Hogwarts: I Obtained the Paternal System

"You believed hearsay? He's always been extremely wary of me.

I once used Veritaserum on him, and I used Legilimency on him too. How could he possibly respect me?

What he respected was merely my position as a professor at Hogwarts. Didn't you know that he fought me last year?

For the Dark Lord's mission to provoke him, Darren Potter nearly killed me in my office.

Fortunately, I had anticipated it and took Felix Felicis. Otherwise, you'd be looking at my corpse right now!"

"So you didn't go there early when the Dark Lord summoned the Death Eaters."

"I think I've told the Dark Lord many times that the Dark Mark had been burning for ages. I only stayed behind to gain Dumbledore's trust. Otherwise, I would have run off long ago.

I arrived just over two hours late, and Dumbledore would assume I had gone to find the Dark Lord under his orders.

Then the Dark Lord could use my identity to learn more of Dumbledore's secrets."

"That still isn't right. If you were loyal, why didn't you take part in this dangerous operation? I risked my life in silence..."

"Risked your life? Sorry, I believed only Darren Potter was in danger, but the Dark Lord had already restricted his power.

As long as you followed orders, you could have obtained the crystal ball. Yet you couldn't even handle such a trivial matter!"

Snape said disdainfully.

"A trivial matter? Darren Potter's power was restricted, but he was still incredibly strong... He knocked Lucius unconscious in a single exchange... Later on, which one of us didn't get beaten by him?"

"I'm terribly sorry, but there was nothing I could do. I stayed in the rear as the Dark Lord required.

I delayed passing the news to the Order of the