[HP] look at you

The host and guests of the banquet in the evening had a good time.

Barney, who had been out of work for many years, came back to work and tried his best to prove that he still has a role to play. A large table of dishes is both rich and unique, pleasing to the eye and making people's index fingers move.

Olivia likes the salted caramel cream the most. The caramel is boiled just right, and a little lemon juice is added ingeniously, so that this dessert is burnt and sweet without being overly sweet.

It seemed that Barney had asked Snape about her taste preferences in detail, and had gone to great lengths to cater to her tastes.

Although the mouth is very bad, the behavior is still very considerate.Huh, it seems that I bumped into someone's character design?

Olivia ate to her heart's content, and Evangeline's eye knife came over frequently, telling her to restrain herself a bit, before she stood up and bulged out a big piece of her close-fitting skirt after eating, then no matter how delicate her makeup was tonight, it would be in vain.

Eileen obviously couldn't stand her son's eyes constantly drifting towards the opposite side while eating, so she almost sent the couple away just after eating with someone else's behavior.

"Sev, take Olivia for a stroll."

Snape got up in a hurry, walked to Olivia's side, gently pulled the chair out as she got up, and stretched out his arm.

——It seems that Irene and Barney have made up for his bad manners these days.

Olivia lightly touched Snape's arm with her fingers, lifted the hem of the skirt with one hand, and bowed slightly to express her departure.

As soon as they were out of everyone's sight, the two of them very naturally let go of the arms they were holding together, and changed to clasping their fingers tightly.

"Hey, no, no, I can't breathe." Olivia covered her stomach with a contorted expression, "Severus, help me loosen the tie at the back of my skirt."

Snape: "..."

He hadn't seen how ruthless a woman could do to him in order to become beautiful. Seeing Olivia's painful expression, he quickly stood behind her and tried to do what she said.However, there were too many layers of folds and lace at the back of the skirt, and it took him a lot of effort to untie and loosely tie the straps of the outer skirt even though he was inexperienced.

The two breathed a sigh of relief almost at the same time.

Olivia still had a girdle inside, but there was no way to untie it now, and she couldn't help complaining to Snape, "Ivan is really too hard, I feel like my ribs have been bent and deformed.".

Snape nodded in agreement, tugged at his neckline, "I also think the button of the shirt is too tight." He was not used to it, and he didn't like wearing such constricting clothes.

"Then I'll help you out."

Olivia raised her hand to adjust the tightness of Snape's collar button, unbuttoned the top two buttons of the shirt, and tidied up the collar.

Snape suddenly felt much easier to breathe.

"It feels like the two of us are ordinary people pretending to be high society." Olivia laughed.

Snape glanced at her and corrected, "I am, you are not."

"That's fine." Olivia immediately changed her words, "It feels like the two of us are pretending to be high-society civilians abducting noble girls to elope."

Snape: "...have you been reading Muggle romance novels these days without doing your homework?"

Olivia put her hands on her hips and said fiercely, "Do you still want to elope?"

Snape: "..." I've never seen a noble girl who forced commoners to elope with her.

With a "reluctant" expression, he took her hand, "Okay, honorable lady, where do you want to go?"

Olivia pinched his palm with her nails to express her dissatisfaction, "You are a lover, not a groom, and you should be the one taking me somewhere."

Being hit by the word "lover", Snape instantly had the idea of ​​taking her to his bedroom, but he still kept it in his heart very restrainedly, and said in a steady tone: "Go to the botanical garden."

——I'm afraid that one day, sooner or later, when he sees Blake dancing ballet in women's clothing, he can keep his expression on and applaud gently.thought Snape.

Before entering the botanical garden, Olivia thought that the botanical garden in the Prince Manor should be no different from other places. At most, there would be fewer ornamental plants and more plants with high medicinal value.But after walking into the unremarkable cabin, she was shocked.

The space magic was obviously performed in the wooden house—and it was an extremely high-end and exquisite multi-space folding magic, which could not be seen at a glance.

The stars above the head are moving, as if it is a real night sky.The air is fresh and natural, and you can feel the caress of the breeze.

The flat land with soft soil is connected to the towering hills, and the tops of the mountains are flitted by birds.The dry and hot desert and the humid and dark swamp do not interfere with each other, and the steaming heat in the desert can be felt from a distance.

The turbulent lake was filled with aquatic organisms that obviously only grew in the Mediterranean Sea. After going up the continuous steps, it turned out to be a world of ice and snow, and the St. Dematinium flowers that Snape had given her before were blooming sporadically.

In addition to plants, there are also some animals that have a symbiotic relationship with plants in the space.For example, the swamp snapping turtle with hair on its back full of spores, the sand anemone toad that molts on the sand anemone, and the bowtruckle that guards the trees.

After strolling in the botanical garden for a while, the two stopped in front of a waterfall. There was a wetland around the waterfall. The wetland was covered with flowers that gradually changed from white to purple. The water waves were very beautiful when they swayed.

Snape told her that this is the magic eye lotus, and the eye-shaped patterns on the petals will change, creating the illusion of blinking.

Well, seeing a flower wink at me is quite magical.

"It feels like Alice in Wonderland." Olivia praised such a wonderful scene, "I heard that Magizoologist Scamander has a magical suitcase, it should be the same as this botanical garden .”

Seeing that she really liked this place, Snape nodded in a good mood, "There are many extinct plants in the wizarding world here, and I haven't researched which subjects they belong to. Maybe they have been mutated through cultivation."

"The most precious treasure in Prince's Manor should be this botanical garden." Olivia had never heard any related rumors, and those who wanted to come to Prince's house also knew the truth of not revealing their wealth.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but said to Snape: "If you didn't inherit the Prince Manor, I don't know whose hands this botanical garden would fall into."

"Barney said it would destroy it before anyone else came in - and that was my grandfather's order," said Snape.

"That would be a pity." Olivia felt distressed when she thought about it, "It's better to give it to you to maximize its value."

Snape looked at her intently.Sometimes he wondered why she always had such high confidence and affirmation in him, as if she was sure that he could achieve something great.This made him feel vanity satisfied, but at the same time he couldn't help wondering if what she saw was the same person as himself.

Can he really do it?The inferiority complex buried in his heart for a long time made it hard for him to believe in his own ability.

"of course can."

Hearing Olivia's voice, Snape realized that he had unconsciously expressed his inner thoughts.

"Just like Scamander owns his magical suitcase, you must be the only one who deserves to own this botanical garden." Olivia looked at him with a smile, her tone flat as if she was stating the established facts.

Behind her, the waterfall splashed fine water mist, which looked like a shawl wrapped around her shoulders, matching her champagne skirt just right.

After a long silence, Snape said softly, "Only you would feel that way..."

However, he only needed her to think so.

The two returned to the living room together, and Evangeline glanced at Olivia's belt and Snape's neckline, her eyes slightly subtle.

She doesn't think they do things that are inappropriate for children, does she?Olivia thought a little funny.

Irene seemed to have drunk a lot of wine, she looked slightly tipsy, and she was even playing the piano in a good mood—although she missed several notes by mistake, it was smooth and pleasant.

Seeing Snape appear, Irene beckoned him to pass, then took his hand and burst into tears.

Everyone was caught off guard, and saw her weeping and choked with sobs: "I did a lot of ridiculous things when I was young. At that time, I still felt that I was very brave and that my choices were so wise... Looking back, my life is ridiculous and stupid. , like a bad joke... My only achievement, is Severus, he is my pride... But I am not a qualified mother, I am cowardly, incompetent, neither protect him nor guide him... ...I'm really guilty of..."

Snape froze. With a wooden face, he said dryly, "Okay, okay, Mom, now is not the right time to talk about this."

Of course, Irene's true feelings moved him, but he felt that it was too embarrassing and disappointing to tell these old facts in front of Olivia's family.

Eileen was obviously drunk and continued to mutter, "Now that he's grown up and has a girl he likes, I'm really happy...I hope he can be happy and not be like me...he's smart, yes , Of course I will not repeat my mistakes... But I am still afraid, I am afraid that this misfortune is a curse, and even my children cannot escape... And I can't do anything."

Olivia listened quietly for a while, and seemed to understand what she wanted to say.

She walked up to Irene, looked directly at her, and said in a cold voice: "Mrs. Irene, do you want me to make a promise? Promise you that I will never disappoint Severus? I promise you that I can give him happiness?"

She glanced at Snape and shook her head, "Forgive me for not being able to promise."

Erin froze, tears still hanging on her cheeks.

Snape looked at Olivia, as if he knew what she was going to say, his expression didn't fluctuate much.

"I have always felt that if a person's life needs to be maintained by another person's promise, it will inevitably be as crumbling and easily broken as a chicken egg on a thin stick. It is already so difficult for us to live our own life seriously , how can you easily take on another person's life?" She said seriously, "Severus and I are both going our own way, of course I hope that we can walk together forever and support each other, but I hope that even if one day we When encountering a fork in the road and needing to part, you can still smile and wave your hands, and each of you will continue walking unwaveringly."

She likes Snape, likes his devotion and determination, but she doesn't want him to regard herself as salvation, as the only one, and losing her is like losing everything.

Only when one has too little can a person be unable to bear any loss.

And she wished he had enough.

"What I said, Mrs. Irene, do you understand?"

Irene looked at Snape in a daze, and saw that he was looking at the girl across from him, with a gentle expression she had never seen before.

She was shocked, and let go of her son's hand in a daze, and whispered to herself, "Yes, I should understand, I should..."

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Thank you for your comfort and encouragement. This is a sweet love story, so I won’t share negative energy with you.

I hope that no matter what troubles there are in life, everyone can have a happy moment while reading the article.

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