[HP] Aunt of the Savior

It's always easier to deteriorate than to ease the relationship between people, and Snape and the Gryffindor foursome are like this.

The level of protesting each other's eyes in the corridor at the beginning is far from enough. Almost every time they meet, Sirius and James can find a topic to laugh at Snape with a tacit understanding, and Snape's counterattack is also extremely mean.It's not hard to imagine that if Snape hadn't often been with Jody and Lily, the last brawl might have happened more than once.

However, the obstruction and stop of the two girls only gave Sirius and James another reason to laugh at Snape.As a result, Snape deliberately left the order instead, just to find an opportunity to get revenge.

"Severus, you don't need to pay attention to Potter and Black's provocation." Lily was angry and worried and reminded Snape more than once.

Ever since she knew about the last fight that even involved the professor, she had been very disdainful of the foursome's behavior of bullying more than others - but on the contrary, she did not approve of Snape and them attacking each other.

"Yes." Snape agreed insincerely, and glanced at Jody unconsciously.Regarding the recent situation, Jody reiterated her previous point: If James provoked first, then she would not mind him sending James to the school hospital.Obviously for Snape, this was easier to achieve than Lily's request, and it was also more beneficial to him.He wasn't going to tell Lily that those goddamn Gryffindors had started sneaking magic on the stairs and trapping him, and he had to fight back!

"Severus!" Lily looked at Snape dissatisfied: "Oh, I know you are because of Potter and Black's stupid words, but you can't prove anything if you exchange spells with them?" said Then, she turned to Jody for support. "That doesn't make sense at all."

Under the gaze of Lily asking for opinions, Jody had no choice but to nod, expressing agreement skillfully: "I think what Lily said makes sense."

Snape raised an eyebrow at Jody.This answer is really cunning, is she trying to make Lily misunderstand her position?

Jody returned Snape with a helpless expression - she had answered Lily's question as honestly as possible!

Lily, who didn't notice the small interaction between the two Slytherins, showed a satisfied expression because of the support of her good friend.And Jody's "reasonableness" obviously reminded Lily of James: "Seriously, Jody, I can't believe that you and that Potter are twins! That guy's provocation to Severus was terrible! And so many people think he's joking and funny because he just won a stupid Quidditch game for Gryffindor this month? Maybe everyone here thinks that as long as they can throw a ball on a broom Going in will cover up any other shortcomings?"

Lily's earlier accusations of James being a bully in the common room were not as widely shared as they should have been, as the vast majority of Gryffindors were on good terms with James.Compared with Slytherin, the gloomy boy who made most people have a bad impression at first glance, obviously more people would like to side with their new Quidditch star.In fact, many people have been teased by the good friends James and Sirius, so no one realizes that the nature of James' pranks against Snape is completely different from his past jokes that make people laugh out loud.

"Lily, I'm a Potter too." Jody helplessly comforted her aggrieved friend, deliberately diverting her attention.She knew that Lily was really angry. After they became friends, Lily was afraid that she would rarely criticize James so severely.

"Oh, yes, of course..." Lily blushed. "I didn't mean that. I mean, you're fine, but why does James Potter keep coming to trouble Severus?"

"I think he has gone too far recently. Maybe he wants to receive a roaring letter recently." Jody's words were absolutely sincere this time.

To be honest, what James did recently made Jody regret what he did before, because after that, James seemed to suddenly hate Snape again.

Jody has always found this incident very strange. Why did James clearly gain the upper hand that time, and Snape also made concessions, but James’s dislike for Snape intensified?Hadn't he already admitted and gotten used to Snape being her friend?

Moreover, she obviously did what James asked her to do in private—she told Regulus about Sirius' admission to the school hospital, giving the Black brothers a chance to reconcile.Therefore, this time, Sirius certainly did not find fault on purpose because of Regulus.And Remus and Peter would not take the initiative to stir up trouble.

After thinking about it, Jody was sure that the culprit in this matter must be his twin brother.But growing up together, James, who has always been very easy to understand, now makes Jody confused, which makes her feel very annoyed.

"...What I hate the most is that they make jokes about Severus' name! They don't know how to respect people!" Lily said angrily, her cheeks showed cute arcs, and Jody couldn't help it. I wanted to poke her cheek with my finger.

Lily has always been very concerned about this matter, because it was from her that those nasty boys heard the name Severus, and then it evolved into the homophonic snot-nosed nickname. "Maybe we could change to Severus's nickname, like, Sev. That way we can avoid that nasty homonym."

The absent-minded Snape showed an oddly complicated expression when he heard this address.He once responded to this name with joy and happiness, and then completely hid those good feelings in his heart when the name was dusty with the passage of time.Before Lily's sweet voice uttered the name, he even had to forget how long he hadn't heard the syllable, perhaps eight years, nine months and eleven days?

"Severus, can we call you Sev?" Lily asked thoughtfully, just like when she asked Snape's name back then.

That voice, full of energy and kindness, always makes him particularly difficult to refuse.So Snape only hesitated for a moment, then nodded in agreement when he saw Lily's expectant eyes. "Well, yes."

"I think..." She didn't want to use the same address as Lily for reasons she wouldn't admit.And Jody never ignored the momentary change in Snape's expression.She knew he wouldn't say no to Lily, even though he didn't seem to really like the nickname: "I'd still use the name Severus. My brother needs someone to keep correcting him, reminding him of the correct pronunciation and Spell it until he can remember it well."

—James did memorize the spelling of Severus well.Because after that, in addition to sending a yelling letter to James to teach James not to play pranks and bully his classmates, Mrs. Potter also attached a text message, punishing him to spell the word Severus a hundred times and apologize to Snape, otherwise he will be punished. Cancel his Christmas present.

It turns out that Mrs. Porter was not bluffing to scare her son.Since James didn't do what the letter said, he really didn't receive a gift this Christmas.It wasn't until the day after Christmas that he gave his mother the parchment with Snotluck's name written on it a hundred times, in exchange for his gift.The Potters obviously couldn't stand the fact that their son was bullying his sister's friends at school.

This must be Jody's complaint!James thought angrily.

He knew that Jody must be angry, but how could he tell Jody why he deliberately made trouble with the snot-nosed man?James was depressed throughout the Christmas holiday, because what made him even more angry was that Snape actually sent Jody a Christmas gift this year. It seems that Snape not only didn't learn the lesson, but also got closer to Jody! ?

But Jody wasn't too surprised by this.Perhaps it was Jody who inspired Snape to give gifts. The Christmas gift he gave Jody this year was still a potion, but it was a bottle of simple but very practical beauty potion, quite in the style of Snape.

The person who was really surprised that Snape would give Christmas presents this Christmas was Lily.As a close neighbor, Lily is very aware of the financial situation of the Snape family, and she doesn't want to add pressure to her good friend who has a strong self-esteem because of gifts.So Lily never offered to send any presents to Snape, and she never expected to receive a present from him at Christmas.Although he only sent a bottle of homemade potion, anyone who knew Snape knew how high he was on the potion he brewed.

Lily sent her own owl to give Snape a Christmas present with guilt, and prepared a birthday present to bring back to Hogwarts—Snape’s birthday will be after the Christmas holiday, and she always prepares it in advance good job.

"Happy birthday, Sev. I'm so sorry at Christmas," said Lily, who had not forgotten to apologize to her friend for the Christmas incident when she gave Snape his birthday present. "I didn't expect you to give me a gift this year..."

"No, it's okay." Snape didn't expect that Lily had prepared a birthday present for him this year, and a hint of surprise flashed in his black eyes: "I just...just happened to make a potion suitable for a gift."

He was indeed inspired by Jody to think that he could brew potion as a gift for others, which was the cheapest gift for him.But in order to choose the right potion, he is of course not as "just right" as he said.

Knowing her friend's awkward and shy personality, Lily smiled knowingly. "I'm happy anyway, thank you, Sev."

Giving Lily a gift was something he had wanted to do for years but had no courage to do it, but seeing Lily's gentle and apologetic smile, Snape suddenly felt a little out of breath.Lily accepted his gift and returned it to him, but why was there a voice in his heart saying that what he wanted was not like this?