Chapter 409: Queen Project

Adhering to the principle of doing what he said, Harry went to find Snape during lunch break the next day. He was indeed in the office, circling and marking on the calendar. Harry noticed that December 20th was circled in red, and he suspected that this might be the date of this year's Christmas dance.

"What's the matter, Potter?" Snape didn't look back. Judging from his tone, he seemed to be in a good mood.

"I'm here for Neville's matter, Professor," Harry said. "The relic left by Deng Buliduo shows that there is something he needs to do in the Department of Mysteries. I want to ask if you are willing—"

"I told him, no, of course just not recently," Snape explained patiently. "The Department of Mysteries is conducting a very important project, and it's almost at the final stage recently."

"Okay, what project is it?" Harry didn't think much, and opened his mouth following his curiosity.

"Since you asked," Snape revealed an elusive smile. "I'll tell you... sit down, Potter, sit down."

Harry sat on the soft chair with half-belief.

"This plan was proposed by the vampire leader, Greglio Hillber. He named it the Queen Project, letting a blood clan drink the blood of all magical animals, hoping that this can help her cultivate powerful physical fitness, reaction ability, and spell resistance, and finally reach the level of rivaling Kamen Riders. The theoretical basis of the entire plan is that after vampires suck blood containing magic power, these magic powers will not dissipate, but are stored in their nether blood. As the concentration of magic power in nether blood increases, their resistance to other magic will also increase. And the characteristics contained in the blood of various magical animals themselves can play a strengthening role."

"And the reason for choosing women is because women's emotional explosive power is stronger. Magic power shows strong inertia in nether blood. Without enough emotions, it is difficult to mobilize. Usually, Blood Magic practitioners are mostly women, which is also based on this reason."

"Sounds quite feasible," Harry followed this line of thinking and nodded.

"But a very bad situation appeared. After the volunteer sucked the blood of magical animals, although she passively acquired magic resistance due to the increase in magic concentration, she was never able to mobilize the magic power in nether blood to strengthen herself. Regarding this point, technicians analyzed that it was a problem with nether blood itself, so they prepared to let the subject acquire some wizard blood, hoping that they could draw from it the characteristics of wizards who can mobilize magic power freely."

"Initial success has been achieved in oral trials, but after reaching a certain dosage, the strengthening reached a ceiling. Greglio believes that intravenous injection should be carried out, which will be more risky, but it is also the most promising way to make the Queen acquire the power to rival Kamen Riders. This is what the Department of Mysteries is preparing to do, injecting wizard blood into a vampire girl, gradually increasing the dosage within a few days."

"However, the activation degree of magic power has a problem of quantitative change leading to qualitative change, and it is a sudden qualitative change. According to Donna's estimation, even if the subject's initial reaction is still good, the risk of losing control will be greater as the experiment progresses. She may turn into an Obscurial at any time due to magic riots."

After listening to the background information narrated by Snape, Harry also roughly understood what was going on when Greglio ran to test his words on Halloween. No matter how you look at it, conducting risky human experiments is wrong, and it's no wonder he wanted to trick Harry into supporting it.

"I think you should indeed oppose this matter. Conducting human experiments without any certainty is ignoring life—"

"You got it wrong, Potter," Snape said calmly. "I don't oppose this matter."

"First of all, the one accepting the experiment is a vampire girl. Strictly speaking, vampires do not have complete human rights as wizards; secondly, Greglio did not find an innocent victim. He bet his only daughter on this plan; finally, Kruse Hillber herself is a voluntary subject, and she also hopes that the plan can succeed, so as to help the vampire clan gain a more equal status in the wizarding world."

"I am very sorry, and very reluctant, but I think there are not many reasons to stop them," Snape stared straight at Harry. "Do you want to be this reason?"

Harry hesitated, silent. He remembered what Mia had told him, that the vampire clan had always been in a difficult situation. Any clan that wants to win status and respect must master some kind of powerful strength—the Queen Project should also be an attempt they made for this race to truly stand in the wizarding world, not hesitating to take some risks.

"If the experiment fails—" Harry asked softly.

"Basically not. I will bring people to guard the Department of Mysteries on the day of the experiment. Even if it fails, I won't let her threaten others."

"Why do you say 'let her threaten others'?"

"Failing to stimulate magic power also counts as a successful experiment," Snape's tone was very calm. "Failure means magic power loses control. You should know how great the harm of an Obscurial is. Therefore, once it loses control, the only way to deal with it is to kill Kruse on the spot."

"This is too cruel for her!" Harry couldn't help but frown.

"She herself knows, and agrees, and even the willingness is very strong," Snape shook his head lightly. "The Hillber family is really hard to see through. Knowing that the success rate of the trial is not high, they still chose to let Kruse be the first test subject of the Queen Project. Perhaps Greglio is harboring a gambler's mentality, wanting to let his daughter become the first Queen in one fell swoop; or perhaps Kruse intends to lead by example, even if she fails, she wants to use her corpse to pave the way for future generations? It has reached this point, and I indeed have no reason to oppose it."

"Wait," Harry suddenly had inspiration. "Does our trial have to be done? If it's just that the magic power in nether blood cannot be mobilized, then isn't it enough to let Kruse practice Blood Magic?"

"That would just be spending a lot of cost, and finally only increasing Kruse's Blood Magic casting times. This is meaningless. We don't need an ordinary mage with infinite casting times, but a true, high-end combat power that can rival Kamen Riders. We didn't expect the Ravenclaw students who were poured with the ritual to fight Voldemort before, right?"

"However, Professor," Harry said in a heavy tone. "You told me these things, and in your heart you also hope that I can find reasons to oppose it, right?"

"No, I'm just explaining to you why I can't let Mr. Longbottom enter the Department of Mysteries recently, and at the same time reminding you that I might not be at school for a long time next," Snape said without a trace of emotion.

Snape chose to let it be, and another reason was that they really had no good way to deal with the Knight System that was gradually becoming popular at this moment. If Luo Tang Nade had already become the strongest, Harry could really say "stop the plan, we have Kamen Rider Saber, that's enough." But at this moment, he knew he didn't have the qualification to say this, and didn't have the qualification to stop their adventurous behavior.

"Since she is indeed voluntary," he found a self-comforting excuse powerlessly, "perhaps sometimes you really have to respect other people's choices. After all, there are not a few wizards who died because of magic experiments in history."

"It seems you have also made a decision, then we won't discuss this topic anymore," Snape pointed to the calendar. "The date of the trial is about between the 10th and 18th, not yet determined. In short, I won't be at school during that period."

"And another thing I want to tell you is that the Magical Congress wants to further carry out the exchange student program, including boarding exchanges."

"Ha?" Harry felt the topic suddenly became much easier.

"Last year's Kaslana set this precedent, and the students of Ilvermorny were envious. They were thinking about it day and night, eagerly looking forward to coming to our Great Britain to learn," Snape's expression carried a trace of pride. "And with Tang Tang Nade pushing it, this year's plan is initially prepared to receive 15 to 30 exchange students. They will arrive before Christmas, then go to boarding families to spend the Christmas holiday, and then fully participate in our teaching activities for the second half of the semester."

"Our holiday plan is to start the holiday after the dance on the 20th, return to school on January 19th, and officially start school on the 20th. So exchange students are expected to arrive between the 15th and 18th. At that time, only McGonagall can be asked to receive them, because the Department of Mysteries matter is obviously more important," Snape said in a relaxed tone. "By the way, Tang Tang Nade is very enthusiastic about wanting to participate. With his current status and position, he will mostly serve as the person in charge of this event. From a private friendship perspective, if there are no accidents, there will be a student boarding at your house. Luo Tang Nade is the same, you can prepare in advance."

"Okay," Harry shrugged. It was not fresh news that Tang Tang Nade had some strange ideas, but he was slightly curious about whether the list would include Elena, and whether he would send new hands to seduce Luo Tang Nade. If Tang Tang Nade took action to help Luo Tang Nade solve emotional problems, even if it was by cheating or acting, it could at least stabilize Luo Tang Nade's mentality. Even if his original intention was bad, it was absolutely a good thing for the development of Knight power.

Even on the way back, Harry roughly conceived how to secretly block Tang Tang Nade's crooked thoughts about Hermione. Last year they relied on "Hermione likes Harry" to operate once. This year, with the mess of the Half-Blood Prince in front, playing this trick again might not be bad.

In the following period of time, Harry always chose to let it be regarding Luo Tang Nade's behavior of finding excuses to find Hermione from time to time, and even encouraged it a little. Although the relationship between the two didn't make much progress, this positive attitude was enough to force Tang Tang Nade to give more chips. ===== CHAPTER 410 =====