HP - Shadow Monarch!

Chapter 71 - Room of Requirement.

[Chapter Size: 1900 Words.]
Third Person POV

Hogwarts.

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"You were in Hogsmeade when you heard about the attack?" the Headmaster asked as Snape stood in the Headmaster's office once again.

"I was," Snape replied in a calm tone.

"And you were attacked?" Dumbledore asked, raising an eyebrow.

"I was... but it was easy to deal with them," Snape said, not lying.

"..." The Headmaster looked at him for a while, trying to find something in Snape, but he maintained a calm gaze in front of the Headmaster and all the portraits that were looking at him at that moment.

"You saw the strange wizard killing those dark wizards," Dumbledore finally spoke while Snape seemed to think.

"The one who cleaned up the mess you and the Ministry arrived at with dozens of dead students?" Snape mocked.

"I wouldn't say that, boy. He killed 50 wizards... no one should take so many lives..." Dumbledore, although surprised by Snape's accusation, remained calm and tried to explain.

"Maybe you're right, but that doesn't change the fact that Muggle-born students were dying because of them. Or do you think pure-bloods are more valuable than Muggle-born students, Headmaster?" Snape asked in a questioning tone.

"..." Dumbledore, remembering how difficult it was to talk to this student, tried to explain. "You know I don't think that way, not antagonistic to Voldemort and his followers."

"Strange... You and the Ministry are more concerned with a mysterious ninja killing wizards who launched an attack than with the victims. You're not even investigating those among the dead... Do you really care, you and the Ministry?" Snape raised an eyebrow. He was not one to moralize, but he certainly didn't like this man's hypocrisy.

"The boy is good..." a portrait murmured.

"Quiet!" Another portrait of a former headmistress immediately called for silence.

"I am investigating if that's what you're asking, boy... but things are complicated, and a student shouldn't get involved in this..." Dumbledore murmured while Snape wanted to laugh.

"But you think I'm the wizard who killed the 50, don't you?" He smiled while the Headmaster looked at him and then turned his gaze to Fawkes on his perch, but the phoenix didn't seem to act badly towards Snape.

He sighed, seeing that Fawkes had no negative reaction to Snape, which was his gauge to see if the boy could be involved in the deaths. Snape was unaware of this, and Fawkes felt nothing from Snape because he had a power within him that blocked any information coming from him, even without Snape himself understanding very well what was happening.

"Of course not, boy. How could I believe that a fifth-year student would have such power..." He gave his verdict, not seeing anything wrong, especially reaching his limit as Snape cornered him, leaving him without a reaction. Snape had always been someone who left him almost without answers, and he was one of the last people Dumbledore wanted to see in front of him. Even so, he needed to talk to this boy about a few more things.

"Tell me, Mr. Snape... What is your goal... I've heard you're extremely skilled in duels, that the professors have already placed you in the seventh year and want to take you to Scotland, to the championship next year... You're also an excellent rising wizard in Transfiguration and Potions... the Herbology and Charms professors have no contrary opinion about your performance in those classes... Which makes me very curious... with all this talent of yours... what do you expect for your future?" He asked, although he found Snape's transformation very strange, he found nothing that could prove his hypothesis and wanted to understand what the boy's goals were.