[HP]Blue Soul

"Should pregnant women take more walks?"

"do not know."

"Are there any taboos for pregnant women?"

"do not know."

"...Don't you have some snacks? You're pregnant!"

"Charles, I'm also a first-time mother!"

Charlotte clutched her forehead and slumped on the sofa. The manor was full of novices, so how could they know anything about pregnancy.

James' silly father didn't know anything except holding Lily's stomach and being silly.As a godmother, Charlotte, also a novice, turned out to be the one who was most worried about whether the baby would be born safely.

"I decided to go to a bookstore in London to look for books about pregnancy, otherwise I was worried that my godson or goddaughter would not be born safely, because he has a pair of stupid parents." Charlotte thought for a while and said to Lily.

"But it's dangerous outside." Lily was a little worried, "Death Eaters are looking for us everywhere."

"I asked the stars to take me directly to London. I remember that there is a large bookstore next to the Leaky Cauldron. Let me see if there is one." Charlotte had already made plans.

"Okay." Lily held Charlotte's hand, "Then you have to come back quickly."

Charlotte first went back to her manor to get the bank card issued in the Muggle world. This bank card was prepared for the dividends of Betty's pet shop at the time, and it was just right to use at this time.

The stars took Charlotte to London in an instant.Because of some recent explosions or other traumatic incidents, there are a lot fewer pedestrians on the streets of London, and police cars are patrolling back and forth.

The Leaky Cauldron across the street was still dilapidated, the usual crowded record store was deserted, and in the bookstore on the other side there were two or three people sitting on the floor reading books.

Charlotte tightened her windbreaker, and said to Xingxing: "Mr. Housekeeper, I will call you here in a while." After getting a positive nod from Xingxing, Charlotte walked into the bookstore quickly.

The bookstore is very large, and the recommended books are recommended to buy when you enter the door. Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" and "Pride and Prejudice" are placed in a particularly prominent position, as well as the hardcover editions of Shakespeare's four tragedies and four comedies. Seeing Lily's boring life, Charlotte decided to buy these back later.

There are sections in the bookstore, and Charlotte didn't see books related to pregnancy until she walked very far inside. "Being a Baby Dad for the First Time", "From Birth to 3 Years Old", "Must-Read Guide for Beginner Parents", and "Pregnancy Book", among the dazzling array of books, Charlotte picked a few at random.

After moving the dozen or so books he was fancy to to the counter, Charlotte turned out the bank card in his pocket.The cashier was a fat little girl. She looked at Charlotte in shock, surprised at Charlotte's strength that did not match her appearance.

"Hello, can I pay?" Charlotte beckoned.

Only then did the cashier come to his senses, realizing that he was being impolite, smiled shyly and said, "I'm sorry, I'll pay you right away." Because he knew the price well, the cashier was very fast, "It's a total of 86 pounds. , Shakespeare is more expensive in hardcover."

The too expensive price made Charlotte grit her teeth.

"In addition, do you need the baby diary service?" The cashier handed Charlotte a leaflet, which said "Witness the baby's growth and leave good memories", mainly saying that the photography agency provides photography packages, including One-month pregnancy photos, family photos of pregnant women after the belly has grown up, and photos of the baby after birth, the whole set is scary expensive even if there is a discount.

"Baby diaries are very popular in London now. If necessary, this one can offer a discount." The cashier added.

"I'll go back and ask first." Charlotte didn't directly refuse, but she felt that this pregnant woman's diary was a good idea, and she could take on the task herself if she had a magic camera. "Is there a thicker photo album for sale?"

"Yes, yes." The cashier pulled out a thick photo album from the counter behind and handed it to Charlotte.

Charlotte flipped through it and felt that there was no problem, "Let's count together, how much is the total?"

"90 pounds, miss."

After paying by credit card, the cashier prepared several bags before packing all the books. The cashier might still feel that it is inconvenient for a girl to take back so many books, so she hesitated before saying to Charlotte: "Miss , our store also provides delivery, do you need it?"

"No, thank you." Charlotte easily held a few bags containing more than a dozen books in her hands, and pushed the door out of the bookstore under the dumbfounded eyes of the cashier.There was still no one on the street, so Charlotte didn't dare to delay, and quickly returned to the hidden corner opposite the Leaky Cauldron to summon the stars.

Apparating was even more uncomfortable than before because of the weight in his hand.Upon returning to Potter Manor, Charlotte threw the book bag in her hand on the sofa, and rushed into the bathroom to vomit.

Lily followed, patted Charlotte on the back and said, "Look at you throwing up, those who didn't know thought you were pregnant."

Charlotte wiped her mouth with a tissue, and gave Lily a weak look, "I also think it's me who is pregnant, and I don't know who is the child's parent."

Charlotte returned to the living room, took out a few pregnancy-related books from the book bag on the sofa, and placed them in front of Lily, "I will read these, but you and James can't escape." Charlotte She stuffed "Being a Baby Dad for the First Time" into Lily's hand, and said sternly, "I'll show it to James when he comes back."

"Okay... okay, Mama Charles." Lily pouted.

Charlotte glared at Lily, and continued to take out other books from the book bag, "These are for you to pass the time, don't try to climb on the magic broom again, or I will hide the broom."

"Shakespeare?" Lily put aside "First Time Dad" in her hand, took a copy of "Hamlet" and flipped through it, "Actually, I read some when I was young, but I never read it again when I went to Hogwarts. I haven't touched it. It's good to look back now, thank you Charles."

"As long as you are well and my godson is born safely." Charlotte said helplessly, "If you feel bored even after reading, come and help me sort out the materials. My thesis is still a big project." Especially This is the first time Charlotte has worked on a dissertation on her own without any help.

"Okay, I'll listen to you, Mother Charles, hahahahaha."

With the help of the book, Charlotte is no longer at a loss for what to do with Lily, and throws the recipes in the book to Xing Xing for him to use. For other precautions, Charlotte supervises them one by one like an elder.

As for the baby diary, Charlotte did not forget that there are already two pregnant women photos in the album, and the slight ups and downs of the stomach can't be seen at all.It wasn't until almost four months that Lily's stomach bulged like a ball.

But along with the belly grows Lily's temper.

"Don't cry, don't watch it if you feel uncomfortable."

Charlotte snatched "Macbeth" from Lily's hand and threw it aside. She regretted buying the four major tragedies more than once.During her pregnancy, Lily was very emotional, and she could read a book even if she was distraught.

"Why are witches so bad?" Lily said sobbing, "If the three witches hadn't prophesied to General Macbeth, would the tragedy never have happened?"

"You are a witch, Lily. And Macbeth believes in prophecy because of desire and fear. He is a tyrant, and this is what he deserves." Charlotte sighed, "Would you like to watch a comedy?"

"I don't want to read it, I want to hear you tell the story about you and Alan outside, such as the cursed village, you just told half of it." Lily was still sobbing, but her hopeful eyes pierced Charlotte, making Charlotte shuddered.

"You fell asleep in the middle of what I said last time..." Charlotte said helplessly, "And I haven't finished my thesis yet." Several months passed, and Charlotte actually wrote the beginning.

Lily began to cry again, and Charlotte covered her forehead.

"Why are you crying again?" James, who came back from the outside, hurried over, followed by Sirius, the two of them looked like they had just returned from the battlefield, their clothes were dirty, and the robe was torn. Hole.

Charlotte frowned and stood between James and Lily, "Go and clean up and change clothes before coming back!" Then she glanced at Sirius again, "And you!"

Even if she didn't get close, Charlotte could smell blood, not to mention Lily who is so sensitive now.Charlotte no longer wanted to face the hysterical Lily, she was always afraid that such a Lily would hurt her body.Alas, I don't know when I really became "Mother Charles".

The two men always packed up very quickly, and within a short while James had hugged Lily to comfort her.Charlotte poured a glass of water to Lily who laughed again, "Drink water, you haven't had a few glasses of water today."

Lily took it and gulped it down, then gave Charlotte the empty glass.This movement was as smooth and natural as if he had done it countless times. Sirius was amazed by it, and he joked: "Padfoot, I think Charlotte is much more competent than you as a father."

"You're right, Charlotte really helped a lot." James glanced at Charlotte who walked into the study, leaned towards Sirius, and said in a low voice, "It's just sometimes frightening." Panic, I almost thought it was Professor McGonagall standing in front of me."

Sirius raised his eyebrows and said with a sneer, "You're only this brave? What's there to be afraid of her?"

"Hmph, you don't come here often." After James hummed, he turned to Lily again, laying on her stomach and listening to the fetal movement, and said foolishly while listening, "Little Harry, little huh Leigh, this is Dad."

Sirius rolled his eyes at James, who looked like a fool, and said to Lily: "How are you doing recently? It's been a long time since I came to see you."

"It's fine. Charles is with me. Mrs. Bagshot comes to sit occasionally. It's not too boring. It's just that I don't do anything, and my bones are getting stiff. How is the Order of the Phoenix? Fork doesn't tell me when he comes back every day." Lily patted the messy head on her belly.

"Everything is as usual." It's just that Moody has a broken leg and another member of the Order of the Phoenix is ​​missing. Sirius is not going to tell Lily about these things, James has told him so much.

"By the way, I heard that the divination teacher has retired, and Dumbledore plans to recruit another one." Sirius decided to change the subject.

"Finally retired?" Lily curled her lips, "If you want me to say, don't recruit new ones, there is no need to look for the divination class at all. Let's not say whether the prophecy is made up or not, even if it is true, you know in advance Isn't it also a hindrance?"

"You're right. I think prophecy is something that people believe in or not, and those who read it are those who listen to the prophecy." Charlotte said, leaning against the door of the study, holding a book in her hand. "History of Magic", "There is no good thing to predict the future. If you have this time, it is better to read the history of magic and understand the past. Lily, don't read the four tragedies, read the history of magic."

You won't cry when you read History of Magic, Charlotte thought helplessly.

"I guess Dumbledore doesn't like that class either." James sat up and said, "Besides, there aren't many people who practice divination now, so it's not certain whether they can be recruited. If they can't be recruited in the end, they can justifiably cancel it." This class is over."

"That's not necessarily true. I heard that the famous prophet Cassandra Trelawney has a great-great-granddaughter. Maybe she will apply for the job," Sirius said.

"Then I hope she's more reliable." Lily pouted and looked at Charlotte pitifully. "I don't want to read History of Magic. I'm tired of studying in school."

"Maybe there is no pressure to study, but you will find this book very interesting." Charlotte said, "If you really can't read it anymore, you can read other things, whatever, and stop reading the four tragedies."

"Okay..." Lily's mood sank again.Charlotte immediately gave James a look, and James understood Lily immediately.

When Sirius was about to leave, Charlotte followed, but there was no one in the yard. Charlotte hesitated for a while before asking Sirius, "How are the Death Eaters doing now?"

Sirius was silent for a while before he said, "Keep going crazy, what else can I do. I know you want to know someone's movements, but I don't know either. Death Eaters all wear masks, and no one can tell who they are. And I advise you to give up, evil is evil, how can it be so easy to get rid of evil."

"This has nothing to do with you." Charlotte sighed in her heart, she was stupid to ask this question.

"As you please." Sirius shrugged and said indifferently, "Then I'll go first."

Sirius quickly disappeared into the vortex. Charlotte stood in the yard for a while before returning to the study. She never wanted to disturb the tender moments between Lily and James.Taking out the half-painted painting from the desk drawer, Charlotte began to trace slowly again.

Only at this time, Charlotte will let her thoughts burst out to her heart's content, recalling the bits and pieces with Severus, getting along day and night and the short-term tenderness, and finally integrating them into the painting and engraving them into the picture. marrow.

"Sev, what are you doing? Sev..."

Severus was in the Malfoy Manor, rubbing the moon bell in his hand, leaning against the wall in a daze, opposite him was Lucius.Lucius, whose already sharp chin was sharpened by his weight loss, was feeding the peacocks in the yard.

"Severus, the Dark Lord has given you a new mission?" Lucius asked.

"Well, go to Hogsmeade to gather information." Severus said grimly.

"What news can Hogsmeade have, why won't you enter Hogwarts? Oh, yes, the Dark Lord himself has not been able to enter Hogwarts." Lucius said with a sneer, "Recently Dumbledore's The Order of the Phoenix has disrupted many operations, and the Dark Lord is already angry. He asked people to check the residences of members of the Order of the Phoenix. You are quite prescient. You asked me to erase the traces of Charlotte Smith and Lily Evans before. For this?"

"How's your Occlumency going?" Severus asked suddenly.

Lucius snorted and turned his head away from Severus, "Of course it's not as good as you, I can't resist the Dark Lord." He sprinkled a handful of food on the peacock, "Now the Dark Lord still trusts me, maybe You trust my money, and you don’t use Legilimency on me.”

"That can't be relaxed, his behavior is becoming more and more unpredictable now." Severus stuffed the moon bell into his pocket, "Or, you can ask me to delete that memory for you, so that the Dark Lord won't find out."

"It's a good idea." Lucius stood up and smoothed his robe, "I have given you enough trust, don't delete too much." Compared to being found by the Dark Lord's Legilimency to hide members of the Order of the Phoenix Whereabouts, memory deletion is simply a good choice.

Severus' spells were always spot on, and Lucius quickly forgot that he had helped Severus cover Charlotte and Lily.

As early as the days when Severus left Charlotte, Severus had asked Lucius for help, because Wilkes could find out, and so could others.And Lucius actually helped, which surprised Severus, although Lucius said afterwards that he was obsessed with ghosts.

"The Dark Lord gave you a new mission?" Lucius asked again without noticing.

"Go and collect information. It's inconvenient to contact at that time. I've already made a month's worth of your palliative and beauty potions and handed them over to Narcissa. Then, I'll be leaving first." Severus said with his phantom After the teleportation left, Lucius said in confusion and displeasure, "Why did you just leave when you came here?"

Severus didn't go to Hogsmeade, nor did he go back to Spider's End, but came to Godric's Hollow.Skillfully applying the Disillusionment Charm to himself, Severus entered Manor 33.The swing on the porch swayed gently, but the person sitting on it was not here.

After leaving Godric's Hollow, he secretly came here several times with the Disillusionment Curse, watching Charlotte silently in the dark. This is the most humble but happiest thing he has done. thoughts and anxiety.His illusion spell is also getting better and better, even when the four robbers were there, they couldn't find him.

At Lily's wedding before, Lupine's confession caused Severus to be confused, and he accidentally broke a branch, almost letting Charlotte find him, but then Charlotte's firm "I will wait for him" , disrupted Severus' breathing, joy, touch, self-blame, voluntary, anger, hatred, those complicated emotions rushed into his heart, causing Severus to flee in defeat.

This wasn't the first time, nor would it be the last, that Charlotte was nearly spotted.The moon bell that Charlotte gave him became the last link between him and Charlotte.The soft ringing of the bell conveyed Charlotte's thoughts, but it also became an opportunity for him to be almost exposed.

I still remember the day a few months ago when he forgot to fix the fixing spell on the bell in his pocket, so Charlotte almost found him under the tree.Fortunately, he succeeded in remediating it in time, and Charlotte didn't really find out.But at that time, Charlotte, who was wet by the rain, was so thin that Severus was startled, and he couldn't help but want to hug her into his arms.

But since that time, he hasn't seen Charlotte for a long time.The deserted manor tells of the departure of the master.Where will Charlotte go?Should I go to look for the illusory Raven Forest again, or do research in the magical biome.Severus, who had lost his source of information, had no choice but to sit on the sidelines.

Sitting on the swing chair and rocking, Severus suddenly thought of the brief moment of happiness he had stolen last Christmas.Charlotte would take his arm, intertwining his fingers, leaning on his shoulder.And he can hug and kiss because it's his girl.

But all this was destroyed by Voldemort. Severus hated Voldemort, but he had to contribute to Voldemort because he was afraid of death. After death, he would never see Charlotte again.So he could only struggle to survive.

Spying at Hogsmeade wasn't the first assignment Voldemort gave him.Voldemort once asked him to study wolf's poison potion as a bargaining chip to win over the werewolf army.But Severus wasn't done, even though he had some ideas, he didn't actually make them.This is his secret resistance, which can make him feel a little better.

It was this resistance that displeased Voldemort.Like punitively giving Severus the espionage mission, even letting Wilkes go with Severus.For this reason, Severus' potion quest was also stopped.

But it might be a relief for Severus, allowing him to bid farewell to the endless potion brewing for a while.Even if he loves potions, he can't stand working day and night without pay.

"Boom," an ugly little thing appeared in the yard, it was a star, and it now belonged to Charlotte's house-elf.Severus frowned, if the star was still here, Charlotte was too.She didn't leave Godric's Hollow, so where would she go?

"Who's there?" Star screamed at the wobbly swing chair.

Severus immediately cast a Silencing Charm around, and then Apparated out of Godric's Hollow, leaving only the swing chair still a little wobbly and the star confused.

He guessed where Charlotte was.But he's about to start his mission, to live in the Hog's Head, to collect information whether useful or not.

The author has something to say:

According to the original book of HP, the wolfsbane potion was invented by Damocles Belby, and the third Lupine's description is: "I was bitten when I was very young. My parents tried various methods, but at that time this It's hopeless. The potion that Professor Snape gave me was only recently discovered. You know, this potion has made me safe." I didn't say how recently, so I privately set it as after Voldemort's death. , and therefore Severus didn't really make the wolfsbane potion, but he could make it, so after the invention of the wolfsbane potion, he was able to get such a difficult potion with his hands.