Chapter 114: An Unexpected Reason! A Flustered Snape!

"Enough! Teaching Assistant Dursley! You can doubt me, but please don't target Professor Snape. Professor Snape is innocent!"

Eris, who was lying on the sickbed, suddenly propped herself up forcefully with an anxious look on her face and changed her sitting position.

Her eyes were filled with tears, and her expression was eager and anxious.

Anyone could hear the strong intent of defending Snape in her words.

The quarrel between Dudley and Snape temporarily stopped. Their first reactions at the moment were surprisingly similar; they both looked at Eris in surprise.

However, the difference was that Dudley quickly understood what Eris was up to.

He had seen Eris's hidden memories and knew about the seduction method that Voldemort's main soul had offered to Eris. But he really didn't expect that Eris would think of and use such a devious scheme at this time.

He had already provided Eris with a line of defense: that she went to The Forbidden Forest to catch dark creatures for class, accidentally encountered a group of unicorns, a misunderstanding arose and a conflict ensued. Wouldn't that be good?

He really couldn't understand this woman's way of thinking!

On the other hand, Snape was completely confused by Eris's inexplicable reaction.

At this moment, he didn't know the inside story at all, couldn't understand Eris's motivation for her actions, and had no idea what Eris would say or do next.

He could only frown, keep a straight face, and stare coldly at the posturing Eris.

"Professor Eris, what on earth are you howling about? You're protecting Snape so much. Is he your brother or your father?"

Dudley saw through part of Eris's intention, but it didn't affect his ability to use his mouth at all.

He knew that the more he and Dumbledore showed suspicion towards Eris now, the more Eris would believe that the big secret in her heart hadn't been exposed and would continue to lurk down with peace of mind.

At this time, among the faculty members present, except for Dumbledore, Hagrid, and Filch, the others were disgusted by Dudley's vulgar remarks and instead felt pity for Eris, who looked weak and sick.

Well, there was one exception. Snape didn't have any extra emotions towards Eris, but he was very disgusted with Dudley.

It was only human nature. Those who looked weak and pitiful and seemed to be victims always easily won the sympathy of those who didn't know the truth.

If this seemingly weak and pitiful person was also charming and alluring, it would be even more of a killer move.

Eris knew this truth well and was very good at using it.

At this moment, her expression was extremely complex. There was sadness and depression from hearing Dudley's vulgar remarks, unspeakable shyness like a young girl in love, and hesitation and indecision about whether to spill the beans.

She really whetted everyone's appetite.

"Professor Eris, just spill the beans without any worries. If things are reasonable, everyone will believe you!"

Dumbledore timely cooperated with Eris's performance and gave an assurance.

He was already a bit annoyed in his heart and just wanted to end this farce quickly.

This morning's show was a show that he and Dudley had come up with on the magic carpet to dispel Eris's doubts.

Because this was the most natural and least noticeable way to do it.

Unexpectedly, this show was starting to go off the rails.

"I... I..."

Eris hesitated and then shyly glanced in Snape's direction, which gave Snape goosebumps all over.

Then, timidly, she replied, "Professor Snape and I have no blood relation, but I really hope... really hope to spend the rest of my life with him."

As soon as these words were out, the whole place fell silent.

Everyone was completely bewildered by the news, and Dudley was no exception.

In this atmosphere, Eris continued, "The reason I went to The Forbidden Forest late at night was to pick some precious magical herbs or precious materials naturally left behind by unicorns for Professor Snape as a gift to express my love for him.

Professor Snape teaches potion - making studies. I'm sure he'll like these things.

I just didn't expect to accidentally stumble into the unicorns' territory. And I shouldn't have been greedy and wanted to get some unicorn hair. As a result, the unicorns misunderstood that I wanted to harm them, which led to a herd riot.

Dozens of unicorns launched a deadly attack on me. I was so scared at that time. I used all my defensive magic, but I still couldn't get out of trouble. I really had no choice but to use a Killing spell randomly.

Out of my mind, I made the decision to use the Killing spell, which not only failed to get me out of trouble but also enraged the unicorn herd. They launched a group ray attack on me, and the attack was cursed. I was seriously injured.

Later, I don't know where a stone flew from and hit me on the forehead, making me pass out.

Then, I woke up and came here.

I really didn't want this to happen. I just liked Professor Snape so much that I lost my head and made the wrong decision.

Principal Dumbledore, punish me!"

Eris had finished her well - planned lines.

It ended in everyone's silence.

Everyone was silent for a while longer before a wave of discussions suddenly erupted.

Sounds of "Ugh!" and "Ew!" could be heard continuously.

They completely ignored Snape's gloomy face that looked like it was about to drip blood.

Dudley and Dumbledore also pretended to be shocked, but actually they didn't need to act too hard. Even though they were mentally prepared in advance, they were still shocked by Eris's half - true and half - false lies, which refreshed their worldviews.

Eris saw everyone's expressions and was very proud. So what if they were the top wizards in the wizarding world? Aren't they still being fooled and manipulated at my will?

But as proud as she was inside, the cautious Eris didn't forget to use Occlumency to build false memories in her mind that were completely consistent with her words, in case Dumbledore used Legilimency to probe.

What she didn't know was that Dumbledore had no intention of using Legilimency on her because it was completely unnecessary.

Snape, with a gloomy face, used his most sophisticated magic skills to silently cast his most powerful Legilimency, frantically trying to read Eris's memories and thoughts.

However, the results he read left Snape totally confused.

Was this crazy woman, who spouted nonsense, actually serious?

No, he looked so slovenly. How could any woman take a fancy to him?

And a beautiful woman at that!

What's she after? My old age? My greasy hair?

...

Snape was totally confused. Without saying a word, he ignored the noisy crowd, suddenly turned around, flapped the sides of his special robe that looked like bat wings, and left with a cold face.

This made the professors and the Castle staff who had just got a huge scoop suddenly reduce their voices.

After all, one of the parties involved was gone.

And this missing party seemed to be against this marriage.

But it seemed that in this way... the scoop got even bigger!