HP - Shadow Monarch! [BOOK 1]

Chapter 173 - The dungeons are everywhere.

[Chapter Size: 2000 Words.]

Third Person POV

Hogwarts.

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"Help me!!" A woman screamed in the middle of the corridor, while the students who were about to enter the Gryffindor common room were stunned by the Fat Lady's outburst.

"Something wrong?!" A seventh-year student asked, raising an eyebrow, wondering if the Fat Lady was trying to pull another one of her pranks, as she often did.

"He went inside me!!!" She shouted, making the four students standing in front of her drop their jaws. What kind of statement was that?

"What do you mean by that..." A female student murmured, blushing as her mind raced with possibilities, while the Fat Lady looked at her, desperate for help.

"He entered... he just came and barged in with everything he had, I didn't even give him permission to enter me!!!" She cried out, almost on the verge of tears, but at the same time, embarrassed.

"..." All four students stood there speechless, while more and more students gathered around, drawn by the commotion at Gryffindor's entrance.

"He just came up here and didn't even say anything! While I tried to push him away, I told him he wasn't a Gryffindor student, but he just looked at me with those fierce and seductive eyes, staring at me as if I were his prey! Maybe if I were younger, thinner, and not just a materialized form in a painting, I might have even accepted it... But he just jumped on me! So wild!!"

She couldn't even finish her sentence, exclaiming with her hands on her cheeks, embarrassed, though she seemed more amused recounting the situation than truly distressed.

"What's going on here?" A student asked, as more people started gathering, forming a small crowd of Gryffindors.

"The Fat Lady has lost it! She's saying someone went inside her, but she's making it sound more... suggestive than anything else," a student murmured, flustered.

Among the students listening to the commotion were Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew.

"Someone entered Gryffindor?" Black murmured immediately, furious.

"I don't think that's it... She's saying someone entered her... her painting." A seventh-year student tried to explain.

"This sounds bizarre... She's lying, isn't she?" Another student commented, suspicious.

"Hey, Fat Lady, let us in!" A student impatiently demanded.

"Oh! What do I do now, how do I get him out of there?" She simply ignored the growing crowd in front of her, who were desperate to enter the Gryffindor common room.

"Someone call the Headmaster! Or a professor!" Another student suggested.

And then, as they spoke, suddenly, the space within the painting distorted. Everyone stared in shock as a figure began to emerge, slowly materializing before them.

Snape was looking at his own hand, as if pleased with his strength, opening and closing his fist.

He was truly satisfied with conquering that dungeon. He had secured a powerful wizard to aid him and was about to teleport again to the Room of Requirement, growing even stronger. He was still distributing the newly acquired stat points after leaving the dungeon, so he hadn't really paid attention to what came next—perhaps that was what had left him exposed to the growing crowd now staring at him. Only then did he realize he was standing in front of several Gryffindor students.