HP - Shadow Monarch!

Chapter 62 - Duel With Setenth Year.

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Third Person POV

Hogwarts.

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"Mr. Snape and Miss Evans," Professor Longbottom announced from the platform, as everyone immediately turned to look at them.

"It almost seems like fate," Pandora spoke beside Snape as always, while Lucinda, standing beside her, looked disdainfully at this. Snape shrugged and walked up to the platform, while Lily was on the other side, looking strangely at Snape.

If she said she wasn't a little nervous, she would be lying. Snape had scared her a few days ago and she hadn't expected to have to face him in a spell duel. They hadn't faced each other for half a year, so today was the big day for Lily.

"Begin!" Professor Flitwick started the duel.

She quickly began casting spells in his direction, while he swiftly defended himself with that trick of making his wand reappear in his hand at the last moment, something even the teachers couldn't quite explain, but none of it bothered Snape with his secrets.

He seemed bored as he deflected Lily's spells, which frustrated her. This continued for a while until she reached her limit. "Aren't you going to attack?" she asked as he raised an eyebrow.

"Very well then," Snape responded, and the next moment, he cast a spell directly at her, which was so fast it surprised Lily. But just as she cast a shield that shook with the force of the spell, when she looked up, Snape was nowhere to be seen.

She widened her eyes and quickly looked for the teachers off the platform, while they looked shocked behind her, the same could be said of all the students, who were looking behind Lily with expressions of surprise, disbelief, and even fear.

It didn't take long for her to feel a wand touching the back of her neck, "You lose," she heard Snape's words and had no choice but to nod.

"..." Snape waited for Professor Longbottom to come out of her daze as she declared Snape the winner.

"Snape is the winner," she announced.

"As expected... but what did he do there, what was that..." The students began to murmur, not understanding what he had done.

"He must have cheated somehow!" Potter exclaimed as his friends nodded; they might no longer want to mess with Snape, but it didn't mean they wouldn't sabotage him at any opportunity they could.

Snape started to leave, not caring about the comments; after all, he had learned how persistent these people could be when they wanted to. And it's better to ignore 80% of what they say.

"Severus..." Lily suddenly called him.

"Don't call me that, Miss Evans," Snape replied dryly, while the girl seemed to tremble a bit.

She took a few seconds to start and continued. "My parents sent me a letter, a few months ago your father went to the hospital with broken bones after an accident at home," she said, despite having read this in her parents' letter, she hadn't had the courage to talk to Snape in the last week.

"Ah, better for him then," Snape shrugged, knowing that man was in that state thanks to him.

"You just say that? He's your father, even if you didn't get along very well," she said.

'What is this now...' Snape murmured internally.

"You didn't say that I had assumed Snape's body until a while ago? Why are you telling me this? Changed your mind?" he spoke while raising an eyebrow. They were speaking quietly, so no one could hear them, just see that they were conversing in some way, to the jealousy of some students from the four houses.