[HP] Can you be gentle with me

"I promise you, Tahlia."

Hearing Snape's reply, Tahlia nodded in satisfaction, and was about to stand up──

"But I need your help."

Tahlia stopped and looked up at Snape. "What?"

"I need your assistance," Snape said flatly. "I think this should not be so difficult to understand..."

"I know." Tahlia cut him off. "What I'm asking is, why?" She frowned. "You don't need anyone's help, not to mention, I don't think I have that ability—"

"An extra person is always good, isn't it?" Snape smiled stiffly. "Besides, I don't think you have that ability."

Tahlia raised an eyebrow, but didn't say anything right away.

Once again, she couldn't figure out what Snape was up to now.

Or it should be said that she has always been self-righteous thinking that she knows him well...but it turns out that she doesn't.

Thinking about what happened to her before, half of it was because of the man in front of her──

But to be honest, she was still curious.

In recent days, Snape's attitude towards her was completely different from before. She hadn't seen him get angry at will - at least not towards her, and he certainly didn't do anything to embarrass her...

but why?

She knew that she shouldn't get to the bottom of it, but she still couldn't help thinking about it...

Nigel was right, every time she had a conversation with Snape, she would unconsciously think about it, thinking about it alone, never getting an answer, and it would always end with her telling herself not to think like this again .

like now...

So far.

She wasn't going to continue to be emotionally driven by Snape... she was only here to ask him to make sure that their plan would bring Voldemort to a complete failure.

Determined inwardly, Tahlia looked up, opening her mouth to say her rejection.

"I—"

"It's definitely for the potion to work, Tahlia…" Snape said at the same time, and they both froze for a moment.

"What do you want to say..." After a while, Snape spoke again.

"I..." Tahlia opened her mouth, but those words seemed to have missed the best time to be uttered, and now no matter what she thought, the words disappeared inexplicably when they reached her mouth.

In order for that potion to succeed...

That's what she came here for, isn't it?

In order for Nigel to live safely and happily in the future, she would come to ask for Snape's help, but now, after Snape had already said that she needed to work together, how could she refuse just because of her inner conflict...

Besides, what he said was not wrong.

Studying potions──It should be said that when studying anything, the most fearful thing is to fall into the restricted thoughts and cannot escape, and at this time, the help of the second person has a great effect, even for a moment , as long as it can give researchers any inspiration, no matter how small it is, it may be a big step forward for research.

Yes, he was damn right.

Having one more person does benefit.

Originally, she could have suggested that Snape seek help from others... but Merlin knew that this research was between the two of them──

Tahlia took a deep breath and let it out before opening her mouth slowly. "...what do I need to help you with?"

Snape paused for a moment before replying. "It's not that difficult, Tahlia...it's roughly the same as when we were working on the wolfsbane potion."

"Ah...you mean I want me to stand aside and watch you lose your temper after blowing up the cauldron—" Tahlia answered the words smoothly, but shut her mouth suddenly, her eyes widened instantly, looking Looking at Snape, who was also frozen, for a while, she coughed lightly in disguise. "I mean, as before, you mainly make potions, and I will process some medicinal materials for you—"

"...that's what it means." Snape said dryly.

After these words, the entire office fell into silence again.

Snape didn't expect that his blurted request for Tahlia's help would win her approval... Considering that Tahlia always seemed to keep a certain distance from him before, no matter what he did, it would not help, but this time it was different. .

After a while, Tahlia expressed embarrassment to him that it was getting late, school would officially start tomorrow, and there were a lot of things to do, and then she almost left in a hurry.

Snape noticed that the corners of his mouth had been twitching for a while.

He couldn't fail to notice what Tahlia said, and he also remembered it very clearly. When he was in school, Tahlia suggested to him that he could study improved wolfbane potion. It didn't go well, which is not surprising, after all, they were still in the learning stage at that time, and along with that, his face was always not very good-looking during that time...

Yep, as Tahlia blurted out.

He blew up cauldrons, plenty of cauldrons... and roared at the blackened cauldrons in Tahlia's face.

He still remembered how she stood aside in embarrassment at that time, holding a plate of half-processed rat offal in her hand, and it was not okay to hand it to him, because it would obviously offend him even more, and it was not okay to put it on the other table, Because of the mess on the table...

Snape walked slowly to the edge of the sofa and sat down, tilting his head back and closing his eyes.

It seems that I miss the time when they were all students...

He had never thought of this before, when he was a student...

The memories of his student days were never something he would revisit over and over again──

"Severus, you...don't be angry..."

Tahlia looked guilty at the time. "I... this is the Room of Requirement, let's imagine a few more cauldrons and try a few more times—"

"No matter how many times you try, you won't succeed!" The face of his young self seemed to be in front of him, and he was turning his face away, and the object of his yelling changed from the cauldron to the bewildered girl beside him. "Admit it! This is a waste of time! Why are we studying this... this damn thing!"

"I..." Tahlia blinked, then looked guilty again, and lowered her head. "I have no idea……"

Of course Snape knew why at the moment, and all Tahlia thought at the time was that if they had succeeded, maybe Lupine wouldn't have suffered as much...

But what did she bear?

He is always so belated.

This is true of everything.

"Severus, try again..." It was still Tahlia's voice, trying to comfort her gentle voice when she was young. "I think your original idea was absolutely right. Even though we seem to have made little progress now, I believe that one day... this research will be successful──"

...he did succeed.

In particular, successfully improving Wolfsbane Potion has become his most brilliant achievement so far. This achievement allows him to call himself a potion master with a clear conscience, and even, just because of this, he has won the respect of others.

Someone once told him that status is never what he wants to pursue...but depends on his hard work and performance, and he will naturally gain relative respect...

Lily is indeed a smart girl.

If he had been willing to think about all the things the red-haired girl had told him about Tahlia, maybe everything would have gone much better now—

Snape finally understood again why he was so determined to continue his potions research as a student after he graduated, even though all he could think about was getting in touch with the Dark Lord.

Severus Snape...

As Dumbledore had told her earlier, Tahlia had had a huge influence on him without him knowing it, but he hadn't noticed it.

It can also be said that Tahlia has made herself who she is now.

Snape opened his eyes.He got up and walked quickly to the desk, picked up a pen and wrote a sticky note, and with a wave of his wand, the sticky note disappeared into the air, then he turned around and walked out of the office.

Early the next morning, a very scary incident spread throughout the school.

…I heard that Professor Snape didn't deduct points at all during his night patrol last night.

...I heard that Professor Snape not only did not deduct points at all during the night patrol last night, but also only raised the corners of his mouth slightly when he saw the night tour students, and then walked past them without confinement.

...I heard that Professor Snape not only did not deduct points at all during the night patrol last night, but also only raised the corners of his mouth slightly when he saw the night tour students, and then walked past them without confinement.Also, everyone felt that Professor Snape was in a good mood.

...I heard that Professor Snape not only did not deduct points at all during the night patrol last night, but also only raised the corners of his mouth slightly when he saw the night tour students, and then walked past them without confinement.Moreover, everyone felt that Professor Snape was in a good mood, and even when Professor Snape passed by them, they could still hear him humming a tune in a low voice.

Merlin...

This definitely tops the list of Hogwarts Top [-] Weirdest Things.

Of course, Harry Potter also heard the Weasley twins mention this matter during breakfast, but he has no time to find someone to verify the rumors that have become more and more exaggerated. He just wants to know how he got to the spell learning classroom, He'd been going around in circles with Ron for quite some time, and he was pretty sure he'd seen the portrait of the knight in the corridor ahead a third time...

It was embarrassing, considering Ron was well aware that he had spent his previous days at Hogwarts...

If only the Charms classroom and Professor Flitwick's office were in the same place.

He didn't want to be late for their first class...

"Harry?"

Suddenly a voice stopped him, he was absolutely familiar with that voice...

With a big smile on his face, he turned away. "Draco!"

The blond boy in front of him seemed to be in a good mood, even though he was followed by two big guys, Harry just remembered that they seemed to be the two people he met on the train.

"Why are you here?" he asked.

"Spells." Draco stepped forward and replied, only slightly frowned when he saw Ron beside him, and didn't say anything difficult. "It's written in the timetable, this class is the same as that of our two colleges──"

"Ah..." Harry turned out the timetable and realized this after looking carefully. "I must have missed it, then let's go together, do you know where the classroom is?"

As soon as the words came out, Harry noticed that Draco's face turned red up to the ears.

"Uh...you are also...lost?" After hesitating for a while, he asked cautiously.

"Who's lost!" Draco growled. "Malfoy's not going to get lost... it's just that stupid Crabb made us take a long detour..."

"Is that so..." Harry didn't poke it, he just felt sorry.

He thought he would be able to walk to the classroom smoothly if he met Draco...

"If you had been sorted into Slytherin, you could have gone with us and the prefects this morning..." Draco said indignantly, then glared at the two behind him. "If it weren't for the fact that they ate too much last night and suddenly had a stomachache after gobbling up breakfast today, I wouldn't have lost the team──"

"Harry won't go into Slytherin!" Ron said loudly suddenly, and his tone was still full of anger, it seemed that he didn't notice Draco's attitude towards him just now. "That's the mysterious man's academy! It's all bad—"

"Ron!" Harry hurriedly stopped, but it was too late, Ron still said what he had been thinking for a long time.

"──Bad guy."

Draco's face turned even paler.

"Weasley!" he roared, visibly out of breath and shaking. "Take back what you just said!"

Because of Harry, he had already tried his best not to go to trouble with Ron Weasley... He had heard about this family before, there were too many children who couldn't afford it, the whole family had red hair and freckles, and more importantly, that Weasley Mr. always troubled his father, reporting dark magic items hidden in their house all day long...

"Did I say something wrong?" Of course Ron couldn't possibly apologize to Draco, he had heard of the Malfoy family before, they were obviously notoriously disgusted with Muggle blood, and they were obviously die-hard supporters of You-Know-Who, so Only the large sum of gold coins he relied on escaped the fate of being arrested.

"Ron—"

"─Everyone in Slytherin is evil!"

"Ten points from Gryffindor, Mr. Weasley."