HP - Shadow Monarch!

Chapter 14 - First Day 02.

[Chapter Size: 2000 Words.]
Third Person POV

Hogwarts.

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Snape continued to eat his food quietly while the table remained silent due to the caution they had towards this strange student.

Even though he was quite peculiar, after all, Snape was quickly eating everything on the table to replenish all his energies after that morning's training.

He was the only one making sound at the table, as he picked up chicken, bread, cheese, with people wondering how he could mix so much so early in the day. As soon as he felt satisfied, Snape stopped eating with a sigh, he turned his attention to all the teenagers looking at him, even some people from other tables were also staring, especially the girls, but the Slytherin students seemed to be afraid of him as everyone averted their gaze as soon as it met his.

He didn't care about that and began to stand up, with his cloak swaying, he started to leave the table going back to the entrance while many still kept their eyes on him.

"HEY! Who is he?! Where did this guy come from?" At the Slytherin table, where Snape was sitting, the students who had not managed to talk to Snape quickly asked Geronimo who was approached by the stranger as soon as he arrived.

"He..." Geronimo could not even know what to say in such a situation, after all, he could not imagine how people would react to the fact that this guy was actually Snape.

He sighed heavily, Snape seemed even more frightening than before and all the students seemed to feel some fear of him too. "Snape, he is Severus Snape as we knew him." He spoke and was not surprised as everyone who heard this, their eyes widened in shock.

"It can't be possible..." was the first thing the students said as soon as they understood what they had heard.

While the confusion continued at the Slytherin table with its students quickly talking about the shocking news, Snape continued walking through the corridors of Hogwarts, according to the class papers that had ended up in his dormitory that morning, informing him of the semester's schedule. He was going to the botany class he would have with Ravenclaw.

"Snape." A voice called him and Snape stopped, turning around, he found himself facing a man, none other than Horace Slughorn, his potions professor and head of his house.

Horace Slughorn, a few moments earlier while watching Snape leaving without initially recognizing him, turned his attention to the headmaster at that moment. "Headmaster Dumbledore, may I know why I have an unknown older student in my house, while I was not informed about anything?" He asked with some dissatisfaction, since he might have been silent when he saw him entering through the entrance, but still needed to know who he was.

Albus sighed when he heard the question. "It's Snape, Professor Slughorn. He's back and he's different."

"Snape?!" Slughorn could not believe what he had just heard, turning his attention to the young man leaving the common room. "How is this possible?" He was not the only one left with these questions, various professors nearby who heard were stunned by the revelation.

"I don't know, Professor Slughorn. But Snape is different... and it's not just his appearance, his personality as you can see intimidating the other students just by looking at them, has changed too." Albus spoke, perhaps Slughorn would be a chance for him to find out more about the changes in the boy.

"This..." Slughorn didn't say anything more, he just stood up and followed Snape following him while everyone looked at the professor with the strange behavior, until he caught up with him in one of the corridors going to the castle's greenhouse.