Chapter 154 The Clown

"Snape...Snape!"

Hermione looked at Snape who suddenly appeared in front of her, and her head was buzzing.

Her guess turned out to be true! Snape had been following them all along!

And the familiar invisibility cloak in Snape's hand made Hermione even more sad.

It seemed that Ron was in danger...

So Hermione broke away from Snape's hand, gritted her teeth and took out her wand, intending to fight him to the death.

Snape narrowed his eyes, raised a cold arc at the corner of his mouth, and shook his wrist lightly, and the wand popped out of his sleeve and jumped into his palm.

"Don't always scare my students!"

Professor McGonagall lifted the Disillusionment Spell on her body and walked over with Fish.

She glared at Snape with dissatisfaction, and then slapped his hand holding the wand down with a slap.

"Professor McGonagall? Fish?"

Hermione blinked her eyes and began to be confused like Ron before.

Things changed too fast, even Miss Know-It-All couldn't figure out what was going on for a while.

"Humph," Snape snorted coldly and put away his wand, "Gryffindor will be deducted 10 points for lighting the professor's robes."

Professor McGonagall glanced at him indifferently. Anyway, since the first day of school, their house scores have been at the bottom due to Firth's efforts, so it doesn't matter how Snape deducted them.

Like other Gryffindor students, Professor McGonagall, the headmaster, also chose to lie down under the huge score difference.

"Don't worry, Professor Snape is not a bad person," Professor McGonagall gently patted Hermione's shoulder and comforted her: "I have reminded Potter not to be blinded by prejudice, but it seems that he didn't listen... However, you did a good job, especially you, Hermione, you used the levitation spell well and your logical reasoning ability is also great."

"The only thing I want to correct you is," Dumbledore also lifted the Disillusionment Spell and appeared in front of Hermione with Ron, "To become a great wizard, their logical reasoning ability is generally quite good. For example, I personally like puzzle games."

Dumbledore said to Hermione with a smile, which immediately made her at a loss.

"Sorry, Professor Dumbledore, I'm not... I didn't..."

Hermione, who was in a panic, didn't know how to explain it for a while.

Fortunately, Dumbledore quickly waved his hand at her, "Okay, okay, I don't mean to blame you, I'm just reminding you not to underestimate any wizard. In addition, for powerful wizards, this level of magical fire can be easily passed without potions."

"I, I understand, Professor Dumbledore."

Hermione nodded quickly.

Then Dumbledore waved his wand and conjured a round table with teapots and cups. There were five gorgeous chairs with blue cushions next to the round table. He waved to Hermione and Ron.

"I guess you all have a lot of doubts in your hearts? Come on, if you have any questions, let's sit down and have a good chat."

So the three of them, plus Professor McGonagall and Fish, sat down in a circle in front of the round table.

"Professor, Snape...teach him?"

Ron turned his head and looked at Snape, who had not sat down, and even had no seat, and asked in confusion.

"Oh... Since you all believe that Severus wants to snatch the Philosopher's Stone, wouldn't Harry be disappointed if he doesn't play in the end?"

Dumbledore winked at Ron and showed a very familiar smile - whenever his two twin brothers succeeded in their pranks, they would show similar expressions.

"Hehe..."

Snape sneered and put the invisibility cloak back on himself, and then Ron and Hermione saw the black flame swaying, and vaguely saw a shadow flashing by.

Silently praying for Harry's good luck in their hearts, Ron and Hermione looked at Dumbledore and asked the biggest doubt in their hearts.

"What is going on, Professor?"

"It all started when Nicolas Flamel gave me the Philosopher's Stone..."

Dumbledore poured everyone a cup of tea, and then told everyone what happened.

Just as Hermione and Ron were listening to the truth of the matter intently, Harry was anxiously searching in the last room.

But no matter how he searched, there was only the Mirror of Erised that he had seen a long time ago in the last room, and nothing else in the room.

However, Harry carefully searched the entire mirror from front to back, up and down, and could not find any place in the mirror where a stone could be hidden.

Thinking that Snape might come at any time, Harry was so anxious that he didn't even have time to watch his family appearing in the mirror.

"Don't panic, don't panic, calm down, Harry..."

Harry forced himself to calm down and analyzed it in the way Hermione did.

"Obviously, this mirror is the magic prepared by Dumbledore, and he did say that the mirror should be placed somewhere else... So, the Philosopher's Stone must be hidden in this mirror!"

He turned back to the Mirror of Erised and stared at the picture in the mirror.

The way wizards preserve things is definitely not that simple, and it is definitely meaningless to continue to look blindly in the mirror, so Harry tried to see if the mirror itself could give him a hint.

Then he saw himself in the mirror with the same anxious face, and this time there was no one around him.

After a while, Harry in the mirror suddenly smiled. He reached into his pocket, took out a bright red stone, winked at Harry outside the mirror mischievously, and put the stone back...

Harry only felt his pocket sink, and something heavy really fell into his pocket.

"It's incredible..."

He reached into his pocket and took out a bright red stone, just like what he did in the mirror before.

Just when Harry was amazed at how easy it was to get the Philosopher's Stone, several ropes suddenly appeared out of thin air and tied him up tightly, and the Philosopher's Stone in his hand fell to the ground and rolled to the side.

Harry, who was lying on the ground and unable to move, looked at Snape with horror as he lifted the invisibility cloak on his body, then slowly walked to the side of the Philosopher's Stone, bent down and picked it up.

"Thank you for your hard work, Potter."

Snape gently tossed the Philosopher's Stone in his hand, his mouth slightly raised, and looked at Harry who was lying on the ground with a sneer, praising him rarely: "You did a good job, saving me a lot of effort."

But Harry was not happy at all. Snape's praise at this moment was more hurtful than all his previous ridicule.

Harry regretted it. He didn't expect Hermione's previous analysis to be true. Snape just wanted them to get the Philosopher's Stone for him!

But why?

As Hermione said, Snape didn't need to do anything unnecessary.

Then Snape quickly gave the answer.

"I have to say that Dumbledore's magic is indeed wonderful. Only those who want the Philosopher's Stone but don't intend to use it can take it out of the Mirror of Erised. This makes me have to deliberately lure you here..."

Snape looked at Harry with a smug look on his face and told him his plan in detail.

"Thanks to your arrogance, otherwise I would have to work harder to get the Philosopher's Stone."

After saying that, he ignored Harry, who was lying on the ground and glaring at him, and turned to look at the other side, in the direction of the Mirror of Erised.

Snape slowly came to the front of the Mirror of Erised and looked into the mirror silently.

Lying on the ground, Harry could only see Snape's back and the mirror that was tightly blocked by him. From the angle he couldn't see, Snape's face, staring at the mirror, showed a complex expression of nostalgia, pain, tenderness, regret, love and hate.

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The title in the original book is Two-Face, but "Two-Face" has died, so I have to use "Joker" from DC as the title...┑(￣Д￣)┍

In addition, the Joker here refers to the trio who were fooled by Dumbledore and Snape, and also refers to Snape who had to cooperate with Dumbledore against his will in order to teach Harry a lesson.

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