[HP] Can you be gentle with me

"Oh, no—" Nigel murmured.

"You...Nigel, I think you better go and see, your sister always listens to you—" Tahlia said dryly.

Nigel didn't hesitate either, and quickly rushed into the room in three steps and two steps, and quickly rushed to Joanne's room on the second floor.

There was only one person inside. Joanne was wearing a pure white wedding dress, and a veil had been pinned on her head. But at the moment she was sullen, staring silently at the only vanity mirror in the room. When she saw Nigel walking in, she immediately He spoke, his tone seemed to be defending something. "I didn't scold her."

"I know." Nigel whispered, and sat down beside his sister. "what happens?"

"She spoke ill of Dad──" Joanne turned her head, then closed her mouth, because she saw her brother's raised eyebrows the moment she heard this sentence, and she spoke again after a while. "I mean...she said Dad was being unreasonable at school—" The voice was noticeably quieter.

"Severus was notoriously unreasonable at school, Joanne," Nigel said seriously. "Whether it was when he was young or now, I have never seen him put on a good face to any student." He paused. "In a way, she's right."

"But I hate her for being so—"

"Joanne." Nigel said quietly, making Joanne, who was about to say something else, shut up obediently. "I thought you said you wanted to change your personality."

Joanne was silent, lowering her head slowly. "Father is like this too...he's doing well now—"

"Don't look at him now, I used to hate him because of his personality. For a while, it seemed impossible for him and his mother to get together──" Nigel said patiently, seeing Joanne's confusion After raising his head, he continued. "Are you also planning to make Lynx unbearable to quarrel with you one day?"

"Lynx won't—" Joanne blurted out, and then stopped talking as if something was stuck in her throat. After a long time, she whispered. "He won't?"

"Of course he doesn't." Nigel smiled. "If he does, wait to bear my wrath—cough, I mean, even if you know he'll always let you in the end, it doesn't mean you can keep causing trouble over and over again, No one used to talk about Severus's mouth. He always did his own way, but that caused a lot of unpleasant things between him and his mother. Believe me, you can never imagine how difficult it was for the two of them to walk along the way, and they were originally It is possible to avoid any regrets." He paused. "Well, although I shouldn't say that, after all, if they hadn't quarreled, I wouldn't have come out—cough cough, that's not the point, the point is, you said you would restrain yourself."

Joanne still lowered her head, and after a long time, she spoke weakly. "...I'm sorry, brother, I'll go to her to apologize──"

"No, we'll come to apologize in person later. Now, you have more important things."

"But the make-up artist ran away—"

"I'll do it for you." Nigel blinked one eye as he expertly picked up the utensils on the dresser. "I haven't dressed up for you for a long time..."

Joanne smiled too. "Then you have to be mentally prepared, because after the wedding, those guests will definitely try to ask you to make up their children—"

"I only put on makeup for my mother and you." Nigel said with a smile. "Besides, I figured it out myself."

"You don't seem to have told me how you can even do girls' makeup—I mean, I know you're amazing, but you can't even—"

"Could it be that you thought it was Severus who made up her mother when she couldn't see her?" Nigel said, raising an eyebrow, and began to put on his sister's make-up naturally.

Not long after, Nigel looked at the woman's face reflected in the mirror, the corners of his mouth raised in satisfaction. "look."

Joanne in the mirror raised her eyes, then opened her mouth unconsciously.

Nigel smiled, looked at his sister's stunned expression, and spoke. "How is it? Are you satisfied?"

"I..." Joanne was still in a daze, looking at her reflection in the mirror. She never thought that she would have such a soft-looking day, considering that she almost always kept a straight face to outsiders.She just stared at the front in a daze, and after a while, she finally found her voice. "─Seriously, I found out that we don't need a make-up artist at all..."

"Shh, don't you tell this..." Nigel put a hand to his lips. "Our family already has a lot of letters from fans, we don't need this to add to the chaos—"

Joanne couldn't help laughing. Since as long as I can remember, my family has always received a lot of letters, mostly from those crazy book fans, and many of them were straightforward courtship from the beginning. At first, my brother He would reply one by one very seriously, and later he became lazy, so the task of reading the letters of those book fans was entrusted to them and these children. She still remembered that the most common thing she did in summer vacation was to get together with Albus and his group. Together, I was very 'serious' to help my brother write back letters. Since then, there have been fewer letters asking for friendship, but there are still many letters that are serious about discussing the academic content of books.

"You should tell me more about how father and mother were together..." Joanne finally stopped laughing and said. "I just heard that Dad was afraid that Mum would run away at their wedding."

Nigel laughed. "You won't believe it when you tell it."

"I want to hear it." Joanne's eyes were full of smiles. "Anyway, it's still a while before the wedding, so tell me..."

Nigel thought for a while, then asked. "When do you want to start listening?" For a moment he couldn't find the beginning, after all, Tahlia and Severus had experienced too many things between them.

"How did Dad get Mom to agree to be with him?" Joanne blinked, looking very interested in the topic. "I mean, you said they used to have a big fight—"

"What else can I do?" Nigel said, the corners of his mouth raised unconsciously, every time he thought of the methods his father used to pursue Tahlia, the corners of his mouth would fall. "Ever heard of Jerry Olsen?"

"Of course I've heard of it. The newspapers were full of noise back then..." Joanne laughed, and then seemed to suddenly understand something, her eyes widened. "You mean, Dad, he—"

Nigel nodded with a smile. "Somewhat different, but very similar."

Joanne couldn't believe it.

Back then, Jerry Olsen bought the front page for a whole week in a high-profile way, not to show off his wealth, but just to show his love to a girl he liked. It is said that there was a gamble at that time, betting that the object of Olsen's favorite would agree to him because of this Pursuit still cut off contact with him because it was too embarrassing.

"Daddy really made the front page?" Joanne still couldn't believe it.

"If that were the case, you wouldn't be standing here, my sweet sister." Nigel laughed. "No, Severus just posted a courtship announcement on the school bulletin board for a whole week. If he did buy the front page of the Daily Prophet, Mom would be ashamed to death."

"Why do I feel that even if it's only posted on the bulletin board... Mom is ashamed enough──" Joanne said speechlessly.

"Exactly." Nigel nodded. "After that incident, Mom didn't speak to Severus for a whole month." He paused and smiled mischievously. "It wasn't until later that he heard that it was Sirius' idea that she stopped arguing with Dad."

Joanne snorted. "I didn't know Dad listened to Sirius, too."

"Who made Dad stupid back then?" Nigel shrugged. "However, as far as the results are concerned, what Sirius came up with is not entirely a bad idea."

"I doubt it very much." Joanne smiled.Even though Mom and Dad were still together in the end, it proved that Sirius' suggestion was still useful, but he never saw Sirius passing by. "Then what happened next?"

"Later..." Nigel held his chin and thought for a while. "I found out that Severus took his mother for a walk outside the castle one night, so I followed him." He paused, looking a bit embarrassed. "That's when I didn't have time to stop Severus from asking Mom again if he could be his girlfriend—"

"And then mom agreed?" Joanne was a little speechless, for her brother's childish behavior.

Nigel coughed lightly, restrained his expression, and then nodded. "No, not that time."

Joanne gave Nigel a blank look. "if not?"

Nigel didn't answer right away, but adjusted his bow tie on purpose first, and only smiled when Joanne finally couldn't hold back and gave him a light thump. "One day during my summer vacation in fourth grade, Severus suddenly showed up at our door, and despite my protests, he took me and my mother somewhere." He paused for a moment. "It's where we are now."

"Oh?" Joanne's eyes widened. "Then what?"

"Then Severus told his mother a lot that he would fulfill all her dreams for her and that he would always be with her in the future—" Nigel was still smiling brightly. "Then I asked my mother again—and this time, my mother finally agreed." After a pause again, the smile on her face became a little stiff, as if she felt that the result was too simple. "Then, after the opening dinner, the whole school saw the two of them leave the hall holding hands, which caused a huge stir. Not only were the students dumbfounded, but I swear I saw Headmaster Dumbledore's eyes welling up."

Joanne laughed, although she didn't have much memory of the Headmaster Dumbledore that her brother said, but she still had a vague impression that he would come to the house as a guest when she was a child, and vaguely remembered that he was a tall, thin, white-haired old man. "Are they that surprised that mom and dad are together?"

"What do you think?" Nigel smiled mischievously. "Rather than being surprised, it's better to say that I feel relieved, after all, they have really worked hard along the way."

Joanne had to agree with this.

Although she has never experienced it, many of the past deeds of her parents, whether they were students or defeating the most evil dark wizard in history, are the bedside stories she told since she was a child. People are mostly older brothers, sometimes mothers, and for some reason, her father almost never mentioned these things to her.

I thought it was because of her father's personality, but it turned out not to be. It was not until she graduated from school that she heard from Lynx that the past of her parents was not as simple as simply defeating a strong enemy together. The many emotional entanglements involved made her It's totally unimaginable, after all, Lynx has always been very kind to herself, and she really loves him very much.

"Yeah..." After a while, Joanne nodded seriously. "I think I can understand."