[HP] Can you be gentle with me

"I didn't expect that I would be like this to him—" Lily said sadly after recovering a little. "I thought he wouldn't discriminate against me like other people—"

"He didn't discriminate against you." Tahlia said lightly.

Lily raised her head abruptly, her eyes were not only bloodshot, but even red and swollen. "He didn't discriminate against me?" She screamed almost hysterically. "You didn't discriminate against me, would you call me that... word?"

"I think he scolded me." Tahlia said softly, her tone was still very gentle, in sharp contrast to Lily's excitement. "I don't know if you noticed, but what he said was..." After a pause, ignoring Lily's wide eyes, he said what Snape had blurted out at the time. "I don't want a Mudblood like her to help me—Lily, he used 'she'."

In fact, Tahlia is not sure, but she would rather tell Lily like this, no matter why Snape yelled this word, she knew that he absolutely regretted it at the moment—regret that he yelled at Lily, and laughed mockingly in his heart, anyway Not to myself.

"Really, really?" Lily sniffed, another tear flowed from her eyes. "How do you know he's talking about you?" Obviously both of them were there at that time.

"There's no way he'd talk about you like that, Lily—you know who he is...he cares about you," Tahlia began. "If you don't believe me, wait and see—he's sure to apologize to you—"

Lily pursed her lips tightly, as if thinking about the veracity of Tahlia's words.

"Trust me," Tahlia said. "At least wait and see, he will apologize to you." She smiled slightly. "He's sure to tell you that he didn't mean to include you in it—after all, he's talking about me..."

"That's too much──" Lily frowned. "How can you be so calm, Tahlia..."

Tahlia was still smiling. "What do you think, Lily? That word has been ringing in my ears since I entered Slytherin, I'm well past the point where I'm crying over it—"

"Oh." Lily blinked.She didn't expect such an answer. In this way, it seems that she is overreacting now that she is crying so badly, doesn't she?

She had forgotten earlier that Tahlia was in Slytherin, and she had suffered beyond her imagination. She was much happier... "I'm sorry." She whispered.

"No." Tahlia waved her hand. "No one dares to call me that anymore, Lily."

Lily smiled weakly, and didn't want to think about the meaning behind Tahlia's words. "Thank you, Tahlia... really—I feel better now."

Tahlia stood up and stretched out a hand to pull Lily up as well. "Okay, today is a relaxing day, why don't you go outside and enjoy the long-lost sunshine, do you really want to get moldy in the castle?"

Lily burst out laughing, stood up obediently, and then remembered a very important thing...

Whether or not Severus was scolding himself was unknown, but if what Tahlia said was true and the Mudblood he called really only represented Tahlia...

"Tahlia, you're not angry when he called you like that?" Lily frowned. "You...you care about him, right?"

Tahlia froze for a moment.

"You said he would apologize to me, what about you?" Lily continued. "Will he tell you too?"

no he won't...

Tahlia thought.

"I don't know." She said flatly. "What is certain is that he will definitely go to you, I think you should give him another chance, Lily──"

"But what he said was really too much..."

"It's also because you mean a lot to him, Lily," Tahlia pointed out. "And he was humiliated in front of someone he cared about... How do you think he would react? With his personality—"

Lily lowered her head, and after Tahlia said that, she thought of—"Oh."

"So even if I'm wrong and he's referring to you, don't overthink it, he didn't mean to—" Tahlia said. "Promise me you'll forgive him—"

"I..." Lily raised her head slightly, then silently lowered her head again. "I think I'll forgive him... at least I know he didn't mean to—"

Tahlia nods. "That's fine—you'll be the same as before, don't let today's incident ruin your relationship, Lily."

Lily didn't say anything more, she felt that Tahlia was always much more mature than them, and Tahlia always gave them opinions, and those opinions were very correct, she was much calmer now, thinking about Tahlia's words carefully, Severus's embarrassing and indignant voice The words he wrote could not be his original intention at all, maybe his reaction at that time was too much, he must be very sad...

If Tahlia made a mistake and he didn't come to apologize to her, shouldn't she also take the initiative?She should also apologize, because she didn't understand him...

James and Sirius looked uneasy, and kept pacing back and forth in the Response Room, and Remus felt that the floor was going to be worn out by them...

And their expressions, the expressions of waiting to be judged... If it weren't for the fact that they were not friends enough, he would have laughed out loud... He never thought that his two always bold friends would show such anxiety Uneasy expression──

But consider that the person who will come over later is Tahlia.

Maybe they subconsciously were really afraid of Tahlia getting angry...

The door opened slowly.

The two immediately stood up straight and watched Tahlia walk into the room calmly without daring to move.

Tahlia glanced around at everyone, and then her eyes fell back on Sirius and James, making them tremble unconsciously.

"How long are you going to be naive?" She said lightly, but her tone clearly revealed disappointment.

Both of them lowered their heads, unable to say a word.

"James." Tahlia turned to James first. "You keep talking about revenge, but what did you do?" she asked. "I don't see how bullying your classmates all the time will actually help you kill Voldemort—"

James lowered his head even lower, and he didn't dare to say anything at the moment, he just wanted to find a place to shrink in.

Tahlia turned to Sirius again, her tone was still flat, but Sirius and the others knew that this flatness was actually very serious. "Sirius—I thought since that night…" Nodded apologetically to Remus. "You'll grow up a bit—I really don't understand why you can't if Severus is able to ignore you even though you're not on the same page?"

After a pause, she shook her head. "Based on what you're doing now, let alone kill Voldemort, you won't even see him, and he's been dealt with by his subordinates—" As he spoke, he walked to one of the chairs Up and down. "You can't even touch Lucius' finger..."

"You and Malfoy—" Sirius opened his mouth.

So Malfoy did join that guy's camp right after graduation...

"The point right now isn't that I had any contact with Lucius, Sirius…" Tahlia cut him off. "It's not the time to worry about whether he is a Death Eater... What I want to know is, how long do you plan to continue living like this?"

They really haven't suffered any setbacks──they grew up in a wealthy family, and they are like ducks in water after they arrive at school, as if everything can be easily achieved, but they don't know──how dangerous the outside world is...

And how terrifying Voldemort was.

"James, you said earlier that you are not stupid, you know how powerful Voldemort is, but are you really ready to face him?" Tahlia continued. "Do you know what spell Severus cast at you today?"

James subconsciously stretched out his hand to caress the scar on his face. The cut was deep, and he really couldn't figure out what kind of spell it was, so he shook his head silently.

"He invented it himself, James," Tahlia said, greatly shocking everyone present.

That Snape, inventing his own spells?

"Surprised?" Tahlia dropped another shock bomb. "But I must tell you that the spell was not completed—"

Tahlia knows Snape's efforts these days, after all, many of her students volunteered to follow Snape for her, so she knows that last time she really stimulated him, seeing him even invent this offensive spell himself , if it really succeeds, the lethality must be very large...

"Unfinished?" James murmured.

The unfinished spell has already left a deep wound on my face. I am glad that I turned around because I turned around at that time, and only let the spell brush my cheek. If the spell is really completed──

Merlin...

He didn't want to lose to that snot-nosed man at all!

"I can't say it's a good thing he invented this offensive spell...but at least he's trying to—" Tahlia said softly. "If you don't even have this basic understanding, then I'm really disappointed."

Seeing the two people in front of them silently bowing their heads, Tahlia knew that this conversation was probably a success, maybe they could really recognize their own shortcomings, and make some efforts...

"Tahlia," Sirius said, lifting his head slowly. "I understand what you mean."

It's not that he doesn't know the dangers of the outside world, so he didn't want Tahlia to carry out her plan at the time, but what he didn't consider was that Tahlia had already made up her mind a long time ago, and he was still immersed in self-superiority... …

Now he seemed to be fully awake.

There's no reason why I wouldn't understand something that even the snot-nosed man knows.

Turning his head to look at James at the side, he found that his eyes were shining with light, as if his whole body had been reborn──

He knew that James, like himself, had recognized the fact.

They had been wasting their time, wasting their talents on trivial matters, oh, but the Marauder's Map and Animagus research--the former reconciled him with Tahlia, the latter Or keep Remus from being alone──

In any case, these two are their most important achievements.

"I hope you really understand, Sirius—" Tahlia said flatly. "I don't think I can stay here for too long, I'll go first..." As he spoke, he glanced at them for the last time before turning around and opening the door.

At an angle they couldn't see, the corners of her mouth were slightly raised.