Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 249 Snape’s Resentment
Following Fudge's order, the row of Aurors standing behind him lined up, raised their wands and began to rush towards the Whomping Willow.

The Whomping Willow's movements seemed exceptionally slow in the winter, and its huge branches swung toward them like a whip. The movement seemed small, but the thin branches at the end of the branches made a terrifying sound of breaking through the air.

"Protect them all!"

The Aurors shouted spells in unison, and a fluorescent protective shield suddenly appeared, blocking the attack of the Whomping Willow.

They formed a trapezoidal formation and began to sprint at full speed towards the main trunk of the Whomping Willow.

The closer you get to the main trunk, the more violent the Whomping Willow becomes.

It was seen twisting its body wildly, and the branches all over the sky turned into afterimages. It could only make crackling sounds like raindrops hitting the shield, and could not hurt the Auror inside at all.

But the Whomping Willow didn't care and continued to twist its body wildly, even though many of its branches had fallen off due to its violent movements.

In the distance, Fudge's mouth twitched slightly. It wasn't that he felt sorry for this internationally protected species, but once this matter was exposed, the tabloids would definitely use it to make a fuss.

He could even imagine the headlines in the newspapers!
"Shocking! Minister Fudge actually disregards international law! He wantonly harms internationally protected species!"

But at this point he had no other choice but to hope that the Aurors could discover the mechanism of the secret passage as soon as possible and try not to cause too much damage to the Whomping Willow.

It was as if God heard the voice in his heart. As cheers came from the front, the originally violent Whomping Willow suddenly became quiet.

"Report! We found a secret passage!"

"Very good! Go in and check!"

Fudge's face was filled with smiles. Snape's information was correct. There was indeed a secret passage hidden underneath.

"Mr. Minister, please allow me to investigate as well!"

Snape's signature hoarse voice came, and Fudge showed a strange look on his face, and said with a smile:

"Professor Snape, it's too dangerous in there. I think it's better for you to stay with me. After all, you have made such a great contribution. It would be too much to let you, a hero, risk your life to explore the secret passage."

Fudge could have sworn that he had hinted very clearly that in his opinion, Snape was so active in helping them simply to gain glory, but he did not need to put himself in danger, and a smart person would do nothing more than sit back and reap the credit like he did.

It was a pity that Snape didn't seem to be willing to accept his suggestion. His expression gradually became ferocious and he said, "Black and I have a great grudge! If possible, I want to catch him with my own hands!"

Fudge was at a loss for words now. He looked into Snape's eyes and after a long while nodded affirmatively.

Snape, having received permission, entered the tunnel without saying a word.

After entering the tunnel, Snape rarely smiled and began to get excited.

He still remembered the scene when he was tricked by Blake into the attack range of the Whomping Willow while tracking the four marauders and was almost beaten to death by the Whomping Willow. Now, after so many years, he finally entered this secret passage.

"Report, traces of animals crawling were found in the passage. After testing, they are probably the footprints of cats and dogs!"

"keep going!"

"understand!"

The Aurors in the front were reporting to their captain, and after the report they began to move forward quickly.

The secret passage was very damp and dirty, with mud and roots from the Whomping Willow everywhere.

Snape was still wearing his iconic robes, which were very inconvenient to move in this passage as they were easily covered with mud.

But Snape couldn't care less at the moment. He followed the Auror team in front of him and moved forward quickly. After an unknown amount of time, he arrived at the exit.

When he walked down the dirty exit stairs to the Shrieking Shack, he froze.

What appeared before his eyes was a clean and tidy room filled with a large number of new furniture.

The afternoon sun shone through the window, shining on the reflective wooden floor and illuminating the entire room with a golden glow.

Snape clenched his fists tightly. He was almost certain that Black had been hiding here, otherwise how could such a long-abandoned house have such new decoration!

"Where did he go!"

Snape grabbed the Auror captain by the collar and roared.

The captain was frightened by the ferocious expression on Snape's face. He stuttered and said, "No... not here. According to the traces, it seems to have gone to the east..."

Before he could finish his words, Snape turned into a black mist, broke through the window and flew out.

The team leader looked at the direction where Snape disappeared in shock, and after a while he spat fiercely at him.

Snape was completely unaware of this and was flying at high speed towards the east.

There was a wilderness to the east of the Shrieking Shack. When Snape looked down, he could see many Aurors searching in his direction, but their speed was too slow compared to his. Snape flew past their heads with a roar, causing bursts of exclamations.

After an unknown amount of time, Snape could no longer see the Aurors.

At this moment, a dirty black dog also appeared in his sight.

Snape looked at it and saw that it was struggling to move forward in the overgrown wilderness. Based on the principle of better killing by mistake than missing the target, Snape shot a Pulverizing Curse at it without thinking.

"Snapped!"

There was a crisp sound of snapping fingers, and the house-elf Shuke suddenly appeared, using magic to pull Blake hard, allowing him to avoid being turned into a pool of minced meat.

The red light hit the ground, creating a big hole in the ground.

Black was startled by this sudden change. When he came to his senses, he immediately faced Snape in mid-air and made a gesture of gritting his teeth.

Snape's cold eyes scanned Black and Shuke back and forth. After a while, he asked, "Whose house-elf are you?"

Shuke was trembling all over and looked very scared, but he clenched his teeth and protected Blake behind him.

Seeing this, a possibility suddenly came to Snape's mind, and he pointed the wand in his hand at Black.

The big black dog with messy hair suddenly howled as if it was tightly grasped by a pair of big hands, and at the same time his body was twisting wildly, his hair kept shrinking inwards, his flesh and bones began to swell, and soon he turned into a middle-aged man.

Snape opened his mouth in surprise, but then the surprised expression turned into ferociousness again.

"Black!" Snape's voice was distorted by excitement. Lying on the ground panting, Black looked up at Snape who looked eager to try, then turned to look at Schuck who was also trembling, and said with a forced smile:
"How long will it take for your master to arrive? If he's any later, I'm afraid we'll all be doomed."

"I...I don't know. The communicator is broken. I can't contact the master at all!"

"Hehe, it looks like the Aurors have cast a Confusion Charm on the area. Your crappy alchemical communicator is useless, throw it away!"

After that, Blake opened his chest and roared to the air: "Come on! You stinky snot!"

"I really didn't expect you... You are actually an Animagus, and your transformation is a dog! Hahaha! This really fits your identity, a mangy dog!" Snape fell to the ground, laughing wildly and said, "Don't worry, I won't kill you. I will hand you over to the Ministry of Magic. The Dementors in Azkaban hate you to the core, they won't mind giving you a kiss!"

After saying that, Snape raised his wand and pointed it at Black.

However, before he could cast the spell, a translucent spell flew from a distance and headed straight towards Snape.

"boom!"

Snape reacted very quickly. He raised the wand in his right hand and swung it back, smashing the incoming spell into pieces.

"who is it!"

Snape let out a shrill roar towards the direction where the curse came from, and then saw Michael and Lupin approaching from a distance.

As soon as he approached, Lupin shouted at Snape with a heavy breath: "Snape! Black is innocent. It was Peter Pettigrew who killed Lily. Peter is still alive..."

It has to be said that Lupin still had some wisdom. He knew very well that the reason Snape was anxious to kill Black was not because they had bullied him before, but because Black had killed his lover Lily.

But he ignored the current environment. Lupin directly told Snape the fact that he liked Harry's mother in front of his student Mike, which made Snape extremely embarrassed.

In a rage, Snape waved his wand at Lupin and Michael without hesitation, cursing:
"Lupin! Mac! You two actually attacked the professor. I think you are Black's accomplices!"

Seeing this, Lupin hid Mike behind him and raised his wand to try to block Snape's attack.

The three spells cast by Snape connected into a long beam of light in mid-air and hit the shield set up by Lupin in an instant.

Then there was a loud bang, and the shield shattered, and Lupin himself flew backwards.

Mike, who was hiding behind Lupin, shook his head. Lupin's strength was too weak. Years of wandering life left him with no time to continue working on improving his own strength.

This resulted in his strength being significantly inferior to Snape, who had always stayed in Hogwarts.

Snape didn't want to kill them at all, and he didn't use any advanced spells just now. Just three spells of Expelliarmus were enough to defeat Lupin.

"Looks like I have to do it myself!"

Thinking of this, Mike took out a long sword shining with golden light from the bag of Traceless Extension Charm, and confronted Snape with a wand in one hand and a sword in the other.

Snape couldn't help but chuckle when he saw that Mike looked like he wanted to fight him. In his opinion, a third-year student like Mike was simply courting death if he wanted to fight him, even if Mike was the dueling champion of Hogwarts.

Not to mention the huge difference in strength between the two, even in terms of combat experience Snape is far ahead of Mike.

You have to know that Snape was a Death Eater and one of Voldemort's most capable subordinates. Countless wizards died under his wand.

And what about Mike? Duel Champion?
The title was a complete joke in Snape's eyes.

Actual combat is not a duel. In the eyes of top masters like Snape, Mike's duels were like children's fights.

Snape was about to laugh at him, but before he could open his mouth, he saw Mike swung his wand and an invisible spell was fired.

"The Divine Edge is Shadowless!"

There is no trace of the Divine Sword Shadowless Spell at all, and its firing speed is extremely fast, so ordinary people cannot defend against it at all.

However, Snape was the creator of the spell, and no one in the world understood this spell better than him.

He just waved his wand vigorously without even reciting any spell, and the magic power concentrated in the wand alone was enough to disperse Mike's invisible attack.

"How dare you! Use a spell I created against me!"

Snape was roaring wildly towards where Mike was. Today's series of events had made his emotions completely out of control, and he could no longer maintain the brain occlusion technique.

But when he calmed down, he found that the place where Mike had originally stood was already empty.

Suddenly, Snape felt a fierce murderous intent coming from behind him.

It turned out that Mike had never intended to hit Snape with that Shadowless Spell. He was sure that Snape would be furious when he saw him use this spell, so he used it on purpose to attract attention.

While Snape was distracted, Mike quietly activated the Wind Speed ​​Spell and the Disillusionment Spell.

During this period, Mike has never given up physical exercise, which has made Mike's physical fitness better and better.

This strong physical fitness also makes the effect of the wind speed spell more and more abnormal. Now Mike's speed under the wind speed spell is so fast that you can't even see it clearly if you don't pay attention.

So, with the blessing of these two spells, Mike, holding the golden sword of Victory and Oath, completely turned into a phantom, rushed to Snape's back and struck him hard!
Mike did not hold back at all in this attack. In his opinion, if a master like Snape couldn't even handle this situation, then his death would be in vain.

And things turned out just as he expected.

When the Sword of Victory and Oath was about to hit Snape's head with a sound of breaking wind, the wand in Snape's hand suddenly made a series of sounds similar to firecrackers. Then, Snape in front of Mike disappeared, and the Sword of Victory and Oath chopped hard on the ground, stirring up a large area of ​​mud.

"Apparition?!"

Mike murmured instinctively, and in just a moment he had a general idea of ​​what was going on.

Sure enough, the next moment, the sound of Snape chanting a spell came from not far behind him.

"The Divine Edge is Shadowless!"

An invisible blade swept over, easily tearing apart the protective shield automatically released by the Duel Champion Badge, and steadily slashed Mike's chest.

Suddenly, a horrible cut appeared on Mike's chest, and the others were blown away by the shock wave carried by the spell.

Large streams of blood spurted out from Mike's chest like a fountain, instantly dyeing a large area of ​​dead grass red.

A little further away, Black and Lupin, who had witnessed everything, shouted in unison:
"Mike!"

(End of this chapter)