[HP] Can you be gentle with me

People come and go, and everyone seems to be in a hurry.

Tahlia didn't come to the Ministry very often, and it had been a while since the last time she came, to steal the Portkey... with Snape.

Stealing, threatening, intimidating, killing...what else hasn't she done?If those charges were confirmed, she would have been imprisoned in Azkaban long ago, and even given the dementor's kiss directly──

Gripping her wand tightly, she took a deep breath.

But it doesn't matter, maybe she could have a reason for doing those things in the past, but not this time.

The final result is still the same, it's just a matter of time, she has too many lives in her hands, no matter whether it is intentional or unintentional... too many people died because of her──

It's all her fault.

"Ah, sorry..."

A person accidentally ran into Tahlia who was standing still in the eyes of others, apologized hastily, and wanted to move on, but was stopped by Tahlia.

"Excuse me, where is the place where the suspect is temporarily detained?" She asked with a smile.

"Why are you asking this?" It seemed that the question he asked was too sensitive, and the man's tone sounded bad.

"I received a notification." Tahlia said, shaking a piece of thin paper in her hand, and then quickly retracted the paper, leaving no time for anyone to see the content on it. If he really wants to take a closer look, it's no big deal , a simple confusion spell solved it, and she knew very well that even in the Ministry of Magic, most of the staff couldn't even use some simple spells, let alone resist—

The man was silent for a few seconds before replying. "Fourth floor, Department of Legal Enforcement, go to the end of the corridor behind the door on the right hand side."

"Thank you." Tahlia still maintained a smile on her face, and after she finished speaking, she turned around.

"and many more."

She stopped and waited for the other party to speak.

"We..." The man's tone suddenly softened a lot, not because he suddenly became kind, but because he seemed a little hesitant at the moment, and his words didn't sound so harsh. "Did I meet you somewhere?"

Tahlia didn't look back. "I think you remember wrongly." After finishing speaking, he didn't talk to that person again, slowed down his pace and tried his best to make himself walk steadily. The elevator should be not far ahead in the impression.

Where have you seen... her?

Tahlia smiled sarcastically, whether he really met her or not, it wouldn't be a good thing—she tried her best not to think about what happened just now, but it didn't work, Derek's screams kept coming from her ears Call, he's just an ordinary person!And that man - Anderson actually...

That's none of Derek's business...but always—in the end it's always the innocent who suffers, she always causes other people to hurt...

Derek was one, and she had to admit, Anderson was one too—he was just one of the victims, and in the end, the retribution was finally upon her, but Derek was involved for no reason, so yes, the final result was That's the case──her destination is always only one.

She walked into the elevator quickly, and it was not as difficult as she imagined. She could feel the movements of the wizards around her, and all she had to do was to grasp the direction and follow along.

After a while, she stepped into the corridor on the fourth floor, and it was very quiet here, perhaps because the door on the left led to Auror's office, and the right, as the clerk said just now, was a place for temporarily holding untrialed prisoners, no matter from which side Generally speaking, this is not a place for Ministry of Magic employees to hang around with nothing to do.

The place she is planning to go now may soon be the place she really has to go──

"Stop."

A voice came from behind, and Tahlia's foot, which had already taken half a step, stopped in midair, her whole body was abnormally stiff, and she didn't move at all.

Then she felt the man who had stopped her come to her side, and spoke again in his characteristic deep voice. "Don't do that."

"You don't know what I'm going to do—" Tahlia managed, only to be cut off by Snape.

"No, I know." Snape stood directly in front of him this time, blocking her way abruptly. "I know what you're thinking right now, trust me...don't do that." He paused for a while, before he had time to express anything, he added another sentence. "If you do kill him, you will regret it."

Tahlia fell silent.

But she continued to step forward to the right to bypass the man, but she didn't expect him to move at the same time, causing herself to bump into him. "Get out of the way," she hissed.

"No." Snape replied firmly.

Tahlia raised her eyes, and the anger in her eyes was fully revealed. She tried to move forward in another direction. After being blocked by men again and again, she finally pulled out the magic wand hidden in her bosom, and reached straight for it. against Snape's chest. "Don't try to stop me." She said, her voice hoarse due to her dry throat. "Otherwise don't blame me for casting a spell on you, Severus—"

"Tahlia!"

Tahlia turned her head abruptly, she could not mistake the voice, it was Sirius, but there were more than one footsteps coming towards her—who else is coming?

"Did we miss something?" The voice was similar to the voice that called her name just now, but with a softness that Sirius' voice didn't have, she didn't expect Regulus to come here.

"Isn't it obvious? Maybe we can see a duel if we arrive later—" The deliberately protracted voice sounded irritating, Tahlia gathered the wand in her hand, and then slowly Put it away slowly.

"Lucius, Regulus..." she said lightly. "What are you doing here?"

"I found them." It was Remus' voice that answered her, and she turned away.

Let them come over...?

They all had good friendships with him in the past. Of course, this would not be Remus' own claim. No matter how he said it, he would not take the initiative to contact Lucius. It must be──

"Do you think this can stop me?" She turned her head and said coldly to the man who was there from the beginning. "I've dealt with more people, or do you think I'll be caught off guard because they're people I know—"

"That's not what I meant," Snape said flatly. "I do want to stop you, but not in the way you think." He paused. "But I have my confidence, Tahlia, maybe you can always force yourself to do it, but even if you wanted to, you couldn't."

"Can't do it?" Tahlia repeated softly. "You say I can't do it?"

"Yes, you can't," Snape said slowly. "Blind you, it is impossible for you to fight with one enemy like before──"

"Wait, blind?" There was a sudden commotion behind him, and everyone except Sirius exclaimed in shock.

"The Dark Lord's spell." Snape explained flatly. "It seems that it's not as simple as just making her unconscious..."

"Of course we know that the curse is not that simple, but blindness—Merlin!" Regulus couldn't help exclaiming. "We don't know... I thought—"

"I thought she was really cured." Lucius answered slowly, his reaction was calmer than Regulus's, but his voice was still much higher than before. "Perhaps Severus was right, a blind witch who couldn't even see her target—"

"Malfoy—"

"Sirius."

Tahlia spoke, interrupting Sirius just in time to throw a punch.

"What are you mad about? They're telling the truth."

"But—" Sirius wanted to say something, but Remus grabbed his arm, and he shook his head at him, motioning him to stop talking.

Facts always sound harsh, no matter how sarcastic and hurtful Lucius' tone sounds, but she's used to his way of speaking, she knows exactly what he and Snape are trying to convey, how could she not know this point?No one can understand this endless darkness that can never be seen better than her, and no one can understand how helpless people are in this lonely darkness. Yes, she can no longer be like this under normal circumstances. He used to cast magic like that, but now, in this place, in this narrow underground passage with only overhead lighting, blindness may still be his advantage──

"Sorry." Tahlia said abruptly, and then she pulled out her wand in the blink of an eye. The next second, a dazzling white light shot out from her wand, and everyone couldn't control their eyes because of the too dazzling white light. He covered his eyes with his hands, and his head ached from the sudden stimulation.

And the only witch who was not affected in any way quickly turned sideways, threw out an obstacle spell, and ran into the wall after touching the wall.

"Damn it..." Lucius cursed secretly, enduring the dizziness that was quite tossing even if he didn't open his eyes, and waved the snake staff in his hand, but the light only weakened a little. "All those Aurors are on vacation today?" No one came out after such a commotion──

But he was wrong about those Aurors.

Leaving aside Sirius who took the day off today in order to take Harry to the station, those Aurors of course sensed that this corridor was intruded, but they found tragically that they couldn't open the door of the office - even bombing it. No way, it was as if the entire wall facing the corridor was protected by some invisible barrier.

"Has your vigilance been eaten by dogs, have you?" In the office, an obviously senior Auror came out of his own separate office room and growled at the colleagues who were looking at the door helplessly. "You didn't even find out that someone put a curse on that door?"

"Say it as if you've discovered it..." one of the young Aurors murmured softly, with purple hair that stood out among the wizards.

"Tonks!"

"...I didn't say anything." The purple-haired woman called Tonks said hastily.

"Anyway, no matter what method, I will see you guys have solved this door in 5 minutes!" The Auror roared again, then returned to his office angrily, slammed the door, and left the young Aurors outside to continue Fight with that door.

Who would have known when the door was glued on like this... It was quite normal a few minutes ago──

Outside, after a long time, the dazzling white light finally gradually dimmed, and Sirius and the others were finally able to open their eyes, barely seeing the scene in the dark corridor, although they still couldn't adapt to the sudden return to normal light because of the light just now.

And they soon realized that Severus Snape wasn't staying with them, and they looked at each other, then walked inside together tacitly.

Snape did not stay where he was.

Although his eyes hurt, he followed Tahlia immediately. No, strictly speaking, he didn't follow up. After all, his whole head seemed to be hit hard by something, which even affected his progress. speed, but he was still the only one who reacted immediately and acted first.

I don't know how long it took before the eyes gradually returned to normal light and darkness. From a distance, I saw a woman who was almost hidden in the darkness in front of me, and hurriedly ran.

But in the next second, he bumped into an invisible obstacle, and fell back on the ground heavily due to the reaction force. At the same time, he saw that Tahlia had opened the door at the end of the corridor.

"Damn it..." Snape cursed, took out his wand and threw a spell directly to blast the invisible barrier, and continued to run forward.

Seeing Tahlia disappear behind the door, which was about to close, Snape stepped even faster, only a few steps away...

Then, fingertips touched the doorknob that was about to close, and with a firm grip, the door was pulled open, and Snape heaved a sigh of relief and walked in.

The woman he was after was standing alone in the middle of the corridor, with her back to him.

Snape took a few deep breaths to calm himself before opening his mouth slowly.

"Tahlia."