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The little dragon, as the Prince had said earlier, grew by leaps and bounds, and in just three and a half months he had almost grown to the size of the Qilins, which could already be compared to the smallest blood wolf, whose size was slightly over half a meter.

And, oddly enough, everyone accepted the new "pet" very warmly, and he became especially friendly with the Qilins, whose blood also contained a dragon pedigree. But he did not have the best relationship with the Phoenix.

This bird, as always, was in its repertoire, still "pouring" contempt on everyone it saw, and the baby was no exception, and while the others simply ignored the phoenix, the proud dragon nature simply did not let it pass by, and therefore at that very moment it released a fiery breath at the bird.

But, to the surprise of the little dragon, it had no effect, the Phoenix simply brushed it off, which greatly surprised the dragon, inside of which the fire of rivalry immediately ignited and therefore almost every day he attacked the poor bird.

And then, tired of this, because the baby simply did not give him peace, attacking at the most unexpected moments, including at night, with the exception of meals.

The bird began to hide, but to its misfortune, dragons had a simply terrifying sense of smell and it easily found it, and the bird already began to regret that he had provoked this restless one at all.

But to give in, and especially to some upstart, it did not suit him as a real Phoenix, and therefore to this day the bird endured all attacks, but was embarrassed to respond.

A similar fate, also did not escape Lucky, who became his rival "№1", seeing with what "respect" the other magical creatures treated him, but if the first time due to the effect of surprise he managed to catch the kitten, then the second time the kitten easily avoided the attack and awarded the baby dragon with scratches from claws all over his face, and even his scales did not save him.

And when a similar outcome was repeated three more times, the dragon decided to stop it for a while and joined the King of Chimeras, who, by order of Severus, trained all the cubs.

But at the same time, he still challenged Lucky to a fight once a month, but always lost to him in a few seconds, and then walked around with a scratched face for another week. The Prince did not think much about the name of the new "pet" and simply decided to call him "Drake", he chose it for the reason that this name had two meanings: "dragon" and "snake", which suited him perfectly with his physique.

The Qilins also began to learn White Magic from Li Er, but under the strict supervision of Nagini, who doted on them and made sure that the old ghost did not dare to teach them anything bad.

And the snake itself began to train with double diligence in the company of the three kings of the Inner part of the "Magical Jungle", when it heard from the Slytherin about the successes of one dark witch(Bellatrix).

During these months, nothing special happened in Snape's life, except for a few less important things: Firstly, Severus was finally able to establish a teleportation array between his home and the outer part of the "Magical Jungle", having found a small loophole in the barrier and now the blood wolves could go hunting in the forest once a week, which of course made them very happy, but the King of the Treants and the other animals living in the forest experienced completely opposite feelings.

But this problem with the Treants was not difficult to solve, simply by promising, that the wolves would not come closer than five kilometers to their territory, and would not use flame, and Severus himself had already warned them about this.

After all, who would want to shoot themselves in the foot? Training with Bellatrix was also going quite briskly. She was even able to surprise him a little with her diligence and hard work.

Now he was sure that by the end of this year Britain would have another "Master" and a very strong one. Although the Witch had previously been skeptical about their classes, but after a month she tried out the spells that she often liked to use, to her amazement, she was able to use most of them without a wand, although some still required pronunciation. But this was already a huge step forward, and the Slytherin earned one very passionate kiss from the happy Black as a thank you.

But besides that, in three months, Bella was able to complete the first few stages of training and now, even on the go, she could manipulate raw magic at a good level, although it was not difficult to get the girl mad, which is why control simply crumbled and at the moment they were solving this problem. And by the beginning of May, the Witch could already use almost all of her spells without a wand, although not the most difficult ones, like the "Bombarda", which she tried not to use without the wand: firstly, because of the danger of blowing up her hand; and secondly, it turned out weaker than with a wand.

After all, thanks to the wand, it was much easier for the girl to concentrate on magic, and over sixteen years she had simply gotten used to it.

Snape also began to teach her dark spells, but so far only the simplest ones, such as: "Dark Ball", "Dark Barrier", "Thorns from Darkness" and "Dark Stream", which were mainly aimed at the same improvement of control, but aimed specifically at dark magic, thanks to which he earned another passionate kiss.

In addition to teleportation and training, Severus took up other things. Two months ago, he released several new potions, in addition to the "sobering", which almost completely displaced the previous one from the market, and on the shelves of his store appeared some new potions, named "clearing the mind", "eloquence potion" and "improving all five senses", which, although not as popular as the "sobering" potion, were still able to increase sales in the store quite well.

And recently, wizards from other organizations and even countries began to visit him very often, inviting him to their place.

He was even offered a cushy job in the International Confederation of Wizards*, but the Prince was not very interested in this, and he had no time for them and their underhanded games. By the end of April, he had finished with the potion for "dragon pox" and had already handed over all his research and results to the "Ministry of Magic" for: verification, obtaining a patent, and also permission to test.

But in addition to them, he sent the same thing to St. Mungo's, and thanks to Madam Pomfrey and Slughorn, who signed the letter, he was expecting a reply to come his way soon, so the Prince calmly waited, continuing to work on the ritual, which he had almost finished.

In the magical world of Britain itself, it was quite calm, no skirmishes or battles had occurred in these months. At the moment, the Ministry of Magic was busy recovering from that battle, actively recruiting new recruits into the ranks of the "Aurors" and even slightly lowered the requirements for Hogwarts graduates who would want to join them, because they had lost too many in that battle.

The same thing was happening in the ranks of the "Death Eaters", which was mainly done by the Malfoys and Corban Yaxley. The Dark Lord himself left the country and headed to Romania almost the same day that Severus returned.

He learned about this after reading Lucius's memories, but what he was looking for there, Severus didn't know, and at the moment he wasn't particularly interested in it, because he had other things to do than constantly spy on one noseless half-dead thing…

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[May 6, 1978. Gloucestershire.]

Severus's face looked rather thoughtful when he looked at two transparent screens: the first one showed a map with the familiar outlines of a white building and a small forest around it, surrounded on all sides by a huge number of red dots, and the second one showed people in dark robes, the number of which really caused sincere surprise, almost two hundred people were scattered throughout the entire area around his house.

The images on the screen changed every few seconds one after another, showing the wizards from different angles, who apparently thought that since they were wearing an invisibility cloak, no one would notice them.

Next to Snape, on the right, lay Nagini, and to his left sat a gloomy Eileen, stroking the head of a contentedly purring kitten.

"The fifth attack this month... Who is it that is so eager to grab me?" the Prince sighed tiredly, because he had already caught the attackers more than once, but they knew nothing about the customer, and a few weeks ago the wizard learned something else interesting from those killers whom Lestrange had once hired. For his head in the mercenary guild, in which the leader of that group occupied a high place, a whole hundred and fifty thousand galleons were placed as the reward, and if they captured him alive, then it will be two hundred thousand.

But what is most interesting is that the information about him was very detailed, with all his achievements and the supposed level of power as a "very experienced Wizard" using mainly fire spells.

At the same time, there was a detailed analysis of his "defenders" in the form of wolves and a house elf, as well as a teacher, Amon Ichiros, only his level of strength, as if on purpose, was significantly underestimated, as if he was only slightly stronger than his student.

Who exactly left this order was unknown to him, it was just that one day this announcement appeared on the board, and a deposit was deposited into the guild's bank account, almost half the amount. And this situation began to irritate Severus, who just wanted to live in peace, doing his research.

"As soon as I find this damn customer, I'll make sure to skin them alive, I have enough healing potions for this!"

"Maybe it's Queens?" the snake suggested. "They could have taken revenge on you for that day,"

Eileen nodded in agreement, having heard enough about them from the house elf and Nagini.

"God knows, but ... no one is leaving here today!" the Prince said with steel in his voice, already fed up with all this, because not a single weekend in the past month had passed without an attack and only at school could he relax a little.

"Since you've set your sights on "easy" money, then be prepared to say goodbye to your lives!"

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