HP - Shadow Monarch!

Chapter 23 - Second Day 01.

[Chapter Size: 1900 Words.]
Third Person POV

Hogwarts.

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Snape woke up before sunrise just like the day before, the sun hadn't even risen as he left the bed, going to train another day outside the castle. There was no secrecy as he left his house's common room and proceeded through the corridors of Hogwarts while some seventh-year prefects were monitoring the place, but Snape didn't care about being seen by them.

"Hey, you!" A boy saw him and quickly called out, but when he saw it was the guy from yesterday, he froze.

"You again?" Snape asked, looking back at the Hufflepuff student, the same one who had approached him again.

Seeing that the boy said nothing more, Snape continued walking to leave the castle. He passed without problems through the corridors while only a few portraits that were awake saw him and looked at him surprised; they would tell the headmaster later, but since Snape had an agreement with the man, he couldn't care less.

However, a man appeared in his path, and it was none other than the caretaker, Argus Filch, following his cat who had followed the scent of the student.

"Mrs. Norris! You've found a student out of the dormitory!" He exclaimed, pointing at Snape. "You rule-breaker, wait until the headmaster hears about this!" He exclaimed.

Snape continued walking without stopping until he got close to him, "It doesn't matter, go ahead and tell him that Severus Snape is leaving the school at this moment." Snape commented with an arrogant smile, tired of always seeing someone trying to hinder even his walks through the school.

Argus Filch was quite surprised by the boy's audacity, but he could do nothing but watch the boy pass him in the darkness of the corridor. He looked at Snape's back and started walking, towards the headmaster's tower.

Snape kept walking, and as he was finally reaching the exit of the school, a third person approached him, if he could call it a person.

"Look what I've found here!" A ghost emerged from the ground in front of Snape wanting to scare the boy.

For a moment of reaction with reflex, Snape quickly moved his arm towards the ghost who tried to grab him, surprising him.

Peeves, who was one of the very old ghosts of the castle, liked to play tricks and snitch on students breaking the rules. He saw that this student was certainly not one of the prefects, so he thought to scare him to see him running in fear, but he did not expect this student to simply attack him as he approached. If that was surprising, what happened next scared him to the core.

"I've got you... hm?! HMMMMMMM!!!!!" Snape grabbed him by the neck while clutching it tightly, making him feel something he hadn't felt in over 100 years, pain.

'What is this?!! How can he grab me in this state, I am a ghost!!' Peeves was so frightened by this that he became even more terrified when he saw the student's eyes shining with a strong blue color, making Peeves feel that his end was near.

"Do you want to die?! Never do that again." Snape spoke while he had his dangerous and threatening glow.

Peeves began to shake his head rapidly with the pain of his neck being pressed and even feeling short of breath, a condition that shouldn't happen after his death...

Snape let him go, and Peeves quickly began to retreat as if the student was a monster. "Help!!" He shouted as he started to dive into the walls escaping from there still feeling the pain of his neck being pressed.