[HP] Can you be gentle with me

In the end Nigel of course failed to try again undetectable with Sirius.

Regardless of Snape's extremely dark complexion, even Tahlia coughed lightly, and dryly asked Nigel to redo the potion another day, and what they should do now is to hurry back to school.

Nigel lowered his head dejectedly, and after Tahlia repeatedly assured him that he would spare time to make potions with him, he regained his cheerful mood. When they left, he completely forgot that he had been having an awkward fight with Sirius just now, Jumping up and down to say goodbye to Sirius and Regulus with a cheerful face.

Of course, just because he's in a good mood doesn't mean he's willing to take care of that annoying dark guy who follows them.

Nigel felt that the darkness completely ruined his good mood of being led shopping by Tahlia!

If Tahlia hadn't said that she wanted to walk casually in the streets around here, and then told him that it was inconvenient for her to hurt her wand hand now, he wouldn't have let Hei Qiqi follow her!

He must hide Tahlia immediately, so that the black paint can't find it no matter how hard it is!

Nigel now wishes all the time that he can reach school age soon and have his wand as soon as possible!That way he could protect Tahlia himself, and of course he wouldn't need Snape lingering by his side!

However, Nigel's little head was full of complaints, and Snape had no way of knowing it. He only knew that the feelings in his heart were so complicated that he couldn't describe them at all. It wasn't complicated because he repelled him, but because it was too natural. , too peaceful, and he didn't know how to explain the natural emotions in his heart, as if they should have walked leisurely on the street like this—

"Snape."

Snape snapped out of his thoughts and turned his head.

"I thought you'd be more vigilant—" Tahlia said softly. "Back right... the man following us, he has a wand."

Snape cursed inwardly, and out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at the location Tahlia had mentioned. There was indeed someone stalking behind them, and it wasn't an ordinary Muggle thug, but a wizard.

"Sorry." He said, he should have noticed, this was his mistake.

"It's okay." Tahlia shook her head vigorously. "Can you handle it alone?"

Snape nodded curtly.

"Then I'll take Nigel and go first, and you are safe." Tahlia said, and then, leaning down, said something to Nigel in a low voice, then straightened up, gave Snape a wink, and held Nigel's hand even tighter. Hand, quickened his pace and walked forward, leaving Snape standing alone.

Watching Tahlia quickly dragging Nigel away, the man behind him became visibly anxious and staggered out of his original hiding place... How reckless... Snape sneered, it seemed that the man's goal was Tahlia, I chased after seeing her suddenly change speed, but──

"I'm still here..." he said softly, grabbing the man by the collar when the man foolishly caught up with him, and pulled him to a corner by the side of the road. In the alley, the other hand smoothly drew out the wand and pressed it against the man's waist. "I must say that your stalking skills cannot be called brilliant—"

The man froze for a moment, then began to curse continuously, but couldn't do anything because Snape's wand was pointed directly at him.

"You're stalking us—what are you stalking Tahlia for?" Snape asked, ignoring the man's barrage of insults, his face darkening.

The man didn't look back, and despite being pointed at by the wand, he didn't seem to show any timidity. "What I was following her for...to kill her, of course—"

As soon as Snape got angry, he unconsciously poked harder against the man's wand, holding the wand so hard that he felt that he might break the wand in a second--"Why? "

The man suddenly burst out laughing. "Why! Haha! You ask me why?" He finally turned his head, and Snape couldn't help frowning. This look...he seemed to have seen it somewhere, but the impression was too shallow, and he couldn't rely on the blurred figure at all. Match the person in front of him with any name he knows.

"Who doesn't want to kill her? Huh?" The man's eyes were wide open and bloodshot. "She's that person's running dog! How many nasty things do you think she has done?" After a pause, he raised the corners of his mouth ironically. "Ah, but it doesn't seem right to ask you, does it, Snape? You're just like her...

"We're all cleared," Snape replied coldly.

"Cleaned up? That's right...yes, good words...cleaned...and then it's none of your business! What are the people who died at your hands? When they don't exist at all, perfect ! Isn’t it?” The man looked disdainful, and after saying these few words, he started laughing again, laughing hysterically.

Snape scowled.

He doesn't understand why he's still wasting time with this guy here, he could just give him a warning and leave, considering he can't actually do anything to him, after all, this guy didn't actually kill Tahlia ──

"Have I met you?" he finally asked, frowning.

"Have you seen it?" The man sneered. "What do you say? Professor?" The last two words sounded sarcastic to Snape, and he vaguely guessed that this person had been his student, even though he had no memory of it.

He almost forgot that many people in the wizarding world still don't understand Tahlia, just like him in the past, thinking that she did all kinds of evil and that she was always the Dark Lord's man, but he doesn't think that way now──and he ignores the rest.

Snape couldn't help but feel worried from the bottom of his heart, there must be many people in the wizarding world... the person in front of him must not be the only one who wants them dead... What should he do then?He finds that he becomes inexplicably intolerable that the world continues to misunderstand Tahlia.

He glared at the man angrily. "You should be thankful that I didn't find any evidence for you, otherwise I would definitely hand you over to Auror──"

"Oh, come on..." The man rolled his eyes. "You think I care? I've been mentally prepared, I advise you..." He paused for a moment, then smiled wickedly. "I advise you to catch me as soon as possible, otherwise I don't know if anything will happen to that woman—"

White light flashed.

Snape stood straight, staring indifferently at the man who was knocked unconscious by him in an instant and fell to the ground.

This is completely within the scope of attacking others for no reason, but he has no regrets at all. Why...

No one will remember what happened, and the Ministry of Magic will not be idle to find trouble. After all, private duels between wizards are not rare at all. .Now, all it takes is a memory spell, and everything can be solved──

"Obliviate."

The light green light beam went straight into the head of the person lying on the ground, Snape turned around and was about to leave, but stopped in astonishment because of the two people standing behind him.

"The magic spell is very skillful." The person who came was Tahlia. The expressionless Tahlia even said the words without any ups and downs. She just stood there quietly, holding Nigel with one hand... just just... standing there-

Snape knew he had done nothing wrong, and if it were Tahlia, he would definitely make a move with him, but when he opened his mouth, he couldn't make any sound, and there was a guilty feeling in his heart...

"What are you doing with that look? I'm complimenting you." Tahlia spoke again slowly, then took Nigel a few steps forward, passing Snape's side, staring coldly at the man lying on the ground.

"Anderson," she said after a while.

"You said... Anderson?" Snape couldn't help but stare, looked down for a while, and gradually identified the man's identity from some details on the man's face. It was indeed Mr. Anderson... Several years ago, always in the Tahlia's youngest son, the Andersons, who openly opposed her in class.

"It seems that he never gave up on revenge..." Tahlia said flatly, glanced at Snape, and found that his expression was unusually complicated. "Don't make that look, Snape. I'm not surprised...hatred has always been a strong emotion, and it's not easy to get rid of."

Snape didn't answer, he didn't miss the undertones in Tahlia's words, but he couldn't think of anything to refute, or even persuade her.

After a long time, he spit out a sentence. "Why did you come back here?"

It took Tahlia a moment to answer. "I waited in front for a while, and then I suddenly wanted to see what the person who took you so long was capable of—"

Snape frowned. "I thought we agreed just now that you should go and stay in a safe place first..."

"I know." Tahlia smiled casually. "But since you've already done it, it shouldn't matter if I come here now, right?"

"What if I haven't dealt with it yet?"

Tahlia raised an eyebrow. "Do you know?"

"What?" Snape was stunned for a moment, only to realize that their conversation had been led into a dead end by Tahlia before he knew it, and any further arguing would just go around in the same circle, and it would be futile. "We shouldn't be discussing this," he said.

"Shouldn't we...it doesn't make sense" Tahlia agreed, nodding, as if waiting for Snape to say it. "What we should do now is go back to school."

It's time for them to go back to school.

Snape subconsciously reached out his hand to pull Tahlia to Apparate, but was shocked to find that his hand had just touched her arm before being thrown away immediately. "How—"

"Nigel's too young to Apparate," Tahlia said. "The fireplace must be used."

Snape looked at Nigel who was staring at him with displeasure, and said dryly. "Feel sorry."

"It's okay." Tahlia shook her head. "Got to my house." After saying that, he gave Snape a look to signal him to follow, and took Nigel's hand, turned around and walked out of the small corner.

And Nigel was pulled and turned around silently, but before leaving, he still didn't forget to turn his head and give Snape a hard look.

Snape couldn't hold back his astonishment for a moment, and after a while, he hurried forward and followed.

The three of them hailed a taxi along the street, and soon arrived at Tahlia's small apartment.

Nigel felt weird.

Not because Tahlia held his hand tightly all the way and never let go, but because the weather is still hot, but Tahlia's hand is very cold, really cold, and when they walked to their door When he was walking, he could still feel that Tahlia's palm seemed wet...it seemed to be sweating.

If Tahlia is cold, why is she sweating?

"Tahlia..." Another hand gently tugged at Tahlia's sleeve. "Your hands are cold, like ice cubes—are you uncomfortable?"

"A little dizzy, but it's okay." Tahlia smiled, then pushed open the door and walked in first.

It felt good to be back home, Tahlia felt her whole body relaxed, but because of this, the slight headache was magnified ten times in an instant, she frowned, and shook her head vigorously to drive out the dizziness head, but with little success.

"What's wrong?" Snape noticed, and asked, stepping around in front of Tahlia.

Tahlia shook her head again, and after a while, she spoke. "I... we, rest here for a while before leaving, okay?" She knew that they should go back to school as soon as possible. In any case, it was obviously inappropriate for the two of them to leave school together for so many days, but she just wanted to close her eyes now. Take a break, just a moment...

Snape nodded quickly, and made Tahlia sit down on the sofa, while he poured a glass of water from the kitchen and handed it to her.

Tahlia took the glass of water weakly and drank it, then leaned back in the chair and closed her eyes.

Seeing Tahlia's behavior, Snape suddenly felt something was wrong, it shouldn't be like this... Logically speaking, she should be recovering... unless-

"Tahlia, I need to see your wound," he said suddenly.

Tahlia barely opened her eyes, took one look at Snape and then offered him her right hand to undo the bandages—

"Damn!"