Blessing Potion [Comprehensive British and American]

"Welcome to our Athena." Severus pushed the baby carriage and stood up first, extending a hand at the top of the stairs.

Cyril looked at his partner under the dark purple night sky and the ring on his finger that was similar but not quite the same as his own, and recalled the last time Severus said "Welcome" in the hut in Godric's Hollow, when they I just got the marriage certificate; looking forward, it is Prince Manor... It seems that the earliest memory can be traced back to Cyril's speech at the beginning of Slytherin College when he first entered school——25-year-old Severus After reciting the Slytherin rules, Snape turned around and said the first "Welcome" inscrutablely.

Cyril also didn't know why he could think so much when he climbed the few seven or eight steps on the deck. The few pictures that he thought were buried in the torrent of memory seemed to be instantly awakened by a random word from Severus' mouth.

Maybe it is really meaningful, whether it is getting acquainted at school, being accepted, being together, or living a happy life now.Every "welcome" from Severus literally opened up a new chapter in Cyril's life.

The inside of Athena looks much bigger than the outside, but it is only large, but it is not suitable for many people to entertain and vacation here, because there are only two living rooms, and the space is extremely unfairly allocated to the master bedroom and shared entertainment. place.Obviously, the person who bought it just wanted to create a love nest for two people alone.

Daniel had Apparated away, leaving Athena and the entire Mediterranean to the young couple and their infant child.

Severus handed the baby carriage together with the two little foxes to the house elf Dorje, and held hands with Cyril to inspect the territory with one hand in his pocket, "The first floor is connected to the outer deck, here is a restaurant, there is a Open kitchen, you can watch the sea and play in the small swimming pool when you go out..."

Cyril was surprised, thinking he heard it wrong: "Swimming pool???"

"The space is expanded, the sea water used has been filtered, it's not deep, it's safe...but it's not too big..." Severus replied hesitantly with a frown.

Cyril looked calm: "How big is it?"

"Muggle sized...professional half."

really……

"What about the second floor?" Cyril changed the subject and looked up.

"The bedroom is connected to a small balcony. Iger and Noah may like it more when they can run around in the future. I asked Daniel to lay a soft carpet. The furniture here is all inlaid, and there are no extra decorations."

"Wow~" means that the little foxes will not hurt themselves even if the magic power is expanded, which is very good.

Severus and Cyril looked up together, "The third floor..."

"I see, the third floor is where we sleep. Just now Daniel said that we can watch the stars." Cyril learned to answer wittily.

"Yes." Severus replied mildly.

"Did you know? My dear. Just now you looked like a hut in Godric's Hollow a year ago. At that time... you also introduced it like this. The living room and dining room on the first floor, the children's room on the second floor, and the bedroom on the third floor ..." Cyril wrinkled her nose, learning in style.

Severus looked at him softly, and said with an inaudible chuckle: "No, it's different. I won't say, if you don't like it, you can change it. Athena is full of all kinds of complicated magic Well, I don't want to be a repairman on vacation, and I guess Daniel doesn't want you to dismantle his love boat."

With house-elf night, Cyril and Severus finally felt a "little farewell to newlywed" eagerness.Athena set sail automatically, and parked the yacht in a quiet sea area where no one was around. Except for the waves and wind, there was no one or anything to disturb them.

In an entire bedroom on the third floor, clothes were randomly thrown around, shirts on the carpet, trousers on the sofa, shoes were taken off before going upstairs, socks were thrown at the door of the bedroom, and at the same time Riel's gray T-shirt was also piled up in a pile of rags.

11 madly making love, from the sofa to the front of the glass door to the bed, the two in the middle have already started a warm-up in the bathroom, but it feels far from enough, they are crazy about each other, want to rub each other into their own In the flesh and blood.

After a short break, the two casually pulled a quilt around their waists, hugged and lay on the side of the bed, Severus's pale face had a slight blush, and Cyril was lying on the wizard's bed. His arms, face and neck were flushed red.No one spoke, the only sound in the room was the panting of the two people and the gentle sound of waves coming through the skylight.Until now, Severus is still in Cyril's body, and he likes this, flaunting his sense of existence and Cyril's belonging in an alternative way.

Cyril's gray-green eyes stared straight at the dark blue sea surface outside the french door, the night was dark, and in the distance was the endless blackness where the boundary between the sea and the sky could not be distinguished, there might be lights faintly, or maybe stars.

"Severus."

"Huh?" The wizard adjusted his movements, pressed one leg firmly on Cyril's, and kissed the back of his partner's neck gently from the side, because the change of posture successfully made the person in his arms He took a light breath.

Severus seemed to be particularly fond of this side hug position since he had the little fox, at first for the sake of Cyril's round belly, and then the wizard was pleasantly surprised to find that this position made each other feel safer.A kind of total mastery, the stability of being hooped in the arms and the tenderness of being deeply embraced.

"It's nothing, I just suddenly remembered the oysters you ate for dinner..." Cyril said in a breathy voice, and laughed himself.

It took Severus five seconds to fully understand what Cyril was implying, slowly tightened his arms, and lightly reprimanded "naughty".

"Severus... Will Athena be ours from now on?" Cyril tilted his head as if remembering something, rubbed his hair against the wizard's pale but strong arm, and asked limply.

"Well. I usually park here, and I rented a place in the port. If you want to go elsewhere, you can drive it."

"Daniel to take care of? Is he your friend?"

"I once made a potion for his wife, so...he is the owner of the French Dumer ship, um...his wife is French, he is British, and his family also makes ships .It’s just that what they make is a large cruise ship, and his eldest sister is mainly responsible for it.”

"Get married???" Cyril's eyes flickered with untimely gossip.

"Not really, their family's cruise business has always been dominated by women. It started before the Muggle World War I. At that time, they had built warships for England's Muggle King Charles II. At that time, their power and financial resources were very high. Strong...not weak now."

"Excellent. The Royal Navy of the Empire on which the sun never sets, it must have happened in the 17th century!" Cyril rolled his eyes and showed off his knowledge of Muggle history.

"Well, the marriage between Daniel and Ms. Dumer is also a favorite of their family. France... Dumer has always focused on this kind of entertainment ship."

"So you asked him to buy Athena. When did it happen? Recently? After you received the coupon?"

"When you twitter about wanting to go to the sea with Muggles to make dumplings."

"When was that... hiss——my waist! Merlin, you must have started planning when it was the Brighton seaside!"

"It's not like making a cold potion by boat, it can be ready in an hour... Don't move around, if you want to do it again immediately."

"Okay...but I thought we should go somewhere else."

"for example……"

"...you know what, Severus. I've been looking outside the French door just now...what's that?"

"...if you ask... I think we can open the door and go and see."

As soon as Severus finished speaking, he lifted the man in his arms with all his strength, turned him in one direction, and kissed him face to face.

"Hold tight," the wizard whispered.He stood up in the next second, and Cyril wrapped his limbs around him like a koala, and the two of them directly opened the landing door in the hugging posture.

The sea breeze was blowing head-on, and it was just an acceptable wind force, and the blanket covering him was thrown casually in the room, and Severus grabbed it out and threw it on the ground.

"The sky is on the ground, it's a bit too crazy..." Cyril closed her eyes and sighed softly during the kiss.

"Sanity and you have never co-existed in my brain at the same time." Severus buried himself in the side of Cyril's neck and said in a low voice.

……

A yacht, with food and drink, house elves and two well-cared-for cubs, how long can a newly married couple stay for half a year?

The answer is: I don't know.

Cyril felt as if she had been cut off from the world.

The people who opened their eyes and saw each other every day, and then kissed wantonly in the sunlight from the skylight, none of them was sure what time it was, but no one cared.Everything became casual, even if they were sober, the two of them would spend a long time on the bed.

At this moment, Cyril was wrapped in a sheet next to Severus, and the two casually leaned against the railing, sitting reclined on the third deck outside the floor-to-ceiling windows sharing a plate of sandwiches, with Severus in hand Juice served below.Cyril has fully adapted to life without a trace—it took only one night.

"Are Egger and Noah okay?" Cyril, who was barely conscious of being a father, asked with concern.

Severus was wearing a white T-shirt and cropped cotton shorts, with one leg half tucked in and the other stretched across Cyril's ankle, his skin was still as pale as marble, and his half-length hair hung loose.He put down the juice in hand, nodded, and said, "Duoji is very good at taking care of babies. I just watched it. They just finished drinking formula and are taking a nap."

"I'm not used to not hearing their cries." Cyril shook her head mockingly.

"You'll get used to it, Dorje said we just don't understand the demands of babies, most of the time they don't lose their temper for no reason." Severus stretched out his arms and took Cyril and the sheets into his arms .

"Where are we now?" Cyril closed her eyes, enjoying the sunshine and sea breeze.

"On the northern side of the Mediterranean Sea, you may need to ask Athena for details."

"No, it's fine now."

In the afternoon, the two went downstairs to bask in the sun for a while with the exhausted twin brothers. Athena conjured up a soft air mattress with a fence around it on the large deck on the first floor, and Severus read a book under the sun umbrella. Three foxes are chasing each other's tails in the air mattress.Probably because the amount of exercise was a little heavy last night, the big fox was chased by two little guys and surrendered in a short while. It stretched its limbs, its front legs pressed down and its tail turned up, stretching the waist of a feline animal, and then lazy Lying in the middle lazily, he flicked the tip of his big tail alternately from left to right to tease the two little fluffy.

"Master, please have a look at the dinner menu." Duoji appeared at the right time and handed over a piece of paper respectfully.The little elf who knows nothing about the world has become a qualified little housekeeper under the training of two seniors (Biscuit and Doudou).

"Okay, open a bottle of champagne." Severus nodded lightly.

……

"Easy...it hurts, a little below..." Cyril was lazily lying on the bed, enjoying the "Professor's Horse Killing Chicken".

"Here? Or here? I have less strength." Severus carefully controlled the strength in his hand, carefully observing Cyril's reaction, and beside him was the topical oil for soothing muscles that he had taken out of the potion box.

"Waist... no, I have to take a bath tonight, I want to warm it up..."

"it is good."

"Together, bring up the remaining half bottle of champagne." Cyril patted the wizard's arm with his backhand, reversing his grunting before.

"Row."

"And an ice bucket."

"it is good."

There is no sun and moon in the mountains, and the same is true on the endless Mediterranean Sea.

When the family was reunited in Paris and received the hospitality of Roland's family, the Saint-Pierre family, Cyril felt that his undisciplined body and mind were still lost on Athena, whose day and night were turned upside down, and the sky was full of blue and white.

"Severus, I think we should stay on Athena for half a month every year in the future, traveling through every strait in Europe." On the return train, Cyril put his legs on Severus's on the knees, suggesting with bright eyes.

"Why Europe?" Severus turned to the Daily Prophet, which he hadn't read in a while.

"Athena can cross the Pacific Ocean as a medium-sized yacht... Wait, don't tell me..."

Severus put down the newspaper in his hand, freed a hand to gently scratch Cyril's chin as if comforting his two little fluffy, with a calm expression on his face: "Athena is a magic yacht, as long as resources Sufficient, it is fully capable of taking you to see the penguins."

……

No matter how Cyril lamented how time flies, the sun and the moon fly by, but that's all... The opening ceremony of Hogwarts... Just like that, there is still one week left.

The Teachers' meeting was scheduled to be held a week early, with Cyril and Severus attending as Potions Assistant and Potions Master between the stipulations.

"This year's new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor...Gavin Green, as you can see...the probation period is one year. I will conduct inspections on this course from time to time. If you pass the course, if nothing happens, the term of office will expire... you can retire with me in the future..."

I don’t know how Grindelwald managed to get rid of our old principal in just three months. Cyril was delighted to see his colleagues in the office who seemed to be looking good—especially the pair of suspects in front of him. Older men and women who want to talk about "Office Sunset Love".

"Look at the pendant, Albus and that man's neck. It's even more prominent than our rings." Cyril murmured to Severus in a low voice.

Indeed, it’s no wonder that Cyril was chatting with his partner during the meeting. The people who sat on the two sofas each had a pendant with a bulge in the middle and a suspected silver color under the light.

"The shape of the pendant is so familiar, I feel like I've seen it in some book..." Cyril continued to whisper unscrupulously with the favor of the old headmaster. (Professor McGonagall is reading out some Ministry of Magic document anyway, which sounds long and boring and has more than half of it.)

Severus was finally led off by his "Little Mister", turned his body slightly, frowned and said in a low voice, "It looks like...a blood oath, but there are two..."

"That's right, it's a blood oath. Look at the contents of the container in the middle of the pendant!" Cyril's face was enlightened, and he was refreshed. His learned companion applauded.

"Ahem———" I don't know if it was because of what I heard, the old headmaster who felt a little helpless cleared his throat uncomfortably.

"The two bottles are unlikely to be blood oaths, but the thinking may be okay, and it may be other such spells." Severus "committed crimes against the wind" under the headmaster's light cough, firmly expressing his point of view.

"It's very similar to an old... partner, marriage contract from Germany..." Suddenly, Professor Spence, the elusive ghost magic, said coolly behind the two.

"..." Cyril, who was almost so frightened that he flew on the spot, shivered.

"..." Dean Slytherin, who was caught by his colleagues for making small talk, stiffened his neck.

"I agree with Binns' point of view. It is indeed like a marriage contract. In the past, big families in the Middle Ages would exchange something after getting married, such as blood or hair of both parties, or meat... According to legend, some ancient Germanic pure-blood nobles would also exchange Take out my heart and soul... use special magic to fuse them together and divide them, and wear them one by one, swearing each other's ownership..." Professor Fei Liwei, who was sitting on the left, added with a small voice and did not look sideways.

"..." Cyril and Severus suddenly felt that Professor Flitwick and Dean Ravenclaw, who was "immersed" in the ocean of knowledge, might be more suitable to study historical folklore rather than magic spells.

"It's so sweet, exchanging each other's heart and soul. This is much more reliable and formal than a casual oath on the current marriage certificate." Professor Sprout, sitting in front right, picked up his teacup, covered his mouth and lowered his voice excitedly.

"..."

Probably because everyone was relaxed after Voldemort was wiped out...

"So the gossips from many years ago are all true. Sigh, it's true that lovers get married, one thing gives one thing, one is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer..." Ms. Pomfrey, who was eating a biscuit on the right, sucked her teeth .

"..." Who can tell them if the whole school knows that Gavin is Grindelwald... Cyril and Severus exchanged helpless and shocked glances.

"Ahem———" Dumbledore cleared his throat again, and tugged at his beard in an attempt to cover up the eye-catching pendant on his chest.

I shouldn't have accepted this old guy's misfortune last night, and put it on in a moment of softness... Dumbledore thought sadly.

As long as this scary thing is close to the skin, it can sense all kinds of emotions around Lao Buxiu, and its own emotions will also be revealed unconsciously. There is no privacy at all! ! !So I had to wear it outside, but it seemed to make Gellert more satisfied, and see—the whole school began to speculate about his relationship with him.

Alas, but... who would have thought that this guy would tragically keep the pendant that the two made their blood oath back then, and carefully hide it "close to the body" after the pendant was destroyed.Even if he knows that this thing is destroyed, it will cause backlash to the wearer... [Note] Dumbledore knew that when Gail carefully took out the bloody broken pendant from his chest, he would never be able to escape again, so he let it go. No more.

——— "...I thought it had been broken into powder long ago, why... why was it placed there?" Dumbledore could hardly maintain his calm expression.

———— "... If I don't protect it, it will disappear completely. You know, Al. It's not safe to put it anywhere, only in the chest." Grindelwald's two strange-colored eyes flashed for a moment He stared at the wizard in front of him for a moment - the greatest white wizard in the wizarding world.Using his unique speaking charm again, he said softly and slowly: "I don't want it to disappear, even if it hurts me...you don't want it to disappear, right?"

——— "So what? Another blood oath? Never hurt each other?" Dumbledore's mouth twitched his beard.

———"No, a lifelong partner vow."

Grindelwald's silver hair flaunts like his eyes, reminding Dumbledore of the 1927 fire at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris (even though he wasn't there at the time, he didn't confront the rumors that it was going to destroy The evil flame that destroyed a city), no matter what, the flame that was late for 67 years finally burned his whole body and heart completely.

Returning to his thoughts, Minerva finally finished reading the stack of documents, Dumbledore adjusted his expression, and put his hands crossed and relaxed on his lap.

"Do you have any questions about this?"

"Yes, principal." Cyril preemptively raised his paw.

"Please speak, Cyril." The old principal's attitude was as gentle as ever.

"What's the situation with insufficient repair funds?" Cyril asked innocently.

"After the Great War, there were too many places in the British magic world that needed to be rebuilt and repaired. The financial secretary of the Ministry of Magic said that the finances were tight, so... the school director still paid for most of the repair costs. In fact, this matter has been resolved during the holidays. The generous school managers represented by McLean and Malfoy have already taken the initiative to fill all the funding vacancies, and set up a new fund, which belongs to the Hogwarts dome."

Cyril nodded obediently: "Oh, then there's no problem."

——It seems that Albus should not care about the little episode just now, the white fox boy thought happily.

The teachers' conference was successfully concluded, and Cyril and Severus, who had received two new student guidance tasks by the way, were finally retained by Principal Dumbledore.

"Professor Gavin" naturally occupied another chair beside the desk in the principal's office, and sat there carelessly, not intending to leave with the other professors.Dumbledore was used to it, and ordered milk tea for Cyril and Severus.

"In order to express my gratitude to the several school directors who have made great contributions... Hogwarts will provide relevant family members in the school...not limited to these few people, and will provide more convenience, such as the Hogwarts Express The upgrade of the box, the upgrade of the accommodation, etc..." Dumbledore blinked at Cyril after finishing speaking.

Xi Ruier's eyes lit up, and sure enough, the old principal continued to add in a spirited manner: "And the assistant professor McLean is specially approved to bring his family members during his tenure. Of course, the premise is that it will not affect the teachers and students in the school. What do you think? West Riel? Of course it depends on your wishes."

Cyril resisted the feeling of standing up and throwing himself into Dumbledore's arms and then lifting him up to cheer, what should I do if I was so happy that I just wanted to throw some more money? !The white fox boy sat upright, with an upright expression, "Ahem, actually, I just went around with Severus. As a Potions teacher, it is necessary to improve the teaching environment for students as much as possible... So it is also to express my respect for my alma mater. With love, we have decided to provide an additional fund to upgrade the public facilities of the Potions class."

Dumbledore clapped his hands cooperatively: "Hogwarts will remember your efforts."

"This is what we should do. This is my home, and I couldn't be happier to bring Xiao Rongrong here. Thank you for your thoughtfulness."

Grindelwald skillfully put three pieces of sugar into Dumbledore's milk tea, stirred it with a teaspoon and handed it to the old headmaster. Dumbledore picked it up and took a big sip, "You're welcome, my child. Little Egger How are you and Little Noah? Do they like the alchemy duck we gave you?"

"They turned into little foxes and chased it all over the house every day, and now they can walk on four paws very stably, which really helped me a lot—freed my four paws. Let me finally There is time to deal with St. Mungo's research topics."

"So the schedule has been settled with St. Mungo's?"

"Yes, going to St. Mungo's three days a week is about the same as before. Praise Merlin, it won't be very tiring."

Dumbledore nodded, and turned to the Potions Professor, who was as quiet as ever, "Severus, your fireplace has been fully restored, and you can travel freely through the fireplace in Dean Slytherin's office in the future."

Severus nodded.

"Then wish us a successful new semester."

"Good luck."