[HP] Mrs. Snape

"Huh," Alia sat in the car, looked at herself repeatedly in the rearview mirror, and made sure that there were no flaws or mistakes before getting out of the car nervously.

The comfortable temperature in the restaurant made Arya feel much better, but she didn't expect Snape to have arrived early.

He even tidied up a bit, changing his robe into a suit, and his hair became much cleaner.

"Sorry, I'm late." Arya hurried forward, but Snape politely opened the chair for Arya!

"No, I was early. You're beautiful tonight." Well, there's even a compliment!

Arya breathed a sigh of relief, Snape had obviously guessed her purpose of coming, and his attitude just now was expressing to Arya that he was willing to let the conversation between the two tonight be carried out in a friendly atmosphere.

The soothing sound of the violin came, and it was Elgar's "Praise of Love". The restaurant, Alia felt that she had chosen a good choice, warm, elegant, and most importantly, quiet.

After the appetizers, Arya took the initiative to start the conversation, "Mr. Snape, may I ask, are you married or have children?"

Snape put down the knife and fork, wiped the corners of his mouth gracefully, and said slowly: "No marriage, Miss Dashwood, about children, if you don't count Andrew among them, then there are no children."

That was fine, Snape didn't have a family, so things were easier.

"My situation is similar to yours, and I don't have a boyfriend for the time being, oh, it feels so weird to say that." It's almost like a blind date!Arya sighed in frustration.

The warm lighting and soft music seemed to make Snape temporarily relax his vigilance. Hearing this, he just smiled faintly, and even raised his glass to salute Arya from afar.

Oh, a glass of wine, just what she needs right now.

"So, what does Miss Dashwood want to talk to me about?" Snape went straight to the point.

Under the influence of alcohol, Alia felt that her nervousness had finally eased a little. It was difficult for her to make this decision, and she had to be cautious. Tonight's decision would even affect Andrew's life.

"Mr. Snape, you don't know, Andrew and I only moved to London last year."

Of course he knew, but Snape would not maintain the quality of honesty in this situation, he could only pretend to be surprised: "Oh? I thought you were in London all the time. After all, we were..."

Lowering her head and cutting the steak, Alia smiled: "No, Andrew and I have been living in a small town in the middle of the country before. My original plan was to continue working and raising children in London after Andrew was born, but Andrew was just born. Something happened that made me change my mind."

"Oh? What's the matter?" Snape asked kindly.

"Your purse, sir. Your purse in Andrew's cradle." Arya looked up into Snape's eyes.

"Is there a problem?" Snape was never aware of his own problems.

"You know, I didn't know anything about magic at the time. If a bag of gold coins appeared by my child's pillow out of thin air, some mothers would inevitably think a little bit more. If a money bag can suddenly appear without me noticing, Then it is also possible that some things may suddenly disappear without me noticing, such as a baby, especially now that I know that there is a spell called 'Forget Nothing'." Arya's His eyes never left Snape.

Before Andrew had a dad, Arya first had to make sure that dad would steal the baby away from her!

Snape couldn't help but admire in his heart, she is really a smart and sensitive woman, isn't she?

"Miss Dashwood is right. It is not a bad thing to be vigilant in many cases." Leaning comfortably on the back of the sofa, Snape said calmly, "Andrew needs a father, but he prefers a father." Need mom, isn't that why we're sitting here tonight?"

"Of course," Arya smiled, "of course. For Andrew."

The two raised their wine glasses, their eyes met in mid-air, and they smiled tacitly.

The following conversation went smoothly. Arya knew that Snape became the professor of Potions at Hogwarts at the age of 21, and also knew that he was also the head of Slytherin. He was 25 years old this year, and his parents died young. , spent most of the year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Snape also knew that Arya Dashwood was born in London and went to Manchester with her mother when she was three years old. The day the two first met at the Leaky Cauldron was the day Arya stepped into the Leaky Cauldron again after 16 years. It was the first day she entered London, and that night, she just hoped to find a shelter where she would not be frozen to death.

"So," Snape raised his eyebrows, "I'm the lucky one to be chosen?"

Hearing this, Arya covered her mouth with the back of her hand and laughed. Snape can guarantee that if they were not in an elegant restaurant now, she would have laughed out loud.

"Oh, sorry, you know, it wasn't a bad night, was it?" Arya shot back, unable to resist.

Snape seemed to have remembered something, his face darkened.Alicia laughed until she burst into tears.

Well, it wasn't a bad night for Arya, but for Snape, who was on the sidelines, maybe, well, it wasn't so good.

Seeing Snape twitching the corners of his mouth and showing that usual sneer again, Arya quickly stopped and stopped the topic.

"Later, you know, I found out that I had Andrew, and choosing to give birth to him was the most correct decision I made in my life. Really, every day with Andrew is so happy, he is still alive When I was in my womb, I was a quiet child with very little fetal movement, and I always had to be very careful to feel his existence." Alia recalled the time when she was just pregnant, and the expression appeared on her face involuntarily. smile.

"After he was born, for a while Andrew always slept during the day and cried a lot at night. I hugged him around the room. The magic thing was that as long as I sang, he would always stop crying. His big eyes were like The brightest star in the night sky, looking at me without blinking, with tears still hanging on its long eyelashes."

When it comes to Andrew, just like all mothers who love their children deeply, Arya couldn't stop, and talked excitedly by herself for a while, and found that Snape on the opposite side had blank eyes, looking bored, she Only regretfully stopped his chatter.Well, although Mr. Snape in front of him is willing to admit the fact that Andrew is his son, and is willing to do some things that the role of a father should do, it doesn't necessarily mean that he must love children.

Since she was a child, Arya has seen this kind of father who doesn't love children a lot. Isn't her own father, Mr. Dashwood, like this?At least Snape seemed a lot more responsible than Mr. Dashwood!

The two finally agreed that Snape could visit the child at least once a week, and Arya was responsible for telling the child the fact that Uncle Snape was his father. Under Snape's extremely mocking eyes, Arya insisted that the two should discuss Come up with a reason that does not hurt Andrew to explain why his father has not been by his side for so many years.

"Then, please allow me to call you by your first name, Severus." Arya said as she walked out of the restaurant, holding Snape's arm, watching the passing traffic.

"Of course, my honor, Arya." The last note trembled in Snape's mouth, as if saying the name of a medicinal material, blunt and cold, without any ups and downs.

"Then we'll see you on Wednesday, Andrew will be waiting for you at the shop in Diagon Alley." Arya nodded and said goodbye.

Snape returned to the Hogwarts office, standing in front of the rows of shelves neatly placed with various potion ingredients, perhaps a bottle of magic stabilizer would be a good gift.

After canceling his plan to take the child away, he has been thinking about how to treat the mother and child. Perhaps it is a good way to ignore them for the past few months. After all, Dashwood is indeed She showed her willingness to refuse to approach her again, so it's not bad for her to do as she wished.

But it is very strange that this kind of thought disappeared the moment he saw Andrew. The child seemed to have fatal magic power, which involuntarily attracted his attention. After reaching an agreement with Dashwood tonight, he faintly felt that he Life in the future may change a little bit.

However, Arya Dashwood's frankness tonight made Snape sure that he would keep his promise just like the other party.

Recently, Andrew stayed in Diagon Alley with his mother during the day, and would not return home until six in the afternoon. Alia simply found someone in the shop to cast a space spell—except for simple spells such as hanging spells and floating spells. Besides, she knows next to nothing about charms!God knows, she learned a floating spell that is said to be the simplest for nearly a month!

After getting help at the counter to separate a small room for Andrew with a space spell, he can read quietly in it, or play with Romeo. When there are few guests, Alia will go in and play with the child for a while, but this time As the business of "Alice's Clothing Store" is getting better and better, and the time spent with children is getting less and less, Aaliyah feels that she urgently needs a shop assistant.

When Snape came, Arya was buried in a pile of clothes. Today was the day to replenish the goods, and she had to get everything ready before the store opened at ten o'clock.

Pointing to the small room, he said to Snape, "Andrew is in it, how long can you stay?"

After learning that Snape was free all day, Arya was very grateful, and quickly took out a piece of paper to Snape: "This is Andrew's schedule and meal time, and the meals have been prepared and placed in the fresh-keeping box , you will heat him up later, there are fruits and so on, follow this form, I will trouble you today. Oh, sorry, ma’am, we haven’t opened the door yet, can you come over after ten o’clock? Thank you.” said Then he hurriedly knocked on the door, "Andrew, look who is here to see you!"

Andrew was sitting on the ground holding up his wand and the dictionary Snape gave him to read by himself, when he looked up he saw someone coming and shouted happily: "Mr. Snape! Hello."

Snape nodded and smiled too.

"Oh, baby," Arya took the time to put a kiss on the child's little face, and said with a smile, "Severus will be with you all day today, baby, don't you have a lot of things about wizards that you don't understand?" You can ask Mr. Snape."

"Really?" Andrew narrowed his eyes and smiled, "Mum, don't worry, I will get along well with Mr. Snape."

The door bell rang again, and Arya couldn't delay any longer, kissed Andrew twice, put the child in Snape's arms, and ran away quickly.

Hearing the voice of "Hello, welcome" coming from outside the door, Severus Snape was stiff all over, he stretched out his arms and didn't know what to do with the child in his arms, Andrew was also a little at a loss, the two pairs of similar Snape finally couldn't help "humming", bent down and put the child down, knelt down on the carpet and looked down at the books scattered on the floor: "What book are you reading? Um, "The Tales of Beedou the Poet", can you understand it?"

Andrew sat back on the cushion on the carpet and shook his head: "I don't understand it very well. I don't know a lot of words. My mother said to read the words first, and I will gradually understand the meaning of the story later."

Andrew has not only grown taller, he has gradually gained a lot of knowledge. Arya never restricts the child's learning. If he wants to learn, Arya will teach. Everything depends on Andrew's own interests. For magic books, Alia Leah searched for a long time before finding a collection of children's stories suitable for children to read. Many words in it were not only unfamiliar to Andrew, but also to Arya herself.

Snape flipped through the pages. The child had already read half of it. He stretched out his wand, and under Andrew's astonished gaze, he conjured up a double sofa. He sat down with the child, turned the book over to the first page, and said softly: "In this case, let's start from scratch."

Andrew quickly crawled into Snape's arms and sat on his lap, just like when he was reading with his mother, he didn't feel that the body of the person behind him was almost stiff, and his chubby little finger pointed at the moving person on the cover and asked, "Uncle Snape, is this Beedle? Mother said he was a poet, a poet like Shakespeare?"

"Well, yes." Snape's voice was a little erratic, "yes, a poet. He wrote these stories many years ago, let's take the first one, the "Wizard and the Hopping Pot" story... "

Andrew leaned on Snape's chest, different from his mother's sweet and fragrant smell, Uncle Snape's smell was like the faintly bitter freshness he smelled in the grass and in the woods, Andrew liked it very much taste.

He leaned close to the person behind him, compared the words in the book, and listened to Uncle Snape's voice reading the story word by word, pointing to words he didn't understand or asking, "What is the crucible? Really?" Is there a fountain of good luck?" Wait, Snape didn't even have the slightest impatience, and patiently explained that when encountering a term that Andrew had never seen before, he would conjure that thing in Andrew's admiring eyes...

Arya came in a few times during the period, either to remind Snape that it was time for Andrew to drink milk, or to remind the two of them not to sit for too long and to rest.

Arya cooked the lunch by herself. She closed the shop directly at noon today. It was the first real lunch for her, Andrew and Snape, and she didn't want to miss it.Obviously, Snape's heating spell was much better than hers, and today's lunch was as fresh as it was freshly made.

Lunch is ham and chicken sandwiches, of course, fruits, desserts, and the soup that is essential for mother and son to eat. Alia made mung bean soup today, with some rock sugar and lily in it. You know, these ingredients were specially run to Only bought in Chinatown!

Arya and Snape's drink was iced, while Andrew's was warm, and she didn't dare let him eat more ice.Especially recently, Andrew has become obsessed with the ice cream in Florin's ice cream shop, and eats it almost every day.

The lunch was quite warm, and Arya found that Mr. Snape was a man of few words, and when he wanted to, he could make the whole atmosphere peaceful.The three sat around on the carpet, listening to Andrew chatting about what he had learned this morning, the smiles on the faces of Arya and Snape were almost identical!

After lunch, Arya asked Andrew to get up and move around, frowning at the hot sun shining outside the window, and took out Andrew's indoor golf, which used to be played by mother and child, and Andrew's golf skills, to be honest, were very good. It stinks, eight out of ten shots are empty, and it's often Arya who makes the ball so that he doesn't cry when he loses, but you can't demand too much from a three-year-old, can you?

Leaving Andrew and Snape to continue playing, Arya turned around and went out to get busy.When we were eating just now, there was already a long queue at the door!

Recently, it is the season when Hogwarts students start school. Parents are concentrated at this time to purchase, and student robes are a necessity. Customers are all attracted by the Alice finished product store.

After all, you can buy a new gown for your child for only a few Sickles more than at a second-hand store. No matter how poor the parents are, they are willing to give their children the best they can.

Alia took the opportunity to launch corresponding discounts. Under the store signboard was a big "Sale" word, buy two robes for 15% off, buy three robes for [-]% off and get a free hat, and some defective products , Alia simply put a float at the entrance of the shop, piled it up, and unified [-] Sikes a piece.

At the beginning, Alia was a little worried that her shop would affect the business of Mrs. Malkin and the second-hand store, and there would be some malicious competition or suppression. However, it has been open for half a year. Most of the second-hand store owners, Mr. Johnson, met Alia. He raised his head higher, and made a louder cold snort, but there was no other movement.

After a day's work, Arya wanted to go out from the Leaky Cauldron and drive home as usual, but with Snape's expression of "how could anyone be so stupid", she was taught the latest method of using the fireplace— —Let you reach the place you want in the fastest way, except for Apparition, the fastest, safest and most effective way to travel!

Well, but Arya felt compelled to add, after coming out of her fireplace with Andrew in her arms, disheartened, that this mode of travel might be a bit unhygienic.

Fortunately, the fireplace was not sealed when the house was renovated at the beginning of the year. She wanted to make an electric heater at the time, but Andrew said that he liked the sound of firewood "thunderbola" and decided to keep it for another year. It seems that someone should clean the chimney of the fireplace as soon as possible. Yes, Arya helped Andrew wipe the ashes off his face while thinking about her recent schedule.

Woo, only now did I realize that she can't even rest on weekends. Tomorrow, she has to pick up the goods from the clothing factory, and the shop has to be closed for half a day. The weekend is when Diagon Alley has the most traffic, and she has to stay in the shop. How many days has it been? She didn't take the children out to play, and seeing Andrew's cute and sweet sleeping face, Alia felt guilty.

Once again, she deeply felt that she needed to hire a shop assistant, and she had to liberate herself from those tedious and monotonous tasks.

But finding a suitable person to help her in a short time is not an easy task. First of all, it must be a wizard, and try to be a wizard who has no contact with the world of ordinary people. Arya wants to maintain the monopoly of supply.Secondly, this person must have a certain financial ability to maintain the store.Arya herself couldn't stay there all day, she had other business plans, and if possible, she wanted to use a senior manager to help her run the Diagon Alley business.

But the biggest problem now is that Arya doesn't know many people in the wizarding world. Except for a few shopkeepers in Diagon Alley, there is only one Snape.

So, when Snape came to visit Andrew again, Arya asked this question.

"You want to sell the shop?" Snape looked incomprehensible, as if Arya was saying an extremely stupid idea.

Ignoring the sarcasm on Snape's face, Arya shrugged and said, "It's not completely sold, I'm still the owner of the 'Alice' brand, and I will control the supply by myself." .It's just handing over the management rights." Looking at Snape's face, Arya decided it was best to cut the long story short, "The simple thing is, I need a senior manager, that is, the owner, and I can give him points' The shares of 'Alice', of course, these shares need to be purchased by himself, which is an additional income besides salary."

Snape was still frowning, "So you want me to help you find a um, a 'senior manager'?"

Arya nodded repeatedly. "He at least knows some knowledge of economics, and what I want is not a clerk, but a store manager. However, the most important thing is moral character. I can teach him in business, but I must not have an idea Employees who are 'seeking power and compromising position'." She emphasized.

In the end Snape nodded and said he would keep an eye out for her.Then he took Andrew out.

Last time, Andrew was very interested in the wizard plants that Snape talked about. He promised to help Andrew choose some books that children can understand, and the medicine shop in Diagon Alley also has some relatively common potion ingredients. You have to get to know each other for yourself.

Three days later, a skinny little girl with freckles knocked on the door of "Alice's Clothing Store".