[HP] Illusion

The bubbles in the pool were very thick, Harry picked up a layer mixed with lavender, and smashed it on little Snape's hair with precision. The boy paused, and subconsciously reached out to touch his own hair. Hair, but this time, the area of ​​the foam has been smeared larger, and a large black and white patch on the boy's half-length hair is indeed...a bit cool.

Little Snape sank back into the water, and Harry's legs swayed rhythmically, which took him a little off the inner wall of the pool, and his feet couldn't touch the bottom of the pool, but doing so did make his brain I am sober up a lot, and I don't feel lazy and don't want to move anymore.

"Hasn't anything happened in the past few days?" Because the boy disappeared again, Harry asked loudly towards the bottom of the water.

As soon as he finished speaking, he clearly felt that the flow speed of the water around him became a little strange. Just when he was about to sink, he was suddenly hugged from behind, and the boy's hands wrapped around his waist. Letting go, he felt the other person's hair brushing against his back, and then Chi Guoguo's body was also pressed against him.

Such intimacy made Harry a little bit at a loss. It was a bit strange to be close to another person's naked body, let alone feel that some part of the other person's body happened to rub against his buttocks, even though it was just For such an instant, he had a strange feeling of scalp numbness.

But Harry was relieved to realize that the boy was just trying to protect his childish behavior just now.

Of course, Harry wouldn't let the boy "revenge", he just dragged little Snape down together without thinking too much, he made his eyes waterproof and moisture-proof before, so he wouldn't be able to see when he sank to the bottom.

He wanted to pull away the boy's hand holding his waist, but because it was underwater, all the fighting skills he had learned before were useless due to the change of underwater power, and any movement was buffered by water. They all became limp, as if they were flirting. Harry had no choice but to turn around in the boy's arms, but the boy didn't give in when he did so, and directly tightened his arms, and the two bodies were facing each other. Sticking together, he can even feel the embarrassment of colliding with the other boy's unique organs...

Harry could even see the slight curvature of the boy's lips after he succeeded, and couldn't help feeling a little annoyed.

——The only thing he is more aggressive at this time is that his body is relatively skinny, so it must hurt more when the bone hits than when the opponent hits him.

Harry put his arms around the boy's neck directly, and the two got closer. Just when little Snape probably couldn't figure out what he wanted to do, his legs wrapped directly around the boy's waist Then, with a sudden force, the boy was unprepared, and was directly pushed down deeper into the water by him, and Harry also took advantage of the opportunity of little Snape's distraction, untied his hands, and escaped out of his grip.

When they came up, Harry was gasping for breath. Fighting in the water required much more strength than on the water surface, because there was always a feeling of hitting cotton, so the effort they expended was also a success. multiplied.

After a while, little Snape still didn't come up.Harry's heart sank, he didn't add any more Cowley, and sank to the bottom again, and this time his body was hit again just as his head was below the surface.Harry immediately lost his balance. He stepped on the water with all his strength, but he still couldn't get rid of the feeling of weightlessness.

On the other hand, he felt the other party splashing water, but the next second, the boy sank again.

Because Harry was gripping his thighs close to the base, the two of them sank to the bottom together.

This time, the content of the fight became that both of them wanted to get to the surface of the water one step ahead of the other. As a result, when Harry pressed the boy's shoulders and swam up, the boy grabbed the young man's ankle. Harry's feet are actually quite sensitive. , being grabbed by the boy like this, the body that didn't have much strength left softened. I don't know if it was his illusion. The boy's violent action of pulling his ankle made him feel like his instep was gently moved by the boy's hand. The feeling was so soft that it didn't seem like he was fighting, but more like some kind of strange suggestion, which made his heart itch a little.

Harry froze, and suddenly struggled. He gestured a cross to the boy to signal a truce, and the boy let go of his feet and floated up with him.

When the two of them broke through the water and came up to breathe, Harry unconsciously moved a little further away from little Snape. I don't know if little Snape noticed his actions. The boy was wiping off the foam on his face and When he was in the water, he seemed to swim closer to him unintentionally.

Harry didn't move this time, just continued to slide with his arms. A split underwater fight almost made him feel his body was exhausted. He had never been so tired when he brought down a dozen Death Eaters .

Although the body is tired, the brain is awake.

Little Snape was also gasping for breath, but he recovered faster than Harry. His face was flushed from the suffocation, from the tip of his ears to his neck was red, and the white skin on his chest that hadn't seen the sun for many years There were also several marks that Harry had just made.

"A truce." Harry touched the water on his forehead, and then carefully brushed his hair back. "Answer my question first."

"Huh?" Little Snape brought out his doubts with a slightly nasal voice.

"It's just that you said that Lily and you got into a fight a few days ago. Did you have any problems before?" In fact, Snape had many problems. If he really did something out of line, Harry wouldn't feel it Accident.

But he might feel a little disappointed.The young man thought silently.

"I haven't been in touch with her for a long time," said Snape, suddenly recalling something that happened that night on the day Harry sent them the letter.Could it be that the person who interrupted them that night was Lily.

In other words, she might have seen everything, including the thing about him saying he was going back to get the potion?But what happened later...

Little Snape frowned slightly. Seeing this, Harry understood what this man was thinking of, "You can tell me, we can't let you guys stay like this forever, the misunderstanding should be cleared up."

"She..." Little Snape uttered a monotone, then he paused for a while, looked at Harry's uneasy expression, and finally said, "She doesn't trust me very much."

——So it’s not good to forcefully continue to be friends?Little Snape lowered his black eyes.

Harry didn't know how to refute him, because from what he'd "seen" Lily didn't trust him very much.

"Why?" the young man heard himself ask.

"Because I'm a Slytherin." Little Snape said in a low voice, "You don't know the atmosphere in Hogwarts. You have also mentioned the confrontation between the two houses before, but the current situation is more serious than ever. Be serious, we hate each other...we've been talking bad things about Gryffindors, and I'm sure...they do too."

People are always easily influenced by the environment. It may be okay in a short period of time, but being in such an environment year after year, it was just some small thoughts, and somehow it became common sense, and it cannot be changed. .

Harry could probably understand the situation, but he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. It was indeed more serious than they imagined, even though he had already vaccinated both of them before and told them that there should be no family differences. But they are still young after all, and they don't have the ability to ignore these.

The more people say it, the more it becomes a fact.

"So..." Harry thought for a while, "You should explain it to her, if you think you have done nothing wrong."

"I..." Little Snape opened his mouth, but he began to hesitate to speak again.

"What happened that day? It looks like you didn't have a fight." Harry probably got some clues. "A few days ago, was it the night I gave you the owl?"

"It was that day." Little Snape swam to the wall of the pool by himself, and stuck to it directly.He suddenly realized that if Lily was planning to come to him that night, then it was very possible to happen to see what happened at that time—no, it should be said [-]%.Judging from the girl's later performance.

Seeing this, Harry swam over too, changing the depth of the pool to the normal height so that their feet touched the wall, their shoulders exposed and their chests covered in a mass of foam.

"Yeah." Harry waited for an answer.

Little Snape looked at Harry who was listening carefully. In fact, he was not used to saying these things or explaining anything, and he didn't think it was necessary to say it, but it seemed that it was not that difficult to speak when the other party was Harry.

"There was a senior Slytherin who was going to bully Hufflepuff that night," he was inexplicably a little nervous, "I ran into him on the way back to the cellar, but I didn't stop..."

He glanced at Harry and found that he didn't have much reaction, and then continued, "I thought about leaving with more things than less things, but they pulled me over and asked me to provide them with potions ..."

Harry probably thought of such a scene. He looked at little Snape with a somewhat anxious expression. The boy seemed to want to defend himself, but he couldn't speak for some reason.

"I made some potions before and wanted to sell them, but..." Little Snape said, "Probably because I'm only in the fourth grade, they don't trust me..."

Harry patted the boy on the shoulder, "This has nothing to do with you. I believe you can do well. In the field of potions, you have always been better than others."

Little Snape's expression was still a little anxious, but it was much better than before, "They told me that night, they wanted to give that girl my medicine to see the effect of the experiment, I never thought of doing that ——" He hastily defended himself.

"You don't have to worry," Harry said softly, "I trust you."

Little Snape was taken aback, he looked at the flushed young man in front of him with a complicated expression, and suddenly stretched out his hand and hugged him.

The boy rested his chin on the young man's shoulder and said in a muffled voice, "Thank you."

——Probably no one will trust him so unconditionally.

Harry reached out his hand slowly, and patted the boy's back in comfort.

Little Snape probably recounted what happened afterwards, "That person probably wasn't Lily that day, but I guess she must have known..." Little Snape was still a little confused as to exactly when the girl knew about it. mind.

"At that time, there was nothing wrong with what you said. You couldn't beat them. This method was also very smart and the safest method." Harry analyzed to him, "But such words are indeed easy to be misunderstood, because They don't know, so they won't know your intentions."

Little Snape said quickly, "I don't need their understanding." It's good that the young man understands him.

Harry rubbed his hair smoothly, "It's okay, if you don't need it, you don't need it." He said gently, "But aren't you and Lily good friends? It's misunderstood like this..."

"She doesn't trust me." And not once or twice.

"She'll trust you," was all Harry said.

Little Snape began to have doubts about this. He and Lily had known each other for six years, much more than the Gryffindor group, but Lily didn't trust him.

So he didn't answer.

"How about we explain it to her, or... let me do it?" Harry still wanted the two to reconcile.

Little Snape couldn't see Harry's expression, and despite some reluctance, he nodded when he heard him say that.

"I made an appointment for dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Evans. Let's go together. In the evening, I will explain something to Lily," Harry said briskly, "Don't be unhappy, I believe she will know the truth."

Little Snape pursed his lips and said nothing, because now he felt that apologizing didn't seem to be a big deal.

Afterwards, the two of them didn't take a serious bath, but under Harry's guidance, Snape told a lot of things that happened at Hogwarts, some happened recently, and some happened a few years ago.

"Poisoned owl?"

"Well, but even the investigation team failed to find out who did it," said Snape roughly, "didn't you hear?"

"No..." Harry had to admit that he was ignorant.

"Probably the news was suppressed." Little Snape muttered.

"Well, the Daily Prophet doesn't." Harry thought for a while, "It's as long as you're all right."

"I still want to know who did it and why did he do it," said little Snape softly, "Why did he only put a small amount of potion on the owl when he was able to do it?"

He still didn't understand this matter at all, and he hadn't heard of any problems with owls, so he had to analyze a few words with Snape. Gewarts, try to change the name and send a few bottles to the owner of the potion shop, and tell him that you can make such a potion or something. If you put your potion sales channel in Hogwarts, I'm afraid some people will take advantage of that."

Little Snape looked up sharply, he stepped back a little and looked at Harry, "Is that okay?"

"If possible, it's best not to let them know what potions you're making, and try to keep a low profile." Harry said, "Maybe you can make some first, and I'll send them to you, and we will open an account at Gringotts , When you settle the bill, you ask the customer to deposit the money into Gringotts for you."

"Okay." Little Snape didn't quite understand these operations before, and he didn't think too much about it. He only knew that he was going to be a potion master in the future, and he also needed money.And now Harry's words seemed to open the door to the new century for the boy. In fact, what happened that night also made him want to find a foreign buyer, but he was a little confused about how to do it. Now With Harry's help, he wasn't worried at all.

Maybe he will be able to have some money in the future...

The two of them were old enough to wash their hair quickly, and Harry was quicker, jumping out of the bath and using the side shower to wash himself clean.

It was probably his illusion again, he always felt that Snape's eyes were always staring at him.

In fact, the Easter holiday should be enough - Harry tried to ignore those strange feelings - he should teach little Snape all these first, so that when he is not around, little Snape will not be like a blind fly Rampage.

"I'm done." Harry turned off the shower, pulled the bathrobe next to him to put on himself, and then quickly walked out of the bathroom.

There was less moisture outside the washroom, and the air became cooler. Harry wiped his hair, and then quickly put on his clothes.But little Snape stayed inside for a long time before slowly coming out.

"All the clothes are ready for you," Harry took out a set of clothes for him, "Change, I just called the Evans couple, and we will go there later."

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In fact, Harry hasn't had dinner with his grandparents for a long time, and Petunia was there that day, but she started to put on a straight face from the moment Harry brought little Snape in—Harry didn't know if she was there before that Also, the dark clouds cover the top, and it doesn't look half friendly.

"Harry," Lily ran out cheerfully with a bowl of salad, "Mom is almost ready, you and Severus go down first and wait."

Mr. Evans took the salad from Lily's hand, "Harry finally came back, didn't you say you missed him all the time, let me do these things, you go chat with him."

Lily gave Mr. Evans a loud kiss, "Daddy you are the best."

Petunia probably didn't want to stay with these three people, she just came out for a while, then quickly ran upstairs.

"Merlin, I can't believe it, Harry, you're really back." Lily sat down with an unbelievable joy on her face, "When I received your letter, I thought I was dreaming, after all, I haven't been able to read it yet. to yourself."

Harry laughed and said, "Didn't you know it four months ago?"

"Yeah, you'll be back then..."

Lily chatted with Harry, but said nothing to Snape.

Harry looked at the Evans couple who were busy in the kitchen, and unconsciously lowered his voice: "Lily, I want to ask you a question."

"what?"

"Are you mad at Severus?"

Lily's bright smile froze obviously, "I..."

She glanced at little Snape, then at Harry whose expression didn't change much, gritted her teeth, and finally mustered up the courage to say: "Actually, there is one thing..."

Hearing her start, Harry knew that it was because of what little Snape said that the boy was at odds with her, so he interrupted him directly, "Why don't you listen to my version first."

Lily stopped and put on a look of listening attentively.

Harry said as he watched Snape's reaction.

"That's what Severus told me, what happened to him that night..."

Lily said in surprise: "So are you really planning to lure people away?"

Little Snape didn't answer, Lily looked a little guilty, "I..."

"Actually, such a scene is really easy to misunderstand," Harry said softly, "Sometimes seeing is not necessarily believing. In many cases, you need to make your own judgment." There is also a certain degree of trust in the parties involved.

Lily stopped talking.

She looked at little Snape, but found that he was not looking at her, but she couldn't even say sorry.

This was the first time, and he felt that he might have lost the other party's friendship.

Harry patted Lily on the shoulder. "Don't trust your ears and eyes, trust your heart, okay?"

"I'm sorry..." Lily felt that it was too easy to say sorry before, and this sentence was the most difficult sentence she found to say. "Severus, I shouldn't be so suspicious of you."

Harry glanced at little Snape, maybe the boy was still willing to forgive Lily?Otherwise, they wouldn't agree with him saying these words, "Severus..."

"I forgive you," said little Snape softly, "it's just that there will be no next time."

Harry was stunned, he didn't expect Snape to react like this.

"I……"

"I have given you many chances, Lily, I hope to gain your trust, I have never mistrusted you..."

"Sorry." Apart from these words, Lily really didn't know what else to say.

Perhaps since they were assigned to Gryffindor and Slytherin, the trust between the two has begun to split little by little.

She was even a little afraid to speak to Snape.

Harry sighed, "Actually, since you were assigned to Slytherin and Gryffindor... I knew there might be such a day, Lily, I can't deny that Slytherin does have a lot of problems Yes, but sometimes Gryffindor is too extreme, not all Slytherins are bad people. I should have said these words before."

"However," he changed the subject, "Severus, you shouldn't keep explaining, not everyone can trust others unconditionally."

At this moment, little Snape lowered his eyes, making it unclear what his expression was.