[HP] Can you be gentle with me

Snape should have appeared with them, shouldn't he?

"Snape..." Tahlia murmured subconsciously. Before she realized it, her body had already taken a step forward, and she walked forward, directly meeting the cameras that suddenly started to gather towards her. Ghosts──

Oh no - what is she doing...

And why, these dementors will surround them?Shouldn't they be ignoring it?

"You..." She opened her mouth, but was immediately swallowed by a sudden cold, and she couldn't continue to say what she wanted to ask.

Tahlia shuddered.

In just a few seconds, she found that she could hardly hold her wand tightly, and her mind went blank... Is there any other spell that can stop the dementor?Except for the Patronus Charm──

Some voices that had just begun to reappear in my mind were gradually amplified...

"You killed my dad! I know it was you!" Well, apparently disarming spells don't work, huh?Dementors don't use any weapons to hurt people at all, and they can't use stun spells, and she's not even sure that dementors can faint—

"...you have been accused of being involved in multiple Muggle attacks, as well as the murder of Mr. Anderson and others—" Obstacles?Armor for protection──

"Look, a Mudblood."

"Who would have thought that such a dirty thing got mixed up in our academy..." What other spells──No, she is not a dirty thing...she is not──

Tahlia stood hollow, her feet were as heavy as lead, she couldn't go any further...

She didn't kill—no, she did kill a lot of people...they all died...a lot of people died...

It's all her fault...

It seems that back when she was a child, the school corridor was empty, and the sound of her footsteps echoed very clearly... The wall leading to the lounge was in front of her, and she walked in through the opened wall nervously.

They were all laughing, everyone was laughing, smiling contemptuously at her, but she realized that those students in school gowns had no faces at all... Even so, those sharp and sarcastic laughter still deeply irritated her. into her ears.

She wants them to stop.

She's done nothing wrong - she hasn't done anything...

Then, a person walked out of it.

He was the only one who could see a face, and she knew that face very well... that face had almost taken up her entire life.

No no no...please...don't-

She has heard it too many times...

don't do it again...

Don't remind her of those again—

Tahlia closed her eyes in pain, and waited for a while, but didn't hear the expected sound... What's going on?She opened her eyes slowly.

All the furnishings in the living room have disappeared, and the scene seems to have changed in an instant.

This is by the small river in Cokeworth, her favorite place to come to when she was very young... There is no one else around, only the person who just walked out of the crowd, he is not wearing a school uniform, but wearing a set He was wearing gray clothes that were obviously too big, and he was obviously much younger, and he was staring at the river in a daze.

"Severus?" she blurted out.

That person... no, it should be said that the boy turned his head suddenly, stared at him, and ran towards her anxiously in the next second, opening his mouth, but Tahlia couldn't hear any sound...

What did he say?

"Se...verus..."

The scenery in front of her eyes gradually blurred... In the blink of an eye, the building of Azkaban appeared in front of her eyes again—something seemed to grab her by the collar, and her caught feet left the ground.

really...so cold...

Focusing briefly, she finally realized what was in front of her.

Thinking about it now, she discovered it when she saw it for the first time—it is rumored that people who have seen the true face of a dementor can no longer describe it...

She hadn't quite figured it out yet... She didn't know why the dementors were turning their backs all of a sudden - but she couldn't think any more soon, did she?

She is about to end up like those soulless people in the past...?

For some reason, she felt a sense of relief—at that moment, she had no time to think about anything else.

She just felt that her life was too tiring... always catering to other people, always worrying about others...

But Nigel...she wants to watch him grow up, she doesn't want to be separated from him...

She really doesn't want to.

This is too contradictory, a part of her thinks how good it would be if she could end up here... But another part of her is struggling in the end, she can't make him sad──

Seems to be getting colder...

Tahlia couldn't even see the face of the horrible creature in front of her. She didn't know if the effect of Felicia had disappeared, or the influence of the dementors couldn't even work with Felicity. She felt that she had no Any hope was gone, and she was completely out of breath under the heavy pressure of despair.

She hadn't even seen Nigel for the last time, not even Snape—

"Severus—" Did he escape successfully?He should be able to escape, shouldn't he?He knows the Patronus Charm, and the only thing the dementors fear is the Patronus, so he must just be temporarily put off by something, right?

not like myself.

She's useless here, she can't do anything—

Tahlia slowly closed her eyes, it doesn't matter anyway... Maybe this is really her end.

That's it-

Suddenly, she fell heavily to the ground, and the force that had grabbed her just now disappeared instantly, and the screams of dementors seemed to come to her ears... Strange to say, she didn't even know that dementors could make sounds, Could it be that she has begun to hallucinate?

I barely opened my eyes, and what I saw was a beautiful silver rabbit... But that was──

She didn't have the strength to think anymore, the last thing she saw was the rabbit lightly jumping back and forth among the dementors, gradually driving them away, and then a kind of warmth gradually spreading throughout the body, subconsciously grabbing What is it, she said, and then...

She doesn't know anything.

A silence.

There was total darkness around her, so she couldn't even tell if her eyes were open, but she didn't feel uncomfortable at all. On the contrary, the atmosphere made her feel at ease.

However, the silence didn't seem to last long anyway...

"You better explain what's going on!"

"Explain what? Does this need an explanation?"

Noisy... Tahlia frowned slightly.

"I told you that those dementors have agreed to stand by us. Why do you provoke them? Have the dementors sucked away your IQ all these years?"

Is this... Snape's voice?

"All these years? How dare you—Snape! How dare you say that word to us? Dirty bastard! You traitors! You are all traitors! After we were imprisoned... in that place for the Lord Where were you then? Huh? Out and about! Are you right now?"

Then this is obviously Bellatrix Lestrange... There is no other person in this world with such a sharp and superior tone.

Tahlia opened her eyes.

She soon discovered that this was where they planned to retreat, a hidden log cabin, and this was where she threw the Portkey to Bella and the others.

But why is she here?Shouldn't she have been... sucked out of her soul by a dementor?

She felt like her mind was in turmoil... Vaguely remembering that something appeared at the end, fighting off the dementors, and what did she say at that time?She remembered Snape's presence, she remembered her tugging at his robes like the last piece of driftwood that could save him when he was about to suffocate in the water.

──But she found that she couldn't remember whether she had spoken at all...

"Let me remind you, Bellatrix." Snape's voice reached his ears again.

So they were still arguing...

"If it weren't for the... traitors you mentioned, you wouldn't even be able to leave Azkaban, if it weren't for Watson──" He paused suddenly, Tahlia slightly looked in the direction of the voice, blinked, and the two eyes met, and a few seconds later , he turned around slowly and continued. "The Lord can't regain his strength that quickly..." He spoke slowly, full of irony. "Yes, you are loyal enough, but you are also stupid enough—"

"Snape!" Bella growled. "Say it again! I will kill you!"

"Go ahead." Snape sneered. "If you think a few down-and-out wizards who haven't even got their wands back can kill me, then come on."

"You!" Bella continued to growl. "You should have figured out that if we hadn't left your wand behind, you'd be strutting around here now—"

"Quiet." Tahlia couldn't help but speak.

And the space did quiet down at that moment, Tahlia was confused for a moment, when did these people listen to her like this?

Despite this, she maintained Mo Ran's expression, slowly propped herself up and sat up, and then stood up.

"You guys are too loud." She said slowly. "What are you arguing about?" Although she had roughly guessed the answer to this question.

Bella Lestrange glared at Tahlia.Normally, she would not be able to calm down just because of Tahlia's words, but now is the moment of last resort. She knows Tahlia's ability, and also knows that they really don't have a wand now, and they can't do anything...

Damn she shouldn't have left Snape with her wand, she should have kept it after snatching it!

Several people continued to be silent.

Tahlia's eyes swept over the others, and finally, her eyes fell on a brown-haired man standing in the corner. "Crouch?"

As if he didn't expect to be called, little Crouch bounced his body slightly. He looked very bad, his eye sockets were deeply sunken, his eyes were dull, and his complexion was extremely pale. It seems that those dementors really affected him a lot. big.

"Barty," Tahlia called again, softer this time.

Crouch looked them back and forth before speaking slowly, his voice hoarse and weak. "After Snape showed up and opened our cell door, he did seem to say that those dementors wouldn't make things difficult for us now...the dementors really...didn't interfere with us much." He paused.

"Then?"

"And…" Crouch shook his head. "We followed Snape, and then Leatrange... I mean, Rodolphus rushed forward after Bella whispered something in his ear, and attacked Snape—" He stopped again, flinching, cautiously Watching Tahlia's and Snape's reactions carefully.

Tahlia only raised an eyebrow. "Let me guess, you... borrowed his wand, attacked those dementors and ran away? Regardless of the situation of the person who rescued you?"

"So what?" Bella replied confidently. "Teach that guy a lesson, by the way!" They didn't really take his wand anyway, and if he did die, it would be his own incompetence to blame!

"Then it's natural to ignore that we're here to save you, it's all on the orders of the Dark Lord?" Tahlia snorted coldly. "If you lose his most important potion master, have you thought about the consequences? What's more—" She paused for a few seconds. "He's making a potion that will restore the Lord's strength."

Bella flinched for a moment.

"So what?" She glared at Tahlia. "Is he dead now?"

Tahlia glanced at Snape, noticing that he looked ugly, and she turned her head to stare at Bella with contempt.

"So what?" she said softly, repeating. "Is one of you capable of taking over from him? Does anyone of you have a potion skill better than Snape's?" She shook her head. "At least he was right about one thing, Bellatrix, you are loyal enough, but you are equally stupid... Now it seems that stupidity accounts for a lot more." She deliberately raised the corners of her lips. "You know, the Lord doesn't seem very satisfied with this." Satisfied to see Bella's face instantly filled with horror.

"Lord he won't—"

"Oh? Really?" Tahlia raised an eyebrow. "He told me all these things himself...According to his own words, your behavior can be regarded as foolish loyalty at best." She paused for a while. "Looks like you haven't been of much help now, have you?"

She looked around at everyone, not unexpectedly seeing everyone tense up.

Tahlia raised the corner of her mouth, opened her mouth slowly, and added another sentence.

"Have you thought about... how to explain to the Lord?"