[HP] Astringent

Hermione told Vanessa that Harry was almost caught by Umbridge trying to use the fireplace to contact Sirius.Hermione didn't know why Harry was throwing a tantrum again and didn't want to see her.And Fred and George had planned a grand farewell ceremony, and they chose to carry out the plan on that day in order to cover Harry-they turned the corridor on the third floor into a swamp that no one could eliminate. Zhong left the school smartly on a broomstick.For this reason, Vanessa also received a shouting letter from Molly, blaming her for not being optimistic about these two naughty boys.

Hermione also secretly told Vanessa that Fred and George saw a "Weasley's Magical Joke Shop" in Diagon Alley, and the start-up capital was a bonus Harry received last year.

Vanessa then went to Harry once, and he went back to the lounge on the grounds that he had too much homework.But there was always a reason why Harry had to meet Vanessa, and since Snape didn't want to teach Harry any more, this task became Vanessa's.Black also specially wrote a letter to Vanessa about this matter, and Vanessa didn't dare to let Snape see it, for fear of making Snape even more angry - after all, he had sacrificed a lot to coax him.

Starting from this week, there will be two classes on Monday and Thursday, and the day before each class, Vanessa will have to make up for her own Occlumency.It's a pity that her level has been stuck at only resisting Snape for 10 minutes, and she hasn't improved since then.And for this, Snape paid a terrible price, basically read all the memories of her and her ex-boyfriend, and then locked himself in the laboratory for several days, not bothering to talk to her.Every day before going to bed, Vanessa was afraid that Snape would give her some amnesiac potion, or that she would see news of the tragic death of a certain ex-boyfriend on the front page of the Daily Prophet the next day.

At six o'clock in the evening, Harry reluctantly walked into Vanessa's office: "Why aren't you at Snape's place?"

"It's Professor Snape, Harry."

"You'll be at him anyway," Harry muttered dissatisfied.

"Sirius will only turn to your father."

Harry's face suddenly became ugly, and he grabbed the armrests of the chair with both hands: "Sirius said that Snape never misses the opportunity to curse my father."

"That's right, you can't expect Severus not to fight back, can you?"

"Why..." Harry's voice was a bit pained, "Why does it have to be Snape?"

Vanessa looked at Harry for a long time.Harry seems to really regard himself as an elder, a role similar to a mother or godmother, and the fact that she is still with the person he hates the most is enough to make Harry feel betrayed.She sighed: "When your Occlumency is good enough, if you still want to know, I will tell you all."

"Sirius doesn't seem to think they've ever done anything wrong, and even Remus doesn't seem to care. They tell me everyone's an idiot when they're fifteen or sixteen."

"That's true, but when they grow up, they should come to their senses and realize that what they did was wrong."

"Is my dad a bad guy?" Harry looked at Vanessa expectantly.Under such gazes, she really couldn't say another serious sentence: "He will not be good when he grows up, otherwise your mother wouldn't fall in love with him."

"So Professor Snape... isn't a bad guy?"

"of course not!"

Harry looked complicated, and it took a long time to regain his composure.He seemed to have thought through a lot of things and nodded slowly.Vanessa asked, "Did you tell them about this?"

Harry shook his head silently: "I don't know...I didn't say."

"Listen, dear. Professor Dumbledore doesn't want anyone to know, so can you keep it a secret for us?"

Harry nodded again.Vanessa breathed a sigh of relief: "Why don't you come to talk to me, but go to Sirius at the risk of being caught?"

"I was looking for you, but I couldn't find you. I saw it on the Marauder's Map... I saw you were in the Potions Office all night!" He seemed to have a lot of effort to say this whole.

Vanessa blushed: "That's really sorry. But you will know where to find me in the future."

"Let's start class!" Harry wailed, covering his face, "If you kill me, I won't go there to find you again."

Without Snape's class, Harry could concentrate better, and he almost felt like he was about to leave.Vanessa spared no effort to hit him: "My Dementor can't even see what Sev ate last night!" Harry was really fed up, and after the showdown between him and Vanessa, Vanessa had no scruples So affectionate, if it wasn't for Snape, he would be willing to bless her, and now he just prayed that she would shut up.

Of course Vanessa couldn't hear his heart, so she said more cheerfully: "No one except Voldemort and Dumbledore can match Sev's insanity. And Occlumency may only be comparable to Dumbledore's." He resisted, because Voldemort firmly believed that no one would dare to pry into his brain." She continued to boast for a long time before returning to the topic, "The teacher is only an assistant when learning Occlumency, the key is still on you, you have to concentrate, just like It's the same as when you were looking for the Snitch on the Quidditch pitch!" Speaking of this, Harry thought about the team and the trophy that was not enough, Ginny replaced him as the suitor, and Ron's never-so-satisfactory presence play.Vanessa had to ruffle his hair and remind him, "Harry, I just said focus!"

The two of them practiced for three hours. Except for eating two sandwiches and drinking a cup of rose tea when they were too tired in the middle, they practiced almost without interruption, and the effect was remarkable. Harry gradually mastered the essentials.

Harry gradually felt that Vanessa and Snape were not bad for being together, at least he worried that Snape failed him or deducted [-] points in Potions class.Because Vanessa wouldn't let them be alone for a moment, even sitting in the row behind Harry for Potions class.Even better, it seemed that Vanessa was sitting there, and Malfoy had learned to ignore his existence, and Harry felt great when he could really quietly brew a magic tonic.

If there was anything better than that, Gryffindor won the Quidditch trophy, thanks to Ron's efforts to turn the tide.It was Gryffindor vs. Ravenclaw. Not only did Ron not miss a single ball, but Ginny caught the Snitch right under Cho Chang's nose.Vanessa rushed down to the auditorium, hugged Ron and kissed twice, leaving big lipstick marks on both his cheeks.Ron pushed her away blushing: "Vanessa, you can't kiss me in front of everyone, they will think that I am still a child who needs to be protected by my aunt." Then Vanessa kissed him twice.

Harry could have sworn that out of the corner of his eye he'd see Snape's big nose crooked, but he didn't say anything, just ignored them and headed back to the castle.His heart was finally back in his stomach, Vanessa would not alienate them just because she was with Snape, Vanessa would always be by their side.

Several Gryffindors set up Ron and sang the adapted song in front of Slytherin: "Weasley is our king, never put the ball in the goal, Weasley is our king!" Wang..." I couldn't make up any new words for this section.Vanessa couldn't help wondering why Gryffindor's artistic accomplishment was so much worse than Slytherin's.

At this moment, Harry noticed that Ginny was picked up by Dean and spun around. Ginny smiled happily. Before he noticed, she had become an excellent female warrior, and even had the same beautiful red hair as his mother. .A strange feeling twisted his stomach into a ball.He returned to Ron and followed the excited crowd singing all the way back to the common room.

After Vanessa was happy, she realized that Snape had long since disappeared. She ran back to the cellar and still couldn't find anyone. She only saw a note in the middle of the coffee table: Muggle Research Office, there is no signature, but The elongated font looked like Snape's.Vanessa put the note in her pocket, worried that he would be angry because she had been neglected for a short while, and hurried up to the eighth floor.She opened the door of her office, but no one was there, but the moment the door closed, the curtains closed automatically, and the room was plunged into darkness.

Vanessa was startled, a breeze blew, and then candles fell from the ceiling, lit one by one as they landed, and gradually paved a path of light, extending from her feet to the middle of the house.Vanessa walked forward slowly, and with every step the candles behind her rose into the air, following her and converging in the middle, forming a circle.

Two dark green ribbons hung from the top of her head, swam around her in mid-air like soft and nimble little green snakes, and finally stopped in front of her, curving into two curly words HAPPY and BIRTHDAY, the first The first ending Y and the second beginning B are connected by a silver ring.

Vanessa was about to reach for it, when a pair of arms behind her wrapped around her waist, encircling her in her arms, a big bony hand went over her to take the ring, and the other hand took her left hand, gently Put the ring on her ring finger.

She was speechless in surprise, blinked her eyes, but her vision became even more blurred, and she could only vaguely see that the lower half of the ring was made of solid mithril, while the upper half usually had hollow patterns, and her tattoo It looked like a bunch of thorns and vines wrapped around a rose, but the unsightly scorched black mark on her ring finger became the best background color, which complemented the exquisite carvings.

"Sev..." Vanessa's chest heaved and her voice was hard to hide, "Are you going to propose to me?"

Snape's face was against her hair, their hair intertwined, feeling her trembling, and Snape also tensed up.He licked his dry lips, brewing for a long time, his voice was still a little hoarse: "Would you like it, Nissa?"

Vanessa turned around and hugged him excitedly, their foreheads were pressed together, Vanessa's tears fell down the front of Snape's robe, she couldn't stop nodding: "I do!"

Vanessa was sitting in Snape's arms, fiddling with the ring with her fingers non-stop, and there were still tears in her eyes, which looked like they were about to fall at any time.Snape was carrying a handkerchief, ready to hand it to her when she needed it.Vanessa wiped away her tears vigorously, and finally returned to her usual heartless look.

Snape also secretly heaved a sigh of relief, and summoned a roll of parchment and a quill: "Sign this."

"Are we signing the marriage contract so soon? You must give me some time to adapt after the engagement. What if I'm not satisfied and don't plan to get married?" She talked endlessly, and her heart was already full of joy.But the content on the paper was completely different from what she had imagined, "Is this a confidentiality agreement?"

"There is a secrecy spell on the parchment, as long as you sign, I will become the secret keeper of your house." Snape frowned slightly, and explained patiently, "No matter what danger you encounter, you can go straight back to that house , no one can find you."

"But what if I don't have time to get away?"

He held Vanessa's hand and turned it lightly. The slightly protruding solid part at the bottom of the ring slid to the front along the grooves on the upper and lower sides, revealing the two hollow letters S·V at the bottom, and the middle one. That point was a small, delicate octagonal light brown diamond like Vanessa's eye.She reached out to touch it curiously, but Snape grabbed it.

"This is a multi-directional door key, which can bring you back to the house as quickly as possible no matter when and where."

Vanessa looked at Snape's stern look, surprised and moved, she never knew he had prepared so much behind her back.I thought I should pay more after being with him, but what Snape gave her was much more than she expected, even more than what she gave.She blinked again, a few tears stained her long and curly eyelashes, and slowly evaporated.

"I want to give you a little gift in return." Vanessa asked, "Isn't today the day for sixth graders to learn Apparation?"

Snape nodded hesitantly.Vanessa whispered a spell in his ear, then trotted to the other side of the room: "Don't forget to add my name before the spell."

Snape raised his wand and waved it as Vanessa said. The next second, Vanessa disappeared out of thin air and appeared in his arms almost at the same time.Vanessa looked at Snape's rare bewildered look, and smiled brightly: "I have a summoning spell in my tattoo. At that time, the tattoo artist told me that couples would get this kind of tattoo, so I thought that if one day this spell can also be used Use..." She spoke more and more nasally, and almost swallowed the last words, but Snape still understood, and Vanessa said, "Use this when you can't find me in the future, I will I can come back to you no matter where I am.”

Snape and Vanessa looked at each other quietly. If eyes could kiss, they must have exchanged the longest and most passionate kiss in the world.

Vanessa pulled Snape out the door.Snape looked at her suspiciously, and she explained: "I'm trying to find all kinds of reasons to give Slytherin more than a hundred points! It doesn't matter if you don't get the Quidditch trophy, I'll help you get a house cup."

Only Vanessa has the ability to make him laugh at the same time.But Snape felt that the last cold and hard corner of his heart was also melted into a pool of clear water by her.

Vanessa actually wanted to go out and show off a ring. Maybe there were too few people for her to show off. She first took the opportunity to call Harry out of the lounge, chatted a lot of gossip, and kept fiddling with her hair, but Harry Nothing could be seen.Vanessa deducted two points from Gryffindor for his inability to observe.He found another reason to invite Malfoy to the potions office, and repeated the same trick.Slytherin is much more sensitive than a nervous little lion. He mistakenly thought that Vanessa had a headache. After Vanessa gave him a disgusted look, he realized the truth. His face instantly went blank, and he bowed stiffly. Bow, and walked back to the lounge with heavy steps, Vanessa gave Slytherin [-] points contentedly.

At dinner, Snape quietly brought the last piece of sponge cake from under Dumbledore's nose - he remembered Vanessa's name at the opening ceremony for her birthday, although he didn't make it himself, but It probably means the same thing.Vanessa could raise her ring finger when holding the tray, Dumbledore smiled and blinked, picked up the red wine glass and toasted them.