The sneer that came over Snape was too evil and Magnus began to back away .
"Just where do you think you are going? I am not done with you."
"I don't know what you are talking about professor" Magnus said.
"I will be the judge of that, How often has the man asked you to risk your life, to try and tame his Pokemon?"
"I don't know what you are talking about" Magnus recited, it was beginning to sound like a mantra.
Snape however wasn't hiding anymore about the fact that he was probing his mind.
The more he refreshed his thoughts, the more Magnus pictured those incidents, almost involuntarily. And the more Snape got the picture.
Suddenly Magnus stopped.
Fighting was useless, unless he was escaping from this office. This was not the way to resist.
' Tom and Jerry... Think of Tom and Jerry'... He didn't know where such an idea came from but he wasn't sorry.
Immediately, the famous cartoon characters that he had seen in his normal world popped into his mind.
Magnus forced his face to stay calm. But the incidents that were playing in his head made it very difficult.
He watched as Jerry replaced Tom's usual milk with white paint instead. Tom licked it greatly, only a short while later for his mouth to be glued shut.
A snicker snuck past his tightly clenched teeth as he watched Tom try to pull his jaws open.
That scene faded.
Again, he watched as Tom tricked Jerry to pass under a falling iron, only for a short while later to be flattened. That scene passed.
Again, he watched as sPike the dog used poor Tom as a baseball bat to try and hit Jerry. He watched poor Tom yell helplessly with every swing. And when that passed, Tom was floating, swollen like a balloon, with Jerry having tied his tail like a kite.
He literally had an inexhaustible scene of Tom and Jerry in his memory thanks to the times he spent on the children homes. The problem was would they work?
A short while later, he had his answer.
Snape's face had darkened and a hint of uncertainty had fell on his eyes.
"how many times have you broken curfew to visit Hagrid and help him with his illegal Pokemon?" Snape hissed
Now Jerry was painting himself with invisible paint and a short while poor Tom, was fleeing around, thinking the house was haunted.
Snape's face paled even further.
" What manner of Pokemon is it? You have no doubt seen it.is the creature the reason why he had to visit the nurse several times in a couple of weeks, he was no doubt maimed in his folly"
Now Jerry was convincing Tom to swallow firecrackers. a short while later the poor cat froze petrified as the explosion rocked from his belly.
Snape finally gave up talking.
His eyes were locked on Magnus and Magnus suddenly realized he didn't seem able to look away.
But he would not think of anything else. He stood there only thinking about the scenes of Tom and Jerry. And when those were done, he almost subconsciously jumped immediately to Scooby-Doo.
he could however feel the tugging in his mental thoughts intensify. It was as if Snape's invisible hand had penetrated his mind and was forcefully pushing away his stupid childish thoughts aside and trying to nitpick what he wanted to see.
Magnus felt his will crumbling but Snape would not yield until eventually the boy, fell into his knees.
He saw it before he felt it. A crimson drop hit the floor before Magnus felt a warm stream falling from his nostril.
He was bleeding.
He immediately felt the forceful tug in his mind break as the Potion Master realise he had gone too far.
"Are you all right?" the man quickly reached out trying to steady him.
Magnus Zorua quickly jumped in front of him, snarling threatening.
Snape retreated and retrieved one of his vials from a different section.
" Take this"
But Magnus crawled back in sudden fear
"I don't know anything, Professor.i swear it"
He said, suddenly scared for his life, in earnest.
There was no way he was taking anything Snape was offering.
" Don't be stupid. I don't mean you any harm, boy. This will stop the bleeding "
But Magnus wouldn't.
The man might be right. he could be genuinely helping out of the fear that he had hurt him... Or the vial could be veritaserum, the truth potion.
He wasn't taking that chance.
blood was still seeping from his nostril.
Snape panicked and moved forward as if ready to force the potion down his mouth.
Magnus would have screamed... Not out of fear for Snape but the thing that was crawling around him
it took a lot of will and a particularly mischievous thought to stay calm. Because right then, right in front of his eyes, the Zorua had suddenly disappeared. And in front of him was a massive, slithering serpent, just like he had seen on corridor outside.
It looked so much like Nagini, the Dark Lord Snake that he had seen many times from the movies.
The serpent's head was now next to his...but for all its size, there was no weight to match.
Snape first reaction was admirable, he made a move towards Magnus as if to disentangle the serpent from the student
Then it It striked.
The potion master tripped on himself as he recoiled back, letting out a sudden, terrified scream that Magnus had never heard in his life. the next second, there was nothing....Only the innocent Zorua perched on magnus's shoulders
"Are you okay, professor?" Magnus asked momentarily forgetting his bleeding nose.
Snape rubbed his eyes quickly before staring back at the Pokemon.
" How did... How did?" he began then faltered, possibly not knowing how to phrase it and not sound mad.
"Is everything all right?" Magnus inquired again playing dumb... Of course he knew exactly what had happened.
It's just that if he did not play this way, then the Zorua's trick would have been to no avail.
" Get out! "
" Can I call for he.... "
"Get out!" Snape hissed "Leave my office, now!"
Magnus did not need any more prompting.
He wiped his robe across his nose, and with still blood leaking, he reached for the handle and disappeared.
It was the second time the Zorua had messed with Snape. At his rate, the two of them would have the man go mad before the school year was done.
"take that you git..."