I'm playing a big knife at HP

Snape never imagined that after he retired from the post of double agent, there would be a day of eavesdropping behind the door.At this time, four or five red-haired men with big arms and round waists were crowded around him, with gossip expressions on their faces with slightly bearded faces, lying behind the door to eavesdrop on the quarrel between the two women inside.

Snape felt suffocated by their shaggy beards and bulging muscles.He confirmed once again that eavesdropping is a bad experience no matter what the circumstances.

Please don't get me wrong, this group of redheads who don't like to shave at a young age and have inexplicably long, rough hair are not from the Weasley family.They were Martha's cousins.

A few days ago, Dumbledore, Snape, and Martha, who were traveling in Europe, wandered around the famous Nurmengard Prison. Dumbledore said that he would study the security system of the prison, and then he went away. return.Martha and Snape visited the nearby ruins, small towns, taverns and restaurants, but the old man still didn't come back.In the end, there was really nowhere to go, and Martha proposed to drop Dumbledore and the two of them went to Ireland for a trip.According to her words, she still has relatives there, so it would be good to recognize her face.

It was agreed to come on vacation, but suddenly entered the link of meeting the parents.Snape felt he wasn't ready, but he couldn't bear to disappoint an enthusiastic Martha.In this way, he met the relatives on Martha's mother's side, a group of extremely mysterious and closed druids who lived in seclusion deep in the ancient forests of Ireland.

At first, the atmosphere was relatively harmonious.The druids warmly entertained them and prepared a sumptuous dinner.Although Snape felt that he was not a good fit for this group of cousins ​​who drank water and drank water, and when they got high, they would get up and dance in circles, but they had all heard of his role in the recent wizarding war. His deeds seem to have a good impression on him.After discovering that although Snape was thinner, he could drink as much as they did, and the friendliness of the group of druids rose to liking.

However, all rapprochement came to a halt when Martha casually mentioned that they were about to get married.

This sentence is like a silence charm.The conversation and laughter at the dinner table disappeared in an instant.A dozen pairs of examining eyes fell on Snape, and he didn't understand what was going on.The old lady at the head of the table, Martha's grandmother and the current patriarch of the Druids, gently put down the tableware, and printed the corners of her mouth with a napkin, without even looking at him, she said to Martha: "Martha , I have something to talk to you alone."

The two witches disappeared into the study.As soon as the wooden door of the study was closed, several of Martha's cousins ​​threw knives and forks at the same time, and rushed out of the study with their wands in hand, scrambling to throw spells on the door to break the anti-eavesdropping.One of them patted Snape who was still there with a smile on his face: "This kind of legendary situation has actually happened! There are no witches in our generation who are going to marry outsiders. I thought I would despise such excitement." Already!"

As this legendary outsider, Snape squeezed his way into the group of excited druids, and began to eavesdrop on the quarrel between the two witches in the study.

"...Why do we need to do a test?" Martha's voice came faintly through the wiretapping spell, "We just came to visit you, not to ask for your permission."

"This is the rule." The old voice said resolutely, "Since you are our clansman now, you must abide by our rules. Witches with druid blood are not allowed to marry outsiders. If you want to marry outsiders, you must pass the test. "

"What do you mean outsider?" Snape couldn't help asking.

"An ancient tradition. In fact, as long as the person you marry is Irish, or even Irish, you can. It doesn't have to be a wizard." A burly man with a bun next to him shrugged, "It's no problem for us, we Most of them grew up here, and the people they met were basically not outsiders. Only those who grew up outside like Martha or those who went to study outside like her mother would encounter this kind of trouble—Martha is miserable , Great-grandmother Sesha is a very stubborn person, impossible to be persuaded."

Snape looked at each other with complicated eyes: "Why is Patriarch Sesha your great-grandmother? You look about the same age as me!"

"That's right." The cousin, oh no, the eldest nephew, said naturally, "But my grandfather is the eldest son of the patriarch, and Martha's mother is her youngest daughter. There is a big difference in age between the two. He is almost 30 years old, and his grandfather married his father relatively early. My eldest son has started to have girlfriends, and he should be called Aunt Martha according to his seniority."

Looking at this amazingly efficient eldest nephew, Snape once again felt that his life had been delayed by Voldemort, and he even forgot to be angry at the obvious regional discrimination of the druids.

"...Grandmother! You drove my mother away because of this rule, and didn't even go to her funeral! I didn't see you until I was an adult, and you don't even know what my poor sister and brother look like!" Ma Sarah raised her voice, "Don't you regret it? What era is it, why do you have to stick to this tradition?"

The old lady's voice also raised: "I don't regret it! Your mother is my favorite little girl, but if I do it again, I will make the same choice!"

The conversation from behind the door stopped for a while, and then the old voice sounded again: "You're wrong—it's not that I abandoned your mother, but she abandoned us, and her bloodline and strength. Drew Yi's strength comes from the protection of the forest and this land. Without protection, our power will decline and disappear, and without power, we are nothing. I stick to the tradition for the inheritance of blood power, especially For the survival of the race. The forest of Ireland bestows its bounty only on its own people, and only the marriages between the people are blessed, and only their descendants can pass on the power of druids. Your mother is her generation The most talented witch, but she married an outsider, no matter how powerful she is, neither you nor your siblings can inherit her strength."

Martha didn't answer.Something was wrong to Snape - Martha had clearly inherited some of her mother's powers.

"Oh, I know what your expression means, you are thinking, but I obviously have a bit of talent." The old lady sneered, "That's because your mother stole something that didn't belong to her, but even so, your The ability is still pitifully weak. When I met you a few years ago, you had nothing but magic sensitivity, not even comparable to your mother when she was ten years old, let alone communicate with the forest. You seem to be more powerful now than before It's powerful, but I know you used heresy, ancient magic rituals or potions—even so, your power is still missing, and you will never really get the ability of a druid in your life. You should be grateful, If I hadn't become soft-hearted when I got older, I'm sorry for your mother's early death, and you still have the guts to avenge her, I would never have accepted you back then!"

"Grandmother!" Martha's voice trembled, "I found it back then because I wanted to see you, and it's the same today."

"But I have given you a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. If you return to the ethnic group, your child will still be one of us! Even if you insist on marrying an outsider like your mother, I still graciously allow you to participate in the trial You should be grateful for this!" The old voice said stubbornly and angrily, "If you didn't even dare to participate in the trial, then I was wrong. If you give up such an opportunity, you will no longer be One of us, you don't have to come back, I won't see you again."

A group of redheads around Snape exchanged a few horrified glances and looked at Snape sympathetically.

"Then, what if we take the test and fail?" Martha said hesitantly.

"Then he is not suitable for you, you should leave him." The old lady said firmly.

Martha sneered loudly: "Grandmother! Are you kidding me? I wouldn't leave him for that reason."

"Then there is nothing to say, and I will remove you like your mother."

Then there was a long silence behind the door.

A group of young wizards who were eavesdropping were embarrassed when the door popped open with a bang, and several of them jumped away clutching their foreheads and noses with a howl.Snape ignored them because Martha had come out wiping her tears.

"Let's go, we've delayed long enough." Martha forced a smile at him, "Our visit should be over."

After speaking, she went outside.But her wrist was caught by Snape.

The old patriarch also came out of the study and stared at Martha sternly: "Don't you even dare to try?"

"Grandma, why bother, the results are all the same." Martha looked back at her calmly, "No one has successfully passed this test for more than 200 years."

"Do you think so too?" The old witch looked at Snape, "Is this your decision?"

Martha tugged at his sleeve: "Let's go, it's pointless."

Snape didn't move: "I will."

There was an excited murmur around him.Martha anxiously teased him again, and said in a low voice, "The test is just a cover. Grandma didn't want to agree with us at all. There's no need to stay and be made things difficult for her."

He looked down at Martha and smiled: "I thought Gryffindors were never afraid of any challenge. Besides, I can't be the only one who is curious about this mysterious trial, right? We ran so Far, do you really want to go before something interesting happens?"

Martha was stunned for a moment, smiled through tears, and nodded lightly: "That's fine."

They looked side by side at the majestic old lady: "We will participate."

The old witch nodded and turned to Snape: "Come with me, I have something to say to you alone." Then she gave the juniors a stern look, "Don't try to eavesdrop, the protective spell I used this time You can try to crack it, but I don’t think you can do anything.”

A group of redheads listened and scattered in despondency.

Snape followed the little old lady who looked like she would collapse into the study, and sat down separately.The old lady rested her chin on one hand and looked at him with half-closed eyes.Only then did he realize that although the old lady's eyelids drooped due to aging, her eyeballs were exactly the same color as Martha's.

"Among all the men, Martha chose someone like you." The old lady said slowly.

Snape discovered that there are people in the world who are more poisonous and provocative than himself.Ginger is still old and spicy.He suppressed his anger: "You don't know anything about me, do you?"

The old lady sneered: "I know a lot about you - a famous war hero, who has been a double agent for your first love who married someone else for more than ten years, and is still a great lover! Maybe you are in the British magic circle. I've been praised, but none of this means anything to me. Maybe you're not weak, and you're a little smart, but those bells and whistles don't make you a good husband. If you and Martha weren't for this This war will never come together. To be honest, I hope you don't take this test. It's useless to take it. You can't pass it."

Snape felt that he couldn't help it: "Why are you so sure I won't pass?"

"I can tell just by looking at you—martha initiated your relationship from the beginning, right?" the old lady said confidently, "let me ask you, have you ever pursued her? What have you tried to do to make her happy?" Do you know what she likes, what she hates, and how to make her happy when she is sad?"

Snape froze.He really never had to do any of these things.

The old witch smiled triumphantly: "Why do you think this is? Is it because you are special? No, it's just because Martha is a stupid girl."

Snape felt that his wand hand was about to move, but he warned himself again that beating Martha's grandmother was unacceptable.

"You don't do many things to get her love, because she is a silly girl without a mother." The old lady continued to sneer, "She can fall in love with you only because no one taught her, she doesn't know that she can have If you ask, you can expect the other party to coax her to please her. I have long seen that she is a stupid girl, but I thought she was full of revenge and would not like anyone, so I didn't rush to discipline her. I didn't expect you to take advantage of it. "

If Snape's endurance had not been tempered to an inhuman height during his ten-year spy career, he would have turned the tables.He also sneered with a sullen face: "You don't have to try to provoke me, and don't expect me to feel guilty because of your words. These methods don't work for me. It's better to say that Martha is a girl who has no female elders' upbringing." Is your heart like a gift from a stone? When she became an orphan and had no one to rely on, you didn't lend a helping hand."

"Huh, the double agent deserves its reputation, and it really has a sharp mouth. But why should I provoke you? I'm just answering your question, why do I think you can't pass the test." The old lady waved her hand, and a little girl on the table The box popped open, and a seed glowing white jumped into her palm, "This is the content of the trial."

Snape took the seed in bewilderment.

"This is the seed of our holy tree. During the trial, your magical power will nourish and catalyze this seed. The trial is divided into five stages, corresponding to the germination of the seed, leaf extraction, flowering, fruiting, and fruit ripening. If you succeed After passing through the five stages, you can take away the ripe fruit and let her eat it when Martha is pregnant, then your firstborn must be a wizard with full druid ability. Why do you think Martha can have such Strong magic sensitivity? Martha's father also participated in the trial back then, that kid did a good job and failed in the last stage. My useless daughter eloped with him and stole the unripe fruit to eat Even so, Martha's ability is ridiculously weak in my opinion. Strictly speaking, if you fail at any stage, you are a failure. I'm not afraid to tell you that the trial is not easy."

Snape had never heard of such a magical magical plant in his life, and couldn't help observing the seed curiously.

The old lady continued to explain: "I will cast a spell to make you and Martha enter five connected dreams. In the dream, you only need to do one thing - find her and get her a willing kiss within 24 hours. "

Snape was shocked.

That's it?No one has passed in these 200 years?And what the hell is asking for a kiss?

Snape couldn't help complaining: "Have you read too many Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales?! At what age did you get a kiss? Will I become foam on the sea if I fail?"

The old lady snorted: "It's the same reaction again. That Dane—Hans Andersen—fell in love with a witch in our family, and tried to take part in the trial, but of course he failed. We eliminated his witches afterwards. memory, but it seems that he couldn’t clear it up, and later he wrote the article about Hai’s Daughter, which caused us a lot of trouble.”

Snape felt that he knew too many secrets in one go today, and needed to take a break.But the trial sounded too easy, and he waited patiently for the rest.Sure enough, the old lady spoke again: "Of course, things are not that simple. Martha will not remember you. In fact, she will even forget who she is."

That makes sense.With only 24 hours, it is indeed very difficult for a stranger to get a girl's kiss-maybe not impossible for a wizard who is too beautiful to be Martha's father, but Snape is still a bit of Self-knowledge.But it doesn't matter, he thought, isn't there something called a love potion?

Snape didn't feel guilty at all for the crooked ways he was thinking about - it was called rational use of professional expertise.

"Do you know the rules? Hey, I told you not to do strange things to our sacred tree seeds!" The old lady snatched the seeds from Snape's hands—this gentleman was secretly scraping the seeds, as if intending to Take a little back to study.

"In short, it's not too difficult to say, you have to find a way to solve all the problems in the dream." The old witch threw the seeds into a bowl, and pointed at a reclining chair scribbled, "I will cast a spell."

Snape nodded and lay down cooperatively.

"Oh, by the way, I forgot to tell you that neither you nor Martha has magic in the dream, but it doesn't matter." The old lady said casually, raising her wand.

Snape, who was silently thinking about how to collect the raw materials of the love potion:? ? ? ! ? ! ? ?

He was about to jump up in protest when an overwhelming drowsiness came over him, and he collapsed instantly.

The author has something to say: The old lady Sesha said: Boy, please pick up girls with your strength :)

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The author, as soon as I finished the main text, I ran to beat a wolf, and then I was beaten by the giant ninja owl so that I couldn't take care of myself, so I rolled back with my tail between my legs.Speaking of this type of side story, I don’t know if you are interested in watching it.