[HP] Can you be gentle with me

Pomfrey felt a headache.

Looking at the two crying children, a Gryffindor and a Slytherin, her head really hurt...

"I thought you should think about the consequences of this before impulsively coming to a duel." She said sternly, even the helplessness in her words was fully revealed. "For Merlin's sake, you are already adults!"

That's right, I'm an adult, and I just experienced the days when Gryffindor and Slytherin were incompatible a few years ago. The reasons for mutual hatred in the past suddenly disappeared. Maybe they gradually began to try to coexist peacefully in name, but they definitely still had some grudges in their hearts. .

"I'm an adult!" She emphasized again, and the two students shrank subconsciously.

They should be glad they didn't suffer any serious injuries from this childish duel, at least... they were able to walk to the medical wing by themselves-

"What did the principal say back then? Huh?" Pomfrey asked imposingly with his hands on his waist. "Tolerance!" she shrieked. "The only thing you need to do is tolerance!"

"…We're sorry, Mrs. Pomfrey." The two students lowered their heads even lower.

Seeing this, Pomfrey suddenly didn't have the heart to continue reprimanding. She didn't know why the two had an argument, and she wasn't interested in exploring it. Thinking about it, she sighed and softened her tone a little. "I don't need your apologies, you should apologize to each other later—" She turned and motioned them to move forward. "Come here... Where is the injury?"

Luckily it was just a minor injury...

Pomfrey quickly healed their wounds, gave them each a vial of potion, and sent them back to their dorms.She has not forgotten that she has another patient—

While thinking, Pomfrey flipped the screen in front of him.

"Oh…sorry." Pomfrey blinked, which was not what she expected. "You... did I disturb you?"

"Oh, Merlin... of course not!" It was Tahlia who answered, or rather, Tahlia who was held tightly by Snape.

I saw her struggling to retreat in panic, her face full of horror. "You're not... I mean—not as you see—"

"Honestly, that's hard for me to believe, Tahlia," Pomfrey said dryly.

"I, I mean—" Tahlia stammered, but then shut up as Snape grabbed her again. "Enough, Severus! What are you doing?"

"Please... don't leave," Snape murmured, but didn't let go.

"I'm not leaving!" Tahlia turned up the volume, trying to push Snape away. "Go back to bed—"

"cough……"

Pomfrey on the side couldn't help coughing lightly, feeling that it was necessary for her to draw those two people's attention to her presence.

"Sorry, Poppy…" Tahlia turned her head slightly and forced a smile. "But I think... I mean—something is wrong with Severus—"

"No," Snape said suddenly, staring straight at Tahlia as if he hadn't noticed Pomfrey at all. "I'm normal, Tahlia, I mean it - don't leave."

"The problem is that I'm not going to leave at all!" Tahlia snapped back, speaking to Pomfrey again. "Poppy, please take a look at him—" Saying that, one of them broke free forcefully, and quickly backed away.

Pomfrey froze for a bit, but reacted immediately, took a few steps forward and drew out his wand to give Snape a check.

At that moment, Snape suddenly went crazy.

"You're going to leave!" He roared almost out of reason. "I know you—"

"Oh, for Merlin's sake, Severus!"

Pomfrey couldn't help but use a louder volume to stop the abnormal Snape, and the effect was very obvious. It seemed that no matter how wrong Snape was, he would still subconsciously obey the undisputed most powerful witch in Hogwarts.

"Calm down!" Pomfrey said loudly with his hands on his hips, turned his head away, and added when he saw Tahlia's expression of having nothing to do with him. "Both of them!" A sentence forced her to shut up.

The whole space seemed to be silent for a long time, during which Snape kept his eyes on Tahlia, as if he was very sure that she was going to leave.

Sure?

"Severus, what did you just say?" After a long while, Pomfrey broke the silence and spoke first.

Snape's face was dark enough, and the nerves on his face were twitching. "Feel sorry?"

"Didn't you realize that something was wrong with you just now?" Pomfrey raised an eyebrow.

Snape was stunned for a moment, but then he said something stiffly. "I said I'm nothing but normal—"

"You said you knew."

Snape shut his mouth and looked away briefly from Tahlia's eyes.

"How do you know?" Tahlia asked again after waiting for a while before Snape could answer.

Snape still didn't answer, his lips were pursed tightly, and he didn't make a sound at all.

"Severus." Tahlia called again. "You said you knew I was going to leave... tell me, how did you know?"

Her voice was very soft, like a whisper, but her words were clear. Snape looked over, opened his mouth slightly, but closed it again.

Only that moment.

Snape didn't know how to explain it, but the moment he blocked the splashed potion for Tahlia, an unprecedented pain shot out from his body.

It didn't take him much thought to know what was causing the pain, not potions, no, of course not—

It was a total heartbreak.

Tahlia's inner feelings.

The only way to heal it is to leave forever, the farther away the better, no contact from now on, let time... time can always wash away everything──

She wants to go.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have left without a word the first time he woke up.

But she still chose to come back in the end. She went against the idea that was so firm in her heart at that time—until now—and came back. Why?

"You intended to stay away from here for the rest of your life...but you changed your mind—" Snape finally spoke slowly, his voice unusually hoarse. "Why come back?"

Tahlia lowered her eyes, staring at the ground, didn't speak, and didn't even remind Snape that she should have been the one who had just asked the question.

"You said you had a purpose," Snape continued. "You said you would consider answering if I asked, and I wonder if you still feel the same way now."

"...Of course not." Tahlia was silent for a moment before saying stiffly. "At that time, I was in a mess, it was all nonsense, not to mention that I came back for nothing—"

"You and I both know it's a lie." Snape cut her off straight away. "If you're because it's not the time to talk—"

Then he didn't speak anymore, and turned his head slowly, staring at Pomfrey who could only stand aside awkwardly from the beginning, not knowing how to react, and she read the hint in his eyes almost immediately.

Just in time, she was still worrying about when to speak and avoid──

"Is it because of me?" Pomfrey asks, before Tahlia has time to make any rebuttals or reactions. "Sorry, I suddenly remembered that I still have some things to deal with──" Turning around while speaking, the curtain was lifted directly. "Go ahead, I'll be back in a while."

"Poppy──"

"Tahlia." Another sentence from Snape made Tahlia shut up.

For a long time, the two just remained silent.

After an unknown amount of time, Tahlia finally couldn't hold back and spoke softly. "What are you trying to tell me by letting Poppy go?"

"I told you." Snape's voice was also very soft. "Tell me your purpose."

Tahlia froze for a moment. "I didn't—"

"Are you going to continue to lie to yourself?" Snape raised his eyebrows, stood up from the hospital bed, walked directly in front of Tahlia, and pressed her shoulders to make her sit down. "Or are you running away?"

"Of course not!" Tahlia growled, not realizing that she was so obedient and sat down at Snape's will without any resistance. "I'm back, I'm back, what purpose can I have—"

"Oh, I don't know, maybe there's something that can't be done in the Muggle world, or maybe that's something that you can't do alone in your current situation. For example..." Snape said slowly and clearly. "Brew the potion?"

Tahlia's eyes widened instantly.

"You..." She became incoherent. "How do you—"

Snape chuckled. "Don't you think I really don't know anything about the fact that you let several students order medicine for you?" He paused for a moment. "The claws of the Green Fairy Bierwa, the scales of the Welsh Red Dragon, the blood of the Indian Demon Lizard..." I could clearly see that the face of the woman in front of me became more panicked and panicked as I continued to say the names of the medicinal materials. pale. "Need me to continue listing?"

Tahlia didn't say anything.

"Tell me, Tahlia." Snape continued quietly with his head down. "In your current state, how do you plan to brew that potion?"

Tahlia remained silent.

"No?" Snape asked again. "Maybe I should get Nigel—"

"There's no need to ask Nigel." Tahlia finally spoke, her face was very ugly, she didn't look up, and turned her face away. "Since you know everything... why do you ask me?"

"I want to hear it from you," Snape said flatly. "On another note, I wonder what you're doing with that potion?"

Tahlia raised her head slowly, their eyes met. "Seriously? You don't know what I'm going to do after you already know what materials I got?"

Another moment of silence.

She was right.

How could Snape not have any idea about the possible finished product after knowing the ingredients of the potion, but he was still forcing himself not to think about her purpose until now.

Not for anything else, just because those things can be combined into the most permanent potion of forgetting in the world today.

"To whom?"

To be honest, he dreaded hearing the answer.

"What do you think?" Tahlia laughed suddenly. It was a small laugh at first, but it didn't take long before it gradually became uncontrollable and became more and more crazy, as if all the emotions that had been suppressed for a long time suddenly burst out, completely Can't stop, if someone doesn't know, even think that the woman sitting here is crazy. "Are you worried about something? I want to forget who... what does it have to do with you?"

"Of course it has something to do with me." Snape forced himself to speak as calmly as possible. "Whoever you want to forget, you will regret it—"

"You're wrong, Severus." Tahlia gave a wide smile, but the pathos in it pierced Snape's eyes hard. "If I really don't remember at all, how can I feel regretful?"

Snape was silent for a moment, a long time, before he took a deep breath. "So... it's me?"

Tahlia laughed out loud for the second time, it was still a laugh that almost collapsed, the difference was that this time it was accompanied by two lines of unexplained tears.

"Is it you...?" Still with a smile on her face, Tahlia's voice was choppy because of the erratic breathing that followed the abnormal laugh before.

"Yes...you're quite right..." she said. "Forgetting you, it seems... is also a good way──isn't it?"