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The Christmas holiday this time started a week before Christmas, because Penny was invited to vacation at a classmate’s villa in Provence. This Christmas was just the two of them. In order not to make this Christmas too deserted, they invited Lupine came to the festival together.

Rosemary and Lily have worked hard for this Christmas holiday, seriously discussing whether to roast turkey and pudding by themselves.

"Would you like to invite Snape?" Lily sat in the kitchen, flipping through the cookbook, asking seemingly unintentionally.

"Not good." Even though she knew that the Snape family never celebrated Christmas, Rosemary still felt inappropriate.Anyway, Christmas is a time for family reunion after all, so it seems strange to ask rashly.

Lily also just asked casually, mostly as a joke, and didn't take it too seriously. "Then just buy the smallest turkey..." She frowned and stared at the catalog issued by the supermarket for a while, then said, "It seems that you have to make an appointment in advance, and it will definitely not be available on the day."

Rosemary was scrubbing the pots and pans in front of the kitchen counter, and said slowly: "Then go make an order, and buy some more fruits by the way, there are no more fruits at home."

"There's no more bread at home!" Lily said angrily. "But I guess you won't find out."

After Lily went out with the shopping bag, Rosemary was busy for a while, and finally washed the pots and pans, put them on the rack one by one to dry, and dried the water on her hands with a towel. There was a loud "touch".

Rosemary was startled, and hurriedly pushed open the kitchen window to see what happened.

A big dark cloud appeared on the other side of the river, even faintly glowing blood-red. Rosemary squinted her eyes for a long time, and determined that it was not a fire, but some kind of magic.

Seeing the direction of the dark cloud, Rosemary gritted her teeth, ran back to her room, took the wand and put it in her pocket, locked the door, and walked to the other side of the river.

It was lunch time, and there were not many people on the street, but sporadic people noticed this unusual movement.

Rosemary didn't care too much, she knew that someone would come to erase their memories one by one after a while, she knew the operating procedures of the Ministry of Magic, she just went straight to the place where the accident happened.

She finally reached Spider's End Lane, and saw a big hole in the roof of the house she had visited, and the smoke hadn't been cleared away, but several officials with Ministry of Magic badges were already surrounding the house to deal with it.

Rosemary saw the person she was looking for at a glance, and she walked towards Severus without hesitation.snape.Ask softly "What's going on?"

Snape's pale complexion, which was not often exposed to the sun, seemed to be sicker for some reason, but his expression was as usual, and there was no change in emotion.

But Snape was very good at covering up his emotions, of course Rosemary wouldn't think that nothing happened.

She walked over to Snape, who was standing on the other side of the street, and asked, "What's going on? Where are your parents?"

Snape looked at her with blank, emotionless black eyes and said, "In the house."

For a moment, Rosemary thought that Mr. and Mrs. Snape were checking the damaged items inside, but she immediately understood that Snape's parents were buried inside.

"You...you..." Rosemary couldn't speak, she could only grab his hand and look at him with wide eyes.

Snape pulled his hands away and crossed his chest.

"You know, true brave people don't hide their weaknesses, because they know that only by showing their most vulnerable side can they truly overcome it." Rosemary paused for a long time before uttering these words .

Snape seemed to be stimulated, he turned around, facing Rosemary's face, grabbed Rosemary's shoulder, and said with a bow. "What qualifications do you have to tell me to be brave! Who do you think you are?"

"I'm your friend, you can tell me." Rosemary was relieved when she saw that he finally vented out.

Snape counterattacked like a cannonball? "Can you stop being so self-righteous? You think that all you need to do is just smile at others and comfort them casually, and others will feel grateful—"

"I didn't think so. If everything was so easy, I wouldn't have to... My point is, you're not alone." Rosemary stopped speaking hastily, and looked at the person coming.

An official from the Ministry of Magic came over and wanted to ask them something. "Mr. Snape? It's a pity that your parents passed away, but I still want to know where you were when the incident happened."

Snape's voice quickly returned to self-control, "I went to Diagon Alley to buy Christmas presents, and I didn't expect to see this when I came back."

The officer patted Snape on the shoulder sympathetically, but Rosemary didn't ignore the displeasure revealed from Snape's brow.

The official continued: "Your mother is a witch, and your father is a Muggle, right? After investigation by our personnel, they..."

"Needless to say, let's deal with it as it should." Snape interrupted him quickly, preventing the man from continuing.

He has already experienced everything, in fact, he does not want to hear the same bad news again.Why?Why should his mother have to die again?Die from the same cause.

Seeing his refusal to communicate, the officials of the Ministry of Magic saw that he had lost his parents suddenly and was in a very bad condition, so they did not criticize him for his bad temper and irascibility. Instead, they nodded understandingly and explained the situation to Rosemary.

Only then did Rosemary know that Mrs. Snape destroyed the house because of an uncontrollable magic riot, and at the same time killed herself and Mr. Snape.

The officials repaired the destroyed house, and when they learned that Snape would come of age in half a month, they didn't give any further notice or appoint a guardian. They just left him some paperwork that needed to be filled out, and then rushed to deal with other matters. matters.

Rosemary took the documents that needed to be filled out and brought Snape into the house. She felt that it was more comfortable to talk in the house in such a cold weather.But she regretted it as soon as she entered the house, because this small living room, which she had visited several times, now held the bodies of the Snapes.

Strangely, even though they were also injured by magic, the corpses of the Snapes didn't make her feel scared or disgusted, compared to seeing Leia before.The panic she felt at Karkaroff's body, the Snapes' corpses made her feel nothing but sadness.

She took Snape to the kitchen and made him sit down.It can be seen that although the kitchen is used every day, it has not been properly taken care of.

She found a kettle to boil the water, but couldn't find any tea leaves, so she poured hot water into the two teacups she had just washed.Pushed a cup in front of Snape. "Say it."

"Are you imitating Dumbledore? There is still a lack of sweets to relax people's nerves, and I will not reveal my feelings to you because of this." Snape sneered.

"I don't think you would tell me what's on your mind. It's just that when my parents passed away, I was depressed for a while. Fortunately, Lily and Petunia kept talking to me, lest I... In short, whatever you say is fine, Tell me about how your parents died before?"

"Why should I tell you?" Snape asked sarcastically.

"If you really don't care at all, what's the point of talking to me? If you really care about their death in your heart, then you should find someone to talk to." Rosemary smiled softly , Gently pulling his sleeves and shaking them.

Snape stared at the girl's slender hand, seeing that she didn't intend to give up at all, so he said quickly and impatiently: "Tobia, the man I call my father, always treats my mother very badly. Satisfied, haven’t you seen it too?” But as he continued to speak bit by bit, his voice became slower and slower, and the emotions contained in it became more and more. "When I was a child, he always beat me and my mother, calling us perverts and mental patients. He didn't do anything but drink and go crazy every day."

"My mother always pampers him, no matter what he does, she always compromises, and makes me unable to resist him. Huh, just a spell can make him stop telling us what to do, why should I tolerate him? "

"Since you already know, didn't you take precautions this time?" Rosemary took Snape's hand lightly, and asked in a subtle and tactful way so as not to irritate him.

"Did I try to stop it, of course I did. Do you think I'm crazy? Before I leave every semester, I give him a warning. As long as he dares to touch my mother, he will be ready... It's a shame that he didn't survive." Kind of lucky," Snape said grimly.

Rosemary quickly refuted him: "It's useless. As long as she still loves your father, the fact that your father hates her is enough to torture her. She absolutely doesn't want you to hurt you." father."

Snape couldn't refute Rosemary's statement, but he really couldn't hide the frustration, loss and pain in his heart. He thought that everything could be done again, that he could save his mother from dying, but in the end, he still couldn't change anything?

He felt like returning to the time and space when he died, so cold and empty, everything was meaningless.

But at this moment, he felt a pair of warm, slender arms around his neck from behind, he felt the girl's cheek against his head, felt her hot tears, felt her twitching Sobbing.

Snape knew that he should push her away, but he couldn't do it, because he didn't know if he pushed away this warmth, would he fall into the abyss of darkness again.