【British and American】My miserable life studying abroad

Chapter 253 Extra 5: Sherlock's love story + if they are wizards (26)

"Is this really what a normal person would think?" Watson was shocked when he saw the cheering James Potter and Sirius Black. He pointed at the trembling Peter Pettigrew and said, "Is this a normal reaction?"

Peter Pettigrew was shaking, but he still tried his best to smile, raised his hand and cheered, and then said, "Remus is awesome!"

Trying really hard to fit in.

Snape said disdainfully, "It's not the first day you've known that these two people are abnormal. What's so surprising about that?"

It was very quiet at night, and one could faintly hear the howling, because Hogwarts and Hogsmeade were very close, and the trio over there were already discussing when and how to learn Animagus.

The winter vacation at Hogwarts is very short and not suitable for learning Animagus. No matter how talented you are, you have to hold a single leaf of Mandrake in your mouth for a whole month before you can start the next step. The leaf cannot be taken out or swallowed.

This is a necessary step. The current step must be completed before the next step can begin.

"Let's go see what a werewolf looks like?" Watson was eager to try. Sherlock didn't care, but it was already late. "You still have classes tomorrow. You won't forget it, right?"

I indeed forgot.

The next day, Monday, after Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff's Potions class, Slughorn called Watson, Wei Shengling and Sherlock to his office. After he closed the door, he put away the smile on his face and walked around the office.

Wei Shengling was not in a hurry. She looked at the office of the Potions Professor which later belonged to Severus Snape. The overall layout had not changed, but many details were different.

Hmm... the location of some of the things over there was later used to store various scary potion ingredients, right?

"You haven't moved in the whole time, which makes it hard for me to trust you." Slughorn finally stopped turning around, he was a little anxious.

He is greedy, vain, and seeks to curry favor with the powerful.

But this does not mean that he will join forces with Voldemort, his former student.

"What do you want us to do?" Sherlock asked. "It's hard for us to trust you. You didn't pass on anything except a list of ingredients for the soul potion, right?"

"They watched me very closely. There were even two Death Eaters beside me when I was brewing the potion!" Slughorn was very annoyed. "There's not much I can do. You can't imagine how wary they are of me."

He also couldn't understand how desperate he was to pin his hopes on a few first-year students! But when he looked up and saw Sherlock Holmes's all-seeing eyes, it was as if a hundred people surrounded him and used springs of clear water to cool his fevered brain.

"We also have many restrictions in Hogwarts, you should know that." Sherlock said, "Now, what information can you give us?"

They needed Slughorn, but not that much.

Slughorn, on the other hand, desperately needed the help of all four of them.

Some habits and some temperaments can reveal a lot of things.

For example, in Potions class, Slughorn was shocked at Severus's perfection in potion-making and his ability to make improvements at will, as if potions were the field he dominated and he was already a mature potion master.

Slughorn was totally inadequate to teach Severus Snape.

This is just the beginning.

Realizing that he was discovered, Snape told the other three people, so they took the initiative to knock on the Potions Professor's office door, demonstrating their ability to destroy the Dark Lord's forces.

Slughorn took a deep breath. "All I know is that the Dark Lord has become somewhat paranoid and irritable. His soul has deep scars, and the pain from his soul torments him... Sometimes he frequently uses Cruciatus Cruciatus on some Death Eaters."

"The damage to his soul is definitely more serious than I thought, so serious that it has affected his sanity."

Slughorn thought of a possibility, one that had occurred to him when he saw a Death Eater being fed to Nagini, something he had mentioned casually.

if it is real……

He was restless.

"Horcruxes."

The sudden words almost scared Slughorn to death. "How did you know? No, you also saw the book, "Advanced Dark Magic Revealed"!"

"How did you find that book? You went to the restricted section... You went to the restricted section at night. You are so brave..."

"If you weren't so brave, we wouldn't have come to you, Professor Slughorn," said Watson.

"If you are not brave enough, we would not take the initiative to ask you to destroy Voldemort." Wei Shengling chuckled.

"No, don't say that!" Slughorn jumped up and wanted to shut Wei Shengling up, but he saw the girl curled her eyes with a playful expression.

As if to say, are you really going to come over and cover my mouth or use some magic?

Why, how could it be... so scary.

Slughorn took a half step back, beginning to doubt whether he had made the right decision by cooperating with them.

"Knock knock knock." There was a knock on the door.

"Who?" Slughorn asked calmly.

"It's me, Severus Snape." The boy's voice came clearly. "My friends appear to be in your office, Professor Slughorn."

Slughorn opened the door to the Potions Office and Snape walked in. His fluttering robes gave him a more imposing look. He closed the door, his expression unchanged. "It seems that Professor Slughorn has new information."

"He guessed the Horcruxes," said Watson.

Snape nodded. This was expected. As the Potions Professor, he was no fool. Moreover, it was he who first brought up the concept of "Horcruxes".

"The Dark Lord intends to attack the Potter family." Perhaps because he was repeatedly frightened and hit rock bottom, Slughorn was now exceptionally calm. "You know Elaine Sius, right? She talked about the Blacks and the Potters, saying that they despised the Dark Lord."

"The Black family immediately expressed their loyalty and were willing to allow their ten-year-old child, Regulus Black, to be implanted with the Dark Mark in advance."

The Dark Mark.

Snape touched his arm subconsciously.

There had once been an ugly mark on his arm that could not be removed until Voldemort's death.

That disgusting...

"Sirius Black has been removed from the tapestry." Slughorn continued, and the Black family is related to many pure-blood families, but the Potter family is different, most of them are Gryffindors.

"The Dark Lord must eliminate a family that disrespects him. The Black family is ruled out, and the only ones left are the Potters. They can't escape no matter what."

There was deep fear in Slughorn's eyes.