HP - Shadow Monarch! [BOOK 1]

Chapter 195 - News about the chaos

[Chapter Size: 2000 Words.]
Third Person POV

Hogwarts.

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Severus got up that morning as he slowly opened his eyes and turned his gaze to the side, finding the redhead sleeping in his bed, with one of her hands thrown over him.
Rosário had gotten into his bed during the night, and even though he noticed it, he ended up saying nothing and continued sleeping.

"You should be awake and heading to the common room." He said.
"That's true... but this is so nice." She said sleepily, taking in the scent.
"You know this is weird... smelling my bed." He commented as he got out of bed, adjusting his robes and hair with a spell.
"You think so?" She asked a bit embarrassed, seeing that Snape might actually think she was strange.
"Anyway, let's go to the common room." He said and she straightened herself and quickly put on her professor's clothes.
"I'm ready." She said, while he watched her.

Both left the Room of Requirement and headed toward the common room, entering shortly after.

They quickly heard a flood of murmurs that all the students were exchanging that morning with all the tables crowded with students wanting to know what had happened.
After all, the wizarding world hadn't rested the night before.

They were so caught up in it that they didn't even care about the notorious Snape and Professor Rosária entering together, which only served to further fuel the rumors of a relationship between the two.

Instead, one student shouted at another, as they began to share what they knew and debated their theories, according to what they had heard from their own sources, internally or externally.

"You-Know-Who attacked a Muggle city!"
"The so-called second Dark Lord appeared too!"
"My father sent a letter early in the morning. He said most of the Death Eaters and dark wizards were destroyed!"
"My God! What?! What's going to happen now? How will we, as wizards, be safe after Hogwarts?"
"I think I'm leaving England."
"My family is already planning it. They don't want to stay in the middle of all this madness."

People were discussing everything they knew through unofficial means, while spreading the information among themselves.

Snape wasn't surprised that the students were reacting like this, but what he really wanted to know was how the Muggle world would react to it. That wasn't something that could be hidden.

In any case, Rosária moved toward the teachers' table, and Snape went to the Slytherin table.

"Severus." Clarisse greeted him, and as she did, cast a suspicious glance at the professor, noticing them together.
"Did you see what happened?" She asked, changing the subject, since he lived in the Room of Requirement. He might not know what had happened.
"Yeah... I heard about it." He replied, quickly grabbing something to eat and ignoring all the gossip.

The Slytherin table didn't seem very happy.
"My uncle died..."
"My father was killed..."
"How could they have done this?!"
"They say black creatures massacred them like animals."

That was the conversation among the Slytherin wizards, stunned by what had happened, an event on a much greater scale than anything that had ever happened before.
There was crying, hatred, anger, and caution in their expressions in every year group.

Snape had killed over a hundred people working for Voldemort. So clearly, there were many of their relatives and acquaintances there.

"Lucas Nott... was killed along with four other students who left Hogwarts last year."
There was also fear — knowing that their companions had been killed left them afraid.