange for a blood curse so that Voldemort could not harm Potter - and this was the manifestation of Lily Evans' will.

Ordinary people talk to each other through physical organs such as the vocal cords, mouth, and tongue. This is just the appearance. It is essentially an exchange between two consciousnesses, just by what means? You can communicate when you write, and you can communicate with your eyes. So as long as Lily Evans' will exists, then it will be able to communicate, but because of the lack of visible flesh, ordinary means cannot establish a connection between the dead and the living.

"So, Professor Snape," Solim pulled a piece of parchment from his bosom and placed it in front of him, "you help me with this potion, make sure it works, and I'll let you see Lily Evans."

Solim stood up, looked at Snape's face that was no longer numb, and said, "Professor, when you'll see her depends on when you give me the potion. "

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章節 9: Chapter 9: History of Elves

Solim left without waiting for Snape to speak. He thought that the conditions he gave Snape, he could not refuse, and if he refused, then the person in the office just now was not Snape.

It's Thursday, and in the evening Hermione and Neville are going to Solim to have a small tutoring. However, because of this afternoon's flying lesson, Solim had something else in mind.

Solim is not very interested in the so-called "plot", for him - this is the world of wizards and magic, not the world of Harry Potter. Solim's background determines that his worldview is much grander than that of "Harry Potter". Voldemort? Ha, if he did anything to harm the real interests, he would be hammered to death in a matter of minutes - whether he had a Horcrux or not.

Every time he ate, Solim always ate quickly. You ask me why? He is a busy man.

"Draco, hurry up and eat, come with me when you're done." Solim said to Draco, who was dealing with the chicken legs.

"?" Draco stuffed something in his mouth and gave Solim a wink.

"Come with me to Gryffindor, and don't ask me why." Solim stood up,

"Alright, hurry up and finish eating. If you're not full, you can go to the kitchen and ask the elf to bring you a cake. "

Solim swayed Draco to the Gryffindor table with a question mark on his head. Hermione was drinking soup, and it seemed like she had almost eaten her meal.

Neville was dealing with a cake, and Ron, who wasn't far away, was eating a little ugly: his cheeks were swollen as if he had been slapped by a giant, and he was holding chicken drumsticks in both hands and before he could swallow the previous bite, he sent another bite to his mouth.

"Oh my God, don't the Weasleys usually feed their kids?" Solim whispered, he had seen Ron eating for the first time in real life.

Hermione and Neville both looked up at Solim's voice and then saw Draco with a look of disgust.

"Why did you bring him here?" Hermione had a very bad impression of Malfoy, especially during flying lessons, and she later learned what mudblood meant.

"You'll find out later," he shrugged, "you two will take Weasley and Potter to the 'old place' later, I have something to say to them." Solim glanced at Ron, who was feasting, and he didn't notice that the two Slytherin students had come to the Gryffindor table. "You'd better hurry, it's Thursday, don't let them take up your study time." With that, Solim took Draco with him.

Hearing that the time she and Neville had to learn at Solim's was going to be compressed, Hermione immediately stood up and pulled Neville, who was still stained with a mouthful of cream, to Harry and Ron's side.

"Harry, Ron, don't eat, come with us, hurry. " There's still nothing to say about Hermione's mobility.

Solim led Draco down the hallway near the trophy showroom on the third floor, where portraits were on both sides. The two came to a portrait of a door, and Solim touched the doorknob three times before a real doorknob appeared.

"What is this?" Draco kept an eye on Solim's movements.

"A secret room, there are many of them in Hogwarts." Solim opened the door and walked in first. Draco hesitated and followed.

When the door is closed, the doorknob on the portrait disappears, and it becomes the way it should be.

Draco came in and began to observe the hidden room, which did not look like a classroom, it was a circular room with three doorless door frames leading to the other room.

"What kind of place is this? I never knew there was a room like this in the school." Draco looked back at the door that had just closed behind him.

"I come here every second, fourth, and sixth day of the week to tutor Neville and also Hermione.." Solim led Draco to another room that looked like a break room. There were a few chairs in the room, and Solim and Draco sat down.

"What were you thinking about this afternoon?" Solim leaned his feet into another chair.

"I think you're usually a very smart person, why do you make a fool of yourself when you meet Potter?".

Draco's face turned gloomy.

"Haa.. this kid, forget it, don't talk until Potter and Weasley come, wait for me to talk." Solim saw the door to the circular room in the middle open, and Hermione was leading the people inside.

"Also, Draco, don't let me hear the word 'mudblood' in the future." Solim lowered his voice and said to Draco, who was staring at Potter.

*Clap-clap*, Solim clapped his hands when he saw that everyone was coming. "Since everyone is here, sit down. "

Harry and Ron looked at each other and sat down honestly.

No one knows what Hermione told the two of them on the way, but the two of them were surprisingly honest.

"Everyone knows each other, so I'll just say it." Solim put his feet down and sat upright.

"First of all, Draco is indeed at fault, and I apologize for his behaviour." Solim glared at Draco, who was about to speak.

"Didn't he have a mouth himself?" Ron glared at Draco as well.

"Harry, can I call you that?" Solim asked Harry with a smile instead of Ron's stubble. "And of course, you can call me Solim, I think you should know me. "

Harry nodded, "No problem, Solim." Harry had a good impression of Solim, at least he didn't like to laugh at himself in Potions class like the other Slytherins.

"Actually, you were implicated today, and of course, on the train as well." Looking at the crowd looking at him, Solim continued to explain, "The Malfoy and Weasley families are known to have a bad relationship, and you just happen to be caught between the two of them. "

He raised his hand and shook it, motioning for Harry to listen to him first. "I'm sure you've noticed that almost all pure-blood wizards don't have a great impression of the Weasleys, and the pure-blood students in the school don't give the Weasleys a good look or communicate with them, and the people who are close to the Weasleys are usually half-bloods and Muggle-born students, right?"

Solim turned his head back to Draco, "And Malfoy and Weasley are often in conflict, why? Draco, can you tell me why you hate Weasley so much? And Mr. Ron Weasley over there, can you tell me why you hate Malfoy so much?".

"They are pure-blooded traitors, the scum of wizards." It is self-evident who says this.

"Hmph, the Malfoys are evil dark wizards, that's a sufficient reason to hate Malfoy so much!" Ron was still glaring at Draco.

"Tsk, Tsk, let's to your reasoning." Solim pointed at Draco, "Come, Draco, tell me how the Weasleys are traitors and scum?" and then pointed at Ron, "Come, Weasley, you also come and tell me that Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle's father was the same as Lucius Malfoy, they all used to work under that 'You-know-who', also Huffelpuf's Ernie Macmillan, and not to mention your Gryffindor's McLaggen and even Longbottom's family have also had dark wizards, why don't you hate them?".

"I hate Weasley, they're close to Muggles, and they're ...," Draco interrupted before he could finish.

"It's not just the Weasleys who are close to Muggles in pure-blood wizards, do you want me to give you some examples? Hufflepuff's Diggory and Bones are both close to Muggles, why don't you say they're traitors and scum?".

Looking at the speechless crowd, Solim sneered: "I think it should be that your family has been telling you since you were a child, 'The Malfoys are all dark wizards, you have to be wary of them', or 'The Weasleys are all scum, you don't deal with them'. Right? I'm right, you heard these words more often when you were a kid, right?"

"Now, you two think about it, you two have no grudges. It's just that your family has taught you since you were a child that the other party can't be trusted, and over time, there you guys started to hold a grudge against each other." Solim changed his tone.

"I know better than you know what is going on between your two families. Seriously, the feud between the two of your families has been a long time ago, and it's time to let go." Solim pondered for a moment and continued, "The price that should be paid has been paid, and the losses that should have been borne have been suffered. Why? Do you still want your children and grandchildren to continue to be like you? As soon as they meet, they become angry, and their dissatisfaction turns into disgust, and their disgust ferments into hatred. And then, well, the end result will be both parties trying to kill each other, you want that?"

"Solim, you're saying you know why Malfoy and Weasley hate each other?" Hermione listened with her ears strained for a long time. She could tell that Solim was planning to settle the feud between Malfoys and Weasleys, or at least between Ron and Draco.

"Yes, and so do the fathers of both of them," Solim touched his chin, "but I guess they haven't explained the ins and outs to their sons."

"Why?"

You can either make it clear about this kind of thing: how the other party is sorry for us, why do we hate them, or either don't say it, so that the next generation doesn't have to bear hatred. Like the Malfoy and Weasleys, who say this and don't make it clear, it's that the two families are fighting each other. In Hermione's opinion, the two families were simply inexplicable.

"It's a long story, Hermione, I think you now have a general idea of the wizarding world. I want to ask you how much you know about the real history of wizards, the history of ancient wizards fighting for the living space of an entire race." Solim asked Hermione an irrelevant question.

"Is that the history of wizards fighting against all kinds of magical creatures and magical races, and defeating them to establish the wizarding world?" Hermione has been interested in the history of wizards since she knew she was a wizard, and she also reads professional magic books, but she reads more historical and humanistic anecdotes, or biographies.

The ancient wizards had a miserable life. Of course, it was only miserable for a while before the wand was invented, after that, anyone who could do magic could bully humans. The magical talents of human wizards are really incomparable to those who are born with magical powers, and there were many magical creatures that have become extinct in modern times that feed on humans.

The magical creatures were ruthless in ancient times on these Wizards. Luckily, though, the wand was invented. Then came the use of offensive magic - which meant that the wizards had the power to fight back. A large number of spells were studied and used in the wars between wizards and other magical races, and wizards gained a huge advantage until they encountered elves.

Elves were humanoid creatures, and they can be said to be the darlings of magic. Their theoretical lifespan is 800 years, and elves were born with magical powers. This means that the magic of elves is much more powerful than that of wizards.

No matter what kind of magical creature it is, the accumulation of mana depends on time. Suppose that many hundreds of years old elf and a human wizard who are tens of years old have started a film, in view of the elf's terrifying affinity for magic and the huge magic accumulated in a long life, how can you fight with them?

Human's magic affinity is definitely not as good as elves, even if an elve is not interested or didn't learn magic, elves start to accumulate magic power in their mother's womb.

Most elves have more magic than most adult wizards when they are still wearing open crotch pants.

Thankfully, their reproduction was not good and the number of elves was so small compared to human wizards. During the ongoing war, the social structure of the wizards gradually improved. The most important of these was the founding of the Presbyterian Church and the establishment of Sculler.

In earlier times, the wizard family taught the next generation like this: Eve was good at potions, Hadis was good at curses, Sidharta had a knack for the use of magic power, and Wang had many spells. The next generation was gathered together by several families, and each family sent out one person to teach the young wizards—this was the predecessor of Sculler.

If the founding of the Council of Elders was to unite the wizards into a single fist, then Sculle was the power to punch out.

Yes, human magic talent is bad, magic affinity is poor, the body is fragile, and life is short. These are objective facts. But human beings also have the advantage of insatiable desire and strong ability to reproduce.

In the constant war, most of the magical races were defeated, and some were exterminated by the wizards. But the elves existed for a long time, and both elves and wizards had learned a lot from each other during the war.

The magic unique to the elves, which was later studied by wizards who invented the Imperius Curse. And the elves have found a knack for unleashing destructive magic from the captured wands. The war escalated as the elves also mastered offensive magic. Given the power of the elves, the power of these spells was very strong, and the wizards did suffer a great loss at first. But the number of elves was too small, and their long growth cycle meant that they weren't blessed in breeding and could not afford to fight a war of attrition with human wizards.

Gradually, the elves disappeared from the wizard's sight. They hid, recuperated, and licked their wounds. But they had not forgotten the hatred, the elves were also intelligent creatures, they used their unique magic to induce a wizard, and when this wizard led a group of wizards into the trap carefully prepared by the elves, what was the result..?

to be continued....

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Yeah, English is not my first language and I had read the HP books in my school years in my native language. So, please do I may make mistakes in some parts like saying- Filch is an administrator instead of a caretaker- In my language, they both are written the same. But I will try my best! ♥ Please go easy on me! And every chapter is 2300+ words.

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