HP - Shadow Monarch!

Chapter 99 - Final Exams 01.

[Chapter Size: 1800 Words.]

Third Person POV

Hogwarts.

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Snape was walking through the corridors while someone followed him with heavy footsteps right behind.

"Are you going to follow me around the entire school?" Snape looked back, seeing a woman with black hair who had been following him the whole time.

"You still haven't answered my questions," she said, looking at him with frustration.

"Am I obliged to answer you?" Snape raised an eyebrow.

"We have an agreement..." she insisted.

"Our agreement doesn't include me telling you things. Go to your class now. Goodbye." Snape shrugged and started to leave her behind, continuing through the corridors.

"You...!" She began to grit her teeth but wasn't about to give up, still following him, trying to get his attention as her shoes hit the floor loudly.

"Bellatrix... you have no proof... Why this stubbornness? People are watching us," Snape sighed, seeing that the girl hadn't given up.

"Let them watch. They're just insignificant people," she said without hesitation.

They kept walking while Bellatrix truly made a scene throughout Hogwarts' corridors. Following the fifth-year boy, it was clear the students witnessing this were gossiping as they passed by. After all, these two were the most feared in the school, yet even the dangerous Bellatrix seemed to be treated like a child in front of him.

"This is really a scoop!" one of the hidden students made sure to snap a picture with an old camera, eager to record exactly what was happening.

"This will be tomorrow's front page... Snape and Bellatrix, between love and hate," he murmured excitedly, already thinking of the headline for tomorrow's newspaper.

Leaving this student aside and returning to Snape and Bellatrix.

"Why do you want to know so badly, Bellatrix?" Snape sighed as he looked at the stubborn girl.

"I know you had something to do with that massacre in the Forbidden Forest from today's newspaper. Hundreds of giant acromantulas last night... And when I went to ask about it, they told me that redhead from Gryffindor didn't show up in her dorm after you left with her... I had to force some girls to tell me that..." she admitted.

"I don't know what you're talking about, Bellatrix... Now go back to your class, we have nothing to discuss..." Snape said.

"No! I want to know if it was you! Forget that, I know it was you! I want you to train me so I can become as strong as you..." she declared, and Snape wanted to laugh in her face.

"I doubt that's possible, Bellatrix. But anyway, I have my proof, we'll talk about our meeting at the Blacks' house some other time... Goodbye." He spoke and simply vanished with apparition, as the girl still continued to follow him.

Bellatrix didn't even have time to say anything as she stood there, seething with anger, unable to do anything. She stomped her foot again and walked in the opposite direction, heading to her class in the end.

Snape appeared in the Potions class, where there was an individual cauldron for each student this time. After all, today was the start of the final exams. He sat in his seat next to Clarissa, who greeted him. At least she wasn't as annoying as Bellatrix, not asking questions despite Snape's sudden departure from Professor Slughorn's weekly meeting.