In the past ten years, I have traveled to most countries in the world, researched and produced many advanced potions, and I feel that my potion skills have reached a master level.

So, I returned to the United States and opened my own potion store on Magic Street - Foster's Potion Store.

In view of my superb potion making skills, the business of the potion shop has been very good, and I am even somewhat famous in the entire magic world. I have also earned a lot of gold Galleons.

Another six years later, I was thirty-four years old. I began to get tired of opening a potion shop. I wanted to experience a different life, and I didn’t want to fall in love or get married.

Also disappeared.

This year, I saw the big news about the restart of the Goblet of Fire through magical newspapers, saw the retirement of Dumbledore, the principal of Hogwarts, and saw a professor named Severus Snape become the principal again.

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Suddenly, I became very interested in Hogwarts, the oldest school of witchcraft and wizardry.

Just after Christmas this year, when I was reading the magic newspaper delivered by an owl at my adoptive parents’ home, I saw this recruitment message:

"Hogwarts is recruiting a Potions professor. Interested candidates can come to the school for interviews after Christmas - Headmaster: Severus Snape!"

When I saw this recruitment information, for some reason, I felt a strong desire to apply.

This idea was so strong that I sold my shop that day, registered with the Ministry of Magic and used a portkey, and came to London, England.

After booking a room at the Leaky Cauldron in Diagon Alley, I immediately sent an owl from the Owl Post Office in Diagon Alley to send my resume to Snape, the new headmaster of Hogwarts.

At eight o'clock in the evening, an owl brought back a reply from Headmaster Snape.

Headmaster Snape is very satisfied with my resume and invites me to go to Hogwarts early tomorrow morning. He will open the floo network connecting the Leaky Cauldron to the castle.

The meaning of the letter is very clear. As long as there are no problems with the interview tomorrow, then I will be the next potions professor at Hogwarts.

I am very satisfied with this result. I think I have found the life I want to live next.

Becoming a Potions professor at the world's number one magic school, and then cultivating a large number of Potions geniuses, gives me a greater sense of accomplishment than opening a shop to earn Galleons.

As for whether I can pass the interview, I am confident in my potion skills.

In this way, I stayed in Diagon Alley for one night, and after breakfast the next morning, I couldn't wait to use the fireplace of the Leaky Cauldron to visit Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, which has been recorded in countless magical materials.

December 27, 1994, the day after Christmas.

Snape came to the principal's office early after breakfast.

The biggest headache for him since he became the headmaster of Hogwarts may finally be solved today.

It wasn't the much-anticipated Triwizard Tournament. With Jerry there, the matter had already been settled and he didn't have to worry at all.

The biggest headache for him was who would succeed him as Potions Professor after he became the principal.

As the top master of Potions, Snape is very strict in selecting Potions professors. In his opinion, the process of making potions is art.

As for the wizards who have come to interview after seeing his recruitment information, more than 90% of them are bullshit in his eyes and are not worthy of succeeding him as the Potions Professor at Hogwarts.

He felt that allowing those people to serve as Potions Professors was simply misleading students and destroying the great art of Potions.

Dumbledore did recommend someone to him, the former Potions Professor at Hogwarts, the former Head of Slytherin, and Potions Master Horace Slughorn.

However, he was not particularly satisfied with this very famous master of potions.

It's not that he's dissatisfied with his potion skills, but that he is too old, and he knows that this person is somewhat vain and powerful.

Of course, if he couldn't find a suitable one, he would really have no choice but to invite the retired potions master for the time being.

According to Dumbledore, as long as he could become Harry and Jerry's Potions teacher, Horace would definitely agree to return to Hogwarts to teach for a few more years.

This would give him more time to find a truly suitable Potions Professor.

Fortunately, just when he was about to leave to visit Horace in a few days, a new application letter was sent by an owl.

What surprised him was that the wizard applying for a job this time was not from the British wizarding world, but from the United States.

The wizard who was looking for a job was called Lily Foster. The name Lily was the same as the one he loved deeply, but he didn't think much about it. There were too many people named Lily in the world.

He is thirty-four years old, the same age as him. He graduated from Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and owns a potion shop called Foster's in Magic Street, New York.

He had heard of this potion shop, and it seemed to be quite famous in the American wizarding world.

The resume contained many honors related to potions in the American wizarding community. Snape felt that if they were true, he was indeed qualified to be the potions professor at Hogwarts.

So he decided to see it in person.

As a master of potions, he would be able to tell if the other party has real talents after chatting for a while.

At nine o'clock in the morning, a burst of blue flames rose from the fireplace in the principal's office, and Snape stood up. He knew that the witch who had come to apply for the job had arrived.

Sure enough, after the blue flames passed, a lady wearing a raspberry coat and a wizard's hat walked out of the fireplace carrying a suitcase.

"Good morning, Ms. Foster!"

Snape stepped forward and stretched out his right hand with a question mark, although his expression still looked as expressionless as usual.

After hearing the voice, Lily slightly raised her face, which was mostly covered by the wizard's hat, revealing her beautiful green eyes, and then naturally held Snape's right hand.

"Hello, Headmaster Snape!"

"Lily!"

However, as soon as she finished speaking, she saw Principal Snape across from her. After seeing her face, he suddenly shouted her name excitedly, two lines of tears flowed from his eyes, and he hugged her.

In my arms.

This sudden unexpected situation immediately made Lily confused.

"What's going on?"

If it had been anyone else, she would have immediately drawn out her wand and knocked him away with a spell, but the person opposite was the headmaster of Hogwarts.

The key point is that the principal looked sad, with tears streaming down his face, and he didn't look like he wanted to take advantage of her.

"Headmaster Snape, it's not appropriate for us to be like this!"

Lily blushed slightly and pushed Snape, but unfortunately Snape hugged him too hard, so she didn't push him away.

To be honest, being single for thirty-four years and suddenly being held in someone's arms was a very novel experience for Lily.
Chapter completed!