[HP]Blue Soul

On Christmas Day, Charlotte was sitting beside Allen's grave in Godric's Hollow in a daze, holding the latest issue of "Fantastic Creatures Weekly" in her hand.

There was still a thick layer of snow on the ground, and Charlotte's pants were already wet, but she didn't seem to feel it.The cold wind whizzed by, turning the pages of "Fantastic Creatures Weekly", making a rattling sound, and Charlotte shivered unconsciously.

"Charlotte?" The moving voice that Charlotte was familiar with sounded from behind her, with doubts as if uncertain.

Charlotte stood up abruptly, which made her eyes darken, but soon she recovered, staggered towards the embrace she missed day and night, and hugged her tightly.Her Severus was back.

"Charlotte!" Severus snorted incredulously, "How? Why are you sitting here?"

"Sev, Sev," Charlotte kept yelling.

Her thick nasal voice made Severus frown, and he felt a chill from the moment Charlotte approached, and he didn't know how long it took to sit in this cold state.

"Damn it!" Severus cursed, and he pulled Charlotte away heavily, drew his wand and cast her a Quickening Charm and a Warming Charm.

Ignoring the tears and snot on his chest, he looked at Charlotte, whose eyes were red from crying and hiccupping, raised his hand roughly, but gently wiped away Charlotte's tears. Say, "What the hell is going on? I remember you were so excited when you wrote that you were moving to a new house and that I would come over and spend Christmas with you."

Charlotte didn't speak, she pulled Severus up and led him to Alan's grave. In the photo, Alan was smiling happily, as if he had received the honor he most wanted.

"Alan Travers?" Severus was shocked again, "How?"

He squeezed Charlotte's hand tightly, his eyes full of pity.

"Will you take me to your new quarters?" Severus said softly.

Charlotte nodded, picked up the "Fantastic Creatures Weekly" that had fallen beside the tombstone, and led Severus back to 33 Godric's Hollow.The wooden sign beside the courtyard gate has been replaced with a new one, which says "AC House".Among them, the word "Zhi" is actually used in Chinese. This nondescript name looks a little cute on the brand.

Through the cleared but still empty flower beds, Charlotte pushed open the door and led Severus inside.

The drawing-room was brightly lit, and to the right of the fireplace, and to the left of the dining table, stood a gigantic fir-tree, sparingly festooned.The person doing the make-up looks perfunctory.The fire is very strong, and the room is warm and harmonious.

The star soon appeared, bowed to Charlotte and Severus, and looked at Charlotte with some concern.He consciously took Charlotte and Severus' coats, hung them on the hangers, and quickly went to the open kitchen to fiddle with the teapot.

Severus pulled Charlotte to sit on the sofa, held her hand and sighed softly, "Can you tell me? Charlotte, what happened."

Charlotte bowed her head in silence for a while, sniffing.Then he said, "I'm sorry, Sev. I never thought this would happen."

Xingxing brought a pot of tea, poured a cup for Charlotte and Severus, and handed Charlotte's cup to her hand.

Charlotte took a sip of warm tea, and finally told Severus everything that happened on that thrilling and unforgettable night.Her voice started to tremble halfway through the speech, and she could hardly hold the teacup steadily, but Severus snatched it and put it on the table.

"So, in the end they didn't get any punishment either?" Severus whispered.

He felt that the names Charlotte mentioned were familiar to him, as if he had heard them somewhere, especially the name Cosmo.

"Well." Charlotte said extremely lowly, "Tom Campbell, Aaron's friend, an Oro, he apologized to me, but this matter was suppressed by their minister."

"Well, that's the beauty of power," Severus said sarcastically.

"I can't sleep, Severus." Charlotte rested her forehead on Severus' shoulder, "When I close my eyes, those horrible scenes will appear in my mind. Alan's eyes are always on my face." running around in my head."

Severus raised his right hand and hesitated for a few seconds before placing it on the back of Charlotte's head, "I remember that Miss Smith is very optimistic, she will definitely not be knocked down by this incident, right?"

"Yeah." Charlotte snorted.

"The main thing is that you need to adjust your mentality." Severus continued to feel the soft touch of his hands without stopping, "I can make you some life and death water."

Charlotte nodded against Severus' shoulder.

"So, can you take me to the potions room here? I can make you some right away." Severus said sideways at the back of Charlotte's head.

Charlotte nodded again, and paused on his shoulder for a few more minutes, then slowly raised her head, sniffed, and said, "Over there, I'll take you there."

Charlotte led Severus to the round cellar entrance and walked up the stairs in the cellar. Charlotte raised his hand and turned on the switch on the left wall of the cellar. Every corner is clearly illuminated.

The cellar was no longer empty as it used to be, but several tables and a desk were placed, and there were rows of shelves in the rest of the place, on which were placed various potion materials and herbal pots.Even Severus marveled at the variety of materials.

"Alan got it here." Charlotte said softly, "He said he didn't like the empty space, so he used this method to fill it up."

Severus quickly found the materials he needed on the shelf and put them on the workbench, quickly received water from the gargoyle in the corner, skillfully set up the cauldron, lit the fire, and said to Charlotte: "Let's process the materials Well, I guess you haven't forgotten those things."

Charlotte nodded, and silently dealt with it beside her.

"Did you drink your soul stabilizer?" Severus threw the chopped ingredients into the boiling water.

"No." Charlotte said with her head down, "I accidentally broke the potion bottle."

That was a few days ago, she didn't drink the medicine a day late, and she was stunned before taking the medicine, and when she was woken up by Xiao Bai's tail, she had dropped the potion bottle to the ground and smashed it.

Severus snorted displeasedly, and said coldly: "Go get the material of the soul stabilizer, I'll make it for you."

Charlotte nodded, rubbed her toes, and slowly brought over the potion ingredients needed for the soul stabilizer, and Severus had already set up another cauldron of water.Charlotte consciously continued to process the potion ingredients, while Severus kept busy with the two cauldrons.

Soon, the first pot of potion was ready.Severus poured the hot potion into the cup and handed it directly to Charlotte, "Drink this first, refreshing." Charlotte took it, and Severus continued, "You I don’t know how long I sat outside today. Drink it and don’t catch a cold.”

Charlotte let out a "hmm" and drank the potion. Unlike the refreshing potion she had drank from Severus before, this time the refreshing potion also tasted sweet.Needless to say, this was Severus' improvement again.

It didn't take a quarter of an hour for the refreshing potion to take effect, and Charlotte's head began to clear up, and steam was constantly emitting from his ears.

Severus continued to go back and forth in the middle of the cauldron. He was so familiar with the brewing steps of the soul stabilizer that he couldn't make a mistake even with his eyes closed, because he not only needed to make it for Charlotte, but also for Voldemort. .

He passed Voldemort's test and proved his talent. He still remembers what Voldemort said to him: "I am honored to have a Potions genius to join the Death Eaters. When you graduate, I will take the place next to me." Leave it to you. This is my reward for you."

What Voldemort gave was the learning method of Legilimency, which even included his own experience. Severus, as if he had found a treasure, had already started to learn it.

After preparing the soul stabilizer, Severus quickly filled a cup and handed it to Charlotte.

Charlotte gulped down the drink, but the taste of the potion this time was completely different from the refreshment potion just now.Although it was not the first time to drink the soul stabilizer, but because of the comparison of the refreshing potion, she had to use a lot of effort to drink the soul stabilizer.

"Can't this potion also improve the taste?" Charlotte said with a frown.

"This potion is special, and I'm afraid that adding other things will destroy its properties." Severus took the empty cup and said, "I'll prepare some more for you this holiday, you can't stop this potion."

"Hmm." Charlotte drank a large glass of water to relieve the bitterness in her mouth.

Severus continued to bottle the potion, and put a bottle of life-death water in Charlotte's hand, "Drink it before going to bed at night, so you can sleep well."

"Thank you, Sev."

Charlotte held the potion bottle and laughed, this was the first time she laughed since Alan's death, because of Severus in front of her eyes, because of his care and love.

After the potion was ready, Charlotte took Severus up to the second floor. Allen had asked the stars to decorate the room for Severus and Lily. Charlotte pushed open the door on the far right of the second floor , there is a sign "Severus' room" on the door, the interior is the silver-green tone that Severus likes, the decoration is simple and warm.

The signs on the middle door and the leftmost door are "Lily's Room" and "Lottie's Room". Needless to say, the sign on Charlotte's door was changed by Xingxing himself, but Charlotte did not blame He, this name is more intimate, doesn't it?

And Severus saw the sign on Charlotte's door, and murmured like a sigh: "Lottie..." He hoped that one day, he could use such an affectionate name to call the person on his heart .

Maybe it was because he was thinking day by day and dreaming at night, Severus had an unspeakable dream that night, even when he woke up, he shouted "Lottie".

He hurried into the second-floor lavatory to clean himself up, but luckily didn't run into Charlotte or the clever house-elf.

The living room on the first floor was very quiet, the fire in the fireplace was still burning, but there was no one in the living room.There were still a few pieces of parchment on the coffee table, it looked like someone had just written something there.He looked around the living room and found two rooms to the left of the stairs.

The room on the right has a wooden sign "Alan's Room", and the room on the left has "Knowledge and Work".Severus pushed open the door on the left, it was a study room, the bookshelves were densely packed with books, and in the middle of the bookshelves were placed two desks facing each other, with a chair next to each, and the parchments on the desks were piled up Tall and looking more homework than he'd seen in Professor Slughorn's office.

But the study was also empty, and Charlotte wasn't here.

Severus looked elsewhere, but Charlotte wasn't there until he opened the door and saw Charlotte on the porch.She was dressed like a ball and was sitting on a swing with a book in her hand, swinging back and forth.The little white snake was wrapped around the iron chain of the swing, as if exerting force.

The little white snake saw him first, and turned around to hiss with Charlotte.Charlotte immediately turned her head, "Sev? You're awake!"

"You got up so early?" Severus walked up to Charlotte, who was still holding the "Fantastic Creatures Weekly" in her hand. The dynamic photos of birds and snakes on the cover were very interesting.

"I slept well last night, thank you for the water of life and death, Sev." Charlotte raised her head and said with a smile, she patted the empty space next to her with her left hand, "Come sit for a while? The stars will be given to us after a while make breakfast."

Severus didn't refuse, and sat on Charlotte's left side. He looked at the snow-covered grass in front of him, which was faintly green.A gust of wind from the end of the porch made him feel a little cold, and he drew his wand and cast a warming charm on himself and Charlotte.

"Why not stay inside?" Severus asked.

"I'm sleepy, I want to wake up outside." Charlotte sniffed, the warmth brought by the warming spell seemed to melt her nose, "I wear a lot, but it's not that cold."

But her frozen red face and the tip of her nose were not convincing.

"Forget it, let's go in." Charlotte compromised, and occasionally the pressure that Severus would bring around him even if he didn't speak made her a little timid.

Severus snorted noncommittally, stood up and dragged Charlotte, who was a little hard to move, she had too many clothes on.Charlotte giggled in embarrassment, and stretched out her hand beside Xiao Bai, who slid into Charlotte's sleeve like flowing water.

After entering the door, Charlotte tore off the thick padded jacket that was wrapped around her several times, then sat on the sofa, stretched her hands to the fireplace to bake, and then relaxed and collapsed on the sofa.She took out a brand-new Fantastic Creatures Weekly from under the sofa and handed it to Severus.

"I'll send you the promised sample when it comes out, but I forgot." Charlotte said, "It's always easy to be in a daze and forget things a few days ago."

"You broke the potion bottle." Severus flipped through Fantastic Creatures Weekly.

Charlotte heard what he meant: You deserved it.She pouted and didn't answer, but reminded Severus: "Our article is on the first edition, you can read it."

Speaking of which, Charlotte picked up a piece of parchment on the coffee table, "I received a letter this morning, and the Daily Prophet wanted to interview me, but I declined."

Severus looked at the first edition of the article. There were two names written under the headline, Allen.PT and Char.FS. The article was so long that it took up the entire page. In the lower right corner, wrote Author: "This article was jointly completed by Mr. Travers and Ms. Xia, and the cover picture was kindly provided by Ms. Xia."

"Why does the Daily Prophet want to interview you?" Severus glanced at the paper. There was no nonsense in the paper, the arguments were clear and novel, and the data was rich. In his opinion, it was indeed a very good paper.

"I don't know where they learned about my age. They want to use it as a gimmick." Charlotte shrugged. "But I refused. They probably won't come to me, right?"

"Britain is not that small." Severus turned to the next page and found that there was even a section dedicated to introducing Alan Travers and Charlotte Smith. He asked Charlotte, "Did you read Back?"

"No." Charlotte shook her head and said, "Why? What's written on the back?"

Severus handed the weekly magazine to Charlotte, and Charlotte took a look, and the huge headline "Ellen Travers: She's Talented - 14-year-old rising star in the world of magical creatures" clearly showed The reason for the letter from the Daily Prophet.

"Alan still went to this kind of interview? I don't know at all." Charlotte scanned the page. It was a conversation between Allen and the reporter. It mentioned Charlotte's talent many times, but did not disclose Charlotte. Charlotte breathed a sigh of relief.

"Then now... will you continue to do research?"

"Yes. This is what Allen loves, and he gave it to me a long time ago. I won't give up!"

"Then the Forbidden Forest he mentioned earlier?"

"When he moved, he said that the research was suspended. I don't know if he told Professor Kettleburn about it, or...Dumbledore is the one who can make this decision."

Severus pursed his lips, he had been looking forward to seeing her again at Hogwarts since that night, but there was no news until Christmas, only the news of moving, so he couldn't wait to come When he arrived in Godric's Hollow, he accidentally picked up a girl in the cemetery.

"I will write to Professor Kettleburn, hoping he can agree. With his recommendation, maybe Headmaster Dumbledore will agree too! If it doesn't work, I can...can..."

"What else?"

Charlotte lowered her voice like a thief, "Let Bain take me to the Forbidden Forest like last time."

"Better not." Severus said disapprovingly, "The Forbidden Forest is very dangerous, I don't think you are a reckless Gryffindor, wandering around in the Forbidden Forest without sleep at night."

"Why, there are still Gryffindors running in the Forbidden Forest?" Charlotte was a little surprised. Even Alan didn't dare to wander around in the Forbidden Forest. After gaining the friendship of the Hippogriff, he Only then was she willing to leave her.How dare Gryffindor students wander among dangerous magical creatures.

"I just know." Severus said with a frown, "I don't know what method they used, not only to avoid the professor who was watching the night, but also to travel freely in the Forbidden Forest."

Charlotte suddenly thought of James Potter on the night of the full moon. He always knew that Remus Lupine was a werewolf, and he was not afraid of Remus Lupine in the form of a werewolf. What exactly did he rely on?Charlotte didn't quite understand.

"It's better not to talk about these spoilers." Severus took the weekly magazine from Charlotte's hand again, smoothed the slightly warped corner of the cover, and sat down on the sofa.

"Miss Lottie, Mr. Snape, I'll make breakfast." The star suddenly appeared in front of the dining table, and the pure white/exquisite pillowcase on his body was wet a lot at this moment, and the color was much darker.

Severus pursed his lips, raised his wand, and cast a Quick Charm on Star.Of course he wouldn't admit that it was because of a sudden pity, it was just because Charlotte valued him.

Xingxing bowed three times to Severus emotionally, then turned around with a sob and went back to work.Charlotte smiled at Severus, tapped his forehead on Severus' shoulder, and whispered softly in his ear, "You're very kind, Severus."

Severus cast his eyes uncomfortably on the banister on the right, his shoulders and ears burning, reminding him of the scene in his dream, his nose itching a bit.

Soon the ringing of the telephone came to his rescue.

"Lily?" Charlotte was a little surprised to hear Lily's voice from the opposite side.

"It's me, Charles!" Lily was a little excited, maybe because she called Charlotte for the first time, "I'll go see you tomorrow morning? Sif said he could take the Knight Bus? Has Sif passed by?" gone?"

"Well, I came here yesterday." Charlotte said, "I'll pick you up at the intersection tomorrow morning. Do you want to live here? If you're staying, remember to bring two sets of clothes. I have everything else here."

"I don't know either. Let me ask my mother. If I live there, I will bring my own clothes."

"Okay, then I'll wait for you."

Charlotte put down the phone, stood behind the sofa and said to Severus who was looking sideways at her on the sofa: "Lily will come over tomorrow, I'll pick her up."

"Well, I'll be with you tomorrow."