[HP] Can you be gentle with me

Back home, Tahlia remembered not only lunch, she didn't even eat dinner.

"Your senior made you hungry?" Josh raised an eyebrow after Tahlia told himself she hadn't eaten yet. "Could you have stayed in their study until you forgot the time?"

"…sorry," Tahlia whispered. "I will not do it again."

"You..." Josh fondled the top of Tahlia's head. "Reading is of course very important, but you can't always forget to eat."

"I really didn't mean to—" Tahlia said.And this time I really didn't forget the time because of reading...

"Tahlia, haven't you eaten yet?"

Hamish's voice came from the kitchen, and it was full of concern.

"She forgot the time again," Josh answered for her.

There was a little silence.

"Then come in, I'll get you something to eat."

Tahlia walked into the kitchen and cracked some eggs for Hamish without waiting for him to ask. "Actually, you don't have to give it to me, I can—"

"Billy just begged for a midnight snack, he should thank you—" Hamish smiled. "I didn't intend to get it for him."

Tahlia chuckled. "Then he must be very happy, maybe he will appear after the smell of food dissipates."

Hamish is also giggling.

Tahlia feels that after returning home, no matter what emotions she had before, she will unknowingly relax. In fact, the most miraculous thing is this. Home will always be a safe haven for one person. Like now, I am cooking some dishes in the kitchen with Hamish , playing with Billy, discussing big and small things with Josh, and talking about interesting things he encountered at work with Tony...

These are all ordinary things, and this is what she wants to protect.

Seeing Hamish's side face focused on cooking, Tahlia clenched her fists unconsciously.

They can never be involved.

She would never, never let them get hurt—absolutely!

The holidays were over in two days, and Tahlia didn't want to use the Malfoy Manor portkey anymore, so she didn't refuse Josh's offer to drive her to the station, maybe she should learn how to make one herself when she gets back to school...not that kind One-time, but permanent effect.

If it was before, the first thing she did was to write a letter to ask Mr.

But how could she have anything to do with Voldemort now?She will never write a letter to him again.

After arriving at the school, she went directly to the lobby and met Snape who was already having dinner. If she remembered correctly, today was Sirius' Quidditch training day, so he probably went straight to the kitchen to get something to eat after training.

"Hey, Severus." She sat down beside him.

Snape nodded, but didn't stop eating.

Seeing that Snape didn't pay her much attention, Tahlia spoke again. "How was your vacation?"

Snape glanced at Tahlia lightly, swallowed the ham slowly, and then spoke slowly. "Probably not as fulfilling as you."

"What?" Tahlia didn't understand.

Snape stared at her for a moment, then turned back again. "Malfoy Manor must be very comfortable."

Tahlia suddenly felt dumbfounded. "Severus...you're not jealous, are you? I told you before that Lucius came to me for something—"

"Are you blind?" Snape replied coldly, but his movements froze instantly.

Tahlia smiled, and rummaged through her backpack for a while, then pulled out a few biscuits wrapped in handkerchiefs, and handed them to Snape. "Here, I brought these from Lucius' house. Actually, I haven't been there for a long time, but you seem to like the biscuits I brought from the banquet earlier, so when I go this time, I let the family The elf made some—”

"I never said I liked these cookies."

The small silence, of course, was only limited to the two of them, because the hall was noisy at this time.

"Sorry," Tahlia lowered her head, and slowly withdrew her hand holding the biscuit. "I think I made the same mistake again—"

"What?" Snape said coldly, but after seeing Tahlia's gloomy eyes, he felt an urge to comfort her, but fortunately he resisted.

Tahlia forced a smile. "I shouldn't speculate on other people's inner thoughts, right?" Putting the biscuit back into the backpack silently. "I always forget that—"

"You do," he said flatly, before opening his mouth sarcastically. "It seems that you never learn the lesson, Tahlia." Then he didn't say anything more, and continued to eat the food on the table quietly, as if there was no Tahlia sitting beside him.

He is right to do so.

She is a pedal—it is impossible for him to have too close contact with a pedal, he has already slackened, and this time has been long enough, for his purpose, it is time to restrain himself.

Tahlia rubbed his nose, it seemed that Snape had been more awkward lately, and could vaguely feel that he was getting more depressed again, although he was already depressed enough before, but recently it had become worse.

When did it start?

damn it!

She suddenly remembered—

Snape wanted to make contact with Voldemort!

How could she let this happen!Yes, this matter must not happen──Even if it was something she promised him, it is enough for the mistake to happen once, no matter what she does, she cannot make the mistake again──

"Tahlia."

She froze, but quickly turned her head and smiled. "how?"

Snape looked at her indifferently, she couldn't tell if he had noticed his momentary stiff action just now. "I'm asking for your help, you—" There was a pause. "Did you mention it to him?"

Merlin definitely wanted to kill himself, absolutely!

"I mentioned it," Tahlia said. "But he didn't say anything in particular—"

Please give up, give up, Severus──I kept praying in my heart.

"Really?" Snape raised one eyebrow, stared at Tahlia for a long time, and then spoke flatly. "You didn't mention it at all, did you?"

"what?"

He sneered. "You've never been good at lying, Tahlia."

Tahlia froze, looked at Snape, then dropped her head. "Sorry, I just haven't had the chance to—"

A cold hum.

"I'm telling the truth!" she said hastily. "I was going to mention it, but he stopped me from—"

"Forget it, whatever you want—" Snape turned around. "Anyway, you promised."

"Severus—"

Snape didn't want to know why, all he knew was that Tahlia lied to him... He couldn't understand why she didn't tell her she didn't at all when it was such an easy thing for her I didn't mention it to that person, but used such clumsy lies to prevaricate him, and changed my words hastily after being found out by myself.

This is not her usual style at all.

"I don't understand you, Tahlia—" he began. "You keep asking me to trust you, but you lie to me even for such a trivial matter, which makes me suspect—" He paused, smiling contemptuously. "Are you lying to me about other things too?"

"Of course not!" Tahlia said hastily.

Apart from that, she really hadn't lied to Snape, and yes, she hadn't said anything about it, but she thought they had reached an agreement about Remus, because she didn't want to lie to him, so she kept it secret!

Snape turned his head away, obviously not convinced at all.

"Severus—"

no respond.

"Severus—"

Tahlia wanted to be angry, really wanted to - but she knew she'd never be able to, at least not with Snape, she didn't know why, but it's been like that since she was a kid, she'd be sad because of him, because of him Sad, crying because of him—but just not angry because of him.

Turning around flirtatiously, anyway, Snape wouldn't talk to him now anyway—maybe we can talk to him someday when he's in a better mood.

But she was never going to keep what she had promised him anyway, not even if Snape later hated her for it for the rest of his life.

The Dark Lord has been particularly irritable lately.

Everyone who was summoned by him felt it, the clever ones like Lucius were able to back away in time, and the others who were a little slower were hit by a few spells.

But no one knows what happened.

Lucius thought that he had perfectly completed the tasks assigned to him by the Lord recently, so he really didn't understand why the tone of the Lord was getting colder and colder every day.

Voldemort had the feeling that his plan had failed.

The little girl hadn't written to him for a week, which was absolutely impossible with her personality, so obviously something happened.

"Lucius," he called.

"Yes, Lord." Lucius said with a respectful bow.

"Go get Tahlia."

Lucius looked up. "Lord?" Tahlia was at school, and as far as he knew they weren't scheduled to go to Hogsmeade for the weekend anytime soon.

"Wait." Without waiting for Lucius to speak again, the man said something, then fell silent.

Seeing that Voldemort was lost in thought, Lucius was even more surprised. What did Tahlia do to make the Lord so angry that he even forgot that if he took her out of the school arbitrarily, he would definitely attract attention, and he silently broke into a cold sweat for Tahlia.

"Bring her here unobtrusively, Lucius." Changing the previous order slightly, there was a pause. "Within a week."

Isn't this an impossible task for him? Lucius was terrified, but he agreed quickly.

Could it be that he was the one who made Lord mad, and he wanted to punish him for not being able to complete the task?

Hastily exiting the hall, Lucius carefully recalled his recent words and deeds. After confirming that he was definitely not the one who made the Lord unhappy, he had no choice but to think seriously about how to get Tahlia out without attracting attention. Hogwarts.

Then he quickly thought of a way──

After Tahlia received a letter and hurriedly asked Slughorn to go home and have a look, before she stepped into the house, she was stopped by Lucius nearby.

"Lucius──?" Tahlia asked in confusion, but she didn't have much thought about how he would appear near her home. At the moment, she just wanted to go home and visit the 'seriously ill' Tony.

Lucius reached out and grabbed Tahlia, which was very easy, imagine a man who was nearly 1.9 meters tall grabbing a girl who was only a little over 1.5 meters tall.

"Uh, Lucius what are you doing?" Tahlia looked at her in astonishment and grabbed her hand. "Can you let me go home first?"

"Your brother is not ill, Tahlia," Lucius said flatly.

"You're wrong, it's because Tony's sick—wait a minute," the feeling of unease rose suddenly. "How do you know that my brother...is sick?" She broke free slightly, realizing that Lucius was gripping too hard, and it was impossible for her to shake off. "Uh, Lucius, let me go."

Lucius didn't let go, the corners of his mouth curved into a perfect arc. "No." It was absolutely impossible for him to give up now, otherwise what was waiting for him would be——he didn't even dare to think about it.

This is not the feeling of being hooked to the navel like a portkey. Tahlia's first apparition—it should be said, the first time she was taken with apparition. The air in her lungs seemed to be squeezed out in an instant, accompanied by a feeling of suffocation. , the body seems to be compressed, want to cough, but can't.

Then, she knelt down on the ground, retching.

Then, the cold voice above her head made her frightened.

"I look forward to your explanation, Tahlia."