Anita finished her homework and still couldn't wait for her father, so she couldn't help sighing irritably.At this time, Anita really missed the mobile phones in the Muggle world. She could call anytime, anywhere, which was not as inconvenient as the owl in the wizarding world.Since Flying Castle is stuck in a bottleneck due to energy issues, should we discuss with Draco and change the subject first?It would be great to make a wizard version of the phone.

Anita made a silent note of the idea and decided to discuss it with Draco at breakfast tomorrow.Seeing that it was getting late, Anita packed up her things and prepared to go back to the dormitory.

At this moment, a green flame rose from the fireplace, and Severus walked out of the fireplace with a tired face.

"Dad?" Anita yelled in surprise, and then thought that she was still in a cold war with her father. Although it was one-sided, her father might not even know it, but it was still a bit embarrassing.

"Anita? Why are you here?" Severus has been brewing potions for the past seven days, and he hasn't slept much, and he's in a trance. He was very surprised to see Anita alone in his office so late. , couldn't help frowning.

Anita felt a little aggrieved when she thought that she was "disliked" by her father after worrying for seven days.But Anita saw her father's tired look, so she didn't say much, she just pursed her lips, lowered her head and hugged the things on the table in her arms, turned her head away from Severus, and said softly, "It's okay Son, I'm going back, and Dad will also go to bed early." After speaking, he walked out quickly.

Severus' brow furrowed even tighter, but he really didn't have the energy to communicate with Anita right now, not just because of his extreme sleep deprivation, but because of the terrible things that had happened this week.So Severus said nothing.

When Anita and Severus passed by, they suddenly smelled a herbal smell and couldn't help but stop.It's normal for Severus to smell of herbs, but such a strong smell of herbs means that this smell is probably the smell of the potion that Severus was brewing before.Anita can identify most of the potions by smelling them. The strange thing is that Anita has never smelled the smell of this potion, but it feels very familiar to her.

"Evening primrose, sun orchid, horns donated voluntarily by unicorns..." Anita stood on the spot, distinguishing the different ingredients in this flavor, while carefully recalling the functions of these ingredients and the possible effects of combining them. effect.

Severus saw Anita stand still, but neither spoke nor moved, feeling his slightly aching head from lack of sleep get worse.Sure enough, as Dumbledore said, after children grow up and enter the so-called "adolescence", their behavior and thoughts will become incomprehensible?Severus had thought that Anita would have no such problems.

Severus squeezed the space between his brows to keep himself awake, and asked feebly, "Anita?"

Anita turned around sharply, grabbed Severus by the sleeve, and asked with a panicked face, "Curse! The smell on your body is the smell of several potions that weaken the curse! What happened? Is there a curse? Merlin, it takes so many combinations of potions to weaken the curse! Please tell me that you are fine..." Anita's trembling voice was already choked with sobs.

"Shhh, I'm fine, I'm really fine." Severus bent down and took the terrified little girl into his arms, patting her on the back to reassure her.Severus was surprised by Anita's keenness. After all, the potion that weakens the curse is a very advanced class, and Anita hasn't learned it yet, but Anita deduced the potion's strength just by smelling the smell of several ingredients. As a result, Severus had to be amazed and relieved by Anita's talent.

"Are you really all right?" Anita looked at Severus' weak face, not convinced.Pulling out his wand, he cast a spell on Severus that could detect curses.Severus was surrounded by a burst of green light, and Anita was relieved when she saw that the green light flashed a few times and then disappeared without turning into red light.

Seeing Anita pointing his wand at him, Severus subconsciously clenched his wand tightly, but he quickly let go of the wand, allowing Anita to cast a spell.However, Severus narrowed his eyes, he had never seen Anita cast this spell before.

"Anita, where did you learn this spell?" Severus asked.

"Uh." Only now did Anita realize that the spell she subconsciously used was the one she saw Salazar use in her dream. Explained the fact that she was able to share memories with the Hogwarts consciousness.It's not that she deliberately hid it from her father. When she first had this dream, her father didn't know that she knew that she was Voldemort's daughter. If she told her father that she could dream about a thousand years ago, she would have to mention that she was a Slytherin heir, so she didn't say anything.Later, Dad knew that she knew, and she had forgotten to tell Dad about it. After all, this dream happens from time to time.

"I can explain this." Anita said weakly. "But this is a long story. It's late today. Dad should go to bed early. Let's talk about it tomorrow? I happen to have other things to talk to Dad about."

Severus felt that this was not an urgent matter, and that he really needed sleep badly, so he nodded in agreement.

"Good night, Dad." After being disturbed by the curse, Anita lost all hypocritical thoughts of cold war and grievances before, so she also returned to her previous attitude and gave her father a goodnight kiss.

"Good night. Sleep well." Severus kissed Anita's forehead.

The next day, Anita and Draco discussed the idea of ​​a wizard's version of the phone.Draco stated that this was not necessary, because the wizarding world had double-sided mirrors, which functioned very similarly to the so-called "cell phones" Anita described.However, Anita finally persuaded Draco to develop a cheap, simple and easy-to-use communication tool on the grounds that the number of double-sided mirrors was scarce, expensive, and the manufacturing process was complicated.

The Potions class, which had been suspended for a week, returned to normal, and Severus still looked a little tired, but it was much better than last night.The little wizards of Hogwarts found that Professor Snape, the big devil, became more and more uncertain after his return, as if he wanted to make up for all the unassigned homework and undeducted points this week in one day. It can be seen in Gryffindor's rapidly decreasing house points.During the Potions class, the little wizards dared not be angry or speak out. After returning to the common room after the Potions class, all the colleges were crying, even Slytherin was no exception.It's true that Severus didn't deduct Slytherin's house points very much, but he didn't show mercy to Slytherin at all when assigning homework and confinement.

So, after learning that Anita was going to meet her father at night, all the students in Slytherin voted like Anita, "Please appease the dean", "Fortunately we have Anita", "Finally saved "... the look in the eyes.Anita stepped into Severus' office with black lines all over her hair under the expectant eyes of everyone.

As soon as Anita entered the office, she saw a thick stack of potions books on Severus's desk, and Severus was flipping through one of them quickly, his brows were tightly frowned, and his expression was dark. Very serious.

"Father is in a bad mood. So, is the cursed Professor Dumbledore right?" Although it was a question, Anita's tone was very certain.

Yesterday, Anita didn't react because she was concerned, but when she went back and thought about it, Anita thought that the one who was cursed was probably Dumbledore who had also disappeared for a week.Dumbledore should have found one of Voldemort's Horcruxes, the ring of Marvolo Gaunt, and was cursed by Voldemort on the ring.

Severus looked up at Anita abruptly, and for a moment, Severus' gaze was sharp, but his gaze soon turned resigned.Severus rubbed his temples, which were swollen and sore from reading the materials for too long, and the presence of Anita made his head hurt even more.Anita is too smart and too perceptive, she knows a lot of things she shouldn't know, and her age is the age where boldness is particularly strong, which makes Anita very likely to be involved in the pile of Severus Adams has been in trouble trying to keep her away.

"No one should know about Dumbledore's curse, you know?" Severus said seriously, "Anyone, including Draco."

Anita nodded, sat down on the sofa, and asked, "So this curse is serious?"

Severus shook his head, but didn't answer.Although he had tried his best to save him, the curse was too overbearing. If no better treatment method could be found, Dumbledore's life span would only be one year.Thinking of this, Severus couldn't help showing a trace of powerlessness and grief in his eyes.

Anita frowned, and Severus' eyes made Anita confirm that Dumbledore's curse might be as serious as in the original book.But Anita doesn't want Dumbledore dead.First of all, Harry is only in the second grade now. Although Anita no longer pins all her hopes of destroying Voldemort on Harry, what if?Dumbledore can't die so early, there are too many variables in this case.Without Dumbledore's threat, God knows how hysterical the Death Eaters would become.Besides, Dumbledore is definitely not someone who just sits and waits to die. Now that he is dying, God knows what terrible mission he will arrange for Severus.

Moreover, Dumbledore will be cursed so much earlier than the original book, which has a lot to do with Anita. Anita cannot accept that someone will die early because of him.Even without considering these interests, Dumbledore is a person whom Anita respects and admires very much. Anita does not want Dumbledore to die like this.

"There are only two ways to unravel the profound curse." Anita said slowly, because of the memory of Hogwarts, Anita has a deep understanding of the curse, maybe it is really because of the blood, Anita It was found that she learned the curse as smoothly as she learned the potion, "One is that the person who cast the curse untie it by himself, and the other is to kill the person who cast the curse."

"I know what you said." Severus said weakly, "But neither of these things can be done in a short period of time."

"Although it cannot be completely lifted, there are many ways to weaken the curse." Anita said.

"What do you know?" Severus keenly sensed the meaning of Anita's words, and looked at Anita deeply.

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