[HP] Illusion

`P`*WXC`P``P`*WXC`P`When James caught up with Lily, she was standing in a dark corner looking in a certain direction, and she put her hands on her waist , the whole person seemed to be motionless, but upon closer inspection, the red-haired girl's body was trembling slightly, and her fist was clenched tightly.

James smelled an unusual atmosphere and thought of what Sirius said just now. He was extra careful when he trotted over, but when he got behind Lily, Lily was obviously taken aback.Fearing that she couldn't help screaming, James subconsciously covered Lily's mouth and dragged her back several steps.

Lily struggled a little, and seeing that she had seen him, James immediately let go of her hand and made a "shh" motion.Lily nodded, indicating that she understood.

The scene just now was particularly visually impactful. James only glanced at it and shuddered—several senior Slytherins surrounded a Hufflepuff girl who leaned half against the wall. Although the girl was fully dressed, her hair Disorganized, looking like a crazy woman, her eyes have lost their vibrancy, her whole face is as pale as a ghost, and her whole body is trembling. She wants to escape, but is pulled by a Slytherin like a puppet on a string. After getting her hair, the girl seemed to want to scream the moment she was pulled back, but neither Lily nor James heard the girl's voice.

The two stood quietly on the spot and held their breaths, and the sound from the corner gradually reached their ears clearly.

"How about it, Severus, I found you a doctor. Since you have made those potions and need to do experiments, then..." The senior Slytherin who spoke paused, Lily and James They all heard the sound of slapping *, followed by the sound of a female voice gasping for breath, and the faint sound of a girl crying and about to collapse, "This is a good guy, think about it, there is nothing like it." It’s more useful for people to experiment.”

Neither of them heard Snape's reply.

"How about it, don't you feel tempted... This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity... Also, do you think that if we don't show us the experimental results, we will really be willing to pay for the potion you made?" The man bewitched road.

The two still didn't hear little Snape's voice this time, but the words of the senior Slytherin seemed to explain little Snape's attitude, "I knew you knew the goods, don't worry, as long as a forgetting curse, I believe Even if they find her, they won't know what happened to her."

Hearing this, James found that Lily tried her best to keep calm, but the anxiety on her face had already betrayed her.

"We can't do this again!" Lily whispered quickly, "We have to save her."

"Don't be so impulsive," James said seriously, pressing Lily's shoulder, "they are too many, we are not opponents."

"Then what should we do?" Lily grabbed James' hand unconsciously, "We must not stand by and watch, nor can we just sit and watch our classmates being treated by them as...experiments." She gritted her teeth, as if It was very difficult to say the last word.

"You go find a recent portrait and tell them to tell any professor to save someone."

"What about you?" Lily said worriedly.

"I'll watch here. If there's any trouble, I'll drag them here until the professors come."

Lily was obviously worried. The other party was not easy to mess with, "I can't leave you here alone." Even though James was very athletic, the other party was a group of senior Slytherins. They were only in the fourth grade. Even a boy Deliberately procrastinating, it may not be able to procrastinate for a long time, and it is even possible to catch yourself.

"It doesn't matter to me, they will definitely not do anything to me," he whispered, "After you tell the portrait, run as fast as possible, as far away from here as possible, and don't run into other Slytherins." He even Youxin made a small joke, "Hurry up, hurry up, my life will be in your hands!"

But Lily obviously couldn't understand his intentions, she gave him a disapproving look, "Don't act rashly, you can't beat them alone." After weighing the pros and cons, Lily finally ran away quickly.

James continued to monitor the situation at the scene. He added a disillusionment spell to himself and moved closer so that he could see what was happening at the scene clearly.

The performance of the Slytherins was particularly bad. James was very anxious, but if he acted impulsively, he really couldn't guarantee what would happen.

"What are you waiting for? Severus," the leading senior student spread his hand, "Take it out, let's try it first."

Little Snape didn't move, he just shook his head, frowning.

"Are you afraid that we won't pay?" One of the girls said disdainfully, she took out a Galleon and threw it directly on Snape, "Deposit, is it enough? I'll get it for you later one."

"Don't treat Severus like this, he thinks it's our Slytherin's pride." The leader boy's words were full of sarcasm.

"Those medicines are not with me now." Little Snape said softly.

James really wanted to punch him, how could these Slytherins be so vicious, if Lily was here, he would be able to clearly see the disgusting face of the snotling.

"Then you don't go back to get it, where did you put it, do you need me to let someone accompany you?" The man said with a sneer, "It's still too obvious here, let's find a remote corner and wait for you to put your magic weapon away." It doesn't matter how many bottles of medicine you bring, anyway," the boy kicked the girl's thigh, and the girl flinched, "she's here."

Little Snape left in a hurry without saying anything. James watched him leave but was powerless to stop him. He couldn't help but get angry and could only focus on the others.

Just as he was anxiously waiting for the professor to arrive, there was a rustling sound in the distance. He glanced again, and it seemed that the Slytherins were about to move the girl away. Said: "Professor, what a coincidence, why are you here at this time?"

I don't know if it's because of James' luck. A sound of steady footsteps came here immediately after he opened his mouth. He glanced at the slightly discolored faces of the Slytherins, and suddenly heard another sound of hurried footsteps. , that person was the little Snape who came back again and again, he said out of breath, "No, we have to leave quickly, a professor is coming this way."

Because he had heard the wind just now, the leader Slytherin took a bitter look at the Hufflepuff girl who was still trembling all over, kicked her unwillingly, and was about to forget her with his wand. all empty.

James saw it, and grabbed his wand to fight back in the dark. With this hand, he successfully knocked out the wand in the Slytherin's hand.

Things were a little unclear, the senior found that he couldn't succeed at all, and evacuation was the right way, so the man suddenly grabbed Snape's collar and said viciously: "You stay here and let her forget everything and become an idiot It doesn't matter, the most important thing is success..." As he spoke, the seniors ran away in a swarm.Only little Snape was left at the scene to deal with the aftermath.

Little Snape was not too anxious. He looked around, blocked the Hufflepuff girl with his body, and tapped the girl's body with his wand in a rather subtle manner. At the same time, there was a sudden gust of wind behind him, and little Snape quickly dodged for a while, only to find that the red light coming towards him just disappeared on the wall in front of where he was just now.

Little Snape didn't see anyone, but of course he knew that this place couldn't stay any longer. The boy quickly whispered to the girl, "Don't hurt me." Then he ran away in the opposite direction without looking back. .

James ran out to intercept him, but little Snape was very cunning, he ran directly into a room, and when James checked the situation of the girl and chased him out, the boy had disappeared.

When the professor really came, there was no Slytherin in sight except the girl being bullied and James. The person who came was Slughorn, the dean of Slytherin. In the absence of evidence, only James In the case of his one-sided remarks, the head of Slytherin immediately thought that he had framed him.Even if Lily was one of Slughorn's most promising students, she would still help, but Slughorn, who was determined to protect his college to the end, did not waver in his thoughts.

After they sent the girls to the hospital, Madam Pomfrey took over, and Lily and James were kicked out.

The two were silent most of the way.

Lily's originally happy mood had vanished.

James finally couldn't help but said: "You saw, how did that friend of yours get along with the senior Slytherin? You are a Muggle-born, so you will definitely be their main target!"

Lily didn't speak.

James said: "I and I both saw it with our own eyes. Didn't you hear him speak? You were not here, he wanted to forget about that girl later, but luckily I stopped him..."

"Can you..." Lily's voice was a little weak, her expression was tense, and her nerves seemed completely tense, "Leave me alone for a while."

"No," James said plausibly, "I have to go back with you. You have also seen what they did just now. I don't worry about you being alone."

Lily glanced at James and nodded slowly.

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That night, little Snape was really innocent. It happened that when he was walking in the corridor and was about to go back to the cellar, he was stopped by a group of senior Slytherins who were praying for a Hufflepuff.

He didn't want to offend these people and make it impossible for him to gain a foothold in Slytherin, so he pretended to agree to them first. In fact, at that time, he was actually carrying the potion he had just made.

Little Snape didn't know that Lily had come to him. He thought it was just some brave student pretending to be a professor, and the two cooperated tacitly. At least they worked together to make these senior Slytherins run away in fright.But obviously that person still failed to understand his intentions, but Snape didn't really need an unknown person to understand what he was thinking.

Because there is no evidence left, he is not worried that the matter will be exposed this time.

He received Harry's invitation letter that day, and he was in a good mood, but this happened.

In fact, he still wanted to talk to Lily in the next few days, but Lily kept his back most of the time, so he couldn't find any chance.

This situation lasted until the beginning of the Easter holiday. Even if the two got on the train, they were not in the same carriage.

Little Snape faintly felt that something was wrong, but because Harry said that he would come to the train to pick him up and Lily, such joy almost made little Snape dizzy with joy, his mind was full of this, how could he remember to ask Lily what happened? What's wrong with him.

Sure enough, Harry was waiting for them at the station. As soon as the train heard the train, little Snape, who was already standing at the door with his luggage in hand, went down to the platform in an instant and found Harry's exact direction.The young man was wearing a pure black wizard's robe. I don't know if it was because the color itself made him look thinner. The young man seemed to be thinner than he was three or four months ago.

"It's a good thing you're here." Little Snape gasped a bit, and his speech was not very sharp.

"Where's Lily?" Harry looked around, but didn't see Lily. "You didn't sit with her?"

Little Snape didn't speak, but he shook his head slowly.

"I told Mr. and Mrs. Evans that I will be responsible for picking you up today. It seems that I have to wait for her." Harry stretched his neck and looked in the direction of the exit of each carriage, afraid that he might miss someone.

Lily came out almost from the last group of people. When she came out, she only saw Snape's luggage and Harry standing alone on the platform. She quickly ran over and gave Harry a big Hug: "Harry!! Long time no see! Where is he?"

Harry blinked, as if seeing something, "You mean Severus?"

Lily nodded slightly when she heard the name, "He went looking for you."

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw little Snape coming down from a certain carriage. At this time, the people on the entire platform had already left one after another, leaving only two or three people standing in place like them.

Little Snape walked up to Harry and asked in a low voice as if he didn't look at Lily, "Then can we go now?"

"of course."

Harry quickly dragged the luggage of the two of them to the outside of the train station. When the three of them came to an empty alley, Harry put all the luggage into his space pocket, "This way you don't have to go back when you go back." Take it. By the way, do you want to choose Floo powder, or do you want to choose Apparatus?"

"Apparatus -" the two replied in unison.

But after the tacit understanding was over, the two returned to the zero-degree freezing point in an instant.

The atmosphere was still quite weird, and Harry was a little worried about the awkwardness between the two of them, but it didn't seem like the time to talk yet.

He had to figure out what was going on between the two of them.Harry had a bad premonition in his heart, because in those memories, it was because of Snape's doing a lot of things that Lily couldn't agree with that the two drifted apart.

In fact, even if the history is like this, it doesn't seem so strange that things will develop to the point where they are today, but he didn't expect that the quarrel between the two would come so quickly.

—but this time they had Easter break, maybe he could do something for them both?

"That's right," Harry said in a low voice, "You'll be able to learn apparition soon, and it's good to practice more, so that you won't find it difficult to adapt when you do it."

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Returning to Cokeworth in the blink of an eye, the two sent Lily to the door before returning home.

As soon as little Snape came back, Harry rushed him to take a shower.

"You wash first." Little Snape muttered.

"Go quickly, don't make me say it a second time," Harry said angrily, "Should we take showers in different order?"

"Why don't we take a bath together." Little Snape looked at Harry provocatively, who just said that there is no need to take a bath in one order.

In fact, Harry didn't think much about it. He heard Snape's proposal, and subconsciously answered "Yes", because he only wanted to communicate with Snape about the problem between him and Lily just now. Undoubtedly, it was a good opportunity, but after he agreed, he immediately thought of his skinny body...

——But it’s not like this person hasn’t seen it before, not to mention he’s put on some weight recently, okay?

"Then let's go." Little Snape stretched out his hand and dragged Harry straight to the bathroom. Harry was unprepared and had been dragged several steps when he recovered.

Harry thought about the behavior of the two of them just now, and still gritted his teeth and followed little Snape to the bathroom.

There is a huge bathtub in the bathroom, which was transformed by Harry using space magic. Like other bathtubs in the wizarding world, it can produce colorful bubbles, and it also has the function of self-cleaning. It can also adjust the temperature according to the owner’s preferences— — If you want a bubble bath, you can take a bubble bath, if you want to swim, you can swim, and if you want to soak in hot springs, there is no problem.And the biggest advantage of the space bath is that the two skinny boys who are not much different in height will definitely not feel crowded, and it is quite spacious-yes, Harry found it sadly, but I haven't seen him in four months, Stoudemire Nep was already almost level with him.He even suspected that after this holiday, the boy's height would surpass him!

——Forget it if the age gap keeps shrinking, but even the height keeps shrinking. Even Merlin's boxers can't save him.

Little Snape had experienced this luxury before.After putting the water in, little Snape quickly jumped down.After swimming back and forth several times in the bath full of bubbles, my body and head were covered with foam at the moment, then I raised my head and looked at it for a long time, sitting on the toilet wearing a bathrobe, revealing a section of fair skin Calf Harry.

He looked at Harry and asked puzzledly, "Are you still coming down?"

Harry shyly took off the bathrobe on his body, and then he found the eyes of little Snape looking directly at his body.

Even if it's okay to be naked, just being stared at like this will make him feel ashamed, okay?Do you dare not look at him with such eyes? !Harry quickly sank himself into the bubble.

"What are you looking at?" Harry asked angrily, "Aren't you swimming? Go and swim a few laps."

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw little Snape slowly approaching him. He didn't know if he was getting too close. He felt that his thigh was being rubbed by some part of the boy's body.

"Don't get so close." Later, he couldn't help but push the boy away, but his hand was full of slippery, and there was the touch of the boy's smooth skin.

"Sorry." Little Snape lowered his eyes and whispered. "I was just being careless."

Harry said quickly, "It's okay, I know you were careless."

Little Snape started swimming in the bath again, and slapped some foam on Harry's body from time to time, and now there was a lot of foam on Harry's messy hair.

"Your hair is so greasy." Harry looked at little Snape's greasy hair, which was wet with water, "I'll wash it after I'm done playing."

Little Snape didn't answer, and Harry's voice trailed off as he found himself drowsy again.

No way?He obviously slept fifteen hours yesterday.

In order to wake himself up, Harry pulled himself together and made the bath deeper so that he had to slide his legs to float himself up, wasting more energy, but at least he woke up a bit.

"You and Lily, what's going on?" Harry asked taking advantage of the moment when little Snape emerged from the water.

I don't know if the boy didn't hear it, he dived into the water again in the next second, Harry was not in a hurry, and when he came up again, he asked again.

"I don't know either." Little Snape said only one sentence.

"What?" Harry thought he didn't understand the second part of the sentence, but he still saw Snape's depressed expression clearly.

"I said, I don't know, it suddenly happened one day." After he finished speaking, he continued to dive.

It was really okay before, obviously he didn't want to care about others, but it became more and more obvious that Lily was avoiding him.And he really doesn't know why.

Harry didn't know if that was all he really said, or if the man was avoiding the question.

"When did it start?" Because of Snape's performance, Harry also asked the question, "Do you remember?"

"Probably, just a few days ago?" Little Snape spat out the water in his mouth, because it was magic foam, so it was not bitter, but rather sweet.

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