[HP] Astringent

Vanessa stuffed Bai Xian into her pocket, looked at her watch, Hagrid should have finished class, and she wanted to go there first.This corridor near the cellar was long and dark. She had walked through it many times alone and still couldn't tell which one was the potion material storage room and which one was the abandoned classroom behind the doors.

One, two, three... She stopped in front of No. 13 door. A slender ribbon was tied to the bronze mottled doorknob, which was covered with dust and could barely see the original red—it Still there!Vanessa looked at it in surprise, it was her hair tie.That bright color had been hanging in Slytherin's territory like this for so many years, but no one had ever taken it off.

"How did you find this place?" Severus pushed open the door of the empty classroom and saw Vanessa who was sitting inside to touch up her makeup, his tone became cold.

Since Vanessa found him last time when he occupied this place to make potions, he had cast a spell of neglect on this room, how could she still find this place.The girl spread the lipstick evenly with her fingers, and blinked triumphantly: "I tied the latest headband from Mrs. Berlin's house on the doorknob. You know girls' rubber bands and clips are the easiest to lose. Their headbands come with The magic spell, as long as I want to find it, the headband will automatically glow, even if you use the ignore spell, it will not work."

Snape's jaw-dropping expression amused her, and he continued, "Don't undo it, I don't just have this hair tie."

He put his schoolbag on the table heavily. He really couldn't understand why Vanessa, who was also a fifth grader in Gryffindor, ran over to pester him while Lily was too busy to go to the library for self-study. There is no time.

Afraid that he would be unhappy, Vanessa made an oath gesture: "What do you do, I promise I will be quiet and not disturb you."

Snape ignored her, and set up the cauldron on his own. His slender fingers carefully and gently handled the cumbersome potion ingredients, and slowly immersed himself in the potion making.His figure was obscured by the dense smoke, and only his amazingly bright black eyes gleamed.

Boys at this age are always stupid and don't know it. They always want to show off what they know, and they hope to win the cheers of girls.Vanessa can always resist the urge to roll her eyes and feign appreciation.And every time she watched him brew potion, she would forget how boring potion was, as if she could brew a perfect bottle of potion as easily as he did.

Put in the Achnatherum splendens and stir clockwise three times. Snape watched the potion change from brown to milky white with satisfaction, then turned off the low heat and continued to brew.He just remembered that there was another person in this classroom, and his heart moved, Vanessa was looking at him with focused and sincere eyes: "Severus, I didn't know that potions are so fascinating."

Snape couldn't figure out what a person who had been on the verge of passing the potion grades all year round could understand, or it might be that the person who had been pestering him for so long finally kept his promise and sat quietly for two hours, a strange feeling surged in his heart Feel.

Vanessa, who doesn't speak, is still good-looking. Just her pair of peach blossom eyes can attract most of the boys in Gryffindor, not to mention her graceful figure and pretty face.

"How much longer?" Vanessa asked.

"An hour to go," said Snape, pulling an old pocket watch from his pocket.

Vanessa walked to the table curiously. Although she could not name everything, she had seen most of them in class.She saw a cluster of flowers in a saucer on the edge of the table, countless small red and white flowers clustered together, it was really beautiful.

"What is this?" she said, holding out her hand.

"Don't touch it." Snape pulled her hand away nervously, the plate fell to the ground with a "smack", and the petals scattered all over the ground.

A hot burning sensation spread from the fingertips, and tears gushed out of the eye sockets in an instant.Snape muttered an incantation in a low voice, his fingertips felt cool, the redness subsided and replaced by a huge black spot like charred.

"Severus, it hurts…"

"It's extremely stupid to dare to mess with potion ingredients that you haven't seen before."

The teardrops in Vanessa's eyes froze in an instant, crumbling.

Snape realized that he was still holding the girl's hand, and was about to take it back when she pulled him back.The girl looked at her aggrieved, silently as if her hand was hurt by him.Snape was about to question the effect of the healing spell, when she heard her crying, "Will it leave a scar..."

Snape snorted unhappily: "Did you know that just touching it with bare hands, the poison of the rush grass is enough to corrode the entire hand. And you are still worried about whether it will leave a scar?" He withdrew his hand, Put on special gloves and put away the broken tiles and petals.

"My hands are all injured, why do you care about rushes!" Vanessa protested with a hoarse voice.

"You don't understand its value at all, Miss Weasley!" Snape said through gritted teeth. "And now it's useless, and your hand is intact."

"I don't care, I don't want scars on my hands!" Five slender fingers waved in front of Snape's eyes, "Is there any way to get rid of the scars?"

Snape was very annoyed: "Bai Xian can."

"Then go and get me a piece of white meat." Vanessa said arrogantly and unreasonably, "I was injured because of you, and you are responsible."

"No one asked you to come here."

"Professor Slughorn is there?"

Snape said: "His office is just left when you go out." He looked at the unusable curly grass with distress and annoyance.

Vanessa wiped away her tears with a handkerchief, and said dejectedly, "It's fine if he doesn't scold me when he sees me, he definitely won't give me something white..."

"Precise judgment."

"Steal a piece out for me."

Snape looked at her with a livid face: "Don't even think about it."

It must be because the girl was too noisy. Ten minutes later, Snape showed up at the potions office with the potions book, and Vanessa, who had been cast with the invisibility spell, followed nervously.

"Mr. Snape, have you encountered any problems in the study of wolf medicaments?" Slughorn said drunkenly as he sipped a glass of fine wine.

"Yes, I have some questions about the treatment of the curly grass." Snape felt the hem of his clothes being pulled tight by the girl, and moved uncomfortably, ensuring that the professor would not notice anything unusual, and then said, "This medicinal material It is extremely corrosive, the processing steps are cumbersome, and the available ingredients are limited. I hope to improve the wolf elixir by purifying the useful ingredients of Qudan grass."

"Genius idea!" Slughorn said excitedly, "Mr. Snape, your talent in potions always makes me think...but you are more talented in potions than that one. I dare you assert that you will become a great potions master."

Slughorn blinked, but Snape paid no attention to it. His eyes fell on the potions cabinet behind the professor, carefully identifying the ingredients in the rows of glass tubes.

"Now the potion community is arguing about which part of the chanterelle is the active ingredient, because the roots, stems, leaves, and flowers show different medicinal properties, but because it is extremely difficult to obtain, the experiment has been shelved. The latest research shows that chamaejasma chamaejasme Flowers can also effectively restrain the impulse of werewolves after transformation and help them regain their rationality. I suggest you do a comparative experiment..."

Snape nodded absently, and traced a few numbers behind him with the back of his hand - second row, fourth.The hem of his clothes was let go, but his heart tightened instead.

Slughorn turned suddenly, and he had to step in front of him, lest he see anything strange.

"Did you use the curly grass I gave you last time?"

"Not yet, professor. I hope to plan the experimental steps well before trying. After all, this material is very precious."

"I appreciate your strict style. I haven't had such an excellent student as you for many years, and of course Miss Evans..."

Snape felt his hand being pulled, and interrupted the professor: "Since you agree with my experimental ideas, I'm relieved. Professor, it's getting late, I should take my leave."

"It's already this time." Slughorn waved his hand, "If you have any questions, you can come to me at any time, my door is always open for you."

Because they couldn't see it, the sense of touch on their hands was exceptionally clear, and the fingers of the two were intimately intertwined.In order to avoid revealing the truth, the girl's soft body pressed against him, making him a little breathless.

After returning to the classroom, Snape finally untied the invisibility spell, and the girl happily took out a small glass bottle from her pocket: "Dengdeng——"

"You stole the lamp grass?" He said in surprise.

"Yeah, didn't you and Professor Slughorn both say that this is very precious, so I got some for you. I think he's busy running some kind of snot club, and he doesn't have time to do experiments."

"Where's Bai Xian?"

"I... I forgot." Vanessa looked at the black spots on her hands and was about to cry again.

"Fool."

"My hands are going to be scarred, and you still scold me..."

The next day, Snape still gave her a small piece of white meat that he got from no one knew where, while everyone was feeding the exploding snails in class.

Vanessa looked at her fair and intact fingers and pointed out.She was delighted that Snape still remembered what had happened before, but she was also afraid that he would, remembering his own weakness, hypocrisy and stupidity.She didn't care about scars for a long time. There were several scars on her back from her adventures in the jungle. Instead, she felt that they were proof of her growth.

With the evening breeze blowing and the evening mist blending, Vanessa walked on the green grass to the lighted Hagrid's hut.There is a figure in front of him, he is standing under a tree, and a big black dog is looking up at him from the opposite side.

Vanessa shouted uncertainly: "Dahei?"

Dahei turned his head and wagged his tail a few times.With one hand in his pocket, Lupine saw Vanessa approach and put her wand back in her pocket.

"Are you out for a walk too?"

"I'm going to see Hagrid. Big Black didn't bother you, did he?"

Lupine smiled and shook his head: "It's okay, I just encountered it too. I heard what happened in class, is your arm okay?"

Vanessa raised her arms: "Madam Pomfrey's medical skills have always been excellent. Do you want to go to Hagrid's for a walk together?" She thought Lupine would refuse, but he readily agreed.

Hagrid opened the door for them absent-mindedly, then slumped back on the sofa.Vanessa and Lupine had to clean themselves out of two chairs to sit on.

"Hagrid, don't worry, Principal Dumbledore won't fire you for such a trivial matter! No one was hurt."

"But...you were hurt..." Hagrid's big eyes were full of guilt.

"Don't worry, I won't sue you, no school manager has the leisure to take care of small things."

"That's Malfoy!" He sniffled uneasily, "Look at you, the wound is so long that you don't know if it's going to be okay...I'm so sorry! I shouldn't have asked you to help me...I screwed up everything……"

Lupine kindly suggested: "You can try fresh rice."

"Well, Severus gave me a piece..." Vanessa took it vaguely, "Hagrid, do you have anything to eat here? I'm a little hungry. Let's eat something first."

Hagrid stopped his sobbing, and moved his huge body to drag a large T-bone steak from the locker.Vanessa told Hagrid to sit back on the sofa and poured him a glass of mead: "I'll come, and you just have a good rest and get ready for the next class." She turned to Lupine, "You have to stay Would you like some steak?"

Lupine withdrew his gaze from Dahei: "I'd be happy, if it's convenient."

Vanessa cleaned Hagrid's apron before putting it on, and waved her wand to prepare a sumptuous dinner for the three of them.Two dogs also got a surprise deboned beef.She was also pleasantly surprised to find that Hagrid had a large barrel of mead that he brewed himself.

When most of the barrel of wine went down, Vanessa slumped on the chair, unable to walk.Dahei sat next to Lupin, looking like an elegant gentleman.Hagrid was in a much better mood, at least he wasn't choking anymore.