[HP] Can you be gentle with me

"Sirius──?" Harry realized that the man holding him suddenly fell into deep thought and stopped motionless. He tilted his head and shouted suspiciously. hair.

"Hey, Harry!" Sirius cried out in pain immediately, carefully breaking free from Harry's grasp. "You can't grab people's hair, it's bad!" He said sternly.

"Bad?" Harry repeated, confusion in his eyes.

Sirius nodded. "Yes, bad."

Watching the interaction between the godfather and his son, Tahlia suddenly found it very interesting. It was the first time she discovered that Sirius also had such a serious side of teaching children. She thought that he would definitely teach Harry all the mischief skills he had accumulated throughout his life.

"Can you see Harry tomorrow?" she asked.

"What's wrong?" Sirius turned his head, as if he didn't understand. "Are you busy tomorrow?"

Tahlia nods. "I'm thinking of going over to Snape's tomorrow...with Harry, uh...I don't think he'd be happy—"

"I think he's just venting his anger, really naive—" Sirius snorted. "It must be because Harry looks so much like James..."

Tahlia smiled wryly.

In fact, that is definitely not the main reason, Snape would not like to see Harry, it is definitely because Harry's eyes are too similar to Lily's──

This made her feel very lost.

What Snape cared about the most was always Lily not her, even when Lily was gone--

"However, Harry, you can leave it to me." Sirius said with a smile. "I think, if James and the others were still alive, they would definitely leave Harry with me tomorrow..."

"Why?" Tahlia asked.

"Because tomorrow is their wedding anniversary." Sirius said naturally. "On this day last year, James left Harry to me and took Lily to romance all day──"

It seems that this is the case...

Tahlia vaguely remembered that James and Lily got married that day, even though she didn't even attend their wedding...

"I actually forgot." Tahlia said guiltily.

Sirius grinned. "I just thought of it after you said it just now──After all, it's their wedding anniversary, we don't need to keep it in mind..." He said, and then turned into a confused tone. "By the way, what are you doing at Snape's house?"

"Of course it's not just idle time..." Tahlia said.Besides, Snape wouldn't let himself use boredom as an excuse to go to him. "I'm going to find her to discuss some academic things..."

Sirius raised an eyebrow. "Talk to him?" What else could that fellow Snape have compared to Tahlia's subject other than potions?

"Of course talk to him, actually he knows a lot, Sirius──We have known each other for a long time, talking to other professors in the school will make me feel like I am back to being taught by them when I was a student..." Tahlia naturally Said, but his movements were a little stiff, and the behavior of picking up the teacup on the low table to drink water seemed to be covering up something.

Sirius watched silently for a while before opening his mouth slowly. "Actually, you can tell me directly that you just want to see him."

Tahlia almost spit out the tea in her mouth, and looked at the calm Sirius in astonishment. "I..." She suddenly became stuttering. "I thought you... you didn't like him—"

"Of course I don't like him, he's always been a jerk—but it doesn't matter what I think," Sirius said. "You like him, don't you?" Pretending to be heartbroken, she tugged at her chest. "This hit me hard──" Suddenly, Snape's expression on the street before appeared in his mind, and he spoke again immediately, speaking seriously. "But Tahlia, you gotta listen to me - that guy Snape is definitely planning something, I can't tell... but he definitely has a plan -"

"what?"

Sirius thought for a moment, then shook his head dejectedly. "I don't know what he's up to, but you have to promise me—don't let him do anything to hurt you."

"You said he was trying to kill me?" Tahlia asked, then smiled playfully. "Come on, Sirius, if he really wanted to kill me, he would have done it long ago—why would he wait until now?"

Sirius couldn't say anything for a moment, and after a while, he murmured something in a low voice. "That's why I said he's a bit weird..." He also felt strange, obviously Snape had acted like he wished Tahlia would die a million times before, but now his attitude suddenly changed, and it also made him find an opening less than.Cleared his throat. "Anyway, you have to be careful──."

Tahlia nodded seriously. "I know, I will pay attention." Suddenly thought of something. "By the way, I don't know where you live now!" She said, and then she realized that she didn't care about Sirius too much, and smiled awkwardly.

"I moved back to the old Black house," Sirius said, explaining after seeing Tahlia's surprised expression. "They're all dead...Tahlia—Regulus was all alone there." There was a pause. "It's just me and Regulus left..."

"I thought you hated it..." Tahlia said blankly.

Sirius shrugged. "I hate it because my parents were there at the time and made the house feel like home - but Regulus doesn't." He smiled. "Now the old house is not as gloomy as it used to be. He gets along well with the house elf..." he said happily. "So I think it's finally more suitable for living people to live there." He laughed self-deprecatingly. "It's been a long time since you've seen Regulus—speaking of which, I heard that Voldemort intended to recruit the Black family. You intervened, right?"

Tahlia nodded slowly.

Voldemort did intend to ask the Black family to be loyal, but the result was that Regulus would definitely be labeled as a Death Eater, because it was impossible for Sirius to have anything to do with Voldemort, and the Blacks definitely agreed with recommending Regulus. went out──

At that time, she spent a lot of energy trying to persuade Voldemort to give up the idea, and Merlin knew how difficult it was...

What reason did she use to...?

The Black family, which is famous for producing dark wizards in the magic world, doesn't even need to be marked with the Dark Mark to be Voldemort's most loyal believers──

Of course, this reason alone is not enough. Thinking of this, she couldn't help feeling a little ashamed...

At that time, she tried her best to criticize Regulus as useless, and used it to convince Voldemort that he didn't need such an incompetent subordinate—otherwise, if Regulus was not doing well, it would be very troublesome to keep it or not...

If you keep it, you will be angry, if you don't keep it...I'm afraid you will offend the entire Black family.

"But it's better not to know the details..." Tahlia twitched the corner of her mouth.He secretly decided to find a time to make a good apology to Regulus.

After all, the ability of the second young master of the Black family is not inferior to that of Sirius, but he always restrains his edge, and will not show any domineering momentum unless necessary, which is completely different from Sirius who is obviously sunny and unrestrained.

Sirius nodded silently, and the two of them tacitly agreed not to bring up the matter again.

"Then, it's almost time..."

After a while, Sirius put Harry down and stood up slowly. "You can take Harry to Black's house tomorrow—" he said. "I'll speak to Regulus first, too."

Tahlia nodded and stood up too. "I'll be there after noon, okay?"

"Anytime." Sirius smiled brightly. "You're always welcome there, Tahlia—"

Tahlia smiled and picked Harry up so that he faced Sirius. "Say goodbye to your godfather."

"Goodbye!" Harry obediently shouted, waving his hand several times.

Sirius lowered his head and stroked Harry's head. "I'll show you something fun tomorrow, okay?" Harry nodded vigorously before turning to Tahlia. "I'm leaving?"

"Yeah." Tahlia replied. "See you tomorrow."

The two moved to the front door, and Sirius said goodbye to Tahlia and Harry one last time before turning around and stepping out the door to leave.

"Harry, don't be sad──" Seeing Harry reluctantly watching Sirius leave, Tahlia comforted him. "You can see Sirius again tomorrow—"

Harry nodded half-understanding, then twisted his body to ask Tahlia to put him down, and when his feet touched the ground, he immediately ran into the living room, turned around and looked at Tahlia with blinking eyes.

Tahlia, who was amused by Harry's cute gesture, gently closed the door and approached Harry. "What do you want to do now?"

Harry tilted his head, and suddenly, involuntarily yawned a lot, rubbing his eyes with his hand, and Tahlia laughed.

"You want to sleep...you played with Sirius for so long just now──" Besides, it was already the time for Harry to take a nap, and Harry, who looked sleepy, walked into the bedroom and let the He climbed into his crib. "Go to sleep...you will have the energy to play with Sirius tomorrow──"

"Sirius...Draco...playing—" Harry yawned a few more times, but he kept talking, obediently lying on the pillow and letting Tahlia tuck him in.

"Sirius would be out of balance for a while knowing you were talking about him with Draco—" Tahlia said with a smile.

And Harry didn't respond to her, because he closed his eyes quickly and fell asleep in a short while, not to mention, he didn't understand the meaning of Tahlia's words at all.

Gently walking out of the bedroom, Tahlia carefully took out her interspatial bag, found Voldemort's diary inside, put it on the table, and stared at it in a daze.

What would the man's other horcruxes be?

The one kept for Bella was a gold cup...the one in the school was a crown—can she imagine that Voldemort's horcruxes are all delicate and expensive things?

So what happened to this dilapidated and unremarkable diary in front of him?

It was too difficult to find Voldemort's other horcruxes—even though she thought she had figured out Voldemort's behavior pattern, she still couldn't figure out how many horcruxes he made and where he hid them—

Maybe we should start with the report?

Gotta try to get some old newspapers... After all, Voldemort's creation of Horcruxes has only one thing in common, and the existence of Horcruxes is definitely accompanied by... killing.

After lunch the next day, Tahlia took Harry to Grimmauld Place, where Black's old house was, and the Muggles couldn't see the house at all.

He stretched out his hand and knocked on the door, and it didn't take long for the door to be opened. The man who came to open the door was a man who was somewhat similar to Sirius, but with a completely different aura.

"Long time no see, Regulus," Tahlia said.

Regulus stepped back a bit, letting Tahlia into the house, and closed the door. "It's really been a long time—" Since Tahlia graduated, he hadn't seen this woman who made his brother always worry about him. "But you look like nothing has changed..."

Tahlia responded playfully. "You might as well say that I'm still as short as ever..." He didn't hold Harry's right hand up for a comparison. "How can you grow so much taller?" In her impression, the 16-year-old Regulus should not be that tall. At that time, she was about the same height as his shoulders──

"Probably your illusion..." Regulus said seriously. "We haven't seen each other for so long, maybe you have forgotten what I look like..."

Tahlia curls her lips. "If I had known that you would lose me like this, I wouldn't have come—just let Sirius bring Harry here yesterday."

Regulus hastened to apologize. "Aren't you just kidding? When did you become so unbearable?"

"When did you get hurt by Sirius—" Tahlia grumbled.

Then the two laughed out loud.

After a while, Regulus bent down and spoke to Harry. "You're Harry, right? I'm Regulus—"

And Harry timidly hid behind Tahlia, only sticking out his head.

Regulus was not embarrassed either, straightened up and said to Tahlia. "Sirius went out to buy some things, said it was for Harry, just let Harry stay here, I'll watch him..." There was a pause. "Don't waste your time..." He said with a half-smile.

Tahlia suddenly felt her face burning, and to hide her embarrassment, she crouched down and pushed Harry forward to Regulus' side. "Harry, Regulus is Sirius' younger brother, and he will play with you too."

After convincing for a while, finally making Harry not look at Regulus so nervously, Tahlia stood up and said goodbye to him.

"Then, Harry will leave it to you—" After receiving Regulus' nod, Tahlia turned around, walked out the door, and Apparated.