[HP] Mrs. Snape

For the next few months, Severus Snape never heard from the woman or the child, nor did he visit Diagon Alley again.

It wasn't until the eve of Hogwarts' annual freshmen's entrance that Snape brought the incoming Muggle wizards and his family to Diagon Alley that he met the child and his mother again.

"This is Lihen Bookstore, you can buy all the textbooks on your book list here. Hmm..." Snape stared fixedly at one place.

"Professor?" said the freshman timidly, and he and his parents seemed afraid to go in.

Snape wasn't in the mood to accompany a group of Muggles to Diagon Alley Adventures!What's more, he has something to do now.

After hastily sending a group of people to Lihen Bookstore, Snape strode towards the ice cream shop opposite!

"Why are you here?" Snape asked straight down.

"Huh? Mr. Snape." The little man under the parasol raised his head from a bowl of ice cream bigger than his little face, looked up at the tall Snape, squinted his eyes and smiled , "Mr. Snape, nice to meet you." Andrew dedicated his opening remarks.

"Nice to meet you too, Andrew." Seeing that the child's neck was about to break, Snape sat on the chair next to him and continued to ask, "Why are you here alone?"

"I'm here for ice cream!" Andrew replied.

The child has grown taller, and his hair is a little shorter than the last time he saw it. He must have cut it short because he was afraid of the heat in summer. He was wearing a small cartoon T-shirt and a set of shorts, revealing his white and tender calves.This Muggle costume is not very obtrusive in Diagon Alley, where Hogwarts is about to start school.

"Your mother asked you to come here alone?" Snape couldn't believe that Arya, who was like a she-wolf, would let her son out of her sight, here alone.

"Huh? That's right. Mom said that Andrew is an older child, so he can buy ice cream alone! Mr. Snape, how about Andrew treating you to ice cream? It's delicious." Andrew helped the table to get up, Said to Snape who was sitting across from him with a smile.

"Huh? No, thank you. Where is your mother?" Snape frowned as he looked at the busy Diagon Alley, a little annoyed that the woman threw the child here alone.

"There!" Andrew said, pointing to a newly opened shop next door.

The shop is called Alice's Finished Clothing Store.

Andrew finished his ice cream, and while greeting Snape, he took out a small owl-shaped purse from the messenger bag he was carrying, took out a gold coin, and said pretending to be an adult: "Mr. Florin, Please have two more lemon ice creams, this is money, thank you."

Florin also seemed to know Andrew, and smiled and handed him a handful of change and two lemon ice creams.

"Here you are, Mr. Snape." Andrew handed one of them to Snape.

"Well, no," Snape unconsciously wanted to refuse, but seeing the smiling face of the child, a smile formed at the corner of his mouth, and he reached out to catch it.

Andrew seemed happier about this, and the dimples on his face deepened. He slid down from the high stool, held Mr. Snape's finger with his little hand, and said with a smile, "Sir, my mother is in the shop , may I take you to see her?"

The little hand that was so tender that it could be broken with one hand was extremely powerful at this moment, the place held by the soft little fingers was as hot as a soldering iron, Snape couldn't help being held by the child, and when he realized it, he Already standing in Alice's ready-made clothing store.

"Mr. Snape?" Arya Dashwood, who was standing behind the counter, also seemed surprised by Snape's appearance. She thought that this gentleman would not want to talk to them anymore.Thinking of the last letter, Arya felt a little uncomfortable. Her reaction at that time seemed to be a bit excessive. After all, she had good intentions, and she was so tactfully rejected by herself that she almost said "scroll".

Snape was not at all uncomfortable, looking at this small shop, two floors, the decoration inside was bright and clean, clothes of various colors and sizes were hung neatly, and there was a label on each piece of clothing, which seemed to say the name of the clothes. price.

"You..." The two spoke at the same time, looking at each other in surprise, Arya smiled, pointing to the sofa next to the counter and said with a smile: "Andrew, please sit down and have a cup of tea, Mr. Snape, is flower tea okay? It’s refreshing to drink in summer.”

Snape nodded in agreement.

"Oh, baby, thank you. It's so sweet." Alia, who came out of the counter with a tea tray, took the lemon ice cream handed over by her son, and happily left a kiss on the child's cheek.

Then looking at the ice cream of the same size in Snape's hand, he felt a little unhappy.

"Have you found a new job?" Snape lowered his head and picked up his teacup, asking calmly.

"Oh, that's okay." Alia smiled with an ice cream in her mouth, "This is Andrew's and me's shop, how about it?"

"Huh?" Snape was a little surprised now. "Your shop?"

"Yeah," Arya said of this, with some involuntary pride in her voice. "I opened it. It has been open for two months. How is it? It's okay."

Of course it’s okay, there are fewer people on the first floor, and the second floor is simply a market!Witches chattered among the long rows of hangers.In the time it took to speak, there was already a large pile of clothes waiting to be checked out at the counter, and there were even shirts and shorts worn by Muggles!

Arya rushed to the checkout and dismissed a customer. She looked at Snape's unchanging expression, then at the man sitting next to him gesticulating and talking, his big eyes narrowed into two crescents happily. Andrew seemed a little unable to make up his mind, finally he gritted his teeth, squeezed out an ugly smile and said: "Well, Mr. Snape, the store is quite messy, I can't leave, if you can, please take Andrew to have a meal How about lunch?"

Severus Snape looked at this woman in surprise, hadn't he been keeping him from approaching the child overtly and covertly?Why suddenly...

She squatted down and smiled at the child: "Andrew, mom is busy now, can you ask Mr. Snape to take you to lunch? Tell Mr. Snape what you want to eat and let him order it for you."

Andrew didn't like the Leaky Cauldron. Every time he went there to eat, he always looked at the scary-looking waiter timidly, as well as those people who suddenly disappeared. Usually, Arya would bring her lunch with her, and today was no exception. However, thinking of what Andrew suddenly asked her a few days ago, Arya is still determined to let Andrew and Snape get in touch more...

Seeing Snape carefully leading Andrew slowly through the crowd, Arya sighed, her heart felt hot, and her eyes were sour.

Recently, in order to open a store, she was often too busy to keep her feet on the ground. She had no choice but to take the children with her all the time, so she had to entrust Andrew to the neighbor Mrs. Cook. The Cook family had three children. Also a good friend.

The purchase came back late that day, and when Alia came back, the child was already asleep, and she took Andrew home with great apologies, but Andrew woke up in his mother's arms. When Alia bathed him, Andrew asked: "Mom, Why does Michael have a dad and I don't?"

"What, what?" Arya was stunned at the time, staring at the child dumbfounded.

"Well, Michael said his dad would buy him a car and take him on the train, and Michael's dad would bathe Michael, and I said, my mom would do it for me, but Michael said it was dad. Yes, and he said that everyone has a dad, and asked where my dad is. Mom, where is my dad? How come I haven’t seen him. Michael sees his dad every day.”

How she was speechless that day, Arya has always remembered clearly, under the expectant eyes of the child, she felt ashamed and almost ran away.

Is she a little selfish?Arya has been thinking about this question since that day. Although she doesn't know Snape well now, she never thought of taking the initiative to find out!All he wanted was to get Snape's help and stay away from him.This, this seemed unfair to Andrew, to Snape.

An hour later, the flow of people gradually decreased. Arya closed the store and found Andrew and Snape, who had a good chat, in a street restaurant outside the Leaky Cauldron.

Andrew smiled happily, not at all indifferent in front of outsiders, and Snape even showed a "warm" smile on his face.

From far away through the glass window, Arya saw Snape and Andrew pick up their teacups at the same time, and at the same time, they both blew gently before swallowing.

With similar outlines and almost the same small movements, they are father and son at first glance.

Aliya was standing by the street, feeling mixed feelings in her heart, she had hardly been in contact with it, but, it was just that similar!Is the power of blood really so powerful?

"Hi," Arya suppressed the sadness in her heart, pushed the door in, and greeted the two people, one big and one small, with a smile.

"Mom!" Andrew flew into his arms, "Are you done?"

"Yes baby, Mom is done." Holding Andrew's little butt, Arya sat opposite Snape, smiling gently: "What did you eat?"

"Well, I ate fish and chips, and Uncle Snape ate spaghetti." Andrew hung around his mother's neck like a gibbon monkey, and said with a smile.

Hmph, I've become an uncle in just an hour!

"Then what does mom eat? I'm so hungry, Andrew, do you have any recommendations for mom?" Alia hung the child around her neck, flipping through the menu with difficulty,

"Fish and chips, mother, they are delicious! And chocolate cake!"

Arya chuckled, "Do you want chocolate, baby?" Arya never liked chocolate cake, but Andrew!

Sure enough, Andrew giggled, like a twisted candy in his mother's arms, coquettishly: "Mom, mom. Or, if you want a chocolate cake, Andrew will only take a small bite, okay, okay?"

"Okay, okay, okay," usually Andrew's coquettish, Arya was ready to surrender in less than two sentences.

"Andrew already ate a vanilla cake just now." Snape said flatly on the opposite side.

"Hey?" Alia looked at the pouting Andrew, and quickly said, "Andrew, really?" The child nodded, and Alia closed the menu and said, "Then I can't eat today. Hello, come A fish and chips and a soda, thanks."

"Ah, mom, mom," Andrew put his little face against Alia's, and said aggrievedly, "There's still room for Andrew's little belly, mom, please. Mom~" He straightened up Let the mother touch the little belly.

Children naturally know how to soften their mother's heart.Sure enough, Arya surrendered again, "Okay, okay, Andrew, but I really can't eat it today. You've already eaten ice cream once in the morning, so there's a big one, mom has seen it all." Kissing the child's pouting mouth, he said with a smile: "Tomorrow, tomorrow, mother will make you pudding, please? Strawberry pudding, sprinkle with sweet maple syrup."

"And cherries!" Andrew demanded.

"Alright, let's make another cherry-flavored pudding!" Arya agreed eagerly.Shrugging at Snape, who was full of disapproval, who could refuse a little angel like Andrew, God knows how determined she was just now!

Arya touched Andrew's belly, it was bulging, she didn't dare to let him eat any more, she didn't bother to eat, she hugged the child and patted it gently, humming a song.It's already Andrew's nap time.Sure enough, in less than 10 minutes, Andrew fell asleep soundly in his mother's arms.

Gently put the child on the sofa seat, took out a blanket from the big bag he was carrying and covered Andrew's stomach, suddenly there was silence around him, all the whispers and footsteps in the restaurant disappeared, Arya looked up to see that Snape was tucking his wand back into his cuff.

"Thank you." Seeing that Andrew was sleeping soundly, Alia started to finish her cold lunch.

"Has it always been like this?" Snape asked.

"Huh?" Arya was taken aback for a moment, and then understood that he was asking her and Andrew if they had always spent their lunch time like this, "Well, just occasionally, I would bring some lunch, and I originally planned to put it in the store A microwave oven, but wizards don't seem to use electricity, so I started eating out with Andrew, and now I've learned the spell to make the food warm."

Snape nodded, but said nothing.

Arya was a little hungry, eating the potatoes on the plate with big mouthfuls.From morning to now, I haven't even had time to drink a sip of water.

After finishing a serving of fried fish and potatoes, Arya felt relieved, took a sip of water, and said apologetically to Snape: "I'm sorry, I haven't eaten since this morning, so... well, thank you today , Mr Snape."

"You're welcome." Snape remained calm.Then he stopped talking.

Well, this guy is either doing it on purpose or he just doesn't know how to chat!Arya thinks the former is very likely. Didn't you see the heated chat between him and Andrew just now?

Arya had no choice but to talk to herself: "Well, I found out a few days ago that there are only shops in Diagon Alley for custom-made robes, and the prices are not cheap; or there are second-hand shops, which are cheap but of poor quality, so I thought, can I Open a clothing store that is in the middle of second-hand and custom-made. If it is not custom-made, it is a bit expensive, and everyone is unwilling to wear old clothes, right? Then, I wholesaled some cloth and made some robes myself. I didn’t expect it to be quite popular. Yes, gradually the business will improve..."

"Wholesale?" Snape raised his eyebrows and said, "If I'm not mistaken, all the robe fabrics in Miss Dashwood's shop come from Muggles?"

"Keep observation." Arya raised her glass and gave a small compliment. "It is true that I bought it from the wholesale market, but many people can't tell the difference, can't they? One or two pendant spells are enough Let the robe completely become the product of a wizard. The price is naturally more expensive than the clothes without any spells."

Speaking of this, Arya is really proud. At first, she just asked the processing factory to make simple robes according to the size of ordinary people's clothes, without any patterns, and even without distinguishing between male and female styles, only by size.Black is always the same whether wizard or normal person, isn't it?Such robes are more expensive than those in second-hand stores, but they are much cheaper than Madam Malkin's custom-made robes. After all, robes that cost more than a dozen Galleons are not a small expense for ordinary wizard families.

After a while, Arya began to add some new patterns, women's robes began to be waisted, and lace was added, and the colors were observed for a long time, and some colors commonly used by wizards began to be used.Naturally, such robes are more expensive than the first-generation black robes.

After Arya finally learned some spells, she found that adding a spell or two to the clothes-of course it is harmless, will make the price of the robe skyrocket, of course, the number of such clothes is still a little small, so , there is a difference between the boutique area on the first floor and the cheap area on the second floor.

What excites Alia most about doing this business is that the cost is very small, and the purchase of fabrics and production and processing are paid for in pounds sterling, while the money earned in Diagon Alley is directly paid by Garen and Sike, that is to say, except Rent, if the exchange rate between the British pound and Galleons continues, then Arya's net profit is quite considerable.

Arya's success made Snape noncommittal, and he still had the same expressionless face.

"Well," Arya looked down at her watch and said with a smile, "I have to go back to the store. Andrew had a great time today, thank you."

As she spoke, she gently picked up the child and prepared to leave. When she was about to get up, Arya seemed to hesitate, and then said softly, "Mr. Snape, can we talk?"

"Aren't we talking?" Snape took a sip of tea calmly.

"No, I mean, we've got to have a serious talk," Arya said seriously, with the smile on her face gone, "About Andrew, we've got to talk. Do you have time next Monday? Next Monday at [-]pm How about at Ramsay's?"

Snape looked at the woman holding the child, and nodded subtly.

"Thank you, sir." Arya bowed her head in thanks.He left with the baby in his arms.

Snape sat at the dining table, watched that Dashwood hurried across the road, watched her enter the Leaky Cauldron with the baby in her arms, watched her and the baby get up and leave after being hidden by the gate.