[HP] Can you be gentle with me

On this day, when Harry stepped into the living room of their small apartment with Nigel who was still clamoring for more sleep, he found that the atmosphere was a little different from usual.

It should be said that it is rare for Tahlia to sit upright instead of reading a newspaper on the sofa, as if waiting for the two of them to appear.

"Ah, you're up." Tahlia said, reaching out to pat the empty space beside her, and said to Harry. "Come here." Harry immediately felt the disappointment of Nigel next to him—he had originally taken the seat next to Tahlia. "Today is a very important day for you."

"What date?" Harry didn't know why.He is sure that today is not his birthday, what other important day will there be?

Tahlia didn't answer, just smiled and waved.

The next second, after the two children saw the envelope waving in her hand, they couldn't help screaming, and then they both rushed over, and Nigel snatched the letter.

"Hey! That's mine!" Harry couldn't help grumbling. "You have to wait a few years!"

"Anyway, you'll let me read it, right?" Nigel said with a smile, and hastily opened the envelope, then took out a few parchments inside and handed it to Harry. "Just kidding, of course you have to see this for yourself."

"Why do you become more and more cute..." Harry said helplessly, then took a deep breath, and then slowly spread out the parchments.

Tahlia watched from the side, she felt as if she had returned to her childhood, the first day she received this letter, that was also the first day she knew that magic really existed in this world, the first day she knew that she was actually part of them .

"Tahlia, which house do you think I'll be sorted into?"

When Tahlia came back to her senses, she found Harry looking at her worriedly, smiled quickly, and said. "Your parents are both Gryffindor, but you are who you are, and I think you'll do well wherever you're assigned."

"What about you?" Harry asked, and Tahlia was momentarily stunned by the question. "Which college did you go to?"

Of course he knew that each academy had its own strengths and specialties. Although Voldemort was originally from Slytherin, and now almost the entire wizarding world believed that Slytherin people were evil, he didn't think so.

Uncle Lucius was very kind to Tahlia, even if the outside world had a bad impression of the Malfoy family, he never thought about it that way, and there was a high possibility that Draco would be sorted into Slytherin, neither he nor Nigel believed that Draco would be bad guy.

So, which college did Tahlia go to before?

Tahlia was stunned for a while, and then suddenly remembered what she should say. She almost forgot that she never mentioned to the two children which college she was from, not even once.

Considering her life in Slytherin, she definitely wasn't very happy... It wasn't something she would talk about all the time, unlike Lucius who kept talking to Draco about all the good things about Slytherin...

He lowered his head to look at the two children, and was surprised to find that they were all looking forward to her answer, and couldn't help smiling wryly.

"You really want to know that much?" She asked, and immediately regretted asking this question, because she immediately saw the two little heads nodded vigorously together in an unusually tacit understanding.

"I..." Seeing the uncontrollable curiosity written on the faces of the two children, Tahlia suddenly smiled mischievously and said. "I will never tell you which college I am from, you can just guess."

"How is this!" The two protested in unison, but still failed to make Tahlia let go.

Tahlia laughed. "Why are you nervous? Anyway, it's impossible for me to reject you just because your academy is different from me──"

"We're so good, you don't want us!" Nigel didn't think about asking again, anyway, when Tahlia wanted to talk, he would tell them by himself, and directly pushed away Harry who was standing in front of him, ignoring He growled, plopping down next to Tahlia.Anyway, after he grew up a bit, he had clearly understood what Tahlia said to himself so seriously that night, and he would no longer be afraid that Tahlia would abandon him.

And he'd treat Tahlia like his mom too.

Tahlia ruffled Nigel's smooth hair lovingly before speaking. "Well, it really doesn't matter which house I'm in, what matters is you—" she said to Nigel, but she was also speaking to Harry. "I'm sure you'll work hard wherever you are, won't you?"

Harry and Nigel glanced at each other, then nodded earnestly.

"Isn't that enough?" Tahlia said lightly, clapping her hands together. "Get ready, I'll take you to Diagon Alley later." Then he stared at Harry for a while before continuing. "You'll be able to buy your own wand in a while!"

Nigel looked enviously at the smiling Harry, who was obviously excited and looking forward to it, and couldn't help but feel annoyed at how young he was and how long it would take for him to get his wand?

"You're coming soon, too," Harry said, but that voice sounded as gloating in Nigel's ears.

"The first thing I did when I got the wand was to make you smaller than me!" He pursed his lips and muttered angrily.

"No one can cast such difficult spells as soon as they get a wand, Nigel." Harry said seriously, thinking for a while before reassuring. "Okay, it's not that we won't run into each other after I go to school, don't forget, Tahlia is still in school," he said. "And my invisibility cloak is with you, don't you use him to secretly find the twins?" He said the last sentence in a low voice, fearing that Tahlia would hear it.

He has the feeling that Tahlia always staggers Nigel and the Weasley twins intentionally or unintentionally. I don't know if it's his illusion...

But ever since he overheard the various pranks the twins played in school, Harry felt that Tahlia was doing the right thing. One day it would be bad if Nigel was affected and played pranks on him instead.

After lunch, Tahlia took the two children directly to Diagon Alley. They rarely came here before, and she usually came here alone, so Harry and Nigel were still excited, only they didn't jump up in the street up.

A long time ago, when Dumbledore took Josh and her to step here for the first time, she was also excited, full of all kinds of expectations for all the unknowns, but later found that it was not the case at all──

Helpless smile.

Even if she wished she could just walk away, she didn't deprive Harry and Nigel of their choice.

Their future lives are absolutely their own, and they will never be at the mercy of anyone.

To do this, there is only one answer──

──That was the only hope she had worked so hard for so far.

Originally thought that this shopping trip would be ordinary, but after picking out the wand, several of them looked a little strange.

The reason was Harry's wand.

Olivander always gave a speech about each wand, as everyone already knew, but this time his words made Tahlia feel very uneasy.

It gave her the feeling that there was still a connection she didn't know existed between Harry and Voldemort.

Brother Wand.

The core of Harry's wand was a phoenix feather, and it came from the same phoenix as the phoenix feather in Voldemort's wand.

Why?

She didn't believe that Snape's potion had failed.

To say that the only thing she doesn't doubt about Snape now is this, she knows that the potion made by Snape can't go wrong, it's always been like this──

"Tahlia..."

Tahlia felt the hem of her clothes being pulled, looked down and realized that it was Nigel who suddenly grabbed her tightly. "What's wrong?" she asked in a low voice.

Nigel's entire face was almost scrunched up, his free hand pointed straight ahead.

After looking along, Tahlia immediately understood why Nigel had such an expression.

They really didn't expect that even on the day they chose to come to Diagon Alley, they would run into Severus Snape.

What was even more unexpected was that Snape had already seen the three of them, quickly walking towards them through the crowd──

Tahlia grabbed the shopping list in Harry's hand, studied it carefully for a while, grabbed the two children without any hesitation, and walked into a room full of various items. In the telescope shop.

"Tahlia, it looks like you're afraid of Professor Snape." Harry said helplessly, taking back his list and reading the sentence on it. "I need a telescope."

Tahlia looked away. "I'm just in case I can't help attacking him in the street." He went straight to a beautiful and carefully crafted telescope on the side. "You say I'll buy this for you, okay?"

Harry didn't speak, and didn't continue the topic just now, but he pulled Tahlia who was already excitedly negotiating with the shop assistant who came forward, and said. "Tahlia, the letter said a normal brass telescope, not this—"

"Ah, yes." Tahlia said regretfully, patted herself on the forehead, and then pulled the two children to a small area aside. "I think there should be enough for the students to use here," she said, pointing to some of the smaller telescopes there. "I used these too..."

Harry and Nigel glanced at each other, and wisely they didn't mention that Tahlia's behavior was obviously in a panic. They didn't know when it started. They gradually discovered that Tahlia would behave after talking or meeting Snape. It was so weird, it even made them feel like Tahlia had become stupid.

Just like now, when you feel dizzy for a moment, you want to spend a lot of money to buy a telescope that Harry will never use. It's not right to say that you are showing off your wealth. Who would deliberately show off on this kind of thing?In view of the fact that unless something like a telescope is still thinking about studying astronomy in the future, I probably won't touch it again after graduation.

Snape still had no influence on Tahlia. It should be said that the mild-mannered Snape still had a great influence on Tahlia, even though she never showed it in front of him.

The two children knew this very well in their hearts.

Then the store door was pushed open again, and Harry unconsciously turned his head to take a look.

Merlin...

Professor Snape even followed into the shop.