Paper cranes fly away, lilies bloom

Paper Cranes-Chapter 9

In the blink of an eye, Christmas is coming.The castle is full of Christmas spirit.

A Christmas tree was placed in the auditorium, "singing" Christmas Eve, and changing colors with the rhythm of the song.Christmas wreaths can sometimes be seen in the corridors.

There was another heavy snowfall a few days ago, so there is a vast expanse of whiteness outside the window.The ground is covered with a layer of pure white snow, and the pine trees are also covered with layers of snowflakes.

The roof turned white, and there were more or less snowflakes on the walls.The whole Hogwarts is full of strong Christmas atmosphere.

This night is Christmas Eve.

It seems that except for the Slytherin lounge, there are people holding a Muggle "Christmas Story" in every lounge, and there are even first-year Muggle-born freshmen wearing Christmas hats.

Snape mumbled to a small pocket in the cupboard, um, the gift for Lily was still there.He exhaled softly and looked out the window.See the sky full of stars.

He shook his hair and went to sleep.

the next day.

When they woke up, as usual, everyone had a pile of presents by their bedside, and Snape never received more than one—Lily.But this year, on top of that little package, there's one more.

He picked up the package, and it was clearly written on the silver and green packaging: For Snape.Lucius.

He threw the package aside and took what Lily had delivered.

It was a dried lily, sandwiched between two sheets of parchment.

He smiled, and opened the other one, the one Lucius gave him.

Inside was just a piece of parchment that said: A Death Eater meeting is scheduled for this Saturday afternoon, meet me when you go to Hogsmeade and I'll take you there.

Snape frowned, took a deep breath, took out the bag from the drawer, took out a bottle of potion from the bag, and went to find Lily.

In the distance, he saw Lily having a snowball fight with Gryffindor on the sidelines of the Quidditch pitch.

"Hey Lily!" He waved to Lily. "Merry Christmas!"

Lily turned her head and walked in the direction of Snape: "Merry Christmas, Sev."

Snape smiled, "Thank you for the dried flowers...and then...this is for you." He took out a small glass bottle containing some golden liquid.

Lily was about to take the potion from Snape, when a snowball flew over and hit Snape's arm. It fell from his hand and onto the floor, the bottle shattered and its contents spilled out.

"Potter...you..." Snape stared hard at the snowball thrower

"What are you doing, James?" Lily said angrily.

James said confidently, "What? Do you dare to take what the snot-nosed man gave you?"

Snape was gripping his wand tightly, and suddenly his wand was pointed directly at James: "Disarm!" He saw James' wand fly out, still staring at James.

James hurriedly picked up his wand, and then left with the other three friends.

Lily squatted down slowly, and picked up a piece of broken glass with a piece of parchment on it, which read:

Lily:

Merry Christmas.This bottle of Felicia is for you.

Severus

Lily froze.He stared blankly at Snape.Snape pursed his lips, took out another bottle of potion, and said, "Felix Elixir is gone, I'll give you this bottle of Bliss Elixir first..."

Lily silently took the euphoria potion and put it in her pocket, and the two walked slowly back to the castle.No longer in the mood for a snowball fight.

In the afternoon, the Gryffindor lounge.

"What? Is that Felicity Elixir?" James asked in surprise.

Lily nodded silently.

"Okay...Evans...I was wrong sorry...."

"You go and apologize to Sif and I will forgive you. This is the result of his potion brewing for more than a month!"

"Then help me convey my apology..."

In the evening, Snape relayed James' apology during a walk with Lily.

After listening to Lily's narration, Snape said, "Okay, please tell Potter, I know, but I've already written him down in my notebook."

Lily was stunned: "Sev, don't be like this..."

"I see what you mean Lily. I know where to go," said Snape.

For a long time neither of them spoke.

Lily broke the silence: "Let's go to Hogsmeade on Saturday"

Snape's heart skipped a beat, but he still nodded: "Well... ok..."