[HP] Can you be gentle with me

Snape looked at the several items on the table with a complicated expression.

"You mean, over the years Tahlia found these...things—and destroyed them all?" he asked.

It turns out that the reason why the Dark Lord did not die after being hit by the rebounding death curse was because his soul had been split several times. As long as the souls on these horcruxes still exist, he will never be completely wiped out .

Before he knew these things at all, Tahlia had already found all these Horcruxes and destroyed them──

Killing the Dark Lord for good is on everyone's mind, but only Tahlia...

Only Tahlia actually acted.

And the rest of the people—including myself, to put it bluntly, were immersed in this false tranquility, like pets kept by others, completely forgetting the cruelty of the outside world.

Snape felt that his face was completely ugly again now. "And Potter... I mean little Potter, who was also inadvertently possessed by a piece of soul...?"

Dumbledore nodded slowly. "So we need you to make a potion that is strong enough to destroy the soul fragments in Harry without endangering his own safety." There was a pause. "This is important, Severus—"

"That's why Tahlia came back, isn't it?" Snape asked without thinking, making Dumbledore unable to react for a moment.

What's going on today?

Is everyone jumping like this?

Snape remained sullen. "If little Potter hadn't had such problems...wouldn't she have come back?"

Only then did Dumbledore understand what Snape asked just now, and subconsciously answered soothingly. "Even if there were no problems with Harry, she would have come back—" He wasn't completely lying, Voldemort might make a comeback at any moment, and even if Harry didn't have his soul fragments in his body, Tahlia would never let it go Of the.

"Really..." Snape murmured, then fell silent.

There was silence again, as if the two of them could only sit there, waiting for Tahlia to return with the crown that was said to be the last Horcrux.

It wasn't that Snape didn't want to talk, it was that his mind was blank right now and he didn't know what else he could say.

After digesting what Dumbledore had just told him about the Horcruxes, he was able to recall Tahlia's strange behavior in detail.

Tahlia like that is too strange.

He knew it when he carefully thought about everything about Tahlia in the past few years-even when she wanted to make everyone think that she hated him, he could see fleeting emotions in her eyes, although fleeting, But when he thought about it seriously, and even managed to get a Pensieve to observe all his memories of Tahlia, he could always catch the flash of love.

That's how she feels about him.

But at this moment, Snape was sitting in the principal's office, no matter how he thought about it, he found that he could no longer find the emotion he had seen countless times in Tahlia's eyes before──her cold tone kept coming back for some reason Stimulating his heart, this feeling is definitely not a good feeling.

I don't know how long it took, but the door was finally opened.

The two people in the room immediately turned towards the door and saw Tahlia shuffling in.

Snape thought Tahlia looked haggard.

It's just such a short period of time, destroying one Horcrux will make her feel as if her energy is exhausted... and she has already destroyed four of them before──

She threw a charred object onto the desk, which made a loud clang when it hit other items on the table, if Snape hadn't heard Tahlia say that the object he was about to bring was a crown , he couldn't recognize what the thing in front of him looked like before it was burnt black.

Then she sat back in the chair, or rather, collapsed in the chair from what Snape saw.

For a long time, no one spoke again.

All three of them stared quietly at the objects on the table that used to be Horcruxes.

It suddenly occurred to Snape that Horcruxes could never be destroyed that easily, such an evil thing──Tahlia is...

"How did you... destroy that thing?" When he realized it, he found that he had already blurted out this question.

Tahlia returned a word flatly. "Fiendfire," added Dumbledore, under the watchful eyes of Dumbledore's knowing expression and Snape's shocked expression. "You could also call it a kind of... black magic."

Snape felt that he couldn't say anything, so he could only sit aside, staring blankly at Tahlia's still indifferent face.

"For this reason, I have studied it seriously for a while... Maybe you are thinking about it now, so that I can be more sure of the outside world's perception of me." Tahlia said coldly to Snape who was stunned aside. "Now that you have my approval, you can do whatever you like..." As she spoke, she stood up forcefully, and her neat movements made her feel less tired than a few minutes ago.

"Albus, there's only that piece of Harry left that needs to be dealt with, and I want you to make that your first priority—" she said, without looking at Snape. "I have a hunch that this present semblance of peace won't last long... sooner or later—and I believe that day will come soon...Voldemort will return—" There was a pause. "I don't want James and Lily's children to become victims of his elimination. This is my last promise to her..."

After speaking, she left through the fireplace.

During this period, Tahlia didn't give Snape any chance to speak at all, and Snape was also hesitating about what to say, so in the end, he still couldn't have a good talk with Tahlia as he had hoped before.

She even used those few short words to attack him completely──

Taking advantage of his previous absurdity, trying to accuse Tahlia of studying the dark arts...

There was silence in the principal's office.

After a long time, Dumbledore spoke slowly. "You heard what Tahlia said... making potions like that is the number one priority."

Apparently Snape wasn't the only one who noticed that Tahlia had changed.

Dumbledore was more sure now after being off at first.

Tahlia is a completely different person.

And he didn't even have a chance to ask what happened between Tahlia and Snape, the attitude she showed towards Snape just now was obviously wrong, but he had no way of knowing why.

I don't know when it started, as long as Tahlia didn't tell him, he couldn't know what was going on in her heart. Fortunately, she didn't want to hide anything from her before, and that's why he thought he knew her.

"I know." Snape forced out a word.

This was something that had never happened before. Seeing Tahlia leave without looking back made him feel uncontrollably emotional, much like how he felt when he thought of her countless times in the past five years.

Inexplicably irritated but accompanied by deep regret──

In the past, he might have felt that it was okay for Tahlia to stay away from him, and he even wished that she would not appear in front of him... But now──

I don't know how to describe the feeling.

He had a sense of being left behind, but nothing like the feeling he had felt when his mother died.

"Severus." Dumbledore's voice reached his ears suddenly.

"I know what you're trying to say—" Snape replied angrily. "You want to say you told me already, don't you?" he said self-deprecatingly. "You should have seen it too, she doesn't bother to talk to me at all... Should I be happy that my original goal has been achieved?"

"Actually, what I want to say is..." Dumbledore said calmly without any ups and downs due to Snape's rudeness. "Tahlia mentioned to me just now that she won't be leaving anytime soon, and will stay where she lived before." He looked at Snape seriously, as if trying to convey something to him through such eye contact. "I think you should be interested in this—" After a pause, he winked at him. "It just so happens that the semester is almost over──"

For the first time, Snape felt that Dumbledore's mischievous wink wouldn't make him say something repulsive with a dark face.

The days that followed seemed extremely long, and Snape felt that he had proctored countless exams, and even had the illusion that the students in the classroom had repeated it countless times.

When the students finally took the train to leave the school, Snape felt relieved and relaxed. When he returned to the office, he realized that he had already tidied up all the things before he knew it, and placed them neatly near the The location of the door.

He stared blankly at the suitcases.

When did he collect these things?

For the past few years, he hadn't been keen on packing up and going back to Spinner's End, which wasn't really home at all, more than a place to live, and in his life, school days And much more than the days I stayed there──

When would he be so... looking forward to──

That's right, anticipation.

When had he looked forward to the school holidays so much?

The sound of the clock on the wall pulled him out of his thoughts.

After regaining his senses and no longer obsessing over the reasons why he behaved like this, he waved his magic wand to shrink the boxes for easy storage, then stepped into the green flames from the fireplace and left.

Originally, he planned to apparate to Tahlia's small apartment as soon as he returned to Spider's End to put his things, but then he was delayed because he was thinking about whether he should send a message there first. When he found out, It is already evening.

Obviously not the best time to visit someone.he told himself.

He should be more prepared...

If he rushed there now and it turned out that he couldn't have a good word with Tahlia like he was a week ago, then don't go.

Besides, he had to figure out how to deal with it if Tahlia was still so cold to him.

He couldn't be so easily aroused by her, it was definitely beyond the scope of his 'wanting to have a good talk with Tahlia'.

So, the next morning, Snape appeared in front of the door of that apartment, his eyes bloodshot, as if he hadn't slept well all night.

And he really didn't sleep well all night, no matter how hard he forced himself to close his eyes, he would always unconsciously think that he should meet Tahlia.

Standing in front of this familiar door, Snape lost his mind again.

How long has he been here?five years? He came once after Tahlia disappeared, and never came again.

He stretched out his hand, but hesitated the moment he was about to touch the door panel.

It should be said that fortunately he hesitated.

Because in the next second, a familiar voice came from behind, and the owner of that voice was definitely not the person he wanted to see at this time.

"You'd better not touch that door, Snape."