[HP] Aunt of the Savior

Even so, Jody and Snape were not interested in the upcoming party.But the days always passed faster than expected. Before their Legilimency and Occlumency research had any effect, Friday had already arrived.

The first meeting of the Slug Club this year was much later than the previous one when Jody and Snape were in their first year.Some students have graduated, but there are others who have joined, but overall, the atmosphere of this gathering is not much different from the previous one.

Food, wine, and students from families or with outstanding abilities—Professor Slughorn still stands in the crowd enjoying everything he likes.Maybe because Jody and Snape were not as attentive as others, he only greeted Jody and Snape at the beginning, and praised them for their excellent potion results with a smile The attention is on them.

Jody could feel it, and when Professor Slughorn turned to leave, Snape clearly showed a sense of relief - even though he seemed to have a straight face the whole time

"You've never liked him." She looked at the companion beside her, with the corners of her lips curled up in a smile, and she couldn't tell from her expression that she was teasing her companion. "Even if he's our headmaster—oh, but that's all right."

Really, it was perfectly normal for Snape not to like someone, and Jody knew what a misfit friend she had.She even felt that it would be abnormal if she heard from him that he praised someone.But the fact that Snape was willing to come to this time-wasting party this time, she already felt that it was very abnormal.

Snape snorted disdainfully at Jody's words, and curled his lips. "Yeah, you can see it clearly, should I thank you for not exposing me in front of Professor Slugger?"

— Jody was sure Snape had blurred out the syllable Horn on purpose.

"Hi, Jody." Before Jody could answer Snape's question, Frank Longbottom came to greet her.He and James are good friends, have attended the twins' birthday party, and Jody is already familiar. "I haven't seen you appear at the Slug Club's party, I'm still wondering!"

"Frank." Jody avoided the question of why they hadn't received the invitation before, and his eyes fell on the gold and red badge on his lapel. "Oh, I haven't congratulated you on being a prefect yet."

"Thank you!" Longbottom showed a shy smile.Anyone who got in touch with him would find him an easygoing and likable teenager, even if he was a little mischievous at times. "My mother said she wanted me to be honest when I was a prefect." He gave Jody a funny shrug. "Actually, I haven't done a single prank since the beginning of school this year. After all, I'm a prefect—oh, I really envy James now..."

"He's playing a prank again?" Jody raised his eyebrows high, as if very angry.

Realizing that he had inadvertently revealed his friend's little "secret", Longbottom closed his mouth in embarrassment and shook his head desperately, but soon he realized that Jody's anger was just a joke.Jody winked at him, and the two laughed happily.

Snape didn't take part in the seemingly stupid conversation around him, but just stood aside alone and stared at Professor Slughorn with a gloomy expression in the crowd, the laughter around him made him feel very happy irritable.

He didn't really care that he didn't get an invitation at all, and even if he didn't want to waste his time attending, he needed to use the party to prove his appreciation from the Slytherin head.Given his current status and situation in Slytherin, today's invitation to the party came at a very good time.But now he felt that after he came to this party, his unhappiness became even stronger.

"Severus." Regulus approached Snape and raised his cup to greet him.He's trying to project an aristocratic air, but given his age, the fact that the glass is juice instead of red wine makes him act cute and ridiculous.

But Snape just glanced at Regulus who was pretending to be dignified, nodded at him, and didn't laugh at him.Regulus' cautiousness when dealing with people was in stark contrast to Sirius' unscrupulousness, and his appearance was not as eye-catching as Sirius, which made Snape less repulsive about dealing with Regulus.Especially when he always saw Sirius look angry every time he talked to Regulus, which always made Snape happy.

In fact, the relationship between Regulus and Snape was far from being as close as Sirius thought, they were not even friends, they only kept calling each other by their Christian names for the sake of superficial friendship.

And Regulus would choose to be close to Snape at this time, more than half of the reason is that he is not used to the current situation - he is not used to being the representative of the Black family in a sense in a place everywhere. It's a party of strangers, even if it's a relaxed one.

He secretly observed Snape's reaction, testing whether the other party would like to chat with him for a while. "I was with Batty just now, but Batty was pulled away by Professor Slughorn..."

"If Mr. Black knows that there is nothing wrong with my eyes that is not blurry, then there is no reason why I didn't notice it." Snape had just seen their fat headmaster wrapping his arms around Barty C. Rauch's shoulders greeted people everywhere, and the poor child blushed like a ripe tomato because of this treatment, and he couldn't tell whether it was because he was too excited or very shy.His voice was very low, and his tone was full of meanness: "Is it really... an impressive debut?"

Regulus on the side gasped silently.This time he saw why Sirius hated Snape so much.

"Professor Slughorn seems to like Crouch very much." Jody said thoughtfully, making everyone ignore Snape's statement that sounded like he was jealous.Professor Slughorn had a special enthusiasm for Crouch, far more than other students.At least Professor Slughorn didn't show Jody and Snape around like this when they joined the club - luckily not.

Regulus looked at Jody in surprise.Jody seemed to be only talking to that Gryffindor all along, but the timing and choice of subject she was speaking now was enough to convince him that she had heard Snape and was doing it to lighten the mood.

Snape frowned, fluttered his nostrils, let out a snort, his lips were tightly pursed, and his face became even uglier.

"Of course, it's not surprising." Longbottom didn't notice the subtle atmosphere at all. "Professor Slughorn will definitely not miss Barty Crouch now, even if he is still a freshman."

"Oh?"

"You know, Barty Crouch's father, Barty Crouch Sr. of the Division for the Prohibition of Misuse of Magic, has just entered the Wizengamot and is doing well in the Ministry of Magic. He is the old pure-blood family Crouch The father of his family, he is very serious and hard-working. Everyone said that it was only a matter of time before he became the head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement-that is one of the most likely candidates for the position of Minister of Magic. With such a father, Stein Of course, Professor Lughorn will pay special attention to Barty Crouch Jr., but that kid looks really embarrassed..."

Hearing Longbottom's words, Regulus showed a dissatisfied expression. He and Crouch had a very good relationship, and he knew that he didn't like others to bring him and his father together, and he didn't like Longbottom using that kind of Commented on his friend in a sympathetic tone.But he hesitated for a long time, but he couldn't think of a suitable word to intervene in the conversation between Longbottom and Jody.

Just when Regulus was hesitating, Snape had already snorted disdainfully.I don't know if it was because of Regulus' hesitation or Longbottom's comment.

Snape's snort reminded Longbottom, and he felt a little embarrassed, blushing and muttering, "Did I talk too much just now..."

Jody smiled apologetically at him, after all, she was the one who asked the question first.However, she was very calm about the news she heard, neither did ordinary people have special curiosity when facing gossip, nor did she show any envy or jealousy towards Barty Crouch.I have to say that this eased the atmosphere a lot. As if she didn't notice Snape's disdain and Longbottom's embarrassment just now, she commented very naturally: "It turns out that Barty Crouch's father is in the Ministry of Magic. Work. I don’t usually read newspapers, so I don’t know about that.”

"This is very similar to James." Longbottom glanced at Jody gratefully, forgot the embarrassment just now, and grinned. "He never liked to read newspapers, and he quarreled with Evans several times about it."

How many times have you quarreled with Lily?Jody's smile deepened a little, and she felt as if she had been "neglecting" her twin brother recently.

Longbottom didn't accidentally "sell out" James' consciousness at all. After chatting casually with Jody about James' little pranks, he planned to find other friends.But before he left, he still glanced at the gloomy Snape and shrugged his shoulders. Although Longbottom was not a sensitive person, he could even be said to be a little slow, but Snape's performance was too obvious.

Jody glanced at Snape in disapproval. She could see that he seemed to be in a particularly bad mood. Was it because he didn't want to come to the party at all?It's a pity they didn't have a valid reason to refuse, but maybe it's okay to leave early like last time.

Before she could share the idea with Snape beside her, Crouch ran over to join them.It could be seen that he was relieved to be finally freed from Professor Slughorn's enthusiasm. He even looked at Regulus who was able to stay with his acquaintance with obvious envy, but he didn't notice that Ray Gulus also relaxed a lot when he saw him - the atmosphere was too dull to stay by Snape's side all the time.

Regulus couldn't help but glance at Jody before pulling Crouch, who wanted to have a chat with Jody, under the pretext of getting food.She had a smile on her face and looked very friendly, in stark contrast to Snape beside her.It's unbelievable that these two are friends.

"Regulus, there are no salads and sandwiches here." Snape blurted out in a bad tone when he noticed Regulus' gaze.

Jody's smile finally became a little unnatural, but she still continued with Snape's words: "The salads and sandwiches here taste great. Based on our experience last time, don't miss these two."

"What's the matter with you?" After sending away the two freshmen, Jody felt a little irritable. "I've been repeating the same thing tonight, I don't think you can't miss this?"

When Voldemort's research team often got together before, Jody had already developed the habit of changing the subject or underplaying before one of the three, Snape, James, or Sirius uttered a bad word. Habit of living through embarrassing situations.Perhaps because of Lupine and Lily's cooperation at that time, they usually maintained at least a semblance of peace after that.But tonight, Snape kept sticking out his spikes like a hedgehog, and even directed the spikes towards Black and Crouch, who were very good for their current situation.

What's wrong?Snape frowned sullenly.He was in a bad mood because today's party had reminded him yet again that Jody was not his kind.Even in Slytherin, not everyone is as withdrawn as his mother, and there are people in Slytherin who are as sociable as Slughorn-such as Jody.

She had never been his kind of unpopular guy, and it was only because she chose him and Lily as friends who were not recognized by other Slytherins that she was isolated in Slytherin.But even then Nott was with her a lot.

As he had judged at first, their friendship appeared to others to be very strange and incongruous.He wouldn't ignore the look of incomprehension Longbottom and Regulus gave when they saw Jody standing with him, just like Petunia's look when she saw Lily playing with him.

"I just thought," Snape took a deep breath, and answered irrelevantly, "I haven't told you yet, Lucius Malfoy informed us that there was the first meeting of the Slytherin inner society at eight o'clock on Sunday morning , assemble in the common room."

This excuse is very poor, but in the face of Jody's questioning, he found depressed that he could only use poor excuses to cover it up.