[HP] Astringent

It was already the second day after waking up again, amidst Madam Pomfrey's nagging, Vanessa knew that Potter, Black and Snape were not seriously injured, and had already gone back for the exam.And she almost became a squib because of the magic riot. Fortunately, there is no serious problem. She just needs to keep taking the medicine. The only impact is that when she uses advanced spells too frequently in the future, she will easily lose her magic power temporarily.And she still needs to stay in the hospital for observation for a few days. Fortunately, the principal is willing to give her a chance to make up the exam alone.

She performed exceptionally well every day and won the opportunity to be discharged early.Walking back to Gryffindor Tower, she was surprised to find Snape standing nervously in front of the portrait of the Fat Lady.

Vanessa couldn't help but wonder if Snape came to her because he knew about her hospitalization, and he wasn't angry with himself?She stepped lightly to surprise him.

The portrait unscrewed, and Lily, wrapped in her dressing gown, came out of the doorway with her arms folded.Vanessa hid behind a statue beside her like a thief.

"sorry."

"I am not interested."

"sorry!"

"Stop wasting your tongue."

Hearing Snape's apologies, Vanessa almost burst into tears.She once thought that a person as proud as him would wait for others to compromise even if he did something wrong.

Lily said indifferently: "Mary said you threatened to sleep here before I came out."

Snape's voice was very hoarse, as if suppressing great pain, he said in an anxious voice that Vanessa had never heard before: "I'm going to sleep here. I definitely didn't mean to call you a mudblood, I only……"

"Just slipped up?" Lily said without a trace of sympathy in her voice. "It's too late. I've been looking for excuses to forgive you for years. My friends can't understand why I still talk to you. You and your dear Death Eater friends of yours—see, you can't even deny that's what you're after! You can't wait to be under You-Know-Who, can you?"

Snape opened his mouth, didn't speak, then closed it again.

"I can't pretend anymore, you chose your way, I chose mine."

"No—listen to me, I didn't mean to—"

"—Call me a Mudblood? But you call anyone of my origin a Mudblood, Severus. How am I any different?"

He struggled and wanted to say something, but Lily gave him a contemptuous look, turned around and crawled back through the portrait hole.He stood there until it was almost curfew before leaving in a daze.When he passed Vanessa, he didn't even notice that there was a living person beside the sculpture, like a wandering spirit, with dull eyes.

Vanessa instantly understood that she couldn't have a chance, because there was only one person in her heart.

Vanessa shortened the whole story a lot, but this incident was one of Snape's worst memories, and he was silent for a long time after hearing it.Vanessa clasped her hands, tearing off the barbs on her fingertips, so she didn't see his deep gaze on her.

"Don't be too moved, after being influenced by Gryffindor for so many years, I still have a heart that wants justice." She tentatively said.

"Reckless and stupid," Snape remarked mercilessly.

Hearing his normal tone, Vanessa breathed a sigh of relief, twitched the corners of her lips, and said with a playful smile, "I was afraid that you were so grateful that I never dared to tell you."

"I'd be more than happy to thank you once if you could learn to use your wand to solve problems."

"Hey, didn't I use a magic wand this time." Vanessa said, "won't you go and take a rest, your hair is greasy." She pointed to his hair.

Snape sneered, "Actually, I'm about to go back."He walked to the door and paused, "Professor Weasley, if I were you and could barely get out of bed, I would wash my face first." He gave her a deep look with sincere eyes.

After Snape left, Vanessa summoned a mirror and was devastated to see dust and grime on her cheeks and hay in her hair—she hadn't been this bad since she was born, and she was suffering from it. Bad image met with Dumbledore and Snape and had a poignant discussion about peace and missions!Vanessa just wanted to smother herself in her pillow.

Dumbledore and Snape went to Gaunt's old house again, and the mysterious man disappeared.They couldn't think of a way to break the black magic on the ring, so they temporarily put it in a special crystal box and brought it back to the principal's office.Since Snape was better at black arts, he was left to solve the problem of breaking the spell.And Vanessa's left hand has also become an important research object, which must be observed anytime and anywhere, so as to find out and break the spell as soon as possible.Vanessa felt that she did not join the Order of the Phoenix at all, but was treated as a guinea pig.

Vanessa didn't want to see Snape at all recently, not only because he gave her a stack of books for her to study on her own every day, but also because when he came to deliver potions every day, he deliberately washed his hair to be extra black and smooth. Slidingly, he swung around in front of her, and then looked at her face meaningfully.The pair of eyes that are not good at boasting but are extremely profound in cursing are telling Vanessa clearly: "Your face is finally clean today."

Vanessa was so angry that she wanted to hit someone.

Once she couldn't help it, she jumped up from the bed and covered his eyes.Snape was knocked against the back of the chair, and the corners of his mouth hadn't had time to restrain the arc.After the charcoal eyes were covered, this smile could even be misinterpreted as pleasure.Both of them were stunned. Vanessa looked at his thin lips and swallowed shyly.

She shyly withdrew her hand and said warningly: "Severus, I don't mind practicing the new spell on you first!" Her composure was just an illusion, and her ears hidden in her hair were so red that they touched her hair Melted into one.

Vanessa was confined in the medical wing every day, except for reading, the rest of the time was spent thinking about how to get revenge on Snape.It may be too idle, and my mind will degenerate back to my student days.

She can't beat Snape, because every time he comes, he will randomly check the contents of some books-he asked Vanessa according to his self-study speed, as long as he makes a wrong answer, the next day's potion It is definitely added with ingredients, either stinky cheese or yuzu, and the imagination is extremely rich.

Vanessa finally couldn't stand it anymore, raised the white chess piece, and begged, "Severus, is that how you welcome your new comrade in arms?"

"The premise is that you don't hold back."

Snape observed Vanessa's ring finger. Her finger could move, but it was not very flexible, and the scorched black mark did not disappear in the slightest.This location is special, and it's not easy for Vanessa to buy a ring to cover her scars, so it's more practical to get a tattoo.

"Anyway, I'm also a comrade-in-arms, don't you consider calling me by my Christian name?"

"I don't think it's necessary."

"If it spreads, it will appear that the Order of the Phoenix is ​​not united."

Snape placed an antique book heavily on the bedside table: "Let's wait until you learn Occlumency."

He didn't know that Vanessa had taught herself a little, so she pretended to be the first time she heard it, and when Snape finished explaining, she said, "Would you like to give it a try? Give me three chances. As long as I succeed once, you will change your mind." Call me by my Christian name."

"Even Albus couldn't get it right the first time."

"Then what are you worried about?" She looked directly into Snape's eyes.

Snape raised his wand: "Legiliency."

A force squeezed into Vanessa's mind, like a vast ocean, and no memories were turned out.Snape backed away, staring at her disapprovingly.

Vanessa said triumphantly: "You didn't ask me if I've learned it." She only dared to be presumptuous for a while because Snape took it lightly, otherwise, with Snape's ability, she would break through her Occlumency by stabbing her It's easy to break a layer of window paper.

Finally, the game was won, but the price was that the next potions were all sour olives and shiitake mushrooms. These are the two foods that Vanessa hates the most. Every time she smells them, she will retch.And Snape would remind her warmly with a smirk: "Vanessa, I suggest you drink it while it's hot."

After staying in the hospital wing for another five days, Vanessa was finally discharged, but she still needed Snape to help her cook the potion once a month until the magic power was completely stable.Apart from studying the dark magic on the ring with Snape, she just played with Dahei.It would happily turn around when it saw her recently, and it also learned to rub the tip of its nose against her fingers obediently.And Dahei made two new friends, Crookshanks and Bacobeak.

On the eve of the start of school, the things Vanessa hoarded in Snape's office were thrown out together.A half-person-high corrugated box full of unfinished snacks and drinks.With lingering fear, she carried the box and walked to her office, deciding not to bother Snape in the short term, lest she be killed and made into a potion.

Harry and Ron happened to be wandering around the school with nothing to do, and they helped her carry her things back to the office in a gentlemanly manner.

"Aunt, are you moving?"

"That's it."

"Where did you get all these things?" Ron asked curiously.

"From the Potions Office." She swallowed, "You guys have to be careful in Potions class, I might have pissed off Severus."

Harry said: "It's not too difficult, I'm pissing him off every class."

"No, Harry." Vanessa covered her face weakly, "I just blew up his cauldron."

Harry and Ron exclaimed at the same time, "Merlin."

She glanced at the corner guiltily: "Don't worship me too much."

Vanessa didn't do it on purpose, and Snape wanted to make a potion for her, and she was too embarrassed to see Snape busy for her, so she volunteered to help.She really didn't know which step went wrong, and she blew up the cauldron directly. If Snape hadn't discovered it, she would probably be lying in the infirmary again right now.

Snape packed her things and threw them out.Knowing that she had made a big mistake, Vanessa ran out in despair, not daring to sway in front of him again.

She could have escaped, but the Gryffindor children can only wish for luck, and it is estimated that points and detention are inevitable.

Vanessa made them a cup of hot tea and invited them to sit down and have a snack.They gladly accepted.

"Isn't Hermione with you?" she asked.

The faces of Harry and Ron changed at the same time, and Harry complained: "Someone gave me a fireball anonymously, and Hermione insisted on suspecting that it was sent by Black, and made a small report to Professor McGonagall. It's all right now, They're going to take my fire off."

Ron chimed in and said, "It's a blasphemy against the fire that they actually want to tear it down!"

Vanessa didn't quite understand their feelings, and asked, "Is this why you quarreled with her?"

"You call this a trivial matter? That's fire."

Vanessa tried to equate this with tearing up all of Snape's potions books, and felt the anger of the two boys.But she still disagreed and said: "Hermione is too sensitive, she is also worried about you, it's better than if you had any accidents during the competition, right?"

Harry retorted: "But I probably won't be able to race now because I don't have my own broom!"

Ron said, "If Black had money to buy firearms when he ran away, why didn't he buy a more vicious dark magic item, the one that kills Harry if he touches it."

"You're right, you're right."

Thinking that Black was still at large and the mysterious man was not dead, Vanessa became worried. She was afraid that the two had joined, and the worse guess was that the mysterious man helped him escape from Azkaban.

Seeing that her complexion was not good, they thought she was tired, so they left after drinking tea.

Until all the students came back to class, Harry and Ron didn't reconcile with Hermione, and Vanessa didn't dare to meet Snape alone again.