Chapter 265: Snape's Rampage

Snape was hung upside down in midair, his body finding no purchase, and for a moment he could not break free.

He hung inverted in the air, his body swaying unsteadily...

This scene felt so familiar! When was the last time he had been hung upside down? Snape wondered silently, and his long-buried memories suddenly burst open...

He recalled the scene from his fifth year...

Through the gaps in his robes, his eyes surveyed the surroundings; hanging upside down caused blood to rush to his head, blurring his vision, and the scene before him gradually merged with that moment from his fifth year...

Those two were Sirius Black and Remus Lupin, though they had aged considerably now...

That tall, thin boy was James Potter...

The red-haired boy beside him must be Peter Pettigrew, although that boy was much taller than Peter Pettigrew...

But it seemed one person was missing...

Snape's mind operated very slowly...

At this moment, seeing that the Transfiguration Beast had secured Snape, Harry and Ron quickly cast "Finite Incantatem" to lift the Stunning Spell from Hermione.

Upon waking, Hermione saw Snape hanging upside down in midair and immediately cried out, "What are you doing... Hurry and put him down!"

Harry and Ron exchanged a helpless glance; that Transfiguration Beast was under Hermione's control, after all...

And Hermione's voice made the scene before Snape's eyes overlap completely with his fifth year...

Yes! There was also her—Lily Evans...

She had said exactly that back then...

He wanted to turn and look again at those emerald-green eyes, but he could not turn at all, and from his angle, he could not see the direction from which the voice came.

Snape ceased struggling; he suddenly felt something moist gathering in his eyes, something trying to breach his defenses, and instinctively he tried to stop them from flowing, but it was too late; two tears welled from the corners of his eyes and streamed into his hair...

How long had it been since he last shed tears? Snape wondered silently...

It seemed to be twelve years ago...

When those emerald-green eyes closed tightly and could never open again...

Snape was immersed in grief, but the swaying of his body in the air brought him back to clarity...

How would things develop next?

Would James Potter say arrogantly and contemptuously, "Who wants to see me take off Snivellus's underwear?"

Snape still remembered the powerlessness, resentment, and rage he had felt then...

The scene from his fifth year had tormented him ever since; it was the most painful memory in his heart, the moment he lost Lily forever, watching helplessly as she walked away with Potter...

Snape's heart suddenly filled with rage; his entire being burned with fury; usually calm and restrained, he could no longer control this surge of anger...

During that fifth-year incident, he had been powerless to resist, humiliated over and over, but now he would not allow this scene to repeat itself!

In an instant, he made his decision; he reached for his waist, smoothly finding a cold bottle; he held it in his hand, pulled the cork, and poured the beige liquid inside straight into his mouth...

At this moment, only a short time had passed since Snape was hung upside down; Black and Lupin were still bound by Snape's magic, while Harry and the other two were preparing to discuss how to deal with Snape, after all, Snape was a school professor.

They noticed Snape drinking the potion, but no one reacted immediately...

The first to sense the danger was Hermione's Transfiguration Beast; it immediately released a bolt of lightning at Professor Snape; the lightning struck Snape squarely, yet the struck Snape showed no reaction at all...

He clutched his head in pain, and a layer of white arcs began to appear on his body...

The arcs on Professor Snape's body traveled down the vine whips on his ankles and struck the Transfiguration Beast directly,

causing the Transfiguration Beast to let out a cry and retract its vine whips.

Snape did not fall from the sky; he hovered in midair, arcs of electricity constantly flowing over his body; his hair stood straight up due to the arcs, yet these arcs caused him no harm...

Everyone present stared blankly at Snape in this state, unsure what to do, since no one knew whether Professor Snape's transformation was for better or worse...

And then, Snape, enveloped in electric light, underwent new changes:

The ears he was covering with his hands changed; they suddenly grew very long, resembling a rabbit's ears, but with pointed tips; most of the ears were beige, with only the tips being brown...

Two bright red marks suddenly appeared on both sides of his cheeks, each mark a circle the size of an orange, looking somewhat incongruous...

A yellow tail shaped like a lightning bolt suddenly emerged from behind his buttocks, standing stiffly exposed in the air...

Yet Professor Snape, undergoing this series of transformations, kept his eyes tightly shut...

Everyone present was stunned by this scene; even though Professor Lupin was knowledgeable and Black came from a learned family, faced with such a bizarre event, neither could recall any corresponding record in the history of magic.

"Professor... has he... transformed?" Ron said with difficulty, "Like Allen?"

"But why would Allen's power appear on Professor Snape," Hermione said, her face filled with shock.

Hermione's Transfiguration Beast watched Snape with extreme alertness, flapping its wings uneasily...

In fact, Harry and the other two were very familiar with the three parts that had suddenly grown on Snape, because after Allen became an Animagus, his daily random transformations had once produced these very parts.

Especially the bright red circular marks on both sides of the cheeks; Hermione's Transfiguration Beast still bore identical marks on its cheeks now.

For a moment, they did not know whether this was good or bad, but they did not need to ponder the question any longer,

for at this moment, Professor Snape's transformation completed; the arcs on his body vanished instantly; he suddenly opened his eyes, his eyeballs turning blood-red, containing endless rage and madness...

An extremely dangerous aura emanated from his body...

He suddenly fixed his gaze on Black, Lupin, and Harry, a look that seemed ready to devour them alive...

Being stared at, Harry felt numb all over; goosebumps rose on his skin, cold sweat broke out on his back, and Harry felt as though he were being targeted by a dangerous wild beast...

He gripped his wand tightly, pointing it straight at the transformed Snape, but this action brought him not a shred of security...

Behind him, Black and Lupin struggled desperately to break free from the magical ribbons.

And at this moment, the two bright red circular marks on both sides of Professor Snape's cheeks began to emit tiny arcs of electricity; the next instant, his entire body was enveloped in brilliant electric light...