[HP] Can you be gentle with me

"Tahlia, do you think there is any way to ease the pain of Remus' transformation into a werewolf...?"

A few more weeks have passed in the blink of an eye, and the weather is already clearly chilling, and it is estimated that snow will fall soon, which also means that the Christmas holiday is coming again.

James and the others have been rummaging through a lot of books for several nights, trying to find a way to help Remus, of course, without telling Remus, otherwise, with his personality, although he will feel moved, he doesn't want to bother them. .

"I've thought of many ways, but none of them work so far..." Tahlia said.

He has indeed thought of many ways, the most feasible of which is probably Wolfsbane Potion, but...

Thinking of Snape, although they had a good friendship now, he probably still wouldn't want to do such a troublesome thing.

With a sigh, Tahlia closed the book. "I'll think about it again."

"Thank you so much, Tahlia." Sirius said happily.

I always feel that as long as Tahlia is willing to help, many things will become much easier. This is the experience of relying on Tahlia to save them every time they forgot to write their homework throughout the last year.

"What…" Tahlia smiled. "Isn't Remus my friend?" In fact, she had been helping Remus secretly before them.

The point was Snape...

Tahlia had a headache and didn't know how to tell Snape. There was absolutely nothing to say about Remus, but to hide it, how could she come up with another reason to ask him to help improve the wolfsbane potion?And to be fair, Snape wasn't stupid, and he wasn't that easy to hug...

Or is it just making him interested?

...maybe it's a good idea.

Well, the only question left was how to get Snape interested in the improved Wolfsbane potion...how hard could it be?It shouldn't be too difficult, it should...

Now that you've decided, it's time to plan...

Tahlia went to find Snape. At that time, he was sitting quietly in one of the armchairs, writing something on his face on the table. It seemed that he might not be writing a treatise on potions, otherwise his brow would not be so tight.

"Severus."

Snape looked up, saw that it was Tahlia, and pointed with his quill to the unoccupied armchair with many of his books on it.

Tahlia moved the books away knowingly, and carefully put them aside.

"Are you free now?" she asked.

Snape's eyes moved back and forth between Tahlia and the parchment on the table that he was struggling with just now, and after a while, he turned his eyes to Tahlia again. "Um."

"...When I didn't ask, you seem to be distressed..." Tahlia leaned closer, and found that she had guessed wrong earlier, that the paper turned out to be about potions.

"Severus! I read that right!" she said in surprise. "You're even frowning at the treatise on potions—"

Snape pulled back the parchment in some embarrassment, and gritted his teeth. "There's no rule at school that I can't frown on potions."

Hearing Snape's answer, Tahlia froze for a moment, then grinned. "Haha, Severus, don't be so fussy, I'm just surprised…" There was a pause. "Then, I'm really curious as to what problem is so difficult that it bothers you, a potions genius..."

"A powerful pacifier."

"Is it the potion that claims to instantly put to sleep no matter how ferocious a beast is?" Tahlia asked.

It was Snape's nod.

"What happened to this potion?"

Snape handed the parchment to Tahlia.

She took it, and quickly looked through the content that Snape had crossed out, written and repeated many times, which seemed a bit messy.

"This one……"

"According to the original formula, the resulting potion has no such effect at all." Snape said distressedly. "It should be said that it is impossible to make such a pacifier that can be applied to all animals──"

"I understand what you mean... you fall asleep instantly, and if you fail to manage one dose, you will die."

Each creature has a different critical point for falling into a coma. If the dose for the least susceptible creature is taken, then other creatures will definitely not only fall into a coma.

Unless the potion can automatically adjust the dosage...but obviously it is impossible.

"Then... what are you researching this potion for now?" Handing the parchment back to Snape.

He took it, but was silent for a while.

"Did you hear—"

"Yes." Snape said. "I want to try to make it..."

Tahlia's mouth fell open. "But you said—"

"I said it was impossible." Snape said seriously. "However, it is obviously reasonable to improve this formula and apply it to other potions." He paused. "Think about it, if it is improved according to different needs and combined with other potions, it will definitely be very effective."

"Like what?"

"……"silence.

It seemed that Snape hadn't even thought about which potions to combine with, but this was a good opportunity...

"How about, wolf poison potion...?"

Snape looked up, doubts in his eyes. "Wolfwool potion?"

"Don't say you haven't heard of it." Tahlia said firmly. "Right now, Wolfsbane potion is basically useless, don't you want to improve it?"

Snape thought for a moment.

"How?" Tahlia continued to egg on. "The thing that needs to be improved the most about this existing potion is that the soothing effect in it is not good. Isn't this what you need most?" He paused for a while. "That's arguably the best application of your powerful pacifier."

"It does make sense..." Snape frowned, still a little hesitant.

"Think, that's a werewolf! A brutal werewolf!" Tahlia said a little excitedly, she felt that she was only one step away from successfully convincing Snape. "The data that can successfully make werewolves fall asleep will definitely make the next research more informative..."

"I..." Snape thought for a while, and then spoke again, and this time his tone was no longer hesitant. "I think you're right... If even werewolves can become harmless successfully, there are few more threatening creatures in the world... This will definitely be a big step forward in the history of potions, said Maybe it will be recorded—" He said to himself, but he didn't notice that the corners of his mouth raised more than a little unconsciously.

The result was Tahlia staring blankly at Snape.

The last time he'd seen Snape smile was on the train, when he was asking himself about Lucius, the smile was shallow, and this time, he smiled again in front of himself.

Unlike the last time, this time the smile made her feel that Snape was in a very happy mood. In the past, he always didn't show his true emotions easily, and most of the angry expressions he saw on his face were his. Basic camouflage, always makes people unable to figure out what kind of feelings he has in his heart.

This was the first time she felt his mood so clearly instead of guessing it from his behavior.

"What are you staring at me for?" As if sensing Tahlia's gaze, Snape caught sight of his expression, and the brief smile disappeared immediately.

"No." Tahlia glanced over her head, and quickly found a topic to prevaricate. "Is there anything I can do for your research?"

"No." Snape replied subconsciously, but he couldn't help changing his words after seeing Tahlia's somewhat lonely expression after hearing it. "I mean, don't bother you too much, but I still need some different ideas—maybe when I'm stuck in a bottleneck." After a pause, I added another sentence. "You did give me some direction, Tahlia."

Hearing Snape say that, Tahlia was a little embarrassed instead. "Uh, no, I mean, as long as I can help you, that..." Her eyes wandered, but she didn't dare to look at Snape. "Have you finished your Transfiguration homework? It's due the day after tomorrow—"

As soon as the lecture was over, Tahlia wanted to beat herself up, and instead of mentioning transfiguration in any homework, she had to mention transfiguration.

Sure enough, Snape's face darkened instantly after hearing this.

"Well, if you haven't written it yet, I can lend you mine—"

"Thanks then," Snape said flatly.

Ruined.

She seemed to upset Snape, again - just one sentence.

Immediately, he took out his metamorphosis thesis from the backpack, stuffed it into Snape's arms, and said "Then I'll go back to the dormitory first." Then he quickly fled the scene.

Only then did Merlin know if he would be suffocated by Snape's low air pressure if he stayed there.Fortunately, he finished writing, so he shouldn't be so annoyed like this, probably not...

The research on the improvement of wolfbane potion started like this, but it was full of difficulties.

As a result, Snape would have a stinking face whenever he walked into the Room of Response, which became the potion research room. In fact, this result is not surprising, after all, although Snape's potions already surpassed that of almost all students in the school , but improving this kind of potion, which even the potion masters may not be able to succeed, is almost an impossible task for them who are still students.

Tahlia felt full of guilt towards Snape, he was already very gloomy, and now he was even more unapproachable, even James and the others dared not mock him casually.

Fortunately, Snape was not a person who would care about these things, not to mention he would not be harassed by James and others because of this, so he was happy to be at ease.

Soon, the Christmas holidays will come.

The luggage has been packed and piled up next to the bed. Tahlia will still go home this year. It should be said that she has never planned to stay at school for the holidays. The letters asking her to go home must have been drowned out.

What's more, almost all the students of Slytherin go home for the holidays in previous years. Unlike other colleges, pure-blood families usually have several banquets during the Christmas holidays, and these future heirs of course have to go home for the holidays. I went home to participate.

Peter will stay in school this year, his father went to work in other places and couldn't come back, so he was told to stay in school. Remus had to go home because of that little secret, and needless to say, James and Sirius had to go home, so Peter was the only one left in the foursome at school, causing him to be morose for a while.

There is another person who is also depressed all day long.

This year Lily won't be spending the holidays in Cokeworth, their family has planned a trip, and the Evans plan to leave Lily as soon as she gets off the train, which means that Snape has to go back to Cokeworth on his own. Staying in the school, but this also means that he will only be the only student in the entire Slytherin. Although he doesn't interact with people very much, it doesn't mean that he would like to stay alone in the empty cellar. At least the mother could be seen in that disgusting home.

Seeing Snape with a dark face all day long—although he had actually been black for several weeks, Tahlia couldn't bear it, and she blurted out unconsciously the day before the holiday. "Why don't you come to my house for Christmas, Severus?"