Hogwarts: What bad intentions could a little Hufflepuff have?

"I don't like killing people, but if it's burning a few animals with fire, I'm more than happy to do it. And... with me around, collecting Soul Ash will be much easier."

Only after reading those Dark Arts books would one understand just how inhuman those pure Dark Wizards were.

So Black did not care in the slightest about taking them out and then using their lives to test his own magic.

At that moment, Snape only felt a chill run through his entire body.

Because Black had actually dropped his disguise completely right in front of him!

That meant...

He now knew this guy's secret!

Didn't that mean he had already been forced onto the pirate ship?

"All right, Severus, we've finished discussing matters. Do you plan to stay on the island with me for a few days?"

"Or will you go with Agatha to make some preparations?"

In the end, Snape did not stay on the island.

Because right now, he only wanted to get as far away from Black as possible.

Only now did he realize that, without knowing it, he had already boarded Black's pirate ship...

When he returned to his home at Spinner's End, Snape was still full of regret.

He should have known long ago. How could someone with the blood of both the Dark Lord and the White Lord flowing through his body possibly be a good person?

Why had he gotten so close to him?!

No... it seemed none of this had been because he had actively wanted to get close...

Or rather, the conditions Black had offered had tempted him into approaching him of his own accord...

Not just in the past—even now, when he knew he had boarded the pirate ship, he still could not refuse the terms Black