"Severus, don't go reading today."

In the early morning, Ace and Snape were walking in the empty corridor. Ace looked at the sky outside the corridor. She raised her hand and pressed it back. She closed her eyes and raised her head. The sunlight passed through her curled eyelashes. A small shadow cast over her face.

"Ok?"

After stretching a lot, Ace continued: "It's not enough to stay in the library every day. Let's go for a walk together and explore like Sirius and the others?"

Snape nodded, but quietly rolled his eyes when he heard Sirius.

Ace first took Snape to the rest room of the little badgers, packed some food, and then the two of them walked through the fountain square and came to the covered bridge.Standing on the wooden bridge, the sun dispersed the heavy clouds and the thick fog that drifted around Hogwarts all year round, illuminating the earth in a golden color.

Ace walked lightly on the wooden bridge. His light brown hair was blown up by the breeze and turned into a honey-like golden color under the sunlight. It looked warm from a distance.

"Look, it's not bad to go for a walk, right, Severus." Ace was lying on the armrest, with most of her body leaning out. She looked across a large open space and saw the Owlery and the Owlery. Quidditch pitch.

Snape followed her gaze and looked over. It was indeed rare to see such a sunny Hogwarts. He walked over and stopped next to Ace, "Well. Be careful not to fall."

Ace turned his head and trotted forward, urging: "Hurry up, Severus. I'll take you to Hagrid, and he can take us to the Forbidden Forest."

"Have you been there?"

"I went a few times last year when I was in lockdown."

Snape knew that. His two roommates asked a lot about Ace. Last year, Ace was locked up for a long time because of a fight with Yaxley in the corridor. He heard the two of them talking about it. Pass.

The two walked through the Sundial Garden and followed the stairs to Hagrid's hut.Hagrid was weeding in the vegetable patch at the door. When he saw Ace, he stood up and waved his huge palm, causing the soil on his hand to fly everywhere.

"Ace, why are you here!"

"Hagrid, hello! Severus and I went out for a walk and brought you some small gifts."

Hagrid was very happy and warmly invited the two of them to sit in the hut.Seeing the rock biscuits and black tea brought over by Hagrid, Ace's mouth twitched and he took a sip of the black tea. Snape picked up a piece at Hagrid's warm invitation and bit into it, his face looked a little grim. Strange, this biscuit is too hard.While chatting with Hagrid, Ace glanced at Snape a few times and laughed secretly. Snape finally struggled with the biscuit before he picked up the black tea and drank it. He felt like his intestines had been scratched. broken.

After leaving Hagrid's hut, Ace burst out laughing: "Haha, hiccup...Severus, haha, I'm laughing so hard..."

Snape blushed with rare embarrassment and had to hold Ace's arm to prevent her from rolling down the slope.Hagrid didn't have time to accompany them to the Forbidden Forest, but he allowed Ace and Snape to walk around the edge. The weather was nice today and there wouldn't be much danger on the edge.

Entering the Forbidden Forest, the light dimmed slightly. The trees grew straight upwards, with huge crowns opening at the top, absorbing every ray of sunlight they could reach.Thick tree roots snaked along the ground, making it difficult to walk.

Ace felt smart for wearing a simple sweater, jeans and sneakers today. If he were to walk here in small leather shoes, his shoes would definitely be full of mud when he went out.However, Ace sighed softly when he saw that Snape's trousers were quite short under his robe.

Ace, who was thinking about something, didn't notice at all. She stumbled on a raised tree root. Snape pulled Ace's arm in time, preventing her face from kissing the ground passionately.

"If you don't want to have an ugly scar on your face, you should make good use of your seemingly useless eyes. After all, they are not for decoration on your face, I think." Snee. Pu grabbed Ace, pulled her back, and quickly said something mean.

Ace looked at Snape with wide eyes and lowered his voice, "I...I didn't mean to say that..."

"Thank you, Severus, I really didn't notice. But are you always like this? If so, I think I know why Sirius and the others always have trouble with you."

"They are just a group of simple-minded trolls with strong limbs. They only play tricks on others all day long..." Under Ace's gaze, Snape stopped talking.

Ace shook his head in disapproval, but did not continue. After all, not everyone can get along harmoniously, and even she often conflicts with Yaxley.She never thought that she was an easy person to get along with. She was only able to help everyone in school because her own interests and bottom line were not touched.For Ace, it makes no difference whether he is pure blood or mixed blood. After all, everyone can use magic and they are all wizards.She's just a little nosy at best.

Snape was a somewhat elusive person, and his bleak childhood left many shadows on him.Perhaps it was his father's attitude towards wizards and the fact that he was often bullied by those boys that made him particularly hate Muggles.His mother's admiration for Slytherin greatly influenced him, which may be the cause of the conflict between him and James.

But nowadays, this is very common.Half of the ten disputes Ace encountered were due to blood, and the other half were conflicts between Gryffindor and Slytherin. The two houses seemed to be inherently at odds.

Shaking their heads to get rid of the messy thoughts in their minds, the two of them continued walking inside, not noticing that they had left the edge specified by Hagrid.

The further inside, the darker the surrounding light becomes.Feeling a little hungry, Ace cast "Clean Up" on a fairly flat stone, and then sat down with Snape to enjoy lunch.

The lunch at Hogwarts is always a bit greasy, which is not friendly to Snape who has a weak stomach. He had a stomachache for a while when school started.The lunch prepared by Ace was just right, including mashed potatoes, tender steak, an after-dinner pudding, and even milk.

Snape drank the milk heated with magic and looked at Ace who was putting the tableware into the basket in front of him. He couldn't help but wonder, why could she be so considerate to everyone?Even giant monsters like Sirius could chat with Ace quietly.There are very few seniors in Slytherin who don't like her, except for Yaxley.Aren't they very repulsive to wizards who don't get along with purebloods?

If Ace knew what Snape was thinking, he would definitely answer: This may be genetics and talent.Ace is very much like her father in personality, except she's a little quieter.

When Fielding Foley was a student at Hogwarts, he was also very popular and rarely made friends with anyone.As the best Quidditch player, he received many gifts every semester, but he only took a fancy to Miss Casey, who didn't pay much attention to him.

The two walked along the road to a small lake. After arriving here, the light suddenly became brighter, and many small animal footprints appeared here. A huge dead tree fell by the lake, reaching the point where two adults could hug each other. thickness.

Ace and Snape discovered some materials that could be used to prepare potions by the lake. They were recently working together to prepare a more effective potion for treating burns. The materials used were relatively difficult to buy.The two of them were busy at the lake all afternoon, and they didn't leave the Forbidden Forest until Hagrid came in worriedly.

"Ace, you've gone too far. If I hadn't found you, vampires and ghost wolves would have appeared in that place later." Hagrid complained all the way, but he still carefully held the kerosene lamp to illuminate the road ahead of them.

Ace had to promise that he would never do it again. Snape was a little annoyed that he was so obsessed with collecting materials that he forgot about the dangers of the Forbidden Forest, although he seemed to have seen those trolls wandering through the Forbidden Forest at night and came out unscathed. .

……

Ace and Snape have been busy making upgraded burning potions these days. They were busy in the Room of Requirement every day until curfew.Sometimes the curfew time was accidentally exceeded, and the two had to carefully avoid Filch and his cat and sneak back to the lounge.Thanks to the close proximity between Hufflepuff and Slytherin's common rooms, the two of them didn't have to separate.

Adjust the recipe again and again and experiment again and again.

With a "bang", after Ace added five grams of moon leaf powder, the crucible exploded again, and the green potion splashed all over the two people. Fortunately, they would not be hurt if they were splashed by this potion.

"It seems that reducing the dosage cannot solve the problem of the instability of the moon leaf powder after encountering the soybean grass. We have to find an alternative material." Ace took out his wand and "cleaned it up." He said helplessly.

This spell has been used so frequently recently that Ace felt like he could use a silent spell to cast it.Thinking like this, Ace saw that Snape's hair was splashed with green potion, and he silently used it on the greasy black hair.

"Hmm... maybe we can find other things that make it stable..." Snape was recording experimental data when he suddenly felt his docile hair falling down to block his sight, and he raised his head in confusion.

The fluffy black hair is slightly curly, the deep eyes seem to have the power to see through people's hearts, and the pale complexion is still a little malnourished. Looking at the cheeks that are no longer as sunken as before, the lips are slightly open because of doubt, and half of the face is buried in In the shadows.

Ace looked at Snape like this and was stunned for a moment. Seeing Snape's doubtful eyes, he pushed him to a mirror and said, "You also have potion in your hair. Severus, you really should take care of yourself." Clean yourself up and see if you can charm a lot of little girls when you go out like this."

Snape looked at himself in the mirror, and after a long time he murmured: "You...you know how to do silent spells?"

Ace burst into laughter, feeling speechless for this man who only had potions and spells in his heart. He returned to his seat to think about how to modify the formula.

Snape glanced at the boy in the mirror, feeling very strange.He had rarely looked in the mirror. He didn't know that his hair was so long, and he didn't know that he looked so inhumane and cold. His lips were pursed into a straight line seriously, and his brows were deep because of frequent frowns. marks, and the complexion is sickly pale.

He tried to raise the corners of his mouth and show a smile. Looking at the strange expression in the mirror, Snape quickly gave up and continued to invest in his experiment.

On a row of bookshelves near the restricted book section of the library, Ace and Snape finally found a solution: as long as an appropriate amount of black rabbit hair was added, the crescent leaves would react stably with the flavonoids.The two people immediately went to the drug store in Diagon Alley to buy black rabbit fur, which is a very common potion ingredient.

……

"Severus-" After buying the materials, Ace said to Snape, "I'm going to start a new subject and I need your help."

"Ok?"

"Research on the long-lasting attachment of defensive spells to clothing and accessories. You accompany me to pick out some clothes. I need you to try them on and feel them. It would be better if you could help me study alchemy."

"…All right."

Going to Madam Malkin's robe store, Ace picked out a few sets of affordable and warm clothes and handed them to Snape for him to try on.

Although Ace chose this topic for the purpose of helping Snape, she also had a certain interest in it.She believed that such help was only temporary. Once the potion was improved, Snape would not be short of money.Lower cost, better treatment effect, St. Mungo's Hospital will not refuse.

Of course Snape was not stupid. On the contrary, he was extremely smart and naturally sensed Ace's intentions, but he did not refuse.He has absolute confidence in himself and believes that he will be able to bring greater returns to Ace in the future.Moreover, if this project is successful, there will be considerable benefits, and he will do his best to help Ace complete it.

The clothes Ace chose were very suitable for Snape. After all, he had a best friend who was a trendsetter and always influenced him, so her aesthetics weren't too bad either.

After quickly completing the purchase, the two returned to Hogwarts and started preparing potions again.Finally, the crescent moon leaf powder was added, blue smoke emerged from the gurgling green potion, and then the potion rolled violently, turning into a light green transparent gel with a refreshing fragrance.

Applying a layer of gel to the burnt area of ​​the shaved rat, Ace saw that the red wound quickly swelled and then healed as before.

"Successful! Severus!" Ace said happily as the girl's red lips grinned, revealing a row of neat teeth.

Snape also had some excitement on his face. He picked up the mouse and carefully inspected the injury. Then he nodded heavily to Ace and said, "Success! Ace!"

Looking at the potion in his hand, Snape sighed sincerely: "You are very smart, Ace."

"I didn't expect to be praised by a proud Slytherin. I feel honored." Ace raised his eyebrows and teased.

"That's because we are pragmatic and only express our opinions to people we sincerely agree with. I disdain idiots."

"Typical Slytherin."

"Typical Hufflepuff." The two looked at each other and smiled.

……

The busy life of the holidays comes to an end with an owl flying to St. Mungo's Hospital.Snape still frequented the library and the Room of Requirement, while Ace took some time to relax.

Every time Snape found Ace, she was either basking in the sun with a book covering her face by the Black Lake, or sitting on the dead tree by the Mirror Lake in the Forbidden Forest, taking off her shoes and socks and soaking in the water - Ace was in a daze because of that The small lake is named after it looks like a mirror.

His feeling about this is that the day when the new project will be completed should be far away.

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