The fuse didn't ignite [Comprehensive]

"What about you? Senior, are you going to my house? My brother said that there is a party ready, and Senior Lupine and Senior Potter's family will go." Regulus invited enthusiastically.

"No." As soon as he heard the name "Potter", Severus reacted very quickly and refused very simply. Regulus felt heartbroken. His invitation was rejected by the senior. The senior had a Christmas party. Where are you going?

Severus looked at the ghost in front of him with his mouth pouted and head down, and realized that his refusal had hurt the ghost in front of him, so he explained: "I don't really want to participate in the activities of Sirius and the others."

"Is the relationship between senior and elder brother still not good? Isn't senior giving Lupine a wolf potion every month?" Regulus always thought that their relationship had improved, but it was obviously not that simple. After all, senior Potter is the one who snatched away the woman he likes.

Thinking of this, Regulus asked: "Is it because of Lily Evans? Now Mrs. Potter, you still like her!" Regulus didn't realize the sourness in his tone. When he liked Evans, he even encouraged him, how could it be like this now.

"The former Severus Snape really liked her, but now, I... no, I know what I like, and she is very happy now." Severus couldn't say that he didn't like her for the original , Deep down in his heart, he felt that the sentence "Severus Snape doesn't like Lily Evans" was a betrayal and a very immoral thing.After all, he knew how much the original body loved Lily Evans. He thought that if the original body died for Lily Evans, he would be willing.

Severus' words made Regulus's heart that was just sour turned into jealousy. He didn't know why it happened, "Then who is the senior who likes now, can you tell me?"

"It's you." A voice in Severus said, but he couldn't say it, it was too ridiculous, it would scare the boy in front of him, he didn't want the boy to see him as a monster. "No one, what I like is my current life, being a professor at Hogwarts, researching my potions to my heart's content. A fulfilling and meaningful life."

"Really... the senior doesn't want to find a beautiful witch, marry and have children? It's all because I am a ghost now, and I forgot that the senior has also reached the marriageable age. Yesterday I received a letter from my brother, saying that I was married to her." A witch who went racing in the Muggle world hit it off right away, they are dating, there are photos in the letter, and they are a good match."

"No, I don't want to find some pretty witch, I just like the life I have now." With you every day.

"Well, I'll stop asking. Let's get back to the Christmas question, will you be coming to 12 Grimmauld Place?"

"Yes, I'll prove to you that I don't care about Lily Potter, what I care about is—" Severus paused, not daring to continue.

Regulus felt that the next word was the one he was looking forward to but didn't dare to think about, so he asked eagerly. "What is it?"

"Study potions." Severus said the word, a surefire word, and there was nothing wrong with it.

"I knew it, the youngest master of potions, senior, haha." Regulus said with a smile, he felt that he would say something stupid if he stayed in this room any longer, "Good night, senior, I I have to go back to No. 12 Grimmauld Place and prepare things for the party with my brother."

"Go back tonight? Why don't you take the Hogwarts Express tomorrow?"

"I don't want to scare those Muggles." Regulus shrugged.

...the dividing line...

The party at Black's house was on the day before Christmas, Christmas Eve, and Severus arrived one day early - the afternoon after Regulus left, in the morning he went to Diagon Alley to buy Christmas gifts, the presents from Severus It's very fixed, it's all books, and it can be done in one stop at Lihen Bookstore.Of course, the one for Regulus was an exception. He went to Knockturn Alley and bought a ghost pendant in an inconspicuous shop. It can be worn by ghosts. It is made by ghosts and goblins. It is as exquisite and gorgeous as Slater. Lin's locket.

As an ancient Black family, No. 12 Grimmauld Place is a five-storey building with more than a dozen guest rooms. In its heyday, there was a nightly party. When Kreacher guided Severus to the guest room, Regulus said: "If the senior doesn't mind it, you can stay in my room, because this year's Christmas theme, except for my mother and I's room, the other rooms are decorated with red and gold, the senior should not like it."

Red and gold, the standard Gryffindor colors, well, this place has completely become a Gryffindor gathering place.And why didn't Mrs. Black's portrait stop it?Of course there were, but Sirius personally covered Mrs. Black's portrait with a cloth and placed it in her room. The other portraits in the family were also treated in the same way, so there was no screaming here.

"This decoration... If it wasn't for your invitation, I would definitely turn around and leave."

"Brother promised me that he would return to his original appearance after the party. That's great, so that my mother won't be pissed off."

Opening the door of Regulus' room, the Slytherin-like decoration made Severus much more comfortable, and it was no different from what it was a few months ago.

Living in Regulus' room, and sleeping at night, he naturally slept on the big dark green bed in the middle.There seemed to be Regulus' breath on the pillow and quilt, which made Severus's heart jump, but there was actually no breath.

Regulus had been dead for so long, and Kreacher was serious about cleaning.But Severus was always very careful about Regulus. He saw a bottle of perfume in the corner of Regulus's desk. It was obviously Regulus's previous perfume. Severus took a deep sniff. There is indeed a trace of direction.

Severus secretly wrote down the number of the perfume, went to Diagon Alley to buy the perfume before returning to school, and was shamefully caught by the slut Malfoy.Seeing that his research madman Severus finally had a little interest in life, Lucius Malfoy joked: "You should be like this, Severus. You will definitely be fascinated by tidying up like this." There are a lot of witches. It's a pity that you didn't come to the Malfoy family's Christmas party. There are many low-key witches from pure-blood families, and you must like them."

"Thank you for your kindness, Malfoy, but don't try to find me a witch, I don't need it." Severus quickly refused. Fortunately, it was in Diagon Alley, and Regulus was no longer there, otherwise he would have to explain again .

The party at Black's house turned Sirius and his group into the Happy Valley of Gryffindor, and there was also a bear boy, Harry Potter. The elves of the Potter family carefully looked at the hyperactive Harry, But Harry still walked and crawled to Regulus' room, but before the little guy could do some "destruction", he was called by Severus, who just came back after drinking a glass of red wine, to bring home the little guy. The elf took it away.

"Rael's room, only I can enter."

At midnight on Christmas Eve, Severus gave Regulus a pendant, a piece of jewelry that ghosts could wear, which surprised him and liked him a lot.

Before going to bed, Severus asked Regulus if he would be invited to Prince's house.

Severus routinely received a letter from Prince's family. Prince didn't care about marrying a Muggle daughter, but he had been cutting off the news before. Irene took the initiative to cut off. Severus was in Irene I saw Mrs. Prince at the funeral. The old lady was not as bitter and unfriendly to Muggles as Mrs. Black, but rather pitied her daughter.

The Prince family has always been a semi-reclusive family, a potion family. At the funeral, the old lady hoped that Severus would come to the Prince's house often, and wanted to raise him, but the strong Severus had just graduated, and he She thought she could live a good life, so she refused. After joining the Death Eaters, she naturally cut off the connection with the Prince family, but Mrs. Prince always gave her grandson Christmas gifts every Christmas. A priceless potion.This time, besides the gift, the old lady also sent a long letter.