[HP] Can you be gentle with me

"Let me be clear...you want me to ask Tahlia what happened that night in the Shrieking Shack?"

Facing Lily's aggressive tone with his hands on his waist, the three of James couldn't help but flinch, only Remus on the side seemed to be supercilious.

It seemed that he and Lily had a good relationship, after all, they were both Gryffindor prefects, and he would not make things difficult for Snape at every turn.

"I'm not a microphone, Potter." Lily pointed out bluntly. "If you want to know that much, you should ask Tahlia 'yourselves', and why do you think I can get anything out of Tahlia's mouth?" This is also a question, although Tahlia doesn't like it as much as it used to feel to herself I'm sorry for myself, but it's far from the level where I can talk about it.

Tahlia's flustered emotions that night shocked her, and it was impossible for her to mention anything in front of Tahlia even once.

"Whatever happened, Severus almost died!" she said aloud, ignoring the three of them shrinking back when they heard her turn up the volume again. "And Tahlia saved her, end of story—what else is there to ask?"

"So Tahlia didn't tell you what happened?" Remus who had been silent at the side suddenly spoke.

Lily turned her head and nodded slightly.

Then no one will know unless Tahlia chooses to tell them herself—

Think about the three people who were there at the time.

Snape passed out immediately.

And I have no memory of that time at all...

Tahlia, the only one who knew the whole story, had no intention of telling it...

At least it was certain that Tahlia had saved Snape from him.

Even though Tahlia was a stranger to him now, she had helped them nonetheless, she had saved Snape from taking his life, she had saved herself from taking another's life.

Frowning.

Why does she always make them owe her so much, even now?In this way, if they face each other later, can he raise his wand at her ruthlessly?

Thinking of this, Remus smiled wryly.

If they really met face to face, he would probably be put down in an instant, so how could he allow him to think about this issue...

"Thank you, Lily," he said. "Now I understand."

Then he suddenly thought, didn't even Lily know his secret now?His expression suddenly became serious.

Sensing the change in Remus' mood, Lily's guess is pretty close. "Remus." Ignoring James' annoyed expression when he heard himself call Remus' name. "I don't mind," she said. "Have you known me long enough? You should know what I'm like. Do you think I'm the kind of person who will alienate you just because of this little problem?"

Hearing this, Remus burst out laughing. "I'd rather know how you all tell me it's a small problem—"

Obviously for the rest of the people, his identity as a werewolf happened to be a big problem.

"It was just a small problem." Lily said seriously. "I think it's superficial to ostracize you just because you're a werewolf."

"I see what you mean," Remus said. "Thank you anyway."

Lily waved her hand. "Aren't we friends?" She smiled. "As long as you take good care of them both from now on—" He looked contemptuously at the two who were awkwardly hanging aside because they couldn't get in the conversation. "That's the best way to thank you."

"I will." Remus smiled.

The two of James shook again──Remus's smile was too disturbing.

And Peter—

He didn't know where his thoughts drifted away.

"Then I have something to do, so I'm leaving first." Lily said, before leaving, she thought for a while, and then added a sentence back. "But I can see you guys want to talk to Tahlia, and I'll talk to her."

After hearing her words, the four of them were left in a daze, opened the classroom door and left.

Sirius turned his head stiffly to James. "Her... has her intuition always been so accurate?"

"I'm not sure either." James also looked strange. "But with that said, Lily is acknowledging that she and Tahlia can talk."

The four nodded silently.

And Tahlia didn't do anything to Lily, which means she acquiesced.

He deeply admired Lily, and it was too tough to make Tahlia willing to contact her at such a moment.

It seemed to be calm again, even though Lily had promised to bring up the matter with Tahlia, Tahlia still didn't show any intention to contact them.

It would be a lie to say that they were not disappointed, recently they had more and more the illusion that Tahlia didn't really want to do those things, especially Sirius.

He had been wondering why Tahlia was able to find out the parchment with the solution in it so quickly on the day of Peter's accident.

So he dug out their parchments full of notes and key points.

Then he found out.

Although the handwriting was indeed from their hands, but the content was quietly changed in many places──He was very impressed, such as this paragraph, which was written by himself at the time, and he was sure that the curled up body he wrote at that time …Because at that time everyone made fun of the way I curled up was funny, but now it says relax…

They followed suit without thinking too much about it...

There are many other places that have been modified, and I only noticed it now, no wonder their research has become more and more smooth later──

How did they not notice this then?

As long as you have a magic wand, it is not particularly difficult to imitate a person's handwriting and modify the content, let alone such a powerful Tahlia.

Furthermore, Tahlia knew how to enter the room they used to study Animagus, and they didn't change the way they used to enter because Tahlia was alienated from them.

Everything points to a speculation──

Maybe they really had completely misunderstood Tahlia.

In fact, I always had expectations, hoping that Tahlia would remain the same as before, so that he would not always be so entangled in his concept of good and evil.

After all, he still likes her──

And nothing has changed because of recent events.

But Sirius hadn't told James of their intentions just yet - at least not until he was [-] percent sure.

He didn't want to give them hope and then destroy it violently.

As always, the greater the expectation, the greater the final disappointment.

Then it was Christmas, and I always felt that the atmosphere in school was very weird recently.

The first is the application for staying in school.

Remus came back from a prefects meeting with a confused expression on his face.

"Almost all the Slytherins chose to stay at school for Christmas this time," he said after being questioned. "It's weird, isn't it?"

"Well, I heard." Sirius frowned. "My mother actually wanted me to stay in school—" Then he leaned over with a smile. "What do you think will happen if I go home on purpose?"

"Oh, come on, Padfoot." James rolled his eyes. "Being a good son of the Black family once won't make you lose a piece of meat—" Then he said in a more serious tone. "In any case, I think there must be a ghost—we'd better stay at school obediently."

Peter was about to speak, but was stopped by James' rare and serious eyes.

"Lily will also stay," Remus said. "She told me - said it was for the OWLs."

James blushed instantly. "I didn't ask you Lily—"

"But you have 'tell me, will Lily stay here' all over your face," Remus joked.

James shuts up.

Then, pretending to be calm, he coughed lightly. "Anyway, it's right that we all stay in school, Lily stays in school—" deliberately ignoring Remus' snicker. "──Of course that's good too."

What the hell are the Slytherins up to?

Tahlia has been haggard a lot lately.

Even though she had told Dumbledore about the man's plan to attack the train, it seemed the Headmaster hadn't done much.

And Voldemort had ordered her to arrange the day's actions in various ways.

So should she tell Dumbledore?

All about raids?

She knew exactly when the attack was going to happen, she knew who was going to be in charge of it, she knew who they were going to hit... since she had planned most of the details.

So should she tell Dumbledore?And then she had to tell the fact that she was plotting to attack her classmates...

"Severus!"

She called out to the dark-haired boy who hurried past her, almost not seeing him because of the students around her.

Snape paused for a moment, but didn't stop.

"Snape!"

It turned out that Parkinson, the outermost member of the line, helped stop Snape.

"Didn't you hear Watson calling you?" he asked dissatisfied.

"Didn't hear." Snape replied coldly.

"You!" Parkinson was furious. He really didn't understand why this kind of hybrid could enter Slytherin, not to mention that Watson always only paid special attention to him.

What on earth is a filthy half-breed?

"You'd better show some respect, Snape—" He narrowed his eyes.

"Parkinson, enough."

Parkinson turned his head and saw that Tahlia was already standing behind him, so he quickly backed away.

"Severus, have you been home this Christmas?" Tahlia asked.

Snape looked at Tahlia flatly, and then there was a moment of resentment - because of the Slytherins around her - "Do I have to tell you?"

"It's not necessary." Tahlia smiled. "However, most Slytherins chose to stay in school this time. As a prefect, I feel I have an obligation to find out."

Snape stared at Tahlia disapprovingly.

This false reason.

And that fake expression.

Both made him feel extremely displeased. Thinking about it, the expression on his face was not suppressed much. If the eyes could kill, the girl in front of him might have been killed many times.

"I'll go home." He replied coldly.

Tahlia's smile froze.

"Can you not go home?" Before she had any thought, this sentence blurted out.

Snape's expression suddenly became even more unhappy.

"Since when did you have to worry about whether students were going home for the holidays, Tahlia?"

Tahlia barely kept a smile on her face. "I'm planning to hold an event within the academy this Christmas holiday, and I think, as a Slytherin, you should also consider whether to participate—"

The Slytherins on the side were all surprised.

When is there going to be an event in the college, I haven't heard the girl mention it before.

And Snape also opened his mouth slightly.

As far as he knew, there had never been any events held within the college itself in the history of the school. Is Tahlia serious or just kidding him?

"Are you joking?" he asked angrily.

"Who's joking?" Tahlia felt the muscles in her cheeks protest, but it would take a while. "I'm going to send the proposal to the sixth grade prefect tonight, I guess there will be no problem—" Damn it, so I have to rush out a proposal later. "I want to participate more in the activities of the college. It won't do you any harm, will it?"

Snape was lost in thought.

Indeed, if he really wants to achieve his goal more quickly, it is obviously helpful to get to know more children from pure-blood families, but...

Ask him to talk to them with a needy expression, to please them—how could he do that?

"Not yet." Finally, he said lightly. "I'm not interested in participating in your event at all." After speaking, before Tahlia could say anything else, he left in a hurry.

Damn!

Couldn't stop Snape, couldn't convince him to stay at school...

How could she just watch Snape jump into danger?And because of the presence of these students, she couldn't tell him directly that there would be an attack... After all, the group of Slytherins around her didn't know either.

"What are you looking at me like that for?" She glanced at the students around her. "You guys should go and get ready for this internal college event—" she said coldly. "If your performance is too bad, don't appear in front of me..."

Then she really had to draw up a proposal. Fortunately, the proposal for this event just flashed through her head.

Still had to figure out how else to stop Snape from going home.