It turned out Hermione had underestimated Vaughn's shamelessness—and Professor Snape's "broad-mindedness."
That night, after the experiment ended, she accompanied Vaughn to the Potions office in the dungeons and watched him push open the door and walk in.
Ten minutes later, Vaughn came out and made an OK gesture at her. "It's settled. The professor doesn't have any in stock either, but he knows who does. He'll help me buy some in a few days.
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Seeing the girl's stunned, baffled expression, Vaughn chuckled.
Thanks to his memories of the "plot" from his previous life, few people understood Snape as well as he did.
Take Hermione. Though Snape was already complicated enough in her eyes, her most deeply rooted impression of him remained that he was cold, caustic, and difficult to talk to.
Even Dumbledore, despite always being close to Snape, had never truly trusted the double agent he had personally "cultivated."
Only Vaughn knew that the professor, always as cold as ice and as indifferent as a ghost, was actually a very "weak" person.
That hard, cold exterior he showed was merely a disguise. The real Severus Snape was a "pitiful wretch" who had suffered an unhappy childhood, a miserable youth, and a life in which almost nothing had ever gone smoothly.
The personality forged by those experiences naturally had nothing to do with words like resolve and steadfastness. Unlike the persona he put on, the real Snape had never been decisive. At heart, he was indecisive and easily swayed.
More than ten years ago, Dumbledore had used his twisted love to turn him.
Now, Vaughn could naturally use it too. For someone burdened by an obsession, making him abandon his ideals, principles, even his position, and reverse himself in an instant was not all that difficult.
All he had