[HP] Can you be gentle with me

So, when faced with the twins who came to her office to report early the next morning, Tahlia had to regret that Nigel had left school and would not be back for the whole weekend, asking them to find other things to do.

"Well, there's no way…" Fred sighed regretfully, elbowing Geroge's arm. "Then we can only go to what we discussed before—"

"Fred!" Geroge quickly winked, causing his twin brother to shut up immediately. After all, they can't say everything in front of Tahlia, and they are school staff anyway...

"Okay, then we'll come back next time." The two hurriedly dropped the words, then turned around, giggling and running past countless Slytherin students who were stunned by their sudden appearance.

Tahlia twitched the corner of her mouth.

Suddenly worried about the Weasley twins' seven years at school...

"Tahlia, I've passed..." A small voice suddenly came from behind, Tahlia turned around, but there was no one.

"Yeah." She replied, making room slightly aside for Harry, who had already put on the cloak of invisibility, to pass. "Professor Flitwick is very nice, you can learn a lot today, I promise."

"I know." Harry agreed again, before walking out of the office and letting Tahlia close the door behind him.

Now Tahlia was left here alone.

She didn't rush to call Snape over, she had to organize how to speak for such an important matter...

As usual, I spent the whole morning, and then I rarely appeared in the lobby for lunch, because I didn't need to accompany the two children to eat, and then returned to the office.

How could she ask Snape to come over?

After thinking for a while, he finally chose to walk out of the office and casually called out a student who was the first one he saw.

"Professor Watson?" It seems that these students are not so afraid of her now, and they will not show any frightened expressions when they are stopped by her as they did a long time ago. "Is there a problem?"

Tahlia laughed inwardly, if the student knew what she wanted him to do, he might not be so calm...

Sure enough, when she asked him to send a message to Professor Snape, the student's expression of astonishment and fear really impressed her deeply.

Seeing the child run away tremblingly, Tahlia raised the corners of her lips, walked back to the office, sat quietly on the sofa, and waited...

After a while, Severus Snape, who was located in the potion making room inside his office, angrily threw down the silver knife in his hand. The force seemed to be too strong, causing the silver knife to be directly embedded in the table, standing upright without falling over.

He walked quickly to the door and pulled it open, and opened his mouth at the same time, yelling at the trembling student in front of him who seemed to have expected his reaction in this way. "You'd better have something urgent, Mr. Cooper."

"Wa...Professor Watson would like you to come over, sir—" Cooper said cautiously. "She said...she said she has something very important to discuss with you..." The trembling voice almost made Snape unable to hear clearly, but fortunately, he managed to recognize a few of the words──

For example, Watson, Important, Discuss...

"I see, 10 points for Slytherin, because you conveyed this message perfectly, now, why don't you enjoy the weekend?" Without any further instructions from him, the students in front of him almost ran away from him. Now even though he has not appeared in class for some time, the oppression of the past has not abated.

Take a deep breath.

The moment the student disappeared from sight, he turned around and walked away quickly.

The target is definitely Tahlia's office──

knock knock.

Tahlia opened her eyes.

It seems to be coming...

She had never recalled Snape responding to her so quickly.

Standing up slowly, he walked forward and opened the door.

"You need me?" Snape asked straight away.

"Yes." Tahlia took a step back, motioning for Snape to come in, but the gesture seemed to make Snape hesitate instead. "You're right, I want you to come in, Snape." Tahlia added lightly, and didn't intend to care whether Snape wanted to come in or not, and walked directly to the sofa where he was sitting on just now and sat down again.

Snape finally followed, and it suddenly occurred to him that this matter must be very important, otherwise Tahlia would not have let him into her office.

And the matter that would make the current Tahlia feel important enough to call her to come over, it will definitely only be related to one person...

"Pettigrew found someone?" he asked.

Tahlia was stunned for a moment, then nodded immediately, and spoke. "It seems that Albus did tell you about this..." There was a pause. "This has a lot to do with me asking you to come here today."

Snape already knew she'd sent Peter to Voldemort, so she had one less thing to explain.

"what relationship?"

"I saw him," Tahlia said bluntly. "I saw Voldemort."

Snape froze in place for a moment because of this sentence, he suddenly thought of one thing, and that thing made him almost suffocate──

"Did he—" punished her... But he choked up the last few words and couldn't say them at all.

However, Tahlia, who had also been under Voldemort obviously, understood exactly what he meant.

"No, he didn't." At least not personally. Tahlia snorted coldly. "But don't ask as if you care."

"I do—"

"Maybe you care, or maybe you're just saying something." Tahlia cut him off. "In any case, that's outside the scope of what we're going to discuss today."

Snape shut his mouth.

If you ask him what he's learned from trying to talk to Tahlia the first few times, the answer is not to speak easily, or to say, shut up when the time is right, considering that the words he said will never quite match what he thinks...

"Back to the topic, I met Voldemort. If there are no accidents, I will continue my previous job..." Tahlia continued. "What I'm going to tell you now is that Albus thinks you should come with me too—"

"He wants me to go back there too." Snape said as smoothly as he could, despite being frozen for a moment.

Tahlia laughed. "Come on, Snape—" Sarcastically. "You definitely didn't think about it when you clamored to join, right? Voldemort won't allow anyone to regret it, but who would?" There was a pause.smiled sarcastically. "After you decide to betray him, you still have to return to him after all, in order to save your life..."

Snape scowled.

"Should I be grateful that you guys never stopped trying to save my... little life?" He said with a dark face.

"You should be grateful." Tahlia replied flatly. "Even if you think everyone is doing certain things wishful thinking."

"I don't think so." Snape squeezed out the words, he felt that his face must be very ugly now, and his chest was also uncomfortable.

This wasn't the situation he'd imagined Tahlia coming to talk to him about, not at all.

Tahlia didn't make any further response to Snape's justification, but stood up slowly, walked to her desk, picked up a roll of parchment that was already on the desk, and handed it to Snape.

"What's this for?" Snape didn't open it right away to read the content, but asked first.

"This is some of the conversation between me and you that I mentioned to Voldemort—don't be nervous, most of it is fabricated by me." Tahlia said flatly. "I think you should remember that it's good for both of us."

Snape didn't ask any more questions, just opened the parchment and read it word by word, and—

"You mentioned this to the Dark Lord?" Snape looked up, in disbelief, and noticed that he was shaking uncontrollably, the angry kind.

"Is there a problem?" Tahlia's tone remained flat.

Snape suddenly didn't know how to describe his mood at the moment.

"Why do you...you always put on such a normal expression after saying these words?" The fist unconsciously collected the parchment in his hand.

"What words?" Tahlia asked first, and then showed a look of sudden realization. "Ah, you mean about Lily──wait a minute, I'm so sorry." She suddenly closed her mouth falsely, sneered, and then spoke again. "I forgot—don't ever mention Lily's name in front of you, do you?"

Snape scowled, but before he could say anything, Tahlia continued talking.

"But what should I do? I suddenly feel that it is necessary for me to have a good talk with you about her, it should be said, I suddenly feel that it is very necessary for me to have a good talk with you about what you tried to accuse me earlier──" Tahlia joked As he spoke, Snape felt more and more uncontrollable because of the sharp tone.

"No need to discuss that." Snape forced out a sentence. "I have no intention of accusing you of any—"

"What if you're right?" Tahlia interrupted him again. "I can confess everything to you personally, isn't that what you have always wanted?"

No, of course he doesn't wish that way anymore... Maybe he never wished that way from the very beginning, but at this moment, he couldn't make any sound and could only stand silently. He felt so angry at being misunderstood, and now it was overwhelmingly in his head.

Tahlia let out a chuckle. "Do you know? You can talk about how many people I have killed, you can also talk about how I humbled myself in front of Voldemort, and I can even tell you without hesitation that the reason why that kid Nigel is by my side is because his parents My death is inextricably linked to—" There was a pause. "But you said I killed Lily..."

"I know you don't have to worry about her death—"

"That's right, of course I don't have to take any responsibility for her death, the one who needs to be held accountable is you, Snape." After speaking, Tahlia put on a smirk that was extremely harsh in Snape's eyes.

"You—"

"Because of your selfish desire to gain power, you sent Lily to Voldemort with your own hands. I didn't know it before, but now I finally understand—" Tahlia said flatly. "Snape, you're just afraid to admit it, because you've always known it in your heart."

Snape felt something hit his head hard, causing him to lose all ability to think in an instant, and his mind went blank...

He only vaguely heard Tahlia open his mouth again, uttering the last sentence word by word.

"You are the one who caused the deaths of the Potters, Snape."

"To shut up!"

Snape roared.It seemed that the door behind him was opened at some point, and the person who walked in was frightened by his roar and stopped, but he didn't have the heart to think about the identity of that person, and he couldn't think about anything at the moment.

When he reacted, a white light shot out from the tip of the wand he unconsciously pulled out instantly, heading straight towards the woman standing in front of him.

In the next second, an invisible force rushed him out of the office, and his back hit the wall of the corridor outside the door heavily. Before he could feel the pain from his back, the door had already slammed in front of him. Closed with a loud bang.

Then he realized what he had just done.

Merlin...

Frighteningly, no matter how hard he looked back, he couldn't remember what spell he had just cast.