[HP] Can you be gentle with me

"Oh, Merlin..." After Snape left, Harry and his party entered in shock.

Who would have thought that Snape would show up on the train!It was as surprising as the day they found out that Headmaster Dumbledore had taken off his distinctive robes for normal wizarding robes.

"Nigel, we are more sure now." The twins also got in, making the box crowded instantly. "You are definitely Professor Snape's nemesis."

"What do you mean?" Hermione raised her eyebrows, and slapped Ron's faceless foot off the chair as she sat down comfortably. "What happened just now?"

"Didn't you guys never find out?" Fred said first. "Which of you ever saw Nigel get points deducted by Professor Snape..."

"Or locked up?" Geroge answered very naturally. "Especially when he sent him off with a few words—"

Several people looked at each other in blank dismay, then shook their heads together.

"It's nothing...I bet there are plenty of students in the school who didn't get grades from him." Nigel shrugged.

"Oh, but they're all Slytherins, and the whole school knows that Snape favors his house! You're not a Slytherin, Nigel…" Geroge said loudly. "Besides, even the Slytherins wouldn't dare talk to him like that—"

Draco nodded harder than anyone else, and Merlin knew that the students in his own academy were in awe of Snape, maybe they were rarely deducted points by him, or even never, but confinement was commonplace...not at all People dare to speak to him directly in that obviously offensive tone──

"Nigel, tell us the truth." Fred asked in an unusually serious tone. "The Sorting Hat really sorted you into Hufflepuff, not Gryffindor?" Nigel's courage definitely surpassed the sum of all Gryyfindor students in the school.

"No...I think you'd be a good fit for Slytherin too—" Draco covered his eyes with one hand. "It's the first time I've ever seen Professor Snape left by what a student said was almost angrily..."

"What are you talking about..." Nigel frowned in displeasure. "Of course I'm Hufflepuff..." Seeing that the few people around were still in a suspicious state, he snorted in embarrassment, then turned around and faced the window without speaking.

"Okay ok...don't piss off our little Nigel any more—" The twins smiled wider, and Fred stepped forward and put his arms around his neck. "Hey, it's more important to research what we just did with us..."

"Ah..." Nigel remembered that he had thrown that thing on the ground casually just now. He lowered his head and looked around. Suddenly, he bounced off the chair suddenly and exclaimed. "What about things?"

The twins froze for a moment, then lowered their heads to look for it.

"It's gone..." After a while, they raised their heads blankly.

But it's impossible, that thing can't run on its own... It can't be that the explosion they made at the beginning gave it a sense of autonomy, right?

"Where did you go?" For a moment, even the other people who hadn't fully figured out the situation were dragged to help find that thing, and there was a brief panic in the box.

In the end, they still couldn't find it.The twins had no choice but to come to a conclusion. Maybe the thing really disappeared by itself, which made them unable to find it.

What they didn't expect was that the thing did disappear, but it didn't disappear by itself.

Severus Snape sat alone in the box at the beginning, surrounded by strange silence, the noise of the students in the next box seemed to be unable to penetrate into this space, he held his wand tightly in his right hand, and concentrated on studying the black object held in his left hand .

Fireworks...?

It's hard to believe that this thing could possibly be made into... fireworks.

Snape didn't know whether to praise the twins for their unrestrained imagination, it seemed that they always had an endless supply of imaginations in their heads - and they were really talented...

Merlin, it was absolutely impossible for him to admit this before.

He put the thing into a drawstring bag that he deformed at will, leaned back on the back of the chair, closed his eyes, and accidentally fell into sleep. When he woke up, it was already past noon, and he probably would The train will arrive at the station soon.

Staring out the window, watching the scenery roar by outside, Snape lost himself in thought again.

I didn't expect that after thinking hard for the whole school year, I still couldn't find a way to get along with that kid Nigel. Could there be someone who failed more than him?Being a stranger to his own son, not even getting basic acknowledgment?

And what he said a while ago... Nigel guessed almost instantly that he was going to get on the train to meet Tahlia, but he let himself go – that was wrong, he was probably trying to prevent himself from meeting Tahlia.

The more he thought about it, Snape felt his head throbbing from time to time, it's ridiculous, isn't it?It seemed that as long as the matter of their mother and child was involved, his thoughts would be blocked by something, and he could not think normally.

He sighed heavily.

Tahlia...

What should he do so that she will truly forgive herself?

None of this would be a problem if she could tell herself clearly that he would do everything in his power to achieve it no matter what—but he shouldn't expect her to speak up at all, should he?

The train gradually slowed down—it was time.

Carefully took out a bottle of potion and a tight cloth bag from his arms.

Snape untied the knot of the cloth bag, there were a few red hairs lying inside, he threw them into the dark gray potion, the moment the hair touched the potion, the potion turned instantly For a very, very deep blue.

Snape watched for a moment, then, tilting his head back, downed it.

"Hey, Nigel! This way!"

Just as he was pushing his luggage through the platform barrier, he heard a loud male voice.

Nigel turned his head first to confirm that Hei Qiqi hadn't followed, and then excitedly ran towards the man who stopped him, then let go of the luggage trolley, and threw himself on the smiling blond young man, shouted loudly. "Derek!"

"Long time no see, my little wizard—" Derek lifted Nigel up a little with force, kissed him on the cheek, and then put him down. "I didn't expect that it's only been a year, and you've become heavier again...I can't even hold you anymore!"

"Because I've grown taller!" Nigel chuckled. "I'm already the same height as Harry." He had noticed it himself, after all, his uniform had obviously shortened, and it was a good thing Tahlia had bought him a slightly larger one when he mail-ordered his clothes.

"Oh? Is that the Harry Potter that Tahlia said?" Derek had already taken over to help push Nigel's luggage, and started to move forward with one hand leading him.

"Yeah, that's him...we've always lived together—" Nigel said. "Did Tahlia tell you that too?"

Derek nodded, then bent down, pretending to speak mysteriously. "I'm telling you, Nigel... I have a big surprise for you—"

"What is it?"

"you guess?"

Nigel looks away. "Oh, I don't guess! Every time you play me... I guessed the answer right from the beginning──"

Derek laughed dryly a few times. "Who makes you always guess right the first time?" Nigel continued to add a sentence under Nigel's smug gaze. "Well, I'm actually going to take you to Kaluk tomorrow—oh, sorry, sir." A passer-by who was about to be hit by him flashed in a thrilling flash. "I mean, where do you find a department store in Dalserf?"

"That's why we have so many customers in our store..." Nigel answered naturally. "Otherwise, why would so many people buy those things—"

"You boy!" Derek pretended to hit Nigel on the head hard. "Are you thinking they are naive? Who was arguing to take that dog with them before?"

"...Didn't I take it later!"

The one big and one small chatted happily and gradually walked away. No one noticed that the man who was almost hit just now stared at the two with a gloomy expression... It should be said that he stared at the middle age of the two very angrily. The older man.

Merlin knew how much effort it took him not to rush forward and beat Nigel up when the damned man picked him up!

damn it!

The red-haired Severus Snape stood on the platform exuding blackness, and ordered himself to calm down until the two of them disappeared from sight. He had more important things to do... Besides──he had to Convincing myself in this way──Besides, that man may not necessarily have anything to do with Tahlia, maybe he is just a friendly neighbor, even if he is so friendly that he is even willing to come here to pick up the child instead of Tahlia, and he has a very good relationship with Nigel, it is absolutely without any intention--

Damn it!Stop this stupid idea, Severus Snape! .

Snape cursed angrily, then, after asking exactly where the so-called Dalsurf was, he dodged into a remote corner and Apparated.

In the next second, the original concrete wall in front of him was replaced by a large grass field, and he found that he was standing by the river, and there was a small village in the distance.

Snape felt his heart beating extremely fast now...

That's where... Tahlia lives these days?

After all that time, all this time he'd waited—is Tahlia really here?

Can he really see her?

The funny thing is, now he actually has a sense of unreality...

Snape closed his eyes, took a deep breath, then opened his eyes as if he had made a decision, and walked quickly towards the small village.

This is a quiet place, and the residents living here are also very kind. They did not reject him as an outsider at all, but responded enthusiastically to his questions.

Snape soon found out that they did both know a woman named Watson who had moved here about two years ago, which lifted some of the weight that had been hanging over him.

At least he knew Tahlia was indeed here.

After being guided by a few local people, he stopped in front of a shop in a short time, and then he saw—

Through the transparent window, Snape could clearly see the woman with black hair tied into a ponytail smiling and greeting the guests inside.

It's really her—

Of course Snape didn't intend to meet her with this strange face, he quickly hid in the dark alley opposite the shop, poured a bottle of potion, and when he walked out of the alley again, he had recovered into a black-clothed potion professor Severus Snape.

But he couldn't take a single step forward, he could only stand still, and suddenly lost the courage to walk into the store...

How would Tahlia react when she saw him?

How would she... think of herself?

"gentlemen?"

A voice suddenly reached his ears, and Snape turned his head sharply. "What?"

The man seemed taken aback by his reaction, coughed lightly before speaking. "It's nothing... just seeing that you've been standing here for a long time──" he said gently. "Are you thinking about which toy to buy for your child?"

"child?"

"Isn't it?" The man was obviously surprised. "Looking at your age, it doesn't look like you are going to give love—I mean, I thought you were wondering which one to choose..."

"I... don't—" Snape took a deep breath and forced an ugly smile. "I mean, you're right, I really don't know how to make a decision."

"Then you should go in and ask instead of standing here and seeing the woman inside?" the man smiled, pointing to Tahlia inside the shop. "She can always find the one that best suits your ideal... It's not that I'm promoting them... She really has the ability—"

"She's really capable—what are you doing—"

Before Snape could react, he was dragged forward by the nosy man, and then, the shop door was pushed open, followed by several crisp bells.

damn-

"Ah, welcome to-"

To Snape's surprise, Tahlia gave him a smile as he froze in panic in front of the store.

A warm smile instantly made him feel as if he was bathed in the morning light.

A smile that he hadn't seen on her face for a very long time made all those long-untouched memories buried in his mind suddenly flood out.

She is smiling!

Snape couldn't hide the joy in his heart, his whole body trembled unconsciously with excitement...

But in the next second, what Tahlia said with a smile made him instantly fall from the top of the mountain into the abyss.

"My guest, what do you need?"