[HP] look at you

Snape had no idea that he hesitated so much that Olivia, who was full of detective skills, discovered the clues.

He saw Olivia and Blake walk into the library together, saw them sit down, saw them chat, saw Olivia get up and leave, and saw Blake follow.

His mood was bouncing repeatedly like bungee jumping. For a while, he was in weightlessness with nothing to support, and for a while he fell into an uncontrollable dive, swaying down, and finally stagnated in the emptiness and loss after the blood faded from his brain.

Mrs. Pince's voice also attracted the attention of the two people at the same table as him.

"Isn't she your friend, Severus?"

It was Charles Giggs who was talking, he was the eldest son of the owner of the Lislugg & Ziggs Potion Shop in Diagon Alley. You could tell by the name that this potion shop was jointly opened by Slughorn and Giggs , with him next to him was his younger brother Carragher, a Ravenclaw fourth year and a Hufflepuff second year.

Maybe it was Slughorn's recommendation, maybe they also heard about his potion talent, so they took the initiative to make friends at the party of the Slug Club.

"Olivia Orpington." Carragher said the name, "She is a very famous person in our class."

"Famous?" Snape looked at him.

"Of course, she's so beautiful, isn't she? And she's also very mysterious. As far as I know, there are many boys who want to pursue her, but she doesn't seem very approachable."

Snape's voice faded, "Really?"

"Yeah, there is another friend of yours, Evans, who is also very popular. Severus, you don't know how many people envy you. The two most beautiful girls in the lower grades are your friends .”

Charles coughed, trying to stop his stupid brother from continuing to talk nonsense, but Carragher didn't light up his brother's telepathy skills at all, and asked winkingly: "Honestly, which one of them do you like?" --babble!"

Carragher turned his head: "Charles, why are you kicking me?"

"..." There must be such a brainless brother because his mother took the wrong potion when she was pregnant with him.

Snape's face was completely frozen.

Just as he was about to make a sarcasm, the SOME in hand trembled.He looked up at Lily and Mary, they were talking, and there was only one person who sent the message.

—Do you want to go to the Room of Requirement at night?

The pen in Snape's hand stopped on the paper, as if he suddenly forgot how many letters there were in English.

He always thought that Lily and Olivia were his friends, but the momentary change of mood when he just heard Carragher's words told him clearly that he could accept Lily being pursued, but he couldn't bear Olivia being The talk of others.

But he couldn't understand the reason, obviously he and Lily knew each other for a longer time, didn't they?

which one do you like...

like……

Snape thought of his unformed Patronus, those familiar wings, which made him shudder.

Is he really just a friend to Olivia?

Pursing his lips tightly, he slowly wrote the reply.

Yes or no, he had to find out.

Over there, Olivia caught a little bit of a friend's little horse's foot, thought for a while, and let go with a smile.

Sometimes, it is easy to have no friends if you are too thorough.Seeing it is one thing, saying it is another.She still knows what kind of degree should be grasped between friends.

Since Snape had something to do at night, Olivia decided to do something she had thought about for a long time—exploring the Black Lake.

It doesn't make sense to see all the unicorns in the Forbidden Forest, but not to see the mermaid in the Black Lake, and the huge octopus. She has been squatting in the window since the beginning of school, but she didn't find any shadows of them.

In the evening, Olivia ran to the edge of the black lake with ease. The clothes on her body were designed to avoid water and keep warm, and her hair was tied into a ponytail behind her head so as not to block her view or get caught underwater. She checked her defensive items , she slipped carefully into the water.

The water was very still, and the meager starlight outside did not penetrate into the water. Olivia took out her wand and lit up a ball of light, barely illuminating a distance of five feet around.

Fearing that someone outside would see the light in the water, she kicked her feet and swam deeper.

The water is very deep. Compared with Santa Monica's underwater beauty, the inside of the Black Lake can be said to be lacklustre. Except for the messy aquatic plants and strange-shaped swimming fish, it is almost empty and desolate. This kind of feeling can easily make people feel small. Feeling depressed.

After swimming for a while, an ethereal singing sound suddenly came from nowhere. It didn't seem like the sound was transmitted through the water, but it seemed to be directly in her head.The high and low voice hummed softly in a strange and mysterious language.

Olivia was not in a hurry to find the source of the singing, she listened carefully for a while, and after feeling the strangeness and beauty of the singing, she slowly swam forward following the guidance of the sound.

Soon, a miraculous scene appeared in front of her.

The bottom of the water covered with scattered reefs turned into a green grassland, with houses and statues built on the grassland. If Olivia could not see the bubbles she vomited, she almost thought she had returned to land.

There were mermaids coming and going in the house, some of them sat around and sang under the statue, some were fishing with spears.

I have to say that the appearance of these mermaids is a little sorry for their names. They have gray bodies and dark green hair, like water plants growing on stones.There is also a mouthful of rotten yellow and orange teeth. Listening to the singing and watching their mouths open and close, it is still hard to believe that such otherworldly sounds can come from the mouths of such a group of ugly creatures.

But not all mermaids look like this. There are also types of mermaids. It is said that there are mermaids in Northern Europe. extinct.

In comparison, although this group of fierce and ferocious mermaids are a bit ugly, they don't have to worry about someone plotting against them. After all, they can't trade their lives for good looks.

Hiding behind the stone and watching from a distance for a while, Olivia swam away quietly before they found her.

She wanted to find that huge octopus, but after wandering around the bottom of the water for a long time, she encountered quite a few small octopuses, but she didn't even see the tentacles of the big one.She secretly thought, if she caught two small octopuses and went back to cook takoyaki, would the big octopus rush out and whip her?

After all, she didn't dare to die like this.

In addition to mermaids, Olivia also saw some sea monsters with horse heads and fish tails, all of which were sea blue. Compared with mermaids with human bodies and fish tails, she thought sea monsters looked better.

After swimming for a while, she satisfies her curiosity and prepares to return. When it was almost dark, she found some faint light next to it, flickering in the current. She couldn't help but swim there for a certain distance, and then she saw clearly that it was the cellar. exterior walls.

Olivia quickly turned off the lights and used the Disillusionment Charm, lest Hogwarts have another strange story about the Black Lake the next day.But just as she was about to leave, she thought of playing a prank again.

She quietly approached the outer wall, knocked along the row of windows, and then hid quickly, watching the people in the room pull open the curtains to take a closer look, and when they turned around, she knocked again.

It's a pity that Robert is a prefect, and the room is not next to the window, otherwise she must have made him doubt his life.

Kerry didn't open the curtains, and Olivia felt that she shouldn't bother getting out of bed at all.

Xio seemed to be quite frightened, and closed the curtains as soon as he brushed it. Olivia couldn't bear to knock him a second time, for fear of scaring the child so much that he couldn't sleep at night—the same dormitory with Snape already Enough to make him nervous.

Just as he was about to leave, Hugh's window was pulled open again. Looking back, it was Snape who came to check this time.

He squinted against the window for a while, and turned his head impatiently. Olivia could even imagine him talking to Xio angrily.

The bad taste came out, she floated to the window, and tapped lightly again.

Snape turned his face in surprise, and saw Olivia who was breaking the disillusionment spell, waving and smiling at him outside the window.

He was startled, and quickly pulled the curtains from behind to prevent Xio from seeing, and gave her a vicious look.

Because he couldn't get out through the window, Olivia smiled and winked at him, and condensed a line of golden words in the water with her wand.

--Good evening.

Comes with a smiley face :)

Snape looked annoyed with her.

Olivia wrote again: Don't be angry.

Snape rolled his eyes, fisted his fists and gave that fierce look you've been waiting for.

Olivia stretched out her hand and compared Boo.

--I won.

Snape looked at Olivia who was smiling complacently.It was pitch black behind her, but she herself seemed to be shining slightly. She was too close to the window, and his hot breath condensed into a cloud of white mist on the window, blurring her face.

He wiped away the mist with his sleeve, and seeing her face appear clearly again, he couldn't help pressing his hand to the glass.

Seeing him calmly looking at her with a calm expression, Olivia was a little inexplicable, not knowing why his mood suddenly changed.After staring at him for a while, she paused, and tentatively put her hand on the window, overlapping his palm.

The two hands are separated by the glass and the lake water, sticking together very close and far away.

Olivia saw that Snape's eyes churned violently as if they were instantly filled with lake water.

He seemed to sigh, lowered his eyes helplessly, and when he looked up again, his eyes were serious, his expression was serious, and he stared at her without blinking.

Olivia's heart tightened, and she vaguely felt that something was beyond her expectation.

Snape took out the wand in his sleeve, moved his lips, and a stream of silver-white gas spewed out from the wand. Under her suddenly widening eyes, a clear shape gradually condensed.

An eagle spread its wings through the glass, flew around Olivia, and lightly rubbed her cheek with its sharp beak.

Olivia stared blankly at this Patronus just like herself, then at Snape who was watching her with pursed lips behind the window, and quickly withdrew his hand.

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A short chapter, um, an ingenious way of confessing→_→