[HP] Can you be gentle with me

Of course Snape would not be out of his wits and chose to go directly to Tahlia's house to test the strength of her warding spell on himself, and he knew that even if he sent a note requesting a visit, it would be ignored.

Then, there is only one way left——

──Find out enough reasons for Tahlia to be willing to talk to him face to face, so that she can't find a loophole.

The point is, he's been thinking about it for a whole week, but he still doesn't have any ideas.

This was definitely a much tougher potion problem than he'd ever had before—even the perfect reasons he'd used to convince Tahlia to be a Potions assistant were almost unsuccessful, and he really didn't know where he came from. Find an excuse that would make Tahlia want to go out and meet him.

Then, more than a week after the holiday, Dumbledore found his office door knocked again.

And the only person who stayed in school like him during the summer vacation was only one person──

"Severus... I can guess you finished the potion?"

Snape walked in shaking his head, and took the chair opposite him without waiting for Dumbledore's signal. "I need an event where Tahlia wants to see me, Headmaster."

Dumbledore froze for a moment. "I thought you'd seen her a week ago..." On the day of the end of term, he watched Snape leave his office in a hurry, probably [-]% to find that kid Tahlia, and what he meant now was, He didn't meet her?

"I'm a little late," Snape said. "She had already left..."

"Really..." Dumbledore murmured.

In fact, that afternoon, shortly after he left, Tahlia came to her office. In order to report Mr. Pettigrew's current progress in finding Voldemort, they must have missed each other...

Perhaps, he was right in choosing not to tell Snape.

"What a coincidence," he went on. "So... why do you think I want Tahlia to come over? Have you noticed that I don't have as much influence with Tahlia as you think..."

"But she'll listen to you more or less, won't she?" Snape said firmly.

Dumbledore was silent for a moment before speaking again slowly. "I do have something at hand that can bring her over, but you should understand that there is only one chance."

"I'm well aware." Snape nodded.

If Tahlia was called over and found out that it was he who wanted to talk to her, he would probably annoy Dumbledore for a while, and there was no way for him to ask Dumbledore to help contact Tahlia in this way in the future.

Dumbledore sighed.

He didn't expect that because of this reason, he would have to tell Snape the secret between him and Tahlia──

"Tahlia has found Peter Pettigrew, Severus—"

Not surprisingly, the young man in front of him widened his eyes instantly because of his words, and his expression became ferocious and terrifying.

And Dumbledore didn't rush to speak again after speaking, and looked at Snape calmly, even though he looked like he was going to explode at any moment and tear down his office...

"Tell me Tahlia killed the bastard." Snape's mouth barely opened, and the words were forced through clenched teeth, as he was trying to hide his anger.

"I can't say that, kid..."

"Why!" Snape growled, although he tried his best to restrain himself, he still couldn't completely control his tone. "I thought she shouldn't and couldn't forgive the behavior of that beast—"

"We..." Dumbledore raised his hand, interrupting Snape's venting behavior with a serious expression. "Tahlia and I, we both agree that Pettigrew is far more useful alive than dead."

"What do you mean?" Snape felt that his head was in a mess now, and he even had to rely on taking a deep breath and exhaling slowly so as not to yell at the calm old man behind the desk.

"Tahlia asked Mr. Pettigrew to look for Voldemort's traces." Dumbledore said, satisfied to see that the dark-haired young man in front of him didn't show any fear after hearing Voldemort's name. "And this is what I have on hand to interest her, Severus—" Snape opened his mouth slightly, but seemed unable to get the words out. "Besides, Tahlia will not just come to me, an old man, for afternoon tea."

Snape shut his mouth.

Why is Tahlia always able to suppress her inner emotions with reason, she used to force herself to be ruthless, but now, just because Pettigrew still has his functions, she also resisted killing him...

Damn he hated her for that.

Taking another deep breath, Snape said slowly. "Can I understand that Tahlia wanted to find Voldemort because she was ready to give him a fatal blow?"

"I think she was ready a long time ago, Severus—" Dumbledore sensed that Snape seemed to have calmed down, and his tone softened. "All that's missing is your potion." There was a pause. "So you should understand how important it is to research this potion──"

"Of course I understand!" Snape waved his hand impatiently. "For this reason, I spend almost all my time on it... The only problem is that no matter how much I pay, it is obviously not in her concern. She told me clearly that she only cares about the result."

Dumbledore suddenly felt strangely tired, so he leaned back in his chair, trying to relax as much as possible.

Tahlia and Severus.

He felt that both of these two were born in the wrong era, which caused them to keep missing in misunderstandings and mistakes. If there were no events that caused the two of them to misunderstand each other, maybe they would have accompanied each other to the end—considering that Snape was trying to think Before coming into contact with Voldemort, the relationship with Tahlia was definitely gradually developing for the better.

Sighing, he spoke slowly. "I can't help you with that, kid... even though she admitted to me herself that she still cares about you—" After a pause, seeing Snape's eyes widen again, he continued to explain. "Yes, she still won't allow anyone to do anything to hurt you, Severus...I told her right away, and you are the same now—"

"Of course." Snape replied dryly. "I will never—"

"Let me finish first..." Dumbledore raised his hand, interrupting Snape. "I told her, now you want to improve your relationship with her, and you will never do anything to hurt her again—" He said, his eyes suddenly sharpened, staring straight at Snape, making him Involuntarily stiffened his body. "And she said, you've hurt her." He spoke the last sentence so slowly that even Snape felt that he was emphasizing the word "already", which made him stunned.

"I think you thought of it when you heard it." Dumbledore ignored Snape's reaction and continued. "It's what happened on the day you lost your memory, coupled with your naive plan at the beginning, I have to come to a conclusion-your plan did not fail because of Tahlia's departure, but because of your success It was implemented, which caused Tahlia to leave in anger..."

Snape scowled and fell silent for a moment. "I vaguely guessed..." he whispered. "But I don't believe that Tahlia's previous obsession will change so much because of that incident. I think that something else must have happened that day, Principal──" He raised his head. "Maybe that's the point."

Dumbledore didn't speak immediately, but thought about Snape's words for a while, and then nodded slowly. "I couldn't agree with you more, kid."

Although the crux of the matter is that they still cannot know what the key thing is──

So, after a while, Dumbledore let his phoenix pet Fawkes hold the written note in his hand, and whispered. "You know where to find Tahlia..."

Fawkes nodded in the meeting, spread his wings and flew up, and disappeared in place the next second.

Almost at the same time, Nigel, who was having a great time playing with Harry in the apartment, was taken aback by a fiery red bird that suddenly appeared in their living room.

"Tahlia!" Nigel immediately hid behind Harry, shouting with a vigilant face, and after a while, Tahlia came out from the study behind.

She also froze for a moment when she saw Fawkes, until he flew gracefully in front of her, showing her the note in his mouth.

Tahlia took the note, smoothed Fawkes' feathers, and said softly. "Thanks for your hard work."

Fawkes groaned, and then, in the blink of an eye, disappeared again, leaving behind Nigel with wide-eyed, screaming.

"Bird that disappears!" he said excitedly, running quickly to Tahlia's feet. "He suddenly appeared, and suddenly disappeared!"

"That's not a disappearing bird, Fawkes is a phoenix, Nigel," Tahlia explained patiently, spreading out the note.

After just one glance, Tahlia's brows frowned, which confused Harry and Nigel, who couldn't help but wonder what was written on that piece of paper...

"Tahlia...?" Harry also walked up to Tahlia slowly, and spoke cautiously.

"Harry, I have to go out for a while." Tahlia said to Harry suddenly and seriously, still frowning. "Can you take care of Nigel?"

Harry thought for a while before nodding.Anyway, this place is protected by Tahlia's spell, and it is impossible for anyone with malicious intentions to come in, and the so-called taking care of Nigel is just playing with him──

Tahlia also seemed quite relieved, nodded hurriedly and left directly by the fireplace.

"Nigel... I thought I heard Tahlia call the Hogwarts headmaster's office just now?" Looking at the fireplace that was no longer glowing with green light, Harry asked Nigel beside him uncertainly.

"I heard that too." Nigel nodded, then looked at Harry seriously, even though it made him want to laugh. "I feel like there's something Tahlia hasn't told us."

Harry nodded in agreement, but he also knew that they were still young, and Tahlia would not have been able to tell them everything, so he cleared his throat and said. "Anyway, Tahlia should be back soon... What else do you want to play? I'll accompany you──"

Snape waited anxiously in the headmaster's office, Dumbledore had left here long ago, so that he could talk to Tahlia without any hesitation, and finally, the fireplace burst into flames, holding his breath—

"Albus, what message did you say Peter sent you──" the visitor stepped out of the fireplace while talking, and then stopped talking when he found that there was no Dumbledore in the space, and Snape was sitting instead. "Snape," she scowled, calling. "Where did the principal go?"