[HP] Can you be gentle with me

"It's not that she doesn't remember you."

A moment of silence.

Nigel stared at Snape with a tight frown, clearly not believing what he was saying. Snape sighed, reached out and pulled Nigel a little further down the corridor before continuing. "Do you know why she came back here?" was the boy's head shake. "She was going to ask you to make the potion for her."

"I—?"

"That's right, you know that Mr. Hilton's death has hit her hard, and she wants you to make her... a potion of oblivion."

Nigel's eyes widened and his mouth opened wide, in disbelief.

"I don't think you need to worry about that, though, because I did it for her," Snape continued.

"You for her—" Nigel repeated in a murmur, before turning up the volume in an instant. "You did it for her?"

"You heard me right, I made the potion and she drank it." Snape's tone was the complete opposite of the boy in front of him, calm as usual. "The efficacy of the potion would have made her forget that she cared so much about that man, but something went wrong..."

"……What's the meaning?"

Snape stared at Nigel steadily. "For some reason I haven't figured out yet, it seems Tahlia's memory flashes back to when she was teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts at school... and when—"

"──I...haven't been born yet." Nigel answered in a daze.

Snape nodded, and then stopped talking, giving the boy in front of him some time to digest what he had just told him.

After an unknown amount of time, Nigel finally raised his head slowly and looked at Snape calmly, just like the anxious and flustered expression just now.

"You will tell me this matter calmly here, does it mean that you know how to solve this problem?" He asked lightly.

Snape's heart skipped a beat, and he subconsciously glanced at the door, before turning around, and said. "I'm not sure yet, but I'll look into—"

"You're not sure you can fix it at all?" Nigel became agitated again, just short of rushing up and grabbing Snape. "What if she can't change back?" After speaking, there was deep fear in her tone again. "What do you say!"

Another moment of silence.

For the first time in his life, Nigel didn't hide his inner unease in front of Snape at all, he couldn't face Snape face to face, so he lowered his head, he didn't dare to think, as long as he thought of Tahlia looking at him with familiarity, but with Strange eyes, he found it unbearable... no, he couldn't let this go on, he had to find a way to stop it - even if it meant he had to cooperate with Snape.

"...But you will find a way, right?" After a while, he slowly raised his head again, and mustered up the courage to look straight into the dark eyes of the man in front of him, hoping to find a faint affirmation in it. "You can't let her be like this, you'll find a way to get her back to normal, right?"

Maybe the man in front of him was a nuisance, but Nigel was sure of one thing, Snape was also a very capable wizard, anyway, in almost every book he read about the death of the Dark Lord, Ben had mentioned Snape's name, without the potion he made, they wouldn't have won...

Oh, stop - even if it was possible that Tahlia couldn't remember himself, he couldn't let himself keep praising Snape...

Nigel shook his head, then looked at Snape.

"...If you can't do it, I will find a way myself." That's right, if the person in front of me can't do it, I will solve it myself no matter what price I pay!

Snape lowered his head, looking at the child in front of him with complicated eyes.

"Didn't your mother teach you not to be too confident?" After speaking, Nigel raised his hand to stop him before he became angry and wanted to open his mouth to refute, and continued to speak. "Before you show your impulsive disrespect for your professors yet again, let me answer your previous question," he said, pausing slightly. "Yes, I'll find a way—"

In fact, if his speculation is correct, Tahlia's memory confusion will not last long, since she still remembers the child Nigel even in the past memories, she can guess that maybe the effect of the potion is not normal play.

Yes, she had forgotten things, but those would be temporary.

Seeing Nigel's stunned expression again, the word cute jumped into Snape's mind for some reason, even though Nigel was 12 years old, his face was obviously elongated a lot compared to when he first met him. The bulging cheeks have gradually faded and become a lot more mature.The most obvious thing should be the height. The child in front of me has reached my shoulders now. For some reason, I recalled the scene where Tahlia angrily complained to herself that she was not always tall. Now it seems that at the beginning The problems that plagued her shouldn't have happened to Nigel as well.

"...so you should hurry back to your dormitory before I deduct points for your behavior of wandering around the castle late at night." He reminded in a low voice. "Leave this to me."

Nigel raised his head and stared straight at Snape, as if he was thinking about how much truth there was in Snape's words. After a while, he nodded slowly, almost imperceptibly, and cast a last glance in the direction of the office. He glanced at it, then turned around and left step by step.

Snape finally breathed a sigh of relief.

In any case, even though the intrusion of Nigel's kid was beyond his expectation, it saved him the trouble of having to explain to him later, thinking, Snape took a deep breath before opening the office door again .

Tahlia sat blankly on the sofa in the middle of the office, staring blankly at a certain point in the air, her eyes glazed over, until she heard the sound of Snape entering the door, and she turned her head in a daze.

"Severus…" she began, her voice visibly trembling. "……What's wrong with me?"

"Tahlia—"

"I can't remember him!" Tahlia suddenly roared. "Why do I have no memory of him at all, but know his name - he's a student here, isn't he? I see the uniform on him, Hufflepuff's...but why do I have no memory at all Saw him in class—”

Snape was silent.

Of course, it is impossible for her to have any impression of seeing Nigel in class. Even if there is no fault in her memory, she has never seen Nigel in class with her own eyes. It should be said that she would never see Nigel...

"Is he familiar with me?" The woman's almost broken voice reached Snape's ears. "I heard him call my name directly—"

"Stop."

All voices suddenly stopped.

Snape reached out to hold the hand of Tahlia, who was still in a state of panic a second ago. Although she couldn't help shaking, she did obediently did not continue to speak.

"Listen..." Snape lowered his volume, trying to speak in a voice that wasn't too gentle, after all, he wasn't as pleasant as he was now when facing Tahlia. "You don't have any problems, don't just think about it."

"But—"

"I said, there is no problem."

Tahlia's opened mouth closed again, and then her whole body suddenly became stiff, as if she had suddenly realized what state she was in now.

Snape pulled her...

Why……?

"You..." Tahlia said, swallowing what she was going to say abruptly and changing her mouth. "What happened?"

Snape didn't make a sound, just maintained the same posture, perhaps trying to give Tahlia something to rely on.

And obviously this move really scared her.

She withdrew her hand anxiously, looking at Snape with worry and anxiety in her eyes, but it was different from the chaotic anxiety just now. "...What the hell happened?"

Snape sighed softly.Even now...even if Tahlia is in this situation, she is still worried about herself──

"As I just said, nothing happened."

Tahlia was still confused, but she nodded slowly. For a while, neither of them spoke.

"You sleep a little longer." After a while, Snape stood up slowly and said, for Tahlia's inexplicable fatigue, maybe it was the effect of the potion, or maybe she was too excited just now, in short, even though she had just After waking up from the drowsiness, he still suggested that she sleep for a while, and it happened that he could use this time to carefully study the remaining potions.

"Here?" Tahlia blinked, looking around unconsciously. "Sorry...I'm not trying to trouble you, Seveurs...but where is this? I mean, it feels familiar to me—but I can't remember..." Saying this, he almost fell into a panic again, Fortunately, Snape caught her just in time.

"Listen, it's safe here," Snape said calmly. "You will understand in the future."

"Oh..." Tahlia blinked again, and then slowly lay down on the sofa, closing her eyes.

Snape had mixed feelings inside, and Merlin knew how long it had been since he'd seen Tahlia who was so talkative, so—— easy to pass, but no... this problem had to be resolved quickly, he had promised the kid that tomorrow was the weekend, which meant he had something to say. It took two full days to think of a way. It should be said that he had to think of a way in these two days.

Thinking about it, Snape resolutely walked to the big table just now, picked up the potion bottle just now and looked at it carefully.

To be honest, with all that is left, he really can't see anything wrong with the potion, the potion is absolutely correct, at least before they throw it in the wedding ring, it is the same as it is recorded in the literature, absolutely clear Transparent liquid.

So the problem really lies in their final steps?

But not so reasonable.

If there was any error in any step, it should directly lead to the failure of potion making. He really couldn't think of the reason why Tahlia became like this.

"Damn!"

A curse came out of Snape's mouth, and with the sound of something falling on the ground, those scrolls full of documents and several potion bottles were innocently swept to the ground, and because of this, they were originally crushed A battered and flimsy notebook that looked unremarkable under the scrolls came into Snape's eyes.

And the moment he opened it and glanced at it for the first time, he got all the answers that puzzled him before.

The original owner of this manuscript is unknown, but what is certain is that the author who wrote these pages had exactly the same experience as Snape, and they had someone very important to them drink that magic After the medicine, the effect that did not match the expectation appeared.

Snape was right in thinking, the problem was indeed in the last step.

There would have been no mistakes in the first place, the two pair of rings were indeed important items that the man planned to give to Tahlia, and Tahlia would definitely cherish them very much—provided that the man handed them over to her.

...that's right, with your own hands.

He failed to hand them over to her. He entrusted them to himself. Even if he did hand them over to her later, he couldn't change the fact that the originally simple delivery process was completely disrupted by himself.

This makes the potion affected when judging the target, and Snape has no way of knowing where the effect of the final potion decided to appear, but what we can know is that the bottle of potion they finished in the end worked. The object of her desire happened to herself and the man at the same time—if Tahlia drank it, she would forget not only the man, but also herself.

Including myself──

I don't know whether to say it is luck or misfortune, no matter from which point of view, this is impossible, most of his life and Tahlia's life are entangled, he doesn't know if there is any kind of A spell, or a potion, that can completely erase this relationship. It should be said that even if there is such a thing, after success, Tahlia will no longer be herself. It is because of their past that they created With the two of them now, Snape couldn't imagine what his life would be like without Tahlia, and what kind of person he would be.

But she drank it, which is said to be the most powerful forgetting potion in the world. The potion should make her forget herself, but she couldn't forget herself...

The final result led to the current situation, her memory went back, and her entire psychological cognition went backwards──

'...I don't know what to do - he seems to have lost his memory for years, but I dare not tell him... oh, how dare I tell him...his child—his mother—seems to him It would be happier to say this... I told him not to think about it, just rest for a while, maybe I can come up with a solution──"

'He seemed to remember something - I don't know how to explain it... I don't know what to do... but he just remembered something - but how?He said he had an appointment to have breakfast with me...but the last time I asked him out was...more than a year ago──'

Sleep.

Snape understood almost instantly that sleep...

The confusion caused by memory is definitely temporary, the brain will eventually adjust itself, and sleep... is definitely the state that allows it to concentrate on taking repair actions.

And this also means-

The alarm bell in his heart rang loudly, and Snape reflexively wanted to reach for the wand in his arms, but was immediately interrupted by a cold voice behind him.

"What are you doing in my office?" The voice was flat, but it made Snape feel as if he had been thrown into an ice bucket in an instant, making him shiver uncontrollably. "Professor Snape?"