[HP] Illusion

Harry didn't expect to see his father in the potion shop, mainly because although he knew that James Sirius and Lupine had good grades, Gryffindor has always been ignorant of potions, so he didn't think these days The first one is the owner who will take the initiative to visit the potion shop.But when he saw his father clinging to his mother as soon as he came in, he suddenly felt that his father must have done this on purpose.

Regarding the deliberate estrangement between Lily and Snape on the surface, Harry is not that particular, but after he and Snape have bought all the potions and are ready to pay, James is still clinging to Lily, and Snape Pu obviously saw this situation a long time ago, but chose to turn a blind eye.

Harry looked at this and that without any trace, always feeling something strange.

—It is indeed... very strange.

He thought for a while, and finally understood what was different.

Everything in my memory has changed a lot. For example, Lily no longer dislikes James. For example, when Little Snape faced Lily and the group of four, his expression was calmer than expected, and he was not in a hurry. He no longer wanted to maintain some superficial good relationship with Lily.The only constant is probably the confrontation between Slytherin and Gryffindor, or in other words, the confrontation between Snape and the robbers.

——It is true that something is changing, but is history leading to the same goal?

No wonder he always found it strange, little Snape's attitude towards Lily was obviously different, the boy cared about him even more than Lily, he could feel it.

But...don't boys like Lily?

So there must be something where he got it wrong.

Same as the choice just now, Harry settled the bill first and left with little Snape. Anyway, they were planning to go home early to avoid these people, even if Lily delayed some time, it wouldn't matter much.

When Lily watched Harry leave, James was still pulling herself to talk and became a little anxious. Today they came to buy potion ingredients to buy what Harry and Snape needed, so when Harry left, she should Got to go.Although she knew that Harry would definitely wait for her—because it had been agreed before that if they ran into people, they would meet in this way.

But James repeatedly asked her to help choose better potion ingredients, and Lily also found that this person's vision was indeed not very good, the kind Lily finally chose James responsibly.

"I have to go." Lily said, seeing that James had already made a selection, "You can just ask the clerk to explain the rest."

James was stunned, and finally couldn't help but said, "Ah, so fast?"

Sirius suddenly appeared, "Leave Evans alone, she looks very anxious."

Lupine shook his head, "I'm sorry Evans, for our sake, it took you so long to talk, and it took you so long."

"It's easy to do." Lily squinted her eyes and smiled. Although she was a little anxious, it felt good to be able to help. "But I really have to go."

Lily waved her hand towards them, and hurriedly walked out of the store.

Leaving James alone was particularly melancholy.

As for the other three, they had the following reactions.

Sirius: "Brother, even if you want to see through it, she still won't come back. She has already left with those two men."

Peter: "Jane, James, don't be sad, Lily will be back."

Lupine: "Lily is such a nice person. She knew we bought so many strange materials, but she still didn't ask anything."

Hearing what Lupin said, Sirius yelled directly: "She was in a hurry, so she didn't notice that we bought so many kinds of medicinal materials, and separated them to make what kind of potion."

Lupine thought for a while, and had to nod his head in agreement. Only James kept staring at the direction of the exit.

After Lily went out, she quickly turned around, and finally saw Harry and Snape who didn't know what they were talking about in a small alley not far away. She ran over and said out of breath, "Sorry, sorry, let You have been waiting for a long time."

"It's okay." Harry waved his hand, signaling her to get out of breath quickly.

"We all know it's not your fault." Little Snape suddenly added a knife.

"Then let's go back quickly." Lily looked at the time. It was indeed a little late, but she still hadn't had a meal, and she was a little hungry. If she stayed here and was entangled by James again, things would happen. Some are endless.

It took only a blink of an eye to return to Cokeworth using the apparition phantom. When they got home, Harry and Snape went to the cellar to put away the ingredients for the potion, while Lily volunteered to put the vegetables they bought Wash it first, and wait for Chef Harry to take over the spoon.During the meal, I don't know who brought up the topic of potions first, but as they were talking, their topic jumped to what kind of potions those four people bought today. Lily felt that it would be okay to say it, so He said everything she remembered in one go.

Harry rubbed his chin and said with interest: "It sounds like there can be quite a few combinations."

"Transfiguration Potion." Little Snape suddenly whispered. "And Polyjuice Potion."

Harry thought for a while, "It is indeed possible."

Little Snape looked at him speechlessly, "It's just that two key medicines are missing, so it's not easy to find, but for a family like Potter, it should be easy to find such things."

"I remembered." Lily opened her eyes wide, "James is indeed very interested in metamorphology." No, in fact, it should be said that James and Sirius' efforts in metamorphology may be dozens of times that of other disciplines. And this hard work does not mean that they study hard on the textbooks. On the contrary, they are quite disdainful of the research on metamorphosis in textbooks. Their research on metamorphosis, even the most rigorous Mag, once described it as outstanding. The two of them.This point is very famous in Gryffindor, so what Lily said just now means, "I saw them buying books about transfiguration at Lihen Bookstore. I have never seen the names of those books."

"It sounds like they're planning something," said Snape without thinking, "Maybe it's a big conspiracy."

Lily glanced at Snape disapprovingly, "I think we should stop guessing, maybe everything is a coincidence. Didn't Harry just say that these herbs can have many different coincidences?"

Little Snape turned his eyes indifferently. Although this matter was a bit strange, it had nothing to do with him in essence.

Harry knew exactly what they wanted to do, because in the next year, they could successfully transform into Animagus, and even Peter successfully transformed into a mouse. Fanaticism and dedication to metamorphosis.

But these words, he did not like to say with Lily and Snape.

Even if it is said, other reasons have to be explained, and there are some messy connections... It feels like a headache to think about it.

"Let's not talk about them then," Harry said with a smile. "Why don't you tell me about the content of our teaching this afternoon, how about it?"

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Night was always when Harry was sleepiest, unless he slept all day and all night and then got up at night.Then as long as he hops around for ten minutes after waking up, he will be extremely awake for the rest of the time, and then he won't be able to fall asleep anyway.

He used to be so upside down day and night before, but later, because he needed to maintain his health, under the supervision of self-discipline and old Kreacher, his time was not so playful.In fact, it is very effective to make the work and rest time regular. At least before, he could only eat and not gain weight, but with enough sleep, he feels that he has really gained a little weight recently.

Recently, his time has been very "regular". He usually goes to bed first with Snape, and wakes up later than Snape in the morning.Harry sometimes felt that maybe in the eyes of little Snape, he was always a pig-in fact, Snape once described him in this way, but what he said to Dumbledore at that time was that he was a "pig" Pigs waiting to be slaughtered".

That night, after a busy day, Harry basically yawned sleepily after taking a bath.

Little Snape was preparing clothes for the bath at this time, and he had done a lot this afternoon, so his hair was greasy.

"I think we can make some potions to change your oily hair," Harry said enthusiastically, "so that it won't look greasy after the potions are done."

When little Snape turned to look over, Harry clearly saw three black lines protruding from his forehead.

"My hair is natural." Harry scratched his messy and thick hair, the main reason is that no matter how you do it, it will still return to its original shape, neither too long nor short, it is still the same after all these years, It also saves him the time to cut his hair - he has already given up on himself, okay? "But it has the advantage that it doesn't need to be taken care of, but not everyone is like me."

"Everyone in the Potter family seems to be like this." Little Snape asked abruptly.

"Huh?" Harry's heart skipped a beat, but he quickly recovered, "You mean James Potter?"

Little Snape didn't answer,

"Do you think I'm very similar to him, even with my hair?" Harry looked graceful and calm.

Little Snape looked at him quietly, as if waiting for his answer,

"Maybe I'm really a distant relative of their Potter family," Harry shrugged. "Although my surname is Potter, I'm the only one in my family, so I don't know if it has anything to do with them."

Harry looked at the dubious eyes of little Snape and smiled, but it was up to Snape to believe it or not.

In fact, he was right. In the world he lived in, he was the only one left in the Potter family.

"It seems you really don't like him." There was a faint sigh in Harry's voice.

"Yeah." Little Snape admitted that, but Harry really didn't expect him to be so direct.

"There's really nothing I like." Little Snape also emphasized.

Harry muttered, "I didn't make you like him either."

Little Snape heard this sentence.

"They..." Little Snape paused, "They always make some..." Probably he couldn't think of any suitable adjectives, so the boy paused for a while, and finally said, "Bad things , Potter is very pushy..."

"Ok?"

Snape glanced at Harry, "Of course it's not a problem."

"Oh—" Harry said meaningfully.

Little Snape was a little depressed by his inexplicable "oh", Harry saw that he seemed a little unhappy, and immediately said: "Of course I believe you don't envy or hate them."

Little Snape: "..."

"As long as you know being pushy is not a problem, it's just a way of life." Harry said with a smile.

"They are always acting too arrogant and defiant. Of course, many people have this problem." At least the people in Slytherin, most of them are defiant towards the vulnerable groups in other houses or this house.Little Snape could see this very clearly.

Harry laughed, and asked more: "Although I know you don't mean that, but I really think you are suing me."

Little Snape twitched the corner of his mouth, turned around and left, as if he didn't intend to continue this topic.

Harry was startled, and followed little Snape into the bathroom.

Little Snape was putting away his clothes, but Harry barged in just like that. Before he could speak, Harry said, "Why don't you talk, let's continue."

"Haven't you already finished washing?" Snape tactfully issued the order to evict the guest.

"Let's talk about it." Little Snape obviously wanted to say something just now, but he messed it up, so Harry still wanted to continue listening to what Snape said about the "robbery foursome" . "Just now you said they were arrogant."

Harry turned the toilet into a chair spontaneously, and sat on it.

Little Snape: "..."

Looking at the lingering Harry, little Snape gave him a glare and began to take off his clothes in front of him.

"Tell me more." Harry asked.

"Say what?" Little Snape went straight into the bath, the water and foam just up to his shoulders.

"Is there too much water?" Little Snape seemed to be sinking, obviously this person's swimming is still good, but Harry still couldn't help asking.

"No." Little Snape stood up again.

"So, aren't you happy that Lily has a good relationship with them?" Harry wanted to take advantage of Snape's unsuspecting situation, so he asked almost without gap.

Young Snape didn't answer right away, but Harry just knew, he heard.

Harry's patience is still very good, but he obviously found that little Snape was a little irritable.

"So, are you really upset?" Harry continued to probe.

"As I said before, they are always doing some shady little tricks." Little Snape said, "They also bully people, but the targets they bully are usually Slytherins. In the name of justice." In this way, everyone will feel that Slytherin is a bad person, but Slytherin itself is really not very good.

These little Snapes knew it all.

"I've seen them swim several times at night," said young Snape. "In the last minute before the curfew, I watched them wandering on the first floor." Although they disappeared soon, "I just came back after finishing the potion." He had already returned to the cellar in a hurry. The individual is still on the first floor, which is a long distance from the Gryffindor Tower. He can guarantee that these people will not be able to return before the curfew.

Harry probably heard some of his inferences, and was a little speechless.

"Maybe they also have a cloak that can be invisible like you." Little Snape came to a conclusion

Harry didn't expect Snape to be so sensitive, he said vaguely: "There are many cloaks that can make people invisible in the world, and those made of invisible animal hair can make people invisible."

Little Snape wasn't very interested in this, because Harry had tricked him many times about it.

Harry thought for a while, and decided to ask: "Have you ever thought that there is a possibility that what you see may be completely different from what you think, just like Lily misunderstood you, and you also misunderstood They." But he was only casually saying this, because he knew very well that there was no misunderstanding between little Snape and his father.

Little Snape: "..."

He paused for a long while, "It's not the only time I saw such a situation, if you were me, you wouldn't think so."

"Are you worried that they'll hurt Lily?" Harry recalled what he had heard little Snape say to Lily in the snow many months ago.

Maybe it was Harry's question, but Snape was always slow to answer.

He said in a deep voice, "Lily was born as a Muggle. Fortunately, she was not assigned to Slytherin, but a Gryffindor who flaunts her integrity." In fact, although he always felt that the methods of these people were not very clean, But it's not so much harm as a burden. If you get together with such a showy person, unless you are strong enough, or get the best blessing like the weakest creature in the group of four, your life will definitely be better than you imagined. be sad.

"You know James likes Lily." Harry's voice became particularly gossip.

"I know." I don't know if it was because the little Snape was about to plunge into the water and hold his breath when he answered him, but it sounded a bit dull.

"So you still think they're going to hurt Lily?" Harry thought of another possibility, but he didn't like Snape's twists and turns.

"It has nothing to do with whether they like Lily or not." Little Snape emerged from the water. "A lot of what they do is on the sidelines. If they don't pay attention, they will hurt others." What he said is also true, And he always felt that they were doing something more dangerous than he imagined. Gryffindor was the embodiment of adventurous spirit. These people were indeed much smarter than others, so they were even more terrifying.

He'd said all that without talking about the Screaming Shack, which Harry guessed hadn't happened yet.Maybe there is help?

"Should I tell Lily to keep her away from James and the others?" Harry asked half jokingly, "You know, I am several years older than Lily, and she will listen to me." Harry kept asking, It's because he has been unable to grasp whether he wants to let nature take its course or actively work hard to improve the status quo in this matter.

At least don't let the Screaming Shack incident happen and deepen the conflict between them, which is not good.

Little Snape had a hesitant expression after hearing what he said, but he quickly turned his head away, and there was no emotion in his voice. "up to you."

When he said this, it made it difficult for Harry to answer. He couldn't say that he was just talking casually, because the "casual" that Snape said was really not casual.

"Well, I'll think about it," said Harry.

"No," said little Snape suddenly, "you'd better tell Lily."

"Huh?" Harry looked at little Snape puzzled. "Why did you say that suddenly?"

"Because what they are going to do today is obviously deliberate. They don't seem to be afraid that others will know what they are doing, but if I guess correctly, they have indeed done a lot of tricks." Among the potion ingredients, there are many At least to confuse the public, maybe what they really want to do is the two he mentioned before, but what these people want those medicines, especially the compound decoction, is clearly contraband.

As a person who knows the development of history, Harry is really in a bit of pain at this time. He tried his best to make his expression calmer and calmer, but he couldn't suppress the feeling that he was going crazy in his heart.

He knew that little Snape was very keen, because this person could catch him in almost every situation, but the point was, why this person paid so much attention to the group of four, because "the person who knows you best Not necessarily a friend but an enemy"?

Little Snape suddenly stood up from the water, "You know those potions, don't you?" Lily might not care, but as his first potions teacher, Harry had no reason not to know, "What do you think they will be used for?" .”

Harry shook his head, "Shouldn't it be such a conspiracy theory?"

Little Snape looked at him in astonishment, "I don't have any conspiracy theories. What I'm talking about is my deduction, that Lupine..." He hesitated to speak, "He has a problem."

"What do you mean?" Harry asked innocently.

"He gets sick every month." Little Snape thought for a while, "That's true."

Little Snape looked puzzled, he seemed to be thinking about something, and thinking about it, this man suddenly had a feeling of enlightenment.

"Yes!" His voice suddenly became excited, "That's right, this person has been sick every month since we started school."

"What does that mean?" Harry worried that he saw it.

"...I don't know." Little Snape's voice suddenly became cold again.

The author has something to say: Thank you Xiaomengwu Feng Jingyuan for mine*5, Aliceの娃娃 for mine~

I will probably revise the text tomorrow~~

Let's not talk about river crabs in the future~~~ As a human being, the most important thing is to keep a low profile~