[HP] Astringent

Time passed so fast, Vanessa felt that she hadn't had enough of the two-person world, and it was the end of July.Harry has returned to Black's old house from his aunt's house and wrote to invite her to the birthday party.Dumbledore also sent a letter, and in order to avoid Vanessa's running back and forth, the meeting of the Order of the Phoenix was scheduled for the afternoon of the birthday party.Vanessa was very happy, and she couldn't wait to announce to everyone that she finally got her wish and was with the person she loved the most.

Vanessa carefully matched the outfits for the two of them to go out. Snape was naturally wearing a regular black robe, but the neckline was matched with a silver collar pin. The two ends of the collar pin were cylindrical, but there was a small V logo.And Vanessa also rarely wore a black robe, with a small S under the silver chain earrings.She used all the details to highlight the unusual relationship between the two.

Snape apparated her to 12 Grimmauld Place with her.Vanessa couldn't believe her eyes because she couldn't find the door of Black's house.Snape handed her the note left by Dumbledore, and after reading it, the old house appeared in front of her eyes.

"Secrecy spell, Professor Dumbledore is really careful. Isn't he?" Vanessa pulled Snape to knock on the door.Snape stood where he was.

Vanessa looked at him confused.He had a gloomy face, and he didn't look very willing: "No one can let anyone know about this."

Vanessa shook his hand and said aggrievedly, "Is that why I'm so shameless?"

Snape stared into her face and said seriously, "No."

Then Vanessa looked like you were fooled: "I know it's not the time yet." She was very sorry, but there was nothing to do, it was better than being found out by Voldemort and losing her life, so she really laughed , "When it's made public, I'll ask Rita to help me write the report, and it will be on the front page of the Daily Prophet!"

The seriousness on Snape's face disappeared immediately.

Blake came to open the door, and he saw that Vanessa was with Snape as if he had seen the devil, which made his desire to hug Vanessa freeze.Lupine followed behind him: "Please let them in first, Sirius."

Vanessa and Snape exchanged a look, and said, "Professor Dumbledore told Snape to wait for me at the door so he can tell me where your home is."

As soon as she entered the main hall, Vanessa was surrounded by lion cubs. It should be Dumbledore's instructions in advance, and everyone lowered their voices for fear of scaring her.Vanessa smiled helplessly and touched: "As long as there is no sudden loud noise, you don't have to talk like you are in a library. I almost feel like I am deaf!"

Fred looked at her regretfully: "I also want to give you a trial of our newly improved Thunderbolt Explosion Wizard Chess."

"According to my recovery speed, I should be able to play after half a year."

Vanessa looked around for Snape, who was sitting alone at the corner of the long table, as she answered their questions.Vanessa wanted to go over and be with him.

"Let me get a sip of water, kids." She brushed aside a bunch of redheads.

Vanessa walked towards Snape, who was looking up.Vanessa curled her mouth unconsciously.

"Vanessa!" Blake stopped her, and he stood awkwardly in front of her, "I'm sorry I failed to save you and caused you to suffer so much..."

Vanessa smiled in relief: "It's not your fault, I let you go." She looked back at Snape quietly, her smile became more obvious, "Besides, if I had known that the bitter trick was so effective, I would have been impatient Rush to the front line of the battle."

Blake was even more confused, and Vanessa patted him on the shoulder: "Find Harry a godmother earlier, your house is quite a mess." She looked critically at the sofa and the scattered snacks and toys on the floor.She finally understood Molly's joy when she urged her to marry.And Blake's silly look at the moment was enough for her to enjoy for a whole year.

Dumbledore was on time, and they herded the children upstairs and shut the door behind them.

Vanessa went to the kitchen to make tea, but she had her own thoughts.She purposely took several different tea sets, and distributed the teacups to everyone seemingly casually, but only kept two identical teacups for herself and Snape.No one noticed anything unusual, except Dumbledore blinked at her, and Vanessa smiled sweetly.

"There are a few people who haven't seen each other yet, let's get to know each other."

A young witch with long purple hair waved carelessly, accidentally spilled a teacup, and was pinned by a chair leg when she was hiding back, almost throwing it over.Her hair was transformed into a fiery red afro by the chain of events.She caught Lupine looking at her, blushing as much as her hair.Then she looked at Vanessa apologetically: "You are Vanessa, hello... oh, I'm so rash... I'm Nymphadora Tonks. As you can see it's a disguise magus " Vanessa stood up and shook hands with her, and put her teacup on the table by the way.

"Hello, Nymphadora."

"Uh... Just call me Tonks." She muttered, "I really hate that name."

"It's hard to imagine she's my niece," Blake told her.

"You look alike when you get into trouble." Vanessa chuckled lightly.

"Calm down, Tonks." Moody's real eyes looked at Vanessa, and the fake eyes turned to Tonks's face. He looked a little friendlier than the fake Moody, "I heard that you put me out of here. Out of the box. Thanks. I'm Alastormoody, the real one."

Then came a tall, balding, dark wizard with shining gold earrings in his ears.His introduction was succinct: "I am Kingsley Shacklebolt, and an active Auror."

Finally a drowsy, diminutive man looks at her through knotted ginger hair: "I'm Mundungus Fletcher, an unimportant little man."

Snape said tersely, "Severus Snape." He must have reminded Tonks of his nightmarish Potions class, and his hair had turned a listless gray.

"Now that everyone knows each other, Arthur, please tell us about your situation first."

"The attitude of the Ministry of Magic is very ambiguous, and there are too many people from Voldemort infiltrating it. We all know that although pure-blood families like Malfoy have no position in the Ministry of Magic, they secretly control everything. After all, they are the largest contributors to the entire British magic community. Plus Cornelius Fudge is too weak. So no one wants to believe that You-Know-Who is back."

Hearing this name, Vanessa trembled all over.Snape sensed her fear immediately and squeezed her hand under the table.

After Weasley finished describing the situation on his side, Black added: "The Auror Command is better, after all, we have us."

"Why didn't you tell me that the situation is so bad? Doesn't the matter between me and Harry convince everyone of the truth?" Vanessa looked at Snape suspiciously. He never mentioned these situations.

"We want you to recover from your illness with peace of mind. But it's not too late to know." Dumbledore explained for him: "And never expect to wake up someone who pretends to be asleep."

"They only admit that there's a small band of dark wizards operating in the dark. The papers say Harry is a grandstanding boy and you're just driven mad by the Cruciatus Curse," said Lupine.

Snape tightened his grip, and Vanessa ran her fingertips back and forth across his knuckles.

"That's ridiculous!" she asked Dumbledore. "Is there anything I can do?"

"We need to let more people know the truth and prepare, like you did before."

"no problem."

"Okay, now, Severus, tell everyone what you know."

Snape took a sip of tea, and said slowly, "The Dark Lord wants to know the second half of the prophecy, and he sent Lucius to complete this task." Vanessa could feel the trembling of his fingertips, and put both hands His big hands wrapped it.Snape paused, then continued, "The Prophecy Orb is in the Department of Mysteries, and only those related to the prophecy can get it. He will find a way to lure Potter there."

Vanessa suggested, "Should I ask Auston for help?"

Snape's face darkened in an instant, and he said decisively: "No need." Vanessa was stunned for a moment before she realized that he must be jealous, she felt sweet in her heart.She acted relieved, nodded and said, "Well, that's fine, I don't want to ask others for help. Anyway, Tonks and the others work at the Ministry of Magic, so there shouldn't be any problem."

"We'll make sure nothing goes wrong," Tonks replied enthusiastically.

Snape looked at Black with a sarcastic smile: "Also, please put your godson on your leash and keep him from running around. I hope you can do something this time." Blake blames him for not bringing Vanessa back.

Blake immediately stood up and fought back: "Snotling, you'd better pray that there will be new news reported to us every time, otherwise I will throw you out sooner or later."

Dumbledore interrupted their quarrel impatiently: "How is Harry, Sirius?"

"He still dreams about Voldemort. Sometimes he's seen talking to the snake."

"I see, I will find a way to solve it." Dumbledore said thoughtfully, "This connection is too dangerous."

Dumbledore declined Harry's birthday party and left first.Before leaving, he meaningfully suggested that Snape open the Floo network, but he and Black sternly rejected it.All the Aurors left except Tonks, and of course Fletcher.Vanessa sent Snape out, and several children were hiding on the stairs to eavesdrop on their side.

Harry rushed downstairs: "Vanessa, don't you stay?"

Vanessa said gently: "Of course I'll stay, dear. It's just..." She glanced at Snape in front of her, "I still need to discuss some tasks with Severus." She Not being too intimate, Snape glanced down from the corner of his mouth.

After walking out of the old house, Vanessa took off her disguise in a second and threw herself into Snape's arms: "Acting is hard work." She rubbed her face against his chest, "Don't be unhappy, today is Harry birthday."

Snape snorted coldly: "Your eyes must have been watered by Babo tubers to make you come to this conclusion."

Vanessa raised her head and smiled innocently: "Well, we, Sev, won't be jealous. I promise I'll be back before twelve o'clock in the evening."

Snape replaced the answer with a cold snort, Vanessa still put her arms around her waist, raised her head, and looked at him without blinking, her brown pupils were full of expectation.Snape pinched her chin, kissed her quickly, and disappeared in a puff of black smoke.Vanessa pursed her lips happily.

When Vanessa returned to the room, everyone was watching Tonks' face-changing show with great interest.The children were all rocked, even Lupine was no exception.He used to smile softly but distantly, and you never knew if he was happy or pretending to be happy.But now he was watching Tonks intently, smiling with his hands in his pockets.

Lupine noticed that Vanessa had come in and made room for her: "Are you reconciled?" Lupine was still smiling, but not as sincere as before.Vanessa doesn't like people who are too smart, they seem to see through everything easily.

"Yeah, Severus finally agrees with me, so there's no reason to quarrel." Vanessa raised her chin at Tonks, "Tonks is such a lively and lovely little girl."

Lupine nodded: "You're right. I've watched the performance several times, but the children like it. You sit down first, and I'll help Molly prepare dinner."

Seeing his thin back, Vanessa wanted to meddle in his own business, so she called Tonks, "Molly asked me to call you to help in the kitchen."

"I'm going!" Her afro turned a smooth, bubbly pink, dripping over the pillows, ignoring Crookshanks, who was disguised as a ginger pillow, "Oh shit! Little thing , get out of the way!" Finally, she was relieved to get out of danger, "Great, I thought Molly would never let me into the kitchen again."

Just 10 minutes later, with the sound of plates being smashed, Tonks was kicked out of the kitchen.She awkwardly greeted everyone: "Do you still want to see me transform?"

A regular event at parties is Tonks conjuring pig noses and bunny ears as requested.She is everyone's joy.Molly pays too much attention to Vanessa, treats her like a baby, and keeps scooping her vegetables.

"Molly, I'm really recovering well, trust me."

Molly looked at her and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes: "It looks much better than last year. Albus stopped us from seeing you, how can other people take good care of you."

"I'm not fine." Her tone was so happy that Molly asked a stupid question: "Did they modify your memory?"

"It's just that the professor found someone suitable to take care of me."

"I know!" Ginny leaned closer and whispered, "Could it be Mr. Slytherin?"

Vanessa quickly covered her mouth.Ginny pushed her hand away, looking more excited than Vanessa: "So you are together?"

Vanessa wanted to deny it, but the uncontrollable smile in her eyes betrayed her.She could only ask: "This matter must be kept secret!" They didn't know who Mr. Slytherin was, so it wouldn't be considered public.

Hermione came over and said pleasantly, "Oh my God, what did I hear! Could it be that Mr. Slytherin is also working for the Order of the Phoenix?"

"Just...doing Dumbledore a favor." Vanessa pushed the two curious little heads away, "Go back to dinner, girls."

They were eating happily when Kreacher, the old house-elf of the Black family, emerged from the kitchen and said loudly to himself on purpose: "Look. The master is throwing a birthday party for that kid again. But the master doesn't even The little master doesn’t want to go home on her birthday. My poor mistress is so sad... My poor little master is so lonely... Kreacher will not make the master happy, Kreacher will replace the mistress and the little master Protect the Black family..."

Everyone's interest was disturbed, and Blake roared angrily: "Go back to the kitchen, Kreacher."

Kreacher looked at him with resentful and vicious eyes, and bowed: "Of course, I will go back. Kreacher can't resist the master's order, Kreacher can only leave. But Kreacher will never give up protecting the family, just Kreacher is the only one left to do this..." He rambled back to the kitchen.Blake swung his wand and slammed the kitchen door shut.The loud noise made Vanessa tremble.

There was silence in the dining room, and Hermione said disapprovingly, "You should treat him better, Sirius."

"You have seen it too. Silly girl, not all people and animals are worthy of your attention." Black said disdainfully.He is full of distaste for everything in the family, and although he doesn't admit it, in some places he still has the same paranoia and arrogance as the rest of the family.

Hermione didn't give up on SPEW, and said stubbornly, "How do you know if you haven't tried it?"

Ron interjected, "Come on, don't forget what he called you. You punched Malfoy when he called you that. You've got to watch out you don't get sued by the Ferret Conservation Society!"

Harry almost spat out the pumpkin juice, his shoulders shrugged and he would have laughed if it hadn't been for Hermione's emotions.Hermione blushed and poked at the beef on the plate with her fork.

Vanessa cleared her throat, breaking the frozen atmosphere: "The little master Kreacher mentioned is your little brother who goes to school in Slytherin?"

"Hmm..." he snorted contemptuously, "Reculus Arcturus Black, my mother's proudest son, lived up to expectations and joined the Death Eaters."

Vanessa had a little impression of this shy and introverted little boy who was a little shorter than Blake. To be honest, he was sometimes gentle and more like a Hufflepuff. It was hard to imagine him joining the Death Eaters, and she never listened to Snape. Mention that there is such a person.

As Vanessa expected, Blake continued: "Then he died quietly, or disappeared. I doubt he is important enough to need Voldemort to kill him himself."

"Have you… ever seen him?" Harry asked.

"Looked for it. It was like finding a needle in a haystack. From what I found after his death, he got so involved that what they made him do finally terrified him and he wanted to quit. Too bad it wasn't written for Voldemort A letter of resignation can solve the problem, this job is for life, otherwise you will die."

Remus put a hand on his shoulder, and Black tried to look nonchalant, but failed.Maybe he also can't believe that his brother will really become like his parents.

Vanessa asked cautiously: "If you need... I can ask for you." She lied a little, "You know my original job, or know some well-informed people. I think at least To bring him back, whether it's..."

Blake looked at her gratefully. "You're right. Thanks."

In the end, it was Tonks, George and Fred who came out and brought everyone back to the cheerful atmosphere.

Vanessa was a little stuffed. She sat by and watched Ron and Lupine play wizard chess. Both of them were masters of wizard chess.When it was almost ten o'clock, she was a little drowsy, and her upper and lower eyelids were fighting.Half asleep, Harry touched her arm: "Do you want to go upstairs and rest? You still have a spare room."

Vanessa opened her eyes to look at him, but felt that her eyes were covered with a layer of fog, and her head was dizzy.She shook her head, and saw Harry's face clearly now: "Harry...the prophecy is in the Ministry of Magic...take..."

"Vanessa!" Arthur called to her. "Are you all right?"

"What, what?" She woke up instantly and rubbed her eyes.

"You're talking nonsense!"

"Sorry, I might be too tired...I want to go back first."

Molly came over worriedly: "Are you really okay?"

Vanessa shook her head.

Harry stared at her closely: "What did you just say in the Ministry of Magic?"

"Did I tell you?" Vanessa tapped her head in confusion, "Maybe there are still some sequelae. I have to tell the doctor about it when I review it." This night is really strange.

Vanessa went home and forgot all about what had just happened.She is happy because the light is on in the living room

"I'm back!" She was still in the hallway, and her voice had reached Snape's ears.

When she saw Snape in his pajamas, sitting on the sofa waiting for her, she felt warmth creeping into every strand of her hair.She rushed over, just as Snape raised his hand slightly.Vanessa whispered in his ear, "Sev, I miss you."

"Yeah." Snape always replied.