Parents of Hogwarts

The cozy bedroom was filled with lovely stuffed animals and dolls. Looking at the mirror that was taller than her, Lily carefully put on her hairpin and asked Penny who was lying on her bed: "Penny." ,Aren't you going today? Severus didn't mean it last time, and he didn't..."

Lily kept talking to excuse her friend, but Penny just played with the puppet lazily and didn't reply.

Petunia and Severus quarreled again, or in other words, after experiencing the "attack" that was stopped by Callan that day, Petunia's prejudice against Severus could no longer change. Every time When they met, the two of them were quarrelsome and ridiculed each other mercilessly.

"Severus hum," Petunia said dissatisfied: "Since when did you become so close to that guy?"

"Because we are friends." Lily pouted and replied: "And he told us so many interesting things, but it was just a name, nothing more. Didn't we call him Sang from the beginning? Is Ste for Karan?”

"I don't think so, friend." Petunia blushed and ignored Lily's last sentence: "Didn't you see the way he smiled when you first called him Severus? Even Callan couldn't stand it. Told him to calm down a bit. Even as we were walking away, I noticed the guy was swaying like Dad does when he's drunk."

"What else can it be if it's not a friend?" Lily asked innocently: "It's not like you don't know Severus's parents. Living in such a family, making friends is a very happy thing in itself."

I don't know what it was because of what she said, but Petunia's face turned even redder and she ignored Lily sullenly.

Lily inadvertently glanced at her small cabinet. In addition to the toys her parents had bought for her before, there were two more things there.

One is a cloth-style card given to everyone by Karan. Not only himself, but Penny also has a good collection of this card. He has to check it every time he goes home to feel at ease.

The other one was an apology gift from Severus after that "attack". Lily's own was a green heart-shaped piece of cloth, with the edges on both sides made into the shape of wings, and more in the middle. The name "Lily Evans" was sewn with green thread. Lily still remembered the look of Severus at that time, blushing so much that she almost got angry.

As for Petunia's, it was worse. It was just a small square piece of cloth, and the font of the name was not as beautiful as his own. Karan explained to Severus for a long time before calming down Petunia.But Lily always felt that those reasons were not so sufficient, just like if there was not enough time, why could her own part be so beautiful? When did Severus become so good at craftsmanship?

Lily suspected that Severus had used his mother's wand, but no matter how Lily asked, Severus just looked red and nervous and refused to continue.

As for Petunia's gift, although she threw it away without returning home under Lily's persuasion, it was also placed in her least favorite box. That box only opened when Petunia threw something into it. It would be opened, and her transcript had been placed in it once, but other than that it had never been opened.

"Penny, are you really not going?" Lily also lay under the bed, holding her cheeks with her hands, and after thinking for a while, she said to her, "Karan will also go today."

"Karan, Karan." Penny muttered a few words: "Karan who reads books, Karan who exercises that floating spell, Karan who doesn't chat with us, then what else am I going to do, just listen to you and me? That guy’s chatting is totally meaningless.”

"Petunia." Lily whispered apologetically.

"No, no, no," Petunia covered her ears: "Go on your own, go on a date with your little boyfriend, no matter what, I won't go."

"Penny" Lily yelled angrily: "He is our friend, just like Karan, how can you say that?"

Lily puffed up her face angrily, and after staring at Penny with her eyes closed for a while, she turned around angrily and walked away.

"Mom, I'm going out."

"Penny, don't you usually go out together?"

"She doesn't want to go out today, huh"

"Haha, it seems our little princesses are having trouble. Go ahead and come back early."

"Okay, Mom."

The fiery red hair appeared in the town. It didn't take long for Lily to arrive near the playground and skillfully stepped over the bushes.

In the green woods, Snape was wearing a modified shirt. His coat was put aside, and there were two magic books on it that he had brought again.He was sitting on the grass, looking boredly in the direction of the bushes.

On the other side, Karan was leaning on a strong tree trunk, his legs crossed and his body covered in spotted shadows. He was holding a book with the words "Black Magic" and looking at it intently.

Since that "attack", Snape no longer deliberately brought up the matter of black magic, but at the same time he did not give up. In addition to the basic white magic books, Snape would bring some additional black magic books every time. , but this kind of book will only be read by Karan alone, and Lily and Penny will never touch it.This seemed to be Snape's way of silently expressing his protest, and also hoping to change Callan's impression of dark magic.

Even if there is only the slightest possibility.

In this regard, Karan took it as it was, without saying anything more or admonishing anything more. He just had a silent confrontation with Snape in this tacit way.

But on the contrary, this kind of performance made Snape gradually despair, because Karan seemed not to be affected at all and never expressed any more interest in black magic.It seems that in Karan's view, black magic is really as he once said, and there is not much value in learning.

And every time after reading a dark magic book, Karan would directly return it to Snape without any nostalgia.During the rest of the time, he either continued to try to practice the use of wandless magic, or picked up books on white magic.Whenever this happens, Lily will take the initiative to hand over the book in her hand. Regardless of whether she has finished reading it or not, she will have plenty of time to read in the future.For her now, it is the interesting things in the magical world that attract her more.

"Hi Severus, Callan."

Lily happily greeted the two of them: "Penny doesn't want to come today, it's just me."

Snape smiled slightly when he heard Lily say his name. Although he still couldn't help it, at least his performance was much better than the first time. He stood up with a slightly red cheek and put a book in front of him. Lily handed it over.

Karan waved his hand without raising his head, taking it as a greeting.

Lily has long been accustomed to this. Both Karan's level of study and his ability to study seriously are rare in her life. This makes her silently feel a sense of eagerness for a top student, but she always sees something in front of her. Fleurs's appearance became more casual.

Anyway, there will be plenty of time in the future.

Lily put the book aside and did not rush to read it. Instead, she sat opposite Snape, raised her head, and asked Severus curiously: "Let's talk about Traces, Severus." .”

The smile on Snape's face never broke. He recalled what his mother had said and said in detail: "This is the school's rule. Before you turn 17, you must sign a contract when you leave school, stating that you You cannot use magic outside of school, otherwise..."

The conversation between the two first started with traces, the Ministry of Magic's warnings, the Secrecy Act, and finally turned to the wand.

After thinking for a while, Lily suddenly said: "But I have performed magic outside of school."

"It doesn't matter to us. We don't have a wand and we are not over 11 years old. Children will not be taken care of." Snape said seriously: "Otherwise, Callan will not even know that he will be caught."

When he said this, Snape's tone became more serious, as if he was eager for Karan to be captured.

boom.

"Ah, Severus." At this time, Karan said something strangely. The black magic book in his hand had drifted slowly to Snape at some point, and "accidentally" bumped into Snape. Nap's head: "Sorry, Severus, can you throw over the white magic book next to you?"

Ever since Snape showed that embarrassing smile on his face, Karan had often teased Snape by his name, but every time he used a pretentious tone, which made Snape very angry. But he couldn't beat him, so he could only get more angry.

"Callan" Lily complained angrily and funny again. She stopped Snape's urge to hit Calan to death with a book, took the book and threw it gently, but the book still floated slowly. Being in Karan's arms made Lily feel envious. However, under Karan's warning, she still did not dare to try such training rashly, for fear that it would cause problems.

"Ah, I'm sorry, Lily." Karan said angrily again, looking hard at Snape.

Snape's face was red, he was almost furious.

Lily pouted dissatisfiedly, but she immediately asked Snape: "Is the letter really sent by an owl?"

"Generally speaking, that's the case." After scolding Karan eight hundred times in his mind, Snape finally said calmly: "But you are a Muggle, so the school will send someone to explain it to your parents."

Speaking of this, Snape suddenly hesitated.

"I am like this too." Karan clearly heard Snape's hesitation, and he continued lazily: "And not only am I a Muggle, I also have the bonus of being an orphan, so the school will definitely send someone here. .”

"Karan" Lily said angrily. She didn't know why she was angry. Maybe she didn't want Karan to say such sad things in such a nonchalant way. Maybe she wanted Karan to be exempted from his orphan status. Sadness, after all, she regarded Karan as a friend and didn't want her friend to be sad.

"It's nothing." Karan laughed: "To be honest, compared with having a father like Snape, I would rather be an orphan."

"Karan" This time, Lily was really angry.

Snape just remained silent and made no rebuttal.

"Okay, okay." Karan waved his hands repeatedly: "No more, no more."

After staring at Callan angrily for a while, Lily asked Snape with some concern: "How are things going at home?"

Snape frowned slightly: "It's okay."

"They stopped arguing"

"Oh, it's still noisy." Snape said, and at the same time subconsciously tore up a handful of leaves, but obviously did not realize what he was doing: "But it won't be long, I will leave."

"Your dad doesn't like magic"

"He doesn't like anything," said Snape.

The two were silent for a while, and the only sounds around them were the rustling of leaves and the sound of Karan turning the pages of a book not far away.

"Being a Muggle...will it be any different at Hogwarts?" Lily suddenly asked.

Snape hesitated.

Does being muggleborn make any difference?

Of course there will be.

Even excluding the concept of pure-blood supremacy among those pure-blood families, and not mentioning his own hatred of Muggles that has not yet been completely eliminated, Snape had already faintly heard some things related to the mysterious person from his mother's mouth. It seems that he is very resistant to Muggle-born wizards, and he has also done a lot of things in the Muggle and magical circles, seemingly to purify the bloodline of wizards.

Snape looked at Lily's pale face and crimson hair.

"No." He said, and at the same time glanced at Karan with some worry, and then added: "It won't be any different."

Karan's eyes were fixed on the book, the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, and he did not interrupt the conversation.

"That's great," Lily said, breathing a sigh of relief.It was obvious that she was worried about this.

"Yeah, it's really great." Karan also said something, and Snape's face turned completely red.

"Lily, you can do a lot of magic," Snape seemed to be deliberately explaining something, hesitating: "I saw it, I have been peeking at you..." Snape's voice became louder and louder. Coming lighter.

Lily didn't listen to him, but stretched out on the grass covered with green leaves, looking at the dense leaves above her head.

Snape looked at her longingly, just like he had done in the playground.

At this time, Karan suddenly pretended to be surprised and said: "What Severus, what did you just say? Did I hear correctly? You are actually such a person?"

Snape was stunned.

Lily raised her head and asked curiously: "Karan, what are you talking about?"

"He didn't say anything. He was just talking nonsense again." Snape was completely panicked. He picked up his clothes and said with a blush on his face: "I...I'll go first." ”

After saying that, Snape ran away, forgetting to take the book.

"Severus" Lily shouted hurriedly, but Snape seemed to have almost fallen down and continued running after steadying himself without stopping.

"I will return these books to him later. I know where his home is." Karan sat across from Lily, picked up another book next to her, and continued reading as if nothing had happened, without any shame as the instigator. feel.

"Karan, what on earth did he just say?" Lily asked confused.

"Oh, it's nothing, I just wanted to scare him." Karan said with a smile, and then he suddenly asked without a clue: "Lily, what do you think of Snape?"

"How about it?" Lily became even more confused: "Of course we are friends, just like you, Karan, and we will be classmates in the future. Is there anything else?"

"Well..." Karan frowned deeply. After thinking about it for a long time, he finally continued to ask without giving up: "If, I mean if, I want you to stay between me and Snape." If you could choose someone to be your boyfriend, who would you choose?"

"Boyfriend" Lily was slightly startled, her green eyes widened: "I have never thought about such a thing, but if I have to choose..."

Lily held her face in her hands and kept blinking. Just when Karan was about to finish reading the last book, she finally said something.

"I choose Severus."

"Oh" this time, it was Karan who was so shocked that he didn't even bother to read the book and quickly asked Lily: "Why?"

"Well, if there is any reason," Lily blinked: "I think Severus will be nicer to me, and Karan, you just keep reading and learning magic. How can anyone do that?" I’m looking for a boyfriend like you.”

"What you said is so hurtful." Karan covered his heart and pretended to be hurt, making Lily couldn't help laughing.

"Besides," Lily said hesitantly after finishing laughing, "I always think you are a bit scary, Karan. On the day Severus accidentally wanted to attack us, what did you say to him, Karan?" It always makes me feel a little scared when I talk.”

"There is such a thing." Karan rubbed his chin thoughtfully, while Lily nodded silently, as if that day had indeed cast a considerable shadow on her.

"But it's normal to be afraid of me." Suddenly, Karan seemed to have changed, and even Lily felt that he was strange.

"Because," Karan said in a low tone, slowly approaching Lily, staring into those green eyes.

"I've killed people."

Lily was obviously stunned, but it didn't take long for her to push Karan away with a smile: "What nonsense are you talking about, Karan, as expected, Severus was right, you just like to talk nonsense."

Karan also laughed immediately: "Who told you not to choose me? I am obviously much better than Snape and more handsome than him. Even the clothes on his body were made by me, but you actually chose him?" "Karan curled his lips dissatisfied.

"Hahaha." Lily laughed so hard that it gradually slowed down after a long time.

Karan turned his attention back to the books. Lily didn't disturb him. She just lay on her back on the grass and silently looked at the clouds in the sky.

"Karan, you are kidding, right?"

Karan glanced at Lily lightly: "Of course I'm joking. I'm a child, so I can do such a thing."

"I'm not a dark wizard."