[HP] Can you be gentle with me

"What did you come to see me for?"

Sirius stared blankly at Tahlia, the words he had finally thought of disappeared in an instant, and his mind went blank.

"Don't want to answer? Then you should go back...I'll tell Josh they have you—"

"No." Sirius said hastily. "I... I want to say, you lied to me."

Tahlia's face darkened. "Isn't that obvious?" she said. "I said it a few months ago..."

"I didn't mean that!" Sirius said hurriedly, and started pacing up and down the room, as if trying to find a better way to express it.

"Then—"

"You don't really think that!" Sirius said loudly. "I know." There was a pause. "Remus overheard your conversation while on the train... You said you did that because... because, to prevent me from being expelled from the family..." After speaking, his tone became firm.

Tahlia froze for a moment, but then spoke. "Remus misheard."

Sirius didn't miss Tahlia's stunned expression for a moment, and smiled a little smugly. "Look, you even called him Remus, you don't want to get rid of us like you claim."

"It's just a habit..."

"But he heard what you said."

Tahlia suddenly felt that this matter might not be hidden, why did Remus wander into Lucius' box just then?The timing is really accurate...

But if she told Sirius the truth, wouldn't her hard work for the past few months be in vain?If he has contact with himself again, he will be expelled from the family as soon as it is passed on, but...

Looking at Sirius who was smiling brightly, she suddenly couldn't bear to say anything that hurt him...

Severus was right, it was the most stupid way.

Perhaps she should have discussed it with Sirius and the others from the very beginning, and a few people may find a more ideal way... Merlin... Her previous behavior was really too selfish...

Admit it anyway.

She looked up, her expression still flat. "Sirius, you mean I'm all in cahoots?"

"That's it."

"So," she raised an eyebrow. "Since I can intentionally let you hear the conversation that I colluded with Lucius, why didn't the conversation that Remus overheard on the train also be designed by me?"

"This..." Sirius swallowed, he really didn't expect this, but it doesn't matter, it doesn't affect the truth of the matter. "That's different."

"What's the difference?"

"You... since you let me hear those words on purpose, there's no reason for you to let Remus hear them again, is there?"

"Really?" Tahlia smiled slightly. "That's a good reason..."

"Don't tell me it doesn't make sense—"

Sirius stared wide-eyed, looking at Tahlia who was already smiling at him, playing back what she said just now in his head...Since she could deliberately let herself hear that she was in collusion with Lucius...she was in collusion with Lucius...

Sure enough, she deliberately let herself hear it!

"You...you..." Hearing Tahlia confess with his own ears clearly caught him off guard, and he couldn't even utter a complete sentence.

"Sirius, I'm sorry."

While Sirius was still stuttering, Tahlia had already spoken first, she stood up, stepped forward and hugged Sirius tightly, feeling that he was frozen in place.After a long time, he took a few steps back. "Sorry, I was wrong, I shouldn't have hurt you in this way..." she said. "Obviously I didn't want my friends to suffer any harm, but in the end I personally gave it—"

"It's fine." Sirius stopped her from continuing.

Feeling relaxed in his heart, Sirius let go, and pulled the chair in front of Tahlia's desk as if he were at home, and sat astride facing the back of the chair. "I was wrong too. I should have told you about the family affairs at the beginning... You wouldn't be thinking like this..."

He smiled and asked again after a while. "When did you know?"

"When Narcissa took you away after the Quidditch match."

Sirius' expression became weird. "You...I don't think you have listened to our conversation..." After that conversation, Narcissa suggested a solution to herself. If Tahlia had heard it, how could she have done that on her own...

"Uh..." Tahlia scratched her head in embarrassment. "No..." She did run away after hearing half of it. Did they say anything else later?

Sirius rolled his eyes. "Narcissa gave me advice later on," he said. "She told me to just pretend to keep a distance from you, enough to convince the family." She said with another bright smile. "Anyway, we have an on-demand room, are you afraid we won't see each other?"

Tahlia opened her mouth wide, then lowered her head, and fell into self-blame again. She was ashamed to say that she studied well. If you really don't want to be friends with him, can't you still fool the Black couple who are not at school at all?

"I... I didn't expect that, sorry."

Sirius waved his hand. "Isn't it all right now?" He said with a smile, and then said seriously. "But if you promise me one thing, I'll forgive you."

"What?" Tahlia immediately asked, she hadn't paid back the two favors she owed to Lucius, and now she owes Sirius one more, isn't she overdrafting her future self... If she had known, she wouldn't have asked Lucius for help, see Looking at it now, she feels that she has let him earn a favor for nothing...

"Promise me, if you encounter similar things in the future, you must discuss it with us before doing it, and this kind of thing will never happen again!" Sirius said seriously.

Tahlia was taken aback, but then smiled. "Of course, I will never use this idiot method again..."

"Reconciliation?" Sirius held out a hand.

"Yeah." He also reached out his hand and held it. "Right," she said, suddenly thinking of something. "Then you can't bully Severus casually anymore."

"........."

"You can't call him a snot either."

"........."

They are all used to shouting, how can this be changed suddenly!

Sirius stayed for dinner, since he had met Tahlia and reconciled with her, how could he want to go back to that cold home.

The only thing in the family that makes him happy is that cute younger brother, not to mention that Regulus received the admission notice a few days ago, and after this summer vacation, he will go to Hogwarts with him, and there is no him in that house Care about something.

I really hope that I will grow up soon, maybe I will no longer be at the mercy of my parents.

"Sirius, you didn't sneak out this time too, did you?"

Sirius was taken aback for a moment, and laughed a few times in embarrassment. "…how do you know?"

"Don't make that look," Tahlia said with a smile. "That's a good guess."

After thinking about it, yes, he has to be accompanied by a house elf every time he goes out. It's called protection, but it's actually watching him not to do anything that will harm the Black family, but it's uncomfortable to have a house elf follow him He's dead, and today he just had to fight with his mother just to get together with his friends and not let the house-elves follow him. It was already begging for a long time. Fortunately, in the end, his mother reluctantly agreed because at least one of the children was from the Potter family.

Just in time for him to sneak over to Tahlia.

"But I have to go back early tomorrow morning." Thinking of this, Sirius was a little sullen. "Otherwise, I think the family will probably turn the entire wizarding world upside down."

He reached out and patted Sirius' shoulder reassuringly, and said. "It's okay, you can write to me..."

By the way, speaking of letters...

"You're not going back to school, are you?" Sirius raised his head sharply and asked.

Tahlia was taken aback, the question was so illogical that she forgot to answer it for a while.

Seeing Tahlia's reaction, Sirius instantly became nervous, thinking that he had hit the mark, and hurriedly jumped up from the chair. "You have to go back to school!" He said anxiously. "We—me and James, and Remus, and Peter...yes, and Lily...and that...that Snape! If you don't go back, what are we going to—"

Tahlia hastily raised a hand to stop him from speaking further. "Stop—Sirius, what makes you think I'm not going back to school?"

Sirius froze. "You...don't you?"

Tahlia laughed. "Of course I'll go back to school, what are you thinking?"

"But... but those letters—"

"Which letters?...uh..." Tahlia asked reflexively, and then seemed to remember something. "You said... those letters...?"

Sirius refers to those letters that are sent by different owls every day, and the joint signatures are different... Only the first letter is written with James' name, and she almost couldn't help opening it, but that What Shi Shi thought was that maybe James wrote a letter specially to accuse her... so in the end she didn't open the letter, but let the owl send it back directly.

"Those... those letters are you...?"

Jian Sirius nodded slowly, and Tahlia held his forehead. Because the different kinds of owls and the letters with different signatures every day were too weird, so Josh ordered everyone not to respond. In his impression, she didn't know so many It felt like it was not a serious letter, but it turned out to be Sirius and the others who sent it...

"Why, you have to use different signatures every day..." Tahlia asked helplessly.

Sirius was also a little embarrassed, and spoke dryly. "Uh...you returned our first letter, we thought you saw the name on it, so Remus suggested that you change the names...uh," he rubbed his head. "Obviously not very useful..." He immediately realized that the suggestions made by Remus in the future should be carefully evaluated before they can be implemented.

"Josh thought I was being harassed by strange people." Tahlia said with a headache.

"Okay, sorry…" Sirius said, before suddenly jumping up from his chair again. "Skylar lend me..."

"Yes, yes, but what are you going to do?" Tahlia nodded and asked suspiciously.

Sirius spoke quickly. "If you don't want another strangely signed owl letter tomorrow, I have to write a letter to James and them to explain that the misunderstanding between us has been resolved, so I have to borrow your parchment and quill..."

Tahlia was speechless, but in order to get rid of the weird daily letter, she hurriedly took a pen and paper to Sirius.

Early the next morning, finally, there were no more weird letters, but Skylar still brought back a reply letter. Tahlia read the signature, um, this time it was written by Remus, and opened the letter with a smile.

"What did you write?" Sirius leaned closer and asked.

"Probably just glad that everyone is reconciled..."

"Who is reconciled?" Josh's voice came suddenly.

Both of them looked at Josh with some embarrassment.

Josh frowned slightly, looked back and forth between the two, and spoke hesitantly. "Did you fight before?"

"No!" The two quickly denied in unison.

Then there is.

The corner of Josh's mouth twitched, and after thinking for a while, he didn't ask why they quarreled. Anyway, it seems that they should be reconciled now, children...it's not normal not to quarrel.

After breakfast, Sirius left with some reluctance, and kept telling Tahlia to go back to school, which made her reluctantly agree, after all, she had no intention of not going back to school at all... Sometimes the thoughts in Sirius' head are really... otherworldly.

A few days later, while the family was having breakfast, Tahlia saw a familiar owl approaching from afar, which seemed to be Lucius' owl...

It looked like the Malfoys' invitation had arrived.