[HP] Can you be gentle with me

Almost at the moment when McGonagall called out Harry's name, the originally noisy hall fell silent for an instant, but it was only for a moment. After a very brief silence, the hall was suddenly filled with conversation among students.

Almost everyone's eyes widened. After all, they could be said to have grown up hearing the name Harry Potter. That was the legendary Harry Potter that their parents whispered in their ears every day to make that terrifying person lose his power!Especially since he was only one year old at the time, and he defeated such a powerful Dark Lord.

Harry didn't stop because of the sudden gazes on him, but quickened his movements. Soon, he was already sitting on the stool, and his eyes were plunged into darkness because of the hat McGonagall put on his head.

At least he didn't have to see how they were staring at him... Harry thought to himself with relief—

"Oh? You don't like them staring at you?"

A thin voice suddenly appeared in Harry's mind, which made him startled, and then realized that the voice most likely came from the hat on his head.

"Harry Potter...is it..." the thin voice said again. "It's very interesting... Bold... But careful... Quick response... Where should I send you?"

Of course Harry couldn't answer this question, after all, that was what he was worried about not long ago... He even wondered if he wasn't suitable to be here at all──

"Don't worry... child..." The voice seemed to be answering his question. "It is my duty to assign all the gifted children to places suitable for them...but you are indeed a challenge..."

challenge?

"That's right...the challenge──" said the voice, he didn't know if it was Harry's illusion, he always felt that the tone of the hat revealed excitement. "Gryffindor is definitely for you...but I can see your ambition to prove yourself..."

Harry never knew that he would have what the Sorting Hat said... to prove his ambition──

He simply thought that he had to avenge his parents with his own hands.

"Revenge for your parents..." After the voice said this, it suddenly stopped, and there was a sudden silence.

No, it couldn't be called silence. After the Sorting Hat stopped talking, Harry began to hear voices from the audience, which made him realize that perhaps he had really been sitting on this stool for a while.

Such a sight must be strange.

A picture suddenly appeared in Harry's mind, he was sitting on this stool, and everyone was staring at him, just waiting for the hat on his head to announce the sorting result...

I don't know how long it took, so long that Harry almost couldn't help but want to ask a question, the thin voice finally returned to his head.

"I think I've come to a conclusion..." said the voice. "Yes...it can only be—Gryffindor!"

Suddenly, Harry could see the audience again, because McGonagall picked it up at the same time the hat yelled the last word, glanced unconsciously in the direction of the Slytherin long table, and was not surprised to see the expression on Draco's face Gryffindor was visibly dismayed, whereas Gryffindor was cheering.

The Weasley twins were probably the most excited. The two of them jumped up from their chairs, yelling things like "They've got Potter".

Harry felt his face was a little hot, so he jumped off the stool pretending to be natural, and walked slowly towards his future long table in the college.

"Good job, Harry!"

The moment Harry sat down, several red-haired students beside him couldn't wait to reach out and pat him on the shoulder vigorously.

"Thank you." Harry replied.Then he looked at the teacher's long table, and his eyes met Tahlia who was already smiling at him.

He enrolled.

And, he entered Gryffindor, just as his parents did.

Then, to his unconscious surprise, Tahlia's actions on stage──

After the rest of the students had also been sorted—including Ron, who was blushing and stuttering to sit next to Harry for some reason—Nigel straightened his body and leaned into Tahlia's ear. After saying something and getting Tahlia's nod, he jumped off his chair and ran down the stage with a hop, and after a while, he was next to Harry.

"Tahlia said I could come over and have dinner with you," Nigel said before Harry could issue a questioning sentence.

Harry shut his mouth, then moved aside to give Nigel room to sit.

"I really want to go to school as soon as possible──" Nigel complained in a low voice as soon as he sat down.It seemed that the active atmosphere among the students infected him instantly. "Otherwise I'll sit on it alone, how boring..."

"Nigel bored?" Fred interjected from the diagonal, and then elbowed his brother beside him. "Hey...George, it's our fault that Nigel said he was bored, isn't it?"

George smiled brightly. "I'll definitely take you there later—"

"No!" Nigel said suddenly and seriously, interrupting George abruptly. "Tahlia said I'm going back to the office after I've had dinner with you."

"This hurts our hearts so much!" Fred put on a shocked expression, and deliberately beat his chest with his hand. "This is our happy date, don't you forget how many fun things we discussed before?"

"Happy date?"

"Of course!" George nodded. "Don't tell me you don't know what dating means..."

Nigel thought for a moment, then, very seriously, shook his head.

"Merlin..." George said exaggeratedly, putting one hand on his forehead. "Have you never heard the word dating?"

"What's that?" Nigel tilted his head in confusion.

The twins looked at each other, then showed a sly smile, and opened their mouths──

Harry suddenly felt that if the twins uttered this sentence like this, it would probably be misleading Nigel, and Tahlia would definitely mind it, so he coughed hard and opened his mouth before the two of them could make any sound. "Nigel, don't listen to their nonsense, dating...is just you and someone you like doing what you like to do-"

"Doing what you like with whoever you like?" Nigel repeated, then smiled. "Like you and Draco?"

"Of course not!" Harry shouted, deliberately ignoring the stunned actions of everyone around him, and covered Nigel's mouth. "what's on your mind!"

"Isn't it?" Nigel's voice was muffled by the muffled mouth.He tilted his head, as if he didn't know where he had misunderstood. After a while, he pulled Harry's hand from his mouth and spoke. "Ah, I see!"

"You get it?" Harry raised an eyebrow. "What do you know?" Even though he had put his hand down now, he was still ready in case Nigel blurted out something horrible again...

Nigel chuckled. "You don't even know that we will arrive so late today, and almost miss your branch, because Tahlia went on a date──"

A silence.

And a very, very awkward silence.

I don't know what happened, just when Nigel said the last sentence, there was a brief silence in the hall, and this just highlighted his sentence that was actually not loud.

"Tahlia went on a date today—"

Snape tried his best not to look in Tahlia's direction on the other side of the teacher's table.And he was annoyed to find that he couldn't think of anything now, just the sentence that had just come out of Nigel's mouth.

Tahlia goes on a date.

go for a date……

Dating……

Who the hell is Tahlia dating?

Finally he couldn't help it, and turned his head, looking directly at Tahlia.

Things seem to be going badly...

Snape noticed that Tahlia didn't react at all to Nigel's highlighted words just now, she was still eating naturally, and completely ignored the stunned eyes of the students in the audience looking at her.

It seems that the situation is not only bad, but bad at all.

From Snape's point of view, Tahlia didn't care that this matter was known to everyone, which may lead to two explanations. The first one means that she didn't date anyone at all. It was Nigel's nonsense. With Tahlia's personality, she didn't She won't bother to explain anything, anyway, what other people think has nothing to do with her.

The second, and what Snape was most concerned about, was that Tahlia was indeed getting along with someone, and her attitude of not denying it at all confirmed Nigel's statement.

It seems that the latter situation is more reasonable. After all, although what a child said is not entirely true, it is more or less based on certain facts.

But what should he do?

Straight forward to question Tahlia?

No, he knew exactly what the consequences would be, Tahlia would probably slap him away again, not caring that they were all in the hall now, with so many students watching—

It should be said, maybe Tahlia is eager to make him look ugly in front of the whole school...

So, after the dinner party was over and all the students were taken out of the hall, Snape, who had been patient for a long time, hurriedly caught up with Tahlia who was already walking in a corridor outside, and called to her.

"What's the matter?" Tahlia stopped, turned her head around, and showed doubts.

Snape took a few steps forward and stood beside her before speaking. "That Nigel kid at the dinner said—"

"That's not the case." Tahlia interrupted her quickly, and then realized that her reaction seemed to be covering up something, and coughed lightly. "I mean, Nigel misunderstood…" After a pause, she raised one eyebrow. "But you shouldn't stop me just to ask something that doesn't matter?"

Tahlia's reaction made it impossible for Snape to tell the truth for a moment. "That's just my curiosity, Tahlia..." he said finally. "But you're right, I do have other things to discuss with you──"

Shouldn't-

Tahlia's eyes widened.

In any case, it had only been less than a month since she handed Snape the stone that she had taken directly from Flamel, and she knew he was good at potions, but she didn't I thought he would finish it so quickly... so, their preparations are far from enough──

"Of course not—" Seeing Tahlia's reaction, Snape immediately knew what she was thinking, and quickly clarified.

Tahlia breathed a sigh of relief. "That's good." Before he finished speaking, he raised his head suddenly and stared at Snape suspiciously. "Then what are you looking for me for?"

"It's about—" Snape started, but closed his mouth immediately, looked around warily, then pulled out his wand in an instant, pointed to a corner, and shouted in a deep voice. "who!"

Damn!

Reflexively, Tahlia pulled out her wand, pointing at the same spot as Snape.Maybe she was a little lax, and she didn't notice anyone there at all──

"Take it easy, you two—"

A voice came from the corner. It seemed that the owner of the voice didn't feel any fear at all because of being pointed at by two wands at the same time. The two paused, and then slowly put down the wands.

"Quirinus..." Tahlia called out flatly. "I don't think you're hiding there trying to eavesdrop on us, do you?"