She looked down at her plate but shook her head. "To my shame, no, I didn't. I apologize for doubting your word. I never even considered it could've been judgmental magic, Severus. We don't teach that branch of magic here so there was no reason to believe a student raised outside of our world and away from any other magical people, who's spent every summer since coming here living in those same conditions, would have any knowledge of that magic. He's only a part of our world for a little more than eight months each year and that's only the last four years. Plus, Albus has done everything he can to make sure what exposure he has to our world, is limited to this Castle and nowhere else. He even has Molly Weasely doing his school shopping each year as he doesn't want Mr. Potter in Diagon Alley before school begins. And you know Mr. Potter has never gone down to Hogsmeade with the other students. He doesn't have a signed permission slip to do so."
"So how was I supposed to realize he discovered Judgmental Magic? I still don't know how or where he learned it. The Twin Terrors said they found the spell for him and did the research on it. But still he had to have practiced it before he used it against them. And I just don't see when he had the time. I mean, it's not like he could have learned it at home over the summers. His relatives hate magic and wouldn't know a magical spell if it reached out and bit them on the arse. So I could only think it was either Light Magic, which I know of no spell which would leave all three of them disfigured in such a fashion, or Dark Magic, which you have to admit he does have access to learning no matter how much we'd like to deny it."
That did it for Severus. He saw red. From day one, she had been trying to get him to admit Harry needed close supervision and should be regarded with utmost suspicion. Any time things went sideways and Albus found Dark Magic,(which for Albus was a catch-all phrase meant for any and all strong magic he himself hadn't cast), had been used in the Castle, her first thought was that Harry did it. Simply because his scar granted him a clear connection to the Dark Lord who used dark magic as regularly as he breathed.
She even tried to say because Severus had been selected as his Guardian/Protector and he was dark magic inclined that was further proof Potter had to be carefully watched for using dark magic spells. She claimed the only reason Severus was selected for the position was because he was dark magic inclined and Harry's scar made it necessary he be guarded by someone who'd recognize when he did dark magic under it's influence. That was after the rejection of her petition to become Potter's Guardian/Protector. Almost no one believed her claims though his fellow staff members didn't disbelieve it either.
She'd always been the first person amongst the staff to assume Potter was behind whatever was going wrong in the school and she'd always try to convince the rest of them the danger was only because he was a student at the school. The students might believe it was Severus trying to get Potter expelled but the truth was Minerva tried a lot harder than he ever had. She didn't trust Potter simply because she didn't like him and saw him as a disappoint to his deceased Father's memory.
His ability to speak parceltongue had only cemented her belief that he had access to dark magic they couldn't in any manner control or curtail. Because she truly believed those who could and did speak to the lowly snake were evil incarnate and could only grow up to become a danger to society. But she'd even tried to pin the troll getting into the school back in his first year on him. Because he was the one to find it, fight it and defeat it. Yes, that redheaded garbage disposal had been with the boy at the time but even Severus had known that was only because Potter had forced the issue. But her claim at the time had been just plain stupid. There was no way he could have done that just because of his scar connection. The child hadn't even known trolls existed at that point in time. Let alone where to find one.
She definitely saw his actions in rectifying those yearly bad situations as just him cleaning up after himself so as to be able to return to the school the following September. She often drew unfavorable comparisons between Mr. Potter and her former classmate, Tom Riddle, to support her view. And while Severus would admit they were some surface resemblances, that's all they were. Surface resemblances. Inside, where it counted, Potter was nothing like Tom Riddle and anyone with eyes could see it. Potter was the day to Tom's night. He was good while Tom was definitely bad. Potter wanted to be left alone to live his life as best he could. Tom wanted everyone to bow down before him and declare him God and King while he made all their choices for them. Potter didn't care what choice you made so long as your choice didn't involve him or other innocent people. No Potter and Tom were nothing alike.
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