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Snape's office.
Yang Tao surveyed the office's furnishings and asked, "How have you been doing lately?"
Snape said expressionlessly, "Alright. What brings you here this time?"
"Nothing much, Harry just wanted to invite me over to celebrate Halloween with him."
Yang Tao walked to the stone wall behind Snape and gently knocked on it with his hand.
"You still haven't killed Peter Pettigrew? You didn't feed him the Liquid Pain I gave you?"
Through the minimap, Yang Tao could see that Peter Pettigrew was being held in a secret chamber behind this stone wall.
Hearing him mention Peter Pettigrew, Snape, who had been expressionless, showed a slight change in his demeanor, a flicker of hatred in his eyes as he said, "He hid for 11 years!"
"How could I let him off so easily!"
Yang Tao: "…"
"Snape, one can be cruel, but you're a bit distorted. Don't tell me you want to imprison him for 11 years?"
Snape did not dwell on the issue of Peter Pettigrew, but instead changed the subject and asked Yang Tao, "Since you're here to celebrate Halloween with Harry, why did you come to see me?"
"There's no need, I don't want to see you."
Yang Tao glanced at Snape and chuckled, saying, "I have two reasons for coming to see you. First, I want to see the Felix Felicis, and second, I want to ask if you know anything about Professor Quirinus Quirrell."
Walking to a chair, Yang Tao unceremoniously sat down, his gaze fixed on Snape as he waited for his reply.
"Professor Quirinus Quirrell, he has now become a Death Eater, pledging allegiance to that man…"
"It's just that my current identity prevents me from eliminating him…"
Snape then walked to a cabinet nearby, took out a silver bottle, walked over to Yang Tao, and handed it to him.
"This is Felix Felicis."
Yang Tao reached out and took the Felix Felicis, and a prompt immediately appeared.
[Felix Felicis]
[Luck +2]
[Duration: 12 hours]
'A luck-boosting status?'
However, as a potion, the so-called "good luck" brought by Felix Felicis actually primarily involves a significant enhancement of your various abilities, such as social skills, magical abilities, reaction time, and so on, which is why it makes people feel that everything goes smoothly.
But the preparation process for Felix Felicis is extremely complex and takes half a year.
'Torikock +2 effect lasting 12 hours is not even as good as a rabbit's foot…'
Yang Tao returned the Felix Felicis to Snape. This item held little value for him, but it was very precious to Snape.
After all, it was a top-tier potion that took half a year to brew.
Yang Tao glanced at Snape, stood up, and said with a smile, "I've also seen Harry's progress, and it's clear your teaching is very effective, but it's still a bit slow."
"Sometimes we might as well be bolder!"
Snape heard Yang Tao say this and wished he could peel off his skin to see if there was a demon stuffed underneath.
Harry's strength was skyrocketing like a rocket, especially his exquisite combat ability; compared to him, children below fifth year were as naive as toddlers.
He wouldn't even mention the two wands, but what wizard brings a Muggle pistol to a duel??
He discovered this by accident when fighting Harry, because he noticed that Harry always habitually reached for his pant leg when casting the Flashlight Charm, and at the same time, an inexplicable sense of danger would envelop his heart.
This led him to discover Harry's 'secret'.
"Growing too fast will have a significant impact on Harry!"
Yang Tao looked at Snape in confusion: "Impact? Don't worry, it won't! At most, it will just make him a bit more mature."
He walked to the office door, waved his hand, and walked out without looking back.
"I have an appointment with Professor McGonagall, so I won't chat with you any longer. Oh, and you'd best kill Peter Pettigrew to avoid any incidents. That guy's mind has long since taken the shape of Voldemort."
…
In McGonagall's office.
Although Yang Tao and McGonagall were both unable to learn each other's abilities, due to their different perspectives, they both felt they gained a lot from their respective Transfiguration studies.
At Professor McGonagall's invitation, Yang Tao enjoyed the house-elf's cooking in the office.
As the saying goes, 'return a favor with a favor,' Yang Tao gave Professor McGonagall a pair of Kitty Slippers: "Professor McGonagall, do you like this gift?"
Professor McGonagall was first startled by the lifelike Kitty Slippers, then breathed a sigh of relief when she realized they were just plush toys: "Such exquisite craftsmanship. If it weren't for the slightly different texture, I'd truly suspect it was made from a Cat… that would be too cruel."
Her Animagus was a tabby Cat, so she was very fond of things related to Cats.
"Thank you for your gift, I like it very much."
Yang Tao picked up the teacup McGonagall had poured for him on the table, took a sip, and said, "Glad you like it. It should be about time. Professor McGonagall, I should go meet Harry now. Also, Happy Halloween."
He glanced at the sun outside the window; time had unknowingly reached the afternoon.
Under normal circumstances, Hogwarts had no classes after three o'clock, though some special classes, like Astronomy, needed to be held at night.
Professor McGonagall stood up, a smile on her face, and placed the Kitty Slippers she was holding aside, saying, "Yang Tao, I wish you a happy Halloween!"
Yang Tao turned and left Professor McGonagall's office. To be honest, chatting with Professor McGonagall made him very relaxed, especially McGonagall's rich life experience, which made her words never sound awkward or uncomfortable.
Following the hallway to the staircase, the huge and magnificent staircase was adorned with various portraits, and Yang Tao curiously observed the moving paintings.
At the same time, these portraits were also observing him.
"Does our Hogwarts have such a tall student?"
"Hey, of course not, and he doesn't look like a student at all, he's not even wearing a uniform."
"Then could he be an intruder?"
"Intruder? Are you drunk again? How could an intruder appear inside Hogwarts…"
A group of portraits chattered away, and some even volunteered to inform Headmaster Dumbledore.
Although he didn't know how these portraits managed to move around inside the paintings, Yang Tao found it very magical, as if… as if the painting was a brand new world.
If you deliberately got close to a portrait wearing a skirt, she would even call you a pervert and quickly run away.
In reality, she was just a painting; no matter how close you got, you wouldn't see anything unless she herself lifted her fluffy skirt.
"If there were enough portraits, it could basically become a second world…"
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