[HP] Can you be gentle with me

Recently, James and others feel that they have re-acquainted with Tahlia.

They were still getting used to it slowly, getting used to Tahlia's style of being like two people.

Tahlia in the Response Room at night is the girl they know well, who will urge them to do their homework, who will teach Sirius because he bullied Peter again, and who will smile at them gently...

And Tahlia, who was walking with the group of Slytherins during the day, always had a cold face, which made everyone feel chills, and it was really difficult for them to associate the two of them together...

"Maybe you shouldn't force yourself—" After listening to Sirius and their complaints, Tahlia said with a smile, and circled the mistakes in Peter's thesis. Peter has improved a lot these days, and the papers rarely make mistakes, at least there will be no consecutive mistakes. The basic theory is not written clearly. "Just treat my performance at school during the day as a completely different person..." Circled the last word, she raised her head in satisfaction, and handed the paper back to Peter. "Okay, you made a lot less mistakes this time, which is great, Peter—"

"Thank you, thank you..." Peter took it tremblingly, and stammered his thanks.

The current Tahlia is the Tahlia he used to know──

He was really glad that Tahlia was still with them, if only... Peter thought silently, if only she could be this gentle during the day...

"You're welcome..." Tahlia chuckled, and tapped Peter's forehead lightly with the hand holding the quill. "You still have to keep working hard. Although you have improved a lot, if you want to get good results in OWLs, you have to work harder──"

"I, I will work hard!" Peter nodded vigorously.

For some reason, he really doesn't want to disappoint Tahlia now, he feels that she is like his sister, who always takes care of him, and won't laugh at him just because he reacts slowly──

"Tahlia, you are so indulgent to Peter—" Sirius suddenly envied Peter, Tahlia is always very patient with him—on the other hand, Tahlia has never talked to him so gently..."If If he doesn't even understand Mozilla's Law before the exam──"

"Sirius, don't get excited—" Tahlia cut him off. "I'll teach him...you also want to figure it out, Peter?" Turning to ask Peter with a smile.

Seeing Peter nodded movedly, Sirius couldn't laugh or cry.

This is definitely not his intention...

Why isn't Tahlia paying more attention to herself?

Sensing Sirius' sullen mood, Tahlia understood immediately, stepped forward, and patted Sirius on the shoulder reassuringly. "Hey, what's your fuss with your friend?" Tahlia said. "If you can't learn anything, I will teach you..."

Sirius was even more mournful.

He doesn't want to be like Peter at all, he wants Tahlia to pay special attention to him... Even though he swore to her a few days ago that he didn't want her to like him too, he still cares...

He didn't know what he would think of someone else if Tahlia fell in love with him in the future-would he still be able to shrug his shoulders and say it didn't matter?

Tahlia was puzzled, and Sirius seemed even more unhappy, but he had no idea what happened, thought for a while, and spoke cautiously. "Did... anything happen to make you unhappy?"

"No." Sirius mumbled. "Nothing happened..."

Isn't this just the performance of something? Tahlia was speechless.

Sit directly next to him. Sirius was stunned for a moment, then moved his body slightly, and moved a little to the side uncomfortably.

"Sirius──" Tahlia was puzzled, Sirius wouldn't be coy like this before. "What's wrong with you?" Does he still mind his behavior?

Sirius mumbled something under his breath.

"What?" Tahlia didn't catch what Sirius said.

"You..." Sirius looked around and found that James and the others were concentrating on doing other things, he hesitated for a while before speaking. "Do you remember what I told you in the medical wing...?"

Tahlia thought for a moment. "You said, you want me not to do such a dangerous thing..." He narrowed his eyes. "I thought we had reached a consensus, don't you still—"

"Not that..." Sirius waved his hand. "Some earlier said..."

"A little further ahead──oh." Tahlia murmured, her eyes widened suddenly, and she also fell into embarrassment. "I remembered... Uh, why did you bring that up?"

Sirius was stunned and didn't know what to say. It seemed that the words disappeared automatically when they reached his mouth. In the end, he still couldn't utter any words...

"Sirius?"

It's even more embarrassing now──

What Sirius said made Tahlia think about it... how should she respond that he likes his own thing and he doesn't say anything now?

"...Forget it, pretend I didn't say—" Sirius muttered, but then turned his head and looked at Tahlia seriously. "Anyway, what I said at that time was serious—I will always be behind you." He said with a bright smile.

James couldn't help but applaud Sirius.

He wasn't concentrating on doing his own thing at all, but pretending to be doing his own thing while actually paying attention to the interaction between Sirius and Tahlia──

The words just now were so good, Tahlia must have been very touched... Maybe it's only a few steps away from her falling in love with Sirius──

What they didn't know was that Tahlia was really touched, but just a few steps away from when Tahlia fell in love with Sirius, there was a Snape lying sideways.

"Don't forget about us." James couldn't help but interjected. When Sirius told himself the reason why Tahlia worked for that person, he was completely shocked, and then followed by deep regret, Obviously, I once doubted Tahlia's thoughts, but obviously I just ignored it at that time...

Remus also looked up from the book, smiling warmly. "I'll support you too, Tahlia."

"I..." Peter looked back and forth at several people in a panic, then raised his hand timidly, and said in a low voice. "I... I'm useless, but I'll help you too, Tahlia──"

Sirius glared at the three friends angrily, so they had been eavesdropping on them all the time...

"You guys..." Tahlia opened her mouth slightly, and even Peter, who had always been unconfident, expressed his willingness to help her, how could she refuse?

While they did make her feel bad for a while before, not now, Tahlia had a feeling they were going to keep her as their best friend for the rest of their lives. "Thank you," she whispered.

"Thanks for what?" James laughed. "You are just like our sister!"

Speaking of her sister, Tahlia suddenly remembered something from earlier... She turned her head sharply, facing James. "That...about Gavin Potter..." she began, seeing James froze for a moment when he heard his cousin's name. "I should have told you then - I... I'm sorry, but I didn't know that until that day - whoever killed him obviously happened before I started working for that person ..." She felt she had to explain it to James.

"Oh." James responded blankly.

"But I'll ask for you...I—" Tahlia said hastily. "You know, now that I have access to them, I can find out for you—"

"No need." James shook his head. "No matter who did it, he is just the person who executes it—not that I will forget it like this, but if I want revenge, I know who is responsible for it—"

"Who?"

"Voldemort." James said bitterly, his fists clenched unconsciously. "I will definitely make him pay the price."

"James." Tahlia said suddenly, and her tone became extremely serious, almost giving people the illusion that she was about to do something to them, making everyone stunned unconsciously. "You don't understand Voldemort's strength, if you approach him rashly, you will die."

"Of course I won't approach it rashly!" James said loudly, as if he could have more confidence in this way. "I'm not stupid, Tahlia—I know you have to be very careful when facing your enemies..."

Tahlia nods. "I hope you'll always remember that, James—" Then, she smiled. "Okay, can we stop bringing up such serious topics? Don't you forget that there are still OWLs to take... This is related to our choice of courses in grades [-] and [-], and even our future career choices... We ──”

Seeing that Tahlia turned on the study mode again, the four of them glanced at each other in a tacit understanding, and then obediently buried their heads in the book. The frightening Tahlia during the day is certainly terrifying, but Tahlia who was disturbed from studying is even more terrifying── ─They have experienced it deeply before.

Now that she talks to Sirius and others, Tahlia won't always feel so desperate. At least she can return to her original appearance at night, playing with her good friends, preparing for the exam quietly, and other things No matter what.

And Lily often came to find herself, under the guise of helping him to check his homework, but in fact brought a lot of small snacks for herself, even though all those small snacks entered James' stomach later——Tahlia It is absolutely impossible to tell Lily, otherwise James will probably be crying for a long time because of the sudden absence of Lily's loving little dessert.

Only Snape.

The person she cared about the most, but hated herself the most—she knew that she should be satisfied with having such good friends as Sirius and the others, but she would still be saddened by Snape's harsh words.

She still has no way to change his mind, she still has no way to make him give up approaching Voldemort, after he completely believes that the reason why he doesn't want him to approach is because he thinks he will steal his current status── He won't listen to what he does or says, right?

Maybe talk to Lily, Snape should listen to Lily a little bit, even though she was sad about it, he would listen to Lily, but he didn't care about any of his own words.

She will not give up, she will never give up to stop him, no matter what method is used──

At most, I feel sad, if he wants to hate, let him hate!