Chapter 149 Sunny and Cheerful Bruce
At this moment, the auditorium fell into an eerie silence.
Malfoy couldn't believe it. He said in a trembling voice: "Say it again?"
"Professor Snape was bitten by a dog!"
The young wizard shouted, "It's the big black dog that the new Professor Lupin has!"
"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"
Malfoy couldn't believe this at all. Professor Snape was the head of Slytherin. How could he be bitten by a dog?
He's almost the same as biting a dog.
An important reason why Malfoy could not accept reality was because of Snape's identity.
As the head of Slytherin, how could he be bitten by a dog?
He could already imagine that if someone wanted to mock Slytherin in the future, they only needed to say one sentence -
Your dean was bitten by a dog.
Malfoy had no room for rebuttal.
"I don't believe it!" He was still stubborn at this time, "Where is the professor now? I want to go see him!"
Malfoy was anxious, but there was someone more anxious than him.
Harry almost teleported to the little wizard, and the anxiety on his face came from his true heart.
"Take me too!"
He said, "How was the professor bitten? Where was he bitten? Is the injury serious?"
The series of questions confused the little wizard.
He just wanted to be the first person to spread the news, but he didn't know the specific details at all, so how could he answer Harry's questions?
Seeing that the little wizard knew nothing about anything, Harry finally stopped asking.
"Take me there quickly!"
Harry said, "I'm mentally prepared. Even if the professor is bitten beyond recognition, I want to see him for the last time!"
……
Led by the little wizard, Harry and Malfoy ran away in a hurry.
No one else went along, not even Ron.
After all, not everyone cares so much about Snape's situation.
Some students were even whispering and discussing, fearing that Snape was at risk of recovery.
"I should go take a look too."
Bruce was thinking at this point, "Not to see Snape, but to see the Half-Blood Prince."
At least his teaching materials have been of great help to me.
"Hermione, go to class first!"
Bruce said to Hermione, "I'm going to go see the professor."
"Can……"
Hermione was about to say that she was about to go to class and might be late.
But he suddenly realized that they didn't have to worry about any lateness this school year.
"Well, I'll go save a seat for you."
Hermione sighed. She actually wanted to go with them, but girls of this age were always more mature than boys.
She thought deeper.
Does Professor Snape, who had just been bitten by a dog, really want others to see his current appearance?
……
In the infirmary of Hogwarts, Madam Pomfrey had just finished giving Snape medicine.
"twenty minutes."
She said, "In twenty minutes at most, your injuries will be healed to their original state."
"Thank you, hiss—"
Snape was lying on the hospital bed, and the slightest movement made him feel extremely painful.
He looks really miserable now.
At this time, there were two other people in the ward besides him and Madam Pomfrey.
Dumbledore and Lupin.
"I'm sorry, Snape."
Lupin apologized to Snape, "Black is a dog of freedom and justice, with his own ideas. He never hurts anyone. I don't know why he suddenly attacked you this time."
He directly said Black's name here, but Snape and Dumbledore didn't think much of it.
Black can be Sirius's last name or a color.
The names used as pets are probably equivalent to "Dahei" and "Xiaohei", etc. There is nothing strange about them.
"Does this count as an apology? Ouch!"
Snape's calves and arms were covered with teeth marks, and he winced in pain whenever he spoke.
But he still insisted on saying——
"Principal, this kind of dog that hurts people must not be allowed to stay in the school and must be driven out immediately!
"I said this not because I was bitten, but for the safety of the students!"
Dumbledore did not respond immediately, but looked at Lupin with a questioning look.
What Snape said actually made sense.
When it comes to students' safety, nothing is trivial.
You can keep a basilisk in Hogwarts Castle, but you can't keep a dog that bites people.
"Of course I know that."
Lupin did not insist. He said, "I have already sent Black to Hagrid. I will not let him into the castle without permission again."
Snape sneered. What was the difference between this kind of treatment and no treatment at all?
He opened his mouth and wanted to reject it, but at this moment, a noisy sound suddenly came from outside -
"professor!"
"Professor Snape!"
Hearing the voice, Snape's expression changed instantly, and he immediately wanted to stop them from coming in, but it was too late.
Three little wizards rushed into the infirmary like the wind.
Harry and Malfoy ran in front, with Bruce following behind.
"Are you okay?"
"Were you really bitten by a dog? Did you retaliate?"
Harry and Malfoy both expressed their concern in their own way, while Bruce stood behind them, took out a camera, and took a picture of this touching scene.
The photo is titled——
Professor Snape, who was bitten by a dog, is receiving condolences from students
……
Lupin sighed and left the infirmary. The atmosphere inside was obviously not suitable for him to stay any longer.
He turned a few corners and the big black dog suddenly appeared beside him. "You've gone too far this time."
Lupin shook his head and said that he seemed to have a special way of communicating with Sirius in his Animagus form.
He can understand dogs.
"That's not too much, Remus. Snape is a pervert. Do you know what he did to Harry?"
Sirius gritted his teeth and said, "I don't know where he got a potion that can turn Harry into a girl. How sinister is his intention?
“And I also heard that when Harry turns into a girl, he looks like a carbon copy of Lily!
"I really didn't expect that Snape would have such thoughts!"
Hearing this, Lupin's expression also became serious.
He asked seriously, "Is it true? Who told you that?"
"An owl," said Sirius. "The owl that shared the carriage with us. It's very clever and can communicate with me."
Lupin nodded. "That is indeed very clever."
Owls that can speak the same language as dogs are rare in the world.
"If that's the case, Snape really deserved to be bitten by you."
Lupin said, “But no matter what, you still have to pay the price for this behavior.
"I've reached an agreement with Snape. You'll be living in Hagrid's hut for the whole year. Is that ok?"
"no problem."
Sirius said, "I have some friendship with Hagrid. He still has my motorcycle and hasn't returned it to me yet."
"That's good."
Lupin suddenly thought of the scene in the infirmary, "Come to think of it, the problem may not be what you think. I saw Harry's reaction. He cares a lot about Snape.
"This shows that Snape was genuinely kind to him, and in some ways he made up for the lack of James and Lily.
"I heard that Snape hasn't married yet. He may really treat Harry as a child."
Sirius knew this of course. Children's feelings are very direct. He will be good to whoever is good to him.
The fact that Harry behaved like this showed that Snape had done many things that he approved of.
But having said that, Sirius couldn't swallow this anger without biting Snape.
Is the position of Harry's godfather something he can also covet?
Lupin was still trying to persuade him to calm down: "Snape didn't pursue your case too much, he just complained a few times."
"Really? That's a really nice guy."
Sirius sneered, "Bite him next time!"
……
After Harry visited Professor Snape, he learned that his injuries were not as serious as he had imagined, and he finally felt relieved.
He then hurried to his first class, Divination class in the North Tower.
The walk through the castle to the north tower is a long one.
Although Harry had been at Hogwarts for two years, he did not know the castle very well and had never been to the North Tower.
There was a narrow spiral staircase in the north tower, and by the time Harry climbed the last few steps, he was already out of breath.
Then he came to the strangest classroom he had ever seen.
In fact, it looks less like a classroom and more like a cross between a loft and an old-fashioned teahouse.
There were at least twenty small round tables crowded inside, surrounded by chintz armchairs and plump little pouffes.
It was filled with all kinds of divination props - crystal balls, tarot cards, teacups, and Harry even saw a pile of bones.
He approached the classroom and Ron was sitting at a small round table, leaving a seat for him.
At the small round table next to it, Hermione and Bruce were sitting there.
The class hadn't started yet and the professor was nowhere to be found.
Harry sat cross-legged on the futon and asked Ron in a low voice, "Where's the teacher?"
A voice suddenly sounded from the shadows, a soft, inarticulate voice.
"Welcome," said the voice, "it is so good to finally see you in the physical world."
Harry turned around and saw Professor Trelawney, whom he had met at the mediumship ceremony last year.
"Welcome to the divination class,"
Professor Trelawney sat in an easy chair in front of the fire and said to everyone, "I am Professor Trelawney, and I guess you haven't seen me before.
“Because I find that often going down into the chaos and noise of campus life will make my third eye blurry.”
No, I have, Harry thought.
Moreover, when I met her before, although Professor Trelawney looked mysterious, she did not have the aura that she had today.
Instead, he looked like he was being bullied by Professor McGonagall.
Professor Trelawney was indeed well prepared, and her opening remarks today were very much like a fortune teller's.
Not only did she greet Neville's grandmother, she also predicted that Parvati Patil would be harmed by a red-haired boy.
Parvati looked at Ron, who was sitting behind her, in panic, with a look of bad luck on her face.
"This year we will learn the basic methods of divination."
Professor Trelawney said, “In the first semester we focused on learning how to interpret tea leaves, and in the second semester we started learning how to read palms.
"Tea has a very special meaning in divination. It can predict your future fortune.
"For example, this student, very good, you have already had a cup of tea."
Trelawney came to Bruce and saw that the teacup in front of Bruce was empty.
The tea leaves inside take on a unique shape.
"That's great. Let me demonstrate."
She picked up Bruce's teacup and took a look at the tea leaves inside.
"A bat. Interesting."
Trelawney put down the teacup and patted Bruce on the shoulder. "Child, be more sunny inside, otherwise your future will be as dark as your heart."
Bruce nodded, looking educated.
"Is what she said true?" Hermione came closer and asked, "Are you actually very dark inside?"
"How can it be!"
Bruce whispered, "I deliberately put the tea leaves in this shape, I didn't drink it at all.
"She's not right, I'm sunny and cheerful inside, not a bit dark at all!"
Divination is nothing more than that.
Bruce guessed that if the professor followed the usual routine of charlatans, he would probably make some unfortunate predictions.
For example, predicting that a student here is about to die.
But that's not really going to happen, Bruce thought.
(End of this chapter)
