[HP] Can you be gentle with me

Snape suddenly felt like there was a thread in his brain that was connected together.

He should have thought of this earlier.

From then to now, Tahlia's words and actions are rarely meaningless.

He should have tried to deduce from what Tahlia did after he returned, or from what she said, what exactly he did to make her so angry. Ironically, he once thought he The ability is definitely not bad.

Let's start with the sentence just now...

Even if he puts Tahlia in the same category as Bella Lestrange, so what-

Perhaps he had to understand that he had criticized Tahlia so much.

face down.

Merlin... If his position and Tahlia were reversed today, he didn't know how he would react... After so much hard work, what he got in return was this sentence—

"You're definitely different from her," Snape said, in a strangely serious tone. "I'm pretty sure of that—"

Tahlia laughed, and a playful one at that. "Are you sure?" There was a pause. "But what does it have to do with me?" She suddenly said with a deep voice. "I've long since learned that I shouldn't be bothered by anyone's judgment of me. Mr. Moody once said that to me, and I think he's right...Snape, I don't give a shit what you think of me, then It doesn't change anything."

And the meaning revealed by this passage, Snape understood almost instantly.

Maybe Dumbledore was wrong, maybe no matter what he did, he couldn't get their relationship back to how it was before.

"You're right..." Finally, he had to say this. "Even though you have been misunderstood by others, I have never seen you change anything..."

"You should be glad I didn't do that then," Tahlia said dryly. "Otherwise, neither of us will stand here and talk now. When it comes to this, I think you should prepare. Maybe we will have to meet our old master soon."

Snape didn't show any displeasure like last time, nodded calmly, and spoke. "I see."

Tahlia raised her eyebrows. Snape's reaction to this incident was very different. After all, she almost died before...

That made her realize once again that no matter how gentle and harmless Snape was, or how... how should I put it, always meddling and seeming to care about her body lately──

He could still hurt her at any time.

Yes, he's going to kill her sooner or later, if she continues to let herself in like before—

Someday.

"I'll come back tomorrow." Seeing that Tahlia didn't seem to want to say anything, Snape had to speak again. "You should know that letting your health continue to deteriorate will not help our plan at all—"

"That's why I didn't refuse to open the door for you, Snape." Tahlia answered coldly. "I know that without you reminding me." There was a pause. "I know my own situation."

"Obviously you don't know all that well, do you?" Snape reminded. "If it wasn't for Poppy—"

"Should I still thank you?" Tahlia smirked. "Otherwise how would I enter the medical wing?"

Snape shut his mouth.

This seems to have become the norm.

He's getting blocked by Tahlia's words more and more often, which has never happened before... It should be said that it used to be the complete opposite.

In the past, he always maliciously misunderstood Tahlia's meaning──

When he came back to his senses, he was already facing a tightly closed wooden door.

This is also surprising.

In the days that followed, almost the whole school knew that Professor Snape was depressed.

In fact, it was easy to judge, because in just two weeks, the other three houses except Slytherin had already lost a lot of points from him.

For some reason, Professor Watson suddenly didn't come over to teach them, if they didn't get back homework with the same high grades as before, they almost thought she had been scared away by Professor Snape...

After Professor Snape returned to class, they missed her deeply again.

They never thought they would have such an idea before.

After all, Watson had a bad reputation before, but after a few years, they realized that she was definitely not bad in terms of teaching ability.

Although she is nominally serving as a teaching assistant for Potions, Bill Weasley took the precedent after a Potions class a few years ago and asked her a thick stack of questions about other subjects, and she was immediately in front of all the students. After explaining all those questions in person, and surprised everyone present, the story spread... Over time, there will always be a few students staying after the Potions class, which has never been done before. What a spectacle that has happened—considering that most people don't want to spend even a second longer in the dark and damp potions classroom.

"Ten points off Hufflepuff, Miss Tonks, for your inattention." Snape was on the verge of swearing. "Have you memorized the precautions on the blackboard? It is clearly written there that the leech juice should be stirred clockwise four times before throwing it in. Maybe you think that your little cleverness is enough to overturn the previous ones. The next precious production step?" He pulled out his wand almost in disgust, and directly cleared the sticky mass in the cauldron of the frustrated girl in front of him. "Redo."

Ignoring the girl's dark gray hair color because of his words, she turned around angrily, and immediately caught a glimpse of a cauldron at the other end of the classroom with thick smoke, and felt fiercely in her heart. After cursing, he hurried over──

These students challenged his bottom line in almost every class.

He shouldn't have agreed to teach at the school in the first place, and thinking about it now, he was extremely stupid when he volunteered to introduce himself to the Dark Lord.

Everything Tahlia had said to him had been bloody true.

A lot of students' marks were deducted along the way. After a while, he appeared in front of the school library. What he needs now is a book that is thick enough to at least make him temporarily forget about some troubles...

Habitually walked to the area full of potion books, this has always been a corner where students rarely come and go, at least after he came to the school as a professor, he hardly saw the student union wandering here...

But today is different.

It wasn't that the place was suddenly full of people. In fact, there was still no one in between the two bookshelves, just like what he had seen countless times before, deserted.

But when the book on the shelf automatically moves down from the shelf, enters a certain block and then disappears suddenly, then there is obviously something wrong.

Potter's invisibility cloak.

How could he not know that James Potter had an invisibility cloak?When they were still in school, he relied on that thing to avoid countless times of punishment, and he had no intention of hiding it from others. When he passed by them, the most common thing he heard was the old man. How Potter smugly bragged about what pranks he'd pulled on without anyone noticing while wearing the cloak...

And now, that thing will definitely only belong to one person──Harry Potter.

He didn't know what that Potter kid was doing here, and he refused to believe that old Potter's son would have any interest in potions, even if Lily's potions weren't bad...

He stepped forward directly, stretched out his hand forward, grabbed it directly after feeling the obvious cloth barrier, and then pulled it down forcefully. "Potter, what are you doing here—"

The rest of the words were all swallowed by him abruptly.

The person in front of him was a child, yes, but it wasn't Harry Potter at all. Even though the child had black hair, it was completely different from Potter's messy, straw-like hairstyle.

"You..." He said dryly. "Nigel?" The little boy who was always beside Tahlia and didn't talk much.

Also the little boy who almost made him misunderstand who Tahlia was with.

"What are you doing here?"

Nigel was also obviously frightened, he didn't expect to be found hiding in the invisibility cloak, and he was directly ripped away, obviously Tahlia seriously explained that he should try not to let anyone in the school know that he and Harry are now separated stay here...

Originally, he should have breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the person who tore off his cloak was not a student, but following the look and despising that person's face, he instantly became alert.

Severus Snape.

I don't know why with the same surname as him, it always makes Tahlia angry, and even almost kills him. The person Tahlia hates is also the person he hates.

Tahlia said he had to make his own judgment, who he could trust and who he should stay away from. He immediately made a decision that even if Tahlia didn't ask him to do so, he would never say a word to this man.

So he just cast a cold glance at Snape, then returned his gaze to his favorite potions books on the shelf, and the Invisibility Cloak...had been discovered anyway, so he just held it in his hand, I don't plan to approve it again.

"You..." Snape was ignored so completely by a child for the first time, Nigel would accidentally blurt out something in front of him two years ago, unlike now...

No matter what he said, Nigel didn't seem to hear it, and just picked out the books in front of him...

He inadvertently caught a glimpse of the titles of several books tightly held in his hands, and to his surprise, those books were not what a normal child of his age would read at all...

Where did Tahlia find a kid with such a keen interest in potions?

He has only met one person in his life, and that is himself.

"Do you like potions?" He asked even though he knew there would probably be no response. "I know there are a few books that are definitely enough to answer the questions you will encounter after reading those books..." Suddenly, although the child in front of him still didn't even want to give him a look, his ears trembled without a trace.

I can't help but smile in my heart.

So he was right, Nigel absolutely loved potions.

At least there is a breakthrough.