HP - Shadow Monarch!

Chapter 40 - Saturday 04.

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Third Person POV

Hogwarts.

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Snape looked once more at the top of the cliff, not seeing any more signs of the creature. "I noticed something on its arm when it tried to grab me..." He was remembering, "It was burning with exposure to the sunlight..." Concluding this thought, he came to an understanding that whatever that was, it seemed to have some problem with sunlight.

"HEEE" The sound of the Graphorn caught his attention as it began to leave the waterfall.

"Hm? What is it?" He looked at the animal as it twisted.

"Alright, I'll put you down..." Snape murmured, placing the animal on the ground.

His gaze returned to the valley in front of him. "We must leave here now... but we need to know where we are." He murmured as he began to enter the forest, which contrasted with the Forbidden Forest.

Meanwhile, Albus Dumbledore was at his desk, preparing to take a trip this weekend, waking up early and having a small breakfast with the students in the common hall that Saturday as they prepared to leave the school while chatting animatedly with each other.

He greeted the professors who joined him at the main table, while observing the students. At the Slytherin table, he noticed Snape's absence. Although Snape never appeared at noon, he certainly showed up a few times at dinner and every day at breakfast, which made Dumbledore wonder what he was up to.

'It seems the girl couldn't even get close to him... Which only increases the chance that he may have a completely different personality... But it is still a great mystery...' Dumbledore thought as he looked at Lily, who kept a sad expression. Whatever Snape had said to her, it hurt the girl deeply.

After breakfast, he returned to organize his things for the rest of the morning, not even bothering to go down to the common hall at noon, as most of the students were in Hogsmeade at that time.

Time passed as he was finally ready to leave in the early afternoon when a strange crow appeared at his window.

"This..." He frowned at it, while Fawkes emitted a sound of displeasure towards the crow and began to spread its wings with flames in a show of hostility.

"Calm down, Fawkes..." Dumbledore requested as the crow seemed to fear the phoenix.

The crow cautiously left the window as the phoenix stopped producing flames but still kept an eye on the black bird.

Albus approached the crow and took the letter from its feet. "Why is she sending a letter..." He wondered, after all, it had been a decade since that woman had spoken to him, after a certain incident where he almost destroyed her, and his threats seemed to have worked well since she hadn't bothered him in that time. After taking the letter, the crow fled through the window from which it had come.

The letter then began to unfold but suddenly came to life and started flying, folding into a mouth shape, as it began to speak.

"ALBUUUUUUUSSS!!!" The voice was horrible and hostile, causing the portraits of the other headmasters to look at it surprised, wondering what was happening.

"..." Albus said nothing, as there was no way to respond to a letter; he just waited for the artificial mouth to speak.

"A student from the school appeared in my territory and attacked me!!! I swear Albus, I will get my revenge, I swear by all forces! Luckily, he died going to the West side, the only thing stopping me from attacking Hogsmeade is the thought that that damned brat is just bones by now!" The voice complained with the same tone of hostility. "I want something for the attack, otherwise, our agreement of the last 10 years will mean nothing!" She growled, and the letter lost its life, falling on the desk with only the text of what she had just said.