[HP] Can you be gentle with me

"I know what you're trying to say, you want me out of the hospital right now, and you make that potion yourself—" Tahlia asked, getting a tiny nod from Snape and continuing. "But you don't need to do that, do you?"

"I have every reason."

"This is St. Mungo, Snape... whoever it is, they come here for one purpose - to ask for help... and back then, all the healers took an oath - they would not refuse anyone who needed help patients..." Tahlia said slowly, the reason why she knew this was entirely due to the fact that Lily recited a booklet next to them every day when she was about to graduate, it would be difficult for her not to remember. . "So I'm safe here."

Snape still looked worried. "But I can't stay here all the time and watch you—"

"That's why I said." Tahlia raised an eyebrow. "Do you think I'm too vulnerable?" As she spoke, she beckoned Snape to come closer to her, and when he got closer, she spoke in a volume that only the two of them could hear. "I need you to go back to school and pay attention to Quirrell. Maybe he has been notified about Voldemort's actions this time--I need you to stay at school and observe his every move... If you take me back to school, he will definitely What will you find out, now we have to create a situation where you threw me here after hastily saving my life—so that you can hide it from him."

Snape froze for a moment, then nodded quickly, though he still asked in a low voice. "But you're here alone—"

"Like I said, I can protect myself alone." Tahlia forced a smile. "On the bright side, these people aren't Voldemort."

It seemed like a long time before Tahlia finally saw that Snape agreed to her request with a sullen face and turned to leave.

Tahlia closed her eyes and sat back on the hospital bed. After a while, she opened her eyes and found that the two therapists were still standing at the door in a daze. "Anything else?" she asked.

Owen came back to his senses and spoke quickly. "No...I'm fine—you...have a good rest." After finishing speaking, Mary left the ward in a hurry without waiting for Mary to hold him.

Mary sighed and approached Tahlia slowly. "May I ask, how did you get bitten by such an unknown snake?"

"No." Tahlia replied flatly.

"Really..." Mary murmured and sighed again. "I think so."

Tahlia fell silent, and she faintly felt that the wizard who was treating him in front of her seemed to have something to say, but it was probably those words... About her identity, the rumors from the outside world...

"Actually, you don't have to worry about me." Tahlia looked at Mary and said blankly. "I know what you're thinking, I know what that man is thinking...you're afraid—" afraid that once she's cured, she'll go out and hurt more people.

Mary opened her mouth, intending to refute, but found she couldn't say anything.

After all, she is still a little trembling until now, even though she is trying her best not to have any prejudice against this patient...

Tahlia only smiled slightly, then turned around, picked up the book that Lucius had left on the table, opened it, and ignored Mary.

Soon, even if Tahlia didn't move her eyes, she knew that Mary was slowly walking out of the ward, leaving her alone... yes, only her──

At first, she was convinced that when she was first moved into this room, a man covered in abscesses was lying on the next bed, but not long after, several therapists came and pushed the man out. Maybe she should admire Sheng Mang Ge's caution... although she didn't intend to hurt anyone at all.

Tahlia closed the book, threw it aside, raised her hand, and began to observe her bandaged right hand.

Voldemort... Nagini...

Dementors... Azkaban...

Lestrange...

She always felt that everything was tightly entwined in her mind, and she couldn't figure it out at all──What Voldemort asked her to do this time was very difficult, more difficult than anything before... She had to prepare earlier── ─

Tahlia has only one thought now, and that is to be annoyed that she can't do anything when she should seize the time the most. She can only lie here stupidly. She hates this feeling of being completely out of things and unable to do anything...

Slowly closing her eyes, even though she had slept a lot in the past two days, she still felt deep drowsiness immediately after she closed her eyes... Not long after, she grasped the wand tightly with her right hand and fell asleep.

This time she was dreaming again.

Voldemort stood in front of her—it should be said that he had a complete body, his blood red eyes were narrowed into slits, and Voldemort stood in front of her, looking at her coldly.

He said that he had already discovered her intentions, he had discovered that she had betrayed him──

She opened her mouth to try to defend herself, but it was obviously of no avail, she saw him raise his wand, saw him open his mouth after a sneer, and spit out the spell.

She saw a dazzling green light shoot out of his wand and shot straight at her, but her feet seemed to be frozen, unable to move at all, and could only let the ruthless beam of light get closer and closer to her ──

"No!"

Tahlia yelled, opened her eyes in shock, and sat up abruptly from the bed. After a few seconds, she realized that she was still in St. Mungo's, and there was no sign of Voldemort by her side. The morning sun shone through the window, The warmth sprinkled on her bed sheets, and she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Look at what she looks like now, she still has such a dream.

Didn't she already know that sooner or later Voldemort would be angry at her betrayal?After she finally confessed everything to him, wasn't she already prepared?

Self-deprecating smile.

She really is a coward...

knock knock.

Tahlia turned her head away, looking in the direction of the door.

"Who?"

"Mary Williams." A woman's voice came from outside the door.

It seems to be the female therapist... Tahlia sighed and sat up on the bed before speaking. "Please come in."

The door opened, and Mary walked in, a cup of potion in her hand.

"How does it feel?" she asked.

"is acceptable."

Mary shrugged and didn't respond to the ambiguous answer. She stepped forward and handed the potion to Tahlia. "This is today's medicine."

Tahlia took it, but didn't drink it right away, raising her wand instead. "Sorry, do you mind—"

"Oh, of course I don't mind - you can check it..."

"Thank you." Tahlia said, and then waved her wand lightly, a white light covered the whole glass, and then gradually disappeared into the liquid in the glass... and the potion still looked clear.

At this point, Tahlia drank the potion in one gulp.

"Can I see your injury?" Mary asked kindly.

Tahlia nodded, put down the glass and unwrapped the bandage around her right arm.

Even if she didn't study the healing spells, Tahlia knew that the potion she had drunk these two days had already worked. The snake bite marks that were slow to heal due to the venom had shrunk to almost invisible without knowing it. The bandage can be untied at all, and now when she casts spells with the wand in her right hand, she won't feel the fatigue she felt a few days ago.

Mary drew her wand and began the routine inspection.

After a while, she spoke with satisfaction. "You recovered much faster than I expected..."

Tahlia froze for a few seconds. "Thank you for finding an effective method──"

"No, if that gentleman hadn't analyzed a lot of information for us, we wouldn't have been able to find the antidote so quickly, Miss Watson...you have a very powerful friend──"

"He's not—" Tahlia opened her mouth to refute, but somehow she swallowed it back in the middle of the sentence.

friend...?

I couldn't help but smile ironically in my heart.

She and Snape can still be called friends... This illusion is really completely created──

"I think you should be able to leave the hospital today—"

What?

Tahlia looked up at Mary in surprise. "I thought you said last night that I would be discharged from the hospital at the soonest?"

"But as I said just now, you recovered well, didn't you?" Mary smiled slightly.

"Oh..." Tahlia didn't know what to say for a while, so she just responded in a daze.

Seeing this, Mary couldn't help chuckling.

For some reason, it became increasingly difficult for her to associate the dazed woman in front of her with the Watson she had heard of before.

She is actually an ordinary person, right?

Tahlia felt even more puzzled, and logically said that these people should not treat her very well... But the therapist in front of her was a little different──

However, maybe that's just because she didn't hurt anyone she cared about... Looking at Anderson she met the day before yesterday, she clearly knew that many people still hated her very much.

"So, I can be discharged from the hospital today?" After a while, she asked softly.

It's good to leave the hospital early, and she can start planning the next tasks earlier. There are many things to do, and none of them are easy at all.

Mary checked again for the last time, and after confirming that no snake venom had been detected in Tahlia's body, she took a few steps back and said. "I think it should be fine, you can try to stand up, as long as you don't feel dizzy, it will be fine."

Tahlia nodded, lifted the quilt and moved her feet. Just as she was about to touch the ground, she suddenly remembered one thing──

Where are her shoes?

Frowning, she waved her wand again, only to see her shoes fly out of a small cupboard behind the door.

Tahlia smiled and put them on without haste before continuing to stand up.

everything is normal.

Tahlia felt extremely happy, she didn't feel dizzy at all, and her right hand didn't feel as heavy as a stone, it seemed that she really recovered──

"I feel good," she said.

Mary smiled too. "Then you sign the document here, and you can go—well... your clothes should be in the locker over there—"

"Clothes?" Tahlia quickly signed her name and asked suspiciously, then she was startled suddenly and looked down—

When did she change into this hospital gown?

"Who...who will replace it for me—" she asked, feeling her throat was extremely dry in an instant.

"Oh? Are you talking about this dress?" Mary immediately understood Tahlia's question. "After we handed him the suit, we left—"

Tahlia was horrified to find that there seemed to be something beyond her control──

"Give it to... him?" She swallowed and asked nervously. "who is he?"

Mary looked dazed, as if she didn't understand how Tahlia reacted like this, she blinked, and then spoke as a matter of course.

"It's the man who brought you here." After a short pause, he added suspiciously. "Otherwise who would it be?"

Snape suddenly felt something was wrong.

Although the feeling was fleeting, he still felt weird──

"Wait, Snape."

A voice rang in his ear, Quirrell's voice.

"I'm busy." Snape replied flatly, and resumed his steps that had been paused for a moment, without any intention of responding to the man.

But the footsteps behind him followed regularly, Snape turned his head impatiently, and found that Quirrell was not only following behind unhurriedly, but also had his eyes fixed on him.

"What's on my face that interests you?" he asked displeased.

"No, no…" Quirrell smirked. "It's just that I want to ask you an academic question later—"

"How can I have the honor to answer your question?" Snape also hooked the corner of his mouth quickly, almost imperceptibly. "After all, you are the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor here, not me..."

"But my question is about potions, Professor Snape, you're the expert..." Quirrell still had a smile on his face, and he added after Snape's face slumped at this sentence.

"About... snake venom."