Hogwarts Outsider Chapter 175: The truth 15 years ago

Matthew returns to the Slytherin common room with Elaine Shafik.

They're still chatting about the Christmas holidays... even though it's been over a month since Christmas.

Just as they passed the auditorium——

Suddenly, Miss Shafik covered her forehead and let out a cry of pain at the same time.

"What's wrong?" Matthew frowned and asked hastily.

"Matthew... my head... hurts..." Elaine said tremblingly.

She looks like something unexpected happened.

"Should I take you to the school hospital?" Matthew asked with great concern.

It's still a long time before the lights are turned off. It must be in time to send her to the school hospital.

"No..." Elaine said very weakly, "Send me to Professor Slughorn..."

Matthew frowned again for an instant.

"Please, Matthew...I feel like I'm dying..." Elaine Shafik pleaded.

"Okay, I'll send you there now!" Under such circumstances, Matthew Wakefield could only nod his head.

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Armed with Elaine Shafik, they resumed their journey back to Horace Slughorn's office.

To be honest, Matthew feels that the girl next to him is acting a little weird...

It's not just the sudden "onset of illness" behavior...including many things before, Matthew finds it strange.

Many times, to herself, she behaves like two people glance... Sometimes she is very warm to herself, like a friend who talks about everything; but sometimes she is very cold, even deliberately Avoid yourself...

But when this situation happened, he couldn't ignore it, so he had to follow Elaine's words and send her back to Slughorn's office.

Soon, they returned to the door of the potions professor's office again.

After knocking lightly on the door, Horace Slughorn poked his head out.

He had changed into a green velvet pajamas and a nightcap of the same colour.

"Matthew... what's going on?" He asked loudly, "I'm ready to rest."

Before Matthew was allowed to speak, seeing Elaine Shafik's strange behavior, Slughorn's expression changed...

"Oh my God!" he exclaimed.

Then, without hesitation, Professor Slughorn picked up the little girl and ran to an inner room with her in his arms.

Then he ran out in a hurry, holding a small bag in his hand.

Matthew had no choice but to stand aside boredly, watching Slughorn open the dispensing bag, and add some of this and that to a small crystal bottle...these are all the ingredients of the medicine that have already been processed.

He moved so quickly that Matthew couldn't see clearly.

After only a few minutes, he picked up the crystal bottle and ran back to the room while stirring.

Matthew couldn't even see the final color and shape of the potion inside.

After handing the potion in the crystal bottle to Miss Shafik, Slughorn finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Matthew didn't say anything the whole time, nor did he show any interest.

It wasn't until Slughorn finished his work that he asked, "What's the matter, Professor? Is Elaine okay?"

"Of course...Thanks to you sending her here in time..." Slughorn quickly replied, "Poor Elaine, she has a congenital genetic disease since she was a child, and she needs to take potions in time to suppress it." ..."

"I see." Matthew nodded with a smile.

But in the bottom of his heart, Matthew was even more confused...

Because he felt that what Slughorn said did not seem to be the truth, but more like an impromptu excuse.

Just a few minutes after taking the medicine, Elaine got up from the bed...she looked completely normal.

"Then let's take our leave again, professor." Suppressing the confusion in his heart, Matthew said calmly.

Before Slughorn could speak, suddenly there was another knock on his office door——

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"Wait a minute, Matthew," Horace Slughorn frowned, "there are still guests on such a night!"

He walked slowly towards the gate.

Matthew can only stay where he is and wait...

The door was opened, as if pushed open by force.

"Severus?" Slughorn exclaimed.

"Professor Slughorn!" The voice of "Severus Snape" did indeed come from outside.

But now the voice of the Transfiguration professor is far less gentle and amiable than in the usual classroom.

"Don't try to be a fool!" He said coldly, "Now is the time to make a decision!"

"Severus..." Slughorn's voice sounded frightened, "I still have students here..."

"This is the final warning!" "Severus Snape" continued, completely disregarding Slughorn's words, "You are a smart man, you should be able to guess what is about to happen... "

"Okay..." Slughorn stammered and nodded, "Thank you, Severus... I'll think about it..."

"You don't have much time left..." "Severus Snape" said the last sentence, then turned and left.

Through the figure observed through the crack of the door, Matthew can confirm...that familiar black suit, it seems that the one who just left is indeed their professor of transfiguration...

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The two children in the back room looked at each other in dismay.

They seem to have heard something not very good.

Horace Slughorn returned with a look of decadence, his face full of worry.

"What's going on, Professor?" Elaine Shafik asked innocently, "What exactly did Professor Snape mean by those words?"

Matthew had expected Slughorn to refuse to answer.

But he didn't want to open a bottle of mead directly, and then waved his wand again, conjuring three wine glasses.

"I... Should we go back?" Matthew asked in a low voice, "It's not far from the time to turn off the lights..."

"No, there is still time to drink a few glasses of wine with a decadent old man..." Slughorn shook his head dismal, and then began to pour his wine with his head bowed:

"By the way, let me tell you another story!"

"A story from fifteen years ago..."

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To be honest, Matthew wasn't very interested in any "story" at first.

But when Slughorn suddenly mentioned "the story of fifteen years ago," he suddenly brightened.

There is no doubt that all the strange things that have happened recently, whether it is the fugitive from Azkaban, the changes in the Order of the Phoenix, or the undercurrent of Hogwarts, seem to be related to Hogwarts' fifteen-year history. Something that happened before...

But the truth of that incident cannot be found in any book.

If it is said that the only way to get in touch with the truth, I am afraid that there are only people like Slughorn.

Matthew quickly pulled himself together.

Slughorn unhurriedly handed the two glasses of mead to the two children respectively.

Then he picked up his own glass and drank the mead in one gulp.

"I'm afraid you are all curious, those three fugitives from Azkaban...why did they break into Hogwarts after escaping from Azkaban?" Slughorn's face was The effect of alcohol, flushing, and at the same time he also spoke:

"Because all three of them were Hogwarts students, just fifteen years ago...their names were James Potter, Sirius Black, and Peter Peddie Lu..."

Matthew once overheard Slughorn mentioning this passage in the Two Broomsticks through Hermione's bug.

"Actually, it's not just the three of them..." Slughorn continued. ...In addition to the three names just mentioned, there are Remus Lupine and Severus Snape..."

Matthew was stunned. Could it be that the Severus Snape of this world really graduated from Gryffindor College?

"...It's hard for you to imagine that the five boys in a college are all very smart and talented; maybe Peter is a little bit worse, but he is good enough... I have been in Hogwarts for so many years. Once I saw it... I took them all into my arms..."

"Wait, professor..." Matthew couldn't help but interrupted him, "The 'Severus Snape' you mentioned just now refers to our Potions teacher, Severus Snape." Professor Nepe?"

"Of course not," Slughorn sneered, and then said without hesitation, "He's a fake!"

This view is not shocking to Matthew; but when it comes from Slughorn, it is a bit intriguing.

"Fake?" Elaine Shafik on the side said in surprise.

"Because of that incident fifteen years ago, the real Severus Snape has been missing forever," Slughorn continued, "For fifteen years, no one knows what he is now." No one knows what he is doing... and the person who claims to be 'Severus Snape' is naturally very likely to be in disguise..."

"... others may not be able to see it," Slughorn said coldly, "but I am still very familiar with my favorite student!"

Matthew only felt that the amount of information in it was a bit too much, which made his brain even a little bit overwhelmed.

"So what happened fifteen years ago?" He asked softly.

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Slughorn suddenly paused for a long time, as if he was lost in thought, and seemed to be retrieving his memory...

"Fifteen years ago, those five kids from Gryffindor College... they were very smart, so smart... that they discovered things they shouldn't have discovered..." As if he had made up his mind, he Youyou said:

"They discovered the secret of Principal Gellert Grindelwald!"

"What secret?" Elaine Shafik asked curiously.

"It's about the headmaster himself..." Slughorn continued, "I've been holding back these words for many years, many years... and now I've finally decided to say them—"

"Gellert Grindelwald is not the headmaster of Hogwarts at all. He seized control of Hogwarts through violent means, so he does not have the authority of the headmaster of Hogwarts at all..."

"...Those children sneaked into the principal's office through some method, and thus learned the secret..."

"But not only this!"

Slughorn again paused for a long time.

"Principal Grindelwald used a very powerful confusion spell, allowing him to gain certain authority in Hogwarts, but this is far from enough..."

"...Because Hogwarts itself is a very powerful magical creation. After thousands of years, it has been strengthened and transformed by successive headmasters. Its power is unbelievably powerful!"

"Even a wizard like Principal Grindelwald is incomparable... In other words, those children seem to have found a way to wake up the sleeping Hogwarts castle..."

"...With the power of Hogwarts Castle, even Principal Grindelwald can be driven away!"

"Then did they succeed?" Elaine Shafik asked very nervously.

"There is no doubt that they failed..." Slughorn shrugged, "this is mainly because-"

"There is a traitor among them!"

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"Traitor?" Matthew shouted in surprise.

"That's right," Slughorn nodded, "that traitor ~IndoMTL.com~ betrayed them at the most critical step in their plan...those loyal to Principal Grindelwald, smash Their conspiracy..."

"...and it was far more than the five of them who participated in this plan. Many students at Hogwarts at that time agreed with their views, such as my favorite Lily Evans...they should have been wiped out !”

"However, there was a spy hidden in Hogwarts, who issued a warning at the last minute... Those children have all escaped... and those who agreed with their views but have not yet revealed themselves are also destroyed All the evidence against them..."

"...Since then, the wizards involved in this incident have either been imprisoned in Azkaban, or are hiding their names...Only Lily Evans, she still clearly opposes Grindelwald, And get away with it..."

Slughorn shook his head regretfully:

"To be honest, I sympathize with those children... No, I can't say they are children anymore. If they are still alive, they are at least in their thirties... But it's only limited to sympathy. They are too Passionate, being used by others, and finally going astray..."

"So..." Matthew said with a serious expression, "Since the three fugitives from Azkaban have returned to Hogwarts, they are trying to wake up the sleeping Hogwarts Castle once again. Drive Principal Grindelwald away?"

"Yes," Slughorn nodded, "it's not just them, all the recent anomalies in the castle revolve around this purpose... So, the future in the castle is not long, perhaps There will be a fusion..."