[HP] Can you be gentle with me

Lily feels conflicted recently.

It was not wrong for her to forgive Snape, but she always felt that he was hiding something from her, and he always followed a few Slytherins, which didn't mean she didn't want him to get along well with his classmates, but as his good friend She couldn't just sit back and watch when they were always bullying people from their house.

"Severus, can you stop walking with people like Mulciber all the time? Don't you know what they're up to?"

On this day, she finally couldn't bear it anymore and blurted out.

Snape's face darkened, but he spoke slowly. "I can not."

"Why?" Lily was puzzled, it seemed that Snape didn't have a good relationship with them enough to act together. "You can't, or don't you want to?"

"Can't, and don't want to." Snape replied flatly.

Of course he has his purpose, and the Mulciber family can be considered as one of the adults' subordinates, so he has to find a way that doesn't go through Tahlia no matter what he says—in order to achieve his ambition.

Mulciber is one of the few Slytherins not surrounded by Tahlia, he doesn't know why, but it's just right, he can talk about everything to himself lately, after graduation, he will definitely get what he always wanted, without any Rely on that girl.

Lily frowned and said nothing.

After a while, she hesitated to speak. "Severus, you know Mulciber's not a nice guy, do you?" She really didn't want to criticize Snape's friends like that, but Mulciber really had a bad reputation. "The last time I saw him cast a curse on a junior student—"

"I remember someone you and I both knew doing the same thing," Snape said coldly. "Why haven't I heard you criticize her?"

Lily shut her mouth for an instant.

The friend in front of her didn't even mention Tahlia's name, she really wanted to tell Snape all the facts, but Tahlia—

He pursed his lips tightly.

She really didn't understand why Tahlia had to keep this secret from Snape on purpose, since she liked him...and she had reconciled with Potter and the others—by the way, they've settled down a lot these days, it seems Finally became more mature──

Why just not tell Snape?

After thinking about it for a long time, Lily still spoke. Although she was still a little hesitant, she still wanted to give the boy in front of her a hint. With his intelligence, he would definitely think of it by himself, right? "Severus, about Tahlia, I thought I'd tell you—"

"I don't want to hear about her at all, Lily." Snape cut her off abruptly, leaving Lily frozen in place.

Doesn't he even want to hear it?

Since when on earth had he become so repulsive to Tahlia?

"Okay, don't mention her──" Lily sighed. "Let's talk about your friends, Severus, maybe I'm being nosy, but what is your reason for approaching them?" She looked straight at Snape. "You clearly know that they and the man outside..."

Lily shut her mouth suddenly.

Looking at Snape's expressionless face, she felt as if something had occurred to her.

"You..." She couldn't believe it. "So you want to meet that person too?"

Snape froze for a moment, but Lily didn't miss it, she said in surprise. "Merlin, are you really going to be that man's subordinate?" He said, looking at Snape with an unconcealable condemnation.

Snape felt very dissatisfied, Tahlia was also under that person, and Lily hadn't said anything to stop her, why now everyone is asking him to give up his goal, why don't they blame the girl, but blame themselves instead?

"If I remember correctly, she is already under that person's subordinates, why don't you talk about her?" Instantly, he felt uncontrollable anger, and the volume of his speech unconsciously increased. It's okay for Tahlia to get in the way, even for Lily. "Anyway, she's right in everything, isn't she? You all like her, she has good reasons for everything she does, you all speak up for her, what about me?" He spoke quickly, not paying attention to Lily's face Put on a stiff look. "No one cares what I'm after, why do you always stop me from getting the status I want?"

Lily fell silent.

Snape also took a breath, but seeing Lily's silence made him feel even worse.

"Severus, do you know? Status is never something you just chase after," Lily said softly. "It depends on how you behave, others will give you the corresponding respect──"

"No." Snape said bluntly. "Status is gained by fighting for it, and when you reach that height, you will also receive the same respect—"

Lily didn't know what to say again, she wanted to convince Snape, but obviously he couldn't listen to anything at the moment.

It would be a lie to say that she was not disappointed. She never wanted her good friend to be under that person. When she heard the rumors about Tahlia, she was really sad for a while and felt unacceptable, but later found out that Tahlia was not actually When she really wants to do that, she can understand──

And now her best friend told her that his ambition was to pursue status, which was totally different from Tahlia, at least she knew Tahlia didn't want to, but Snape just...

Seeing Lily's expression of dissatisfaction with him, but not showing it, Snape was even more displeased.

Lily was also very sad, and she didn't want to affect their friendship because of this. "Severus... and after that?"

"what?"

Lily looked up at Snape sadly. "You got that status, then what?" she said softly. "Are you going to persecute all Muggle-borns as they do...persecute me?"

Snape pursed his lips in thought.

After a while, he spoke lightly. "I will not persecute you."

"Then you just want to persecute others." Lily concluded for him and forced a smile. "Look, you don't deny it."

"Lily──" Snape opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say.

Although Lily had forgiven herself last time, it was obvious that the two of them didn't get along as well as before, and he wouldn't be surprised if she turned around and left now.

Lily sighed. "Severus, let me think about it... I don't want to keep arguing with you over this topic, we're friends, aren't we?"

Tahlia once told herself that Severus is actually not as indifferent as he appears, but just used to sticking out her thorns, but she never told herself that Severus would be so respectful of power, and she was completely unprepared for this knowledge today .

"I think you have to think again, Severus──is what you said, really what you want?" Lily said. "You know, I can't just sit back and watch this..."

Of course that was what he wanted. Snape thought firmly that this was the only way for him to get out of the status quo, and no one would dare to look down on him in the future.

And Lily, one day will also agree with herself.

"Let's do this first," Lily waved her hand, still looking a little frustrated. "Let's all think about it -- shall we?" After Snape nodded, Lily also nodded, and after saying goodbye to him, she turned and left the library, leaving Snape sitting there with a calm expression on her face.

In fact, without even thinking about it, Lily knew that she definitely couldn't accept it-but Severus was her first friend here, and it was also a very important friend, and she really didn't want to get into trouble with Snape because of the way he insisted on going. turn.

But his and Tahlia's purpose is not the same!

She could understand why Tahlia did what she did, so of course she couldn't object, but what about Severus?She thinks she can't do it, what should she do?

Walking in the corridor worriedly, she didn't even know where she went.

"Lily?"

Lily was stopped by a person walking towards her.She stopped in her tracks, looked up suspiciously, and then realized that it was James Potter, her face sank. "Potter."

James could only smile wryly at the indifferent address of Lily.

"Why are you here?" he asked.

Lily shot him an annoyed look. "I want to go back to the dormitory, do I have to report to you?" After finishing speaking, he looked around and realized that he was not walking back to the Gryffindor tower at all, but was at the completely opposite corner, and he had just walked by himself Fang Xiang also gradually moved away from his dormitory, pretending to be calm and looking at the speechless boy in front of him. "I didn't say I'm going back to the dormitory now."

"I understand." James nodded.

Lily was taken aback. "What do you understand?"

"I can see you're in a bad mood, Lily." James smiled.

After refraining from showing off, James can be said to be reborn now. It's hard to imagine that he was always pulling some childish pranks a year ago.

Lily didn't answer, but her expression answered James very well.

"What happened?" James asked concerned.

"I..." Lily said hesitantly. "I'll ask you a question—" She raised her head and looked straight at James, making his heart skip a beat. "If you have a good friend who tells you that he's going to do something really bad after that, you... what would you do?"

James frowned.

"It depends on what kind of person your good friend is..." He substituting Tahlia unconsciously. "You have to find out why he did it first, don't you?"

"It makes sense...the reason why he did that..." Lily murmured.

James seldom saw Lily's absent-minded and frowning look like this, so he blurted out at the moment. "How about I get you something to eat? Maybe you'll feel better..."

Lily thought about it, and looked at James who was obviously nervous.

It's not that she didn't see the changes in the person in front of her these days, he really matured a lot. "Okay." Before she had time to stop herself, she agreed.

Both of them were stunned for a moment.

"That's good..." In the end, it was James who reacted first, rubbing his head and laughing, led Lily for a short walk, and then stretched out his hand to tickle a still life painting of fruit.

Lily was about to leave her question when she was surprised to find that the painting had been opened, revealing the passage behind.

"This is the school kitchen... I don't think you've been here?" James explained, smiling. "We used to come here to get food when we were hungry at night—"

Lily just walked in behind James in silence, she almost forgot how familiar Potter and the others were with this castle, so it was only natural for them to find out where the school kitchen was, wasn't it?

So this explains where the food for the celebration banquet when their Quidditch academy won the championship came from...

At this moment, Lily realized that she didn't really know the most popular boy in their academy. Before, she was disgusted by Severus and didn't want to talk to him, but now──

Seeing Potter in front of him who had already started collecting food for him, and having cheerful conversations with those house-elves, maybe he didn't have to hate him all the time...

"James," she said.

James turned his head sharply, looking at Lily happily.She was finally willing to call his name again!

"What's the matter?" Unable to hold back his excited tone, he asked.

Lily smiled, maybe it would be a good decision to chat with him a little bit now.

"I want to eat fruitcake."