[HP] Can you be gentle with me

After the Potions class, everyone looked relieved, and Peter walked behind Tahlia and the others timidly, like a small fish clinging to a big fish.

James looked at Peter behind him who wanted to approach them but couldn't muster the courage, and couldn't help laughing. "Peter, come with us!"

"Ah? Good." Peter replied blankly, and moved a little closer to them.

Remus pulled him forward again, letting him walk between them.

"Don't look cowering," Sirius said, patting Peter on the back hard. "You're a Gryffindor."

"I……"

"Peter, relax, we won't eat you again," Remus added, smiling, after a pause. "Don't look at Sirius as another Slytherin with a fierce look, but he is actually very easy to get along with."

"Hey, Remus! What does it mean to look fierce!" Sirius protested, glaring at Remus.

"Isn't that the expression you have now?" Remus said seriously.

Sirius was speechless for a moment, turned his head away, and snorted.

"Haha, Peter, ignore them." Tahlia laughed. "They never look serious..."

Sirius looked at Tahlia plaintively. "Tahliaaaa..."

Tahlia ignored Sirius with a shrug and continued talking to Peter. "...From now on, you should be in the same group as us in Potions class, otherwise you will make potions by yourself and no one will help you..."

Peter nodded seriously. "Well, thank you." He silently decided in his heart that he should at least not cause trouble for Tahlia in the future.

Tahlia patted Peter on the shoulder, she found that he seemed to be half a head shorter than her, and suddenly felt a sense of accomplishment. "No," she said. "You follow James and the others first, I still have something to go back to the dormitory..."

"Okay." Peter agreed.

Without letting Sirius follow, Tahlia waved to them and walked towards the cellar. She wanted to take this opportunity to study the book Lucius had given her.

As soon as he went down the stairs to the cellar, a call came from behind him.

"Watson."

Tahlia didn't even need to turn her head to know who that person was. It seemed as if she would be met by him whenever she left alone. She turned around helplessly and shouted. "Senior Lucius."

Lucius ignored the deep helplessness revealed in Tahlia's acoustic teacher, and directly pushed open the door of the empty classroom beside him, beckoning her to go in.

"What's the matter, Senior?" Tahlia watched as Lucius closed the door and cast an anti-tapping spell.This time seems to be very important...?

"I heard that Snape's potion is very good?" Lucius asked straight away with a rare directness.

Tahlia's heart skipped a beat, and then said seriously. "Why do you ask that?"

Lucius raised an eyebrow. "You don't think I don't know what happened in your Potions class, do you?" he said. "Mr. Snape is said to be acting very..." He glanced at Tahlia. "...Brilliant." Not only bright, a first-year student can judge the beauty potion just by the smell and color. Lucius can say that even many students in the advanced potions class of the seventh grade can't do it. After further contact with Snape Before that, he had come to find Tahlia first, after all, in his observation, she paid a lot of attention to that Snape.

"Senior, I think you should ask him about this yourself?" Tahlia said. "I don't talk to him very often..."

"Really?" Lucius narrowed his eyes. "It seems to me that you have spoken to him many times..."

Tahlia said helplessly. "That was in the past, senior... not now." Seeing that Lucius still had a disbelieving expression on his face, she explained. "A Slytherin wouldn't be so stupid as to jump forward knowing it would hurt," she said. "I don't think he likes me very much."

Lucius stared at Tahlia for a while, seeing that her expression didn't look like she was lying, and after a long time, he spoke again. "Well, I'll go and ask him myself...but," he paused for a moment. "What are you doing approaching that coward who isn't Gryffindor at all today?"

Are you talking about Peter?This description is really... vicious. "I think he should be very good at handling potion materials. It just so happened that he didn't have a group, so I asked the dean if he could join us."

"How do you know he's good at handling potion ingredients?" Lucius asked suspiciously.

"His hand, senior," Tahlia said. "There are many small scars, judging from the size of the wounds, it should be scratched when he was practicing with a knife when he was very young, and the lack of new scars is enough to prove that he has been able to use knives proficiently in recent years, so I think maybe he can Very precise handling of potion ingredients." She paused and continued. "Maybe he's been helping with similar types of work since he was a kid..."

Lucius froze for a moment, and then showed a standard smile. "You've amazed me again, Watson..." he said. "Did you read that thing I showed you last time?"

"I planned to wait until I went back to the room to watch, but I was stopped by you, the senior." Tahlia said helplessly.

"Lucius."

"What?" Tahlia couldn't respond for a moment.

"I give you permission to call me by my name..." Lucius said. "Don't call me senior anymore. If someone finds something wrong, your bloodline will probably be exposed..." I have to say, he doesn't have the usual dislike for Mudbloods towards Tahlia, maybe because she shows too much special Even talking to him is already easy to deal with, and he is a fast learner. Based on his future introduction plan, it is obviously necessary to establish some relationship with her now.

"What... what?" Tahlia asked blankly, calling him what's wrong with the senior?

Lucius said flatly. "Perhaps I should tell you that no one in Slytherin calls me Senior since I became a Prefect, so you understand?"

Meaning that only the outliers would be so stupid as seniors, Tahlia understood right away, which explains why Lucius found out he was Muggle-born so quickly. "Understood." She nodded, and then called out immediately. "Lucius." She paused. "...Then will you call me by my name?"

Lucius fell silent for a moment. "I'll try..." he said reluctantly. "A word of advice to you, don't get too close to Gryffindor's...whether you're pure-blooded or not...that's not normal."

Tahlia has no way to agree to this, James and Remus and even Peter who just met are her important friends. "Sorry, Lucius, I will never say yes to that," she said. "I'd rather have my secret exposed because of it." She looked up, looking straight into Lucius' gray eyes. "I think Slytherin friendships are precious, don't you?"

Lucius looked at her long enough for her to think he would draw his wand to cast a spell on her at any moment for her disrespect, and just as Tahlia was wondering if she should also draw his wand in defense, he spoke. "...The Sorting Hat did not make a wrong judgment... I have to admit, you do have the characteristics of a Slytherin..." He said, but couldn't see what kind of expression he had, he turned around, Opened the door of the classroom, before leaving, I did not forget to say. "At present, I don't think your secret will be in danger of being leaked for the time being..." After finishing speaking, he walked out of the classroom.

Seeing Lucius leave, maybe he's not as dangerous as Sirius said, at least he's really not really embarrassing Tahlia right now, is he?On the contrary, it seemed to be helping her... Although it would not trouble him to just help her keep a secret, Tahlia still felt that she owed Lucius an adult, and he made her call him by his name directly, which made her very uncomfortable. Surprised, although I heard that a Slytherin would not be nice to someone for no reason, there must be a purpose, but if it is good, she has no reason to refuse, as for Lucius' purpose, she doesn't know and is too lazy to explore, anyway, she Even as a first year, Lucius couldn't get much out of her.

Going back to the dormitory and reading the book Lucius gave her for a while, Tahlia didn't go to the hall until dinner time, Sirius seemed to have been there for a long time, he waved to her, she went straight to sit next to him, he looked very excited.

"Looks like you just discovered something again?" Tahlia asked quietly.

Sirius nodded. "We've just discovered a secret passage...uh..." He saw Tahlia raise an eyebrow. "... This time it's a real secret way!" He said. "Peter discovered it...although it was an accident..."

Tahlia chuckled. "Why do you seem to have accidents often?"

"Hey," Sirius said with a smile. "Peter accidentally tripped over something thrown by someone on the ground. As a result, when he stood up, he leaned on the wall with his hand, and somehow touched the mechanism of the secret passage..." He added angrily. "I really don't know where the good luck came from..."

"Don't talk about Peter like that," Tahila said seriously.

"Not because he doesn't look like a Gryffindor at all..." Sirius said. "I've never seen a Gryffindor so timid, Tahlia, you are much more generous than him."

Tahlia shrugged. "You have to believe in the Sorting Hat, right? Since Peter was sorted into Gryffindor, he definitely has their characteristics..."

"Maybe the Sorting Hat is too confused... Okay, Tahlia, I'll shut up." Upon receiving Tahlia's squinting eyes, Sirius quickly stopped the topic and buried himself in the food, although he still thought that Peter was simply assigned to the wrong college .

Time flies, Tahlia has been in Hogwarts for two weeks, and she feels that although she has only been here for a short time, it gives her a very warm feeling, as if everyone is a big family , Sirius, James, Remus, Peter, Lily... and of course, Snape, although he and Tahlia basically maintained a cold interaction, only talking a lot when doing homework together, but everyone Make Tahlia happy to be at Hogwarts.