[HP] Can you be gentle with me

"Ask Tahlia?" Nigel tilted his head. "Oh, she's my mother." While saying this, Cedric noticed a look of joy on Nigel's face at the same time. It seemed that just mentioning his mother's name was enough to make him happy. I love her very much.

"Is she a witch?" Cedric asked. "I mean, I know you just happen to have the same name as Professor Snape, so is your mother a witch? Wait... what am I asking—" He snapped his mouth shut, suddenly aware of the two Things are not related at all.

"Well, Tahlia is a witch." Nigel nodded vigorously. "She's a very, very powerful witch—"

Cedric felt that he was a little bit overwhelmed, a very powerful witch, and her name was Tahlia... After thinking about it, there was only one person who fit—

"Your mother, is that Tahlia Watson?" After a while, he asked softly and carefully.

And for some reason, the entire living room was silent for a moment when he asked this sentence, causing everyone to hear his question, and several people wondered if they had heard it wrong. Of course, everyone has heard of this name, how could they not have heard of this name?

She's a hero, she's done too many things they can't even imagine, and in the end she contributed to the death of the Dark Lord...

And Diggory just asked... Nigel is hers, son?

Not noticing the gazes that suddenly fell on him, Nigel turned his attention back to the book in his hand, and spoke very naturally. "Yeah, Tahlia is my mom."

"Merlin!"

The whole saloon was in commotion.

It never occurred to them that Nigel would be her son!What's more, none of them knew her whereabouts, she was in a coma, and then suddenly disappeared one day, some even thought she was dead──

And this means...

"Nigel, tell us quickly!" A group of people immediately surrounded him.

"Will your mother come back? Where has she gone?"

"Can we meet her? Is she really planning to kill You-Know-Who?"

Nigel froze for a moment.

He didn't expect that Tahlia's name would cause such a commotion. It should be said that he never expected that so many people would have admiration in their eyes just by hearing his name.

"You... what are you doing──" He was a little overwhelmed, clutching the book with both hands nervously, apparently frightened by the attitude of the others.

"Don't you know?" Cedric coughed lightly, and explained to the students who were rushing over to calm down first. "Didn't your mother ever tell you what she did in the magic world?" she asked, feeling a little puzzled.That's not right, now he suddenly remembered that Professor Watson brought a child with him when he was still in school, and he didn't associate that child with Nigel at all...Obviously, the child at that time The boy is Nigel.

He should know something, shouldn't he?It doesn't make sense that Nigel, who had been staying in the magic world before, would not have seen the report of the Daily Prophet that caused a sensation in the magic world at that time.

But what Cedric didn't expect was that Nigel really didn't see the newspapers in those days.

At that time, he was in a daze, and he didn't have any thoughts to think about anything other than Tahlia's coma. After being taken to Black's old house, Sirius and others didn't think about showing him the newspapers from those days. , after all that would be tantamount to mentioning Tahlia in front of him again──

So Nigel really didn't know anything, yes, he knew that Tahlia was always doing dangerous things, but he never knew that Tahlia played such an important role in the plan to kill the Dark Lord.

"The only thing I know is that Tahlia has always been a good person." Nigel said blankly.

Nigel was then overwhelmed by the crowd again, surrounded for a moment by the voices of students scrambling to recount the details that had been written in the newspaper.

And Nigel was surrounded in the middle, completely... at a loss.

I don't know how long it took, but he worked so hard to get rid of the chattering crowd, returned to his room exhausted, and picked up the pen with the parchment he grabbed...but the moment he wrote it, He hesitated again.

What should he write?

Tahlia hadn't told him any of this...all of it—she'd never told herself, she'd just been...silently trying.Maybe in her opinion, those things are not important at all, are they?

So he didn't have to think about asking, did he?Anyway, he already knew that Tahlia was very powerful, but today he just learned more clearly why Tahlia is so powerful.

knock knock.

There was a knock on the door, and Cedric walked in.

He looked at Nigel who was sitting at the table in a daze, holding a quill but didn't write a single word, thought for a while, and finally spoke. "So you really don't know what your mother did for this wizarding world—"

Nigel turned his head and forced a smile. "I didn't expect so many people to worship her so much..."

It feels really weird, and Tahlia would be delighted to know how the students at the school are reacting now—

and many more!

If she knew--

"Oh, Cedric!" Nigel's eyes widened suddenly, and he rushed forward to give Cedric a hug, and then rushed back to the table, writing a series of sentences quickly. "I can't thank you enough!"

"…Uh, you're welcome." Cedric blinked. "But why should you thank me—"

"I can tell her now!" Nigel said excitedly, continuing to write. "She used to leave because she felt that many people hated her—but now I can tell her!" As he spoke, the letter was written, and he signed his name excitedly, rolled up the parchment, and turned it over. He turned to look at Cedric with glowing eyes. "Now I can tell her what you think! Maybe she will be willing to come back!"

As he said that, he grabbed the parchment and wanted to rush out of the room, but was caught by Cedric.

"Hey, don't get excited..." Cedric held him back. "It's curfew now, where else do you want to go──Don't force me to deduct points from my academy..."

"Ah, yes..." Nigel finally realized, patted his head in embarrassment. "Sorry, Cedric."

Cedric smiled and shook his head. "No, you didn't really run out anyway... and it's really not too late now, you should get ready for bed, otherwise if you can't get up to post the letter tomorrow morning, no one will call you—"

Nigel nodded obediently, carefully placed the parchment in his hand on the table, and then let Cedric leave.

"Huh..." Nigel fell back directly on the bed.Then the door was pushed open again, and several of his roommates walked in.

"It's so cool, Nigel." One of them, Henry, who had gotten along well with Nigel at the start-of-school banquet, said. "She's your mother, so cool..."

"You must tell us more about her—"

Nigel didn't answer, but raised his hands helplessly to cover his eyes.

Oh, Merlin... forgive him.

And after Nigel sent the letter, but still failed to get a positive reply from Tahlia, before he knew it, the day of the first task had arrived.

He sat in the stands with the crowd, tightly wrapped in a black and yellow scarf, even though he was wearing thick woolen gloves, he couldn't stop shaking uncontrollably due to the constant cold wind.

Oh, if there was anything to warm him up--

"Ahhhh!"

Suddenly there was screaming, as the audience was finally told what the first mission was about to be for the three school representatives.

Nigel flinched uncontrollably.Merlin, it's a dragon... a real, living, fire-breathing dragon!At the beginning, the students who were excited to cheer for Cedric Diggory unknowingly became much quieter.

That's a dragon! Cedric...Cedric will be okay, right?Oh, they've never seen a dragon in their life!

In the end, although the three warriors all successfully completed the task of retrieving the golden egg from the foot of the dragon, Nigel was still watching in horror. Can't imagine how difficult the second task would be, considering how dangerous the creatures they are facing today.

Cedric even had half his face burned!The contestants from the other two schools were also in a state of distress. They all walked into the medical station holding golden eggs and holding a lot of injuries.

Fortunately, other things soon diverted the attention of these frightened students.

This time, almost all the students in the school stayed at the school, for the rare cross-school Christmas ball. Nigel was not yet old enough to participate, and originally he planned to go home, but Draco and the others planned to stay, not to mention that he also received a letter from Tahlia clearly stating that he should take advantage of this rare opportunity, after all She didn't have anything like that when she was in school... so he finally decided to stay in school too.

Then Hermione agreed almost instantly, and when Nigel stammered and asked her to be his partner, she seemed as happy as she was when she got the yes answer, as if she didn't care that the person who invited her was just a guy The first grader, fortunately Nigel was born tall and thin, only a little shorter than her.

Everyone had a great time at the ball. Cedric, whose burns on his face were healed almost instantly, invited a girl from Ravenclaw. Nigel didn't know the girl's name. It should be said that Harry and the others invited Nigel as well. Don't know each other, but he could swear that when they heard that he invited Hermione, he definitely saw the exact same look of embarrassment on their faces!Even when the dance was over, they still didn't hold back even a little bit!

"At least Nigel invited me from the start, Ronald Weasley!" Hermione glared at her red-haired friend who had been sniggering throughout the dance with a displeased look on her face. "Instead of putting me in the last standby position." Instantly Ron's face was reddened by the words.

"Forget it, Granger." Draco cast a contemptuous glance at Ron, and then saw Nigel smiling awkwardly beside the brunette witch. "I don't think he understands what you're saying..."

"Malfoy!" Ron growled.

"Okay, stop arguing... the dance is over──" Harry stopped Ron, who was about to jump forward, and felt a headache. After all these years, Draco and Ron still quarreled without a few words . "Everyone is tired... I'd better go back and rest early──"

"Mr. Snape."

Halfway through Harry's words, a cold voice suddenly came from behind them, and several people froze in reflex.

Nigel, whose name was called, turned around reluctantly under the gaze of the crowd, and spoke lightly. "Professor Snape."

Severus Snape nodded his chin in a gesture towards the others, and Nigel was immediately annoyed to find that his friends had all abandoned him and fled, damn it... Gritting his teeth, he asked stiffly. "What's the matter?"