dumb wizard

At breakfast the next day, Draco received a letter from his father from the golden eagle of Malfoy's family. After reading it hastily, his expression changed.

Poor Harry, no wonder the godfather hates you so much.

Seeing that Draco's expression was wrong, Harry bumped his elbow on his forearm and asked, "Hey! Draco, what's wrong with you?"

Draco looked at him sympathetically and said, "Harry, Father has written in his mind why the Godfather hates you, and that reason makes me think the Godfather will probably hate you so much for the rest of his life."

Harry was a little frustrated, but more curious, and Draco couldn't help laughing with green eyes full of "I'm curious, tell me, tell me."

"To put it simply, the godfather had a crush on your mother, and your father opposed the godfather everywhere for this, ruining the godfather's school days, and in the end your mother chose your father." Draco explained in a few words.

Harry's face turned bitter for a moment, "No wonder! It turns out that my father is Professor Snape's rival in love, and everyone said that I look like my father."

Draco patted him on the shoulder like you wished for luck.

"Your gesture is wrong. Mr. White, raise your hand a little higher, turn it half a circle to the right, and then stop downward." Snape frowned and corrected the mistake.

I don't know when he started tutoring Xiu again, and he hardly limited his time.Xiu was secretly happy about this for several days, and his smile was so bright that he won the hearts of many little animals.

Xiu corrected his gestures according to his instructions, and successfully disappeared without a trace, and the paper in front of him disappeared instantly.

Snape nodded with satisfaction, "Very well, Mr. White, keep practicing."

After receiving his compliment, Xiu's delicate face broke into a smile, and he nodded vigorously.

After practicing for more than half an hour, it was almost time for Xiu to prepare dinner. Xiu went to the kitchen, leaving Snape staring at the door in a daze.

"puff!"

Green flames were blazing from the fireplace, and Snape turned to see Lucius' trademark long platinum hair and Malfoy smirk.

"Lucius, does your aristocratic upbringing tell you that you can enter other people's rooms without the master's invitation?" Snape sprayed the poison wantonly, regardless of whether the person in front of him was his only friend.

Lucius was already immune to this level of venom, and the curvature of the corners of his mouth remained unchanged, and he said in a Malfoy-esque aria: "Oh, Severus, I don't think my friend who came to visit me needs an invitation."

The corners of Snape's eyes twitched fiercely, "Lucius, has your head been completely corroded by those beauty potions at last? Or do you think that showing your cheap concern will increase the amount of your monthly beauty potions? "

The corner of Lucius' mouth pulled down once, "Severus, you really hurt my heart to doubt my concern for you like this."

Snape frowned, "Lucius, if you came to me just to talk nonsense, I don't mind stuffing you back into the fireplace right away and closing off the Floo connection to Malfoy Manor."

Lucius frowned like a beauty, "Oh, dear Severus, you are always so rude to me." Before Snape went mad, Lucius got serious in time and sat on the little sofa , with a slender white hand resting on the snake staff that he never leaves his body.

Snape frowned, and pointed to a longer sofa next to him, "Lucius, sit there." Then he cast dozens of anti-tapping spells, silencing spells and defensive spells around him.

The platinum beauty raised her eyebrows, and sat down on another sofa as she said, "Severus, I assume that the reason why you let me do this is because that little sofa has its own owner?"

"It's none of your business, Lucius. I don't think there's anything pretty in my dark, cramped cellar that could make Master Malfoy leave his business and banquets here to chat and tell you why you're here."

Lucius stroked his snake staff, his delicate and perfect face became serious, "Severus, you should have felt it in the past two months, right? His anger."

Snape frowned, and said coldly: "So what? He has disappeared."

"Oh, Severus, as you know, he just disappeared, temporarily. You and I both know that he didn't die, and the existence of the Dark Mark clearly tells us." Lucius pointed out the fact, For 11 years, they had avoided bringing up the topic, but now they couldn't avoid it.

Snape nodded, "Yes, anyone with a little brain should know that he is not that easy to defeat."

Lucius lifted up the sleeve of his left hand, revealing his snow-white wrist and—the hideous black mark on his forearm, which looked disgusting, and squirmed a few times from time to time.

"Severus, this mark has been moving more and more frequently recently. I don't think you don't understand what it means."

Snape didn't say anything, but the frown between his brows deepened.

The cellar door slowly opened from the outside, and the two people on the sofa looked at the door at the same time.

Xiu stood at the door holding the tray, looked at them with big amber eyes in surprise, then calmed down quickly, and smiled at Lucius with his lips pursed.

"Damn it!" Snape cursed lowly, and removed the spells around him, "Lucius, this is the end of our conversation, go back to your Malfoy Manor!"

Lucius didn't move, he smiled half a smile, and looked at Xiu with undisguised evaluation in his eyes.

As soon as Xiu put the tray on the dining table, he turned around and saw Lucius' undisguised gaze, and took a step back uncomfortably.Snape walked over to stand in front of him, frowned and said to the platinum beauty on the sofa, "Lucius, has your brain degenerated to the point where you can't even understand human speech? Get out of here!"

There was a standard aristocratic smirk on the corner of Lucius' mouth, "Oh, why don't you let me stay? Severus, I want to chat with Xiaolong's good friend Mr. White. I mentioned Mr. White and Mr. Porter."

How could Snape believe his nonsense, and said coldly: "Maybe you want me to give Narcissa a list of your school lovers?"

"Oh, no, Severus, that's all in the past tense, I only have Sissy now." Lucius said hastily.

"Then get out of here!" Snape gave the order to evict the guest again, but felt Xiu tugged at his sleeve behind him, turned his head, and Xiu handed over the notebook, "Professor Snape, I think Mr. Malfoy must be looking for you There must be something important, why don't I say goodbye first."

Snape refused without hesitation, "Stay here!" Turning to look at Lucius, "Lucius, if you still have a little bit of aristocratic etiquette in your head stuffed with smooth hair potions, you should Knowing how disrespectful it is to remain on someone else's property against the wishes of their master. I think the Daily Prophet would be happy to devote a small section to your inappropriate behavior."

"Oh, all right." Lucius stood up slowly. "See you then, Severus—and Mr. White."

"Go away!" Snape said bluntly, but Xiu smiled politely at him.

The fire in the fireplace was lit again, and Lucius left.

Snape sat down at the table with a sullen face, and began to eat without saying a word.Xiu was a little uneasy, his appearance seemed to have misunderstood Malfoy.Perhaps, he was causing trouble for Professor Snape?

This guess made Xiu's face turn pale.

The last thing he wanted was to bring any discomfort to this man, even if it was just a little bit.

Xiu tried his best to suppress this thought, wrote a sentence in the notebook, and handed it to Snape carefully.

The man raised his eyebrows, his eyes scanned the words on it, "Professor, did I cause you any trouble?"

"Mr. White, I don't know how the little head on your neck came to this ridiculous conclusion, but I think there is no need to ask such a question with an obvious answer."

Xiu's beautiful big eyes lit up immediately.

He didn't give him trouble, great!Really good!

In this way, he has the courage to continue guarding him like this.

1 month 9 day.

Xiu got up at five o'clock in the morning, and the sky outside the Ravenclaw tower was still gray. The temperature at this time was the lowest in the day except midnight. Xiu cast several warming spells in a row to stop his body from shaking.

Quickly finished the washing work, changed his clothes, wrapped in a thick cloak, Xiu left the tower, walked through the empty corridor, and came to the fruit still life.

Reaching out and scratching the pear on top, the pear let out a giggle and let out a passage.Xiu walked in, and all the house elves who had already been busy preparing for breakfast stopped their work and looked at him.

Hugh came to the kitchen too often, there was no house-elf at Hogwarts who didn't know him, and the reaction to him taking their jobs was less exaggerated.

A house elf came over and said to Xiu in a sharp voice: "Mr. Wizard, Lala has prepared the things you want for you, and it's on your usual stove."

Xiu smiled at him going to the market, causing it to scream: "Mr. Wizard smiled at Lala, Lala is so happy! Mr. Wizard is so kind!"

Xiu looked at the materials on the stove, smiled with satisfaction, took off his cloak and put it aside, rolled up his sleeves and began to prepare for today's special breakfast.

After an entire hour and a half, Xiucai finally stopped what he was doing and smiled happily at the results of his hard work.

He walked towards the cellar with a hot breakfast in his hands. At 06:30, Professor Snape should have returned from the Forbidden Forest, right?

Sure enough, the snake who was ordered by Snape to directly open the door for Xiu opened the door for Xiu. When Xiu walked in, he saw Snape standing in front of the medicine cabinet with his back to him, busy with something.

"Mr. White, you seem to be early today." Snape said, turning around.

Usually he didn't bring breakfast until after seven o'clock, but today it was more than half an hour earlier.

Hugh put the dinner plate on the table, walked over and pulled him over, and made Snape amused by his proud display of treasure.

"Noodles?" Snape couldn't help raising his eyebrows when he saw today's breakfast.He remembered that Xiu repeatedly emphasized that he should eat less pasta for breakfast and drink more porridge or soy milk.

Xiu pressed him to sit down, and sat down beside him himself, and wrote with a smile: "This is longevity noodles. Chinese people eat them on their birthdays. The meaning is longevity."

Birthday?

Snape's heart suddenly felt hot.

By the way, today is indeed his birthday, he himself has forgotten it, but he didn't expect this child to know and remember it.

Xiu continued to write: "Don't look at the whole bowl of noodles, there is actually only one noodle in it, so that you can really bless longevity."

He asked the house elf to buy high-gluten flour yesterday, then kneaded it himself and left it to ferment. He got up so early today to pull out such a piece of flour.

Snape glanced at him, and there was so much emotion hidden in that glance that Xiu thought it was just his own illusion.

Why don't you eat it?

Xiu thought, a little anxious, the noodles are not good if they are cold.Gently nudging Snape's elbow, his eyes signaled him to eat quickly.Snape then picked up the chopsticks, picked up the noodles and started eating.

This bowl of noodles looks simple, but it took nearly an hour to repair the noodles, and then boiled in beef bone broth, and finally added an egg, sprinkled with a handful of green onions, and dripped a few drops sesame oil.

After Snape ate it, there was only one noodle in a bowl full of noodles, which made him a little surprised.

Seeing his expression, Xiu felt satisfied and proud.