[HP]Blue Soul

Charlotte had never been this excited.

When she put on the latest elf costume in the dressing room where she was rehearsing the play, she couldn't help turning round and round in front of the long mirror like a butterfly.Daniel clapped at the side, his mouth slightly opened. He didn't know whether he was surprised by Charlotte or shocked by Charlotte's abnormal childishness.

"It suits you, Charlotte," Daniel said.

"Beautiful!" said Charlotte, bouncing around, and then added, sticking out her tongue, "I was talking about the clothes."

"You're beautiful too, Charlotte." Vincent said with admiration, "It's like the elf princess in my mind has come into reality."

Charlotte scratched her cheek in embarrassment, and hurried into the dressing room to change her clothes.She came out with the clothes in her arms, and kept rubbing her hands on the clothes.Mr. Brown's workmanship is very good, except for a little roughness, it is almost the same as Charlotte's dream.

"There's only one month left before the show, are you nervous?" Tammy, who sneaked over with Vincent, asked.

"Fortunately, we have rehearsed enough." Charlotte said with a smile.

"You worked the hardest." Daniel curled his lips. "Since they started school, everyone else has been a little slack."

"After all, I don't have to go to school." Charlotte raised her shoulders.

Because most of the performers are students from Wanda Middle School, they can come to rehearse diligently during the summer vacation because they are full of enthusiasm and have time, but after school starts, they start fishing for three days and drying the net for two days. There were one or two who were not able to come to rehearsal on time because of schoolwork.

Fortunately, the main actors are more responsible.

What surprised Charlotte the most was the actor who played the human king.When Charlotte saw the actor for the first time, she was so shocked that she didn't even recognize it at first.It was Dubbokel, a man she hadn't seen since Charlotte dropped out of school.He is not as tall and fat as he was in elementary school, but he seems to go to the gym often and train his tendons.He is still tall, but without the arrogance he had in elementary school, he is still clumsy. It is said that memorizing lines will cost him half his life.

When he was a child, he was sloppy, but when he grew up, he became timid. When he saw Charlotte, he blushed and stuttered like a little wife, completely blinding his tendons.Although he is stupid, he is also diligent, and he goes to the rehearsal room to practice more diligently than Daniel.

In the last rehearsal, several main characters performed very well.So Charlotte was already anticipating the audience's reaction on Halloween, and she even begged Ellen to help her take more pictures.Severus and Lily didn't get a chance to see it, and she wanted to leave some photos for them.

After Charlotte communicated with the contact person of "Fantastic Creatures Weekly" about the time and layout of the paper's publication, as well as the attached issue, it became closer and closer to Halloween.

One day in mid-October, just as everyone was delayed and rehearsals were canceled, Charlotte was able to ride her bike back to Spinner's End with ease.But when passing by No. 10, the gate that had been closed was half open, and a police car was parked at the gate.This caught Charlotte's attention, and she pulled the car aside and walked to the door.

Soon, she came out from the half-open door and thought she was a female police officer. Charlotte recognized that it was Officer Robin, a former colleague of Officer Davis.

Officer Robin quickly saw Charlotte, and she came up to her and said, "Charlotte! Nice to meet you. I remember you knew this family, right? Mr. Snape and Snape of this family Mrs. Pu has passed away, can you contact their son for help?"

"What?" Charlotte said with difficulty.

"Hey, we just came here. There are no wounds on both of them, and they don't look like they have been attacked, so we should take them back to the police station for further inspection." Officer Robin said, "We need to notify them Son." She picked up a document and checked again, "Yes, Severus Snape." Then she asked Charlotte again, "Can you contact him?"

Charlotte opened her mouth. She used to owl with Severus who was in school. How could she contact him suddenly at this time?

Before Charlotte could answer, two strangely dressed men suddenly came over. They walked up to Officer Robin, showed their IDs, and led Officer Robin to the other side.One of the men gave Charlotte a frown.

Charlotte immediately recognized the identity of these two men, they were wizards, because their strange clothes were undoubtedly what wizards thought of as Muggle clothes.

They muttered there for about 5 minutes, and Officer Robin walked to Charlotte's side helplessly, and said, "Charlotte, it seems that you don't need to inform Severus Snape. The two superiors sent The officer will take over the matter, and he said they've been contacted. Then we'll go first." Officer Robin patted Charlotte on the shoulder and drove away with another male officer.

The two wizards ignored Charlotte, but went straight into the house.

The sunset in the sky gradually disappeared into the clouds, and the night gradually fell. The wind at night made Charlotte shiver. She had been standing blankly outside the door of No. 19 Spider's End Lane for a long time.The two wizards stayed inside and didn't come out, and she didn't dare to go in.

Until there was a "bang", a short and fat man came out from the alley next to No. 19 Spider's End Lane. He was slightly bald, with a pair of protruding eyes and a thick gray beard like a walrus, and his complexion was a bit dignified.Coming out behind him was Severus with an indifferent face. He was wearing his black overcoat, and Charlotte could even see the black heels peeking out from under the overcoat.

The fat man came to the door, and Charlotte heard him talking to the two people who had come before: "Professor Slughorn, we checked, the Muggle died of alcohol overdose, and the witch died of poison."

Charlotte saw Severus' figure flicker.

Then the two men spoke a few words secretly with Professor Slughorn. Charlotte couldn't hear what it was, but Professor Slughorn turned to look at her and nodded to the two men. .Then they all went out and walked into the alley next to them.Severus turned to look at her as well, then walked quickly into the room.

Charlotte followed.

Charlotte hadn't been in this house very much, because Severus was very reluctant to let her in since he was a child. He often said that the house was too dirty.Looking at Charlotte at this time, it is indeed a bit dirty, from the floor to the ceiling, everything is gloomy and gray.Even with the lights on, it looked extremely dark.

But the house was not messy, and the bodies of Tobia and Irene were still lying on the ground.Tobias was still smiling, as if she was having a sweet dream, and Irene was also smiling, with her side face pressed against Tobias chest, and an empty potion bottle was still clutched in her right hand.

Severus crouched down and pulled the potion bottle out, turning this one in his hand like Charlotte's potion bottle on summer vacation.Then he grabbed the empty potion bottle suddenly, and let out a low growl from his throat: "Stupid!"

"Sev," Charlotte called softly behind him.

"How stupid to choose to die for love." Severus continued to say to himself, "What a selfish love, she never remembers that she has a son."

Severus knelt on the ground, looking down at the potion bottle in his hand.Charlotte could see his slightly trembling back, he was trying to suppress something.Slowly, small, almost inaudible sobbing sounds came, like densely packed fine needles, piercing Charlotte's heart ached, and her tears fell unconsciously from her eye sockets.

She took a few steps forward, bent down and hugged Severus from behind, buried her head in his somewhat greasy black hair, and muffled softly, "Sev..." As if this could give Severus Fleurs some warmth.

Soon Severus stood up, turned his head and stuffed Charlotte into his arms forcefully, hugged Charlotte tightly, and buried his face in Charlotte's shoulder.Soon, Charlotte felt the wetness on her shoulders, and she raised her right hand to stroke Severus' soft hair like a hair.Whispering softly in his ear, "You still have me, Sev. You still have me—"

Severus hugged Charlotte tighter.

I don't know how long it took until there was a knock on the door, and Severus let go of Charlotte.Under the dim light, Charlotte couldn't see Severus's expression clearly, but it didn't hinder the idea in her mind, he must be as expressionless as she had seen before, hiding all his emotions in a under the mask.

"Professor Slughorn." Severus' voice was as cold as Charlotte expected.

"Severus, I think I gave you enough time to say goodbye." Professor Slughorn said slowly, "These two are from the Ministry of Magic, and they have told me the details. Ms. Irene The cemetery has been prepared, so they will be buried in a week."

"Thank you, Professor Slughorn." Severus bowed to Professor Slughorn.

And Charlotte was attracted by "preparing the cemetery". She looked at Irene's smiling face on the ground in surprise. Was Irene already ready to die?Even the cemetery is ready.Then—what about her, does she have to make such preparations, she is not sure when she will die.

"Hey, I'm sorry too, Severus." Professor Slughorn walked up to Severus and patted him on the shoulder, "But this shouldn't be a stumbling block to you. In my club there are Many people lose their parents at a very young age, but they all end up with great achievements. I've always had a crush on you, Severus."

Severus nodded.

"Well." Professor Slughorn thought for a while and said, "I will help you ask Dumbledore to take a leave of absence. You can stay here until the end of Halloween and accompany your parents for the last journey. Wait until the end of the Halloween holiday One day, I will come to pick you up."

Then he looked at Charlotte again, glanced into Charlotte's eyes with admiration, and then said to Charlotte, "The two Ministry of Magic staff also told me your identity just now, so in the next few days And please take good care of Severus. Then I'll go first."

Charlotte bowed awkwardly to Professor Slughorn, although she didn't quite understand why people from the Ministry of Magic knew her identity, she wasn't that famous, was she?

"Goodbye, Professor Slughorn," Severus said firmly.

Although Professor Slughorn gave them two weeks, the funeral was actually handled very quickly. Tobia and Irene didn't have any relatives or friends during their lifetime, so they didn't need to contact other people. In addition, Irene's cemetery It has been prepared long ago, and they don't need to prepare anything.Simple process, simple burial, and even only Severus, Charlotte and a Ministry of Magic official at the funeral.

After the funeral, in order to accompany Severus, Charlotte asked Ellen for instructions and brought some of her work home so that she could watch Severus while working.Maybe because he hadn't recovered from the blow, Severus turned into the former Charlotte, who always sat on the sofa in the living room, staring at the coffee table in a daze.And he also became less and less talkative. Every time Charlotte said five words, he would only reply briefly.

This made Charlotte more and more worried.

A week later, the arrival of an owl finally called Severus back.After receiving the parchment order brought by the owl, Severus quickly entered the potion room, quickly set up the cauldron, and processed the materials.

Charlotte glanced at it, there were several orders for potions, each of which cost hundreds of bottles, she didn't know how long it would take Severus to make so many potions, but she wanted to contribute some meager strength in it , so she also consciously helped Severus deal with the potion ingredients.

"How are you doing?" Severus asked suddenly.

The knife in Charlotte's hand paused, "Ah—" She was caught off guard by Severus' question, but soon she came to her senses and replied, "It's good. I won't get stuck The dazed state, and the effect is much better than Allen's potion."

This was the truth, ever since Charlotte drank the Severus Soul Stabilizer, her sense of unreality had completely disappeared, and only a little bit of chaos remained in her mind.

"How often? Or two months?" Severus continued.

"The last time I drank was in early September. If there is no accident, I will not know the specific situation until next month." Charlotte replied, "Don't worry too much, maybe I can last until Christmas this time." Charlotte Very optimistic comfort.

"Hmph! I hope," Severus muttered.

He was once again caught up in potion making.The slowly rising mist soon filled the entire potion room. In the familiar bitter atmosphere, Charlotte was processing the materials in her hand for a while, and stared at Severus' serious side face for a while.The mask on Severus's face had been removed by him, and his slightly raised lips and relaxed expression told Charlotte that he was no longer immersed in the deaths of Irene and Tobias.

"It's nothing." Severus continued to stir the stick in his hand, "Maybe it's better for them to be dead, since they're already being tortured alive." Severus' tone was softer than the light mist floating in the cauldron Even lighter.

"It's good that you don't feel sad." Charlotte also replied softly.

"When Ava passed away, you were also sad for a long time?" Severus asked suddenly.

"It's okay." Charlotte replied, "After about three days, I recovered. Because my mother told me to be kind to life and look at the future with hope. She once told me the story of my father, She loved my father very much, but after he died, she still lived with hope, because both she and my father loved a poem."

Charlotte read slowly the poem she had copied on the last page of Shakespeare.

"So, although Ava passed away, her spirit will always be with me, and I will live with her hope." Charlotte looked deeply at Severus, "You should think the same way, Sev." If I die, Charlotte added silently in her mind.

Severus snorted noncommittally.

Regardless, Severus was feeling better, much to Charlotte's relief.But her heart hasn't let up yet, as another test of hers looms, with Halloween just a few days away.

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Charlotte at the beginning is a standard slap in the face plot, the happiest thing in the last chapter is not this, tsk...