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"Snape." Regulus nodded towards him, jokingly said, "Take your little Barbie away."

Snape walked over, took Rosemary's hand away from Regulus' wrist, and wrapped it in his own.

"What happened?" he asked, still frowning.

"I caught a mouse—you know that." Regulus showed a knowing expression, and then glanced at Rosemary.

Snape also looked at Rosemary, and said slowly, "Isn't there an exam tomorrow? What are you still doing here?"

Seeing that he didn't even bother to hide it, Rosemary wanted to send her away, and she felt very unhappy in her heart.She raised her eyelids, took out her hands, folded her arms around her chest and said in a low voice, "I think I'd better stay here, grades aren't that important."

Snape frowned and stared at her, but finally said nothing, and with a flick of his wand, he cast several spells one after another to ensure their conversation would not be overheard.

Regulus shrugged his shoulders at the tug-of-war between lovers, expressed his indifference, and then said to himself: "When I went back to the dormitory, I found a mouse following Wilkes, trying to sneak into Slater. Lin's dorm. Real rats... you know, rats are never supposed to follow snakes."

"That's all?" Snape asked.

"That's all." Regulus replied with a smile. "He had no chance of entering the Slytherin common room."

"You seem to have forgotten to mention that you and some sixth graders hung Peter upside down from the ceiling together." Rosemary added quietly.

"I see." Snape didn't know why Rosemary, who was always docile, was so weird today, but he still patted Rosemary's arm as if to comfort him.

"Why is he trying to break into the Slytherin lounge? What does he need? Or, what does the Dark Lord need? Why doesn't he get through me?" Regulus didn't care what Rosemary said, but instead threw out a series of Doubt, the tone is a little anxious. "Am I under suspicion?"

"Don't be alarmed, the mouse just likes to poke around with its dirty nose," Snape said quietly. "Since he didn't find out anything, there's no need to startle the snake at this time."

Rosemary kept telling herself that it was best to listen to the conversation between the two quietly, but at this moment she couldn't help but interrupt again. "So, when did you know Peter was a traitor?"

"Hush." ​​Snape unconsciously patted her on the shoulder to silence her, and continued to talk to Regulus: "Just keep pretending you don't know anything, you don't know where Kreacher has been sent, Didn't know Peter was also a spy for the Dark Lord..."

Regulus spread his hands and smiled wryly: "Summer vacation is coming, it's not as good as staying in school, I..."

Snape cut him off quickly: "Enough. Believe me, he won't have that much time to pay attention to it."

Regulus showed a noncommittal expression, and thought of another thing. "The thing I asked you to help me mention to Dumbledore..."

"Dumbledore said he wanted to talk to you himself, and he'll come back to you." Snape responded quickly.

Regulus nodded in satisfaction and left.

When Regulus was gone, Snape lowered his head to Rosemary and said, "Didn't I ask you to stay away from them? Stay away from everything."

It was this sentence again, if it was normal, Rosemary might have just muddled through it like this, but after listening to Lily's words today, she couldn't help but think about it.

She didn't completely agree with Lily's words, but there is no such thing as a storm, and there must be a reason for everything. She couldn't help but start to reflect on her own situation. Is it true that, as Lily said, she was too cowardly and lazy to allow Snape to manipulate her life like this? ?

This seems to be some kind of personality that the youngest is accustomed to, not so strong and active, and accustomed to being ordered or disciplined.But anyway, she was the one who allowed the situation, she allowed Snape to dictate to her...

Maybe Snape was right, maybe he was protecting her for her own sake, and she would be safe if he followed his path... But was it really okay?

Can she just be so dazed and ignorant, like a princess protected in a castle, without hearing anything from the window?

As an adult, she should be responsible for her own life, shouldn't she?Instead of completely relying on others like this.

"What if I was meant to be a part of it? You, Lily, Remus...you fought side by side, but you didn't allow me to join? It's impossible. I can't accept that any of you might get hurt, Isn't it selfish to have me stand aside and do nothing?" said Rosemary. "From a certain point of view, I am an adult. I have been avoiding it for too long. How can I continue to ignore everything and pretend that I can't see it."

Snape was speechless for a moment, he didn't know how to explain his heart to Rosemary, and he couldn't say "You are too important to me, I can't let you take risks." .However, based on their experience since dating, Snape knew that Rosemary hated him the most for not saying anything, just keeping it in his heart, which made her more dissatisfied than his uttering bad words, so he cleared his throat and gave He gave a non-reasonable reason: "You...you could be injured, or even die. There is no benefit in exposing you to the Dark Lord."

"It's impossible for you to watch over me 24 hours a day, right? As long as he's still around, there's no such thing as safety, is there?" Rosemary could understand Snape's worry, but she didn't agree with his actions, she tried hard to say with his own thoughts. "If I'm strong enough to protect myself, even you...you wouldn't have to worry so much, would you?"

"Stop it." Snape's face was ugly. "Are you questioning my ability to protect you?" His mind began to churn in all sorts of complicated ways. As long as she was out of sight, he couldn't feel at ease just thinking that she might be killed by the Dark Lord or eat him. He felt unbearable when the dead were chasing him.

"I didn't." Rosemary could see his restlessness and agitation, but Snape had to get over that on his own, just as she had her own issues to deal with. "I just felt like I should grow up and learn to be independent."

Snape didn't know why the sentence that sounded quite normal caused him such great uneasiness, he could hardly restrain himself, grabbed Rosemary's arm even harder, and threatened in a low voice: "No, you can't go ."

Rosemary was taken aback by the menace and coldness in Snape's tone, something she hadn't heard him say in a long time - at least not from him to her.At this moment, her thoughts seemed to clear the clouds, she had never been so clear before, and it was the first time that she soberly and calmly examined her relationship with Snape, as well as the huge difference between the two.

She knows that she has always had something wrong with her. She is paranoid and yearns for love and affirmation, and pleases her loved one too much.A friend once analyzed it for her, saying that this is some kind of Oedipus complex that has not yet been sublimated. She needs the love of others to make up for the lack of her father not being by her side after her parents divorced.

So she is always the peacemaker, always the one who pleases everyone, and is always unwilling to confront directly... In terms of love, she puts herself very low and lets the other party want what she wants , just give whatever.But that's not healthy at all, is it?

One day, she has no way to go on, and then finds that the other party has been spoiled by her, used to being arrogant and arrogant, not listening to what she is thinking, and disrespecting her... Maybe this is the reason. The most dangerous place in her relationship with Spur.

This deadlock was of her own making, she knew Snape's vulnerability and insecurity, and her silence was undoubtedly an encouragement.

The more Rosemary thought about it, the more irritable she felt. It had nothing to do with whether she wanted to jump out and fight the Dark Lord together, but that there was something wrong with the way the two of them got along.

And just when she was getting more and more upset, Snape, who saw her wandering in the sky, became more and more disturbed. He straightened her body, clamped her thin shoulders with both hands, and emphasized again: "Listen to me!" , do as I say, understand?"

Rosemary stared blankly at the person she really liked in front of her, and began to be in a trance.She still likes him very much, it's just this way of getting along with him... She spoke, her voice was rare and firm. "That's not right."

"What?" Snape didn't expect Rosemary to spit out a sentence like this.

"This is wrong, you can't do this to me." Rosemary pushed Snape away, looking at him with complicated eyes.

"What did you say?" Snape still didn't understand.

Rosemary still looked at him with a troubled expression. "You can't boss me around like this. I've been listening to you before, and I thought it didn't matter...but it shouldn't be like this." Looking at Snape's surprised face, she felt like she was going to spit out the words is so tough.

She bit her lip, looked straight into his eyes and said, "I think it would be better for us to separate for a while." She had to sort out her feelings and her own attitude towards things.

And she knew that by his side, she would definitely surrender soon.

Rosemary looked at the man in front of her that she still liked very much, with disbelief, anger, pain, and sadness on her face, and she also felt a chill in her heart.