HP: At the beginning, I influenced Snape's childhood.

"I was wrong, please don't be angry, sir." Lin Mo once again used his secret weapon of admitting his mistakes, trying to escape this predicament.

"Is Mr. Lin's eye failing him too? Which eye of yours saw your poor professor angry?" Snape wasn't buying Lin Mo's act. "If Mr. Lin doesn't value his own life, then even his meddlesome dean won't bother with it."

"Sir, I'm confident in this matter. I won't joke with my own life," Lin Mo said earnestly.

Snape scoffed. "What do you mean by 'confident' as Mr. Lin claims? Does it mean daring to attempt Animagus magic alone as a second-year student? Or is it about secretly practicing this dangerous magic behind the professors' backs?"

"Whether Mr. Lin cherishes his own life or not is none of my business, nor can I. I am only responsible for the safety of each student at school. Don't cause me any trouble," Snape said calmly.

Lin Mo wanted to say something, but Snape interrupted him: "These are all Mr. Lin's private matters, and I have no need to interfere. So Mr. Lin should explain who that little troll who came to my cellar is."

"...Would you believe me if I said he was transformed from my falcon?" Lin Mo explained with some difficulty.

Meeting Snape's unwavering, deep eyes, Lin Mo sensed his impatience: "Since Mr. Lin is unwilling to tell the truth, then whatever you say is fine. I just hope you won't let your falcon run around Hogwarts all the time."

"Okay." Lin Mo had no way to explain, so he could only agree.

"If Mr. Lin is sure he is alright, then go back. I will report the Animagus matter to the Ministry of Magic, and I will try my best to prevent Mr. Lin from becoming the youngest entrant to Azkaban." Snape dismissed Lin Mo.

Snape didn't ask him what his Animagus form looked like. For every ordinary wizard, the Animagus form is a very useful trump card, so almost no one would tell others about their Animagus form, as that would be like casually exposing their Achilles' heel to someone else.

"Goodbye, sir." Lin Mo could only bow slightly before leaving, no longer wanting to disturb Snape's rest and work.

Time flows like water, and years pass silently.

Time flies. The trio went to the underground classroom to attend the 500th anniversary of Nick's near-headless death. On their way back, they heard strange noises and saw the petrified Mrs. Lorris and the words on the wall in the third-floor corridor.

The Basilisk incident thus began, and the matter was brewing at Hogwarts. After making their own judgment, Harry, his two friends went to Draco for information.

Upon meeting, Draco told Harry, Harry, and the others that he was not the heir to Slytherin, and the three believed him.

Since Draco is no longer at odds with Harry as he was in the original storyline, the three of them no longer need to brew Polyjuice Potion to question Draco.

The four little heads huddled together all day, discussing and speculating about things, and they went to the library much more often than usual.

Because of the Animagus incident, Snape didn't pay much attention to Lin Mo for a while, and Lin Mo just did what he was supposed to do according to the agreement.

Even so, all the young wizards were grateful to Lin Mo, because when he was there, their Potions class was indeed much better than when Snape was the only one.

In the past few days, Lin Mo has activated the young wizards he arranged at Hogwarts. These young wizards have gathered a lot of information, the most outrageous of which is that Lin Mo discovered that he was secretly admired by a group of young wizards.

Upon seeing this information, Lin Mo's first reaction was, "Are these young wizards already thinking about romance at such a young age?" He didn't think that someone in his thirties could get along with a group of teenagers.

Being the older brother to Harry and Draco and a few other kids is fine, but Lin Mo simply can't bring himself to talk about love or anything like that with wizards who are twice his age but not even as old as him.

Ever since Snape got angry last time, Lin Mo could clearly sense that his headmaster was still upset, which was why he hadn't paid any attention to him.

If these young wizards cause any trouble and Snape finds out, Lin Mo is sure he'll get a severe scolding from Snape.

In fact, although this potion master clearly hates meddling in other people's business, what happened to Lin Mo might not be a big deal to him.

Besides the strange ideas of the young wizards, Lin Mo also learned more about the Kalebo family, a declining wizarding family that is now being exploited by several pure-blood families.

Logically speaking, these pure-blood families should disdain to exploit such declining small families. However, the fact is that while the heads of these large families do indeed disdain to deal with such petty squabbles, the younger generation of wizards develops a great deal of superiority over these peers who are of lower status than themselves.

Especially when faced with Lin Mo, who was much stronger than themselves, their resentment intensified. The family heads also wanted to take this opportunity to warn or recruit Lin Mo, so they sent their younger members to deflate Lin Mo's arrogance.

Fortunately, these family heads were self-aware enough to realize that their younger generation was no match for Lin Mo, so they openly and secretly instigated their young wizards to use others to do their dirty work.

Karebo was one of the victims. He had excellent grades, good abilities, and strong work skills, and many professors had praised him.

Even for a Slytherin, being praised by a strict professor like Snape is still a surprising and exciting thing, and Callebold was once fortunate enough to receive a brief and awkward compliment from Snape.

It wasn't praise, just a simple evaluation, but for the Slytherin headmaster, who always spoke with venom, this was already a very good way of speaking.

Snape had already reported Lin Mo's Animagus status to the Ministry of Magic and Dumbledore. Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall told him about it, and both of them were quite surprised.

After that day, Professor McGonagall called Lin Mo to her office alone and gave him a lecture, sternly admonishing him never to do such dangerous things again.

Professor McGonagall also told Lin Mo that if he had any questions about Transfiguration, he could come to her anytime.

Under Lin Mo's guidance, Dumbledore's application to the Ministry of Magic was quickly approved, and Lin Mo became a formal Animagus with a backup.