Chapter 768 Ivan: Who Wants to Murder Me?

After a few people entered the classroom and sat down, the bell for class had already rang.

Not long after, Snape, dressed in black robes, pushed open the door and walked in. He waved his wand with his backhand and closed the classroom door.

The classroom suddenly became very quiet, everyone sat upright and stopped playing around.

"Before we officially start class, I think it is necessary to remind you..." Snape casually placed the book on the podium and said.

Those empty eyes glanced around the classroom, and when they landed on Ivan, they couldn't help but stay for a few seconds, then calmly moved their eyes away and continued.

"You will take an important exam next June, when you will prove how much you have learned about the preparation and use of potions."

"Although there are several people in this class who are indeed mentally retarded, I hope you can all barely pass the O.W.L. exam, otherwise I will be... very angry!"

At this point, Snape's eyes fell directly on Neville's face. Neville's body trembled and he took a breath of fear.

"Of course, after this year, many of you will no longer be able to take my class... I only select those students with the best grades to enter my N.E.W.T. Potions class. This means that we are different from some people. Will have to say goodbye..."

Snape spoke calmly about the important exam in a year's time.

O.W.L., the full name of Ordinary Wizarding Level Test, consists of twelve subjects in total. It is a subject test that fifth-year students of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry need to take. Only after passing it can they be qualified to continue studying magic. The importance is evident.

The N.E.W.T exam that subsequent seventh graders take is equivalent to a vocational certificate and is directly related to whether they can find a good job after graduation.

For example, to apply to be an Auror in the Ministry of Magic, you need to obtain "excellent" or "good" evaluations in at least five subject N.E.W.T. exams.

Of course, for Ivan, such an exam is not worth worrying about.

With his current level of magic, except for the divination class which depends on some luck, Ivan is confident that he will get the highest rating in the remaining eleven exams.

However, in order to gain academic points, Ivan still pretended to listen patiently.

After giving some warnings, Snape quickly took out his books and conducted the first Potions lesson of the school year - brewing a moderator!

In this class, Harry endured Snape's venomous tongue as always. As long as he made the slightest mistake, Snape would suddenly appear behind him like a ghost and ridicule him.

"Potter! I asked you to brew the potion, not boil the water..."

"Did you put the moonstone powder in at this time? Potter? Read the operating instructions carefully again!"

"Potter, two drops of hellebore syrup is enough. Remember it clearly. I don't want to say it again!"

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Under Snape's constant "encouragement", Harry, who was already in a hurry, successfully boiled the potion into a ball of waste water, and was ridiculed by Snape in public.

In the end, the disgraced Harry had to look around for help, hoping that someone could save him.

Seeing this scene, Ivan shook his head helplessly, sealed the brewed potion in a bottle, then walked towards Snape and spoke.

"Professor, my demulcent has been brewed. Can you take a look at it for me?"

Snape reluctantly let Harry go, turned around and picked up the demulcent handed over by Ivan and looked at it carefully, then opened the lid and smelled it, and finally uttered a word slowly. "good!"

Ivan was very happy. As a Gryffindor student and a friend of Harry Potter, Snape's "not bad" could be replaced by "very good".

This shows that his level of potion has been recognized by the potion master.

Harry on the side gave Ivan a grateful look.

But Ivan ignored him. He came to Snape not just to help Harry.

"By the way, Professor Snape, do you know where Principal Dumbledore is?" Ivan asked curiously.

This morning, when he opened the Marauder's Map to check it, he unexpectedly found that Dumbledore was still not in school, which was strange.

The only person who is most likely to know Dumbledore's whereabouts is Snape. As a double undercover agent who is valued by both sides, Snape must have a lot of secret information and must have an emergency way to contact Dumbledore.

"I need to remind you, Hals, it's class time now..." Snape said coldly, putting the palliative in his hand on the podium, and then looked at those who were following him as if he thought of something. Ivan, his tone softened, spoke again.

"And I don't know the recent whereabouts of Principal Dumbledore. I have rarely met him in the past two months...the most recent time was at the dinner yesterday, when you were also present."

have no idea?

Ivan looked at Snape suspiciously, unsure whether he was lying. With his current Legilimency level, he simply could not break Snape's Occlumency.

"What about the mysterious man? How is he doing recently?" Ivan looked around and saw that the others were still concentrating on brewing the potion, so he lowered his voice and asked.

After defeating Voldemort last time, Ivan has always wanted to know whether his disguise was useful and how much Voldemort believed it.

"Thanks to you, he is still alive." Snape looked at Ivan with a strange look, and it took him a while before he uttered these words.

Of course Voldemort is still alive and well, but his mental state is a bit abnormal...

Snape was so curious about what happened that night that after Voldemort returned, he hid in the safe house all day and was paranoid, and did not dare to go out for two months...

However, Snape knew very well that it was not convenient for him to have contact with Ivan during this school year. In just a moment, a look came over here - Malfoy was staring at him very nervously.

Snape had no choice but to suppress the curiosity in his heart, moved his lips slightly, and reminded him in a very soft tone.

"Be careful recently, especially don't eat randomly..."

After saying that, Snape ignored Ivan's reaction and walked past him with a straight face, sternly scolding Neville for accidentally knocking over the crucible.

Ivan's expression remained unchanged, and he returned to his seat, picked up a few potion ingredients and started brewing them in the crucible, but he was recalling Snape's last words in his mind.

Don't eat randomly?

Could it be that someone is preparing to poison their food to kill themselves?

(PS: Something happened today, I will update...)