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Snape's part-time job was still going on, he couldn't take it for granted to live in the Potter's house all the time, and he left as soon as the leave given by the factory was over.He left with big and small bags, including gifts from Lily, Harry, and the Potters. Under the super pressure of his parents, James bought him a small bag unwillingly. pendant.Doria also brought him a bunch of snacks.

The Potters were always so enthusiastic that it was overwhelming.

Snape thought of Mrs. Potter, she seemed to have seen through something, and gave him a hug before leaving.A gentle and warm hug.

He rejected Mr. Potter's suggestion to apparate him home, and lied about going to Diagon Alley to do some shopping before returning home.

When Snape stood in front of his own house, the strong sense of gap almost overwhelmed him.

After Snape left, Lily also left.It's really inappropriate for a little girl like her to be a guest at a male classmate's house all the time, especially when that male classmate's elder brother showed gallantry to her.

Coincidentally, the looting quartet who usually looked like flowers in front of them also disappeared.They seem to be very busy every day. The four of them gather together in James' room upstairs after breakfast, and they go downstairs when they eat. They don't know what they are plotting in the room.

The house suddenly became clean, which was really hard for Harry.

Harry is full of loneliness and depression, his parents have their own jobs, and James, he has his brothers.

In fact, Harry really wanted to rush into James' room, grab him and shake him hard, and ask him who is your real brother.But ideas are always just ideas.

As if wanting to prove something, the plundering foursome have always been determined to hide in the room and not come out.

In a small bedroom, four and a half boys were crowded together. If the bed wasn't too small, they might have eaten and slept together.

Doria was very speechless about this, she seemed to intend to redouble the compensation for the youngest son who was left alone, and bought him a bunch of good things, eating, drinking, and having fun.Harry had pocketed all the goodies while James was busy, including holiday allowance - a whole little bag of Galleons, double, and the latest broom armor.

Charles, on the other hand, continued to work a nine-to-five after the holidays.He left all the family affairs to Doria and rarely asked.Although Charles didn't talk a lot and didn't have that much time to spend with his family, every time he came home from get off work, he would rub Harry's hair and pat Harry on the shoulder, and he was very pleased to see him smiling.

This should be regarded as compensation. Although he has not been able to get along with James, he has doubled the maternal love.Of course, there is also fatherly love.

And this directly caused a tragedy——

"Harry, you're getting fat!" Lily circled Harry twice in the station, pounced on and rubbed Harry's face, "You're getting fat too."

Harry was glad he wasn't a girl, otherwise Lily would have been slammed with white eyes.

After boarding the train, when he saw Snape, he gave Harry a second look, mostly on his fattened cheeks.This made Harry very embarrassed.

Fortunately, gaining weight during the holidays was not an exception. At the opening ceremony, Harry found that everyone's faces were more or less rounded.But Snape's was still the same thin.

Harry sat on the long Gryffindor table, secretly took a few glances at Snape's thin and gloomy face, it was hard for him to imagine what Snape looked like when he was a child.But it is very likely that it is young and old, with a 30-year-old face at the age of five?

With just a flick of the brain, Harry couldn't help but collapse.

"What are you thinking?" Lily asked curiously from the side. She took a bite of the pudding and looked at Harry with an embarrassing expression.

"Well, it's nothing." Harry scratched his face in embarrassment, and said after a while, "I was wondering what Snape looked like when he was a child."

Lily paused while eating, "Did you go to Severus' house at Christmas?"

"went."

"Have you entered?"

"Ah."

"His family... just like that, we've known each other since we were kids, and he's always lived in Spider's End."

Harry was a little embarrassed, after all, this was a very personal matter.He nodded, but Lily seemed about to say a few more words.

Lily said in a low voice: "His mother passed away last year. His father...his father treated him badly. It seems that he hasn't shown his face for two or three years. He disappeared suddenly without any news. Maybe he ran away, maybe It's dead."

Harry was stunned, "Then he..."

"Live alone." Lily poked the pudding on the plate with a fork, and the remaining half of the pudding was turned into a puddle of mud by her, "He didn't call the police, didn't say anything, just pretended that he was away. Severus is underage, and if reported, he will be sent to the asylum."

Harry was silent, and he glanced at the shabby-dressed Snape in a daze.

"Slytherins are a bunch of snobs," Lily twitched her lips, looking at Harry, "they'll never understand how good Severus is."

Harry suddenly wanted to ask, why did you choose James over Snape, if you really thought he was good.

However, thoughts are just thoughts, and the one in front of him is not Lily who is married and has children, but the young one.

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Harry walked back and forth in circles in the corridor.There was a strong wind blowing outside, and even the couples who were dazzled by love were reluctant to go out, preferring to nest in the lounge and get bored.It seems that Pringle's roar can still be heard in the corridor, beating up a group of hot-headed and dizzy boys.

"Spring hasn't come yet!" Pringer has devoted most of her life to the great work of preventing unmarried pregnancies.But not many students thanked him.

When Snape came over, Harry happened to be saying hello to someone. He ignored his classmates and stopped Snape.

"Hey..." Harry greeted Snape awkwardly, "Where are you going?"

Snape glanced at him, still did not slow down, and strode forward, "The Astronomy Tower."

"W-what?" Harry trotted after him.

"Tian, ​​Wen, Pagoda." Snape said each word, his tone didn't sound very good.

"Nothing, I thought..."

"What do you think? You think everything, are you so self-righteous?" Snape stopped suddenly and turned to look at Harry Potter.

Harry almost bumped into him, looking up at Snape, puzzled by his tone, after all, it wasn't that long ago that he had been a guest at the house.Although it is not a happy conversation, there is absolutely no reason for such tit-for-tat.

This attitude is like the old Bat Snape to Harry Potter in the future.

Snape frowned suddenly, his tightly pursed lips squirmed, but he didn't say a word.He glanced at Harry again, the look of annoyance on his face.

"how?"

"It's okay." Snape replied stiffly.

Harry stared at him, Snape glared at him, turned and continued walking towards the Astronomy Tower.

"I thought you were going to the library and Lily was there."

Snape glanced at him, "Then why didn't you go with me?"

Harry choked and couldn't say anything.How did he know that he would follow the old bat all the way.

In the Room of Response, the robbery group of four danced and looked at the research result they had just made - the Marauder's Map.

Suddenly, James fell silent. He stopped his silly dance and looked down at the map carefully.

"Can anyone tell me... why Harry and Snape are together?"

James looked around at his friends talking and laughing.

Remus looked at his watch, "It's almost eleven o'clock now."

James' face twisted, "At eleven o'clock in the middle of the night with Snape in the empty Astronomy Tower?"

Sirius walked over with the cup, and he threw himself at the Marauder's Map in surprise, "Which blind girl fell in love with the snotling?!"

On the top of the astronomical tower on the map, the two names are almost closely connected, that girl is - Harry Potter.

James' face quickly turned pale: "No—!"

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An invisible man appeared on the astronomy tower, and he approached the two boys who were sitting facing each other cautiously.

They didn't know what they were doing, they didn't say a word, they just looked at each other.It was as if there was only this person left in the whole world.

Backing up the mountain is not scary, what is scary is that the one doing the back up is his younger brother!What's even more frightening is that it's the snot-nosed man who's messing with his brother!

Oh no—!

James tore off the invisibility cloak, ran over to pull Harry up, and shielded him behind him, blocking their gaze from loving.The expression on James' face was terrified, as if they were not facing Snape the snot but a satyr.

He glared at Snape angrily: "Snotling! What are you going to do to Harry?!"

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Note: The Marauder's Map was made during the fifth grade of the robbery group.