Hogwarts: I am Snape

Chapter 36 Express Delivery

The school hospital was quiet.

After a long while, the male students reluctantly turned their gaze away from the doorway.

Then they frowned and looked at Snape, silently asking what was so special about him.

Abbot hesitated for a moment, his lips moving slightly.

But after stealing a glance at Mary's face, he swallowed back the words he was about to say and wisely chose to remain silent.

“You can rest and recover,” Snape said, patting Abbott’s leg heavily. “We’re leaving.”

Mary glared at Abbott fiercely, then left as well.

She walked very fast, pulling Pandora along with her hurried steps.

Pandora wanted to turn back and call Snape to come along, but Mary grabbed her arm, preventing her from stopping.

Their voices reached Snape's ears from afar, intermittently.

"How can you not be angry... the way she looked... let me tell you..."

"Why are you angry... She's quite pretty..."

"I just can't explain it...the way they are..."

"I don't understand either..."

Mary stomped her foot angrily, and finally just left Pandora behind and walked away alone.

……

The next day, Abbott's sprained ankle was completely healed.

“Dude,” Albert looked at Snape with admiration in the hallway leading to the Transfiguration classroom, “so it was you who blew up the school.”

“Tsk, tsk,” he shook his head and clicked his tongue in amazement, “I really don’t know what to say about you. You did something so earth-shattering, and you didn’t even get fired.”

“Speaking of expulsion, Severus,” Abbott sighed, sounding a bit dejected. “It’s just the two of us left in the dorm. Don’t you think the feng shui in our dorm is bad? Avery isn’t coming to school either.”

"Sigh, although he's quite annoying, I really don't know what bad luck he's had..."

Snape felt that Abbott's words had a hidden meaning, as if he was indirectly criticizing Abbott: "They're unlucky because they talk too much."

“What’s even more infuriating,” Abbott continued to mutter to himself, but his tone shifted from a sigh to anger, his teeth grinding together, “why did Ms. Rosmerta invite you to her bar? What makes me less handsome than you?”

"Perhaps she prefers humans to tree monkey frogs with their feet wrapped in green herbs?"

After saying that, Snape rushed into the classroom, where Professor McGonagall was already inside.

During the Transfiguration class, Pandora kept asking Abbot what healing magic or herbs he had used to so quickly heal the injury that even Madam Pomfrey couldn't handle.

After stammering for a long time, Abbot finally managed to shift the blame to the special herbs that his father had asked a friend to purchase from the magic school Castelobusch in Brazil.

"Abbot, Flaherty, what are you two talking about? You seem to be having a great time!"

Professor McGonagall reprimanded him sternly.

"Mr. Abbott, please tell me what the five exceptions to the 'Gamp's Basic Law of Transformation' are."

“Poo…” Albert muttered the word uncertainly.

"What?" Professor McGonagall raised her eyebrows in surprise, her eyes widening as if she were about to laugh in anger. "Oh, Merlin's pants, are you going to eat excrement?"
"When you graduate, don't say that I taught you Transfiguration."

"No, I need to give you extra lessons."

“Oh no—” Abbot groaned in despair.

The students burst into laughter. "Ahem, ahem, Flahos, do you know?" Professor McGonagall looked at Pandora hesitantly, then quickly added, "If you don't know, you don't have to say."

“The first exception is food,” Pandora said calmly. “We cannot conjure real food out of thin air.”

"But fake ones are edible too. I've eaten pumpkin-filled pancakes made from air. They're delicious, though they don't fill you up, they do keep you full."

“Anything else?” Professor McGonagall interrupted Pandora’s free-flowing thoughts.

"The second exception is living life; we cannot create living things from dead things."

“Yes, yes,” Professor McGonagall nodded with satisfaction, pointing to a crow peeking out from the table. “It was just a teapot a moment ago. Even though it looks like a living creature now, its essence hasn’t changed.”

"The third exception is magical items, such as Galleons..."

Professor McGonagall had no fault with Pandora's mastery of Transfiguration. She glared at Abbot again: "Remember, 6:30 PM. Ugh, why can't you give me even a little free time..."

Upon hearing this, Snape instinctively shrank back behind the "Advanced Transfiguration Manual." It hadn't been long since he'd been put in solitary confinement.

After class, when everyone had finished eating, eight long-eared owls carrying a large bundle swooped into the Great Hall, knocking Snape's plate to the ground.

Normally, owls don't deliver things in the evening, but this was an express delivery service that Snape paid an extra three Galleons for.

People around him looked at Snape curiously, wondering what was inside the large package, but he had no intention of opening it there.

"Shrink quickly," Snape said, pointing to the package.

The package quickly shrank to about one-fifth of its original size.

He recited the incantation again, then laboriously carried the package to the bench.

"Pandora, have you been doing any experiments lately?"

"No, a lot of things are gone."

“Let’s go to the lab and see what’s left,” Snape said. “Let’s see what’s left.”

They then visited the House of Requirement once again.

Pandora looked sadly at the few remaining magical materials and experimental equipment in the laboratory, and tidied up the table with a low mood.

“Hey, Pandora,” Snape said, pointing to the small package he was carrying into the house. “Grow bigger, grow bigger.”

"open to take a look."

Upon opening the package, one finds dozens of small boxes bearing the Slag & Giggs pharmacy logo.

“I didn’t know what you needed, so I just had them send a little of everything. But you’ll have to make those experimental devices yourself; I haven’t seen anything like them on the market.”

“No,” Pandora said, shaking her head, “I can’t have it.”

"Take it. You lost those things because you helped me."

Pandora still refused to agree.

"How about this, I'll sponsor you in exchange for you sharing the results of your experiment with me."

"Also, you'd better let me know in advance before you do any experiments in the future."

“You mentioned ‘I have a way’ in the secret passage, and that way is huge, terrifying…”

"Thank you, Severus."

"You're welcome."

　Thank you Xiao Xi Feng Xi for the monthly ticket.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)